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SUB SEARCHING THE ARCTIC FOR DOOMED EXPEDITION

Jeremy DEUTSCH jdeutsch@thenownews.com Somewhere, inside the vast and inhospitable part of the world that is the Canadian Arctic, lies a mystery that spans two centuries.

In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin led a doomed expedition to the region in an effort to navigate the Northwest Passage.

But as far as historians can tell, the expedition got caught up in the ice in Victoria Strait, near Nunavut, and none of the crew, including Franklin, were ever seen again.

In the years that followed, countless expeditions have been launched to try and find the lost ships, but none have succeeded.

Fast forward 170 years, and now a Port Coquitlam company is hoping its technology, developed over the last four decades right here in the Tri-Cities, will be the centrepiece of an archeological find of a lifetime.

Tucked away in a non-descript commercial building on Broadway Street is International Submarine Engineering Ltd., or ISE, founded 40 years ago by engineer James R. McFarlane.

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More protests as strike goes on

‘FUNDING ISSUES CAUSE WIDESPREAD PROBLEMS,’ PARENT SAYS AT EDUCATION RALLY Chris MONTGOMERY

editorial@thenownews.com Teachers were manning picket lines instead of classrooms across the Tri-Cities Tuesday as hopes for a quick end to their strike — and a timely first day of school — evaporated over the long weekend.

Schools remained closed for instruction as the school district urged parents to keep the area’s 30,000 children at home or busy elsewhere.

A statement by Supt.

Tom Grant said the board didn’t “have the capacity to supervise large numbers of students nor to offer educational programs. We respectfully ask that parents do not bring children to schools on Tuesday and for the duration

of the strike.”

The province has offered $40 a day per day of school missed to parents of children under 13. The money, payable once the strike ends, will only be given to those who register online for it.

The last-minute failure to strike a deal left parents scrambling for care as community-centre day camps and private daycares booked up.

Jayne Wood, a Port Moody parent protesting outside the office of Liberal MLA Linda Reimer Tuesday morning, said she was angry that insufficient funding for student programs had created the impasse.

Wood, a former education assistant and mother of a three-year-old heading for

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Parents and kids protest outside Liberal MLA Linda Reimer’s office in Suter Brook Village on Tuesday. public school shortly, said she were causing grief for other quit her job over the stress of students.

“It affects everyone in trying to help special-needs students who weren’t get- the classroom,” Wood said. ting sufficient assistance and “People need to understand

that these funding issues cause widespread problems.”

Wood said her friends with school-age children were “scrambling to find options. A lot of them need to work and they have no money to take the day off. We don’t have options for children; it takes months to get into daycares.

There is no infrastructure to support kids, regardless of $40 a day.”

The small group of demonstrators was unable to speak with Reimer, whose office confirmed that she “was unavailable” to them, although at work.

Teachers walked off the job two weeks before school ended in June, and the strike ground on with little profile over the summer. Hopes rose

briefly last week while mediator Vince Ready brought the two sides together to assess their positions, but Ready announced Friday the gap in positions was too big to bridge. With no new talks announced and the teachers’ union and the government blaming each other for making unacceptable demands or funding offers, it’s unclear how long the strike might last.

A mass rally was planned in front of Education Minister Peter Fassbender’s community office in Surrey Tuesday at suppertime.

Teachers also planned a teach-in in front of the provincial legislature in Victoria from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Sekora to run against Stewart for mayor Chris MONTGOMERY editorial@thenownews.com Lou Sekora wants to be mayor of Coquitlam. Again.

The longtime councillor, former Liberal MP and former mayor is tossing his wellworn hat into the ring for the Nov. 15 race.

His chief platform is leadership and what he calls the “indecisive” job that Mayor Richard Stewart has done, he told the Tri-Cities NOW. Sekora said “many members of council and department heads” have approached him to say Stewart’s leadership is lacking. He also said

he has widespread support in the community, although he didn’t name any groups, businesses or individuals involved in his campaign.

Sekora said he wants the city to take a firmer position on transit, which he wants taken away from TransLink and returned to the province.

He’d also press Victoria harder for infrastructure spending on roads, he said.

He added he wants an end to council’s “tax and spend” ways under Stewart, and more effort put into using the tax money from development fees to lower both residential and property taxes. He’d put

an end to allowing developers to negotiate their way out of supplying sufficient parking spaces in their projects, he said.

He’d bring openness back to City Hall with a weekly afternoon session in which the mayor and councillors would be available for anyone wanting to approach them for information, he said.

And he wants the Riverview lands preserved for a healthresearch centre and mentalhealth services and more money spent on recreation facilities, especially Place Maillardville.

“I’ll roll up my sleeves,”

said the 82-year-old, when asked about the workload.

“I’m a businessman. I work seven days a week.”

Stewart, who is running for re-election, reacted to Sekora’s comments by saying he’s proud of having kept council working together.

“A leader doesn’t typically find consensus; he builds it,” Stewart said. “All nine of us are elected. We have to work together. We often vote unanimously, or we vote eight to one, with Lou Sekora against.”

Stewart said his collaborative approach to the province is what got a SkyTrain exten-

sion built, and the council had made a joint decision not to promise tight budgets that might be popular but would mean the city had to stop doing critical work.

“Anyone on council can tell you that we could cut the budget for a year, or for five years. But to do it we’d stop maintaining infrastructure. We’ve come a long way back [from that approach],” he said.

Sekora was first elected to city council in 1972. He served as mayor from 1983 to 1997, won a federal byelection in 1998 for the Liberals and was defeated in the

Lou Sekora 2000 general election by Conservative James Moore.

In 2005, he was re-elected to council.

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Port Moody Civic Awards - Fostering the Arts Who: Ann Kitching, 2013 Arts Award winner Recognized for her longstanding years of service with the Port Moody Arts Centre and for her contributions to the City’s centennial celebrations, Ann has been described as “a connector who brings people from wide backgrounds together through the arts”. A fraction of her contributions include:

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• Several years as president of the Port Moody Arts Centre Society.

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Arctic expedition features PoCo sub CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

The company has been building and developing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and submarines since the 1970s, launching its first AUV operation in 1983.

The first AUVs, albeit primitive compared to modern subs, were launched not far away in Indian Arm, a body of water still used as a testing site by the company today. Since those early days, private companies and the LISA KING/NOW Canadian government have used ISE subs for James A.R. McFarlane, right, gives various operations.

The PoCo company manufactured and sold NOW reporter Jeremy Deutsch a tour of two Arctic Explorer AUVs to Defense Research International Submarine Engineering. and Development Canada, a member of the current expedition. The vehicles played with a piece of technology no other group tryan integral role in helping gather data and ing to find the ships has had at its disposal.

At more than seven metres in length, ISE’s objective evidence to support Canada’s claim for expanding its sovereign continental shelf Arctic Explorer looks somewhat like a torpedo to the untrained eye. in the Arctic.

But this yellow submarine isn’t bent on These Arctic Explorer AUVs are now part of a major expedition currently in the Arctic to destruction, but rather advancing the cause of science. At a cost of up to $7 million, find Franklin’s lost ships.

The Victoria Strait Expedition, headed by depending on the kinds of bells and whistles the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in you want, the Arctic Explorer AUV can get to partnership with several governmental and depths of 5,000 metres (16,000 feet) under private organizations, will be spending part of the water. It can also travel up to 480 kiloSeptember looking for two sunken ships from metres (300 miles) on a single charge.

In an Arctic expedition, the the fateful voyage.

AUV is launched off an iceJust last week while on a trip breaker into a hole through to the North, Prime Minister the ice.

Stephen Harper proclaimed We’ve had a lot Equipped with the latest in the expedition would find sonar technology, the AUV can Franklin. of feathers in spend days on its own explorJames A.R. McFarlane, the our hat and this ing the ocean, all the while colfounder’s son and ISE’s execucertainly would lecting and storing images and tive vice-president, suggestdata. Crews can also extract ed the mystery of Franklin’s be a nice one all the information and charge expedition still carries interest to add to the the vehicle while the AUV sits to this day. collection. under water.

“People want to know,” he In one instance, the vehicle told the Tri-Cities NOW. –James A.R. McFarlane spent 11 straight days operat“These vessels of Franklin’s, ing under the ice. they want to know what hapAs the company’s founder noted, the key to pened, they want to know where they ended up. They want to see if they can find anything the Artic Explorer’s success is precise navigation. on the bottom.”

“You need to have a very good navigation And unlike previous failed attempts to find the ships, the company feels this search could system on it,” James Sr. said. “Precisely, you have to be able to hit a hole more than 100 be different.

All kinds of theories abound as to what hap- miles away.”

ISE’s AUV “Thesius” proved its mettle by pened to Franklin’s crew. There’s speculation of cannibalism and crew members going crazy laying 190 kilometres (120 miles) of fibre optic cable under the Arctic ice. after the ships got stuck in the ice.

This evolution of technology allowed the For Stephen Nishio, an electrical technologist with ISE who has been on other missions company to develop its Explorer class of with AUVs in the Arctic, those theories are the AUVs. The AUV will locate the sunken ships by stuff of novels.

Instead, he explained there is evidence collecting high-resolution imagery of the some of Franklin’s crewmembers did manage site. While the goal is to find Franklin’s vesto fan out across the Arctic, interacting with sels, James Jr. suggested there is much more to both the expedition and what the Arctic Inuit people in the area.

While burial sites have been discovered, Explorer can offer.

He said data collected by the AUV during he said the most significant find was a rock the expedition will be scientifically valuable cairn.

The artifact included a letter that described to the oceanographic community.

“They’re getting double return on their the time Franklin died, and gave the position investment,” James Jr. said. “They’re getting a of two ships.

By using modern technology, scientists really solid data set for science as well as tryconcluded the letterwriter had the correct ing to identify where Franklin’s boats are.”

Make no mistake, the proudly Canadian coordinates.

“That’s one of the best pieces of informa- company, which has won numerous awards tion that we have to start with,” Nishio said. and accolades, wants its technology to be the Even if the coordinates are right, he acknow- first to lay eyes on the ships lost so long ago.

“We have had a lot of firsts here,” James Jr. ledged finding the ships will still depend on how much the vessels moved in the ice over said. “We’ve had a lot of feathers in our hat and this certainly would be a nice one to add the years.

But the Victoria Strait crews will be armed to the collection.”

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Pursuant to Section 124(3) of the Community Charter, Council is required to give public notice that they are considering repealing the existing City of Port Moody Council Procedure Bylaw 2709, 2006 and replacing it with a new bylaw. The proposed changes in the new bylaw are: 1. Updated/modernized wording and formatting – The current bylaw is approximately eight years old. The new Bylaw is based upon the Provincial model and uses wording that is consistent with the intent of the legislation that enables this Bylaw. It also provides for the inclusion of standard Council practices.

2. Enhancement of Definition Section – Schedule A has been expanded and includes definitions of words used within the Bylaw.

3. Order of Proceedings – This section has been updated to reflect Council’s current meeting procedure. In addition, the following sections have been added or removed: a. Addition of Presentations to the Delegation Section b. Addition of a Consent Agenda c. Public Input – the second public input session at the end of the Council meeting has been deleted.

4. Committee of the Whole, Standing and Select Committee sections – These sections have been expanded and titles added to subsections to help with readability.

View copies of the bylaw online at www.portmoody.ca.

Council will consider adopting the proposed Council Procedure Bylaw at the September 9, 2014 Council meeting.

Here’s how you can provide written comments on the proposed bylaw: • Email info@portmoody.ca • Mail your comments to PO Box 36, 100 Newport Drive, Port Moody, BC V3H 3E1 to the attention of the City Clerk • Submit written comments in person at the Legislative Services counter, Port Moody City Hall, 100 Newport Drive, Port Moody, BC V3H 3E1 Please submit your comments by 5pm Friday, September 5, 2014.

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Beginning Tuesday, September 30, 2014 until the close of general voting for the election on November 15, 2014, a copy of the List of Electors will be available for public inspection at the Legislative Services Department at City Hall. Viewers must provide a signature to access the list. The list is available between 8:30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays). If, for any reason, any elector wishes to have his/her address omitted or obscured from the List of Electors, they must inform the Legislative Services Department in person by 4pm on Tuesday, September 23, 2014.

starting at 9am on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 until 4pm on Friday, October 10, 2014.

Nominations must be received between 8:30am and 5pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays). The term of office is from Tuesday, December 2, 2014 until the next General Local Government Election.

A person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as a Mayor, Councillor or School Trustee if they meet the following criteria: • age 18 or older; and • a Canadian citizen; and • a resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day nomination papers are filed; and • not disqualified by the Local Government Act, and for School Trustee nominees, not be disqualified by the School Act or any other enactment, from voting in an election in British Columbia or from being nominated for, being elected to, or holding office, or be otherwise disqualified by law.

Nomination documents are available for pick-up at: Port Moody City Hall Legislative Services Division 100 Newport Drive, Port Moody, B. C. All completed nomination documents received by the Chief Election Officer will be available for public viewing at www.portmoody.ca/elections.

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The following special conditions determining eligibility apply to anyone wishing to register as a property elector:

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Concern turns to anger

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oncern over B.C. public school students missing class is morphing into anger, judging by comments accompanying online news stories about the continuing job action.

Many observers are now simply mad at both sides, and frustrated they haven’t been able to reach a deal.

Two things strike us as questionable: the $40-a-day payments the province is promising parents of students under 13, and the hoopla over Premier Christy Clark’s continued absence from the debate — except via Tweets that blame the BCTF for the fact that students are not in school.

The $40 payments are viewed by many as a way to placate parents and make the government look like the good guy. But wouldn’t it make more sense to put that money back into the education system, either by using it to reach a deal or to shore up funding for programs that could use a boost? Handing it out to parents regardless of their situation — those families lucky enough to have a stay-at-home parent, for example, don’t really need it to pay for daycare — feels more like a bribe than sound public policy.

And the BCTF’s calls for Clark to get involved in the dispute are puzzling. What would she do differently than her education minister, who is presumably following the party line? That said, if she’s not going to comment publicly, she should refrain from making comments via social media, and adding fuel to an increasingly out-of-control fire.

SCHOOL BOARD HOPEFULS NEED TO MEASURE UP IN THESE TWO AREAS The Friday, Aug. 29 edition of the Tri-Cities NOW reports that the school board race is heating up. This is good news, because new trustees are badly needed.

Here are the two most important candidates’ credentials I’ll be looking for on voting day.

1. Fiscal literacy. A candidate must understand the basics of fiscal literacy. This includes understanding the difference between “underfunding” and “overspending.” The board needs to know what its approximate revenues will be before it budgets its spending. Revenues come first; spending comes second. Isn’t that how all of us live our daily lives? Once it budgets its spending, the board must not spend more than its budget. This means monitoring spending very carefully month-to-month.

2. Corporate governance. A candidate must understand the basics of corporate governance. This means knowing who the board represents and knowing the lines of responsibility. The board is responsible to all taxpayers, not just taxpayers who have children who are students or potential students. When there is a fiscal deficit or some other unacceptable event, the board must take full responsibility.

The buck stops with the board. It is irresponsible to look for scapegoats amongst the district’s employees.

Some candidates, including the incumbents, may think that being a parent is an important credential. This is not a credential — in fact, being a parent could narrow the board member’s mind. I would discount this so-called credential 100 per cent. Before voting, the voter should have a look at the bios of the incumbents — the bios are on the School District 43 website. Do any of the incumbents satisfy the needs for fiscal and corporate governance literacy? Let the voter decide. I find it terribly disconcerting that the current board chair states “This board has been very fiscally accountable,” while the district has overspent for each of the past three years, including overspending amounting to more than $10 million in each of the past two years.

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All about kids? Forget it

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hatever the outcome of the messy fight between teachers and the B.C. government (and as I write this, the two sides are negotiating but no end is in sight) it’s likely the provincial education system won’t see any significant improvement in the near future.

And for this, we can blame both the government and the BC Teachers’ Federation.

The two sides have been locked in a war for more than a decade, and even a negotiated contract will not end the acrimony and bitterness that characterizes their relationship.

When we strip away the rhetoric, it all comes down to this: control. As in, who controls the classroom and the system itself — the teachers’ union, or the government?

This struggle for control is not a unique one in education.

Ontario is experiencing a similar fight, and most states in the U.S. are also mired in wars between elected governments and various teacher union organizations.

Pushed to the sidelines in this widespread fight are students and parents.

Forget the rubbish talk from both the union and the government that “this is all about the kids” and forget the boasts from both sides that they feel for “kids caught in the middle.”

It is not about the kids and never has been. It is about control.

And it is perfectly understandable why both sides are fighting for control.

From the government’s perspective, the education system is a spending priority but it also a huge consumer of tax dollars.

Of course, there are lame voices (particularly from BCTF members) who claim the government is hell-bent on

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“destroying” the education system and is secretly conspiring to drive everyone to the private school system.

The fact that $4.7 billion of tax dollars are poured into the public education system every year (second only to health-care spending) demolishes this hysterical notion, yet the mantra from the ideologues keeps being chanted over and over again.

Nevertheless, the B.C. Liberals can be faulted for not keeping pace with the need for even more funding. While not destroying the system, the argument can be made the government has allowed considerable fraying around the edges.

Class composition remains an urgent issue in some (though certainly not all) classes, and school trustees find that balancing their budgets every year becomes more difficult as cost pressures exceed any funding increase.

As for the BCTF, it looks out for the interests of its members as any union should, but it doesn’t have a good track record on that front.

Every other public sector union has received higher wage increases than the BCTF has won over the past dozen or so years.

The union has also fought a neverending public relations war against the B.C. Liberal government (which has gobbled up millions of dollars of union dues) without any evidence of success

(the government has won four consecutive elections).

While it’s true the BCTF has won two important court challenges against the government, the final ruling on that issue has yet to be made, so any celebrations of victory there are premature.

The union is locked into a fight for smaller class sizes, which, among other things, translates into hiring more teachers which in turn inflates the union’s treasury.

The BCTF also zealously guards its members’ job security, even if in so doing it protects poor teachers at the expense of better ones. The actual interests of students is not held as high a priority, in the BCTF’s view, as a teacher’s job security.

Again, the BCTF is not unique in this aspect compared to other teachers’ unions. Its American counterparts are notorious for resisting any threat to their control of the system.

The struggle over who controls a school and who controls a classroom will not end anytime soon, even after the current contract battle ends.

Because governments of all stripes and philosophies are loathe to raise taxes in any significant way, revenues become more and more precious, which will inevitably put more pressure on the education system.

I suspect the public increasingly takes the view of “a pox on both your houses,” which reflects the frustration and impatience of watching this soap opera go on for so many years.

All about the kids? Forget it.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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Summer a quiet one for search teams VOLUME OF CALLS LOWER THAN USUAL FOR SEASON

Jeremy DEUTSCH jdeutsch@thenownews.com Despite being called out one more time on Labour Day, marking the unofficial end to the season, summer proved to be fairly quiet for Coquitlam Search and Rescue.

While Coquitlam SAR has logged the average number of calls for the year, the call volumes for the summer months for local rescues have been less than usual.

“It’s been nice and quiet, how we like it sometimes,” said Coquitlam SAR manager Michael Coyle.

“It’s not a benefit for us to be rescuing people who are missing — [the lack of calls]

is a good thing.”

So far this year, the team has been called out for 24 tasks, with half for mutual aid to other SAR teams.

The team usually gets called out for an average of 35 tasks a year.

On Monday, the team was called out to help an injured hiker at Buntzen Lake.

But most of the SAR team’s activities this summer have involved helping out other rescue groups in the region.

Coyle explained call volumes usually spike in the summer when the weather is better and more people are out in the backcountry.

He has no explanation for the slow season, but said he’s

been with search and rescue long enough to know there can be long stretches without a rescue and then a bunch in one weekend.

“The challenge on our side is to not be complacent,” Coyle said.

Though fall usually signals a drop in calls, the change in weather can add challenges to rescues that are not typical of those in summer.

Coyle said the most common problem is people getting caught off guard by the shorter daylight hours and then the time change.

“It’s kind of a similar pattern every year, more [rescues] in the summer, less in the fall but the ones in fall can be complicated by colder weather and hypothermia,” he said.

So if you have plans to head

out for a hike in the next few months before winter arrives, Coquitlam SAR has a couple of tips to stay safe.

Coyle said people need to be aware of the sunset and plan their travel time accordingly.

That also means taking along what are considered the 10 essentials, including a flashlight.

Coyle said there are a lot of cases where if people just had flashlights when they got into trouble, they could have walked out on their own.

And if things stay quiet in the local backcountry, it should give the team plenty of time to prepare for a big SAR conference next month.

The team is hosting SAREx Southwest (SARxSW), the first regional search and rescue conference for SAR

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30 cats find new homes Chris MONTGOMERY editorial@thenownews.com It turns out 30 cats in 31 days wasn’t too lofty a goal for the Coquitlam Animal Shelter.

Andrea McDonald, the city’s manager of animal control services, said Tuesday a month-long campaign to find homes for 30 of the shelter’s strays during August was successful.

A pleased McDonald noted that the shelter still has cats in need of homes, though.

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Another ‘slush bomb’ lawsuit Jeremy DEUTSCH

jdeutsch@thenownews.com A third lawsuit has now been filed related to the slush bombs that fell on drivers crossing the Port Mann Bridge in the winter of 2012.

According to a notice of civil claim filed in New Westminster Supreme Court, Teresa De Jesus Faria Macedo is suing Transportation Investment Corp. (TI Corp.), the company that operates the Port Mann/Highway 1 project, and three other companies involved in the construction of the bridge, over the slush bomb incident on Dec. 19, 2012.

Court documents state Macedo was driving westbound attempting to cross the bridge and was injured when ice and snow plummeted onto her windshield, causing it to shatter.

The suit says the impact caused snow, ice and glass to cover parts of the inside of the vehicle, resulting in injuries that include headaches, nervousness, sleeplessness, shock and trauma.

The suit claims Macedo’s injuries and losses occurred due to the unsafe and hazardous design of the bridge.

The three other companies named in the lawsuit are Kiewit/Flatiron General Partnership, Flatiron Constructors Canada and Peter Kiewit Infrastructure.

None of the allegations have been proven in court and the other parties have yet to file a response.

Documents list a number of alleged incidents of negligence against the defendants, including failing to properly maintain, repair and inspect the bridge, failing to properly design or supervise the bridge and failing to properly construct snow and ice removal equipment necessary for the maintenance of the bridge.

Macedo, a Surrey resident, is seeking general and special damages and the recovery of health-care costs.

In May, Caryl-Lee Obrecht and Roberta Lessard filed the first of two lawsuits related to the slush bomb incident.

In the Lessard case, TI Corp. and the other three companies filed a response denying all the claims made in the suit. The company claimed the buildup and release of ice and snow from the bridge was the result of a “confluence of GOT A

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of God.” TI Corp. is the only defendant named in Obrecht’s suit and it has yet to file a response.

Just a few weeks after opening in December 2012, the bridge was shut down for part of a day when the “slush bombs” fell from cables.

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Keep your school-age children busy and active. New this fall is Ballet for Children as well as Musical Theatre taught by highly experienced teacher, actor and singer, Creona Wells. For the foodie in the family try Little Snack Packs, where kids learn how to make delicious and nutritious snacks.

Whether it’s keeping active or gaining valuable life skills we’ve got a program for everyone! New this fall is Lead the Way – Leadership Training. We also have Standard First Aid and CPR-C/AED courses. Girls looking to do yoga, dance and hiking will definitely enjoy Girls on the Go.

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Man faces charges in three-car collision Jeremy DEUTSCH

jdeutsch@thenownews.com A New Westminster man is facing a pair of serious charges related to a fatal crash in Coquitlam last year.

Stefan Andrei Mitroi made a brief appearance in a Port Coquitlam courtroom Tuesday on two charges, criminal negligence causing

While the details of the case haven’t been presented in court, the charges stem from a crash on Aug. 6, 2013.

The collision happened at 6 p.m. that day at the intersection of Dewdney Trunk Road and Lougheed Highway.

According to police reports at the time, the crash occurred when a red Buick

death and dangerous driving causing death.

His case was put over to Oct. 2 to give him time to find a lawyer.

In court documents, Mitroi is alleged to have been operating a motor vehicle in a dangerous manner that caused the death of Thomas Dewsbury.

Century turned left to go west on Dewdney Trunk at the same time a Mercedes-Benz 230 was driving through the intersection.

The force of the impact caused a second crash that included a black Acura that was stopped at the light.

A passenger in the Mercedes was taken to hos-

pital in critical condition and later died. The incident prompted a warning from Coquitlam Mounties.

“I’d like to remind drivers to exercise due diligence when driving, especially when approaching intersections.

A red or yellow light means stop. A moment of carelessness could cost someone their

life,” said Coquitlam RCMP Traffic Services Sgt. Dave Fee in a statement.

A search of court records showed Mitroi does not have a criminal record.

Earlier this year, a 20-yearold man with the same name was reported missing by New West police, but was found several days in Vancouver.

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“My kids and I started a vegetable garden this year and we are growing zucchinis. Our problem is that most of the fruit has gone yellow/black and squishy at the ends. I have read this is a calcium problem.

But how can I fix it? Also, we planted celery. When does it mature? The stalks are tallish but very small in circumference.”

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it may not work fast enough to give you a zucchini harvest in a few weeks. But it’s best to do it now anyway in hopes we have a long fall of good growing weather.

I’d suggest that this fall, you decide where you’ll plant zucchini next year and

be sure to add some lime or bonemeal to that spot.

Both will benefit other areas too. You could do a soil test to find out if other amendments are needed.

Garden centres have soil tests — but make sure you get a test that evaluates trace elements as well as the major ones.

Eggshells also contain calcium. I’ve been adding crushed eggshells to the veggie garden for years. The crushed ones take a while to break down. Ground eggshells work faster. Grinding is more doable (and causes less CONTINUED ON PAGE 17

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Parents who have hosted play dates know that once the fun ends their youngsters’ rooms often appear overrun with toys. Kids have a funny knack of taking out every toy they own without putting their toys away. But with a few tips, anyone can conquer the clutter created by toys.

• Take stock of what you have. Taking inventory helps to determine which toys can ultimately be donated or discarded. Look for duplicates, similar items, broken toys, and items that are seldom used.

• Start to organize. When you have everything laid out in clear view, start to divide and conquer. Create groups in which to sort the toys. Dolls should be in one pile, building blocks in another and so on. Figure out a system that works for your family. You may find that active, sportsrelated items can be moved to the garage, while board games and books may be moved to a family room or a community closet in the house to free up more space in playrooms. Seasonal toys can be stored away in an attic or basement until they are needed.

• Create accessible storage. Toys should be stored where kids can easily access them. Clear bins are great for storage, and such bins come in a variety of sizes. Construct cubbies in the playroom where these bins can be kept. Be sure they are nearly ground level and not too heavy so that children can easily get to their toys come play time.

• Construct or buy a toy chest. A toy chest can house larger toys and act as a receptacle for fast cleanup when kids need to tidy up before company arrives. Such chests are good for storing larger cars and trucks or the hordes of stuffed animals kids accumulate.

• Shelving gets things off the floor. Display collectibles that cannot be damaged on shelves. This makes sure they are still on display but not in jeopardy of being mishandled by curious youngsters.

• Donate toys kids no longer use. It can be a tough job, but children should work with you to thin out their toy collections. Designate a certain portion of items that need to go. Bring them to a consignment shop or donate them to kids in need.

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trouble with spouses) if you grind eggshells in an old blender or coffee grinder that’s used for nothing else.

The time from celery seed sowing to maturity is usually 100 days, though the West Coast Seeds variety “Tango” is said to take only 85 days. It can be used at any stage in its life cycle. Your stalks are small because celery needs a very rich soil and loads upon loads of water. That’s why it’s not an easy crop to grow. It’s known as a crop for “muck” soil.

Manure benefits celery because it holds in moisture and is rich in nutrients.

Another problem with celery is that the stalks are dry and very stringy. Our long, hot summer droughts sure don’t help celery gardeners.

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Sad to say, Frances, but you’re already doing the very best you can in this situation.

But if you’d left the wisteria growing, you’d still have had a problem with suckers.

Wisteria is programmed to become a huge vine. It needs a lot of pruning and this stimulates the roots to produce suckers — and, as you’ve discovered, the roots spread far and wide. So keep digging, pulling or killing the suckers because the roots can’t keep producing suckers forever. They’ll exhaust their food stores and ultimately the suckers will be fewer and smaller and then vanish.

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sports@thenownews.com There will be little need for reacquainting or strategizing, and the will to dig deep for motivation will be virtually non-existent.

Revenge is funny that way, and the Port Moody Gunners will have precisely that on their minds this weekend when they open up a new Fraser Valley Soccer League premier season against Langley United.

The two teams were a constant thorn in each other’s side last season, and split six contests evenly down the middle — but while the Gunners won the league, Langley carted off the Pakenham Cup and bounced Port Moody from the Provincial Cup playdowns.

“We know each other pretty well,” said Gunners coach Larry Moro. “In some ways it’s a good first game because we’ll be motivated and we owe them something. There’s extra motivation on our part to pay them back from last season.”

Serving up revenge this year, however, will have to be done without one of the team’s stalwart midfielders, as Andrew Celenza is no longer with the club. Moro noted that about a third of his roster has turned over from last year.

Some of the new recruits on this year’s squad include: Dom Dmytrenko, Dalibor Plavsic, Jeff Rogers and under-21 grads Scott Sims and David Suh. Those players will be coming into a 4-2-3-1 system of play not unlike the one employed by English Premier League side Liverpool. The focus under that model is possession and attacking.

“We made sure that we picked guys who fit our style of play,” Moro noted. “We think we’ve upgraded and that we’ve gotten better. It’s hard work, but they enjoy [that style of play] because no matter what position you’re playing on the field you’re going to see the ball a lot.”

That system will be relied upon to prop up the club’s goals for this season in the revamped eight-team league: another league championship, titles in one, if not both Cup games, and a final four standing in Provincial Cup play.

“Those are lofty expectations, but at least on paper, we feel we’re a much deeper club,” Moro said.

Meanwhile, the upstart Coquitlam-Metro Ford Wolves will look to ensure last year’s third-place tie in the Vancouver Metro Soccer League was in fact, no surprise at all.

Youth will again be the order of the day, and head coach Les Krivak estimates his club will again be one of the youngest

SPORTS SHORTS ICE DANCERS WIN SILVER Port Moody ice dancer Brianna Delmaestro teamed up with Timothy Lum last weekend to win the pair’s first career medal on the ISU Junior Grand Prix figure skating circuit.

Having skated together for just over a year, the pair claimed silver with a score of 131.30 — a new personal best — in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Daria Morozova and Mikhail Zhirmov of Russia narrowly edged out the Canadian pairing after posting a score of 131.54 points.

The Port Moody Gunners, shown here in the Pakenham Cup final last March, have revenge on their minds. in the 12-team loop. Helping to bolster Krivak’s goal of a topthree league placement will be a pair of new recruits from SFU: Carlo Basso — a Coquitlam native and noted goal scorer — and Colombian import Juan Sanchez. They’ll be relied upon heavily, particularly in light of the club losing former pro players Alfredo Valente and Andrew Veer.

“Because we were a young team, we made a lot of progress that surprised people last year,” Krivak said. “This year is no different. In fact, we didn’t get much older. I can fairly say that no team wanted to play us last year.”

“We are both committed to the partnership and the programs and those are our strengths,’’ said Delmaestro, 18, in a press release. “Today we knew that a medal was a possibility if we skated our best.’’

Last year, the pair pocketed a pair of fifthplace finishes in the two ISU Junior Grand Prix competitions in Poland and Estonia.

“It was the presentation that really got us the medal,’’ said Lum, 19. “We showed strong technical skills but it was the performance that made the difference. It feels great and now we can start thinking about potentially going to the Junior Grand Prix final and world juniors.’’

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Krivak’s club will look to better their standing in Cup play in particular, though they weren’t exactly slouches last season: the Wolves were bounced from Imperial Cup play in the quarterfinals, and made it to the final four in the Provincial Cup. In both instances, they lost in penalty kicks.

The Wolves now get back on the horse this weekend in their league opener against CCBRT United, a club that finished second in league play last season.

“They have a lot of weapons. In terms of player personnel, I think they’re the best team in the league,” Krivak said.

IT’S PAN AM PRIME TIME

Port Coquitlam gymnast Robert Watson had a hand in helping the Canadian men’s gymnastics team lock up a berth to next year’s Pan Am Games in Toronto.

Watson helped the six-man team punch its ticket to the Pan Ams Friday after finishing with a team-high 13th place finish in the all around, and a 10th place finish on the high bar.

The PoCo native was one of three Canadians to compete in all six events at the Senior Pan American Gymnastics Championships, an event that ended with Canada finishing fourth.

“I hit six for six which is always the goal

when you’re competing in a team event,” Watson said in a press release.

“I feel I’ve matured and I don’t get as nervous anymore and I do my routines as if I’m training instead of thinking it’s a competition and getting worried about it.”

The other five team members bound for next year’s Pan Ams include: Jackson Payne, Hugh Smith, Mathieu Cukassy, Simon Porter and Scott Nabata.

In June, Watson laid claim to the Canadian senior men’s all-around title, and bested his nearest rival by more than 500 points at the competition.

The 20-year-old also finished second in 2013 at the same event, and came away with a third-place showing in 2012.

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