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jkurucz@thenownews.com A cougar that attempted to attack two people in the River Springs area earlier this week was killed by conservation officers on Thursday morning.

Don Stahl was one of two officers responding to the incidents, and noted a pair of near misses on River Drive left his group with little choice but to kill the cat.

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Stahl said the first sighting was reported on Tuesday at about 8:30 p.m., when the cougar walked out of the greenbelt adjacent to the Coquitlam River and into the backyard of a River Drive home.

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A year later, 3 shootings unsolved PORT MOODY POLICE CHIEF ESTIMATES THERE ARE 30 TO 40 GANGSTERS IN THE CITY Jeremy DEUTSCH jdeutsch@thenownews.com On any given day, the Port Moody Recreation Complex is a bustling facility filled with kids, parents and other residents playing sports or just getting some exercise.

But one year ago, it was a scene of gang violence not often seen in the community.

Just after sundown on May 30, 2012, noted gangster Gurbinder Toor The was gunned investigations down in the parking lot of remain active, the centre as but unfortunately he got out of there are no his car on the way to a ball updates or hockey game. additional details That inciat this time. dent was also the first of –Brian Montague three deadly Vancouver Police shootings in Port Moody over a four-month span that brought the gang problems plaguing the Lower Mainland right to the community’s doorstep.

A year later, all three murders remain unsolved.

“The investigations remain active, but unfortunately there are no updates or additional details to share at this time,” Vancouver Police Department spokesman Const. Brian Monatague wrote in an e-mail to the Tri-Cities NOW. Vancouver police, under an agreement with the City of Port Moody, investigate murders within city limits, though the arrangement is slated to end this July.

Though the Toor homicide was the first in Port Moody in nearly a decade, it wouldn’t be

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A fatal shooting at the Port Moody Recreation Complex one year ago shook residents out of their complacency about gang violence, Mayor Mike Clay said. the last of 2012. Less than a month later in June, another gangster, Randy Naicker, was fatally shot near his truck at the corner of St. Johns and Queen streets during rush hour.

Naicker was the founder of the Independent Soldiers gang.

In September, Joseph Markel of Port Moody was gunned down at his home in the Glenayre neighbourhood in the middle of a Saturday morning.

Looking back, Mayor Mike Clay suggested the shootings were an eye-opener for the community.

“My reaction is, whether it’s in Port Coquitlam, or Coquitlam, or Surrey or New

Westminster, it’s here,” he told the Tri-Cities NOW, of gang violence.

“It did remind them it’s a tough world.”

Clay suggested the shootings brought down the level of complacency in the community and made residents pay more attention to their surroundings.

In the months that followed the first shooting, the city also made changes to the recreation centre to address safety concerns that included adding lighting to certain areas, changing the configuration of the front of the building, and changing emergency protocols in the facility and among staff.

The night of the shooting, dozens of cars

parked at the centre were kept behind police tape for hours, leaving users stranded.

Staff working at the centre gave rides home to some of the stranded users as a nice gesture, but that put the employees and the city at risk for liability.

The Port Moody Police Department also made adjustments in the wake of the shootings.

Police Chief Chris Rattenbury didn’t want to divulge specific strategies in use, but did note the department has a crime analyst working with other analysts in the Lower Mainland to share information and intelligence on members of the gang community.

He also created what he called the analytical tactical action committee (ATAC) within the department.

Rattenbury explained ATAC, which is made up of representatives from different sections of the force, meets every week to discuss specific crimes or areas in the city that are having problems.

Members then come up with strategies to deal with the issues, and meet a week later to follow up.

“We’ve been finding that, whether in crime problems or service problems, it’s really made an impact,” Rattenbury said.

But as residents in Port Moody found out, when it comes to gang crimes and their perpetrators, there are no borders.

Rattenbury suggested there are about 30 to 40 known gang members or associates in the city, but the number is constantly changing.

He credited work by the province’s antigang task force, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, with helping keep streets across the Lower Mainland safer.

“We are in the hub of the Lower Mainland,” Rattenbury said. “Groups and individuals do move around and we all do the best we can to stop these things.”

Local murders costly for VPD Reimer asks for unpaid leave on July 20.

The department is in talks with the RCMP to join its Integrated Homicide As the body count started adding up Investigation Team (IHIT).

Rattenbury suggested a deal to join in Port Moody last year, so did the cost of investigating the three gang-related IHIT could cost the city an extra $20,000 shootings. It’s been a year since the first to $30,000 annually, but noted the shooting, and the price tag on all three details of an agreement still need to be unsolved investigations has topped $1 worked out.

In the meantime, the million. police chief said he will That’s why the Port be meeting with VPD Moody Police Department management in the next is now looking for a new It was a business couple of weeks to discuss integrated team to investithe future of the three gate any future homicides. decision, and unsolved gang-shooting The force’s deal to belong fair game. investigations. to the Vancouver Police He said options include Department’s homicide –Chris Rattenbury keeping the cases with team is coming to an end.

Port Moody Police the VPD, continuing to Port Moody Police Chief work on them together or Chris Rattenbury said the blip in homicides in the city became having Port Moody take them over.

“They would never be dropped,” quite costly for the VPD. “It was a business decision, and fair Rattenbury said. “It’s just a matter of game,” he told the Tri-Cities NOW. “It how we go about doing it.”

Port Moody Mayor Mike Clay said he makes total sense to me.”

Under the agreement, the city paid also wants to make sure the three cases $150,000 annually and assigns an offi- don’t end up in the wind because of the cer to the team. The memorandum of change in teams.

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and we want those people brought to justice,” he said.

Clay also called on the VPD to join IHIT, suggesting an integrated team makes the most sense to investigate incidents like homicides.

“I wish Vancouver would be in with the rest of us because it only makes sense that these people [gang members] are moving around in our communities,” he said.

Just this week, Coquitlam city council passed a resolution asking all municipalities to participate in regional policing models like IHIT. At the beginning of the year, just days after Port Moody police signed an MOU with the VPD to join that force’s emergency response team, the deal was shelved. That agreement was also set to end in June, but the department signed on to the RCMP’s Lower Mainland emergency response team.

But Rattenbury acknowledged shifting between teams has been difficult for the department.

“Once we get to some of these other integrated teams, I’m hoping that it’s going to be a long-term thing and we’re settled for a while,” he said.

John KURUCZ jkurucz@thenownews.com Outgoing Coquitlam Coun.

Linda Reimer has asked her council colleagues to approve her request for an unpaid leave of absence as a way to avoid having the city pay for a byelection.

The MLA-elect for Port Moody-Coquitlam has requested that the leave run from June 10, 2013 until Jan. 3, 2014.

The Local Government Act stipulates that if a city council seat is vacated before Jan. 1 of an election year, in this case 2014, a byelection must be held.

“I acknowledge that performing my council duties and MLA duties would be impossible and would be unfair to constituents who have placed their faith in me,”

Linda Reimer Reimer wrote in an e-mail to the Tri-Cities NOW. “Yet, I do wish to save the taxpayers of my community the cost of a byelection.”

Recent Coquitlam byelections have seen less than 10 per cent of eligible voters casting ballots, while at the same time costing the city more than $200,000.

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Missing for six years Jeremy DEUTSCH jdeutsch@thenownews.com The last time Kim Rogelstad was seen by her family was May 27, 2007.

Six years later, local Mounties are renewing a call for the public’s help to find the missing Coquitlam woman.

“Before she went missing she would call her family every day,” said RCMP Cpl. Jamie Chung.

“All of the sudden she stopped and that’s why her family reported her as missing.”

Investigators are still working on the assumption the 43-year-old is alive, but there was little information shared about the woman’s life before she disappeared.

Police are hoping by putting out a new call for any information, they might be able to find Rogelstad.

She was last seen in the Coquitlam Centre area, with police noting she liked to go to coffee shops there.

Chung also suggested revisiting the file could lead to new tips for investigators.

He said it’s also an opportunity for police to recheck places they

Kim Rogelstad has been missing since 2007. visited earlier in the investigation, like hospitals.

Rogelstad is described as Caucasian, standing five feet eight inches tall, weighing 145 pounds, with green eyes and brown hair.

Anyone with information regarding her whereabouts is asked to call Coquitlam RCMP at 604-945-1550 and quote file number 2007-19504.

••• Rogelstad is not the only missing person case for local RCMP. On Sept. 25, 2011, Jafar Imanpour was reported missing after he failed to return from a walk while visiting family in a Port Coquitlam neigbourhood.

The grandfather, who was visiting from Iran, has not been seen

since.

A year after he went missing, police indicated they were still investigating Imanpour’s disappearance, but had no clues as to where he might be.

Mounties are also still looking for a pair of missing people who suffer from mental illness.

Donald John Bonner, 53, went missing from the Riverview Hospital grounds in June 2008.

Police believe Bonner, who is still wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for being unlawfully at large, could be in another part of the country.

More recently, David Fomradas, 34, went missing from the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in May 2012 on an unescorted day pass and has not been seen since.

Fomradas is the man behind a bizarre carjacking in 2009 involving Vancouver actress Carly Pope.

His disappearance, along with that of another patient, prompted two reviews of the hospital’s unescorted day-pass program and an outcry from politicians and residents in the community.

The hospital also temporarily suspended the program until an internal review was completed.

Two sent to hospital after PoCo stabbing Jeremy DEUTSCH jdeutsch@thenownews.com Coquitlam Mounties are still trying to piece together the events that sparked a daytime stabbing, sending two people to hospital.

Police were called to a home in the 2300 block of Atkins Avenue in Port Coquitlam around 1 p.m. Tuesday, after a suspect stabbed two people.

Investigators believe the suspect knew both victims, but are still not sure what led to the incident.

“For whatever reason the suspect attacked the victims, causing them injuries,” said RCMP Cpl. Jamie Chung, noting investigators don’t believe the incident was gang or drug related or a domestic dispute.

“It seems like there was a lot of anger

there, for whatever reason. We’re still trying to determine the reason for the attack.”

The two victims, who were inside the home at the time, suffered extensive injuries to their face. They were both taken to a hospital, where police were waiting to speak to them on Wednesday.

The victims, who are not known to police, are said to be men in their 20s and 40s.

Police didn’t say whether the suspect was male or female.

RCMP said the suspect used an “edged weapon” in the assault and is still at large.

Chung said there were other people in the home at the time, so investigators are hoping someone will come forward with more information.

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Nuttall said he wants to find out from staff whether there would be any harm or danger to the public.

“I don’t believe that there is, and we should revisit the bylaw we have banning it,” he said, noting he has in his backyard an apple, plum, cherry and peach tree.

“If there’s no harm, then why not reverse that bylaw?”

He argued allowing people to keep bees would not only benefit the individual, but the neighbourhood as a whole.

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On Tuesday, council unanimously passed a motion to have city staff look into repealing the bylaw restricting hobby beekeeping.

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Port Moody warms to backyard bees COUNCIL LOOKS AT REPEALING A BYLAW BANNING HOBBY BEEKEEPING fits in with sustainability, but the honey is a healthy alternative sweetener.

“If you can have that in your backyard and share that with your neighbours, that’s good too,” she said.

Staff are expected to report back on the motion by the end of summer.

The current PoCo bylaw only allows for bees to be kept in agricultural-zoned land.

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John KURUCZ jkurucz@thenownews.com Rules around Coquitlam’s largest form of rental housing stock came under fire Monday, as council members grappled with the proliferation of secondary suites in the city and how to balance regulations around them.

The discussion was prompted by Coun. Brent Asmundson, who argued the city is taking too lax an approach to regulating that form of rental housing. “I think council needs to weigh in and get back to being more proactive, looking at

where our illegal suites are, [and deal] with those illegal suites to help the community deal with the impacts,� he said.

Asmundson added the city’s move away from proactive enforcement has led to problematic living conditions, parking issues and instances that pit neighbours against one another. “The neighbours have complained and nothing happens,â€? said Coun. Mae Reid. “They’ve complained to all kinds of places that they should complain to and nothing happens ‌ the neighbourhood feels that nobody cares, and nobody listens.â€?

However, many councillors grappled with the issue of displacing secondary suites tenants — many of whom can’t afford other accommo-

dations — over what could be perceived as minor infractions. “I think we need to be very mindful that we’re not just talking about suites — we’re talking about people,� said Coun. Selina Robinson. “We’re talking about single parents, we’re talking about young families, we’re talking about new immigrants — we’re talking about a climate where there’s no rental housing being built.�

Secondary suites are allowed only in single-family homes in Coquitlam. The city defines that type of living space as “an additional, self-contained dwelling unit with kitchen and bathroom facilities.�

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In building secondary suites, homeowners have to be mindful of building code regulations and other stipulations around fire protection, heating systems, exit corridors, stairs and ventilation, among other things.

Several senior city staffers and councillors acknowledged the city has moved away from strict enforcement.

City lawyer Heather Bradfield explained the city investigates secondary suites on a per-complaint basis: the first complaint entails a letter being sent asking for compliance, while the second complaint will prompt a city investigation. Those two complaints must come from

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Bradfield added there are processes in place to allow for the decommissioning of illegal secondary suites and the city allows for some leeway in decommissioning those suites when the circumstances are warranted.

Mayor Richard Stewart added that some communities have dealt with the issue with a “don’t ask, don’t tell� approach, while others charge double for utilities. “I want us to find the line to walk,� he said. “It’s an incredibly complicated line and lots of communities have wrestled with this.�

Though no formal policy was given to staff Monday, it’s expected the issue will be reviewed and a report could come back to council before the end of the year.

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Cougar became ‘focused on this girl’ CONT. FROM PAGE 1 began heading back towards the river.

However, when an eightyear-old girl saw the cougar and screamed, the cat turned around and approached the sliding glass window the child was standing behind. “It went back into the backyard and got fixated on the eight-year-old girl and started pacing the yard ‌ it was focused on this girl,â€? Stahl said.

A similar incident played out just metres away on Wednesday afternoon, as a woman working in her ground floor office encountered the animal. “She heard a big loud thud

against the glass. She stood up, looked down onto the ground through the window and the cougar was up looking at her,� Stahl said. “The cougar had lunged at her, trying to get her, but had hit that window.�

On Thursday, Stahl and another conservation officer went back to the area with tracking dogs. Their search began at about 5 a.m. and concluded shortly before 8 a.m., when the cougar was found in a tree half a block away from where the other two incidents occurred.

It was then killed. “Camping season is just starting right now and for the next four or five months, anywhere in southern B.C.

or the Interior, you’ve got people and their families camping everywhere,� Stahl said. “There was no way we would relocate a cougar like this that has lunged at somebody already because the chances of it coming at a child or somebody else is just

too much of a risk.�

Stahl suggested the cougar’s young age likely played into its death, as it was not old enough to have refined its hunting techniques. By way of comparison, Stahl noted adult male cougars kill anywhere from 35 to 50 deer

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Old-time hockey has had its day

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roponents of rock-em, sock-em hockey took a blow to the old kisser this week when Hockey Canada’s board of directors voted to entirely eliminate body checking from the peewee, or under-13, level.

Predictably the CBC’s resident dinosaur, Don Cherry, warned us we would rue the day, voicing the increasingly hard-to-defend position that it’s better to teach kids to hit and receive hits at a younger age.

Canada’s coaching of hockey at the bantam through junior levels could certainly be improved — we have not won gold at the world juniors since 2009.

But there is nothing to suggest that our hockey program will be hurt by such a move. As it stood, the only ones being hurt were our kids — and we’ve known about it for at least 10 years.

A 2003 study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal reported that body checking was associated with 86 per cent of injuries sustained by players nine to 15 years old. A 2006 study showed that players were 42 per cent more likely to suffer a concussion and 25 per cent more likely to suffer fractures in Ontario leagues where body checking is allowed when compared to Quebec where it was not.

Sadly, we are only just beginning to realize that the effects of a blow or blows to the head can have serious repercussions later in life. Parents pay attention to this kind of medical research and it’s no coincidence that hockey registration has stagnated across Canada for the last two years. Let’s relegate old-time hockey to where it belongs: the past.

— Guest editorial from the North Shore News

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What’s not to love about tea?

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here’s this little thing I’m obsessed with, and it’s called tea. I’m not picky when it comes to my cup of tea. I’ll take it green, black, white; sugar or no sugar; tea cup, regular cup or ugly cup, downing a minimum of five cups a day and using the bathroom an equivalent amount.

Tea was introduced to the West from China 400 years ago, and since then, it has been a cultural phenomenon.

Just take the Brits for example. I feel great satisfaction when I sit down at the breakfast table on a Sunday morning with a steaming cup of tea and my best British accent (which is absolutely terrible). It is said that tea was discovered by a Chinese emperor who had a habit of boiling his water. Legend has it that one day in his garden, a few leaves fell into the emperor’s cup, producing the most alluring aroma. The emperor immediately demanded the widespread planting of tea bushes and thus, tea was invented.

When I was a strong-willed, knowit-all child, I never saw any attraction in tea. I would see my parents drinking it more often than coffee, and I disregarded the drink as being inferior to the joys of pop (strangely, I was never a juice child).

I thoroughly believe that tea, like coffee, naps and basic math, is one of those sophisticated things one must grow to enjoy and appreciate. I believe I made the switch from poison to tea in middle school, when I learned what calories were, and became instantly addicted.

The journey of a tea drinker is a precious one. My own journey began with fruit teas — a most suitable start for my sweet tooth, and slowly started venturing out to the other tea realms: herbal, black, then white. In high school I took a drastic leap and attempted the bitter

MY GENERATION Grace Chen

green. It took some getting used to, but I can proudly say that the majority of my tea diet is green and that I am full of healthy antioxidants, as well as a higher potential for fighting cancer and heart disease, lowering cholesterol and boosting my metabolism.

Another significant milestone in my tea journey was the establishment of the Davids Tea shop at Coquitlam Centre shopping mall. On the worldwide economic level, the tea industry generates three billion dollars a year. Though some may be skeptical, I can easily see the reason why with a quick glance at the obscenely large number at the bottom of my Davids Tea receipt.

Here is a shop that I make every excuse to enter, even if my tea cabinet at home is already bursting at the hinges.

Having used tea bags for the majority

of my tea journey, discovering looseleaf tea was absolutely stimulating, and Davids Tea had the most attractive products: the most stylish teapots, the most ergonomically designed tea strainers, the most colourful tea canisters, mugs and accessories.

But best of all was the loose leaf tea itself, boasting every flavour imaginable from every corner of the world (my favourite being Read my Lips, a decadent chocolate tea with a black base).

Opening a canister of Davids Tea and being enveloped in its scent is equivalent to sticking your nose in heaven; I could sit there all day with my nose on overdrive. I’ve gotten a lot of nagging from my parents concerning my spending habits when it comes to tea, but hey, I’ve got three jobs for a reason.

Now that I’ve shared my tea journey with the entire community, I highly encourage everybody to log onto YouTube and enjoy The Tea Chronicles by charlieissocoollike, which is a short psychological-horror-comedy film about tea that inspired me to share my love for tea here today.

Grace Chen is a Grade 12 student at Dr. Charles Best Secondary in Coquitlam.

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LETTERS ECOSYSTEM SHOULD TRUMP PROFIT

Re: “More opposition for Clark?” opinion column, Wednesday, May 29.

The B.C. NDP are not, “spent, demoralized and likely about to be consumed by internal strife.”

What the NDP are is bewildered as to how they’ll ever receive a fair shake after observing that the party recently re-elected in B.C. — and with a strong majority just to make sure that the naturalresource-extraction machine runs full-steam ahead — were successful at doing so basically because of news media and other pro-BigIndustry-interest advertising hype about some imagined first-andforemost need for economic/job growth; and, by deduction, we therefore must re-elect the Big Capitalist B.C. “Liberal” party into government and (permanently) keep out of provincial control the NDP socialist hoards!

B.C.’s re-elected governing party is the most friendly with the federal Conservative government on the topic of placing a growing economy and jobs at the very top of their agenda, with the environment and precious ecosystems at

the very bottom.

In other words, a whole lot of short-sightedness is around the corner in regards to a healthy ecosystem and thus a formidably potential threat to a work-capable, healthy populace.

In Big Industry’s universe or dimension, life-sustaining ecosystems are but once again supposed to take a back seat to extensively increasing extremely massive crude oil and coal extractions and shipping by creating transport corridor nightmares, just for one thing — all for the sake of the almighty dollar.

Really, what part of the nobrainer rhetorical question, time and time again, do so many B.C.ers not understand: Is there much good in virtually unhindered resource extraction and creating countless jobs when the planet is deathly contaminated, with its populace getting sicker and dying because of mass industrial and vehicular pollution?

Frank G. Sterle, Jr. White Rock

TIME TO SEVER COLONIAL TIES The cultures that have been allowed to develop in our Senate

and our federal and provincial legislatures are the results of a rapid deterioration of our colonial institutions.

Harper’s decision to prorogue the government of the day, not once but twice, for no other reason than because he could not have his way, was one of the earlier tell tales: In 2008 to avoid a non-confidence vote, and again in 2009 to suspend Parliament for three months, to dodge an ongoing investigation into the Afghan detainees affair.

When Bev Oda was found to have lied in Parliament, she should have been expelled promptly.

As the result of Harper’s stalling, the government instead lost a motion of confidence and was found in “contempt of Parliament,” putting Canada on the front pages of the global media.

Since then Harper has used every opportunity to demonstrate his level of contempt for the people, our federal Parliament and the Queen.

Harper has appointed a total of 58 people to a Senate he insisted was going to be elected, and the spending of billions of dollars without debate, zero transparency and no accountability have become the new norms.

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arate bill, outlining in some detail the government’s spending for the year. But Harper, in an outrageous display of contempt, packaged the budget into two bills numbered C-38 (the Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act) and C-45 (the Jobs and Growth Act), and rammed them through Parliament with virtually no debate. Those two bills included changes to more than 120 laws and regulations, and radically changed the way governments function in Canada.

Today nobody can be held accountable for anything by anybody. That includes the premiers, our prime minister and our Supreme Courts. To abolish the Senate would only serve as a distraction.

The Queen is no longer an effective head of state, and the time has come to sever our colonial ties. Then we can finally write our own Constitution, and become a sovereign democratic society where the people control the politicians and the courts enforce the laws instead of rewriting them.

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First mobile food cart comes to Coquitlam THIS LITTLE PIGGY SET UP NEAR COLLEGE

John KURUCZ jkurucz@thenownews.com Katie and James Coutu can attest to the fact that mama knows best.

The Coquitlam couple recently launched the city’s first mobile food cart — under the name This Little Piggy Mobile Catering — near Douglas College, and the couple’s flair for the culinary arts comes by way of the westernmost tip of Europe.

“James learned everything from his mom — she’s Portuguese and they’re both great cooks,” Katie said.

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James and Katie Coutu operate This Little Piggy Mobile Catering in Coquitlam.

“A lot of our food has a Portuguese influence to it.”

The pair set up shop on Pinetree Way on May 17, offering menu items like pulled pork sandwiches, shredded chicken tacos and

chorizo feta stuffed burgers.

They also offer daily specials — like ginger pork stir fry — and cater their menus to the times of day and types of crowds they’re expecting.

“With the college, what

food market last we’re finding is summer, debutthat there’s not ing their services a ton of students at Port Moody’s right now, but with Rocky Point the faculty, one Park Concert professor will try Series. They also it and then they’ll made pit stops e-mail their whole at the Coquitlam department,” Katie To see more Farmers Market, said. “Then the photos, North Vancouver other people in the download the Night Market department come free Layar and Vancouver’s down and they try app to your Khatsahlano fesit out.”

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The pair then began cutting their teeth on the mobile

“Things are going pretty good and we’re getting busier every day. Obviously, the rain is not the best for people to come out. But on our sunny days, we’re getting busier and busier,” Katie said.

The truck is set up outside of the college between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. weekly, from Tuesday through Friday.

Starting on Tuesday, June 4, the pair will be at the Coquitlam station bus loop from 6 to 9 a.m., and from 4 to 7 p.m. during that same Tuesday-to-Friday slot.

For details, see www.facebook.com/TLPCatering.

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Pesticide plan concerns city PROVINCE TO USE IT ON INVASIVE SPECIES

Jeremy DEUTSCH jdeutsch@thenownews.com They are quickly becoming the scourge of many communities around B.C. Though the City of Port Moody supports efforts by the provincial government to remove invasive plants from problem areas, council recently passed a motion imploring the province to only use chemical pesticides as a last resort.

The Ministry of Environment is embarking on a plan to eradicate an invasive plant known as Spartina (or cord grass), which has been found in areas around Boundary Bay, Point Roberts and Burrard Inlet.

Three areas in Port Moody have been confirmed to have a Spartina infestation, including Reed Point Marina, Pacific Coast Terminals and Flavelle Sawmill.

According to a staff report, efforts to eradicate the plant have mostly involved mechanical methods, but now the province is looking at two herbicides to tackle the problem.

As part of the pesticide use permit process, the ministry is seeking input from various groups potentially affected by the proposed plans, including the city.

In response, besides insisting chemicals be a last resort in treatment, the city also wants the province to consult with community groups over any future plans in subsequent years and prove the effectiveness of the program.

The provincial permit would be valid from July 2013 to the fall of 2015.

The proposal is to apply the herbicides at Boundary Bay and Point Roberts this year, and Burrard Inlet in 2014.

Mayor Mike Clay said the city can’t really stop the province from going forward with its plans, but can suggest it carry out the work responsibly.

“You want to do it in the best way they can do it,” he

said.

Coun. Zoe Royer said she was pleased to see consultation with community groups as part of the motion, but expressed her unease with the use of pesticides.

“I just shake to think that pesticides could potentially be used in this community in our beautiful inlet,” she said.

The staff report explained the Spartina species are invasive aquatic inter-tidal cord grasses found on the Pacific

Coast of North America that change the natural vegetation of tidal mud flats.

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CD will raise funds at Relay for Life John KURUCZ jkurucz@thenownews.com All of his siblings, his wife, dozens of his contemporaries and even himself — the numbers are so shocking, it’s almost as if cancer is inescapable in Larry McDonald’s life.

Despite having so many people close to him affected by the disease, the 67-year-old is trying to turn those many negatives into a singular positive.

The Ladner resident recently released a three-CD set spanning several generations of songs, and he’s donating all proceeds from the sale of his music to the Canadian Cancer Society.

With the Coquitlam Relay for Life taking place this weekend at Percy Perry Stadium, McDonald hopes others will join him in those fundraising efforts, whether it’s through the purchase of his music or by donating to the society itself.

Each of the 37 songs contained in McDonald’s three-CD set is dedicated to a person — a friend, family member or business associate — who has either survived, or succumbed to cancer.

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Larry McDonald, his wife, and all of his siblings have been affected by cancer.

“When I sit down at the piano, or pick up my flute, I can lose myself and forget about the troubles of the day,” said McDonald, a prostate cancer survivor. “I don’t want to use the word escape, because I don’t look for an escape. It helps me cope.”

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music professionally in the late ’60s and early ’70s, playing in touring bands through eastern Canada and the U.S. He left the professional music game behind after just three years, To hear Larry moving to Vancouver McDonald in 1971. sing, download Shortly after, he marthe Layar ried his wife Charlene app to your and entered the world smartphone and of commerce. He owned a lucrative scan this page insurance brokerage in downtown Vancouver up until selling it three years ago.

“When I sold [the business], I decided to do something with my music,” McDonald said.

“Because I was reasonably successful in business, I didn’t need the extra money. So I thought I’d do it for a cause and I selected the cancer society as that cause.”

The cause McDonald has chosen to support has hit close to home time and time again.

In April, he lost his last living sibling, his sister Linda. Prior to that, his brother Ed and his wife Pamela died in 2007, while his other sister, Carrol, succumbed in 1998.

His wife has had two mastectomies and McDonald has had his prostate removed.

Despite those common family links, McDonald doesn’t believe the cancers were caused by genetics — his mother is 88 and has been cancer-free her whole life, while his dad lived a cancer-free life until his death at 84.

“It’s inundated my life. Let’s just say, it’s not a pleasant way to go. To go quietly in your sleep is one way. I just watched my sister deteriorate and it was terrible,” McDonald said. “But I’m a realist. The bottom line is, what happens, happens. You have to deal with it. It’s part of life. We all go at some time or another. But this is one of the worst ways to go. I’m just so sad that they’re all gone.”

For more information about McDonald’s music and his fundraising efforts, log on to www.duckpondmusic.com.

The Relay For Life runs from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Percy Perry Stadium on Saturday, June 1.

Teen leads own Relay team, the Foxy Fighters WHEN HER NEIGHBOUR DIED OF CANCER, SHE TOOK ACTION Sam SMITH editorial@thenownews.com For Coquitlam teen Cianna Wittur, the Relay For Life isn’t just another event to be ignored over the weekend while hanging out with friends, playing games or studying (or, more realistically, procrastinating). For

her, it’s a serious goal.

“It started because my next door neighbour, she had breast cancer,” Wittur told the Tri-Cities NOW. “My mom was really close to her, so she’d come over and everything.

She taught me how to play piano … she helped me start learning.”

Wittur was six years old when her

friendly neighbour took her to her first Relay For Life. She didn’t understand what the race was about, but soon knew all too well.

“The next year she passed away,” Wittur said of her neighbour, adding that her passion for raising cancer awareness started from that moment on.

This marks the ninth year in a row Wittur will be participating in the Relay For Life, but it’s the first time the 15 year old will be

heading her own team. Called the Foxy Fighters, it’s comprised of four students who expanded out from the large Kwayzee Cancer Fighting team, including Wittur, made up of 12 members.

Her dedication to raising cancer awareness has never faltered.

Wittur has shaved off all of her hair before, and during her years in the Kwayzee Cancer Fighting Team, the group raised thousands of dollars.

This year, Wittur said the Foxy

Fighters, helmed by her and her mother, Lolita Wittur, have already hosted raffles and cupcake sales, raising nearly $5,000 so far.

“It’s higher than last year,” she said of the total.

But the fundraising isn’t over yet.

The Relay For Life is on Saturday, June 1 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Percy Perry Stadium. It’s the biggest cancer fundraising event in Canada.

For more information or to register, visit www.relaybc.ca.

Port Moody plans parade to mark centennial Jeremy DEUTSCH jdeutsch@thenownews.com Who doesn’t like a parade?

That’s what organizers in the City of Arts are counting on, as Port Moody gets set to host the first parade in the community in four decades. As part of its 100th birthday, the city will host a centennial-themed parade on Saturday, June 22.

“I’m just absolutely thrilled. With the centennial, it’s given us an opportunity to budget

some money and get some grant money and hold a big parade,” said Coun. Diana Dilworth, a member of the organizing committee.

She noted Port Moody is the only municipality in the Lower Mainland that doesn’t have a community parade.

The parade will start at the Port Moody Recreation Centre at 11 a.m., and move along Ioco Road to Murray Street before winding down in Rocky Point Park. The entire route is about two kilometres long.

“It’s a nice, straight flat route for the most

part, and we’re really encouraging everyone to come out to Murray Street and watch the parade,” Dilworth said.

Organizers are hoping for roughly 100 entries — everything from floats and bands to community groups and clowns.

The parade will be kicked off by a steamgenerated fire engine, led by horses from Victoria. Dilworth noted more than 50 participants have already signed up.

The city used to hold a parade down St. Johns Street, starting in the 1920s, but the

tradition ended in the early 1970s.

While thousands of people are expected to come out for the event, organizers are also looking for volunteers for a number of different tasks. The organizing committee is currently accepting volunteer applications, noting a commitment is a minimum of four hours on the day of the parade.

An orientation session will be held on June 12 at the Inlet Theatre in City Hall.

For more information about the parade, go to portmoody.ca/parade.

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CREATE A PEACEFUL AND HEALTHY SLEEPING ENVIRONMENT Your bedroom should be a relaxing sanctuary.

It is easy to overlook the benefits of a good night’s sleep. Without adequate rest a person can be left feeling irritable, distracted and sluggish. Those who repeatedly do not get enough sleep could be facing other health problems as well. For some, the secret to getting a better sleep is in modifying their sleeping environment.

Information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate insufficient sleep has become a public health epidemic. An estimated 50 to 70 million American adults report having a sleep or wakefulness disorder, and women are twice as likely to suffer from insomnia as men. Plus, one in three people suffer from some form of insomnia during their lifetime, offers the organization Better Sleep for Life.

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If you cannot afford a new mattress, buying a mattress topper in memory foam could mask any problems for the time being.

• BALANCE LIGHT AND DARK. In order to trigger sleepiness at the right time, it is essential to get at least 30 minutes of natural sunlight each day during the morning or afternoon. In the evening, begin dimming the lights to trigger the body’s natural internal clock and stimulate the production of the natural hormone melatonin, which relaxes the body into sleep. Keep a dark bedroom – invest in blackout curtains if need be.

• CONSIDER WHITE NOISE. Giving your brain a noise to associate with relaxing sleep can help you drift off more quickly. White noise can also

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Many people find running a fan in the bedroom provides the right amount of noise and also helps circulate air throughout the room.

• MAKE THE BEDROOM A COZY RETREAT. Your bedroom should be a relaxing sanctuary.

Fill it with cozy cushions and pillows. Make sure the room is clean and clutter-free. Relaxing blues and purples can be soothing colours to use in decorating, and the use of lavender essential oil could also add to the relaxing environment.

• AVOID DISTRACTIONS. When setting up your bedroom, do not fill it with electronics, such as a computer, tablet and television. These devices could contribute to wakefulness and actually impede your ability to get the rest you need.

• KEEP COOL. A cool bedroom is key to drifting off to sleep. Sweating and overheating can keep you awake, so drop the temperature down at night and dress lightly for bed. You want to feel comfortable and not too hot or cold.

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his pants, nails shaped like Neckbone, they set out on crosses on the soles of his adventures as a means of boots and a cigarette in his escaping the turmoil of their mouth. families. Ellis’ parents are For the boys, getting a divorce Mud is the belief and Neckbone in true love; he lives with his is the Old South uncle. that they desire to Neckbone dispreserve. covers a speed Mud enchants boat hanging 30 the boys with feet up in the trees legendary tales of a remote island. To watch a about the origin Upon investigattrailer for this of his snake tating they discover film, download too, lucky shirt that someone has the free Layar and bite from an already claimed app to your Edenic serpent the boat. smartphone and that almost killed While exiting him. Most of these the island they scan this page stories can be follow a set of footprints that suddenly stop. traced back to the love of his life: Juniper.

The boys turn, and there he Ellis is drawn to this posis, Mud, an enigmatic and sibility of inseparable love. charismatic figure with a He helps Mud on his quest to gun tucked in the back of win back Juniper, learning valuable lessons about love, adulthood and reality in the process.

In my review of Epic I wrote that “not every film needs to be original.” Case in point: Mud. Nichols openly admits to his piracy.

“I stole that,” he said during the film’s Cannes press conference, referring to the crosses on the bottom of Mud’s boots, which were taken directly from We are looking for adults, aged 65 and over, Huckleberry Finn. and who are fluent in English to take part in a Nichols doesn’t just stop research project on thinking abilities in aging. there. Mud has derivative elements from Badlands, To Our study involves one face-to-face Kill a Mockingbird and Tom appointment at SFU Burnaby campus that Sawyer. will take approximately 2 hours. Participants Regardless of its inspirawill complete several interactive activities tions, Mud is consistently powerful and always signifiassessing decision-making, perspective taking, cant. This is the odd brave memory, and other thinking abilities. and layered art-house effort Participants will receive $20.00 for time that blends meaning and raw power. I will say it again: and travel expenses.

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His heroes are mundane, but real; his writing is organic and authentic; his cinematography is beautiful yet meaningful. Nichols’ vision is clear.

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FRIDAY, MAY 31 Achieve Radiance Events & Communications hosts â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glow:

A Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Evening of Change and Celebrationâ&#x20AC;? starting at 7 p.m. at 405 North Rd., Coquitlam inside the Executive Plaza Hotel. Tri-Cities women are invited to this gala conference featuring guest speakers Suzette Amaya from Big Brothers Canada, author Lee Johnson and comedian Monique Hurteau. Tickets: $85. For info visit www.achieveradiance.com/glow/coquitlam-2013.

All Saints Parish hosts a community carnival from 3 to 8 p.m. at 1405 Como Lake Ave., Coquitlam. Admission is free for this family-oriented event. Info: www.allsaintsparishbc.ca.

SATURDAY, JUNE 1 Canadian Cancer Society hosts Relay for Life from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Percy Perry Stadium, 1299 Pinetree Way in Coquitlam.

Highlights include live entertainment, a survivorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; victory lap and the lighting of the luminaries. Info: www.relaybc.ca.

Coquitlam Public Library hosts registration for its Summer Reading Club, which is open to all kids aged four and older. There are two registration sites: from 1 to 1:30 p.m. in Room 137 at the City Centre branch, 1169 Pinetree Way (with a magic show from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m.), and from 10 to 10:30 a.m. at the Poirier Sport & Leisure Complex, in Room 2 South, located upstairs near the cafĂŠ, with a magic show from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Participants receive a reading record to record the names of the books they read, and their participation could help their school win a trophy.

Vancity hosts a free community shredding event at its Shaughnessy Station branch, 2850 Shaughnessy St. in PoCo, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. RCMP officers will be on site to provide information about identity theft prevention and awareness. Shredding donations will be accepted on behalf of the TriCity Transitions Society, and barbecue sales will support the PoCoMo Youth Services Society. Local business Foam Only will accept Styrofoam for recycling, and Urban Impact will shred confidential documents.

Hillside Community Church hosts its annual Humungous Garage Sale, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1393 Austin Ave. All money raised will go toward the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work in Kenya, where projects include a school, church, well and garden. Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event raised

approximately $3,000. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event will feature a barbecue.

St. Laurence Anglican Church hosts â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Voice,â&#x20AC;? a benefit concert by the Coquitlam Celebration Choir, at 7:30 p.m. at 825 St. Laurence St. in Coquitlam. Tickets are $10 and available at the door. Children under 12 get in for free. The performance will showcase songs from Cuba, Africa and French-speaking Canada, as well as inspirational music. Vancouver entertainer Michael Bain will sing and entertain with fun songs, and accompany himself on the ukelele. Proceeds will benefit the Crossroads Hospice Society.

Tumble Bus hosts the Parkland Players Carnival from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1563 Regan Ave., Coquitlam. Art activities, face painting, music, games, concerts and more. For info visit www. facebook.com/hpmeadowbrookplayers.

Centennial Secondary is partnering with Metro Ford to host a Ford Canada Drive One fundraising event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot of the school (off Winslow Street, across from Dogwood Pavilion in Coquitlam). For every qualified person (one per household, 18 or older, valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s licence) who takes a 10minute test drive, Ford Canada will donate $20 to the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dry after-grad committee. Info: Coleen at 604-939-7334.

SUNDAY, JUNE 2 Erin and Meghan Tulloch host a bake sale at the Safeway at 1033 Austin Ave. in Coquitlam. All proceeds will benefit the Prostate Cancer Foundation of B.C.

MONDAY, JUNE 3 Tri-Cities Municipal Pension Retirees Association, District 25 meets at 11 a.m. at Pasta Polo Restaurant, 2754 Barnet Hwy. in Coquitlam. All recipients of the municipal pension plan are welcome.

SUCCESS hosts a workshop on Canadian culture for newcomers, from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Room 127 of the Coquitlam Public Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s City Centre branch, 1169 Pinetree Way. The focus will be on Canadian festivals and holidays, and will be led by Sandra Martins, museum coordinator at Mackin House. To register, leave a message on the libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s registration line (604-937-4155) or contact SUCCESS at 604-468-6000 or cctricities@success.bc.ca.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 4 Coquitlam Prostate Cancer Support and Awareness Group

meets at 7 p.m. at Pinetree Community Centre, 1260 Pinetree Way in Coquitlam. Guest speaker Dr. Peter Black will provide updated information on prostate cancer. All those involved with prostate problems are invited to share their concerns and experiences in a strictly confidential atmosphere. There is no charge to attend, but donations are accepted. Info: Norm at 604-936-8703 or Ken at 604-936-2998.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 Hyde Creek Watershed Society meets at 7:15 p.m. at the Hyde Creek Education Centre & Hatchery, 3636 Coast Meridian Rd. in PoCo. Members of the public are invited to attend the meeting, learn about the societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s projects and tour the hatchery.

Info: hcws.info@gmail.com or www.hydecreek.org.

Terry Fox Library hosts Pyjama Storytime from 6:45 to 7:15 p.m. at 2470 Mary Hill Rd. in PoCo. Storytimes, designed for preschool children and their families, include books, songs, fingerplays and flannel stories. Children may come in pyjamas and bring a stuffed toy. This is a free drop-in program. Registration is not required. Info: 604-927-7999.

SHARE Family & Community Services Society hosts a free alcohol and drug education session, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 2615 Clarke St. (second floor) in Port Moody. The topic is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heroin and other common depressants/opiates: how one gets addicted, struggle and recovery.â&#x20AC;? Info: 604-936-3900.

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Hyde Creek Watershed Society partners with the City of Port Coquitlam to host a free nature walk, from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

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STARS SHINE AT B.C.S The Archbishop Carney Stars put some back spin on their final high school golf tournament this week on Vancouver Island.

Competing in the AA B.C. senior golf championships at Arbutus Ridge Golf Club, Carney posted a team-best fourth-place finish in the championship.

Their aggregate score of 654 over two rounds — taking the team’s top four scores — put them 15 points back of third-place St. Thomas More, and 30 shots back of champion Kwalikum.

Tying for the team lead were Nic Delveaux and Shania Ramandaban, who’s two-round mark of 161 was the second-lowest for girls in AA. Delveaux carved five shots off his opening day mark of 83, shooting 78 on the second round. Ramandaban was the reverse, after opening with a 78.

Jeff Cadman fired 165 (83-83), while Danny Hanigan posted 172 (90-82) and captain Bryan Cadman was at 173 (85-88).

The Stars, who were runners’ up to Hatzic at the Fraser Valley championship, topped Hatzic by 21 strokes at the provincials.

JR. A’S TO RETIRE #23

The Coquitlam junior Adanacs will be honouring one of their own next Wednesday.

The club will be retiring No. 23 in tribute of former star Trevor Wingrove between the first and second period on June 5.

A member of seven provincial championship teams in minor, Wingrove brought that winning spirit with him into the junior ranks and played a large part in the club’s success that saw it win one B.C. title and compete in two Minto Cup tournaments during his four years.

A two-time junior league all-star and Most Sportsmanlike player, Wingrove would graduate from the juniors after scoring 100 goals and 245 assists over 105 games.

Wingrove, a longtime City of Coquitlam employee, passed away three years ago.

The ceremony, with family and friends in attendance, will occur between the first and second periods in Coquitlam’s game against the Langley Thunder (7:30 p.m. faceoff at the Poirier Sports Centre).

SPRINTER NETS SILVER

In the first Subaru Western Triathlon high school championships, Port Coquitlam’s Foster Dolling emerged from a crowded field.

The teen placed second in the super sprint division with a finish time of 45:47 minutes, trailing just Noah Begley of Keremeos, who posted a winning time of 44:30.

The Subaru Western high school championship was a new addition to the Western Triathlon series.

In the end, 35 schools from three provinces had participants, with four scholarships of $500 being presented.

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hether putting up moonshots or beating out an outfielder’s throw, Max Hollingworth is setting a high trajectory for him and his team in the B.C. Premier Baseball League.

The Coquitlam Reds’ slugger is carving out a reputation for being able to launch a sloppy fastball over the fence, but it isn’t by any means the most important part of his game.

But hitting home runs is an eye-catching skill in a league where no one has yet to crack double-digits in four-baggers.

Hollingworth, 18, says the key to hitting home runs is first of all, not to think about it.

“It’s technique, really,” he said. “A lot of people view it as a home run kind of swing, but it’s not something you come up to the plate trying to do.

“I just like to focus on the pitch and adjust to it. [The homers] just come.”

Mashing one over the fence has an allure for those who want to flash their power.

To date he still counts a blast at Nat Bailey Stadium, a notorious pitcher’s park for those starting their pro careers, that he delivered as a Grade 10 during the Redlegs’ playoffs two seasons ago as his top homer highlight.

An outfielder by trade, Hollingworth has demonstrated plenty of speed and moxie on the basepaths as a member of the Reds. But in his first season with the club, he struggled to make contact, never mind launch the long ball.

Coquitlam coach Kyle Williams notes the player who reported to training camp this year is a far cry from the talented but unfocused one he slotted in the lineup last season.

“I believe that Max’s success this year can be primarily connected to an improvement in the mental side of his game,” noted Williams in an e-mail to the Tri-Cities NOW. “I think he is more relaxed and is putting less pressure on himself.”

Heading into this weekend, Hollingworth is hitting .347, which in the wild BCPBL ranks him in the top-20. His five home runs puts him one back of Langley catcher Tyler O’Neill for the league lead, while the Gleneagle Secondary Grade 12 athlete is third overall in RBI with 28 in 26 games.

And since the league made the change to wood bats, any approach close to double digits has the attention of coaches and scouts.

It’s a huge jump from his rookie year, when he batted .242, with a single dinger and 19 runs driven in. Looking back, 2012 was a steep learning curve that at times was a grind.

“I was unhappy with myself, I knew I could do a lot better. I was beating myself up,” he said. “It taught me not to be focused on stats.”

And from that lesson, he’s taken on a larger role as a team leader, both on and off the diamond.

CHUNG CHOW/NOW

While Max Hollingworth’s habit of going yard has turned many heads, the outfielder has made major strides in his whole game from a year ago.

“We’ve also been very impressed with his leadership skills, said Williams. “He’s taken the time to work with younger hitters and to share his knowledge almost in a player/hitting coach sort of way. He continues to be a strong defensive player in the outfield with his speed and strong arm.”

Being charged with a leadership role hasn’t been a weight at all, said the player.

“At the beginning I didn’t think I could be that vocal leader, but more of a lead-byexample type. Kyle picked me, Curtis [Taylor]

and Mark [Trimble] to be captains. I’ve been a captain with my soccer team so it wasn’t completely strange — and [this] spring training I’d go into the cage and take charge to help out the junior guys.”

From that serious, more involved approach has emerged a better all-around player.

“I definitely have more confidence going up to the plate,” he noted. “I’m trying to hit early in the count, and the fastball is definitely more easier to hit.”

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Runner wraps up SFU career a champion

CROFTS CAPS CAREER WITH 800M TITLE

Lindsey Butterworth finished just off the podium in fourth place in a time of 2:10.03, sports@thenownews.com while Sarah Sawatzky was sixth-place time was 2:10.87. All three runners earned Allelen Crofts finished off her colAmerican status for their performances. legiate career at Simon Fraser Butterworth and Sawatzky, both juniors, University like a champion.

The Clan senior added an will return to the Clan program next year.

SFU’s 4x400m relay team of Crofts, Sawtzky, NCAA Division II national outdoor track and field title to her mantle follow- Michaela Kane and Chantel Desch finished in sixth place in the prelimaring a win in the women’s 800 ies and did not qualify for the metres at the championships in final.

Pueblo, Colo. on Saturday.

Discus thrower Jade Crofts took an early lead and Richardson also missed earnheld off the competition to win Winning this ing a team points, placing ninth by more than a second in the with a throw of 45.26 metres in metric half-mile run in a track title was the the women’s event. record time of 2: 08.18. goal at the “I think we’ve proven we can Crofts’ time was more than beginning of the compete at this level,” said Clan five seconds off the record set head coach Britt Townsend in

by Teena Colebrook of Cal Poly season. the release.

San Luis Obispo in 1990 and –SFU athlete For Crofts, it was a fitting well off the collegiate record of Helen Crofts finale to a fine postsecondary 1:59.11 set by Wisconsin’s Suzy track career.

Hamilton in the same year.

On top of her two NCAA titles, “I was able to get out to an early lead. It wasn’t a really fast pace and the Crofts also won two earlier Great Northwest competition was close throughout. I was just conference titles in the 400 and 1,500m.

She is also a former National Association of able to pull away at the end,” said Crofts in a Intercollegiate Athletics champion and is the press release.

Crofts finished more than a second ahead of current national record holder in the 800m.

“This was a great way to finish my Clan runner-up Jaylen Rogers of Angelo State.

Earlier in the season, Crofts also won the career,” Crofts added. “Winning this title was the goal at the beginning of the season. I think NCAA Div. II indoor 800m title.

SFU garnered all 18 of its women’s team as a group, we showed how strong we are, having three girls in the final.” points in the middle distance race.

Tom BERRIDGE

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TURF TUMBLE: Players from Port Moody’s under-nine boys spring league tough it out on the turf recently at Heritage Woods field.

Patience at the plate pays off CONT’D FROM P. 21 From the long balls to sharp shots that hug the base line — giving him an opportunity to run the base paths aggressively — he continues to earn his ‘impact player’ reputation.

And as highly prized as each home run is, a triple may just be the most exciting play.

“I’ve been hitting a lot of balls into the gaps, and that’s helped out a lot,” Hollingworth said. “The coach is OK with

me being more aggressive depending on the situation, and if I can get that extra base hit I’ll take it.”

The Reds, who are 14-12, play a pair of doubleheaders in Victoria this weekend.

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Metro-Ford shut down Abby Dan OLSON sports@thenownews.com The Coquitlam Metro-Ford premier women’s soccer team collected its second win of the Pacific Coast season, topping Abbotsford FC 1-0 on Tuesday.

The game’s lone marker came in the 34th minute, when centre-back Lena Soutar led a march up field that ended with Tahira Larson depositing the ball to the back of the net.

Courtney Sheppard and Stephanie Russo drew assists on the play.

Late in the contest Abbotsford pressed

for the equalizer, but netminder Aja Aguirre made a brilliant stop to preserve the win, as Coquitlam improved to 2-1 on the season.

It was a strong performance, erasing a disappointing 4-1 setback on the weekend. “[The] biggest difference between the previous outing and this one was our mental preparation,” remarked Coquitlam coach Bruno Colangeli. “[We] came out willing to compete for every ball, playing with a belief and confidence in our game.”

A cohesive, determined presence in the defensive zone limited Abbotsford to few direct glimpses. Other steady efforts were delivered by Aja Choy-Halo, Jodie Davis and Jenna Piovesan.

The women hit the road this weekend for games against the Okanagan and Kamloops.

The Coquitlam Metro-Ford men’s squad, meanwhile, earned a 1-1 draw against the visiting Victoria United in PCSL men’s premier play.

Justin Derkson registered the lone goal for the locals.

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Taekwondo trio earn nat spots The Port Coquitlambased Triumph Taekwon-Do Club sent five athletes to the Canadian Taekwon-Do Federation’s national championships earlier this month in Quebec City — with great results.

Those five returned bearing a heavy bounty of awards.

Most importantly, three members advanced and qualified for a position on the Canadian national team that will compete at the International Taekwon-Do Federation’s world championships in Spain in October.

Brianne Thompson, Beatrix Lerch and Tyson Chan Kwai Siong reaped medals from their performances at the national championships, while also qualifying for a

spot on the national team roster.

Thompson emerged with gold in women’s black belt sparring, while Lerch collected silver in the same event.

Chan Kwai Siong scored silver in junior men’s special technique board breaking.

Also representing Triumph at the competition were Frank Lerch, who competed in men’s black belt, and Damian Korcz, who put in a solid performance in junior men’s black belt.

Now, Beatrix Lerch, Chan Kwai Siong and Thompson prepare themselves for the world competition, where black belt athletes from more than 80 countries will converge to see who is the best of the best.

Cooper Trembath receives a yummy $15 abc breakfast gift voucher to take out your parents.

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“The issue that crops up time and time again when you ask people to compost their kitchen waste in order to keep [organic material] out of the landfill is that it can, quite frankly, be a bit of a messy endeavour,” says Carson O’Neill, CEO of Bag To Earth Inc. “But the fact remains that these municipal food waste programs are a good idea. They really do work from an environmental perspective, so our aim is to make it easy and convenient – as hassle-free a process as possible – in order to encourage more participation.”

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Plastic bags, even those labelled biodegradable or compostable, he continues, have no place in an organic food waste program, as they actually “back up” the process.

“Say you line the green bin that’s in your kitchen or the larger one on your curb with plastic and then you put your organics directly into that plastic for pickup,” he says. “What you end up with is a plastic bag sitting in the city’s compost site and backing it up because it’s a non-compostable material. It totally negates the purpose.”

By lining your kitchen and/or outdoor bin with a Bag To Earth Food Waste Bag, however, all of the material – food waste and bag – that’s taken from your home by your municipality will return to the earth in its entirety.

The question remains: why would any well-meaning resident put plastic inside a bin, when the contents of that bin are meant for compost? O’Neill says it often comes down to cleanliness.

“Leftover food scraps can be slimy and stinky, and even those of us with the best intentions when it comes to the environment may be deterred from participating in a composting program due to the mess,”

“Our aim is to make it easy and convenient – as hassle-free a process as possible – in order to encourage more participation in municipal food waste composting programs”

– Carson O’Neill, CEO, Bag To Earth Inc.

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PICKING UP STEAM: Runners at the Coquitlam District elementary school track and field championships head towards the finish line.

Bag To Earth Food Waste Bags are made from all-natural materials designed to disappear fully into the earth along with any approved food scraps you toss into them, thus helping to complete the organic loop. he says. “Our Food Waste Bags, however, solve this problem by keeping your bins clean and odour free.”

Not only is the cellulose liner in every Bag To Earth Food Waste Bag totally leak-proof, keeping unpleasant smells from escaping is as simple as rolling down the top of the bag and sealing it with a clip or clothespin. Additionally, each Food Waste Bag’s flat bottom means it can either be placed in your green bin or set as a standalone right on your kitchen counter.

“When the bag’s full, just run it out and put it in your curbside bin,” says O’Neill. “No need to dump it out; the bag goes right in and returns to the earth completely, from the lining to the tie … right down to the print on the exterior. And, if you wish, line your outdoor bin with one of our larger-sized bags. You won’t need to hose down the interior due to food scraps getting stuck on the sides and making a mess.”

Each small Bag To Earth Food Waste Bag, one of which will last a family of four about a week (just enough time to fill and place curbside for pickup), costs approximately $0.50 – that’s just $26 a year.

Again, O’Neill emphasizes the fact that “nothing about our Food Waste Bags compromises the composting aspect.”

In fact, Bag To Earth relies on the success of municipally run food waste programs.

“We follow these programs very closely and regularly update our website with the latest information from across the country,” he says.

“Consumers are more than welcome to visit www.bagtoearth.com to find details about their local food waste program, as well as a list of retailers in their area that carry our products.”

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For Sale by Owner

6015

ONLY $226,900 in Langley’s Murrayville area, 960 sq ft , 2 bdr, 2 bth, grnd-floor condo covered deck and yard. See PropertyGuys.com in 76670 or call 604-613-2670

SMALL PEACEFUL farm set up for horses right beside South Langley riding trail. Bright & comfortable older 2 bd home, f/p, barn, riding rings, pastures. $849,900. Call 604-323-4788 See Propertyguys.com ID: 76788

6020-14

Langley/ Aldergrove

$739,900 YORKSTON South area Langley, 1 yr old, 3865 sq ft Cstm design 7 bdrm + 5 bthrm + Legal 2 Bdrm Suite. Call 778-298-8108.

See Propertyguys.com ID: 76108

ALDERGROVE SXS DUPLEX 80K below assessment. $3K/mo rent $529,900 firm 604-807-6565 see uSELLaHOME.com id3428

FORT LANGLEY 2300sf 5br w/suite above 3 additional rental units $965K 604-882-6788 see uSELLaHOME.com id5533

6020-34 6020

Surrey

Houses - Sale

Port Coquitlam

6020-01 4060

SWIFT DOG SPORTS Training]Dog Walking]Pet Sitting www.swiftdogsports.com

TOP FLOOR quiet side of bldg 650sf 1br+den condo nr Hosp, & Sky train $244K 778-241-4101 see uSELLaHOME.com id5580

6008-24

LUXURY PET HOTEL @ YVR New customer special $27/ night restriction apply www.jetpetresort.com

Houses - Sale

New Westminster

TOP FLR 762sf 1br condo, in-ste laundry, 45+ building Mt. Baker view $85,000. 778-822-7387 see uSELLaHOME.com id5553

6008-12

PB KANE Corso ready, m/f, dew claws/tails, 1st/2nd shots, deworm, $1500, 604-802-8480

IMMACULATE 2446SF 4br 4ba t/h. Incredible view, huge master br $405,000, 604-466-3175 see uSELLaHOME.com id5226

6020

S. Surrey/ White Rock

Cares!

3540

PB STD Apricot poodle avail for stud $400. 4lb pb fawn chihuahua for stud $500. 604-607-5003

Business Opps/ Franchises

604.434.7744 • info@coverallbc.com

PURE Bred Bull Terrier, with papers, female, blk/white, 11/mo, all shots $1800, 604-831-0631

BENGAL KITTENS, vet ✔ 1st shots dewormed, sweet natured, $500. Mission 1-604-814-1235

5040

POCO, 728SF, 1 BR patio apt.

Sr. Living Amica Incl 5 appls. f/p, gard/view. $229,900. 604-805-4623

Real Estate

At WE BUY HOMES We CASH YOU OUT FAST! We Also Take Over Your Payments Until Your Home is Sold. No Fees! No Risk! Call us First!

(604)- 626-9647 www.webuyhomesbc.com

FLEETWOOD RENO’D 2140sf 4br 3ba, large 7100sf lot, bsmt suite $539,000. 604-727-9240 see uSELLaHOME.com id5617

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REAL ESTATE RENTALS 6020

Houses - Sale

6020-34

6065

Recreation Property

6508

Apt/Condos

BBY STH 2 BR Apt. adult bldg, no pets Near all amens. Incls heat & hot water, parking, $975.

604-921-1572 or 604-828-9917

Surrey

COQ 1121 HOWIE, 1 BR, $800 incls hot wtr/sec prkg. NS/NP. 604-936-0277 or 604-787-6470 GREAT 1988 SQ FT, 3 Bdrm 3-level split Carluke Cres Surrey.

Upgraded Kitchen w/ SS appliances – Only $540,000 Phone 604-597-7799.

PropertyGuys.com ID:76799

BEST LAKE FRONT FROM VAN only 1 hr, nr Bellingham, 2,900 sft, 5 br, 4.5 bath, 19 yr old home.

Beautiful low bank waterfront, $679,000. Call 604-734-1300

COQ 2 BR apartment, quiet family complex, no pets. $965.

604-942-2277 COQ CENTRAL Howie, Lrg 1 BR condo, sec prkg. 3rd flr, view. $850incl ht/ht wtr. 604-526-0020 NEW WEST. 1 BR Reno’d. New Appls, Flooring, Fixtures, Paint.

Prof. mgmt. From $790.

Call (604) 724-8353.

GUILDFORD 1900SF 3br 2ba w/basement suite on huge 8640 sf lot, $479,000 604-613-1553 see uSELLaHOME.com id5608

HATZIC LAKE Swans Point, 1 hr from Vanc incl lot & 5th wheel ski, fish, $134,500. 604-209-8650 see uSELLaHOME.com id5491

NEW WEST nr RCH/Skytrain, 1 BR apt, $795. Inc heat/u/g pkng, n/p, quiet complex, 604-299-8288 email: cedarsunset@shaw.ca NEW WEST very lge quiet 1BR apt, h/w flrs, nr shops/bus, ns, np. $850. Now/Jun 1. 604-524-4775

GUILDFORD MAGNIFICENT 4952sf 10br 6.5ba back on creek, main floor master br, $729K 604-581-5541 see: uSELLaHOME.com id5506

6030

LOT & Trailer. This little gem is located 120 miles from Van, pool - C.H, hiking, fishing, history of Caretaker, maint $775/yr, $30,000 obo. Lot 33 - 30860 Trans Canada Hwy Yale BC. Ph 1-604-792-6764

Lots & Acreage

PORT COQUITLAM 2 BR APT, $815, quiet complex, no pets. Call 604-464-0034

GARDEN VILLA 1010 6th Ave, New West Suites Available. Beautiful atrium with fountain.

By shops, college & transit.

Pets negotiable. Ref required.

CALL 604 715-7764 BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

LANGLEY NR town fully reno’d 2474sf home on 5ac ppty, bsmt suite $1,150,000 604-825-3966 see uSELLaHOME.com id5582

6035

OCEAN FRONT boat access only 2 yr old 1600sf 3br 2.5ba 30min from W Van $799K 778-998-9141 see uSELLaHOME.com id5424

office: 604- 936-1225

6505

6040

Okanagan/ Interior

Apartments & Condos

1 BR/1BA Suite Reno’d, AVAIL. JUNE 1st. Includes heat & hot water. Laundry in building.

N/S. Small pets OK. $800 mo.

Email: aeadmin@telus.net

6508

Apt/Condos

BBY, Lougheed Mall. 1 BR, $850.

Avail July 1. Incl heat & hot water. u/g prkg avail, ns/np, newly reno’d, 604-779-3882

BALMORAL STREET MERRITT HERITAGE style 3070 sf 4br 5ba on 9.9ac lot detached shop, view $895K 250-378-8857 see uSELLaHOME.com id5592

6050

Out Of Town Property

Suites Available Close to trans, Highgate Mall & shopping. Rent incls heat & h/w. Refs req’d. Reno’d stes.

Ana 778-859-0798 or Bayside Property Office 604-432-7774

AMBER ROCHESTOR 545 Rochester Ave, Coq

CRANBROOK 2060SF 4br 3ba reno’d home w/side suite on 2 lots $239,900 778-887-4530 see uSELLaHOME.com id5304

6052

Real Estate Investment

LANGLEY RENOD sxs duplex +1/2ac lot, rental income $2,200 /month $489,900 604-807-6565 see uSELLaHOME.com id3186

6065

Recreation Property

Close to Lougheed Mall, S.F.U. & Transportation.

Office 604- 936-3907

AMBER (W) 401 Westview St, Coq Large Units.

Near Lougheed Mall.

Transportation & S.F.U.

415 Westview St, Coq Close to Lougheed Mall, all Transportation Connections, Schools & S.F.U.

office: 604-939-8905

KING ALBERT COURT

1 BR $775, 2 BR $950 3 BR $1,150

(incl. heat, h/w, parking) Indoor pool, near Lougheed Mall, SFU, public transit, schools

1-888-495-7106

whitgift@concertproperties.com

6510

Close to Transportation, Schools & S.F.U.

office: cell:

604-937-7343 778-863-9980

VILLA MARGARETA 320-9th St, New West Suites Available.

All Suites Have Balconies.

Undergrd Parking Available.

Refs Required. Small Pet Ok.

CALL 604 715-7764 Bayside Properties Services

ROYAL CRESCENT ESTATES 22588 Royal Crescent Ave, Maple Ridge Large units. Close to Golden Ears Bridge. Great River view!

BONSOR APTS

ARBOUR GREENE

604-939-4903 778- 229-1358

1030 - 5th Ave, New West Near Transportation & Douglas College.

Well Managed Building.

Cell: 604-813-8789

ALARM 604-463-7919 Systems Ltd.

8015

Appliance Repairs

HARRIS ROAD HOUSING CO-OP (Pitt Meadows) 2 BR, $1030/mo, $2500 share purchase.

Near bus & schools.

No subsidy.

Pets ok. 604 465-1938

6540

Houses - Rent

BBY, CUMBERLAND & 14th Ave, 3 BR, 2 baths, now, $1900.

604-376-0325 or 604-525-3870 BBY NORTH 2 BR & Den mn flr, 5 appls, $1275. Av Sep 1. NS/NP. Adult oriented. 604-880-9433 COQ, 5 BR’s; 3 BR ste up & 2 BR ste down, reno’d, all appls, energy effic windows, quartz counters, prkg. Nr amens, Ikea. $2300.

N/S, No dogs. 604-562-9588

6595

Bayside Property Services Office: 604-432-7774

Shared Accommodation

SERVICE & PARTS. Licenced & Insured. Washers, Dryers, Stove, Fridge, Dishwashers. 604-346-8925

8055

Cleaning

MESSY HOUSE OR OFFICE? The most thorough cleaning or its FREE! Single Parent and Seniors Discount. Call 604-945-0004

8060

Concrete

STAMPED CONCRETE

* Patios, Pool Decks *Sidewalks, Driveways *Forming *Finishing *Re & Re All Your Concrete Needs 30 yrs. exp. Quality workmanship Fully Insured

Danny 604.307.7722

6595-10

North Burnaby

BRENTWOOD MALL. Priv furn lrg room, in shared quiet bsmt ste. $490 all incld . 604-723-1837

DALL’ANTONIA CONCRETE ❏ All Jobs BIG & small ❏ Concrete Removal ❏ Seniors discount.

Friendly, Family Business, 40+ years experience!

102-120 Agnes St, N.West

Electrical

Electrical Installations; Renos and Repairs. Member of BBB. www.nrgelectric.ca 604-520-9922 YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 service call. Insured. Lic # 89402.

Fast same day service guar’d. We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

8087

By hand, Paving, landscaping, stump / rock / cement / oil tank & dirt removal, paver stones, Jackhammer, Water / sewer line / sumps. Slinger avail. 24 hrs Call 341-4446 or 254-6865

8160

Lawn & Garden

Suites/Partial Houses

BBY, 4508 Ellerton Court. Clean, modern 2 BR bsmt, full bath, gas f/p. $900 incl utils & internet & radiant heat. shared w/d, 950 sq ft. N/s, no pets. Near Metrotown Mall & bus. Immed. 604-761-3702

8068

8095

DEMOLITION Old garage, carport, house, pool, repair main waterline, break concrete & removal.

Licensed • Insured • WCB

604-716-8528 BBY, BCIT. Lower 2 BR, $700 & 1 BR $550, Upper 2 BR $1100; plus utls. Quiet, sh’d W/D. NS/NP. 604-294-4687 or 604-418-6249 BBY EAST, 1 BR bsmt ste, avail now, $700 incls utls. Cat OK, N/S. 604-512-8196 or 604-527-7986 BBY WILLINGDON, 1 BR & Den, nr BCIT & bus, $800 incls hydro, ns/np, Jun 1. 604-299-2541 COQ. $725/MO. 1 BD, 4 appls, stove, frig, washer, dryer. Close to all amens, avail June 1st, incls utils. NO PETS. 604-454-4540

8073

Drainage

RNC DRAINAGE −Augering −Water & Sewer line repair & replacement −Sumps −Drain Tile −Concrete Work −Foundation, −Excavation −Retaing Walls −Site restored Call Ron 778-227-7316 or 604-568-3791

COQ MAILLARDVILLE renod 1BR g/lvl ste, bright, good view, f/p, w/d, near skytrain/bus, quiet area. N/s, n/p. Now. $650+utils.

604-520-6925, 604-250-7738

Townhouses Rent

FIBERGLASS SUNDECKS www.bestfiberglassdecks.ca Call: (604) 780-3939

8105

7005

Body Work

Repairs & Staining Installation Free Estimates

Century Hardwood Floors

PHOENIX MASSAGE CTR.

RIVERS INLET Townhouses (Coquitlam Centre area) 2 levels, 5 appls, decorative fireplace, carport. Sorry no pets. Great Location!

We also have apartments Bachelor, 1 BR & 2 BR call for availability.

CALL 604 525-2122

604-942-2012

BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

coquitlampropertyrentals.ca

7015

Escort Services

2 BR & 3 BR Townhouse

Gardening Services Lawn Maintenance Landscape Design Residential & Commercial William KIM • 28 years exp.

604-518-3571

A Gardener & A Gentleman Lawn, Garden, Tree svcs. Pruning, Yard Clean-up, Junk. 319-5302

A & W Landscape • Tree & Hedge, Clean-up, Power Wash, Seniors Disc. Al @ 604-783-3142

8185

Moving & Storage

AFFORDABLE MOVING 1 to 3 Men

1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 Ton $ From

45

We accept Visa, Mastercard & Interac Licenced & Insured Local & Long Distance

FREE ESTIMATES Seniors Discount

604-537-4140

Artistry of Hardwood Floors

B&Y MOVING

Refinish, sanding, install, dustless Prof & Quality work 604-219-6944

Gutters

AT YOUR HOME GUTTER SERVICES

No More HST! BOOK NOW! • Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repairs • Roofing & Roof Repairs • Moss Control, Removal & Prevention 25 year Warranteed Leaf & Needle Guard

WCB – Fully Insured 100% Money Back Guarantee

604-340-7189 ACCREDITED BUSINESS

www.affordablemoversbc.com

Experienced Movers ~ 2 Men $55 ~

Over 10 yrs. Exp. • Licenced & Insured • Professional Piano Movers

604-708-8850 TCP MOVING 1 to 3 men from $40

• Licensed & Insured.

• Local & storage.

• Ca & US long distance.

604-505-1386 604-505-9166 ABBA MOVERS bsmt clean 1-4 ton Lic, ins’d from $35/hr, 2 men $45/hr, 24/7, 26 yrs 604-506-7576 ABE MOVING & Delivery and Rubbish Removal $35/HR per Person • 24/7 604-999-6020 AMI MOVING ★ 5 ton cube.

Starting at $49/hour. Local & long distances. 24/7 ★ 604-617-8620

atyourhomeservicesgroup.ca DIRTY WINDOWS? DIRTY GUTTERS? Black Bear Window Cleaning does windows, gutters & siding. Insured & Guaranteed.

Commercial & Residential.

Call: 778 892-2327

Handyperson

HANDYMAN - framing, decks, tiles, re-roof. Total additions & basements. Ken 604-500-2426

8160 Now Open - New Girls Chinese, Japenese, Korean, Punjabi, Thai, Caucasian. Great Massage Now Hiring. 10am-Midnight every day.

Park’s Landscaping

604-376-7224 www.centuryhardwood.com

HANDYMAN SPECIALIZING Reno’s, Carpentry, Tiling, Drywall. Call Mike 604-376-0912

NEW WEST 2 BR, River view, avail July 1. $1134. For details www.queens-ave-coop.ca

Hi-Rise Apartment with River View & Indoor Pool.

1 BR & 2 BR Available.

Rent includes heat & hot water. Remodelled Building and Common area. Gated undergrd parking available.

References required.

Flooring/ Refinishing

Hardwood Floor Refinishing

8130

COQ 2 BR $995 apts, quiet complex, incls hot water, laundry facils, free parking, nr amens, No pets. 778-323-4317

PT COQUITLAM, 2 BR townhouse $870, quiet family complex, no pets, call 604-464-0034.

Fiberglass

Demolition

Excavating - Drain Tile

❏ SPRING CLEAN UP ❏ Hedge Trim ❏ Tree Pruning ❏ Lawn Cut Contracts ❏ Weed ❏ Yard Maintenance Insured. Guaranteed.

John • 778-867-8785

Excavating - Drain Tile Demolitions. Fully insured • WCB 604-716-8528

8125 6602

Excavating

604-240-3408

2263 Kingsway at Nanaimo St. Van., 604.294.8038

SKYLINE TOWERS

8080

# 1 YARD DRAINAGE, STONE WORK & HOUSE DEMOLITION

crossroadsstampedconcrete.com

office: 604-463-0857 cell: 604-375-1768

Contact Alex 604-999-9978

office: cell:

Co-ops

1300 King Albert, Coq

office: 604-939-2136 cell: 604-727-5178

Extra Large 2 Bedrooms.

Close to Lougheed Mall and S.F.U.

Alarm/Security

JUNIPER COURT

Renovated high rise, concrete building. Suites available.

Very close to Metrotown, Skytrain & Bonsor swimming pool. Rent includes heat, hot water. Refs req’d.

552 Dansey Ave, Coq

8010

550 Cottonwood Ave., Coq.

6605

CALYPSO COURT HATZIC LAKE 1 hr drive from Vanc, 2 vacant lots 1 is lakefront $65K is for both 604-302-3527 see uSELLaHOME.com id5588

555 Cottonwood Ave, Coq

Apt/Condos

WHITGIFT GARDENS

Large units some with 2nd bathroom or den.

On bus routes, close to S.F.U. & Lougheed Mall.

Mobile Homes

OWN THE land, Chilliwack, 1092sf, 2bdrm rancher style mobile home, kids OK, $179,900 604-824-7803 see uSELLaHOME.com id5541

COTTONWOOD PLAZA

6508

HOME SERVICES

Lawn & Garden

Spring Services Same Day Service, Fully Insured

FREE ESTIMATES

• Lawn Maintenance • Fertilizing • Yard Clean-ups • Aeration • Pruning/Hedges • Power Raking • Rubbish Removal • Odd jobs •Yearly Maintenance Programs •

Local & long distance Call 604-720-0931 brothersmovingservice.com TLL MOVING Local & Long Distance. Good Rates. Licensed & Insured. Call 778-389-6357

8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

AAA

PRECISION PAINTING • Exterior/Interior Projects • Written Warranty • Years of Experience • Fully Insured • WCB Covered Residential Specialists

QUALITY WORK. DONE RIGHT.

778.881.6096

ALLQUEST PAINTING Quality Work You Can Trust!

Interior & Exterior # UNBEATABLE PRICES # Free Est. / Written Guarantee

Insured/WCB

778-997-9582

The Fox Den @ Metro Town 100 Vancouver Escorts online

310-JIMS (5467) BOOK A JOB AT

www.jimsmowing.ca

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HOME SERVICES 8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

D&M PAINTING Interior/Exterior Specialist Many Years Experience Fully Insured Top Quality, Quick Work Free Estimate

604-724-3832

Magic Star Painting

Spring Specials $ 3 ROOMS 299 (Walls Only)

Top Quality Quick Work

8205

Paving/Seal Coating

ASPHALT PAVING Driveway, Walkway & Parking Lot Garage Apron / Speed Bump / Pot Hole / Patch Commercial & Residential www.jaconbrospaving.com

604-618-2949 ALLEN ASPHALT concrete, brick, drains, foundations, walls, membranes 604-618-2304/ 820-2187 METRO BLACKTOP CO. LTD Custom work for Driveways & new lane Aprons. Repairs/resurfacing. Call Gino 604-657-9936

Free Estimates

Call Now: 780-6510 A Name You Can Trust

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

25% Off with this ad

Call 604-518-0974 FISHER Painting. interior & exterior painting, repaints & new construction 778-839-0545

AT YOUR HOME SERVICES GROUP

8220

Plumbing

10% Off with this Ad! For all your plumbing, heating & reno needs.

Lic Gas Fitter, Aman. 778-895-2005 A FIXIT PLUMBING & Heating H/W tanks, boilers, furn, renos, drains, gas fitter. 778-908-2501

★ STAFFORD & SON ★ Interior/Exterior. Top quality work.

Reas. rates. BBB, 604-809-3842

8200

Patios/Decks/ Railings

Atlas Vinyl Sundecks 'Your complete Sundeck Specialists' Vinyl Waterproofing, Deck Rebuilds, Custom Built Railings, Patio Covers, 778-285-2107

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

TOTAL HOME A RENOVATIONS Since 1983

FROM DESIGN TO FINISH Complete Renos & Additions, incl.: Kitchen & Bath Improvements • Roofing • Sundecks • Door & Window Replacements

Bill 604-298-1222 www.chrisdalehomes.com

8255

Roofing

* We Remove & Recycle Anything*

Free Est’s • Large or Small Jobs

NO TAX Special! *

Free Estimates!

No More HST! BOOK NOW!

We are pleased to offer High Quality Home Improvements • New construction • Renovations - Basements • Additions - Decks • Kitchens - Bathrooms • Laneway Houses - Drainage

• Roofing & Roof Repairs • Duroid, Cedar, Torch-on • Moss Control, Removal & Prevention • Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repairs

*No job too big or too small

WCB – Fully Insured 100% Money Back Guarantee

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604-340-7189

604-340-7189 ACCREDITED BUSINESS

ACCREDITED BUSINESS

atyourhomeservicesgroup.ca

Bros. Roofing Ltd. Home Renovations Expert Bathroom, kitchen remodels + more 604-307-2837 accentcontracting.ca

FERREIRA HOME IMPROVEMENTS Additions ★ Renovations Concrete Forming ★ Decks Garages ★ Bathrooms Ceramic Tile ★ Drywall Hardwood Flooring ''Satisfaction Guaranteed''

Over 40 Years in Business SPECIALIZING IN CEDAR, FIBERGLASS LAMINATES AND TORCH ON.

Liability Insurance, WCB, BBB, Free Estimates

604-983-0133

10% DISCOUNT. MG Roofing & Siding. WCB. Re-Roofing, New Roof, Gutters. 604-812-9721 Samra Bros. Roofing Ltd. 40 yrs+ Cedar / Fiberglass / Torch On Free Estimates. 604-946-4333

10% OFF WITH THIS AD www.604rubbish.com

D & M RENOVATIONS, Flooring, tiling, finishing. Fully Insured. Top quality, quick work 604-724-3832 JENCO RENO SERVICES www.jenco-online.info Ray ★ 604-562-5934

Roofing Experts 778-230-5717 Repairs/Re-Roof/New Roofs. All work Gtd. Free Est. BBB member

8255

Home && Yard Yard Clean Clean Ups Ups Home Residential/Commercial Residential/Commercial No Job Job Too Too Small Small No Free EstimatesEstimates- 77 Days/Wk Days/Wk Free Call Tony Tony 604-834-2597 604-834-2597 Call www.bulldogdisposal.ca www.bulldogdisposal.ca

8300 8300

Stucco/Siding/ Stucco/Siding/ Exterior Exterior

9160 1956 OLDSMOBILE Sedan, excl cond 324/ Rocket 88 78,000 org miles. A must see $12,000. 604-795-3344

9125

Sports & Imports

1997 TOYOTA Camry LE. 4 drs, 4 cyl, auto, a/c. Well maintained.

Aircared. $3700. 604-936-1270

Domestic

2006 VW JETTA 2.0T 73k, original owner, hid headlights, auto, $14,900. 604-307-9159

2011 Hyundai Sonata Limited Affordable Luxury 35,600 kms.

2.4L GDI DOHC. $19,999. Email: sjscot@shaw.ca (604) 794-3428.

9130

8315 8315

Tree Services Tree Services

Tree & Hedge •Trimming •Prune Tree & Hedge •Trimming •Prune •Planting • Lawns •Full Landscape •Planting Landscape Services. • Lawns AL @•Full 604-783-3142 Services. AL @ 604-783-3142

9110 9110

Collectibles & Collectibles Classics & Classics

9515

Boats

Motorcycles/ Dirt Bikes 14 ALUMINUM DURABOAT, 25hp evinrude motor, fishing rods, incls trailer, $4500. 604-519-0075

DC STUCCO. 21 years exp. Fast, DC STUCCO. 21 years Fast, friendly service.

All exp. types of friendly types of Finishes &service.

Repairs.All 604-788-1385 Finishes & Repairs. 604-788-1385

1991 Ventura Royale Immaculate condition, have all service records, a must to see. $3,800. Call: (604) 850-8742

9145

Scrap Car Removal

AAA SCRAP CAR REMOVAL Minimum $150 cash paid for full sized vehicles. 604-518-3673

1989 19’ Bayliner Capri Blue, 2.3 litre IO Fresh water cooled, new windshield/canvas/swim grid, trailer. $6,975. 604-837-7564 WANTED. 2 small outboard motors. 15 HP, 9.9 HP & smaller.

Motor doesn’t have to be running.

Will pay cash. 604-319-5720

9522

RV’s/Trailers

THE SCRAPPER SCRAP CAR & TRUCK REMOVAL

Rubbish Removal

WILL HAUL out garages and bsmts, for little or no $ if saleable items incl’d. Jim, 604-936-8583

Scrap Car Removal

CA$H for SCRAP CARS Cars, Trucks, Vans, RV’s, Motorcycles etc. Kevin 778-235-6848

#1 FREE Scrap Vehicle Removal Ask about $500 Credit!!! $$ PAID for Some 604.683.2200

Complete Renovations

9145

Bulldog Disposal Disposal Co Co Bulldog

NORM, 604-466-9733 Cell: 604-841-1855 ALLQUEST PAINTING Quality Work You Can Trust!

778 997-9582 Bsmt suites ■ Additions Offices Framing Forms ■ Sundecks & more. Call Tony 604-362-4222

Collectibles & Classics

Rubbish Removal 782-2474

AT YOUR HOME ROOFING SERVICES

* Expires in 30 days

LOCAL PLUMBER - Licensed, insured,GASFITTING, renos, Repairs. VISA 604-830-6617 MILANO PAINTING & RENOS Int/Ext. Free Est. Written Guar.

Prof & Insured. 604 551-6510

8250

604-RUBBISH

STARBRUSH PAINTING • Free Baseboards • Seniors Disc.

• High Quality, Low Cost • WCB

9110

1966 CADILLAC CADILLAC Coupe Coupe de de ville ville 1966 a/c, pwr pwr pkg, pkg, nr nr new new tires, tires, was was a/c, $7500, now now $6500 $6500 604-793-5520 604-793-5520 $7500,

CASH FOR ALL VEHICLES

604-790-3900 OUR SERVIC 2H

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2000 FORD F-250 4X4 diesel, gd cond. 1998 27’ Okanagan 5th Solar R/O, TV, super slide, new floors, double windows. $18,000 for both . 604-316-3261

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2013 EDGE SEL Sport Utility STX 4x2

FX4 4X4 SUPERCREW

#136013 ORIGINAL MSRP $28,899

#136013 CAMERA, ORIGINALSYNC, MSRPMYFORD $28,899TOUCH, #1319066 REVERSE ORIGINAL MSRP $ ** $37,499

(NAVIGATION) #136526

$

20,495**

20,495 BRAND NEW!

BRAND NEW!

XLT 4X4 #136111 ORIGINAL MSRP $38,699

$

28,995

$

25,988*

$

BRAND NEW!

LARIAT 4X4 SUPERCREW

#136111 ORIGINALMSRP MSRP$38,699 ORIGINAL

ECOBOOST, NAVIGATION, LOADED, #136477 ORIGINAL MSRP $59,559

$40,929

$

**

28,995 BRAND NEW!

BRAND NEW!

42,995**

2013 FLEX SEL AWD XLT 4X4 MOONROOF, #1319981 $

**

ORIGINAL MSRP $54,519

47,945** BRAND NEW!

27,888*

$

IMPORTS • IMPORTS • IMPORTS 2012 TOYOTA RAV 4 AWD

2012 FIAT 500 2013 MAZDA 6 2011 MERCEDES 2012 NiSSAN 2012 TOYOTA SEDAN ALTIMA 2.5 CAMRY LE SEDAN SPORT ML350 Hatchback, Leather, Stk# 1292018

Stk# 1391925

Diesel., Stk# 1199933

Stk# 1292010

Stk# 1292011

Stk# 1299971

$

16,988* $18,580* $53,888* $17,988* $20,988* $24,980*

GET READY FOR 2013 MUSTANG PREMIUM CONVERTIBLE Pony Package, Stk# 1309048 Original MSRP $39,999

$

MUSTANG SUMMER FUN 2013 MUSTANG GT 2013 FORD MUSTANG 2013 MUSTANG ROUSH COUPE

GT CONVERTIBLE

Stk# 1309959 Original MSRP $44,399

NAV., Stk# 1302016 Original MSRP $51,899

BLACK BEAUTY SPECIAL ORDER

Stk# 1301883

$ $ $ * * * 38,988 37,988* 28,988 33,988

2013 FLEX SEL AWD Moonroof, heated seats #1319981

$

27,888

2010 LINCOLN MKX AWD

2007 HUMMER H3 4WD

2010 JEEP WRANGLER UNLIMITED RUBICON

#1091961

#2791692A

#1099979

$

$

$

31,200

21,995

26,688

2004 NISSAN SENTRA SDN #2499864 ............................................. $5888 2008 FORD FOCUS SE #2809012 ..................................................... $5888 2006 CHEVROLET COBALT LS #2639601 .......................................... $5895 2005 FORD FOCUS SE ZX4 #2503068 .............................................. $6488 2006 SUZUKI SWIFT+ #2699040 ...................................................... $6888 2008 CHEVROLET UPLANDER #2839999 .......................................... $6888 2006 CHEVROLET AVEO LS WGN #2639702 ..................................... $7288

2012 F150 SVT RAPTOR SUPERCREW 4X4 Luxury pkg., moonroof, navigation, Limited. #1213608

$

56,888

2013 JEEP COMPASS SPORT 4WD

2012 DODGE AVENGER SXT SEDAN

2008 MITSUBISHI ENDEAVOR LTD

#1391967

#1291963

#2894927

$

$

23,995

14,995

$

17,600

2002 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA GLS SDN #2299980 ............................... $7888 2005 CHEVROLET COBALT SS CPE LEATHER & MOONROOF #2531774 .......... $7988 2003 NISSAN MURANO SL AWD #2399983 ...................................... $7988 2007 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF CITY CL HB #2796517............................. $8988 2008 PONTIAC MONTANA SV6 7 PASSENGER #2841693................. $9488 2004 FORD ESCAPE XLS FWD #2414571A ....................................... $9888 2006 TOYOTA MATRIX WGN #2691937 ............................................. $9888

*All prices plus dealer doc charge of $499. **Price is net of all Ford incentives including $1000 Costco offer if applies plus dealer doc charge of $499. Sale ends on May 31st, 2013

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