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Victim still in hospital after home invasion BY CAYLEY DOBIE REPORTER cdobie@royalcityrecord.com

Police closed parts of Ash Street to traffic on Wednesday morning after an overnight home invasion sent two people to hospital. At about 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 3, New Westminster police officers responded to a call in the 300-block of Ash Street. When they arrived, officers found two victims. One of the victims had serious head injuries and remains in critical condition at Royal Columbian Hospital. The second victim had minor inju-

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ries and was released from hospital earlier today, according to a media release. Police believe six men – whose identities are still unknown at this time – forced their way into the residence and assaulted the victims. New Westminster police are searching for six men. Police describe the men as Indo-Canadian and said they were seen fleeing the scene in vehicles after the attack. Anyone with information is asked to contact the New Westminster Police Cayley Dobie/THE RECORD at 604-525-2435 or Crime Stoppers at Closed: Ash Street was closed at Fourth Avenue on Wednesday morning as police con1-800-222-8477. www.twitter.com/cayleydobie tinued to investigate an overnight home invasion that sent two people to hospital.

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the situation for refugees. It’s horrific, it’s horrible what’s happening.” Black said Canada could be doing a lot more in terms of helping refugees and should not take any unilateral action. “If there is action taken it has to be a concerted effort through the United Nations, through the international community,” she said. “Nothing must be done unless it’s done through the international community.” The Syrian government, led

by president Bashar al-Assad, has come under international scrutiny following a chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21. The U.S. estimates that more than 1,400 people were killed, including hundreds of children. Syria’s president is blaming jihadists, while the U.S. blames the Syrian government. Meanwhile, U.N. weapons inspectors, who were shot at by snipers during their investigation, have yet to complete their report. Harper has indicated that Canada has no military plan in the works but that the government

would support our allies who may be contemplating force. On Wednesday, Obama gained support for military intervention in Syria from a Senate panel, but the resolution still needs to go before the full Senate and the House of Representatives. Paul Forseth, former Conservative MP for New Westminster, said many people feel the need to help given the images on TV coming out of Syria. “Canada’s on the sidelines for now, but how many more thou-

sands will have to die before there’s some outside intervention from the West?” Forseth said it was irresponsible for the NDP to be “isolationist.” “I think that’s their approach, I think there’s going to be many more stages to this world tragedy in the future,” he added. “In the meantime, we can continue to help the refugees that cross the borders and support the international institutions that are trying to help. But at some point, I predict the balance of risk ver-

sus some meaningful help to stop all this killing is going to weigh into the favour of some kind of Western intervention. … When that finally happens, there will be the question, ‘Well, why didn’t you do it earlier?’” Forseth said there’s no easy answer to a problem that’s been developing for years. “It seems to be a struggle for power and control and religion, rather than what we would think is struggle for human rights and democracy,” he said. www.twitter.com/JenniferMoreau

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Top picks for fun in the city this weekend

Summer may soon be coming to an end, but there are still plenty of activities to keep us busy in New Westminster. We’re continuing with our popular feature, The Record’s Top Five (or More) Things to Do This Weekend: Hit “the beach” and test out your volleyball skills at the City of New Westminster’s newest recreational amenity, when city staff will introduce the new courts at Westminster Pier Park to the community. An introduction will be offered on Saturday, Sept. 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

(rain or shine) at the outdoor sand courts that are located at the eastern end of the park. Community members are invited to play volleyball with local beach volleyball champion Mike Sayers, who just brought home a silver medal from the world beach volleyball championships in Torino, Italy. Step back in time when On The Air – a musical revue takes to the stage at the Columbia Theatre. Red Robinson and Rick Cluff are the special guests, joining performers including The Brothers Arntzen, Tom Arntzen, Jayleen Stoneyouse, Michael

Sicoly, Aaron Wong and The New Westminster at its annual Hot Mammas, who will perform Big Gig street party on Sunday, songs by the Andrew Sept. 8 starting at 11 a.m. Sisters, George Burns, Everyone is welcome to Chubby Checker, Elvis attend the event that feaPresley, Roy Orbison, tures music, food, crafts, Louis Armstrong, The games and much more. Beatles and more. The The Big Gig takes place show takes place on in the 600 to 700 blocks Saturday, Sept. 7 at 8 of Queens Avenue. p.m. at 530 Columbia St. Check out the diverse (or more) For ticket information, entertainment lineup Things to do visit www.thecolumbia. at the Heritage Grill, this weekend ca or www.ontheair which features the Mojo amusicalrevue.com. Stars (blues) on Saturday, Sept. 7 and Roger Potter (classic rock/ Party on the street with the folks at Olivet Baptist Church, folk), a Celtic jam and amateur comedy night on Sunday, Sept. which is celebrating 135 years in

7. The Heritage Grill is located at 447 Columbia St. For more details visit www.heritagegrill. com/events. Get to know your neighbours at the New Westminster Downtown Residents’ Association’s annual picnic. Downtown residents are gathering at Westminster Pier Park on Sunday, Sept. 8 from 1 to 4 p.m. The gathering includes a bocce tournament, children’s games and prizes, picnic races and prizes. For more information, visit www.nwdra.org. Send your Top 5 ideas to calendar@royalcityrecord.com.

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‘If it wasn’t around, I wouldn’t be alive’

Teen survivor tells her story as Royal Columbian Hospital seeks donations for life-saving equipment BY STEFANIA SECCIA REPORTER sseccia@burnabynow.com

At a time when most high school grads were studying for exams and looking forward to the summer, Linette Ho had tubes coming out of her, attached to machines her best friend couldn’t name. Hannah Pae remembers the one-month period last summer when her friend’s condition turned from pneumonia to her lungs collapsing, and she went into cardiac arrest. “I just remember her missing school because she was sick,” Pae said, on the first floor of Royal Columbian Hospital, where her friend’s life was saved. “We just thought it was the flu, but she was home for maybe two days before going to emergency at Burnaby Hospital. At first, they didn’t know what it was when she was admitted. … And then she was transferred and when they found out her lungs were collapsing, she had to get hooked up for nine days.” Pae didn’t get to see Ho, her friend since elementary school, very much in that time – and when she did it was hard to take. “That’s when she was hooked up to all the tubes and machines, and I didn’t even know what they were,” Pae said, about one of her visits when Ho was still sedated. “I knew she was going to be good, but there is that possibility I have to consider. It was just really overwhelming, and I remember calling her mother every morning.” When Ho finally woke up, it was to a big scar on her chest, and she didn’t know where she was – but the first thing she worried about was her exams. “It was in the last two weeks of my Grade 12 year, after prom, after commencement, everything,” said Ho, who is now 19 and taking business at the University of British Columbia. “I was just studying for finals. I wasn’t eating. I was exercising excessively, and I was just really stressed out. So, I guess I put my body in a state, and my (immune) system was down.” Ho got pneumonia, and she ended up in ICU at Burnaby General Hospital. She was transported to Royal Columbian Hospital, where she barely survived emergency open-heart surgery. “From there, they saw my lungs were even getting worse,” she said. “They collapsed, as well. They put me on … an artificial lung. … A complication happened and my heart got punctured, so they had to do open-heart surgery at about 3 a.m. in the morning. My parents were waiting in the hospital and they came out at 7 a.m. and told my parents that I was getting worse and I had a 30 per cent chance of surviving. During my surgery my heart stopped twice, as well.”

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Support: Hannah Pae, left, remembers last summer being overwhelming because her best friend since elementary school, Linette Ho, right, was in Royal Columbian Hospital’s ICU. After a few weeks, Ho woke up and has since made a full recovery. But, her recovery didn’t come easily. She had to be transferred from Burnaby to Royal Columbian with a makeshift extracorporeal life support stretcher, which supports the lungs and heart of a patient being transported from one hospital to another. “This is equipment that’s needed,” Ho said, adding that she’s an example of how necessary it is. “If it wasn’t around, I wouldn’t be alive.” The machine was made in 2006 when a 19-year-old woman had critical heart failure and had to be transported for a possible heart transplant. In 2010, Surrey Memorial Hospital called Royal Columbian about a 14-year-old boy in critical condition. “Fortunately, we have a very dedicated and talented perfusion group who took up the challenge and immediately managed to get all the gear together,” said Dustin Spratt, chief of perfusion service. “It was a good story, we were actually able to save

this young man.” It was the province’s first retrieval using the extracorporeal device, and the team had to use a wheelchair taxi to get it to Surrey. “We needed to be able to be more efficient and be able to respond quickly,” he said. The team has come a long way from making its first device to having helped develop a new extracorporeal life support stretcher that’s the first of its kind in Canada. “Some of the equipment is borrowed, there’s equipment that is adapted, there was really nothing that was professionally created for (extracorporeal) transports so we had to adapt to build all of this,” Spratt said. Eighteen months ago, the team, made up of a surgeon and two perfusionists, teamed up with the world’s largest stretcher manufacturer, Ferno, and there are now four stretchers being built for sale – but the catch is that Royal Columbian doesn’t have the money for the $42,000 price tag.

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“It allows us to not only transport on ground ambulance now, but this gives us the ability to transport in any emergency aircraft,” he added. As Royal Columbian’s team covers the entire Fraser Health region, the Fraser Health Authority is hoping to buy the specialized stretcher through donations. According to Dr. Derek Gunning, the cardiac surgeon who’s been part of the project since the beginning, the equipment is used as a last ditch effort for a patient facing almost certain death. “This is the only option for them,” Gunning said. “Because of the complexity and invasiveness of the procedure … as it stands now, it’s for people failing conventional therapies who have no other option.” For those who have failing heart and lungs, patients are generally in their teens or early 20s, he added. To make a donation, visit bit. ly/14pfON0.

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In the spotlight: The Royal City Youth Ballet is pictured in a summer school demonstration at the Shadbolt Centre on Sept. 1, where they performed excerpts from Swan Lake. The youth ballet company is holding auditions this weekend.

Ballet auditions set Nish will be featured. For more, check out www.poeticjustice.ca.

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f there’s an aspiring ballerina in your house, then this one’s for you – and act quickly, because it’s happening this weekend. Auditions for the upcoming season of the Royal City Youth Ballet Company are being held this Sunday, Sept. 8 at 511 Columbia St. Students chosen as company members will then be able to audition for roles in the company’s Christmas Nutcracker production. Anyone interested is asked to call 604-521-7290 or email rcyb@telus.net. For more about the ballet company, check out its website at www.royalcity youthballet.org.

Poetry readings

Poetry lovers, there are plenty of chances for you to discover the poetic talent that’s flourishing in the Royal City. Poetic Justice sessions are running Sunday afternoons in the back room at the Heritage Grill, 447 Columbia St. Each session runs from 3 to 5 p.m., with three featured poets and an open mike. This Sunday, Sept. 8, is hosted by Franci Louann and will feature Loree Gibson, Hélène Levasseur and Amabile Ranta. On Sunday, Sept. 15, the session will be hosted by Candice James and feature Fran Bourassa, Alan Hill and Carol Shillibeer. Franci Louann will host again on Sunday, Sept. 22, when Ashok Bhargava, Jennifer Suzanne Getsinger and Bonnie

Here’s another one for the literarily inclined. The Royal City Literary Arts Society is hosting its next short story open mike on Wednesday, Sept. 11 in the back room at the Heritage Grill. Margo Prentice hosts the event, which gives writers of short stories a chance to share their work in a friendly setting. Writers are also welcome to read excerpts from

longer works – but it’s only fiction, not poetry. Margo, who’s been featured in these pages before, is the artistic director of Golden Age Theatre here in New West and reads regularly at Poetic Justice events. She’s also a standup comic and fiction writer, with more than 150 stories to her credit. For more details, see www.rclas.com. Heritage Grill is at 447 Columbia St. in downtown New West. Send Lively City ideas to Julie, jmaclellan@royalcity record.com, or find her on Twitter, @juliemaclellan.

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◗ HISTORY

Many appliances new to market in the ’30s OUR PAST

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ew Westminster’s first local automobile show was held in the arena in Queen’s Park in 1934. Along with the displays of cars and accessories, there were featured exhibits of ladies’ fashions and household appliances. In reviewing the materi-

als from this event, we noted two advertisements of particular interest from dealers of electrical appliance items. It is important to remember that in the 1930s, many of the appliances that we take completely for granted today were relatively new on the market. They were often a curious attraction to the homeowner who was watching the changes that were taking place. Every so often in the newspapers, we find articles describing a new appliance of some sort with an invitation to the public

to come downtown to a store to see it, learn how it works, what it does, try it out, and so on. One of the 1934 advertisements was for Phillips Radio and Electric, a company with a store on Columbia Street. The ad was a contest to help the company come up with a slogan “not over ten words.” The entry slip to be filled in and clipped from the paper also asked a couple of questions – and this was the crux of the contest for a slogan. They wanted to know the make of radio already in the home and when it

Parenting skills, a presentation by REACH Multicultural Family Centre, at New Westminster Public Library, 716 Sixth Ave., will provide information on parenting and family relationship issues for newcomers to Canada. Differences between eastern and western styles of parenting, which may present challenges for parents and youth facing a new culture, will be discussed. Program runs from 1 to 3 p.m. and will be conducted in English, with translation available in French, Chichewa, Nyanja, Lingala and Swahili. To register, call the library at 604-527-4667 or SUCCESS at 604-430-1899, extension 110.

!MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 New Westminster Lions, meet at Boston Pizza, Columbia Square, 6:30 p.m. Visitors and newcomers welcome, bring a friend. Info: 604-525-4477.

!TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Tenancy rights information session, learn the rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants, New Westminster Public Library, 6 to 8 p.m. Cosponsored by New Westminster Public Library and MOSAIC’s settlement program. The main library of the New Westminster Public Library is at 716 Sixth Ave. (Please note, the elevator may be unavailable due to repairs.) Register with the library at 604-527-4667 or with MOSAIC at 604-5223722, extension 155, or email rbagheri@mosaicbc.com.

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fill in a coupon for which the company was offering three prizes: First prize was a Hotpoint sandwich toaster with waffle grids; second prize a Bersted coffee maker, and the third prize a Westinghouse Adjust-OMatic iron. The coupon was a list of eight items which B.C. Electric wanted the visitor to put in order of preference: first, second, third, etc. The ad states that the aim of the contest was “to gauge the opinion of New Westminster residents on their ideas of the value and popularity in the home of various electrical appli-

ances.” The contest participant was to rank, from one to eight, a radio, electric washer, electric cleaner, electric floor polisher, electric or gas range, electric mixer, electric cooker, or electric refrigerator. Note that these are electric versions of manual, non-electric household “machines” that were in use at the time. The world was changing, and B.C. Electric wanted to know what people thought – fascinating stuff in our domestic evolution from only 80 years ago.

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had been purchased. For many people in the 1930s, the answer to this would be that they didn’t have one. A second question asked about the “nature of appliances in the home.” For taking a few moments to fill out the form and drop it off, and, of course, having a look at the appliances on display, the reader could win a coffee maker, iron or waffle iron. The second ad connected to the auto show exhibits was from B.C. Electric, who wanted participants to drop by their booth at the show and

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