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BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

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Cheap route: New Westminster officials believe the hikes in tolls on the Port Mann Bridge had an immediate impact on commuters using the Pattullo Bridge – and flooding into New Westminster.

Toll driving traffic to Pattullo

BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

New Westminster noticed an “instantaneous” increase in traffic after tolls increased on the Port Mann Bridge.

That’s the view of acting mayor Lorrie Williams, who originally thought a police incident might be to blame for gridlock on the city streets on Monday.

“On Monday when I left city hall, I thought there was an accident somewhere.

There were cars coming down Sixth, Royal was packed, McBride was packed,” she said.

“It was everybody wanting to get onto the Pattullo.”

While there was an “instantaneous” increase of traffic on the Pattullo Bridge and

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Council also asked TransLink to: ban heavy trucks on the Pattullo Bridge, if the Pattullo Bridge continues to experience increased traffic volumes due to the diversionary effects of the Port Mann Bridge; approve an extension of the current heavy truck prohibition on Royal Avenue to 24 hours (other than for local deliveries); and establish regional tolling as a travel demand management measure for the Metro Vancouver area as an immediate priority.

While new businesses have opened in New Westminster that rely on trucks, including industrial sites in Queensborough, Williams doesn’t think development has contributed significantly to the dramatic ◗Bridge Page 5

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New Westminster streets, Williams said it’s possible motorists will return to their regular routes. The introductory $1.50 tolls on the Port Mann Bridge doubled to $3 per trip for vehicles on Jan. 1.

“They might go back. There is always a little bit of to and fro. People have to decide whether they value time or money,” she said. “I think poor people are going to use the time up because they don’t have the money.”

Truck drivers don’t make a ton of money so it can be costly if they need to make a few trips across the Fraser River, Williams added.

In October, council asked the province to immediately lower tolls for heavy trucks on the Port Mann Bridge to discourage the use

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The City of New Westminster’s approval of a new pedestrian overpass into Westminster Pier Park has stunned a local council watcher who was promised the city would only do so after a full tender process.

Christopher Bell is sounding alarms about the process being followed by the city and the awarding of a contract without going through a tender process. Like other community members, Bell believes the park needs better access.

“I am not against a tender and a contract being awarded – I am opposed to the secrecy of this whole thing, where a senior manager assured me after a consultant looked at it they would be coming back with a public tender in the future,” he said. “This isn’t chump change.”

Bell recently inquired about the pedestrian overpass and was shocked by the response he received.

In an email from the engineering department, staff stated that council approved the award of this project on Jan. 6, and additional details regarding the design, schedule and contractor would be posted to the city’s website shortly.

Acting mayor Lorrie Williams confirmed that council had discussed the matter at a Jan. 6 closed meeting, but couldn’t comment on the matter until it is brought out of

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Not your parents’ board games

BY JANAYA FULLER-EVANS REPORTER jfuller-evans@royalcityrecord.com

This is not like the board game nights of your childhood.

Instead of four or five people clustered around a Monopoly board perched on a rickety table in a rumpus room, groups of gamers gather at the Hide Out Café in New Westminster every second Friday to test their knowledge and best their friends.

The old standards such as Clue, Snakes and Ladders and Connect Four are replaced by much more advanced games that move quickly and require critical thinking.

Organizer Kirby Krilow was surprised to see how much board games had evolved when he first entered a board game store years ago, he says.

“I was looking to socialize and a friend took me to a board game store, and then I found out that they are a lot different than when I grew up,” he says. “They’re shorter, more strategic, (and) rely more on thinking rather than just randomness.”

Krilow owns Board Game Warriors at 708 Clarkson St. and started holding board game nights at his store about five years ago. He formed the Meetup. com group, The Board Gamers of Vancouver and Beyond the Infinite, in January 2009.

It was popular from the getgo, he says. Now, there are more than 800 members in the Meetup group, though the average attendance for game nights is about 20 people, according to Krilow.

“We got a pretty good response right away,” he says, adding many of his friends joined up and have stayed members. “We try to keep

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Game on: Kirby Krilow, owner of Board Game Warriors in New Westminster, runs a weekly Friday board game night at the nearby Hide Out Café. it very casual.”

The events are usually for grownup gamers, though children are welcome so long as they come with an adult, Krilow says.

“We kind of gear it more towards adults,” he explains. “If kids come to play, we usually ask that they come with parents.”

Krilow prefers economic games that focus on getting and processing resources.

“But if I had to pick one game, I’d probably go with Arkham Horror,” he says of one of his favourites, a co-op game based on H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.

The social aspect and challenge of board games appeal to him

most, Krilow adds.

“I like socializing, I like exercising my brain,” he says. “I like finding games that offer something different.”

For people who haven’t played board games in years, he suggests starting with “gateway games” such as Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride or Carcassonne.

Last January, Krilow began holding Friday game nights at the Hide Out Café with the help of fellow organizer Melissa Serrano, who owns it.

According to Serrano, Krilow was a customer when they began talking about the idea a year or two ago.

“It’s awesome,” she says of the gaming nights. “A lot of regulars are coming but there are also newcomers. It changes every couple of weeks.”

Krilow says he would like to expand and do more in the New Westminster community.

“I want to reach out to more businesses,” Krilow says, adding they play at the River Market on Sunday afternoons, sometimes with other Meetup groups such as Extremely Shy Vancouver.

“If I wasn’t spread so thin I’d probably do more things like that,” he says.

For more information, search for the group at Meetup.com.

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the in camera meeting.

“I don’t think it has been released,” she told The Record. “We just got the numbers.”

Last September, the city cancelled a tender process for the overpass after bids came in higher than anticipated. The city had originally budgeted $1.3 million for the overpass, and later increased the budget to $1.85 million, but officials wouldn’t disclose the bid

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Because the bids exceeded the budget, the city canceled the tender process last fall and started working with its consultant to see if there were ways of reducing costs and to question bidders as to why costs were higher than anticipated.

“If after those conversations, which are happening right now, we don’t think that we can find a significant cost savings,

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then we will have to look at a lesser structure,” Roger Emanuels, the city’s manager of design and construction, told The Record in September. “When it first went to council we talked about an iconic structure.

So is there a way of lightening it up and reducing costs that way, or do we look at an alternate access point?”

The pedestrian overpass would take people from the Front Street parkade

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Currently, the park is only accessible via a parking lot at the west side of the riverfront site.

In addition to costs, the city also wanted to discuss park access with Larco, which owns the site next to the park. In December, the city announced a new vision for the Larco site, which includes three highrises (instead of the five currently allowed) and a new 0.8 hectare (two acre)

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It was unknown at The Record’s press time whether the Larco site has played a role in the city’s anticipated announcement about the pedestrian overpass, or if the design had been changed and one of the original bids had been selected. Senior staff didn’t return calls by The Record’s deadline.

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increase in truck traffic in New Westminster.

“I think that’s a normal sort of development that happens. That’s normal business for any city. Every person who moves into the city contributes. That’s a natural increase that we expect to have with development,” she said. “I don’t want the unnatural one that’s caused by a toll bridge on the other side. It’s different because people who would normally use the Port Mann – if there was no toll we would not have this congestion. When I say ‘unnatural,’ I mean it was caused by a certain event.

Development is a natural phase of any city.”

Williams called TransLink earlier in the week to see if they had any statistics from Monday’s traffic counts on the Pattullo Bridge but was told they weren’t available.

She expects council to discuss the situation at its Jan. 13 meeting.

“This is New Westminster’s number 1 problem as identified by us and by the citizens,” she said. “I want the citizens to know that we are trying really hard to cooperate with people, but we are certainly going to make sure that they understand what our position is. This is essential.”

The increased traffic on Royal Avenue has alarmed residents of the Queen’s Park neighbourhood, who have written to B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone asking that the ban on heavy trucks on Royal Avenue be extended to 24 hours a day, from the current ban of 9 p.m. to 7 a.m.

David Brett, president of the residents’ association, believes the increase in truck traffic on Royal Avenue is directly related to the tolls, as truck drivers aren’t keen on paying $9 each time they cross the Port Mann Bridge and have opted to take the free Pattullo Bridge.

Brett noted that a new elementary school is being built on Royal Avenue, and Douglas College and the existing John Robson are also located on the busy road. He said the residents’ association will continue to push for action to ensure livability and safety are protected.

“We think with reasonable lobbying, change is possible,” he said.

The Record could not reach Transportation Minister Todd Stone before press time.

Meanwhile,TransLink,NewWestminster and Surrey will continue working on plans for a replacement Pattullo Bridge.

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Voters deserve to see their MLAs in action

Many of these issues no doubt affectThe B.C. legislature will begin sitting ed other provinces, yet they don’t seem again this February, for the first time in to have reduced their sitting days so months. Last year, provincial politicians drastically. in B.C. got together in Victoria for a Alberta, not a place where extra mere 36 days. government expenditure has There are excuses, of course, ever been welcomed, manfor the very short sittings, and aged 50 days of sitting in 2013. the cancelled fall session.

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Manitoba 84. Ontario hit triple There was a provincial elecdigits at 101 days, with a government tion, the MLAs must have time to take frequently battered by scandals, yet at care of constituency business, not all least willing to weather them through government work is done in Victoria, question periods. and so on, ad nauseam.

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Even the government of Yukon Territory sat for 60 days last year. The population of Yukon was less than 34,000 people during the last census.

What is the value of a sitting legislature?

Premier Christy Clark doesn’t see much of one, preferring to be elsewhere, by her own account. She has called the culture of the legislature “sick.” Of course, that was quite a contrast from her 2005 views, when she said this: “I love question period. I love debate. I love the people I’ve met. I even love the

protesters. I love politics.”

Some of us also love politics and the opportunity to actually see our politicians debate things, in public, on television, on the record, and under a format in which they’re held to a certain level of decorum.

The legislature, like it or not, is where the votes happen.

Without the debates and cut-andthrust that Clark either loves or finds sick, we have government via press releases and focus groups.

The voters of B.C. deserve better.

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members, who, along with their ur unions’ members are employers, pay municipal, proresponsible for mining and transporting metallur- vincial and federal taxes that support health care, education and gical coal from British Columbia other valuable government social to markets overseas. programs we all depend on.

So we welcome the positive Overall, coal creates 26,000 environmental impact assessment direct and indirect jobs, $3.2 bilreleased Nov. 18 by Port Metro lion in economic activities and Vancouver on the proposed $715 million in tax revenues for Fraser Surrey Docks expansion. the province and B.C. municipaliThe study, by experts such ties every year. as Dr. Leonard Ritter, professor But recent comments in the emeritus of Toxicology at the media have questioned the minUniversity of Guelph’s School of ing and export of coal for a variEnvironmental Sciences, shows ety of reasons, including health. that many complaints by enviWe are not medical ronmental groups and doctors, but we are others are misinformed democratically elected or exaggerated.

MARK GORDIENKO, by our members to be The environmental STEVE HUNT, responsible for their impact assessment BRIAN COCHRANE, health and safety. states that: “The project TOM SIGURDSON And as the unions is not likely to cause whose members mine, significant adverse load and transport coal by rail to environmental, socio-economic ports and ship it overseas, we can or health effects, taking into say with certainty that coal dust account the implementation of the main risk mitigation measures and exposure have simply not appeared in our members as a described above, in addition to health issue. mitigation measures, construcSafety is our primary concern, tion and operation management plans, best management and stan- and we believe that the measures taken to limit and reduce coal dard practices.” dust exposure to far below levels These conclusions match our established by government have experience in safely transporting ensured our members have safe coal for more than 40 years. workplaces.

This is important to us as Those workers and their famiunions because the mining and lies are also residents of Metro export of B.C. metallurgical coal Vancouver and other B.C. comfor steel manufacturing in other munities who often live near the countries is a critical part of the coal mines, rail lines and port provincial economy, as is transfacilities where they work. portation of thermal coal.

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Health care is in good shape

Re: Christian upset over billboard, The Record, Friday, Jan. 3.

Looking at this from an agnostic’s point of view, I have to agree with Mark Jaskela that this billboard specifically targets Christianity.

If the word “bible” was substituted with the word Qur ‘an, Shruti, Tipitaka or Tanakh, our outrage would be seismic.

I also believe that CBS Outdoor would not have had the backbone to accept these advertising dollars if those words were used.

Pattison signs did the right thing in asking for the change in copy, that the Centre for Inquiry refused.

I also wonder if our city has any say on what goes on these billboards.

I am here to tell everyone who will continue reading that the health-care system in B.C. is great.

For the first time in my 65 years, I became a patient in both Royal Columbian and Surrey Memorial hospitals. I was about a week in both hospitals and couldn’t have been looked after any better in either of them. It started with the doctors (and I must have seen at least 10 at Royal Columbian because people my age aren’t supposed to have suddenly collapsed lungs. Young people who are tall and slim and about 20 fit the sudden-lung collapsing profile, and being short, stout and old I’m zero-for-three. So I was a curiosity to the docs.)

But I digress. I just want to say that while we mostly hear bad news regarding the health care in

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Hospitals’ care first-rate ◗ continued from page 6

hospitals, my experience couldn’t have been better. The nurses that looked after me and the others in my respective rooms on six north at Royal Columbian and three pod something at Surrey Memorial were the best. Unfailingly cheerful and attentive, they were all willing to do everything they could to make us all feel better about our stay. And some of us were more difficult than others, but we were all treated with the utmost respect.

I’m happy to say I am well on the road to recovery, and I attribute that to the good care I received in both hospitals. I’m in no rush to become a patient again, but if I ever have to be one again, I will have very good memories to make things easier.

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Minister welcomes debate Dear Editor:

Re: Christian upset over billboard, The Record, Jan. 3, and Billboard a success – it’s sparking debate, The Record, Jan. 8.

Thank you for the articles on both the billboard and the response.

I am a Christian. I am the minister at Queens Avenue United Church. And the billboard has not upset me.

What it has done is created an avenue for people to ask me questions, to voice their concerns and to engage in conversation about them.

As a Christian, believing in God is the way that I understand the world; it is not the only way, nor is it the “right” way, but it is my way. I am completely at ease with others who do not view the world in that way. If someone respects that I have a “belief system,” it’s only appropriate for me to respect theirs. If we respect each others’ differences of belief, we can be, as the billboard says “all good.”

The billboard is paid for by the Centre for Inquiry Canada, and their website says they work to: “Combat the harm of superstition, pseudoscience and religion by advancing the values of reason, science and secularism through education, activism and community.”

Some areas of Christianity would say they do the exact same thing. When issues like this arise, it seems that there is only one view of religion, which is not the case.

Religion is as varied and multifaceted as even a group like the Centre for Inquiry probably is!

I love these conversations! And I love them even more when they happen faceto-face as opposed to word vs. word.

responsibility for workers when they are on the job but when they go home as well.

Put simply, if our members’ health were adversely affected by coal or exposure to dust, we would know and we would be the first to demand action.

Unfortunately, the goals of many environmental groups and others who oppose coal port expansion go far beyond the issue of fugitive dust emissions – their objective is to end the extraction and use of coal, as well as other fossil fuels, over climate change issues.

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But to tell developing nations to shut down their factories, turn off the heat and go home in the dark is fundamentally unfair.

It would only cause huge economic hardship for people struggling for a better life. It is up to them to find appropriate ways to transition to more environmentally effective power sources, not for us to impose our solutions from a privileged position far from their challenges.

It’s also clear that even if B.C. stopped coal exports immediately, producers in other countries would fill the market demand.

As unions, we believe

in continuing to improve health and safety and meet all environmental laws.

But we also know that the workers and people of British Columbia cannot afford to lose 26,000 jobs created by the coal industry or see dramatic cuts to needed government services that are funded by taxes paid by workers and companies.

Mark Gordienko is president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada. Steve Hunt is the director of United Steel Workers District 3. Brian Cochrane is business manager for the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 115. Tom Sigurdson is executive director of B.C. Building Trades.

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Train whistle sparks concern

BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

A three-minute blast from a train is no laughing matter for New Westminster residents who’ve become all too familiar with rail derailments across Canada.

A lengthy train whistle sounded at 5:05 a.m. on Dec. 30. It follows on the heels of a one-minute train whistle that awoke many residents at 4:50 a.m. on Sept. 12, a sound that was later attributed to a malfunctioning whistle.

Following the Dec. 30 incident, Brian Allen, chair of the Quayside Community Board’s railway noise committee, quickly fired

off an email to the lawyer representing the four railway companies operating in New Westminster.

He voiced concerns about “another disturbing event” involving rail safety equipment.

“CP locomotive numbered 4508 sitting still had its horn on FULL BLAST for almost three minutes. …

In the last event you had reported that the event was a result of a jarring of an electric switch while the train was moving. … What happened this time, when the train was not moving?,” he wrote. “This is very concerning.”

Coun. Chuck Puchmayr, a member of the city’s com-

munity advisory panel on railways, is looking into the matter. Puchmayr emailed CP Rail on Jan. 5 and asked for a briefing.

“The last time it was a mechanical malfunction. I believe it was a mechanical malfunction,” he told The Record, questioning if the age of the equipment is playing a role in the incidents.

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Food trucks rolling into town again Festival set to make a return to downtown this summer

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This year’s Columbia Street food truck festival is expected to attract even more hungry visitors to the city’s downtown core.

That’sthepredictionofKendraJohnston, executive director of the Downtown New Westminster Business Improvement Area, who says 20,000 people made the trek to Columbia Street last summer to take in some delicious grub and check out the neighbourhood.

This year, her conservative prediction is that more than 30,000 will turn up for a flavourful event that is sure to become an annual staple given the huge number of people it attracts.

Along with an increase in attendees, there will also be more culinary options: they are expecting 50 food carts when the event happens on Aug. 23 – a big jump from the 17 they had at last year’s inaugural fest, which proved to be even more popular than Johnston anticipated.

“It’s so easy for anyone to get here, whereas the food truck fests that were happening in Vancouver weekly were not accessible by SkyTrain – you had to take a bus to get there and walk. So this was just an easy way for people to come from anywhere and try out their favourite food trucks,” Johnston says. “One of the reasons we were so successful is that we are right on the SkyTrain line.”

Along with the crowds, last year’s food truck festival brought in food bloggers and Metro Vancouver media, which, she says, drew attention to the city’s burgeoning downtown – an area she describes as the “new New West.”

There was one criticism for last year’s event: the lengthy lineups that kept some waiting too long for a taste.

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Street eats: Trish Bell, owner of Casalinga Carts, was part of the initial Columbia Street food truck festival last summer. In the truck are her daughter, Jessica Skews, and Gundher Ortiz. The festival is returning to downtown this summer. clearly a problem – there were so many more people than we expected,” Johnston says.

It was a challenge to get food trucks on board the first year, but Johnston says they won’t have the same problem this year because last summer was so successful.

“So I think now that we’ve proven ourselves, we’ll be able to get that many more trucks out,” she says, adding they already have 25 lined up for summer.

Her group is also coming up with ways to make the wait times a little more bearable. The plan is to have what Johnston calls “mobile vendors.”

“While people are waiting in line they can buy snacks or drinks … it’s going to be a little less taxing to wait in the lineup for 20 minutes for food. We are also looking at having some roving entertainment as well, so that it’s a little bit more fun while you are waiting in a line,” she explains.

The business improvement area is also

focusing its attention this year on beautifying downtown by working with members to create attractive storefronts and with the city to improve streetscapes.

Specifically, Johnston wants to see downtown lit up all year.

“We are hoping to get some more lighting downtown to make nightlife a little more interesting and fun,” she says.

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Newlyweds Mariam and Karam Jekki are the team behind the new Menchie’s New West location.

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was the perfect spot with a lot of the restaurants around and free parking, and we decided to open one there,” says Mariam, who’s originally from Oregon.

They have taken over two shops: a former hair salon and a one-time flower shop.

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places, so it’s going to be a pretty big Menchie’s. It’s going to be about 1,800 square feet,” Mariam explains.

The Menchie’s concept is that visitors come in and try out the flavours, then pick the yogurt and toppings they want. The prices are determined by the weight of the treat.

Menchie’s is known for offering a bounty of big and inventive flavours, including rootbeer float, cotton candy, cheesecake, chocolate-dipped banana and more. There is also a never-ending list of colourful toppings, like nuts, candy, fruit and sauces.

Along with the rotating yogurt flavours and

bevy of toppings, the store will have a birthday party room, Mariam says.

To hear about the opening, follow Menchie New West on Twitter at @MenchiesNW. Do you have an item for Movers & Shakers? Send items from the business scene to Niki, nhope@royal cityrecord.com.

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hat if psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and literary philosopher C. S. Lewis met and debated the existence of god, love, sex and the meaning of life. The play Freud’s Last Session proposes just that. On the eve of the Second World War, and just weeks before Freud ended his own life, Freud invites Lewis to his London apartment for a lengthy and impassioned debate.

City Stage New West is performing the B.C. premiere of this awardwinning play at Galbraith House in New Westminster between Jan. 28 and Feb. 9.

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Hilder of Trinity Western University will provide background on Lewis and the Inklings Institute, while behavioural scientist, educator, counsellor and writer Dr. Mychael Gleeson will discuss Freudian psychoanalysis and Freud’s last years in Vienna and London.

Freud’s Last Session won the Off-Broadway Association Award for Best Play of 2011. It ran for two years in New York, which led to productions around the world.

If you want to read more about Freud and Lewis, the New Westminster Public Library also has books by and about both authors.

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ing of Freud, read his Interpretation of Dreams, Celine Surprenant’s Freud: A Guide for the Perplexed or Freud: A Life, by Paul Ferris.

C.S. Lewis’ prolific writing included both the children’s series The Chronicles of Narnia and religious philosophy. The most recent book about him is C.S. Lewis, A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet, by Alister E. McGrath.

For more information on the play, visit www. citystagenewwest.org. To register for the library program on Jan. 14, call 604527-4667 or email listener@nwpl.ca. The New Westminster Public Library is at 716 Sixth Ave. and is wheelchair-accessible.

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Learn about the local ecology through the latest instalment of Uncover Your Creeks: Citizen Science. Participants in this two-year program will gather in lower Hume Park and learn about local ecology, help manage invasive plants, plant native plants and monitor water quality in the Brunette River.

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t’s the start of a new year and a great time to learn a new skill or expand your horizons.

We are continuing with our popular feature, The Record’s Top Five (or More) Things to Do This Weekend and offer the following suggestions for Jan. 10 to 12: Test out some new moves at the Dance With Me Studio’s open house on Saturday, Jan. 11 from 12:30 to 2 p.m.

The annual open house features free dance lessons and demonstrations.

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Downtown: Lighting up year round ◗ continued from page 9

on Columbia Street all year long, but Johnston says it’s a work in progress because it’s a challenge to maintain the lights long-term because the city needs to prune the trees.

“However, we are hoping, and we are in the very early stages, to approach the city and figure out a way to get around that because we’ve had such great response to just those simple white lights in the trees,” she says. “We’d love to see them up for the majority of the year, if not all of the time.”

The lights added atmosphere, highlighted the beautiful heritage buildings downtown at night and made downtown more inviting, she says.

“There is a lot of nightlife that happens down here with all of the bars and restaurants and Columbia Theatre, etc., but it’s not always as noticeable or so inviting. So we are hoping to change that,” Johnston says.

The debris from a fire that devastated businesses in two downtown buildings last October is still being cleaned up. Johnston says most of the businesses affected by the blaze have managed to reopen in other temporary or permanent locations.

Looking ahead, Johnston says the business improvement area will also look into ways it can support members with the cost of doing business in New Westminster.

The plan is to look at the cost of taxes and utilities and compare them to other cities and see where the city rates.

“If there is some kind of lobbying we can do. Or just discussion we can open up, we’d love to do that for our membership,” Johnston says, explaining how they plan to use the results of the research.

The business improvement area represents more than 150 property owners and 500 businesses located from the waterfront to Royal Avenue and from the Pattullo Bridge to 10th Street.

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NWSS grad named OUA female athlete of the week ◗P16 Jr. Salmonbellies pick up Langley sniper in a trade ◗P16

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Knight time: St. Thomas More Knights No. 21 Kieran James looks for a second shot in an opening round win over Centennial at the 47th annual Chancellor boys’ basketball tournament on Wednesday.

The tournament finishes up on Saturday with placement games all day, including championship final at 6:30 p.m.

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SFU beats No. 9 Seattle Pac

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

Senior guard Kia Van Laare potted a pair of game-winning free throws to complete a 63-60 comeback win for Simon Fraser University over No. 9-ranked Seattle Pacific in Great Northwest women’s basketball.

The New Westminster Secondary grad came off the bench to score eight points, including four from the charity stripe in the final three minutes of play.

The Clan made 17 of 23 shots from the free throw line, including 15 in the second half to fuel the rally.

SFU led 26-21 at halftime, but allowed Seattle Pacific to go on a 194 run to start the second half.

Senior Rebecca Langmead started the comeback with back-to-back buckets and an assist to junior Katie Lowen to cut the deficit to six points.

Langmead finished the game with eight points, five rebounds and three blocks. Lowen had 14 points and a team-high six rebounds and four assists.

Junior Erin Chambers tied the game at 48-48 with four straight points. Chambers led the Clan with 15 points.

“Whenever you play a ranked team, it’s big,” said SFU head coach

To the hoop: SFU’s Katie Lowen, seen here against San Francisco State, scored 14 points and had a team-high six rebounds in a comeback win over No. 9ranked Seattle Pacific last week.

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Bruce Langford. “But we’ve never won on this court before, it’s something we’ve wanted to get off our back.”

Earlier in the week, SFU dropped an 81-63 decision to Montana State Billings on Dec. 2.

Chambers again led the Clan

with 17 points, but fouled out late in the second half.

Langmead finished with nine points and a team-high seven boards.

Langmead and Van Laare shared a team-best three steals apiece.

SFU host Central Washington on Saturday. Tipoff is at 7 p.m.

Hot prospect takes gold from the bigger boys

I saw him two years ago, I knew he was special. He shows it time and time One of B.C.’s hottest again. … We see someyoung wrestling prospects thing special in this kid. He proved his worth at the knows how to win.”

Golden Bear Invitational The STM student wresmeet in Edmonton last tled 10 matches in all, grapweekend. pling at the lighter weight St. Thomas More in the morning To high school senior session, before takwatch Darthe Capellan a video, ing on the heavier competed in two wrestlers later in scan separate weight the day. with Layar classes in the one“It’s definitely day event, winning a step up,” said the 54-kilogram division, Pineda. “A high school while placing fifth in the student beating universtiy heavier 57kg group. wrestlers – he’s learning.

“He’s a hot He’s making prospect in our the corrections. program,” said You’ve got to provincial high “He’s just fearhave it all.” performance Last year, coach Dave less. There is Capellan won McKay. a silver medal no fear of losCompeting at the Canada in the light- ing. Darthe has Games, losest weight something that ing a tight 3-1 class against championship mostly univer- is exceptional match to Philip sity wrestlers and it’s his will Le of Ontario at the Golden in a bout he Bear, Capellan to win.” appeared to defeated feldominate. low Burnaby JOHN PINEDA “He’s just athlete and for- B.C. Jr. wrestling coach fearless. There mer national is no fear in loscadet champion ing. Darthe has Melvin Arciaga by techni- something that is excepcal superiority 13-0 in the tional and it’s his will to 54kg final. win,” Pineda added. “He It was Capellan’s first has the potential to be a win over the Arciaga, future Olympian.” who know trains with the Capellan says he’s getUniversity of Alberta var- ting used to the step up sity team after a success- in competition, but admits ful high school career at nerves still come into play Burnaby South. before he steps on the mat.

“Getting that win against “When I’m wrestling, Arciaga, it made me really I’m putting it all on the happy,” said Capellan, who line – just doing my best,” won the Canadian juvenile he said. title at 50kg at the nationals Practising hard, not last year. missing practices and tryCapellan also finished ing to get the best out of ahead of another defend- the training sessions are his ing national champion and keys to success.

Burnaby Mountain club“When I come to a tourmate Oscar Bulaqui en nament, I really want to route to the win at 54kg. win,” Capellan added.

Wrestling Capellan in He’ll get another chance dual weight classes was a to show just how much he concious decision by the wants to win, when he will B.C. coaching staff. face many U.S. state high “He’s exceptional,” said school champions at a meet B.C. junior development in Olympia, Washington coach John Pineda. “When this weekend.

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Tight checking: Josh Faria of New West, in red, fights for the puck along the boards in a 3-1 win over Burnaby Minor in an atom house hockey league game on Sunday.

New Westminster sport briefs University of Toronto Varsity Blues basketball player Rachael Sider was named the Ontario University Athletics female athlete of the week for the period ending Jan. 5.

Sider, a fourth-year guard, notched a double-double scoring 20 points while nabbing 10 rebounds in leading the varsity Blues women’s basketball team to a 58-54 victory over the Ryerson Rams on Sunday at the Athletic Centre Sports Gym. The New Westminster native went 8for-22 from the floor and 4-for-8 from beyond the arc en route to a season-high point total. Sider also added two assists and one steal on the day.

A philosophy and political science major, Sider drained three three-pointers in the first quarter as the Blues built a dominant 15-4 lead.

Sider added another trey in the second frame and held a game-high 12 points at halftime.

A trade, by Thunder

The junior A New Westminster Salmonbellies acquired lefthander Johnny Pearson from the Langley Thunder.

Pearson, who had 21 points in just five intermediate A games before being called up to the Thunder as an underage junior for the remainder of the season, led Langley with 12 goals in the playoffs.

During the regular season, Pearson finished third in junior A team scoring with 29 goals and 24 assists in just 15 league games. He is currently attending Ohio State University on a field lacrosse scholarship.

In return for Pearson, New Westminster traded Tyler Rutherford and Parker and Pearson Willis to the Thunder in exchange for Pearson. Last season, Rutherford had three goals and 71 penalty minutes, while Parker had seven goals and four assists for the intermediate A Salmonbellies.

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