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PATTULLO BRIDGE

The new royalty

Tolls part of major agreement

By Theresa McManus

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Two years after opening its doors, École Qayqayt Elementary School has become home to its first ever May Queen.

Savanah Agas is New Westminster’s 146th May Queen and Daniel Karwowski is her Royal Consort.

“Ecstatic. I feel like I can’t even breathe,” Savanah told the Record. “I feel so excited.”

Qayqayt Elementary School opened in 2014, replacing the former John Robson Elementary School.

“I want to represent a really incredibly unique school and to represent Qayqayt Elementary,” Savanah said of her desire to be May Queen. “I am looking forward to meeting all the people in the community, the mayor, all the seniors and all the students from other schools.”

The annual draw for positions in the 2016 Royal Suite took place in city council chambers on Monday night.

Joining Qayqayt in the Royal Suite are: ! First maid of honour Ariel Lajeunesse and Royal Knight Matiss Osborne – Lord Tweedsmuir Elementary School. ! Second maid of honour Mindy Zhang and Royal Knight Jonathan Corbett – Richard McBride Elementary School. ! Medal bearer Anna Rodriguez and Royal Knight Malcolm Seymour – F.W. Howay Elementary School. ! Register bearer Saraya Scobie and Royal Knight Jozef Munoz Kallai – Lord Kelvin

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MEET YOUR MAJESTY Qayqayt Elementary student Savanah Agas is the 146th May Queen. Pictured here with her Royal Consort, Daniel Karwowski, the pair was chosen from a draw in city council chambers on Monday. PHOTO

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It’s been considered for so long, most Royal City residents probably roll their eyes when a development about the replacement for the Pattullo Bridge makes the news.

But for New West Mayor Jonathan Cote, the recently signed a memorandum of understanding between his city, the City of Surrey and TransLink is a positive, big step to seeing a new bridge actually get built.

“It’s actually a very important agreement to allow us to move forward with the replacement of the Pattullo Bridge,” he told the Record on Tuesday.

The memorandum in question lays out the general components for the replacement of the bridge, including an agreement that the funding source will be tolls.

Cote, who noted the memorandum has been in the works for months, said tolls were a key objective for the city, suggesting New West has faced the detrimental impact since tolls were placed on the Port Mann Bridge.

He argued the city has seen a significant increase in traffic congestion with the net result being traffic from the highway diverted to the local road network.

Cote noted with the general parameters of a new bridge in place, work on the design can begin with a timeline for a new span by 2023.

The bridge opened in 1937 and for years has been the subject of replacement talk.

That only increased after the new Port Mann Bridge opened with tolls.

TransLink has recently announced that the deck rehabilitation will start on April 29, leading to even more traffic woes for the city.

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McBride school could be replaced

By Cayley Dobie

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A brand new school could be in the cards for Richard McBride Elementary if the district decides to replace the aging school.

Seismic upgrades and building envelope work, estimated to cost $18 million, have already been approved in principle for the elementary school at 331 Richmond St. But before the district gets final approval from the province, it must submit a project definition report and as part of this report, the district plans to include an option outlining a possible replacement of the school.

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A QUICK SELL: A 1909 house on St. Patrick’s Street in the Queen’s Park neighbourhood recently sold for $710,000 above its asking price.

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Home sells for $710,000 above the asking price Realtor:“We are on the map.We have become a hip hot spot.”

By Theresa McManus

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A quaint 1909 cottage in the Queen’s Park neighbourhood may have made history when it recently sold far above its listed price.

Darcy Schlechtleitner of Team ReThink said the three-bedroom home at 217 St. Patrick St. was listed at $1,199,000 and sold for $1,909,000.

“We had 11 offers, and it sold for $710,000 above list price,” she told the Record.

“I am pretty sure it is historic in New West.”

A day before the house sold, Schlechtleitner said a Vancouver home made headlines after it sold for $750,000 above its listed price.

The Queen’s Park home was listed on Feb. 15 and Schlechtleitner accepted offers on Feb. 24.

“We were aiming for the stars.This was higher than we expected, for sure,” she said. “There were three offers that were surprisingly high. Every single one of them was a Queen’s Park family.They understand the value of having their grandparents close by, etc. It’s trying to grab the land before people from out of the city can grab it.”

The owners of the home are moving to a larger home in the neighbourhood, while another Queen’s Park resident has purchased the home.

Although the successful purchaser already lives in New Westminster, Schlechtleitner said three offers appeared to have been from offshore or overseas’ purchasers, a trend she’s seen develop in New Westminster in the past year. She estimated 80 per cent of peo-

ple attending her New West open houses are from mainland China.

We had 11 offers, and it sold for $710,000 above list price. I am pretty sure it is historic in New West.

While there was considerable interest from near and far for the house on St. Patrick’s Street, its fate is uncertain.

“It’s a tiny little bungalow,” Schlechtleitner said.

“The footprint of the home

is 1,255 square feet in total.

It is smaller than most condos downtown.”

Schlechtleitner’s hope is the city will allow the new owners to move the small home to the back of the property and use it as a laneway home and build a new home as part of a heritage revitalization agreement.

Like Gastown, Port Moody and the Hastings corridor of six or seven years ago, Schlechtleitner said New Westminster’s time has come for those looking to buy homes. She said the city’s revitalization is shaking people’s perceptions of it as being a less than desirable place to live.

“It’s a complete change,” she said. “We are on the map.We have become a hip hot spot.”

that all reasonable options are assessed in the (project definition report),” secretary-treasurer Kevin Lorenz said in an email to the Record.

Staff are currently in discussions with contractors to determine how much it would cost to replace Richard McBride Elementary compared to the $18 million it’s estimated the upgrade project would cost.

Enrolment at Richard McBride Elementary over the past five years has remained consistent, fluctuating between 395 and 416 students.

The project definition report is expected to be complete later this spring, and Lorenz expects it will include a replacement option.

Two charged with fraud offences Two New Westminster residents are behind bars after devices used for making fake IDs and credit cards were found inside their home.

The investigation began in December when officers were called to assist bailiffs during several evictions at an apartment building in the 100 block of Seventh Street. Bailiffs alerted police when they found items used to make fake IDs and credit cards inside one of the units, noted a press release from New Westminster police.

Investigators with the major crime unit took over the investigation and on March 4, charges were laid against two residents: 42-year-old Shane Douglas Farnsworth and 31-year-old Sylwia Pauline Przybylska.

Farnsworth is charged with three counts of theft from mail; unlawful use of mail key; possessing stolen mail, mail container or mail key; break-and-enter and committing an indictable offence.

Przybylska is charged with break-and-enter; committing an indictable offence; theft of mail; and five counts of breach of undertaking or recognizance.

The charges are connected to incidents in March, April, May, and September of 2015, and one in January of this year.

Both accused remain in custody at this time.They are scheduled to appear in court on March 30 to fix a date.

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Group gets grant A New Westminster association that strives to diminish the impact of trauma on victims and their families has earned some additional funding through a provincial grant program.

The New Westminster Victim Assistance Association is one of about 100 non-profit groups that re-

ceived funding through the provincial government’s community gaming grant program.The local association, which works with the New Westminster Police Department providing support for victims and their families, received $60,000 from the province.

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Saturday, March 12 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Youth Volunteer Orientation Session Century House

Monday, March 14 6:00 pm Regular Council Meeting Council Chamber

Wednesday, March 16 7:00 pm Downtown Residents’ Association Meeting Holy Trinity Church, 514 Carnarvon

Tuesday, March 22 7:15 pm McBride-Sapperton Residents’ Association Meeting Translink Building, Brewery District 8th Floor, 287 Nelson’s Court

Sunday, March 27 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Easter in Queen’s Park Queen’s Park

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2016 Annual Residential Water, Sewer and Solid Waste bills have been mailed out at the end of February.

If you have not received your Residential Water, Sewer and Solid Waste bill please contact the Taxes and Utilities Department at City Hall at 604-527-4550 or 604-527-4555.

New owners of single detached dwellings who have not received their bill are advised to contact the Taxes and Utilities Department.

Accounts paid in full on or before April 25, 2016 are eligible for a 5% prompt payment discount. Accounts unpaid after April 25, 2016 are not eligible for the 5% discount and may be subject to transfer to property taxes if still unpaid at December 31, 2016.

Various payment options are provided for your convenience: • By mail or in person at City Hall, 511 Royal Avenue, V3L 1H9 • Cheques post-dated to the April 25th discount date are welcome • After-hours payment into “City Hall Mail” located at the north entrance to City Hall • At any chartered bank and most trust companies and credit unions • By tele-banking or internet-banking service through your financial institution • At automated banking machines • Queensborough Community Centre, 920 Ewen Ave. 604-525-7388 • Centennial Community Centre, 65 E Sixth Ave 604-777-5100 • Century House, 620 Eighth St. 604-519-1066 Credit cards are NOT accepted for the payment of utility bills Seniors Living Alone: If you have received your bill, you may qualify for a waiver of 25% of the flat rate charges if you meet ALL of the following requirements: 1. 65 years of age or over, and

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2. Living alone (one person only) in the single family residence, and 3. A registered owner of the property.

If you meet all of the above requirements and your flat rate utility bill does not already include a reduction described as “Senior Waiver” please call the Taxes and Utilities Department for assistance.

For further information, call the Taxes and Utilities Department at City Hall at 604-527-4550 or 604-527-4555.

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Sunday, March 27 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Queen’s Park Bandshell & Rainbow Playland Admission: Free This family-oriented event is geared towards children between 3 – 10 years and features live entertainment, photos with Mr. and Mrs. Bunny, the Flip, Flop & Fly Zone, petting farm, crafts and face painting. Concession services will be available.

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The City of New Westminster has completed its draft 2016 – 2020 Financial Plan. As part of the public consultation process, the City will be presenting the draft Financial Plan during the Regular Council Meeting in Council Chamber at City Hall on Monday, March 14, 2016 at 5:45pm. The public is invited to attend the presentation, and may ask questions and provide comments regarding the draft Financial Plan following the presentation.

A budget information package including the draft 2016 - 2020 Financial Plan, a staff report and a comment sheet will be available on the City’s website and for pickup from the Finance and Information Technology Department at City Hall (511 Royal Ave) on Monday, March 7, 2016.

Residents may submit written comments regarding the draft Financial Plan to the Finance and Information Technology Department: Attention: Director of Finance and Information Technology Mail to: 511 Royal Ave., New Westminster, V3L 1H9 Fax to: 604-521-3895 or e-mail: nwfinance@newwestcity.ca Deadline: Friday, March 11, 2016 The draft Financial Plan incorporates a proposed 2.73% property tax increase for 2016. This increase is required to fund operational and inflationary increases and strategic initiatives.

Utility operating budgets for 2016 include the electrical, water, sewer and solid waste utilities. Utility rate increases are 5.5% for water, 7.5% for sewer, and 1.0% for solid waste.

The Electrical Utility rates will increase 4% effective April 1, 2016 to follow BC Hydro’s rate increases to the City. The proposed general fund capital budget for 2016 is $58 million and the capital budgets for the utilities total $34 million.

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Opinion MY VIEW BRIAN MACANDREW

We need to preserve our city’s vistas I read with interest your feature entitled “A bridge too close” (NewWestminster Record, Feb. 4). In it you describe the intrusion of the proposed Q2Q pedestrian bridge on some residents adjoining the Quayside promenade. I very much feel for the discomfort of those affected.

We residents of the Lower Mainland are fortunate for any number of reasons. One of them is the proximity to nature and the many venues we have to appreciate the natural world.

Sadly, not everyone views such wonders the same way.

It seems that in the pursuit of “progress” and “growth,” nature becomes, well, expendable. And that means that our collective quality of life is reduced.

Case in point is what has happened to our own river vista.The Peninsula Tower, currently under construction on the Port Royal site in Queensborough, has largely removed the dominant natural element altogether. Right now it is at 13 or 14 storeys and fairly looms over downtown, and there are, I understand, six or eight storeys still to go.

The effect has been dramatic.The uninterrupted river vista is now gone forever.The presence of this single tower draws both the Quayside and Port Roy-

al communities into downtown NewWestminster: the unique qualities of both of these distinctive neighbourhoods are diminished. New Westminster has become just another city on another river.

We often condemn developers for poorly conceived, ill-suited or simply unwelcome intrusions. But it bears keeping in mind that no development – no matter the merits – is possible without our elected officials first enabling the process.These officials, who assure us of their inviolate commitment to protect nature, preserve vistas, look out for the best interests of neighbourhoods, improve our quality of life and so on and so forth, are the very ones who regularly disappoint by failing to put deeds next to words.

The proposed Q2Q pedestrian bridge, like the Peninsula Tower, is a perfect example of elected officialdom abandoning the esthetic in favour of its own “we know better” agenda.

Communities would be well served if they had elected officials – and planning staffs, I might add – who vigorously fight for and champion the esthetic within their communities.

Brian Macandrew is a New Westminster resident. See an extended version of this piece at www.newwestrecord.ca.

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Mayor sounds the alarm over false alarms New West Mayor Tom Baker suggested council consider making constantly ringing false alarms an offence under city bylaws after a burglar alarm rang for a harrowing 16 hours straight at a Queens Avenue residence over the NewYear’s weekend.

The owners were away, and police were unable to find family or friends who could stop the alarm, nor could they find anyone with a key to the house.

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Ecstatic. I feel like I can’t even breathe. I feel so excited.

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OUR VIEW

Some welcome transit news It’s good news. And where transit is considered, we can always use good news.

The agreement between Surrey and New Westminster on a four-lane tolled bridge to replace the current crumbling bridge means that in the next decade there may be some relief for New Westminster residents.

Now, that’s if all goes according to plan. And, meanwhile,TransLink is proceeding with rehabilitating the current bridge.

It will be resurfaced start-

ing in April.That work, which will also require some closures of the bridge, will give city residents a bit of a break as well.

The issue of tolling bridges is still a hot potato though.

As Mayor Jonathan Cote has pointed out, when only one Fraser River crossing is tolled, commuters naturally just use the untolled bridges. If the provincial government continues with its current policy of having non-tolled bridges where

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it is ‘feasible’ one wonders how the government will define feasible.

If the Alex Fraser bridge remains as the untolled bridge across the Fraser while, or after, the Pattullo and new Massey bridges are being built, surely that will create a huge bottleneck. And while politicians south of the Fraser were generally opposed to forcing Surrey residents to pay to cross the river, the current Surrey mayor and other mayors are interested in developing a mobility pricing system that

charges drivers by time of day and distance travelled.

It would be an interesting alternative to the current flat per-vehicle per-crossing tolls on bridges such as the Golden Ears.

And let’s face it.With the incredible housing prices on this side of the Fraser compared to the prices south of the Fraser, more and more of us may be forking out more cash to cross those new bridges.

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Time to fix the city’s ‘dismal’ sidewalks

Queen’s Park cottage sells for $700,000 over asking price

Dear Editor Re: Councillor wants to curb speeds on New West streets, The Record, Feb. 25. I applaud Councillor Patrick Johnstone for wanting to make the streets safer for pedestrians by lowering the speed limit. However, the first thing that should be addressed is the dismal conditions of our sidewalks, including the terrible roundabout intersection at Fifth Street and Fourth Avenue.

The dip in the sidewalk puts you right into the path of traffic, while the white painted lines do not even line up with those dips.

With more scooters and wheelchairs prevalent on our busy walkways, and the fact that this oversight has been reported to the city numerous times for years, this intersection is just an accident waiting to happen.

Paul Rossi, New Westminster

Time to stop ignoring the needs of NWSS Dear Editor It seems after 50 years plus of subsidizing many programs of choice, neighbourhood schools and younger students, School District No. 40’s teenagers, their families and one huge secondary school have again dropped down the educational priority list for the school district and the province.

There has been over a decade-and-a-half of promises by district and provincial politicians.

It is at the very least disheartening and, in my opinion, unjust to delay/postpone, for other projects, the commencement of a new high school in New Westminster.

The students at the secondary level are every bit as important as any other level in the district and cannot be ignored any longer.

Talk about the crumbling educational infrastructure in Detroit city – a coat of paint can’t cover the mould, rot and rodent droppings at NWSS. Bryan Ansley, New Westminster

‘Sad’ to see MP vote against federal decision on Israel Dear Editor It is very sad to see that on Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, our local MP Peter Julian, voted against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Opposition Leader Rona Ambrose, when he rejected the following very worthy motion, that stood against discrimination and antisemitism.

Motion: That, given Canada and Israel share a long history of friendship as well as economic and diplomatic relations, the House reject the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which promotes the demonization and delegitimization of the State of Israel, and call upon the government to condemn any and all attempts by Canadian organizations, groups or individuals to promote the BDS movement, both here at home and abroad.

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Martha Flanagan Groenwold I think people are afraid of losing a chance and just going nuts in the market. has happened before Hugh Draper There goes the neighbourhood.

Heather Bruyère What happens if the bubble bursts one day and everyone’s interest rate skyrockets?

Andre Danyliu Guess the house I grew up in on Pine street is over a million now.

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Is it time for a rally to protest the lack of a replacement NWSS? @Mona_Boucher Hey @fixbced, still no HS for #newwest. Rats, asbestos +seismic issues aren’t a priority for gov’t #bced #bcpoli @stickers66 Maybe if Judy crossed the floor? What do you say....pretty please? @Mona_Boucher I think the main issue is the 100 mil+ price tag. the most expensive HS in BC. But Massey tunnel ok... @stickers66 We also have 65,000 residents with one high school. And region wants us to take on more. Build it! @Mona_Boucher This gov’t seems to respond to outcries & petitions (water rights, msp). Maybe that should be the approach? @ChMacArthur I’ll show up at a rally.

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Marine council worried about Q2Q bridge Theresa McManus

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The Council of Marine Carriers has “serious concerns” about building a pedestrian bridge over the north arm of the Fraser River.

Capt. Phill Nelson, president of the Council of Marine Carriers, has been corresponding with Quayside residents about the proposed Q2Q bridge, which would provide a pedestrian and cyclist link from the Quay to Queensborough.

“The tugboat industry uses the north arm the same as the trucking industry uses the Trans-Canada Highway – it is our main artery into the New Westminster area and points east,”

he wrote in a letter to a Quayside resident. “At this time there are already too many obstructions, such as bridges, in the way and one more is a further obstacle that must be negotiated along the route.”

If a tug with a 10,000-ton gravel barge smacks a rail bridge, Nelson said it could result in a “catastrophic” event, demolishing the bridge, perhaps derailing a train and endangering the tug and train crews.

“If the same tug and barge were to hit a pedestrian bridge with a bunch of people walking across it, the outcome would doubtless be much more tragic,” he wrote. “And, who would be to blame? The tug captain who has been placed in

that position by the bright spark who had the idea of a pedestrian bridge in the first place.”

Nelson said the Council of Marine Carriers has concerns about the “poor concept, weak design and inappropriate placement” of the proposed Q2Q bridge. Nelson, who gave residents permission to forward his email to the Record, couldn’t be reached for comment.

On Monday, council received a report on the review process, community consultation and next steps for the Q2Q bridge. Council also supported a motion to have the city contact the marine carriers and other agencies having jurisdiction over the river to express concerns about the

stance being taken about the height of the bridge.

The City of New Westminster had proposed a stand-alone nine-metre high bridge last year.When that wasn’t supported by the

I would like us to exhaust every possible option marine carriers, it developed a concept for a 14.5-metre tall drawbridge downstream from the existing rail bridge.

“I think the vision of having this walkway is a great one,” said Coun. Mary Trentadue. “It’s very important for the city, for both

sides. I think the challenge is that what we have ended up with is so different from what the original vision was. … I do support it, and I would like us to exhaust every possible option, idea and conversation that we can have.”

Coun. Patrick Johnstone said the marine carriers should have a say about how the river is used, but so should the people who live on the river and want to cross the river. “I think we as a council need to see how we can push back at the marine carriers and make it clear to them that there needs to be some compromise between their use of the river and our use of the river, to make this project easier for our city to accept,”

he said.

Mayor Jonathan Cote said the city will pursue two streams to see if it can make the project workable: it will re-engage with the marine carriers and regulators to see if there’s any flexibility in terms of the bridge’s height; and it will consider whether other design elements can be considered to address challenges with the project, such as the impact on the local neighbourhoods, the budget and the usability for cyclists and pedestrians.

The city and its marine consultant previously held workshops with the Council of Marine Carriers,Transport Canada, Port Metro Vancouver and Southern Railway.

New Pattullo Bridge plans take major step forward

Continued from page 1 TransLink’s ownership and its lead role to deliver the project, and made specific reference to the Mayors’ Council plan on the priority of the replacement to a fourlane bridge with a design for potential future expansion to six lanes.

The report also noted in June 2015,TransLink applied for a 25 per cent contribution of eligible capi-

tal cost from the federal P3 Canada Fund. In October 2015, the transit authority was informed that the Pattullo replacement project was “screened-in” for further consideration.With the status,TransLink is now required to prepare a P3 business case for submission to P3 Canada by the end of March 2016.

The memorandum of understanding still needs to be

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School trustee steps down from board post Cayley Dobie

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School trustee MaryAnn Mortensen has resigned from her position on the board of education.

The district announced on Wednesday Mortensen had sent the board a letter of resignation, effective March 4.

No reason was given for her resignation, but superintendent Pat Duncan confirmed she hadn’t attended any meetings since last August.

“She was a very, very good trustee, one, and she was dedicated to public education, and all of her decisions were really child- and student-focused,” said trustee Casey Cook, who ran with Mortensen in both the 2011 and 2014 civic elections.

Cook was surprised to learn Mortensen was resigning.With her gone, Cook is now the only trustee who

wasn’t endorsed by the New work we had to do, she was Westminster and District a big part of that. It was a Labour Council during the challenging time for our dislast election. trict, and the board real“But as long as we focus ly pulled together to turn on children and we focus on things around,” Campbell students, we’ll find common said. ground,” he added.

Mortensen’s resignation Cook couldn’t shed any means the district will have light on the resto hold a byelecignation either, tion. noting the letter The date of the Mortensen sent to byelection will be the district includannounced once a ed personal inforchief election offimation that trustcer is appointed by ees weren’t privy the city. Duncan to. expects it’ll take Mortensen was place on a Satura two-term trustday sometime in ee first elected in late spring.

MaryAnn 2011 and held on Mortensen trustee Duncan couldn’t to her seat dursay how much the ing the 2014 civic election. byelection will cost the disBoard chair Jonina Camptrict, however he confirmed bell, who ran and won her the district will be footing first trustee seat at the same the bill. time as Mortensen, said she The Record attempted is sad to see Mortensen reto contact Mortensen but sign. calls were not returned by “We came a long way on deadline. the board, and a lot of the

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Happy Easter: Above, Ava and Preston Rhyne of New West ham it up at last year’s Easter in the Park celebrations. At right, the petting farm was a popular spot on Easter last year. Easter in the Park returns to Queen’s Park on Sunday, March 27. PHOTOS RECORD FILES

Me time for parents and other family fun Julie MacLellan FAMILY TIES

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Are you at home with a baby or toddler? Thinking longingly of the days when you used to read grownup books and enjoy adult conversation?

If you sometimes find it tough to get in your “me time,” the New Westminster Public Library has an answer.

The library hosts a regular BringYour Baby Book Club, giving parents a chance to get together and discuss current adult novels while their small folks come along and play.The club is recommended for par-

ents with kids from infant up to age 24 months. It next meets on Tuesday, March 15, and then again on Tuesday, April 19.

Register at 604-527-4667 or askus@nwpl.ca.

SPRING BREAK ART CAMP Still looking for fun for spring break?

It’s not too late. A new and awesome idea just crossed my desk – the Creative Artworks Spring Art Camp being offered at Anvil Centre, led by artist Melissa Thorpe.

The class will give young artists a chance to explore a variety of materials and mediums, working in drawing, painting and collage. On the final day, families are invit-

ed in to see a showcase of all the work the kids have created during their week at camp.

It’s set to run Monday to Thursday, March 21 to 24, with sessions for fiveto eight-year-olds from 10 a.m. to noon, and nine- to 12-year-olds from 1 to 3 p.m.The registration fee is $60. Call 604-527-4640 or see www.anvilcentre.com/ register.

aged three to 10, with entertainment, crafts, face painting, photos with Mr. and Mrs. Bunny and kids’ games among the fun.

EASTER IN THE PARK Easter’s coming – and that means it’s almost time for the annual family fun in Queen’s Park.

Easter in the Park festivities are on Sunday, March 27 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The event is geared to kids

The petting farm and the concession stand will also be open for the event.

It’s all free – and it usually gets very busy, so be sure to stop by early. Call 604-7775121 for info, or just stop

by Queen’s Park to check it out.

It usually gets very busy, so be sure to stop by early

MAKE A SPLASH WITH ART FOR SMALL PEOPLE Here’s another one for all the tiny Picassos and van Goghs out there.

If you and your small person are interested in art, the city’s new spring Active Living Guide has a couple of great offerings for you.

You can sign up for Art Splash, for two- to fouryear-olds, running on Saturday mornings from April 2 to May 7 at the Anvil Centre.

It gives kids and parents a chance to explore a host of different materials and techniques to create multimedia fun, and supplies are included. It costs $65; call 604527-4640.

Or, if Centennial Com-

munity Centre is handier, why not try out Parent and Tot Art Time, also for the two- to four-year-old crowd, with parents.

That’s on Thursday mornings from April 7 to May 5 and costs $42; call 604-777-5100.

STREET ART FOR KIDS If your arty kid is a little older, here’s a great idea – and best of all, it’s free.

Kids aged five to 12 years old are being invited to take part in Art in the Streets, helping out with a new street banner public art project.Youngsters will work with a professional artist to design a one-of-a-kind street banner that will be Continued on page 12

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Family fun: Families check out a board game buy-sell-trade event at River Market in January. Regular all-ages board game meetups are held at River Market. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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The free sessions run Saturdays from April 9 to June 4 (no class May 21), with five- to eight-year-olds meeting from 10 a.m. to noon, and nine- to 12-yearolds from 1 to 3 p.m.

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SIGN WITH BABY And another one for those parenting babies: A new session of Baby Sign Language classes is starting up soon at the Centennial Community Centre.

Parents can learn 30 to 40 signs to help work with their baby and encourage early communication – and, hopefully, help reduce some toddler frustration when words just won’t keep up with wants.

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BOARD GAME FUN Love board games? So do these folks – and you’re welcome to join in the fun.

For those who haven’t discovered it already, there’s a regular all-ages board game meetup on Sundays in the community square at River Market, running from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

You can bring your games and join in with other folks who like board games, too.

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It may have been the “coldest night of the year” but the community response to a recent fundraiser was heartwarming.

The Seniors Services Society held its annual Coldest Night of theYear fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 20 to support hungry, homeless and hurting seniors in Metro Vancouver. The society has confirmed $28,937 in donations, which is a bit shy of its $35,000 goal, but donations are still being accepted until mid-March.

“We had an amazing turnout,” said Kara-Leigh Bloch, the society’s executive director.

“We originally thought we’d only have 122 walkers because that’s who con-

firmed with their participation online, but on the day of we had 147 walkers.”

While many fundraising walks take place in warm summer months, the Coldest Night of theYear takes place on a winter night to give people a sense of what it would be like to be a hungry, hurting, homeless senior.

“At the end of the day, I think the biggest value when you do a big community

walk like this or any gala, it’s the awareness,” Bloch said.

“That was really huge.”

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By Julie MacLellan WHAT’S UP The Music at Queens concert series is getting into the shamrock spirit with a pre-St. Patrick’s Day concert by the Irish Wakers, a fun-loving, five-person group that performs lively arrangements of traditional Irish tunes.

WHY SHOULD I GO? Because you’re Irish, aren’t you? And if you’re not, you know you want to be.

Because who wouldn’t like a concert featuring fiddle, uilleann pipes, flutes, whistles, harp, guitar and bodhran, with contemporary Irish songs, rollicking sea shanties and original tunes.

Plus, the concert is being set up “bistro-style” in the church gym, so you can enjoy refreshments while you take in the music.

The fun is on Saturday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the church gym at 529 Queens

Ave. (park down the block at city hall, and enter by the side door).

ALL RIGHT, I’M IN. HOW DO I TAKE PART? Tickets are $20 regular, $15 for students and seniors, and $10 for kids. Tickets: www.queensavenue.org or call 604-522-1606.

Looking back at city’s history Continued from page 13 Public Library, 716 Sixth Ave. It will take a look at what the city and region were like at the time the church got its start – March 1891.

“What was the town like?

What were its major buildings, businesses, industries, activities and events, and specifically what did this church group join in Sapperton?” said local historian Archie Miller in a press release. “This presentation is

an excellent example of using a particular focus to add background to a particular place.”

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DROP BY THE OLD CROW COFFEE CO. and listen toThe

Soots, who will perform a blend of old-time gypsy jazz and bluegrass in their final local performance before moving to Montreal to record their debut album.The show is on Saturday, March 12 at 7 p.m. at 655 Front St. Admission by suggested donation of $10.

Plenty of music on tap around town

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ENJOY A NIGHT OUT with one of Canada’s top singer-songwriters when Jann Arden performs on Saturday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. at the Massey Theatre, 735 Eighth Ave. Tickets $78.50 (plus service charges), ticketsnw.ca.

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CATCH LOCAL BAND The Country Club Hustlers in action, when they

open for Trailerhawk at the Heritage Grill on Friday, March 11.The band plays old-time country (played electrically) and rockabilly.

The free show starts at 8 p.m. sharp and is open to all ages.The Heritage Grill is at 447 Columbia St.

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12 at 7 p.m. at 726 12th St.The event, which is hosted by Whoopsie Daisy, features live and lip-synch entertainment. Cover

charge is $15, or $10 for EPAMA members. For more info, visit The Revival Show page on Facebook.

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GET DIRTY at the Institute of Urban Ecology’s annual forum on Saturday, March 12 at Douglas College.You’ll learn about beneficial insects, tips on how to green your yard, gardening in small spaces and much more.The free forum begins at 10 a.m. at Douglas College, 700 Royal Ave., Room 2201.

To register, click on the UNIBUG forum page at

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DROP BY QUEEN’S PARK OR MOODY PARK ARENA to check out the action at the Bobby Love memorial Atom C hockey tournament.The tourney runs from March 12 to 15, with medal games being played at Queen’s Park Arena.

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Specials include Irish stew for $5.95, 29-cent wings, and Guinness and Kilkenny $6.75.

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Community

Museum tells the city’s story, piece by piece Theresa McManus

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A blue wedding dress, a package of birthday candles and a toilet may have nothing in common yet they all help tell the story of the City of New Westminster.

The New Westminster Museum is home to a collection of 36,000 items, from the tiniest strands of hair of a toddler who died in the early 1900s to a steamroller so large that it needs to be stored offsite.The artifacts range from the sentimental to the strange.

“What are the weirdest items I’ve come across?” ponders Oana Capota, curator of the New Westminster Museum. “We have a number of hair wreaths.

Victorians used to collect their own hair, friends’ hair.

When you look at it you can see people’s white hair, blond hair, red hair, dark hair. It’s woven into very ornate ornaments and put on display behind glass.That’s one of the weirder ones.”

Before accepting a piece

Stories of the past: New Westminster Museum curator Oana Capota with a cash register from the old Copp’s Shoes store. PHOTO JENNIFER

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into the museum’s collection, staff interview the donor and get them to sign a deed of gift and provide information about the item’s history.

“Our mandate is to tell New Westminster’s story,” Capota explains. “Where the value is for museums is things we can display for education, for research, but if there’s no information on it, it’s not helpful.”

The museum’s climatecontrolled storage area is

filled with shelves stacked with items such as typewriters, electronics, bars and toilets from cells in the old police station, and assorted attire, including a blue wedding gown from the 1940s that belonged to a woman whose husband was a soldier returning from war.

Because they had limited funds, the couple, who spent seven years building a house in the Victory Heights neighbourhood, had a lowkey wedding, and the bride

wore a blue dress.

“It’s showing a bit of the social side. Not everything was good.They had a hard time,” Capota says. “That’s all she could afford – just a dress.”

The storage area also houses fragments of different buildings, including doors from the Chinese Benevolent Association.

“If you look at them, they actually look really boring. Not that exciting, kind of like other doors,” Capota says. “But this is the only thing we have from New Westminster’s two or three Chinatowns, these doors and a few other small items.”

The museum’s wish-list includes items from the city’s non-Anglo Saxon community, such as Japanese and Chinese citizens, and artifacts from the 1850s and beyond, when people started settling in the city.

The city’s first museum was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1898, but Capota believes there’s a chance items still exist.

“Something always survives,” she said.

Although the museum is removing about 30 items from its collection, including trunks and sewing machines, that doesn’t preclude it from welcoming others in the future.

“The last time somebody

called me in 2012 to donate a sewing machine, my first instinct was to say ‘No,’ but I talked to the lady. It turns out this was the sewing machine we wanted. It had so much history,” Capota says of an item that had been Continued on page 20

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City’s museum culls its artifact collection Theresa McManus

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The New Westminster Museum and Archives is culling its collection of artifacts.

Several sewing machines, doll carriages, trunks and a piano are among the items no longer needed by the

New Westminster Museum and Archives. It’s removing items from its collection that are duplicates, have no local history, are in poor condition or offer no academic research value.

Rob McCullough, the city’s manager of cultural services, says about 30 of the 36,000 items in the mu-

seum’s collection are being removed.

“We have about 50 trunks.The ones we are deaccessioning, what we always try to do, our first option is to find a home for them within this museum in the teaching collection. Already our programmer is looking at how she can in-

corporate some of the sewing machines into that,” he says. “The next option after that is we talk to other museums.We want to keep them in the public realm. If these things are still around people can still access them.”

While the museum may have accepted items in the

past because they were old, not necessarily because they contributed to telling the city’s story, McCullough says that’s no longer the case. As the museum has matured and technology improved, it’s focused on items that are relevant to local history.

The New Westminster

Museum relocated from Irving House to its new home Anvil Centre in 2014.The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily (8 p.m. on Thursdays), while the archives’ reading room library is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and its reference services are available daily from noon to 5 p.m.

Museum collection short on multicultural items Continued from page 19 used in the 1930s and 1940s. “It was from the Chinese community. Right away my interest was piqued because we don’t have a lot from the nonAnglo-Saxon communities here in New West. Out of these 36,000 objects, I’d say 99 per cent are from that.”

Donations sometimes take a circuitous route to find their way to the New Westminster Museum and Archives.

The museum’s collection includes two logs dating back to the 1950s from

the local Pacific Veneer plant. At that time, the mill would take the outer part of the log off to make plywood and sell the cores to people for firewood.

“This fellow who donated the items, he bought some to use as firewood around 1953. Soon after, he moved to Edmonton. He packed up his whole house and took the fire wood with him. In the 1990s they decided to move back to B.C., packed up the whole house and came back here. He saw my call for artifacts to do with waterfront work.

He said, ‘I’ve been carrying these all over the continent since the 1950s,’” Capota says. “It was like it was meant to be.”

The New Westminster Museum starts planning its exhibits about two years in advance, considering themes that haven’t been done before, anniversaries that are coming up, artifacts that haven’t been displayed and stories that haven’t been told.

When items aren’t on display, people can make arrangements can be made to view specific items.The

family that donated a television pops in periodically to check it out.

“We have family members that decide to come

His memory will live on through the museum

once every few years to see their item if it’s not on display,” Capota says. “We

have the first television in New Westminster from 1948.The family members come occasionally, they have a look at it.”

Last year, Capota received a call from a senior in Vancouver who was downsizing. She’d inherited some items from a good friend who’d lived in New Westminster years ago and wondered if any of the items, including a clock that had been made in New West, were of interest to the museum.

“When I went over there, she showed me these oth-

er things. One of the sweetest things was a little box of candles that had been used. It was from this man’s birthday in 1932, I believe.

He kept the candles and wrote the date and wrote ‘I had such a great birthday’ or something like that and put it in the box.We know exactly when the candles were used,” Capota says.

“I’m happy to think that this woman was his best friend and, even now that this woman is going into a home, his memory will live on through the museum in one way.”

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Blending value, practicality and fun, the 2016 Honda Fit is the leader in the subcompact segment.

If you are looking to get the most for your dollar on your first car or want to downsize without sacrificing practicality, the Honda Fit may be the car for you. It competes with the likes of Ford Fiesta, Hyundai Accent and Nissan Versa Note.

Honda introduced the all-new third generation Fit last year, so 2016 sees no significant changes.

This new model evolved from the award-winning foundation and added fresh styling, a more refined driving experience, and upgraded technology and luxury features.

Design

When Honda went to the drawing board, its clear versatility was fundamental to the design of the new Fit. Mounting the fuel tank centrally – along with Honda’s ingenious Magic Seat - allow the Fit to offer class-leading interior space and versatility.

This new generation Fit has a smaller footprint than before; most notably it is 1.6 inches shorter in overall length. Despite this, Honda was able to increase passenger volume by 4.9 cubic feet and rear seat legroom by 4.8 inches.

The space-efficient Fit also boasts an all-new chassis - this new global subcompact platform is more rigid and lighter, which combine to improve driving dynamics and ride comfort.

This enhanced handling is reflected by the Fit’s

sportier exterior. The headlights are slimmer and integrate into the solid grille. The lower intakes are more aggressive and the hood slopes smoothly into the windshield.

The creases draw your eye along the sides and the tapered roofline ends in a small spoiler.

To match its fresh styling, the Fit is available in several vibrant colour options.

front seats. The clear, blue-lit instruments are easy to read and all the major controls are within easy reach. Cup holders and other storage compartments are plentiful to hold your everyday items.

Complementing the new exterior, the cabin features upgraded soft-touch materials and a sophisticated black with silver accent design.

Even the base model Fit comes equipped with a 5-inch colour LCD screen. Get the higher model and the screen grows to a 7-inch touchscreen running the nextgeneration HondaLink and a high-definition liquid crystal display. Unfortunately, the absence of easy-to-use knobs for controlling the radio may frustrate some buyers.

Performance

The highlight of the Fit is its second row Magic Seat.

While customers of subcompacts are not expecting sports car performance, Honda still wanted the Fit to have a playful character. In that effort, the new Fit receives several advances to its powertrain.

All Fit’s come with a new Earth Dreams technology engine. This 1.5-litre 4-cylinder has less weight and friction, increased compression ratio, and other changes to deliver 130 hp and 114 lb-ft of torque 11% and 7.5% improvements respectively.

This upgraded engine can be mated to two newly developed transmissions. Standard is a slick-shifting 6-speed manual, but an all-new continuously variable transmission is available if you prefer a more traditional approach. Both are designed to increase performance and efficiency over the previous model.

The joy of driving the Fit comes from its handling, which boasts a sharp steering and predicable tracking. The ride is surprisingly comfortable and smooth for a small vehicle. Also, outward visibility is excellent, allowing you to precisely clip the apex of any corner.

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While the Fit offers a best-in-class 52.7 cubic feet of cargo space, it’s the innovative design that truly excites potential buyers. The 60/40 split rear seat folds flat into the floor, or if you just need height and not so much length, the seat bottoms flip up for tall objects. For even more versatility, the front passenger seat can fold flat to create an absolute cavern.

The wind noise is more noticeable, however, leading to suspicion that there may have been some cost reduction measures.

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The Fit is available in four trim levels with starting prices ranging from $14,730 to $21,530.

Standard equipment includes auto on-off headlights, LED brake lights, a rearview camera, and Bluetooth.

Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include keyless entry with push-button start, heated leather seats, leather-wrapped steering wheel, satellite navigation with voice recognition, and a moonroof.

Fuel economy numbers (L/100km) for manual transmission equipped Fits are 8.1 city, 6.5 highway and 7.3 combined. CVT models return 7.3 city, 6.1 highway and 6.8 combined.

While the Fit is not a premium car, Honda’s use of soft-touch materials and classy design make it feel like it belongs in a higher cost-bracket segment.

Top-of-the-line models even have leather seats.

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There is little to complain about the Fit, but if pressed, it is not the cheapest subcompact on the market and the noise level is on the high side.

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Conquer Winter,

BRING ON SPRING

IN THE LIBRARY

Fight a cold or flu with help from a good book Shelley Wilson-Roberts

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Sometimes, when you are sick, but not horribly so, the nicest thing you can do is read in bed between naps, cups of tea and sips of soup.

Some recent favourites from the last time I was sick include TheWorld Before Us

by Aislinn Hunter.The novel’s protagonist, Jane, is an archivist haunted by a tragic event in her past, and when present day events conspire to bring people from her past into her present, she is compelled to act in unexpected ways. A very enjoyable novel.

I re-read Conceit, by Canadian author Mary Novik.

If you like historical fiction, you will enjoy this book.

Conceit tells the life of Pegge Donne, daughter of metaphysical English poet John Donne.

If you are an attentive

We would love to lend you a great book to read. reader you will especially enjoy the allusions to his poems sprinkled throughout the book.

Other recent favourites include The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson. If you like her inventive, exuberant writing, you will enjoy this.

It is a riff on Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale,Winterson’s most treasured play.

This publication marks the inaugural outing of the Hogarth Shakespeare project, which aims to retell Shakespeare’s plays by today’s acclaimed novelists.

Forthcoming titles include ones by Margaret Atwood and Howard Jacobson.

Thinking about Shakespeare prompted me to borrow How to TeachYour Children Shakespeare by playwright Ken Ludwig.

What a fun book! Memorizing poetry might seem old-fashioned to you, but he suggests that it is an excellent way to spend one-onone time with children in your life – and increase their self-confidence by teaching them how to memorize and recite poetry. As anyone who has taken an English Lit class knows, so many familiar expressions we use stem from Shakespeare’s plays.

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New Westminster to develop to arts strategy Theresa McManus

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Anvil Centre will take a front-row seat in the City of the New Westminster’s new arts strategy.

Biliana Velkova, the city’s arts coordinator, said the city needs to create a new arts strategy to replace the five-year plan adopted in 2008.

We have built a fantastic foundation for the arts.

“We have built a fantastic foundation for the arts,” she said. “Now we are at a crossroads.”

Development of a new plan, which would outline goals from 2017 to 2022, would help fill in missing gaps and shortcomings in arts offerings in New Westminster.

Coun. Mary Trentadue, chair of the city’s arts commission, said the arts strategy has taken the city to a certain point, but it now needs to look deeper.

“We need to do this work now,” she said. “Three or four years from now it will be too late.”

Coun. Patrick Johnstone said this is a “really impor-

tant time” for the city and the arts, noting council is working on a long-term plan for Anvil Centre and determining how to make its space as functional as it can be.

Mayor Jonathan Cote noted that finding a home for the arts was a big component of the 2008 strategy, but the city is now considering ways to make Anvil Centre as successful as possible and how to best run the facility.

“To me, I think the Anvil Centre has to be a big focus of the arts strategy,” he said.

Lisa Spitale, the city’s chief administrative officer, agreed it’s the right time for the city to move forward on a new arts strategy, as it relates to operational efficiencies of Anvil Centre, tourism and economic development and ties in to the official community plan update.

Some council members expressed concern about overburdening staff at a time when they’re working to implement the city’s strategic initiatives, updating the official community plan and planning consultation about the replacement of Canada Games Pool.

Velkova said the arts commission is excited about taking on the project.

Coun. Bill Harper said it will be “far simpler” to develop a new strategy be-

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In addition to giving staff the green light to begin work on a new arts strategy, council also added it to the list of the city’s strategic priorities for the next few years.

Front and centre: City staff were given the green light to start a new arts strategy, one that would put Anvil Centre in the spotlight.

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Can you tell us about The Urban Man Cave store?

Our store is basically focusing on gifts for guys and furniture for the man cave.

We have all kinds of pub tables and items you can order on our website, but then instore we have a lot of smaller things that they can grab and go.

Do men need a man cave?

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How did you come up with the idea of The Urban Man Cave?

I was trying to find gifts for my husband and my brothers.We came to realize we were having a hard time finding a store dedicated to men around here. It was a piece here, a piece there.

Do you get a lot of women in The Urban Man Cave?

In our previous store, I would say the majority of

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Parents collect donations for grieving family Cayley Dobie CLASS ACT

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Parents at École Qayqayt Elementary are turning to the community for help after one of their own suffered a devastating loss last month.

Elena Shon’s husband died on Feb. 11, leaving behind two kids; a son in Grade 5 at Qayqayt and a daughter in Grade 8 at New Westminster Secondary.

Wanting to help Shon and her family in their time of need, Serena Trachta, chair of Qayqayt Elementary’s parent advisory council, created a GoFundMe page.

tary School in Queensborough have a lot to be proud of.

Since December, Johnson’s 23 students have been fashioning paper cranes – 1,000 to be exact.

“I wouldn’t recommend doing it with Grade 3s again,” Johnson chuckled, “but they have done an amazing job, and the cranes are unbelievable,” she said.

The project is inspired by Eleanor Coerr’s children’s book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, the story of a Japanese girl who, after she is diagnosed with cancer, sets out to fold 1,000 paper cranes in hopes of being granted a wish as foretold in Japanese legend.

She hopes to raise $10,000 to help the family with funeral costs, housing and food for about six months.

They’ve already raised more than $9,780 (as of March 8), and it’s only been about three weeks.

“It’s just been amazing how many people have come out to help, and this particular group is really related to the kids,”Trachta said.

To donate go to www.go fundme.com/shonfamily fund.

1,000 REASONS KIDS ARE AWESOME Students in Pam Johnson’s Grade 3 class at Queen Elizabeth Elemen-

Johnson said her students struggled in the beginning, but slowly they mastered the craft.

“It’s just really incredible how they (the students) have come together, and if you ask them what this is about, they say, ‘peace,’” she said.

NEW WEST RESIDENT AMONG TOP 10 PROFS IN CANADA Professor and Royal City resident Allyson Jule received a special honour last month when it was announced she was a recipient of a 3M Teaching Fellowship.

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School of Education. She was recognized for her work organizing study trips to Cameroon, where students work alongside teachers in remote villages, as well

as her contributions to the university’s gender studies program.

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Continued from page 27 look at stuff.We can also custom order a lot of pieces, too.There’s different areas we can go with that.

What are your big sellers?

We have only been open

here a couple of months, and it’s completely different than what we had in PoCo – the stuff people are buying.

We thought we had it all figured out, and of course we didn’t. One of our biggest sellers has been tin signs that have all different kinds

of pictures and sayings on them. Probably our biggest seller is we have belt buckles and barware – pour spouts for the liquor bottle, shakers for martinis, the mats to put on your bar when the drinks spill, that kind of stuff.We haven’t been able to figure

out a real trend yet.

Why did you set up shop in New West?

It was meant to be.We live in Maple Ridge.We looked in every community between home and where we were, and then just kept

coming out through the communities until we ended up landing here. Around every corner we turned, we faced a brick wall. All I can say is we were meant to be here.We love New West, we have always loved New West. I don’t want to drive

an hour to get to work every day – but I am. I take transit in, but even the drive is 45 minutes.

Worth it? Absolutely.

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At last: Walkers use the elevator down to Westminster Pier Park on the weekend. The elevator just opened after delays held it up for nearly a year. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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The new elevator down to Westminster Pier Park may offer one of the best views in the city.

The City of NewWestminster included an elevator in the Fourth Street overpass, which provides access to the park from Fourth Street near the Front Street parkade. Pedestrians have been able to enter the park via stairs since last March, but the elevator has had its share of ups and downs and was delayed by nearly a year.

Jim Lowrie, the city’s director of engineering, said the elevator passed all of the B.C. Safety Authority’s inspections and opened on Saturday morning. He thanked residents for their patience during the “prolonged” period of time it took to complete the project.

“It’s been a long time coming but we are finally there,” said Mayor Jonathan Cote. “It caused great excitement in the community on the weekend for those who have been waiting for that to finally open.”

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issues, as well as those with bikes and strollers, were particularly interested in seeing the elevator open, Cote said.

“Having the pedestrian bridge open, but having it not accessible to those people has been a bit of a source of frustration for many in the community,” he said. “When it opened this past weekend, it was actually a beautiful Saturday, the park was absolutely filled and there were a lot of people very pleased to see the elevator in operation. I saw people going in with bikes and strollers all day long when I was down there.”

Last October, city staff told the Record the elevator’s opening has been held up by delays in parts coming in on time, coordination issues between the parties involved in the project and changes made to the size and design of the elevator.

Cote said the city opted for a glass elevator that’s fully visible as a crime prevention through environmental design.

“The plan is to operate the elevator the same hours that our parks are operational, which is from dawn to dusk,” he said.

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Artist at work: Six-year old Ajay I. fills his glass up with sand during the New West Craft sand art workshop at the River Market on Saturday.

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Colours: Artist Roger Lee works with local kids during his sand art workshop at the New West Craft market. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Kids get creative with sand art Concentration: Veronica Vachon, 6, works on her creation at the New West Craft sand art workshop at the River Market on Saturday. PHOTO

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Kids got a chance to explore the intricate world of sand art during a workshop at River Market on Saturday.

Roger Lee, a retiree who

is a self-taught sand artist, was on hand at the New West Craft market to share his passion with local kids.

New West Craft is an artisan fair held twice a month

at River Market, upstairs in the community square.

It’s presented by the Arts Council of New Westminster.

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ing up Saturday, March 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

See www.rivermarket.ca or www.artscouncilnewwest. org/newwestcraft for details.

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Lee, a New Westminster resident and former NPA Vancouver city councillor, appears in the story of an immigrant Chinese couple trying to come to terms with the death of their son.

When they invite Kevin’s Caucasian boyfriend for dinner after the funeral, the evening becomes a clash of cultures and generations.

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repeated each time the night train passed through the countryside near her home growing up: “There goes the train! One day we’ll be on it.”

Now Frisken, an artist, is hosting a show invoking her father’s mantra, ongoing at the Plaskett Gallery at Massey Theatre. Each drawing in the exhibition – which features chalk pastel and charcoal work – is related to that theme.

You can check out the art until March 31.The gallery is open 1 to 5 p.m.Tuesday through Saturday, or by appointment. See www. masseytheatre.com.

THE ART OF GREENSPACE A new exhibition at the Amelia Douglas Gallery is

celebrating the art of gardening in the city.

Greenlinks 2016: Celebrating the Urban Garden is underway at the gallery at Douglas College until April 16.

The show includes nature photography by Wendy Schmidt, featuring local insects, birds and mammals, and semi-abstract paintings

by Lauren Morris that explore the beauty of flowers.

The Amelia Douglas Gallery is on the fourth floor north at Douglas College’s campus at 700 Royal Ave. It’s open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (closed Sunday). Admission is always free. Call 604-527-5723 for more information.

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WHERE CAN I DO THIS? 100 Braid Street Studios, the New Westminster-based studio and gallery located, yes, at 100 Braid St. (suite 200) in Sapperton OK, COOL, SO TELL ME MORE. Attendees get everything they need to create their art: canvas, paints, tools, aprons, etc. The evenings are led by a teacher with fine art training, so even newbies to the world of art will learn artistic techniques and pick up new skills and artistic

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Susan L. Greig, owner of 100 Braid Street, is enthusiastic about the possibilities for those folks who may consider themselves complete artistic novices. She says she regularly receives feedback from people who never thought they could create art, like one recent comment: “I have gone from never painting and thinking I couldn’t to now very much enjoying it and looking forward to attending another one.”

It’s all part of Greig’s mission to make art accessible and to help

people both appreciate art and to feel supported to try to create art themselves.

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Farewell to a ‘powerhouse’ Yvonne Cocke was a city councillor and driving force for local NDP woman. A woman in many tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca ways ahead of her time,” said former New Westminster MLA and MP Dawn A woman who left an inBlack. “She made valuable delible mark on British Cocontributions to our comlumbia’s political scene remunity, our province and cently passed away just shy our country.” of her 92nd birthday.

Black saidYvonne and Former city councilDennis Cocke “were allorYvonne Cocke (nee McRae) passed away peace- ready the stuff of legends” when she first befully on Jan. 19 afcame involved in ter a long battle community organwith Alzheimer’s izing and politics in disease. A SasNew West. katchewan native, “They were Cocke moved to known in the B.C. B.C. with her famNDP as the Cocke ily as a teen and Machine,” Black eventually settled said. “At one conin New Westminvention, buttons ster with her husYvonne Cocke sprouted up sayband Dennis. ‘powerhouse’ ing, ‘Unplug the Daughter AliCocke Machine,” son Hazelwood which was a testament to said her mother really enjoyed her two terms as a city their phenomenal organizcouncillor, but her true pas- ing ability.”

Black said many younger sion was for policy making women owe their success to and the organization side of Cocke as she blazed a trail policies. in the NDP and the com“When I think about munity for others to follow.

Yvonne, I remember a viPolitically, she credits Cocke vacious, intelligent, caring Theresa McManus

for being a top-notch political organizer and leaving no stone unturned to ensure she became the federal NDP candidate in 1988.

Personally, she recalls a woman who prepared meals for Black’s family when her son was diagnosed with cancer.

“She was a wonderful, supportive, loyal person, who you could always count on. In politics and the friendships you make in politics, that’s so often not the case,” said former MLA Graeme Bowbrick. “That’s why I always considered her and Dennis to be more important on the personal side than the political side.

Those are the types of traits you value forever, not just politically.”

Bowbrick said Cocke was a mentor, who offered great support, perspective and counsel during and after his time in office.While Dennis served as New Westminster’s MLA, he saidYvonne was just as influential politically.

“She was a complete powerhouse unto herself,” he said. “Yes, she was on city council in New Westminster, but her official political career isn’t really a proper testament to her authority and influence.The influence was about much more than New Westminster.”

Those are the types of traits you value forever Cocke also served as a director on several boards such as Vancity Savings, Royal Columbian Hospital, the New Westminster YM/YWCA and the Simon Fraser University board of governors.

A celebration of Cocke’s life will be held on Sunday, April 24 at Centennial Lodge, from 2 to 5 p.m.

New courses approved for NWSS Four new programs, including musical theatre, were developed locally by teachers Cayley Dobie

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Come September, there will be four new courses offered to students at New Westminster Secondary.

The school board authorized courses include foundations of coaching 12; bicycle maintenance and repair 12; history through film 12; and musical theatre.These courses are pet projects for a group of teachers at the high school; they were required to develop the curriculums and submit them to the district for approval.

The teachers behind the

musical theatre program are especially excited to get started in the fall.The new program offers students a choice between three different streams: stage performance, orchestra or production, but it will be taught as a whole so that students get exposure to all facets of musical theatre production, noted a press release from the high school.

The courses, which were approved at the board’s Feb. 23 meeting, will be available to students when they register for fall classes.Whether the courses run depends on how many students register.

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The Royal at Victoria Hill Lives Up to its Name Onni Group unveils the last offering in the sought-after Victoria Hill masterplanned community in New Westminster

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n the highly sought-after masterplanned community of Victoria Hill, one of the largest and most respected developers in Canada, Onni Group, is once again offering a unique and exciting new project, The Royal.

Designed by award-winning Yamamoto Architecture, The Royal will feature two boutique four-storey buildings blending the best of Old World charm with today’s contemporary design.

The Royal features only 63 homes, including six townhomes centered on a beautifully landscaped plaza that will create a gathering place and further encourage the sense of community that has made Victoria Hill so

popular with its residents. Thoughtfully designed, these homes will reflect the lifestyle needs of first-time home owners, downsizers and empty nesters.

Situated at the heart of the award-winning community, nestled between Centre Pond Park and The Grand Lawn, with heritage trees, paths and greenways, it’s easy to understand why there’s been such a huge response.

“The Royal will be the last chance to buy a brand new home in Victoria Hill, a wellestablished neighbourhood with over 40 acres of green space,” says Sam Jenkins, regional sales manager at Onni Group of Companies. “This will be a very limited opportunity and is the final piece of land to be developed at Victoria Hill, which Onni has been building for over a decade now.”

Victoria Hill is attracting a lot of buzz from the immediate or surrounding cities, everyone taken by the natural beauty that surrounds this community.

“It’s a much more affordable option and more and more people are moving here for its central location within the Lower Mainland and the bridgeless commute downtown,” he adds.

Ranging from 610 to 1,385 square feet, The Royal features spacious one- and three-bedroom homes that include generous outdoor space (with particularly large terraces on all upperlevel homes) for entertaining or catching a spectacular sunset.

Then there is the private, residents-only amenities space. It showcases a 1,300-squarefoot professionally equipped fitness centre with state-of-the-art weight-lifting equipment. As well, there is a well-appointed outdoor lounge for dining and entertaining with direct access to a beautifully landscaped rooftop overlooking the Fraser River with a BBQ area and artificial turf lawn.

The Royal offers a truly carefree living experience in this New Westminster community. Starting from $329,900, these

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In addition, your new home is close to transit, shopping and everything an urbanite wants.

“The Royal is the final chapter for Victoria Hill,” adds Jenkins. “A pedestrian friendly neighbourhood located right next door to Queen’s Park … people love the sense of community that Onni has created here and really appreciate how connected it is to transit yet hidden away from the hustle and bustle of downtown.”

The Grand Opening for The Royal at Victoria Hill is THIS Saturday, March 12 from noon to 6 pm at the presentation centre, #203 - 20 E Royal Ave, New Westminster. There will be a Vera’s Burger Shack food truck on site serving food and beverages.

For more information, call 604-523-0733, email theroyal@onni.com or visit www.onni. com/theroyal. Open daily from noon to 6pm (except Fridays). Estimated completion is slated for fall 2017.

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Learn more about Knox Presbyterian next week Archie and Dale Miller

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In 1891, New Westminster was a busy place with a growing business centre on Columbia Street, a very active industrial sector and waterfront, an increasing population and an expanding social community.

A ferry gave reliable connecting service between New Westminster and Surrey.The exhibition site in Queen’s Park was proving

to be popular, and the fair was a much-anticipated fall occasion.

With the city growth came a variety of needs, one of which was more churches to address the growth in the areas away from the city’s central region.The Presbyterians’ major religious structure was St. Andrew’s church on Carnarvon Street.This large brick building was only a couple of years old and it stood next to the initial St. An-

drew’s structure that had opened in 1863 as a pioneer of that denomination.

In the fall of 1890 a meeting of the Presbytery, the church’s governing body, was held to discuss a request from citizens to develop new Presbyterian congregations in the West End and in Sapperton.The request was favourably received and the necessary procedures put in place to make it happen. In early 1891, a minister arrived,

groups began to meet wherever they could find space, and more plans were considered.

In Sapperton, those eagerly awaiting their own facility met in an old schoolhouse on Hospital Street.

On March 25, 1891, members of St. Andrew’s, moderator Reverend Scoular, and elders Alex McDougall and David Nairn met to continue the process and at this meeting on this date, the congregation of Knox

Sapperton was formally established.

This is a very important date for Knox Presbyterian Church.The church building would come in due course, but they had what for many was their religious home – their congregation.

Well-known businessman T.J.Trapp donated the lot on which the church structure would be constructed, and prominent architect George William Grant was commissioned to create the

congregation’s dream.This church would open and hold its inaugural service in late December 1891.

The New Westminster Historical Society program on Wednesday, March 16, starting at 7:30 p.m. in the New Westminster Public Library auditorium, will examine Knox church and the city of 1891. See you there for more historical background.

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It wasn’t the storybook run at the B.C. 3A senior girls basketball championships that they hoped, but the New Westminster Hyacks exited with some well-deserved validation.

The unranked squad wrapped up the tournament with a win to provide a tidy finish to the season and a solid lead-in to the next chapter.

New West topped fourth-seeded Kelowna 77-65 on Saturday, finishing the provincial tourney in 11th place and pushing up against the Top-10.

“The kids got to see all the different teams in the tournament, watch how they perform and feel that kind of pressure,” said Hyacks head coach Doug Woodward.

“For everyone, whether they are graduating or coming back, this was a good experience and something they’ll grow from.”

Settling in as the 11th-best team in B.C., New West grew together through some adversity along the road to the B.C.s. Once there, they rolled with the punches at the vaunted Langley-hosted four-day tourney.

To finish it off with a win was satisfying, said the coach.

“You always want to win your last game.”

The Hyacks conceded the first six points to Kelowna and trailed 17-14 early in the second quarter, but dominated the rest of the way.

New West outscored the formerlyNo. 1-ranked Owls 23-14 in the second quarter and 27-18 in the fourth to produce a convincing win – although Kelowna did make it a three-point game late in the third frame.

Grade 10 Sarah Forgie led the way with 26 points, including a

14-for-16 performance from the penalty stripe – sinking 8-of-9 in the fourth quarter. Senior Rhiannon Leidl contributed 20 points, while fellow graduating guard Justice Steer counted 13 points.

The response came on the heels of Friday’s disappointing 64-51 loss to Handsworth, echoing their reaction to the opening setback.

“Our warm-up (before the Handsworth game) wasn’t very good,” he noted. “We didn’t have the intensity you need… I know it happens, and we’ve beaten (Handsworth) twice this year, where you play that third time and it goes the other way.”

Forgie again led the offence with 23 points, while Steer counted 10 points. Contributing four points and 11 rebounds was player of the game Zoe Roberts, one of the five graduating seniors.

A day earlier, New West bounced back on the heels of the opening overtime loss to Abbotsford, trumping Mount Baker 7849, with Steer putting up a player-of-the-game total of 30 points, including seven three-pointers.

Sarah Forgie chipped in 14 and Madisen Obrovac notched nine.

The big disappointment was delivered on opening day when they suffered a 71-67 overtime loss to the Abbotsford Panthers.The Hyacks, who led the Panthers 38-26 at the half, actually scored the first five points in extra time, only to miss three chances to lock it up.

“We scored quickly, with a three and a two (point shot),” said Woodward of the extra session.

“They came down, we got the rebound and moved down the floor then – Boom – a turnover… It happened three times but we just didn’t get it done, and (Abbotsford) turned it around and scored seven (unanswered) points.”

Forgie posted 20 points, 13 re-

Hang time: New Westminster’s Sarah Forgie, centre, goes airborne while taking a pass during Day 3 of the B.C. 3A girls basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

bounds and nine assists to garner player-of-the-game honours. Steer netted 18 points and Obrovac added 13, along with 10 boards.

The team also brought a handful of juniors up for the tournament, exposing them to provincial action. Seeing some floor time

were Kaylee Colville, Natalie Nastase and Devin Strome.

Woodward said the graduating seniors led by example over the final week, no matter what their game-time roles were.

“We got better each step along the way,” he said. “It takes a good

year to learn all the plays to the point where you aren’t reacting or thinking what to do next.The kids came together and achieved a lot this season.

“Basically the last win came down to a team game, where everyone stepped up.”

New West acquires player with Bellies bloodlines Dan Olson

dolson@newwestrecord.ca

There will be a new father-son combo to write up in the New Westminster Salmonbellies’ history books.

The Western Lacrosse Association club swapped three draft picks to the Victoria Shamrocks last week and acquired the rights to Delta native Mitch Jones — son of former Bellies’ sniper Randy Jones.

The elder Jones was a dominant force at Queen’s Park in the mid-1980s and 1990s, winning two league scoring titles while tallying 214 goals in 228 regular season games.

During the same time period his brother Paul — Mitch’s uncle — also patrolled the

floor for New West. Both played the game with an edge.

Getting Mitch Jones on board was a project New West general manager Dan Richardson had been working on for a while.

“We talked off and on with Victoria about him and (Jones) clearly wanted to come back to the Lower Mainland after playing on a Mann Cup champion,” said Richardson. “Anytime you can add a big, 6-foot-2 body, a lefthander, we’ll talk.”

The 24-year-old one-time junior sniper is currently plying the transition side for the National Lacrosse League’s Buffalo Bandits, and sits fourth in team scoring with 11 goals and 13 assists in 10 games. Five of those goals came just two weeks ago in a

19-18 victory over Saskatchewan.

Last season with Victoria he tallied nine goals and 13 assists over 15 games, adding six goals and 10 assists during the playoffs and Mann Cup final.

A former linemate with Logan Schuss on the Delta junior Islanders, Jones will come to New West already with some chemistry and knowledge of the team’s style, said Richardson.

“He’s had good success in the past playing with (Schuss) in the junior ranks, and Logan spoke highly of him,” noted Richardson. “We put a lot of stock in what our players have to say, and from all accounts they will be a good tandem in New West.”

The cost to acquire Jones were a fifth

round pick in 2017, a second round selection in 2018, and a fourth round pick in 2019.

Along with a Mann Cup ring, Jones went east for his last junior A season, winning a Minto title in 2012 with Orangeville.

He attended university on a hockey scholarship — playing for three seasons at the University of Northern Michigan.

There’s no doubt that he has something of the family, hard-nosed approach to sports, said Richardson.

“He goes to the dirty areas and isn’t afraid to cut through the middle,” he said.

“Winning a Mann and Minto are great accomplishments, and we think his experience will play well here.”

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SFU golfer nets ace in Vallejo In her first round of the spring golf season, Simon Fraser University’s Breanna Croxen produced a rarity -- a hole-in-one.

The sophomore from New Westminster scored the ace on the first day of the 36-hole, twoday Tim Tierney Pioneer Shootout in Vallejo, Calif.

The final round didn’t feature any similar bounces, as Croxen fell from fifth spot to a tie for 17th after firing 81 to finish with a two-day total of 153.

Teammate Emily Leung, however, gave the team a boost with a second-day score of twoover-par 74 to finish tied for second, one stroke back of Jenn Paul of Western Washington.

Leung, a freshman from Richmond, opened the two-day tourney with a two-under 70, and has already registered three top10 finishes in just four university tour stops.

Croxen’s hole-in-one came on the par-3 13th hole, and was part of a par day first round.

Leung recorded seven birdies and 23 pars, as SFU placed eighth overall.

Chiefs display grit as playoff underdogs

Dan Olson

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There was more than fatigue weighing down Jamie Jackson’s voice as he discussed his team’s run through the B.C. Major Midget Hockey League semifinals on Tuesday.

Disappointment carried a heavier toll than the three-games-in-three days series that his Vancouver Northeast Chiefs had just endured, falling 3-2 in overtime to the Vancouver Northwest Giants late Monday night.

You don’t get so close to upsetting a provincial powerhouse, having taken a 1-0 series lead and forcing extra time in the deciding game, without raising expectations.

“No, there was no satisfaction,” said Jackson of his team’s 2-1 semifinal defeat. “We went into the series wanting to win and wanted to close it out (Monday)... Absolutely I’m (proud), we really just started to find our way as a hockey team, we pushed them further than they probably thought.”

Although repeating as BCMML champs fuelled a lot of the talk at the start of the season, the Northeast club, with only four returnees, were slow in building chemistry, said Jackson.

“We struggled, struggled a lot, actually,” he noted. “We didn’t gel (after the Mac’s Midget tournament in Calgary at Christmas) the way we thought we would, and we were quite battered from that.

“With such a young team, it was tough on our confidence.”

The squad, which draws talent from east Burnaby, New Westminster, the Tri-Cities and Ridge Meadows, won its final four regular sea-

Clearing the slot: Vancouver Northeast Chiefs defenceman Emilio Salas, a New Westminster native, covers a rival forward in front of netminder Andrew Henderson during a recent major midget game. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

son games to finish sixth overall at 17-15-8 -10 wins back of the third-place Giants.

Among the major midget rookies this year were two New West talents — forward Liam Ryan, 16, and 6-foot-3 defender Emilio Salas, who two weeks ago turned 17.

Jackson was impressed with the strides both made over the season. “(Ryan) struggled at first to adjust to major midget but put in lots of work and began to trust us as coaches,” noted Jackson. “He really excelled as the season went on, we moved him

from left to right and he was a positive addition.

He brought great energy to the group.”

The area facing the biggest rebuild was the blueline, but Jackson noted Salas became a steady contributor who was eager to learn. “(Salas) worked extremely hard to improve specific areas of his game, and it really showed come playoff time.”

Salas contributed three assists over 37 games, while Ryan, skating on one of the top-two lines most of the year, tallied eight goals and 21 assists over 36 games.

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