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From Russia with taste By Tereza Verenca
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Natalia Mitrofanova of the Russian Spoon Bakery dishes up homecooked traditional Russian cuisine in the food court at Royal City Centre. She began her business selling piroshki at farmers’ markets around the region.
Food court eats are usually synonymous with deep fried goodies – from burgers and fries to slices of pizza and cans of pop. One New West woman has broken the mould and is offering an alternative. Russian Spoon – located inside Royal City Centre between A&W and Amar’s Indian Feast – is the first restaurant in a Canadian mall food court that serves home-cooked, traditional Russian cuisine, according to its owner. “It’s very healthy. It’s cooked from scratch,” said Natalia
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Cemetery back to haunt new school? By Cayley Dobie
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Find another location. That’s the message coming from the Canadians for Reconciliation Society this week over the historic cemetery that lies beneath a portion of New Westminster Secondary School. Bill Chu, CEO of the society, told the Record his group doesn’t oppose a new high school for New Westminster but does oppose the proposed location.The group
is a Chinese, Christian-based society that works to promote reconciliation with Canada’s indigenous peoples and to raise awareness of the histories of minority communities in B.C. Chu recently sent a letter to the Ministry of Education to ask it to direct the district to find another site. “Don’t get us wrong, we wish them all the best in building a high school, … but what we don’t want is them to dig up a cemetery just for the sake of building the high school over top,” he said.
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While there is a limited amount of available land to build on in New Westminster, Chu said the city was able to build Westminster Pier Park out of nothing. So why not use that area, he suggested. “They backfilled, and then they created an area big enough for a plane to land, so that’s a perfect area if you ask me,” he said. Chu added the issue is bigger than replacing a high school, it’s more about respect than anything. “If we start this trend, when would the trend end? So it has nothing to do with the
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fact that I happen to be Chinese and so on. It has more to do with what humanity is doing to itself at this juncture,” he said. Numerous studies have revealed there is a cemetery, the Douglas Road Cemetery, which runs from 10th Avenue and Eighth Street to Dublin Street and makes up more than five acres of the high school site. First used as a pioneer graveyard, the cemetery was in operation from 1860 to 1920. Eventually it was used to bury the bodies of the poor, prisoners, stillborn Continued on page 8
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