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They can’t see the Fraser for the trees Theresa McManus
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Trees along the waterfront esplanade are a growing concern for Dockside residents. Jim Sinclair appeared before city council on Oct. 3 to express concern on behalf of the building’s strata that five trees planted by the city in 2007 are obliterating some residents’ views and could infringe on their balconies in the coming years. “If the trees don’t grow another inch, they have already affected far more dramatically than you ever imagined and we ever imagined, the views,” he said. “Let’s be honest. … People pay a premium to have those views.” Quayside residents and the city first clashed over trees in 2006, when the city proposed to replace 17 linden trees on the esplanade because they had aphids and were large for the area. In their place, the city planned to plant 32 new trees along the north and south sides of the boardwalk. While the linden trees on the south side of the boardwalk were never removed and continue to grow, five new trees were planted on the north side of the boardwalk in front of Dockside condominium, where none previously existed: two American yellowwood; two Continued on page 9
A VIEW NO MORE Gloria Dunn, who has lived on the waterfront for 31 years, and Max Jacquiard are among a group of residents asking the city to remove trees from in front of the Dockside condo development at the Quay. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
School board chair eyes provincial run for Greens Jonina Campbell wants to challenge for the MLA’s chair – and she’ll take on the NDP to do it Theresa McManus
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Jonina Campbell is going green and taking a shot at being New Westminster’s next MLA.
Campbell, a two-term school trustee and current chair of the New Westminster school board, is seeking the B.C. Green Party nomination as the New West candidate in the May 2017
provincial election. Nominations for Green party candidates in New West close on Oct. 19. “An opportunity presented itself where someone said, ‘Why don’t you
run with the Greens?’ It wasn’t something I had been considering at the time.The more I looked at it, the more I realized that the Green party has the best plan for B.C.,” Campbell told the Record. “You look at the Green party plan, it’s evolved out of its environmental start to be a com-
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prehensive, compassionate, sustainable plan. It looks at all the things we care about as British Columbians – our jobs, our health-care system, our education and the environment. It’s the one party that is unequivocally consistent on the environment, where it stands. But I also think it’s that lens of
sustainability across all platforms that is extremely important to B.C.” Campbell said she ran for school board to make a difference for New West kids. While she’s proud to have been part of a team that’s balanced the books for three years in a row, put financial Continued on page 8
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