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City workers kept busy dealing with complaints and trying to keep streets usable

Destruction of recreation facility has left hundreds without a place to use in NewWestminster

By Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

City bylaw officers are busy dealing with complaints about icy sidewalks.

But they’re not going crazy ticketing offenders – yet.

So far, eight property owners have been ticketed for failing to clear their sidewalks of snow.

Nancy Millar, acting coordinator of parking and animal services, said bylaw officers have responded to more than 235 complaints and issued at least 162 warning notices.

“We are ticketing those who do not comply and/or repeat offenders. Out of the tickets issued, two were to strata properties, two residents, and four were out-of-city property owners – whether they own commercial or residential properties, I couldn’t say,” Millar wrote in an email to the Record. “It has been busy.”

The city’s street traffic bylaw requires businesses and residents to clear snow and ice from sidewalks next to their property by 10 a.m. the day following the first snowfall.

The bylaw includes a fine of $80 for property owners who fail to remove snow, ice or rubbish, but it’s reduced to $50 if paid within 14 days or

By Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

The City of New Westminster is exploring its options after the city’s second busiest recreation facility was destroyed by snow.

On the evening of Dec. 19, the roof of the Arenex collapsed under the weight of snow, destroying the 68-year-old building.

The Arenex was the city’s second busiest recreation facility, after Canada Games Pool.

“I know we have reached out to the school district, Douglas College and the Justice Institute to see if there are any opportunities in any of their gymnasium facilities,” said Mayor Jonathan Cote. “We have also done some preliminary work to explore the opportunities of maybe putting up a temporary bubble facility in Queen’s Park.We are still waiting to get back information on all of those things, but we have already started the preliminary work to look into that.”

In addition to being home to city-run programs including gymnastics and trampoline, ball hockey, volleyball, basketball, badminton and toddler drop-in programs, the 1938 building was also home to the Shasta Trampoline Club, the Sapperton Fish and Game Club, the Queensborough Boxing Club and the Queen’s Park Running Club.

An investigation is underway about the collapse of the Arenex, and a report will

COLD SNAP: The hilly streets of Sapperton remained slippery on Jan. 1 after a heavy year-end snowfall. This weekend’s forecast calls for scattered flurries, with temperatures between 1 and 3 degrees Celsius.

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THE FUN PART: Families crowd the slopes at Queen’s Park on New Year’s Day. The blast of winter weather that has brought out the funseekers has also been wreaking havoc with city streets and sidewalks. PHOTO ROB KRUYT

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“Definitely these conditions have created a lot of inconveniences for residents, both in terms of road conditions and the sidewalk condition,” said Mayor Jonathan Cote. “We have been doing our best, our city crews, to try and maintain safe road conditions and we have definitely been trying to follow up with concerns about sidewalks not being shovelled by property owners.There is no doubt, especially the icy conditions that we are currently facing now is making things quite treacherous out there.”

While the weather has created a difficult situation for property owners, he said it’s important to keep sidewalks clear.

“We are a very walkable city and a lot of people do rely on being able to walk to different destinations in the community.When conditions in front of properties are in really poor, poor shape, that can have some significant impacts, particularly for seniors or people who have difficulty navigating these types of conditions,” he said. “We want to do everything we can to encourage residents and business owners to clear the sidewalks because it is so important in the community.”

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erations department is responsible for snow-clearing of sidewalks near city facilities and roads within New Westminster.

“I have been in charge of snow removal here for over 20 years and I think this is the worst winter I have seen,” said Greig Dodgshon, streets supervisor in New Westminster. “I remember 2008 was really bad, but this one, it has been colder longer.”

In past winters, Dodgshon said it usually rains after and clears up the snow, but this year it has remained cold, so the snow doesn’t melt.

“Some of the side streets have got two and three inches of ice on them.To be honest, my plows and salt are just not having a big effect.We even sent a backhoe out to clear one street and it was pulling the blacktop up,” he said. “Now we are spreading a mixture of sand and salt and that gives the cars a bit of traction and hopefully it will break up over time. It’s a bit of a struggle.”

While the city has been able to keep its main thoroughfares clear, Dodgshon said it’s been harder to do on some of the side streets.

He said other Metro Vancouver cities are also struggling, not only because the weather isn’t typical for the region, but also because they don’t have the equipment for this type of winter.

Slippery sidewalk: Amarpal Nannar chops and shovels a sheet of ice from a Seventh Avenue sidewalk Tuesday. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

“We had every piece of equipment that we have out today and I think we are just starting to get our head above water here,” he told the Record Tuesday.

“I have two tandem dump trucks, big dump trucks.

The rest are small one-ton dumps and I have six oneton dump trucks.They all have plows but unfortunately the plows aren’t doing anything for this ice.They are great for snow.When it’s fresh on the road, I can clear them off, but once it gets compacted and turns to ice, then we are kind of hooped.”

When ice melt is applied to the road or sidewalks, Dodgshon said it melts the ice, but when the temperature drops, it freezes again.

“Some people are great and they get on top of it

right away. But if you leave it and it gets walked on and it turns to ice, now you are out there with a pick and a square-mouth shovel trying to pick it off, which is not easy,” he said. “I think that’s why we put the sand out there, so they can at least throw some sand on top of it.”

Residents are welcome to drop by the works yard at 901 First St. and pick up some sand that they can apply to sidewalks to help prevent people from slipping.

“I definitely encourage residents to keep up the hard work. I’d say the vast majority of residents have been working hard to clear their sidewalks and do what they can to clear, not only their sidewalks but to even to help out neighbours that need assistance,” Cote said.

The Record starts the NewYear with a new publisher.

Lara Graham has been appointed publisher of both the Record and Burnaby NOW effective Jan. 1, 2017.

Graham had been serving as associate publisher since 2014 and prior to that had been director of sales and marketing since 2008.

She is active in both the New Westminster and Burnaby communities and serves on the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce and Burnaby Board of Trade.

She has been working in advertising and marketing since she graduated from BCIT’s marketing management program in the mid ’90s. Her first job was as marketing and promotions coordinator with the B.C. Lions, where she experienced a Grey Cup win.

She then moved to media and joined the North Shore News, where she excelled in sales.

Graham comes from a newspaper family. Her mother Laila helped found NOW newspapers and her father Neil was a former

Lara Graham: New publisher at the helm of both the Record and Burnaby NOW.

managing editor of the Columbian.

“It’s a privilege to be publisher of the Record and Burnaby NOW.They are great products with terrific employees serving strong and vibrant communities, and I will thoroughly enjoy expanding our connections and helping to build on our past successes,” Graham said.

She succeeds Alvin Brouwer, who is the president of Lower Mainland Publishing Ltd., President of Glacier Media Digital and also the publisher of both the Vancouver Courier and the Delta Optimist.

Fired city officer pleads guilty to a breach of trust

By Cayley Dobie

cdobie@newwestrecord.ca

An eight-year veteran of the New Westminster Police Department was given a conditional discharge by a provincial court judge last month.

Adam Spindor was 30 years old when he was fired from the police department in March 2015. One month after his dismissal, Spindor was charged with one count of theft for allegedly stealing cash from a reserve fund at the station in December 2014. He was also charged with one count of theft and one count of breach of trust for an incident in February 2015, according to online court records.

Spindor was expected to stand trial in late 2016, but instead, the former officer

pleaded guilty to the charge of breach of trust during a court appearance on Nov. 2 in provincial court. In December, Spindor returned to the court room for his sentencing hearing where a judge accepted his guilty plea and gave him a conditional discharge along with 24 months of probation.

Unlike a criminal conviction, a discharge remains on someone’s police record for a minimum of three years, after which time it can be removed.

Spindor’s misconduct was also reported to and investigated by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner, B.C.’s disciplinary authority for municipal police forces, but no further charges were laid and the file was closed.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Saturday, January 7 10:00 am

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Sunday, January 8 10:00 am NWFRS Tree Chipping Canada Games Pool parking lot

Monday, January 9 6:00 pm Regular Meeting of Council Council Chamber

Tuesday, January 10 7:00 pm Queensborough Residents’ Association Meeting Queensborough Community Centre

Saturday, January 14 1:00 pm Age-Friendly New West Century House

NEW WESTMINSTER FIREFIGHTERS’ CHARITABLE SOCIETY TREE CHIPPING Saturday, January 7, 2017 and Sunday, January 8, 2017 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Canada Games Pool Parking lot, 65 E Sixth Ave By donation.

Join us for a BBQ, popcorn, face painting, music, and extinguisher demos. Trees will be chipped and recycled. All proceeds go to the New Westminster Fire Fighters’ Charitable Society. The New Westminster Scouts will also be holding a bottle drive.

Please bring your recyclable bottles and cans to help bring adventure, outdoor experience and friendship to New West youth.

2017 WAIVER APPLICATION FOR SENIORS LIVING ALONE

Annual residential flat rate water, sewer, and solid waste utility bills will be mailed before the beginning of March 2017.

If you have reached the age of 65, you may qualify for a waiver of 25% of your 2017 single family residential flat rate utilities if you meet all the following requirements.

1. 65 years of age or over, and 2. Living alone (one person only) in the single family residence during the calendar year, and

Saturday, January 14, 2017 1:00 - 3:00 pm Century House (620 Eighth Street) Snacks and refreshments will be served.

Over the next 25 years, the number of seniors will more than double in New Westminster.

There is a need to plan for the aging of the population to ensure that our facilities, infrastructure, programs, and services can meet the needs of seniors today and in the future. If you are over 50, we strongly encourage you to attend this important community event where you will help inform and shape an age-friendly New Westminster.

If you have any questions, please contact Dustin Lupick by telephone at 778-968-6201 or email at d.lupick@gmail.com.

NOTICE OF CONSTRUCTION

Cumberland Street and East Columbia Street Intersection and Signal Improvements Please be advised that Jack Cewe Ltd. will be performing construction on Cumberland Street and at both corners of East Columbia Street beginning January 3, 2017. The construction is expected to take approximately three weeks.

Access to East Columbia from Cumberland Street will be detoured to use Debeck Street.

There will be traffic control personnel on site for pedestrian and traffic management during work hours.

Please be patient and please slow down throughout the construction and detour zones. Every effort will be made to minimize inconvenience. For more information, please contact Engineer Services at 604-527-4592.

3. A registered owner of the property, either solely or with others, during the calendar year.

To receive the waiver, an application form must be completed and returned to City Hall before January 31, 2017.

The 2017 Waiver Application form was mailed in December to residents who received the waiver last year. If you did not receive your form in the mail, one may be obtained at the following locations: • Century House – 620 Eighth Street, • Finance Department – City Hall, 511 Royal Avenue • Queensborough Community Centre – 920 Ewen Avenue • Centennial Community Centre – 65 E. Sixth Avenue • www.newwestcity.ca/services/online-forms

For more information on any of these events, please visit www.newwestcity.ca/events

If you have any questions, please call the Finance Department at 604-527-4555 or 604-527-4550.

2017 CURBSIDE COLLECTION SCHEDULE

Check your mailbox for the 2017 Curbside Collection Schedule. The schedule contains your garbage and recycling calendar, as well as a guide to collection items and helpful tips.

The 2017 collection is also available on our website at www.newwestcity.ca or for pickup at City Hall, library, community centres, recycling depot, and tow yard/animal shelter.

HELP SHAPE NEW WESTMINSTER’S ECONOMIC FUTURE

Tuesday, January 17, 2017 • 6:30 pm Queensborough Community Centre Tuesday, January 24, 2017 • 6:30 pm Sapperton Pensioner’s Hall Saturday, January 28, 2017 • 9:30 am Anvil Centre The City of New Westminster invites business owners and managers in New Westminster to share insights regarding the benefits and challenges of operating within the city. We are seeking input through three January 2017 business community workshops to help envision and define the future of New Westminster’s business environment, and gather ideas on how the city can continue to grow and thrive.

Visit www.newwestcity.ca/economicplan for more information or to sign up for a workshop. Please register, as space is limited.

CHANGES TO RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMITS

Starting January 1, 2017, changes will be made to the residential parking permit application process. A new e-apply module is now available allowing residents to purchase residential parking permits through an online system – visit www.newwestcity.ca/parking.

As of January 1, 2017, there will no longer be a $5.00 fee for renewals; all permits will be charged a flat rate of $15.00. Each household is entitled to a total of five permits. The first three permits (1 visitor and 2 residential permits) can be purchased for $15.00 each.

An additional two residential permits may be purchased for $50.00 each. Parking permits are valid until the last day of the month, one year from date of application.

The change to a standard flat rate will provide the city with a means of subsidizing the program, while also bringing our fee structure in line with neighboring municipalities. The implementation of these services will aid in our goal of freeing up on-street parking and our ability to better enforce permit parking zones. Additionally, permit hangers will no longer be required to be displayed for residential permits. Hangers will still be required for visitor permits.

Permits will now expire at the end of the month, one year from the time of purchase.

Previously all permits expired March 31st of the calendar year.

For more information on these changes, please visit newwestcity.ca/parking or contact Parking Services at 604-519-2010.

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Community New baby: At left, Baby Tiana sleeps on her mom, Maria Savisko’s shoulder. At right, Savisko and Araz Hajiyev sit with their sons, Jael, 3, second from left, Ali Michael, 7, and baby Tiana, the first baby born at Royal Columbian Hospital this year. PHOTOS

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New Year’s baby makes a timely entrance Cornelia Naylor

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The first baby born in New Westminster this year didn’t waste a lot of time after her mom arrived at Royal Columbian early on New Year’s Day. Seven-pound, five-ounce Tiana Haji was born at 4:57 a.m. – less than half an hour

after her mom, Maria Savisko, got to the hospital.

Her dad, Araz Hajiyev, didn’t even get a chance to be in the room after settling her two brothers, seven-year-old Ali Michael and three-year-old Jael into a waiting room.

“We were driving, and I said, ‘Don’t do it here, please! Wait! Wait!’” Hajiyev

said with a laugh.

With Hajiyev and Ali Michael suffering from the flu and Jael grumpy at being woken up in the dead of night, the trip to the hospital had been a noisy one.

“They’re crying; they’re not stopping.They’re just crying and it’s 4 a.m.,” Hajiyev said.

Heavy snowfall didn’t

help, as the family decided not to risk getting stuck in the snow to drop the boys off at a friend’s before heading to the hospital.

Little Tiana is the second of the Coquitlam family’s babies to be born at Royal Columbian. Jael was the first.

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“For kids, it’s better,” Hajiyev said. “Because it’s a lot of corruption in that country. Here is more calm.”

With the ordeal of driving to the hospital in the middle of a blizzardy night behind them,Tiana’s brothers

are now totally thrilled at the arrival of their new little sister.

“They were excited all time of the pregnancy, waiting for little sister, talking about her, listening to the belly,” Savisko said.

“And right now they are all around, trying to touch her, to kiss her, sharing toys and everything.”

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Opinion OUR VIEW

Ice rage – don’t let it destroy you Who can blame them?

Anyone who has felt that neck-wrenching, bodytwisting pull of gravity as their feet shoot out from under them on an icy sidewalk knows the stages of ice-rage.

First comes the selfblame. I should have seen that icy patch. I should have worn crampons. I should have walked on the road.

I should have just stayed home and ordered in pizza.

Then comes the furtive glances to see if anyone has

taken a video of you as your arms pinwheeled wildly failing to keep you from landing like a sea bass on the sidewalk.

Then comes the feeling of outrage.The feeling of being ambushed – unfairly and cruelly.

Could the homeowner not have shovelled the sidewalk, sparing you both the physical and mental pain?

How can anyone be so inconsiderate?

You scramble to your feet and consider suing some-

one, taking down the house number and searching windows to see if anyone is home.You might just go up and give the homeowner a piece of your mind.

But you don’t. Instead you limp home and phone the city to complain.

Well, you’re not alone, as our front-page story reveals.This winter the combination of snow, freezing rain and sub-zero temperatures has created the perfect storm, pitting neighbours against neighbours on sub-

urban sidewalks.

The Good Samaritans among us – and there are many, thankfully – have been out shovelling not only their own sidewalks but their neighbours’ sidewalks as well. Some folks are even shovelling streets.

But some are quick to throw figurative snowballs with rocks in them at everybody who has failed to clear their walkways.

Few seem to think there might be good reasons. Bad backs, heart conditions,

poor balance.Things that some people just don’t want to reveal.

“Fine them!” we cry.

For sure, some folks are just thoughtless idiots, but many are just not able to shovel or pick-axe what has become cement-like layers of ice.

Understandably, in the Lower Mainland, we haven’t developed good systems for working through this stuff.You can’t even seem to find anyone to hire to do the job.

May we suggest this as a great fundraiser for some sports groups? We promise we’ll spread the word if someone steps up.

So, be gentle with each other. Don’t assume someone is thoughtless until you offer to help them and get a door slammed in your face.

If we can’t survive icy sidewalks, what the heck will we do when there’s an earthquake? Oh, and by the way, there’s more snow on the way.

MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Predictions for the year ahead

After the craziness that characterized so much of the political world in 2016, I suppose I should be wary of making many predictions about what to expect in the coming year. But where’s the fun in playing it safe?

So here we go. Look for at least some of these things to come true in 2017!

1. I won’t predict the outcome of the provincial election in May, but I will predict this: the leaders of all three major political parties will post personal re-election victories with ease. All three won by large margins in 2013 (or, in Premier Christy Clark’s case, in a subsequent byelection) and no matter the outcome of the general election, they should do so again.

2. Speaking of those leaders, whoever loses the election between Clark and NDP leader John Horgan will likely pack it in and step down as leader.The one caveat is that Clark is a political animal with enormous confidence and optimism who may argue for another crack at the title.

3.The B.C. Green Party will emerge as the real wild card in the election campaign, and if it repeats the growth in support in about a half dozen ridings that it enjoyed in 2013, both the NDP and the B.C. Liberals could be denied seats they might have considered safe.

4. All things related to the economy will be the dominant issue in the campaign.

Job creation, housing, fees and taxes, cost of living – all can (and likely will) be part of the economic conversation.

5.That said, look for big industrial projects such as the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, the Site C dam, various LNG projects and the Massey Bridge replacement to be major issues as well.The B.C. Liberals will aggressively make these projects a central theme in their campaign, much to the delight of the B.C. Green Party, which will gleefully oppose them and will welcome the attention paid to them. Less enthusiastic to talk about them will be the NDP, whose traditional base of supporters are split on things like this.

6.The softwood lumber dispute with the U.S. will not fly under the radar for much longer. Come March, duties and countervails will be slapped on B.C. shipments to the U.S., and that will translate into significant job losses in B.C.’s forest industry (most of them in the Interior and the North).

Residents of MetroVancouver don’t quite have their heads around this ticking time bomb of an issue, but they soon will.

7.The B.C. economy will slow down significantly, but will still be near the top when compared to other provinces.The housing sector – which it can be argued has been most responsible for the province’s red-hot performance the past two years – will cool down, but tourism and high-tech will remain strong.

So there you go, my top seven picks.When have I ever been wrong?

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C.

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Police weren’t ruling out the possibility of an inside job after more than $100,000 worth of jewelry and other items were stolen from smashed display cases at Woodward’s department store in January. Employees came to work to find six jewelry display cases shattered, apparently by hockey sticks found nearby.They also found the food floor doors unlocked. “The doors were open and there was no sign of forced entry,” said police superintendent John Lucas.

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Trains are still a nuisance in Sapperton Dear Editor There must a new train company operating on the rail line that crosses at Braid Street – their whistles are incredibly loud, I mean startlingly loud.

It’s been happening for the last couple of months and the engineer is really laying into it at all hours of the night. The other trains are very respectful and only use quick apologetic “toots.”

I read the city report on the process and it appears as though the city is passing the buck on the Braid crossing, stating it is too complicated due to traffic back-ups and will have to wait till the Brunette interchange is completed to address the issue.

The Ministry of Transportation has estimated the Brunette interchange project is five years away from completion if it ever gets started.

The complications this crossing has with traffic back-up during peak traffic times are real, but those complications don’t exist at 3 a.m.

Can’t we do the work necessary on the Braid crossing as outlined in the city report and then have a train whistle black-out period of 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. when there is no traffic?

It feels like the residents of Sapperton are being treated like second-class citizens on this, and the city just wants to piggyback a cost that they are willing to pay for in other neighbourhoods onto a project that might never get off the ground.

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The intimidation level I consider to be a form of emotional blackmail used to make people move. Not everyone has the backbone or resources to fight this through arbitration, etc. and consequently they move out. This, sadly, only reinforces the landlord/owners to continue this greed. If your God is Gold nothing else matters, not even your fellow human beings. I rest my case.

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City City conducting assessments on civic facilities Continued from page 1 be going to council at its Jan. 9 meeting.

“I know we have had a structural engineer assess the situation.We don’t have a full report back yet on that,” Cote said. “We have also been conducting structural assessments on other city facilities. Although we are not concerned, we want to make sure that all of our

We want to make sure that all of our civic facilities are safe

civic facilities are safe, particularly as the snow continues to be in our community.

So far we have not had any reports back with any concerns with any of our other facilities, but we wanted to make sure we review that.”

Terry Atherton, the city’s manager of civic buildings and properties, said the Arenex was last inspected during a comprehensive building condition assessment in 2007 and no concerns were identified at that time.The assessment pro-

vided a renewal plan for a 35-year period.

“My understanding of the 2007 report is that nothing was highlighted in terms of potential problems with the roof,” Cote said of the assessment’s findings. “A maintenance schedule for the facility had been laid out for the next 35 years, which the city had been following and did include the replacement of the roof in 2011.

But there’s nothing in the report that was done at that time that would have provided us with any indications that this was potentially something that could happen.”

Shortly after the roof collapsed, fire Chief Tim Armstrong questioned whether the installation of insulation in the roof in 2011 may have thwarted the ability for heat from inside the building to escape and help prevent snow from accumulating on the wood roof.

“That will definitely be part of the investigation,” Cote said. “At this point, we want to await until the full structural engineering report is in before we make any conclusions about exactly what happened.”

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Mayor Jonathan Cote said assessments in New Westminster have seen a “significant jump” this year, as has been the case in most places in Metro Vancouver.

He said it’s important to look at how a property’s assessment increase compares with the rest of the city.

“If the city’s average went

up X per cent and your average went up the same percentage, than there won’t be any additional impact on your tax bill,” he said. “It’s only when you property assessment has gone up substantially higher than the rest of the city that you can notice that.”

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Christine Conway Occupation FINANCIAL ADVISER, AUTHOR Why is she in the news?

Christine Conway is using her personal and professional experience to help others live a debt-free lifestyle.

Conway, past president of the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce, is a financial adviser at Braun Financial Services in New West. Conway is also the author of the newly published book, The DebtFree Lifestyle, which aims to help Canadians deal with the challenges around housing affordability and preparing for a comfortable retirement.

Conway tackles topics like “big decisions” and “budget decisions” as a way of budgeting and suggests ways homeowners can save “a ton of money” on their

Q: As a financial planning professional, what are people telling you?

A: In the office, every time someone new came to see us, they’d want to talk to us about one of two things – the first one was their debt and the second one was retirement.They were saying, I’ve got $20,000 in consumer debt – the average across Canada is $21,600.

They are saying I’ve got this mortgage; with interest rates so low, a ton of them had refinanced, so when that happened, for a lot of them, it was a good move because they are paying less inter-

mortgages based on the amortization schedule.

Moving to the Lower Mainland from Winnipeg in 2008 was a bit of a financial shock for Conway and her husband, who wanted to buy a home. Despite the high cost of housing, they’ve managed to buy a home in Surrey.

The Debt-Free Lifestyle is available at Black Bond Books in Royal City Centre, a number of small, independent book stores and at Chapters, Indigos and Coles locations from coast to coast. Here’s an edited version of our interview with Conway.

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Christine Conway, past president of the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce, is sharing her personal experiences of dealing with debt and her work as a financial planner in her first book, The Debt-Free Lifestyle. The book aims to help Canadians deal with the challenges around housing affordability and preparing for a comfortable retirement.

est, but the choice was between do you pay more now and increase your payment amount, or do you extend the time to pay? Almost everybody that I’ve seen has chosen to extend the time to pay, so now they’re facing going into retirement with a mortgage.

Q: Interest rates have been low for a number of years, so people have been able to take on mortgages they may not have qualified for in the past.What does that mean to those people?

A:When interest rates go up, their payments are going to go up – and a lot. I have done some historical simulations – it’s hundreds of dollars, depending

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on the size of your mortgage. It’s going to be a huge, huge problem coming up.

We have found with people’s budgets, they are really, really tight as it is.

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within $200 a month of not being able to pay all their bills.Think about that – $200. One minor rate increase could put a ton of people in serious financial strain.

Q:What makes your book different from other

financial planning books?

A: Mine is hands on. My book is all about what we, my husband and I, have actually done.We put over $150,000 towards our debt in six years – that’s living in Metro Vancouver.

When we did that, our income was right at the

median, so right in the middle of what Canadians made. I was making $40,000 at the time; my husband was making $38,000.We were making $78,000 a year – the median number in 2011 was $76,000. Even on those Continued on page 12

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Q: For folks who are in debt, can they can get out of debt?

A: I believe so. One hundred per cent.They just need a better way of organizing their finances. I have a whole chapter in there about something that I call “the simple budget.” It’s 15 minutes to do.

You do it every single time you get paid, and it’s a completely different way of looking at budgeting.

It’s done on a needs basis.

Instead of saying, I’ve got $100, I’m going to throw that on my debt, it’s completely driven by what’s going on in your life at the

time. It’s a quick little calculation that anybody can do. It takes 15 minutes to do, and it really starts to show people where their money is going and it lets them make proactive decisions every single paycheque.That’s how we did it.That’s exactly how we got to our $150,000, plus not on crazy good salaries.

Q:What has being debt free meant for your lifestyle?

A: It just means that you are ready for anything. Now, we are not worried about what happens when interest rates go up because our debt is quite a bit lower. …Getting my debt paid earlier, I’ve saved a ton in interest costs, but also I’ve freed up time so I can comfortably retire one day and not leave it all to chance.

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Narcotics, lab specimens and blood will soon be zipping around inside the walls of Royal Columbian Hospital.

The New Westminster health-care facility will spend $1 million over the next year upgrading its aging pneumatic tube system to improve efficiency and security.

We know those minutes can feel like hours Two separate delivery systems currently operate within the walls of the hospital.

A pneumatic tube network connects the lab, pharmacy, health records and inpatient areas, delivering some blood products, specimens, medications and paperwork to seven different stations.

The items are placed in

a plastic container and propelled around the tubes by a partial vacuum.

“They get swooped up into a tunnel that’s within the walls,” RCH site operations manager Reema Prihar told the Record.

A separate electric track system delivers the same items within Columbia Tower using a small vehicle on tracks inside the walls.

Since the track system is slower and less secure, Prihar said the plan is to replace it with an expanded, higher-tech tube system with enhanced security features that would enable it to transport all blood products, specimens, paperwork and narcotics.

Because of security concerns, the two existing delivery systems don’t currently transport narcotics, leaving their delivery up to pharmacy techs.

The upgrade will eliminate that and the need for porters and care aides to carry certain blood products and specimens.

The new system will also be a boon to patients wait-

In transit: RCH site operations manager Reema Prihar opens one of the plastic containers used to hold items delivered around the hospital via its current, outdated pneumatic tube system. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

ing for test results or medications, according to Prihar.

“We know those minutes can feel like hours for a patient,” she said.

Work on the upgrade will start in early spring, according to Prihar, and is expected to take about a year.

The old tube network will be redesigned to include 31 instead of seven stations.

The new network will also be designed to con-

nect to six planned stations in the hospital’s new 75-bed mental health substance use building by about 2018 and 35 stations planned for Phase 2 of RCH’s $260-million redevelopment by about 2022.

“We’re looking to the future and we want to tie into our new redevelopment as well,” Prihar said.

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 40 (NEW WESTMINSTER) Phone 604-517-6240 Fax: 604-517-6390 http://newwestschools.ca/

811 Ontario Street, New Westminster, BC V3M 0J7

REGISTRATION INFORMATION FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR THE 2017 - 2018 SCHOOL YEAR RETURNING STUDENTS

NEW WESTMINSTER SECONDARY SCHOOL (NWSS)

LATE FRENCH IMMERSION (LFI)

Children in a New Westminster School District school or program last year are automatically registered in the district for the 20172018 school year.

Registration for students not currently enrolled in a New Westminster School begins Monday, April 3rd between 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon.

Applications for Out-of-District students are subject to available spaces and resources.

Location: École Glenbrook Middle School (ÉGMS) (Grades 6-8).

NEW STUDENTS

Information Meeting: A session for new students in grade 9 and their parents will be held on March 1, 2017 at New Westminster Secondary School (835 Eighth Street). For more information contact 604-517-6220.

All students register at their neighbourhood school. Information regarding the school registration process, along with a downloadable registration form and a checklist of required documentation, is available through the District Website at: http://newwestschools.ca/registration/registration-informationforms/ Applications from new students are date- and timestamped.

1. Kindergarten Children who were born in 2012 are eligible to begin school in September 2017. Kindergarten registration for the 2017 - 2018 school year begins on Monday, January 9th at elementary schools.

Please register your child before June 2, 2017 for placement at your catchment school.

2. In-Catchment Grades 1-12: Applications to enroll for the 2017 - 2018 school year will be accepted at your neighbourhood school between 9:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, starting Tuesday, January 3, 2017.

3. Out-of-Catchment AND In-District Out-of-catchment and in-district students must first register at their neighbourhood school and then complete an Out-of-Catchment form at their neighbourhood school during office hours between 9:30 a.m., Monday, January 23rd, and Friday, March 10th at 3:00 p.m.

Admission decisions at the desired school or program may not be made before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, June 2nd.

4. Out-of-District Out-of-district students apply for admission by completing an Outof-District form at their preferred school between 9:30 a.m., Monday, January 23rd, and Friday, March 10th at 3:00 p.m.

Admission decisions may not be made before 3:00 p.m., Friday, June 2, 2017.

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE (IB) PROGRAM Location: NWSS. The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program is a rigorous preuniversity course of studies that is recognized worldwide. Successfully completed courses can earn university credit. NWSS offers NWSS pre-IB Honours courses to students in grades 9 and 10 and IB courses to students in grades 11 and 12. For more information on the International Baccalaureate Program contact 604-517-5932.

PUNJABI AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (PSL) Locations: Queensborough Middle School (QMS) and NWSS. For more information on registering for Punjabi courses, contact the schools: QMS

604-517-6040

NWSS

604-517-6220

FRENCH IMMERSION/MONTESSORI For information about the District’s online application process for Programs of Choice, visit our website and click on the Programs & Services tab to follow the link for Programs of Choice.

Please note: Applications for Programs of Choice are accepted online from 9:00 a.m., January 16th, to 4:00 p.m., February 10th.

EARLY FRENCH IMMERSION (EFI) Locations: École Herbert Spencer (Grades K-5), École Qayqayt (Grades K-5) and École Lord Tweedsmuir (Grades K-5).

EFI Information Meeting: École Lord Tweedsmuir Elementary School library from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on November 23, 2017. This meeting is for parents and students to learn about the Early French Immersion Program and the application process.

Information Meeting: ÉGMS Multipurpose Room from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on January 12, 2017. This meeting is for parents and students to learn about Late French Immersion and the application process.

MONTESSORI (Grades K – 5) Locations: Connaught Heights and Richard McBride Montessori Information Meeting: Connaught Heights Elementary School library from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on November 22, 2017. This meeting is for parents and students to learn about the Montessori Program and the application process.

HOME LEARNERS’ PROGRAM (HLP) Locations: Homelearners at Hume Park, 521 Fader Street and Bowen Is. Enrolment applications are now being accepted for the 2017 - 2018 school year. Are you looking to play an active, hands-on role in your child’s education? Why not investigate your options with the School District No. 40 Home Learners’ Program? Please contact: Homelearners at Hume Park: 604-517-5917 http://www.humepark.ca Bowen Island: 604-947-0700 http://www.islanddiscovery.ca

ADULT AND ONLINE LEARNING If you are an adult learner who wants to begin, continue or re-start your education, or a current high school student wishing to upgrade, New Westminster Schools offers the following: Adult Learning Centre The Pearson Adult Learning Centre is open year-round and on weeknights, offering English Language upgrading classes, as well as academic grade 11 and 12 classes and self-paced courses. http://palc.sd40.bc.ca or call 604-517-6286.

Academic Night School Adult and high school students can register for Academic Night School courses: http://www.ce40.ca/aca-cre.pdf or call 604-517-6286.

Online Learning Is your schedule unpredictable? Why not give online learning a try?

New Westminster’s Virtual School has a full range of academic grade 10, 11 and 12 courses for adult and high school students. http://www.virtualschoolbc.ca or phone 604-517-6191.

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City Beat

1

RECYCLE YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE AND HELP LOCAL CAUSES at

the New Westminster Firefighters’ Charitable Society’s annual tree chipping event.Taking place on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Canada Games Pool parking lot (65 East Sixth Ave.), the event features a barbecue, popcorn, face painting, music, a fire extinguisher demonstration, and tree chipping and recycling. Donations will be accepted for the charitable society, which supports local charities.

Chip up the tree for a good cause

2

LET THE KIDS TRY SOMETHING NEW at The Stage New West’s free trial classes on Saturday, Jan. 7 and Sunday, Jan. 8.The trials are for music classes for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers that will be starting in January. For details and reservations, go to www.thestagenewwest.ca.

3

SUPPORT THE NEW WESTMINSTER SCOUTS’ efforts to pursue adventure,

outdoor experiences and friendship at this weekend’s bottle drive. Donations are being accepted at the Canada Games Pool parking lot on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

4

CHECK OUT THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SATIRE of comedian Ron Vaudry, who is performing at Lafflines Comedy Club on Friday, Jan. 6 at 9:30

Advantage

6

THINGS TO DO THIS WEEKEND Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

p.m. and on Saturday, Jan. 7 at 8 and 10:30 pm.Tickets are $20 (plus service fees) and are available at www. thecolumbia.net or 530 Columbia St.

Each office independently owned and operated.

FIVE STAR SERVICE

102-321 SIXTH ST., NEW WESTMINSTER

CELL 604.319.5593

5

VISIT THE NEW WESTMINSTER PUBLIC LIBRARY and get some inspiration for any of those NewYear’s resolutions you’ll be making.Whether

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you’re going to eat healthier, get your finances in order or take up a new hobby, you’re bound to find some motivation in the library’s collections.

6

HEAD TO RIVER MARKET for all kinds of fun.

Saturday’s lineup includes yoga with Jenn McEwen (8 a.m.), a soap making drop-in (10:30 a.m.) and a family intro to circus (1 p.m.), while

Sunday’s schedule features a Zumba class (9 a.m.), a board game meet-up (11 a.m.) and a soap making drop-in (10:30 a.m.).

River Market is located at 810 Quayside Dr. Details on these and other River Market events at www. rivermarket.ca.

Email Top 5 ideas to tmcmanus@newwestrecord. ca. Check out our full arts and events calendar listings on our website’s homepage at www. newwestrecord.ca.

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14 THURSDAY January 5, 2017 • New Westminster RECORD

IT’S HOT IN

0.9%!

JANUARY SALE!

FINANCING ON SELECT GM

CERTIFIED VEHICLES!

2012 HONDA CIVIC “LX”

2013 BUICK VERANO

2016 CADILLAC XTS AWD

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$59/WK

CARTER PRICED

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ICS 2 CIV OCK T S IN

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A NO 5 V ER OCK IN ST

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AL A 4 IMP OCK IN ST

2015 CHEV CRUZE LT LOADED + 10 AIR BAGS, TURBO #P9-47470

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CARTER PRICED

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ZE 9 CRUOCK T S IN

$67/WK

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0.9% AVAIL

2013 TOYOTA COROLLA

CARTER PRICED

2013 GMC SIERRA 1/2

2013 FIAT 500 SPORT

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4 X T S CK O IN ST

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2016 CHEV IMPALA “LT”

$41,000

2009 SUZUKI SX4

2013 HYUNDAI SONATA

$11,900

OLLA 2 CORTOCK IN S

$27,100

$39/WK

CARTER PRICED

$10,500

T SP OR 4 50 0 T O C K IN S

2012 VOLKSWAGEN EOS

2013 HYUNDAI ELANTRA GT

HARD TOP CONVERTIBLE, LOADED UP #P9-46951

6 SPD, AIR, P/PKG, W/TECH PKG + MORE #P9-48221

$98/WK

CARTER PRICED

$21,600

$46/WK

CARTER PRICED

$11,700

“BEST VALUE IN BC AS PER V-AUTO” call for details.

0.9% AVAIL

2016 BUICK LACROSSE

2009 CHEV MALIBU “LT”

2016 KIA SOUL HB

2012 NISSAN VERSA

2016 CADILLAC CTS

V6, NAVIGATION, LEATHR, LOADED #P9-49000

4 CYL, AUTO, AIR, HEATED SEATS, P/PKG #M6-95701

4 CYL, AUTO, AIR, P/PKG + MORE #P9-48050

H/B, 4 CYL, AUTO, AIR, P/PKG+MORE #P9-46941

AWD, LUXURY EDITION, LOADED #P9-49340

$94/WK

CARTER PRICED

$30,900

$54/WK

CARTER PRICED

$9,500

$49/WK

CARTER PRICED

$16,700

$39/WK

CARTER PRICED

$8,900

$127/WK

CARTER PRICED

$41,700

ILL AC 5 CA D T OCK S IN

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CARS AVAILABLE AT TIME OF PRINTING, NOT EXACTLY AS ILLUSTRATED. ALL PRICES ARE PLUS TAXES, LEVIES AND $495 DOCUMENTATION FEE. SEE DEALER FOR DETAILS. FINANCING ON APPROVED CREDIT. 5.9% 48MTHS: 2009 SX4 TP$9152. 5.9% 60MTHS: 2012 CIVIC TP$15340; 2012 EOS TP$25480; 2012 VERSA TP$10140. 5.9% 72MTHS: 2013 500 SPORT TP$12168; 2013 ELANTRA TP$14352; 2013 SONATA TP$20904; 2013 VERANO TP$18408; 2013 SIERRA TP$32488. 5.9% 84MTHS: 2015 CRUZE TP$17472; 2009 MALIBU TP$11232. 5.9% 96MTHS: 2016 IMPALA TP$32032; 2016 XTS TP$52000 2016 SOUL TP$20348; 2016 LACROSSE TP$39104; 2016 CADILLAC TP$52832.

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JANUARY SPECIALS

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2015 CHEV SILVERADO LT

2016 GMC ACADIA SLE

2015 GMC YUKON “SLT” 4 X 4

2016 TOYOTA VENZA

2012 CHEV EQUINOX AWD

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AWD, 6 CYL, AIR, P/PKG, SUNROOF + MORE #P9-48670

5.3 V8, LEATHER, LOAD UP W/XTRAS #85-79781

V6, LOADED UP WITH CAM, BLUETOOTH ETC #P9-48090

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$116/WK

CARTER PRICED

$34,100

O ER A D 3 SILV TOCK IN S

$109/WK

CARTER PRICED

$193/WK

$36,400

CARTER PRICED

DIA 2 AC A O C K IN ST

$56,300

$94/WK

$30,900

CARTER PRICED

ON 3 Y UKOCK IN ST

$66/WK

CARTER PRICED

$14,400

INOX 5 EQUTOCK IN S

0.9%IL AVA

2016 GMC TERRAIN AWD

2016 CADILLAC ESCALADE

SLE-2, 4 CYL, AUTO, AIR, CAMERA, P/PKG, SUN ROOF #P9-48600

$85/WK

CARTER PRICED

$28,000

2013 BMW X6 XDRIVE

2008 FORD RANGER P/U

V6 AWD, SUNROOF, NAVAGATION + MORE #P9-48470

EXT CAB, 2WD, V6, AUTO, AIR CANOPY + MORE #D6-92511

$159/WK

CARTER PRICED

$41,200

$83/WK

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$11,400

LUXURY EDITION, AWD, LOADED UP, ONLY 23K KMS #P9-49040

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$245/WK

0.9%IL AVA

2014 CADILLAC SRX AWD

CARTER PRICED

$78,900

PREMIUM, NAV, LEATHER, 3.6, LOAD #C7-96801

$115/WK

CARTER PRICED

2016 GMC SAVANA CARGO

2014 NISSAN PATHFINDER

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$99/WK

$33,800

CARTER PRICED

$33,000

$79/WK

CARTER PRICED

$23,700

ANA 7 SAV OCK IN ST

3 SR XC K O IN ST 0.9%IL AVA

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2010 JEEP LIBERTY 4 X 4

2016 CHEV TRAX LT AWD

2011 NISSAN ROGUE AWD

2013 GMC SIERRA C/C

2016 LINCOLN NAVIGATOR

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4 CYL, AUTO, AIR, P/PKG + MORE #P9-48830

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L. RESERVE, NAV, FULLY LOADED! #C6-38811

$59/WK

CARTER PRICED

$13,300

$66/WK

CARTER PRICED

$21,500

$89/WK

CARTER PRICED

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$105/WK

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$27,100

$199/WK

CARTER PRICED

$64,400

RA 4 SIER OCK T S IN

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5.9% 96MTHS: 2016 TERRAIN TP$35360; 2016 TRAX TP$27456; 2016 SAVANA TP$41184; 2016 VENZA TP$39104; 2016 NAVIGATOR TP$82784; 2016 ACADIA TP$45344; 2016 ESCALADE TP$101920.

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16 THURSDAY January 5, 2017 • New Westminster RECORD

BIGGEST VEHICLE SELECTION IN THE LOWER MAINLAND

JAN-YOU-ARY YOUR NEW YEAR

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2012 FORD MUSTANG V6 PREMIUM Luxury Package, Navigation, Backup Camera, Leather

2013 FORD FOCUS SE HATCHBACK

2011 CHEVROLET MALIBU 2LT PLATINUM SEDAN

2013 KIA OPTIMA EX SEDAN

2013 FORD C-MAX SEL HYBRID

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MyFord Touch, Leather, Heated Front Seats

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2016 FORD FIESTA TITANIUM

2015 FORD FUSION TITANIUM AWD

2015 FORD TAURUS LIMITED AWD

2010 CHEVROLET CAMARO SS 2SS

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2014 FORDF-150 E-350SD XLT 2013 FORD XLT 4X4

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22,800

$

2014 VOLKWAGEN TIGUAN TSI COMFORTLINE AWD

2010 FORD EXPLORER SPORT TRAC AWD

Bluetooth, Heated Seats

Navigation, Tow Package, Adrenaline Package

BOXING WEEK CLEAROUT PRICE

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26,800

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2010GMC CHEVROLET 2008 CANYONAVALANCHE SLE 4X2 LS 4X4CAB CREW CAB CREW

2011 FORD EXPEDITION XLT 4WD

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28,800 14,800

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2014 FORD FLEX LIMITED AWD Navigation, Leather, Sunroof, 7 Passenger

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$$

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26,800 24,800

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2016FORD FORDEXPLORER ESCAPE SE 4WD 2012 SYNC , Convenience Package, LIMITED 4WD Backup Camera,

2013 LINCOLN MKX AWD

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®

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$$

2014 FORD EDGE LIMITED AWD

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2015 JEEP WRANGLER UNLIMITED SPORT 4WD

2012 RAM LARAMIE 4X4 QUAD CAB

28,800 23,800

$$

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24,800 22,900

$$

31,800 30,300

$$

2015 FORD EDGE TITANIUM AWD Navigation, Backup Camera, Blind Spot Information System, Leather, Heated/ Cooled Seats, Remote Start, Lane Departure Warning

31,800

$

2016 FORD MUSTANG GT PREMIUM CONVERTIBLE Navigation, Backup Camera, Leather

$

32,800

2015 CHEVROLET CORVETTE STINGRAY COUPE 1LT Navigation, Backup Camera, Leather, Bluetooth

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Community

Thank goodness it’s done, and other awards Theresa McManus AROUND TOWN

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As we closed the chapter on 2016, the Record recently named the recipients of a series of year-end awards.While clearing out my files, I stumbled upon a couple of others I’d like to mention. ! The Thank Goodness It’s Finished Award goes to the elevator in the Fourth Street overpass.When the staircase opened in March 2015, the city worked at getting the elevator open in May of that year. Finally, after a series of delays, the elevator opened in March 2016 – much to the delight of folks trying to get to the park. Less than a week after opening, the elevator was closed for repairs after a call button on the lower level stopped working and maintenance workers had to fix a malfunctioning circuit board.We don’t want to jinx anything, but to the best of our knowledge it’s been working since then. ! Without being political, the Nice Guy Award goes to Mayor Jonathan Cote, who started 2016 with a couple of nice deeds that came to our attention – from sources other than the mayor.When a young family was trying to get from Westminster Pier Park to Columbia Street, Cote helped them haul a bike up the steps of the Fourth Street overpass, as the elevator was out of commission. In March, he received some schwag from organizers of the Hometown Hockey event at Queen’s Park

Arena and gave the jacket, toque and scarf to parks and rec staff to pass along to Ken “Shaggy” Straw, a fixture at the local arenas year-round. Straw, who was “over the moon” about the mayor’s gift, is often spotted uptown wearing the warm winter coat.

! The Wow Award goes to local Realtor Darcy Schlechtleitner of Team ReThink who sold a threebedroom home on St. Patrick Street for $1.9 million in March – $710,000 over the asking price. Even more impressive was Schlechtleitner’s presentation at the Nov. 5 PechaKucha event about clean and sober living. ! The Green and Gold Award (or the Better Late Than Never Award) goes to the City of New Westminster, which received LEED gold certification for the Queensborough Community Centre expansion in 2016 – three years after the project was complete.

The community centre is the first civic building to achieve that status, which is one of the highest standards of building construction in Canada.The city attained the Gold Standard by including sustainable design features such as low-flow

NEW WEST SOCIETY SPREADS COMFORT ON CHRISTMAS EVE The Camp Kerry Society reached out to those in need on Christmas Eve. The New Westminsterbased charity provides grief and loss support and counselling and operates the Kerry’s (Thrift) Boutique in Sapperton. In past years, the society has provided a Christmas Eve outreach service to people on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, setting up a pop-up store in a local park and delivering hundreds of warm coats, socks, boots and Christmas goodies to people in need.

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Arts & Entertainment THE BEST OF 2016

A look back at the year on the arts scene Julie MacLellan LIVELY CITY

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As has become my tradition, I’m looking back over some of the highlights of the past year to bestow my annual “awards” on the people and groups who helped to shape our city’s arts and cultural scene in 2016.

To these, and to all who create and perform art in our city, I offer my thanks and the warmest blessings of the season.

BEST FAMILY-FRIENDLY FUN In a city full of young families, it’s a blessing to have arty offerings aimed at the young set – and that’s why I just have to salute the ArtStarts workshop series.

The series happens monthly at River Market, bringing an eclectic assortment of performances and handson workshops to local audiences.

This past year alone, the series has seen such diverse offerings as a narrated story ballet,The Jabberwocky, presented by ZarYevka Ballet; the Scottish-Asian fusion music of Kimchi Haggis; the Latin music and dance of Rumba Calzada; digital media art with Carolyn Sullivan; and West African percussion with Fana Soro.

For bringing all these top-notch artists to town and making them accessible to everyone – all the workshops are free, and you don’t have to sign up ahead – I offer this hats off to ArtStarts and River Market.

BEST OLD-TIMER (A.K.A. STILL GOING STRONG AFTER ALL THESE YEARS) They’ve been offering up performances in New Westminster for nearly 80 years – and, since their inception in 1937, they’ve been a group known around the province for their dedication to the world of community

theatre.

It’s a genuine privilege to have the Vagabond Players in our midst, presenting all manner of comedies and dramas at prices that remain affordable for local audiences.This past year has seen them venture back into the world of the musical with Forever Plaid – not to mention offering up a world premiere of a work by local playwright Elizabeth Elwood, Body and Soul.The veteran theatre group also now partners with newcomer Alchemy Theatre to offer up summer Shakespeare for local audiences (this past year, it was The Taming of the Shrew).

For continuing to do what they do so well, and for continuing to innovate for the future, I offer this salute to the Vagabond Players. Long may they tread the boards.

A MOMENT TO REMEMBER Well, actually, it was lots of moments, but any-

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Shakespeare in the park: The cast of Shadows and Dreams’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream in rehearsal at Queen’s Park in the summer. Standing: Rebecca Trotzuk (Peaseblossom), Aeron Elcheshen (Cobweb), Cayleigh Elcheshen (Mustardseed); Sitting: Patricia Brooke (Titania), Kerri Norris (Bottom) and Katie Brooke (Moth). We’ve given the Elcheshen-Norris and Brooke families our All in the Family award for 2016 for their enthusiasm and dedication to local theatre. PHOTO RECORD FILES

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Open Stage gets a nod Continued from page 21 better sung by Topol himself, and more than a few audience members (including yours truly) went home rather smitten with Kimmel.

Kimmel’s performance was so exquisite and so genuinely moving that it kept audiences talking for long after the production ended.

And it reminded me again how fortunate we are to have RCMT in town, presenting high-calibre Broadway productions right here at home – for prices that families can still afford to pay.

THE ALL IN THE FAMILY AWARD Theatre always seems to run in families – and, in New Westminster, you can’t escape the presence of the Elcheshen-Norris and Brooke families.

I give my salute to these two enthusiastic families for their continued success with Shadows and Dreams Theatre Company in offering up summer Shakespeare productions at Queen’s Park.This past season’s steampunk imagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was a remount of the company’s very first outing, in recognition of their 10th anniversary.

Husband-and-wife teams Stephen Elcheshen and Kerri Norris and Patricia and Nigel Brooke have involved their children since the beginning – that would

be the Elcheshens, Aeron and Cayleigh, and the Brookes, Jack, Sam and Katie, who’ve been growing up in front of audiences’ eyes every year.

Together, these fantastic families have continued to make Shakespeare fun, free and family-friendly.

It doesn’t get any better than that.

THE LIFE IN HARMONY AWARD Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a choir geek from way back, so this is an “award” I bestow from the bottom of my heart – not just to one group, but to the genuinely amazing collection of choral groups and vocal ensembles that are making themselves heard in New Westminster.

There are large community choirs such as Amabilis Singers (of which, yes, I am a member) and the Douglas College Chorus, the a cappella ensembles VanDeca and Quayside Voices, the Anvil Community Choir, the Camp Kerry Choir, and a new no-barrier community choir at St. Barnabas Church – not to mention the delightful Vivo Children’s Choir and a host of school and church choirs making music on a regular basis.

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BEST NEW EVENT There’s nothing I like more on this beat than meeting the young, up-andcoming performers and movers and shakers who are making things happen on all fronts.

This past year brought us the return of two familiar faces from their NWSS days: Howard Dai and Tiger Xu, who created an innovative new living-roomstyle open mike night at the Queen’s Park Bandshell.

The Open Stage series ran this summer, giving young artists (and everyone else) a chance to share their talents, and offering audiences a chance to come and hang out under the summer sky and enjoy their performances.

It was just such a great idea: Set up some furniture, some cosy rugs and pillows, some board games, some snacks and a sound system, invite people out, and see what happens.

It brought new life to the park, and a new youthful vibe to the city’s growing list of events.

For that, Howard and Tiger’s Open Stage gets my vote for my favourite new event of the year.

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New Year’s treat for folks in 1891 Archie and Dale Miller

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Our Past is pleased to start the new year with a very special piece, something we just located during our research for Christmas and NewYear’s of 1891. It is an account of a local New Year’s celebration we do not remember ever seeing.

The description of the upcoming event in the Dec. 30, 1891 paper starts quite normally.We learn that the grand NewYear’s Eve ball was to be at the Opera House.

It was noted that all arrangements “had been perfected and they are complete to the minutest detail.”

The evening’s music for lis-

tening and dancing would come from the 20-piece artillery band, and the supper would be “unusually fine” and was to be provided by “Mr.Whitlock, the celebrated caterer.”

The Opera House was to be well decked out for the festive occasion with “flags, bunting, evergreens, mirrors, Chinese lanterns and other decorative materials… artistically arranged.”

The dancing was to start at 9 p.m. As it appeared that the ball would be “largely patronized,” persons who had received an invitation were encouraged to obtain tickets soon.This was to be a special evening, but it sounded like most other gala balls in the city, so what

made it special?

Well, it seems there was something else that would be taking place at this event.

Something unique, closely connected to the Typographical Union, who put it all together, and it was going to happen throughout the evening on stage in front of the guests.

One descriptive paragraph summed up the basics: “The novelty of the evening will be the publication, hourly, of the Period, a bright and sparkling little sheet, printed on the stage, and containing all the foreign and local news.”

And that’s it – a single sheet “newspaper” would be produced on stage each hour, and there was to be more.

Apparently the Opera House had a wire connection, presumably from a newspaper or telegraph office, to the stage, where “a lightning operator will receive despatches and cables every five minutes from all parts of the world.”The article noted that the staff of the local papers would be taking turns in the process, which was described as, “The entire preparation, makeup and printing of the Period will be conducted in full view of the dancers.

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Calling the shots: Royal City Curling Club’s Matthew McCrady, above centre, talks to his teammates during opening round action, while at right, Jordan Tardi and Sterling Middleton use the brushes to draw closer at the B.C. junior men’s championships .

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Timely run scores repeat for RC’s Tardi rink

Royal City-Langley team wins second B.C. junior men’s title; Brown edges Daniels for junior women’s crown

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There’s little doubt that Team Tardi put it on the line Sunday when it mattered most.

The foursome who call both Royal City and Langley curling clubs their home base emerged as champions, successfully defending their title with a win Sunday at the B.C. junior men’s curling championship in New Westminster.

Team Tardi played it like a highstakes gambler, topping Team Habkirk 11-5 to earn a ticket to the Canadian Junior championships, Jan. 21 to 29 in Esquimalt.

Skipped by Tyler Tardi, the quartet shook off a pair of roundrobin losses to find a comfort zone in the playoffs, where they closed it out with a pair of four-point ends against Victoria’s Habkirk to secure the team’s second straight B.C. crown.

“Our gameplan was just to keep it clean,” said Tardi. “It’s a simple game, so it’s best to keep your nerves down and make your shots.”

That didn’t mean he played it safe.With Habkirk looking to add to his 1-0 lead in the second,Tardi weighed the risks of a triple-takeout, and calmly played it – causing his coach to feel a tad nervous.

“We had the last shot but I thought we’d do well to score one,” remarked coach and father Paul Tardi. “(Tyler) sees a lot of complicated shots and can make them.This time he tripled out Habkirk and it left us with four. It completely changed the game and its unusual to have a turning point in the second end but it kind of

turned out that way.”

While Habkirk countered with two in the third to trail 4-3,Tardi replied with another four-spot, going ahead 8-3 in the fourth, effectively locking it down.

The teams traded points the rest of the way.

Third Sterling Middleton, a Burnaby resident and Douglas College student, said the six-day competition was a grind at times, but the team managed to gain momentum when it really counted.

“We were ready to go and fired up,” said Middleton, 18. “There was a lot of pressure but we were excited to play (in the final), especially for our lead (Nicholas Meister), who’s in his last year of junior (eligibility).We wanted to win it for him.”

The team, which also includes second Jordan Tardi, advanced to the final by besting fellow Royal City squad Team McCrady in the first-versus-second qualifier by a 7-5 margin.

In that match-up, the Tardi rink erased a 5-3 deficit with backto-back deuces in the eighth and ninth ends, locking up a berth in the final.

“It was a good but difficult win,” noted Middleton. “I felt like (McCrady) had momentum for most of the game, but he missed a shot in the eighth and we got two off it, and in the ninth he went heavy on a shot that again led to two.”

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“Sure, it would have been nice to go undefeated but I think the

times we struggled we learned from them.”

Their losses came in the roundrobin, after starting the championships 3-0. On the third day’s early draw against McCrady,Tardi held a 6-5 lead after eight ends but their Royal City counterpart put up points in the ninth and 10th ends to win it 7-6.

A day later, again in the first draw of the day,Team Kiss – another of the Royal City’s five teams in competition at the men’s championships – came away with a 7-5 decision.

“It was one of those missteps – we curled a good game against McCrady (in round robin) at least statistically but lost on a few mistakes. Another early game (against Kiss) the next day and we just struggled.We didn’t have our best stuff,” said Middleton.

The McCrady rink, which includes third Brayden Carpenter, second Zac Curtis and lead Jacob Umbach, put on a strong display during the round robin, finishing first with a 6-1 record.Their lone loss to that point was to another Royal City crew, the Hayato Sato rink, 4-3 in 11 ends.

After falling to Tardi in the final qualifier, McCrady scrambled against Habkirk, deadlocked at three until the 10th end when the Victoria rink eked out the win.

On the junior women’s side, Kamloops’ Corryn Brown kept her odd-year winning streak going by capturing a third title, beating Royal City-Delta Thistle curling clubs’ Sarah Daniels team 7-4 on Sunday.

Brown, the junior champion in 2013 and ’15, scored four in the

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fifth end to erase a 2-1 deficit en route to a perfect record at the provincial tournament.

The Brown rink, which includes third Marika van Osch, lead Samantha Fisher and former Daniels’ team member Dezaray Hawes of Anmore at second, now advances to the nationals later this month in Victoria.

The Daniels rink features third Sarah Loken, second Megan Daniels and lead Sydney Brilz.They entered the playoffs after posting a 4-3 record, and battled Brown hard in the quarterfinal before falling 7-6 over 11 ends.

They bounced back for another thriller, this time knocking off the Connell rink of Prince George 8-7, again in 11 ends.

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It wasn’t the finish he’d hoped for, but New Westminster Hyacks’ senior boys basketball coach Arno Richter liked what he saw during last week’s three-day tourney.

At the Port Moody Christmas tournament, New West took another step towards a top-15 level, posting three wins before falling 83-61 to the W.J. Mouat Hawks in the final.

One game in December or January won’t decide their fate, Richter noted, but beating bothYale and Salmon Arm are good indicators that New West is closing the gap in its hunt for a serious February playoff run.

“We thought we could compete with (Mouat),” noted Richter. “We beatYale and I knowYale beat (Mouat) earlier in the season ...They are a very fundamentally sound team, they do the little things really, really well and they did it better than we did.

That’s why they won the game.”

New West guard Norman Manacsa scored 15 points while Klyde Macahilo chipped in 11. For the Hawks, Kenan Hadzovic counted 26 points, including four treys.

The showcase for the Hyacks was their performance againstYale, which saw them erase a 16-9 deficit with nine straight points en route to a 75-69 victory. Manacsa set the tone with 15 first-half points in a 19-point effort, while Luka Cuk tallied 17 points.

“We really gutted it out and it was a really gritty win for us, the type of win we needed,” remarked the coach. “We’ve been very

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Organic Blueberries Grown in Chile 170g/6 oz package

11.34kg (25lb) bag

Fair Trade Organic Green Beans from Divine Flavor in Mexico

3.99lb

7.99

5.99lb

1.98lb

Earth’s Choice Organic Nut Butters

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

SAVE

SAVE

1.89L • product of USA

assorted varieties

25% 8.99

UP TO

40%

from 2/4.98

Simply Natural Organic Salad Dressing

SAVE

4.99

assorted varieties

assorted sizes product of USA

SAVE

Assorted Varieties

26.99

Nordic Naturals Omega-3 Fish Oil Supplements Assorted Varieties Assorted Sizes

Mineral Fusion Shampoo and Conditioner Assorted Varieties

8.99 250ml

20% off

4.99

assorted varieties 170g • product of USA

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240g (30 serving)

480g (60 serving)

white or 60% whole wheat

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Amazing Grass Green Superfood Powder

44.99

Organic Country French Bread

33% 3/6.99

to 29% 3.29 4.99 UP TO

Excludes Raw Reserves

36.60 1 Kit

354ml product of USA

BAKERY

Annie’s Classic Pasta and Cheese

WELLNESS Wild Rose Herbal D-Tox Kits

assorted varieties

30% 2/7.50

Amy’s Macaroni and Cheese, Lasagna and Enchiladas

SAVE

5.49 to 7.99

UP TO

assorted sizes product of USA

31%

500ml product of Canada

31% 10.99

assorted varieties

UP TO

assorted sizes product of USA

SAVE

Stahlbush Island Farms Frozen Fruit

SAVE

assorted varieties

Uncle Luke’s Organic Syrup

assorted varieties

3.99

946ml-1L • product of BC

312g product of BC

29% 4.99

assorted varieties

284g product of Canada

Casbah Side Dishes

UP TO

29.99

Blue Diamond Fresh Almond Beverages

2.99 to 4.29

SAVE

41% 19.99 to

Kicking Horse Organic Fair Trade Ground Coffee

Dairyland Cream and Whipping Cream

assorted varieties

assorted sizes product of New Zealand

UP TO

3/9.99

SAVE

Nature’s Path Organic Pure Oats Granola

Wedderspoon Manuka Honey

480ml +deposit +eco fee product of USA

may not be exactly as shown

3.49 to 3.99

UP TO

25%

Almond

Choices’ Own Sushi assorted varieties

500g and 4 pack product of Canada

SAVE

3.99 Peanut butter

UP TO

43% 15.99

3/6.99

GT’s Organic Raw Kombucha

assorted varieties

500g • product of BC

SAVE

113g • product of USA

31%

Danone Oikos Greek Yogurt

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

SAVE

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700ml

DELI

Kettle Brand Baked Potato Chips

22%

assorted varieties

13.21kg

GROCERY

SAVE

Soup Etc Broth

Imported Beef Stewing Meat

4.37kg

2.98lb

8.80kg

4.49lb

California Grown Cara Cara Red Navel Oranges and Blood Oranges

6.57kg

previously frozen

9.90kg

3.98

19.98 each

Organic Bone In Beef Shanks

Farmcrest/Yarrow Meadows Whole Organic Chickens

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