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N E W S P A P E R
THE CHANGING CITY
Save more heritage homes
GUIDES ON THE GO:
The Girl Guides of New Westminster District are celebrating the international sisterhood of guiding in 145 nations around the world. Local Sparks, Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders worked on presentations and exhibits that they unveiled at the local district’s 52nd annual International Fair on March 4. At left, the 2nd New Westminster Sparks play a game from Venezuela.
Group wants more homes to get ‘advanced’ protections By Theresa McManus
tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca
Heritage advocates are encouraging the city to expand the number of houses that will be given top billing in a proposed heritage conservation area. The City of New Westminster is working to establish a conservation area for the Queen’s Park neighbourhood, which proposes different levels of heritage protection for all single-family houses in the neighbourhood.The draft plan suggests advanced protection would be placed on homes built up until 1929, with homes from 1930 to 1949 having standard protection and houses built after 1950 having limited protection. “Once approved, we will be the largest conservation area in Western Canada.We will be a destination for many to come and see, and
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CRIME
‘Pirate’ tries to sail away with Paddlewheeler Attempted theft of tour boat involved flares and throwing a tequila bottle in an attempt to evade police By Cayley Dobie
cdobie@newwestrecord.ca
A man from Williams Lake was arrested last Thursday after he attempted to steal a 100-passenger
replica paddlewheeler boat based in New Westminster. The large vessel, built in 1988, is a replica of boats that travelled up and down the river between 1863 and 1921.
“It was kind of spectacular,” said Mark MacKenzie, an engineer and captain with Paddlewheeler River Boat Tours, of the incident. The boat was moored in Queensborough, across
from Fraser River Pile and Dredge, after a rogue log broke off a boom last weekend knocking the paddlewheeler’s dock off its piles. On March 2, while the M.V. Native was tied up, some-
one swam out to the boat armed with a steel scaffold brace and forced his way onto the ship, according to MacKenzie. “He smashed the starboard wheelhouse window
to get into the door there and basically made himself a nest up in the wheelhouse,” MacKenzie told the Record. Around 2 p.m., a crew Continued on page 8
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