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Heritage fires up residents More than 50 citizens showed up to voice their support – or opposition – to a new heritage conservation area By Theresa McManus
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Fans and foes of a heritage conservation area in Queen’s Park spoke for and against the plan for nearly five hours in council chambers Monday night – and they’ll get to do it all over again next month. After hearing from more than 50 residents who support and opposed the proposed heritage conservation area (HCA), council voted unanimously in favour of giving first and second reading to official community plan amendment bylaws that would pave the way for creation of an HCA.The HCA is intended to protect existing heritage buildings and to provide design controls for new construction to ensure it’s respectful of the existing heritage neighbourhood. “This isn’t something that is being imposed from city council on the community. It is something the community wants,” said HCA supporter Murray Hanson. “I think that’s a very important thing.” Maureen Arvanitidis, a member of the New Westminster Heritage Preservation Society, said a working group spent three years looking at the issue, researching what’s being done in other jurisdictions, considering studies done on the neighbourhoods and conservation areas, hearing presentations from the B.C. Assessment Authority, the City of Vancouver and other groups, and meeting with solicitors. “We came to the conclusion that a conservation area was the best and only way Continued on page 11
SUPER-CENTENARIAN: New Westminster resident Marguerite Robertson, who celebrated her 110th birthday at the Kiwanis Care Home last
Friday, is among a handful of Canadians to reach 110 years of life. Robertson – who was four years old when the Titanic went down and 56 when U.S. president John F. Kennedy was shot – still remembers knitting socks for soldiers in the First World War. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
Age is a lucky accident By Cornelia Naylor
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Marguerite Robertson and her friends at New Westminster’s Kiwanis Care Centre agree – it’s “ridiculous” that she is turning 110 years old. When Robertson was born in 1907 in Lunenburg, N.S., the first Model T Ford hadn’t yet been built, and the idea of sending long-distance radio signals across the Atlantic was still brand new. She was four years old when the Titanic
went down and already 56 when U.S. president John F. Kennedy was shot. More “ridiculous” yet, perhaps, is the fact Robertson lived alone in her own Sapperton home until she was well over 100 and only moved into the Kiwanis Care Centre about a year ago. “I came with my little suitcase for a weekend and didn’t tell my family,” she told the Record. “And then I thought, ‘Yes, I could live here.’” To Robertson, her age is a lucky accident.
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At 110, she is in good health and keeps her mind busy with reading – mostly mysteries and adventure stories. The topics make perfect sense; Robertson has had her share of adventures over the last 110 years. She was born Marguerite Heisler to a sea captain and his second wife. Her father had a ship named for each of his daughters, and one of Robertson’s earliest memories is of christening her own. Continued on page 18
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