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Overdose prevention site approved by council Julie MacLellan jmaclellan@newwestrecord.ca

A new overdose prevention site has been given the go-ahead to operate in NewWestminster.

At their March 29 meeting, city council voted unanimously in favour of a temporary use permit for

the site at 40 Begbie St. The centre is being operated by the Lower Mainland Purpose Society, under the banner of Fraser Health. It’s being set up as a health contact centre offering a wide range of services, including witnessed consumption, drug testing, harm reduction sup-

plies, take-home naloxone kits, training on naloxone and education on safer drug use.

People will also be able to access an on-site medical clinic and get referrals to treatment centres and health services.

The temporary use permit will allow the centre

to operate for a three-year period, ending March 29, 2024, with an option to renew for an additional three years.

The low-key vote by council marks the achievement of a plan that has been in the works since July 2020, when city councillors directed staff to

work with Fraser Health on an overdose prevention site and the development of a safe supply program.

Under the temporary use permit, the centre will be open from 3 to 11 p.m. daily. It will be staffed by a site coordinator and four workers, and the coordinator will ensure that a

“Good Neighbour Agreement” is implemented immediately to help minimize possible disruption to the neighbourhood.

Centre staff will do regular needle sweeps of the surrounding neighbourhood.

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City CRIME

Charges filed in woman’s death Cornelia Naylor

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A 21-year-old man and 15-year-old youth face charges of first-degree murder and indignity to human remains in connection with the death of a New Westminster woman whose body was found in Burnaby on March 18.

First responders were called to Greentree Village Park off Garden Grove Drive for reports of a fire, assistant fire Chief Greg Young told the Record.

“The engine arrived to a bush and grass fire along with a body fully on fire,” Young said.

Police and ambulance were already on site, according toYoung, and firefighters left the scene in the hands of police after putting out the flames with a fire extinguisher.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team later revealed the body was that of 49-year-old Maria Cecilia Loreto of New Westminster.

IHIT said 21-year-

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Growing memorial: A memorial is growing in Burnaby at the site where the body of Maria Cecilia Loreto was found. PHOTO CHRIS CAMPBELL

old Carlo Tobias and a 15-year-old youth had been arrested and each charged with first-degree murder and indignity to human remains in connection with Loreto’s death.

All involved knew each other, according to IHIT. Loreto was likely killed at her New Westminster residence earlier in the

evening of March 17 before being brought to the area of the park where her body was found, said IHIT spokesperson Sgt. Frank Jang.

“Our deepest condolences go out to everyone affected by the death of Ma Cecilia, who was known to her friends and colleagues as Maricel or

Mycel,” Jang said. “IHIT also recognizes the important contributions made by its partners from the Burnaby RCMP, the New Westminster Police, and the Richmond RCMP over these past few days.

Long hours and long days were put in by everyone to speedily and efficiently gather evidence.”

A GoFundMe campaign has been started to raise money to help the family of murdered New Westminster resident Maria Cecilia Loreto, also known as Maricel or Mycel to friends and family.

Meanwhile, a memorial is growing at the spot in Burnaby where her body was discovered on March 18. ”She knows a lot of people. She’s very famous in the Filipino community because she’s serving the community and has a lot of friends. So, she will be dearly missed,” her brother Armand Perez told CTV News in an

interview.

A large number of flowers have been placed under a tree in Greentree Village Park, as well as lit candles in lanterns and written messages remember Loreto.

The Record visited the site on Sunday and spoke with one of Loreto’s friends, who didn’t want her name used.

“She was like my sister,” said the friend. “We danced together in a group that is part of our (Filipino) community.

She was so full of life; she worked hard to provide for her family. I can’t believe this has happened.”

FACILITIES

City to take another look at Hume Park pool closure Julie MacLellan jmaclellan@newwestrecord.ca

New Westminster city councillors are asking staff to take another look at opening the Hume Park outdoor pool this summer.

Coun. Chuck Puchmayr raised the issue at the March 29 council meeting.

Council received a report from parks and recreation director Dean Gibson outlining the city’s plans to keep the pool closed for the second straight summer.The report notes the continued closure of the pool was planned in the city’s 2021 budget in response to a number of considerations, including COVID-19 health and safety require-

ments, staffing constraints, costs and the need to undertake maintenance – including building roofing work that’s best undertaken in the warm, dry weather.

The report says keeping the pool open in light of likely reduced operating capacity would cost in the ballpark of $220,000 for the typical 10-week operating season.

City council received an online petition (which currently sits at 327 names) asking them to keep the pool operating, noting it’s the only recreation facility in walking distance of Sapperton homes.

“I would like us to find a way of opening the pool,” Puchmayr said, noting the

city has been going to “extremes” to try to find ways to keep people moving and using its outdoor spaces through the pandemic.

He said the opening of the Moody Park Pool has met with “huge success” and added he doesn’t want to see the Hume Park pool sitting idle for a second straight year.

Puchmayr asked that parks and recreation staff come back to council with some ideas of how the pool opening could be made possible.

Coun. Jaimie McEvoy noted the size of the pool means the city might need to take measures such as keeping the change rooms closed and having people arrive ready to swim, but

he said opening it would be a positive for the community.

Coun. Nadine Nakagawa said she would “very much like” to support the opening of the pool but stressed she needs to see a cost-benefit analysis. She said prioritizing the Moody Park pool makes sense, given that it’s in a neighbourhood surrounded by high-density buildings where people don’t have access to outdoor spaces. She said the city needs to do an “equity analysis” and ensure it’s serving the people who have fewer options available to them.

“I’m not opposed to opening the pool; I just can’t so enthusiastically

say we should do it at all costs,” she said.

Mayor Jonathan Cote, too, cautioned there are a number of challenges associated with opening the Hume Park facility, not the least of which is money.

“This would come at a significant cost,” he said.

“Is this going to be good value to the community in terms of the dollar spent per swim?”

Gibson said staff can go back to the table and provide a more in-depth look at what it would take to open the pool. He told council that, although there are some financial considerations, those haven’t been the only driver behind the decision

to keep the pool closed.

He said the required maintenance work and staffing are also challenges.

The staffing shortage – particularly a lack of trained, certified lifeguards – has arisen as a result of the pandemic.

For eight months (between March and November 2020), there was no lifeguard training, and only limited training came back after that time. Recertification clinics for current staff have also been in short supply given the high demand for time and space in pools across the region.

Gibson will bring a report back to council in April.

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PEOPLE, PARKS AND PUP STRATEGY Conversations with the community are underway to better plan and design parks and open spaces that meet the needs of all residents - including seniors, adults, children and dogs! It’s important that we hear all perspectives (dog and non-dog owners) on how best to foster the health and wellbeing of all park users and promote responsible dog ownership.

The Parks & Recreation Department is seeking input from all residents to help develop a long-term strategy called People, Parks and Pups: A strategy for sharing parks and open space in New Westminster. The strategy will consider all points of view in planning, designing and maintaining space for dogs that respects a diversity of park uses.

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GRANTS APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN The City’s spring 2021 One Time Small Grant applications are now open.

Applications are accepted until April 23, 2021. Grants are a maximum of $3,500 for projects that can be completed in 2021. Please visit newwestcity.ca/grants for more details. If you have questions please contact grants@newwestcity.ca.

FREE TAX FILING CLINICS The New Westminster Public Library has published a list of low-cost and free income tax clinics in New Westminster for 2021, providing help for people who need assistance with their taxes. There is a mix of virtual (videoconference), phone call, drop-off/pick-up, and in-person options for the tax clinics.

The list is available on the New Westminster Public Library website at www.nwpl.ca/taxhelp.

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A rezoning application has been received to convert an existing single detached house at 733 Thirteenth Street for use as a licensed group child care facility with up to 37 spaces. The applicant, Precious Early Years, is proposing to relocate its existing child care operations from lease properties at 1209 Hamilton Street and 1210 Kingston Street to 733 Thirteenth Street. The applicant is proposing to provide three on-site parking spaces for staff, which exceeds City parking requirements. Dropoffs and pick-ups are proposed for adjacent on-street parking on Thirteenth Street by utilizing a proposed designated five-minute loading zone in the morning and afternoon. Public feedback is requested.

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City Westminster Pier Park set to reopen this Friday Julie MacLellan

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New Westminster residents will be able to kick off their Easter weekend by heading back to Westminster Pier Park.

The park is set to reopen on Friday, April 2 at

noon, the city announced during the March 29 council meeting.

The popular waterfront park has been closed to the public since the eastern section of the park was destroyed in a massive fire in September.The surviving section had been ex-

pected to open again in February but was stalled because of issues with access for emergency vehicles.

On Monday night, planner Carolyn Armanini provided an update to council on the longawaited reopening.

She said paving has now been finished on an outstanding piece of work at the rail crossing so emergency and park services vehicles can get to the park site. A temporary gate will be in place until a full-scale automatic gate can be installed at

the crossing, so Armanini noted some temporary protocols will be in place.

She added the city may, in fact, be able to get the park open slightly earlier – by about 9 a.m. on Friday.

If that turns out to be the case, she said, the city will post the news to its social

media channels.

Mayor Jonathan Cote lauded the news.

“It’s been very challenging having that important public space closed since the fire in September, and I think people are eagerly awaiting to get back there.”

Sapperton cannabis shop heading to a public hearing Julie MacLellan

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A cannabis shop could take over the Sapperton storefront currently occupied by the Royal Columbian Hospital Auxiliary’s thrift shop – but not without a public hearing.

NewWestminster city councillors agreed at their March 29 meeting to pass two readings of a zoning amendment bylaw that would pave the way for North Root Cannabis to open up at 416 East Columbia St. – the retail unit currently occupied by the hospital auxiliary’s New To You Thrift Shop.

The North Root Cannabis application is proceeding in place of a shop previously considered for 451 East Columbia St.That location, which would have been operated by Herb Co. Cannabis, had scored the highest in the city’s established process for regulating cannabis shops in New Westminster.

But a report from Emilie Adin, the city’s director of development services, notes the B.C. Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch has notified the city that Herb Co.’s application has been terminated.The applicant says the termination stems from a missed deadline as a result of the pandemic.

Adin’s report notes North Root Cannabis was the next-highest-scored applicant in the Sapperton area and recommends

council proceed with that application instead.

The report points out Herb Co. has had two years to move its application through the LCRB process but has been unable to pass the required financial integrity and security program checks.

North Root, however, has received those checks from the LCRB and is ready to move ahead right now.

Councillors agreed to have the application proceed to a public hearing, but not without expressing some reservations.

Coun. Chuck Puchmayr, the lone vote against moving the application forward, said he would prefer government-run cannabis stores with “good unionized jobs.”

Other councillors expressed concern about the hospital auxiliary.

Coun. Mary Trentadue raised concern about information in the staff report, which says the hospital auxiliary is currently on a month-to-month lease arrangement and is looking for a location that “better meets their needs.”

Trentadue said the indication that the group is quite happy to move isn’t consistent with what council has been hearing.

Coun. Jaimie McEvoy agreed, saying he would like to see city staff talk directly to the auxiliary and report back. He said he’d like to see the group get some assistance if it wants to continue operating.

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Opinion MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Topic: PST added on sugary drinks, Netflix

The B.C. legislature is taking a two-week break but I am not sure the public is even paying attention to what has been going on there since it resumed sitting a month ago.

Nine pieces of legislation have been passed so far – none of them particularly controversial, except, perhaps, the supply act that was passed last week only after the NDP government brought in a form of closure on debate.

Supply bills are routine business and give the government the legal ability to spend tax dollars even though the specifics of the spending (i.e. the budget) have not been debated and passed by the legislature - that comes after the expiry of the fiscal year on March 31.

This year’s supply bill was unusual in that it arrived before the actual budget itself was tabled.

That is because the NDP government changed the timing of the budget’s introduction, pushing it out to April 20, instead of the usual early February date.

The bill gives the government the legal authority to spend $13.5 billion, which should cover the bills until the budget is approved by the legislature in mid-June.

An unprecedented situation, but again I ask: is the public even paying attention? The endless pandemic and all that it has become continues to overshadow everything.

With dire warnings from various infectious disease experts that the variants of COVID-19 may yet overwhelm our hospitals and ICU wards – not to mention more deaths – it is easy to see how the virus tops politics in gaining the public’s interest.

The daily Question Period at the legislature has largely been a non-event.

The legislative chamber is nearly empty because of social distancing rules and

“The problem with the tax is that the profits aren’t targeted; it’ll just go into general revenue. If you are going to tax junk food, awesome, but let’s use the revenue from that to make healthy food more affordable.”

Issues lost in our pandemic worries

MLAs tell me the atmosphere in a virtual setting – with most folks engaged via Zoom – is almost lifeless.

This is no one’s fault, of course.The BC Liberals and the BC Greens are trying their best, but it is hard for opposition parties anywhere in Canada to make many dents in a government (with the possible situation in Alberta) right now.

In normal times, such issues as the huge cost overruns on the Site C dam, the disappearance of the tourism sector and the ongoing cratering of the provincial economy would put considerably more heat on a government.

Instead, the daily COVID-19 case numbers, various public health restrictions, and the rollout of the vaccines continue to dominate public discourse.

As our case numbers steadily climb, one has to wonder whether more and more people are choosing to ignore some of these restrictions and raises the possibility we may see even more restrictions.

Of course, public interest in legislative proceedings will eventually return, but not until this all-encompassing, pandemic ends or enough of use are vaccinated to bring more and more normalcy back into our lives.

We likely will not be in that situation until late summer at the earliest.

Perhaps the legislature’s scheduled fall sitting will signal a return to old times to the legislative precincts.

Between now and then, however, there is a throne speech (April 12) and a provincial budget. If our COVID-19 situation continues to deteriorate, neither will rank as a major event with a public understandably distracted by something else.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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One of the plainclothes officers gave chase and yelled at them to stop. Instead, the suspects tried to run him down with their car, so he unloaded his pistol into one of their tires, but the men got away.

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Sentence in Malcom death was too light

Editor: The unduly light sentence of five months for causing a fatal accident in the Olivia Malcom case is shocking, arguably inappropriate, and probably should be appealed if possible.

Kudos to Ben Doyle for his splendid, exemplary letter summarizing what is flawed in our broken justice system, its disregard for victims, and the obvious need for reform. Certainly victim families too, need legal representation.

As for the particulars of this tragedy, there are several contradictions and problems.

Did the defendant drive with any degree of care or attention?

He must have seen the car stopped by the bus lane. What would anyone do? Brakes.

But it’s an agreed statement that he never applied the brakes. Why not?

The driver alleged he tried to avoid a heavy truck. Where was it going? In nearly any imaginable scenario, surely brakes would be applied — presuming he was neither distracted nor impaired, as he insists. Why did he not apply the brakes?

His lawyer refers to an “immediate and sin-

cere remorse,” but didn’t the suspect dispose of vital evidence, a whiskey bottle, in full view of many witnesses?

Worse still, in spite of all this and alleged histrionics, he was caught driving while prohibited.

Was there “sincere remorse”? That claim impresses no one, and fools no one.

The lawyer alleged ”no evidence that the driver was speeding, distracted or driving erratically,” but where does this argument lead us?

“Not speeding” implies there must have been more time to travel “50 feet or so,” apparently even up to 1.5 second. Why did he not touch the brakes in all that time?

How can anyone accept both lines of thinking at once?

Should there have been a trial on more serious charges? Why were the charges suddenly changed just 12 days before the hearing?

What went on behind the scenes?

And why so much secrecy? Does everything legal have to be behind closed doors? “The matter is before the courts” is an old and over-used cliche. Stepping on victims is not acceptable.

The whole “justice” system is broken. Reform is badly needed, has been for decades.

Marilyn Vanderheyden, New Westminster

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100 Braid Street finds a new home in PoCo Janis Cleugh Glacier Media

Susan Greig followed her instincts when Amy Savoie invited her into her woodworking shop in Port Coquitlam.

At the time, Greig had been scrambling to find a new space for her 46 artists-in-residence at 100 Braid Street Studios in New Westminster.

That arts hub – on the site of B.C.’s first distillery – was slated to close Nov. 30 to make way for Wesgroup’s new residential development near the Braid SkyTrain station.

Savoie had been an admirer of Greig’s: She was on the waitlist for two years to get into 100 Braid Street Studios and had attended many of her special events when she called Greig out of the blue to tour her unit at 701-2017 Kingsway Ave., in PoCo. After all, she thought, there was enough room to accommodate at least one more artist plus a small gallery for exhibitions.

“It was almost like I was wooing her here,” Savoie recalled, “but I knew it would be a good fit.”

Savoie’s storefront and small warehouse turned out to be “perfect, and just where I needed to be,” said Greig, who soon set up her studio in the front side room – a bright space with enough room to hold her easels, and a table to

launch her new business model.

Rebranded as Braid Street Studios, the company intends to run satellite artists’ studios around Metro Vancouver from Greig’s new home base in Port Coquitlam.

It’s a change of pace for the celebrated landscape artist and author who founded 100 Braid Street Studios six years ago with the aim to paint, write, mentor other visual artists and provide them with much-needed studios.

I feel like the universe is speaking to me In fact, 100 Braid Street Studios was a bucket list item for Greig who, at the time, worked as a parent support in the healthcare system following the loss of her eight-year-old daughter.

Diagnosed with PTSD, Greig decided to switch careers and, with financial assistance from an aboriginal group, the Métis artist began 100 Braid Street Studios, which quickly became the go-to venue for artists around the Lower Mainland – not only to create but to network and honour the fine arts.

Last May, when Wesgroup gave Greig six

months to leave – a few months into the pandemic – she scoured the suburbs to find suitable space but nothing worked out:There wasn’t enough parking or the access was poor for the artists, she said.

Greig knew she had a letter of understanding from Wesgroup that she would have the first right of refusal for its 4,300sq.-ft. art studios in New Westminster but that development is years away from being complete. And the new space would only accommodate up to 10 of her artists-in-residence, she said.

Using PoCo as her pivot, Greig could expand Braid Street Studios to Richmond, Coquitlam and Burnaby, for example, so that her artists-in-residence are able to work in their own communities.

The shift has not only gotten Grieg to take stock, but it’s also forced her to slow down and focus on her herself.

“Over the last six years, I have loved this business but I didn’t have time to paint because I was always so busy,” she said. “Now, I have time to explore and catch up.”

Now, Greig said she plans to immerse herself in the PoCo arts community (she introduced herself at a recent Cultural Roundtable virtual meeting).

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Arts & Entertainment Interactive exploration at New Media Gallery How can a diverse audience actually be reflected through technology-based works in an art gallery?

An exhibition at New Westminster’s New Media Gallery is exploring the ways in which machines reflect, interpret and “see” a diversity of visitors to the gallery.

MirNs opened March 13 and is running until May 30 at the downtown gallery.

“This exhibition emerged from a rich period of enquiry around equity and diversity,” said a press release from the gallery.

MirNs refers to Mirror Neurons, which the release notes are of inter-

est in biology, psychology and physiology as well as robotics, artificial intelligence and coding.

“Scientists theorize that the mirroring nature of MirNs generate imitative behaviours, resulting in empathy and the capability for esthetic experience,” the release says. “It has been stated that mirror neurons are responsible for making us human.”

In the new, no-touch interactive exhibition, human interaction with the works reveals how we perceive and interpret the “actions, behaviour and output of these mirroring machines.”

“Through interactive robotics, neural networks,

algorithms, coding, artificial intelligence, micro controllers, proximity and motion sensors and facial recognition, these mirroring machines reflect and expose human diversity in a world of technology,” said the release.

The exhibition includes multiple works by international artists, including Fragments, by Random International (a collaborative contemporary art studio based out of London and Berlin); Uncanny Mirror, by Mario Klingemann; Nonfacial Mirror, by Shinseungback Kimuyonghun; Liminal, by Louis-Phillipe Rondeau; Pom Pom Mirror, by Daniel Rozin; and Ego, by Klaus Obermaeir,

with Stefano D’Allesio and Martina Menegon.

The exhibition is available by booked visit only.

The gallery allows one booking every hour, on the hour, and each booking is limited to a “bubble” of up to six people.

Bookings are in high demand, and the exhibition is already booking into April.

The New Media Gallery is on the third floor of Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia St. Email contact@ newmediagallery.ca, call 604-875-1865 or see www.newmediagallery.ca for information.

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City lobbies for certainty for arts and culture sector Julie MacLellan

jmaclellan@newwestrecord.ca

New Westminster city council will lobby the province on behalf of B.C.’s beleaguered arts sector.

Councillors voted March 29 in favour of an advocacy motion from councillors Mary Trentadue and Patrick Johnstone.They agreed to have Mayor Jonathan Cote write to Premier John Horgan and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, advocating for a clear plan that will al-

low the arts and culture tant for elected officials to sector to reopen in 2021 add their voice of support – including communicato arts and culture orgation of that plan nizations, which to the province’s have faced the arts groups so discouragement they have time to of seeing faith make plans to reand sports orgasume operations. nizations allowed Trentadue acto operate again knowledged the while arts has timing of the reremained shut quest is diffidown. cult, given the “The arts and Mary Trentadue extended health culture sector city councillor restrictions anhas been decinounced by promated,” she said. vincial officials on Mon“Knowing that at some day afternoon. point they are going to be But she said it’s imporopen, they do need the

lead time to be able to do that successfully. Anything we can do to support them in that work, I think, is important.”

Johnstone expressed his hope that the “circuit-breaker” actions announced by the B.C. government will help get the province back to a more normal state sooner rather than later.

But he said that, as it stands now, even if case numbers go down and everyone’s vaccinated and able to come back together, there won’t be any events for people to enjoy

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if arts groups haven’t been able to organize them.

“Anything we can do to help them is important,” he said.

Coun. Jaimie McEvoy cautioned it may be difficult to ask for a specific schedule of reopening in light of the ever-changing pandemic, but he agreed it would be “not unreasonable” to ask for a plan to be developed.

He noted the example of the Rio Theatre in Vancouver, which rebranded itself as a “sports bar” to be allowed to continue operations in the face of on-

going health restrictions.

“It kind of pointed out the irony of the situation at the time,” he said.

McEvoy said arts organizations have been without revenue for over a year and are going to need a helping hand to get going again.

“People do need to be able to think about the future and plan for the future. Right now the arts sector seems to be, in particular, without any olive branch of hope,” he said.

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City New West offers iPhones for digital inclusion project NewWestminster wants to help connect at-risk individuals to the services they need.

Council recently directed city staff to contribute up to 25 of the city’s decommissioned iPhones

to the NewWestminster digital inclusion project.

A staff report states the city’s information technology division will be deploying new smart phones to city staff in spring 2021 as part of a planned hard-

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According to the staff report, more than 60 devices have been sourced to date including smart phones, laptops and desktop computers.

A Feb. 1 report to council explains that more and more service providers, including government agencies and non-profit organizations, offer access to funding and supports on an online-only basis.

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Vaccine rollout faces delays out of the gate But pace should start picking up in NewWest with opening of mass clinic at Anvil Centre, new booking system and partnership with pharmacies Julie MacLellan

jmaclellan@newwestrecord.ca

MichaelWebster got his first COVID-19 vaccine shot on Monday.

He’s happy about that – but the process it took to get there has left him wondering why the wheels of the vaccination machine seem to be grinding so slowly.

“The variants thrive on delay,” he said. “Let’s get more people into more places to get vaccinated.”

The NewWestminster resident, who’s 75, was happy when he heard there was a vaccination clinic at Douglas College, just a few blocks from his home. And he was happier still when his age group became eligible to book appointments last week.

But then he started calling the central Fraser Health vaccine booking line and just couldn’t get through.

Once he finally did – later one evening, when it seemed to be less busy – he gave all his information to the person taking the bookings and asked for an appointment in NewWestminster.

There weren’t any. And when he tried asking for more details (When would the next appointment be available?What were the clinics’ hours of operation?

How many slots would be

available next week?), he simply couldn’t get them.

All he could find out was that there were no appointments available.

“They presented this as a national emergency.They asked us to stay home until vaccines were available. Now vaccines are available, and it’s ‘Sorry, sir, we don’t have an appointment for you today,’”Webster said.

“These sorts of delays, it just gives more space for the variants to operate.”

The variants thrive on delay He didn’t want to take one of the open slots in Coquitlam or Surrey or Burnaby; he wanted to be able to walk to the clinic closest to his home.

So he decided he’d walk over to Douglas College to see if he could find out more. At the clinic,Webster said, he was told that occasionally there were doses available at the end of the day if anyone failed to show up for their scheduled appointment, so clinic staff took his information and agreed to call him later in the day if anything was available.

He agreed. But, after he left, he started thinking about it and decided he didn’t want to take his chances on waiting for a phone call. So, instead, he walked back over to the clinic at lunchtime and sat himself down to wait.

While he was sitting there, he said, he did try to keep calling the booking line, deciding that if he got an appointment, he would leave. But in the four hours he sat there, he called numerous times and was never able to get through to anybody.

Finally, at about 4:45 p.m., it turned out there was one dose left over – andWebster got it.

“I guess I had to do a little bit of personal finagling to do it,”Webster said. “I would have preferred to just be able to get an appointment.”

Webster questions why Fraser Health is announcing that the vaccine is available for folks aged 73 and up when people older than that still haven’t been able to get in for their shots.

“It seems to me to be a little disingenuous,” he said. “It might give a false impression that all 75s are now being done, so we can call in the 73s.”

He also questioned why the vaccine rollout hadn’t included pharmacies, as is

New West hosts info forum Got questions about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in New Westminster?

You can get answers at a livestream forum set for Thursday, April 8 at 6:30 p.m.

The City of New Westminster and Fraser Health will provide information on local vaccination plans and an update on the ongoing community response to the

pandemic.

Anyone with questions can send them in advance to NWMatters@newwest city.ca. The meeting will be streamed live via Zoom (a link is available at the city’s webpage at www.tinyurl. com/NWCOVIDInfoSession), and it will also be posted on the city’s website.

The meeting is part of the city’s efforts to help health

officials with the rollout of the vaccine.

Two COVID vaccine clinics are running in New Westminster: at Century House and at Douglas College.

A mass vaccination clinic is being set up in the Anvil Centre (777 Columbia St.), supported by Ceres Terminals Canada, and that’s scheduled to start operations on April 7.

ARMED AND READY: Cathy and Alex Burton get their vaccines at a Douglas College clinic.

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done with flu shots.

PHARMACIES NOW IN Just hours after that conversation, the B.C. Ministry of Health announced a new partnership between Immunize BC and community-based pharmacists to make the AstraZeneca vaccine available to people aged 55 to 65 living in the Lower Mainland through their local pharmacies – ahead of B.C.’s age-based schedule and outside of mass vaccination clinics.

The AstraZeneca vaccine – the first of the vaccines to be fridge-stable and thus able to be used in many locations without specialized storage – was originally slated to be used for B.C.’s parallel vaccine rollout track for priority front-line workers. But, on March 29, the National Advisory Council on Immunization recommended a pause in the use of the vaccine in people under age 55 because of blood clots seen in a small number of European cases.

A Ministry of Health press release noted that gives the province an opportunity to use the AstraZeneca doses to help combat high case numbers in the Fraser andVancouver Coastal health regions.

NEW SYSTEM The Record put in a call and email to Fraser Health with a number of questions regarding availability of vaccine appointments in NewWestminster, how far ahead appointments are being booked and general advice for those who are being stymied by the current booking system.

No response had been provided by press time.

However, Fraser Health announced Tuesday that it’s transitioning its booking system to a new provincial online system that will launch on April 6.

“To date we have booked just over 222,070 immunization appointments, and we acknowledge that people in our communities want to book appointments as quickly as they become eligible,” a Fraser Health press release said Tuesday. “We appreciate everyone’s patience as we schedule very sizable populations into immunization appointments.We understand this transition coupled with high volumes has caused some challenges with people accessing the system.”

Another local mass vaccination clinic is also set to open at the Anvil Centre, in downtown NewWest,

starting April 7.

Webster, for one, hopes the vaccine rollout will pick up steam so younger British Columbians can get their turn in line sooner rather than later.

“If this is a so-called war against the virus, let’s put a full-court press on it,” he said.

How to book Daytime (7 a.m. to 7 p.m.): Call the immunization booking phone line at 1-855-755-2455.

The phone line will operate from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, April 2 and Monday, April 5.

Nighttime (7 p.m. to 7 a.m.): Access Fraser Health’s self-serve online booking tool (find a link at www.tinyurl.com/ FHonlinebooking).

The online tool will operate from 5 p.m. to 9 a.m. on Friday, April 2 and Monday, April 5.

On Saturday, April 3 and Sunday, April 4, it will run from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.

The above advice is in effect until the new booking system launches April 6.

Verify the most up-todate info at www.fraser health.ca/covid19.

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Students feeling safer, more welcome Julie MacLellan

jmaclellan@newwestrecord.ca

New Westminster Secondary School’s Grade 12 students are feeling a stronger sense of belonging and safety at school than they were a couple of years ago.

Those are among the results of a student learning survey conducted by the New Westminster school district in the 2019/20 school year. School trustees got a sampling of some of the results during a presentation on student learning outcomes at their education committee meeting Feb. 9.

Asked, “Is school a place you feel you belong?” 55% of Grade 12 students answered with “many times” or “all of the time” – a huge jump from the 35% result in 2017/18, and higher than the B.C.-wide

number, at 48%.

The number of Grade 12 students who reported feeling safe (emotionally and physically) at school, often or always, also rose from 67% in 2017/18 to 75% in 2019/20.That’s slightly below the B.C. result, of 78%.

Another question asked students: How many adults do you think care about you at school?

Among Grade 12s, 76% reported two adults or more, up from 69% in 2017/18.This year’s result was on par with the provincial number, 77%.

Maureen McRae-Stanger, the district’s director of instruction, learning and innovation, noted that more Grade 12s report connection with adults than Grade 10 students do – among Grade 10s, only 67% reported two or more adults who

cared about them.

“We do see an improvement for our Grade 12s last year. I think the Grade 12 year is a very different year for our students where there maybe are more connections as they prepare for graduation and career pathways, but (there’s) more work to be done for us in this area,” she said.

Another substantial jump came among students who reported feeling welcome at school.

In 2017/18, only 48% of Grade 12 students responded with “many times” or “all of the time.”

In 2019/20, that number had risen to 64%, just above the provincial mark of 63%.

Another good-news number came in answer to the question: At school, do you respect people who are different from you?

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Among Grade 12s, 89% replied with “many times” or “all of the time,” up from 85% in 2017/18.

“It really speaks to our work around inclusion and equity and diversity and SOGI and all of those great things we’re working on,” McRae-Stanger said. “The majority of our students really do feel that they are respecting people who might be different than they are.”

Trustee Maya Russell lauded the positive changes in NWSS results.

“Across a number of measures, where we are seeing some real improvement is at the high school,” she said. “I would really like to celebrate those improvements. … We have something to learn, I think, from how the high school as a community has been able to raise those measures.”

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Notice of a Virtual Open House Redic Developments Inc. would like to invite you to a Virtual Open House in the evening of April 13th, 2021 to discuss the Heritage Revitalization and Development Permit Application at 74 - 82 First Street and 108 – 118 Royal Avenue, New Westminster, BC. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this Open House will take place virtually and will include a brief presentation providing information on the proposal by the developer. An opportunity will be given the public to provide comments and ask any questions.

Date: 6:00pm – 8:00pm on April 13th, 2021 Zoom Webinar ID: 840 3291 5901 Passcode: Royal The proposed development envisions the revitalization of the EMN Woods Heritage Home (currently located at 82 First Street), in addition to the development of approximately 170 wood-frame condominium units within two phases at the intersection of Royal Avenue and First Street.

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If you would like more information, please contact Ryan Rohani, Redic Developments, at 778-668-4236 or Athena Von Hausen, City of New Westminster, at 604-527-4556, or bring questions and comments to the meeting.

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City City OK with arcade liquor plan

The City of New Westminster has no objections to Capital City Arcade’s plan to serve liquor.

Council recently approved a motion recommending issuance of a li-

quor primary licence so the Sapperton business can operate a 50-seat licensed establishment at 457 East Columbia St. Liquor service would be allowed daily from 9 a.m. to

1 a.m.

The preamble to council’s motion stated the establishment isn’t expected to negatively affect traffic patterns or parking, given its proximity to transit,

and isn’t expected to create noise issues.The city believes the application will have a positive impact in that it will contribute to the “unique character and vitality” of the Sapperton

area.

The licence also requires approval from the province’s Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch.

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APPENDIX B to Order G-74-21

We want to hear from you FORTISBC ENERGY INC.’S APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY FOR THE COASTAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM TRANSMISSION INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES PROJECT On February 11, 2021, FortisBC Energy Inc. (FEI) filed its Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the Coastal Transmission System (CTS) Transmission Integrity Management Capabilities (TIMC) Project (Application) with the British Columbia Utilities Commission. The purpose of the project is to enable FEI to detect cracking threats on its CTS pipelines. The Application consists of alterations to CTS pipelines in the Lower Mainland area. The estimated total cost of the project in as-spent dollars is $137.8 million, which includes an Allowance for Funds Used During Construction.

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ASCROFT, Jeanie May 1942 - 2021 On March 28, 2021 an accomplished woman and a gentle soul was lost to the people who loved her.

Jeanie (Georgina) Ascroft, was born in St. Lambert, Quebec and died in New Westminster, BC after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. Predeceased by her parents, George and Winnifred Oldbury, and brother George, Jeanie was a loving and supportive partner to her husband Robert (Bob) for almost 56 years.

Jeanie graduated as an RN from the Royal Victoria Hospital School of Nursing in Montreal and worked for almost two decades in various fields - obstetrics, neurology, ICU, school, and public health. While nursing in the day she took evening courses gaining a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education from Montreal’s Concordia University.

She then embarked on a career as a much loved kindergarten teacher. Jeanie was an accomplished piano player and taught music from Kindergarten through Third graders in the early years of her school. She was an advocate for whale conservation with her classes holding an annual “Whale of a Bake Sale” raising money to ‘adopt’ an Orca whale.

Jeanie shared her love of music and sang as a soprano in the Coastal Sound Community Choir.

Having survived a severe illness in her twenties, Jeanie was determined to live life to the fullest. She was an avid hiker and fledgling pilot. A skilled helmsperson, Jeanie could handle any sail or twinengine powerboat. With her husband, she sailed the Great Lakes, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands and in both sail and power cruisers explored many destinations in the Salish Sea. She was the editor of the Royal City Power & Sail Squadron’s newsletter for several years. In her mid 50’s Jeanie earned a brown belt in Shotokan Karate and won provincial medals at the beginner and intermediate levels.

She was an avid lawn bowler and loved to compete in tournaments into her early 70’s. When no longer able to bowl, Jeanie went to the tournaments to cheer on her husband and friends at their competitions.

Jeanie was a warm, welcoming person and loved animals as much as she loved people. Over her lifetime she looked after a myriad of dogs and cats and was an enthusiastic supporter of the BCSPCA. Heartfelt thanks to Carrie from Home Instead who provided Jeanie exemplary in-home care for over a year, to Sandra and Mandi who looked after Jeanie’s care schedule. Heartfelt thanks also to the New Westminster Kiwanis Care Centre, particularly nurses, Jasmine, May and Michael, other nurses, caregivers, and staff who tenderly cared for Jeanie in her final stage. Their compassionate care was very much appreciated.

A Celebration of Life will be held at the New Westminster Lawn Bowling Club, whenever it is safe for her friends to get together and hug safely.

In lieu of flowers a donation to either to the BCSPCA or Kiwanis Care Centre New Westminster, would have pleased Jeanie.

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