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215 CHILDREN: A memorial outside New Westminster City Hall went up over the weekend to mourn the 215 children whose lives were lost at Kamloops Indian Residential School. Their remains were found last week after Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (the nation on whose territory the school is located) worked with a ground-penetrating radar specialist in a search for answers about what had happened at the institution that was once the largest residential school in Canada. It operated between 1890 and 1978. Read more on this story on page 5. PHOTO JULIE MACLELLAN

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Project approved after marathon hearing

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In a week where Canadians were horrified to learn that the remains of 215 Indigenous children had been found in unmarked graves at a former residential school in Kamloops, the city at the “epicentre” of colonization in B.C. took a step toward reconciliation.

On Monday night, New Westminster city council unanimously supported a zoning amendment and an official community plan (OCP) amendment for the six sites at 823 to 841 Sixth St.That’s where the Aboriginal Land Trust plans to build a 96-unit, six-storey rental building that will provide rental housing for members of the Indigenous and Swahili communities.

Mayor Jonathan Cote said an OCP change isn’t something that should be taken lightly, but he thinks it’s appropriate in this case.

He said the proposal is bringing a lot to the community through the provision of affordable housing and is helping the city meet some of its policy goals.

“There are many different paths that reconciliation will take us. I can’t think of a stronger action that we can be taking than to provide the opportunity for Indigenous housing, Indigenous affordable housing, and welcome new Indigenous members into the community,” he said.

“This feels like the right project, and it feels like the right time to be supporting this work.”

Coun. Chuck Puchmayr said it’s “long overdue” to be building housing for Indigenous community members.

“We are living in a city that was once only Indigenous, and now it is barely Indigenous,” he said. “The Indigenous communities have been pushed out of NewWestminster – the

epicentre of colonialism, the first capital of British Columbia.”

Puchmayr said it’s appropriate for the city to amend the OCP to take advantage of an opportunity to create affordable housing. Like other members of council, he acknowledged there will be some impacts on the project’s nearest neighbours.

“I really understand the concern the neighbours bordering this have.

I have driven down that lane. I have a friend that lived there – he actually sold his home because of this development. … I understand what their concerns are,” he said. “I feel for those concerns, but I believe the need for this housing outweighs this, so I will support the changing of the OCP.”

HAVING A SAY Council’s support for the affordable housing project came after a fourand-a-half-hour virtual public hearing.

In addition to letters, a petition and online feedback submitted during the consultation process, the city received more than 350 pieces of correspondence at the public hearing. More than 70 people spoke at the hearing, with a majority supporting the application.

Qayqayt First Nation Chief Rhonda Larrabee said she welcomes affordable housing for members of the Indigenous and Swahili communities.

She’s looking forward to the day when theWelcome Centre is complete across the street at the new New Westminster Secondary School.

“When theWelcome Centre is complete, Qayqayt First Nation will have an office there,” she said. “I hope that we will be able to meet with people in the community to let them learn about the history, the culture and any questions they may have.”

Moving forward: This rendering shows what the Aboriginal Land Trust’s proposed affordable housing project will look like when it is completed. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

Speakers cited a wide variety of reasons for supporting the project, including: providing affordable housing; supporting meaningful work on truth and reconciliation; and creating housing for community members who have the greatest need. Supporters said the project meets at least 18 policy goals in the city’s OCP and supports council’s strategic plan.

This feels like the right project, and it feels like the right time.

Many supporters feel a six-storey building is appropriate at this location because it’s on a main street and is near transit, schools and other amenities.

Tanushree Pillai urged council to take reconciliation into mind when making a decision on this “much-needed” project.

“Especially in light of recent news coming from Kamloops, I think that it is very important that we go ahead and approve some-

thing like this,” she said.

“We also need more inclusive and family-friendly, especially affordable, housing in the city. As someone who has a family myself, I found it incredibly hard to find a family-friendly unit.

I understand how difficult it is for families like us to find something like that.

This project will make our city more diverse, and we all know we need diversity in this city.”

Jill Atkey, CEO of the BC Non-Profit Housing Association, said renters in NewWestminster are facing “significant challenges” with affordability. She said more than one-fifth of renters in NewWest are spending more than 50% of their pre-tax income on rent, which means that they are forgoing other basic necessities and are at real risk of homelessness.

“A building like this will literally change the life course for hundreds and hundreds of families lucky enough to call it home over the years,” she said.

Agnes Black urged council to support the proposal in the spirit of truth and reconciliation.

“Our country and our city are walking a path toward truth and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples of Canada.That journey requires each of us

to take action,” she said.

“The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action include language that calls upon all governments to fully adopt and implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the framework for reconciliation. Justice Murray Sinclair (TRC chair) stated that reconciliation is not a spectator sport; we all have to participate. In addition to Canada’s legacy of taking over Indigenous territories, we must also acknowledge how Black communities have been displaced and marginalized.The official community plan is not carved in stone. Exceptions can be made.”

PROJECT CONCERNS Council received a petition signed by more than 1,300 residents opposed to amending the OCP. “All the people who signed the petition or sent a letter should be considered a voice tonight,” said Lana Bordignon. “They are speaking just as much as I am right now. I am asking you, please, to honour the OCP.” The vast majority of people who oppose the project are concerned about the size of the building, saying a six-storey

building is too big to be built next to single-family homes.They suggested the applicant should bring forward a proposal for a two- or three-storey project, or find a location elsewhere in the city where that building size is contemplated in the OCP. Residents opposing the project told council they support reconciliation and affordable housing, but the building’s height and density are too extreme for the Sixth Street location.The other major concern cited by residents relates to the safety of providing access to the new building via the narrow lane between Fifth and Sixth streets, as it’s only wide enough to accommodate one moving vehicle at a time.

Other residents worry the OCP amendment could set a precedent for changes in neighbourhoods throughout the city, while some voiced concerns about parking, loss of privacy and shadowing caused by six-storey building.

Some residents were disheartened about being labelled as “NIMBYs” or “racists” because they don’t support construction of a six-storey apartment beside single-family homes.

EllenVaillancourt requested that council reject the proposal and ask the applicant to consider other locations in city that conform with the OCP or revise the plan so it conforms with the land-use designation at the Sixth Street location.

“I am deeply troubled by the divisiveness that this process and the current proposal has elicited among the community, and how it’s turned into a matter of racism, NIMBYism or white privilege directed particularly to those who have spoken out against this development proposal,” she said.

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City Memorial remembers 215 children Julie MacLellan

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Every pair of shoes that sits on the steps at the New Westminster cenotaph remembers a child who never went home.

Every pair remembers a parent who never held their child again. A grandparent who never had a chance to pass on their language and wisdom to a new generation. Another child who saw their brothers, their sisters, their friends disappear and who never knew what became of them.

Every pair stands as a somber reminder of a past – and a present – that Canada has yet to reconcile.

The memorial outside New Westminster City Hall went up over the weekend in tribute to the 215 children whose lives

were lost at Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Their remains were found last week after the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation worked with a ground-penetrating radar specialist in a search for answers about what had happened at the institution that was once the largest residential school in Canada.

Community members have been invited to remember the 215 children by visiting the memorial and adding children’s shoes to the display.

The display is intended to remain in place until June 8 and will then be stored following the guidance of the Spirit of the Children Society.The city will provide tenting to shelter the display and plastic sheeting on rainy days.

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Remembering the children: The memorial on the steps at the New Westminster cenotaph on Monday. It has since been filled with shoes as residents have come by throughout the week with contributions. PHOTO JULIE MACLELLAN

ster schools and municipal buildings, including city hall, have also been flying at half-mast in memory of the children.

Students and staff at New Westminster schools have also been invited to wear orange shirts in solidarity.

NEED SUPPORT? For anyone who is affected by the residential school experience, the Indian Residential School Survivors Society can be contacted at 1-800-7210066 or the 24-hour crisis line at 1-866-925-4419.

Want to learn or to take action?

For non-Indigenous people who need to learn more about the residential school experience and its legacy of intergenerational trauma or who want to take action, here are some places to start: Ð Visit the Orange Shirt Day website to learn about the significance of wearing orange, www. orangeshirtday.org. Ð Visit the Legacy of Hope Foundation, www. legacyofhope.ca, for information about residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and the impacts of intergenerational trauma.

Donations are also accepted at the site. Ð Familiarize yourself with the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, including the Calls to

Action it issued in 2015.

See nctr.ca. Ð Read (with your child if you’re a parent). You can find a list of books by age at UBC’s Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (tinyurl. com/UBCrecommends). Ð Experience The Secret Path, the project by Gord Downie inspired by the death of Chanie Wenjack.

See www.secretpath.ca. Ð Call on the federal government to act. For contact details for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, see pm.gc.ca/en/connect/ contact. Ð Make a donation, if you’re in a position to do so, to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society (www.irsss.ca), Spirit of the Children Society (www.sotcs.ca) or another organization serving Indigenous communities.

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Opinion

MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Variants could spoil the party

The release of B.C.’s “restart” plan was quick to have a positive impact on a general public that has been looking for certainty on so many levels during this pandemic.

Restaurants and pubs once again appear to be busy and more people seem to be out walking around their communities.

I’m sure the good weather has something to do with it, but many people I talk to say the restart plan finally provided that proverbial light at the end of what has been a dark and long tunnel.

One of the more unusual aspects of the plan is that it contains concrete targets and dates, which together provide a road map of where we hope to go this summer.

Until now, B.C’s public health officials had been reluctant to set those targets and dates that related to when restrictions could be lifted or be put in place.

Now we have three dates looming large in our lives: June 15, July 1 and Sept. 7.

Each date signified another “step” towards getting back to a semblance of normalcy in our daily lives.The dates are tied to targets that involve rising vaccination rates and declining COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

If the targets are not met, then the dates will change and be moved back.Take the minimum goal for first doses of vaccine to make the July 1 and Sept. 7 dates: 70% of those aged 18 and older.

We are already close to achieving that figure and, in fact, should exceed it this week or next.We may even get to a rate of more than 80% by the end of June.

The other two markers that will tell us whether we can do such things as travel across the country or attend sporting events in limited numbers this sum-

mer are declining figures for both daily COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations.

Again, we are already heading in the right direction on both fronts.

Our average daily cases have declined in number since the peak of the wave in early and mid-April.We have gone from more than 1,000 cases a day to fewer than 350 a day.

When it comes to hospitalizations, more good news.The province’s weekly hospital admission count for COVID-19 cases peaked at 383 in mid-April and declined each week since (158 people entered hospital last week). Our ICU cases have been declining as well.

Our test positivity rate for the virus has been dropping steadily as well, and now sits just above 5% after peaking at almost 11% in April.

With more and more people getting vaccinated, there is no reason to think this turnaround in our COVID-19 indicators cannot be sustained.

The one caveat to this optimistic view are the “variants of concern.”

Most COVID-19 cases are now considered to be one of the variants of concern with the B.1.1.7 (originally discovered in the U.K.) the most prevalent, with the P.1 (originally discovered in Brazil) rapidly gaining on it in numbers.

However, the B.1.617 variant may be the biggest threat.While there have been relatively few cases of it detected, it is growing the fastest of them all on a percentage basis (its rapid spread is threatening the U.K.’s reopening plan).

Let’s hope the variants of concern don’t spoil what looks to be a fairly active summer for everyone.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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A “female bartender” was left with serious facial lacerations after a disgruntled female patron hit her in the face with a glass.

The incident happened at the Rock’in Tonight cabaret at 57 Blackie St.The bartender, 23, was squeezing through the crowded nightclub at about 2 a.m., when she accidentally bumped into the other woman, who was also 23. She turned around broke her glass in the bartender’s face, seriously cutting her nose and mouth.

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Lawns take a beating Editor: I have walked my daughter to school and back all year, not to mention random walks to get out of the house, all through our beautiful neighbourhood.

We are usually very respectful of lawns and grass as we know how hard our neighbours work to keep them beautiful.

This year, many of these lawns have been sacrificed in the name of physical distancing, which didn’t even exist prior to this new reality we have been living. We cringe every time we do it, but we do trample some grass on the way in order to keep our distance.

We’d just like to extend thanks to all of our neighbours who are working hard, or who perhaps have thrown up their hands this year and just given in. We will absolutely return to our sidewalks next year.

Melanie Brisebois, New Westminster

Skwo:wech is a great new name for school

Editor: The thoughtful name change of Richard McBride elementary school to Skwo:wech Elementary School is a welcomed change.

Place names are not neutral; they come

with a history about who and what was valued in the context of that time. When the values and knowledge of the people living in a place change, it seems logical to also rethink place names to honour the values of today.

Deliberate inclusion and renaming of significant pieces of the fabric of our communities, like schools, demonstrates much-needed integration of Indigenous culture and peoples into our city.

This is an opportunity for New Westminster to be a leader in changing ideas about naming and what it means in acknowledging a history that we have not always been so open to.

I am not Indigenous, but my partner and children are.

The last year, with so much media attention to large-scale social movements that are putting a spotlight on systemic racism, it is essential to collaborate with First Nations people whose territory we are on, whether or not there is a legal treaty, to gain their perspectives and input into how we name public things like schools, community centres, museums and roads. It is long overdue that we review the history of the people that places have been named after and understand that history within the values and beliefs about social justice of today.

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News Middle school expansion not in the cards this year Julie MacLellan

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There’s no money for new school land acquisition and no money for a Fraser River Middle School expansion in this year’s capital funding for New Westminster schools.

The New Westminster school district had submitted a $46.5-million capital plan to the Ministry of Education last year for approval.

Tops on its priority list was a request for $30 million to allow the district to purchase land for a new elementary school in the central part of the city. It had also asked for $9.5 million for a two-storey, eight-classroom expansion at Fraser River Middle School.

It got neither.

“Staff were disappointed to not see ap-

proval of the land acquisition plan request we put forward and the expansion plan for Fraser River Middle School, which we so urgently need at this time,” secretary-treasurer Bettina Ketcham said at the May 25 school board meeting.

The district would have used the $30 million to acquire land for a new elementary school in the Fraser River Middle zone to meet a projected shortfall of school space over the coming years – most of which will be needed in that central part of the city.

The $9.5 million, meanwhile, would have funded a 200-student expansion that’s designed to meet the current and future capacity needs of Fraser River Middle School, which was built in 2016 and was already over capacity by

2019/20.

Ketcham said the district will continue to request that funding in the province’s next capital planning cycle but, in the meantime, staff would appreciate advocacy from the board on those requests.

Board chair Gurveen Dhaliwal agreed.

“I definitely share your disappointment,” she said. “We are one of the largest-growing districts in Metro Vancouver, and we’re also one of the smallest districts, with very little land space. I think it’s really important that we be ahead of our needs, and we do need the land to be able to build future schools, as well as expand current ones.”

Trustees voted unanimously to send a letter to Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside (also New

Westminster’s MLA) outlining the urgency of the needs in the New Westminster school district.

The school district wasn’t left completely out in the cold on the capital funding front.

It got approval for $1.65 million in minor capital funding, as announced by the province this month.

Of that, $950,000 is for HVAC upgrades at Queensborough Middle School, as the district had requested. It also received $358,000 for exterior wall upgrades at Lord Tweedsmuir Elementary School – less than the $1.15 million it had hoped for to cover windows and cladding.

Not funded were requests for an air source heat pump system at Lord Kelvin Elementary School ($280,000) and new air handlers at Queen Elizabeth Elementary

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More space: The New Westminster school district had hoped for $9.5 million for an expansion at the over-capacity Fraser River Middle School, but new provincial capital funding allocations didn’t include the money. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER/FILES

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City School district hosts focus groups on racism, equity Julie MacLellan

jmaclellan@newwestrecord.ca

The New Westminster school district is forging ahead with its anti-racism efforts.

The district recently concluded a survey on issues surrounding anti-racism, diversity, equity and inclusion. Superintendent Karim Hachlaf said the district heard from more than 1,200 respondents, including parents, students and staff.

“It’s been a huge year.

We have reached out to our community for engagement, and really a huge note of gratitude for the level of participation our community has provided us,” he said at the May 25 school board meeting.

The survey results will be analyzed by Bakau Consulting, the firm engaged by the school district to lead the creation of an anti-racism framework.

Bakau Consulting will now move on to hosting focus groups for district stakeholders, Hachlaf noted.

One-hour-long virtual sessions are coming in June to solicit input about what equity, diversity and inclusion looks like in New Westminster schools.

“It’s important that we hear from a wide range of voices that represent the whole community,” the district said in a call for participants. “All voices, opinions and experiences will be respected and valued for the contribution to our wider understanding.”

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Sessions for parents and community members are set for Tuesday, June 8 and Wednesday, June 9.

The survey and focus groups are part of the first phase of the district’s plan to create an anti-racism framework. In that first phase, the consultants are also reviewing the district’s policies and procedures and examining its approach to social media and communications.

The information gathered from all that work will be taken to the district’s anti-racism steering committee, which has been set up to guide the process.

Ultimately, it will help to inform the creation of an anti-racism action plan – including curriculum for district schools and training for staff.

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City Parading in place

ON PARADE:

When you can’t bring a parade to the people, bring the people to the parade. The Hyack Festival Association couldn’t stage its popular annual parade this year, but it found a new way to bring floats and entertainers to local families.

The organization hosted a drive-by parade on Saturday, May 29 in the parking lot at New Westminster Secondary School. Crowds of folks of all ages turned out to enjoy the fun under sunny skies.

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Join us for TransLink’s Virtual Annual General Meeting You’ll hear from Board Chair Tony Gugliotta and Interim CEO Gigi Chen-Kuo about how TransLink kept our region moving throughout 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our AGM will take place before our June Open Board Meeting.

THURSDAY, JUNE 17 2021 9:00 a.m. AGM 10:00 a.m. Open Board Meeting Visit translink.ca/agm for details on how to join the virtual meeting.

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Community Online cooking workshops offered

Family Services of Greater Vancouver is serving up programming about food for local families.

The New West-based non-profit is hosting Kitchen to Kitchen, a series of online cooking workshops where partici-

pants cook from the comforts of their own home.

Open to parents who have children under the age of 12, the online program is an opportunity for folks to learn new cooking skills and delicious, healthy recipes, to learn how to cook with simple, low-cost

ingredients, to learn how to involve the whole family in the kitchen and to stay connected to the community.

Kitchen to Kitchen, a free virtual program using Zoom, will run every Tuesday from 10 a.m. to noon, starting on June 8.

Anyone who is interested in taking part can register by calling 604368-2154 or emailing communitykitchens@fsgv. ca.

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App keeps seniors connected through the pandemic Cameron Thomson Glacier Media

An app has found national success in its ability to easily keep seniors connected, entertained and healthy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Around this time last year, Carolyn Glazier and Barry Jones watched as the pandemic kept British Columbia’s senior citizens from seeing their loved ones.They created what is now the Stayhome-Living app. Now being used by seniors anywhere from B.C. to the Maritimes, the app’s rapid growth can be attributed to its simplicity and relevance to some of the country’s most vulnerable people.

Early on, Jones saw the isolating effect the pandemic had on his senior

parents, watching how their social circles disintegrated as restrictions came down.

“You could just sort of see that it was really impacting them in such a negative way,” Jones said.

“We just realized they needed a tool to help them stay connected.”

Knowing that many seniors had at least some access to technology like a laptop or tablet, the goal was to pull various technology needs under one virtual, but quite literal, “roof.”

Working with Carolyn Glazier’s father TomWaters, a retired tech executive, they designed the app around the front of a small house.The various windows of the simple design serve as the entry points to the app’s curated content.

This year

Zoom, email, social media sites and other communication tools are contained within a window marked Connect, while food delivery services can be found behind the window marked Services. Free streaming services like CBC Gem and HGTV can be found under the Entertainment window, and various games, along with guided fitness classes like chair yoga, are behind the Activities window.

The down-home feel of the app is one of its most attractive aspects to seniors, Glazier says.

“One of our beta testers early on actually got COVID and she was really unwell,” Glazier said. “She was really drawn to the house because it felt safe and easy to navigate.”

“Now that she’s get-

ting stronger and healthier she’s doing the seated yoga class three times a week and just loving it,” Glazier added.

Having seen success after the beta test, the app has expanded from where it started in South Surrey andWhite Rock to more of the Lower Mainland and MetroVancouver, then the Sunshine Coast and into Alberta.

“We’re in pretty much all the provinces,” Glazier said. “That’s our bigger push now is to extend the reach and have our content over a pan-Canadian nature.”

As the app expanded, so did the creativity of the people using it. Some users have started doing virtual date nights through the app’s drone tours of cities around the world.

Connections: The Stayhome-Living app gives seniors suffering from loneliness due to the coronavirus pandemic a chance to stay connected and healthy. PHOTO BARRY JONES, CONTRIBUTED

A date might include taking a cooking class in Tuscany and then taking a helicopter ride over New York City.

“It feels great, really.

Knowing just that, we are positively impacting people’s lives and helping out at a time when

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100% BC OWNED AND OPERATED Choices Ready To Eat Specialty Mexican Entrees Burritos, Quesadillas and Fajitas

Organic Lean Ground Beef

Warba White Nugget Potatoes

Grass Fed, Value Pack

1199/lb

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New Crop

26.43/kg

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199 /100g

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699

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