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No-coal rally all fired up

City jumps into Hyack mess

BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

A cloud of white dust billowed above the Fraser Surrey Docks site as hundreds of people gathered at Westminster Quay to protest a proposed coal transfer facility at the site.

New We s t m i n s t e r Environmental Partners was one of several groups that organized Sunday’s rally, which was attended by more than 400 people.

“Fraser Surrey Docks, with almost no wind, was loading a ship and there was a large cloud of white dust. It was a covered conveyor belt just like they are going to use – there was a cloud of white, I think it was grain dust, that was falling all over the Fraser,” said Andrew Murray, coal spokesperson for New Westminster Environmental Partners. “It was so apropos. It was like ‘This is our contribution to your rally, thank you very much.’”

FraserSurreyDockshasapplied to Port Metro Vancouver for a permit to operate a coal transfer facility, where coal arriving on trains from the United States would be loaded on to barges and shipped to Texada Island and then to China. It’s proposed that the facility would handle between four million and eight million metric tonnes of coal annually.

Murray said one of the main messages of the Oct. 27 rally was to “say no to U.S. thermal coal” that Americans are rejecting for the health and environmental implications.

“The overriding issue is how undemocratic this process has been. Port Metro Vancouver has been given power by Ottawa that trumps the powers of democrati-

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No, thank you: Pat Johnston and Deni Loubert protest a proposed coal transfer facility at Fraser Surrey Docks at a New Westminster rally on Sunday. cally elected local governments,” he added. “That is the heart of the problem.”

Coun. Jaimie McEvoy attended the rally on behalf of city council, which has opposed the coal transfer facility. He was pleased that it was attended by a cross-section of people opposed to the project, including neighbours, doctors,

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elected officials and First Nations.

“This is an unelected body making this decision. I think the only thing that can make a difference is people getting active,” he said. “I think there has to be more before the port will listen – more opposition, more demonstrations, more letters.”

In February, officials from Port

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On Monday, city council approved four recommendations concerning the embattled organization: to request all financial records and procedures from the organization so it can conduct an independent audit; to contact the registrar of B.C. Societies to investigate the conduct of the Hyack Festival Association; to administer this year’s Santa Claus Parade of Lights and other events remaining in the association’s 2013 granting process; and to suspend any future funding to the Hyack festival association until these governance matters are resolved to the satisfaction of the city.

“I think what the city wants to do is make sure the money that has been given to Hyack has been spent wisely,” said Coun. Bill Harper.

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Citizen of Year can live anywhere

BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

New Westminster’s Citizen of the Year no longer has to be a citizen of the city – but the recipient of the Bernie Legge Cultural award must still reside in the Royal City.

Gerda Suess, the city’s 2003 Citizen of the Year, recently expressed concerns that the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce had changed the award’s criteria to allow non-residents to be nominated for Citizen of the Year.

“We are honouring every nominee this year,” said Cori-Lynn Germiquet, executive director of the chamber of commerce. “The people who took the time to nominate one of their peers or nominate one of the businesses they felt excelled in customer service, we believe that if somebody takes the time to nominate someone, then we need to respect that and celebrate that nomination.”

Germiquet said the changes to the criteria for the Citizen of the Year and Junior Citizen of the Year reflect that we are living in a “mobile workforce environment” and there are a lot of people who give much of themselves to New Westminster but don’t have the ability to live in the city, for a variety of reasons.

“I support our committee, and I support our team in making the decision. We want what’s best for New Westminster,” she said.

“Having somebody who contributes an immense amount of time and effort in volunteerism in New Westminster, we want to celebrate that. It’s all about community building.”

Germiquet said a New Westminster Secondary School student nominated for Junior Citizen of the Year is doing “amazing” things in the community but lived just outside the city’s borders.

“That’s how that whole dialogue began,” she said. “Then of course there was a couple of

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What’s in a citizen?: Gerda Suess, a former Citizen of the Year, believes winners of the award should have to live in New Westminster – but recent changes mean that’s no longer the case. nominees from a citizens (of the Year and the Bernie Legge Cultural year) perspective that the team Award are just three of the awards had reviewed that as well and the New Westminster Chamber of made a decision to change those Commerce will be handing out at its Platinum Awards gala dintwo.”

The Bernie Legge Cultural ner on Nov. 21. The Platinum Award, given to an individual Awards, a celebration of business who has made significant con- and community excellence in New Westminster, also tributions to arts include awards for: and culture in New Diversity in Excellence Westminster, must still Award; Marketer be a resident of the You can comment of the Year Award; city. on this story at Customer Service Webster’s dictionwww.royalcityrecord.com Excellence Award, ary includes the folNot-For-Profit of the lowing definitions of Year, New Business citizen: one who enjoys of the Year, Corporate the freedom and privileges of a city; and an inhabitant Community Spirit Award and Business of the Year, with some of of a city.

“That’s a really good point,” these categories including awards Germiquet said when told about for different sized organizations.

Suess said she’s sure all the the definition stating a citizen is an inhabitant of a city. “Maybe people nominated for Citizen of the Year are worthy of the nominext year we can revisit that.”

The New Westminster Citizen nation but believes the nomiof the Year, the Junior Citizen of the nations should be open only to

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New Westminster residents, as the application on the chamber’s website continues to state.

“Does it matter? Yes, it matters to me,” she said about residency.

“We have many, many good people living in New Westminster who do great things for New Westminster and are not getting paid for it.”

While she didn’t have an exact date that the criteria for the citizens of the year awards changed, Germiquet recalled that the decision was made sometime in September. With the nomination deadline having closed on Sept.

26, the chamber of commerce is now preparing to move on to the time-consuming adjudication phase.

“What we do is I personally read out all the nominations, and the adjudicators have a score sheet. Each adjudicator, based on ◗Citizen Page 5

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Police ask for public’s help to find assault suspect

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New Westminster police are investigating a sexual assault and break-in on London Street.

On Oct. 23, around 9 p.m., a woman was sexually assaulted in her home.

According to police, the suspect entered the woman’s home in the 1200-block of London Street through the sliding balcony door. The

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woman confronted the man, who sexually assaulted her before fleeing with two laptop computers and the victim’s wallet.

The suspect is described as a Caucasian man in his 40s with green or blue eyes, a slim build and short whitish-grey hair.

He is about six feet tall and was wearing a

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Fire’s cause still under investigation

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Investigators from the New Westminster police and fire departments continue to process evidence collected from the scene of the downtown fire that destroyed two buildings earlier this month.

While reports from other media outlets have suggested the fire was the result of arson, police spokesperson Sgt. Diana McDaniel dismissed these claims and said investigators still haven’t confirmed what caused the fire.

“They’re still trying to figure out the cause of the fire,” she stressed.

Until investigators have a cause, no charges will be recommended – and might never be if the cause doesn’t warrant them, she added.

Right now investigators are combing through evidence from the scene at McKenzie and Columbia streets.

The Oct. 10 fire destroyed both the E.L. Lewis Block and Hamly Block, along with the many local businesses that set up shop in the two buildings.

McDaniel told The Record that investigators have some idea of how the fire started on Oct. 10 but said nothing would be made public until all the evidence has been processed.

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the criteria, will score what they have heard,” Germiquet said.

“Nobody knows who the winners are until about a week or two later when we actually go through and do a final tally. That is why it is so long and so extensive.”

Germiquet said the adjudication process will determine whether there are any issues with any of the nominees.

“When we go through the adjudication process if there are any holes or any concerns in a nominee’s package, that’s when that would be addressed,” she said. “Just to simply say, sorry you don’t qualify (because of residency requirements) even though the person who nominated them went through tremendous amount of effort to recognize their contributions, that would determine itself through our adjudication process.”

Some people invest more time in the nomination process than others, said Germiquet, noting one of this year’s nominees has 160 letters from supporters.

“They have all taken the time to sit down and take the time to write their story about this person – I have goose bumps talking about it. That’s what this is all about,” she said. “It’s not the people you usually see typically in the media or who are the high-profile individuals. These are our hidden stars.” www.twitter.com/TheresaMcManus

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Senate debacle sinks to new depths

few cats out of a few bags, including If you’re finding it difficult to keep that the prime minister knew far more pace with what is now the roiling boil about the questionable expenses far of our Senate scandal, you’re in good earlier. company.

Pamela Wallin and Patrick Three Stephen HarperBrazeau have also turned appointed senators, all accused THE RECORD of misusing senate funds (and around to bite the hand that one of hitting his wife), are once fed them, and named the facing suspension from the Senate. But Prime Minister’s Office. The strategy on they aren’t going down quietly. the part of the disgraced senators seems When Senator Mike Duffy showed to be along the lines of “If I’m going up to say his piece this week, he let a down, you’re going to break my fall.”

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To Harper’s credit, he did show up to face questions in the House of Commons this week, rather than have one of his underlings take the heat for him. He refuted Duffy’s claims, even though he must now admit he at least knew what was going on, which he denied before.

Proroguing Parliament clearly didn’t work as hoped for the Conservatives. It remains to be seen whether the attempts to make the bad press surrounding the

expense scandal go away will hurt them more than the image of three Harper appointees fiddling expenses on a massive scale.

Whether or not Harper survives the “What did he know, and when did he know it?” spotlight, this whole sorry debacle drags Canada’s upper chamber ever deeper into the muck. Our prime minister once campaigned for a Senate that was equal, elected and effective.

Does anyone care anymore?

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ther than its all-in approach to creating a liquefied natural gas industry and talking about growing the economy, the B.C. Liberal government is not particularly active when it comes to other initiatives.

It is not a government bent on fixing all kinds of things or sticking its nose in a lot of people’s business. When the legislature resumes sitting next February, don’t expect a heavy legislative package to be put before the house (except for bills relating directly to economic measures).

But there is a big exception to this light touch of lawmaking that will affect many people, and that is the looming overhaul of the province’s liquor laws.

Changing the rules when it comes to alcohol use is always tinged with controversy, which is why major changes rarely occur.

The last significant overhaul was done for the province’s Expo 86, although there has been the occasional tweak since then.

B.C. Liberal MLA John Yap is heading up the review. The public consultation phase ends this week, and so far Yap has received a blizzard of feedback.

The website set up for the review has had more than 50,000 hits (average stay: 10 minutes), while there have been more than 100 email submissions and almost 60 meetings with stakeholders.

It’s not surprising there is enormous public interest in the subject, given the evolution of B.C.’s laws governing alcohol.

Framed against modern attitudes, some of the old laws seem downright bizarre and would surprise most people today that they even existed.

For example, how many people know that vodka (today’s most popular distilled spirit) was banned in B.C. until 1960?

Or that music was only permitted in drinking establishments in 1954?

Sunday openings only became legal as a pilot project for Expo 86, and that was the year that import draft beer was first available. Women were prevented from working in government liquor stores until 1962.

But some odd laws still remain on the books, and I suspect many will disappear after Yap’s review becomes legislation.

Licensees currently can’t change their prices during the day, which means no “happy hour” specials, a common attraction in most U.S. establishments.

I’m betting that rule will be relaxed.

As well, licensed clubs (such as a legion) have to prepare

Why target Thrifty’s for closure?

Dear Editor:

I’d like to voice my objection to the fact that Thrifty’s will have to move away from our area, Sapperton.

I read with dismay that the Thrifty’s store in Sapperton must close due to competition laws, and was somehow involved with a purchase of the Canada Safeway stores. I don’t understand why Thrifty’s has to move when there are several Safeway stores already within driving distance?

This is the only Thrifty’s (or any supermarket) local store, and provides a very much needed community grocery store. Yes, there are numerous other supermarkets around in our area, but my choice is this fairly new Thrifty’s. They are very helpful and have so many choices of interesting and different ◗Booze Page 7 items that I can’t easily locate at other supermar-

kets. I’m sure that the staff at the Royal Columbian Hospital and others will also be very disappointed by this decision, because of the convenience of Thrifty’s location.

I live locally (Sapperton), and find Thrifty’s not only very convenient and easy to get to (park at, etc.), but their hours are amazing. I don’t enjoy grocery shopping, but the ability to go when there aren’t crowds is wonderful.

It’s not easy for me to walk around these days, but if I could, I’d be even more upset about Thrifty’s having to close down because it’s within easy walking distance of numerous developments (Palace Quay, Victoria Hill, and the locals). Thrifty’s also provides some much-needed services and programs for folk who can’t get around, or even get out to shop.

What other store coming in there will do the ◗Thrifty’s Page 7

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same for the local community? And why should another store come in anyway when we have a very decent, well-run, community-focused store already?

My main question then is, if there will be another grocery store coming into the Thrifty’s location anyway, why must Thrifty’s have to leave? Especially when they provide such strong community support?

Susan Greffard, New Westminster

Thrifty’s is first choice

Dear Editor:

Re: What will replace Thrifty’s?, The Record, Oct. 25.

I agree with Jen Arbo: “Thrifty’s was a perfect fit.” I can’t imagine why the Competition Bureau would feel we need three Safeways. Is that competition or total control over our city?

When our third Safeway opened by the SkyTrain station it forced out IGA. I can walk to either Thrifty’s or Safeway, and believe me, I’d rather shop at Thrifty’s.

Their meat is top-quality, the bakeshop and bread is quality, sales are great, they have quality flowers, and to top it off they are all so friendly and helpful.

I am not a shopper, but they make the experience a pleasure. I had to phone their

office on the Island recently and got a person right away. How rare is that? It will be a sad day if Thrifty’s has to close.

We do not need another Choices, their prices are high and they don’t compare to Thrifty’s. Ultimately Thrifty’s “is” the perfect fit. The best solution would be to close a Safeway. I will be driving to Thrifty’s on Austin Avenue or the Superstore if Thrifty’s closed.

Pam Leah, New Westminster

Save Thrifty’s for residents Dear Editor:

My family in New Westminster was very disappointed to learn that the Thrifty’s store in Sapperton will be sold as a result of Sobeys’ acquisition of Safeway.

The store was purpose-built for its location and well serves a growing population of people in the Sapperton neighbourhood.

It is different from Safeway – of which New Westminster already has three – so it is already in competition with these stores.

It is neighbourly, the service is excellent, and there are lots of local products.

Perhaps the competition board should have asked New Westminsterites what they would like to see happen to stores in their community.

It is the only Thrifty’s store that Sobeys is being told to sell. Many customers in our city wish for a different outcome.

Joel Hagen, New Westminster

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their own food on site and are not allowed to contract that service out, which seems unreasonable if not archaic.

Did you know liquor tastings can only be done using plastic cups instead of glasses? Or that you can’t take a drink from a bar and into a restaurant, even if the two establishments are adjoining?

Most of these rules and regulations fall into the red tape category and may be more easily dealt with than other, more complex issues that have come up in the review.

The various stakeholders in the liquor industry – pubs, restaurants, private liquor stores, breweries, wineries, etc. – all have positions on a number of reforms they’d like to see implemented, or perhaps blocked. A number of them are contradictory as well.

There seems to be a

general consensus that B.C. has enough outlets – public and private – that dispense alcohol, although B.C.’s wine and craft brewer industries would like more access and visibility in the marketplace.

But there is one huge exception: Yap’s review has found the number 1 hot button issue is that people want the convenience of buying wine or beer in their local grocery story.

The idea is viewed with considerable alarm by pubs and private store owners, who have invested huge amounts of capital in their operations and don’t want to be threatened by a mom-and-pop grocery on the corner.

This is just one of the more controversial issues Yap will have to address when he hands in his recommendations to Attorney General Suzanne Anton next month.

Another is that pub

owners argue the pendulum has swung too far in favour of restaurants and want the playing field levelled (one idea they are pushing for: allowing minors on the premises during the day, to join a parent for lunch, perhaps).

Then there are the medical and law enforcement communities, which understandably are pushing back against any major loosening of rules that would make alcohol easier to obtain.

So how far will the B.C. Liberal government go in this sensitive area?

Talking about LNG and the economy is easy.

But mixing alcohol with politics is a more potent cocktail, which is why the government will find it easier to cut red tape rather than make wholesale changes when it comes to booze.

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

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Hyack: City steps in to dispute

later left and received a wrongful dismissal factions within the Hyack Festival settlement.

Association are at odds about who is in The two factions of the board of direccharge and whether the special general tors submitted motions to be considered meeting on Oct. 17 was legitimate under at a special general meeting on Oct. 22, the Society Act. with each side calling for the removal of While those issues are in dispute, Harper members on the other side of the debate. said council has decided it’s best that the After five Hyack board directors resigned city administer the association’s events, on the morning of the Oct. 22 meeting, specifically the Santa Claus parade, so the the Hyack executive cancelled the special children of the city have an event to attend general meeting and held a board meetthis year. As long as the city has no real ing, where they filled the five vacancies idea who are the legitimate members of the with new board members (including Ken association’s board, he said the city didn’t McIntosh). have any choice but to suspend funding to Although Hyack’s president canceled Hyack. the Oct. 22 meeting, about 25 people attend“It’s unfortunate, it’s been very difficult, ed the venue and voted to remove the three it’s been very acrimonious,” he said. “The executives from the board. factions – I call them factions in Hyack “I believe there are enough issues on – just can’t seem to get their act together and the table that would raise the concerns come to any resolve.” from council as to who truly is in charge Coun. Betty McIntosh was the lone of Hyack,” said Coun. Chuck Puchmayr. councillor to oppose any of the four recom- “There was a meeting where the president, mendations approved by council at a closed vice-president, and I believe, the treasurer session on Monday afternoon. Although were defeated. There is one side says it she didn’t oppose the request for financial was a legitimate meeting, the other side information, she doesn’t believe an inde- says it was an illegitimate meeting. We are pendent audit is required. merely asking that an independent third “I know that the financials are well in party, namely the branch that governs socihand,” she said. “They have a volunteer eties, intervene, look at all the informawho is a chartered accountant, tion before them and come back who has had the books brought with a decision that council can up to date in the past two years. I feel comfortable with – that we personally believe there is absoknow who the group is, who is You can comment lutely no issue with the financial governing Hyack.” on this story at records.”

Until the governance of www.royalcityrecord.com McIntosh also didn’t feel it Hyack is determined, Puchmayr was necessary to ask the prosaid he doesn’t think the city vincial registrar of societies to has any choice but to take action investigate the matter, noting the and to organize the parade. He city had received a four-page letsaid it’s mandatory that the city ter from a lawyer who is a past president of look after taxpayers’ money and mitigate the Hyack Festival Association. any possible liability that could come from “This council is not doing what is best allowing the organization to continue when for this community in my opinion – and I its governance isn’t resolved. have a right to an opinion,” she said about Besieged Hyack president Gavin Palmer “dismissing” the legal opinion. told The Record Tuesday morning that the McIntosh voted against the recom- association had yet to be contacted officially mendation to take over administration by city hall regarding the recommendations of this year’s Santa Claus parade, noting approved by council. two Hyack members who have organized “They are frustrated just as we are with parades in the past are already planning the situation. That’s obvious,” he said. the event. She also said council is “jumping “Some of the things they are requesting ahead” by voting to suspend funding.

– we are looking at that from a legal per“To suggest that you are suspending all spective. We have to look at certain things. funding is totally inappropriate. Again, that I don’t believe they would be entitled to is one of the recommendations I oppose. I proprietary property. We obviously want think it’s not really that helpful that council to cooperate with the city wherever we can, has put these four recommendations for- but we are not about to give over everyward at this time,” she said. “I will await thing we have.” and see what the next legal opinion will Palmer said the association has no reason be.” to be apprehensive about making financial McIntosh also announced that her hus- information available, as everything is “up band resigned from the Hyack Festival to snuff” and the association has nothing Association board on Monday morning to hide.

– only so she would not be perceived to be Much of council’s discussion concerned in a conflict of interest when considering the the issue of governance and determining matter as a councillor. who is in charge at the association. Palmer “I don’t want anyone to think he resigned doesn’t think an investigation by the regisdue to any other reason,” she said. “It’s trar of societies is a bad thing and said he’d because I am an elected councillor and appreciate the opportunity to tell a third I should have the right to vote on these party what’s been taking place. issues.”

“We are positive we are right. Just as The ongoing saga began in July, when the other side feels they are right,” he said. four Hyack executive members fired execu- “Let’s get to the bottom of it. Let’s move tive director Douglas Smith without get- forward.” ting approval from the board of directors.

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NDP critic ‘appalled’ by traffic Tour of city revealed need for regional planning

BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

A tour of the local transportation network drove home the need for regional planning for Claire Trevena.

Trevena, the B.C. NDP transportation critic, recently visited New Westminster to get a first-hand look at the issues raised by the City of New Westminster and local residents.

“I am watching the steady truck flow on Front Street – and am pretty appalled by it,” she told The Record as she toured the city. “It is so steady. It is an intense amount of traffic.”

Coun. Chuck Puchmayr played tour guide for Trevena, who toured the city Oct. 9.

“We did a loop around,” she said. “We started off in New West, went across the Pattullo, down along South Fraser Perimeter Road, under the Port Mann – because the two don’t meet. For me it’s such a really shortsighted piece of planning – you have a major road and a major bridge, both supposed to be improving the traffic flow, and they don’t link.”

New Westminster city council recently received a staff report suggesting that traffic, particularly truck traffic, has increased since tolls were introduced on the new Port Mann Bridge and motorists have opted

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Traffic woes: NDP transportation critic Claire Trevena, left, and Coun. Chuck Puchmayr check out the truck traffic on Front Street. for the free Pattullo Bridge.

During her tour, Trevena was struck by the fact that Front Street was filled with trucks – and the Port Mann Bridge was not.

Having acquired a firsthand account of the traffic issues in New Westminster, Trevena said she hopes to get a tour of the Port Mann Bridge from the Transportation Investment Corporation, the Crown corporation that runs the bridge.

When considering major infrastructure projects like the Port Mann Bridge or a replacement for the George Massey Tunnel, Trevena said it’s critical to look at the impacts on communities and do comprehensive infrastructure planning.

“For the health of all our communities, we need to be doing that,” she said.

The staff report considered by council Oct. 7 stated that the average daily traffic volume on Royal Avenue has increased by 1,300 vehicles per day (a five per cent increase), and the heavy truck volume has increased by 360 trucks per day (a 63 per cent increase), since tolls were introduced on the Port Mann Bridge.

On McBride Boulevard, the total daily traffic volume had increased by 3,400 vehicles per day (nine per cent) and the heavy truck traffic has risen by 45 trucks per day (10 per cent).

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Young filmmakers work for change Local students take part in United Way’s Care to Change video competition

BY JULIE MACLELLAN REPORTER jmaclellan@royalcityrecord.com

For Jennifer Young, the whole point of the Care to Change video contest was summed up perfectly by one teenage participant.

“I like that you’re getting kids involved because it’s our era, not the adults, right?” said 14-year-old Lauren Hill of New Westminster. “We should be the ones that are making the change.”

Young, spokesperson for the United Way of the Lower Mainland, says that philosophy captures the spirit of the United Way’s third annual video competition.

The competition is open to youth and adults from around B.C., and competitors are invited to create short films that will educate people about the United Way’s causes: child poverty, bullying and seniors’ isolation.

“It’s really about giving youth and adults a chance to speak up, to give them a voice,” Young said. “It’s really a video competition with a difference.”

She said the two previous years have shown that the majority of videos come from youth, usually in the 14- to 19-year age range.

Generally, she said, they all capture the youth message that “It’s our time to act.”

This past weekend – Oct. 18 to 20 – students from New Westminster had a chance to take part in free Care to Change video-making workshops at Lord Kelvin Community School.

The workshops began Friday with brainstorming sessions about the issues and worked their way through Saturday and Sunday, covering storyboarding, writing, shooting and editing the students’ work.

The workshops, supported by Telus, are run by ReelYouth, a not-for-profit organization that offers programs for youth,

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Eye on the job: Phelan Glenn films a scene during a video-making workshop at Lord Kelvin School on Oct. 20. The workshop led by ReelYouth was part of the United Way’s Care to Change video competition. adults and groups to help them create and distribute films about social issues.

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The college’s theatre and stagecraft and event technology departments are putting on a retooled version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, A Macbeth, by Charles Marowitz.

Marowitz has dissected and reassembled the original script – swapping lines between characters, alter-

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“This is Shakespeare unhinged. It’s as if Marowitz cut this play into pieces using scissors and then put them back together into a kind of collage,” says director Thrasso Petras in a press release.

“I think his intention was to explore the essence of

this well-known work and present it in an exciting new way.”

New Westminster’s Cole Girard appears as Lady Macduff and First Witch.

A Macbeth runs fro Nov. 8 to 16 at the Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre at Douglas College, 700 Royal Ave. Tickets are $8 to $12,

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Heart group covers mainly memoir writing, with some fiction and poetry too.

Kozak is a published travel journalist, and her historical fiction novel Shadow of the Lion will be published in the U.K. in 2014.

Photography exhibit at library

Check out some of New Westminster’s best photography in a new exhibition at the library.

The New Westminster Photography Club is holding a month-long exhibit in the upstairs gallery of the library, Nov. 1 to 30.

The show is called 8 x 10 x 19 and features what a press release describes as “an eclectic array of compelling images” by 19 of the club’s members.

The club meets twice a month from September to early June, and it always welcomes new members and guests. Check out www.nwphoto.org for more.

To see the exhibition, drop by the main branch of the New Westminster Public Library, 716 Sixth Ave., any time during opening hours.

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Her sister, Elizabeth Cottam, alerted me to Kathryn’s new novel, The Shoemaker: A Tale of Love, Magic and Unnatural Acts, available at Amazon.ca.

“Once upon a time … is how the fairy tale goes. But this is no child’s story,” writes Elizabeth.

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Steel Magnolias onstage at Douglas Say the words “Steel Magnolias,” and most people will conjure up visions of a girls’night-in weeper starring Julia Roberts and Dolly Parton.

Now Douglas College is putting its own stamp on Robert Harling’s play, which tells the story of a tight-knit group of southern women who turn to laughter and friendship to find strength in adversity.

The comedy-drama tells the story of six close friends who frequent a small-town Louisiana

beauty parlour, centring on Shelby – a young woman with Type 1 diabetes who faces a complicated personal decision related to her disease.

“It’s a simple story about women who come together and let go of class, religious and other differences in order to support each other through difficult times,” says director Deborah Neville in a press release. “There are elements of sadness in the play, but also a great deal of humour.”

tifully developed with The six second-year their own storylines, theatre students cast so that gives each of in the play were thrust into what Neville calls the student actors the “homework assignopportunity to deliver ments” to get ready for a great performance,” their roles – including says Neville. spending time in a hair The play stars Nicole salon together and bakCochrane of Surrey as ing a red velvet armadilAnnelle, Alexandra lo-shaped cake, a dessert Gamache of Surrey mentioned in the play. as Shelby, Faedra Faedra “The play is a won- Mirhashemy Mirhashemy of New derful ensemble piece.

Westminster as Ouiser, All of the characters are beau- Kelsey Robertson of Richmond as

Truvy, F.J. van Wyk of Vancouver as Clairee, and Heather Wyborn of Coquitlam as M’Lynn.

Steel Magnolias is onstage Nov. 1 to 9 at the Studio Theatre at Douglas College, 700 Royal Ave. Tickets are $8 to $12, available through the Massey Theatre box office at 604-521-5050.

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A14 • Wednesday, October 30, 2013 • The Record

Fit on 6th helps its neighbours

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it on 6th is inviting community members to bust a move to help some of its neighbours in need.

The downtown fitness studio is holding a fundraiser on Sunday, Nov. 3 to raise money to support downtown businesses affected by the Oct. 10 fire on Columbia Street.

“It’s a six-hour workout marathon from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.,” said owner Tamer Young.

Street were destroyed in the fire. Prizes will be awarded to top fundraisers.

Fit on 6th is located at 49 Sixth St. To pre-register for classes, text Young at 604-551-1084 or email missfit40@shaw.ca.

Waterfront life

An upcoming lecture at Douglas College will explore how transforming an urban waterfront can affect city life.

The Nov. 7 lecture, Gentrification and the Waterfront, will feature Jasper Rubin, an urban geography expert from San Francisco State University.

“We hope this lecture helps people gain a deeper understanding

of the impact waterfront redevelopment can have on a community,” said Earl Noah, a geography instructor at Douglas College. “This is certainly a relevant topic here in New Westminster where, for example, we’ve seen the opening of Westminster Pier Park on the Fraser River.”

The free lecture, part of Simon Fraser University’s Gentrification and The City speaker series, is taking place on Thursday, Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. in room 2201 of the New Westminster campus at 700 Royal Ave. A press release states that “gentrification” is a term coined in the 1960s and often describes the social and economic

changes related to a flood of higher income people into an urban area.

“People seem to have a mixed response to the term,” Noah said. “It is often associated with negatives such as the displacement of lower-income populations. But it’s also worth considering the positives.”

For more information and to reserve seats, visit www.urban.sfu.ca/ news_events.

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The We’ve Got Your Back fundraiser kicks off with a cardio kick boxing session at 8 a.m., followed by martial arts classes at 9 a.m., a skipping marathon at 10 a.m., a boot camp at 11 a.m., cardio cross training at noon, interval strength training at 1 p.m. and a rap-up at 2 p.m.

Snacks and drinks will be provided to participants.

The fundraiser costs $20 for one class, $30 for two classes and $50 for unlimited classes. Pledge forms are available at Fit on 6th for anyone wanting to raise more funds.

Young’s goal is to raise $3,000 to help out businesses in the downtown, many which were wiped out when two buildings in the 600 block of Columbia

The Record • Wednesday, October 30, 2013 • A15

Westcoast Seniors They both began delivering with Meals on Wheels once or twice a week, and then started doing more trips.

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program and take seniors out for other reasons, like visiting friends or the grave of a loved one who has passed away.

The non-profit agency has a roster of drivers on call, but the group needs about five more to take seniors on medical trips, deliver food for the Meals on Wheels

The volunteers are offered training so they can alert the society, should the seniors need referrals for other services.

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up being the eyes and ears in the community, so we make sure they have adequate training,” said Kara-Leigh Bloch, the society’s executive director.

New Westminster resident Ric Beau has been a volunteer driver with the agency for about four years, and his wife also helps out.

“I love it,” Beau said “When I first started doing it, I learned so much more about people in that last several years. People are so nice and friendly, and gracious and appreciative when you pull up.”

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Although it’s never too late to change bad habits, it is much easier to prevent them. Making some changes before the holiday season kicks in is a guarantee that our health and well-being won’t have to suffer a few months later.

The New Westminster Public Library offers a number of resources that can help you improve your eating habits, restore your inner balance and enjoy a healthy lifestyle not only during the upcoming holidays but for years to come.

Those who are thinking of switching to a whole food, plant-based diet can find great advice from the well-know nutritionist T. Colin Campbell in his recently published book Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition.

Healing Foods: Eat Your Way to a Healthier Life, edited by Susannah Steel, presents more than 300 healing foods, easy-toprepare recipes and food combinations that target specific health issues.

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Isn’t this the most important meal of the day?

To most health professionals it is, so this column is dedicated to making that pinnacle feast into something extraordinary.

I understand that a vast percentage of the population have “day jobs” and making a spectacular breakfast on a weekday is far from being at the top of their priority list. These ideas are more geared towards days off.

This is the perfect circumstance to forget about the bowl of cold cereal or toast and jam and blow the dust off some old cookbooks to try something new.

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favourite breakfast pastimes is making and perfecting different pancake recipes from around the world.

It seems that every walk of life has their own version of what we know as the traditional North American pancake. Making it a tradition to do a different pancake recipe every Saturday or Sunday morning is a fantastic journey around the culinary world.

French toast is another common “special” breakfast that many people enjoy, but we prepare it differently on many instances.

Instead of the traditional method of dipping bread in batter and frying in a pan, we often will make a large casserole dish of French toast the night before, letting the egg mixture soak in, and then bake it the next morning. Not only is it an extraordinary display at the breakfast table, it also allows us to have more free time in the morning to sip our special coffees and enjoy each other’s company.

Actually there are many recipes that you can get mostly prepared the night before, like muffins or biscuits. Measure and combine all of the dry ingredients, then all you have to do is

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The bread might rise slightly in the fridge, but you will need to remove it from the fridge an hour or two before baking. Remove the plastic wrap, let it rise in a warm place until it doubles its original size and bake as usual. On many occasions we will serve fresh baked bread simply topped with butter and honey.

If all of this seems like “work,” however, there is one very quick way to help transform your regular breakfast of cold cereal: top with a handful of fresh in-season berries or banana slices. This will take very little time, offer more flavour and nutrition, and make a better presentation.

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The free energy assessments are offered through a joint effort between the City of New Westminster, LiveSmartBC: Small Business Program, Metro Vancouver, B.C. Hydro Power Smart and FortisBC. The process starts with a free assessment from a building energy advisor who will walk through the facility and help the business owner uncover the

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The assessment takes about an hour to complete, after which participants will receive a report outlining how energy is being used in the facility, including potential energy savings through equipment replacement, lighting upgrades, operational practices and more.

The goal for the business program is to have 80 energy assessments completed by the end of

12 months, with 40 businesses having completed the initial energy assessment and proceeding with energy upgrades and improvements to their facilities.

The assessments are available to local business owners on a first-come, first-served basis.

Register online at energysavenewwest.ca or call Ryan Coleman, project coordinator, at 604-5153818.

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◗ IN THE GAME

JV Hyacks still looking for big breakthrough ◗P22 Fourth straight top Canadian nod for CFL running back ◗P22

SECTION COORDINATOR Tom Berridge, 604-444-3022 • tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

Royals earn wild card to soccer nats Douglas kept the pressure on Langara, including an unsuccessful penalty shot The Douglas Royals are from Sandhu in the final 30 going back to the Canadian minutes of the second half. college soccer nationals, Khattra iced the win albeit as a wild card. for Douglas with a series The Royals played of exciting moves with 15 PacWest regular season minutes to go, beating a champions Thompson number of Langara defendRivers University WolfPack ers and the keeper. to a 1-1 draw “That after 90 minLangara game utes of regulawas probably tion time and “Our goal comthe most comtwo periods of petitive game, overtime before ing in was whistle to whislosing 4-3 on to qualify. tle,” said Toor. penalty kicks at “We didn’t sit the provincial That game on back, we had championships Saturday was our chances.” in Nanaimo on The Royals, played like a Sunday. seeded fourth After play- provincial final. going into the ing to a scorenationals, will less first half, It was a battle.” take on No. 5 TRU opened the Alberta wildscoring early in ROBBY TOOR card Northern the second on a Douglas co-head coach Alberta goal by Ashley Institute of Raynes.

Technology in Douglas evened the its opening round match score off a corner kick in on Nov. 6. the 64th minute.

The four-time defendDefender Nico Jecanski ing Ontario and defendtook advantage of a brisk ing national champion wind and slotted a well- Humber Hawks are seeded taken strike into the top No. 1. corner of the net.

Thompson Rivers goes The Royals kept work- into the nationals seeded ing for the win, but the second overall.

Thompson Rivers defence No. 3 is Alberta chammanaged to keep Douglas pion MacEwan Griffins, a off the board.

3-1 winner over NAIT in “Our goal coming in was the provincial championto qualify,” said Douglas ship final. co-head coach Robby Toor.

A dark horse is Quebec “That game on Saturday champion Dawson College, was played like a provin- an unranked provincial cial final. It was a battle on sixth seed that knocked off Saturday.” league champion and No. The third-place PacWest 3 national seed Elans de finishers upset league run- Garneau in overtime in the ner-up Langara College 2-0 provincial final. in the semifinal, effectively At last year’s nationearning at least a PacWest als hosted by Douglas, the wildcard berth to the Royals were knocked out upcoming nationals, which in the semifinals by NAIT. will be held in Saint John, “The boys were disN.B. from Nov. 6 to 9. appointed (in the provinDespite losing All- cial final), but you could Canadian Javid Khan to a tell by the senior guys contentious red card in the what the ultimate goal is,” match, Douglas was full added Toor. value for the victory.

The Canadian Collegiate Sandhu opened the championships kick off on scoring just 15 minutes in, Nov. 5 with an awards dinwhen Douglas freshman ner, where All-Canadian Shahbaz Khattra beat two players of the year and defenders down the flank coach of the year will be and sent through a cross named. that the PacWest provinThe final placement cial all-star top forward games and medal finals headed in. will take place on Saturday, Playing without Khan, Nov. 9.

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

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A good first start: Tyrone Morgan, in black, rushed for more than 100 yards in his varsity start for the New Westminster Hyacks – a 19-14 victory over the Notre Dame Jugglers at Mercer Stadium on Friday.

Hyacks at home in Mercer

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

Junior backup quarterback Mackenzie Ratcliffe’s first varsity start was a timely one for the New Westminster Hyacks football team.

Ratcliffe scored on a 20yard touchdown run while guiding the 6-2 Hyacks to a 19-14 victory over the Notre Dame Jugglers at Mercer Stadium last Friday.

The win left New West with a record of 32 in Western conference play and in a four-way tie for second spot behind No. 1 provincial seed Mt. Douglas heading into the

final game of the season this weekend.

The Hyacks have a win over Belmont and a loss to Vancouver College this season. A win over visiting Handsworth this Friday at Mercer would give the Hyacks home field advantage in the first round of playoffs.

“That’s really important to us. We haven’t lost at home this season,” said Hyacks head coach Farhan Lalji. “We’ve got a home game, and that matters a lot.”

It also mattered that the Hyacks got solid performances from some fresh faces.

Ratcliffe engineered an

11-play, 67-yard drive on er, but as a team, it shows the Hyacks’ second pos- our perseverance,” said session that culminated in Ratcliffe after the game. a 17-yard rushing touchNew West needed every down from Kale Brock in ounce of that quality in the the opening quarter. second half, when Notre Grade 11 run- To watch a Dame finally broke ning back Tyrone video scan through with two Morgan also had fourth-quarter with his best game to scores, including a date, rushing late 20-yard touch15 times for 112 down reception yards.

by Aldrich Berrios Later in the that set the stage first half, Brock recovered for a final short kickoff a fumbled punt in Juggler attempt that failed. territory that set up Angelo Tanjuaquio Ratcliffe for his touchdown scored what proved to be run with just 12 seconds the game-winning touchleft in the second quarter. down, taking the ball into “I was a little bit nerv- the end zone on a fourth ous … but it gives me a lot down and two from three ◗Hyacks Page 22 more confidence as a play-

Bantam girl tops cross-country zones

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

Glenbrook Middle School student Grace Fetherstonhaugh had quite a week of running.

The Grade 8 New Westminster student dominated the senior and junior girls’ field at the BurWest/ Richmond high school zone crosscountry championships with a winning time of 16:46 last Wednesday.

Fetherstonhaugh took the lead on the first of two loops on the 4.3kilometre course and never looked back.

“I tried to run close to the lead, and when I felt I could take control going into the woods, I tried to put some space between me and the other runners,” Fetherstonhaugh said.

New Westminster Secondary’s Sarah Stewart and fellow Royal City Track athlete Emily Chilton finished in third and fourth place, respectively.

Grade 9 runner Celine Loriot of Burnaby South placed sixth in the 78-girl field. South teammates Sara Eng and Jennifer Shannon also finished in the top 10.

Robyn Lee of Burnaby Mountain finished in seventh place.

The Burnaby North team of Morgan Lai, Kristyn Lee, Alyssa Sommer, Zoe Loewen, Sophia Govorcin and Alicia Kan all finished bunched between 10th and 23rd place to finish first among district schools.

In the boys’ 6.5km race, Byrne Creek’s Jemal Reta placed first overall in a winning time of 21:05, nearly half a minute ahead of the runnerup McMath student. ◗Running Page 22

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◗ HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

JV Hyacks still looking for big breakthrough midway through the second quarter.

But the Vancouver The New Westminster independent scored twice Hyacks are still not ready more in the second half for prime time. and blocked a punt in the In a battle for first place end zone for a two-point in the B.C. high school jun- rouge to lead 33-7 before ior varsity football south Adrian Cagampan raced division last week, New into the end zone from 55 Westminster’s yards out in the 33-14 loss at final play of the home to the game for New For more video coverage Westminster’s Fighting Irish of this story, go to proved just second score. www.royalcityrecord.com how far the “We’re still Hyacks have looking for to go before calling them- that breakthrough game. selves contenders.

We’re not there yet,” said The JV Hyacks coughed JV Hyack head coach Chad up the ball on two separate Oatway. “With our kids, occasions in the first half it’s nothing physical, it’s all and gave up touchdowns mental. They have to learn on a long opening drive how to play in a big game. and on a 37-yard pass-and- We still have a long way run to Brendan Chandra to go.” late in the second quarter New Westminster takes to trail 17-7 at halftime. on Holy Cross in the final The one bright spot was game of the regular seaDavid Penalver’s record son at Mercer Stadium on 95-yard kickoff return that Thursday. Game time is shaved the deficit to 10-7 5:30 p.m.

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

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Fourth straight honour

New Westminster’s Jon Cornish was named the CFL’s top Canadian for a fourth consecutive week following a 100-plus game in the Calgary Stampeders’ 29-25 comeback win over Saskatchewan last weekend. Cornish’s three-yard touchdown run with less than two minutes remaining stood up as the game-winner.

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Junior Liban Farah of Mountain finished in third place in 22:05. Grade 11 runner Alec Maloney of Burnaby Central was fourth in 22:14.

Central topped the district aggregate, nipping Mountain by a descending point score of 51-54.

Central’s Ashneel Varma came seventh, while teammates Josh Lim, Grade 8 Charles Yu, Santiago Ward and Andrew Liu also finished in the top 21.

The Mountain team got points from fifth-place Andrew Woinoski, sixth-place Tim Woinoski, Stefano Fadi, Daniel Min and Lucas Ritter.

The B.C. high school championships will include a junior race and senior boys’ and girls’ race for the first time. All races will be held this Saturday at Aldergrove Lake Park in Langley, beginning with the junior girls’ race at 10 a.m.

Fetherstonhaugh also placed third for the Royal City Track Club in the 13-year-old girls’ 3,000 metres at the B.C. cross-country championships in Clearbrook Park in Abbotsford on Saturday. The finish gave the New West runner second-place in the cross-country season series.

Chilton also finished runner-up in her 14-year-old girls’ age group in the cross-country series, following a fifth-place finish at the B.C.s.

In a romp: Grade 8 Glenbrook Middle School student Grace Fetherstonhaugh, seen here in an earlier club race in Surrey, placed first overall at the Richmond/BurWest zone girls’ 4.3-kilometre cross-country championships in Central Park last week.

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Hyacks: N.W. hosts Handsworth at Mercer Friday New West will host Handsworth in its final regular season game at Mercer Stadium on Friday. Game time is 7:30 p.m.

yards out after Ratcliffe drove the ball downfield.

Prabh Bal led the Hyack D with 10 tackles, while Jonathan Tomalty and Kayne Phillips had fourth-quar-

ter sacks.

“It shows we’re one team and will fight for each other to the end,” said Morgan. “We came and we delivered. We stayed focused and stayed in the game.”

Best-ever finish for Quest women

New Westminster’s Amy Ancil shared in Quest University’s best-ever finish at the PacWest provincial soccer championships in Nanaimo. Quest earned a silver medal following a 1-0 loss to Thompson Rivers University in the women’s finial on Sunday.

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