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Coal proposal fires up teen activists BY JENNIFER THUNCHER REPORTER editorial@royalcityrecord.com
New Westminster Secondary’s Fiana Liu and Grace Ji are only 17 years old, but they are already seasoned activists. The Grade 11 students are on a mission to stop the proposed $15-million Fraser Surrey Docks coal transfer facility because of concerns that coal dust will impact New Westminster. The girls worked with the Dogwood Initiative last year and gathered approximately 400 signatures for the environmental group’s Beyond Coal campaign. Now they have paired with Kids for Climate Action and are planning a Ride for Our Future in August. They will rally support from youth in New Westminster and surrounding communities over the summer and then ride their bicycles to Victoria to meet with MLAs and present them with a petition opposing the Fraser Surrey Docks expansion. The girls were previously involved in a No Tankers campaign, opposing Enbridge’s proposed increase in tankers carrying oil off the B.C. coast, but when they learned about the Fraser Surrey Docks proposal, which would mean one more train and two more cargo ships travelling through New Westminster each day, they switched gears. For both girls, the dock proposal hits very close to home. Liu can see the Fraser ◗Coal Page 8
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Coal opposition: New Westminster Secondary School students and activists Grace Ji, left, and Fiana Liu oppose the $15-million Fraser Surrey Docks coal transfer facility for health, environmental and economic reasons.
Dropping picket line causes rift between leaders CUPE president upset NWTU allowed picket line to come down BY NIKI HOPE REPORTER
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While relations are fractured between the teachers and the provincial government, two labour allies are having a dispute of their own. The president of the local Canadian
Union of Public Employees is “disappointed” the New Westminster Teachers’ Union allowed picket lines to come down Thursday at the New Westminster school district’s Columbia Square headquarters to allow two CUPE members to enter the building to help with staffing and payroll for next year. “I’m very unhappy and very disappointed in the NWTU and the fact that they would allow that to happen after we’ve been out here for the last two weeks supporting them 100 per cent, after our union is paying $2 million in strike pay
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New Westminster senior Phillip laMarche is a happy-go-lucky guy who always has a joke to tell and doesn’t often complain, but he is complaining now. LaMarche, 86, is afraid he is going to be seriously injured because there isn’t a wheelchair friendly bus stop that heads to the city’s core near his home. He lives in a seniors’ residence close to the stops for the 128 bus that are kitty-corner to each other at Sixth Street and Eighth Avenue. He wants the city to fix the stops. Buses have occasionally stopped to pick him up or drop him off at these stops, particularly if the weather is bad, but usually they don’t. “And those are very popular corners,” he said. “The last (driver) wouldn’t let me off because he said he wasn’t allowed to and he would get into a lot of trouble if he did.” When the buses don’t stop, laMarche has to travel several blocks further, which he said puts him at risk of tipping over his electric wheelchair. Something that did happen once, but luckily that time he fell into grass and wasn’t badly hurt. Even if he is not injured, laMarche said having to go the extra blocks is very inconvenient, especially if it is raining. His electric chair doesn’t work well in the rain so if he has to travel further on a rainy day the chair will sometimes just stop. LaMarche has been in a wheelchair since 2012 when his left leg was amputated due to an infection. His right leg also has serious circulation issues. Even with his physical challenges, laMarche gets out often on transit. He goes to Vancouver
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Route issues: Wheelchair-bound senior Phillip laMarche says there needs to be more wheelchair-friendly stops in New Westminster, particularly at his home in the Uptown neighbourhood. every Sunday to play the organ for his church and he never has any trouble, because the stops he needs are all wheelchair accessible. The fact that there isn’t access on a much-used New Westminster route, for anyone who is disabled or injured, angers laMarche.
“It is unjust,” he said. According to TransLink, bus stop and sidewalk infrastructure is the responsibility of the city. “TransLink has a program to share the cost of improvements to stops with municipalities to improve accessibility and we
would be pleased to work with the city if they make a request,” TransLink’s Jeff Busby told The Record in an email. Busby said so far, TransLink had not heard from the city about these two stops. ◗Upset Page 8
Big reveals set for this fall downtown
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Two projects that have been in the works for years will soon be subject to the big reveal in downtown New Westminster. The City of New Westminster is holding the grand opening of Anvil Centre on Sunday, Sept.14
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and is unveiling the Wait for Me, Daddy war memorial on Saturday, Oct. 4. “I’d like to invite everyone to mark their calendars for these two noteworthy fall events in our city – one of local significance and the other of national significance,” Mayor Wayne Wright said in a press release. “It’s always great to
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celebrate initiatives of this magnitude with our community and all those involved in bringing these large projects to fruition.” Anvil Centre includes conference spaces, meeting rooms, a 364-seat theatre, a new media gallery, the city’s museum and several multi-purpose rooms for cultural programming. The grand
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‘Glitch’ won’t delay overpass BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com
Aglitch during construction of the Fourth Street pedestrian overpass isn’t expected to have any impact on the project’s budget or timeline. The overpass project that’s now underway at the foot of Fourth Street will include a pedestrian walkway, an elevator and stairs leading into Westminster Pier Park. One of the seven piles being installed as part of the structure’s foundation failed during installation, so an additional pile had to be installed to complete the foundation structure. “It hit an obstruction,” said Keith Whiteley, an engineering technologist with the city. “In this case, it didn’t hit it dead on. It hit it at the edge of the pile. It creased the pile and it folded the pile at 80 feet deep.” Testing and a camera sent deep underground confirmed the pile had failed. “We had a new pile put in about a metreand-a-half away from it,” Whiteley said. “It went in perfectly.” Although the failure caused a “bit of a delay,” Whiteley said it’s not expected to greatly impact the completion date of the overpass. “There is a bit of slack time in the schedule,” he said. “Nothing else stopped. Fabrication of the superstructure, the steel, the elevator – all that (work) continued on. It was just a delay within the pile cap system.” Once the piles were completely installed, the pile cap was poured on top. He explained that a platform is built on top of the piles,
once they are in place. “All the piles are connected together,” Whiteley said. “That connects all the piles together so they work in unison.” According to Whiteley, the project is “fully out of the ground now” and working toward a completion date this fall. “The anticipated date is probably in October,” he said. “That’s the goal.” The structure will allow people to access Westminster Pier Park via Fourth Street, near the parkade. In addition to stairs, the structure will provide elevator access into the waterfront park. “On the front half of the platform is a viewing area. It is a completely walkaround elevator,” Whiteley said. “If you are coming in off of Columbia Street, you enter in the elevator from that direction and you will leave facing the water. It’s a walkthrough elevator.” Westminster Pier Park opened on the waterfront in June 2012. Since that time, it has only been accessible by a parking lot at the west side of the site. “It is going to be a gorgeous looking project when it is finished,” Whiteley said. In January, the city awarded a $2.5 million contact to B&B Heavy Civil Construction Ltd. The city had originally budgeted $1.3 million for the overpass, increased it to $1.85 million and later sought feedback from contractors who had submitted bids to find out how the city could reduce costs. In response to that feedback from contractors, the city made some changes to the overpass from what had originally been proposed and approved the $2.5 million budget.
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Under construction: Work on the new overpass to Westminster Pier Park is underway and aiming to be complete this fall.
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photographer Claude P. Dettloff – will take place on Saturday, Oct. 4 at 11 a.m. at Hyack Square. Canada Post will unveil a national commemorative stamp featuring the Wait for Me, Daddy photo and will launch the first day of sales of the
stamp inside Anvil Centre, where a number of activities related to the project will be taking place. “We are renovating Hyack Square to a certain extent,” said Coun. Lorrie Williams. “It’s going to be an exciting place on Oct. 4.”
According to Williams, the B.C. Regiment is planning a march to the memorial with the Westies of the Royal Westminster Regiment. An informal evening event is also being considered, at which time the memorial statue would be lit.
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Can transit woes be fixed with a referendum? tax if you’re not going to reinvest it in To the surprise of no one, building an efficient transit system as Transportation Minister Todd Stone has told the Lower Mainland’s mayors a viable alternative? So we’re left with the prospect of a their transit plan is a non-starter if it means dipping into the province’s car- referendum if the mayors want to pay for trains and buses with bon tax to pay for it. new forms of funding. The carbon tax was A referendum is questionmeant to be an incentive to THE RECORD able in several respects. get people out of their cars The mayors who came up – because people tend to take with the plan are already duly elected more notice of climate-friendly polito represent their constituents. cies when they are hit in the pocketThe B.C. Liberals, more than anybook – but what good is collecting the
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one, should know what happens when you put higher taxes to a vote, as we saw from the HST fiasco. Somehow, we don’t think Bill Vander Zalm is going to swoop in and campaign this one to success. We also note that multi-billiondollar bridge and highway projects haven’t had to clear the same hurdle. Even though Stone agreed the status quo is not acceptable for a region expecting a million more residents in the next 40 years, he has had nothing
to say about what the contingency plan is if the vote fails. If we thought the teachers versus government is a tough circle to square, it might look like child’s play compared to coming up with a resolution to the ongoing transit turf battles and how to balance needs versus resources. Lower Mainland voters will have plenty of time to consider that prospect as they sit in gridlock or wait for a bus with room for more passengers.
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ost in the increasingly bitter fight between the B.C. government and the B.C. Teachers’ Federation is the fact that a genuine crisis seems to be developing in many classrooms around the province. And it’s a crisis that is not about how much a teacher earns or how many kids are in the classroom (although that can be a contributing factor) or whether there are enough school supplies to go around. No, this is about the mental health of students. Teachers and physicians have noticed a significant rise in anxiety among young people, for example. According to Dr. Steve Mathias, the head of youth mental health program for Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, this can result in kids “self-medicating” themselves with drug use by their mid-teens. Mathias, in a presentation to the legislature’s child and youth committee last month, noted about 14 per cent of young people aged 12 to 17 will have a mental health problem in any given year. He also said the number of young people going to the emergency room with
mental health issues has almost tripled since 2008. Anxiety and depression are two dominant mental health issues for young people, Mathias said, and he noted there simply are not resources (i.e. funding) deployed to deal with this rising problem. Last week, I asked teachers (via Twitter) to send me their stories about what they see in their classroom when it comes to issues like anxiety and other mental health challenges. Their responses were eye-opening and worrying. About two dozen teachers all told me they have noticed a significant rise in anxiety and depression among their students in recent years. Most said this wasn’t a case of one or two kids in a class showing signs of anxiety, but more like a half-dozen. They attribute this growth in anxiety to several factors, the most notable and prevalent being the rise of social media. Schools have long been challenging for kids trying to conform or fit in, or to stand out among their peers. Social media, particularly Facebook and Instagram, have raised those challenges to a whole new level. Some teachers also pointed to the fact that kids have much more rigid routines now, and are pushed into more activities by so-called “helicopter parents,” who pressure them in ways not seen as much in the
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Irony: Your part-time school has a yearly surplus that for years has helped in funding a small deep-inthe-red school in your district, and when that school becomes so unviable that it must be closed and your school relocates to its old site, many of the parents blame you and your part-time school, and the community newspaper publishes a letter from one of them blaming you and your school, and now many of the public blame you and your school. Stupidity: You cut an aide from your district’s part-time school, directly resulting in the loss of an IEP level-1 funded student to a school outside your district – a significant net financial loss to your district – and the next year you make a similar cut to the same school and you expect a different result. ◗Students Page 7 (An IEP Level-1 funded student brings a school
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district about an additional $18,000. New West Home Learners runs three two-month terms, minus a week each term – about 22 weeks last year. Students attend for four hours, two days a week. At a high rate of $30/hour a one-on-one SEA for the student who departed would cost the district this year 22 weeks x 8 hours/week x $30 hours = $5,280. Think I might be lowballing this number? Double it and the district has suffered a financial loss. Triple it and the district has still suffered a financial loss.) Why is the public perception of a school that operates at a profit and gives its surplus to help fund all the other schools in the district so negative? And why is the New West School District strangling the goose that lays its golden egg?
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Memo to impatient drivers Dear Editor:
I was walking in uptown New Westminster on Sunday. Drivers making turns appear to be
impatient with pedestrians. It takes less than 60 seconds for a pedestrian to cross the street, but if you hit a pedestrian, I guarantee it will delay you for more than 60 seconds. Angela Mok, by email
Students: Stress taking its toll ◗ continued from page 6
past. One teacher, who has taught elementary school for 12 years, said she notices students spend less time reading and less time playing. Their problem-solving skills have eroded, which lead to more stress. “I find students’ ability to problem solve in the classroom has declined significantly over the course of my career and I feel that adds to their stress levels,” she wrote to me. “They are used to parents solving things for them and feel stressed when they need to solve things for themselves.” A teacher in Richmond says he has noticed significant rise in anxiety among teenage girls, and puts a lot of blame on social media. “They check Facebook often, are texting more and more between classes, at lunch, at home etc. I think because their brains are still forming, they literally can’t handle the over-stimulation technology creates,” he wrote. As a result, he said, he sees more eating disorders, more self-mutilation, higher rates of sexual promiscuity and what he says is an inability to handle “boring” moments. Some mental health issues can be even
more severe in school. One teacher (no names here, as I promised all anonymity) wrote to me that one of her seven-yearold students was so violent that it had turned her classroom into a nightmarish situation, where all kids became anxious and frightened. “This violent child is in a classroom with 20 other children. Seventeen are ELL, of which one child has two words (bathroom and no) and a second child has about 150 words. I have two ADHD, one ADD and four seeing the school counsellor because of problems at home,” she wrote, adding the whole situation has made everyone tense and anxious. Obviously, what’s going on in classrooms these days is far different than 10 or 20 years ago. The result is that teaching appears to be a more difficult and challenging job than ever before. And it doubtless appears that more must be done to deal with what everyone seems to agree is a rapidly deteriorating situation. More resources (for example, more special education assistants) are obviously needed, but even that may not be able to solve a crisis that seems to be enveloping the modern education system. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC
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Comment via RoyalCityRecord.com I frankjamesmd: Speaking Truth to Power is what youth do best. … China’s industrialization at the cost of the health of its people is nothing to be proud of, the exploitation of First Nation and the environmental resources of BC for the benefit primarily of a few industrialists is nothing to be aggrandized. These young women are brave, smart and have all our best interests at heart. Do coal companies? There are many more people employed in solar and wind energy than in coal, and which do you think is the energy of the future? Be honest. The costs to the people of BC and China of continuing down the clearly unsustainable old road of coal consumption is clear. The price is artificial because the true cost of coal is hidden in your health costs, your environmental cleanup costs are pushed off onto future generations. They are saying stop doing that, they are right. Comment via RoyalCityRecord.com I Rowan Byrne: These young ladies are voicing concerns about the health of their/our future, for the health of their/our environment. Polluted air, water and land will affect us all. Coal has been around for decades and now it’s time to turn to renewable resources. We can’t do this overnight, but the time is now and many people know and realize this. Because of this, the US is pushing thermal coal to BC to ship to Asia to burn while they still can. What they burn in Asia comes back to us here in the West Coast. Look it up: it’s a fact. This US thermal coal may bring up to 25 more BC jobs. Meanwhile, BC residents will pay for any infrastructure, for any US thermal coal mishaps that may occur and pay with our health and suffer any deappreciation of our property values. We will end up carrying the costs for this US thermal coal. I’m a resident of BC and with hundreds of others that live in the communities along the proposed US thermal coal route. We want a comprehensive health impact assessment by an independent party that will include us people/BC residents who deserve nothing less when it comes to our health. I say BRAVO for the two young ladies who have the courage to stand up for what they feel and know is detrimental to our future. We already have Neptune and Westshoreenough is ENOUGH.
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Coal: Students motivated by health and environmental concerns ◗ continued from page 1
River from her house and Ji lives in Queensborough, directly across from the docks. Liu said she opposes coal for health, economic and environmental reasons. “It touches upon the fact that I am an immigrant who came from China,” she said. “When I went back [to China] when I was in Grade 4, I remember distinctly noticing that everywhere I went there was dust. … Later, I learned it was from the incredible amount of pollution because of coal, among other things.” Liu said it is her parents’ apathy about the dangers of thermal coal coming through New Westminster, even though they saw the damage coal caused in China first hand, that has been a catalyst for her to act. “They aren’t against me doing this, but they aren’t particularly supportive either,” she said. In addition to concerns over airborne coal dust particulates, Liu is concerned the increase in coal traffic through New Westminster will give her city a bad reputation and lower housing prices. She also worries the Fraser River, which she can see from her house, will be compromised by the exposure to thermal coal and its dust. Alan Fryer of the Coal Alliance, which represents vari-
Rift: Over picket line ◗ continued from page 1
until next week, the week after or when this whole dispute is resolved. Certainly, if it was CUPE’s picket line, if it was CUPE that was on strike, we’d shut this whole district down – everything but the daycare,” he said. “Anything else, we would shut down and let administration do.” Marsolais acknowledged the two union leaders had a good relationship before this issue, but said it’s changed as a result of Thursday’s situation. “It won’t create a rift in the workplace, but it has created a rift between the leadership,” he said. Local CUPE members will continue to walk picket lines, he added, but said the situation at Columbia Square has taken the wind out of their sails. Superintendent John Gaiptman said the district needed cooperation from both CUPE and the NWTU because there are “specific” skills that the two CUPE staffers had. “There are numerous teachers who would like to know if they will work in the (district) if there is a job for them in the fall, and if so, where they will actually be placed,” he said. “They need to know it for their summer advance. We pay teachers from July 1 to July 1, so if they are employed, they start collecting their pay in July.” The teachers get paid even if they are on strike because it is an advance, Gaiptman explained. The superintendent didn’t want to comment on the tension between the two unions. “I can only say that certainly we appreciated the support that we received today to get through staffing, but I cannot and will not comment on etiquette during the strike,” said Gaiptman, who spent part of the day setting up chairs for the high school grad ceremonies being held that night – just one of the many extra duties he and other senior administrators have had to take over as a result of job action. Robert Weston, the district’s director of human resources, is the only staff member in the HR department who is exempt from the union. “Without their help we would not be able to progress,” he said about the two CUPE workers who came in to work on staffing for the next school year.
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Activists: Fiana Liu and Grace Ji have concerns about airborne coal dust particulates in New Westminster. ous coal industry stakeholders, said environmentalists’ concerns about coal are largely unfounded. “As an industry, I think we have done a really good job over the years of mitigating any coal dust. These coal
trains are sprayed twice at the mine site and at about the halfway point to the terminal and that does a pretty effective job of keeping the coal dust where it belongs, which is in the rail car,” he said, adding the number of complaints from communities where coal is currently shipped through are minimal. In terms of a decrease in housing prices, Fryer said he has never seen any evidence of that happening. For her part, Ji shares Liu’s environmental and health concerns but is also worried about the larger political ramifications of the expansion. She said it frightens her that more high-level politicians aren’t speaking out about the project. “It is a corporation that isn’t really giving citizens much of a say,” she said. Ji said that, while she and others involved in the anticoal youth campaign can’t vote yet, they are mobilizing and will be eligible voters soon. “We will support politicians who join us in this campaign against coal.” The communications departments of both Surrey Fraser Docks and Port Metro Vancouver said the port authority is still reviewing the expansion permit application and project details. There is no set date for when the review will be complete.
Small dogs get space in park BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com
New West residents should get their flip-flops ready as the city has deemed an urban beach to be its top priority for Westminster Pier Park. On Monday, council endorsed a design plan for the timber wharf section of the waterfront park. Along with the urban park, new features to be added in the coming months include a river walk trail and an off-leash area for small dogs. “This isn’t intended for the German Shepherds of the world,” said Dean Gibson, director of parks, culture and
recreation, “but more your small, petite pooches.” Canines won’t be the only ones getting a new play area at Westminster Pier Park. Council had previously suggested staff look at the possibility of including a water play area in the park. Although the city is unable to do a full-blown spray park because of cost issues and the need for spray parks to be located in close proximity to washrooms, Gibson said a water garden design is doable. “We think it will be quite playful,” he said of the feature being proposed. The sculptural water garden will include play misters where kids (of all ages) can cool down on a hot day.
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◗ IN THE COMMUNITY
Young player lives his soccer dream ◗P11 Junior ’Bellies wins 13th in a row ◗P12
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On the waterfront: Helga and Doug Leaney have been operating Paddlewheeler Riverboat Tours in New Westminster for 25 years. They now have 10 employees and two vessels – a 40-foot catamaran, Beta Star, and the 100-passenger flagship, the sternwheeler Native.
Living out a dream on the Fraser BY JENNIFER THUNCHER CONTRIBUTOR editorial@royalcityrecord.com
When Helga and Doug Leaney sold their Langley jewelry store to start a Fraser River passenger boat cruise business in 1989, it was a huge gamble on a shared lifetime dream, but it was a gamble that paid off. Their New Westminster company, Paddlewheeler Riverboat Tours, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this summer. What started as a fledgling operation with no onshore office, a single 13-metre 40-passenger boat, the Inlet Cruiser, and some cruises that were almost empty of passengers, has morphed into a successful business with 10 employees, an office, and two vessels. They operate a 40-passenger catamaran, Beta Star, and their 100-passenger flagship, 28-metre steel-hulled sternwheeler, Native.
“It has not been an easy road, believe The two boats do a combination of regularly scheduled lunch, dinner, his- me,” said Helga. “Now when you say Fraser River, people know (it). torical and dance cruises from When we started this business, the New Westminster Quay people said, ‘What are you to Fort Langley, Steveston and talking about?’” Pitt Lake. “When you are Spreading the word was The company has always much harder in the days been a family affair. Doug, 78, the only pebble before home computers and a former City of Calgary fire- on the beach it the Internet. They depended fighter, is captain and Helga, primarily on word of mouth 72, is in charge of the food and is pretty hard and newspaper advertising. pretty much everything else to make a big Later on, there were dark that goes into onboard event periods, such the Quay’s marplanning. Helga’s brother, wake.” ket closure in 2009, when it Frank Froebel, was the narraseemed to Helga no one else tor on the tours, until he retired HELGA LEANEY Paddlewheeler tours was interested in promotrecently. ing the Quay, or even New Over the 25 years, the couple Westminster. says it didn’t always look like “When you are the only pebble on things would work out as well as they have. Budgets were tight, and the Leaneys the beach it is pretty hard to make a big wake,” she said. “But we saw the beauty were working in uncharted territory.
of the place.” Running a business as a married couple, they have been married over 40 years, has also had its challenges, but they have made it work. “We live together and we work together, and I think that is something Helga and I should be very, very proud of, because it doesn’t always work for people,” he said. “Every day wasn’t a perfect day of us getting along 100 per cent, you know, we have different ideas sometimes, but we always resolve them and make sure we get to the right resolution. My wife and I are 50-50 partners, and we built this business together and I am very proud of her and what she has done.” Helga said keeping the responsibilities divided has helped. “In the end our common goal is to make this business a success,” she said. ◗Paddlewheeler Page 10
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n upcoming night of comedy will be raising funds to help with research for FSH Muscular Dystrophy. FSHD Canada is a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding research for FSH muscular dystrophy, the most prevalent of the nine muscular dystrophies. #StandUp4FSHD, which is taking place on Saturday, July 19 at the Columbia Theatre, features Vancouver-based comedian Carter Hortie and California native Dino Archie. “We are looking forward to a successful event in New Westminster,” said Neil Camarta, founder and CEO of FSHD Canada. “Funding for FSHD is largely done through grassroots efforts of individuals who are impacted by FSH. It is remarkable how far we have come in groundbreaking research given that funding model.” Net proceeds raised at #StandUp4FSHD will fund
research for FSH Muscular Dystrophy. According to organizers of the event, FSH Muscular Dystrophy is a muscle-wasting disease that mainly affects the facial, scapular (shoulder blade) and humeral (upper arm) muscles, but all parts of the body are affected. There’s currently no treatment for this condition, and people who have this genetic condition don’t know when or how severely muscle loss will take place. “We have had a remarkable few years of research advances for FSHD,” Dr. Stephen Tabscott, principal investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, said in a press release. “This progress would not have been possible without community support. We now have a roadmap for developing therapies for FSHD and need to press forward to convert these opportunities into real therapies.” #StandUp4FSHD is being held on Saturday, July 19, with doors opening at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 (plus tax and service charges) and available online at www. thecolulmbia.ca. For more information, check
Paddlewheeler: Family business has thrived ◗ continued from page 9
What has always inspired the couple to keep working at the business, when many their age have long since retired, is seeing happy returning customers. “I really like to see them happy,” she said. Sailing on the Fraser for so many years has given the couple, especially Doug, as captain, unique insight into how things have changed on the water. “The main change that we see now is that there is not nearly the activity for sawmills. Most of the sawmills have closed up,” Doug said. “The other big change of course is that we don’t get the huge of amount of fish boats because we don’t get the salmon runs that we used to get.” Doug said one thing that has stayed constant is that the Fraser is great for touring. “The river, basically, is a pretty peaceful place.” As they enter their 26th year in business on the Fraser, the couple agree about what they are most proud off. “We persevered,” said Doug. For more information go to www.vancouverpaddle wheeler.com.
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Military tribute
The annual Seats for Soldiers military tribute takes place at this week’s New Westminster Senior Salmonbellies games. The pre-game activities, beginning at 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 3, include a military display expo featuring vehicles and equipment, a barbecue and a beer garden. Pre-game entertainment gets underway at 7 p.m. and faceoff is at 7:45 p.m., when the Bellies take on the Coquitlam Adanacs.
The fun doesn’t end at faceoff, as intermissions will feature military band entertainment, giveaways and a “grenade toss” – not to worry, no one will be injured in the night’s festivities. The Seats for Soldiers salute to the Canadian Armed forces invites all serving and past military, veterans, cadets, Legion members and military associations to attend for free. While military personnel are invited to dress in uniforms, Legion or regimental blazers, civilians are encouraged to wear red for Canada.
Artists wanted
Fraser River Discovery Centre is accepting submissions from artists and artisans for its annual Artists on the River art market. Artists and artisans working in all media are invited to display, demonstrate and sell their artwork along the Westminster Quay boardwalk during RiverFest, which takes place on Saturday, Sept. 27. As part of this year’s 11th annual celebration of B.C. and World Rivers Day, RiverFest features live performances from some of top groups from the
Peak Performance Project 2013 and 2014, river tours aboard the MV Native paddlewheeler, interactive displays and exhibits, the second annual salmon chowder cook-off, crafts and activities for the whole family and the Lucille Johnstone workboat parade. For more details on the criteria for artists and artisans, as well as application forms, visit www.fraser riverdiscovery.org. Do you have an item for Around town? Send ideas to Theresa, tmcmanus@royal cityrecord.com, or find her on Twitter, @TheresaMcManus.
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◗ IN THE GAME
Junior ’Bellies win 13th straight game – with video ◗P12 Senior Salmonbellies in Langley ◗P12
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Next stop Brazil for lucky middie BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com
Damiano Pecile will be following his soccer football heroes to Brazil this fall. The 12-year-old midfielder from Burnaby will represent Canada at the 15th edition of the Danone Nations Cup in November. The Burnaby Selects under-13 Metro league player is the only player from the district to be named to the Western Canada representative team that defeated Eastern Canada 3-1 in overtime to win the right to wear the maple leaf in Sao Paolo in five month’s time. “I feel great. It’s like a dream come true going to Brazil and “It’s like a dream representing Canada, and playing in front come true going of thousands of fans,” said Pecile. to Brazil and The St. Helen’s representing Elementary School student, who will Canada, and play his final set of playing in front games for the Selects at the Provincial A of thousands of Cup championships at Burnaby Lake Sports fans.” Complex-West this week, will continue his DAMIANO PECILE Canada centre midfielder soccer with Mountain United FC in the high performance league. “My job is to assist and score goals,” said the attacking centre midfielder. “I didn’t score (against the East), but I got an assist.” The Canadian Danone Cup final was played at Montreal’s Saputo Stadium, home of the Major Soccer League’s Montreal Impact. Both teams exchanged goals early in the contest, including the East’s game-opening goal at just 28 seconds, before playing a chess match the rest of regular time. The West broke the log jam with two goals in extra time. “When they scored early in the game, my stomach almost dropped. We really had to step it up,” said Pecile, who picked up an assist on the West’s second goal in overtime. “I think both teams were tired in overtime, but maybe our players were in better condition. (The East) were a good team.” Now, Canada will look to have its best-ever finish when it takes to the field at the centre of the soccer universe at the world’s largest youth soccer tournament. Since the competition’s inception in 2000, Canada has finished in the top eight in three previous international Danone Nation’s Cup. In 2011, Canada had its best-ever finish in Madrid, Spain, placing sixth behind eventual champion Brazil. The Canadian 11 to 12 champions also placed eighth in 2001 and again in 2007 in France. Last year, France came out on top, defeating Brazil in the Cup final played at Wembley
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Brazil bound: Damiano Pecile will be representing Canada’s 12-and-under youth soccer team at the Danone Nation’s Cup in Brazil in November. Stadium in London, England. Every year, approximately 2.5 million children aged 10 to 12 from 32 countries take part in local and regional tryouts. A lucky few are chosen to represent their region at the national level.
The national Danone final was a highlight for the promising young Burnaby player. “Yeah,” he said, “I couldn’t get a smile off ◗Soccer Page 12
Canadian captain to show off skills at Cariboo BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com
Canada’s national senior women’s field hockey captain Kate Gillis will be holding a skills session for junior players this week. The 24-year-old University of British Columbia arts student will lead a skills session for the Burnaby Lake Field Hockey Club’s aspiring under-10 to -12 girls at Cariboo
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Oval today (Wednesday) July 2 between 6 and 8 p.m. Gillis has earned more than 100 senior caps representing Canada in international matches. She scored her first international goal against Argentina in 2010. It’s very important to have high-profile mentors interact with the younger players and to show them how far hard work and commitment can take them, said local
junior national team hopeful Ellen Colbourne. “I remember watching (the national team) and it inspired me to continue to play,” Colbourne said. This season, Colbourne, a New Westminster Secondary School grad, earned a field hockey scholarship to NCAA Division I Lafayette College. “I hope that having seen a play-
er off the national team would inspire some girls to have a goal and where they can take field hockey,” said Colbourne, who helps coach the Burnaby Lake club u-11 girls’ team. As one of the initial recruits for the incoming new Lafayette head coach, Colbourne is eager to get the season started. Twitter @ThomasBerridge
The New Westminster Salmonbellies moved out of the Western Lacrosse Association basement. The senior A Salmonbellies scored a much-needed two points following a 10-8 victory over the Burnaby Lakers at the Bill Copeland Sports Centre last Friday. The win, coupled with Burnaby’s 8-2 victory in Nanaimo on Saturday, allowed the Queen’s Park club to vacate the league cellar with just its third win this season. New West, which lost to the Lakers in overtime back in May, held the lead for all but a brief spell in the opening period. Sean Robinson opened the scoring from Jesse Fehr and game star Richard Lachlan at the one-minute mark. Captain Curtis Hodgson made it 2-0 on an assist from New West’s firstround draft pick Brendan Ranford, in his first game since helping the Texas Stars win the American Hockey League Calder Cup earlier this month. Jordan McBride led the ’Bellies with his fourth hat trick of the season and his eighth career game-winner at 5:52 of the final frame. Lachlan scored his second of the game to lead off the third period, assisted by junior callup Luke Gillespie, who tallied his first WLA goal late in the second period. Hodgson also collected a couple of goals. Alexis Buque chalked up his second win of the season, stopping 33 shots in the New West cage. Former Salmonbellies’ keeper Tyler Richards took the loss. Robert Church led all scorers with four tallies, including an unassisted goal midway through the third period that closed the deficit to 9-8. New West hosts the Coquitlam Adanacs, hot off an 11-8 win over the previously unbeaten Victoria Shamrocks, at Seats for Soldiers night at Queen’s Park Arena this Thursday. The Salmonbellies then finish their season series against Burnaby on Friday at the Bill Copeland centre. Game times are 7:45 p.m.
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New Westminster ’s 13th straight win wasn’t the prettiest, but the junior ’Bellies will take it. The junior A league leaders defeated the Burnaby Lakers 12-5 at the Bill Copeland Sports Centre despite outshooting the home team by more than three to one. Johnny Pearson led the Salmonbellies with two goals, including his 41st of the season, in a five-point outing. Nathan Stewart also garnered a hat trick for the winners. “With a game like that you think of things you can do better,” said Pearson, who solidified his place in fourth position in overall B.C. Junior Lacrosse League scoring with 79 total points. The juniors will have to do better tonight when they meet the second-place Coquitlam Adanacs for a third and final time in the regular season. “For us, we have to treat it as a playoff game,” said the 6-4 lefthander, “come out prepared and carry on
our momentum.” In Burnaby, New West gradually shook off the plucky Lakers, who were missing four key players from their starting lineup. New West led 4-3 after one period, despite raining 29 shots on goal on Burnaby’s David Mather, who made 56 stops and has a respectable 78.19 save percentage for the 4-14-1 junior Lakers. Ross Bowman and newly acquired St. Catharines, Ont. product Eric Penney shared the goalkeeping duties for New West. Penney came on midway through the second period and made 21 stops the rest of the way, allowing a pair of goals. League scoring leader Connor Robinson moved to within a single point of a scoring century with a three-point night, while Josh Byrne and Anthony Malcom both chipped in with four-point efforts. Brett Dobray made his Salmonbellie debut, scoring a goal and adding two assists. Burnaby captain and New Westminster product
Peyton Lupul said the junior Lakers’ resurgent season has made the club feel like a family again. “It needed to be done,” said Lupul, who was one of the injured players not in the lineup Sunday. “The difference is we To view have a lot more of a video, the guys who want to play and not scan with just go through the Layar motions.” But with New West gearing up for the post-season push, the Lakers managed just 22 shots on goal on the Salmonbellie keepers. Although New West has all but wrapped up top spot in the eight-team loop and has already won the season series against Coquitlam, Pearson calls Wednesday’s final meeting with the Adanacs “critical”. “Everything we’ve been working towards will be what we carry forward into the playoffs,” he said. “Everyone has a role and if everyone plays their role we’ll be successful.” The junior ’Bellies take on the Adanacs at the Coquitlam Sports Centre today (Wednesday), beginning at 7:30 p.m.
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my face.” Thinking ahead to Brazil and the Danone Nation’s Cup competiton from Nov. 11 to 16, Pecile can’t quite get his head around how much more exhilarating playing in the soccer-rich South American locale in the aftermath of the FIFA World
Cup will be. “It will be crazy,” he said. “I can’t wait. I’m so excited.” To follow Canada on its journey to the Danone Nation’s Cup go to https://www. facebook.com/danonenationscup. Twitter @ThomasBerridge
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