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At the market Summer days: Shopping at the Royal City Farmers Market can make you feel like dancing – just ask Richard Klyne, who kicked up his heels at the July 31 market. The market is running Thursdays from 3 to 7 p.m. in Tipperary Park. Among the upcoming events is a Pride edition, running Thursday, Aug. 14 in conjunction with the New West Pride festival. That market will feature a pie bake-off, with proceeds to the Pride society. Check out all the details at www. rcfm.ca.

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Pride marks fifth anniversary in style New West Pride Festival extended to nine days of celebration for all ages

BY JENNIFER THUNCHER CONTRIBUTOR editorial@royalcityrecord.com

There will be dancing in the streets, beer gardens, a drag queen show and a familyfriendly kid zone at the fifth annual New West Pride festival.

The festival, which has been extended this year, runs nine days from Aug. 8 to 16, and will include 20 unique events.

The festivities kick off with the Stonewall

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This is the first year the main street party events will be downtown rather than at Tipperary Park.

The hope is extending the length of the festival and moving onto Columbia Street will allow for more people to enjoy the event, according to vice-president of the New West Pride, Jeremy Perry.

Perry said this year, organizers planned the festival to reach a younger audience, particularly those who might not have come in previous years. With a younger demographic in mind, there will be beer

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With Pride: Marchers make their way to city hall at last year’s Pride festival. gardens and buskers at the Pride street party on Saturday, Aug. 16.

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The timing of the extended Pride festival will also allow it to have a presence at Uptown Live, the big music festival coming on Aug. 10 (see more about that festival starting on page 9) – which will also reach out to that younger demographic.

“We are trying to aim it at everybody,” Perry said.

Many of the daily events planned for the festival this year are things that happen quite regularly in the city.

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said Perry.

He said many from the lesbian, gay and transgender community may be surprised how many regular events the city has underway.

The drag show at the Heritage Grill, for example, is something that happens every Sunday night and the Vancouver Gaymers (“Board Game Warriors”) meets monthly, but for Pride these events are highlighted.

Given the expanded list of events and the change of location, Perry said he hopes to see 10,000 to 20,000 people out enjoying the festivities this year.

He figures there were between 2,000 and 3,000 at the event last year.

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has come a long way from the first year it ran, in 2010, when there were six rainy days of events and about 300 to 400 people in attendance.

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“I think (the festival) is fabulous. I think it is a really good way to show the diversity of New Westminster, which I believe is a very diverse city and a very welcoming city.”

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Showing their colours: Marchers make their way uphill to city hall during last year’s Pride Festival.

This year’s New West Pride is back and bigger than ever, running for nine days starting Friday, Aug. 8.

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Preserving history: Archivist Nailisa Tanner at the Simon Fraser University library with some of the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony.

Tanner will be presenting a lecture about the hidden stories of lesbian history as part of New West Pride. The lecture is set for Monday, Aug. 11 at 7 p.m.

Giving voice to a silent past Archives fills in important historical gaps by preserving stories of LGBT history

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or generations the engaging and important stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered men and women were not shared publicly in newspaper articles, magazines or the history books.

As part of the New West Pride Festival, the New Westminster Public Library is holding a free lecture on the relatively new Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony – housed at Simon Fraser University – that aim to bring the long hidden stories of lesbians to light.

“I will be talking about why oral history is important and why in particular it is important to LGBT people,” said SFU archivist Nailisa Tanner, who will be presenting the lecture.

“LGBT people, and lesbians especially, they have a really rich and fascinating history, and their voices have often been excluded from official historical documents. For example, you can’t find any census information from

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only helps fill in important gaps in history but 50 years ago about what lesbians were up to,” also creates continuity between generations. she said.

“By archiving the stories of older queer The project got underway last October. So people we can sort of facilitate intergenerafar, there are five collections of stories and tional dialogue and connections many more left to be digitized. between younger and older queer There are at least 100 cassette people,” she said. tapes, 10 to 20 VHS tapes and One of Tanner’s favourite colmany video clips still to be con“You can go out lections includes stories about verted. and talk to a “butch and femme” relationships “The collection is growing all in Toronto in the 1950s and 1960s, the time,” Tanner said. queer elder in before civil rights.

Stories come from research proyour life or just “There were these really strict jects and community groups but social codes about how you kind also from individuals who took talk to your of projected what your sexual it upon themselves to interview lesbian, gay or transgendered rela- grandma with a identity was in order to evade the notice of the police but make other tives or friends at some point and tape recorder.” queer people notice you,” she said. now want to add those stories to In addition to talking about the the collection.

NAILISA TANNER collections, Tanner will be showTanner said the great thing archivist ing video clips and giving tips on about oral histories is anyone can how people can get started collectbe a part of collecting them for ing stories of their own. posterity. All it takes is a cellphone, computer The seminar will be held at the main or tablet with a voice recorder. library at 716 Sixth Ave., on Monday, Aug. 11 “You don’t have to be an academic,” she said. “You can go out and talk to a queer elder at 7 p.m.

Registration is suggested, phone 604-527in your life or just talk to your grandma with 4667. To view the archived collection, go to a tape recorder.”

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Save-On opens Columbia Square location

BY TEREZA VERENCA REPORTER editorial@royalcityrecord.com

Thousands of people took in the grand opening of Save-On-Foods in Columbia Square over the weekend.

A bouncy castle, multiple sampling stations and a cake-cutting ceremony were among the festivities on the agenda.

Store manager George Sciberras was on hand to greet customers as they entered.

“We are really being welcomed by our community,” he said. “We invite everyone to come in and see what we have to offer.”

Sciberras and his team came from the New Westminster Centre location, which recently closed its doors. He said it’s been an overwhelming but interesting transition.

“We’ve had 10 per cent

of our team members cancel their vacation to help support us during this time,” he said.

“This is key summertime vacation. Who gives up their holidays?”

Save-On-Foods is on

the site of the former IGA MarketPlace. The opening brings the total number of stores in New West to

three, with the others situated in Royal City Centre and Sapperton.

President Darrell Jones said the assessment process was an easy one.

“We thought this was a great site. It fits perfectly with the others,” he said.

When asked what sets the downtown store above the rest, Sciberras said it’s all about history.

“We have a unique location. We’re getting back

right to our roots because we’re only three blocks from our original store that opened up 99 years ago.”

Save-On-Foods is part of the Overwaitea Food Group, which has 16,000 employees and operates 144 stores in B.C. and Alberta under the SaveOn-Foods, Overwaitea Foods, PriceSmart Foods, Cooper’s Foods, Urban Fare and Bulkley Valley Wholesale banners.

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New space: Save-On-Foods president Darrell Jones and store manager George Sciberras were on hand for the grand opening of the Columbia Square location.

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Homeless numbers down

BY JENNIFER THUNCHER CONTRIBUTOR editorial@royalcityrecord.com

The final report on the 2014 Homeless Count in the Metro Vancouver Region was released Thursday (July 31) and confirmed the preliminary findings released in April, of 106 homeless people in New Westminster.

This number confirms a decrease in the city’s homeless, which was down from 132 in the last count, in 2011.

The report defines homeless as not having an expected place to stay, and not paying rent, for 30 days.

The report showed that 34 of the 106 homeless in New West were unsheltered.

Unsheltered is defined, primarily, as someone with no physical shelter, such as someone sleeping in a park or couch surfing

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at someone else’s house.

Seventy homeless people reported staying in emergency facilities, and two people reported no fixed address.

In the Royal City, 18 of the homeless had lived in the city 10 years or more at the time of the survey. Of the 25 people who were new to the city – having lived in the municipality less than one year – all said they came to New West from another part of Canada.

Thirteen were from another part of Metro Vancouver, and one was from elsewhere in B.C. None came from outside the country.

There were a total of 24 youth and children homeless on New West city streets.

Eleven seniors and 16 First Nations people reported being homeless.

The count is done every three years and took place on March 12.

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Paying parents won’t fix education woes

ing that the cash saved by the strike The new plan by the province to pay would eventually be plowed back into parents $40 a day per child for every education in this province, at least parday the teachers’ strike drags on into tially meeting their demands for smaller September is not the worst idea in the class sizes, better support for world. Let’s face it, many parspecial needs kids, and a salary ents need financial help with bump. finding child care.

So giving the money away Of course, it would be better THE RECORD might be popular with parents for everyone – parents, teachin the short term. In the long ers, government and especially run, it will likely be less popular if it kids – if the government was focused on stretches out the strike. That $40 per kid actually ending the strike. only goes so far.

It seems that the teachers were expect-

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It is nice to see that, after a month of inaction, both sides are going back to the bargaining table Aug. 8. This time they need to stay there and make peace, one way or another. Take the bargaining teams out for a Vancouver Canadians game and a couple of beers to make them friendlier. Buy a steel shipping container and lock them inside in the hot sun until they crack and compromise. Pay for a horde of conflict-resolution experts.

At this point, maybe some marriage counselling? The whole battle has

become so vicious it seems more like a drawn-out divorce than contract talks.

Our biggest question isn’t why are the government and teachers still at each other’s throats, but why did it take this long to finally get everyone to come back and start talking again?

Summer school may have been largely cancelled, but both sides in this dispute should still have their backsides in seats and their pencils sharpened. Keep them there until they graduate to a new contract.

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ow many people reading this column could go 20 weeks without a paycheque, without seriously depleting your savings account or cashing in a significant amount of RRSP funds?

I suspect not many people could, but that bleak scenario is precisely the one facing many teachers in B.C. as the summer progresses.

The teachers were last paid in mid-June, or thereabouts. They may not see another paycheque until mid-October, unless their union moves significantly off its bargaining position in contract talks.

And, yes, I say “union” quite deliberately. That’s because there is no way to pressure or force the government to accede to what the B.C. Teachers’ Federation is demanding at the negotiating table.

This is not to say that what the BCTF is asking for is not warranted in some respects.

Teachers have made a strong and compelling case, for example, that more funding is needed to address issues such as class composition.

Hiring more specialist teach-

ers, to pick just one area, would have a huge and positive impact on many classrooms.

But for all the validity of some of the BCTF’s arguments (these don’t include the ones involving their demand for a greater benefits package), there is no reason at all to expect the provincial government to suddenly fork over almost a quarter of a billion dollars, which is what the BCTF is seeking to address class composition.

I’m not the only observer to point out that in this poker game the government holds all the cards. Not just the best cards, but all of them.

The government’s ability to legislate an end to the dispute and to impose a new contract gives it the whip hand. The BCTF may well challenge such a move in court, but that will take some time to play out if the union chooses to go down that route.

The BCTF may eventually also ultimately win that ongoing court case about contract language governing class size (it has won in the B.C. Supreme Court, but the government is appealing and a potential further appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada may mean this won’t be resolved for perhaps two more years).

So unless the BCTF leadership crawls back from the edge of the cliff it has been sitting on for months now, the only question becomes one of timing. As in:

Dear Editor:

Re: Are more midwives needed?, The Record, Aug. 1.

Midwives bring pregnancy and birth back to the realm of the sacred/divine feminine – the shared capacity of the female body to carry and birth a child underwrites the relationship which is as much a professional partnership as personal one.

The relationship between two women – one professional, the other client – enriches the experience of the pregnancy and birth and provides better health outcome as one is free to share intimate aches and pains. The naturalistic, holistic approaches advocated by midwives – from acupuncture to doulas to homebirths to drug-free pain relief options – are now being backed by recent medical evidence ◗Teachers Page 7 as beneficial.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Midwives bring humanness ◗ continued from page 6

In a society that has lost connections, midwives bring back the humanness, the time to discuss things that matter, the hands-on care, the personal, the feminine, wrapped in compassionate professional-

ism. The government should do everything it can to support midwives – to expand the number of trainees, to increase locum positions so a work-life balance exists, boost benefits so that it can remain a viable profession where being a woman providing care to another woman matters.

F. Aden, Burnaby

Teachers: Government has upper hand ◗ continued from page 6

when will the government impose that contract?

In past disputes, the government has moved relatively quickly to end a strike by teachers, using the legislature to do so.

Not this time.

The government now realizes it has the BCTF just where it wants it.

For the first time ever, the union’s members are paying a huge personal financial price for staging a strike. And the teachers are paying that price at the worst possible time.

The fact the two-month summer break has landed smack in the middle of the strike exacerbates the cashflow problems that can arise from going potentially more than four months without an income.

Government House Leader Mike de Jong is adamant he won’t call the

legislature back earlier than its Oct. 6 scheduled start, just to impose a contract. His surprise announcement of a $40per-lost-school-day-perstudent rebate for parents would seem to buttress that point.

If he sticks to his guns, the earliest date for an imposed contract to take effect would be Oct. 9 (it takes a minimum of three days to pass a bill into law). If teachers went back to work that day, presumably they wouldn’t be paid for two more weeks.

It all adds up to about 20 weeks without a teacher being paid.

The unfortunate thing for teachers is that more than likely the imposed contract will contain pretty much what’s on the table now from the government, which means teachers will have given up thousands

of dollars for nothing.

I still think a negotiated deal is possible: the two sides are close on wage proposals, and if the BCTF staggered its argument for funding for class composition over several years (instead of all at once), dropped most of its benefits demands and agreed to put off any grievances until that court case is ultimately settled one way or another, a deal might be in sight.

It might not be totally fair, and it may not give the teachers and their classrooms everything they deserve.

But not many labour disputes end up giving everyone what they deserve, and in this case no one deserves to go without an income for 20 weeks.

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

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rt lovers will be on the move again this weekend as the New Westminster Cultural Crawl returns for its 11th year in the city.

What started out as a sevenvenue walk just over a decade ago has since gained dozens of other stops throughout the Royal City. Upwards of 30 artists will have their work on display as crawlers drop in on the numerous studios involved in the selfguided tour this Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 9 and 10.

“The inspiration was to shine a light on the creative talent we have here,” said Trudy Van Dop, owner of Van Dop Gallery and organizer of the crawl. “We wanted people to sort of explore their community and recognize we have a lot of arts and culture happening.”

The New West crawl encompasses seven neighbourhoods – Sapperton, downtown, the Quay, uptown, the West End, Victory Heights and Queensborough – and was hatched out of Van Dop’s launch of the B.C. Cultural Crawl, a celebration of artistic treasures throughout the province that’s been running for 13 years.

“What I do in New Westminster is an example of what other communities can do,” she said. “It’s a fun event for people, it’s free, and they can figure out what is New Westminster’s unique cultural footprint.

“It’s also a vehicle for artists to sell their work – it’s important that artists make a living doing what they’re doing.”

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Celebration of culture: Trudy Van Dop, owner of Van Dop Gallery, is getting everything in order for the 11th annual New Westminster Cultural Crawl this weekend. Her gallery is one of dozens of venues involved in the crawl and features pieces by such artists as Angie Au Hemphill, whose work in this photo. making everything from jewelry to ceramics to oil, acrylic and watercolour paintings. Van Dop noted the importance of getting the public to see different types of artwork and give feedback to the artists.

“I think artists are probably their own worst critics, so when they have a chance to meet the public and they see the response, it’s really rewarding for them and affirms that they’re going in the right direction,” she said.

Some of the crawl’s venues are the 100 Braid Street Studios, Cap’s Bicycle Shop & Free Museum, the Amelia Douglas Gallery, Throwing Neon Studios and the Port Royal Community Garden Society.

The Van Dop Gallery has new pieces from painters Carole Arnston and Corre Alice, as well as photographic work by Gabor Gasztonyi, who was recently recognized by the Professional Photographers of Canada with

the Master of Photographic Arts award.

Van Dop said people come from all over the Lower Mainland to see the rich artistic culture of New Westminster, both in historical and modern art pieces.

“One of the artists that I worked with some time ago said to me, ‘I think that New Westminster is the Brooklyn to New York,’” she recalled, “and when we have the opportunity

to showcase this talent, then it does resonate that statement.”

The crawl runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and Von Dop promises attendees will need both days to see everything.

For more information or to download the Cultural Crawl guide, visit newwestcultural crawl.com.

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Not many people play hardedged, hip-hop-influenced, urban blues-rock – but not many people are Ash Grunwald.

The dreadlocked Australian has performed his own brew of blues for the better part of 20 years, borne out of jam sessions with a teenage friend who was becoming an electronic musician. They blended genres together onto cassette tapes, creating a sound that is synonymous with the laid-back man from Down Under.

“Rather than record in a traditional (blues) way, I actually used hip-hop producers – that’s been my method for probably the last four albums,” he said. “I basically build a track using an electronic method, starting off with a beat from a producer that I like and building a song around it.

“That’s been a really creative way to juxtapose different genres and just fulfill my aim, which was to do something different.”

Inspired by his grandfather to play music, Grunwald was naturally drawn to the blues while mainstream radio at the time was spinning Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine and Metallica.

Elements of that modern hard rock

sound seeped into his music, creating a melting pot of genres.

That sound has carried Grunwald on tour away from his home continent – in fact, it’s brought him to British Columbia for nearly 13 years straight. Whenever he’s gigging in B.C., he manages to fit in a few snowboarding sessions along the way.

“In the last eight years, I might have missed one winter,” he said.

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“In Australia, you just presume that you’re in the most spread out place in the world, but gigging in Canada, especially in the winter, is way more hardcore. You’ve got those open roads and lots of long drives, and it’s actually quite a challenge.”

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Summer sounds: Australian musician Ash Grunwald is back in B.C., and he’ll be wrapping up an 11-date provincial tour at Uptown Live on Sunday, Aug. 10. atmosphere.

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It’s billed as “New Westminster’s premier music event,” and now Uptown Live has announced a partnership with Vancity that will see the festival become a Zero Waste event.

The Uptown Business Association of New Westminster has formed a partnership with Vancity, Recycling Alternative and Green Chair Recycling to make Uptown Live a Zero Waste event.

Waste from the event will be diverted from local landfills and recycled or composted. The goal is to successfully divert as much as 94 per cent of the total waste created during the presentation of Uptown Live.

“This initiative helps us to create greater community impact through our event sponsorships,” says Linda Morris, senior vice-president with Vancity, in a press release. “Events are a great way to build a strong sense of community,and we want to leave behind great memories – not great piles of trash.”

“I applaud Vancity for inspiring us to make this happen,” said Bart Slotman, chair of the Uptown Business Association. “They have shown us how much they care about the environment and their community. To become a Zero Waste event is an amazing and proud accomplishment, and it would not have happened without the encouragement of Vancity.”

“Everyone can do their part to keep waste

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Eat up: Food trucks line the street at last year’s Uptown Live. Food waste will be directed to compost and recycling as part of this year’s efforts to be a Zero Waste event. from the event away from local landfills by using the Zero Waste Events branded recycling and composting stations located around the event site,” Slotman added.

Yellow bins will be for paper, blue bins for mixed containers and green bins for compostables. Green Chair staff will measure the kilograms of waste that are diverted. Ultimately, the festival’s efforts will help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Vancity has partnered with Green Chair Recycling and Recycling Alternative as part of its overall corporate mandate to work toward building a healthy, sustainable future.

Don’t miss any of the fun It’s all about music – and a whole lot more.

The third instalment of the Uptown Live street festival is coming to the centre of New Westminster’s uptown business district, around Sixth Street and Sixth Avenue, on Sunday, Aug. 10.

The festival runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The popular indie music festival will be headlined by the Vancouver-based 10-piece juggernaut Five Alarm Funk and Austin,

Texas-based southern rockers The Bright Light Social Hour, a press release notes.

Other performers include Bestie and Ash Grunwald, profiled in this section, plus Ben Rogers, Rykka, Rich Hope and more.

Uptown Live will also offer up a wide array of food selections from top Vancouver food trucks, plus art exhibits and a host of interactive kids’ activities.

Check out www.uptownlive.ca for all the details, including the stage schedules.

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Get out your beach balls, flip flops and cheap sunglasses, New Westminster, Vancouver’s beach-inspired pop band Bestie is coming to town for Uptown Live.

In the heat of the summer is the perfect time for the guys – Tristan Orchard, Andrew Janczewski, Rob Cameron and Daniel Ruiz – to showcase the eight tracks off their recently released debut album, No Bad Days.

“We’ve been travelling quite a bit, going into the city and out of the city and it is always nice when you don’t have to travel for hours to get to your next show,” said guitarist Janczewski of the upcoming New West performance.

It has been a big and busy year for Janczewski, 35, and the rest of the band, known for their relaxed fun-in-the-sun sound.

For No Bad Days, which was released in April, they worked with Howard Redekopp, the Juno award-winning producer of Canadian indie rock duo Tegan and Sara.

“It was wonderful working with him,” said Janczewski.

“He would usually suggest very subtle things, but those subtle things would end up making a world of difference.”

After the release, the band hit the road to promote the album.

“It’s been very interesting to go from where we were a year-and-a-half ago to be travelling all over the place and driving across the country, or flying to Austin (Texas),” Janczewski told The Record over

the phone, while he made his way home from his day job working construction in Vancouver.

“The shows have been getting bigger and more people showing up and more people singing along when we are playing,” he said.

“The shows have become pretty raucous events, which is nice. Everybody seems to have a really good time.”

It hasn’t all been fun and games though.

While the band’s website lists the guys’ influences as the lighter side of life – summer, ice cream, the beach and girls – Janczewski said the business of the being a pop band can border on overwhelming.

Luckily, he said they got more training than most bands do through their experience with the Peak Performance Project music competition.

“People come talk to you about the press, or … lawyers, publicists, you know, the kind of things that would take bands years to learn,” said Janczewski, who is also the main accountant for the band.

Bestie came third in the Peak contest in 2013, earning them $50,000 towards the band’s musical career.

“It is amazing how fast the money goes,” Janczewski said, with a laugh.

As for the band’s future, he said the rest of summer is filled with touring, but starting in the fall the guys hope to get back to the studio.

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Summer sounds: From left, Tristan Orchard, Andrew Janczewski, Rob Cameron, Daniel Ruiz are Bestie, and they’re coming to town for Uptown Live.

“We are just trying to work on new material, which we have had very little time to do,” he said.

For the New West show, Janczewski said fans can expect to come out and have a

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“Hopefully it will be sunny,” he said.

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Are you raising your grandchildren?

An upcoming picnic is serving up good times for grandparents who raise their grandchildren full-time.

Parent Support Services Society of B.C. is hosting its sixth annual Lower Mainland Grandparents Raising Grandchildren summer picnic on Saturday, Aug. 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Queen’s Park. The annual picnic provides an opportunity for these grandparents and children to meet and connect with other similar families.

“There are growing numbers of grandparents (and other relatives) who are fulltime caregivers to children who do not live

with their parents. Taking on this responsibility later in life is always unexpected and unplanned for and can lead to economic hardship and major upheaval to the lives they had planned,” said a press release.

“These grandparents often feel isolated, and have difficulty navigating complex legal, financial and policy mazes. The children have often experienced trauma, and frequently feel that their unique family situation sets them apart from their peers.”

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Cure the summertime blues Break that writer’s block

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On Saturday, Aug. 9, grab a blanket and head to Port Royal Park for a free movie under the stars, as part of the city’s Cultural Crawl. (Check out more about the Cultural Crawl on page 8.)

At 7 p.m., the park will be showing Steven Spielberg’s Hook, starring gutbusting funnyman Robin Williams as Peter Pan opposite Academy Award-winning Hollywood legend Dustin Hoffman as the villainous Captain Hook. A popcorn concession will be available, and before the movie, organizers will get the crowd involved in a “fun and funky community art project that will bring out the inner artist in us all,” according to a press release.

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◗ IN THE GAME

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Jr. A ’Bellies bounced out by Berg

Royal City rocks at JD meet

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

There will be no Minto memories for the New Westminster junior Salmonbellies.

The junior A ’Bellies lost Game 7 of the B.C. Junior Lacrosse League best-ofseven playoff final 12-8 to the Coquitlam Adanacs at Queen’s Park Arena on Sunday.

New West made it clear to The Record that suspensions handed out following the Salmonbellies’ win in Game 4 played a role in the eventual outcome of the series.

But there was no disputing what the difference was in the final and deciding game before a hyped-up crowd of more than 1,500 fans at Queen’s Park.

Wesley Berg, the concensus junior A player of the year and the inaugural winner of the Jack Crosby Trophy as the B.C. playoff MVP, scored five goals and added an assist on Evan Wortley’s eventual gamewinner early in the third period.

“He put the team on his back and great players can do that,” said New Westminster head coach Dan Perreault after the game. “He’s an outstanding ball player. I’m not surprised he did that.”

What was surprising was the turnaround from New West’s 13-6 victory in Game 6 in Coquitlam on Friday.

In that game, the visiting Salmonbellies jumped out to a 7-2 lead after the opening period, and Ontario pickup Eric Penney did the rest, stopping 45 shots, including 19 in the final frame, to chalk up his second straight win of the series.

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The MVP: Coquitlam Adanacs’ Wesley Berg, in white, scored five goals to lead his team to a 12-8 victory over the New Westminster Salmonbellies in Game 7 of the B.C. Junior Lacrosse League playoff final on Sunday.

Sunday, going up 5-1, following Berg’s shorthanded marker midway through the period.

Team scoring leader Eli McLaughlin potted his first of two minutes later.

Berg and Tyler Pace, with a back-to-back pair, closed out the period with three in a three-minute span.

New West closed the deficit to two goals with an early second-period flurry from Josh Byrne, Justin Goodwin and Anthony Malcom’s second of the game.

Connor Robinson also gave the home team a chance to come back with a diving shot from the left crease at the time buzzer

to shave the gap to 7-5 late in the middle frame.

But a third rally was not to be in a series that the Adanacs have dominated the scoreboard in the final period in all but the opening game.

“It’s disappointing,” said Perreault, who won three consecutive Minto Cups as a player with Burnaby Cablevision in the 1970s but has yet to win a Canadian junior title as a coach. “It’s the seventh game, the winner moves on to compete for the Minto Cup, right there it’s disappointing.”

But it became abundantly clear by the start of the third period that Berg

was playing like it was his game to win.

The University of Denver NCAA Division I all-star opened the third period with his fourth goal and then gave the A’s a four-goal cushion five minutes later.

But Berg also got help from his back end.

Coquitlam dominated the loose balls and held New West’s transition runners in check. On defence, the A’s also limited the ’Bellies shooters to a single shot, while in goal Pete Dubenski was solid when he needed to be, stopping 30 Salmonbellie shots on goal. Penney had just 27 saves for New West.

“It wasn’t for a lack of effort. We made mistakes tonight and (Coquitlam) turned them into goals,” said Perreault. “But (New West) is a good, hard working group.

“They worked their tails off all year and did everything we asked of them. I’m proud of the effort they put out. But they didn’t get rewarded.”

That reward, if any, awaits the Coquitlam Adanacs, who will now face the Calgary Mountaineers in a bestof-five playoff, with the winner advancing to the Minto Cup in Langley at the Events Centre, beginning Aug. 16.

Royal City Track and Field Club athletes won 23 medals at the Junior Development championship meet.

Katie Stewart-Barnett highlighted the meet, winning gold in the 1,000 metre run for 11-year-olds.

Teammate Milena Kalisch placed third in the event.

Stewart-Barnett also won a silver medal in the high jump. Kalisch won bronze in both the 600m and 800m racewalk.

Max Jones, 13, placed first in the pole vault and third in the 80m hurdles.

Jeremy Belcher, also 13, was third in the triple jump.

Jenevieve Patry-Smith dominated the field events, taking a silver in javelin and bronze in pole vault and shot put, while 13-year-old teammate Amanda Scott was runner-up in the 300m and third in the 800m.

Patry-Smith qualified to compete at the National Youth Legion championship later this month.

Middle distance runner Elizabeth Bowles, 12, took a pair of bronze medals home from the 800 and 1,200m. Michelle Dadson, also 12, was third in the 800m racewalk.

Angus Steele dominated the nine-year-old boys’ age group, winning gold in the 600 and 1,000m, a silver in the 60m and a bronze in the 100m.

Emily Bowles, 10, won a silver medal in the 1,000m.

Royal City relay teams also won a silver and a bronze medal in the 800m and 4x100m events.

New Westminster enters WLA playoffs on a roll

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

The New Westminster Salmonbellies will enter the Western Lacrosse Association playoffs on a four-game win streak.

The senior A Salmonbellies chalked up their fourth straight win last Thursday, unceremoniously dumping the Maple Ridge Burrards 9-3 in their final regular season game at Queen’s Park Arena.

In a game, where both teams at times appeared at half throttle, New West wanted to be the better team and was.

Newcomer Cory Takahara sparked a ’Bellies’ five-goal second period and Neil Tyacke, getting just his sixth start this season, made the best of his opportunity, stopping 42 shots on goal for his second win of the year.

“We’re on a bit of a roll and we wanted to keep that going into the playoffs,” Tyacke said after the game. “We just wanted

to keep that mentality.

“It gives us a ton of confidence when you’re getting balanced scoring. Pushing the ball up the floor, that’s what we have to do.

It’s a huge part of our game.”

Colton Clark gave a good account of himself from the back end, scoring three times off transition, two of them coming off turnovers.

While the Burrards’ scoring leader Riley Loewen and recent Canadian world championship star Curtis Dickson took the war-

mup, neither dressed for the final game of the season.

Without its two stars, Maple Ridge had little punch to its offence.

Frankie Scigliano, who led all goalies in goals against and save percentage this season, was not at his best either, allowing seven goals on 28 shots before giving way to backup Jeremy Funk in the third period.

But for New West, a 9-9 fourthplace finish is plenty to cheer about after its 2-7 start to the

season.

In fact, New West likes its chances in what many believe is a mismatched first-round series against the 14-2-2 Victoria Shamrocks.

“Very much so, we’re up to a big challenge,” said Tyacke. “But we’re definitely underdogs in this case.”

New Westminster opens the best-of-seven playoff in Victoria today (Wednesday).

Game 2 is at Queen’s Park Arena on Friday at 6 p.m.

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New Westminster SALMONBELLIES WLA Playoffs 2014

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Box lax bronze for B ’Bellies New Westminster came away with a bronze medal from the B.C. intermediate lacrosse provincial championships in Richmond.

The intermediate B Salmonbellies disposed of Quesnel for a second time at the provincials, winning 12-7 in the bronze-medal final at Minoru Stadium on Sunday.

Earlier in the playdowns, New West defeated the interior club 11-5. The B ’Bellies dropped their opening game 9-3 to the eventual champions Coquitlam on Friday. On Saturday, the teen Salmonbellies lost 17-6 to Cowichan Valley.

Coquitlam won the gold medal 13-9 over Cowichan.

In the A final, Port Coquitlam beat Victoria 14-10 to take provincial gold.

Minor boys’ nationals

New Westminster and Coquitlam are the co-hosts of the national peewee, bantam and midget boys’ box lacrosse championships, which run until Saturday.

Gold medal finals kick off at Queen’s Park Arena beginning at 11:45 a.m. with the peewee final. The midget final follows at 1:45 p.m., with the bantam boys’ goldmedal matchup scheduled for 3:45 p.m.

Swimmer medals at nats Hyack Swim Club’s Wendy Yang won a silver medal in the 15-year-old girls’ 50-metre freestyle at the recent AAA age group national swim championships in Winnipeg.

Brodie Young set a club record for 13/14 boys’ with a 33.03 time in the 50m breaststroke on Day 1 of the competition. Sherry Liu just missed a bronze medal, touching fourth in a time of 8:54.07 in the 1,500m. Sehajvir Singh placed fourth in the 50m free and 200m backstroke.

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