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Car thieves target Brow of the Hill

Police warn residents to keep valuables out of cars

By Cayley Dobie

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Police are going on the offensive after seeing a spike in vehicle-related property crime in two of the city’s neighbourhoods.

In January, 21 vehicles were reported stolen in New Westminster. Of the 21 vehicles stolen, 60 per cent were reportedly from the Brow of the Hill neighbourhood, according to a media release from the New Westminster Police Department.

Also last month, 40 per cent of the 66 reported thefts from vehicles across New Westminster were Downtown – a notable spike, according to police.

While, overall, these numbers indicate a drop in vehicle thefts and thefts from vehicles across New Westminster, it does indicate an “unacceptable” concentration in the

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Parked rail tankers raise concerns Southern Railway promises to look into concerns, but says it typically does not leave dangerous goods on tracks near Quay

By Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

A Quayside resident is concerned that explosive goods are sitting for extended times in a residential neighbourhood.

In a letter to Southern Railway of B.C., the resident raises concerns about tankers containing oil and chlorine parked on the tracks beside residential buildings on Quayside Drive for extended periods of time. She questioned what will be done to finally get these unsafe living conditions under control and to address “the sleep-depriving noise” associated with coupling of trains that takes

place through the night.

“Most days, there are tankers parked on those track for hours at a time, including the whole night,” said the resident’s letter.

“This is very unsafe – consider what happened in Quebec last year – and very irresponsible when all that the rail companies have to do is park them at the industrial sites to get ready to move to wherever they need to go.”

Singh Biln, director of community relations and chief mechanical officer for Southern Railway, said all railways make every effort to minimize the handling and storage of railcars carrying hazardous prod-

ucts. He said Southern Railway receives cars from CP or CN and stores them in its yard by the Queensborough Bridge until delivered to pulp mills via our barge ramp on Annacis Island.

“While we do carry chlorine, SRY does not transport any petroleum products,” he wrote in an email to the resident. “I am not certain of the products in the tank cars in your photos but will follow up with CN and CP to verify contents.We typically do not leave DG (dangerous goods) cars stored in the yard near your building for any length of time, so I will also follow up on that.”

According to Biln, all railways have an extensive dangerous goods safety protocols.

He said Southern works closely with New Westminster Fire Chief Tim Armstrong and the Delta Fire Department on regular exer-

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“You can take comfort in the fact that since we commenced handling DG’s in early 2009, there has not been a single incident of accidental or non-accidental release of hazardous products in this area,” he wrote.

“On occasion, there may be minor venting of some products, but we enact our emergency response protocol with local fire departments and deal with them. Also, unlike the incident at Lac-Mégantic in Quebec, our trains with (dangerous goods) are not left unattended, do not operate at speeds greater than 10 m.p.h. and do not carry petroleum products.”

The resident sent copies of her letter to the mayor, the city’s railway committee and continued on page 4

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Up Front NEWS IN BRIEF

Suspect arrested after city stabbing

By Cayley Dobie

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A 53-year-old New Westminster man was treated in hospital after he was stabbed at a home on Cumberland Street on Sunday.

Officers responded to a home in the 600-block of Cumberland Street around 1:37 p.m. on Feb. 8 after receiving reports a man had been stabbed, according to a media release from New Westminster police.

When officers arrived, they found a man suffering

WIRED: Coun. Bill Harper, left, and Mayor Jonathan Cote with some of the fibre-optic cable that will become part of the city’s new openaccess broadband network. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

Filling the need for speed

City embarks on a fibre-optic broadband network initiative

By Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

The City of New Westminster feels the need for speed.

The city has launched an initiative to develop an open-access fibre-optic broadband network to foster connectivity and business development.

“This business case is based on open access,” said Roel Coert, a fibre optic network expert who prepared a business case for the city. “You can compare it to a road.The municipality lays a road that goes to businesses, it goes to houses.Trucks can go over there and bring the goods to the business and the residents.

A fibre optic network like this, open access, is exactly the same. It is a road that goes to different locations and service providers, in this case the telcos and ISPs, can provide the services on top of that.With speed they are almost unlimited.”

Alvin Chok, the city’s chief information officer, said the initial focus will be on the uptown and downtown cores, with those areas set to be serviceable within a year or two.

“It influences the eco-

nomic development, the investors, the people who want to come and live and work here.The younger generation wants to have high-speed Internet access anywhere in the city,” Chok said. “All this is part of the environment we are trying to build.”

Mayor Jonathan Cote said New Westminster’s economy has changed significantly in the past two decades, as a lot of mills and industry have left town.

“We feel this is New Westminster’s opportunity to reposition ourselves to make sure we continue to be a player in Metro Vancouver’s growing economy,” he said.

The city will be providing the infrastructure that telecommunications companies (telcos) or Internet service providers (ISPs) can access to provide a fibre optic network to businesses and residents.

“This is about accelerating that transition toward a knowledge workforce economy,” said Blair Fryer, the city’s communications and economic development manager. “We have businesses in the city now that would be able to take advantage of ready access to the fibre right away.Then

we have businesses that are interested in New Westminster that would be encouraged to come here if they could have access to that fibre.”

Cote said the provision of a fibre optic network is “absolutely critical” to making sure the city is able to attract the businesses of the future.

The city’s Intelligent City advisory committee asked a fibre and broadband network consultant to consider three fibre infrastructure

You can compare it to a road options, ultimately selecting the “fibre-to-the-premises” model it believes will provide the greatest return on investment financially, socially and economically.The initiative will involve the installation of dark fibre to key business districts including Columbia Street, uptown, Sapperton, Queensborough and 12th Street.

A city staff report states that $5.5 million is required to finance the network and

it’s expected to result in a net return of $16.8 million over a 30-year period.The city will generate revenue by leasing the fibre strands to the telcos and ISPs. “That’s the entire business case.The entire cost to the city to do this is recouped by the leasing out of the fibre, the dark fibre, to the ISPs and telcos so they can light it up,” Fryer said. “We are doing this in stages. It’s a self-financing model in the sense the revenue we generate from leasing out that dark fibre to ISPs covers our costs. And, in the future, once our costs are completely paid for this entire network, this becomes a revenue generator for the city.”

Coun. Bill Harper said Royal Columbian Hospital, Douglas College, the Justice Institute of B.C. and the New Westminster school district are involved in the Intelligent City task force, and he anticipates they’ll be among the businesses and residents accessing the service.

“This is going to become a health-care hub, so having this technology is going to be absolutely critical,” Harper said of Royal Continued on page 4

from serious stab wounds.

He was taken to hospital for treatment and has since been released.

A portion of Cumberland Street between Eighth and Sixth avenues was closed for several hours on Sunday while officers combed the scene for evidence. A 46year-old man was arrested and is currently in custody.

He was expected to appear in court on Tuesday, after press deadlines, according to Sgt. Chad Johnson, New Westminster police spokesperson.

City garages to be limited to one loo

By Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

New Westminster is trying to get a handle on plumbing fixtures in garages.

Council has directed staff to prepare amendments to zoning that would limit plumbing fixtures in garages to one sink and one toilet.

A staff report notes that the current zoning bylaw doesn’t address the issues of plumbing fixtures in detached accessory buildings on residential lots containing a single-family or duplex dwelling, which has allowed applicants to install an un-

limited number of fixtures.

According to the staff report, the city is experiencing a trend where plans for garages are showing multiple plug-in fixtures and “roughins” that are meant for a hot water tank, washer and dryer, tub/shower, bathroom toilet and sink, utility sink – or a combination of these things.The city is concerned about the potential for these spaces to be converted to dwelling units.

“Detached accessory dwelling units are currently not permitted in New Westminster,” said the report.

Atrium on way An atrium will soon be installed atop the SkyTrain guideway at New Westminster station.

Council has extended an exemption to the city’s construction noise bylaw to allow crews to compete the installation of the glass atrium at the mall attached to the New Westminster SkyTrain station.

The exemption allows

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Continued from page 3 Columbian Hospital’s expansion plans.

Coert said the service providers are lined up and “waiting for the go signal” that the infrastructure is in place.

In addition to the fibreto-the-premises model, the consultant also considered a fibre-to-the-home model and a combined fibre-tothe-home and fibre-to-thepremises model.

“This is the model we are going to build out right now,” Fryer said of the fibre-to-the premises model. “That isn’t to say that in the future if these ISPs and Telcos, through our openaccess system, determine that there’s a real market to run these to private residential buildings and homes in New Westminster that we won’t be able to do that.

But we won’t do that until there’s a business case to support it.”

For the past couple of years, the city has been working on an Intelligent City plan, which considers initiatives related to innovation, infrastructure, digital

inclusion, knowledge workforce and marketing and advocacy.

“For the most part, it has been conceptual ideas we have been looking at, but I think we are now getting down to the development of something in the ground and something very tangible,” Cote said. “I need

This is about helping local business grow and prosper and compete in a global economy.

to emphasize, this is one of that top-strategic priorities of the city moving forward and a big part of our economic-development plan.”

Harper said there’s a “huge advantage” in terms of cities’ overall economic development to travel down this road and become Intelligent Cities. He said there

are many examples of cities around the world that have benefited in many ways, including economically, from becoming intelligent cities.

“We expect that to happen here,” he said.

U.S. President Barack Obama recently said highspeed broadband is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. He made the comments when speaking in Cedar Falls – Iowa’s first gigabit city, where the Internet is nearly 100 times faster than in other parts of the United States.

“This isn’t just about making it easier to stream Netflix or scroll through your Facebook news feed. … This is about helping local businesses grow and prosper and compete in a global economy,” he said.

“It’s about giving the entrepreneur, the small businessperson on Main Street a chance to compete with the folks out in Silicon Valley, or across the globe. It’s about helping a student access the online courses and employment opportunities that can help her pursue her dreams.”

Questioning rail safety Continued from page 1 representatives from the provincial and federal governments.

In 2013, the city created a community railway panel that includes representatives from the city and four railways operation in New Westminster, as well as residents.

It’s intended to be a place where the city can exchange information with Canadian Pacific, Canadian National, Southern Railway of B.C. and the British Columbia

and Burlington Northern railways.

Brian Allen, chair of the Quayside Community Board’s rail noise committee, has previously encouraged the city to take action to eliminate the storage and staging of hazardous and explosive goods in the Quayside rail yard.

Some Quayside residents have suggested the work would be better suited to the industrial area in Coquitlam, where it’s not in close proximity to homes.

“It is unfortunate that so much residential development has taken place adjacent to railways,” Biln said in a Jan. 26 email to residents. “Currently, the Railway Association of Canada and the Federation of Municipalities have developed extensive proximity guidelines for any future developments. For existing residences, we will have to work together to co-exist harmoniously.”

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Show your love for New Westminster

Love this city: Yosuke Ito wants New West residents to fall in love with the city for Valentine’s Day. He’s the driving force behind the Quay de L’Amour.

City resident is hoping his Quay de l’Amour project will encourage people to celebrate in NewWest forValentine’s Day Cayley Dobie

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Haven’t found that special someone to spend Valentine’s Day with yet?

Throw convention to the wind and fall in love with New Westminster.

That’s what one resident is hoping folks from all over the Lower Mainland will do come Feb. 14.

What started out as a grassroots initiative to encourage couples to lock up their love at Westminster Pier Park, has quickly transformed into an experiment in promoting the Roy-

I felt like it was our little secret place, but I feel like everyone should be able to enjoy that space.

al City.

Yosuke Ito is the man behind the Quay de L’Amour, an idea inspired by a trip overseas to Italy’s famous love locks. He hopes the idea will entice people to visit New Westminster and check out its new waterfront.

“The whole point is for people to come down to the Quay and to New Westminster and to really rediscover it. It’s changed so much in the last 10 years,” Ito said.

Ito, who grew up in the Tri-Cities area, has lived in New Westminster for about three years now, and he continues to be surprised

by how it’s changed.

“Ever since they finished the urban beach last year, I go down there with my girlfriend and we hang out,” he said. “I felt like it was our little secret place, but I feel like everyone should be able to enjoy that space.”

And it’s not only Westminster Pier Park that should be attracting visitors.The River Market is another one of Ito’s favourite places to hang out in the city.

“River Market has undergone a lot of changes over the past five, six years as well,” he added.

With his love of New Westminster in mind, Ito is encouraging couples and singles alike, to spend Valentine’s Day in the Royal City.They can start by locking up their love lock at Westminster Pier Park and then stop by River Market for a bite to eat or something sweet.

“This is an idea (I’ve had) since 2013,” Ito said.

“This is a great way to have people come down, and … have a shared experience at the Quay.”

Some of Ito’s other favourite places in New Westminster include Brick & Mortar on Sixth Street and Steel & Oak Brewing just off Stewardson Way – all accessible by foot, he added.

The idea is purely a social experiment. Ito said he doesn’t stand to gain anything except the joy it’ll bring him to see people visiting his beloved city.

It’s a community project much like events such as Pecha Kucha and Quest New West, and he hopes everyone, residents and nonresidents, will partake.

“The city is changing, and I think it’d be great for everyone in Vancouver to

really kind of help put New West back on the map,” he said. “I think it could be a great thing.”

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Opinion OUR VIEW

It’s sneaky – and on taxpayers’ tab

When the teachers’ strike divided the province last summer, everyone in B.C. supported the government – financially, if not philosophically.

That’s because the Liberal government shelled out $350,000 for Google ads and sponsored Facebook posts while classrooms sat empty.

Except for a few social media users who’ve lost defamation suits, it’s tough to think of anyone who’s

spent that kind of dough on social media.

And who got the taxpayers’ money? The same marketing firm that designed the Liberal logo and helped push Christy Clark to victory in her bid for the party’s leadership. All apparently without a contract for the work ever having gone to tender.

The NDP jumped on the scandal, admonishing Clark for not investing that cash in education.

They’re right.

The Liberals reached into our pockets to win our minds, even as they were claiming there was no more money for teachers’ demands.

Education Minister Peter Fassbender defended the ad campaign on the grounds the Liberals had a responsibility to present Clark’s side of things – a side apparently inadequately represented on every TV news show, radio program and news-

paper article covering the strike.

As evidence of the success of the social media onslaught, Fassbender pointed to the huge number of parents who signed up for the $40-a-day strike stipend. Apparently we were bought with our own money not once, but twice on that score.

What it may also be evidence for is the unfortunate gullibility of the public.

The government has real-

ized that sneaking through the back door – via Facebook – into the homes of B.C. taxpayers is pretty darn easy.

Sponsored Facebook ads are advertisements nonetheless – although to the innocent Facebook user they may just seem like a friend’s posting.

Governments are becoming more and more savvy, and, in our opinion, dishonest in disguising advertisements as news or social me-

dia conversations.

And, we suspect, we’ve just seen the tip of the iceberg.

If they believe they can slide one by taxpayers, they’ll keep doing it.

Clark was elected to lead, not to sell.

Unfortunately politicians seem increasingly unable to distinguish the two.

And that’s sad for all of us – you know, the ones paying the bill.

MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Will emotion win the day?

The transit plebiscite campaign has now officially begun in earnest, and already one can see parallels to the one about the HST a couple of years back.

That is good news for the No side, and bad news for theYes side.The HST debate saw the pro-Harmonized Sales Tax folks put forward seemingly reasoned, factually based arguments for keeping the tax.The anti-HST side was led by former premier BillVander Zalm, who relied on emotional arguments that were often short on facts.

The emotion-based campaign won over the factbased campaign and the HST went crashing down.

In the transit debate, the Yes side is throwing out all kinds of facts and figures, hoping that at least some of them stick in people’s minds. Raise the sales tax, they say, and life will generally be better all-around.

Rather than simply sticking to talking about transportation projects, theYes side has gone even further to suggest raising the sales tax will save lives. It has enlisted the voices ofVancouver health officers to make the argument that more transit services will translate to averting 400 deaths a year and reduce obesity, since more people will walk, cycle and take transit.

The health officers are relying on aWorld Health Organization measuring tool for their argument, but I suspect many voters will

view this as an overreach.

The captain of the No side, Jordan Bateman of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, has dismissed the health officers’ comments as nothing more than “scare tactics.”

For his part, Bateman is accused of inflating the potential cost to the average family should the sales tax hike go through, and making various other misleading comments. He is also pumping up the risible anger and frustration many people feel towards TransLink, and some on theYes side think that’s unfair.

In any event, as both sides continue to make their pitch to the voters, the campaign will continue to evolve into a debate that pits statistics versus emotions.

TheYes side’s chief strength is its own “infrastructure,” which consists of more than 90 organizations representing more than 250,000 people. If it can mobilize those folks to vote yes before May 29, it has a good shot at winning.

But, if not, the anger and frustration that is the base of so much of the anti-tax attitudes out there will prevail.

No amount of reasoned argument can deal with that emotion. Pro-HST folks learned that the hard way, and the pro-transit sales tax folks have to hope they aren’t in for a similar lesson.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C. See an extended column at www.newwestrecord.ca.

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Trucks are causing bridge troubles

Laneway housing – yay or nay?

Dear Editor The sign on the Surrey side of the crossing reads ‘Trucks and slow traffic use right lane only.’

As a daily user of this bridge I see container trucks, dump trucks and other large commercial vehicles safely cross the span using their designated lane, however, there is also a large number of identical vehicles that take up the entire roadway for themselves.

This is clearly a matter of driver competency and skill, and as such they should be ticketed for failing to obey a traffic sign, an MVA sec. 160 violation.

Enforcement may be the key to getting these lane hogs to find another route and could possibly alleviate some of the congestion on the bridge and traffic through New Westminster.

Vince Unilowski, New Westminster

Top 10 reasons to vote yes in referendum Dear Editor There’s a lot of buzz these days about whether to vote yes or no in the upcoming plebiscite on the Mayors’ Council Transportation and Transit Plan. Here are the top 10 reasons why I am going to vote yes when I receive my ballot in mid-March: 1. Working people have to spend too much time commuting to work, and truck drivers have to spend too much time in traffic delivering the goods and services we all need.

2. We need to make transit a practical option for more people so there are fewer vehicles on the roads. Looking to the future, we need to do this because the population of Metro Vancouver is expected to grow by a million over the next 30 years.

3. If we don’t act on transit expansion projects, more people will be forced to drive through New Westminster’s neighbourhoods on their daily commute.

4. Money needed to make vital improvements to transportation and transit is not in the current budget. Already in New Westminster two bus routes have been cut. We need to ensure we have improved services, not cuts.

5. We need improvements to make access to transit more equitable throughout the communities in Metro Vancouver.

6. The plan contains accountability measures (annual independent audits). The money raised through the PST increase is specifically earmarked for the projects listed in the mayors’ plan. That’s why I am not worried about TransLink mishandling the funds.

7. The 0.5 per cent increase in the PST will amount in a modest cost to households.

8. The plan is comprehensive. There’s something in it for everyone.

9. The provincial government could have provided funding for these improvements over the last decade but didn’t. I don’t see how voting no because I have issues with things about TransLink (for example, high executive salaries and the fare-gate system) will lead to the government stepping in and making things better. The provincial government is more likely to say that the people have spoken and do nothing.

10. Action is needed now. Voting yes is one positive, tangible action I, as a conscientious citizen, can take to help solve our transit and transportation problems.

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@breebop #NewWest should be doing all it can to increase affordable housing. It’s time to legalize laneway homes! @ChMacArthur I’m not against coach homes. But they’re not proven as solution to affordability. Increase land value. @stickers66 Also more low-rise multifamily options. Create smaller-scale density nodes. @breebop increases rental stock too and offsets mortgage payments @EricPattison coach hses issue sounds like debate before basement suites finally legalized. @CaseyCook_NW Laneway housing fits from affordability, environmental, reg’l goals perspective. West End w/ lg lots & lanes is ideal @CaseyCook_NW we could take Queen’s Park as a model – give names to your alleys, which then makes them streets, voila, build houses @rickvug But I’d like to see different approaches depending on unique aspects of hood

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Queensbo is cool. @stickers66 It will also make for a viable cycling corridor for those working on Annacis Is.

So, about those vaccination rates …

HasToBeSaid I don’t blame parents for not vaccinating their most precious beings. Even the CDC website says vaccinations contain the following unsafe ingredients: aluminum, formaldehyde, msg, mercury and more: NewWest_Mom I love this comment below. It’s because they are their “most precious beings” that they SHOULD be vaccinated. Only the ignorant would think that the tiny amounts of the ingredients that are in the vaccinations are worse than the effects of Measles, Mumps and Rubella. And with the new Measles outbreaks (due in large part because of the ignorance of these parents) we will be seeing first hand how dangerous they are unfortunately.

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A New Westminster resident is safe after being rescued from a burning building.

New Westminster Fire and Rescue Services attended a fire in a three-storey, wood-frame rooming house in the 1000 block of Sixth Avenue shortly after 6 a.m. on Friday.

Deputy fire chief John Hatch said five occupants were in the home at the time of the fire, including one resident who had climbed from the third floor to a small roof on the second floor. Firefighters used a ladder to rescue the resident from the roof.

“We assisted five people out of the building, one from the side roof,” Hatch said. “Fortunately, there were no injuries.”

Hatch said a resident living across the street called 911 after spotting the fire.

“Smoke and flames were coming from the front of the building,” Hatch said.

“Smoke and flames were

also seen from the lane side.”

According to Hatch, firefighters from the West End fire hall quickly arrived at the scene and found a resident on the roof calling for help.

“The kitchen and livingroom area were fully involved when the first crews arrived on scene,” he said.

“The crews did an excellent job suppressing the fire.”

The strong smell of smoke awoke Nanaimo Street resident Rosemary Bell, who woke up her husband Christopher thinking their home was on fire.

They raced around their house to locate the source of the fire, which they found when Rosemary looked out the back door.

“As she was watching it, it was crackling. Huge flames were coming out of the side,” Christopher told the Record Friday morning.

“It is a terrible thing.”

As they were on the phone with 911, the Bells could hear sirens in the distance.They could also hear yelling from the burning

house, which they now believe may have been the man who was rescued.

“Fire was bursting out of everywhere, on the side.

It was just horrid,” Christopher said. “I praise the Lord the fire guys arrived as quickly as they did.”

Bell has little doubt the house would have soon been engulfed in flames and gutted without the efforts of New Westminster firefighters.With heavy winds gusting at the time of the early-morning fire, he said firefighters did a great job beating down the fire and preventing sparks from igniting the adjacent threestorey apartment building and his own 1905 home.

The fire caused a heavy smoke to blow around the residence, which is located in the Moody Park neighbourhood.The smoke got into the Bells’ house even though all their windows were closed.

“We were coughing inside our house,” Christopher said. “We are going to check for smoke damage once we calm down. It was

Aftermath: This wood-frame rooming house in the 1000 block of Sixth Avenue was extensively damaged in a fire in the early morning hours of Friday, Feb. 6. Five residents were rescued without injury, including one man who escaped to the roof. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

thick on our main floor and very smelly.”

The city’s Emergency Social Services staff is dealing with the tenants, who are now without homes. All of the contents of the living area on the middle floor

of the house have been destroyed, and the entire house has sustained extensive smoke and water damage.

New Westminster Fire and Rescue Services is working with the New

Westminster Police Department to confirm the number of tenants who lived in the home and to determine the cause of the fire.

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Reno was found dead June 23, 2012 at a residence in the 4100 block of Knight Crescent in Prince George, according to a media release from Prince George RCMP. Over the course of the investigation, police began to suspect Reno’s death may have been a targeted killing connected to the drug trade.

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Residents are also asked to do their part in preventing cars or property inside of cars from being stolen, the release stated.

“The public has the ability to play a major role in reducing auto related crime by being proactive and taking preventative measures,” Sgt. Chad Johnston said in the release.

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Michelle Rempel, federal Minister of Western Economic Diversification Canada, made the announcement from the New Westminster campus on Friday morning.The fund-

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Workers in the oil and gas industries will have the first crack at the new simulation program to see how effective the online tool is at training employees in remote locations.

In 2012, Praxis received the Award of Excellence by the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education.

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Michael Isman Occupation ENTREPRENEUR Why is he in the news?

Since he was a teenager, Michael Isman has worked in the pawn shop his father started on Columbia Street 60 years ago this month.

Howard Isman opened Royal City Jewellers and Loans during the heyday of the Golden Mile, the nickname given to the busy commercial strip that attracted suburban shoppers. At 14, Michael would trek into the “office” with his dad from their Vancouver home for his summer job at the family shop.

Despite more economic ups and downs in downtown New West than the water levels on the Fraser River, the

shop has endured since the middle of the last century – offering mostly loans (for every 100 loans they make, about 94 get paid back, Michael says) to those in need of quick cash without a credit check.

Over the years, Royal City Jewellers has also done its part in giving back to the community by holding an annual silent auction fundraiser with ties that are autographed by celebrities.

The fundraiser has brought in approximately $250,000 for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society, Michael estimates.

– Interview by Niki Hope

When did you take over the business?

What was it like to work on (Columbia Street back then)?

It was interesting; it was certainly not built up the way it is now. It was mostly old buildings. Columbia Street had been renovated about 10 years before – in the 1950s into the (Golden) Mile.There was not a lot of population east of here.

It was pretty much barren land.

But the people who lived in Coquitlam or the Valley, they did come to New West to shop?

Yes, there wasn’t a giant shopping mall in every community. … The downtown meant something.

Where we you guys located in the `60s?

We were on the corner of Columbia and Eighth Street (where the Salvation Army is now).We were there for 20-odd years.

Why did you move?

Needed more space – a jewelry store that existed for many years was going out of business, into retirement, basically.

Early ‘80s, ... Father continued to come in five days a week for a good part of the `80s and `90s until he slowed down a little after the turn of the century. He was still coming in two days a week until his death about four-and-a-half years ago.

By the time the `80s hit, it had gone from being the Golden Mile, then it went to being ...

Drug dealers’ mile ... we had drug dealers like every 100 feet down the street.

The police cleaned it up eventually, and the redevelopment of the street has certainly helped in that regard. More people living in the neighbourhood makes more people on the street, makes for safer streets. Now we are on the upswing now.

PAWN STAR Michael Isman is a familiar face in downtown New Westminster. He runs the 60-year-old family business Royal City Jewellers.

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thing to pawn or borrow on, which is what pawning is about – lending money.

Who are some of your clients that come in with items, and why do they come in to see you?

We deal with everybody from the working poor up through the middle-middle class. Generally our customers fall into two categories: those that have no credit available, owing to unem-

Most expensive item? Emily Carr painting.

ployment history or poor credit in the past or whatever. And those that have credit available but have reached the limited of it and still can’t get along or have a temporary problem.

A lot of times, people talk about pawnshops being connected to the drug trade. How have you had to deal with that?

How do you also avoid purchasing items that may have been stolen?

I don’t know where these rumours start. I know a lot of our poor image has come from Hollywood in the `50s and `60s, but there is absolutely no relationship between drug dealers and pawnbrokers; they don’t own anything, they’ve squandered whatever they had.They don’t have any-

It’s really easy to tell. If you were to walk in with a camera and I ask you some questions about it and you can’t answer them, I know it’s not your camera. If you come in with a guitar and can’t play a chord, I know it’s not your guitar.We’ll invite you to try somewhere else.We aren’t just interest-

ed in anything that’s not legit; it’s a losing proposition.

What do you guys do if you believe it’s stolen?

Unless I’ve got absolute proof of something, there’s not much I can do.The police don’t want to be called on my suspicion, even though they’re only next door. One of the things we do first is ask for government-issued photo ID every time, and the criminal element know right away that there is going to be a paper trail leading back to them, and they are just not interested in dealing with us, which is perfectly fine with us – it’s perfectly mutual, so stolen property is really not an issue.

Have you ever had stolen items in the store?

Oh, absolutely, and most times it’s somebody who bought it six or eight months ago.The time it was stolen was two years ago, and it’s been through numerous hands and there is just no trail to follow, and the person bringing it in has no idea.

What are some of the most valuable pieces that have come through your store?

Usually our diamonds: larger diamonds, two-, three-, four-carat. I think the most expensive item we’ve had in

here was a painting by Emily Carr ... probably seven or 10 years ago. It was pawned. It was purchased locally at a very famous auction, and the borrower did want to sell it, and I eventually found another buyer for (it).

From autographed baseballs, to all kinds of odds and sods that work on now and then, but we see almost anything except clothing and furniture.

How much did you sell it for?

It’s still a very minor staple, but bottom line, young people today don’t seem to have the attention span they did 20 years ago.They don’t want to spend six or 12 months learning to play something when they can learn a video game in 20 minutes.There it is, it’s sad actually.

I think it was $110,000. ...

I made a very small brokerage fee on it.

What are some of the most popular items you sell?

Without question, gold jewelry and diamonds.They tend to hold their value pretty good compared to everything else. Electronics, tools ... prices have just plummeted in the last five years.You see the ads from Best Buy and Future Shop and everybody else.

If you’ve bought a TV in the last five years you know what I am talking about.

Cameras (are) the same. In fact, cameras are heading for obsolescence with cellphones. No young person owns a watch or a camera anymore.

So what are some of the other items besides the gold and the diamonds that sell or some of the usual collectibles that your eyes light up when you see?

What about musical instruments?

It’s almost like an anthropologist could come and study pawn shops to see the evolution of culture.

I can tell you better and faster than any economist what the economy is doing, because I’m dealing with it at ground level, daily.

So, how is the economy doing?

Not well.We’ve been in recession for seven years, contrary to government reports ... it’s been ugly. Retail is very difficult right now in all fields, people are scraping by, and they’re not earning good money and putting some away.They are just making ends meet. It’s sad.

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Community City loses ‘gentlemanly’ volunteer Theresa McManus AROUND TOWN

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A longtime contributor to the Royal City passed away on Feb. 2.

Terry Featherstone worked with the New Westminster Fire Department for 34 years, retiring as an assistant chief. Along with working for the fire department, Featherstone was active in many local organizations including Gyro, the Canadian Club and Sons of Norway.

Featherstone was a longtime member of the Hyack Festival Association, serving as its president in 1985, and was a member of the Royal Lancers. He also served on city committees, including emergency advisory.

“He was very active, very supportive of the city, anything to do with the city,” said former mayor Helen Sparkes, who was a neighbour of Featherstone’s at different times. “He was very, very nice, a gentlemanly guy.”

A celebration of life is taking place at Buchanan

Lodge, 409 Blair Ave., on Friday, Feb. 13 at 11 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Buchanan Lodge.

KIDSPORT NEW WEST AIMS TO HELP KIDS KidSport New West wants to spread the word that it wants to help local kids play sports.

The group provides grants to families to help New West kids register and participate in organized sports, when funding would normally be a barrier to participation. Kids are eligible to receive $300 annually, an increase from $200 in previous years.

Jen Arbo, treasurer/registrar of the local chapter, said the organization provided $22,503 to 127 kids in 2014, an increase from the 114 children and $20,307 distributed in 2013.

Volunteers are wanted to help out at events and do behind-the-scenes work like graphic design, Arbo said.

For more information or to make a donation to KidSport New West, visit kid sport.newwest.ca.

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Neal and Melinda Michael, who launched the PechaKucha New West in January 2013, are presenting Volume 8 on Friday, Feb. 20 at River Market.

The event will coincide with the second Global Night, which will see hundreds of cities hosting an event on Feb. 20.

For those who are unfamiliar with PechaKucha, 10 presenters from a range of fields will share their projects, inspiration and passions – though 20 images lasting 20 seconds each, for a six-mintute-and-40-second presentation.

PechaKucha New West Volume 8 gets underway at 6:30 p.m. with music by Namoo Nara and craft beer from Steel & Oak. Longtail Kitchen and Re-Up BBQ will stay open a bit later to serve food until the presentations start at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $7.50 and available at www.pechakucha.org/cities/new-westminster.

DISCOVERY CENTRE HELPS EDUCATORS Fraser River Discovery Centre wants to help kids get a better understanding of the Mighty Fraser.

After three years of development, the New Westminster-based non-profit science museum is launching a free resource kit for educators about the Fraser River.The resource kit, designed with B.C.’s school curriculum in mind, encourages students to explore the same issues facing the Fraser River that the Global Rivers Observatory scientists are studying, including geography, ecology, industry and climate change.

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trigued? The exhibition, by the way, represents the work of artists from seven countries.

If you miss the opening reception, you can stop in to the New Media Gallery on the third floor of the Anvil Centre (777 Columbia St.).

It’s open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.Thursdays.The exhibition runs until April 12, and admission is always free.To RSVP for the reception or find out more, email contact@newmediagallery. ca. Check out www.new mediagallery.ca.

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Field girls crowd the podium at provincials Teams finish with silver medals Tom Berridge

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The wall: George Thompson, right, had a huge 21-kill outing against Vancouver Island University in PacWest men’s volleyball at Douglas College on Friday. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Douglas closing in on title

Royals sweep third-placeVancouver Island University Tom Berridge

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Douglas College has all but wrapped up the PacWest men’s volleyball regular season title.

With just four games left on the schedule, the Royals swept two key matchups with third-place Vancouver Island University at home last weekend.

Second-year outside hitter George Thompson had a monster opening game for Douglas, registering 21 kills, four blocks and two service aces in a 3-1 win over the visitors from Nanaimo last Friday.

The Royal men dropped the opening set 31-29 to the Mariners but were on form for the rest of the two-day series.

Freshmen hitters Matt Santema and Carson Heppell both contributed double-digit offence to Friday’s win.

Santema had 12 kills, while Heppell contributed 13 kills, four digs and two blocks.

Ahmad Mustafa Haq and Scott Devlin also contributed at the net towards the Royals’ 76 points of total offence that included a combined 57 kills.

Douglas finished off the opening match 25-22, 2523, 25-16.

On Saturday, the Royals knocked off Vancouver Island in three straight sets – 25-20, 25-21, 25-20.

Heppell led the way with 11 kills, three digs, two blocks and two aces, while Santema added 10 kills, six digs, two blocks and an ace.

The wins improved the college’s record to 17-3, a full six points ahead of current second-place school Camosun College at 14-6.

Vancouver Island University is two points back at 13-7.

The Royals finish up their regular season schedule close to home against 11-9 Columbia Bible College at Douglas this week and last-place Capilano University the following week in a home-and-home series.

In PacWest women’s volleyball, the Royals slipped to 4-16 following a reversal of fortunes in their twomatch set against Vancouver Island.

The Royals lost 3-0 and 3-1 to the third-place Mariners at home last weekend.

In PacWest basketball, both the Douglas men and women split their road weekend matchups with Vancouver Island University and Camosun College.

The third-place women lost 60-49 to VIU in Nanaimo on the opening leg of the Vancouver Island swing.

Rachel Beauchamp led the Royals with 14 points

and seven rebounds.

Douglas fared better in Victoria, downing Camosun 61-38 on Sarah Jorgenson’s game-high 16-point, 12-rebound contribution.

Beauchamp also chipped in with 13 points and six boards, including five off the offensive glass.

The split left the women at 10-6, six points behind Vancouver Island and 12 points shy of unbeaten Quest University.

The Douglas men also fell to VIU, 91-61.

Malcolm Mensah and Kirstian Hildebrandt led the Royals with 17 and 13 points, respectively.

Justin King posted a game-high 28 points on 11-of-16 shooting for the Mariners.

The following night, Douglas came back from an 11-point deficit to defeat Camosun 84-74. Mensah had 24 points and 10 boards for the Royals.

New Westminster girls’ teams both won silver medals at the B.C. Lacrosse Association provincial youth field championships in Langley over the Family Day long weekend.

The ’Bellies u-15 bantam girls’ team was nipped in overtime 7-5 by Ridge Meadows in the championship final at Willoughby community park on Monday.

The under-12 Salmonbellie girls also lost a squeaker, falling 4-3 to Surrey in the gold-medal final.

The u-15s were unfortunate to come out on the wrong side of extra time with the undefeated regular season champs in the championship game.

In a final game that saw each team exchanging leads, New West led after the first half, but was forced to play catchup in the latter half. “(The team) worked so hard. I’m so proud of them.

They definitely gave them a run for their money,” said 20-year-old coach Alex Lund-Murray.

Andreea Serbanescu was named the player of the game in the championship final and the overall u-15 tournament MVP. Caitlyn Croxen and Naddy Morrison shared the goalkeeping duties for New West.

Jessica Soenen was the New West team’s Fair Play award winner.

Ridge Meadows won the u-15 league with a 14-0-0 record, while New West was runner-up at 10-4-0.

The two teams did not meet up in earlier group play.

New Westminster went through the early round with a 2-0-1 record. It’s only blemish was a 9-9 tie with Langley.

The u-15s defeated eventual bronze medallist Port Coquitlam 7-5 in their

opening game.They also beat consolation finalist Adanacs 8-4 in their final game of Day 2.

“It was a phenomenal last game and a great way to go out,” said Lund-Murray.

Burnaby, which placed third in league play, failed to make it to the final four.

Nicole Kuhn was Burnaby’s Fair Play winner.

In u-12 preliminary round play, Surrey knocked off the New West girls 7-2 in the opening game of Day 2 Sunday morning.

The u-12s were 3-1 in group play, including a 5-1 win over the regular season champions and eventual third-place Ridge Meadows club.They also chalked up victories over Langley and Adanacs #2.

Heidi Sweeney, Olivia Smith and Avery Dean scored goals for New West in the gold-medal final.

Goalie Jenay Rennie of New Westminster was named the u-12 tournament MVP. New West coach Doug Sweeney was awarded the Fair Play coach.

Ashley Vye was New West’s Fair Play winner.

Courtney Lund-Murray and Nikita Bagg were selected the Fair Play officials at the provincials.

The Salmonbellie boys came away disappointed at this season’s provincials.

The u-19 Tier 1 regular season champions won the league with a 12-1-1 record, but were a modest 2-3 at the B.C.s.

The boys opened with an 8-5 loss to the league runner-up and eventual gold medalists Port Coquitlam.

New West also went down to defeat 6-4 to Langley, which placed third with a 7-5-1 record in the regular season.

In the bronze final, Delta, fourth-place league finishers and earlier 11-5 losers at the provicials, eked out a 13-12 victory over the Royal City club.

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It took a successful final shot to the four-foot circle to beat Royal City Curling Club’s Dean Joanisse.

The 2007 provincial men’s champion was narrowly nipped by defending champion Jim Cotter of Vernon 7-6 in extra ends at the B.C. men’s curling championships on Sunday.

Tied 5-5 after a deuce

by Joanisse in the eighth, the two teams swapped single ends, forcing an 11th end with Cotter holding the hammer.

Cotter, who has won four of the last five B.C. titles and Joanisse lying two, had only to place his final rock near the button to return to the men’s Brier.

The Joanisse rink of third Paul Cseke, second Jay Wakefield and lead John Cullen, was also edged 10-9

by Cotter in the A event semifinal.

The New West foursome led 6-3 after five ends, but Cotter kept chipping away at the lead before eventually taking an 8-7 advantage with a triple in the eighth.

Joanisse replied with two in the ninth, but Cotter returned the favour in the 10th end to move on to the A final.

In the B event, Joanisse nipped former RCCC skip Brent Pierce 6-5 in the quarter-finals and then clubmate Sean Geall 7-6 in the semis before winning a berth into the playoffs 8-6 over Kimberley’s Tom Buchy. Buchy also made the

final in the A event, but dropped that one 5-3 to the eventual B.C. champion.

In the playoffs, Joanisse beat Cotter 8-5 to earn a spot in the provincial final.

Joanisse made steals of one in both the third and fourth ends to take a onepoint lead. He kept the momentum up with a deuce in the sixth and a single steal in the ninth to move to the championship final.

Cotter then eked out a 7-6 win in 11 ends over Pierce to force the rematch with Joanisse.

In an exciting semifinal that saw five lead changes, Cotter got back to the final with a single in the final end.

The men’s Brier will be held in Calgary from Feb. 28 to March 8.

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