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Massive ferris wheel set for pier Modeled after London’s ride, NewWest’s would be christened during a special royal visit in 2019

By Tom McManus

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EXCLUSIVE The Record has learned that New Westminster – the Royal City – has secured an exclusive contract with a British company to replicate the London Eye on the city’s waterfront adjacent to Pier Park.

While Mayor Jonathan Cote refused to deny or confirm the plans, he did say: “I think such a project would be an incredible coup for this city. It would certainly be the cherry on top of the sundae for the waterfront project and would draw visitors from around the world.”

The London Eye is a 443foot-high ferris wheel on the River Thames in England.The ferris wheel on New West’s pier would be more than 300 feet high and from the top one could see as far as Mission upriver and down to Bellingham – and across to the Gulf Islands. Each small gondola would hold four to six people.

The wheel would be skewed at an

angle so as to provide better views, and also allow for some privacy for condo dwellers on the river.

A source close to the project told the Record that the idea came up when the city was in its initial planning stages for a big celebration planned to mark the 80th anniversary visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939.

It is hoped that Prince William and Kate and their young son George (plus their soon to be born child) will be visiting New Westminster in 2019 to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the royal visit and during the visit they will christen the ferris wheel and take the first ride.

Part of the city’s promotion of the event will include a contest to name the wheel and join the royal couple in one of the gondolas for a spin. It has also been rumoured that Mayor Cote would receive a unique honour – perhaps a special order of the British Empire – during the ceremony.

Albert Rose, the executive director of the London Eye, told the Record on Tuesday that the Eye carries over 3.5 million visitors a

THE LONDON EYE: At 443-feet high the ride dominates the landscape on the River Thames. year and has exceeded all expectations for success. It was built in 1999 and started off as the British Airways London Eye, then was renamed Merlin Entertainments London Eye, then the EDF Ener-

gy London Eye and is now called the Coca-Cola London Eye. He refused to say how much the ride grosses per year, but did say, ‘It’s a very profitable venture.”

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It was the last dance for the Lancers NewWestminster city councillors vote to cut the “quadrille” dances at the annual May Queen banquet Theresa McManus

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The Royal Lancers may have danced their last dance as a tradition that dates back more than 100 years is being axed from the May Day banquet.

New Westminster city council has decided to cut the Royal Lancers’ dances at the annual dinner that is held on the evening of May Day. “Each year, the May Queens describe the Lancers’ dances at the banquet as being one of the most memorable highlights of their

day,” Dave MacGrotty, chair of the Royal Lancers, said in a press release. “Spectators cheer and clap to the music, especially during the ceremonial march around the hall.”

According to the Royal Lancers, city council decided at a closed council meeting to quash “quadrille” dances, which are similar to square dances.The Royal Lancers are men from the community, including former school trustees, principals, city councillors and businessmen.

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Date set for murder trial

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The 25-year-old man accused of killing an employee at the Last Door Recovery Society’s Nanaimo Street facility is scheduled to stand trial in August.

Steven Rogers, who is facing one count of seconddegree murder, appeared in court on March 2 to set a trial date. Rogers is accused of killing Jason Collet on Sept. 16, 2014, at the recovery home in the 1100 block of Nanaimo Street.

Rogers is expected to re-

DISTINGUISHED Catherine Ouellet-Martin, executive director of Fraser River Discovery Centre, is a YWCA Women of Distinction finalist.

Winners will be announced on May 26 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

Four women tapped for YWCA nominations

By Tereza Verenca

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Four women who call New Westminster home have been nominated for aYWCA Metro Vancouver Women of Distinction Award.

Catherine Ouellet-Martin, executive director of the Fraser River Discovery Centre, was at the Anvil Centre when she got the phone call, notifying her of her nomination in the nonprofit or public service category.

“I’m very humbled and flattered,” she said. “But it’s really only a reflection of the work the entire team here has accomplished.We took a centre that had come out of a big renovation, when there was nothing in it, and accomplished a great deal in the last seven years.”

Ouellet-Martin, who has been at the helm since 2008, said the list of volunteers in 2014 topped 100.

“This is thousands of hours dedicated to the centre, from staff, to contractors and the board. I’m just

honoured to lead it,” she added.

Board chair Stephen Bruyneel was the one who filled out and submitted the nomination form, a task he said was difficult when it came to keeping things short.

In the running: Jennifer Kirkey, physics chair at Douglas College PHOTO FILE

“They only give you so many words, so the hard thing was cutting it down. …She’s an unbelievable relationship person, being able to develop and maintain relationships with the city,

with other groups in New Westminster, and expand up and down the river,” he told the Record. “Whether it’s Richmond or even up as far as Prince George, she’s been great at that.”

Bruyneel noted OuelletMartin is still a winner, even if she doesn’t win the accolade.

“It’s just an honour to be nominated. I think to be recognized in that group is really, really important,” he said.

The Fraser River Discovery Centre is located at the Quay, and is a resource for research material, varying exhibits and hands-on programming.

The other nominees from New West include Lawrie Ferguson, the chief marketing and strategy officer for Coast Capital Savings, nominated in the business and the professions category. Meanwhile, Linda McGowan from the Multiple Sclerosis Society is also competing in the same category as Ouellet-Martin, while Laura Saimoto, the board director at the

Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall, has received the nod for community champion.

Also in the running is Jennifer Kirkey, the chair of the physics department at Douglas College.

This year marks the 32nd year of the Women of Distinction Awards, which pay tribute to individuals and organizations whose outstanding activities and achievements contribute to the well-being of the community.

In addition to the 10 nomination categories, individual nominees are eligible for the Connecting the Community Award. Nominees have to select aYWCA program area they’re interested in and use social media from April 22 to May 15 to promote votes.The nominee with the most votes wins the title and $10,000 from Scotiabank, to be donated to the program of her choice.

Winners will be announced on May 26 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

turn to New Westminster provincial court on May 14 for a pre-trial conference.

The two-week trial is scheduled to begin on Aug. 4 with the preliminary inquiry and run until Aug. 14.

It remains unknown at this time what led to the fatal incident but investigators at the time confirmed the two men knew each other.

Neither were known to police. Further details won’t be disclosed until the case goes to trial.

Rogers remains in custody.

No appetite here for Taber laws

By Tereza Verenca

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The Mayor of New West has no plans to ban spitting, yelling and swearing in public anytime soon.

Jonathan Cote considers a new bylaw in Taber, Alta., which prohibits all three, as a “heavy-handed” approach.

“To me, it seems a little out of the ordinary. I don’t know the details of what’s happening in the town that would instigate this discussion, but I don’t think it’s going to create better neighbourhoods,” Cote told the Record.

On the recommendation of police,Taber city council passed the bylaw late February with a 6-1 vote.

The fine for being caught cursing or screaming is $150 on first offence and $250 on second offence. If you spit, the penalty is $75.

Under the new rules, kids and teenagers also have to abide by a curfew, from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily.

Peace officers also have the power to break up groups of three or more “in a public place where a peace officer has reasonable grounds to believe the assembly will disturb the peace.”

Meanwhile,Taber’s mayor was quoted in the Taber Times, arguing “I’m not saying this thing is perfect, but I think we should give it a

chance and try it out, and let the police work with it.

After a period of time, we might make some adjustments, but let’s see how it works.”

But Cote said mandating all these behaviours isn’t the right way to go.

“It’s certainly not an approach I would take if I was trying to build community and bring people together.

I’d point to our Neighbourhood Small Grants program that we have, which allows groups to get together and use those grants so that people actually meet their neighbours,” he said.

The small grants program, which was established by the Vancouver Foundation in 1999, is active in 17 communities around the Lower Mainland. Grants of up to $1,000 are given to local residents for projects they believe strengthen the area where they live.

“Even our youth centre inside the seniors’ location, where young people can interact with seniors.To me, these are better strategies to help break down those walls and get to know each other. I don’t think you can put that kind of stuff in a bylaw,” Cote added.

Taber has a population of 8,100 people and is located 250 kilometres southeast of Calgary.

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Record takes national awards New West’s hometown newspaper is earning honours on the national scene.

The Record has captured multiple awards in the just-announced Canadian Community Newspaper Awards for 2015.

Jennifer Gauthier The photographer national awards program recognizes the best work in community publishing across Julie MacLellan the arts reporter country.

For general excellence, the Record earned a “blue ribbon” in its circulation class and also emerged with third prize for best front

Winner: This photo of Hyacks running back David Haeber at the annual NWSS homecoming game earned first place in the Canadian Community Newspaper Awards . FILE PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

page and second prize for best editorial page.

Photographer Jennifer Gauthier captured first place for best sports photo for her shot, Homecoming high – of Hyacks running back David Haeber running onto the field for the annual NWSS football homecoming game. It ran in the Sept.

24, 2014 Record.

The Record also earned second place for Best Coverage of the Arts.The award recognizes three pieces of work by arts reporter/assistant editor Julie MacLellan: a feature on the Columbia Theatre’s open stage nights for emerging bands (which ran May 16, 2014), a fea-

ture on the NWSS production of Rumors (April 23, 2014) and a three-part series, State of the Arts, from February 2014 that looked at New West’s theatre scene.

For a full list of winners, see the Newspapers Canada website at www.newspapers canada.ca/CCNAwards.

Royal Lancers launch campaign Continued from page 1 to come and we will not just walk away.”

The Royal Lancers are launching a campaign to challenge council’s decision and encouraging community members to write letters of support and appear at city council meetings in the coming weeks to oppose the decision to stop the dance.

Mayor Jonathan Cote said council has decided to eliminate the Lancers’ dance from the evening banquet that the City of New Westminster hosts on May Day. He said council has decided the event will be focused on the children, and any activities and dancing at the banquet will involve the children.

“I think the city has been trying to modernize the banquet for some time.We haven’t had a lot of progress over the years. I think the city decided that we host the banquet in the evening and we wanted to move it forward and focus the event on the children,” he told the Record. “Certainly,

that wouldn’t preclude anything else during the day, which is not organized by the city. Given that the evening banquet is a city event, we wanted to refocus it and focus it on the children, which we think May Day is about.”

Cote said he is a “strong supporter” of May Day. “Quite often traditions evolve over time, and I think that is what this is about,” he said.

Since news of the change to the lancers’ role at the May Day banquet was announced Monday, Cote said he’s been contacted by people who have thanked the city for making the change, as well as by supporters of the longtime tradition.

“There is going to be two sides in every issue, and I have a lot of respect for those who have been involved,” he said. “We are trying to handle this in the most respectful way we can.”

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Earth Hour: a great idea that fizzled What did you get up to in the dark on Saturday?

We’re referring of course to Earth Hour, the 60 minutes starting at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday night when everyone was supposed to turn their lights out in the name of energy conservation and – by extension – saving the planet from climate change.

Did you look down the street to check out which of your neighbours had

managed to tear themselves away from Netflix for an hour of candlelight conversation?

Thought not.

Chances are, if you’re like most of the population, the event passed with little notice.

Earth Hour was once a “thing.” Cities competed for the darkest skyline. It was socially shameful to be the one house on the block with your lights on.

Earth Hour was a laudable effort, reminding us of how much energy we use, how dependent we are on it and how individual choices can make a difference.

The problem is the larger changes needed fall not to individuals but to the collective, and government policy has not followed suit.While they may be happy to dim the lights for an hour, not only has our

The feds have scaled back environmental regulations

federal government failed to take action with policies that would curb climate change, they are either ig-

noring or actively dismantling most of the past progress in this area.

The feds have scaled back environmental regulations, ignored Canada’s commitment to international greenhouse gas reduction targets and sent a chill through groups advocating for more attention to climate change by sending in the auditors – and spies.

And, to top it off, they

have continually allied themselves with big oil companies and refused to support calls for more open public hearings on projects such as pipelines and a process that takes climate change into consideration.

In Parliament, the lights are on, but the trouble is nobody’s home.

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MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Another swipe at teachers?

The introduction last week of yet another education reform package is further evidence the B.C. Liberals remain on a collision course with school trustees and teachers.

The latest education reform package takes a direct shot at both teachers and elected school trustees.

Last week’s innocuously entitled Education Statutes Amendment Act (Bill 11) took an easy swipe at one vulnerability of B.C.’s teachers: professional development days.The government wants teachers to be “accountable” for their activities on Pro D days. Fair enough, I suppose, but one has to wonder why it takes legislation in the newly introduced form to do this.

The new legislation simply creates a two-year consultation process with the BCTF to come up with some ground rules. But why not establish the rules and guidelines first, and then put them in legislation? Doing it this way simply pokes teachers in the eye needlessly and implies Pro D day privileges are somehow being abused (which teachers vociferously deny).

But the fuss over Pro D days is window dressing compared to the real meat of Bill 11, which amends the School Act to give the education minister far more authority over how school boards opt to spend money.

Bill 11 will allow the minister to effectively force school boards into “shared

service” funding arrangements with other school boards and other public entities, such as health authorities and municipal governments. Critics will no doubt view this potential power grab in rather sinister terms and portray it is as a step closer to abolishing school boards altogether.

That seems a bit of a stretch, although it is clear the B.C. Liberals are throwing a lot of things at the public education system right now – curriculum overhauls, huge funding cuts, the wielding of an increasing large stick at all the players etc. – that one has to wonder what is really going on.

With a growing list of school districts projecting budget deficits of alarming proportions, the stage is being set for Education Minister Peter Fassbender to directly step into the activities of school boards and wrest control of their budget-making powers.

This will no doubt be denounced as anti-democratic by many, although the government may view school boards as public bodies that are elected by a small portion of the electorate and are in many cases controlled by public sector union members.

In any event, there are lively times ahead for the public education sector.

Last fall’s teachers’ strike and eventual contract appears to have settled little.

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

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Give the parkade a chance to thrive again

Another response to ‘Gen X is votingYes’

Dear Editor Certainly the parkade is an eyesore. But as a member of Canada’s aging population I beg Mayor Cote and city council (fellow baby boomers) look in the mirror and ask yourselves: Is demolition the best cure for old age and ugliness? Every morning since the age of 50 I wake up and pray to be repurposed.

I have to learn to do with what I have (and make it beautiful) instead of continually paying for what I can’t afford.

Two senior professors of architecture and urban design at UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture this week offered to make the parkade a special project for their students next year – and we want to ignore such expertise and demolish the parkade before they can advise us? Sorry: we booked the operation two years in advance so it has to go ahead!

Frankly, I doubt a few trees and some grass beside a truck route and railroad tracks (sandwiched between heritage buildings and new 45-storey waterfront towers) will be anything more than a place for people to pee. The noise and the air pollution are caused by trucks and trains – two problems that are not going away; neither are they remediated by the city’s proposed solution of partial deconstruction.

How much pollution will be generated by the demolition? Let’s refurbish, recycle and reuse the old parkade. Give the old girl a chance to be beautiful again.

Craig Ruttle, Antique Alley

Removing the Lancers is an insult to history Dear Editor We are proud of our history, local culture and traditions, being the Royal City. We are one of the few communities that still do a complete May Day week, and it means a lot to the children who come up through our system of the local school board. (I did.)

As New Westminster kids, we celebrated by going to the Anvil Battery Salute on Victoria Day, being in Queen’s Park mid-week to crown the May Queen, and dance the maypole. Then we attended the evening banquet where there is a dinner, speeches, and the highlight with the Lancer group performing for the crowd the old English parlour dance forms with the May Queen suite before an enthusiastic audience.

These very old performances have been kept alive by the city fathers, passing on a tradition for over 100 years. But my my, we now have a new city council, and they have capriciously decided, without consultation, to summarily dismiss the Lancers group from any participation. This volunteer group of 16 men has had some very distinguished members down through the years, with former city councillors, former mayors school board members and other prominent community leaders participating. When I retired from Parliament, I was honoured to be allowed to join the group to support our local culture and the 100-plusyear-old performance.

The Lancers are appealing to former May Queens, and all the families that have been involved down through the years, to defend our city culture, and pressure city council to reinstate the tradition of the Lancer-May Queen suite performance at the May Day banquet. I hope residents will feel the indignation that I feel, and contact the councillors to reverse this mistake by New Westminster city council.

Paul Forseth, New Westminster

Rick McGowanI love transit. I want more of it. I have wanted more for twenty years, and I wish I could vote Yes. Only yesterday, did I hear the first most compelling reason to give into the Mayors’ demands. It came from the bus operators that said it will make their job less stressful. Still, I think there should be a plan B which can address the needs of not just the operators and passengers, but the needs of all of us.

Seniors supportingYes vote? Don’t be so sure Bobby Black Having a spokesperson say “I’m sure” in no way justifies this misleading headline. In fact, I know five seniors in New West who plan to say NO and say it very vehemently at every opportunity. Please make sure the facts you report are really facts.

Did you have any problems voting in the NewWest election?

Dianne Devitt Reid We went in the morning to vote and never had any problems ... everything ran smoothly and everyone was very pleasant.

Ben Inglis In and out in 5 mimutes Julie L MacLellan No issues at all for us; we arrived early at Glenbrook Park Amenities Centre, got in and through right away; everyone working there was pleasant and helpful.

Cayley Dobie Same here. We went to River Market and waited in a bit of a line so my boyfriend could register.

Other than that it was quite quick.

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Tweeting ideas about the transit referendum in #NewWest @Cheryl Greenhalg Based on the number of cookie boxes on my counter, I think the Mayors should enlist Girl Guides to sell the yes vote. #newwest @writerly_dee We waited for the #NewWest bus for 20 mins in the rain.

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The project was given the initial green light on the basis that the private developer of the project does not expect any city hall funds. But the city would be leasing the land the wheel is on in perpetuity to the wheel’s owner.

A city councillor who did not want to be named said, “It’s even a better deal than our huge read-a-board signs on the bridge and on McBride Boulevard – we will get a percentage of profits and not have to worry about upkeep or liabilities.”

The same city councilor would not confirm that there would also be advertising signage on the wheel or that it was going to have Pepsi-Cola advertising on it.

Unconfirmed sources have said that a major oil company is also interested in seeing its name up on the ride.

Apparently the wheel will be partially run on a unique energy generating system

planted in the river.The system operates similar to a wind turbine electric generator, but uses the river’s own currents and tidal action to transfer energy.

Again, Mayor Cote would not confirm or deny any of what the source said, but he did say, “I think an attraction that not only earns money for the city, but also operates on river currents in a very ecologically sound fashion would not only draw tourists, but also put this city on the map in a global way.”

The Record contact-

ed a Vancouver firm that is a leader in developing tidal and current-driven energy systems and was told that, in theory, the system could be built, but it would be tricky.

“You have to essentially have turbines that are fool proof – and there still has to be a backup system.There is a lot of debris in the river and you can’t afford to have a huge tree end up jamming or destroying the system,” John Lofoprila told the Record.

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Community

Beginning her reign: Taylor Atherley, Miss New Westminster 2015, receives the James Daniel Cartwright Diamond Award, as Hyack Ambassadors Skye WrightHinton, left, and Jasmine Miriguay, right, look on. Athlerley was crowned during a pageant on Saturday night at the Anvil Centre.

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Taylor takes the 2015 Miss New West crown Theresa McManus

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Taylor Atherley is looking forward to an exciting year representing the city as Miss New Westminster.

Atherley was crowned Miss New Westminster 2015 at Saturday night’s pageant at Anvil Centre, a night after the speech and talent presentations took place at Bernie Legge Theatre. Along with being named Miss New Westminster, Atherley’s photography exhibit was deemed to be one of the top three talents as selected by judges.

Miss New Westminster and the Hyack Ambassadors will be accompanying the Hyack float in parades and festivals in the Lower Mainland, B.C. and the Pacific Northwest in the coming year.

The theme of this year’s float is “Laugh Out Loud in New West.”

Joining Atherley will be

Hyack Princess Jolene Bernardino and Miss Friendship Jasmine Miriguay, as well as the other ambassadors: Bernie Legge Award recipient Sarah Stewart, Top Talent Award and People’s Choice Award winner Sophie Candolfi, Sydney Fitzsimonds, Skye WrightHinton and Simran Rattan.

It has made a big change in the life of youth just like me.

Bernardino also took home the Top Speaker Award.

Atherley took to Facebook to thank all of the other ambassadors, sponsors, 2014 ambassadors and 2015 contestants for their support of the pro-

gram.

“Thanks to the Hyack Festival Association for keeping with the tradition of our New Westminster heritage and running the ambassador program,” she wrote. “It has made a big change in the life of youth just like me!”

The pageant attracted folks from near and far, including youth ambassadors from Summerland,White Rock, Osoyoos, Nanaimo, North Thompson, Oliver and Vernon, who brought greetings from their communities and congratulations to the eight candidates who were installed as the 2015 Hyack ambassador leadership team.

The event also included a 65 Red Roses display in honour of Eva Markvoort, Miss New Westminster 2002, to support Cystic Fibrosis Canada.

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Arts & Entertainment

Getting arty: River Market was packed with aspiring artists on Sunday morning as local kids turned out for a free ArtStarts workshop. The workshop, My Life as a Self-Portrait Collage, was led by photographer Kyra Kelpin, and it gave kids – including two-year-old Shea, above right, with Sydelle Murphy – a chance to try out various forms of artistic expression as they created collages to represent themselves and their surroundings. See www.rivermarket.ca for more on the happenings at the market. PHOTOS JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Filmmakers can help tell Massey’s stories Julie MacLellan LIVELY CITY

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Good news for the aspiring filmmakers out there who’ve been hoping to get in on the fun of the Massey Theatre’s Action Take 65!

Contest – the deadline has been extended.

The Massey Theatre is hosting the filmmaking competition in honour of its 65th anniversary, open to works inspired by or documenting the theatre.

The contest was originally set to close March 31, but I’ve just received an email from the Massey’s Andrée

St. Martin letting us know that the deadline has been extended due to popular demand.

Teams now have until May 31 to get their entries in.

The theatre is offering free instruction to anyone who wants a hand with the film project – Josh Hite, a photography and video instructor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, will be available to assist with both technical and artistic/ editorial skills.

Send an email to the theatre, info@masseytheatre. com, to let them know if you’re interested in taking

part. Contestants will have a chance to win a MacBook Pro, and there will be a future screening of some of the top films as well.

Check out www. masseytheatre.com for more on what’s happening with the theatre’s big anniversary year – and watch this space as the year goes on.

POET LAUNCHES BOOK Here’s one for the poetically inclined amongst us – a book launch on Sunday, April 12.

Local writer Deborah Kelly will launch her debut poetry book, Through My Eyes, in a special event in

the backroom at the Heritage Grill.

Starting at 2 p.m., Deborah will read selected poems from her book and will offer signed books for sale.

“This poetry book is a beautiful offering of spiritual poetry and the human condition,” a write-up says.

“It is an amazing collection of surrealistic musings weaved throughout spiritual thoughts.”

The book is being released by Silver Bow Publishing.

The book launch will be followed by the regular Poetic Justice event from 3 to 5 p.m. Check out www.

Lights, camera … Aspiring filmmakers still have a chance to enter the Massey Theatre’s Action Take 65! competition. PHOTO THINKSTOCK

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Future star: From left: Maureen Albanese, Ted Eddy, award winner Claire Temple and Michele Sereda at the presentation of the Raymond Burr Performing Arts Society’s second-year Award of Distinction. It was the fifth annual presentation of the award. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

Student earns award

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RISING STAR Douglas College student Claire Temple is the 2015 winner of the Raymond Burr Performing Arts Society’s second-year Award of Distinction.

The North Van resident is enrolled in the theatre diploma program at Douglas College. Alongside her studies at Douglas, she has also participated in community theatre productions including Deep Cove’s festival entry last year, EatYour Heart Out. Ted Eddy, a former New West (now Coquitlam) resident who’s the president of the Burr Society, presented the award to Claire at a reception following the opening night performance of Douglas College’s Trojan Women. He was joined by the society’s vice-president, Michele Sereda, and treasurer Maureen Albanese.

“This fifth annual award continues the Burr Soci-

ety commitment to support theatre arts at Douglas College in pursuit not only with the objectives of the society but also to commemorate the life and legacy of New Westminster native, the late Raymond W.S. Burr,” Eddy said in a press release.

Tracy Green, coordinator of the Douglas College Foundation, said the college is happy to partner with the Raymond Burr Society.

“We are thrilled to cel-

ebrate our performing arts students,” said Green, adding that the award “recognizes the skill of our students and motivates them to work even harder.”

Kudos to all – and best wishes to Claire in her future studies.

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SIZZLING START TO SPRING It was a wine and cheese evening with extra sizzle.

The New West Chamber of Commerce Springtime Sizzle lived up to its name as guests savoured a sumptuous selection of wine and sweets supplied by Pacific Breeze Winery and Sticky’s Candy.The March 19 networking event took place at the sleekly designed winery located just off Stewardson Way. Accompanying the tasty treats were the soulful sounds of talented local musician Evan Kennedy.

About 100 business owners were there to enjoy wine, international cheeses sponsored by FYI Doctors and catering from Fiesta Catering.

Guests mingled among the oak barrels and chatted to a backdrop of live entertainment, and everyone had a chance to win prizes, including a selection of designer sunglasses, wine coolers and wine tasting parties.

Christine Conway and Mark Wallace kick off the season at the Springtime Sizzle event.

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Evan Kennedy entertained among the oak barrels at the Springtime Sizzle event.

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From left: Coral Casais, Amy Norton, Dr. Shainul Waljee and Alison Fulton enjoy the company and the conversation at the New West Chamber of Commerce Springtime Sizzle event, held at Pacific Breeze Winery. ALL PHOTOS BY SUZY PATRICK

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Douglas soccer nets top awards

All-Canadians hard to overlook Tom Berridge

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Soccer players scored the top prizes at the annual Douglas College Royals awards banquet.

All-Canadian Spencer DeBoice and Canadian Colleges’ Association women’s player of the year finalist Marni McMillan were named this year’s athletes of the year winners at the Anvil Centre last Thursday.

DeBoice finished runnerup in league scoring and the tournament MVP for the PacWest provincial champions. He was also named a PacWest first team all-star.

DeBoice beat out AllCanadian volleyball player George Thompson, a second-year player who was the only player to finish in the top eight in all four major offensive categories in the PacWest this season.

The PacWest player of the year was third in the league in total offence, fourth in kills, fifth in blocks and sixth in service aces.

Also shortlisted was soccer goalkeeper Marc Mincieli, who over the last three seasons has crafted a stingy 1.2 goals against average in the PacWest.

Mincieli was named the top goalkeeper at the provincial championships.

McMillan earned the women’s athlete of the year award over softball’s Hilary Strelau and Nanaya Miki from women’s basketball.

McMillan earned the PacWest player of the year award and All-Canadian honours. She led the Royals in scoring and was named the player of the game in both matches at the PacWest provincials, helping Douglas win its first provincial medal in women’s soccer in 15 years.

Strelau was a big reason for Douglas winning its first-ever Northwest regional softball title last season.

Strelau was named the

North Region player of the year and a Northwest conference All-American.

She led the conference in stolen bases and hitting percentage, while the team placed third in average runs per game.

Miki was a PacWest first team all-star, finishing the regular season 12th overall in league scoring and 11th in rebounding. At the provincials, Miki was named to the all-tournament team.

Men’s volleyball coach Brad Hudson, who was recently named the Canadian Colleges’ coach of the year, was also named coach of the year at the Douglas College awards.

Hudson, who led the men’s volleyball team to a 21-3 league record and No. 1 in the nation, earned the award over women’s basketball coach Courtney Gerwing and men’s soccer coaches Robby Toor and Paul Bahia.

Gerwing led the basketball team to back-to-back silver medals at the PacWest provincials, while Toor and Bahia upset No. 1 seed Vancouver Island University in the PacWest provincial final.

Academic athlete of the year awards went to men’s volleyball player Lucas DeCoste of New Westminster and soccer’s Ashley Melvin.

TEAM AWARDS: Thompson earned the men’s volleyball team’s impact player award, while Angus Ireland took the pride award and Matt Santema received the set-the-bar award.

Julianna Penner was named the MVP for women’s volleyball.

Lynnea Carr was the most improved and Georgia Hurry was the team’s rookie of the year.

In soccer, DeBoice was the men’s most outstanding player. Devin Phelan was named the unsung player Continued on page 16

Flying tackle: Joe Dolesau, in blue, helped the Burnaby Lake Rugby Club come from behind to eke out a 19-19 draw with UBC Old Boys Ravens in premier men’s spring league rugby action at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-East on Saturday. Burnaby Lake outscored the Ravens three tries to one with Kimi Vunituranga, Ryan McHolister and Andrew Lackner touching down with five-pointers. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Burnaby skater at world’s door Fourth-best free skate vaults Nam Nguyen into top five at worlds

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Former Burnaby resident Nam Nguyen posted personal best scores to finish in fifth place at the International Skating Union World Figure Skating Championships this weekend.

The gifted 16-year-old landed his quadruple jump and recorded the fourthbest free skating program at the worlds, leaping up from ninth place after the opening short program to finish fifth in the men’s final in Shanghai, China on Saturday.

Nguyen finished with a personal-best 242.59 score following a 164.86 PB score in the long program.

Javier Fernandez of Spain won his country’s first-ever men’s gold medal in figure skating, overtaking defending world and Olympic championYuzuru Hanyu of Japan in the free skate.

Both Fernandez and Hanyu share the same Canadian coach as Nguyen – two-time Olympic silver medalist Brian Orser.

“In the long program, I needed to be more aggressive. I achieved that, and I’m really happy with

myself,” said Nguyen in a Skate Canada press release.

Nguyen won four national figure skating titles before the age of 13. He is the youngest Canadian athlete to date to be crowned a national champion in all five divisions he has competed in, including national juvenile champion at eight years of age.

After winning the juvenile title, Nguyen achieved a rarely seen triple, winning three national gold medals in a row, taking top spot the following year in men’s pre-novice and the novice title in 2009.

Nguyen also became

the youngest-ever junior men’s champion at age 12 in 2011 and recently became the youngest senior men’s champion this year at 16 following a phenomenal free skate, including a perfect quad Salchow and eight triple jumps to score 256.88 overall points that vaulted him into the world’s elite skaters.

Nguyen left the Lower Mainland for Toronto in 2012 to train with Orser.

Nguyen won the world junior men’s championship last year.

Burnaby’s Jeremy Ten placed 22nd overall in the men’s free skate program.

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It was an unpleasant Saturday on a number of fronts.

Not only was the weather characteristically uncooperative, but the decisions EDC FC Burnaby was looking for in both Imperi-

al and under-21 Cup finals also failed to materialize.

The premier men lost 1-0 to Vancouver Metro Soccer League regular season leader West Van FC in the Imperial Cup final at Trillium Park East on Saturday, while the Burnabybased club’s grad team also fell to West Van 3-2 in over-

time earlier in the day.

“The men’s game … could have gone either way, (West Van) really only had one clear chance and scored in the second half,” said EDC coach Claudio Ramirez.

EDC had two glorious chances at goal, but the West Van keeper was stellar

on both attempts, Ramirez added.

“We pressed the last 25 minutes hard, but they were solid in the back. It was a great run for our club,” Ramirez said.

In other results, Guildford FC clobbered Twin Arrows 5-0 to take the Div. 2 Cup final.

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More team honoured Royals Continued from page 15 and Mincieli best defensive player.

McMillan was the women’s soccer MVP, while Nicole Fraser was named the best allaround player. Melvin was the Royals’ most consistent player.

Steven Hayes and Danielle Dewar were selected as golf’s respective MVPs. Christine Con was the most improved player.

Andrew Baron was the MVP on the men’s basketball team. Bradyn Norris was named the most improved and Dustin Popoff earned the coach’s award.

Chloe Kennedy was the women’s basketball MVP. Ellen Fallis was the most improved and Garaline Tom most inspiration-

al player.

Strelau was the winner of the rising star award in women’s softball. Jenna Holm took home the purple heart award and Sydney Brown was the team’s golden glove winner.

In baseball, Jeff Bouchard was the Northwest league’s all-conference hitter.Taylor Lawrence won the dedication and leadership award, while Cory Duggan was the top sophomore pitcher.

Julianna Hodanic was the top female on the Douglas College running club.

Diego Arellano was named best junior athlete and Chris Raeside top achieving senior athlete.

Field Storm upset nation’s best New Westminster’s Justin Goodwin and Mitchell Stokes helped No. 4-ranked Lake Erie College upset No. 1 Limestone 14-12 in a recent NCAA Division II field lacrosse match last month.

Lake Erie jumped out to

a seven-point lead at halftime following an eight-goal second quarter.

The Storm outscored Limestone 3-1 in the final quarter to hold off a second-half rally by the Saints.

Former New Westmin-

ster junior A player Regan Harding led Lake Erie with a hat trick.

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