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Tereza Verenca
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“Amazing” is one word Pride Week organizers are using to describe the festivities so far. The 70 tickets to the kickoff party at The Hub and the Whitecaps’ Pride night game on Aug. 8 sold out, according to Hayley Sinclair, a New West Pride Society board member. “It was really well attended,” she said. “The game was good. I think we brought a good vibe there.” The next day was even busier, Sinclair added.The community brunch at Coming Home Café was packed with a lineup out the door, while the patio party at Terminal Pub attracted a crowd of about 100. “Everyone was outside in the sun, there were games, there was dancing. It was a really good time,” said Sinclair. Some 20 people, meanwhile, were at Board Game Warriors on Clarkson Street.The Call and Response event at the River Market later that evening was also a huge success, she added, with 20 performers. Then there was the drag show at Heritage Grill. “The drag show had 58 reservations and couldn’t take anymore. People were outside watching from the street in big groups,” according to Sinclair. “It was a really interesting thing to walk up to and see all this stuff happening.” Coming activities include Rainbow Night karaoke at Fireside Grill, the double down dance party at Starlight Casino and the Street Party, featuring Bif Naked. For all the details, visit www.newwestpride.ca.
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The former artistic director of the Burr Theatre – now The Columbia – has started an online petition to save the 88-year-old building. Owner Barry Buckland has listed the heritage site for $3.3 million, looking for either a “strategic partner” or someone to buy it whole, according to a July 22 interview with the Record. But Ellie King wants the City of New Westminster to either buy it back fully or partially. “In order to persuade the city to do that, we need to show them that there is a grassroots movement of people who want the Burr back,” King said of the petition, which has garnered nearly 200 signatures so far. The theatre opened in 1927 and We need to show was later them that there named after is a grassroots local actor movement Raymond Burr, who was known for his roles in the TV dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. In 2000, the city purchased the building for $700,000 from the New Westminster Fraternal Order of Eagles and leased it to the Raymond Burr Performing Arts Society until 2006, when it decided not to renew the lease. City reports at that time said the building needed millions of dollars in repair work, and given the high price tag, council decided to look in the private sector for a buyer. The society also came to the table during the request-for-proposal process and put in a $1-million bid for the theatre but lost to Buckland’s $850,000 bid. Why that happened has left King puzzled to this day, she said. Continued on page 8
SHOWING THEIR COLOURS Top, New West Pride founder Vance McFadyen shares a few words at a flag-
raising ceremony at city hall Monday. Above, New Westminster school trustee Kelly Slade-Kerr, board chair Jonina Campbell, acting secretary-treasurer Kevin Lorenz and superintendent John Gaiptman flash a rainbow flag. New West Pride recognized the district Monday for its gender and sexual diversity inclusion policy. PHOTOS CORNELIA NAYLOR
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Up Front Driver under investigation for bridge mayhem A Surrey woman is under investigation after she crashed through the centre pylons on the Pattullo Bridge Thursday evening. The incident happened around 6 p.m. when both New Westminster police and Surrey RCMP were called to the Pattullo Bridge for a multi-vehicle collision. Investigators believe the driver under investigation was headed north over the bridge when she crossed the centre pylons that separate north and southbound traffic, according to a media release from police. Police said the driver struck several vehicles headed south on the Surrey side of the bridge before hitting seven more cars as she continued along the New Westminster side of the bridge. The driver eventually
stopped when she collided with a concrete barrier at the north end of the Pattullo, according to the release. While no injuries were reported, the driver was arrested at the scene for impaired driving. She was taken to the New Westminster police station where she provided a breath sample. The driver was released with an administrative driving prohibition, which is a 90-day driving ban issued to drivers by police under the Motor Vehicle Act. Officers kept her car to conduct a mechanical inspection, according to the release. The impaired driving investigation is ongoing at this time. Charges may be forwarded to Crown counsel at a later date. – Cayley Dobie
Man loses appeal in golf club beating Historic: Above, Tracy Golling gives a tour at Irving House for the home’s 150th birthday. At left, little ones Aylisha Gaudel and Sanna Arab dress up and get their pictures taken with Ana Ivkov and Alex Constantin. Above, Dier and his mom Inna Nagai make crafts PHOTOS LISA KING
Home sweet home Last Saturday marked the 150th birthday for Irving House, one of New Westminster’s most remarkable heritage homes. More than 200 people came out for an open house, free tours, old-fashioned lawn games, birthday cake and a costume photo booth.The Victorian-era house was built in 1865 and is one of the oldest heritage homes in B.C. Irving House originally belonged to William Irving, a steamship captain and early pioneer.
‘They’ve dealt with stuff’ School district special advisor’s report not expected until October Cornelia Naylor
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The special advisor appointed over a year ago to help the New Westminster school district get its financial house in order won’t release his report until October. David Greenan was ap-
pointed to the district starting May 16, 2014, after superintendent John Gaiptman appealed to the education ministry for help dealing with a multimilliondollar deficit he inherited when he took over as CEO in February 2014. “The only way to get them to help me with no
cost to the district was through a special advisor,” Gaiptman told the Record. Gaiptman said he worked shoulder to shoulder with Greenan last summer, and the advisor made “oodles” of suggestions, all of which Gaiptman said the district has since followed with great success.
In April, the board passed a balanced budget that contained zero job cuts and included a $500,000 emergency surplus as well as a plan to pay off its $4.86-million accumulated debt by 2018. Greenan’s original appointment lasted until Continued on page 8
A man who claimed he was protecting his girlfriend from sexual assault when he beat another man with a golf club has lost an appeal in B.C. Supreme Court. Antonio Duarte was convicted of assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon after an incident in New Westminster in April 2012. During the original trial, Duarte testified that he had received a telephone call from his girlfriend, who told him, “They’re coming to rape me.” He said he had immediately driven to her New West residence and entered through an unlocked door. Once inside, he said he had grabbed a golf club and gone upstairs, where he said he saw his girlfriend and another person, Jason Woolgar on top of her under the covers and in bed. Woolgar, however, testified that he had been fully dressed and seated at the side of the bed and that there had been no physical interaction between him and Duarte’s girlfriend but that Duarte had nonetheless picked up a golf club and begun hitting him repeatedly at his legs and feet with enough forced to break the putter.
Woolgar had bled profusely, and his left foot required 15 stitches, according to evidence presented in court. Duarte was found guilty of assault on Aug. 28, 2014, with the trial judge, Shehni Dossa, rejecting his plea of self-defence. “Even if I find from the perception of the accused that there might have been some sexual activity between the complainant and (Duarte’s girlfriend), I find that the accused’s belief that there was an assault happening to be objectively unreasonable,” she stated in her ruling. Dossa went on to say that, even if Duarte’s intention had been to stop his girlfriend from being assaulted, the force used was “far more than necessary.” Duarte appealed the decision, but his appeal was dismissed by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Miriam Maisonville last Wednesday. “Having reviewed in detail the whole of the reasons, I consider that the trial judge demonstrated an awareness of the task facing her and that she did not error in completing that task,” Maisonville stated in her July 22 decision. – Cornelia Naylor
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Everything’s coming up rainbows Love is winning in NewWestminster as citizens from all walks of life embrace Pride and all it stands for It’s official: New West residents are proud of Pride. Everywhere we go, it seems, the city is sprouting rainbows. Businesses are decorating their windows, residents are sporting T-shirts and pins and flags in all kinds of ways, and everyone’s buzzing about the week of fun that is New West Pride Fest. It’s heartening to hear
from Pride organizers just how popular the festival has already been.To know that events ranging from a community brunch to a drag show have all been popular enough to attract lineups says something about just how important this festival is to the community. We can only imagine the turnout for the big street party this weekend – surely
it’s not outrageous to expect thousands (or even tens of thousands) of folks to pour into our downtown for the occasion. And how about social media? Pride, it seems, has become virtually the only thing people in New West are talking about. Everything that’s posted about Pride on Facebook or Twitter is liked and shared and
passed along again and again and again. People from all walks of life are taking photos of rainbow-themed storefronts, of the Pride flag-raising at city hall, of the rainbow crosswalk on Columbia Street, and sharing them with messages of support. And that’s a beautiful thing. Undoubtedly, there are
people out there who aren’t quite as comfortable with the whole idea – for whom the concept of Pride Fest and all it entails is, perhaps, still foreign or somewhat to be feared. Hopefully, the spirit of joy, inclusion and diversity that’s being celebrated so wholeheartedly around the city will infect those people as well.
New West Pride has made a point of being an inclusive festival, offering something for every age group, from kids and families right up to seniors. And the community, in response, has apparently decided to embrace Pride. That makes us proud to be part of this city. Rainbows are awesome. And love wins again.
MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY
The problem with polls The fact that a number of political opinion polls are completely contradictory to each other seems lost on journalists reporting on many of them. Since it’s unlikely the breathless coverage of polls won’t end during this federal election campaign, here is some advice when consuming those “news” stories: A poll is trying to gauge the opinion of 100 per cent of adults (including those who don’t have an opinion). But remember that 100 per cent of people don’t vote, and voting turnout hovers around 60 per cent nationally. But it gets even trickier than that. People of different ages vote in vastly different numbers. Most older (50+ years) people cast ballots; most young people do not. So if a poll’s sample (how many older people versus how many younger ones) doesn’t reflect true voting patterns, have a huge grain of salt sitting nearby. If pollsters won’t release tables that show voting intentions by age, gender, income and geography, be skeptical of what they claim to have found. Ignore, for the most part, provincial poll results gleaned from a national poll.This is a rule that many journalists don’t know or choose to ignore because it can ruin a good story.The problem with producing provincial “findings” from a national poll is the sample size is so small it is almost worthless to base any detailed analysis on it.The hallowed “margin of error” can
be higher than 10 percentage points, which means a party leading by five points in a provincial sample may actually be losing when the margin of error is factored in. Stay away! Try to ascertain a pollster’s methodology. Is it a telephone poll? If so, is it a computerized one or does it involve an actual human being phoning someone? Or is it an online panel, put together by a pollster who recruits participants? Faced with new challenges in polling, pollsters have changed their methodology by various degrees in recent years.The days of pure randomness based on telephone numbers – the basis of polling for decades – are long gone. None of this is to say that political polling is pointless or not valuable in some way.Top pollsters such as Ipsos-Reid, Insights West, Angus Reid, Ekos and Nanos provide powerful insights into what’s “trending” in public opinion. They have uniformly picked up on what appears to be significant growth in support for the NDP nationally, and a decline in Liberal support, with the Conservatives holding fairly steady. But going much beyond those generalizations – such as making a big fuss when a party’s apparent support goes from 33 per cent to, say, 35 per cent in subsequent polls – is a fool’s errand.Yet too many people continue to do just that. Keith Baldrey is the chief political reporter for Global B.C.
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Dear Editor May I commend you on your editorial where “vote” is your favourite four letter word (New Westminster Record, Aug. 5). I recently had the opportunity to perform in Europe with a local community band. After playing Arnhem and Huizen (two concerts in one day) on Holland’s Liberation Day, a few days later we played the Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium. A few hundred yards from where we played is a memorial to the fallen. There are so many names that, if one soldier were honoured and remembered every day, it would take over one hundred years to complete the list. While we were not invited to perform in France, we visited Vimy Ridge and Juno Beach, where again the list of the names of the fallen was too long to count. The reason I bring these issues to the attention of your readers is to remind them the sacrifice many made so that we can vote. You also reminded us that many would be voters use the excuse that their vote won’t matter. A little closer to home on this issue – wasn’t it only two school board elections ago that an incumbent candidate won by one vote, which increased to two votes on recount? So, yes, every vote does matter. And I hope you will assist the voters by asking the questions that the powers that be may ignore when asked by a simple person like me. Chris Dumfries, New Westminster
Hearing aid restored thanks to the kindness of strangers Dear Editor On May 21, 2015, I was hiking with the (Golden Age Hiking Club) GAHC on the Crumpet Hills Trail. It was a gorgeous sunny day. We had hiked several kilometres up the trail, and I removed my hat as we re-entered a shady patch in the forest. I inadvertently dislodged my hearing aid and thought I had secured it properly again. Sometime later, at our lunch spot, I realized I had lost my hearing aid. Retracing our steps, I searched the trail to no avail. Frustrated at losing my hearing aid for the second time (first in a cycling mishap in Vietnam last year), I had not yet ordered a new hearing aid, which is expensive. Imagine my surprise and delight to receive a phone call on July 3 from Connect Hearing, my hearing aid supplier in New Westminster, saying that they had my hearing aid at their office. It appears that an unknown hiker or cyclist had found the hearing aid and dropped it off at Mainland Hearing in Squamish. Jocelyn at Mainland Hearing cleaned and checked my hearing aid and then contacted the manufacturer to find out who the hearing aid was sold to. As we recently moved to New Westminster, Connect Hearing had trouble tracking me down for several weeks. So a big thank you to the unknown person who found my hearing aid in unbelievable circumstances and to Jocelyn at Mainland Hearing for going the “extra mile” to reunite me with my device and also to Connect Hearing for tracking me down. I am grateful to all of you. Jeff Roger, New Westminster
Matteo Abney Its not enough to just disagree with something, you have to call for an ‘all out’ ban on the activity/ event because it goes against your life principles. Stop criticizing the City of New West and for the love of GOD stop this parking nonsense. I live in downtown New West and park on the street, I have never once had trouble parking here, there is parking everywhere!. People are abandoning their cars for public transit, we do not even need this much parking anymore! Furthermore, I highly doubt that the businesses along Columbia Street are worried about a one-day event that brings thousands of visitors to our city. I am sure they (unlike yourself) can see the value in increased visitors, increased visitor spending and potential advertising. The same would apply to the New West Pride Street Party, which effectively does the same thing. (Oh, let me guess...you are against that as well?) Take your archaic views and hit the road. Downtown New West is thriving and will continue to thrive without you. In fact, we will be better off without you. Vance McFadyen The StrEAT food truck festival offers a huge variety of foods and a whole lot of fun and indeed does bring people from all over to our city. The city costs involved are budgeted for and keeps New Westminster “on the map.” It’s one’s daily habits that may make them over weight and not one food festival. Last festival I had one hot dog but I did have a few beer which the business owner I am sure appreciated. Lighten up!!
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City ‘It will be 1,000 per cent public’: superintendent Continued from page 3 April, but the ministry has reappointed him from July 28 to Oct. 2 to evaluate the district’s progress in implementing his recommendations and its progress with its deficit management plan. Local parent and former district parent advisory council chair Paul Johansen, however, wants to know why the school district and the ministry haven’t made
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lic since the district’s turnaround is a good-news story. “They’ve taken it on and they’ve dealt with stuff,” he said, “and I’m sure they took a lot of pressure for doing some of these changes. Whenever you spend less or spend in different areas, there are some that are going to be put out by that.” Gaiptman, meanwhile, assured the Record the report would be made public once
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Continued from page 1 “As a business venture, it succeeded.We took it from an empty, smelly, run-down dance hall and turned it into a live theatre.The tenants, the merchants on the street were happy.We had families coming, it was vibrant, it was lively,” King explained. “People still say to me, ‘What happened to the Burr?’” King added the Burr Theatre put on six productions each year, had more than 700 subscribers and 120,000 ticket sales, and
brought $1.2 million into the local economy. Coun. Chuck Puchmayr responded by saying the council at the time didn’t think the society could bring the theatre up to code. “The concern certainly I had with them was their inability to raise those kinds of funds. Here was a private entrepreneur that had a track record of running a private business in the city close by,” he said of Buckland, owner of The Columbia’s Lafflines Comedy Club.
When Buckland took over, he gutted the theatre from top to bottom, spending nearly $2 million on renovations.The work, however, was almost $1 million more than he had anticipated, he told the Record in a previous interview, forcing him to put the building up for sale. “You never know the magnitude when you get into an old building like this. … Just to drill a hole through (the floors), there were 18 inches of petrified wood just to get a plumbing
pipe through, … but once we got in here and found out we had to upgrade so many things, from the electrical to the sprinkler system,” he said. Puchmayr, meanwhile, said council doesn’t have the budget to buy it back. “There would be a significant tax increase,” he said. “The intention is that that’s a private entity. It certainly has community advantage, it’s an important heritage resource, but council has not considered going to that extreme of purchasing the
Raymond Burr.” Puchmayr added Buckland has done an “amazing job” of restoring it and is hopeful someone will come forward to purchase it.
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Kathy Ius Occupation FIREFIGHTER Why is she in the news? Nearly 15 years ago, a 29-year-old Kathy Ius was one of three new New Westminster firefighters hired out of a pool of about 650 applicants. The former ski and mountain-bike racer – who had worked as a fire technician at the Justice Institute and as a paid-oncall firefighter in Coquitlam – became New West’s first female firefighter. Now in her 15th year, including two as the department’s first community outreach coordinator, Ius made history again recently by becoming the service’s first female officer. “Gender diversity in the fire
service is a good thing,” Fire Chief Tim Armstrong said of the milestone. “I think it brings a lot of positive dynamics to the workplace.” Ius would be the last person who’d want to be singled out for her gender instead of being judged by her own merits, the chief said, but Ius admits being the first female officer is a big deal. The Record sat down with Ius at the Glenbrook Fire Hall recently to get her take on women running into burning buildings, sexism in the workplace and the struggles every firefighter faces. – Cornelia Naylor
BREAKING BARRIERS: Kathy Ius became New Westminster’s first female firefighter 15 years ago. This year, Ius became the department’s first female officer, earning the rank of acting lieutenant. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
daughter was more interested in firetrucks than she was in going buying clothes. Is it a big deal to be the first female officer in NewWestminster? Wow, that’s a loaded question. It’s a big deal; there’s no doubt about it because it speaks to the changes in the fire service on a global level, but it also says something about the fact that it is achievable. As a role model of ‘you can go from here to there as a female’ that would be the message that would make it a big deal for sure. Is this what you wanted to be when you grew up? This is what I wanted to be when I grew up. My dad was (a firefighter), and I absolutely adored everything about him and his job. I used to go hang around his fire hall at lunch because my school wasn’t too far away just to go and check out the trucks. I know that it just made him crazy that his
Do you remember the first time you ever put on the firefighter gear? Yeah, the first day on my job at the JI (Justice Institute) I put on some turnout gear for the first time. I didn’t even have a cellphone that had a camera; that’s how long ago it was. It was like 28 years ago. I had to hunt down a camera somewhere so I could take a picture. It was horrible turnout gear, but that was the first time I wore it and I was so proud. I wasn’t even on the job yet, not even paidon-call yet. What’s the hardest part of a firefighter’s job? I think the hardest part of the job is seeing some of the losses, lives lost.We invariably get to the incident, and you’re focused on the task at hand. You do what you need to do, but I think that there isn’t a person here that would say that’s not difficult.
On the job: Acting lieutenant Kathy Ius of New Westminster Fire and Rescue Services dons her turnout gear at the Glenbrook Fire Hall. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
That is probably the most difficult part of this work, is seeing the not-so-successful outcomes. And you’ve seen that? Oh yeah.You see it a fair amount.When I’m talking fatalities, I’m talking everything from someone who’s had a cardiac arrest all the way to, more recently, we had a motorcyclist who was struck and killed. Not a pretty scene.
What is the best part of the job? Well, the reward (is) when the opposite happens, when we have a good save on a building that’s having a bad day, when we can get someone out of a bad situation and put them into the best situation. What made you want to take the next step into officer training? In the fire department,
as you gain seniority and as time goes by, officer opportunities come up, and that’s just what happened. Traditionally, and typically, it goes in order of seniority. … My group of five people were the next in line to take the training, so I signed up just like everyone else did, and here I am today after a long year.
there’s no doubt about it. From a physical perspective, you have to be in the top percentile. … That’s a rarity, but there’s lots of female athletes out there that have it, that potential. And I do believe more women are capable of this job than what is representative in terms of the net number of applicants that we have coming.
So, it wasn’t like you necessarily wanted to take the step; it was kind of your turn? It was my turn, but I really wanted to take the step. It’s the next milestone in your career. … It’s almost like starting over again because you’re now junior. Because I am; I’m the most junior officer on the job now.
Why do you think there aren’t more? It’s not everybody’s shtick, even if you’re a guy, never mind a woman, and I’m not trying to be sexist here. It’s just in my conversations, I have more women saying, ‘I would never run into a fire.’ It’s just not something for a lot of women, but once we are represented in great numbers, I think it’s going to start growing. It’s that initial push out of the smaller numbers that we’re at now that’s the toughest. Once we get past that, I think there’s going to be a lot more female applicants.
Are there enough female firefighters out there? Obviously, it would be great to have more. I’m not 100 per cent sure why there’s still a lack of female applicants. It is a demanding job;
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Continued from page 11 Have you ever experienced sexism at work? I’ll say this, when I got hired, it was a relatively senior staff. Like any job or workplace, there’s cycles where the staff is very junior and young and then at other cycles where it’s older and more senior. I walked in right when it was at this peak of senior people working, and there
were some interesting moments, shall we say, when I first started – short-lived, though, and many of them are now my friends, which is kind of the best outcome of that story. But, you know, it did have the men, generally older, generally very well established in the fire department, who were absolutely not understanding the concept of having a wom-
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How did you deal with it? I just worked my ass off. I worked hard; I kept quiet. I went a mile and above beyond. I did have to likely work a little harder than my compatriots did for quite a bit
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The Ford Focus is a sensibly-sized and practical hatchback, suitable for ferrying around children and picking up the week’s groceries. Wait. What’s with the rally-stripes? Ah, but this is the Focus ST, an over boosted hooligan with big wheels, big brakes, punchy turbocharged acceleration, and a face like a disgruntled catfish. It’s a genuine hot hatch, complete with seats that wouldn’t be out of place in the Shelby Mustangs. Ford has a long history of quick compacts overseas, but its North American audience is still getting used to these. When we think “fast Ford,” we usually think “Mustang,” but something with four doors and a usable hatchback is sometimes far more practical. With the incoming all-wheel-drive Focus RS currently stealing the headlines for its STI-beating power output and hoonish Drift Mode, here’s a look at the regular strength fast Ford. It’s quick, but how does it work as an all-rounder?
Design:
Building on the standard Focus is good news for the ST – already a sharp and stylish design, the Focus recently benefited from a refresh including a new front end and restyled 18” wheels. The ST’s headlights now include standard LED daytime running lights, and a power bulge in the hood. Many hot hatchback rivals to the ST are pretty tame – the VW GTI, for instance, is a relatively genteel machine. Ford’s version is no wallflower, shouting its intentions to the world with a huge front grille,
Lamborghini-ish centre-exit exhaust, and available rallystripes.
However, the ST doesn’t really wake up until the road gets twisty. The advantage of having a dedicated European performance arm for decades is that Ford’s hatchback offerings have been fighting off a much larger competitive segment than we experience in North America. Here, we contrast the ST against the GTI. There, they’ve got Peugeots and Renaults to contend with as well.
On the plus side, people see you coming. On the negative side, people with badges see you coming. That centre-exit exhaust is also a pain for anyone who would wish to upgrade their muffler, as most aftermarket offerings look completely silly when bolted on. Still, despite the big grille and obvious wheels, the ST can still manage to fly under the radar in a neutral colour.
Environment:
Here again the ST benefits from its regular Focus roots, with a usable four-door hatchback body. The trunk is a little on the small side for some duties, and strapping in a rear car seat gets a bit onerous as the rear parcel shelf is tricky to remove. Apart from that, it’s a regular little hatch, and that means folding seats for a hockey practice, or room enough to pick up three friends from the airport. Let whom ever is your best friend ride up front. The front Recaros for both driver and passenger are some of the most aggressive seats ever fitted to a mainstream car. The side-bolstering is huge, to the point that some everyday users might actually find it a tad uncomfortable. If you hit the twisty bits, though, they’re wonderful, keeping you firmly strapped in place. MyFord Touch continues to improve, but can still be considered to be the Achilles’ heel of the Focus. Screen fonts are small, and a bit of a reach while on the move. However, voice commands work far better than on the system’s original rollout, and while the learning curve is a bit steep, the system works well with familiarity.
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Under the Focus’ new hood is the familiar 2.0L turbocharged engine, punching out 252hp and 270lb-ft of torque. Much more than what’s offered from rivals at VW or Honda, the ST’s straight-line performance is strong, punctuated by more than a hint of torque steer scrabble. As a highway car, the no-shift passing response is very good. Lots of low-end torque means you can just leave the manual-only shifter in top gear and just let your left foot get you up to speed. Road noise from the 18” alloys and performance tires is less intrusive than in a Subaru WRX.
The closest rival for power-on thrust might be the Mazdaspeed3, a car on borrowed time, but unlike Mazda, Ford doesn’t tame the torque steer inherent in front-wheel-drive cars by cutting turbo boost. Instead, a trick front suspension and brake-based torque vectoring give the ST a chance to really bite into the corner and then scrabble out the other side. The more aggressive you are, the happier it gets – and the bigger the tire bill. That’s not all. Most hot hatchbacks display nice safe understeer if you push them a bit hard. Ford, on the other hand, has engineered in lift-off oversteer into their little hooligan. Pop off the accelerator sharply mid-corner, and the back end comes around like its on casters. This behaviour feels tamed compared to the first editions of the ST, but is still present and still something you won’t find elsewhere. Overall, it’s a faster and more thrilling driving experience than you get from the more buttoned-down Germanic competition. Fly under the radar in the latter, or by the seat of your pants in this thing: it’s your choice.
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The optional go-faster stripes from Ford add a hundred horsepower each - proven fact. Besides that, the ST is very well equipped standard, with the only real options being navigation and a package containing dual-zone climate control and a 10-speaker audio upgrade. The latter is as punchy as the ST’s turbocharged engine, but subtracts trunk space with a rear-mounted subwoofer. Official fuel economy figures for the ST are quite good at 7.3L/100kms on the highway, and 10.2L/100kms in the city. Observed real-world economy is really going to depend on how often you ignore the upshift indicator and just floor it, but the ST can handle a gentle commute without being too painful at the pump.
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Royal City Centre’s much-anticipated tenant is now hiring, but it’s still unclear when the new Walmart location will actually open its doors to the public. Near the end of June, American-based retail giant Walmart posted its first job opening for the new Royal City location in uptown.The posting, for a fulltime assistant manager, was the first in a steady stream of postings advertised on Walmart’s website.
When is the new store going to open? Positions available include: customer service manager, overnight stocker, backroom associate, bakery associate, sales associate, the list goes on. But the question that remains unanswered more than a year-and-a-half after Walmart confirmed it was opening a second location in New Westminster is, when is the new store going to open? The Record contacted management at Royal City Centre, but no one could say when the new Walmart was opening. After multiple attempts to speak with someone at Walmart, the Record is still waiting to hear back about the grand opening. Meanwhile, construction continues at Royal City Centre as it prepares for its new tenant. Walmart will be taking over the former Zellers location. COMMENT ON THIS STORY
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New Westminster’s Shannon Elmer received nearly $17,000 last week. Family and friends organized a pub crawl on Aug. 6 for the 30-year-old local, who suffered a spinal cord injury earlier this year after being blindsided by a skier on Blackcomb Mountain. The B.C. Hospitality Foundation – an agency that helps hospitality workers suffering financial hardship due to a medical condition – caught wind of the fundraiser and agreed to match up to $7,500. “It was absolutely amazing,” Elmer’s father, Ken, told the Record of the
grand total. “Over 200 friends, family, and former teachers and workers showed up. It was a very special night.” Donations will be used to purchase a wheelchair, a lift and other necessary equipment for Elmer’s apartment. GROW SOME, GIVE SOME The St. Mary’s community garden recently made a “substantial” donation to the food bank. Eight bags of potatoes, six bags of beets, one bag of squash, one bag of onions, some cucumbers and some assorted greens were donated by members. The donation was an amalgamation of “extras” and the produce that comes from four plots set aside for the food bank.
“This garden has been amazing for bringing together a tiny bit of community,” said member Erin Jeffery. “We are meeting our neighbours, sharing food with people who need it and showing our children where our food comes from, and how good it tastes when we grow it ourselves.”
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coe Park, Port Royal Park and St. Barnabas Church. Membership to the New West Community Garden Society is $25. A plot costs $35 a year. RELAX, ENJOY THE SHOW There are still three more flicks to catch in the summer movie series at Queen’s Park. Rio 2 will be on the big screen this Friday (Aug. 14), while Aladdin will be viewed Aug. 21 and Big Hero 6 on Aug. 28. Don’t forget to bring a blanket, lawn chairs and snacks. Stadium doors open at 7 p.m. with the free movie starting at dusk (between 8:30 and 9 p.m.). Should the forecast be iffy, call 604-527-4634 to confirm if organizers are proceeding with the show.
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One of the 150 reading challenges featured in the New Westminster Public Library’s 150th anniversary booklet is to read a book by a female author. When it comes to philosophy, the names that spring to mind often tend to be men’s: Aristotle, Plato, Hobbes, Bertrand Russell. However, if you are in the mood for a thought-provoking read, the library has many fascinating philosophy books by female authors. Here are five of them. Patricia Churchland’s Touching a Nerve considers the philosophical implications of the latest discoveries in brain science: How do we make decisions? What is empathy? Is there free will? Drawing on examples from her childhood experiences on a Canadian farm, the
book aims to be both engaging and a challenge to your assumptions about the nature of the mind. “One is not born but becomes a woman”: a feminist classic, The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir, is widely credited with bringing attention to the contrast between sex and gender. Unbelievably, a translation of the entire text only came out in 2009. For a more recent take on nature versus nurture, check out Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender. Fine uses critical thinking and empirical findings in psychology to entertainingly debunk a number of popular myths about male and female brains. Think big data and brain imaging have made philosophy irrelevant? Novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein begs to differ in Plato at the Googleplex. Goldstein
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PRIDE IS IN FULL SWING THIS WEEKEND, and the place to be is the Starlight Casino for the Double Down dance party on Friday, Aug. 14 at 9 p.m. Organizers are promising an evening of gay nightclub anthems from the ’80s and ’90s with DJ Miss M.Tickets, available through newwestpride.ca, are $10.50.The casino is at 350 Gifford St. And, of course, Saturday is the big Pride Street Party, 3 to 8 p.m. on Columbia Street. Don’t miss out!
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6:30 to 7:30 p.m., followed by a reception (with cash bar) until 9:30 p.m. Seating for Moulon’s talk is limited, and organizers expect a packed gallery, so be sure to get their early to increase your chances of getting a seat.The Anvil Centre is at 777 Columbia St., and the New Media Gallery is on the third floor. If you can’t make the opening, the show is on until Oct. 18.
DON’T MISS THE ART OPENING on Friday, Aug. 14 in the New Media Gallery at Anvil Centre. The event is part of the International Symposium of Electronic Art, and the exhibition is called 5600K Temperature of White.The show features works by three international artists –Carsten Holler, Gunda Forster and Elizabeth McAlpine – all focusing on white light and human perception. Dominique Moulon, from Paris, will open the event with a talk in the Anvil Theatre from
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In just a few days there will be a special day, filled with exciting things in recognition of the 150-year anniversary of the New Westminster Public Library. On Aug. 19 at the New Westminster Historical Society meeting, there will be a presentation also dedicated to the library’s history. Looking back at the library’s story, you will quickly see that there are many things to take note of. One of the earliest references in this story connects to the Columbia Detachment of Royal Engineers who worked from New Westminster on their various duties in the colony. When they disbanded in the fall of 1863, many chose to remain, and one of the things they donated to the community was a sizable portion of the library they had brought with them from England. Community members quickly began to agitate for a building or a room to house the library. In time, it was decided to make use of an old building on Columbia Street, formerly the home of the mint. A newspaper item in early summer 1865 noted the progress and hoped for more rapid action. “After a long breathing spell this important institution is at length in a fair way of being established. His Excellency,The Governor, and a number of gentlemen met in the mint building yesterday for the purpose of adopting preliminary measures in furtherance of the object. It is to be hoped it will be pushed forward with
some spirit now so as to be fairly organized by the time miners begin to come down in the autumn.” This proceeded, and the library opened in August 1865. It is this date that the current public library will celebrate on Aug. 15, 2015. The newspaper continued to mark its early evolu-
Much was lost years later in the city’s Great Fire. tion. “The Public Library and Reading Room was opened on Tuesday last.The desks were rather bare in consequence of the non-arrival of eastern papers and magazines, & etc. A supply may be expected by next steamer.” The library was a success, and many people have donated items to it over the years. It would be wonder-
ful to still have the donation from the governor shortly after the library opened, but much was lost years later in the city’s Great Fire of 1898. “A Handsome Gift – His Excellency the Governor presented to the Public Library on Thursday, a number of very interesting photographic albums, together with a valuable lot of books. The institution is now well lighted, and is gradually assuming a more inviting aspect.” These are but a few of the stories in the library’s history. Plan to find out more about this vital institution. The New Westminster Historical Society presentation is on Wednesday, Aug. 19 starting at 7:30 p.m., in the auditorium of the New Westminster Public Library in the uptown area of the city (716 Sixth Ave.) This will include many images of the library’s locations and lots of stories from its past.
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Community COMMUNITY CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12 Senior Pride Hoedown, Century House, 620 Eighth St., 1 to 4 p.m. An afternoon of hoedown fun including square dancing, two-step and line-dancing. Demonstrations and dancing, with caller Anne Uebelacker and guests. Summer refreshments provided. Free, sponsored by the Century House Gay Straight Alliance in collaboration with New West Pride. All ages welcome. Info: 604-519-1066. SATURDAY, AUG. 15 British Columbia’s first public library turns 150. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., residents are invited to the
New Westminster Public Library’s uptown location to join us in celebrating this amazing milestone. Crafts, cake and activities for all ages will be taking place rain or shine, so bring the whole family. Alice in Wonderland is turning 150 this year, too, so everyone is encouraged to come with their best or silliest hat as the library shares its birthday celebration with this classic book. The main branch of the library is located at 716 Sixth Ave. TUESDAY, AUG. 18 Have you considered becoming a foster family? There are children and youth in New Westminster, who require skilled, caring, foster parents. To learn more, the Ministry of Children and Family Development
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THURSDAY, AUG. 20 Fun Day for all the kids in New West, noon to 3 p.m., Moody Park water park/ playground. Entertainment, the Tumble Bus, henna, draws and more. Everyone welcome.
ONGOING Elizabeth Fry Society is looking for volunteers to occasionally help with moving the furniture of their Housing First clients. If you or someone you know is interested, contact Maryam Khalil, Housing First case manager, at 604-657-8404 or 604-520-1166 ext. 213 or key@elizabethfry.com.
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Artists 50+ are welcome to bring their own art projects to Century House every Thursday from 12:30 to 2:30
p.m. Gather to draw, paint, share or just have a bright and friendly place to work. The drop-in meets in the Spruce Room and donations are accepted. Hope to see you there. New Westminster Family Place, free family resource centre for parents with children five and under. There is a bright, actionpacked playroom filled with toys, games, puzzles and crafts and staffed by early childhood educators and a family support worker. There is a parents’ room for relaxing, and parenting classes are available. Drop-
in hours are 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, and Monday and Tuesday afternoons from 1 to 3 p.m. Call 604-520-3666 for info on upcoming programs. New Westminster Puffers Club, meets every second Monday of the month at 12:30 p.m., New Westminster Public Library, 716 Sixth Ave. Anyone with or having friends with COPD, asthma or breathing problems are welcome to attend meetings, which include guest speakers. Send non-profit listings to calendar@newwestrecord.ca. Allow at least three weeks’ notice.
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Sport to report? Contact Tom Berridge 604.444.3022 or tberridge@newwestrecord.ca
It’s ’Bellies by Thunder in a sweep Series semifinal shows strengths
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Legion of honour: Nina Schultz of New Westminster won a silver medal in the high jump at the Legion youth national track and field championships last weekend. PHOTO COURTESY WILSON WONG/UBC ATHLETICS
Athletes medal at Legion nats Tom Berridge
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New West Spartans Club athlete Diego Medrano took home a silver medal for Team B.C. in the under-16 boys’ 200-metre hurdles at the Legion national youth track and field championships in SainteThérèse, Que. The Burnaby South Secondary hurdler finished just two one-hundredths of a second behind race winner Liam Foudy of Ontario in a three-way photo finish in the 200m final at the threeday championship meet. Medrano also placed sixth in the 100m hurdles with a time of 13.91. Aaron Marcynuk of Alberta won the 100m hurdles in a Legion championship record time of 13.48. The New West Spartans’
sprinter also placed sixth with Team B.C.’s 4x100m relay. New Westminster’s Nina Schultz leaped 1.72 metres in the u-18 girls’ high jump to claim a silver medal behind Quebec’s Mikella Lefebvre-Oatis, who took the event at 1.78m. Schultz, who also trains with the Spartans club, ran the anchor leg for Team B.C.’s 4x400m relay that placed fifth overall in a time of 3:56.90. The B.C. girls, including Glynis Sim, Alyssa Mousseau and Madison Heisterman, were one of seven teams to better the national Legion record of 4:06.08 set in 2010 by Ontario. Quebec won the 1,600m relay in a new national meet record time of 3:51.32. Royal City Track Club’s
Jenevieve Patry-Smith placed in the top 10 in four separate u-16 events at the Legion meet. Patry-Smith finished just off the podium in the girls’ discus, placing fourth with a throw of 33.60m – less than half a metre shy of third-place Emma Bauer of Lethbridge, Alta. The New West field athlete was in fifth place in both javelin and hammer throw. She threw the spear 37.19m and the three-kilogram hammer 35.47m. She also placed ninth in the shot put. St.Thomas More Collegiate’s Shiloh Corrales-Nelson, representing the Burnaby Striders, was 11th in the u-16 girls’ shot with a heave of 10.63m. Nathan Mah of Burnaby picked up three bronze medals at the Legion na-
tional meet. The Burnaby Central Secondary student finished in third place in the under-18 boys’ 100 metres in a time of 11.02 seconds. Mah’s time was just two one-hundredths of a second behind runner-up Khamal Stewart-Baynes of Ontario and less than three-tenths of a second shy of race winner Chuba Hubbard of Edmonton, who took the gold in a winning time of 10.73. Mah also helped Team B.C. to a bronze in the 4x100m relay in an overall time of 42.90, two-tenths of a second behind the second-place team. Mah’s third medal came in the 4x400m relay, where he ran the anchor leg in a sprint to the finish with second-place Team Alberta in a time of 3:23.55.
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B.C.’s peewee lacrosse team claimed the silver medal at the Warrior Lacrosse Championship of Canada. The provincial boys, including Tyler Schweitzer of New Westminster, lost 11-2 to Ontario in the gold-medal final at Iroquois Park Sports Centre in Whitby, Ont. on Saturday. B.C. knocked off Alberta 5-2 in the semifinal played on Friday to avenge its only other loss at the national com-
petition. A day earlier, B.C. was defeated 6-2 by the Wild Rose provincial team on the final day of preliminary round action. The West Coast squad also lost to the eventual champions from Ontario on the opening day of the competition 9-3. B.C. fashioned a 6-3 record at the nationals, including an 8-7 victory over a First Nations squad on Aug. 4. The midget boys from B.C. settled for a bronze medal following a narrow 6-5 victory over steadily improving
Nova Scotia at the nationals in Whitby. Earlier in the competition, the two teams drew 7-7 in the preliminary round on Aug. 5. B.C. was upended 11-5 by First Nations in the semifinal on Aug. 7. The B.C. team also lost to First Nations 10-7 and Ontario 7-1 in roundrobin play on Aug. 4. The B.C. boys also had to work hard to get past Alberta 10-7 in pool play. Ontario won the midget gold medal following a 9-3 victory over First Nations in the championship final.
The New Westminster Salmonbellies booked their ticket to the Western Lacrosse Association playoff final with a 10-8 victory over a stubborn Langley Thunder. The senior A Salmonbellies completed their 4-0 sweep in their best-of-seven semifinal series against the Thunder on Monday. Now, it’s on to Victoria to take on the league champion Shamrocks with a trip to the Mann Cup awaiting the lucky winner. In Langley, New West fell behind early but clawed back to draw even at 4-4 before the first period ended. Langley, desperate for a win to prolong the series, kept the heat on in arguably the Thunder’s best game of the playoffs. But New West’s relentless attempts at pushing the ball up the floor won the day. “We feel our strengths come from our defence, goaltending and tranny.We knew coming in they were going to be our strengths,” said Salmonbellies head coach Steve Goodwin. “Including the game we had points taken away, we’ve won 10 straight games.” First star Tyler Crompton led an on-fire transition that hit the mark five times in the game, including No. 26’s back-to-back counters between the second and third periods. Shane MacDonald and Kyle Ross both scored from the back end to keep New West in the lead, before the hero of Game 3, Jordan McBride, struck for his game-winning second of the game midway through the third period. Third star Colton Clark iced the win with his second of the night late in the frame. Eric Penney was brilliant again in goal for the Salmonbellies, stopping 40 shots for the win. New West is scheduled to open the best-of-seven WLA final series in Victoria on Friday. Game 2 is at Queen’s Park Arena on Monday at
an early time of 6:30 p.m. “Victoria works hard for a very skilled team.They have athletes,” Goodwin said. “It really comes down to a really strong offence and a really strong defence. But, we believe we can compete with them.” In Game 2, the ’Bellies led 3-1 after the first period and extended that lead to 6-3 after 40 minutes before finishing with a 10-5 win on goals by Clark, Patrick Miles and Richard Lachlan, with his hat-trick marker on a power play with less than five minutes left in the contest. Miles tallied his second of the game into an empty net. At home, first star Jordan McBride opened the scoring in Game 3 and then broke open a tight game early in the middle period, sparking an unanswered three-goal scoring spree that helped the league runner-up take an 8-7 decision. McBride tallied backto-back goals two minutes apart near the midway stage of the game and then set up Keegan Bal with a lovely feed to the top of the crease for a 6-3 lead. Lachlan also scored a pair of goals for the ’Bellies, including a quick one-timer in traffic that gave the home team a 2-1 first-period lead. “This was a very big win for us,” said Lachlan. “In the playoffs, there are no easy games.You have to put your body on the line. It’s playoff lacrosse.You got to bump and grind a little bit.” Both McBride and Lachlan did their share of that, accumulating five of New West’s first seven goals through the midway mark of the final frame. At that point, Langley staged a mini rally of its own, clawing back to within a goal on the backs of two former New Westminster juniors. Rookie righthander Anthony Malcom got it started on a power play in the 11th minute and then Leif Mydske tallied a shorthanded marker off the ensuing faceoff less than 30 seconds later. Continued on page 28
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Basketball boys miss medals at nationals New Westminster’s Vince Sunga helped lead British Columbia to a fifth-place finish at the 15-and-under National basketball championships in Halifax. The 5-7 Burnaby South Secondary guard led B.C. with 14 points, including a pair of three-pointers, to a 54-45 victory over Alberta in a consolation placement game at Saint Mary’s University on Saturday. Sunga also had a teamhigh four assists, three rebounds and a steal in the matchup. Sunga scored in double figures in five of B.C.’s six games at the nationals, including a 77-70 win over Nova Scotia that put the West Coast boys into the final game against Alberta. Against the Maritimers,
Sunga scored 13 points, including four treys and four helpers. Sunga’s only single-digit outing was in B.C.’s 83-56 loss to eventual finalist Quebec in the championship playoff round on Aug. 6. B.C. finished second in Pool 3, opening nationals with a 78-44 win over Newfoundland on Aug. 3. In the game, Sunga shot 54.5 per cent from the floor, while sharing the team lead with 13 points with Port Coquitlam’s Michael Wilkinson. New Westminster Secondary point guard Ramadan Ali registered four goals and four assists in the win. B.C.’s only other loss at the nationals was a 75-62 defeat to Saskatchewan in pool play. Sunga potted 10 points against Saskatchewan. In the playoffs, Sunga
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shot 80 per cent from the floor, including three-ofthree three-pointers in an 86-54 win over Prince Edward Island. Sunga also had a personal-best six assists and three steals against the Islanders. Sunga was third in B.C. team scoring, averaging 11.3 points and four assists per game. He also made more than 80 per cent of his free throws and 41.7 per cent from three-point land at the nationals. Ontario won the gold medal at the nationals, downing Quebec 67-61 in the finals. New Brunswick got by Saskatchewan to claim the bronze medal 71-59. In the 17-and-under national boys’ final, Nova Scotia edged Ontario 116-109, while B.C. just missed the bronze medal, falling 76-73 to Saskatchewan.
Four-event finalist: New Westminster’s Jenevieve PatrySmith placed top 10 in four separate events at the Legion Youth track and field championships, including fourth in the discus. PHOTO
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Victoria on six-game streak
Continued from page 27 Malcom got his second of the game on a sweet shot to the near post on a second power play to shave the deficit to 7-6 with less than five minutes to go. But Jimmy McBride re-established a two-goal lead for New West with the game-winning tally on a transition counter from Penney a minute later. Penney, the Record’s pick for WLA rookie of the year and semifinal MVP put in another stellar outing for the Fishmen, stopping 42 Langley shots and registering a 0.857 save percentage. Penney also claimed Thursday’s first
star with a 0.894 save percentage in another 42-save masterpiece at the Langley Events Centre. “This whole year (Penney) has stood on his head. It’s a luxury we have (to have two starting goalies), he’s never had a bad game,” said Lachlan. Victoria comes into the WLA final on a six-game win streak of its own after dispatching the Maple Ridge Burrards in four games, following Sunday’s 13-4 win. “(Our defence) gives us some confidence up front,” Lachlan added. “It starts back there and the intensity carries through.”
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