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We’re in This Together Help slow down the spread of COVID-19 Maintain physical distancing— stay two metres (six feet) apart from anyone who is not a member of your household 2 metres

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COVID-19 IN TRI-CITIES COViD-19: eFFeCtS On YOUtHS

‘Our world has never seen anything like this,’ say isolated Tri-City teens Grad on hold along with everything else for Tri-City students

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Is COVID-19 going to upset plans for Tri-City high school students?

That is the fear of many students who are entering the unknown with online classes and new physical distancing measures that are cancelling many of the fun elements of school, including graduation banquets and parties, field trips and even just socializing.

Teens are turning — even more so than usual — to social media platforms such as Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp to stay in touch with one another as well as posting videos on TikTok. But that’s not enough.

Indeed, students say they are starting to chafe under rules that make them housebound and are having to work extra hard work hard to stay positive and productive.

“Most of us are bored out of our minds. Everybody I talk to, the topic of conversation is how bored you are and how much you miss your friends,” said Jason Liao, a Grade 12 student at Coquitlam’s Gleneagle secondary school.

Students contacted by The Tri-City News last week agreed that extreme measures need to

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Above: Arman Moztarzadeh, a Grade 12 student at Dr. Charles Best secondary, is learning to play guitar during isolation. Right: Jason Liao, in Grade 12 student at Gleneagle secondary has been working out at home, using filled milk cartons as weights. SuBMItteD pHOtOS

be taken to protect their elders from the potentially deadly contagion but they are disappointed events such as graduation may have to be cancelled.

“The [loss of the] social aspect of high school is what hurts the most for the majority of my peer group,” said Clare Provenzano. “We all had expectations and things in mind for our last months of high school, and we’re all looking forward to so many things: spring sports seasons, school trips, our last dance, gradua-

tion, convocation and more.”

For many students, grad is the high point, a payoff for all the hard work to get there, but it’s unknown whether celebrations can go ahead if the physical distancing requirements continue into May and June, when proms and grad ceremonies are held.

As well, when they left school for spring break March 13, the teens had no idea they wouldn’t be seeing some of

their friends for a long time and that future gatherings would depend on rulings by the provincial health officer, said Jay Hamidova, another Gleneagle student, who hadn’t yet bought a grad dress but was looking forward to the event.

“Over 3,000 people come to a commencement ceremony, depending on the size of the school, approximately 300 grads. If that were to happen, we could have another spread, another round of coronavirus, that’s not what we want,” said Hamidova, who is co-chair of SD43’s Student Leadership Council.

But Hamidova has other concerns: She worries about students who struggle at school and how they will manage, and what the economic situation will look like — she already lost her after-school job due to the novel coronavirus.

And while there have been lots of criticisms of youth gathering, risking their health and that of others, she said

her friends have been mostly positive during the quarantine, posting games, such as virtual challenges that encourage people to post funny pictures of their animals, and other items.

She said she has been busy building a model house out of glue and foam core board, and hopes to hear soon that she has been accepted to UBC. Staying at home for these last two weeks “hasn’t been as bad as I thought it would be,” Hamidova told The Tri-City News.

There is also an element of social cohesion brought about by the fact that everyone is doing physical distancing at the same time and some are even in quarantine to limit the spread of COVID-19.

“I have never felt I could relate more to someone on the other side of the planet. No matter where they are from, they have similar anxieties,” said Liao, who noted this period of time is historic, and will be something everybody living

through it will share.

For the most part, Grade 12 students aren’t too worried about what online school is going to look like as they have completed most of their graduation requirements already, and universities have been proactive in contacting prospective students.

Arman Moztarzadeh, who is in Grade 12 at Dr. Charles Best and a Coquitlam youth council member, said he’s trying to be productive in the meantime, playing piano, learning to play guitar and studying coding as he plans to go into computer science. He says he’s staying optimistic in the hopes that grad and other events will go ahead.

For Arun Ghag, a Grade 10 student, who worked at IGA over spring break, the future is a little more uncertain and the Port Moody secondary school student said he’s anxious about what school will look like in the coming days and weeks.

“I do think it’s going to be taking time figuring out to how get this all online,” Ghag told The Tri-City News. “Our world has never seen anything like this.”

As a co-chair of SD43’s Student Leadership Council, it’s his job to work with other students to promote student voice and his advice to his fellow students is to have patience.

“Once [the spread of COVID-19] starts to slow down, it will get better.”

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TRICITYNEWS.COM THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2020

APRIL 2 – 8 COVID-19

Update MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR

This is a really challenging time for everyone in our community, but this message is particularly about our local businesses.

Many of them are struggling. Some fear that they won’t be able to stay afloat through the COVID-19 crisis.

City Council has always valued the businesses in our community, and now it’s more important than ever that contemplate how we can assist our local businesses.

To help keep our economy going, but also to ensure that the vital services that many of them provide are still available, we as a community continue to serve the businesses and development community by phone, by email and online.

We’re also referring businesses to the many supports, subsidies and resources available to help them through this crisis.

We invite local businesses to learn more about the resources available to them by contacting our Economic Development Office or visiting them online at coquitlam.ca/ecdev.

I’d like to acknowledge the Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce for the leadership and the support they are providing to local businesses – their members and non-members. That is an incredibly important resource.

SERVICES FOR SENIORS

Coquitlam is offering meal delivery, a friendly voice on the phone and other support to seniors during the COVID-19 health crisis.

Early Launch for Phone Buddy Program Coquitlam has accelerated the launch of its Phone Buddy program, a program to provide isolated seniors living independently with companionship and a friendly ear by phone.

The program will initially be staffed by a combination of City staff and volunteers.

Interested volunteers can apply at coquitlam.ca/volunteers or email volunteer@coquitlam.ca for more information.

To add a Coquitlam senior to the Phone Buddy call-out list, phone Dogwood at 604-927-6098 or Glen Pine at 604-927-6940.

Meals for Seniors Coquitlam seniors can sign up to purchase nutritious frozen meals prepared in the Dogwood and Glen Pine pavilion kitchens. Priced at $7.50 and delivered free-of-charge on Tuesdays and Fridays, the meals are intended to help seniors stay healthy and reduce their need to leave their homes.

Meals will change each week and the menu will be posted to the City’s Facebook page each Monday, as well as online at coquitlam.ca/meals.

For more information, including the current menu or to order, contact Glen Pine Pavilion at 604-927-6940 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Mondays for Tuesday deliveries, or from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday for Friday deliveries. Payment is by credit card only.

CORRECTION TO COLLECTION CALENDAR

Your Curbside Collection Calendar mailed last year has an error for the April 2020 statutory holiday week. Your schedule will shift by one day the week of April 13, not the week of April 20.

Correct dates are: Y Monday Zone: Tuesday, Apr. 14 Y Tuesday Zone: Wednesday, Apr. 15 Y Wednesday Zone: Thursday, Apr. 16 Y Thursday Zone: Friday, Apr. 17 For the most up-to-date information, download our ReCollect app at coquitlam.ca/recollect.

STAY UP TO DATE

For up-to-date information regarding the COVID-19 impacts to City facilities, programs, services and events: Y Visit coquitlam.ca/covid19 Y Email covid19@coquitlam.ca Y Call 604-927-4383 (recorded status update) Coquitlam residents are encouraged to follow the City of Coquitlam on social media (Facebook and Twitter) and download the CoquitlamConnect mobile app for up-to-date City information.

For more information on COVID-19, including updates, answers to frequently asked questions, and translated information, please consult the following resources: Fraser Health Authority – fraserhealth.ca BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) – bccdc.ca Non-medical information – 1-888-COVID19 (1-888-268-4319) Medical information – 8-1-1 Public Health Agency of Canada – canada.ca/en/public-health

As a community, we can also help the businesses of our city.

We can order online, we can buy gifts cards or have a meal delivered. It all adds up.

When this is over, our businesses will play a critical role in the recovery of our community by providing much-needed jobs, services and investment, along with the products and services that they provide to our residents.

Let’s all do what we can to support them now.

We will make it through this, Coquitlam, but we will do this together.

STAY FIT AT HOME

Our fitness team is hard at work developing fitness tools to help you keep active at home.

Take a look below for tips and resources.

Supermans: Even if you’re very active, the lower back is often neglected in fitness routines. Strengthening the lower back with the Superman exercise builds support and stability for the spine, and it can also prevent and reduce back pain. Lay flat on your stomach, raise arms beside your head and bend at the elbows. At the same time, lift your upper and lower body, squeezing the shoulders blades together, and the glutes, then hold for two seconds. Repeat 10 times or until fatigue!

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If you’re craving a full workout, check out our written workout plan. The plan contains six exercises, with adapted options for all fitness levels. Visit coquitlam.ca/fitness to get started.

Remember to go at your own pace, take breaks and drink lots of water. Keep active Coquitlam!

Looking for ideas to keep the kids entertained?

The recreation team is developing a catalogue of activities and resources you can use to keep your family busy. Find them at coquitlam.ca/onlinerec.

We’d Love to Hear your Ideas Do you have a suggestion for a fitness program or recreation resource you would like to see online? Follow the City of Coquitlam on social media and watch for posts inviting your ideas, or email us at feedback@coquitlam.ca.

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Left: There’s probably nothing more necessary during the COVID-19 pandemic than keeping people apart to minimize the risk of spreading the respiratory virus.

So Rob Shantz, owner of a small Coquitlam fabrication company, UFO, which stands for Unique Fabricated Objects, invented a simple device that enables transactions between two people to occur the recommended two metres distant.

Inspired when his 81-year-old father told him of his faceto-face encounters at pharmacy counters and by the struggles of a friend in the restaurant business to safely transfer takeout orders to customers, Shantz got to work at his design table, where he normally concocts signs for local businesses or other gizmos made of metal or plastic. He dismissed as too bulky his first idea, a sort of lazy susan. Then, using metal bits and bars already on hand in his workshop, he devised a sliding tray that can be easily affixed to a table or countertop and operated at a two-metre distance with a simple push rod. He said his first prototype at his friend’s restaurant has worked SUBMITTED PHOTO out well and he’s ready to build more for about $250 a pop — just enough to cover the cost of materials and labour. Inset: Meanwhile, Coquitlam-based AG Hair is gearing up to produce hand sanitizer to help protect health care workers and the public from COVID-19, said John Davis, one of the company’s co-founders, who added that he hopes to have sanitizer in the hands of health care workers by mid-April. More on these stories: tricitynews.com.

COVID-19: SIDE EFFECTS

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Changes to Coquitlam’s noise bylaw mean construction crews will be allowed to work longer hours during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A resolution approved by council at its meeting Monday adds an extra hour to the end

of the day on weekdays and two hours to the end of the day on Saturdays. The development industry said it needs the additional time to stagger shifts and allow for greater physical distancing on job sites.

“Construction and development is a key to economic development… and it is a very important contribution to our economic lifeline” said deputy city manager Raul Allueva.

Under the new rules, construction can take place between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. and 8

p.m. on Saturdays. Noise that disturbs is still prohibited on Sundays and holidays.

Not everyone supported the resolution, which was passed during a meeting conducted via video conferencing as part of the city’s response to the COVID-19 crisis.

It is not just people that are staying at home during the pandemic that will be affected by the change, said Coun.

Bonita Zarrillo. Those who do shift work, like health care professionals, will also be disturbed, she added, noting that

many people in a variety of different industries are working longer shifts to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

But the majority of council voted in favour of the changes.

Coun. Chris Wilson said the resolution improves worker safety and minimizes the transmission of the novel coronavirus. He added that many of the projects underway are also bringing badly needed housing to the community.

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COQUITLAM UPDATES

The city of Coquitlam is launching its own food delivery service for residents 50 years and over. The frozen meals cost $7.50 each and are prepared by staff at the Dogwood and Glen Pine pavilions, and are delivered Tuesdays and Fridays. The program is an extension of the hot lunch the city already offers at the pavilions. Meals are prepared by city staff who are Food Safe certified in kitchens large enough to ensure two-metre physical distance between cooks. The menu will be posted on the city’s Facebook page and its website (coquitlam.ca/meals). To order, call 604-927-6940 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Monday for Tuesday deliveries or on Thursday for Friday deliveries.

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WASTE COLLECTION

Our Town Centre Recycling Depot is temporarily closed and our Large Item Pick-up and Seasonal Unlimited Yard Trimmings programs have been temporarily suspended. You can take excess yard waste, other items and recyclables to the Coquitlam Transfer Station (1200 United Blvd. 604-681-5600) but there are changes to accepted items and they ask you to NOT visit or use facilities if you are in quarantine or self-isolation related to COVID-19. Please check with them regularly for updates on changes to their services at metrovancouver.org/services.

During COVID-19

To receive service reminders of your curbside scheduled collection day and changes or updates, visit coquitlam.ca/recollect and download the ReCollect app – you can get reminders sent to you via email, text or phone.

Our waste collection services including garbage and green waste are operating normally but our service provider will not pick up anything outside of containers so please ensure you secure all your attractants!

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Please note that bears are waking up and we continue to enforce our solid waste management and wildlife and vector control bylaws, which call for a $500 fine for setting out carts prior to 5:30 a.m. on your collection day, or for not securing attractants.

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COVID-19 COMES TO POCO

PoCo care home resident diagnosed with COVID-19 Fraser Health says patient at Shaughnessy Care Centre STEfAn LAbbé slabbe@tricitynews.com

A resident of a Port Coquitlam private care facility has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the first publicly acknowledged case in the city.

The case marks the second positive diagnosis at a seniors’ home in the Tri-Cities and, as of April 1, raises the provincial tally to 19 long-term care homes that have recorded at least one case of COVID-19 in a resident or staff member.

The case, made public Saturday, March 28, confirmed rumours that had been circulating around the city over the last several days that a resident at the Shaughnessy Care Centre had tested positive for the virus.

Two days earlier, The TriCity News received a tip that someone at the facility had tested positive for COVID-19.

At the time, Fraser Health would not confirm the case, saying: “We will not be identifying the specific location of confirmed cases unless public health providers cannot be certain they have reached all those who need to be contacted and who therefore

A resident of Shaughnessy Care Centre was diagnosed last week with COVID-19. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

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One essential service in Port Coquitlam was ramped up last week, months earlier than planned. Last Thursday, the city started its year-round weekly pickup of green cart waste to homes with municipal garbage/ recycling collection. Homes in Zone 5 were the first to get the increased organics pickup, a program that was due to be implemented this fall as part of a strategy to reduce the number of bears becoming habituated to household trash. To see the green waste collection schedule, download the city’s free PoCo Wasteline app via portcoquitlam.ca/waste.

might be a risk to the public.”

Fraser Health had previously identified a positive case of the virus at the Dufferin Care Centre in Coquitlam March 20.

But by Saturday, after provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry had added another care home to the provincial total, Fraser Health

reversed its position and confirmed to The Tri-City News that a case had indeed been identified at Shaughnessy.

Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West — who had also heard rumours of the case — took to Twitter following the revelations to express his sadness, adding, “I know everyone in

our city will be keeping this community member close to our hearts and their recovery foremost in our thoughts.”

The Shaughnessy case was one of 92 new COVID-19 cases announced across the province last Saturday. Since then, the provincial total has breached a thousand cases and, as of Wednesday morning, stood at 1,013. Of those, 61 people across the province are in the intensive care unit.

At 348, the Fraser Health region — which includes the Tri-Cities — has the second highest number of COVID-19 patients in the province and the most hospitalized.

By Wednesday morning, the province had also recorded 507 people — 50% of the total — who have fully recovered from the virus.

The current death rate for those who have been infected with the novel coronavirus in B.C. stands at 2.3%, and that reflects a disproportionate number of deaths recorded in long-term care homes, where seniors with underlying conditions or weakened immune systems are more susceptible to the virus.

The province says it now completes roughly 3,500 tests per day, mostly targeted at frontline health care workers, first responders and those connected to outbreak clusters or transmission chains.

Seniors living at the Astoria Retirement Residence in Port Coquitlam are excited to receive eight cases of Girl Guide cookies to give as gifts to staff at the facility as well as to sell through its small general store. As well, by buying the cookies, the Astoria residents are helping out the 1st Hyde Creek Brownies, whose sales would have otherwise been curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more on this story at tricitynews.com. SUBMITTED PHOTO

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PORT COQUITLAM UPDATES

PoCo city council meetings will have a different look for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis.

Starting Tuesday, April 7, Mayor Brad West, chief administrative officer Kristen Dixon and corporate officer Gabryel Joseph will be the only people in council chambers during meetings while councillors will be connected from their homes via the online conferencing software Zoom.

As in Coquitlam and Port Moody, the webcasts will go live, Joseph told The Tri-City News Wednesday.

(Coquitlam uses Zoom while Port Moody plans to stream all open meetings with ISI Live and eScribe.)

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City of Port Moody

Visit portmoody.ca/covid19 to stay up-to-date on impacts to City services. • Email: info@portmoody.ca • Phone: 604.469.4500

COVID-19 Update Your safety is our top priority.

We continuously monitor information from public health authorities, and make decisions about City services, programs, and facilities with the health and safety of our residents in mind.

City services

City closures

We continue to deliver core services such as police and fire, water and sewer, waste collection, and bylaw enforcement.

City Hall has suspended walk-in service. Where possible, we will continue to provide services by email and phone.

Utility bill deadline extended

The following facilities are closed: Port Moody Recreation Complex; Kyle Centre, Glenayre Community Centre, Heritage Mountain Community Centre, Old Orchard Hall, Port Moody Public Library, and Port Moody Arts Centre.

In an effort to minimize the financial impact of COVID-19 on residents, we have extended the March 31, 2020 five per cent penalty deadline for unpaid utility bills to September 30, 2020.

For more information visit portmoody.ca/utilities.

Online services Visit portmoody.ca to learn about programs and services, find application forms for licences and permits, check the waste collection schedule, and more. You can also sign up for e-billing at my.portmoody.ca and pay eligible bills online.

Keep Connected!

Seniors in need If you are a senior in need, or would like to volunteer to help seniors in your community, call 2-1-1 or visit bc211.ca for services provided by the United Way.

Stay active Join along with our recreation staff as they keep us active with online fitness videos.

Visit portmoody.ca/stayconnected for the video library.

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All public recreational facilities in parks are closed, including: playgrounds, sports fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, skate parks, and bike parks.

Parks and trails remain open but please remember to keep your distance.

2 metres Library from your living room Events, programs, and services you normally find at the library are available online at portmoodylibrary.ca.

You will also find suggestions for other cool activities such as free online concerts, author readings, fitness classes, and fun stuff for kids.

How do I get more information?

Visit portmoody.ca/covid19 to stay up-todate on impacts to City services and for links to public health authorities.

Email: info@portmoody.ca • Phone: 604.469.4500

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Give us ticketing powers or lock us down: PoMo mayor

Hospital neighbours create placards for busy hospital workers Mario Bartel mbartel@tricitynews.com

The kids in the Eagle Point townhouse complex in Port Moody have been enthusiastic participants in the cacophony that clangs across the region every evening at 7 p.m. to thank the health care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 battle.

But when Megan Halfnights, 11, recently spied several painted rocks placed in a garden in front of Eagle Ridge Hospital (ERH) as she was walking her dog, she decided their gratitude could go further.

So she got her mom, Wendy, to connect her to her friends in the complex, which is across the street from the hospital, and they hatched a plan to gather chunks of wood and spare pieces of board to create colourful placards to add to the display. Last Sunday, each family in its own home, but linked by video chat on their computers, got busy.

Megan said there was a lot of pressure to get their projects “just right,” given the toil of doctors, nurses, cleaners and other hospital staff as they deal with patients in respiratory distress.

Megan Halfnights, 11, Joe Druce, 9, and his twin 5-year-old sisters, Samantha and Alexandra, and Om Kapadia, 11, and his sister Khushi, 6, keep safe social distances as they show off some of Thank You placards in front of Eagle Ridge Hospital. Mario Bartel/tHe tri-CitY neWS

Wendy Halfnights said with the kids out of school and prevented from playing with each other, it’s important to find creative ways to keep them together. “Our number one job is to help the kids feel connected to each other and to the community,” she said, adding, “We definitely miss each other.”

Once the work was finished, the group marched in familial groups — dutifully separated

by at least two metres — to the garden along Guildford Way to place their messages where they could be seen by passing pedestrians, motorists and, most importantly, ERH staff arriving going to and from work.

The kids have continued their creative expressions by making pictures and posters with joyful messages to hang in their windows, and Megan Halfnights said she’s thinking

of adding her clarinet to the nightly noise symphony.

Her mom said the effort has been infectious.

“It’s a real testimony to our overall community spirit,” she said, adding even a simple activity like going for a walk or taking out the trash now presents a rare opportunity to make eye contact and share a smile with someone else outside their home, even briefly.

Port Moody’s mayor wants the province to put some weight behind its physical distancing edicts.

In a letter sent Monday to B.C.’s public health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, Mayor Rob Vagramov said a provincial order issued March 26 under the Emergency Program Act

by Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth doesn’t go far enough. The order empowers municipal bylaw officers to issue warnings to people not staying at least two metres apart from one another in public spaces to minimize the risk of transmitting COVID-19, and even report their behaviour to public health officials.

In the letter, Vagramov said he wants city bylaw officers, along with police officers, to be able to issue tickets to social distancing violators.

In an email, Vagramov told The Tri-City News while he thinks PoMo residents are doing “pretty good with physical distancing” on the city’s trails and sidewalks, he would like to see a province-wide approach to ensure people stay safe wherever they go.

“Port Moody is not an island,” he said, adding the lack of attention to maintaining a proper separation between people is especially apparent in nice weather.

And with sunshine become more common now that it’s spring, Vagramov said in his letter to Dr. Henry that he’s worried.

Meanwhile, in Port Coquitlam, chief administrative officer Kristen Dixon said that city “has already been taking a proactive approach to enforcing the orders from the province and the provincial health officer.”

And in Coquitlam, Mayor Richard Stewart said on Facebook that COVID-19 “doesn’t recognize municipal boundaries,” and urged everyone to “work together instead of separately.”

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With the ever evolving Covid-19 pandemic, our world is experiencing unprecedented uncertainty, disruption and anxiety.

During this time, we want to thank all the people who are at the forefront of the fight against this disease.

Thank you to the healthcare workers and first responders for being on the front-line. Thank you to our political leaders who are working nonstop with the community to put policies in place to protect us. Thank you to those in essential services who provide us with the goods and services that we need. Thank you to good neighbours helping others in this time of need.

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Huge demand for quick development of COVID-19 vaccine THE TRI-CITY NEWS newsroom@tricitynews.com

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ot long ago, the efficacy and safety of vaccines was being questioned and thousands of B.C. school children didn’t have all their shots.

It was only last April — remember those halcyon days before COVID-19? — when Coquitlam residents were being warned that someone with measles had been frequenting a local hotel, mall and restaurant. A measles alert was also sent out for

people who used SkyTrain and buses, and it was revealed that there were outbreaks of the disease.

Consequently, a new vaccine policy was implemented and make-up vaccine clinics were established for B.C. school children, including kids in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody.

This measles scare happened at a time when it was reported that nearly a quarter of B.C. residents had doubts about the effectiveness of vaccines. Remember those days?

Now, a vaccine for COVID19 can’t come fast enough.

The concern is that while we wait for one to be created and tested, the economy will be devastated because of the need to physically distance to

avoid the spread of disease.

Vaccines, once considered questionable by a minority, are now being seen as a saviour by the vast majority, although now it seems the demand is being created by fears of economic devastation rather than sensible health policy.

This isn’t the first infectious disease to affect world populations and it won’t be the last.

Millions died from the 1918 Spanish Flu. Even in Canada, people died — approximately 55,000, and most of those between the ages of 20 and 40.

Many might remember how polio devastated Canadian children, including those in B.C., in the late 1950s. Scarlet fever was another devastating illness, and

children growing up in prevaccine eras suffered greatly — and quarantining then, as now, was critical to stopping the spread of disease.

Now, children can get vaccinated against many of these childhood diseases and a link on the BC Disease Control website shows that between birth and six years of age, parents are offered free vaccines to protect their children against 14 different diseases.

As yet, free flu vaccines aren’t commonly available except for certain vulnerable groups. After this pandemic is over, hopefully that policy changes.

History has shown us that vaccines help control infectious diseases, and the sooner we can get one for COVID-19, the better.

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C O V I D - 1 9 : H E A LT H C A R E W O R K E R S

COVID-19

‘We are scared, too,’ says nurse

Close the daycares

The Editor, An update from the front lines and, in a word, it is eerie: The ER department and the professionals within are poised and ready to get rocked.

The duality of being creatures of science while immersed in social media has caused what can only be described as information overload.

We peruse the journal articles that we have been trained to trust. We scour the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control websites for technical information. We hit the various health professionals’ so-

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cial media groups and swap information with members from around the world. We cry when we see our medical family members suffer from

afar, and we wonder what is to come for us.

I have to give some serious props to the administrators and managers who have put into action plans to reconfigure hospital, virtual and community settings to prepare for the coming avalanche.

I give kudos to the public for finding a way to manage whatever illnesses they have at a distance from the hospital to allow us to prepare and take a deep breath before the storm.

The systems are working and, despite the negatives we hear, our collective as a society is truly pitching in together.

We are on the cusp of our local spike of this illness and we are worried about how we will protect ourselves and our families. Many of us are looking at ways to stay away from our spouses and children for the next few months. We see the staggering numbers of health care providers who are infected around the world and we are already rationing our personal protective equipment — we’re in this for the long haul.

We look to each other and wonder if one of us will succumb to this illness, too. We see COVID-19 starting to come through our doors now, and it is hitting our young and healthy, despite the

narrative that this category would be safe.

We see Metro Vancouver and hear its 7 p.m. cheers, and it helps, because while we are answering our call of duty, we are scared, too.

I wasn’t going to make this a request, but if anyone has N95 masks, please turn them over to health authorities.

We can’t safely do our job to protect the public without the equipment we need to protect ourselves.

We know it is hard to stay home but we ask you to think how hard it is to walk into the danger zone with all that we know, and all that we don’t.

Christina Gower, BSPN, RPN, PLN, Port Coquitlam

The Editor, I have few questions for provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and all health authorities in Tri-Cities: How can we maintain social distancing (two metres) among young children in daycare centres? Why will licensed daycares in B.C. remain open while schools from kindergarten to Grade 2 are being closed indefinitely? Why the double standard?

Common sense tells us that young children do not have the maturity to practise social distancing.

Please put children’s safety first, not politics.

Patrick Ng, Port Coquitlam

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2019 Coquitlam RCMP - YEAR IN REVIEW The Coquitlam RCMP provides 24/7 response to calls and investigations as well as a wide range of crime prevention and community education initiatives to the citizens of Anmore, Belcarra, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, and the Kwikwetlem First Nation. Our team also serves the tens of thousands of people who travel to and through our jurisdiction every day for school, work, and recreation.

In 2019 the Coquitlam RCMP was made up of 242 sworn police officers, 107 full-time equivalent municipal employees, and more than 450 volunteers all committed to delivering top quality policing and public safety services that help make the communities we serve safe, secure places to live, work, and play.

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THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS Our volunteers worked to improve road safety as part of the Tri-cities Speed Watch program, attended local events in uniform as Auxiliaries, did foot and bike patrols as a part of the Community Police Station program, looked for stolen vehicles with Citizens Crime Watch and much more.

ROAD SAFETY Speed enforcement in school zones remains a priority for the Coquitlam RCMP. The most common traffic violation tickets in our jurisdiction are for speeding. In 2019, the Coquitlam RCMP issued 4,968 speeding tickets.

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C O V I D - 1 9 : t e S t I n G & t R e at I n G

Inside testing clinic, the pros are worried Tri-City docs set up a clinic, use virtual diagnostic tool, too Stefan Labbé slabbe@tricitynews.com

Outside the retrofitted clinic, parked vehicles surround the block, each SUV, each pickup temporarily isolating a pregnant woman in her third trimester, a firefighter who got too close or a home-care nurse linked to a transmission chain.

When the time comes, each one will get a call and two masked aids will guide them, one at a time, through the clinic doors to a bench in a dimly lit hallway, where they will sit in seclusion waiting for their turn.

In between patients, Dr. Ali Okhowat, the clinic’s physician lead, will slide open an exam room drawer to pull out a sealed, red-tipped nasal-pharyngeal swab kit, one of 3,500 tested daily across the province for the novel coronavirus.

“The loads here are just… We can’t keep up,” the Coquitlam family physician said from behind several layers of personal protective equipment. “Now we’re finding a lot of [gastrointestinal] symptoms are coming back, like diarrhea, coming back as COVID-positive.”

The clinic, located opposite Royal Columbian Hospital, was transformed into a COVID-19 facility just two weeks ago.

When it opened, it was immediately hit with a surge of people looking to get tested.

By March 29, nearly 500 patients had walked through its doors, although the Fraser Northwest Division of Family Practice Society (FND), which runs the facility, can’t disclose how many have tested positive.

Because of the province’s targeted approach to testing, the clinic can only send off samples from frontline medical workers and first responders. Outside of those deemed tier-one essential workers, doctors there can also test high-risk individuals like pregnant women, care home residents or cases sent to them from an active outbreak cluster. “[Everyone’s] terrified to be a vector,” Dr. Okhowat told The Tri-City News. “[We’re] just trying to ensure first responders and frontline health care workers aren’t transmitting the virus among themselves.”

But while the clinic is restricted in who it tests, it has also opened its doors to the public in a more experimental way, transforming itself into the focal point in a virtual triage system rolled out across the TriCities and New Westminster.

fLOOD Of PatIentS

By early March, clinics and family physicians across the TriCities were struggling to manage a flood of patients exhibiting COVID-19-like symptoms,

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“Especially for unattached patients, there’s just nothing available, except for, or course, the emerg. – but we don’t want them to go there.”

Dr. Ali Okhowat Who works at newly opened clinic near Royal Columbian

even as the supply of personal protective equipment — masks, surgical gowns, gloves and plastic face shields — ran dry.

To protect their staff, many GPs and walk-in clinics made the tough decision to close up shop.

“There were a lot of doctors and nurses testing people without equipment, going on leave because of exposure,” said the executive director of FND, Kristan Ash. “They put themselves at risk, and that’s horrible.”

At the same time, people are desperate, Ash said.

“People are stealing from hospitals. We’ve had people walking into doctors’ officers yelling and screaming for masks. A lady stole hand sanitizer from a clinic the other day, pumping it into a plastic bag,” she said. “I stood there and I looked at her and said to myself, ‘Do I stop her?’ But if you’re that bold and that desperate?”

Into that melee stepped Dr. Okhowat, approaching Ash with his open-source COVID-19 self-assessment tool and a bold proposal to virtually triage patients. “It’s unprecedented,” Ash told The Tri-City News. “For the last few years, it’s been frowned upon. The idea that you need to touch a patient to diagnose them has shifted in a week.”

But for Dr. Okhowat, injecting technology into medicine has been his life’s work. He spent years leading innovation projects with the World Health Organization across the Middle East. Since returning to Canada — since the outbreak came home — Okhowat has fielded twice-daily calls from WHO colleagues in China, Europe and South America, helping them roll out the virtual tool so no one has to “reinvent the wheel.”

As cases started ramping up in the Lower Mainland, the COVID-19 tool opened a lifeline between patients and a clogged medical system, allowing anyone in the Tri-Cities access to a virtual consultation with a local doctor within minutes.

From there, a doctor can refer patients to a face-to-face checkup with one of the dozens of Tri-City doctors volunteering at the New West clinic.

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FND’s virtual system has helped take pressure off the province’s 811 health line at a time when callers often have to wait for hours to speak to a nurse. Many of those who do get through don’t qualify to be tested, but their symptoms still require guidance, investigations or lab work, said Dr. Okhowat.

“We are basically doing triage,” he said. “Especially for unattached patients, there’s just nothing available, except for, of course, the emerg. — but we don’t want them to go there.”

Since opening, more than 6,600 patients have been screened through the online tool. By March 27, the clinic was seeing an average of seven patients an hour in a surge that lasted throughout the weekend and included return patients exhibiting worsening symptoms. At that rate, cleaning staff — whom Okhowat calls the “unsung heroes” of the crisis — can spend as much time sterilizing the exam rooms, handles and doorknobs as doctors do with patients.

Despite the spike in patient numbers, Ash worries many have begun to stay clear of the clinic — and the health care system more widely — even as their symptoms get worse. She

points to the recent case of a dentist on the North Shore, who stayed home to avoid burdening the hospital system; in the end, the man died alone.

“Some people don’t want to bother their physician. But they’re there, they’re waiting and they want to help,” she said, adding there’s no reason to be ashamed.

In addition to the virtual consultations and clinic visits, FND has also stepped up house calls for those who can’t leave home and has coordinated with the ER at Royal Columbian Hospital

to flag anyone with respiratory or influenza-like symptoms who need a follow-up visit at home or get bounced back to emergency. That helps keep pressure off one of the Lower Mainland’s most important trauma hospitals.

For all the provincial health officials’ guarded optimism that B.C.’s physical distancing measures are slowing transmission of the virus, Ash warns that the targeted testing they take part in represents a narrow demographic and could be giving people a false sense of security.

Ash isn’t the only one concerned with the current testing regime. Last weekend, an emergency room doctor who works at Royal Columbian as well as Port Moody’s Eagle Ridge Hospital echoed that message in a YouTube video, stating, “We

are very much under-testing the population.”

If cases really start to spiral, Ash told The Tri-City News, FND has contingency plans to open a second testing clinic near Eagle Ridge Hospital.

In the meantime, like any form of triage, there’s a risk patients sent home from the ER could take a turn for the worse, something Okhowat and his colleagues are hoping to catch before it’s too late.

“With COVID-19, I think the scary thing is that there’s a lot that we don’t know: how it presents, the course of illness and how to predict who will do well and who will not,” he said.

“That’s what everybody is bracing for. Everybody’s very scared that suddenly, like Italy, like Spain right now, we’re going to see the cases rising.”

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With Tri-City arts and culture centres closed until further notice because of the global pandemic, their staffs have had to get creative to keep now isolated arts enthusiasts engaged.

While a few venues such as PoCo Heritage, Coquitlam Heritage and the Port Moody Station Museum are calling for artistic submissions and offering tips during the self-isolation period, a Port Moody gallery is showcasing its current exhibits virtually.

Yesterday (Wednesday), PoMoArts — formerly known as the Port Moody Arts Centre — was to launch its digital gallery tour series, which features artists talking about their collections as well as engagement challenges and a “Wine and Webinar” artist talk.

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A screen grab from Meghan Spence’s video. pomoarts

Cotter designed the outreach project with Caitlin Hill, PoMoArts’ communications and digital marketing co-ordinator, as a way to celebrate artists’ achievements, to promote the sale of their work and to highlight the arts centre’s programs and services.

The pair videotaped the two solo exhibitors — Lori Popadiuk and Meghan Spence — plus eight members of the Tri-City Potters discussing their displays.

The first video puts the limelight on potter Gillian McMillan, a longtime Port Moody resident who was a champion for converting the old city hall building on St. Johns Street into a civic arts facility; Potters president Ronald Boersen’s video goes up April 9. Viewers can leave comments and ask questions for artists to answer.

Popadiuk will also get interactive. April 10 at 7 p.m., viewers can log on to her

“Wine and Webinar” via the online meeting app Zoom to talk about her series in the Ann Kitching Gallery called Shapeshifter, a set of black and white paintings (more information will be available at pomoarts.ca).

As for the sale of items from the shows, Cotter said the pieces are now back in the hands of the exhibitors and can be purchased directly from the artists; PoMoArts is not taking a cut while the venue is shuttered.

Still, as the provincial health emergency continues, there will be more virtual opportunities for PoMoArts, Cotter said.

“We’ve got lots of ideas and we are working to see what we can do to honour our artists,” she told The Tri-City News. “Right now, we’re operating day by day while we try to flatten the curve with this virus. It’s a learning curve for us, too.”

Living history

• PoCo Heritage is calling for artistic submissions for QUARAN-TALES, a remote online program. Stories, poems, drawings and photos during self-isolation will be posted online. Enter via pocoheritage.org.

• Coquitlam Heritage has its Journal Project: Capturing History Unfolding, asking participants to write down their thoughts about selfisolating. Those records can be donated to the Coquitlam Heritage Society to be part of the permanent collection.

Visit coquitlamheritage.ca/ the-journal-project.

• Port Moody Station Museum wants residents to record their thoughts and observations during the pandemic, also to be included in the permanent collection.

Visit portmoodymuseum. org or its Facebook page.

Alternatively, email info@ portmoodymuseum.org.

Arts groups in the Tri-Cities can apply for a government resilience supplement to help pay the bills during the COVID-19 crisis.

Last week, Lisa Beare, B.C.’s minister of tourism, arts and culture, said physical distancing restrictions have hit the arts sector, with shows cancelled during the provincial state of emergency.

And supplements of up to $15,000 will be available through a newly created $3-million Arts and Culture Resilience Supplement fund.

Administered by the BC Arts Council, the money is targeted for operations and eligible project clients, and provides a 50% advance on 2020-’21 funding. The council will also ease its requirements to help groups with their cashflow crunches: Deadlines will be pushed for applications, reporting rules will be relaxed and organizations can use grants to cover immediate operating needs like rent.

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Port Coquitlam magician Alex Zander is helping his peers in the International Brotherhood of Magicians get their acts online to keep people entertained in their homes during the global COVID-19 pandemic. SUBMITTED PHOTO

At least a dozen musical theatre actors with Tri-City ties won’t be singing and dancing in Stanley Park this summer.

Last week, the Theatre Under the Stars board cancelled the TUTS season at Malkin Bowl because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The non-profit arts society was due to present Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Hello, Dolly!

Angela Donahue, the president of School District 43’s music teachers association, was set to portray Madame De La Grande Bouche in Beauty — her first time on the TUTS stage. And she was set to appear with her daughter, Claire Lundin, in the ensemble. “We were so thrilled when we got picked,” Donahue said Monday. “It was going to be a dream come true.”

Also to play in TUTS’ Beauty and the Beast was Sheryl Anne Wheaton, a dance teacher at Tri-City Dance Centre, who was due to return to the Malkin Bowl as the character Mrs. Potts. And Nicholas Bradbury, a graduate of the Traditional Learning Academy in Coquitlam, was scheduled to take on Lefou — Gaston’s sidekick.

For Hello, Dolly!, Centennial secondary graduate Tessa Trach was cast as Mrs. Irene Malloy, another lead role for her after last spring’s Singin’ in the Rain with the Royal City Musical Theatre.

And Daniel Curalli, who is on faculty at Coquitlam’s Place des Arts and recently wrapped up playing Donkey in Align Entertainment’s Shrek: The Musical, was to be in the Dolly ensemble. The board said the cancellations were for public safety.

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Ta da! Tricks go on Facebook Live Magic is needed more than ever, PoCo prez says mario bartel mbartel@tricitynews.com

A Port Coquitlam man is rallying his community to bring a little magic into a troubled world.

And pulling it off will be some trick.

Zander, 27, is the youngest president of the International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM), which comprises more than 13,000 magicians in 88 countries.

And like him, most are in lockdown, their live performances cancelled, their audiences hunkered in their own homes.

It’s times like these, Zander said, that magic is needed more than ever.

His passion and profession has a history of toughing it out through world wars and economic hardships like the Great Depression.

“We are the entertainers of the world,” Zander said. “If we can’t put a smile on people’s face, then we’re doing it wrong.”

So every night, at 6 p.m.(PDT), magicians from all over the world are gathering for one hour on Facebook Live to share ideas with one another, teach and learn new tricks, and pull back the curtain on some of their secrets.

The virtual gatherings will continue nightly until Sunday — and the public is invited.

“Sharing the wonders of

live entertainment is really important,” Zander said. “It adds an extra dimension.”

The IBM has also launched a directory of live virtual magic shows being put on by individual performers on its website, magician.org. Zander said he expects even more of his peers to put their acts online as restrictions on movement escalate.

And he said magicians, by their nature, love to share their craft.

“Magicians are giving folks,” Zander said. “To keep going is always important.”

While going online will help satisfy that need, it doesn’t approach the satisfaction of performing to an in-person audience where magicians are able to feed off their reactions and wonderment.

“Magic is one of those arts that does necessitate a crowd,” Zander said, adding the Facebook Live platform allows for limited audience reaction, such as ThumbsUp and comments in real time.

And who knows, logging in to find some magic in the current uncertainty may uncover a hidden talent, Zander said.

“Sometimes the reality is, the greatest talent is borne from the greatest difficulties,” he said. “If Harry Houdini was able to do a double escape from a straight jacket, we can escape this.”

• The magic shows on Facebook Live can be found at www.facebook.com/ibmmagic • The IBM’s directory of livestreaming performances from around the world can be found at www.magician.org.

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COUNCIL MEETINGS Coquitlam City Hall – 3000 Guildford Way

Monday, April 6, 2020

Pursuant to section 124(3) of the Community Charter, notice is hereby given that Council for the City of Coquitlam intends to amend Council Procedure Bylaw No. 4042, 2009. The Council Procedure Bylaw establishes the general procedures that Council follows in conducting their business.

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The intent of Council Procedure Amendment Bylaw No. 5042, 2020 is to enable electronic participation by members of Council at meetings of Council.

2 p.m. Council-in-Committee*

Council will give final consideration to the adoption of a new amending bylaw (Council Procedure Amendment Bylaw No. 5042, 2020), at the Regular Council meeting scheduled for Monday, April 20, 2020.

Closed Council**

To obtain a copy of the Bylaw and associated staff report, please visit the City’s website at www.coquitlam.ca/publicnotice or contact the City Clerk’s Office at 604-927-3010.

7 p.m. Regular Council*

Should you have any questions or comments in relation to the proposed Bylaw please contact Jay Gilbert, City Clerk by email at jgilbert@coquitlam.ca or by phone at 604-927-3013.

*The City is following physical distancing provisions and the public are asked to view the meeting online as set out below.

Please submit your written comments to the attention of the City Clerk’s Office, in one of the following ways:

**A Closed Council Meeting will convene immediately following the adjournment of the Council-in-Committee Meeting. The first item to be considered in the public portion of this meeting is a resolution requiring adoption prior to the Council Meeting being closed to the public.

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To provide Council an opportunity to review your comments prior to the meeting, please ensure that you send your submission to the City Clerk’s Office as soon as possible. The deadline for receiving written comments is noon on Monday, April 20, 2020.

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The Coquitlam Express are hoping not to become the latest upset victim as the BC Hockey League team keeps alive its quest for the Fred Page Cup championship.

Virtually.

The Express were the only favoured team to emerge from the second round of the league’s simulation — created in the EA Sports video game NHL2020 — of the remainder of its post-season after actual games were cancelled for the rest of the season on March 13 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Coquitlam, which finished atop the BCHL’s regular season standings with 96 points, eliminated the Surrey Eagles in seven games to claim the Mainland division title. Other winners were the Vernon Vipers, Cowichan Valley Capitals and the Salmon Arm Silverbacks, all of which had fewer points in the regular season than their second-round opponents.

In this screengrab, the virtual version of the Coquitlam Express celebrate a goal and the team’s eventual second-round series win over the Surrey Eagles in seven games in a video game simulation of the BC Hockey League playoffs that started as a project to kill a bit of time between games by the former communications director of the Express, Jacob Lazare.

When the actual playoffs were cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the league enlisted Lazare to customize the EASport NHL 2020 game for the rest of the teams still in contention so players could contest the remainder of the post-season.

League commissioner Chris Hebb said the simulated playoff was launched as a way to keep fans engaged when no hockey can be played.

“We’ve tried to make it a fun and unique BCHL experience for everyone to enjoy,” he said in a press release.

The initiative sprang from a project by the former direc-

tor of communications for the Express, Jacob Lazare. Bored and restless after the team dispatched the Langley Rivermen from the playoffs’ first round in four straight games and awaiting the start of the second round, he put together a simulation of a series between Coquitlam and the Surrey Eagles, who took seven games

to defeat the Chilliwack Chiefs.

Lazare said he was able to use the video game’s various customization features to recreate the rosters of the two rivals, ranking each player’s attributes and tendencies, like their skating ability, speed, puck-handling skills and physicality, on a scale from zero to 99.

“You can go through and create a player that mimics the actual players realistically,” Lazare told The Tri-City News, adding he can set a dazzling skater like Massimo Rizzo to weave around defenders and a skilled stickman like defender Drew Cooper to repel onrushing forwards one-on-one.

While his own knowledge of the Express gleaned from running the team’s video camera during games helped him build Coquitlam’s digital doppelgänger, Lazare reached out to contacts at the Eagles to inform his re-creations of Surrey’s players.

The effort was an amusing distraction that got some attention on social media.

But when the actual series, and the rest of the season, was scrubbed because of the pandemic, the league reached out to spin his effort into a virtual march to the Fred Page Cup championship.

Lazare said it takes him a couple of hours to handicap all the players for each team, and additional time to create facsimiles of the uniforms and match headshots with the game’s graphics.

“It’s just to make it so fans can recognize their teams’ players,” he said of the laborious attention to detail.

Lazare lamented, however, that limitations in the game don’t allow him to recreate the cozy confines of BCHL arenas, so the virtual players are battling in front of likely the biggest crowds they’ve ever experienced, even if they’re comprised entirely of pixels.

Lazare said having actual players contest the rest of the playoffs, albeit with the help of the game’s artificial intelligence, adds an extra wrinkle of unpredictability, which is part of the fun.

“Somebody is able to win it for their team,” he said. “There can be upsets involved.”

OBITUARY

Bill Green remembered for his influence on baseball Former Coquitlam Reds boss died after battle with cancer MARIO BARTel mbartel@tricitynews.com

The influence of former Coquitlam Reds coach and manager Bill Green stretches far beyond the dugouts and diamonds at Mundy Park.

Green, who guided the Reds for 30 years — from 1985

BILL GREEN

to 2015 — died of cancer last Thursday.

“We will always remember Bill as the coach that took the slow walk from the coaching box to his dugout,” said a statement from the BC Premier Baseball League, where the Reds have been competing since 1999. Other tributes poured in from the baseball community across the province and Canada.

“A very sad day,” Baseball BC posted on its Twitter feed.

“He will be missed,”

Baseball Canada added.

Tom Valcke of the iCASE Baseball Academy in Stratford, Ont., said Green was a “workhorse” who rarely showed his emotions and showed young ballplayers the way quietly.

“If he spoke, you listened,” he said.

Vancouver Canadians broadcaster, Rob Fai said Green provided him mentorship and guidance as he was trying to find his own way in baseball.

“He left a legacy in this province few will ever match,” he said.

That legacy included several Reds players who were drafted by MLB teams, including third baseman Shawn Bowman, Matt Rogelstad, outfielder Rene Tosoni and pitcher Curtis Taylor, who was trying to crack the lineup of the Toronto Blue Jays when spring training was abruptly cancelled March 12 because of the COVID-19 pandemic Murray Seward, a Reds ex-

ecutive, suggested it would be a fitting tribute to Green to rename the diamond where the team plays its home games after him.

In addition to guiding the Reds, Green was also a regional scout for Major League Baseball and head coach of B.C.’s Canada Cup select team for several years. He was named Baseball Canada’s coach of the year in 1988 and, in 2013, he was inducted in to the Coquitlam Sports Hall of Fame.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 14: Concordia Properties Ltd., a three-generation builder in Maple Ridge, celebrated over 65 condominium homes sold since December, at their new Highpointe development on 227th. Street, just south of Lougheed Hwy. Maple Ridge Mayor Mike Morden presided over the event, joined by city councillors, Kiersten Duncan, Gordy Robson, and Judy Dueck as well as the developers Ron and Carl Davis. The current sales momentum provides the green light required to begin excavation in April, and construction in early summer of 2020. The project is unique in the region, being the first mid-rise multi-family project planned with steel and concrete construction providing enhanced sound insulation, healthier air-exchange system, as well as mold, shrink, and fire-resistance qualities. Highpointe features a total of 153 exceptionally-priced condo units with a wide variety of 39 plans from one level studio, one, two and three bedroom

Left to right: Carl Davis from Concordia Properties, Councillor Kiersten Duncan, Mayor Mike Morden, Councillor Gordy Robson, Councillor Judy Dueck and Ron Davis, Concordia Properties.

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