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Kinsight charged in death of woman by starvation 54-year-old woman found in her PoCo home in Oct. 2018 Stefan Labbé slabbe@tricitynews.com
Dr. Charles Best secondary student Angela Shen with her sculpture of a golden Chinese dragon titled The Forever Chase, one of 65 pieces in Emerging Talent 23, an annual exhibit of artwork by School District 43 Grade 12 artists on display until Feb. 16 at the Art Gallery at Evergreen in Coquitlam. The show is a first for many graduating students to have their work in a public setting. For more info, please see page 33. JANIS CLEUGH/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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A Coquitlam non-profit and one of its caregivers have been charged following a 15-month investigation into the death by starvation of a 54-year-old disabled woman. The BC Prosecution Service has approved charges against Astrid Charlotte Dahl, 51, and Kinsight Community Society, a charitable organization that provides support for people with developmental delays and disabilities. At a press conference Wednesday morning at Coquitlam RCMP headquarters, spokesperson Cpl. Michael
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School is going to look a little different in the Tri-Cities with the introduction of robots that can dance, talk and help kids learn to code. With a “Hello Scott Creek,” a child-sized robot called Pepper, developed by Softbank Robotics, was introduced to a gym full of excited Scott Creek middle school students and teachers, plus representatives from Port Coquitlam’s Finger Food Advanced Technology Group, which donated the robots and is creating programming software for students. Wednesday, the 100-lb. machine was introduced to the cheering tweens while officials described how it will be used to teach middle and high school students the Applied Design, Skills and Technologies curriculum. At Scott Creek, two of these sophisticated robots, worth more than US$20,000 each, will be used in the students’ Exploration class, with principal Lisa Rinke hopeful kids will be motivated to learn the skills they will need for jobs in the future. “We are challenged with preparing you for a future that we don’t even know how it looks and for jobs that haven’t been invented yet,” Rinke told the students before commenting, “Pepper looks like she’s enjoying this” as the robot looked around the room with glowing eyes. But behind the excite-
Above: Students at Scott Creek middle school in Coquitlam pay rapt attention as they’re introduced to Pepper, a fullyanimated robot that will be used as a learning tool in the school. Below: Kerri Palmer Isaak, an Anmore/Belcarra school trustee and chair of the School District 43 board of education, takes a selfie with Pepper. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
ment of introducing the new technology is a serious effort to provide students a chance to work with a sophisticated piece of equipment. Ten of these robots will be introduced to local schools, two each to Centennial and Pinetree secondary, two each to Scott Creek and Kwayhquitlum middle schools, with two more “roamers” in a partnership between SD43 and Finger Food, which is investing more than $265,000 in the initiative. Using a block-based, drag and drop program developed by Finger Food for Softbank
Robotics, SD43 will essentially test a program that could be subsequently used by schools around the globe. “We are very excited to see what you are willing to learn and achieve with this,” said Graham Cunliffe, chief of strategy at Finger Food. “And if anyone is coming to look for a job after working with these, come and see us,” he added. The Pepper robots have been around for about five years and are more often seen in customer service roles, such as in doctors’ offices or greeting the public. They have
sensors, microphones and a gyroscope, but also a degree of artificial intelligence — socalled machine learning. And students who spoke to The Tri-City News expressed a keen interest in working with them. Among the tasks the students would like to see the robots do is walk the principal’s service dog down the hallway, identify faces and greet students by name, maybe even ask them how their day is going or play Rock, Paper, Scissors. “I think it’s exciting to be one of the first [students to use the robots],” said Saige Masse, a Grade 8 student, while Florence Therrien, also in Grade 8, said she’s interested in trying to program Pepper to do things. Niko Kanagawa suggested it would be fun to teach Pepper to recognize letters in the alphabet and eventually get it to write a word on paper or a white board. “I think everyone is excited in a robot that can walk around or say ‘hello,’” Kanagawa said. Stephen Whiffin told The Tri-City News the robots are being introduced to schools to teach students how to solve real-world problems using creative thinking, and are being distributed to schools needing a technology boost and where teachers have indicated an interest in incorporating them into lesson plans. Training is being provided and the initiative will be reviewed to see if it’s successful, he said, noting SD43 will know Pepper is useful if it helps students “achieve those curricular goals.” “It’s so you achieve curriculum success, not just to have a robot,” Whiffin said.
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CALENDAR Thursday, Jan. 30 Road to the Oscars: An Afternoon Film Series 1 – 4 p.m. Coquitlam Public Library – Poirier Branch coquitlam.ca/dogwood
Monday, Feb. 3 Council-in-Committee 2 p.m. Regular Council 7 p.m.
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Coquitlam Applying to Adopt Tall Mass Timber Construction Coquitlam is applying to be one of B.C.’s early adopters of tall mass timber construction in the hopes of providing more choices for the type of construction permitted in the City, leading to an increase in housing options. Council gave the go-ahead for the City to apply to join a provincial initiative that would allow Coquitlam to approve buildings up to 12 storeys made from an innovative, fire-resistant encapsulated mass timber product, several years before planned changes to the BC Building Code would implement it throughout the province. Benefits include faster construction times and costs; reduced environmental impacts through the use of a renewable resource, which naturally isolates carbon; less on-site waste as the panels and structural elements are produced off-site; and support for B.C.’s forest industry. Thirteen B.C. communities were approved for the initiative in December 2019; Coquitlam will be applying to be part of the next intake, anticipated sometime this year. For more information, visit coquitlam.ca/news
JANUARY 30 – FEB. 5 JANUARY 30 – FEB. 5 Coquitlam a Finalist in BC Open Stroke Correction Drop-in for Business Awards
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Coquitlam’s a finalist in the provincewide Open for Business Awards, recognizing the successes of the City’s innovative Business LinQ service. The awards recognize communities that have implemented business-friendly policies and initiatives that attract, retain and help small businesses. Winners of the 2020 Open for Business Awards will be announced at a gala on Feb. 21. Coquitlam’s Business LinQ resource centre was established in 2018 to provide support to local business owners with permitting and licensing information, as well as resources to help their business grow in Coquitlam. Current or prospective business owners can access Business LinQ’s resource centre for free at City Hall by appointment or drop-in during regular hours 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. For more information about Business LinQ, visit coquitlam.ca/businesslinq.
Improve your swimming technique with our Stroke Correction Drop-in at City Centre Aquatic Complex (1210 Pinetree Way) Mondays and Wednesdays, 7:30 – 8:15 p.m. An instructor will be available to provide feedback. Regular admission rates apply. Visit coquitlam.ca/ccac
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Seven sexual assaults have now been linked to a single suspect who touches or slaps women while they are walking in or around Glen Park in Coquitlam. Coquitlam RCMP are advising women to not walk alone through the park and to call 911 if they witness suspicious behaviour. “These incidents happened so quickly that no one has yet seen the suspect’s face,” Cpl. Michael McLaughlin said in a press release. In two of the incidents, the victims were touched on the buttocks, police say. Consistent details available so far say the man has a slight build, is of short or below-average height and wearing dark clothing and a black jacket. Police said earlier this week the original incidents happened Dec. 16 and Dec. 19, with two more taking place Jan. 22 and Jan. 25. Wednesday, Coquitlam RCMP confirmed to The TriCity News that an additional three sexual assaults at the park have now been reported. McLaughlin described them as “fairly historical,” having oc-
curred between last November and December. “The reason the victims waited to come forward is they weren’t even certain that a criminal offence had occurred. But when they saw the news release and this information appearing in the media, they gave us a call,” said McLaughlin. In each case, the suspect targeted a women by touching or slapping her and quickly running away, with the alleged attacks taking place in the early evening, between 5 and 7 p.m., according to the Mounties. McLaughlin said the Coquitlam RCMP’s sex crimes unit has made the investigation a “high priority.” “It’s important that women feel safe in our parks, and we need everyone’s help to make that reality”, McLaughlin said in a press release. At a press conference on Wednesday, McLaughlin urged the public to reserve judgement while police investigate the cases and what is motivating the attacks. “We will determine that in good time. Let’s just not try and take things into our own hands, please,” he said. For any crime in progress, call 911 immediately. If you have information that may help solve this crime, call the Coquitlam RCMP’s non-emergency number at 604-945-1550 and ask for the Sex Crimes Unit (quote file number 2020-2032).
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Body of Coquitlam man found in Maple Ridge on Jan. 11 Gary McKenna gmckenna@tricitynews.com
Homicide investigators are looking for information in the death of a Coquitlam man whose body was found in Maple Ridge earlier this month. The body of Edi BogereNyigwo was found on a forested property Jan. 11. He had not been seen since leaving his home at 7 p.m. Dec. 27, 2019. Sgt. Frank Jang of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said police do not believe the death is linked to any gang conflict and is asking anyone with any information to come forward. “We don’t believe Edi’s death was random,” Jang said. “We believe there are still those with important information who have yet to speak with us. “His friends describe him as someone who avoided trouble and many are wondering why anyone would harm him,” Jang said. A GoFundMe page set up to assist the family says he grew up in Coquitlam, at-
Edi Bogere-Nyigwo, whose body was found on a forested property in Maple Ridge, was last seen the evening of Dec. 27, 2019. SUBMITTED PHOTOS
tending Vanier elementary, Como Lake middle and Centennial secondary. As of Wednesday morning, $6,500 had been raised by 46 donors. “Edi’s memory will live on through his family and friends,” said a message on the GoFundMe page. “He will be remembered as a kind and quiet young man.” The 24-year-old was an avid athlete and a member
of the Coquitlam Sparta SC U-18 team that took home a Canadian National Championship in 2013, Bogere-Nyigwo scoring a goal in the 90th minute of the title match. Anyone with information is asked to call IHIT at 1-877551-IHIT (4448) or email ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca. Tips can be sent in anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-TIPS (8477).
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having Fox on the $5 bill. The new $5 bill is expected to be in circulation in three or four years. Other PoCo news:
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The Bank of Canada launched a public consultation yesterday (Wednesday) to ask Canadians what icon they’d like to see on the next $5 bill. Nominations will be accepted until March 11 via bankofcanada.ca for candidates who: • are Canadian by birth or naturalization who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, achievement or distinction in any field that have benefitted Canadians; • and have been deceased for at least 25 years (before March 11, 1995). Earlier this month, when the Bank of Canada governor spoke about changing the image of Sir Wilfrid Laurier on the $5, an online campaign began to have Port Coquitlam cancer crusader Terry Fox on the bill. Terry Fox Hometown Run organizer Dave Teixeira suggested having Fox on the bank note would be an appropriate design this year given the annual run in his name marks its 40th anniversary in September. And Mayor Brad West said he plans to write a letter to the Bank of Canada in support of
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Property taxes for Port Coquitlam homeowners are set to rise an average of 0.48% this year. And the city is calling for residents’ feedback on how it can refine its budget before the tax notices go out. The deadline is March 2 for residents to tell council how to spend their tax dollars. To comment, call 604-927-4280, email budget@portcoquitlam. ca or visit portcoquitlam. ca/2020budget. Among proposed service improvements are: year-round weekly organics pick-up for residents who receive city waste collection; increased bylaw enforcement; basic medical response training for firefighters; and funding for new PoCo Sports Alliance programs. The small tax hikes are among the lowest proposed this year in Metro Vancouver and are a result of high growth (especially in Dominion Triangle and along Kingsway Avenue) and reduced debt costs to pay for the $132-million community centre project and the Coast Meridian Overpass.
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Currently, a likeness of Sir Wilfrid Laurier is on Canada’s $5 bill. But the Bank of Canada has opened nominations for replacements. Among those being suggested are Port Coquitlam’s most famous son, Terry Fox.
A six-storey condo block will go up in downtown Port Coquitlam. And future homeowners there will have some cool perks that will be new for multi-family residences in the Tri-Cities. Tuesday, committee of council OK’d a permit for Kutak Developments to start construction at 2446 Shaughnessy St. on One Shaughnessy, a 33-unit building at Atkins Avenue. City staff said the building will have several unique amenities such as an automated stacked parking system, a dog grooming room, a workshop, a rooftop terrace and an electrical vehicle charging station for public use. City staff also showed the committee a video example of the Klaus multi-parking design, a German-built space saver that can be used in underground parkades where the water table is high — as in downtown PoCo. Mayor Brad West said One Shaughnessy will be a landmark in the core and he noted it also meets the city’s family-
friendly development policies by having a mix of suites, including some three-bedroom units. “I think that’s important to give people options,� he said. One Shaughnessy won’t be the tallest building in the area: The city has issued a permit for a seven-storey apartment at 2279 Kelly Ave., to the southeast. Other PoCo developments:
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Lordco Auto Parts will build a new head office, warehouse and distribution facility in Port Coquitlam. Tuesday, committee of council approved the plans for Conwest Group to construct the building on 14 acres next to the North Fraser Pre-trial Centre on Kingsway Avenue. The site was recently consolidated from three industrial parcels for the 377,00-sq. ft. tilt-up concrete facility that, when operating, will employ 237 people. As part of its bid, Conwest will plant 70 trees on the site in addition to the 190 trees and 7,277 riparian plants previously approved for the company’s watercourse development permit. As well, to address traffic congestion along Kingsway, Conwest will install electrical ducting for a future traffic signal at Kingsway and Langan Avenue.
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Crosswalk coming after child is struck on Clarke
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There will be no road through Port Moody’s Bert Flinn Park. Tuesday, a majority of council voted to adopt a series of bylaw amendments to the city’s official community plan (OCP) to limit development of PoMo’s portion of the Ioco lands to its current zoning for 253 single-family homes. It also eliminated references in the OCP that would make any development of that property contingent on changing the gravel right-of-way through the park into a paved roadway connected to David Avenue. The result came despite an 11th-hour effort by councillors Meghan Lahti, Diana Dilworth and Zoe Royer to defer the vote for adoption or defeat it outright so the future of the right-of-way could be put to city voters in a referendum in the next civic election. Coun. Hunter Madsen said there’s no need for a referendum. Prior to being elected to council in 2017, he was a leader of a group formed to prevent a road from being
built through the 311-acre park — which itself was created by a referendum vote in the 1990s. He said the issue had already been hashed out for years and he was “quite confident people would go for unification of the park.” That’s not what councillors heard from several speakers during the public hearing that preceded Tuesday’s meeting as all but one implored council to retain the right-of-way through Bert Flinn. Many said having an additional road would relieve traffic pressure on Ioco Road, especially as the village of Anmore begins considering a development plan for the portion of the Ioco property inside its boundaries that could almost triple its population to 6,400 residents. Others worried the absence of another road would make it unsafe for residents to escape a wildfire, or for emergency vehicles to get to the scene of a disaster. Madsen called their fears unfounded. He said building an additional road is a “false solution” to any increase in population at the Ioco lands, Anmore or Belcarra, adding drivers would still likely use Ioco Road as the most direct route into Port Moody and beyond.
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It’s going to get easier and safer for pedestrians in Port Moody to cross Clarke Street where several businesses line the north side between Queens and Douglas streets. But owners of some of those businesses are still uncertain when and what kind of crossing is to be built. Lisa Beecroft, an owner of Gabi & Jules bakery, said she’s glad Port Moody council gave its unanimous assent last Saturday to a motion by Mayor Rob Vagramov instructing staff to expedite the installation of a pedestrian-controlled crosswalk at Clarke and Elgin streets, as well as two other locations at Clarke and Seaview and Queens at St. Johns. But, Beecroft said, the motion is short on specifics. “We still don’t know when it will get done,” she told The TriCity News. “It would be nice if there was a bit more of a blackand-white answer to it.” Vagramov introduced his motion after a seven-year-old boy was hit by the driver of a vehicle Jan. 20 as he crossed Clarke to attend a class at Port
Lisa Beecroft of Gabi and Jules, said she’s waiting to hear details of when a new pedestrian crossing will be built at the corner of Elgin and Clarke streets. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Moody Taekwondo, next to Gabi & Jules. The boy suffered serious facial injuries and the road was closed for several hours as police investigated. Vagramov said his motion was an expression of the frustration he said he has felt since a previous motion he’d successfully introduced almost two years ago to accelerate construction of a pedestrian crossing at the intersection still hadn’t been addressed. And while the crosswalk is to be included in an update to the city’s master transportation plan, which is expected to be presented to council in February, Vagramov said a child getting injured while trying to cross the street is “a chill-
ing reminder of the need for accelerated action on this front.” Milad Bahrami, the owner of the martial arts gym, said the lack of a crossing has been a concern of his clients for the six years he’s been in business and he warned city staff an accident would eventually happen. He said his “heart sank” when he learned the boy was hit. “I can’t say I was surprised,” Bahrami said, adding the boy and his parents have since visited the gym and he should be well enough to resume classes soon. Beecroft said the accident resulted in “another six pages” of signatures being added to a petition calling for a new crossing business owners along the
street have been gathering since 2018. She presented that petition, now with more than 1,000 names, to councillors Jan. 21. She said it’s unrealistic to expect customers of businesses including hers, the taekwondo gym, a beauty salon and as well as a wellness studio, to use existing crosswalks at Queens Street to the east and Douglas Street to the west. Beecroft said she doesn’t want the renewed urgency to build the crossing to result in a hasty solution, adding just painting lines on the pavement won’t be enough. Jeff Moi, PoMo’s GM of traffic and engineering, told The TriCity News the city will work to complete the project this year.
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Topic: Glen Park assault warnings
“The schools need to be informing parents, too. Our kids walk through here, as do many others. Awareness would help! Put lights in the park as well!”
“I am so sick of being told I can’t go someplace because of this kind of behaviour... If the city values women’s safety, the lighting and other issues would be seen to immediately.”
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s it time for an education ombudsperson or public advocate to help parents deal with difficult and challenging situations such as conflict, bullying or violence on or near school grounds? It would seem that parents have very little power and authority while school administrators and police have a great deal. The recent public outcry on social media against School District 43 and Coquitlam RCMP about their handling of an alleged assault involving
a 13-year-old boy — who has been accused of one count of assault causing bodily harm and another count of uttering threats — and a 14-year-old girl suggests people are frustrated and don’t believe authorities are listening to or working in the public’s best interest. Whether this concern is justified is difficult to ascertain as the school board and RCMP aren’t allowed to give their side of the story due to privacy and legal reasons. There was a time when people simply accepted what authorities said — but that time has passed. Now, people want to know what happened and why, and there is a degree of mistrust in the ability of authorities to handle situations justly and fairly. A case in point is the decision of a mother to record a
Coquitlam RCMP officer who was dealing with her 14-yearold daughter. If the remarks by the officer involved are accurately represented in the media, that mistrust was justified. A lot of sensitivity is needed in cases such as this. Could a public advocate who can intervene on the public’s behalf be one way of dealing with these situations? There are already Human Rights Tribunals, the Office of the Ombudsperson and the courts but few are likely to go this route, which can take months to resolve. In B.C. very few complaints were made against schools and school districts last year, for example. Of the approximately 5,000 complaints handled by B.C.’s ombudsperson up to March 31, 2019, only
91 were made against schools and school boards, and just three complaints were against to School District 43, which were dealt with, although we don’t know the outcome. Complaints can also be made to the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police — but, again, this is not likely a nimble process for parents whose situations need to be handled quickly. Perhaps advocates who can speak on behalf of individuals dealing with school districts, police and other authorities could be considered. In addition, those authorities need to do more to prove to the public that they are open, transparent and able to deal with criticism when it comes their way.
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Cross Catchment Application Process 2020 – 2021 Parents can apply for a school outside of their catchment school. Approval of applications is based on availability of space and facilities. The School Locator tool on our website provides a student’s designated catchment area school. All Kindergarten students must be registered for Kindergarten at their catchment school on February 3, 4 or 5, 2020 before completing a Cross Catchment Application. Grades 1-12 students, who have a sibling at a school outside their catchment, will be accepted at the sibling’s school (provided the sibling will be in attendance when the student begins at the out-ofcatchment school). Parents still need to complete the cross catchment application confirming sibling status. Kindergarten students who have a sibling at a school outside their catchment will be accepted at the sibling’s school (provided the sibling will still be in attendance the following school year) and are requested to register at the sibling’s school on February 3, 4 or 5, 2020. Therefore, Kindergarten parents do not need to fill out a cross catchment application verifying sibling status. The exception to this is for a Program of Choice. Parents must complete the online Kindergarten Programs of Choice application for siblings to attend the same program. Kindergarten children with siblings in a Program of Choice must still apply online.
Q: HOW CAN I APPLY FOR CROSS CATCHMENT? A: Cross Catchment application forms can be accessed online at www.sd43.bc.ca between Thursday, February 6, 2020, 9 a.m. to Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 4 p.m.
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Public input vs. public input in Port Moody The Editor, To Port Moody council: I’m incredibly disappointed that three of you did not see the need to temper expectations of the Moody Centre transitoriented design consortium. The preliminary draft of the proposal by that group of land owners and developers goes far beyond anything ever discussed through years of public consultation. The draft and the tacit endorsement of three of you is extremely disrespectful to all those who’ve spent hours (and years) providing feedback. It’s disrespectful to the residents of Moody Centre. It’s no wonder people get so jaded. The amendment made in 2017 was pushed through and
Re. “Vagramov resolution defeated; Port Moody council to work together on Moody Centre guidelines” and “This is why Port Moody’s mayor demanded a rare Saturday meeting — and how much it could cost” (tricitynews.com).
more than doubled the densities and heights approved in the 2014 official community plan (OCP); for example, from maximum 12 storeys to 26 or more. This new proposal blows the roof off the contentious 2017 amendments. Now we’re in a pickle, as I see it. You’ve given carte blanche to the consortium to continue planning a concept that completely ignores the OCP (and years of resident input). It’s stunning.
Thank you, Mayor Rob Vagramov and councillors Hunter Madsen and Steve Milani for your attempts to respect public input and set more reasonable goals, which, as you said, were non-binding, but in my opinion part of what you were elected to do. Perhaps the bullet points could have been tweaked or turned into just one asking the consortium to scale back considerably with the OCP in mind. Instead, what happened at
Saturday’s committee of the whole meeting sends a message to the consortium and to others that our official plans and consultation are meaningless. H. Mason, Port Moody
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The Editor, As a resident of Port Moody for the past 15 years, I have never seen such unrest in our community. Our current council continues to ignore and put aside public input, it seems to me. People who go to meetings and speak up seem to be ignored. There is a huge difference between being heard and being allowed to speak. The proposal presented by the consortium of Moody Centre land owners and devel-
opers, if built, would bring employment, housing and much needed interest to Port Moody. I am afraid the consortium will back out of this and not continue to negotiate with the requested changes that Mayor Rob Vagramov and Coun. Hunter Madsen have asked for. I am sure these changes are not necessarily those the public wish to see nor the consortium, I am sure. The transitoriented design, as presented by the developer, is a reasonable project that with some changes coming from public input could certainly work for Port Moody. We elected the council to work for taxpayers, not to be a dictatorship that thinks they know what taxpayers want. I
think the council should leave the development process in the hands of those with the knowledge and understanding to see this project to completion. In addition to affordable housing, this project would provide many amenities and green space, and create employment for Port Moody. As the project is so close to the Moody Centre SkyTrain station, it would decrease traffic and gas emissions. Instead of a household having two, three or four cars, it may consider only having one. I hate to see our council and voters so disconnected, and would like to see this project get approved incorporating additional public input. Sharon McRae, Port Moody
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‘Necessaries of life’ not provided: cops continued from front page
Both Dahl and Kinsight have been charged with the failure to perform their legal duty to provide the “necessaries of life,” which includes such things as food, shelter, medical attention and protection from harm. Dahl has also been charged with criminal negligence causing death. “This has been an exhaustive investigation into the care of the victim in the years and months leading up to her death,” said McLaughlin in a press release, later telling The Tri-City News, “This is a case that has impacted every investigator it’s touched. It’s going to impact people in the community. They need to know that we take these things very seriously.” Coquitlam RCMP said Dahl and the director of Kinsight have been summoned to appear in court March 9. Due to what McLaughlin described as “one of these unusual cases where a society has been charged with a criminal offence,” an individual must be served the charges; in this case, that will be the director of Kinsight. But when asked,
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McLaughlin would not specify which Kinsight director — a title held by nine board members and senior management — would be served. The RCMP says motive was a challenge to unravel in this case. “If it were a question of intention, this would be a different charge,” McLaughlin said. “When we talk about something like criminal negligence, it is what the charge suggests: that there was a duty to take care for this woman who required fulltime, around-the-clock care. And the allegations are that neither her caregiver nor the society who contracted that caregiver did enough to take care of
that vulnerable person.” He added: “It’s probably reasonable to believe that the people who’ve been charged wanted to do a good job.” In an email to The Tri-City News, Kinsight’s director of adult services, Tess Huntly, wrote, “We were shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the passing of this individual.” She also noted this is the first time in the organization’s 65-year history that the death of someone in its care has led to an investigation and criminal charges. “Kinsight has cooperated fully with the authorities investigating this death,” Huntly wrote. “We are confident that all care and safety provisions for those we serve are being met.” McLaughlin said there was no evidence to suggest Kinsight or Dahl have or are currently involved in criminally negligent behaviour beyond this one case. But he also put a call out to the public, saying, “If you are aware of anything that approaches criminal negligence, please know that the police are interested and we would like to hear from you.” (Coquitlam RCMP’s non-emergency phone number is 604-945-1550.)
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The mother of a girl involved in an alleged assault near Citadel middle school is criticizing the Coquitlam RCMP’s handling of the investigation. The woman, a biological aunt who raised the child and is referred to as her mother, told The Tri-City News she resented her daughter being portrayed as an aggressor. She added that during an initial interview with police, she was pressured into entering the girl into a restorative justice program or face legal action. “If I don’t, [the officer] said he will be charging my daughter as well,” said the mother, who is not being named by The Tri-City News in order to avoid identifying the children involved. “He said he would have to arrest and charge my daughter for two counts of assault.” The incident occurred on the grounds of Citadel middle shortly after school ended Jan. 10. Police said in a statement last week that they believe a verbal confrontation occurred between a group of four boys and one girl, and the girl responded with a “low level of physical force.” “At that time, a 13-year-old Maple Ridge boy is alleged to have used an inappropriate level of force that caused an injury to the girl,” the statement said. The girl was sent to the hospital with bruises around her eye and the 13-year-old boy is potentially facing criminal charges. But when police initially interviewed the girl — nine days after the incident — the girl’s mother said she and her daughter were misled by an officer about the contents of a video of the altercation taken by one of the boys who was present. In recordings of the interactions with police that were provided to The Tri-City News, an officer can be heard saying the 13-second video clip showed the daughter pushing and punching one boy and punching a second boy. But the same officer later admitted during a another meeting with the family that he had not seen the video but it had been described to him by another investigator.
The image above is taken from the Facebook post of the woman who says it was her daughter who was assaulted Jan. 10 near Citadel middle school. The Tri-City News has partially obscured the image to protect the girl’s identity.
The mother has since viewed the video clip — The Tri-City News has not — and claims it is at odds with the initial description given to her by police. She admits the video shows her daughter pushing one boy after he got in her face but said at no point does her daughter punch anyone. “I think it is important,” she said. “I think it is really crappy that the police lied about the evidence they had.” After the initial push, she said the video shows a second boy coming from behind, spraying her daughter in the face with Febreze, punching her and falling to the ground on top of her. A few seconds later, the girl can be seen getting up and staggering before leaving the scene, according to the mom’s account. The mother said she is happy with how the police and the school are handling the situation now that the incident has garnered media attention but said the officers should have handled the case differently from the beginning. “They really tried to sweep it under the rug,” she told The Tri-City News. “That is where they went wrong.” Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Michael McLaughlin said Wednesday police would not be commenting on officer conduct but noted that the investigation is incomplete. He added police have been in touch with the family and are trying to
resolve any concerns they have over the alleged assault. “We stand by everything we have released in the news release and that we have spoken to publicly,” he said. “But there are many details that we still need to confirm and fact check. Until we have all the evidence, we are not going to reach any conclusions.” He added that there is a process members of the public can enter if they have an issue with police conduct. “If there are complaints, address those through the proper channels,” McLaughlin said, “not through social media or the mainstream media.” Last week, School District 43 acknowledged it is aware of the incident and is cooperating with the RCMP but wouldn’t be providing any further information. In an email to The Tri-City News, district spokesperson Ken Hoff said SD43 “takes this matter very seriously and is addressing the situation.” He added that because the incident involves an RCMP investigation and the privacy of young children, “the school district is unable to provide further comment.” Meanwhile, an online petition has been launched at change.org asking to “hold the RCMP and Citadel school accountable” for the incident. It had more than 1,650 signatures as of Wednesday afternoon.
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‘Oh, ruby-crowned kinglets!’: Counting birds tracks environmental trends Annual bird count is a trend tracker on the road to extinction
“We have a huge responsibility to maintain stopover sites for birds that come from Alaska.”
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f you’ve tromped through the wetlands of Colony Farm, jogged along the shores of the Pitt River or careened down Mary Hill Bypass, you just might have seen them — but odds are, they weren’t looking back at you. Their eyes darted from soaring cottonwood trees to naked blackberry brambles, tracking the flutter of an Anna’s hummingbird, following the tap of a hairy woodpecker or tallying one of 1,647 Northwestern crows spied across the TriCities that day. “Oh, just saw red! Rubycrowned kinglets!” shouted Coquitlam’s Mark Merry, cracking with barely hushed excitement. Gary Novosel swivelled his spotting scope in blind pursuit. Ian MacArthur snatched the pencil taped to a string around his neck and took note. Then, without a word, they left the Coquitlam River behind along a well-trodden path strewn with roadside flotsam: cigarette packs, a Tostitos bag and fragments of styrofoam packing. “Wildlife can exist beside the highway,” said MacArthur, barely audible through the hum of nearby traffic. These are the birders of the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, the longest-running community science project across the Americas. From its beginning in 1901, when it first set out to document a snapshot of avian life “For the People, For Education, For Science,” thousands of birders of all stripes have gathered one day, once a year in January or February to take stock of which species are flourishing, which are struggling and which have been pushed to the brink of extinction. Avid — though often entirely amateur — naturalists, set out to document as many of Earth’s nearly 10,000 bird species in their little corner of that world. This year, on the first Saturday of 2020, 105 Tri-City birders in 14 groups walked more than 110 km to tally over 8,800 birds and 73 species — that’s about 1,000 individual birds and 10 species below the yearly average. And while some of those
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Top: A group of Burke Mountain Naturalists members, led by Ian MacArthur (right), look for water birds along the Pitt River during the 2019 Christmas Bird Count, which was held on Jan. 4, 2020. Some walked the sides of the Mary Hill Bypass in Port Coquitlam looking for birds to add to this year’s tally. Stefan Labbé/the trI-CIty newS
local low numbers can be attributed to such variables as inclement weather or regional movement, the wider trend across the continent tells a frightening story. Over the last 50 years, one third of all North American birds — that’s nearly three billion birds — have been snuffed out, according to a study published in the journal Science last fall. Much of that loss has been attributed to the destruction of critical habitat, coastal stopover sites where migratory birds fuel up on their way to Brazil. “Here in the Lower Mainland, we have a huge responsibility to maintain stopover sites for birds that come from Alaska,” said John Reynolds, a professor of aquatic conservation at SFU who says he’s “crazy for birds.” Reynolds said the Lower Fraser River has lost about 90%
of its wetlands in the past 100 years. Draining and diking so many watersheds has had a major impact on salmon but it has also removed the nesting grounds for water and marsh species. This year, Reynolds led a Christmas Bird Count team to Widgeon Marsh, the largest and most important remaining marsh habitat in Metro Vancouver. Reynolds said his group spotted at least 30 species, including the only Trumpeter swan in the TriCities. “It underscores how important these areas are,” he said.
SCIENCE & PLaY
For many, the annual tally blurs the line between science and play. On the one hand, it offers scientists a massive, 120year data set to spot trends. On the other, it’s a window into the rest of the outdoors.
Or, as Reynolds puts it, “It’s a great walk, with a purpose. Before they know it, everyone is staring at a mushroom.” Ian MacArthur, who led this year’s bird count team along the Pitt River, said he finds people drawn to birding for all sorts of reasons, each eventually gripped at different points along a spectrum shaded by obsession. Some hardcore birders have life lists, buying passage on cruises just to scratch off puffins. Some can’t help it. Reynolds is notorious among the Burke Mountain Naturalists for counting 43 species just based on chirps, songs and tweets — all while running the Vancouver Marathon. “Anywhere he goes, he’s birding,” MacArthur said. To count, document and catalogue birds may appear quaint in an era where a few taps on a screen can bring up
a world of information. But when MacArthur looks at birders, he said, he sees something more atavistic playing out: humans trying to make sense of the natural world and somehow leave their mark on it. “You can only stare so much into your brain. So you want to capture what you see, in a photograph or on a page,” he said. “If you have a passion for something, you record it.”
PLENTY OF WORRY
Birds have long played an important role in signalling pending doom. Whether it was the “canary in a coal mine” or the mass die-offs that warned of the dangers of DDT and other pesticides in the 1960s, birds fill in as frontline bellwethers signalling nature out of whack. The average bird lover has plenty to be worried about: the impacts of a changing climate,
recently scrapped regulations on habitat offsetting in the U.S. or last summer’s deforestation by fire of large swaths of the Amazon rainforest. But just as birds can act as sentinels for endangered ecosystems, they can also be indicators of what’s going right. Back in 1995, when the Burke Mountain Naturalists joined the count, no one predicted they would be spotting 120 hummingbirds in the middle of winter. But as Victoria Otton — environmental toxicologist and active member of the group — often reminds people, “Since 2008, these birds have appeared every year on our checklist.” Raptors have also seen a massive resurgence. Peregrine falcons, for example, were wiped out east of the Mississippi River by the mid1960s. It wasn’t until DDT and certain pesticides were eliminated in the early ’70s that several of the continent’s raptor populations began to rebound. More recently in the TriCities, eliminating toxic effluence has also proved to help the recovery of several species. In the 1990s, tests at Port Coquitlam’s Blakeburn Lagoons found high levels of fecal coliform, copper and mercury in the water. After 40 years fenced off to the public, the waters were reported to emanate foul odours and created a potential health risk to surrounding residents. But in recent years, a $3-million project transformed the lagoons. The planting of more than 100,000 indigenous shrubs and plants, 1,300 indigenous trees and two acres of native grasses recast the site’s two decommissioned waste settling ponds into a 27-acre avian oasis. “Well over 100 species have been recorded there,” Reynolds said. “They basically made something out of nothing.”
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COLLECTIVE PERSPECTIVE REPORT YIELDS INSIGHT ON LOCAL BUSINESS CHALLENGES The Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce recently welcomed the release of the 2019-2020 Collective Perspective Report in collaboration with the BC Chamber of Commerce and their business intelligence platform BCMindReader. The report, which surveyed almost 1600 business leaders provincially and about 150 locally in the Tri-Cities, revealed interesting insight into the challenges and changing attitudes of our local business community.
Michael Hind Across the province, business sentiment increased slightly from last year with 63% saying their businesses were in good CEO or very good shape, compared to 56% in 2018. That is despite the fact that business leaders remain pessimistic about the general outlook of the Canadian and global economies. In the Tri-Cities, 57% of respondents indicated their confidence in the Canadian economy had worsened over the past year, compared to just 7% who said it had improved, and 37% who said it had stayed about the same. The outlook on the global economy was even poorer with 62% saying it had worsened compared to 5% who said it had improved. Just as in 2018, the “cost of doing business” continues to top the list of concerns among business owners in the Tri-Cities for 2019. Almost 4 out of 5 respondents in the report cited a worsening in the overall cost of doing business over the past year. More specifically, almost half of respondents indicated a worsening situation for both property taxes and provincial taxes. Only 2% reported an improvement on that front. The continuing burden of the Employer Health Tax is likely contributing to the worsening view of the provincial tax situation for businesses. The tax applies to any business with over $500,000 in payroll – or about 11 employees at BC’s 2017 average yearly income of $47,0001. Meanwhile, rapidly rising property taxes in some Tri-Cities neighbourhoods over the past years, due to properties being taxed at their “highest and best use,” could be contributing to a poor outlook on the property tax front. The labour market was another sore point this year for businesses, with 63% saying the cost of labour had worsened and 52% noting the availability of workers had worsened since last year. The provincial minimum wage increase from $12.65 to $13.85 on June 1st, 2019 certainly played a factor in the increased cost of labour, especially in the food and service industries. However, not to be overlooked is the tightening labour market locally and provincially. One in three businesses in the Tri-Cities say that recruiting and retaining employees is a major challenge, with a further 14% saying it is the biggest challenge they face. As a result, a quarter of local business owners said that difficulties recruiting and retaining employees is seriously impacting their profitability. Another 37% have felt modest impacts due to labour availability.
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Follow Alma as she navigates her way out of a petty crime, in the Arts Club Theatre Company production of Morris Panych’s The Shoplifters. It runs at the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam) at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. tonight, and 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday. Call the box office at 604-927-6555 or visit evergreenculturalcentre.ca.
Pinetree secondary graduate Lindsay Wong reads passages from her book, The Woo Woo, at the City Centre branch of the Coquitlam Public Library on Feb. 1. shIMoN phoTo
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Author Lindsay Wong returns to her Coquitlam roots to read and discuss her awardwinning book, The Woo Woo, from 2 to 4 p.m. in Room 136 at the City Centre branch of the Coquitlam Public Library (1169 Pinetree Way). Register via coqlibrary.ca.
SHAdOw CITY
Sara Graham, the resident artist with the city of Port Moody, hosts Starry Night, a shadow-based art project where participants can imagine the municipality as a magical ice city and create a wintery scene out of paper for a group installation. The dropin workshop at the Heritage Mountain community centre (200 Panorama Pl., Port Moody) from 6 to 8:30 p.m. No registration is required. Visit portmoody.ca or call 604-4694760 for more details.
MUSeUM MOVIe
It’s movie night at PoCo Heritage, where the museum will roll a flick — and offer popcorn to participants — for free. Bring a pillow, blanket or chair for the screening that starts at 6:30 p.m. Visit pocoheritage.org.
PUCk dROP
Coquitlam Express meets the Langley Rivermen on home ice for a hockey game at 7 p.m. at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex (633 Poirier St., Coquitlam). Visit coquitlamexpress.ca.
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Students in Treehouse Theatre at Pinetree secondary (3000 Pinewood Ave., Coquitlam) perform the Disney show Freaky Friday at
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Daniel Curalli, an on-camera acting instructor at Coquitlam’s Place des Arts, slips on the donkey suit for Align Entertainment’s remount of Shrek: The Musical. The show by the Coquitlam-based company, which also stars Charlie Deagnon as Shrek, Maddie Livland as Princess Fiona and Stuart Barkley as Lord Farquaad, runs until Feb. 15 at the Michael J. Fox Theatre in Burnaby. It is directed by Port Coquitlam’s Chad Matchette, co-owner of the Lindbjerg Academy of the Performing Arts in Coquitlam. For tickets, visit align entertainment.ca. ALIGN ENTERTAINMENT
7:30 p.m. under the direction of Zelda Coertze and music by Marcia Carmichael and her student orchestra. Tickets at $15 can be bought at the door or school. Call 604-464-2513.
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Sample whisky at a Rotary Club of Coquitlam fundraiser, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the All Saints Catholic Parish (821 Fairfax St., Coquitlam). The educational tasting also includes an auction, 50/50 draw and snacks. Visit eventbrite.ca or call 604-931-7211.
HeART TRIBUTe Barracuda — made up of Donna Caruk, Layla Vaugeois, Kevin Stuart Swain, Curtis Leippi and Ray Roper — hits the Asylum Sound Stage at the Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam) at 9:30 p.m. to sing Heart covers. Visit hardrockcasinovancouver.com.
neOn nIGHT Youth ages 11 to 18 can drop by the Port Coquitlam community centre (2150
Wilson Ave.) for a late night skate with neon lights, from 10:15 to 11:15 p.m. Admission at $3 includes rentals. Sign in starts at 9:45 p.m. Visit portcoquitlam.ca/recreation.
Feb. 1 MeeT THe AUTHOR Linden Carroll is back at Chapters (2991 Lougheed Hwy., Coquitlam) to sign copies of her novel Full Circle, from 1 to 3 p.m. The British native will also discuss her
featured presenters at the annual Wine, Women and Sport — a fundraiser for the Centennial secondary senior girls soccer team. The event takes place at the school (570 Poirier St., Coquitlam) from 7 to 10 p.m. and includes talks from Olympian and sports reporter Karin Larsen, physical performance coach Carmen Bott and Abreast in a Boat paddler and coach Deb Middleton. For tickets at $50, visit winewomensport2020@ eventbrite.ca.
Children ages 9 to 13 can figure out how to code a Lego EV3 Mindstorm robot — and watch it drive around the room — at the Terry Fox Library in the Port Coquitlam community centre (2150 Wilson Ave.) from 2 to 4 p.m. Sign up for the free event through fvrl.bc.ca.
Check out the Port Moody Panthers as they face the Ridge Meadows Flames in a PJHL game at the Port Moody recreation complex (300 Ioco Rd.) at 7:45 p.m. Visit pjhl.net.
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Meet amateur chess players — of all ages and skills — at the Poirier branch of the Coquitlam Public Library (575 Poirier St.) for some free games, between 2 to 4:30 p.m. Visit coqlibrary.ca.
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Plant a tree – as nature intended A s I look back through 2019 and contemplate my 50th article for The Tri-City News, the alarm bells of our changing climate are ringing louder. (Remember, it is the rate of change that is alarming; climate has been changing through geological time.) Peter Wohlleben, a German forester turned teacher-guide, wrote The Hidden Life of Trees, followed by The Inner Life of Animals and The Secret Wisdom of Nature. What he reveals about trees and nature makes me marvel all the more at our wild world, and how little we know and understand. Take forest regeneration, for example. The large-scale felling of trees hinders nature’s way of regenerating itself by allowing sunlight to reach the forest floor, thereby enabling grasses and non-woody plants to begin establishing. Foragers, such as deer, are then enticed to enter these forest clearings, consuming any tree saplings that start to germinate. The sunlight also warms up the ground and surrounding forest, changing the
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micro-climate that once was. Our longstanding forestry practices have replaced the mixed deciduous forests of old with unnatural coniferous plantations. Pine (and eucalyptus, found in Australia but planted in California) burn like tinder. B.C.’s shocking use of glyphosate to kill (“control”) broadleaf species has likely hastened the demise of our forests by ravaging fires. Trees do not naturally grow quickly. As Wohlleben explains, in undisturbed ancient forests, youngsters have to spend their first 200 years waiting patiently in their mother’s shade. As they struggle to put on a few
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• Practise the posture of curiosity. Last summer, I shared what the science has been telling us about fish hatcheries. (They are not only not helping our wild salmon, they are actually interfering with their very survival.) Having an open mind that is hungry to learn and that questions the status quo cultivates a humility that recognizes we will only ever know and understand in part the infinitely complex natural world. • Mimic nature every day, in at least one way. The field of biomimicry — the design and production of materials, structures and systems that are modelled on nature — has been burgeoning in recent years. Check out biomimicry.org for its inspiring Launchpad of ideas and library of resources.
below-ground organics, causing their roots to girdle.) Incidentally, tree growth rates have also been increasing due to pollutant emissions. On the one hand, we humans are glad to learn that trees absorb our carbon dioxide but now we’re doubly responsible for their unhealthy growth rates. Intact forests also ensure that rainfall spreads over a wide area and reaches the ground slowly so the soil has time to absorb almost all of the mois-
ture. Without leafy canopies, soil, along with its vital nutrients, gets washed away, ending up in streams and the ocean. In November, I shared about soil health and the invisible world of micro-organisms — the billions of minute creatures that are crucial to the recycling of nutrients and therefore essential to life itself. Wohlleben discloses that viruses, bacteria, flagellates, ciliates, heliozoans and fungi have been found at depths of up to two miles; al-
most 500 m below ground, one can find millions of these lifeforms per cubic inch of matter. Initial rough estimates suggest that rock layers could be home to 10% of the earth’s total living biomass, with groundwater supporting a wealth of crustaceans and other microbes. The food chain, therefore, exists well above and well below the Earth’s surface. The greatest threats to groundwater, he says, are deforestation and fracking for oil and gas. Moreover, climate change is bringing longer growing seasons. Trees now have less time to take a break — for forests to hibernate — and, consequently, less time to replenish groundwater supplies. Nature’s innate complexity means that the implications of a quickly changing climate are vast and complex. Let 2020 be the year you are inspired to see nature differently. Melissa Chaun of Port Moody is an ecologist with a passion for all things sustainable. She is a member of the Coquitlam River Watershed Roundtable and volunteers on various city committees.
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In 1938, during the Spanish Civil War, the Nationalists bombed Barcelona, killing thousands of civilians. Alicia Gris, nine years old, was one of the survivors. Now an orphan with a painful injury, all Alicia has left from the bombings is a vague memory of the man who saved her life and a dream about a building filled with books. Twenty years later, Alicia is living in Madrid and trying to escape a life working for the secret police. In exchange for her freedom, her boss convinces her to take on one final case that involves the suspicious disappearance of Spain’s minister of culture, Mauricio Valls. Following the clue of a rare book found hidden in Valls’ desk, Alicia and her partner, Juan Manuel Vargas, are swept back to Barcelona. There, in a twisted and dangerous race against time, they are forced to revisit the corruption of the Civil War and face their own pasts as they discover a plot of murder and kidnapping that spans decades. The Labyrinth of the Spirits, the fourth and final volume of Carlos Ruiz Zafón‘s Cemetery of Forgotten Books series, draws the reader in as it moves between Alicia and Vargas’ investigation, Valls’ captivity and the unknown players who stay in the shadows until the final reveal. This book kept me guessing until the end — and stayed with me long after I was done.
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Improve job skills & mental health, too This feature, written by librarians with Coquitlam Public Library, Port Moody Public Library and Terry Fox Library in Port Coquitlam, is published each Thursday to highlight programs and happenings in the Tri-Cities’ three libraries.
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• Major Misconduct: Investigative journalist Jeremy Allingham’s new book, Major Misconduct, scrutinizes the detrimental role that fighting plays in ice hockey and dives deep into the lives of three former hockey fighters. Join CPL for this special author event at the City Centre branch Tuesday, Feb. 25 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Register online at coqlibrary.ca’s Events calendar. • Preparing for job interviews: Do you feel your interview skills are stopping you from getting the right job? At this free workshop, presented in partnership with WorkBC, you will learn basic strategies for answering interview questions. All job seekers are welcome at the City Centre branch Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2 to 4 p.m. Register online at preparingfor-interviews.eventbrite.ca. • Understanding dizziness and imbalance: Physiotherapist and vestibular specialist Farron Fedechko will help you understand the causes of dizziness and ways vestibular rehabilitation can improve your balance, lower your risk of falling and reduce your symptoms. The session, at the City Centre branch, will be held Tuesday, Feb. 18, 7 to 8:45 p.m. Register online at coqlibrary.ca’s Events calendar. • Helping Children Chase Away Worry: This talk will
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• Wills and estates: Monday, Feb. 10 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the ParkLane Room, learn about essential documents, how to structure your affairs, what can go wrong and the role of the lawyer. This program is presented in partnership with the People’s Law School. Register by calling 604-469-4577 or visiting portmoodylibrary.ca. Info: library.portmoody.ca or 604-469-4577. Port Moody Public Library is located at 100 Newport Dr., in the city hall complex.
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• Movie night: Come to Terry Fox Library for a free movie. Librarians will be showing an assortment of highly rated films. Next movie night: Monday, Feb. 3, 6 to 8 p.m. — drop in. • A Meditation on Mindfulness: This workshop is an introduction to the practice of mindfulness-based meditation; included is an overview, Q&A and exploration of mindfulness with a guided meditation. The session will be held Tuesday, Feb. 4, 7 to 8 p.m. Call or visit the library to register. • Babytime: Make language fun — help your baby develop speech and language skills by bouncing, singing and rhyming with stories. Babytime is a fun, social bonding activity for babies and caregivers, and participants can spend time after the program to meet and socialize. It runs Fridays, 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. — drop in. Info: www.fvrl.bc.ca, the Fraser Valley Regional Library Facebook page or 604-927-7999. Terry Fox Library is located inside the Port Coquitlam community centre, 2150 Wilson Ave.
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Students: submit your project proposal by Sunday, April 26. $2,100 in prize money, with awards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in each grade category: Elementary (4–5) • Middle (6–8) Junior (9–10) • Senior (11–12) Details: coqlibrary.ca Presented by Coquitlam Public Library, with Douglas College and SD43.
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When Jerome Lambatin was growing up, The Little Mermaid was one of his favourite childhood movies and Sebastian was his favourite character in the animated Disney musical. “He’s so carefree,” Lambatin said last Friday during a rehearsal at Coquitlam’s Centennial secondary, where he portrays the crab in the school’s upcoming production. Lambatin is one of 36 musical theatre students cast in the adapted Hans Christian Andersen tale, which follows a mermaid princess and her prince. The Little Mermaid is also the first musical for Lambatin and Gianluca Martino, the Grade 10 student who plays Prince Eric opposite Vanessa Porretti’s Ariel. Although he has no previous vocal or dancing experience, Martino said the fellow actors and crew have been encouraging as he takes the spotlight. “It’s been just so great,” he said. “It’s been like a family. We spend a lot of time together and we work as a team.” Drama teacher and director Lisa Boddez said she wanted a family-friendly production this year to cater to middle school students in the
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catchment and to highlight Centennial’s theatre program. In recent years, Centennial has presented more adult themes, with musicals such as Catch Me If You Can and 9 to 5, the latter touching on the #MeToo movement. Boddez tapped Grade 12 student Jade Hipditch to play the seagull Scuttle and to lead the students in their steps. Hipditch, who also choreographed a number in 9 to 5, is a former dance student at Coquitlam’s Lindbjerg Academy of the Performing Arts. “I didn’t do any research for the dances,” she said. “I just made it up and went with the flow. The music is incredible.” Meanwhile, Centennial secondary grad Milena Canta returns to the school as a volunteer choreographer while music teacher Carole Baker is at the conductor’s podium for her 18th time, overseeing 29 songs and reprises with the pit orchestra. Boddez said while there are some musical newbies on stage, there’s also veteran talent.
The Little Mermaid is Porretti’s fourth and final high school production (she also has taken on a mentorship role with the younger students, Boddez said) while Sabrina Siracusa spent five years at Lindbjerg and two years at the Langley School of Fine Arts, majoring in dance and acting. As the sea witch Ursula, the Grade 12 student took a costume — borrowed from Lindbjerg — and bedazzled it with strings of lights; she’s also doing her own “Under the Sea” makeup. Siracusa is proud of what the cast and crew have accomplished. “Every year, I see this program getting bigger and bigger, with more talented people,” she said. “It’s really inspiring.” For tickets to Disney’s The Little Mermaid at Centennial secondary (570 Poirier St., Coquitlam) at $17/$13, visit centtheatre.com. The musical runs Feb. 6 to 8 and Feb. 12 to 14 at 7 p.m. There is also a 1 p.m. matinee Feb. 14.
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PoMo Art Assoc. opens landscape show at PMAC Buntzen Lake by Helen Ramsay — a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and the Art Focus Artists Association in Port Coquitlam — is one painting in the new annual exhibit by the Port Moody Art Association (PMAA) at the Port Moody Arts Centre (2425 St. Johns St.). The group’s juried show, which runs until Feb. 27, is called Sea to Sky and includes new landscape works. Founded in 1967, PMAA has staged many displays in the Lower Mainland; for its 50th anniversary, it donated a heron mural to the Eagle Ridge Hospital Foundation. New club members are being sought; go to portmoodyartassociation.com to download an application. Pmac Photo
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Sophia Guan had just about finished her first-ever sculpture last year when it fell to the floor, shattering part of the work. But instead of chucking it out and starting over, the Gleneagle secondary student collected the broken parts and fired them up in the school kiln. Her fractured ceramic art, Hive Mind, a classical figure with honeycombs on its head, can now be seen in the Art Gallery at Evergreen along with 64 other Grade 12 works as part of Evergreen Cultural Centre’s 23rd annual Emerging Talent show. For Guan, she’s not only pleased with the way the curators presented her shattered sculpture, she’s also honoured to have her art in a public setting. “It’s really special to be a part of this,” she said Monday
If you wish to provide input in writing, please submit your comments to the City Clerk’s Office in one of the following ways: • Email: clerks@coquitlam.ca; • Regular mail: City Clerk’s Office, 2nd Floor, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7N2; • In person: City Clerk’s Office, 2nd Floor, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7N2; • Fax: to the City Clerk’s Office at 604-927-3015. Written submissions provided in response to this consultation, including your name and address, will become part of the public record which includes the submissions being made available for public inspection at Coquitlam City Hall and potentially on our website as part of a future agenda package at www.coquitlam/agendas. If you wish to speak at the Council Meeting please call the City Clerk’s Office at 604-927-3010. If you call the City Clerk’s Office to register, your name will be placed on the Speakers List. Everyone who wishes to speak at the meeting will be given an opportunity, but those who have registered in advance will be allowed to speak prior to the floor being opened to all other speakers. Please note that interested parties may only speak to the issues covered by the TUP. 900
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Canada with her family when she was eight years old, said she wanted to create a dragon as both of her parents were born under that Chinese zodiac sign. Positioned in the centre of the gallery, The Forever Chase represents the quest for the unattainable despite a life filled with riches and glory, she said. YiSu Li, 18, who came to Canada two years ago and has also applied to Emily Carr, has a pencil crayon and acrylic zine called Blue Bones that speaks about the contradictions of the Chinese government, and a mixed media art called Masks. “There are a lot of things going on in the world and many people are not showing who they really are,” the Centennial secondary student said. The Art Gallery at Evergreen (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam) is open Wednesdays, noon to 8 p.m.; Thursdays to Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m.; and Sundays, noon to 4 p.m. For social media posts, use these hashtags and handles: @artgalleryevergreen, #EmergingTalent and #EmergingTalent23.
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while studying the dozens of pieces by her SD43 peers. “It’s inspiring what others are doing.” Organized by Gleneagle secondary school teacher Robyn Croft, Emerging Talent is a juried show that runs until Feb. 16; it also includes a People’s Choice prize. Retired SD43 art teachers Mike McElgunn, Jerry Pietrasko and Melanie Stokes were invited to select the art that would be displayed and, in total, chose 65 works from five high schools: Centennial, Gleneagle, Port Moody, Dr. Charles Best and Port Moody. Curated by Tajliya Jamal and Katherine Dennis, Emerging Talent offers a boost for the graduating students as many are now finalizing their portfolios for postsecondary art schools such as Vancouver’s Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Dr. Charles Best student Angela Shen, who has applied to attend Emily Carr, has two works in the exhibit: an acrylic portrait of her grandfather in China and a sculpture of a golden Chinese dragon titled The Forever Chase. Shen, who immigrated to
This application will be considered by Council at their Regular Council Meeting to be held on Monday, February 3, 2020. The Council Meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. and is held in the Council Chambers of City Hall, located at 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7N2.
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Sophia Guan, a Grade 12 student at Gleneagle secondary in Coquitlam, with her painting called Crossing. It shows a canal with a Chinese village to the left and Venice at the right.
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Coquitlam’s Gina Williams performed in the Ukraine last month with a symphony orchestra. photo submitted
Mornings series, at 10:30 a.m. The latest round, titled The Red Violin, highlights the skills of Jasper Woods, a professor of violin and chamber music at the University of B.C. and its chairperson of the strings division. And, on Friday night, Sarah Hagen — the founder of Musical Mornings — is back
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Coquitlam realtor Colin Colpitts makes his living helping people realize their dreams of home ownership. Now he wants to make the competitive dreams of a pair of young race drivers come true. Colpitts has partnered with Langley businessman Ewen Dobbie to launch Relentless Motorsports, the first Canadian team in the F3 Americas series, a regional developmental auto racing circuit that allows drivers to accumulate FIA Super License points toward eventually advancing to the world’s biggest circuit, Formula 1. Dobbie’s 26-year-old son, Andrew, will be one of the team’s drivers while the other will be Mitch Egner, 27, a Coquitlam resident. It was Colpitts’ relationship with Egner as he ripped his own cars — an openwheel racer and a sleek black Porsche — around the private Area 27 track in Oliver that connected him to the Dobbies and led to his progression from weekend hobbyist to team owner. It’s a big step, Colpitts said — especially financially.
Coquitlam realtor Colin Colpitts’ affinity for cars is about to get more serious — and faster — than the ‘47 Chevy pickup he’s restoring. Colpitts (second from right) is teaming up with Langley businessman Ewen Dobbie and drivers Mitch Egner and Andrew Dobbie, to launch the first Canadian team in the F3 Americas racing series that is a little cousin to Formula 1. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Colpitts and Ewen estimate the team’s budget for its first season that is comprised of seven races across North America including one stop in Canada — at Trois-Rivieres, Que., in August — will be
about $1 million. But a lot of that is initial capital cost to acquire two cars, engines, a transporter and other equipment that will last several years, and it could be partially recouped down the road if it’s
sold or leased to other teams. Still, the realtor said, “It’s a whole new world.” The team has just taken delivery of its cars, which are built by the French company Ligier Automotive at a plant in
North Carolina. After a planned initial shakedown at Mission Raceway, the entire team will head to Willow Springs International Raceway, north of Los Angeles, for two to
three days of extensive testing in advance of the first race weekend, April 9 to 11 at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta in Braselton, Ga. see
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The training and the straining don’t always bring gold but when they do, it’s pretty sweet. Powerlifter Sumeet Sharma, a former student at Douglas College in Coquitlam, has converted a healthy hobby into an international passion. And while some may ask what it’s all about, for Sharma, the feelings of satisfaction and accomplishment add up to strength. “This was something I always wanted to do. I always knew I could lift heavy — at the first show I did in Abbotsford [in 2016], I finished second, but it was the feedback and encouragement that made me want to keep going,” Sharma said. “I just
Sumeet Sharma, a former Douglas College student in Coquitlam, will test how far he can go in the sport of powerlifting. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/BURNABYNOW
loved the experience.” Last October, he ventured to Panama City as a member of the Canadian powerlifting team for the 14th annual
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The City has received an application to amend the Citywide Official Community Plan (CWOCP) relating to the property at 100 Woolridge Street. The application proposes a redesignation of the subject property from Industrial to Service Commercial in order to facilitate the construction of a new two-storey car dealership on the subject property. You are now being invited to provide input to Council with respect to the above-noted application. The City of Coquitlam will be receiving the input requested herein up to Friday, January 31, 2020. Written correspondence can be provided in one of the following ways: • Email: clerks@coquitlam.ca; • Regular mail: City Clerk’s Office, 2nd Floor, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7N2; • In person: City Clerk’s Office, 2nd Floor, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7N2; • Fax: to the City Clerk’s Office at 604-927-3015. To obtain more information on this application you may: • Visit the Planning and Development Department at 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday excluding statutory holidays; • Call Jamieson Pritchard, Planning and Development Department, at 604-927-3997; or • Emailing Jamieson Pritchard, Planning and Development Department, at JPritchard@ coquitlam.ca. 4 92 925
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Egner, who will be graduating from two seasons at the F2000 level, said there will be a definite learning curve to the 1,200-lb. F3 car that is powered by a 303 HP Honda engine — almost double the 160 HP he is used to. Dobbie, who cut his teeth at the F1600 and F2000 levels, said while the G-forces and speed of the more powerful car — which looks like a slimmed-down version of a Formula 1 racer, complete with the carbon-fibre halo that protects the driver’s cockpit — will take some getting used to. “The pedals are in the same spot,” he said. For his part, Colpitts said he’s eager to take in the whole pit lane experience for the first time as an owner, even though every broken part or additional required tool means money out of his pocket. “I have to learn the sport now and how we can go in and disrupt what’s happening.” That disruption, Ewen Dobbie said, will be based on fuelling the dreams of young Canadian drivers, whom he feels have fallen through the cracks created by the huge financial demands required at the F1 or F2 levels in Europe and the diminishment of North American open-wheel series like Indy and Indy Lights. He said owning a team outright makes those opportunities more likely than relying on drivers to use sponsorship money they’ve hustled to buy rides in established teams. Instead, Dobbie said, he and Colpitts will work to provide the financial backing to support the racers by offering sponsors unique experiences in exchange for their commitment. “We want to do more than just put stickers on the car,” Colpitts said. While racing is a big-money sport at any level, he said, the cost of making racing dreams come true will be worth it.
couple of pounds to each attempt. It continued in Panama after he set a personal record. “They’ve pumped me up to achieve 400 [lb.] and that’s been my goal ever since,” Sharma said. That encouragement is something he is eager to pay forward by helping instruct youth in the sport. Working with B.C. Corrections, physical fitness and strength are important parts of the job. Sharma said they are elements that give him a source of pride and achievement that, as a pudgy teenager, he didn’t have when he was younger. “Ultimately, my goal is two things: one is to eventually go to worlds and win gold for Canada; and two is, with the experience of powerlifting, I want to coach kids and youth and help them get to the next level,” Sharma said, adding, “It’s some way I can give back to those who’ve helped me.”
limit and exceeded it, holding 370 lb. above his chest to capture the top prize in the raw, non-equipped division. For someone who only had three years of competition under his belt, capturing an international gold title was incredible. “Just the experience of representing your country is a huge honour. Going on the podium and hearing your anthem, it was a great experience” he said. It was just one of the medals the Iron Outlier Club member collected in 2019, which included competitions at provincials, Western Canadians and nationals. His decision to compete in the raw division — where an athlete attempts to press weights without a upper-torso belt — has been his choice since the first few competitions. And the Justice Institute grad said the community of lifters has given him incentive to keep going, to add another
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Nationals a learning experience for Tri-City curlers Eighth place finish something to build on for team MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com
The Royal City Curling Club rink skipped by Coquitlam’s Hayato Sato finished eighth at the Canadian junior men’s curling championship that wrapped up in Langley on Sunday. But that doesn’t mean the team made up of Tri-City residents failed. In fact, said the team’s coach, Bryan Miki, the young curlers — skip Sato, second Joshua Miki, third Matthew McCrady and lead Jacob Umbach — succeeded in their goal to reach the championship round of their first national championship as juniors. How much further they’ll go in the future will depend on the lessons they learned at the week-long event at the George Preston recreation centre. Primary among those was
Port Coquitlam’s Matthew McCrady, third on the Royal City Curling Club team skipped by Coquitlam’s Hayato Sato, yells instructions during pool play at the Canadian junior men’s curling championship in Langley. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
getting through a week of high-level competition and all the distractions that can come with a national event, said Miki, himself a former world champion.
“There are many internal and external variables to deal with,” he said. “It’s easy to get caught up.” After opening the 10-team event with three straight
victories in pool play, Miki’s charges faltered in the next three games and had to defeat the second team representing British Columbia in a special tie-breaker to reach the cham-
pionship round. Sato’s side did just that, beating Johnson Tao’s Richmond rink 7-3. The result reprised Sato’s victory over Tao in the provincial final in
Victoria earlier in the month. In championship play in Langley, Sato again started strong, with a 6-5 win over Nova Scotia, but then lost three in a row to finish with four wins and six losses overall. Miki said the experience of competing against the top U21 curlers from across the nation has given the team a measuring stick to determine the improvements they have to make to climb to the top. “What are the top junior teams doing right that we can use for ourselves?” Miki added those lessons also apply to himself and cocoach Brent Pierce. “We have questions to ask ourselves from a bigger picture,” he said. “Did we do everything possible to support the team?” Miki said the team’s determination to succeed remains undiminished. “It was big for us,” he said. Tao’s team, which included second Connor Kent from Port Moody, finished atop the seeding pool with five wins and four losses.
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CHRISTIE, William J. January 17, 1935 − January 15, 2020 William James Christie (Bill), died January 15, 2020, in White Rock, after a lengthy struggle with Alzheimer’s. He was born January 17, 1935, to Jean and Robert Christie in Vancouver, BC, the fifth of eight children, affectionately known as The Royal Eight. Bill attended Britannia High, Normal School, and earned a BA from UBC. He married the love of his life, Kathleen (Kay), on June 30, 1956, and they had three children. He was a teacher in Coquitlam for 35 years, and was an avid rugby player and golfer. Upon retirement, he began his own handyman company called Willy Will − because Willy was always willing to help. His garden was also a great joy. Bill is survived by his wife, Kay; children, Randy, Cheryl (Mark), and Bob (Ross); grandchildren, David (Jen), Rob (Jenelle), Sean, Beth (Darryl), Adam, Sarah, and Nicola (Chad); and was GG to Jeremy, Jackie, Brandon, Ethan, Isabella, and Tristen. The family wishes to thank the caregivers at Madison Care Centre for their compassionate care of Bill. A Celebration of Life service will be held at All Saints Parish Hall, 821 Fairfax Street, Coquitlam, on Wednesday, February 12, at 2:00 pm.
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