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Could curling make a return to Coquitlam? Council considers bringing regional facility to city Grant GranGer The Tri-CiTy News
Coquitlam curlers may go from no ice to having an elite facility if a proposal from Curl BC and the Coquitlam Curling Association becomes a reality. The sport’s provincial governing body presented a business case for an eight-
sheet, 37,500-sq. ft., approximately $24-million facility to Coquitlam city council Monday. On top of providing ice for local rock throwers, it would be a regional base to train curlers, coaches, officials and ice makers as well as hold regional, provincial and national competitions. Curl BC would also relocate its administration offices from Burnaby, a city with no curling ice, to the facility. see CCA’s GRAHAM, page 10
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Wearing special overshoes that allow them to walk on the mud, Port Moody firefighters Darren Penner and Jason Webster head out to rescue their trapped colleague in an emergency simulation exercise. See story, page 14.
HIGHLAND GAMES Caber tossing, whisky and dancing at Coquitlam’s Percy Perry stadium at Town Centre Park: photos, page 25-26.
salaries on the rise for city staff 4.3% increase over last year’s remunerations Grant GranGer The Tri-CiTy News
Salaries paid out by the city of Coquitlam to its employees jumped by 4.3% in 2017 from the previous year, according to the municipality’s statement of financial information.
Total gross wages for city employees was nearly $82.2 million, up from 2016 when it was $78.6 million. Another $1.97 million was paid in other remuneration and there were $468,000 in expenses. In addition, non-taxable benefits drove the city’s total labour bill to more than $100 million, with another $3.9 million going to the Canada Pension Plan and unemployment insurance. see sIX-fIGuRe, page 7
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and because I want to do all of you proud; but the least, because I know regardless of performance I’ll be congratulated. I love them all, I love you all so, so much and I’m going to miss everyone. I think I speak for all of us when I say this: Thank you.
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These are the Y2K babies and, after a dozen years of school, the ones their peers voted to represent them at the podium for their respective graduation ceremonies. This month, these valedictorians — the cream of the crop at School District 43 high schools — will talk about their academic journeys, the numerous friends they made along the way, the teachers they looked up to and the uncertainty they face for their future. Certainly, there will be tears — especially from the families that raised them — and wideeyed expressions as they embark on their next adventures. But, undoubtedly, there will be smiles too as they toss their caps in unison in the air. Last week, The Tri-City News caught up with eight SD43 valedictorians (requests from CABE and Riverside secondary were not returned; Suwa’lkh School declined to take part). Below, a portion of their farewell speeches.
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• Briana Chamberlin Next up: Gap year in New Zealand The year 2000: The year in which most of us were born. New to the world, everything seemed so wondrous and life was just there all of a sudden. We were forced to dive into life head first and accept the unknown. And now here we are, 18 years later, and we find ourselves facing the same challenges we did in the year 2000 because a lifetime of events and milestones are about to unfold in front of us and we have no direction. We just show up one day, and rather than a birth certificate, we receive a diploma.
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• Andrew Yun Next up: Harvard, undecided major Let’s live life the way we want to. Not anybody else’s. Not the way our parents want us to. Not the way our teachers want us to. Let’s live how we want to live. Because that’s the only way to leave no regrets. To continue marching forward with no glances behind our shoulders. I want to leave you with a quote from artist and philosopher, DJ Khaled. He said, “We gonna win more. We gonna live more. We the best.” And Class of 2018, that’s exactly what we are going to do. You really were the best.
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• Omron Samadi Next up: UBC, engineering major I know what you’re thinking because I’m thinking the same thing: How in the world am I supposed to know what I want to do with my life? What you have to realize is you’re not bound to walk in the same direction; there’s always another trail to set out on. Yeah sure, maybe it’ll take you longer, but either way you’ll reach your destination just the same. However, what I do ask from all of you is, whatever you do, make it your own.
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• Noah Ershad-Karimi Next up: BCIT, finance major Now it’s time to flip to the next page and start with a great beginning — even if that means we have to face change and enter adulthood and, of course, deal with the housing prices in Vancouver later on. We all have to take the time to realize that we are the grad class of 2018 and if we can deal with the obstacles we have had to deal with this year, we have the drive to deal with the obstacles life is going to throw at us. Let’s give ourselves, our friends and family and also the teachers and administrators one last huge round of ap-
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The School District 43 valedictorians from the Class of 2018. Front row: Alec Panjwani (Heritage Woods secondary, missing co-valedictorian Hannah Gauthier); Oliver Collett (Gleneagle); and Andrew Yun (PMSS). Middle row: Kassandra robicheau (Inquiry Hub); Briana Chamberlin (Pinetree); and Mina Labani (Terry Fox). Back row: Omron Samadi (Dr. Charles Best); and Noah Ershad-Karimi (Centennial). plause.
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• Oliver Collett Next up: UBC, science As we graduate it is important for us to acknowledge and thank everyone who have supported us throughout our time at Gleneagle. Our parents and family for being a constant in this ever-changing period of our lives, our friends for being there through all the good times and all the Science 12 courses. All of our teach-
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If we can take what Heritage Woods has to offer and run with it, imagine what we have to offer the world. We have some extreme talent within this grad class and I have no doubt each one of us will do great things in life whether through career aspirations, building loving families or other personal goals. I am extremely excited to see what each one of us brings to the table in 10 years from now when we all see each other at our reunion.
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• Kassandra Robicheau Next up: Vancouver Island University, English major and media studies minor We’re the ones leaving, but everyone in this community is incredible and deserves to be celebrated regardless of if it’s their last chance or not. This is maybe the most and least important speech I’ve ever made: The most, because you’re all here, pretty well everyone I care most about in the world,
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• Mina Labani Next up: SFU, business major Here we stand, 18 years of life behind us, on the brink of the next chapter on our grand journey. Our lives had been rather structured and straightforward, a definite path in a straight line through each successive grade level. What may have seemed like an eternity is but a fraction of the life we have yet to live. Without restraint, it would have taken me far too long to reflect on the past year, let alone the past four years of high school, or even the last 13 that I’ve shared with some students here today. newsroom@tricitynews.com @TriCityNews
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from Joyce-Collingwood to Patterson currently results in a two-zone fare. Under the new system, a rider would pay the minimum fare for the same trip. The proposal comes as part of the fourth and final phase in TransLink’s Transit Fare Review. A public consultation phase is now open until June 29. TransLink staff plan to bring the proposal to their board and the Mayors’ Council at the end of the summer. Devlin said the new system, if it goes ahead, likely won’t be in place until 2020. The majority of riders — about 64% — won’t see their fares change by more than 10%, Devlin said. Of the remaining 37% of riders, half would see an increase greater than 10% and half would see a decrease greater than 10%, he said. People who currently cover long distances on the SkyTrain without crossing a zone border will see the greatest increases, he said. Any riders confused by the changes will be greeted with new easy-to-understand maps at stations, Devlin said. They will also be able to follow a simple series of questions on the touchscreen of a Compass
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Six-figure income list tops 151 staff continued from front page
The city’s six-figure club grew by just two with 151 staffers earning at least $100,000. Six made at least $200,000, although finance and technology general manager Michelle Hunt fell just $37 short. There were 430 employees that made $75,000 or more on the list, which municipalities are required to produce every year. City manager Peter Steblin is the highest-paid employee with a base salary of $298,333. He also received $9,590 in other remuneration and $6,000 in expenses. The city paid out $717,331 in salary and expenses to council members. Mayor Richard Stewart received $138,239 in salary with another $18,189 in expenses. Councillors got a base of $60,165, a raise of more than $2,500 from 2016. The city’s policy is to have council’s salary increases match the annual increase, percentage wise, of its contract with its municipal workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. A motion by Coun. Teri Towner on Monday to call on the province and the Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) to work on a provincially-
Top 10 city administrators: 1. Peter Steblin, CAO 2. John DuMont, dep. city manager 3. Raul Allueva, parks GM 4. Jim McIntyre, planning GM 5. Perry Staniscia, projects advisor 6. Jozsef Dioszeghy, engineering GM 7. Michelle Hunt, GM finance 8. Wade Pierlot, Fire Chief 9. Andreea Toma, strategic initiatives 10. Nikki Caufield, director HR
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• Coquitlam city employees making a base salary of $100,000 or more: 151 • Coquitlam city employees making a base salary of $75,000 or more: 438 appointed independent commission to establish fair wage principles for elected local government officials was delayed by council until next week. Other councillors were concerned about the province’s involvement. “I can’t see the province wanting to touch this with a 10-foot pole,” said Coun. Chris Wilson. But Mayor Richard Stewart pointed out the province should be involved because it can take away municipal powers. The councillors decided to
try to come to a consensus via email this week so it can appear on next Monday’s agenda because the deadline for resolutions to the UBCM’s convention in September is June 30. Total expenses paid to city council was $97,772. As in 2016, Coun. Dennis Marsden received the largest reimbursement ($14,032) followed by councillors Bonita Zarrillo ($13,352), Towner ($11,354), Terry O’Neill ($9,623), Craig Hodge ($8,818), Wilson ($7,875), Mae Reid ($7,646) and Brent Asmundson ($6,883).
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Notice of Road Closure The City of Port Coquitlam hereby gives notice of its intention to close to traffic the laneway outlined in black on the attached map. The road dedication on the road allowance will be removed. The closed road will be consolidated with the Community Recreation Centre land adjacent to it for a parking area for Westwood Center, located at 2748 Lougheed Hwy.
7 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Council Chambers Port Coquitlam City Hall
GIVE YOUR INPUT All members of the public will have a reasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions about the bylaw at the hearing. Council cannot receive new or additional information on this application after the public hearing.
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Prior to the public hearing, the public is welcome to inspect the proposed bylaw and any related bylaws, reports and plans at:
Road Closure and Removal of Highway Dedication Bylaw, 2018, No. 4060 will be considered for adoption by Council at its regular meeting at Port Coquitlam City Hall, 2580 Shaughnessy Street, Port Coquitlam, B.C., on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, at 7 p.m. At that meeting, all persons will be given an opportunity to make representations to Council regarding the matter above.
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Written submissions can be emailed to corporateoffice@portcoquitlam.ca; submissions should be received by the Corporate Office no later than 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 26, 2018.
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Coquitlam city council took its staff to task for making a recommendation that goes against a cap on tower heights in Austin Heights it approved just last summer. But the twin tower project on Austin Avenue is going to public hearing anyway. In January, Beedie Living revealed plans for highrises to bookend the new Safeway currently under construction. But now Beedie is asking for a variance to allow it to exceed the 25-storey cap council put on as part of its updated Austin Heights neighbourhood plan announced in July 2017. The proposal calls for 170 units in the 26-storey west tower and 186 units in the 27-storey east tower. A minimum of 10 non-market housing units would be included with the Vancouver Resource Society providing them to people with disabilities. A staff report said Beedie believes due to the sloping site the city should consider the height from the north side along Ridgeway Avenue where both would look like they were 25 storeys. Doing so would provide the affordable housing it is proposing and maximize the density the zoning permits. Staff supported the variance request because of the significant 21-foot grade difference, equal to approximately two storeys, and the challenges it
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Beedie Living is asking the city to allow a 26-storey and 27-storey tower for the Austin Avenue Safeway site. presents, as well as the benefit of additional affordable housing. But several councillors at Monday’s council meeting were upset with planning department staff for recommending the variance be permitted. Coun. Dennis Marsden wondered why bother to put a limit in place and then have staff recommend not following it on the first application made. “What happened to the 25-storey cap?” asked Marsden, who added the elevation issues were just an excuse. “If I’m a developer [in Austin Heights] why would I even consider 25 storeys? “Where’s the line going to be?” Mayor Richard Stewart said Beedie Living knew there was going to be a 25-storey limit when it bought the site, and there is no other apparent reason to ask for the variance
“other than they don’t want to do it or don’t feel like it.” He felt there would be public backlash if it is approved. “I don’t like it when we get criticized for doing what the applicant is asking us to do,” said Stewart, who voted against first reading of the proposal and sending it to public hearing. Beedie also wants a variance to allow a portion of the parking lot for the east tower to be above ground because water table issues would make the cost of underground parking prohibitive. The above-grade parking would be hidden by residential and commercial uses or screened with metal panelling. The new store is scheduled to open next summer. Part of the project would be on land formerly occupied by a Chevron gas station which is currently being remediated.
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Creek elementary on Burke Mountain is scheduled to open in September and Banting middle school on the west side
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The first of a trio of new schools to open this year in School District 43 was greeted with whoops, a few complaints and a lot of excitement on Monday morning. Moody middle school Grade 6 to 8 students got their first look at their new school of the arts with tours, a barbecue and an official grand opening. “We’re excited because so far we have no clue what it looks like inside,” said Daleela Vezzani, a Grade 6 student, as she entered the new $28.7 million building. Students were greeted by principal Trevor Kolkea who welcomed them to the new facility, with its light and airy architecture, flexible spaces and outdoor play areas. “We’re letting go of that old building a little bit to make way for new experiences,” said Kolkea during a morning assembly. Designed by Omicron Architects and Olivit Construction, the new school is a three-storey structure with a full gym, classes for explorations, a learning commons with a technology lab, a large outdoor patio and amphitheater, maple wood details and lots of light. A catwalk leads to the
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Students from Moody middle school walk from their old school building to their new one right next door on Monday. Neighbourhood Learning Centre, which will open when arrangements have been made for the community agencies that will be the tenants. Devon Ross, principal of facilities initiatives, pointed out details that one might ordinarily miss, but that create a comfortable environment: a nearby greenbelt will moderate temperatures; scrubbable linoleum that looks like carpet has been used for soundproofing in the music room; rooms open to make them larger, some with sliding doors that open onto the hallway to promote collaboration; an eleva-
tor makes the school fully accessible; wireless portals have been installed so there are no dead zones for the internet; and classrooms look out to the mountains or the nearby forest. “We take best practices in educational design, and do research, to come up with a plan,” Ross said, noting that proximity to a green belt with Dallas Creek will bring the school closer to nature. Principal Kolkea agreed that the school’s environment will be key to learning and the many outdoor spaces will be used for gatherings and projects.
Four oak trees will also be planted to remind students of their time at Moody middle, while an accessible outdoor playground to be built with a $105,000 provincial grant will keep the students active. Some students expressed complaints about the size of the lockers, but for the most part appeared to be thrilled about the new building, while teacher Tibor Budai said it was like exchanging an old Pinto car for a new Lamborghini. “It’s like moving into a new house,” Budai commented. Two other new schools will soon open, the new Smiling
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Council voted to receive a staff report on the facility that said the project was worth pursuing, which will allow the proponents of the facility to pursue potential partnerships for the project. “I’m feeling very encouraged,” said Earlene Graham, president of the Coquitlam Curling Association. “I just feel like we’re on the right track. It’s been a pretty tumultuous two years. “It’s enough of a yes to go forward. They could have said go away and they didn’t.” The end of the 2017-18 curling season was also the end of the Coquitlam Curling Club at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex. Although club members fought the decision, the city opted to convert the ice the club used to an additional arena and move the members to the Port Moody Curling Club. “A lot of this was about turning a bad into a good,” said Curl BC executive director and CEO Scott Braley. “Whether our offices move or not is probably secondary. There is a need for a regional centre in the Lower Mainland.” The estimated price tag
includes $6 million for land which would be a Tri-City municipality’s contribution to the project, with another $1 million coming from the other two. The provincial and federal governments would be asked to pump $8 million each into the facility. “We have been in meetings over the past year with the various MLAs and MPs in the area and the reception has been very positive. The infrastructure dollars are there from both the federal and provincial governments. It’s a matter of having a business plan,” said Braley. “We’re prepared to go where the Tri-Cities area thinks it would work best. Coquitlam is the group that is saying they are interested, and that’s where we’re starting.” The proposal calls for a nonprofit society to operate the curling facility, paying a nominal lease to the city that owns the land. With 676 registered league curlers in the Tri-Cities there would be enough to support the new facility, said the business plan. It also suggested the move would allow Port Moody to repurpose its current 40-year-old facility “approaching the end of its functional lifespan” to meet high demand
in other sports. In its report to council, Coquitlam city staff said the concept could generate increased economic development and enhance the city’s sporting profile. “Although it is early in the process, staff supports the proponent moving this project forward,” said the report. “The actual value would need to be quantified through completion of a [value for money] analysis once further information and details of the proposal are further developed.” Coun. Craig Hodge, chair of the city’s sports advisory committee, said it’s a “really good proposal” that “shows a lot of technical merit.” “There are a lot of hurdles still to cross,” he said, but added the report and business case go a long way to getting all the partners together. “I believe the time is right for a regional curling centre to be built, and I want it to be built in the Tri-Cities,” said Hodge. “It’s a very good vision. The work the consultant has done proves that with a strong club, with some land and some dollars we can have a strong vibrant curling community for a long time to come.” newsroom@tricitynews.com
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC CONSULTATION The City has received an application to amend the Citywide Official Community Plan (CWOCP) relating to portions of the properties located at 1383 and 1385 Glenbrook Street, as shown on the attached map. The application proposes a redesignation of the subject sites from Estate Single Family to Large Village Single Family to facilitate the subdivision of 4 proposed RS-8 Large Village Single Family Residential lots fronting on Princeton Avenue. These lots are a part of a larger 6-lot subdivision. The other 2 lots will remain RS-11 Estate Single Family Residential under the existing Estate Single Family designation and will front on Glenbrook Street. 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 Thursday, June 28, 2018. Written correspondence can be provided in one of the following ways: • By email: clerks@coquitlam.ca • Fax: 604-927-3015 • Mail: City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7N2 • In person at City Hall, 3000 Guildford Way at the City Clerk’s Office during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from Monday, May 28, 2018 to Thursday, June 28, 2018 excluding statutory holidays 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 Jenna Cook, Planning Technician, Planning and Development Department, at 604-927-3469; or • Email Jenna Cook, Planning Technician, Planning and Development Department, at jenna.cook@coquitlam.ca. All written submissions provided in response to this consultation will become part of the public record which includes the submissions being made available for public inspection at Coquitlam City Hall (at the Planning and Development counter) and potentially on our website as part of a future agenda package at www.coquitlam.ca/agendas. Should Council grant first reading to the proposed CWOCP amendment, a Public Hearing will be held with notification to be provided in accordance with the Local Government Act.
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More affordable housing needed in the Tri-Cities W
ith a municipal election fast approaching, voters will be looking closely at how local politicians have been managing the affordable housing file. In the four years since the last election, a housing crisis has materialized and nowhere is this more apparent than in the Tri-Cities, where renters are being displaced for shiny new condos, once affordable single-family homes cost $1 million and the Evergreen Line has transformed entire neighbourhoods. How Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody councillors deal with housing for this generation and the next DELIVERY 604-472-3040 NEWSROOM 604-472-3030 DISPLAY ADS 604-472-3020 cLASSIfIED ADS 604-444-3056 n
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being redeveloped. These parks were created at a time when the Tri-Cities was considered to be on the outskirts of the big city of vancouver — even rural. Now, thanks to the coming of the Evergreen Extension and the need for housing, these areas are much in demand. but what kind of housing? Market housing is necessary, but it is important that rents not be out of the reach of most people — no more than 30% of their income — and those who must depart their homes on rental pads in manufactured home parks need special consideration. Thankfully, we are see-
ing some good cooperation between cities, such as Port Moody and Coquitlam, and rental developers, who are setting aside units for belowmarket rental and providing moving assistance for people being displaced in exchange for density. It may not be enough — it never is — but it shows that these people are not being ignored. More needs to be done, but ensuring that future rental includes subsidized or lowcost housing is key to keeping residents close to home and ensuring that the Tri-Cities doesn’t become an enclave for the rich and well-to-do.
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Road through Bert Flinn is key The Editor, Re. “PoMo gets look at Ioco connector options” (The TriCity News, May 30). A sincere thank you to The Tri-City News for its recent and very balanced reporting on the traffic management options Port Moody must consider for managing current and future impacts of population growth in our city as well as those coming from Anmore and Belcarra. Too often the public debate about traffic relief on Ioco Road has been top-heavy with the concerns of activists who hold very narrow views on future development and aggressively discourage alternatives to piling more traffic onto Ioco Road. Port Moody residents along the Ioco Road corridor have long been promised relief from the ever-increasing volume of summer visitors and burgeoning residential traffic load. The daily task of exiting driveways and roadways which connect with Ioco Road is increasingly dangerous. Traffic calming measures have done little to reduce speeding — especially
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Visitors to an open house at Port Moody city hall discuss the various options for a new connector route to Ioco. A technical study commissioned by the city recommended five possible options for further study about their feasibility. at night — and it gets worse every year. As The Tri-City News reported, development of the existing road right-of-way across Bert Flinn Park is the key to several traffic route options for effectively managing future traffic impacts. The existing
right-of-way should remain a viable alternative. In the years ahead, Port Moody residents will be impacted by growing traffic volumes, not only from Port Moody’s Ioco lands but from thousands of additional residents already planned for
Anmore and Belcarra. This is just the start of what is coming. The Burrard Thermal and Ioco Tank Farm sites may be repurposed for industrial development. Safe, efficient traffic management is also critical to public safety — increased
fire hazards associated with climate change could threaten our local forests and parks, forcing evacuations. So would an earthquake and both residents and emergency services personnel will need more than one dedicated route in and out of the area. I am not anti-park and neither are my neighbours. However, it’s important to remember that millions of dollars of potential tax revenue were sacrificed to create Bert Flinn Park and the decision to retain a road right of way across the park is the foundation of that decision. Even now, two decades later, we still don’t know exactly when the road will be required. It makes absolutely no sense to remove this option now. Let’s keep our options open until all development proposals have been presented and approved and only then let the councils of the day, including Anmore and Belcarra, work together to determine whether the roadway system needs to be completed. Wilhelmina Martin Port Moody
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Above, Port Moody fire captain Rob Suzukovich gets some help back on his feet from his “rescuers,” firefighters Darren Penner and Jason Webster, during a training exercise to extricate people trapped in the mudflats at the east end of Port Moody Inlet. “It’s very deceiving,” said Suzukovich of his brief walk before sinking into the mud. Right, firefighters strap on special overshoes to walk on the mud. For more photos, go to www.tricitynews. com. PHOTOS AND STORY BY MARIO BARTEL
It took just three steps for Rob Suzukovich to become hopelessly and helplessly stuck in the mudflats at the eastern end of the Burrard Inlet near the Shoreline Trail. Fortunately, he’s a Port Moody fire captain who was taking part in a training exercise last Thursday to give the city’s firefighters some practise extricating people who’ve wandered off the shoreline and into the heavy muck at low tide. According to Port Moody Fire Chief Ron Coulson, it happens about twice a year. He said the easy access to the flats from nearby trails, and the proximity of lots of residents and visitors to the city who may not be aware of the dangers of the mudflats, make it imperative his crews keep their skills fresh. The mudflats can be deceiving, he added, because when the tide is low they look no different than a soggy beach. But the mud is heavy with organic material and so saturated with water it creates an instant vacuum when unwary visitors step into it. That’s when the trouble starts. “The harder you work to get out, you just sink deeper,” said Coulson of the process called liquefaction. He said anyone who gets stuck in the ooze should stay calm until help arrives.
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PoCo looks in house for new city manager Port Coquitlam looked far and wide for four months to find a new city manager but ended not having to look too far. The city has hired Kristen Dixon as its chief administrative officer. Dixon is the city’s current director of engineering and public works. She will take over on July 30 from John Leeburn, who announced his resignation in February to pursue other opportunities. Dixon has been with the city for four years and has 13 years of municipal government experience having worked for the city of Kamloops previously. “While we considered a number of outstanding external candidates for the job, council has been very pleased with the direction we’ve been moving in over the last few years with our great team of staff,” said Mayor Greg Moore in a press release. “Kristen has been a lead in that work and has proven her exemplary
KRISTEN DIXON leadership skills over and over again. She understands our organization and our community, and has the right energy to continue to move us forward.” The release said the posting attracted 50 applicants and that ultimately “council decided that Dixon offered the right mix of experience, leadership skills, work ethic and personality to continue to build the success we’ve had as an organization,”
said Moore. Dixon has been the lead on city projects such as the new $132 million recreation complex and overseeing the redevelopment of Blakeburn Lagoons Park. “I’m very excited to be taking on this new role with the city,” said Dixon in the release. “As a resident of this beautiful community, I have a strong understanding of what is important to our taxpayers, businesses and residents. As an employee, I have a solid understanding of what is important to our staff and look forward to making our community thrive.” Dixon is the sixth woman to be the top administrator in Metro Vancouver’s 21 municipalities joining CAOs in New Westminster, West Vancouver, Anmore, Belcarra and Bowen Island. The city will now conduct a search for someone to head the engineering department.
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Another Tri-City mayor won’t run for re-election this fall. Last Friday, Belcarra Mayor Ralph Drew announced he’ll be retiring after the Oct. 20 race, following 40 years of public service to the village. “It’s been a long time coming but it’s one of those milestone events in life — I turn 70 in August — and the terms are now four years long so this is probably the right time to go,” he told The Tri-City News.
Drew, who joins Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore as well as the mayors of Vancouver, Surrey, RALPH DREW Langley, Delta, North Vancouver (district and city), Maple Ridge and White Rock in leaving their civic seats this fall, started his political career as the chair of a committee to study the feasibility of the municipal incorporation.
In July 1979, 300 village residents voted 96% in favour of the proposal. Verna Barrett was elected mayor while Drew, Jim Threlfall, Ted Baxter and Al Beebe were elected aldermen (Drew would take over the top job in 1984). Today, about 700 residents call Belcarra home. Drew said he wanted to alert his constituents about his decision before the summer break and give the mayoralty candidates time to campaign. Though he’s not endorsing anyone at this time, Drew noted the lengthy services of village councillors Bruce
Drake and Jamie Ross. Asked what he’ll miss about politics, Drew responded: “The engagement with the people and being part of the regional discussions at the Metro Vancouver table. The Tri-City mayors also have a real sense of camaraderie.” Still, “I’m feeling very confident in terms of Belcarra’s status and our position moving forward. We have done a lot of work with asset management planning to ensure sustainability. It’s true of every community: If you fail to invest and maintain your infrastructure, it will bite
you in the long run.” An award-winning author, Drew said he’s already working on his next historical book at the request of Coquitlam Mayor
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successful event. Without the contributions ello, Thank you for visiting our Golden Spike Days Festival. My name is Patti from the City of Port Moody, local businesses, Matwiv and I am the President of the 2018 Provincial and Federal governments, and Port Moody Golden Spike Days Festival. It is major sponsors such as Port Metro Vancouver, a pleasure and an honour to Pacific Coast Terminals, Onni, work with this year’s Board CP Rail, Vancity, Westwood of Directors and staff. We Honda, Dairy Queen, and have a fantastic group of President Golden Spike Kal Tire, the Festival would volunteers who have worked be a very different event. Of Days Society diligently to produce this course, we thank you for your year’s Festival. donations when you attend For 2018, we are excited to introduce even the Festival. more events to our growing festival. Our On behalf of the volunteer Board of Entertainment Line Up includes: Barney Directors, volunteers, and staff we invite you Bentall & The Legendary Hearts - Presented to attend The 42nd Annual Golden Spike by the City of Port Moody, Bif Naked, Can Days Festival at Rocky Point Park, from June Can Dancers, Spike Driving, family fun runs, 29th – July 2nd, 2018. We sincerely hope Yoga and Barre classes on the Pier, Children’s you enjoy this family friendly community Activities, Paw Squad Dog Agility by Dairy event. If you wish to volunteer for this event Queen Port Moody and so much more. and future Port Moody Golden Spike Days The Golden Spike Days Festival relies Festivals please contact our office at heavily on the support of many local office@goldenspike.ca. organizations to assist us with creating a
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■ The Fab Fourever The Fab Fourever is a musical production that will transport you back in time to a time called the sixties. A time when the music was a soundtrack to a generation. The Fab Fourever are Beatle fans, and that enjoyment of the music translates into a passion and an energy onstage that makes for a tremendous show.
■ Toy Zebra Priding themselves on versatility, Toy Zebra has the ability to seamlessly transition between Pop, Rock, Funk, Modern Country, Motown and even Rap. Their repertoire spans multiple decades, from the ‘60s to now. This band covers it all, so there is something for everyone to enjoy!
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The Golden Spike Can Can Dancers have performed at the Golden Spike Days festival for more than 35 years and in recent years, we have hosted a booth at the celebration where we sell garters by donation and take pictures with visitors to raise money. Throughout the rest of the year, we perform and make appearances at fundraisers, casino nights, golf tournaments, senior homes and other special events.
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Events & Activities ■ Doug’s Boat Building
Keep the fun afloat at the Boat Building Tent. Wood materials and tools are provided, but be sure to bring your own creativity. Parental supervision is required.
■ Yukon Dan
Come pan for gold with Yukon Dan, a professional and world ranking gold panner. Dan will teach children and adults alike the finer points of panning for gold and can also share a wealth of information about the Canadian Gold Rushes. Be sure to check this interactive exhibit out!
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Go for a spin on this classic favourite, which is sure to delight those of all ages! By Karscot Distributors.
■ Dog Agility
Sponsored by Dairy Queen: Port Moody Dog Agility is a new event at Golden Spike Days Festival! Dogs and their trainers will show off their skills around the obstacle course. After the show there will be a meet and greet. Shows are June 30th-July 2nd, at 11am and 3pm daily.
■ Oceanwatch Boat Tours by Indian Arm Recreation Tours
Departs approximately every half hour. June 30th 12pm-6pm July 1st 12pm-6pm July 2nd 12pm - 6pm Be sure to check out this tour, departing from the dock at the pier! Try to spot seals, eagles and other types of marine life, in addition to seeing waterfalls and historic landmarks. You don’t want to miss this tour!
■ Springfree Trampoline
Springfree trampoline, with its unique technology, has created the world’s safest trampoline! Curious how it works – come visit them for a free jump!
■ Motor Sports
A static display of some incredible demo derby cars. Join us at the display!
■ Langley Quarter Midget Association
Looking for something different from hockey or soccer? Kids ages 5-14 can learn to race plus other lifelong skills. LQMA will be onsite June 30th as part of the Motorsports car show 11-3pm. At 4pm LQMA will host a demonstration.
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Dive, bump and roll around with no worries! Suitable for children and adults. Adrenaline junkies are strapped into bubble balls and have free reign to play games such as Bubble Soccer, Red Rover, Bumper Bulldog, General Tao, Bubble Bash, or King of the Ring. Get out of your comfort zone and try something new!
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• PoCo Farmers Market, Seniors’ Tea Pary, 3-7 p.m., Leigh Square, 2253 Leigh Square, Port Coquitlam.
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• The Port Moody Art Walk, Port Moody Arts Centre, Silk Gallery, Gallery Bistro and various other locations. Plot your own path using the event’s map of participating galleries at pomoarts.ca.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23
• Coquitlam Search and Rescue BBQ fundraiser, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Canadian Tire, Fremont Village, PoCo; meet SAR volunteers, see rescue activities and techniques for both young and seasoned hikers. • Coquitlam Book Launch for “Oh Not So Great,” 3-5 p.m. at Chapters, 2911 Lougheed Highway, Coquitlam. Author Rob Taylor reads from his latest book of poetry,. Info: roblucastaylor. com. • Dogwood Photo Show, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Dogwood Pavilion, 1655 Winslow Ave., Coquitlam. The group will display their best photos and door prizes will be available. • Book Reading & Signing, 2-3:30 p.m., Western Sky Books, 2132-2850 Shaughnessy St., PoCo. Greg Felton will read from the third edition of his landmark book “The Host & The Parasite — How Israel’s Fifth Column Consumed America.”
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• Dogwood Photo Show, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Dogwood Pavilion, 1655 Winslow Ave., Coquitlam. The group will display their best photos and door prizes will be available.
MONDAY, JUNE 25
• Tri-City Photo Club meets in the Drama Room at Port Moody secondary school, 300 Albert St., 7:30 p.m. – guests are always welcome. Feature: Year-end party and potluck; bring your five favourite images taken between September 2017 and June 2018 to share. At the end of the evening, participants will draw summer image assignments. Info: www.tricityphotoclub.ca.
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• The Port Moody Art Walk is making a comeback! Kickstart your summer with a self-directed tour of artist studios and galleries within walking distance of Port Moody’s Gallery Row on Friday, June 22, between 5:30 and 9 p.m. Each venue will feature exhibitions, artist displays, live performances and refreshments in celebration of the vibrant artistic culture in Port Moody. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 • The Centennial Stamp Club is hosting a stamp swap and shop at 7 p.m. in the McGee Room at the Poirier Community Centre (630 Poirier St., Coquitlam). For more information go to www.stampclub.ca or call 604-941-9306. • PoCo Farmers Market, 3-7 p.m., Leigh Square, 2253 Leigh Square, PoCo. The market includes local artists and artisans and promotes awareness and appreciation for farm fresh produce, local eating which supports the economy and increase the capacity of small businesses.
TUESDAY, JULY 3 • Have you considered becoming a foster family? There are children and youth in the TriCities who require skilled, caring foster parents. To learn more, the Ministry of Children and Family Development invites you to attend an information session, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 200-906 Roderick Ave., Coquitlam. Info: call North Fraser Recruitment Team, 604-764-8098. • Motion Commotion Puppet Show, Terry Fox Library, 2470 Mary Hill Rd., Port Coquitlam. Master puppeteer and storyteller Elspeth Bowers will perform an action-packed program of stories, songs and a puppet show that will have you laughing all the way home. Drop in is free.
THURSDAY, JULY 5 • PoCo Farmers Market, 3-7 p.m., Leigh Square, 2253 Leigh Square, PoCo. The market includes local artists and artisans and promotes awareness and appreciation for farm fresh produce, local eating which supports the economy and
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FRIDAY, JULY 6 • Preschool Story Times, 10:30-11 a.m., Nancy Bennett Room, Coquitlam Public Library, 575 Poirier St., Coquitlam. Stories, songs, finger plays and rhymes help children gain prereading skills and develop a love of reading.
SATURDAY, JULY 7 • Norden the Magician, 1111:45 a.m., Terry Fox Library, 2470 Mary Hill Rd., Port Coquitlam. Join master magician Norden for a show filled with amazing tricks, tons of gags and lots of laughs.
SUPPORT GROUPS • Have you experienced the death of a loved one and found yourself struggling? Gathering with others who have also experienced a loss is known to be one of the most helpful ways of coping with grief. Sharing your story is important to healthy healing. Crossroads Hospice Society is running closed grief support groups. Registration: call Castine, 604-949-2274. • Crossroads Hospice Society hosts a free walking group for the bereaved, Fridays, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Group meets at Crossroads Labyrinth Healing Garden in Pioneer Memorial Park at Ioco Rd. and Heritage Mountain Blvd. Hospice volunteers will be present on the free walk through Rocky Point Park or Orchard Park. Newcomers can register by calling Castine at 604-949-2274.
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meets every Saturday, 10 a.m.noon, Northside Church, 1460 Lansdowne Dr., Coquitlam. Each session has a video presentation followed by small group discussion and you can attend at anytime. Info: 604-942-7711. • Al-Anon, a fellowship of friends and family of alcoholics who come together to share their experience, strength and hope, meets on Mondays, 7:308:30 p.m., Women’s Resource Centre, 2420 Mary Hill Rd., PoCo. Info: Elaine with Al-Anon Central Services Society, 604688-1716. • TOPS chapters meet weekly at numerous Tri-City locations. For information on group near you: Gail, 604-941-2907. • Port Moody Alanon Family Group open meeting, Wednesdays, 8 p.m., St. Andrews Church, 2318 St. Johns St., Port Moody. Info: 604-461-6991. • Al-Anon Adult Children meets at 8 p.m. Tuesdays, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1504 Sprice Ave. (at Schoolhouse), Coquitlam. • Fibromyalgia support group meets, 1-3 p.m., on the fourth Thursday of each month (except December) at Coquitlam Public Library, Poirier branch, 575 Poirier St. Education and support for adults who are living with this chronic illness. Info: Julie, 604-936-6027. • Irritable bowel syndrome support group meets monthly in PoMo to exchange information, to offer one another support, and to share experiences and coping strategies. Info: 604875-4875 or www.badgut.org. • Recovery International is a self-help, peer-to-peer support meeting for people who struggle with stress, fear, anger, depres-
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Tasha Faye Evans is throwing a party on National Indigenous People’s Day, June 21. And she’s inviting the public to witness a special Coast Salish ceremony — a first on Port Moody soil. Tomorrow (Thursday), Evans will conclude a yearlong initiative supported by the Port Moody Ecological Society to design, carve and raise a house post in the city. The Welcome Post Project, of which Evans is manager, will see Squamish Nation’s James Harry’s carving of a 600-pound cedar tree blessed and raised. But its final resting place won’t be at Rocky Point Park, where the celebration takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. Rather, the house post will be a permanent fixture in front of the gazebo at the Noons Creek hatchery, the society’s home. The gazebo is the place where most of the Project action has happened since last spring. There, Evans hosted talks about reconciliation and workshops, and Harry — a student at Emily Carr University of Art+Design who is also known as Nexw kalus, the son of hereditary chief and master carver Rick Harry (Xwalacktun) — heard from the community about what symbols should be incorporated in the wood. There were many suggestions, Evans said, but in the end, Harry settled on “a swirl of energy” to reflect the changing attitudes about First Nations people. Harry included such elements as the Coast Salish eye; a pair of salmon (a symbol of prosperity, renewal and fertility and to represent two re-
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Above, Tasha Faye Evans is the organizer of the Welcome Post Project, which — after a year — will unveil a new house post (to be located at the Noons Creek hatchery) at Rocky Point Park on Thursday, National Indigenous People’s Day. The ceremony, which runs from 6 to 9 p.m., will include a feast for the public by Pasta Polo. Below, the first 200 visitors to the ceremony receive a decal sticker. alities); a blue heron (to show the bird’s traditional nesting grounds); and clams (once dug up in the area by the First Nations). The bear — a symbol of power and courage — is not included in the house post, Evans said. “I was surprised since they are so common here,” Evans said, “but it wasn’t
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in water and brush the wood to wake up its spirit, she said. (During this time, Harry will be blanketed to allow the community to receive his artwork blindly.) Then, the wood, which is now half of its original weight after carving, will be lifted. Chief Maureen Thomas of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, of
which Port Moody is part of its ancestral territory, will speak and “return” the house post to be raised at Noons Creek hatchery. “She has requested for it to be here,” Evans said, noting the hatchery grounds were once home to a TsleilWaututh village. There will be other speeches, too, as well as entertainment and, at 7:15 p.m., a complimentary feast provided by Pasta Polo owner Fred Soofi. As well, the first 200 people at the event will receive a cultural gift: a decal with a First Nations symbol, to give thanks and continue to reconciliation talks. And finally, when the post is laid down to rest at 8 p.m., four people from the crowd will be asked to the stage to speak about their experience as witnesses to the blessing ceremony and tell how they will communicate the message within their community. • The Welcome Post Project celebration on Thursday, June 21 is from 6 to 9 p.m. at Rocky Point Park (2800-block of Murray Street, Port Moody). Guests are asked to bring a picnic blanket and meal kits (plates and utensils). Meanwhile, volunteers are sought to set up the event: email welcomepostproject@gmail.com. Visit noonscreek.org. jcleugh@tricitynews.com
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It’s been a dozen years since George Balzer asked the city of Port Moody to start his Summer Sundays Concerts at Rocky Point Park. And judging by the response from fans, it’ll be a long time before the series winds down. The free concerts have seen top international acts play their soul, R&B, blues, funk and reggae beats on the PCT Performance Stage, attracted thousands of music lovers to the Murray Street park on Sunday afternoons (last year, the series drew 15,000 visitors) and raised more than $30,000 for its designated charity: Crossroads Hospice Society. “All the feedback we are getting is positive,” Balzer told The Tri-City News, which is sponsoring the series for another year. “People really like the high energy these performers bring to the park.” Balzer is particularly pleased with this year’s lineup. Many musicians and groups are repeats such as Mr. Boogie Woogie — aka Eric-Jan Overbeek, a piano master from the Netherlands — the R&B Allstars and Brickhouse.
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Above: Brickhouse plays the Summer Sundays Concerts on Aug. 26 while Mr. Boogie Woogie (from the Netherlands) performs July 15. Below, Big City Soul closes the series on Sept. 2 and Nigel Mack and the Blues Attack returns to Rocky Point Park on Aug. 5 for a double feature with the R&B Allstars.
But it’s the tribute bands that Balzer is most anxious to talk about. He has secured the Steely Dan revue, Steelin’ In The Years, “because we got a lot of requests last year to bring
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them back,” Balzer said, and, for the first time, Eagle Eyes, a Vancouver Island group of professional touring musicians who play Eagles’ covers. Made up of Jack Gunderson (lead vocals/bass), Jason
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• July 8: Groove & Tonic • July 15: Mr. Boogie Woogie • July 20-22: RibFest • July 29: David Gogo • Aug. 5: Double feature — Nigel Mack & The Blues Attack, The R&B Allstars • Aug. 12: Eagle Eyes • Aug. 19: Steelin’ In The Years • Aug. 26: Brickhouse • Sept. 2: Big City Soul Meanwhile, Balzer has also programmed the entertainment for RibFest — the annual Rotary meat feast that runs July 20 to 22 at Rocky Point Park. It’ll have more of a rock flair featuring 18 bands, opening with Port Moody musician Rocky Milino Jr. & the C4D Band; it also includes some Summer Sundays Concerts’ acts like R&B Allstars and Mr. Boogie Woogie. • Summer Sundays Concerts is sponsored by Pacific Coast Terminals, TD Bank Group, K+S Potash Canada and Open Road Auto Group. Visit summersundays.ca.
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A five-year project researching depression has resulted in a new book for a Port Moody-raised poet. Rob Taylor will launch his work, titled Oh Not So Great: Poems from the Depression Project, at Chapters (2991 Lougheed Hwy., Coquitlam) on Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. A Gleneagle secondary grad, Taylor conducted his research with UBC doctors. jcleugh@tricitynews.com
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Coquitlam artist Sahar McCullough will sell her original paintings — including Gold Creek (above) — at the Coquitlam Art Club’s summer art show, an exhibit in the Centennial Pavilion (620 Poirier St.) that runs Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. McCullough, a geologist who used to substitute as a science and math teacher in School District 43, has displayed her work every year since the seniors’ art group began 10 years ago. A Coquitlam resident for 45 years, the Syrian-raised McCullough now paints with watercolours, oils and acrylics four days a week as well as volunteers at the Dogwood and Glen Pine pavilions. As well, she’s a member of the Port Moody Art Association and the Suite-E Life Drawing Group. Admission to the Coquitlam Art Club event is free.
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A reboot of the Art Walk in Port Moody lands Friday night in Moody Centre. But this time with a different name. The Shuffle is a collaboration between 37 artists, artisans and art groups and the inaugural Shuffle committee — made up of Helen Daniels (Gallery Bistro), artists Rose Kapp and Gay Mitchell and Port Moody visual arts manager Janice Cotter — designed to give creators a platform in the City of the Arts. Inspired by past ArtsConnect art walks and the Indigenous Perspectives night last June, the Shuffle came about after Cotter placed a notice on the city’s website. And while it grew organically, no outside funding came in for the volunteer-run event. Among the performers and exhibitors taking part in the Shuffle, from 5:30 to 9 p.m., is Lydia Podobnik, who sells the work of 43 B.C. artists in her Little Gypsy’s Fine Jewelry Gifts & Gallery on Queens Street. “This is a great opportunity for people to get out and see what’s being made and sold around town,” she said during a tour of her shop on Monday. Other presenters include Elmira Habibullah, the 2017 winner of a Kwi Am Choi scholarship (and newly minted SFU graduate) who is currently showing her pieces at the Port Moody Arts Centre; and Yandy Chau, another Kwi Am Choi scholarship winner.
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Artisan Lydia Podobnik is the owner of Little Gypsy’s Fine Jewelry Gifts & Gallery at 49 Queens St. in Port Moody. Her business is one of 13 stops on the Shuffle, which runs Friday from 5:30 to 9 p.m.
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Alex Stieda owes everything he achieved in bike racing to Coquitlam. Or rather, the city’s hills. So it’s only appropriate on June 21 he’ll be inducted into the Coquitlam Sports Hall of Fame that’s located at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex, located about midway between two of the climbs he regularly ascended on his 10-speed he’d acquired from a high school buddy to improve his fitness in advance of the Juvenile hockey season. It was an unlikely beginning to a career that would make him the first North American cyclist to wear the Yellow Jersey as the leader of the Tour de France as well as compete for Canada at international events like the 1982 Commonwealth Games, 1983 Summer Universiade and the 1984 Summer Olympics. Stieda’s grinds up Blue Mountain Street and Mariner Way caught the attention of a neighbour two doors down from his parents’ home on Gatensbury, near Como Lake. Harold Bridge was a dedicated randonneur, an eclectic breed of cyclists that enjoy rides of 200 km or more in a day; his wife, Joan, happened to be the president of Cycling BC at the time. Bridge took Stieda under his wing, showed him how to ride in a group and draft behind other riders to save energy. And when the long, languid rambles of the randonneurs didn’t seem challenging enough for his young protégé,
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A young Alex Stieda tends to his bikes in the backyard of his “cold-water” flat in Ghent, Belgium, where he went to learn the trade of becoming a bike racer and possibly earn a position with a top amateur or pro team. he passed Stieda on to Larry Ruble, who led a group of faster cyclists out of his Maple Ridge bike shop for rides to Mission or Fort Langley, and back. More often than not, it was Stieda who took the lead and did the most work of their small peloton of 10 or 12 more experienced cyclists. So Ruble suggested Stieda head to the roads around the University of British Columbia, where veteran racers competed to be the fastest in time trial races against the clock every Thursday evening. Of course, Stieda cycled there, making the long ride out along 41st Avenue to UBC
after school, post his time on the five-mile time trial course, then ride all the way home, pounding his way back up Blue Mountain in the fading twilight. “When you’re at the end of your rope after riding 100 km, you just do everything to get home,” Stieda recalled from Edmonton, where he’s an account exectuive for an IT company. “Living in Coquitlam made me stronger.” Strong enough that he started winning races at the old China Creek velodrome in Vancouver, then eventually a victory in the Canadian track cycling championships
that earned him a trip to the junior worlds in Buenos Aries, Argentina. “This is super cool,” Stieda said. “I was smitten. I wanted to do more.” Stieda started honing his road racing skills with local teams like Gunners and Carleton. Eventually he hooked up with a crew sponsored by a local Rotorooter franchise; they’d train and race through the summer, then unclog drains in the winter. In 1981, Stieda realized to take his cycling to the next level, he’d have to travel to the sport’s spiritual home in Belgium where hardened
European neopros banged handlebars, cut deals and maybe got noticed by bigtime pro teams, in kermesse races that could be found almost every afternoon or evening in small towns or villages across the country. Stieda’s dad secured a $500 grant that paid for a flight to Ottawa, where he dragged along a home-built Fibreglas case holding his steel Marinoni racing bike to a military base in Trenton, Ont., to catch a Royal Canadian Forces flight to Lahr, West Germany, and then on to Frankfurt, Germany, and Ghent, Belgium, by train. Stieda, 20 at the time, had
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Other inductees to be honoured Thursday include: • lacrosse player Geordie Dean • soccer coach Alan Errington • sports doctor Dr. Don Hedges • curling builders Bill and Elaine Mills • 1988 Coquitlam Reds juvenile baseball team Along with the new members of the hall of fame, several athletes will be honoured with Wall of Fame awards for their achievements in 2017: Larkyn Austman, Mathew Barzal, Chanell Botsis, Sherilyn Chung, Cassidy Gray, Sheila Hogan, Brad LaForce, Jacqueline Lew, Tye Miller, Chris Peat, Marcello Polisi, Elaine Whidden, Olivia Willett and the Coquitlam Metro-Ford Millennium U17 boys soccer team. no idea what he was getting himself into. “The guys at the base probably got a kick out of me,” he said. Deposited at Ghent’s train station at midnight, Stieda bounced his bike box over the dark, cobbled streets to find Staf Boone, a sort of Godfather of the local cycling scene who managed a number of apartments in the area that he let out to visiting foreign cyclists pursuing their dreams. Stieda roomed with an see YELLOW JERSEY, page 33
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PoCo Saints’ Carson Rees and Burnaby Lakers’ Connor Hill battle for position in their BC Junior A Lacrosse League game, last Friday at the PoCo rec complex. The Saints won the game, 13-5, then followed that up with another 13-5 victory over the Lakers on Monday at Copeland Arena. The wins moved the Saints into second place in the BCJALL standings with 20 points in 14 games. The Coquitlam Adanacs continue to lead the league with 23 points. Dylan Foulds led all Saints’ scorers Monday with a pair of goals and five assists. He finished with 12 points in the home-and-home series. Connor Frost had six points in Monday’s game in addition to the six he totalled last Friday. The Saints host the Delta Islanders on Friday, while the Adanacs return to action tonight (Wednesday) when they host the Islanders. They’ll also face the Thunder in Langley on Thursday.
Australian cyclist. Their “coldwater flat” had no hot water, a propane hotplate for a stove, and they went to the bathroom in a shack out back. “It was definitely a hard life,” Stieda said. Out on the road, Stieda learned some hard lessons as well. Semi-professional bike racing in Northern Europe has its own culture, its own code of rules and ways of breaking them in the name of survival. “If you weren’t tough mentally, it was over,” Stieda said. Stieda’s trial by cobblestone got noticed by the newly-formed American team, 7-Eleven, that was built around Olympic speedskater Eric Heiden who raced bikes as part of his offseason training. The team invited Stieda to enter some races in North America in the fall when he returned from Europe, and in 1982 he was offered a contract. Stieda said he had no illusions of glory. He didn’t have the lean build of a Grand Tour rider who could rack up big kilometres and recover to do it again the next day for the three weeks of a race like the Tour de France or Giro d’Italia, nor did he have the explosive power to win sprints. He was a domestique, a worker who could sacrifice himself for the team’s leader.
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That was to be Stieda’s role when 7-Eleven, now a big league professional team on a mission to popularize bike racing in the New World, was invited to the 1986 Tour de France, after two of its members won stages at the Giro d’Italia the year before. But somehow, the first stage of the 21-day race around France played to Stieda’s strength of being able to ride away from opponents for 80 or 100 km, just like those rides out to Mission and back home up Mariner Way. Add in some time bonuses he earned along the way, and midway through the Tour’s second day, after an 85-km opening road stage in the morning that would be followed by a team time trial he barely survived in the afternoon, Stieda climbed atop the podium, got kisses on his cheeks from the podium girls and pulled on cycling’s most famous prize. “It was really more of a strategic play rather than being the strongest rider,” Stieda said. “I had to figure out how to use my energy in the right way.” Stieda finished the threeweek race in 120th position. But what amounted to his afternoon in Yellow set the stage for an era of North American glory in cycling’s biggest race, including overall victory in the ’86 Tour by American Greg Lemond — his first of
three Tour wins — and more Yellow Jerseys worn by fellow Canadian Steve Bauer in 1988. “It was just an amazing time, we were breaking new ground,” Stieda said, adding old 7-Eleven teammates still
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“Everyone is so confused,” said Matt Kerr, an agent with Re/Max Real Estate Services in Vancouver, back in February. “I have also heard that there has to be a physical wall in the office between you and any agent you recommend to a former client. It is bizarre.”
The practice, known in the industry as limited dual agency, also includes agents representing two or more buyers vying for the same property, or rental agents representing both a landlord and a tenant. The ban on limited dual agency aims to avoid conflicts of interest when the agent is working on behalf of their client.
The new rules are particularly onerous in smaller markets, where longtime agents may have worked with many local buyers, said Sunshine Coast real estate agent Gordon Clayton of Re/Max Oceanview Realty in Sechelt.
The new rules also may require agents to stop representing a client if other possible conflicts of interest occur. For example, if a potential buyer makes an offer on a property listed by an agent who has previously represented that buyer, the agent may have a conflict of interest and be required to refer the listing to another agent. This conflict could mean the listing agent potentially has confidential information about both the seller and the buyer. “The new rules governing real estate Darlene Hyde, CEO of the British Columbia Real Estate Association, said in a statement, “The new rules governing real estate practices mark a significant shift in how REALTORS® in B.C. work with their clients. It’s important that consumers know what to expect when the changes come into effect.”
practices mark a significant shift in how REALTORS® in B.C. work with their clients. It’s important that consumers know what to expect when the changes come into effect.” Darlene Hyde, CEO BCREA
Commercial rules Commercial real estate agents are also particularly concerned because the legislation would prohibit an agent from selling a property to a potential buyer with whom they have had dealings in the past. That wouldn’t work in the tight-knit commercial real estate market, Ron Emerson, a veteran commercial real estate agent with Cushman & Wakefield in Vancouver, said in February.
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Norm was born in his grandparent’s farmhouse near Montmartre, Sask. He was the son of Don and Kay Sherling who were long time residents of Cranbrook, B.C. Norm graduated from Mount Baker High School and he went on to U.B.C., where, in 1959, he received his degree in Mechanical Engineering. An avid curler for many years, Norm was the first president of the newly opened Port Moody Curling Club and very active in the training of many new curlers as well as starting the Junior Curling Program. He was also Chairman of the Prostate Cancer Support Group for the Tri-Cities for 15 years. Norm is survived by his wife of 58 years, Noreen; sons, Mark (Neelam), Grant (Leslie) and much loved granddaughter Rachel.
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