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Mayors’ votes mixed on 1.5¢ gas tax Grant GranGer The Tri-CiTy News

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Improvements to cycling infrastructure, like the separated bike path on the new Port Mann Bridge, help make cycling in an urban environment safer. Next Monday in Port Coquitlam, the advocacy group HUB Cycling will be sharing strategies to keep cyclists safe at a special urban cycling safety information session. See story on page 8.

Faced with what Port Moody Mayor Mike Clay described as a “take-it or leave-it proposition,” he left it while Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart took it.

Both weren’t happy about it.

The outcome of Metro Vancouver mayors’ decision to raise the gas tax by 1.5 cents per litre, on top of the current 17-cent regional tax they already pay at the pump, will complete the funding for the $7.3-billion Phase 2 of TransLink’s 10-year transportation plan.

The vision includes extending the SkyTrain Millennium Line, of which the Evergreen Extension is a portion, along Broadway in Vancouver to Arbutus, building the first stage of light rapid transit in Surrey, and improving TransLink service.

After adding up the federal and provincial government contributions, there was a $70-million annual revenue gap. In March, the province and TransLink figured out ways to collect $40 million but a mechanism to raise another $30 million was needed. see LAST-MINUTE MOVE, page 9

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CANADA DAY 2018 Big crowds turned out for Canada Day celebrations in the Tri-Cities. Rocky Point Park hosted Golden Spike Days and Canada Day festivities while Coquitlam’s Town Centre Park drew thousands to its annual celebration. In Port Coquitlam, the day started with a Lions Club pancake breakfast at Lions Park, then moved to Castle Park (photos this page), where there was entertainment, food trucks and the annual salmon barbecue hosted by PoCo firefighters.

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Sar rescues a hurt hiker Busy time of year for Coq. Search & Rescue volunteers Gary McKenna

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An injured hiker was rescued from Widgeon Falls in Pinecone-Burke Provincial Park Sunday afternoon thanks to Coquitlam Search and Rescue and a Talon helicopter.

Search manager Michael Coyle said the man had injured his leg on the hike and needed to be flown out to a waiting ambulance in a long-line rescue.

The man initially called for help on a cellphone but search crews were unable to reach him after the first call. With limited information, it took some time before searchers could locate the man, Coyle said.

“Widgeon Falls is quite remote,” he added. “I think [the pilots] thought it would be easy to fly in and do the rescue but it became hard to locate

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Several search and rescue members hiked into the area to locate and assist the man, who was eventually flown to safety.

Canada Day weekend is one of the busiest times of year for Coquitlam Search and Rescue, Coyle said, noting that B.C. Day long weekend can also be busy.

The warm weather has many people exploring the outdoors, he added, and search crews are getting at least one call per week.

“Things are definitely getting busier,” Coyle said. “Usually Canada Day weekend is one of the busiest ones.”

Last week, Coquitlam SAR volunteers took part in a search after a 16-year-old boy fell to his death while hiking.

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Kick for Cure scores for cancer research Grant GranGer The Tri-CiTy News

When Gloria Cuccione looks out over the Kick for a Cure event at Coquitlam’s Town Centre Park each year, she sees a lot of people having fun.

She also sees results — and not soccer scores on the pitch.

They’re results in hospitals, in the research lab and in people’s lives.

Kick for a Cure — the 11th version will be held Saturday, July 6 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. — raises money for the Michael Cuccione Foundation. It was

founded to honour Gloria’s late son Michael, an actor and cancer awareness activist who died at the age of 16 after battling cancer and complications related to the disease since he was nine.

Over the years, the foundation has raised $23 million for research and to help families with children afflicted with the disease. The latest initiative is providing the funds for CAR T immunotherapy, a successful treatment developed in the United States and soon to be available at B.C. Children’s Hospital.

The treatment attacks cancer without the need for chemotherapy or radiation. But leukemia and lymphoma patients had to go south at a cost of up to $250,000 to get it because it wasn’t covered in British Columbia. The foundation, she said, provides the means for B.C. kids to go south.

“It gives complete new hope for our children,” said Cuccione.

“This has such promise to go into many other cancers and many other diseases. It’s one of the most promising clinical trials in the time we have been raising money.

“Our research team is completely taking this on. When scientists get excited about something that says a lot.”

Kick for a Cure begins with the adult tournament and the Domenic Mobilio youth invitational tournament at 9 a.m. (Mobilio was a Vancouver Whitecaps and Canadian national team striker — and Michael Cuccione’s cousin — who died from a heart attack in 2004.)

A soccer clinic for kids aged four to 11 starts at 10:30 a.m. and is run by Coquitlam Metro Ford Soccer Club Academy

coaches and members of the Whitecaps.

As well, Kick for a Cure features a fun zone, bubble soccer, food, live bands, a beer garden and all-day entertainment for everyone, including those not participating in the tournaments or the clinic. Organizers will even have big-screen televisions on site for everyone to watch World Cup matches.

“It’s a fantastic day. There’s literally something for everyone. We’ve got something in every corner,” said Cuccione.

“It’s like Christmas in July.

“It’s just grown into one of

the biggest community events we’ve ever done. Like my son said, one person can only do so much but together we can make a difference.”

The foundation’s stated goal for the event is $200,000. By last Friday, the total was about $70,000.

“Even if I get two cents it makes a difference,” said Cuccione.

The results, however, should be a lot more than that.

• For more information on Saturday’s event, go to kickforacure.ca. newsroom@tricitynews.com

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Developers appear to be heeding the call for more housing with millions of dollars worth of development permit applications being pumped through local city halls.

Coquitlam is leading the way in the Tri-Cities with $124.4 million worth of development permit applications for the first four months of 2018, up 43% compared to the same period last year. Much of the development is housing, including two townhouse projects worth $28.8 million.

“It’s challenging, it’s exciting,” said Jim McIntyre, Coquitlam’s general manager of planning and development.

“We’re living in some pretty radical times here. The market has been incredibly strong, not just in Coquitlam but across the Lower Mainland for a long number of years. That starts translating in those significant projects and unit numbers and it’s a reflection of good planning in trying to marry up rapid transit investments with land use.”

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The popularity of building along the Evergreen Extension is evidenced by the city’s new Transit-Oriented Development Application Team (TODAT), which received development applications for 3,519 units in nine projects in the first four months of the year.

But many of these projects located in Burquitlam or Town Centre are large and will take time to process, said McIntyre, who explained the new team of planners, transportation and legal specialists will handle these transit-oriented developments efficiently and effectively.

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Meanwhile, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody are also seeing a jump in the number of building permits issued.

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ROAD SAFETY

Be safe on 2 wheels with course in PoCo Info session to teach strategies for safe cycling Mario Bartel

The Tri-CiTy News

A poll released last Thursday by the Angus Reid Institute says cyclists and motorists in Canada’s urban centres are at war, with the majority of those surveyed blaming cyclists.

In Metro Vancouver, 56% of those surveyed said there’s conflict between cyclists and drivers and 65% said cyclists are more responsible for it.

That’s less than Toronto, where 60% said cyclists and motorists are feuding, but greater than cities like Montreal, Calgary and Edmonton.

Those kind of perceptions don’t bode well for the health and safety of the increasing numbers of cyclists trying to navigate busy urban streets.

In fact, ICBC statistics show almost 70% of incidents involving cyclists in the province over the five-year period from 2012 to 2016 occurred in the Lower Mainland.

But two-wheeled travellers can take better charge of their own safety, said Alyshia Burak, the bike education program manager for HUB Cycling.

The cycling advocacy group will be sharing its strategies to keep cyclists safe at a special urban cycling safety information session to be held Monday, July 9, 6 to 8 p.m., at The Outlet (2248-2250 McAllister Ave.) in Port Coquitlam. The free event is being hosted by the Coquitlam RCMP’s community police stations, ICBC and HUB.

Burak said safety is a huge factor in people’s decision to ride a bike.

“When people feel safe, they are more likely to ride,” Burak said, adding there are a number of things cyclists can do to enhance their sense of safety.

One of those is choosing routes wisely — avoiding busy thoroughfares and sticking to protected bike lanes and quieter neighbourhood bikeways as much as possible.

“Unsafe route conditions are a huge barrier for over 40% of people interested but concerned about cycling,” Burak said.

Metro Vancouver has more than 1,400 km of bikeways and about 10% of roads in the region include some sort of designated bikeway, numbers that are increasing every year under Translink’s regional cycling strategy. That document projects that by 2040, 15% of all trips less than 8 km will be made by bike, up from less than 3% currently.

Burak said cyclists also have to be smart about how they ride by staying far enough away from cars parked along curbs to avoid getting hit by a door suddenly swinging open, making eye contact with motorists and other road users, and using hand signals and body language to indicate their intentions.

“Communication is key for all road users in order to be able to share the road in harmony,” Burak said.

But even the most careful, communicative cyclist can still get taken out by an inattentive or impatient driver.

Burak said motorists have a responsibility to be alert and

respectful to other road users, to leave cyclists enough space when passing them, to check over their shoulders before opening doors and yield to cyclists when they have the right of way.

“Road safety is everyone’s responsibility,” she said.

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It wasn’t until last Wednesday that TransLink’s mayors council found out the province’s solution was to raise the contentious gas tax. It was estimated the hike would cost the average household an extra $22 a year and should raise up to $33 million in revenue annually.

PoMo’s Clay didn’t buy the justification, saying, “There’s just too much reliance on the gas tax.”

Although he admitted all transit infrastructure has to be funded by taxes of some sort, Clay said the clear message from the public has been that the gas tax was unfair and that’s why it was taken off the table in March.

That was until Wednesday, when Municipal Affairs Minister Selena Robinson, who’s also the MLA for Coquitlam-Maillardville, informed the mayors’ council the gas tax hike would be the way to cover the difference.

“The province sprung this on us very late. It was a take-it or a leave-it proposition,” Clay told The Tri-City News. “I support the [transportation] plan, I want it to move it ahead, I just thought [the gas tax hike] was

the wrong one.”

More favourable options to him are increases in sales, parking and vehicle taxes, or even property taxes, because “it has an inherent balance.”

He added he’s a big fan of mobility pricing but only if the gas tax was reduced. One of the intended outcomes of the gas tax, he noted, is to get people out of their cars to take transit or other alternatives.

“That’s great, but then you’ve got no money to pay for buses and more,” said Clay.

“The more you bump it up, the less you’re going to get.”

Other mayors who joined Clay in voting against the plan were John McEwen of Anmore, Maple Ridge’s Nicole Read and Jack Froese from Langley Township as well as Tsawwassen First Nation Chief Bryce Williams.

That didn’t mean the ones who voted for the tax at Thursday’s joint meeting between the mayors’ council and the TransLink board like it either. Many supported the plan because the province made it clear there were no other options, according to Coquitlam’s Stewart.

“The choice the province made to only offer us gas tax as the only source of revenue

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to fund the regional share was unfortunate,” Stewart told The Tri-City News. “That is the one that is least acceptable to the elected officials in the region, in my perspective, and I suspect to our residents. But that was the only one we were given.”

Stewart noted the hike will motivate many motorists to go outside Metro Vancouver to purchase gas and said, “I worry that putting it all on a gas tax runs the risk of not seeing the revenue we actually need.”

One option he’d like explored is a land-lift charge, which would levy a fee to landowners next to transit who stand to make a windfall from the convenience.

“Land around stations goes up in value enormously, and there are measures that can be used to capture that sort of increase,” said Stewart.

He cited the city’s Lincoln SkyTrain station being paid for entirely by land-lift fees as an example of what could be accomplished. There is potential to do the same with the Millennium Line extension and the at-grade Surrey transit lines.

“I still think that has a tremendous potential, as it did here in Coquitlam, to fund that infrastructure,” he said.

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here appears to be a great divide between drivers and cyclists, judging by a recent angus Reid poll. apparently, 56% of those surveyed say there’s a conflict between cyclists and drivers, with 65% saying the problem lies with cyclists.

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car and cyclists, and infrastructure to accommodate cyclists is still rudimentary at best.

The problems are many and would take a boat load of money to fix. Sadly, there’s a lot of talk, and some personal efforts by bike-riding politicians, but too little is being done to make biking a regular lifestyle.

Geography doesn’t help. bridges, overpasses, hills and other impediments make incorporating bikes into daily life, not just recreation — a difficult challenge.

Here are just a few of the problems: major thoroughfares without protected bike

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lanes; bike lanes that disappear when a road suddenly narrows; poor signage at intersections to show how cars and bikes should interact (which can be fixed with better signage); lack of understanding about rules of the road; and cars parked on shoulders that leave little room for cyclists. our get-everywhere-as-fastas-possible attitude is part of the problem, too.

Who will admit to a little bit of frustration when being held up by a cyclist pedalling as fast as possible up a hill or along a straightaway? The cyclist has nowhere to go, the driver has

nowhere to go but to pass the cyclist, often dangerously.

The irony is that people are just as irate about bike lanes as they are about cyclists on the road, crying out “unfair” because the road has to be narrowed or parking reduced to make way for them. but we argue that unless the suburbs are made more bikeand pedestrian-friendly, the car will forever rule and cycling to shopping and work will be a nice idea but only for the few, hardy road warriors.

It doesn’t have to be this way and local politicians must play their part.

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Bridge is a longshot; Flinn road only practical option The Editor, Re. “Bridge over the inlet best in the long-term.” (Letters, The Tri-City News, June 27).

I sympathize with letter writer Monica Keen and all who oppose a road through Bert Flinn Park. I don’t know anyone who would want a road through a park, if it could be avoided. Sadly, as the recent engineering study has shown, there is little alternative.

Ioco Road was built to accommodate traffic to and from the original Ioco townsite, some 80 plus residential lots, which is the Port Moody portion of the Ioco lands. The study confirms that Ioco Road is capable of handling up to 100 single-family homes, even though there are serious safety and access issues from residents’ driveways and adjacent side streets. The northern portion of the Ioco lands (150 acres) is in Anmore and will always be better served by a David Avenue extension through Bert Flinn Park, a

much more direct and userfriendly route — sad but true.

It is a myth to suggest that new residents of this area would divert to Ioco Road, a much longer and slower commute.

The “bridge option” shown in the study by the engineer is an afterthought. Any serious consideration of a bridge would be at the narrowest crossing, nearer to Barnet Marine and over to Belcarra Regional Park. The limited development potential of this whole area precludes a bridge as a serious contender.

Whilst a road through Bert Flinn park is the least savoury option to us all, it still ranks as the best option for development of these lands. Despite what some would have you believe, a road through the park would not be catastrophic.

There are other roads through this pristine area that have had little effect on its natural beauty.

Jon & Mavis Wheatley, Port Moody

FIX THE DIKE, PLEASE

The Editor, Thanks to whatever government repaired the weak section of the dike along the Pitt River recently.

But no thanks for destroying the surface of the path from DeBoville Slough all the way to the repair, to the extent that few cyclists choose to use it anymore.

This is a lovely, scenic ride, leading all the way to the paved access road to Minnekhada Park. I have enjoyed cycling there for 15 years.

The surface is now rutted and strewn with a lot of large gravel pieces, making it a rough walk as well as hard to cycle along. Please clean it up.

Robin Elliott, Coquitlam

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TRI-CITY SCHOOLS

SD43 should not allow gifts to be given to teachers The Editor, Re. “No more trustee trips” (Letters, The Tri-City News, June 22).

I am responding to the letter by Stan Marshall regarding trustee trips and his comments about receiving gifts. As another school year ends, I am shocked by the gifts that are given to teachers at this time of year as well as at Christmas.

I agree with Mr. Marshall that trustees should not be accepting free trips to China but I would go further and say that gift giving should no longer be permitted to anybody in the school system.

We have refugee/immigrant families, families living in poverty and families struggling to maintain their housing. Having to come up with extra money to purchase an appropriate gift for teacher(s) is too much. It is not enough to say that it is not expected

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because kids compare what others are giving to the teacher and feel pressured.

I would ask the School District 43 board of education to disallow any gift giving in the future to ensure that no students are left to feel inadequate.

As Mr. Marshall pointed out, he is prohibited from receiving gifts and so are all other government employees, so it is time that gift giving be prohibited for teachers as well.

E. Foxhill, Coquitlam

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COQUITLAM

Suite parking ongoing issue in Coquitlam ‘Housing cars’ vs. housing people Grant GranGer The Tri-CiTy News

Changes made a year ago to secondary suite parking in Coquitlam appear to be working, according to a city report.

But that didn’t stop councillors at a recent meeting from providing staff with plenty of suggestions of how to fine tune and tweak them.

As of Aug. 1, 2017, secondary suites in single-family dwellings were required to provide an off-street parking space that didn’t block the two spots available to the principal dwellers.

The regs present more of a challenge creating space for parking when building new suites in existing homes.

Finding a spot often depends on topography and adjoining features like retaining walls, sidewalks, trees and utility equipment.

Since then, said the report, the city has received 140 building permits for new homes that propose to have secondary suites, another 38 to have basements that could accommodate them, and 45 applications to create suites in existing homes. All of the new home applications have been able to adjust to comply but nine of the 45 applications from existing homes were not able to go forward despite efforts of staff, the applicants and their designers because of physical

COUN. TERI TOWNER constraints and obstacles in the front yard.

Mayor Richard Stewart and other councillors provided planning general manager Jim McIntyre and building permits manager Jim Bontempo some of their own design solutions during a long discussion by council June 25. But all the talk about cars instead of secondary suites providing affordable housing discouraged other councillors.

“I feel like we’re sitting around here as a council… jumping through hoops to find them the space to get that third car,” said Coun. Bonita Zarrillo. “I just feel if they can’t find the parking space, then we shouldn’t allow them to do it.”

Coun. Teri Towner said where a solution can’t be found, measures could be taken to ensure either the renter doesn’t have a vehicle or the owner has just one car.

“We spend more time talking about housing cars than housing people,” Towner said.

KiM wiLL rUN FOr a seaT ON COQ. COUNCiL Steve Kim is jumping into the race for a Coquitlam council seat in this fall’s civic election.

Kim, who ran unsuccessfully in the last two provincial elections as a BC Liberal candidate in CoquitlamMaillardville, has a background in the technology industry and has been an active community volunteer.

He said he wants a seat on council so he can focus on improving affordability for residents.

“I pledge to respect our tax dollars and look for costsaving opportunities throughout the year,” he said. “I plan to cultivate a welcoming business environment that not only nurtures entrepreneurship but also creates local jobs for people to remain close to home.”

Municipal elections take place in communities across B.C. Oct. 20.

Public Hearing Notice When: July 10, 2018 at 7:00pm • Where: Council Chambers, City Hall, 100 Newport Dr., Port Moody, B.C. Port Moody Council is holding a Public Hearing to consider the following proposed bylaw (Bylaw No. 3154):

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FUNDRAISING

PoCo liquor store staff raise big bucks for flood relief From disaster relief to dry grads, the Westwood Centre liquor store in Port Coquitlam will come to your aid.

At least, its employees will fundraise for your cause.

According to the BC Liquor Distribution Branch, the PoCo store raised $7,089 from customers for B.C. flood relief, the most of any government liquor store. The next highest amount was $5,006, raised by the Terrace liquor store.

The PoCo store, at Westwood Street and

Lougheed Highway, has previously been a major source for other fundraisers, including dry grads and wildfire relief.

“We take a lot of pride in the relationship we have established with our community.

Ultimately, it’s the customers, and their generosity, who are responsible for the success of our corporate social-responsibility initiatives,” said Sean McKenzie, senior manager of the Westwood Centre store.

The B.C. government announced it would match

contributions to the Canadian Red Cross, collected by July 31, 2018, up to a total of $20 million. In all, almost $66,000 in donations for a disaster response team that mobilized supplies and supplied shelter and basic needs to evacuees.

Residents who returned to flooded communities received clean-up kits with gloves, brooms and sponges, as well as other items, to help them get back into their homes. dstrandberg@tricitynews.com @dstrandbergTC

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Take a walk into Coq. past on Sat. Walking tour of Maillardville GranT GranGer The Tri-CiTy News

You can step into a time machine and experience Maillardville more than a century ago with a walking tour Saturday of Coquitlam’s Francophone enclave followed by a tea.

It was back in 1909 and 1910 that Fraser Mills was looking to add to its workforce for an expanded mill. The company found what it needed but not in Coquitlam. More than 400 French-Canadians from eastern Ontario and Quebec came west to work, some of them bringing entire families across the country.

Maillardville, named after their priest Father Edmond Maillard, was the largest Francophone settlement west of St. Boniface in Winnipeg. It grew even larger when another wave arrived from the prairies in the 1960s and ’70s.

Local historian Maurice Guibord, who is also president of the Historical Francophone Society of BC, will lead Saturday’s walk, which starts at 10 a.m., through the neighbourhood that retains a Québécois streetscape in some areas despite assimilation for most of the descendants.

At noon, walkers will be able to partake in a tea in the parlour of Mackin House Museum, built in 1909.

The walk and tea are being put on by Coquitlam Heritage, 1116 Brunette Ave., as part of Historic Places Day in Canada.

The cost is $5. Registration and more information are available at coquitlamheritage.ca/ eventslist. newsroom@tricitynews.com

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the City of Coquitlam will be holding a Public Hearing to receive representations from all persons who deem it in their interest to address Council regarding the following proposed bylaws. This meeting will be held on: Date: Monday, July 9, 2018 Time: 7:00 p.m.

Location: City Hall Council Chambers, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC V3B 7N2 Immediately following the adjournment of the Public Hearing, Council will convene a Regular Council Meeting during which it will give consideration to the items on the Public Hearing agenda.

Item 1

Addresses: 500 Foster Avenue and 633 North Road

The intent of Bylaw 4859, 2018 is to amend City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 to rezone the subject properties outlined in black on the map marked Schedule ‘A’ to Bylaw 4859, 2018 from RM-2 Three Storey Medium Density Apartment Residential to RM-6 Multi-Storey High Density Apartment Residential.

If approved, the application would facilitate the development of a 41-storey mixed-use tower, containing 304 market residential units (295 market residential units, 5 market live-work units, 4 market townhomes) and 1 commercial retail unit, and a 6-storey lowrise residential building containing 93 purpose-built rental units (86 purpose built rental units and 7 live-work rental units).

Item 2

Addresses: 1029 and 1033 Austin Avenue

The intent of Bylaw 4890, 2018 is to amend City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 to rezone the subject properties outlined in black on the map marked Schedule ‘A’ to Bylaw 4890, 2018 from SS-2 Service Station Commercial and C-2 General Commercial to C-5 Community Commercial.

If approved, the application would facilitate the development of a 26-storey residential tower with 170 residential units and a 27-storey residential tower with 186 residential units, including 10 non-market rental housing units.

How do I find out more information?

Additional information, copies of the bylaws, supporting staff reports, and any relevant background documentation may be inspected from Tuesday, June 26, 2018 to Monday, July 9, 2018 in person at the Planning and Development Department, Coquitlam City Hall, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday excluding statutory holidays.

You may also obtain further information with regard to the bylaws mentioned above on the City’s website at www.coquitlam.ca/publichearing and by phone at 604-927-3430.

How do I provide input?

Verbal submissions may only be made in person at the Public Hearing. The City Clerk’s Office will compile a Speakers List for each item. To have your name added to the Speakers List please call 604927-3010. Everyone will be permitted to speak at the Public Hearing but those who have registered in advance will be given first opportunity.

Please also be advised that video recordings of Public Hearings are streamed live and archived on the City’s website at www.coquitlam.ca/webcasts.

Prior to the Public Hearing written comments may be submitted to the City Clerk’s Office in one of the following ways: • Email: clerks@coquitlam.ca; • Regular mail: 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 afford Council an opportunity to review your submission, please ensure that you forward it to the City Clerk’s Office prior to noon on the day of the hearing.

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 and on our website at www.coquitlam. ca/agendas. If you require more information regarding this process please call the City Clerk’s Office at 604-927-3010.

Please note that Council may not receive further submissions from the public or interested parties concerning any of the bylaws described above after the conclusion of the Public Hearing.

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PoCo’s Zander makes his magic mark Grant GranGer The Tri-CiTy News

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lex Zander has gone on a magical ride from delivering The Tri-City News with his little wagon on the hills of his Port Coquitlam Citadel Heights neighbourhood to becoming the youngest executive committee vice-president IBM has ever had. And he’s in line to be its president in the next couple of years.

Wait! What? No, not that IBM, the monolithic multinational business technology company. But it is magical.

This IBM is the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Like many other kids, Zander got a magic kit when he was in kindergarten. But he lost interest in it quickly and put it away. The desire to pull the kit out of the closet didn’t resurface until he was 11 years old when his family was on vacation in Victoria. They dropped into Tony’s Trick and Joke Shop run by renowned magician Tony Eng. It had its fair share of the prankster staples like squirting nickels, hand buzzers and whoopee cushions. What little Alex couldn’t take his eyes off of, though, was the Wall of Magic Wonders with all its oddities.

His parents and two younger brothers had other plans that day, but Alex didn’t want to leave so they left him “with the magician dude.”

Eng taught him a bunch of stuff, and by the time he exited he was the proud possessor of a deck of cards, sleight-of-hand sponge balls and other magic stuff. And he began to practise, practise and practise some more.

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Port Coquitlam magician Alex Zander, 26, is the youngest vice president on the executive of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

The magic man is in the midst of rebranding himself, including getting rid of the trademark blue suits he’s worn since he was a teenager.

Vancouver Magic Circle and Clownin’ Around Magic Shop on Granville Island, which became his home away from home.

Within a year little Alex Seaman (Zander is a stage name) was doing local birthday parties and magic tricks socially with kids at school, although teachers would frequently confiscate his cards and props. (He went to Mary Hill elementary, Pitt River middle and Riverside secondary.)

“It was nerve wracking, but confidence building,” said the 26-year-old as he animatedly fidgeted on the living room

sofa of his family’s home.

Originally, his prop purchases were funded by his Tri-City News twice-a-week, 58-home paper route in his hilly neighbourhood.

“It was wonderful,” said Zander. “I’d make 30 bucks a month and I’d put all of that into magic.”

Soon the gigs were coming to him as parents sought him out for birthday parties and events, as well as restaurant engagements.

“There’s something about magic. It resonates with people,” said Zander.

When he made more money

doing magic, he passed along the paper route to his brothers.

By age 18, he was a Vancouver IBM chapter sergeant at arms. Despite his youth, he produced a couple of conventions for the chapter and ran public events around town. That led to him being nominated for the IBM’s executive committee in 2014. He said at the next convention in Las Vegas in July he is expected to be recommended for the position of president-elect.

“That’s my passion, that’s my contribution back to the craft. That’s what’s given me the opportunity to do what I

love for a living,” said Zander.

Getting established in the magic biz was a grind. It was not all spotlights and standing ovations.

“It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” said Zander.

To protect his pocketbook long-term, Zander decided he wasn’t going to be just a one-trick career chooser. He pursued work and education in the security industry and is now within one semester of earning a criminology degree from Simon Fraser University.

His work with IBM and studying the justice system — he specialized in compara-

tive approaches in U.S. and Canadian criminal justice — has him also contemplating an eventual career in politics.

Making magic a profession, he said, is simultaneously positive and negative. “It’s a constant state of flux. It’s all energetic and keeps me going.”

And going and going and going. Two days after the interview The News, he was off to California for a 30-day stint.

He’s on the road about five months a year, mostly in and around the summer season.

Along with a ton of county and state fair gigs on both sides of the border, he’ll be doing his annual stint at the Calgary Stampede in July.

“I come back in August to pack a new suitcase and then I’m back out again until October,” said Zander. “It’s super fun, and it’s an aspect of life I’ve always wanted. “I love it.”

The rest of the year he keeps busy with corporate clients and many others he’s developed around town.

“I like knowing that I was part of somebody’s highlight or memory,” he said. “The show is the fun. The work is all the other work not being on stage.”

This summer’s sojourns come at a time when he’s rebranding himself as well. He’s retiring his trademark blue suits, although that won’t be hard to do since they don’t fit anymore after he slimmed down considerably, in favour of a more charcoal look, although he is keeping his gold tie. He’s also dumping his blue suitcase set now that he possesses a sturdier, large black case that he’s coveted for a long time.

“In my perfect world I would tour and travel the world doing magic,” said Zander. “If I can continue to go each day only doing my magic, I’m living my dream.”

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LITERACY & LIBRARIES

A mouse dentist, a rusty nail and even Shrek!

A GOOD READ TERESA REHMAN

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y first encounter with award-winning author William Steig was in 1970, through his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, written in 1968 when Steig was 63 years old. I was three years into my long library career and I was hooked. Here was a children’s book in which animals dressed and behaved like humans. Then, there was wonderful magic and witchcraft, a recurring theme in many of his subsequent books.

Sylvester, a donkey from the fictional community of Oatsdale, collects pebbles “of unusual shape and colour.”

One day, he finds a pebble that grants wishes. Immediately afterwards, a lion scares Sylvester and, as a defence, he wishes himself into a rock — the only thing he could think of at the moment. Unfortunately, the magic pebble falls off the rock and Sylvester is unable to revert to his donkey form as the pebble must be in contact with the wish-maker to work. The rest of the story deals with the resulting aftermath: Sylvester’s attempt to change back into his true self and his parents’ search for their only son. For this book, Steig received the Caldecott Medal in 1970.

Steig was born in Brooklyn in 1907 to working class, Jewish-

Polish immigrant parents who encouraged their children in the arts. He attended City College and the National Academy of Design. In 1930, Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker magazine, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 magazine covers.

When he was 61, he wrote the first of 35 children’s books.

This explains, perhaps, why parents of very young children look like they are in their middle or senior years.

Steig experimented with a variety of subjects and settings, with family relationships being a popular theme in most of his books. He focused mainly on animal characters because he felt it gave him more freedom to do wackier things. Most often, his books featured animals heroes like brave pigs, dogs, donkeys or other strange creatures who have amazing adventures and find themselves in impossible, life-threatening situations from which they must escape.

Farmer Palmer’s Wagon Ride is so hazardous and hilarious that Farmer Palmer, a pig, and Ebenezer, an ass, barely make it home again.

Solomon the Rusty Nail is about a rabbit has an unusual talent of turning into a rusty nail and back into a rabbit. Zeke Pippin is a pig who owns a harmonica that, when played, puts the listeners to sleep. In The Amazing Bone, Pearl the pig dawdles on her way home from

school one spring day only to be confronted by highway (dog) robbers and, worse, a fox who captures her for his dinner. Just as the rusty nail saves Solomon from being eaten by a one-eyed cat and the magic harmonica rescues Zeke from bandits and a hungry fox, the amazing talking bone shrinks the fox to the size of a mouse and brings Pearl safely back to her parents.

Doctor De Soto features a mouse-dentist and his assistant, Mrs. De Soto, who must help a conniving fox with a toothache without being eaten.

Doctor De Soto was recognized

as a Newbery Honor Book. At 32 pages, it is one of the shortest to be honoured in that awards program.

An animated short film of Doctor De Soto, directed in 1984 by American animator Michael Sporn, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

His 1990 picture book Shrek!, about a repugnant and monstrous green ogre who leaves home to see the world and ends up saving a princess, was adapted for the big screen and won a 2001 Academy Award for best animated feature film.

For adults, it would be a winwin situation to read Steig, not only for the slapstick comedy but for his spectacular and challenging vocabulary. He was unafraid to use rich, figurative language, long words, fantastic descriptions and poetic prose in children’s books. “Odoriferous wretch” sounds funnier as an insult than “smelly old fox” and calling one’s family “nincompoops,” a silly sounding and old-fashioned term, is less harsh than “a bunch of idiots.”

There are literally hundreds of funny and concocted words that will keep you amused as your

read his books. For this, my final Good Read article, I had a great time re-reading some of these wonderful stories.

William Steig wrote 35 children’s books, almost one every year since he started in 1968.

His final book, When Everybody Wore a Hat, was published in 2003, the year he passed away.

Check out and enjoy Steig’s books in your local library.

A Good Read is a column by TriCity librarians that is published on Wednesdays. This is Teresa Rehman’s final good read column as she retired as of last Friday from Coquitlam Public Library.

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FRIDAY, JULY 13 • Pop-Up Library: Hyde Creek Recreation Centre, 1379 Laurier Ave., Port Coquitlam, 11 a.m. to noon. The Terry Fox Library is on the road and will be popping up on Fridays at the Hyde Creek Recreation Centre. At our home away from home, you can borrow books and DVDs, place holds and participate in children’s storytime.

SATURDAY, JULY 14 • Invasive plant control work party, 9 a.m.-noon – join Friends of DeBoville Slough and the city of Coquitlam to remove Japanese knotweed.

Meet at the kiosk on the north side of the slough at 9 a.m.; wear sturdy footwear and dress for the weather, and bring sunscreen and water. Friends of DeBoville Slough will supply tools but if you have a favourite pair of hand clippers or loppers, bring them. As there is a waiver to sign, anyone under the age of 19 will need a parent or

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• Glenayre neighbourhood 60th anniversary, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Glenayre community centre, 492 Glencoe Dr.; history of Glenayre slide show, displays and local youth musicians will be presented along with kidoriented activities, including sportball, bouncy castle and a watermelon-eating contest; from noon-12:30 p.m., Glenayre Day Picnic on the grounds adjacent to the centre, including a tree-planting ceremony; 60th anniversary cake will be cut at 1 p.m.

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Melissa Amber and River Lee won’t be travelling to Toronto to see the show.

The Coquitlam photographers and conceptual fine artists, who are known as the Sisters of the Woods, have their installation — titled Geometric Memories — in The Brain Project, an art display and fundraiser for the Baycrest Foundation to build awareness about brain health.

Their “brain” piece, which last week got sponsorship from the company Muse, will be seen this and next month in the MaRS Discovery District before moving to the Yorkdale shopping centre until November, when the artwork will be sold.

But despite being among the 50 creators chosen out of thousands of international artists to be part of the charity showcase, the sisters will not view the exhibit in person: That’s because flying or driving such a long distance — from their Tri-City home to Hogtown — isn’t an option.

Over the years, both women suffered multiple concussions through various accidents; now, the sisters are trying to mend their brains any way they can.

Three years ago, during a trip to California to visit with functional neurologists and other specialists, the pair came up with a new multi-media series called Transposed — a collection of abstract stories using

• every organ is connected to the one under your hat. It controls everything including your view of art; • art increases brain connectivity and brain plasticity (growth of new brain cells); • viewing art lifts empathy and tolerance, and encourages human connection; • art eases burdens of chronic pain and health conditions; • creating art trains the brain to concentrate on details and enhances problem solving skills; • art provides the brain a distraction, giving the brain a break from thoughts. sisters of the woods photo

The Sisters of the Woods — aka Coquitlam sisters Melissa Amber and River Lee — near Buntzen Lake with their finished artwork for The Brain Project, an art initiative that aims to raise money and build awareness for brain health via Baycrest Health Sciences. Their “brain,” titled Geometric Memories, is in the Toronto exhibit this summer. the coastline as their backdrop — that includes Geometric Memories.

That image, created during stops to rest their tired brains, is a disjointed swirl to depict how their brains process the world around them. It’s also a nod to others with head injuries and memory loss.

“Everybody takes their brain for granted,” Melissa Amber said during an interview last week in Port Moody. “Until you have an injury, you never know how important it is.”

In Ontario, one of every 10 people has challenges with their brain health, River Lee said, be it from an injury, dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.

“That’s a lot,” the 29-year-old said, “and that’s just the diagnosed.”

Brain health research and therapies are more advanced in the United States, she said, and much is still to be learned about how art heals the brain.

At Baycrest in Toronto, its facility walls are filled with artwork to help patients mark

where they are, and to soothe their minds. It can jog memories and offer a burst of colour as well.

For the sisters, art is their profession.

River Lee, who holds a photography diploma from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, works with Melissa Amber on projects at home. “All of our art is focused on the brain,” said Melissa Amber, 35.

Using a Sony 7 A Mark 2, they often head into the for-

est around Buntzen Lake to gain inspiration. And scenes from their series — including Woman + Wolf and Transposed — have been recognized at major international competitions and featured in magazines; their images are also now for sale via Saatchi Art. Still, art isn’t their only passion.

Recently, the sisters started Upgraded Brain (instagram@ upgradedbrain) with the goal to turn it into a foundation to

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“The hardest part is that it’s invisible,” River Lee said of her brain injury. “There are so many people suffering out there who aren’t getting the care they need from their family or doctors because nobody can see your brain.”

For those with post-concussion syndrome, like the Sisters of the Woods who have compounding damage, “the chance for reoccurrence is 30%,” River Lee said. “Unless it’s treated properly — and especially in the beginning — it’s a long road ahead.”

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A new discussion group has popped up on Facebook to draw attention to art makers in Port Moody.

Wood worker Francis Lemieux created the Port Moody - City of the Arts? group last month to highlight the creativity happening around town.

But his social media page is also critical of the municipality’s slogan, City of the Arts, which was adopted nearly 20 years ago. Lemieux argues PoMo hasn’t lived up to its catchphrase and invests more in cultural events rather than artists.

Studio space is scarce (and dwindling with new development around the Evergreen Extension) as are the number of places to exhibit. And he contends there’s no push by the city for meaningful art with the residential and commercial growth.

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Juno award winners The Paperboys — Tom Landa (vocals, guitar and jarana), Geoffrey Kelly (flute/whistles), Kalissa Landa (fiddle/vocals), Brad Gillard (bass/banjo), Sam Esecson (drums) and Nick La Riviere (trombone) — kick off the Music on the Grill on July 7.

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Paperboys deliver a mix of news. The Paperboys delivers a mind-blowing mix of musical styles. And they’ll be delivering it in the opening concert in Coquitlam’s Music on the Grill summer series.

The indie Vancouver band that has been getting audiences up and dancing around for more than a quarter of a century will appear at the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way) Saturday.

It is the first of three presentations in the series, which is celebrating its 10th year.

Generically The Paperboys are billed as a folk-rock band.

But the band’s blend is much

more than a fusion of folk and rock. There are strong Celtic and Mexican influences since lead singer and guitarist Tom Landa was born in Mexico of a Mexican father and Irish mother. The family moved to Thunder Bay when he was 15 and then he headed to Vancouver a few years later.

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Along with Landa, the rest of the lineup includes original member flautist Geoffrey Kelly, who is also a founding member of Spirit of the West.

Landa’s wife Kalissa sings and plays vocals. Brad Gillard (bass/banjo), drummer Sam Esecson and trombonist Nick La Riviere.

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one Juno award and were nominated for two more along with two West Coast Music awards. The band has released nine albums and is a festival favourite in the Vancouver area, the Pacific Northwest and other areas of Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

• The Music on the Grill summer series’ barbecue (6:30 p.m.) has already been sold out.

Concert only tickets are $35.

The theatre doors open at 7:30 p.m. with the concert at 8 p.m.

More information is available at evergreenculturalcentre.ca/ schedule. The dinner musicians are Caden Knudson and Aaron Connaughton, an accountant and trucker who make up an acoustic folk duo.

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Port Moody actor Sharon Crandall is making her debut at Bard on the cRaNdaLL Beach, appearing in two of the Shakespearean festival’s shows this summer.

Crandall is in As You Like It, which runs until Sept. 22 on the BMO Mainstage at Vanier Park, and Lysistrata — a 2,400-year-old comedy by the Greek playwright Aristophanes that has previews starting Friday.

Crandall’s stage credits include: Shit (Firehall), In the Heights (Arts Club) and Fiddler on the Roof (Gateway). She has also appeared on screen in A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix), When We Rise (ABC) and Marine 5 (WWE).

The ensemble cast for Lysistrata includes Colleen Wheeler and Jennifer Lines; Port Moody native and Studio 58-trained Jennifer Stewart is the assistant stage manager for the play. Visit bardonthebeach.org.

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Whistler artist Kris Kupskay had a genie in the bottle when he painted Parkside Brewery’s mural two years ago.

His giant image — at the back of the new Port Moody microbrewery, designed to lure rapid-transit KuPsKAy riders along the new Evergreen Extension — showed an unfurled map of the city with highlights that included the Shoreline Trail bridge, its rail history, kayakers and purple martins in the inlet.

But, in April, vandals defaced the artwork to such an extent that it had to be redone.

Again, Parkside managers dialled up Kupskay to brainstorm.

And what he produced was beyond their expectations, said Travis McLean, Parkside’s marketing, media and events co-ordinator.

From June 22 to 24, Kupskay and fellow artist Natasha Louise spent a warm, dry weekend to paint the “macro punch,” covering up the scars and shedding new light on the beer business once more.

“Kris and Natasha dropped an absolute colour bomb on us and we couldn’t be happier,” McLean wrote in an email to The Tri-City News last week.

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An image of the first Parkside Brewery mural by Whistler artist Kris Kupskay, including the graffiti markings that were immediately blanked out with white paint. splash of colour to the neighbourhood and for everyone travelling by on the train.”

Kupskay said he wanted to create something different from the inaugural mural, using Parkside’s colours of sea foam green and navy blue in a bold, abstract style — with orange to counter. His design pulls the lines to the centre, where the eye has the words “Parkside Brewery” and its logo.

“I wanted something that expressed the energy that goes on inside,” he said, adding, “It wanted it to flow. It’s meant to be visibly enjoyable and uplifting.”

McLean said Parkside has received rave reviews about its new mural by Kupskay, who also painted the purple robot scene at the nearby Rocky Point Park SK8 Park.

And to turn lemons into lemonade, Parkside also donated a percentage of all pint

sales of its Graffiti IPA to the Tri-Cities PLEA Youth Services while Kupskay finished his mural; the brewery collected $717 for the charity.

Murals aren’t the only work Kupskay has done for the Brewers’ Row company: He also created the artwork for its Graffiti IPA, Attack of the Cherry Stout and Radical Red Ale beer releases “so he really feels like a part of the Parkside family,” McLean said.

As for the graffiti, Kupskay — who’s travelling around North America to paint murals until the end of the year — has these words of advice for businesses that are targeted by scribbles: wipe it off immediately.

“I tell my clients that as soon as it happens it’s important to block it up,” he said. “You can’t prevent it from happening again but you can send a message that they [the vandals] can take their paint somewhere else.”

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A Coquitlam triple threat returns to Ontario next month to star in Disney’s The Little Mermaid.

Jennifer Gillis, a Gleneagle secondary graduate, plays giLLis Ariel in the Port Hope production from Aug. 14 to Sept. 9, at the Capitol Theatre, with Colin Sheen as Prince Eric and Kent Sheridan as King Triton.

Gillis, who’s on the musi-

cal theatre faculty at Place des Arts for the Coquitlam arts facility’s 2018-’19 season, is best known for the CBC-TV reality show Over the Rainbow — a national competition that saw her perform before Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth for a chance to be cast as Dorothy Gale in Webber’s Toronto stage musical adaptation

of The Wizard of Oz; she placed seventh.

Since then, the 22-yearold has sung the national anthem on Parliament Hill on Canada Day in 2013, and appeared as Maria for Theatre Under the Stars’ West Side Story, Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical for Broken Wing Theatre and Miss Dorothy Brown in Throughly Modern Millie for Exit 22. Gillis is a Capilano University musical theatre program graduate.

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When Maxwell Macmillan’s dad, Allan, gave him advice like “stay hydrated,” and “work your heart out,” as he embarked to Montreal for a selection camp to determine Canada’s U19 national water polo team, he listened.

After all, the elder Macmillan attended similar camps — also in Montreal — as he worked his way up to play for Canada’s national water polo team in the 1990s.

Swimming for one of 13 roster and three alternate spots on the team that will compete at the Junior Pan American championship in Clearwater, Fla., beginning July 8, is another rung on the ladder to international water polo success for Maxwell that really took off when he helped Canada’s U17 team to a bronze at last year’s Pan American championship in Lima, Peru.

But this year Macmillan’s swimming with the bigger boys, including several from Canada’s senior men’s national team during a high-performance camp in Calgary last March. He also had a chance to scrimmage against a men’s team comprised of former Olympians.

Macmillan said it was an invaluable learning experience.

“The biggest part is to see if you’re willing to put in the work,” Macmillan said.

In Montreal, that work in-

cluded twice-daily sessions in the pool, along with dry land workouts like running, lifting weights and strengthening his core with sit-ups and push-ups.

It’s that all-around aspect of training that energizes Macmillan, who’s 16.

“It isn’t just one specific muscle group, you have to train every part of your body,” he said.

Working out and competing for a spot with players who are older and more experienced will serve Macmillan well as he also tries for a spot on the U18 national team that is going to Szombathley, Hungary, in August for the fourth FINA world men’s youth championships.

In fact, that team’s selection camp conflicts with part of the Pan Am tournament, but Macmillan figures if he’s there with the junior national team, that will serve him well in his bid to make the U18 roster.

It’s all about testing himself to get stronger, faster, tougher.

“It’s definitely more aggressive,” Macmillan said of swimming with players older than him.

But competing at that level makes everyone a better player, he added. “Everyone on your team is capable and playing their role.”

That means success is often determined by intangibles, like desire and work ethic.

“It’s about who wants it more,” Macmillan said.

And he’s got no doubts about his level of desire.

“The more you play, the more awareness you have,” Macmillan said. “At the national level, you’re playing with the best of the best.”

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Maxwell Macmillan is following in the flipflop steps of his father Allan, as he tries out of a position on Canada’s national U18 and Junior water polo teams. His dad was a member of the national team in the 1990s.

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It is estimated that 46% of people aged 45 to 87 have some degree of hearing loss1, but most do not seek treatment right away. In fact, the average person with hearing loss will wait ten years before seeking help2.This is because at the beginning stages of hearing loss people often find they can “get by” without help, however as the problem worsens this becomes increasingly harder to do. For some people this loss of clarity is only a problem at noisy restaurants or in the car, but for others it makes listening a struggle throughout the entire day. By studying people who have difficulty hearing in noise or with television, we hope to identify key factors impacting these difficulties and further understand their influence on the treatment process.

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Sr. Adanacs score second win of season The Coquitlam Sr. Adanacs notched their second win of the Western Lacrosse Association season by downing the visiting Victoria Shamrocks 13-10 Saturday.

The win ended a six-game losing skid for the last-place

A’s (2-8-0-0) and put a bit of a crimp on Victoria’s plans for the playoffs.

The Shamrocks are third (6-4-0-0), but only two points ahead of Nanaimo (4-5-1-1) and three in front of Langley (4-6-1-0) and

Burnaby (4-4-0-1).

It looked like the A’s were on their way to another defeat trailing the ’Rocks 9-7 after two periods, but they blew the visitors back to Victoria by outscoring them 6-1 in the third.

Matt Delmonico with three

goals and four assists and Dean Fairall with four goals and one assist led the way for the A’s.

Leighton Gibson also had a fivepoint performance with a goal and four helpers, while Marshall Gibson had a goal and three assists. Alex Bohl scored twice

with other singles going to Brett Kujala and Matt Symes.

The Adanacs are in New West to play the Salmonbellies on Thursday (7:30 p.m.) and play host to the Maple Ridge Burrards on Saturday (7 p.m.) at Poirier.

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First-place a’s extend win streak to 11 games The Coquitlam Adanacs head into the final week of the B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League season riding an 11-game win streak and on the verge of clinching first place.

The Adanacs defeated the hometown Burnaby Lakers 16-5 Sunday to improve to 162-1 with two games remaining on their schedule. Their 33 points are five more than second-place New Westminster Salmonbellies (14-4-0), who had three games left heading into their home game Tuesday night against the Langley Thunder. Coquitlam and New West will battle Friday (7:30 p.m.) at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex with Coquitlam concluding its season with a home game against the Victoria Shamrocks on Sunday (2 p.m.).

On Monday, Coquitlam and Burnaby were tied after the first period despite the A’s

holding a 26-11 shot advantage. The Adanacs blew the game wide open by outscoring Burnaby 9-3 in the second and then cruised with a 6-1 goal advantage in the third.

Final shots on goal were 74-27 for Coquitlam.

Newly acquired Dylan Foulds led the point parade with seven including three goals. John Hofseth had six (1-5), Colin Munro five (2-3), Will Clayton four (3-1) and Gabe Procyk and Ryland Rees three (2-1). Thomas Semple also scored twice while Ethan Ticehurst got the other Coquitlam marker.

Before the game, and before the BCJALL trading deadline, the Adanacs acquired defender Tyson Kirkness from the Langley Thunder.

Kirkness was the Thunder’s team captain. In another deal, Coquitlam picked up Foulds, Rees, Gradon Bradley and the

playing rights to Liam Thomas from the Port Coquitlam Saints for Coquitlam’s highest firstround selections in the 2019, 2020 and 2021 drafts and future considerations.

The Saints (12-5-2) sit third after splitting a pair of games on the weekend. PoCo edged the Nanaimo Timberman 8-7 Saturday after losing 9-6 at home to the Salmonbellies on Friday.

In Nanaimo, Jacob Patterson notched a hat trick while Garrett Winter scored two goals and two assists. Other Saints goals came from Brodie Gillespie, Clark Walter and Jordan Gabriel. On Friday, Winter and Walter had two goals each in a losing cause with Jacob Patterson and Connor Frost scoring singles.

After playing in Burnaby on Tuesday night, the Saints finish the season by playing host to Langley on Friday (8 p.m.).

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With the BC Junior A Lacrosse League season coming to an end this weekend, it appears the Coquiltam Adanacs are running away with first place and need just one win to clinch.

ExprEss to opEn on road

The Coquitlam Express will open up their BC Junior Hockey League regular season with four road games .

They’ll begin the 2018-19 season by visiting the Surrey Eagles on Friday, Sept. 7 at South Surrey Arena (7 p.m.) and the Langley Chiefs the next night.

The following weekend the Express will travel to Prince George for a pair of games against the Spruce Kings on Sept. 14 and 15.

Coquitlam’s home opener at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex won’t be until Sunday, Sept. 23 (3 p.m.) versus the Salmon Arm SilverBacks. The Express will then play home games against Surrey (Sept. 26, 7 p.m.), Langley (Sept. 28, 7 p.m.), Prince George (Sept. 30, 3 p.m.) and Surrey again (Oct. 3, 7 p.m.). It will be the first of seven home games in October. The Express will conclude the season with four road games with the final matchup in Surrey on Feb. 22.

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1. Academic degree 2. Expression of sorrow or pity 3. Large, stocky lizard 4. Romanian river 5. Stellar 6. A way to change 7. Surround completely 8. A Philly footballer 9. Dinosaur shuang_____aurus 10. Slowly disappear 12. Large antelope 14. Not nice 19. Piece of footwear 23. Newt

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Christopher R. Bacon Partner & Personal Injury Law

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