TriCity News August 1 2019 by Tri-City News

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Coquitlam All-Stars coach Cole Bertsch hoists Brady Dorwart into the air as the team celebrates its first B.C. Little League Majors provincial championship Sunday following a 5-3 win over Little Mountain in the title game at Vancouver’s Hillcrest Park. The team is now representing British Columbia at the Canadian national championships in Ancaster, Ont., Aug. 1 to 11. The winner of that tournament will go on to play at the famed Little League World Series in Williamsport, Penn. Aug. 15 to 25. For more on the Coquitlam Little Leaguers, see page 36. LUCIanO SteLLa PhOtO

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Three Coquitlam residents were arrested Tuesday for obstructing conservation officers as they tried to capture a family of bears. The incident happened at around 3 p.m. north of Mundy Park, near Baker and Sumpter drives, as the officers closed in on a family of bears that was “heavily habituated and food-conditioned,” according to the BC Conservation Officer Service (BCCOS). BCCOS said it had received several calls over the last few weeks about a black bear mother and two cubs in the area, according to Insp. Murray Smith, who overseas

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Arts community rallies around in wake of PM fire: see page 32 the Lower Mainland region. Over that time, the bears had lost their fear of humans and had become conditioned to eating non-natural food sources like garbage. Conservation officers arrived Tuesday afternoon as the bears were once again leaving an unsecured garbage can. When officers tried to direct the bears up a tree to tranquilize them, two men and a woman from the neighbourhood started interfering with the officers, Smith said in a media conference call Wednesday. see

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Plastics the sexy topic but Metro looks to organics, wood waste for big gains Organics in landfills cause 4% of Canada’s GHG emissions StEfAn LABBé slabbe@tricitynews.com

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ydney Willmott spends her days reading between the lines of Metro Vancouver’s trash. As a banned materials inspector at the Coquitlam Transfer Station, she keeps an eye out for paint cans, electronics and clouds of gypsum dust that often pour out of garbage trucks dumping the woody debris of a recent renovation. To Willmott, the plastic straws, shopping bags and cigarette butts that continue to galvanize municipalities across the province make up a fraction of the mounds of garbage that surround her. Just as UBC researchers have found more than half the waste on southwestern B.C. beaches is made up of cigarette butts; just as Victoria struggles to ban plastic bags; and just as Coquitlam entrepreneurs look to hit it big with an eco-friendly pasta straw, Metro Vancouver has its eye on shaving down the more than one million tonnes of garbage sent to landfills every year. Turtles choking on straws and birds suffocating under a

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plastic bag veil represent a real problem but when you take a look at what makes it into a landfill, these small-volume plastics are not the place solid waste planners are looking to make the biggest gains in recycling, according to Chris Allan, Metro’s director of solid waste operations. Bulky organics are the largest single category of waste in Metro Van — almost 450,000 tonnes of organics get diverted from landfills every year in the Lower Mainland, according to a July 3 report to Metro’s zero waste committee.

The bulky organic waste that makes it to landfills can quickly become a global problem. Across Canada, 4% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions come from organic waste venting off methane as it decomposes in landfills. “Most [Metro Vancouverites] are doing quite well but when you consider that more than a third of food produced in Canada never gets eaten, there’s room to reduce organic waste as much as there is to recycle it,” said Allan. After metro municipalities implemented organics pro-

grams between 2013 and ’17, organics recycling jumped by 60%. Much of that success was due to uptake in single-family homes. Now, Metro’s planners are looking to expand organics recycling in multi-family housing complexes, restaurants and institutions like hospitals. But ramping up the recycling rate of organics extends beyond compost, raked leaves and grass clippings. Wood waste has become a high-volume problem across Metro’s six transfer stations. When The Tri-City News

Metro Vancouver throws its trash and recyclables into an open system of transfer stations. Most of the region’s garbage ends up at the waste-to-energy facility in Burnaby where, every year, about 250,000 tonnes of waste is incinerated, and the Vancouver Landfill in Delta, where about 750,000 tonnes of waste is buried. Anything over that — between 40,000 and 60,000 tonnes over the last three years — goes south to Washington and Oregon.

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recently visited the Coquitlam Transfer Station, a small parking lot of broken wood pallets was hived off from busted appliances and shipping-container-size bins of cardboard. But that’s just a fraction of the wood waste that makes it through the facility. With the new Coquitlam Transfer Station set to begin operations next year, that’s all set to change. Metro solid waste planners are looking to use the facility as a test lab to

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Washroom Facilities Being Built at the Coquitlam Crunch

Neighbourhood Nights Continue in August

Thursday, August 1

Construction is now starting on two public washroom facilities at the lower level of the Coquitlam Crunch Trail at Lansdowne Drive. In addition to the washroom facilities, the City will be installing a new outdoor water fountain with bottle filler and pet bowl along with landscaping improvements. Preparation work for construction has begun with completion anticipated in early fall. Construction crews will work Monday through Friday, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., with some occasional Saturday work. Pedestrian access, traffic flow and parking will be temporarily impacted with the City making every effort to minimize disruption. A portion of the trail will also be closed on occasion; however, access to the rest of the trail will remain unchanged. A detour will be provided with signage and traffic control signs installed to direct traffic in a safe manner. In January 2018, City Council supported upgrades to the Coquitlam Crunch and approved a multi-year plan with the washroom project part of Phase 1 improvements. coquitlam.ca/crunch

Come out and get to know your neighbours! Presented by Envision Financial, Neighbourhood Nights continues to bring an evening of free family fun to Coquitlam parks throughout August. Mark your calendars for Aug. 1 at Mundy Park, Aug. 8 at Galloway Park, Aug. 15 at Blue Mountain Park, and Aug. 22 at Panorama Park. Events are free and run from 6:30 to 8 p.m. In the event of rain, the Neighbourhood Night will be cancelled. Get updates at coquitlam.ca/neighbourhoodnights.

Neighbourhood Night at Glen Park 6 – 8 p.m. coquitlam.ca/neighbourhoodnights

Friday, August 2 Summer Concert Series – Pop Night 7 – 9 p.m. coquitlam.ca/summerconcerts

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Senior Cat, Star, Needs a Home Looking to add a four-legged friend to your family? The Coquitlam Animal Shelter is home to Star, a sweet, older female cat who is extremely affectionate and loves a good chin scratch. Star is not the most playful feline, preferring to curl up in the sun and snooze. Star would do best in a home where she is the only cat. For more information, visit the Coquitlam Animal Shelter, call 604-927-7386 or go to coquitlam.ca/animalshelter. DID YOU KNOW?

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Don’t forget that with the upcoming BC Day long weekend (Monday, Aug. 5), your garbage collection date will change – check your collection calendar! You can also sign up for Recollect to set up a weekly reminder by smart phone, email, text message or Twitter and you will never miss a collection day! Visit coquitlam.ca/recollect.

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Passive homes get council approval

Bear that made itself at home is caught, destroyed

Thick walls, airtight windows key to energy efficiency GAry MCKENNA gmckenna@tricitynews.com

Coquitlam council approved Monday the first TriCities development that will utilize passive house environmental standards capable of reducing energy costs by 90%. According to the developer, Edward Kolic, it all comes down to the thickness of the walls of the 52-unit townhouse complex, which can accommodate larger amounts of insulation. “It is about simplicity,” he told The Tri-City News. “The analogy I use is the farm houses built out of stone. The walls are thick. It keeps it warm in the winter and cooler in the summer. It is that simple.” Well, almost that simple. Passive house buildings also require high-quality windows built and installed to be as air-tight as possible, preventing any leakage. Filtered air is supplied to all of the living spaces, primarily the living room and bedrooms, while air from the “wet areas” — the kitchen and bathrooms — is extracted. According to project architect Scott Kennedy, this means the temperatures

remain stable year-round throughout the home and residents receive excellent air quality. “They are very comfortable buildings,” he said. “They don’t leak any air in or out.” Only a handful of developments of this kind have been approved in Metro Vancouver, including an 85unit apartment building at Skeena and Hastings Street in Vancouver that opened last year. Other Coquitlam news:

WOOD FrAME

Two six-storey wood frame apartment buildings are one step closer to going up in the Austin Heights neighbourhood. Monday, Coquitlam council voted unanimously in favour of giving third reading to the 161-unit development, which is proposed for the 600-block of Shaw Avenue. The vote took place after three people, including the applicant, spoke in favour of the project during a public hearing. According to a staff report, the project will consist of 68 one-bedroom units, 76 twobedroom units and 17 threebedroom units. It will also generate an estimated $1.45 million in development cost charges and $392,080 in voluntary community amenity contribution funds to the city.

Bruin got into homes in area of Como Lake and Seymour Drive

It’s been a busy bear season in the Tri-Cities, with a number of sightings — and several bruins killed — over the last few months.

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A bear that had made itself comfortable in a Coquitlam neighbourhood in the past week was caught and killed Monday — the day before a family of three bears was captured and euthanized. Sgt. Todd Hunter of BC Conservation Officer Service (BCCOS) said the mediumsized black bear that got into homes in the Como Lake Avenue and Seymour Drive area was put down around noon. Hunter said the service first got a report of the bear getting into a home on Seymour Drive the evening of July 23; it grabbed some garbage out of the kitchen and dragging it into the yard. Coquitlam RCMP and the BCCOS couldn’t find the bear, so a trap was set a couple of doors down from there where it had been spotted lying on a big branch in a tree for most of the day. Hunter said in the following days, the bear was sighted going back and forth between the homes — including entering another July 24 — and nearby Mundy Park.

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Monday morning, the bruin was spotted back up the tree where some dogs had chased it, he said. The officers tried to immobilize it but weren’t successful, so “due to some circumstances, we had to put it down right on the site,” Hunter said. “It was comfortable to that home and that area, and was not leaving that area,” he said. “It was removed and it was done safely.” Hunter said the bear was unrelated to the family of bears that had been spotted in early July in Mundy Park. He added some education and enforcement were carried out in conjunction with Coquitlam’s parks department but “there’s a number of issues in the area that we identified as attracts, a lot of food waste either se-

curely placed in the bins provided or not securely placed.” Although last year Coquitlam reported the number of tickets it had handed out to residents for not following the rules for putting out garbage had decreased from 2017 because the education and enforcement campaigns had been effective, the problem has not been eliminated. “Without all the facts, there are still some things that residents and businesses could be doing that could prevent this from happening,” Hunter said. “The charges are down but there are still some issues.” Another bear was put down last week when it was attracted to open garbage bins and grease traps in a mall at Glen Drive and Johnson Street. Hunter said the strata was served with

a dangerous wildlife protection order July 25. Since then, the owners have been complying with terms of the order and are “working with us on how to go ahead in the future to make sure they don’t have this issue again.” He added the strata has been not only cleaning and tidying up the area but will put its food waste in an enclosure so bears can’t get at it. Hunter said the service has identified a number of food retailers in the surrounding area, particularly along Barnet Highway and Lansdowne Drive, with industrial bins containing food waste that could become problems. Hunter said some of those businesses have plastic bins with flimsy lids that are unacceptable, which is a big problem when the property backs onto a major ravine.

AUG. 5 Centennial Activity Centre

Many of Coquitlam’s facilities have holiday operating hours or may be closed Monday, Aug. 5 for the B.C. Day long weekend. If you require emergency assistance regarding water, sewer or roads, please call 604-927-3500. Closed

Pinetree Community Centre Closed

Smiling Creek Activity Centre Closed

City Centre Aquatic Complex 10:30 a.m. – 10:30 p.m. Women’s Swim 8 – 10 a.m.

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Fields have been a problem due to whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s under surface GRAnt GRAnGeR ggranger@tricitynews.com

Port Coquitlam will replace the sod at the Thompson Park ball fields in time for umpires to yell â&#x20AC;&#x153;play ballâ&#x20AC;? next spring but a couple of city councillors think the decision to do so is far from a home run. The work will come at a higher than anticipated cost and will be a temporary solution while the city searches for a long-term one. The city began to look at renovating the fields in 2017. They sit on a bog backfilled with wood chips that have decomposed and settled over time, creating undulations in the playing surfaces, fencing and facilities. Jason Daviduk, PoCoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manager of capital projects, told council Tuesday work is expected to start in September on removing the turf, levelling the surface, replacing the sod, building a new fence and expanding the irrigation system. The work is expected to cost $185,000 after being estimated at $120,000 a year ago. The city originally set aside $800,000 to deal with the significant geotechnical is-

sues at the park but when the numbers came back for fixing it long term, the price tag turned out to be actually $1.6 million, and even then the fields could have significant challenges in the future, said a staff report from July 2018. So staff recommended a short-term solution costing about $120,000 that should last for about five years, with $30,000 annually to address problems as they develop. In the meantime, the city would look for a long-term solution somewhere else. Daviduk told council the city awarded the contract in June and work is expected to start in September, with the fields to be ready for next springâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baseball season. Coun. Glenn Pollock, chair of the sport and recreation committee, opposed the short-term solution at the time and reiterated his position when Daviduk updated council Tuesday on the upcoming work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I actually think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re throwing money into a hole in the ground. I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a Band-Aid,â&#x20AC;? said Pollock. Coun. Laura Dupont said the city should be putting more pressure on School District 43 to come up with a joint agreement that would benefit both the city and the district.

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Staff safety worries over driveways that lead to laneway

An overhead illustration of a proposed townhouse on Raleigh Street at Gail Avenue in Port Coquitlam.

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Port Coquitlam council has sided with a developer against the recommendation of city planners about the number of driveways a proposed project will be allowed to have. Mosaic Homes wants to build 37 townhouse units on Raleigh Street at Gail Avenue, just north of Lougheed Highway. Although the townhouses facing Raleigh will have underground parking, Mosaic proposes the 18 on the east side have their own at-grade garages with space to park a second vehicle on the outdoor apron. A planning department report said having 20 driveways along the lane, including one to the underground parkade and another to the visitor parking lot, would create interruptions to traffic flow and increase the risk of a collision in the lane, which is used by other residents of Raleigh and Lancaster streets. City staff suggested Mosaic purchase the lane and make it private or, alternately, reduce the number of driveways from 18 to nine and make changes

to the site design to increase underground parking. In a July 3 letter to the city, Mosaic vice president of development Luciano Zago wrote that it would be in the best interests of both Mosaic and PoCo for the city to retain ownership of the lane. He also said cutting the number of driveways in half would â&#x20AC;&#x153;have adverse impacts on urban design, traffic flow and future development in this neighbourhood block.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Staffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desire to optimize safety is understood, and we are willing to explore other mitigation strategies to provide safe circulation through the lane,â&#x20AC;? Zago wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Though we have shared and discussed our rationale with staff at great length, we remain divided on the best way forward.â&#x20AC;? Zago told councillors at the July 23 committee of council

meeting that the laneway units are expected to fetch a lower sales price than the ones that front on Raleigh, and putting the parking for those townhouses underground would increase the price by $90,000 to $100,000 per unit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I appreciate where staff is coming from but it is counterintuitive to say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safer if they own [the lane] than if we own it,â&#x20AC;? Coun. Darrell Penner said at the meeting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of us are aware what underground parking costs are and to shift this underground, that is going to shift the cost.â&#x20AC;? While the council committee did not include that recommendation, it did approve four other conditions recommended by staff, one of which the city and developer have yet to come to terms on despite lots of discussion.

The city is negotiating with Mosaic to pay for a traffic light to be installed at Raleigh and Lougheed that would deal with the increased traffic to an already busy intersection from the development as well as future ones in the area. Council agreed to the staff recommendation to establish a latecomer agreement requiring future developments to contribute to installation of the traffic signal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This area is an absolute mess right now for traffic. Is it really fair to have one developer with a small amount of units having to front the costs when we know there are going to be other developments?â&#x20AC;? Penner said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I agree there should be a certain amount from the developer. They should pay their fair share, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about how we do business in our community.â&#x20AC;?

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A knock on the door changed Colin Swanson’s life. It also saved his life. Swanson, 29, was napping on the couch in his apartment above the Gallery Bistro in Port Moody Sunday evening when he was awakened by the pounding from his neighbour alerting him the building was on fire. He grabbed his cellphone and his wallet and got out — and that’s all he has left. Swanson’s furniture, clothes, guitar and drum kit are all gone, destroyed in the fire. He has even lost mundane household items like a can opener. He has no insurance. Swanson, who works for a demolition company, spent Sunday night at his sister’s home in New Westminster and is currently couch surfing at a friend’s. As he prepared to meet with Port Moody Police Victim Services Tuesday, he said he has no idea where to begin rebuilding his life. “When you lose everything, where do you start?” Swanson said, adding the uncertainty of his living situation compounds the stress. In the immediate aftermath of the fire that destroyed the bistro and the former grocery store next door, and that displaced

Port Moody officials and a work crew look at the sea of rubble from demolition of the old Roe & Abernathy grocery store and Gallery Bistro Wednesday. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

HERE’S WHERE YOU CAN HELP • Clarke Street fire victims support fund: go to gofundme. com and search “Clarke Street Fire Victims Support Fund.” • Donations to help James Bannister can be dropped off at #17-1170 Falcon Dr. in Coquitlam • James Bannister help fund: go to gofundme.com and search “Port Moody Fire-James Bannister.” several residents in apartments above the businesses, Victim Services provided hotel accommodation for four people along with vouchers for food, clothing and incidentals as required, according to a spokesperson for the city. But that assistance extends for only 72 hours, with community agencies available to step in to help after that. Already, GoFundMe cam-

paigns have been established to help people affected by the fire. Redstamp, a tech marketing agency based in Suter Brook Village, and Jeff McLellan, a PoMo resident, have teamed up to create a campaign to support the residents left homeless. In its first two days, it already raised more than $3,000 towards its $5,000 goal. A statement on the fundrais-

ing page said the money will go into a pool of funds that will be made available to assist the displaced residents once they’ve identified their needs; any leftover money will be donated to a local charity. Frank Macoretta, a regional chef at Romer’s Burger Bar, also started a GoFundMe campaign to help out one of the restaurant’s employees, James Bannister. That effort is already halfway to its $5,000 goal. As well, a friend of Bannister collecting donations of household items, clothes and furniture, as well as assistance for his cat and aging dog. Meanwhile, the owner of Gallery Bistro, Helen Daniels, said she hopes her restaurant’s nine employees will be able to

There’s a hole in Port Moody’s historic heart. The Gallery Bistro on Clarke Street, which has been a gathering place for dining, art and music for a number of years, will have to be demolished after a devastating fire Sunday evening that gutted two buildings — one of them on the city’s heritage register — and damaged two others with smoke and water. Helen Daniels, the bistro’s owner, said Wednesday a structural engineer has determined the building is unsound and it was torn down Wednesday. Kirk Heaven, deputy chief with Port Moody Fire and Rescue, said 40 firefighters and 10 trucks responded to the four-alarm blaze just after 6 p.m.; the department was also assisted by an aerial truck from Coquitlam Fire Rescue. Heaven said there were no serious injuries although two firefighters suffered heat stroke and another sustained a major ankle injury. Tenants in apartments above the affected businesses got out safely. Investigators have yet to determine a cause. Besides the bistro, the fire also destroyed the former Roe & Abernathy grocery store that was built in 1912 but has been vacant for several years. Demolition of both buildings began Wednesday after the city of Port Moody issued heritage alteration and demolition permits because they were deemed unsafe. The firefighting effort also caused a water main to burst beneath Clarke Street late Sunday night. The road remained closed through Wednesday for repairs. find work locally as several are part-time or students and don’t have the means to travel far afield to earn an income. She said The Club, a drop-in centre for Port Moody seniors, has alerted her to an opening for a cook that she’s planning to pass along to her own cook. Swanson said the community support, that began as he

watched his home burn when strangers were reaching out to help has been “overwhelming.” He said even the British Columbia Regiment, where he’s a reservist, is putting something together to help get him back on his feet. “It’s really crazy,” Swanson said. “Everybody wants to help. It’s really our nature.”

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ast week, B.C.’s finance ministry released details of management compensation in public sector agencies. These include Crown corporations, post-secondary institutions, health authorities and government ministries. A close read shows blatant inconsistencies that defeat any attempt at rationality. Let’s start with Crown corporations. The CEO of the BC Lottery Corp. takes home $411,000 a year in salary and benefits. The lotteries corporation has a monopoly. It couldn’t fail to make a profit if it tried. What it has failed to do

is stamp out money laundering at casinos. Not all of that is due to leadership failures at the company. Law enforcement has been lax, and neither the province nor the federal government, until recently, has been much help. Nevertheless, running the lotteries corporation is a breeze compared to handling a transit operation. So why does the BCLC CEO make more than the head of BC Transit? The CEO of ICBC is paid $468,780, a huge salary for a company bleeding money. Again, some of the fault for the insurance corporation’s financial troubles lies elsewhere, but shouldn’t a CEO’s salary reflect the health of his or her organization? How about health care? The CEO of the Northern Health Authority gets $382,000. The CEO of Fraser Health Authority, with a budget four

times larger, makes less. Where is the sense in this? We need to introduce a qualification here. The size of an organization’s budget is only one measure of its complexity. There are other factors involved. But there is a deeper issue. The deputy minister of health, who supervises all six health authorities, is paid $336,000. Yet every health authority CEO makes more. How is this justified? There are 25 publicly funded post-secondary institutions in B.C. The deputy minister of advanced education, skills and training is responsible for overseeing them. Yet the president of just one of these institutions, the UBC, makes twice as much ($602,000) as the deputy minister. By any standard, the deputy’s job has far more scope and many more challenges than a university president’s.

Two realities emerge here. One is that neither rhyme nor reason can be found in many of these compensation packages. Each agency supposedly follows the same formula for setting salaries and benefits. But as the figures show, that formula has more air in it than a hot air balloon. The second takeaway is that the further a CEO’s agency lies from public scrutiny, the higher his or her salary tends to be. This is most apparent in the huge gap between the compensation packages offered ministry officials and the take-home pay of executives in universities or health authorities. Most of the costs involved are ultimately borne by taxpayers. It’s time the province got tough and imposed a salary framework more in touch with reality.

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Are B.C. public school teachers paid enough? The Editor, Re. “No rush on B.C. teachers’ deal (also, pay them a lot more)” (editorial, Opinion, The Tri-City News, July 11). I do not agree with The TriCity News’ editorial stating B.C.’s public school teachers should get a higher wage increase than 2% per year in the coming contract. I am a retired teacher and I found my wages commensurate with the job that I did during my working years. Also, the teachers in the School District 43 have extremely good extended medical and dental coverage, better than many other districts in B.C., because these benefits were settled before the province took over negotiating.

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What do you think? Comment on Facebook As well, no other jobs receive higher increases in the union sector just because the cost of living in the province is higher than other provinces. If individual teachers in B.C. get higher percentage increases in their negotiations, then there will be less money to hire more teachers, more education assistants and more support staff. The money has to come from somewhere and I think it is asking too much for the provincial

government to agreed to all the BC Teachers’ Federation’s negotiating proposals in one contract period. Let’s be sensible about these negotiations. Jeannine Silvestrone, Coquitlam

sEcOnD WORst PaiD The Editor, As president of the Coquitlam Teachers’ Association, I must take issue with the misrepresentations made by the letter writer, Jeannine Silvestrone, in response to The Tri-City News’ editorial calling for raises for teachers. B.C. teachers are the second worst paid teachers in Canada. As well, we had limited ability to achieve a reasonable wage or narrow the gap under the

previous government’s netzero mandate and contract stripping. If education funding had only been maintained at 2002 levels, there would be hundreds of millions more dollars in the system to do what the writer asks for: hire more teachers and support staff. The Canadian average of education funding, according to StatsCan, is around 3.5% of gross domestic product (GDP). B.C.’s spending has declined from roughly 3.7% in 2001/’02 to just 2.7% in 2015/’16. This is a significant downward trend in education funding that continues, so the money was, and is, always there, it was just being redirected to other priorities. I can’t speak for the letter

writer, a retired teacher, but teachers I see work hard for the wage they earn. In just the last couple years, they’ve had to: • embrace a full rethinking of the curriculum from kindergarten to Grade 12); • embrace a new data collection system in MyEdBC; • take on an entirely new reporting template and ministerial reporting orders. As well, they have shown their usual innovation in making education accessible for all the diverse needs in their classroom. Yes, Coquitlam teachers do enjoy good extended health benefits but that was the result of very assertive collective local bargaining in a climate of mutual respect, back the 1990s.

Teachers in Coquitlam sacrificed salary for three successive collective agreements to get those benefits we enjoy. The writer is simply wrong in saying that other union jobs don’t receive increased salary depending on cost of living. There are many examples, such as isolation allowances or increased stipends for food costs in the north. Teachers deserve a fairly negotiated and significant increase to make teaching in B.C. comparable with other jurisdictions and a collective agreement that doesn’t contain concessions to our hard-won restoration of our class size and composition language. Ken Christensen, President, Coquitlam Teachers’ Ass’n.

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The three Coquitlam residents got between the bears and the officers, prompting the officers to call in Coquitlam RCMP, Smith said. The three individuals were arrested and charged with obstructing the conservation officers under the Wildlife Act and the Criminal Code of Canada. “Conservation Officers have a very difficult job to do associated to protecting public safety relating to dangerous wildlife,” Smith said. “Having the public interfere with this difficult job only exacerbates this difficult situation, not only as public safety is threatened, but after officer safety is compromised.” Tony Faccin, one of the Coquitlam residents arrested, said his sons, aged nine and 11, were playing outside when he heard yelling and he looked out to see conservation officers running with shotguns. He said the mother bear and its two cubs weren’t acting aggressive even “with four officers running like crazy with shotguns.” He started shooting video. “I yelled, ‘Don’t shoot the bears. There’s kids around, what if you miss?’” said Faccin “I don’t want them to shoot the bears. I’ve been living here for three years, I’ve seen them constantly. They just walk around and don’t do a thing.” After he was arrested, Faccin said he was in the back of a police car when an officer asked Faccin to show him the video. Faccin said after he unlocked his phone and accessed the video, another officer took it out of his hand. (Smith said officers followed protocols in the same way any police body does.) “I think it was just a ploy to get me to unlock my phone,” said Faccin. “I’m hoping the news [coverage] will get my phone back and then I’ll release the video. I’m not afraid to show the video. Maybe they are, but I’m not. “They acted like I was physically obstructing them from killing [the bears] and that’s not the case at all.” Faccin was released at the scene on a promise to appear for a court date in October and report to police for fingerprinting on Aug. 12. Faccin said his sons were upset to see their father arrested. “They were terrified.” The two seven-month-old cubs were malnourished and underweight when they were found, Smith said. They should weigh about 50 lb. at this time of year, Smith said, but they

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Part historical fiction, part coming-of-age story, Aria by Vancouver author Nazanine Hozar opens with a baby being birthed, then abandoned, in an alleyway. Upon being discovered by Behrouz, a kind driver for the army, the child is rescued and named Aria. The story is set against the backdrop of the Iranian revolution. The country is in a state of political unrest and religious divide, and in this book, it’s all seen through the eyes of a child. Throughout the novel, Aria crosses paths with three different women: Zahra, the cruel wife of Behrouz; Fereshteh, an affluent but guarded lady of wealth; and Mehri, a troubled mother with long-held secrets. Each woman will shape Aria’s path to adulthood. Margaret Atwood says of this book: “Here comes a sweeping saga about the Iranian revolution as it explodes — told from the ground level and the centre of chaos. A Doctor Zhivago of Iran.” As beautifully written as it is heart-wrenching, this stunning debut novel ultimately tells the tale of one young girl’s tumultuous journey growing up in a changing Tehran.

and fun activities for everyone in the Library Zone. • Coquitlam Public Library anime convention: Youths from 11 to 19 years old, head to CPL’s City Centre branch Aug. 27 for a half-day celebration of anime culture, featuring an art marketplace,

a cosplay contest, an Osu! tournament, a scavenger hunt, a karaoke contest and more. This event runs from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 pm in Rooms 127, 136 and 137, and the computer lab. For more information, contact librarian Chris Miller at 604-554-7339

or cmiller@coqlibrary.ca. Info: www.coqlibrary.ca. The City Centre branch is located at 1169 Pinetree Way and the Poirier branch at 575 Poirier St.

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• Super Saturday Summer Storytime: Join librarians for a

special outdoor storytime for all ages. Every Saturday until Aug. 10, from 9:30 to 10 a.m., bring a blanket to Pioneer Memorial Park (the park across the street from the library) for stories, songs, rhymes, a craft and more. If the weather is bad, this program will be held inside the library. Drop-in no, registration required. • Summer movies: Dumbo: Enjoy free family movies together on the big screen in the Inlet Theatre every Wednesday. Aug. 7, PMPL will be presenting Dumbo (rated PG, 112 minutes); showtime at 2 p.m., doors open at 1:30 p.m. No registration required but seating is first come, first served. Eating is not allowed in the theatre and children under 10 must be accompanied by a caregiver. Info: library.portmoody.ca or 604-469-4577. Port Moody Public Library is located at 100 Newport Dr., in the city hall complex.

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and lots of fun, presented by the Tri-Cities Literacy Committee and the Terry Fox Library. This program runs through Aug. 8 on Tuesdays from 10 to 11 a.m. at Gates Park and on Thursdays, same time, at Sun Valley Park — drop in. • Babytime: Make language fun. Help your baby develop speech and language skills — enjoy bouncing, singing and rhyming with stories. Babytime is a fun, social bonding activity for babies and caregivers, and you can spend time after the program to meet and socialize. The program runs Aug. 2 and 9, 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. — drop in. • Karima Essa: Be a Bollywood star!: Experience the magic and joy of dance and storytelling as Karima Essa performs Bollywood dance. Learn traditional dance moves and imagine the possibilities Aug. 6, 2 to 2:45 p.m. at the Leigh Square bandshell — drop in. Info: www.fvrl.bc.ca, the Fraser Valley Regional Library Facebook page or 604-927-7999. Terry Fox Library is located 2470 Mary Hill Rd. in PoCo.

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OUT & ABOUT CALENDAR SATURDAY, AUG. 3 • Creating Art with Nature, 1-3 p.m., PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives; cost: $5/person. Join PoCo Heritage in creating beautiful works of art with bits from nature; using paint, feathers, petals, wood, nuts and leaves, you and your family can create amazing nature-based artwork. Info: pocoheritage.org.

TUESDAY, AUG. 6 • Coquitlam prostate cancer support and awareness group monthly meeting, 7 p.m., at the group’s new location, The Gathering Place, 2253 Leigh Square Pl., PoCo. Speaker: Alana Taillon, marketing director of Medicinal Cannabis Resource Centre Inc. who will be presenting “Cannabis 101.” All those affected by prostate problems are urged to attend and share their concerns and experiences in a strictly confidential atmosphere. Info: Ken, 604-936-2998 or Craig, 604-928-9220. • Have you considered becoming a foster parent? There are children and youth in the

Drivers needed! Call 604-472-3040.

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AUG. 3: TRAVEL WRITING TIPS & INFO • Tri-City Wordsmiths meeting, 2-4:30 p.m., Coquitlam Public Library, City Centre Branch, Room 137, 1169 Pinetree Way (different location for this meeting only). Featured: Julian Worker, travel writer, photographer and editor, will present Trying to Unravel Travel, a workshop examining both travel writing and travel photography. Worker will describe types of travel writing, choices of publications, suggested destinations and topics to tackle while on location. Learn about the cameras that experts use, the creation of photographic libraries, the combination of words and pictures, and even the production of photographic essays. Bring lots of questions. Free admission, no registration required. Info: www.tri-citywordsmiths.ca. Tri-Cities 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.

THURSDAY, AUG. 8 • PoCo Heritage at PoCo Farmers Market, 3-5 p.m. While you are shopping at Leigh Square, visit the PoCo Heritage booth to learn a little about the city’s history and heritage, and participate in fun games.

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• July tree tour on the Riverview Hospital grounds in Coquitlam, 1-3 p.m., with Riverview Horticultural Centre Society. Meet at 1 p.m. at the upper entrance of the Henry Esson Young Building. Site map: www.rhcs.org or email info@ rhcs.org.

THURSDAY, AUG. 15 • PoCo Heritage at Port Coquitlam Farmers Market, 3-5

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MONDAY, AUG. 19 • Heritage Writers’ Group, 10:30 a.m.-noon, PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives. Start capturing your life story for family and posterity; no preparation required – just bring a pen and

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â&#x20AC;˘ Brew-HaHa 2019 Festival of Beers, 3-7 p.m., Leigh Square, PoCo. Join PoCo Heritage for Port Coquitlamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first ever craft beer festival, featuring beers and ciders from PoCo breweries and cideries. This festival is a fundraiser for PoCo Heritage, with proceeds used to better preserve the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history and heritage through supporting work to better care for at-risk collections. Cost: $45, adults; $10 designated drivers; $5, children. Tickets: pocoheritage.org/event/brew-haha-2019-festival-of-beers.

â&#x20AC;˘ Family resource centre at Minnekhada middle school, PoCo, offers multi-sensory and math tutoring; rate is $25 per session. Tutors are Orton Gillingham-trained and centre works in cooperation with SD43. Registration is ongoing. Info: frcdistrict43@gmail.com. â&#x20AC;˘ Ignite Choir at Eagle Ridge Bible Fellowship is for kids 6-14 who love to sing, dance and act; the goal is to give children and youth an introduction to music and. The choir meets Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Info: www.erbf.com. â&#x20AC;˘ Share Family and Community Services hosts free parent and tot dropâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;in, 9-11:30 a.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays at Seaview community school, 1215 Cecile Dr., PoMo. This is a free playâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based program for children up to five years old and their parents/caregivers. Info: Azar, 604â&#x20AC;&#x201C;936-3900. â&#x20AC;˘ Parent and Tot Drop-in: open to parents with children from birth to 5 years old; offers safe and nurturing environment; children learn songs, stories and eat healthy snacks together; parents are full participants; free; open 9-11 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at Mountain View elementary school, Coquitlam, and 9-11 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at Seaview elementary school, PoMo. Info: Arshia, 604-937-6971. â&#x20AC;˘ Tri-City Family Place, a drop in centre for children up to five with their caregivers, is open Tuesday through Friday, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (September to June), 2062 Manning Ave., PoCo. Info: 604-942-4672. â&#x20AC;˘ Share Family and Community Services parent support circle runs Fridays from

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Playtime for families at a variety of Coquitlam parks Coquitlam’s Pop-Up Play Team is visiting local parks throughout the summer months bringing free familyfriendly activities, ideas and equipment for you and your family to have fun with together. Building on the success of the Park Play program, the Coquitlam Parks Team has launched the new Get Out and Play concept, not only offering free morning and afternoon sessions at select parks, but they have added Family Night Tuesdays, providing working parents an opportunity for family fun time in the evening. The following activities are intended for kids three to six years old to play with their caregivers.

• Good Neighbour Park (1415 Foster Ave.), 1 to 2:30 p.m.: Aug. 12 and 26; • Mountain View Park (751 Smith Ave.), 1 to 2:30 p.m.: Aug. 19.

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When fire ripped through Gallery Row in Moody Centre Sunday night, Gaetan and Zoe Royer sprung into action. In the Silk Art Gallery, where Gaetan Royer runs his CityState consulting firm and Zoe Royer manages the artwork, the couple knew they had to act fast to save the tens of thousands of dollars worth of original pieces. They each took a few paintings off the walls and ran outside. Luckily, they happened to have a shipping container on the parking lot to the east of the Clarke Street heritage building they lease from Rainer and Helen Daniels, who also own Gallery Bistro and the cinder-block building in between. The container was there to store personal items from a move from their recently sold recreation property, Zoe Royer said, and had the fire been a week later, it likely would have not been there. With the help of about a dozen passersby and friends “who came out of nowhere,” Zoe Royer recalled Tuesday morning, they scrambled to protect the art by placing the pieces inside the metal box.

Carola Alder, of CityState Consulting, which shares space in the Silk Art Gallery, carries a painting on Monday morning — the day after a fire broke out at another building on Gallery Row on Sunday night. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

They also quickly shifted hard drives and files from their two businesses, as well as other items, into vehicles. Within 15 minutes or so, the doors to the shipping container were closed and the firefighters on a ladder truck were spraying water from an overhead hose and on to the flames and smoke below. Zoe Royer, a Port Moody

city councillor, said she and her husband watched in horror as the devastation along Gallery Row unfolded. And she prayed for a miracle — anything, she said, to shield Gerry Thompson and Sandy Terry’s art that she had curated for a floral realism exhibit that opened on the summer solstice. After all, Thompson, a

Maple Ridge resident, had spent “months and months” to prepare for the show, painting nine large oil and acrylic works that were priced between $3,000 and $12,500; Terry’s six paintings represented about a year and a half of labour, the artist said. The next day, when the container doors were pried open, Zoe Royer said she

couldn’t believe her eyes. “We were amazed,” she said. “We thought some kind of angel had wrapped this container with fire-proof material. There was no smell of smoke. There was no damage. Nothing.” Even the price tags that Zoe Royer had specially ordered hadn’t peeled back from the heat, she said.

It will take about a week for professional art restorers and insurance adjustors to assess the impact of the blaze on the paintings, she said. Both artists say they’re hopeful their work will remain pristine. Thompson, who learned about the fire from a post on Gaetan Royer’s Facebook page and visited the site Sunday night, had plans to have her floral paintings in a solo show in Vancouver in September. “I’m feeling really good and I’m encouraged they were handled property during the evacuation,” she said. Added Terry, “The heroic effort of Zoe and Gaetan to save my pieces is remarkable.” Had she lost them in the fire, “it would have been a heartbreak. It’s not just the time that’s lost — it’s the inability to replace [the art].” Still, much was lost down the street. Cocoaro Craft Chocolate, which moved into its building west of the Silk Art Gallery in late June, will have to toss its food products because of contamination, owner Margaret Inoue said. And Helen Daniels said she met Tuesday afternoon with engineers and insurance adjustors, who determined the building housing Gallery Bistro isn’t structurally sound and will have to come down. “As for what we’ll do next, see

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Artist’s large flowers compare to George O’Keeffe’s style Burst of Spring, an oil-oncanvas painting measuring 48” by 96”, is the most valuable piece in Gerry Thompson’s new series for the Silk Art Gallery — the Port Moody venue that sustained smoke and water damage Sunday after two nearby buildings caught fire. The award-winning Maple Ridge artist had just put the finishing touches on the masterpiece before the gallery’s opening reception on June 21. In total, Thompson created nine oil and acrylic works for the floral realism exhibit curated by gallery owner Zoe Royer. A former Port Coquitlam resident, Thompson trained in visual arts at the University of Fraser Valley and Western Washington University. Today, her paintings are featured in art magazines around the world and in corporate and private collections. gerry thompson

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A photo taken in Gerry Thompson’s studio before she put the finishing touches on her paintings for the Silk Art Gallery show. All were in the Moody Centre gallery at the time of the fire Sunday evening. Her pieces from left to right are: Whispers, Burst of Spring, Splendour and Georgia. COURTESY OF GERRY THOMPSON fire

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we don’t really know yet. [It’s] way too soon to think about that,” she wrote in an email late Tuesday. The news is a blow to the Tri-City arts community as the Daniels are not only well-known arts advocates but their 30-seat venue was a boon for artists and musicians alike. The Daniels opened their eatery in 2012 after Helen Daniels left ArtsConnect — a now-defunct arts council in the Tri-Cities — as executive director, a position she had held for years. As its reputation for providing entertainment and a venue for the arts grew, more people were drawn to Clarke Street. Now, the Daniels are responding to hundreds of messages of condolences from around the world, Helen Daniels said. “It’s just been a lot of outpouring of support. People are shocked and asking, ‘How can we help?’” Nan Nikolai, who books the acts for the Gallery Bistro and handles its PR, said she has spent many hours on the phone this week to cancel gigs that were booked up until the new year. Still, Zoe Royer, who chairs PoMo’s arts and culture committee, said she believes Gallery Row will rise from the ashes. After things return to normal, she wants to host a gathering or block party to welcome visitors back. “We want to show gratitude that nobody was hurt in all of this.”

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blow to the heritage of Port Moody as well as the business owners and their staff. We hope we can look forward to rebuilding Gallery Row in the future.” — Cathy Cena, president, Port Moody Arts Centre Society • “As a musician and resident of Port Moody, I am deeply saddened by the fire at the Gallery Bistro. As coleader of the Monday night jazz jam sessions, I know how much the bistro has meant to so many musicians and jazz enthusiasts.” — Gord Hembruff, musician • “It’s very sad. The Gallery Bistro is one of only a few places people in the Tri-City areas can go to see live music and they have done a great job with promoting what they do and giving opportunities to musicians in the area. I hope they come back soon and stronger than ever.” — Devon Wells, musician • “This little area of Port Moody is truly the beating heart of the art community. Because of these individuals and creative business owners coming together to provide spaces where artists can connect, share, grow and simply just be together, City of the Arts is genuine.... I have complete confidence that the

arts community will come together to repay the support to these creative business owners who have contributed so much — many of whom have been engaging the Port Moody arts community long before even opening their businesses.” — Sarah Ronald, artist • “Hopefully, the Gallery Bistro can be restored and Helen and Rainer’s passion project can continue to grow and prosper.” — Shannon Gaye and Kristian Alexandrov, musicians • “Gallery Bistro has been an important hub of the arts community with live music, literary readings and art exhibits. It has been a welcoming place where groups could meet, with Helen and Rainer always accommodating. Creative People Talking, a community arts group of over 160 creatives, held our regular discussion/gatherings at Gallery Bistro for the past four years… Finding alternative meeting sites will be a challenge. Live music, especially jazz, folk, singer-songwriter performances, will certainly suffer without this cozy venue. The loss of the building is horrible and the artistic community is sad about it.” — Rose Kapp, artist and arts advocate

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Lights, art in PoCo for Pride weekend Riverside grad Steve Baylis unveils first phase of Pride art janis Cleugh jcleugh@tricitynews.com

Port Coquitlam city hall will be bathed in rainbow lights tonight (Thursday) and this long weekend for the Pride celebrations happen-

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ing across the country. And the municipality will host a party tomorrow from 4 to 6 p.m. at Leigh Square to unveil the first part of its new Pride Public Art Project installation. Designed by visual artist — and Riverside secondary graduate — Steve Baylis, the tiles around the fountain area represent the colours of the Pride flag. But while the mural under

the seating area is now finished and a few tiles are embellished, the project won’t be complete until the public workshops this month. Residents can sign up via the city’s website at experienceit.ca to decorate the remaining tiles: • Friday, Aug. 23 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. (barcode #38984); • and Saturday, Aug. 24 from 1 to 3:30 p.m. (barcode #38985).

“The project started with me but will be finished by the community,” Baylis told The Tri-City News Tuesday. “I’m kind of letting it go in a sense.” As for the party on Friday, Kimmortal and Parlour Panther will entertain while the first 150 attendees will get a free fruit popsicle courtesy of Johnny’s Pops. Visit portcoquitlam.ca/ pride.

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Left to right: Tri-City residents George Panagiotou, Andrew Lee, Elizabeth Panagiotou and Alexandra Lye are in SFU’s Grade 3 Robert Malcolm Memorial (RMM) band that, on Saturday, competes in the North American Pipe Band Championships in Maxville, Ont. It’s the first time an SFUaffiliated band has been part of the event since the SFU Pipe Band won the North American championship in 1982. The youth ensemble will be up against 11 other Grade 3 bands — all made up of adult musicians. The RMM bands are led by Lee, a pipe major and instructor who lives in Port Coquitlam. (Missing from photo is piper Roger Lye). The competition comes two weeks before the Grade 1 SFU Pipe Band plays at the World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green, in Scotland. Marianne MeaDahl/sFu

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Metro grants, PoCo pictures Two Tri-City arts organizations clinched $13,000 this week from Metro Vancouver. A regional culture project grant worth $8,000 went to Place des Arts, a non-profit hub in Maillardville, while $5,000 was awarded to DreamRider Productions, a Port Moody-based environmental education society, according to a release. In total, the regional authority distributed $130,000 to 29 arts and culture groups across Metro Vancouver to research and produce new programs, reach new audiences and cover project staffing and administration.

Calendar snaps Amateur and professional photographers can

enter their images of Port Coquitlam’s natural environment for the city’s 2020 calendar. Submissions will be accepted until Sept. 30 and landscapes from all four seasons are sought — not portraits or close-ups. All entries will be put into the municipality’s online gallery and considered for the 8 x 11” calendar as well as other publications; photo credit will be given, where possible. Upload horizontal jpeg or tiff images via portcoquitlam.ca/photos. Pictures must be at least 300 dpi at a size of 13” wide by 10” deep or a file size of at least 2 MB. The file label should include the topic subject, the year the picture was snapped and the photographer’s full name.

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Get Involved—We Need You! Adopt-a-Trail Do you love hiking and hitting the trails? Make a difference in your community and Adopt-a-Trail today! Over 100 local citizens keep an eye on Coquitlam’s trail system, picking up garbage and reporting any trail hazards or vandalism to help keep the trails clean and safe for everyone. Businesses, community organizations, schools, families or individuals can all become adopters of specific trails. Email Sara at smorisse@coquitlam.ca to get involved today. Learn more at coquitlam.ca/adoptatrail

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Outdoor Youth Sports Committee The Outdoor Youth Sports Committee is looking for volunteers (13 – 17 years) to support the Park Spark Team with inspiring, developing and implementing youth outdoor sports opportunities and to get involved with the Youth Fun Nights at the Stadium. Contact parkspark@coquitlam.ca for more information or to get started.

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BC teams score at ball hockey + TC athletes medal at track & field nationals + Little Leaguers begin play in Ancaster, Ont.

Above, Coquitlam shortstop Timothy Piasentin can’t pull down the throw to catch Layritz baserunner Haris Gangji from advancing to second base in the second inning of their final preliminary round game at the BC Little League Majors provincial championship tournament, last Friday at Vancouver’s Hillcrest Park. Left, Coquitlam’s Matthew Shanley celebrates his seventh home run of the tournament. Top left, Nolan Loverin follows through on a stroke to right field that eluded a Layritz fielder. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS BASEBALL

Coquitlam LL rides rollercoaster to B.C. title Team of 11- and 12year olds begins play in Ontario today MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

Ancaster, Ont. may not be a top summer destination for every 11- and 12-yearold, but a team of Coquitlam Little League baseball players couldn’t be more excited to be booking a trip there. The Coquitlam All-Stars won their first Majors provincial championship since 2006 when they defeated host Little Mountain 5-3 Sunday at Hillcrest Park in Vancouver. Coquitlam will now represent B.C. in the Canadian Little League national championships in Ancaster Aug. 1

to 11. The winner of that tournament will go on to play at the famed Little League World Series in Williamsport, Penn. Aug. 15 to 25. Perhaps fitting to the provincial tournament’s host team and park, Coquitlam’s ascent to the top at Hillcrest was a precarious climb. After opening the seventeam competition with a 6-0 win over Trail, the local All-Stars had to come from behind to win their next two games, including a dramatic three-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the sixth inning by slugger Matthew Shanley — who finished the tournament with seven homers — that gave them a 10-9 victory over perennial powerhouses Hastings. The All-Stars lost their next two games before defeating

Vancouver Island’s Layritz 7-6 in eight innings last Friday to close out round robin play. While all four teams that qualified for Saturday’s semifinals finished with four wins and two losses, Coquitlam was seeded fourth due to having the smallest differential between runs scored and runs allowed. All-Stars’ coach Robert Piasentin said there was little to choose between the teams in the tournament. “We prepared the kids by letting them know that no matter who we played or what their record was, we were going to have to play our best in each and every game,” he said. The Coquitlam kids did just that, dispatching Hastings 8-3 in the semifinal after spotting the team, which is based

in east Vancouver and north Burnaby, a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Piasentin said the team’s nail-biting ride through the week steeled them for Sunday’s final. “Our boys had an absolute never-say-die attitude,” he said. “They refused to give up in any game.” Against Little Mountain, whom the All-Stars had already defeated 10-8 in roundrobin play, Coquitlam scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning and never relinquished control of the game. Timothy Piasentin drove in all five of Coquitlam’s runs, three of them when he hit a home run with Brady Dorwart and Nolan Loverin on base, the other two off another homer in the bottom of the third inning. He finished the

tournament with 16 RBI. Matthew Shanley earned the victory on the mound while Dorwart was credited with the save as he retired one Little Mountain batter in the top of the sixth inning. Robert Piasentin said the dramatic nature of Coquitlam’s run to the provincial title gives them momentum heading to the national tournament. “These kids know that they have a talented and strong team and can beat anyone when they play well,” he said, adding most of the players have been together for several years. While Sunday’s win breaks a 13-year drought for Coquitlam Little Leaguers at the provincials, it has been 35 years since the All-Stars sent a Canadian champion

to Williamsport. That accomplishment was honoured earlier this year with the installation of a commemorative plaque at Mackin Park. Piasentin said the weight of that history is insignificant to the club’s current generation, although the young players are certainly aware of it. More relevant, he said, are the friendships some of them have with other Little League players who have been to Williamsport. “They want to be able to experience that event for themselves,” he said. • B.C. teams have played in the finals of the Canadian Little League championships in 14 of the last 15 years. The team from Whalley Little League won last year’s title game in Quebec, 11-0 over Glace Bay, N.S.

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Adanacs advance News’ print deadline). The Adanacs secured one of the BCJALL’s two berths in the national final, to be played in Langley, by defeating the Nanaimo Timbermen in their semifinal, four games to two, last weekend. Coquitlam defeated the Timbermen 8-4 on Friday and 9-4 on Saturday to wrest the series that had been tied 2-2.

The Coquitlam Jr. Adanacs will defend their Minto Cup. But who they’ll be playing for the BC Junior A Lacrosse League title was only determined last night, as the league’s other semifinal between the New Westminster Salmonbellies and Victoria Shamrocks went to a decisive seventh game in Victoria (after The Tri-City

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B.C.’s recreational home prices robust overall, but variable: Re/Max Despite recent reports of B.C. recreational property sales slowing down, a new Re/Max survey released July 23 has found prices of the province’s vacation homes are still rising.

been “approximately flat” compared with last year. He pointed to the median price declines seen in the larger combined market of Whistler and Squamish, and said, “This is probably more representative of an overall market, simply because of the size of the market, and truly being a recreational market.”

The median sale price of property across B.C.’s key recreational regions is up eight per cent compared with this time last year, found the study. However, the annual percentage change varies wildly, depending on the location.

Ash added that the relatively modest six per cent increase in Kelowna waterfront property prices was also “more representative of what’s going on.” He pointed out that the Kelowna figures included waterfront condos, which are more plentiful and priced lower, as well as detached waterfront homes. “There’s been significant volume of waterfront property sales in the Okanagan this year, so it gives a broader example.”

In Tofino, for example, the median price of a home is up 35 per cent year over year, and that rises to a staggering 80 per cent increase for waterfront properties. On the flip side, homes in Whistler and Squamish have declined in value by nine per cent on an annual basis. The areas included in the study were Tofino, Uclulet, Comox Valley and Mount Washington (combined), Whistler and Squamish (combined), 100 Mile House, North Okanagan, Sun Peaks, Kelowna, Shuswap and the Gulf Islands. Elton Ash, regional executive vice-president, Re/Max of Western Canada, told Glacier Media that areas seeing big increases in prices, such as Tofino, were outliers because of their market size. “When you look at Tofino, there’s been specific demand for homes on the waterfront, so it’s hypersensitive to what people are looking for, but also the market size.” Ash said that with only a handful of waterfront homes on Tofino’s MLS in any given year, seeing huge fluctuations in the median sale price doesn’t necessarily indicate a trend.

MILLENNIAL INFLUENCERS Ash recalled the recent Re/Max study that found millennials are driving the recreational property market, especially in B.C., now that the oldest of the cohort are reaching their higher earning

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We do ALL kinds of Concrete Work. • Seniors discount. Local, friendly, family owned business for 40+ years.

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Drainage

Drywall COMPLETE DRYWALL Renovations: Residential/Commercial Repairs/Ceiling Repairs Texture Removal Reasonable Rates All work guaranteed

Call 604.363.9732

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Gutters Gutters Cleaned & Repaired WorkSafeBC insured

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Residential & Commercial

35%OFF 20 years exp. Free Estimates

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EAST WEST MOVERS 24/7. Reasonable. Reliable. James • 604-786-7977

• Residential Specialists • WCB, Ins’d, Lic’d • Free Estimates

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Patios

Nick’s Landscaping

Int/Ext Painting •30 yrs exp. Exc rates.Weekends available. Refs. Keith • 604-433-2279

*Retaining Walls *Interlocking *Fencing *Drainage *Decking *New Lawns *Hedges Serving the Tricities for 20 yrs. Cel: 604-836-6519

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Lawn & Garden

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604-724-3832

Magic Star Painting

604-319-5302

Landscaping

Interior / Exterior Specialist Many Years Experience Fully Insured Top Quality, Quick Work Free estimate

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778-929-6107

25+ yrs exp. WCB. Insured

604-878-5232

Mike 604-961-1280 All Electrical Work. Excellent Rates. License #91585

Painting/ WallPaPer

For positive results Call Robert

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DRAIN Tiles, Sewer, Water,

Lawn & Garden

ties installation and repairs

(604)374-0062 Simply Electric

604.468.2919

ConCrete

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Landscaping, water lines, and cement work.

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All Electrical, Low Cost.

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Cleaning

604-520-9922

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SUMMER CLEAN UP •Hedge Trim •Tree Prune Lawn & Yard Maintenance Insured. Guaranteed. John • 778-867-8785 coquitlamlandscaping.ca

Patio Covers, Sunrooms, Vinyl, Railings Free Estimate

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Renos & Home ImpRovement

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Sun DeckS

D & M Renovations. Flooring, tiling, finishing. Fully Insured. Top quality, quick work, 604-724-3832

IKE’S ASPHALT MAINTENANCE

• Small Asphalt Repairs • Crack Sealing • Seal Coating 1 year guar • Free Est’s

Renos & Home ImpRovement

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Roofing

“Award Winning Renovations”

37 Years of Experience

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778.285.2107

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RENOVATIONS & REPAIR lam/wood flrs/tiling,finishing carpentry, drywall, sundecks, windows/doors & siding repairs. Quality work, Free Est. 10% seniors discount

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Renovation & Design Certified Professional Expertise. Full Renovations. Ali • 604-761-2336 Shawn • 778-893-5534 www.OAKRENO.com

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• Kitchen & Bathrooms • In-law Suites • Additions •Custom Cabinets www.jenco-online.info .

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Bros. Rooﬁng Ltd. Over 40 Years in Business SPECIALIZING IN CEDAR, FIBERGLASS LAMINATES AND TORCH ON.

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Tree ServiceS TREE SERVICES

Pruning, Hedge Trimming Tree & Stump Removal 75 ft Bucket Trucks .

604 - 787-5915 604 - 291-7778

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Comm, res, repairs and installs, gas fitting, renos. drain cleaning. Fully ins’d and ticketed. Reas rates. Prompt.

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All Season Roofing

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Call Dhillon, 604-782-1936

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37. Having a particular shape 38. Takes advantage of 39. The Destroyer (Hindu) 40. Basmati and saffron are two 41. Leak slowly through 42. Parrots 43. Midway between south and southeast

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30. Historic city in Germany 31. Animal disease 32. Some like them in martinis 33. Get away 34. Entertainment 36. Where ballgames are played

DOWN 1. Vinegary 2. Ohio town 3. Bivalve mollusk 4. Type of hat 5. Liquefied by heat 6. Synthetic acrylic fiber 7. Wild or sweet cherry 9. Flower segment 10. Lizard-like 12. What politicians stand on 14. Pie _ __ mode 15. Indian city

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