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There will be some change around Tri-City council and board of education tables starting later this year following Saturday’s civic elections. In Port Coquitlam, Coun. Brad West (above left) was easily elected to replace outgoing Mayor Greg Moore in the city’s top job. In Port Moody, Coun. Rob Vagramov (above right) defeated incumbent Mike Clay in a tight race — just 394 votes separated them. And there will be a number of new faces on local elected bodies, including (below, from left): Trish Mandewo and Steve Kim on Coquitlam city council; Jennifer Blatherwick and Craig Woods on the School District 43 board representing Coquitlam; Nancy McCurrach on Port Coquitlam city council and Christine Pollock as one of two Port Coquitlam school trustees; and Amy Lubik and Steve Milani on Port Moody city council.

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2 new faces bring some diversity to council Gary McKenna The Tri-CiTy News

There will be two new faces on Coquitlam council after Saturday night’s municipal election.

Trish Mandewo and Steve Kim took the seventh and eighth spots respectively, filling vacancies left by retiring councillors Mae Reid and Terry O’Neill.

Their victories bring a dose of diversity to council, which has been predominantly white for most of the city’s history.

Mandewo said she believes she may be the first black woman to win a seat at city hall — an assertion city archivists are still trying to confirm — while Kim is of Korean descent.

“To me, it means the voters

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Steve Kim and Trish Mandewo are Coquitlam council’s newest members following Saturday night’s civic election results. realize we are diverse and we need representation and different voices, and I am very, very honoured,” Mandewo told The

Tri-City News Monday.

In a city with a significant Asian population, Kim said he was happy to see two Korean

candidates — Sean Lee finished 12th in the race — running for office.

“It is quite the honour and the privilege,” he said of his victory and being the first Korean-Canadian candidate to win a seat on council in recent history. “It adds an injection of diversity.”

Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart, who was re-elected to a fourth term Saturday night by a 10,000-vote margin, said joining council can be a steep learning curve but both Mandewo and Kim “have done their homework.”

“I have confidence that they will be strong additions to a very workable council,” he said. see ANOTHER TIGHT, page 4

stewart wins landslide Richard Stewart will occupy the Coquitlam mayor’s chair for another four years.

The 59-year-old incumbent — who said this would be his last election — defeated challenger Adel Gamar during Saturday night’s municipal election, taking 16,546 votes (69.56%) to Gamar’s 6,373 (26.93%) — a margin of more than 10,100 votes. Mark Mahovlich, received 830 votes.

“I’m really gratified,” Stewart told The Tri-City News shortly after the ballots were tallied. “We put forward a positive campaign and ran on the accomplishments we have had so far and the work that is left to be done. I really

MAYOR RICHARD STEWART appreciate that the voters have given us that affirmation and mandate.” see INCUMBENTS, page 4

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Budget, rec complex West’s first big issues Grant GranGer The Tri-CiTy News

After crushing his competition to become the youngest mayor in Port Coquitlam history, Brad West was asked on election night what the first thing he would do as mayorelect come Monday morning.

“I’ll be taking my son to daycare,” he replied.

“Which,” he said Monday, “is exactly what I did at 7 a.m.”

After completing his first task of the day, the 33-year-old, who has been a PoCo councillor for 10 years, got to work meeting with the rest of coun-

MariO BarTeL/The Tri-ciTy news

Port Coquitlam’s new mayor-elect, Brad West, shows city council newcomer Nancy McCurrach around city hall on Monday.

cil-elect — which includes four incumbents and two newcomers — city staff and outgoing Mayor Greg Moore to put together plans for the next four years.

“We’re hitting the ground running. We’ve got a lot of exciting things on our plate,” West told The Tri-City News.

Scrutinizing the 2019 budget is an immediate priority, he said, along with continuing the process of upgrading of the PoCo recreation complex.

“That’s such a significant project for council and staff, so there’s going to be a lot of work with respect to that,” said West.

Meet new PoCo councillors: page 5

Some other issues emerged from the election campaign, he said, including traffic congestion and speeding. He said PoCo’s north-side streets are bearing the brunt of Burke Mountain development in Coquitlam. Housing, he added, continues to be a dominant issue just like it is for the rest of the region.

West welcomed newcomers Steve Darling and Nancy McCurrach to what he calls Team PoCo.

“They both ran very strong campaigns,” said West.

“Nancy worked hard. She may have knocked on more doors than all the other candidates combined. Steve is passionate about the community and both of them will be great additions to council.”

He is, however, sad to lose Coun. Mike Forrest, who was defeated after serving on council for 18 years. see TURNOUT, page 6

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PoMo needs to shift, not reverse: Vagramov Mario Bartel The Tri-CiTy News

Port Moody’s new mayor says his election Saturday was part of a region-wide expression of frustration by voters about the diminishing livability of Metro Vancouver.

At 26 years old, Rob Vagramov knows that frustration all too well. He rents an apartment in Moody Centre that he admits probably costs him more than it should in terms of space and amenities.

And, going into the election

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Port Moody’s new mayor-elect, 26-year-old Rob Vagramov, stops to chat with a supporter while strolling through Bert Flinn Park on Monday.

campaign, he said it was unlikely he would ever be able to afford to buy his own place in the city.

Whether that likelihood changes now that Vagramov is mayor will be the test of his next four years.

Vagramov upset twoterm incumbent Mike Clay Saturday. He captured 52.27% of the mayoral votes cast in the city to Clay’s 47.73%. The voter turnout of 38% was the highest amongst the Tri-Cities.

While Vagramov concedes it wasn’t a resounding endorse-

PoMo referendum results: page 8

ment of his planned direction for the city, he said, “Overall, the result is a pretty healthy spread.”

It’s also representative of the divisiveness that drove the campaign as Clay advocated for the continuation of the city’s growth to meet a regional population target of 50,000 residents by 2041, while Vagramov said the pace of development of projects already approved,

in the pipeline or even just a glimmer on the horizon meant Port Moody’s population was headed beyond that goal.

Saturday’s vote — which also saw the balance of power on council shift towards support for more moderate growth with the reelection of ally Hunter Madsen and the addition of Vagramov supporters see ‘WE HAVE’, page 6

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Incumbents re-elected continued from page 3

Voters also affirmed their support for all the incumbents who ran: Coun. Craig Hodge topped the polls with 14,380 votes, followed by councillors Chris Wilson, Teri Towner, Bonita Zarrillo, Brent Asmundson and Dennis Marsden. Newcomers Trish Mandewo took the seventh spot, while Steve Kim hung on to the eighth and final seat by nine votes over nearest challenger Robert Mazzarolo (see sidebar).

Turnout was up slightly over the 2014 campaign. While Coquitlam has 91,953 eligible voters, only 23,967 cast a ballot, or 26.06%, higher than the 26.01% seen four years ago.

Gamar was unavailable to speak with The Tri-City News before Tuesday’s print deadline but thanked his supporters on Twitter Sunday afternoon. He congratulated Stewart on his victory and said residents need to come together now that the campaign is over.

“I urge all residents who supported me to join me in not just congratulating [Stewart], but offering our mayor our goodwill and earnest effort to find ways to come together and bridge our differences,” he wrote.

“Together, we can help ensure that our city works for and serves all its people.”

Saturday’s election results shook up several councils across the region. Given that many Lower Mainland mayors

already decided not to run for re-election this term, Stewart said the makeup of the Metro Vancouver board of directors and the TransLink Mayors Council will be significantly altered. He added that he has resisted taking on a bigger role at Metro but that the region is facing some major decisions in the next four years around transit and infrastructure.

Stewart ran on a campaign highlighting his effort to increase housing stock in the city. But he said more work is needed and council will have to look to the federal and provincial governments, which have taken a renewed interest in the housing file, for support in creating more subsidized units. gmckenna@tricitynews.com

Another tight one for Kim continued from page 3

Kim stopped short of declaring victory after the votes were tallied Saturday night, when he took the eighth and final council seat by just nine votes over nearest challenger Robert Mazzarolo.

But his lead held after the official results were certified by the city’s chief election officer Tuesday morning.

“It seems I have a flair for the dramatic,” Kim told The Tri-City News Monday. “At this point,

we are just waiting for the [official] results.”

Kim’s hesitation to pop the champagne corks was understandable given his political history. In the 2013 provincial election, Kim, then a BC Liberal candidate, edged the NDP’s Selina Robinson by 105 votes on election night in the CoquitlamMaillardville riding. But following a judicial recount, Robinson won the seat by 41 votes.

As the polls were being counted Saturday night, Kim appeared to be comfortably

hanging on to the final seat for most of the evening.

But after 25 out of 30 polls were tallied, he found himself on the outside looking in, with Robert Mazzarolo in the eighth spot. The 26th poll put Kim back above the cutoff, where he stayed for the rest of the night.

“It was like that scene in Caddyshack, when the last putt is made and the ball is just lingering there,” he said. “It was pretty incredible.”

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McCurrach makes history with PoCo council victory Grant GranGer The Tri-CiTy News

On election night, Nancy McCurrach made history for herself and Port Coquitlam.

McCurrach was elected to Port Coquitlam city council, snagging the sixth and final spot ahead of 13 other candidates.

Her election, along with that of the top vote getter, incumbent Laura Dupont, means Port Coquitlam for the first time will have more than one woman sitting at the council table.

“I’m very excited about [the fact] we’ve just made history,” said McCurrach. “It’s very important to show diversity, especially in this day and age — to show our daughters that women can be leaders.”

McCurrach unofficially received 5,298 votes, edging out 18-year council veteran Mike Forrest, who placed seventh, by 565 votes. McCurrach said she door knocked up until 6 p.m. on Saturday before going for a walk alone at Blakeburn Lagoons Park to calm herself down.

“The numbers started coming in and I was quite nervous,” said McCurrach, who ran for council unsuccessfully in 2014.

McCurrach said she knows what to expect because she

has been an active member of city subcommittees as well as doing presentations to council.

“I’m absolutely thrilled to be working with [mayor-elect] Brad West and the rest of the council. I’m looking forward to the active discussions.”

The other newbie on council is a familiar face, maybe even more so than anyone else on council. Former broadcaster Steve Darling finished fourth with 6,025 votes, just 20 behind incumbent Darrell Penner and 31 behind second-place Coun. Glenn Pollock and well ahead of incumbent Dean Washington (5,563) and McCurrach. Dupont topped the pack with 6,518, which was 462 more than Pollock.

Darling, a former Global TV anchor, ran provincially for the BC Liberals in the May 2017 election in Burnaby Lougheed, losing to Katrina Chen of the NDP by more than 2,500 votes.

After a brief stint as a early morning sports-talk radio host for Sportsnet 650, he signed on with Proactive Investors, a business news website, as an online host.

Darling attributed his success to speaking to as many people as he could. He believes his ability to bring all sides together will be an asset on council. He said his journalistic training will help him learn

quickly even though he has little background in the minutia of municipal politics.

“There’s obviously going to be learning curve,” said Darling. “I’m like a sponge, I take a lot of the knowledge I get from other people.”

Darling said he wants to work on affordable housing, crime reduction and transit.

Although Mayor Brad West has a long affiliation with the NDP and Darling ran for the BC Liberals, Darling doesn’t think that will affect how they work together.

“Brad and I are on the same page as for the vision for the city,” said Darling. “Honest, that never came up once during the campaign, because to me it’s about the citizens of Port Coquitlam.”

Forrest struggled to describe his reaction to the results.

“A long time of being involved and contributing to your city’s governance. To not be there is a bit of a shocker,” said Forrest. “Everybody could get into speculation about [why he lost]. I don’t know if that helps us going forward.”

Forrest said he felt good about the nearly two decades he spent on council.

“We all should spend time to contribute to our community and that was one way to do that,” said Forrest.

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‘We have to turn this ship’ continued from page 3

Amy Lubik and Steve Milani — puts the brakes to wholesale changes to the city’s official community plan to accommodate increasing densification, the mayor-elect said.

“That population figure of 50,000 by 2041, that is an absolute ceiling for me,” Vagramov said.

That means there’s still room for development but, Vagramov said, there will be more attention paid to protecting the city’s natural beauty and increasing its park space.

“People take parks and nature pretty seriously in Port Moody,” Vagramov said. “I don’t think that issue was given

sufficient attention over the last four years.”

He said one of his first priorities will be to instruct city staff to come up with updates to the city’s OCP — which are scheduled for 2019 — that reflect more moderate growth and heed livability. And those revisions will be subject to vigorous public scrutiny.

Vagramov, who ascended to the mayor’s office after serving one term on council, said he was “disgusted” at some of the turns the campaign took.

Vagramov said he doesn’t know if those fissures can be healed but the shift in direction he is planning for the city isn’t a wholesale reversal.

“We have to turn this ship

slightly,” he said. “Shifting a couple of degrees now will have a resounding impact 40 years from now.”

Vagramov will be the youngest mayor in Metro Vancouver, and one of the youngest in Canada. He said it’s a label he has gotten used to since he was first elected to council when he was only 22 He added he’ll be looking to people he has met through his work with the Lower Mainland Local Government Association for counsel and guidance.

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Turnout up in PoCo continued from page 3

“I want to underscore how much I will miss Mike’s voice around the council table. He is Port Coquitlam through and through, and you would be hard-pressed to find someone who loves this community more,” West said.

Some political pundits on election night were declaring West as one to watch on the regional political scene with Metro Vancouver and TransLink.

“I’m very much looking forward to being a strong voice for Port Coquitlam at those tables.

I really see my job as representing our city at those tables,”

West said, downplaying any regional leadership speculation.

“That’s not something that’s on my radar, and something that I’m interested in at this point.

I’m a new mayor and I have a lot to learn.”

Unofficially, West received 10,236 votes, which was 88.1% of those cast in the four-way mayoral race. Robin Smith was second (952 votes) followed

by Eric Hirvonen (235) and Patrick Alambets (197).

Total voter turnout was 11,904, which was 28% of eligible voters, a 2% increase over 2014. West will be sworn in Nov. 6 at the new council’s inaugural meeting at Terry Fox Theatre.

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PoMo voters want city to keep fire hall land Mario Bartel

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Port Moody voters don’t want the city to sell the vacant fire hall property and nearby public works yard.

In a non-binding referendum question that was part of ballots cast in Saturday’s civic election, they rejected by 53% to 47% the idea of selling or leasing the properties to a developer for mixed-use development as a way to facilitate or fund new amenities like a larger library, seniors housing or increased park space.

The former fire hall site, at the corner of Ioco Road and Murray Street, has been vacant since 2014, when the Inlet Centre fire hall opened next door. The public works yard, a little further west along Murray Street, is scheduled to be relocated to a new site on Barnet Highway.

Last April, council voted to defer a proposal to rezone and change the designation of the properties after a boisterous public meeting during which several speakers opposed any plan to sell the land for development. Instead, council opted to put the question to voters as a way to gauge community opinion on future uses

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Port Moody’s council is getting younger.

Not only is the city’s new mayor, 26 year-old Rob Vagramov, one of the youngest to hold that position in Canada, new councillor-elect Amy Lubik is in her mid-30s.

She said having millennial representation on council is especially important as the city gets younger, with young adults and families attracted to new condo developments and the hip vibe created by Brewers Row. Lubik said her generation, as well as seniors, are in the crosshairs of the housing affordability crisis that grips Metro Vancouver. But they’re also sensitive to other issues like the environment, climate change and the precariousness of work that affect livability.

“I think having those people that are acutely feeling those issues and experiences represented on council is important,” Lubik said.

That’s not to say there will be a generation gap with some of her experienced colleagues who were reelected to council on Saturday, Lubik said. She pointed to the broad range of backgrounds at the council table, from the arts, to health care to housing that will be able to come together to move the city forward.

The other new councillor-elect, Steve Milani, did not return calls for comment.

for the properties.

The city’s mayor-elect, Rob Vagramov, opposed any plan to sell the properties for development, as did Coun. Hunter Madsen, who was reelected on Saturday.

Another incumbent who was reelected Saturday, Coun.

Zoe Royer, originally proposed

the motion to defer council’s decision until a referendum.

She opposed the plan to sell the properties, saying, “I believe we can get a new library, seniors housing and a beautiful soccer field without selling our public land.” mbartel@tricitynews.com @mbartelTC

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Three new faces take seats at SD43 Diane STranDberg The Tri-CiTy News

Three newcomers are expected to bring fresh perspectives to School District 43 board of education meetings after one incumbent was outvoted and two retirements cleared the way.

Saturday, Craig Woods and Jennifer Blatherwick, who both outpolled all but Carol Cahoon in Coquitlam, expressed surprise and pleasure at their election results while Christine Pollock said she was thrilled to be elected trustee in Port Coquitlam.

Blatherwick, who was second only to Cahoon in voter choice in Saturday’s election, said her parent connections working with her children’s schools in Maillardville and as director of Odyssey of the Mind won her support.

She now says she intends to work on daycare issues, advocating for a change in the education funding formula and will oppose the current method of trustee pay that gives the school officials the highest pay in the province.

“A trustee is making more than an EA [education assistant],” she said.

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Woods, a former District Parent Advisory Council president, said he appreciated voter support and credits his work in DPAC for outpolling two incumbents, including Chuck Dennison, who did not reclaim his seat.

“It’s definitely a dream come true,” he said of his election as Coquitlam trustee. “It’s a milestone for me in my life to be able to hold down a full job and put together a successful campaign and to do better than two incumbents was shocking. I thought it would be possible, I didn’t think it was realistic.”

He said he will have to learn the ropes but also hopes to look for opportunities to expand community engagement, find ways to put more money in the classroom through, for example, shaving money off a

planned administrative building, and, like Blatherwick, said the current provincial education funding formula should be changed.

“I want to continue to work on how we can maybe change, shift or build upon our existing funding formula and work with other governments and jurisdictions to see where there’s an opportunity to collaborate.”

Pollock, a retired SD43 EA, said her intimate knowledge of challenges parents face when they have a special needs child likely resonated with voters.

“So many parents came to me in this campaign saying they’re struggling because they are not getting the support they should be getting,” she said.

Pollock plans to keep an eye on the issue in her post as PoCo trustee, including finding out how the district is handling the increase of more students with special needs this year.

Also elected to the board were incumbents Barb Hobson in Coquitlam; Michael Thomas in Port Coquitlam; and Lisa Park and Keith Watkins in Port Moody. Current board chair Kerri Palmer Isaak was acclaimed in Anmore/Belcarra. dstrandberg@tricitynews.com @dstrandbergTC

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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, October 29, 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 Text Amendment to Address Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Requirements

Item 2: Bylaw No. 4869, 2018

The intent of Bylaw No. 4905, 2018 is to amend City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 in order to revise the regulations pertaining to electric vehicle charging infrastructure requirements.

If approved, the text amendment would facilitate the following: • Add definitions for “Electric Vehicle Energy Management System” and “Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment”; • Require that 100% of residential parking spaces in multifamily rental developments, excluding two-family, triplex and quadruplex developments, where the minimum number of parking spaces required is less than the number of dwelling units, be equipped with an energized outlet capable of providing level 2 charging or higher; and • Explicitly exclude visitor parking spaces equipped with energized outlets from the EV charging infrastructure requirements for residents.

Item 2 Addresses: 631, 635, 639, 643 Como Lake Avenue and 630, 636, 640, 646 Lea Avenue The intent of Bylaw No. 4869, 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 No. 4869, 2018 from RT-1 Two Family Residential to RM-3 Multi-Storey Medium Density Apartment Residential.

If approved, the application would facilitate the development of two, six-storey apartment buildings consisting of 88 market condominium units in each building (for a total of 176 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 Wednesday, October 17, 2018 to Monday, October 29, 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 604-927-3010. 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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t was a tale of three cities in this weekend’s civic elections as voters opted for change in Port Moody and mostly status quo in Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam. but all three city councils must still tackle housing affordability and find ways to work with one another on regional issues over the next four years.

Port Moody residents woke up to a divided city Sunday morning after Rob vagramov narrowly defeated incumbent Mike Clay in one of the more significant upsets of b.C.’s municipal elections.

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While affordable housing and quality of life were among the top issues in all three cities, clearly Port Moody believes it is suffering more of the growing pains around density than the other cities, possibly because it was late to the table on development plans despite getting not one but two SkyTrain stations in the city, and is still de-

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bating the merits of growth. voters axing a proposal to sell or lease city lands is a clear indication of the way most politically active voters in the city want to go and developers would be wise to wait until this council gets its bearings before seeking approvals for new projects.

Coquitlam, which has long been planning for density and was an early adopter of an affordable housing policy, can now move forward on programs to ensure multiple forms of housing are available for people, and continue to ensure infrastructure, such as schools and parks are built or improved in areas being densified.

Port Coquitlam, meanwhile, wants to ensure that its down-

town core is viable and will continue to lobby for improved collection of needles, and possibly an end to the harm reduction program, while working with Coquitlam on safety around the 3030 Gordon shelter. It also has approved a housing affordability policy and West has gone on record as wanting more policies to dissuade housing speculation in the city.

In addition, there are now two women on PoCo council, up from just one for most of the last three decades, while in Port Moody, there are now four women to three men on council. voters now have four years to figure out whether they made the right choices.

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GREEn TEaM baTTLES Ivy SaTuRday The next Lower Mainland Green Team event is Saturday, Oct. 27 to remove English ivy at Coquitlam River Park. To register, go to www.meetup.com/TheLower-Mainland-Green-Team.

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an a younger demographic leave smartphones and social media behind to get their hands dirty and become stewards of the environment?

The answer is definitely Yes, according to Lyda Salatian, whose Lower Mainland Green Team offers meet-up events for people to get involved in environmental activities, such as an upcoming invasive weed pull at Coquitlam River Park.

It seems a younger demographic — roughly mid-teens to mid-30s — is fine with driving or taking transit to a park or a trail for a specific task, even if it’s outside their own city.

The draw, says Salatian, founder and executive director of the organization, is the opportunity to meet other like-minded people and get

Lower MainLand Green TeaM phoTo

The next event for the Lower Mainland Green Team, shown here working last month in Port Moody’s Inlet Park, is this Saturday, Oct. 27 to remove English ivy at Coquitlam River Park. involved in something outside their normal routine.

“Often they’ve got no idea and can’t tell from an invasive species or a native plant. We are tapping into that missing

demographic — those who don’t really come out to these kinds of things,” she said.

This is fine for Salatian and the Lower Mainland Green Team because the organiza-

tion has a bigger agenda than simply getting people to clean out invasive ivy from parks and trails, planting native plants or picking up litter.

“It’s people we want to

change,” she said. “We want to install an environmental ethic.

We want them to get outside into nature and get their hands dirty.”

Once they’ve had a taste of environmental activism, they often move on to other behaviours, such as conserving water and electricity, going car-free — even voting.

“It’s got to start somewhere and that’s going to inspire environmental behaviour,” Salatian said.

Her group has partnered with the cities of Coquitlam and Port Moody and hope to have a similar arrangement with Port Coquitlam to provide the worker bees in exchange for some sponsorship of the group’s activities.

And people who come out — typically between half

a dozen and 40 — usually get snacks and even a gift to take home, something that will help participants further their conservation efforts.

“We couldn’t do these without financial support. [The cities] determine what location they feel is a priority and what the activity is and invasive species is the biggest issue,” she said.

Those who participate typically feel some satisfaction and a feeling of engagement, said Salatian, who surveys those who participate. They also get a good workout and a chance to do something good.

“They work for three hours, get amazing snacks, meet people, get exercise and you walk away with a present. How do you beat that?” dstrandberg@tricitynews.com @dstrandbergTC

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A Coquitlam resident is warning people to beware of an inheritance scam after receiving a solicitation in the mail last week that promised $3.8 million if she got back to the sender via email.

What was creepy about the letter was that it was addressed to her by name to her home address.

“This is scary because this is personally coming in your mail, it’s not an email one,” the woman, who asked not to be identified, told The Tri-City News.

But the letter, with a likely fake Canadian postmark and addressed to her last name and an initial, likely pulled from her landline phone identification, looked as phoney as a $3 dollar bill.

“You just have to contact them via email, then they’re going to say in order to deposit this into your account, you’re going to need to send more information,” the resident told The News.

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The envelope is marked with an address on Yonge Street in Toronto, but the letter writer states he’s a financial consultant from the U.S. Poor English grammar and random capitals also alerted the recipient that the letter was false.

“I am aware that this letter has come to you as a surprise.

As we have not met before, or had an Business transaction in the Past (sic). Nevertheless, I have contacted you with genuine intentions and you won’t regret receiving this letter it (sic),” the letter reads.

She has called the RCMP about the inheritance scam letter and wanted to alert Tri-City residents because she knows of people who were nearly duped by the CRA scam that promises a refund in exchange for credit card information.

“There are people who fall for this,” she said. “I wanted people to know.”

According to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, this latest letter is common and is sometimes referred to as the Nigerian, 419 or West African Fraud, with people receiving solicitations from Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Hong Kong, China, Brazil, Japan, Italy, Malaysia and South Africa.

As in this case, the potential victim is advised that a distant relative has died and they are entitled to a large inheritance.

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The fraud centre reports that legitimate estates do not solicit in this manner.

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The chair of that committee, Coun. Diana Dilworth, said the awards are “a wonderful way to recognize local business owners and operators who embrace creativity and innovation, and strive for excellence in customer service.” The winners are: • Arts in Business: Willow & Wallflower; • Business Spirit: Satin Laser Spa;

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A regular walker to the lower reaches of the Coquitlam River — near where it passes under Lougheed Highway — has been finding salmon remains left on the river bank. It appears the fish have been stabbed with a spear or stick and left to die. Conservation officers are investigating.

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COs investigating after fish turn up dead on Coq. River Diane StRanDbeRg The Tri-CiTy News

Conservation officers are investigating possible illegal poaching or other irregular fishing practices in the Coquitlam River after receiving reports about fish nets and spearfishing in the area.

“We will definitely be looking into the alleged activity,” said Sgt. Todd Hunter of the BC Conservation Officers Service.

Hunter confirmed that he had received a report of some-

one netting fish in the river on the Port Coquitlam side at Maple Street and will investigate another report about fish being speared on the other side of the river at Lafleur Street, also in PoCo. Both activities are likely illegal, Hunter said; fishing requires a licence and a fish retention stamp while spearing salmon is not allowed.

“People are getting greedy with these salmon and they’ll do anything to take them, they’ll break the law,” Hunter

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But one local resident believes the fish are being stabbed for fun and left to die.

“It’s sad that it’s happening,” said John Hedetniemi.

The Port Coquitlam resident has been finding dead fish lying on rocks or gravel at the side of the riverbank almost daily for the last two weeks. He throws them back into the river only to find a few more on the bank the next time he visits.

Sometimes the head is gone but, other times, the whole

fish is there with a penny-sized hole in its body.

“It does not look like an animal but someone taking pleasure in killing the chum salmon for no reason,” Hedetniemi said.

Hunter said that when a fish is caught anywhere but in its mouth, it’s called foul hooking and it’s illegal.

“Not a lot of anglers do that, they take them for food or let them go. Bottom line, it’s poaching and it’s not behaviour we like to see.”

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an a younger demographic leave smartphones and social media behind to get their hands dirty and become stewards of the environment?

The answer is definitely Yes, according to Lyda Salatian, whose Lower Mainland Green Team offers meet-up events for people to get involved in environmental activities, such as an upcoming invasive weed pull at Coquitlam River Park.

It seems a younger demographic — roughly mid-teens to mid-30s — is fine with driving or taking transit to a park or a trail for a specific task, even if it’s outside their own city.

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The next event for the Lower Mainland Green Team, shown here working last month in Port Moody’s Inlet Park, is this Saturday, Oct. 27 to remove English ivy at Coquitlam River Park. involved in something outside their normal routine.

“Often they’ve got no idea and can’t tell from an invasive species or a native plant. We are tapping into that missing

demographic — those who don’t really come out to these kinds of things,” she said.

This is fine for Salatian and the Lower Mainland Green Team because the organiza-

tion has a bigger agenda than simply getting people to clean out invasive ivy from parks and trails, planting native plants or picking up litter.

“It’s people we want to

change,” she said. “We want to install an environmental ethic.

We want them to get outside into nature and get their hands dirty.”

Once they’ve had a taste of environmental activism, they often move on to other behaviours, such as conserving water and electricity, going car-free — even voting.

“It’s got to start somewhere and that’s going to inspire environmental behaviour,” Salatian said.

Her group has partnered with the cities of Coquitlam and Port Moody and hope to have a similar arrangement with Port Coquitlam to provide the worker bees in exchange for some sponsorship of the group’s activities.

And people who come out — typically between half

a dozen and 40 — usually get snacks and even a gift to take home, something that will help participants further their conservation efforts.

“We couldn’t do these without financial support. [The cities] determine what location they feel is a priority and what the activity is and invasive species is the biggest issue,” she said.

Those who participate typically feel some satisfaction and a feeling of engagement, said Salatian, who surveys those who participate. They also get a good workout and a chance to do something good.

“They work for three hours, get amazing snacks, meet people, get exercise and you walk away with a present. How do you beat that?” dstrandberg@tricitynews.com @dstrandbergTC

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Offers and deposits must be received by the City of Coquitlam no later than 2 p.m. PST, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018.

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Incredible women with incredible life stories A GOOD READ ELIZABETH THAM

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ruth is sometimes more incredible than fiction.

Proof of this can be found in the following autobiographies by women authors who lived through challenging and even extraordinary circumstances.

Heart Berries: A Memoir

by Therese Marie Mailhot is fearless and upfront. With unflinching candour, Mailhot examines her childhood, motherhood and relationships through the lenses of her indigenous heritage and her mental health, not shying away from describing her struggles or impulses with intense honesty. Mailhot’s determination to pursue a career in writing despite her personal challenges is formidable, reflecting her tenacity to create her own happiness. A 2018 Governor General’s Literary Awards finalist, Mailhot has made her presence known as a writer to watch with her first book.

Cea Sunrise Person’s upbringing was unconventional.

She was born to a counterculture family that left the city and its modern conveniences for the wilderness of B.C., Alberta and the Yukon. In North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family and How I Survived Both, we are introduced to the Person family and its alternative lifestyle.

Despite signs that her mother, aunts and uncle were suffering from mental illness, the family distanced itself from social support and Person

was raised first in an encampment, then while on the run and seeking shelter in vacant homes.

In her follow-up book Nearly Normal: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself, Person reveals how she overcame her non-traditional upbringing and delayed start to her formal education.

Pursuing modelling at a young age, she moved to Europe and started a new life, eventually marrying and becoming a mother. She thought she’d emerged from her childhood unscathed but the trauma of her youth had taken its toll and Person realized that to fully move on, she would have to come to terms with her past.

Canadian journalist and radio host Pauline Dakin built a successful and respected career in the public eye. But during her childhood years, her family never stayed in one home for long, sometimes moving at a moment’s notice without saying goodbye to anyone. In Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a

Fugitive Childhood, Dakin recounts learning the reason for this constant upheaval: Her family was a Mafia target and had been for years. Relieved at having an explanation for a childhood steeped in secrecy but fearful of a continued threat, Dakin tries to make sense of her childhood memories. Her fear soon turns to skepticism as she questions what is truth and what is fabrication, and whether her family relationships have been built upon lies.

In 1994, during the civil war in Rwanda, the genocide against the Tutsi people ravaged the country. Those displaced included six-year-old Clemantine Wamariya and her older sister Claire, sent away from their family home to escape the wave of violence.

Wamariya and her sister were on the move for six years, travelling from one African country to another until being granted refugee status in the United States. Co-written

by Elizabeth Weil, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After is Wamariya’s story told in chapters alternating between past and present: between upheaval in Africa and safety in America, two worlds in which she lacks a true sense of belonging. Now a human rights advocate, Wamariya is determined to keep moving forward while remembering her past.

For these and more incredible biographies, visit your local library.

A Good Read is a column by TriCity librarians that is published on Wednesdays. Elizabeth Tham works at Port Moody Public Library

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TC ARTS/enT. The early movies of French pioneer Georges Méliès will be brought to life with music in Port Coquitlam next week.

Alcoléa & Cie will have two private performances for students at École des Pionniers (1618 Patricia Ave., PoCo) on Monday, Oct. 29 to highlight the late filmmaker’s cinematographic work.

Titled Right In The Eye — or En plein dance l’oeil — the movieconcert created by JeanFrancois Alcolea is part of a North American tour by the French artistic troupe.

Original compositions will accompany 12 of Méliès’ films including: A Nightmare (Le cauchemar); The Kingdom of Fairies (Le royaume des feés); and The Dwarf and the Giant (Nain et géant).

For those unfamiliar with his flicks, Mélié’s productions were the basis of the Martin Scorsese film Hugo.

“After more than 400 European performances, we are delighted to share our cine-concert, Right In The Eye, with the North American public,” said Alcoléa, in a news release. “It has been over 100 years since Georges Méliès’ Voyage en la Lune screened in the United States and we’re excited to celebrate the pioneering filmmaker with a new wave of film lovers.”

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Rose Kapp can remember as a child hounding for rocks with her dad in Alberta.

Alan Tracey’s love for lapidary also began with a childhood passion: studying insects.

Seven years ago, the Port Moody retiree took up stone sculpting, using spiders and beetles as his models.

There are stories from other Port Moody Rock and Gem Club members, too, about how they began, of which many will be shared this weekend at the group’s 40th annual show and sale.

Fascination — a play on the word “facet” (stone cut) — is the title for this year’s exhibit that runs Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Kyle Centre (125 Kyle St., Port Moody).

Show committee member Kapp, a Coquitlam resident, said the group wanted to highlight the reasons why their members got involved in rock hounding, cutting, grinding and polishing.

“Everyone’s got a story,” she said. “I think, for some people, it brings back a lot of memories.”

Tracey said he hears a lot of tales from passersby when he’s in the workshop at Dogwood Pavilion, a seniors’ facility in Coquitlam. People will pop into the shop and talk about their dad, who died 40 years ago, and his eye for colours and patterns. “It’s just amazing,” Tracey remarked.

And with so many new faces in the Port Moody Rock and Gem Club — many of them parents with their keen kids — Kapp said the organization also wanted to honour their roots with the craft.

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Alan Tracey and Rose Kapp, members of the Port Moody Rock and Gem Club, hold his 3D rock bugs that will be on show this weekend at the Kyle Centre (125 Kyle St., Port Moody) for the group’s annual exhibit and sale, running 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. This year’s event is called Fascination: Personal Stories Behind the Passion for Stone.

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Dozens of vendors will also have their tables set up while educator (and 2014 honorary

member) Erica Williams will be on hand to answer questions during the event. As well, the club will auction off a necklace with a faceted stone cut by the late Cecil Smith, the club’s shop supervisor.

Visit portmoody.rocks for more details about the Port Moody Rock and Gem Club’s 40th annual show and sale at the Kyle Centre (125 Kyle St.). jcleugh@tricitynews.com @jcleughTC

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Ralphie wants a BB gun for Xmas Port Moody boy Owen Scott plays lead role in Align Christmas show

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Tickets for Align Entertainment’s A Christmas Story: The Musical are $29 to $42, with shows running Nov. 2 to 17 at the Michael J. Fox Theatre (7373 Macpherson Ave., Burnaby); preview pricing is $20, and $25 on Thursdays. Visit alignentertainment.ca/tickets or vtixonline.com.

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Fall may be in full colour but, inside a Burnaby theatre, Christmas is on the minds for the cast and crew of a Coquitlam-based entertainment company.

That includes Owen Scott, an 11-year-old Port Moody boy who stars in Align’s next production A Christmas Story: The Musical.

Scott, a Grade 6 student at Eagle Mountain middle, portrays Ralphie Parker — a nineyear-old child growing up in the 1940s in Indiana who wants a Red Ryder CarbineAction BB for Christmas.

Scott was invited to audition for the role in early June and he beat out another Port Moody talent for the lead.

Now, Scott’s juggling his school work, his classes at Lindbjerg Academy of Performing Arts and longrehearsal days — three times a week — to perfect the character.

“The show has so much energy,” Scott said during a school lunch break, adding, “I really love to do musical

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Eagle Ridge middle school student Owen Scott, 11, of Port Moody, portrays Ralphie Parker (in front) in A Christmas Story: The Musical, an Align Entertainment production running Nov. 2 to 17 at the Michael J. Fox Theatre, in Burnaby. theatre and I have really good people around me.”

Scott credited his stage parents, Stefanie Stanley and Brennan Cuff, for passing on acting and voice tips — though he’s spent more than half his short life involved in the theatre.

Two years ago, Scott played a young boy in the Royal City Musical Theatre show Fiddler on the Roof, at

the Massey Theatre in New Westminster. That same year, he was in Align’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat — plus its remount in 2017 — and, over the years, several Lindbjerg shows, too.

A festival competition award winner, Scott said he’ll be in a good company for A Christmas Story as many Lindbjerg dancers are also in

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the Align cast.

A musical version of the 1983 film, A Christmas Story: The Musical is based on the book by Joseph Robinette, with a score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul of La La Land and The Greatest Showman fame; it ran for a year on Broadway, in 2012-’13.

“A Christmas Story is a quirky holiday classic about a wholesome family founded on unconditional love,” said director and coproducer Chad Matchette, a Port Coquitlam resident.

“Generations have been drawn to the young protagonist, Ralphie, who is at the crux of childhood. His innocence and persistence remind us of a quieter and perhaps less-complicated era.” jcleugh@tricitynews.com @jcleughTC

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have a ‘Ghouls Night Out’ with drag queens Two Coquitlam drag queens will follow their inaugural performance from this spring with a Halloween special.

Sunday, Daniel Mason — aka Jakyllyn Hyde — and his partner Flannery Pajamas host Ghouls Night Out, at the Evergreen Cultural Centre.

Mason described the music, dance and comedy drag show as “the perfect introduction… for all the drag virgins left out there.”

Emceed by cabaret comedian Shirley Gnome, the spectacle will include acts by Anida Tythole and Justice Du Jour with special guest Candy Boxx visiting from Victoria.

Mason told The Tri-City News this past year has brought a lot of interest about diversity issues in the Tri-Cities — and from all ages. In March, his

Spring Queening production — also at the Evergreen — nearly sold out and, since then, the Tri-Cities Pride Society has also taken root to champion rainbow crosswalks, art installations and LGBTQ2+ events in Coquitlam, PoCo and PoMo. As for Ghouls Night Out, “I think anyone who wants to have a good time [should] drop their pre-conceived notions about what society says gender is supposed to be and have an amazing time watching men in dresses pretend they know the words to other people’s songs.”

• Tickets to Ghouls Night Out on Oct. 28 at 6:30 p.m. are available via the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam) by calling 604-9276555 or visiting evergreenculturalcentre.ca. jcleugh@tricitynews.com

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Port Coquitlam’s Art Focus Artist Association hosts its 25th annual fall show this week, starting with a reception Friday hALyk at 7 p.m. in The Outlet at Leigh Square Community Arts Village (behind PoCo city hall).

Among the members exhibiting and selling their original work will be Coquitlam resident Debbie Halyk, a painter and drawer.

The fall event runs Saturday and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Coquitlam artist Ornella MaruccioBelhomme unveils her new mixed media art show this week at Douglas College in New Westminster.

Ornella MaruccioBelhomme’s show in the Amelia Douglas Gallery is titled Face It! and features 32 pieces that share faces as a subject; it runs until Dec. 15. The Italian native will be at an opening reception in the gallery (700 Royal Ave., New Westminster) on Friday, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.; she will deliver a talk at 6:30 p.m. Visit douglascollege.ca/ artsevents.

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Attention artists: The city of Port Coquitlam is calling for your talent to be shown in its galleries next year.

Artists and artisans are invited to apply — by the Nov. 16 deadline — to show their work in the Michael Wright Art Gallery and in The Outlet in Leigh Square Community Arts Village (behind PoCo city hall); all media and subject matter will be considered.

Meanwhile, artistin-residency programs are also open for 2019.

Residencies are self-directed for four months, and give artists (or artist collectives) the chance to research, develop and create new or ongoing series, in a studio in The Outlet.

Successful candidates are asked to commit at least 20 hours a week; an honorarium is offered. Visit portcoquitlam.ca/leighsquare.

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Josephine Galang will have four paintings in her swan series at the 51st annual Port Moody Art Association show and sale, running Nov. 2 to 4 in the Port Moody recreation complex.

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When Josephine Galang was tasked to design a promotion for the 51st annual Port Moody Art Association (PMAA) show and sale, she built a draft version around a member’s image.

But the Port Coquitlam graphic designer was forced to scrap it and start over after her club colleagues voted to have one of Galang’s artworks on the cover instead.

“I was so surprised,” the two-year member gushed. “I thought they were going to pick something else.”

Her painting, titled Shall We Dance?, an 18-by-36-inch oil work, is one of four pieces Galang will exhibit from her swan series; the other three are also medium-sized canvases with oil paint: Just the Two of Us (18x24); Family Day (20x24); and The Babysitter (20x24).

For the four scenes, Galang combined a number of photographs she took while in Stanley Park a few years back to recreate the setting. “I never paint exactly what I see,” she explained. “It’s usually a mixture of two or three pictures. I let my imagination take over.”

Galang told The Tri-City News last week she looks forward to showcasing her swans in the yearly PMAA display, which opens with a reception on Friday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. at Port Moody recreation complex (300 Ioco Rd.) and continues 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 3 and 4.

She’s also keen to see in person the other 200 original paintings from PMAA members.

PMAA isn’t the only art organization Galang belongs to: She’s part of a life drawing workshop at Glen Pine Pavilion, a seniors’ facility

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The Port Moody Art Association’s 51st annual show and sale opens Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. and runs Nov. 3 and 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Port Moody recreation complex (300 Ioco Rd.). Admission and parking are free. Visit portmoodyartasssociation.com. in Coquitlam City Centre (previously, she was with Art Focus Art Association in Port Coquitlam).

Galang said she joined the two groups to get out and meet other artists, and gain ideas from them.

Her love for the arts started at home in the Philippines.

The fourth of seven children, Galang had a large family residence that included three generations and hired help.

Her uncle, who also lived with them, was good at drawing and painting and had a mural in his bedroom that covered the walls. “I was so inspired by that,” Galang recalled.

Her creativity also sprung from her mother, an opera singer, clothing designer and sewer.

Still, Galang was the only child to continue in the arts, earning a BFA in her native country. Today, the semiretiree paints in between her publishing projects, with portraits and landscapes being her go-to subjects. On walks around Metro Vancouver, she snaps photos when she sees the light hitting a tree or a rock in a special way.

Galang’s goal is to capture its peacefulness. “When people hang my paintings in their home, I want them to feel a sense of calmness and joy.”

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The Pinetree Timberwolves senior boys soccer team is like the Eleven Musketeers.

And their all-for-one-onefor-all approach to playing may earn the school its first place in the Fraser Valley championships in four years.

Heading into the season’s final week, the Timberwolves have four wins, a loss and a tie.

That’s the same record as the defending provincial champions, the Dr. Charles Best Blue Devils, whom they defeated last Tuesday, 2-1.

That victory, coupled with an earlier win over Heritage Woods, another top shelf side in the North Zone, has Timberwolves coach Steve Jack believing in his team, and his players believing in themselves.

“We know if we can put our energies together, we can achieve anything,” Jack said.

At the beginning of the season, that self-confidence was a hope. Now it’s a rallying cry for a plucky side of underdogs, he said.

Most of the team’s core of senior players have never moved beyond league play. In fact, the prospect is so novel, some don’t even know how the Fraser Valley tournament works.

But that doesn’t mean they’re foreign to the pressures and expectations of the postseason.

Players like Mateen Nasiri, Andres Palma, Daniel Jung and Adam Lee are also teammates on their Coquitlam Metro-Ford Hammers U18 club team that two years ago won a provincial

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Pinetree Timberwolves coach Steve Jack is surrounded by some of the team’s core of senior players, including Mateen Nasiri, Matthew Appelbaum, John Lee, Andres Palma, Adam Lee and Daniel Jung, who’ve collectively worked to get on the cusp of moving on to the Fraser Valley boys soccer championships. championship and they’ve carried the bond they formed to their high school team.

They’re ably complemented by the scoring touch of Stuart and Liam Chernoff, twin brothers who’ve accounted for nine of the Timberwolves’ 14 goals this season.

“We play for each other,” said Nasiri, a centre midfielder.

“We’re a group of friends, we all hang out together,” said Palma. “We push each other.”

The team’s collective spirit of leadership is so strong, in

fact, the captain’s armband has been shared by no fewer than four players.

“It’s hard to pick a single leader,” said Jung, a centre back who’s in his third year with the team.

Jack said it was the leadership qualities of his senior players that quickly separated them from the 60 or so prospects that initially tried out for the team, and now distinguishes them on the pitch.

“In the past, we’d just fold the tent,” Jack said. “Now we

want to make the other teams earn every inch of space they get.”

Communication has been key to realizing that transformation said Jung. As most of the Timberwolves’ senior players have been together on a club team since they were in middle school, individual egos have long since diminished.

“The comfort level allows us to talk to each other and boost each other up without getting feelings hurt,” said Nasiri.

“What’s said on the field stays

on the field.”

And with their boots doing most of the talking, the buzz about the team is building in Pinetree’s hallways, said another senior player, John Lee. “There’s more kids coming to watch us play,” he said.

That bodes well for the program’s continued growth even after his core of seniors graduate, Jack said.

“We don’t do a lot of sports, but the ones we do, we try to do well,” he said.

A few too many miscues and a poorly timed penalty tipped the scales Friday.

It ended with a hardluck loss for the Terry Fox Ravens, but also a lesson that they hope to utilize over the remaining two regular season games and the upcoming playoffs.

The Ravens fell 28-21 to the St. Thomas More Knights in Burnaby, on the back of a 14-0 run for the home team over the final 12 minutes, wiping out an impressive rally by the visitors.

It was a pretty heavy match-up, with No. 2-ranked Fox facing No. 4-seeded Knights.

A personal foul penalty in the fourth quarter that kept STM’s game-tying drive alive, and a blocked punt on Fox’s next possession, added up to a lot of momentum for the Knights.

The first infraction put the ball at the Ravens’ 10-yard line and led to a two-yard run with 8:14 to play, to make it 14-14.

It turned for the worse on the Ravens’ next possession, when a punt from their own 35yard line was blocked, due to a faulty snap, and gave STM the ball at the 15-yard line.

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Terry Fox Ravens corner back Jaden Severy grabs hold of St. Thomas More’s Rickey Parsons late in the first half of their BC Secondary Schools Football Association game, Friday at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex West.

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Coquitlam Express forward Chase Danol celebrates his second period goal against the Prince George Spruce Kings last Friday at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Complex.

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In the second quarter, STM took its first lead of the night when Ciccone hit Rickey Parsons with a 20-yard TD pass.

The Ravens put together a forceful rally, first tying the game when Cote converted a four-and-one attempt, scampering the 15-yards for a major, then reclaimed the lead after Key’Shaun Dorsey intercepted a Ciccone pass at Fox’s 40-yard line.

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downtown on a 40-yard gain to set up Cote’s two-yard TD run with 1:24 to play in the third quarter. “We needed to build on that momentum and step on their throats, which is something we weren’t able to do,� added McDonnell.

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Splitting a pair of games against the Prince George Spruce Kings over the weekend at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Complex has left the Coquitlam Express in second place in the BC Hockey League’s Mainland Division.

They’re two points behind the Chilliwack Chiefs and two points ahead of Prince George, who’ve played one fewer game than the Express.

The Express rebounded from a tough 5-4 overtime loss to Prince George on Friday, in which Coquitlam battled back

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from deficits twice in the third period, to defeat the Spruce Kings 5-3 on Sunday.

But again, they had to come back from a deficit after the visitors scored twice in the first period.

The Express interrupt their homestand with a jaunt up to Penticton on Wednesday for a game against the Vees.

They then return home for a game Saturday against Cowichan Valley and a special Halloween matinee next Wednesday against the Langley Rivermen at noon.

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seven-yard game-winning TD pass with 5:23 remaining to hand Fox just its second loss of the regular season. “(STM)’s a good team but we had too many errors, costly errors,� remarked Ravens’ co-coach Martin McDonnell. “We came back (in the third quarter) but there was a bit of fatigue I think with some of our two-way players. It was a pretty good game, though.�

That it was.

The Ravens opened the scoring on the first drive and first play from scrimmage after Ethan Shuen returned the kick-off to midfield. Running back Cade Cote took Matt Lew-Hendrickson’s handoff and bolted for the end zone, followed by a Dawson Hodge point-after kick.

A lengthy, time-eating march by the Knights resulted in a three-yard touchdown by quarterback Dario Ciccone.

Express split weekend tilts

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Greens strike deal with NDP on speculation tax changes The B.C. Green Party, which has been vocally opposed to the NDP’s speculation and vacancy tax, has reluctantly agreed to support the legislation – but only after three changes are made, the parties announced October 18.

The Ministry of Finance said it will support the Greens’ three amendments “in the spirit of compromise” – even though the finance minister only agrees with two of them.

The key change to the legislation is the third amendment, which requires that out-of-province Canadians who own B.C. homes in the affected areas pay the same 0.5 per cent rate as B.C.-resident owners, not the one per cent set out in the previous version of the legislation.

Andrew Weaver, B.C. Green Party leader, said, “[A] key concern of mine was that Canadians should be treated equally. We are one country and even if they don’t pay income tax in B.C., Canadians pay federal taxes that benefit our communities.

The third amendment was an area of compromise and I am pleased that it will lessen the impact for Canadian homeowners, while keeping other

critical provisions of the bill intact.”

The first two changes, which the NDP said it agreed with, are: • an annual review between the Ministry of Finance and the mayors in the affected municipalities to see how the tax has affected their regions; and • all revenues from the tax to be spent on affordable housing projects in the affected regions. The statement said, “This will ensure residents of those areas will be able to see the benefits of the tax in their own communities.”

“While we strongly support the intent of the first two amendments, we are of the view that the third amendment lessens protections against out-of-province speculative investment,” said finance minister Carol James. “We believe it is fair to ask those who do not pay income tax in B.C. to pay their fair share.

But in the spirit of compromise, we will support this amendment.”

Weaver said, “While this is still not the approach I would have taken, these amendments will improve the bill and will mitigate many of the key issues I have identified. The housing crisis is British Columbians’

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“One of my key issues with this tax is that it was a blunt instrument applied to communities with unique circumstances. My amendments to include local governments in an annual meeting to review the tax, and to dedicate any funds raised from this tax to affordable housing in their communities, strike a far better balance.”

The newly renamed speculation and vacancy tax still has to pass legislation, but is likely a done deal now that it has the Green Party’s backing.

All homeowners in the affected areas will have to complete a form to declare their property’s use, whether as a primary residence, a rental home or an empty home. Canadian income-tax payers who own an unoccupied second or investment home in the affected areas, as of December 31 of each tax year, will have to pay 0.5 per cent of its assessed value per year. Overseas resident owners will have to pay two per cent of the value per year.

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On October 16th, 2018. Late of Coquitlam, BC, age 84 years. Predeceased by her husband Peter and her daughter Rosemarie. Survived by her loving family, daughter Louise (Ernie); son Bill (Barb); 4 grandchildren, Craig, Mark, Kyle, and Nicole; 2 sisters and 1 brother and many nieces and nephews.

Cecile was a crossing guard for School District #43 for many years. A Celebration of her Life will be held Saturday, October 27th at 1:30 PM at Hope Lutheran Church, 3151 York Street, Port Coquitlam.

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VAALBURG, Matthew (Matt) Matthew (Matt) Vaalburg passed peacefully surrounded by his loving wife and family at Peace Arch Hospital in White Rock on October 21, 2018, just short of his 94th birthday.

Matt is survived by his wife Lois, daughters Lois and Janet (Alphonse) and son Herman (Brenda) as well as 6 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.

Matt grew up in Holland, where he met his future wife, Lois. They fell in love and married. After the birth of daughter Lois and son Herman, they emigrated to Canada.

Matt found work managing a farm in Port Coquitlam. Soon after, Janet, his second daughter was born. Seeking more independence, Matt worked as a guard at Haney Correctional Institute.

There he was able to combine this job with courses at UBC. Thereafter he began his teaching career at Pacific Vocational Institute/BCIT where he worked until retirement.

Matt was hard-working, honest and direct in his dealings with others, strict yet loving and generous to his children. He enjoyed family life, working around the house, in the yard and repairing his vehicles.

Excelling in swimming, Matt won many medals at the BC Senior Games. He loved sailing. Together with Lois, he also enjoyed playing tennis with good friends.

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