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Think before you vape, youths are being told SD43, Fraser Health team up to educate kids about dangers Diane StranDberg dstrandberg@shaw.ca
Ryan Purdy has been erecting his ghoulish Halloween display at 825 Runnymede Ave. in Coquitlam for five years. But this is the first year he’s putting it on as a fundraiser, for the SPCA in Coquitlam. The display, which runs only on Oct. 31, until 10 p.m., includes a cemetery, Gallows Walk, witch’s tent, butcher shop and a few other featured niches. The butcher’s shop is a PG13, optional experience and “only those brave, or crazy, enough can enter,” Purdy said. For more photos of Purdy’s display — and details about a number of other large Halloween displays in the Tri-Cities — go to tricitynews.com. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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As more reports emerge across North America about sickness and deaths related to vaping, School District 43 and Fraser Health are teaming up to urge youths to think twice before they start puffing. Combating youth vaping is the goal of a new education program geared to middle school and secondary school students. The program, which is being introduced to Grade 5 to 7 classes this fall, will include videos, presentations and resources, and is aimed at debunking popular myths that vaping is harmless, said SD43 assistant superintendent Rob Zambrano. It was developed over the summer by Diana Dickin, a
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On election night in PoMo-Coquitlam, Conservative candidate Nelly Shin (left) beat the NDP’s Bonita Zarrillo (right) by 353 votes. That margin was reduced to 153 votes following review. Now, a judge has ordered a recount. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTOS
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Shin’s win margin slims, judge orders a recount in Port Moody-Coquitlam ‘People are asking me for due diligence,’ says NDP’s Zarrillo STEFAN LAbbé slabbe@tricitynews.com
The New Democratic Party has been granted a recount in the riding of Port MoodyCoquitlam only a few days after final tallies cemented the riding’s place as the closest race in the country in the Oct. 21 federal election. “This is really just about people and respecting the will of the people,” NDP candidate Bonita Zarrillo said of her party’s recount application. “People were reaching out to
me and they were alarmed at the difference between the unofficial and official results, and people are asking me for due diligence.” On election night, Conservative candidate Nelly Shin won the riding by 353 votes over Zarrillo, a slim margin made decidedly skinny after an electoral officer officially validated the results last Friday, cutting her lead to 153 votes. “It’s a dramatic margin. It changed by more than half,” said Zarrillo, who said she was the only candidate to attend a validation meeting last Thursday at the riding’s Elections Canada office in Coquitlam. “They rejected a significant amount of ballots. I think the
community deserves another look at that,” the Coquitlam city councillor told The Tri-City News after the request for a recount was granted by a judge in New Westminster Tuesday afternoon. While Shin’s 153-vote margin did not reach the 0.01% threshold that would automatically trigger a recount, under Election Canada’s rules, a candidate or voters can file an affidavit before a federal judge asking for a formal recount within four days of validation of the results. The judge can grant a recount if ballots were incorrectly counted or rejected, or if there was an error made on the official Statement of Vote, according to the Canada Election Act.
The recount will happen in the next week or two and will be done by Elections Canada. After an electoral officer validated the final vote count last week, Shin’s total rose by 267 votes while Zarrillo’s jumped by 447 and Liberal Sarah Badiei’s went up by 286. Of the riding’s 82,048 eligible voters, 54,519, or about 66%, turned up to the polls. Elections Canada rejected 516 ballots. Port Moody-Coquitlam is one of three ridings where tight races have led runner-up candidates and their parties to request recounts from Elections Canada. Results from the other two ridings, both in Quebec, are being challenged by the Bloc Quebecois after its candidates were narrowly de-
feated by Liberals, according to reporting by Radio Canada. There were several close races across the country, including in the Yukon, which ended up with the same 153vote margin between winner and runner-up as Port MoodyCoquitlam. But how tight a race is is also a product of the total number of votes cast, and in Port Moody-Coquitlam, where more than twice as many voters cast ballots than did so in Yukon, only 0.28 percentage points separate Shin and Zarrillo, making it the tightest race in the country. In the neighbouring riding of Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam, validation of the final results also shifted the margin of victory, although incumbent
Liberal MP Ron McKinnon’s lead got wider, if only slightly, from an initial 339 votes to 390 votes. Still, that puts McKinnon’s win into sixth closest race in the country based on the percentage of voters. McKinnon picked up an extra 564 votes post-revision while the total of his closest challenger, Conservative Nicholas Insley, grew by 513 votes; the NDP’s Christina Gower, who placed third, had her total jump by 310 votes. In Coquitlam-PoCo, 63% of voters turned out to the polls and 314 ballots were rejected. Among the 10 tightest races in the country, Liberal and Conservative candidates are vying for top spot in six of them.
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OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 6 CALENDAR Thursday, Oct. 31 Family Night on Burke 6 – 7:30 p.m. coquitlam.ca/smilingcreek
Friday, Nov. 1
(through Sunday, Nov. 10 – various times) Coquitlam Remembers coquitlam.ca/parkspark
Sunday, Nov. 3 Family Day at PdA 2 – 4 p.m. placedesarts.ca
Monday, Nov. 4 Council-in-Committee 2 p.m. Regular Council 7 p.m. coquitlam.ca/agendas
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Program Registration Nov. 6
Coquitlam Remembers
Registration will kick off on Wednesday, Nov. 6 for our 2020 winter and spring programs! View the Program Guide online at coquitlam.ca/programguide and discover all the great drop-ins, camps, special events and programs we have available.
In preparation for Remembrance Day, join the Park Spark Team at Blue Mountain Park, Nov. 1 – 10 to contribute to a community display in honour to those who have served our country. Paint a poppy on the lawn, write a message of remembrance and tie it to a tree with yellow ribbon, and help paint flags that will wrap the tennis court along Veterans Way. This is a free, family-friendly event. Learn more at coquitlam.ca/parkspark.
Get Winter Wise With winter just around the corner, now is the time to get prepared for all kinds of weather including snow and ice, or wind and rain that can cause flooding and power failures. Please visit coquitlam.ca/winterprep for helpful tips on how to get prepared for winter. Parking Restrictions for Snow Events Residents of the upper Westwood Plateau neighbourhood should be aware of new parking restrictions on problematic streets in effect as of Nov. 1 to assist City crews in making our streets safer for winter driving during snow events. In place through to Mar. 15, the ‘no street parking’ restriction will be activated each time snow is in the forecast until the end of the snow event and streets are clear. The public will be notified by a variety of methods. Visit our webpage coquitlam.ca/winterwise for parking restriction maps and details on how to sign up for email notifications, as well as resources to keep you and your family safe and comfortable during the winter season. Be Aware and Get Prepared.
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Strengthen your Core Looking for a unique fitness opportunity? We offer drop-in Belly Dance classes on Mondays until Dec. 16, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. at Pinetree Community Centre (1260 Pinetree Way). This full body workout strengthens your core muscles, improves your posture and increases your cardiovascular fitness. Learn the basic techniques, movements and shimmies. All skill levels welcome. Discover all of our drop-in fitness classes at coquitlam.ca/fitness. KEEPING OUR COMMUNITY SAFE
Smoke Alarms & Carbon Monoxide Safety Smoke alarms are an important part of a home fire escape plan, and a Carbon monoxide (CO) alarm can save lives too. Y Replace alarm batteries when the clocks change in the fall – this weekend – and each spring. Y Smoke alarms should be installed outside bedrooms and on every level of your home including the basement. Y CO alarms should be installed as per manufacturer’s instructions. Y Never remove or disable alarms. Y Test alarms once a month and vacuum them regularly to remove dust. Y Make sure everyone in your home knows the sound of your alarms.
TRAFFIC HOT SPOTS
Translink TransLink is constructing a RapidBus corridor along Lougheed Highway that will connect the Coquitlam Transit Exchange to Maple Ridge. Work on the centre median of Lougheed between Pinetree and Westwood is underway with completion by mid-November. This work will have the following impacts 24/7: Y Eastbound Lougheed is reduced to two lanes. Y Westbound Lougheed to Southbound Lougheed left turns are reduced to one lane. Y Southbound Pinetree to Eastbound Lougheed left turns are reduced to one lane. coquitlam.ca/roadwork
FortisBC Work on the gas line upgrades continue – the eastbound lane on Spuraway Avenue will be closed east of Mariner Way with a detour via Hawser Avenue-Beacon Drive-Starlight. talkingenergy.ca
Y Plan and practice a home escape plan twice a year to know what to do when an alarm sounds. coquitlam.ca/firesafety
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PUBLIC CONSULTATION DETAILS See pages 32 & 34
Guitar Lessons on Burke Mountain Learn the basics of the guitar, including hand placement and basic chords with guitar lessons at Smiling Creek Activity Centre (3456 Princeton Ave.) starting Tuesday, Nov. 5. Possibility to build toward instruction of simple songs. No prior experience needed but please bring your own guitar.
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COQUITLAM BUDGET
Who wants how much in city of Coquitlam budget?
ENGINEERING & PUBLIC WORKS $300,000: ExTrEME wEAThEr BUDGET
• After the extreme weather budget was overspent three years in a row, the engineering department is requesting additional funds to respond to snow and ice events.
For more details on budget requests before Coquitlam city council, see Entertainment & Arts on page 37 and tricitynews.com
$150,800: rOAD MAInTEnAnCE
PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT $204,500: EC. DEv. $ fOr TOUrIsM
• With 55 new lane kilometres added in the last decade, a new full-time road maintenance person is required for increased street sweeping.
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• Currently funded through casino revenues, the tourism program has grown in recent years following the launch of the city’s tourism website and social media campaigns. According to a staff funding request, additional money is required to bolster the program and keep up with demand for activities associated with the tourism program.
$116,000: MEChAnIC
As the city of Coquitlam prepares for its annual budget process, council will have to consider a bevy of funding requests from various city departments. Senior managers are asking for close to $2 million for new staff to assist with everything from economic development and tourism to building inspections and public safety. On this page is an outline of funding requests and the rationale for the spending that went before council during two days of finance committee meetings. Council will now have to choose which requests to accept as they prepare the 2020 budget.
PARKS & RECREATION $116,400: PArKLAnD EnCrOACh. TECh
• The position would support the city’s efforts to manage encroachments into parkland. The position was previously funded as a half-time auxiliary level between 2016 and ’19.
• Another full-time mechanic is necessary for the city’s fleet maintenance, with $99,000 going to labour and $17,000 going to one-time tool costs and other expenses.
$85,800: COnsTrUCTIOn sITE OffICEr
$87,500: EnGInEErInG UTILITy TECh.
• The new position would assist with the increasing number of utility permits from third parties and utilities, such as BC Hydro and Telus. The new hire would also monitor construction and the coordination of design work.
• A new full-time construction site officer is required to mitigate the impacts of development on existing neighbourhoods. Job details include education and outreach with builders and inexperienced developers.
$103,400: EnvIrOnMEnTAL sPECIALIsT
$75,500: BUsInEss DEv. CO-OrDInATOr
• The new position would support the energy manager in helping the city achieve its climate action targets, which include tracking progress, creating strategies and policies and providing education and outreach.
• The new full-time position would assist with economic development programs and strategies focused on business retention and expansion, research and statistical analysis and updating marketing materials.
$70,000: BUDGET InCrEAsE: InfLATIOn
$61,400: BUILDInG InsPECTOr
• Materials and contractors costs have climbed 20% since 2009 and additional funds are required in the budget to adjust to the change.
• A spike in the number of inspections performed by city staff makes the addition of a new full-time building inspector necessary to keep up with the trend.
CITY MANAGER $154,900: COMMUnITy PLAnnEr
DEPUTY CITY MANAGER $132,900: TwO ByLAw OffICErs
• The new full-time position is being requested to meet the growing social demands in the city’s urban centre.
• Two new enforcement officers would focus on parks, dealing with issues such as fire safety and homelessness.
$154,900: BUsInEss sErvICEs MGr.
$85,600: COrPOrATE COMMUnICATIOns
• The new full-time position will support the engineering and public works department while providing support for senior management at city hall.
• As the city continues to move toward more digital communications to engage the community, a new staff person is required to manage and respond to residents.
$77,600: sPECIAL EvEnT CO-OrDInATOr
• As the community has increased in size, city events have become more complex. As a result, the parks department is requesting a dedicated staff person to assume a lead role in planning festivals such as Canada Day and Kaleidoscope.
$74,000: DOGwOOD AnD GLEn PInE
• The new position is required to accommodate growth in Coquitlam’s 50+ population and create more diverse programming for drop-in programs and clubs.
$49,700: TrAffIC COnTrOL sUPErvIsOr
• Changes to WorkSafeBC regulations around traffic control makes this part-time position necessary, according to the parks department. • A full-time civilian position to assist with planning, supervision and technical work for business functions. The business services manager would also support budgeting, reporting and analytics with a focus on performance management, according to a staff report.
$98,000: TrAInInG/MEMBErshIPs/ETC. • The additional funding is required for employee professional development. Training budgets are not adjusted for inflation and have fallen behind industry best practices, according to the funding request.
COQUITLAM RCMP $220,900: TwO MOUnTIEs
$30,000: hr AUxILIAry LABOUr
• More cops would bolster the detachment’s traffic services and road safety work as well as provide additional coverage to the Coquitlam RCMP’s Mental Health Liaison Unit.
• Money would be used to help the human resources department manage fluctuations in workload.
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Notice of Public Hearing Zoning Bylaw Amendment
Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 4148
The intent of the bylaw is to rezone 2156 Salisbury Avenue from Residential Single Dwelling RS1 to Residential Townhouse RS3 to allow for a 5-unit townhouse development.
PUBLIC HEARING 6 pm on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Council Chambers Port Coquitlam City Hall
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GIVE YOUR INPUT Members of the public will have an opportunity to express their views at the meeting or can submit written opinions to: publichearings@portcoquitlam.ca
Council cannot receive new or additional information on this application after the public hearing.
CITY HALL 2580 Shaughnessy Street Port Coquitlam, BC
Inspection of Documents Prior to the public hearing, the public is welcome to inspect the plans submitted by the applicant, and related reports and documents at: Development Services, Port Coquitlam City Hall Annex 8:30 am-4:30 pm (except weekends/stat. holidays) until 4:00 pm on the day of the hearing. Corporate Office 604.927.5421 • publichearings@portcoquitlam.ca
Visit the website for details. More info: Development Services, 604.927.5442.
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Zoning Bylaw Amendment
Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 4141
PUBLIC HEARING 6 pm on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Council Chambers Port Coquitlam City Hall
The purpose of the proposed zoning amendment is to allow for a cannabis retail sales use at 985 Nicola Avenue. The bylaw originally considered at a Public Hearing held on July 23, 2019 has been amended to restrict the amount of floor area permitted for retail sales and display to not exceed an area of 247 m2. Location: 985 Nicola Avenue
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Members of the public will have an opportunity to express their views at the meeting or can submit written opinions to: publichearings@portcoquitlam.ca
Council cannot receive new or additional information on this application after the public hearing.
CITY HALL 2580 Shaughnessy Street Port Coquitlam, BC
Inspection of Documents Prior to the public hearing, the public is welcome to inspect the plans submitted by the applicant, and any related reports and documents at: Development Services, Port Coquitlam City Hall Annex 8:30 am-4:30 pm (except weekends/stat. holidays) until 4:00 pm on the day of the hearing. Corporate Office 604.927.5421 • publichearings@portcoquitlam.ca
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WHERE ARE THE WEED STORES? A bid for a second BC Cannabis Store in PoCo will go to another public hearing next month. Oct. 22, city council rescinded and re-read the second bylaw reading for the provincial government’s application to turn a unit at 985 Nicola Ave. into a 6,000-sq. ft. cannabis outlet. The facility would also include a warehouse/storage component plus an administration and training side. The bylaw re-reading comes after a public hearing in July in which the size of the operation raised eyebrows. Under the revised regulation, city council would restrict the sales area to 2,658 sq. ft. — a move opposed by councillors Darrel Penner and Laura Dupont, who said council shouldn’t limit retail; rather, they said, the rezoning rules should apply evenly to all businesses. Currently, PoCo has two private cannabis shops operated by burb; a pre-approved BC Cannabis Store is scheduled to be ready next year on Lougheed Highway near the No Frills store.
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A One Pass card will launch next month in Port Coquitlam for residents wanting unlimited access to drop-in programs at recreation centres. PoCo’s One Pass will be similar to Coquitlam’s, allowing users to pay a term membership for unlimited swimming, skating and fitness at the Hyde Creek rec centre, the new Port Coquitlam community centre (PCCC) and outdoor pools. Registered programs are excluded. In 2019, One Pass cardholders will pay: • child (four to 12 years): $27.43 a month/$253.56 a year; • youth/young adult (13 to 24): $40.29/$372.42 a year; • adult (25 to 59): $54.86/$507.12 a year; • senior (60 to 84): $40.29 a month; $372.42 a year; • “super seniorâ€? (85 or older): $27.43 a month/$253.56 a year; • and family (one adult, two kids): $109.71 a month/$1,014.25 a year. Last week, city council approved the all-inclusive card, which will be available starting Nov. 15, while also considering an update to its fees and charges bylaw, starting Jan. 1 — a proposal that will generate
CHILD CARE SURVEY CLOSES FRIDAY
Port Coquitlam’s new community centre is seen through the remnants of the old ice arenas as they’re demolished by an excavator Monday. The second phase of the $132-million project will include a new ice pad to join the other two already opened. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
an extra $40,000 a year if city council formally approves the policy at its Nov. 12 meeting. Under the plan, recreation rates will rise 2% — the first increase since May 2018 — and a new pricing structure will be created for youths and young adults. The latter move is designed to get more residents between the ages of 13 and 24 active at rec centres, recreation director Lori
Bowie told council. The 2% admission jump is to reflect the Lower Mainland market and to align with union wage, supplies and utility increases, she said at the Oct. 22 meeting. The proposed single drop-in admissions at Hyde Creek and PCCC are set to rise: • child: $3.05 to $3.10; • youth/young adult: $4.48 to $4.65; • adult: $6.10 to $6.20;
• senior: $4.48 to $4.65; • super senior: $3.05 to $3.10; • family: $12.19 to $12.40. The city also plans to adjust its fees for field and arena rentals based on the adult base-price model: Youths/ schools will pay half the adult base price rate while private groups will pay 125% and commercial/non-resident/political groups will pay 150%.
Port Coquitlam parents and caregivers have until tomorrow (Friday) to take a survey on child care availability in the Tri-Cities. The three municipalities are now gathering information to look at current and future needs for child care. This past spring, each city got a $25,000 grant from the provincial Community Child Care Planning Program to create specific plans. Those action plans are expected to be released next year. For more information, go to portcoquitlam.ca/childcare. In some cases, users will see charges go down next year, Bowie said. Coun. Steve Darling said he’s happy to hold the line for arena rentals for youth/schools as “parents are paying a tremendous amount for ice time.� Coun. Nancy McCurrach asked if the city should waive fees for super seniors while
Coun. Laura Dupont asked why PCCC user groups need to book the corridors for such things as tournament registration and receptions. Mayor Brad West said charging for corridor use “is a bit nickel and dime-ing‌ If it’s ancillary to the event, in my view, it’s fine to have a desk in a corridor next to the event.â€?
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Tech hub faces challenges in Moody Centre Creating the future of Moody Centre is a hugely complex task
Cities often say they want to lure high-tech because “it sounds advanced” and “more palatable then another sawmill.”
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Peter Hall For passengers of the Evergreen Extension and the West Coast Express, disembarking at Moody Centre station, there’s simply no there there. Nearby Spring Street has no sidewalks. Not that there’s much reason to walk between the smattering of auto repair shops, strips of light industrial spaces, some small fitness gyms and several vacant buildings. One street south, St. Johns, isn’t much more alluring for pedestrians, although it does have a sidewalk flanking its four lanes of busy traffic speeding through Port Moody. It’s little wonder, then, Moody Centre is one of TransLink’s most under-utilized stations. That’s about to change.
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A consortium of developers and property owners — including TransLink — with a stake in the 23-acre stretch between the SkyTrain station and St. Johns Street, and from Moody to Buller streets, that has become known as the Moody Centre Transit Oriented Development (TOD) area, is unveiling to the public its plans for the
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neighbourhood in two open houses. The first was last night (Wednesday), and another will be held Saturday. The product of nearly two years of quiet collaboration amongst its members and with city staff, the consortium envisions a dense urban neighbourhood with more than 3,700 homes in a series of condo towers whose residents will be able to use their convenient access to transit to get to jobs elsewhere. Spring Street would become its spine. Wide sidewalks flanking a narrow, traffic-calmed road would be lined with shops and offices that would create employment for 1,400 people. Pocket parks and an expansive plaza at the entrance to the SkyTrain station would give people places to gather. Old Dallas creek, currently hidden from view, would become a daylighted green space.
But some on Port Moody council have a different idea.
a TECH HUB?
They want fewer condo towers and more affordable units in the ones that do get built. They want residents to be able to stay in the neighbourhood to work at well-paying jobs for high-tech and education employers in spaces specially built for them. Other employees would stream into the neighbourhood from elsewhere in the region using transit. Coun. Hunter Madsen, who championed the tech hub vision in a report he authored last summer, said it’s important the city get the TOD right because its redevelopment “presents the single-best opportunity that Port Moody will get to reinvent and revitalize its economic heart over the next half century.” Peter Hall, a professor of
urban studies at Simon Fraser University, said the ability of municipal governments to shape such economic growth is limited to zoning. But to make it happen, he said, developers have to buy in. And that’s not guaranteed. “That kind of strategy is the kind of thing developers think is risky,” Hall said, adding cities often dangle the idea of luring high-tech employers because “it sounds advanced” and “more palatable then another sawmill.” Hall said the high value of property, especially near transit stations, makes it economically difficult for developers to build the kind of small, flexible and inexpensive spaces that would attract start-ups. As well, he said the need to densify near transit to accommodate regional growth and transportation strategies makes it a challenge to accommodate a large anchor that needs space to grow. Port Moody’s Karn Manhas, whose Vancouver-based biotech company, Terramera, recently received a venture capi-
tal injection of $45 million (see story, page 17), said from his start in a 100-sq. ft. basement lab in Port Coquitlam, he now needs about 100,000 sq. ft. “It has to be scalable and it has to be there,” he said of the space requirements for growing tech companies. “Where you have transit, you have condos but not enough large spaces.”
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Madsen, who also chairs Port Moody’s economic development committee, said there have already been “early conversations with a number of potentially interested businesses and academic institutions considering campus space” in the city that will be connected with the consortium of developers and property owners. He said the city can also do things like ensure its fibre network is top notch to increase its allure. Still, it’s a competitive marketplace, SFU’s Hall said. The False Creek Flats industrial area of Vancouver has been designated for high-tech development since the late
1990s but it’s only recently that big institutions like Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Mountain Equipment Co-op have set roots in the 450-acre tract of land east of Main Street and north of Great Northern Way. As well, earlier this month, the B.C. government announced an investment of several million dollars to help create an “innovation corridor” in Surrey, around that city’s SFU campus. Hall said it takes “a bit of willingness to want to do something a bit different, and the city holding the line” to stand apart from other players. Madsen said Port Moody has those tools. He said the city could bring some of its own land in the area to the table, and in September, council formed a new Moody Innovation Centre task force to spark conversations with provincial players like TransLink and the BC Transportation Finance Authority to create more space for a tech hub. Even then, Manhas said, tech companies like his look at other factors as well, like being located amidst other likeminded tech companies, as well as amenities for employees. “They want to be in a place where there’s a scene,” he said. But, he added, in the tech sector that can be a moving target that always has companies on the alert for greener, more viable, pastures because “we don’t know what we’ll look like in five years.”
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Topic: A push for prop. rep. voting
“Having a majority overall would be better than a majority in ridings. Also, fringe parties aren’t given a platform under PR since there is a minimum percentage you must receive before getting a seat.”
“Requiring a majority from a riding ensures that those who govern have significant support. Giving a platform and voice for fringe parties would not give us more effective leadership.”
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ith or without a bus strike, Tri-City commuters are about to see how important transit service is to Metro Vancouver. As of Monday, Unifor issued 72-hour strike notice after contract talks stalled with Coast Mountain Bus Co., and even if a strike or other job action is averted by Thursday night, expect to see some accommodation for bus drivers because the region simply can’t run without buses. Though not without flaws, Metro Vancouver’s transit system is recognized as one of the best in North America, and
with the strengthening of the SkyTrain system, the backbone of transit — bus ridership — is constantly on the rise. The number of people taking the bus rose 5.7% in the northeast sector, which includes the Tri-Cities, in 2018, including behind the southeast (North Delta, Surrey, Langley and White Rock), which jumped 15.6%, and the southwest (Richmond, South Delta), which increased 8.8%. System wide, total boardings — bus, SkyTrain, SeaBus, West Coast Express and HandyDART — went up 7.1% in 2018, for the biggest annual increase in the organization’s history. Does Coast Mountain want to lose those gains? Probably not. What’s at stake? The future of transit. Without bus service, especially connections to SkyTrain,
our transit system becomes truncated, forcing more people to use their cars or come up with other alternatives that will make getting to work, school and appointments more challenging and difficult. If the service isn’t running, commuters will simply give up, a boon to ride-hailing services, such as Lyft that may roll out to pick up the slack, while the cost to the economy would be great, especially if job action were to last as long as the four months it did in 2001. Still, there is probably room to move on both sides, though we would never place a bet based on media statements during negotiations because both parties tend to spin and exaggerate. But there is likely plenty of truth to the union’s concerns about stress on the job and the need to hire more drivers as well as put in service more
buses to reduce traffic. The cost of congestion was recently highlighted in a report to the TransLink Mayors’ Council, and if we’re serious about transit, we will make the improvements necessary. It’s also true that Coast Mountain has been on a hiring spree to get buses on the road. It says it has hired more than 1,000 bus drivers in the last two years. That’s good news but the employers’ job doesn’t end with getting bums in seats to drive the buses. Both sides need to be brought together, with mediation a good step to avert a shut down, and there needs to be a clear commitment from TransLink, the Mayors’ Council, and the provincial government that the funding is there to ensure the reliability of the bus service into the future. Now is not the time to shortchange public transit.
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2019 FEDERAL ELECTION
Is it time for federal electoral reform? “Perhaps it is time to stop giving only lip service to the goal of unity and adopt an electoral system that will reflect... the range of opinions that Canadians actually hold.”
The Editor, Re. “Electoral reformers renew call for change” (The Tri-City News, Oct. 24). For all practical purposes, the two Tri-City federal ridings are equally divided between the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP. In this election, the two winning candidates each received roughly a third of the votes cast, and roughly two thirds of the voters cast ballots for candidates other than the winning one. Isn’t it time to have an electoral system that recognizes the reality of the actual range of political choices made by the Tri-City residents? On a national level, similar distortions occurred. The Bloc
Lawrence Fast
Quebec received roughly the same number of votes as the Green Party but received 32 seats in Parliament while the Greens won three. The media is full of pontificating commentaries about “western alienation,” the solidarity of Quebec, etc. But profound distortions between the actual voting percentages received and the number of seats received occurred in all regions of Canada. In other words, our electoral system creates the perception of deep regional differences that, in most instances, simply do not exist. Throughout our history national unity has been an elusive goal that all political
parties have claimed to support. Perhaps it is time to stop giving only lip service to the goal of unity and adopt an electoral system that will create real working majorities in Parliament and reflect, through majority coalitions, the wide range of political opinions that Canadians actually hold. In other words, proportional representation — like most responsible and wellfunctioning democracies. Lawrence Fast, Coquitlam
‘MY VOTE COUNTS’
The Editor, Once again, after each election, the calls for electoral change are made, typically
from the losing parties and/ or its persons, or some left- or right-leaning think tank, or some special interest group that speaks as though speaking for the people. Proportional representation is the most common of these calls. And without going into the often-repeated pros and cons of this (and there are many for both sides), I suggest that the one decisive issue regarding proportional representation that needs to be addressed is this: Is the likelihood of never having a majority government really what is in the best interests of its citizenry? I suggest the answer is No — unless those who say Yes
feel going to the polls regularly to the point of reaching the potential levels of nausea and ensuring governing bodies will forever virtually remain ineffective is the aim. First past the post certainly has its flaws. Every voting program and platform has its flaws. I have voted throughout my life proudly and, at times, the person I vote for doesn’t win. OK, no problem. The person with the most votes moves on. And I have never, ever, considered my vote wasted as there are some who are quick to argue to the contrary. My vote counts — always. Michael Sonntag, Port Coquitlam
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“Drug delivery — getting the right medicine into the right place — is a big area of science. And if you could have that happen with pesticides, could you get them to work more effectively?”
Karn Manhas Founder and CEO of Terramera
Port Moody native Karn Manhas embarked on a quest to disrupt the agriculture industry with technology to make pesticides more efficient after an argument about bedbugs and the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. SUBMITTED PHOTO
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ong after Vancouver’s Olympic village was transformed into an urban condo community and the speed skating ice at the Richmond Oval was boarded over for basketball courts, one of the most enduring legacies of the 2010 Winter Games may be how farmers protect crops from pests and disease. And it all started because a law student from Port Moody got into a debate about bedbugs. Karn Manhas, who grew up in Pleasantside and graduated from the International Baccalaureate program at Port Moody secondary school, was helping set up a law conference in downtown Vancouver in 2009 when the discussion occurred about the merits of the Olympic Games that the city was preparing to host the following year. Manhas, who was studying law at UBC after he had already obtained a bach-
The Vancouver research lab for Terramera, a biotech company started by Port Moody native — and former Port Coquitlam MLA — Karn Manhas. SUBMITTED PHOTO
elor’s degree in biology and biotechnology at McGill University in Montreal — and after he served one term as a BC Liberal for Port Coquitlam — was all for the games. But his colleague said they often came with unintended consequences, like an infestation of bedbugs, as had occurred in Sydney after the Australian city hosted the Summer Games in 2000. The tiny, blood-sucking insects spread unchecked because, over the years, they’d become resistant to most chemical pesticides and natural compounds just
weren’t up to the task. Manhas was gobsmacked. “It made no sense to me,” he said, adding the argument tweaked the curiosity of the biologist side of his brain. That curiosity led to employment for 130 people and Manhas’ Vancouver-based biotech company, Terramera, is poised to grow even more with the recent injection of US$45 million from a pair of venture capital investment firms that specialize in food and agriculture. Manhas said the money will further propel his company’s
technology down a path to reduce the use of synthetic chemical pesticides by making them more efficient as well as improve the performance of natural products to protect organic farms. The investment, he said, “will be instrumental to fulfilling our mission of using technology to unlock the intelligence in nature, ensuring an Earth that thrives and provides for everyone.” It’s a lofty ambition for a quest that first started taking shape in a lab that was more Breaking Bad than Silicon Valley that Manhas had cobbled together in the basement of the Port Coquitlam home where he was living at the time. In fact, he said, the assemblage of glass beakers, test tubes and pipes was so rudimentary, it raised the eyebrows of utility workers who had to access the basement when they were trying to repair a water main that had burst under the street out front. Manhas didn’t mind. He had taken his colleague’s assertion of an Olympic bed bug apocalypse as a challenge. “I had my back up that this wasn’t possible,” he said, adding it was a similar motivation that had made him the youngest member of the
BC Legislature in 2001, representing Coquitlam-Burke Mountain at the age of 24 and fresh out of McGill after he was told he didn’t have a chance of getting elected for the Liberal party against NDP incumbent Mike Farnworth. Manhas’ research into the bedbug problem led him to neem oil, a natural extract from the fruit and seeds of an evergreen tree native to India, where his family is from originally; there, he said, the tree is known as the “village pharmacy.” In his basement lab, Manhas found spraying neem was only about 10% effective in controlling bedbugs but when he injected it into them and other insects he had collected, it was a 100% surefire killing compound. “A lightbulb went off,” Manhas said. “Drug delivery — getting the right medicine into the right place — is a big area of science. And if you could have that happen with pesticides, could you get them to work more effectively?” Of course, injecting individual bedbugs or other pests wasn’t a practical solution, so Manhas used his background in biology and biotechnology to look for answers in nature,
where plants have evolved natural ways to fight off threats to their well-being. He developed a chemical formula called Actigate that could break through the armour of a bedbug or other pest to deliver the treatment more efficiently. While Manhas said he originally developed the formula to help natural pesticides work better, discussions with investors for initial financing in 2016 convinced him his product could also have a positive impact if it were also integrated into treatments with synthetic chemicals because less would have to be used. Manhas said biotechnologies like Actigate have the potential to make organic agriculture more viable and profitable for farmers while reducing the environmental harm caused by synthetic pesticides. “The value of that is a more efficient system,” he said, adding that efficiency might just be able to make the agriculture industry more regenerative rather than degenerative, ensuring the long-term viability of soils and the health of crops they support. “We’re in a really interesting time, to be able to use data and technology to solve some of the biggest problems we have.”
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the higher the risk of cancer. Health Canada estimates radon causes 16% of all lung cancers. Still, many people fail to understand the risks associated with the deadly gas. In one recent study commissioned by Health Canada, only about 8% of British Columbians have tested their homes for radon. But if you do test your home and find it has high radon levels, guarding against the radioactive gas is relatively easy. Simple measures to seal your basement will prevent the gas from seeping into your home. But the most effective method to lower radon levels, says Warkentin, involves installing a radon-reduction system — basically a pipe running under a house to vent radon out of the soil and into the open air, where it will harmlessly dissipate. In B.C., radon-reduction systems range in cost from $1,300 to $4,000 for a regular detached home, according to Warkentin. “We can fix it. We do have proven methods to reduce radon in homes,” she said.
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The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) is calling on all people who use drugs to learn how to respond to an overdose with a take-home naloxone kit. The warning comes after recent research published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence found people who snort or smoke drugs are more than half as likely to carry naloxone kits than those who inject them. “We are dealing with a toxic illegal drug supply. Having a kit and knowing how to use it can save a life. In fact, we know that thanks to the heroic efforts of so many, thousands
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Port Coquitlam historian Bryan Ness gives a Remembrance Day talk during Veterans Week, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Wilson Lounge at the Port Coquitlam Community Centre (2150 Wilson Ave.). Visit pocoheritage.org or portcoquitlam.ca.
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Shop for original art — and Christmas presents — at the 52nd annual Port Moody Art Association display this weekend. The show opens tonight at 7 p.m. at the Port Moody recreation complex (300 Ioco Rd., Port Moody) with Fatima Amarshi and continues Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission and parking are free. Visit portmoodyartassociation.com.
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Help the city of Coquitlam’s Park Spark team dress up the area around the Blue Mountain Park cenotaph on Veterans Way (975 King Albert Ave., Coquitlam) before the Remembrance Day ceremony on Nov. 11. Paint a poppy on the lawn, tie a message on a tree or paint a banner. The crew will be at the site today and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m., Nov. 5 and 6 from 3 to 7 p.m., Nov. 7 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., and Nov. 8, 9 and 10 from 1 to 4 p.m. Call 604-927-6329 or visit coquitlam.ca/parkspark.
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Bed & Breakfast, a play about inheritance, relocation to the suburbs and homophobia, is at the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam) at 8 p.m. and repeating Saturday at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. The production is presented by the Arts Club Theatre on Tour company and stars Paul Dunn and Mark Crawford. For tickets, call 604927-6555 or visit evergreenculturalcentre.ca.
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The deadline is 9 p.m. tonight to place a bid in the fourth annual online auction to aid arts programs at Place des Arts. Prizes include trips to Vancouver Island, music and sports tickets and spa packages. The arts facility has a fundraising goal of $10,000. Visit 32auctions.com/placedesarts.
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The Storytelling with Drag Queens Foundation reads to young learners in the Inlet Theatre (100 Newport Dr., Port Moody) from 1 to 2 p.m. Registration is required via portmoodylibrary.ca.
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be sold at St. John the Apostle Anglican Church (2208 St. Johns St., Port Moody) for its fall fair from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. And Terry Fox secondary school (1260 Riverwood Gate, Port Coquitlam) will have its Christmas craft fair fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to support the graduating class of 2020. Admission to both events are free.
HARVeST FeST The Downtown Port Coquitlam Business Improvement Association (BIA) hosts an autumn celebration in Leigh Square (next to PoCo city hall) from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with games for the kids, entertainment and a family photo booth (by donation to support the Charlene
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Join Port Moody’s resident artist Sara Graham for the unveiling of Portrait of a City, a community art project in which Graham collected about 100 nature drawings from Earth Day and Fingerling Festival participants, scanned and redrew using a computer program to create five panels. Those aluminium sheets will be along a new pathway at the west end of Moody Centre station parking lot, at the base of the pedestrian ramp. The unveiling is at 1 p.m. Visit portmoody.ca.
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HeALInG TIMe Organizers with the Healing Tribe and Noons Creek Hatchery pay tribute to ancient traditions around the world on la Dia de los Muertos — Day of the Dead — with a remembrance ceremony at the hatchery (north of the Port Moody recreation complex, 300 Ioco Rd.) starting at 7 p.m. Display traditional motifs (flowers, incense and food) and place a photo of a lost loved one on an altar. The cost is $25 with proceeds supporting the hatchery work. Register via noonscreek.org.
MeXICAn MOVeS Honour la Dia de los Muertos with Mexican native Alberto Gonzalez at his Hot Salsa Dance Zone weekly party in the rehearsal hall of Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam) from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. A beginners dance lesson is from 8 to 9 p.m. Admission is $10. Visit hotsalsadancezone.com.
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FAMILY dAY Drop into Place des Arts (1120 Brunette Ave., Coquitlam) from 2 to 4 p.m. for free family art workshops inspired by the exhibiting artists: Mat Holmstrom, koralee and Rose Kapp. Register via brownpapertickets.com. Call 604-664-1636 or visit placedesarts.ca.
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And the Scary Story Contest winners are... on this page are the winners of the annual Scary Story Contest for triCity youths aged 11 to 18 and put on by Coquitlam and Port moody public libraries, and The Tri-City News. to participate, local kids had to write a terrifying tale of no more than 500 words — but three of them had to be: craven, tremulous and lurid. the dozens of entries were whittled down to a shortlist by librarians, then the top three were chosen by The Tri-City News. Winners in each age category (11 to 14 and 15 to 18) will receive prizes worth $50 (first), $30 (second) and $20 (third). to read the second- and third-place stories in each category, please go to tricitynews.com.
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I am a narrator. I am the narrator. My curse: to see everything, record even the most lurid and gruesome sights. I must write of horrors from of the dead of night; hear the bloodcurdling shrieks of the doomed; the cries of the anguished. And do nothing.
Red. I skid to a stop at the light, heart racing, my mouth dry, knuckles clenched white against the steering wheel. My only thought is of getting away, as far away from my tiny, frigid apartment as possible. n n n n
This is Minna’s story. Her shoes crunched in the snow and her breath steamed. Her threadbare coat did nothing, and her shoes felt frozen to her feet. She trudged on, her lamp glowing at her side, becoming more and more hopeless. And lost. To be lost is terrible; to be lost without hope is dangerous. Minna became a target to the Shadowman. The Shadowman, you’d think he’s imaginary. But you’re wrong. He’s real. The Shadowman is an embodiment of your worst nightmares, your biggest fears. He strikes your weakest points, the cowardly craven. He turns your mind against you, and like a candle dropped into the sea, the life in you extinguishes. He is shadow. You won’t see him unless he wants you to. When the Shadowman first saw Minna, she still walked on, but was tired and shivered so, her lamp glowed with tremulous light. He approached. All she felt was a brush of air as he whispered, “left.” Seemingly subconsciously, she turned. She turned away from the streetlights, and her lamp became the only source of light. Every corner and shadow deepened. The alley was dark. Ominously so. Minna slowed, then stopped when she saw a man, crouched against the wall. Minna stared. The man stared. “Be careful. The slightest wind would smother the flame.” He dropped a box of matches in Minna’s hand. “Who are you?” He smiled. “I, am the Shadowman.” Wind blasted through the alley, extinguishing Minna’s lantern. The wind stopped. Silence. Minna remembered the matchbox, hastily struck a match, but it didn’t ignite. She struck it over and over until it broke. She tried each match until the empty box slipped from her cold fingers. Suddenly, voices erupted in her head. A cacophony of metal on metal. Minna screamed. Scenes skittered across her mind. The monsters she feared as a child; the basement of her house; the sky, a vibrant, blinding blue as she stood alone in a field. She sank to her knees, the voices strengthened. Tears streamed down her face. “NO!” She shut her eyes and covered her ears with her hands, yelping when they came away wet. In the darkness, crimson streaked her fingers as her ears bled. “STOP!” she pleaded. She felt a part of her wrenched away and shimmery light snaked through the alley. In the silvery light, Minna kneeled on the ground, among blood spattered snow; wild terror dancing in her eyes. Her last breath. A tiny puff of white. She crumpled into the snow. Then, the light vanished. I was alone. Minna was found that morning. Her skin, pale as the winter sky, her icy fingers clutching her ears, coated in frozen blood. Her eyes terrified, as they stared glassily.
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SECoND: “CREATURES OF THE NIGHT,” PRIYA CHRISTIANSON, 11, Coquitlam tHiRD: “THE PINK BED,” ANITA CHENG, 13, Coquitlam
It started last month. At first, I heard it only in the space between waking and sleep. A lurid grinding, clicking, scraping noise, like gnashing teeth, or bones rubbing together. Next, I heard it in my sleep. Then I pulled an allnighter, and the noise was constant. Was it rodents? Pipes? The heater? Not the heater. The heater is broken. I worked late Monday night and arrived home at eleven. Shivering, I stepped inside my apartment. The clicking was incessant. The apartment, freezing. Yesterday, I had fumbled around with the broken heater for an hour, before giving up. The repairman couldn’t come until Thursday though, so that left my apartment feeling like a tomb for the next two nights. I piled blankets onto my bed, squeezed my eyes shut, and tried to block out the noise with my pillow so I could sleep. Eventually I drifted off. BANG! My eyes flew open. I looked around wildly. Grind, click, scrape. It was louder. My heart filled my ears when I saw the top of the heater flung open. I froze. The noise was coming from inside. I stopped breathing. The noise stopped too, and momentarily, the apartment was silent. I crawled forwards on my bed, tremulous, and leaned forward to peer into the heater. Inside… was a pile of bones. No, not just bones. Peeling, translucent skin was stretched over them. It should have been a body... I gasped when I saw the skull staring up at me from the corner, black eyes sunken into sockets, lips curled back to reveal a gaping grin, mouth crowded with elongated teeth. Transfixed, I stared into its eyes. Then a grasping hand reached for my neck. I choked on my scream as I stumbled out of the room and through my front door, leaving it swinging behind me. Through dim hallways and down creaking stairs I flew in craven panic. I careened through the carport, hearing only the sound of my laboured breathing and the slapping of my bare feet on cold cement. Wait! There it was. The noise echoed and bounced off the carport walls until I wanted to plug my ears. I patted my pockets for my keys as I ran. There was my car, thirty yards twenty, ten. I jammed the key in the lock, catapulted myself inside and sped recklessly through the parkade and onto the street. n n n n I skid to a stop at the light, heart racing, my mouth dry, knuckles clenched white against the steering wheel. My only thought is of getting away from the awful clicking that’s everywhere all at once. Calm down, nobody’s coming. Green. Glancing in the rearview mirror I meet cold, dead eyes. The skeletal hand reaching for my throat is quicker this time.
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SECoND: “WITH TENDER HANDS,” MIKA GOLI, 17, Coquitlam tHiRD: “STROBE,” AMY LUTY, 16, Coquitlam
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➊ Members of the Port Coquitlam Firefighters’s Charitable Society donated $3,500 to Central elementary in PoCo for its breakfast and snack program. The cheque was presented during a celebration on Oct. 18.
➋ A total of 33 volunteers with the Lower Mainland Green Team helped Port Moody city staff pull 40 cubic metres of invasive plant species such as English Ivy, English Holly and Himalayan Blackberry from Rocky Point Park last Saturday. Students from Heritage Woods, Port Moody and Gleneagle secondaries also joined in. Its next park weeding is Nov. 16.
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From PoCo, with love: Fundraiser will help families in Uganda Nov. 10 desserts fundraiser will help kids, parents at Abetavu JANIS ClEUgh jcleugh@tricitynews.com
Carli Travers and Robert Birungi live a relatively simple life in Port Coquitlam with their five young sons. But the couple also has a much larger family some 14,000 km away, on a campus they started more than a decade ago to help hundreds of orphans, at-risk children and their caregivers build a better life. Abetavu is the 11-acre safe haven they created in Birungi’s homeland of Uganda, a place that provides schooling for children and adults as well as a number of outreach programs such as support groups, religious education, farm training and an emergency shelter for victims of domestic abuse. Recently, the charity updated the field for its Hidden Talent soccer players — at a cost of $10,000 — and introduced a new daycare for kids with special needs. The cost to run Abetavu is $60,000 a year, money it primarily raises in Canada, where the family now resides full-time because of threats made against them from community leaders and others in the African country. Next month, the husbandand-wife team will host its fourth annual dessert night at Riverside community church in PoCo’s Dominion Triangle. They hope to collect at least $10,000 from the event to continue their work at Abetavu. The event, to be held Nov. 10, will include catered desserts, a silent auction and traditional African drum music from 6 to 8 p.m. Travers, a BC Christian Academy graduate, said the couple’s push now is to lift the families in the surrounding community out of poverty so they can become independent.
Port Coquitlam’s Carli Travers and her husband, Robert Birungi, with their children Xavia and Zion, outside the Riverside community church, where their fourth annual dessert night will take place Nov. 10. JANIS CLEUGH THE TRI-CITY NEWS
“The last thing we want to be is a crutch. We can provide them seeds and they can sustain themselves with their own gardens, for example.”
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Carli Travers PoCo resident who is behind Abetavu in Uganda
Many children are being raised by single mothers or their grandmothers and “the last thing we want to be is a crutch,” Travers said. “We can provide them seeds and they can sustain themselves with their own gardens, for example.” Birungi said the harvest can also be shared with their neighbours. “We want them to equip themselves,” Travers said, adding, “We want people to know that we live in Port Coquitlam and we’re trying to make a difference for people on the other side of the world.” Birungi, who returns to Uganda four days after the Nov. 10 gathering for a threemonth stint, said the event is also a way to meet and give thanks to the donors “who have been there for us since Day 1. We are very grateful.” The family plans to make a trip back to Abetavu next summer.
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Founded in 1955, Coquitlam Little League (CLL) offers competitive and community baseball for children and youth in the Tri-Cities area. CLL has a long tradition of success and player development while staying true to its Little League roots. One of the only programs that offer regular season opportunities for four to 16 year olds and postseason (all-star) opportunities for eight to 16 year olds, Coquitlam regularly graduates players to college, university and other competitive leagues. The multi-field Mackin Park is home base for the club—and a perfect location for families with multiple children who are playing at the same time. Learn more at coquitlamlittleleague.ca
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LIBRARIES & LITERACY
Be a HERO or hear author Wong read This feature, written by librarians with Coquitlam Public Library, Port Moody Public Library and Terry Fox Library in Port Coquitlam, is published each Thursday to highlight programs and happenings in the Tri-Cities’ three libraries.
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• Design-your-card contest: Attention, junior artists. Enter the CPL contest and you could have your design featured on new children’s Coquitlam Public Library cards. There is a category for traditional illustration (which includes crayon, pencil crayon, felt marker, watercolour, oil paint and more) and for computer-generated graphics. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three winners in both categories but only first-place entries will be featured on a library card. The contest is open to children five to 11 years old who live in Coquitlam. Submit your entry by email, mail or in person no later than 5 p.m. Dec. 6. • Lendable Tech: Study the night sky, learn coding and
BOOK OF THE WEEK â– The Invited by Jennifer McMahon â– Reviewed by Caroline Wandel, Terry Fox Library
The Invited by Jennifer McMahon is a plethora of all things spooky, set in an isolated location with multitudes of haunted objects, twisted family histories and, of course, ghosts. The story centres on Nate and Helen, a young couple looking for a change. They trade in their city life for rural Vermont, where they build their dream home. They soon discover their property has a dark and violent past. Helen, a former history teacher, is consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died on the property a century ago. Helen’s research reveals that Hattie still has living relatives and she feels she has to locate them before the pattern of violence continues. Whether or not you believe in ghosts, this thriller guarantees to haunt. Find this title and other spooky reads at your local library.
programming, and play educational games with CPL’s lendable tech. Ozobot Bits, Sphero SPRKs, Sky-Watcher telescopes and Playaway LaunchPad tablets can be borrowed from either branch and on the Library Link. For more information, visit coqlibrary.ca. • HEROS Emergency Preparedness Program: The
city of Coquitlam wants to make sure you and your family are ready in an emergency situation. Topics covered include assembling emergency supplies, protecting yourself inside and outside of your home or place of work, and family communication and reunification. The next session is at the Poirier branch Tuesday,
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Info: www.fvrl.bc.ca, the Fraser Valley Regional Library Facebook page or 604-9277999. Terry Fox Library is located 2470 Mary Hill Rd. in PoCo.
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• NaNoWriMo Write-ins: National Novel Writing Month challenges you to write a 50,000-word book in one month. Join librarians Nov. 4
and 18 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. for write-ins. PMPL will provide space, story ideas, prizes and support — all you have to do is write. These are drop-in sessions, no registration required. • Frauds and scams: Nov. 7 from 7 to 8 p.m. in the library’s ParkLane Room, Port Moody Police Department will tell you how to protect yourself from common frauds and scams. Register online at portmoodylibrary.ca or by calling
604-469-4577. • Canadian citizenship prep: Thinking about taking the Canadian citizenship test? Learn how to prepare and pick up study tips in this workshop with MOSAIC that will run Nov. 15 from 1 to 5 p.m. Call 604-636-4712, Ext. 107 to register. 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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You may also obtain more information on this application by calling Brendan Hurley, Planning and Development Department, at 604-927-3414 or emailing Brendan at bhurley@coquitlam.ca, or the Planning and Development Department at 604-927-3400.
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You are invited to provide input to Council relative to this revised application. Additional information related to this application, including a copy of the permit, may be inspected from Friday, October 18, 2019 to Monday, November 4, 2019 at the City’s Planning and Development Department, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday excluding statutory holidays.
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The applicant, Beedie Development Group, is requesting a TUP to permit the development of an industrial open storage yard to facilitate the storage of pipeline construction materials related to the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project. This TUP would expire on November 4, 2022.
If you wish to speak at the Council Meeting please call the City Clerk’s Office at 604-927-3010. If you call the City Clerk’s Office to register, your name will be placed on the Speakers List. Everyone who wishes to speak at the meeting will be given an opportunity, but those who have registered in advance will be allowed to speak prior to the floor being opened to all other speakers.
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The City has received a revised application for a Temporary Use Permit (TUP) for a site within the property located at 2 King Edward Street. The proposed TUP was initially considered at the Council meeting on Monday, October 7, 2019, and was subsequently referred back to staff as a result of the public consultation process, relative to the impacts of dust on neighbouring businesses.
SUBJECT SITE WITHIN PROPERTY 2 KING EDWARD ST
• 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. FRASE R
Written submissions provided in response to this consultation, including your name and address, will become part of the public record which includes the submissions being made available for public inspection at Coquitlam City Hall and potentially on our website as part of a future agenda package at www.coquitlam/agendas. If you have previously provided input and do not wish to have it withdrawn or modified, you do not have to provide further input. Copies of previously provided input will be submitted for consideration by Council at the Regular Council Meeting to be held on Monday, November 4, 2019. If you wish to withdraw, or modify your input, please do so as set out above.
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SATURDAY, NOV. 2 • PoCo Heritage presents Remembrance Day Talk: Their Name Liveth Forevermore, 1-2:30 p.m., Wilson Centre at PoCo community centre. During Veterans’ Week. a Remembrance Day talk focused on PoCo veterans presented by local history guru Bryan Ness.
MONDAY, NOV. 4 • Rhymes of Times, PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives, 10:30–11:30 a.m. Join PoCo Heritage’s guided reminiscing session for adults, and share your stories with the group.
TUESDAY, NOV. 5 • Have you considered becoming a foster parent? There are children and youth in the 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, 604764-8098.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6 • PoCo Genealogy Group meeting 6:30-8:30 p.m., PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives; admission: $2/person. PoCo Genealogy group meets the first Wednesday of every month (except July and August). Drop in and participate in the discussions.
THURSDAY, NOV. 7 • Coquitlam Needlearts Guild meets, noon-9 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion, 1025 Ridgeway Ave., Coquitlam. Info: 604-939-1810.
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• Coquitlam prostate cancer support and awareness group monthly meeting, 7 p.m., at its new location: The Gathering Place, 2253 Leigh Square Pl., PoCo. Speaker: Dr. John Pacey, inventor of the Pacey Cuff, who will be speaking about incontinence. All those affected by prostate problems are urged to come and share their concerns and experiences in a strictly confidential atmosphere. Refreshments will be provided. No charge but donations are welcome. Info: Ken, 604-936-2998 or Craig, 604-928-9220.
• YOLO: Youth Offering Listening Opportunities, hosted by Share Family and Community Services; an informative and engaging evening for parents and caregivers. Listen to young people share their life experiences in order to help parents understand their own teens better. The program runs from 6:30-8:45 p.m. at Share’s offices, 2615 Clarke St., Port Moody. Register by contacting: Sabrina Hayward, 604-365-0636 or sabrina.hayward@ sharesociety.ca.
TUESDAY, NOV. 12 • Coquitlam Needlearts Guild meets, noon-4 p.m., Parkwood Manor, 1142 Dufferin St., Coquitlam. Info: 604-939-1810. • Tri-City Photography Club meets, 7:30 p.m., in the drama room at Port Moody secondary school, 300 Albert St., Port Moody. Guest welcome. Info: www.tricityphotoclub.ca. • Christmas Boutique, Places des Arts, 1120 Brunette Ave., Coquitlam, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., all ages. Place des Arts annual Christmas Boutique features beautifully handcrafted items by local artisans.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13 • Tri-City Centennial Stamp Club hosts a “stamp game,” Dogwood Pavilion, North View Room, 1655 Winslow Ave., Coquitlam; “swap and shop” at 6:30 p.m., the game after 7:15 p.m., with stamp prizes. Info: stampclub.ca or 604-941-9306. • Pacific Digital Photography Club meets, 7:30 p.m., in the drama room at Port Moody secondary school – guests always
welcome. For club info, including a list of meetings and keynote speakers: www.pdpc.ca.
SATURDAY, NOV. 16 • Invasive ivy and blackberry removal, 9:45 a.m.-1 p.m., Rocky Point Park, Port Moody with Lower Mainland Green Team. Info: www.meetup.com/ The-Lower-Mainland-GreenTeam. • Creating Art with Nature, 1-3 p.m., PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives; cost: $5/ person. Join PoCo Heritage in creating works of art with bits from nature. Using paint and some feathers, wood, pinecones, nuts and leaves, you and your family can create naturebased artwork. • Coquitlam chapter, Canadian Federation of University Women meets, 1-2 p.m., Coquitlam Public Library, Poirier branch, Nancy Bennett Room. Speaker: Kristen Hudec, PhD, a clinical psychologist who holds a fellowship at UBC, on: “Making Socially Accepting Inclusive Classrooms (MOSAIC),
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a school-based program.” • Pacific Digital Photography Club presents is 16th annual Photomotion at the Inlet Theatre, Port Moody; Photomotion is a collection of digital slide shows created by club members that include award-winning photography accompanied by music. Two presentations: 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets: pdpc.ca/event/photomotion.
MONDAY, NOV. 18 • 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 paper, or your laptop.
THURSDAY, NOV. 21 • Burke Mountain’s community association, The North East Ratepayers Association, will host speakers from Wesbild who will present next plans for their development in the neighbourhood, 7 p.m., Victoria Hall, 3435 Victoria Dr. Anyone interested is welcome to attend. After a
short break, regular meeting starts at 8:15 p.m. to address any concerns of Burke Mountain residents. • Coquitlam Needlearts Guild meets, noon-9 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion, 1025 Ridgeway Ave., Coquitlam. Info: 604-939-1810.
FRIDAY, NOV. 22 • Maple Creek middle Christmas Market, 6-9 p.m., 3700 Hastings St., Coquitlam. Tickets: $2. Vendors and tables are still available. Contact: janetthompson@telus.net.
SATURDAY, NOV. 23 • Seaview elementary Holiday Market and Craft Fair, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Seaview elementary school, 1215 Cecile Dr., Port Moody. $2 for adults; kids under 12 are free. • Holiday Santa photos and bake sale, noon-4 p.m., PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives. Join PoCo during the city’s Christmas in Leigh Square event to get your family photo taken with Santa and purchase a sweet
treat. • PoCo Heritage’s Christmas Tree Festival begins, running through Jan. 4. Participate by entering a tree into the city-wide festival, then voting on your favourite tree. Registration forms: pocoheritage.org/christmasfestival. • Treasures of Christmas, Crossroads Hospice Society’s annual signature fundraising gala, 5:30-11:45 p.m., Hard Rock Casino Vancouver, 2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam; Giving Christmas trees, dinner with wine, live entertainment, live and silent auctions, a raffle and free valet parking. Info: crossroadshospice.org/calendar/treasures_of_christmas.php.
TUESDAY, NOV. 26 • Tri-City Photography Club meets, 7:30 p.m., in the drama room at Port Moody secondary school, 300 Albert St., Port Moody. Guest welcome. Info: www.tricityphotoclub.ca. • Coquitlam Needlearts Guild meets, noon-4 p.m., Parkwood Manor, 1142 Dufferin St., Coquitlam. Info: 604-939-1810. • Tri-City Photography Club meets, 7:30 p.m., in the drama room at Port Moody secondary school, 300 Albert St., Port Moody. Guest welcome. Info: www.tricityphotoclub.ca.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27 • Tri-City Centennial Stamp Club hosts small-stamp auction, Dogwood Pavilion, North View Room, 1655 Winslow Ave., Coquitlam; viewing starts at 6:30 p.m., auction after 7:15 p.m., with stamp prizes. Info: stampclub.ca or 604-941-9306.
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THURSDAY, NOV. 28 • An Evening at the Museum, 7-8:30 p.m., PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives. Join PoCo Heritage for a special evening at the museum to hear from Phyllis Schwartz, an artist who specialized in lumen photography printmaking using nature-based materials as subjects. Her work is currently on display in the Outlet building across. Refreshments will be served.
TUESDAY, DEC. 3 • Have you considered becoming a foster parent? There are children and youth in the 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.
SUPPORT GROUPS • HEAR Branch of the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association meets third Monday of each month (September–June), 1-3 p.m., at Dogwood Pavilion, 1655 Winslow Ave., Coquitlam. HEAR is a support group dedicated to improving the communication skills and quality of life for the hearing impaired. Sessions
HOMINUM FOR GAY OR BISEXUAL MEN • Hominum Fraser Valley is an informal discussion and support group to help gay, bisexual and questioning men with the challenges of being married, separated or single. Group meets the last Monday of every month. Info & meeting location: Art, 604-462-9813 or aapearson@shaw.ca. include guest speakers and group discussions. All are welcome to attend the free sessions. Come to a meeting before purchasing a hearing aid for insight and consumer information. Info: Anna, 604-939-0327. • Have you experienced the death of a loved one and found yourself struggling? Gathering with others who have also experienced a loss is known to be one of the most helpful ways of coping with grief. Sharing your story is important to healthy healing. Crossroads Hospice Society is running closed grief support groups. Registration: call the bereavement services coordinator, 604-949-2274. • Crossroads Hospice Society hosts a free walking group for the bereaved, Fridays, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Group meets at Crossroads Labyrinth Healing Garden in Pioneer Memorial
Park at Ioco Rd. and Heritage Mountain Blvd. Hospice volunteers will be present on the free walk through Rocky Point Park or Orchard Park. Newcomers can register by calling call the bereavement services coordinator, 604-949-2274. • Circle of Hope Al-Anon Family group meetings are Mondays, 1 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1504 Sprice Ave., Coquitlam. Info: 604-688-1716. • Coquitlam prostate cancer support and awareness group meets at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every month (except December) at Wilson Centre, PoCo. All those affected by prostate problems and their partners are urged to come and share their concerns and experiences in a strictly confidential atmosphere. There is no charge but donations are welcome.
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Info: Craig, 604-928-9220 or Ken, 604-936-2998. • Dogwood White Cane Club meets every Thursday from September to June, 12:30-2:30 p.m., Dogwood Pavilion. Those who are legally blind are welcome. • LifeRing weekly recovery meetings, Tuesdays, 1-2 p.m., Vancity Credit Union, Shaughnessy Station (Shaughnessy at Lougheed), PoCo. All welcome. Info: 604377-1364. • B.C. Schizophrenia Society meets the second Monday of each month, 7:30 p.m., McGee Room, Poirier rec centre, 630 Poirier St., Coquitlam. Info: 604720-3935. • Joy’s Place Transition House is an emergency shelter for physically and/or emotionally abused women and their children. Info: 604-492-1700. • Al-Anon, a fellowship of friends and family of alcoholics who come together to share their experience, strength and hope, meets on Mondays, 7:308:30 p.m., Women’s Resource Centre, 2420 Mary Hill Rd., PoCo. Info: Elaine with Al-Anon Central Services Society, 604688-1716. • TOPS chapters meet weekly at numerous Tri-City locations. For information on group near
you: Gail, 604-941-2907. • Port Moody Alanon Family Group open meeting, Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., Ioco United Church, 1790 Ioco Rd., Port Moody. Info: 604-552-1057. • Al-Anon Adult Children meets at 8 p.m. Tuesdays, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1504 Sprice Ave. (at Schoolhouse), Coquitlam. • Fibromyalgia support group meets, 1-3 p.m., on the fourth Thursday of each month (except December) at Coquitlam Public Library, Poirier branch, 575 Poirier St. Education and support for adults who are living with this chronic illness. Info: Julie, 604-936-6027. • Irritable bowel syndrome support group meets monthly in PoMo to exchange information, to offer one another support, and to share experiences and coping strategies. Info: 604-8754875 or www.badgut.org. • Recovery International is a self-help, peer-to-peer support meeting for people who struggle with stress, fear, anger, depression, anxiety, panic and nervous symptoms. The goal is to help reduce symptoms by practising cognitive behaviour techniques. There is a group in PoCo. Info: Kathy, 778-554-1026 or www.recoverycanada.ca. • Christian 12-step group
for people with alcohol, drug, and gambling addictions meets at 7:15 p.m. every Monday Coquitlam Presbyterian Church, 948 Como Lake Ave., Coquitlam. Info: 604-939-6136 or www.hiscpc.org. • Coquitlam Support Group: Change, Crisis to Creativity meets Thursday evenings. Group meets twice a month to support one another through major changes, including unemployment, family crisis, death, illness, separation/divorce, empty nest, retirement, etc., and working towards positive, creative lifestyle. Info: Mara, 604-931-7070. • Fibromyalgia support group meets every fourth Thursday of each month at Dogwood Pavilion, 1 to 3 p.m., except December. Info: Joan, 604-9442506. • CancerConnection peer volunteers offer one-to-one information and emotional support to people living with cancer. Info: 1-888-939-3333. • Tri-Cities Caregiver Network gives caregivers a safe place to express and deal with their emotions and concerns. Group discussions, speakers and films are part of the program. Meet every 2nd and 4th Friday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon.
City of Coquitlam NOTICE OF PROPOSED BYLAW AMENDMENT City of Coquitlam Business Licence Bylaw Amendment (Window Frosting) Bylaw No. 5004, 2019 The City of Coquitlam Council intends to consider adoption of City of Coquitlam “Business Licence Bylaw Amendment (Window Frosting) No. 5004, 2019�. Coquitlam City Council is considering the adoption of a business regulation bylaw relating to frosting or covering commercial business windows. The proposed bylaw, Business Licence Bylaw Amendment (Window Frosting) Bylaw No. 5004, 2019, would prohibit businesses primarily selling tobacco or vape products (e-cigarettes) from frosting, covering or obscuring the business windows in such a way as to block visibility into the business.
Oriented Development, also referred to as “TOD�, is to focus development in areas with (“OCP�) identifies the “Moody Centre Station TOD�.
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Should you have any comments you wish to convey to Council before it considers enacting Bylaw No. 5004, 2019, please submit them in writing no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, November 15, 2019 to the Business Licence Office in one of the following ways: • By email to businesslicences@coquitlam.ca; • In person at the Business Licence Office, which is located on the main floor of City Hall at 3000 Guildford Way; • By mail: 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC V3B 7N2, Attn: Business Licensing; • By fax at 604-927-3445. A copy of proposed Business Licence Bylaw Amendment (Window Frosting) Bylaw No. 5004, 2019 may be viewed at City Hall (Business Licence Office) or online at www.coquitlam.ca and any inquiries relating to the proposal should be made to the Business Licence Office at 604-927-3085, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays. Written submissions provided in response to this notice will become part of the public record which includes the submissions being made available for public inspection at Coquitlam City Hall and potentially on our website as part of a future agenda package at www.coquitlam.ca
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‘Fatbergs’ a plague in Metro drains Coquitlam part of a study that show issue with fat in our sewers Stefan Labbé slabbe@tricitynews.com
Metro Vancouver is calling on its residents to do more to keep “fatbergs” out of sewers after a year-long field study that included Coquitlam revealed just how much our greasy habits are costing the region. Every year, Metro spends at least $2.7 million to unclog hotspots where oils, fats and greases have built up after making their way down the drain. And Metro staff say the price of nasty blockages grows much higher once you factor in lost work from diverted city workers and the fallout from backed-up sewage seeping into homes, streets and waterways. “It could spill into a stream, creek or river. That’s the potential threat if these blockages build up over time,” said Linda Parkinson, project manager of Liquid Waste Source Control, which spearheads research and public education around unflushables. Until now, getting a clear understanding of where these greasy hotspots occur has been a challenge, Parkinson told The Tri-City News. That’s because data is notoriously hard to collect on the fatberg phenomenon, something that has plagued city sewers from London to Baltimore. That’s why Parkinson and her team put a call out to municipalities to take part in a year-long monitoring program that would make regular visits to a sewer site of their choosing. Coquitlam, Delta, Richmond and Langley put their hands up. Still, it was no easy task. Measuring grease levels in the system is complicated by a number of factors. City workers have access to a machine that pumps samples into a container over a 24-hour period but, often, the lines get
clogged with congealed oil, sanitary pads and condoms. “The sewer system is such a hostile environment to send people in to because there’s hydrogen sulphide gas [vented off] from pee and poo,” said Linda. “At certain concentrations, it can kill you.” As the first study of its kind in Metro Vancouver, the municipalities mainly targeted residential neighbourhoods, returning to a single pump or lift station (basically, a pool of sewage collected before it’s sent on to the next spot) to conduct regular visual inspections. Each visit, the workers would rank the buildup of grease, fat and oil on a scale of one (just a small amount of fat buildup) to five (a greasy mess covering the whole testing site). The results varied from municipality to municipality and Parkinson said the severity of blockages depended on the width and path of a pipes, and, especially, the topography they travelled through. “Coquitlam was on the lower end,” said Parkinson. “It’s got the topography working for it.” Parkinson also noted that Coquitlam’s rigorous maintenance team is also likely contributed to relatively low levels of observed fatty buildup. While she said she would love to see all municipalities follow Coquitlam’s example, she acknowledged that level of attention is expensive. The one-year visual inspection at a single residential site could also be masking a wider problem: high-density developments on flat topography in an area with many restaurants. “Our sewer systems were designed hundreds of years ago to carry pee and poo — sanitary waste and grey water,” said Parkinson. “It’s not the place to be putting wipes, sanitary products and condoms. But, over time, fat can be just as damaging, too.” Or as Richard Stewart, Coquitlam mayor and chair of Metro Vancouver’s Liquid Waste Committee, put it in a press release earlier this
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month: “With Thanksgiving and the busy holiday season around the corner, we hope residents will think twice about washing items like gravy, yogurt or leftover salad dressing down the drain. Instead, simply wipe it up or scrape it in your green bin — it’s easy, quick and won’t cause problems in the sewer system.”
Yogurt is a common part of many people’s diets but it, along with leftover salad dressing and cooking oils should not be dumped down the drain, says Metro Vancouver. ISTOCK PHOTO
Help shape the vision of public art in Port Moody! Public art is more than just sculptures and murals – art throughout the community makes public spaces come alive. Attend our community workshop and hear about the background of art in public spaces, then break out into small groups for discussions on a range of topics. When
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Coquitlam Cultural Summit Nov. 8 & 9 Cooperation and collaboration opportunities at city event Grant GranGer ggranger@tricitynews.com
Connections can spark electricity, business ideas and even artistic creativity, the latter being a goal of the 2019 Coquitlam Cultural Summit. The first one was held in 2017. The second one, scheduled for Nov. 8 and 9, has an added feature. “We had a great turnout [two years ago] and, more
importantly, it was enthusiastic participation,” said Terra Dickinson, cultural and community events supervisor for the city. “When we left that summit, the feedback from the participants is they wanted more opportunities to connect.” The response inspired the city to start the summit off with a social at Place des Arts Nov. 8 from 7 to 9 p.m. Local arts leaders and artists will be able to mingle and connect in the hope it will inspire ideas and dialogue. There will also be live performances to provide inspiration. Dickenson said the 2017
participants said there was value in being able to take a step back from their organizations and connect with others on future collaborations or to explore potential ideas. Summit Saturday goes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Evergreen Cultural Centre. It will feature roundtable talks and keynote addresses from Brenda Leadlay, executive director for BC Alliance of Arts and Culture, and Kim Senklip Harvey, an Indigenous direc-
tor, playwright and actor. Leadlay will talk about potential positive impacts creativity can have for the arts, and for the health and well-being of individuals and society. Harvey, a member of the Syilx, Tshilqot’in, Ktunaxa and Dakelh nations, will explore how to do Indigenous storytelling, and using arts, culture and heritage to evolve relationships. “It’s a very important conversation,” Dickenson said of the
Indigenous themes discussion. There will also be workshops throughout the day. Kevin Huang, executive director of the Hua Foundation, based in Vancouver’s Chinatown, will lead one on reconnecting cultural heritage through community building. Other workshops include Marie Lopes, arts coordinator for the Vancouver parks board, discussing the transformation of more than 20 former caretaker cottages into
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NEED COQ. INFO? THERE’S AN APP Coquitlam residents will soon have a new option for accessing municipal information. The city is launching a mobile app next month that will connect users with a list of services, council agendas, facility info and events, among other things. City staff said they hope the $170,000 CoquitlamConnect app will eventually be used for people to report issues like graffiti, litter and bylaw complaints while notifying residents of things like weather alerts and recreation registrations. “This has been on council’s radar for a number of years,” said Michelle Hunt, Coquitlam’s general manager of finance and technology. Staff have been testing CoquitlamConnect over the last few months and a soft launch to a handful of external stakeholders is expected to begin immediately. The app will be ready for the general public in mid-November, Hunt said. After the rollout, staff intend to conduct a user survey to identify potential enhancement and prioritize future changes, according to a staff report.
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evergreen Todd Gnissios, executive director of the Coquitlam Public Library, speaks to city council about the library’s financial summary and 2020 grant requests — totalling more than $6 million for the two library branches — on Tuesday afternoon in the city council chambers. janis cleugh/the tri-city news c o q u i t l a m b u d g e t p r e s e n tat i o n s
We need more staff: arts leaders Grant requests for five arts groups total more than $9.1M janis cleugh jcleugh@tricitynews.com
Leaders of five arts and culture organizations that get grants from the city of Coquitlam came before council Tuesday to talk about their plans for next year. And all five spoke about how their staff are struggling, with programs near or at capacity and some in venues that aren’t meeting demands. Here’s a summary of what council heard:
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Todd Gnissios, executive director of the Coquitlam Public Library, which has two branches (City Centre and Poirier), pitched a $6-million grant request that included $540,141 for new priorities: $85,141 to add a full-time library technician position; $250,000 for collections; $155,000 for a new Library Link mobile library vehicle (to reach neighbourhoods like Burquitlam and Burke Mountain that don’t have nearby service); and $50,000 for extra janitorial maintenance. Gnissios said the parking lot, attached to the Henderson Centre mall, elevator landings
and a stairwell need ongoing cleaning and garbage pickup because of heavy use, with many access points becoming hangouts. Last year, the library saw a 3% uptick in visits (to 877,317) with 10% more library users logging into public computers and 8% more connecting to its WiFi. More than 1.2 million items went into circulation, he said. “The library is not the quiet place of yesteryear,” Gnissios told council, adding human resources have been “compressed” with retirements while new roles have been created to keep up with IT, marketing, programming, community liaison and the
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Place des Arts also has seen a large jump in participation, executive director Joan McCauley told council, with annual visits up 15% over the past five years. The non-profit group is asking for nearly $1.1 million in grants that would also include $44,180 for a new community engagement co-ordinator to promote the Maillardville hub at events and to organize youth performance-based programs. McCauley said the organization is stretched so thin it’s “at risk of employee burnout” if it doesn’t hire more staff; it
also doesn’t want to raise program fees to pay for additional workers, she said. Last year, Place des Arts received $2.7 million in city and federal government funding as well as $1.6 million (or 62%) from classes and private lessons — many of which are at capacity in constrained spaces, she said. Meanwhile, McCauley and the board applauded council for endorsing plans to redevelop the Brunette Avenue building that, if approved in December, will see Place des Arts, Coquitlam Heritage and Coquitlam Archives under one roof in a few years. see
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Director quits The board of Coquitlam’s Evergreen Cultural Centre is searching for a new executive director after Jon-Paul Walden resigned. Walden, who is also on faculty at Capilano University, took over the leadership role in 2010 from Patrick Montgomery. Previously, Walden was general manager/artistic director of Keyano Theatre and Arts Centre, in Alberta, and GM of the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver. Evergreen’s board chair Neal Nicholson, a former city of Coquitlam councillor, is the acting executive director of the Pinetree Way facility. Requests for comment from Nicholson were not immediately returned.
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Coq. Legion mural causing a stir in Austin Heights When the Royal Canadian Legion’s Coquitlam branch president Bob Chapman was in the Okanagan Falls, he noticed the side of the Legion hall was being decorated by Maple Ridge artist Laura Johnson, who was creating a tribute to veterans. Impressed, Chapman commissioned Johnson to create a similar image in Coquitlam to be ready for Remembrance Day. Drawing on a scene from high school, she worked her donated Behr paints to make iconic symbols for Remembrance Day: a field of tall red poppies, the Vimy Ridge monument, a soldier kneeling before the graves of fallen comrades from the First and Second World wars and Afghanistan, the sun rising and the words “Lest We Forget” at the top. The poppies “represent the vastness of the sacrifice,” Johnson said. janis cleugh/the tri-city news
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PoMo teen plays Louisa von Trapp Heritage Woods secondary student cast in iconic musical janis cleugh jcleugh@tricitynews.com
The shorter days of fall are quite long for 13-year-old Jaime MacLean. The Grade 9 student at Heritage Woods secondary in Port Moody is travelling to the BMO Theatre Centre in Vancouver to rehearse for The Sound of Music while also managing schoolwork and and preparing for an upcoming school musical. “It’s a lot of work but it’s so exciting,” MacLean gushed while taking a quick rehearsal break last Thursday. MacLean is getting ready to play the role of Louisa von Trapp, the third eldest child in the fabled Austrian family who’s known for playing tricks on the governess, Maria. She wasn’t originally seeking that role; at auditions, MacLean wanted the character of Brigitta, the 10-year-old bookworm who’s not afraid to speak her mind.
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Synthia Yusuf takes on the role of Maria — famously portrayed by Julie Andrews in the 1965 flick — for the Arts Club Theatre production that opens next Thursday at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage in Vancouver. david cooper
But when Arts Club Theatre Company director Ashlie Corcoran offered her Louisa, MacLean said she was thrilled because it’s the first time she’ll be portraying a character her own age. Trained at the the Lindbjerg Academy of Performing Arts
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in Coquitlam, MacLean already has a lengthy resume in musical theatre. In 2015, when she attended Aspenwood elementary school, she made her Arts Club debut at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage as Young Cosette in Les
Miserables. The next year, MacLean won the lead part in Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, a Mirvish production in Toronto that also toured around the U.S. Her other acting credits include Annie with Royal City Musical Theatre as well as Shrek: The Musical and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with Align Entertainment. For The Sound of Music, whose ensemble cast also includes Coquitlam’s Ghislaine Doté (New Postulant/Ensemble) and Port Coquitlam’s Tim Howe (Baron Elberfeld/ensemble), MacLean said she’s honing her acting skills by studying the stars Jonathan Winsby
(Capt. Georg von Trapp) and Synthia Yusuf (Maria Rainer). “The experience of seeing them perform at their best is just incredible,” she said. “I’ve taken so many mental notes from them.” The show is different from other productions MacLean has been cast in: It’s heavy with child actors and, for the first time, she’s not the youngest person on the stage. “I’ve always been the little one but now we have a sevenand eight-year-old. They’re so hilarious.” After the show run ends Jan. 5, 2020, MacLean will continue with Bring It On: The Musical at Heritage Woods, a spring production that her Grade 12 sister, Julia, is choreographing. After graduation, MacLean said she hopes to enrol in Ontario’s Sheridan College as an acting or directing undergrad. For tickets to The Sound of Music at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville St., Vancouver), call the Arts Club box office at 604-687-1644 or visit artsclub.com. Singalong performances are on Dec. 26 and Jan. 4.
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Duo mixes genres Husband-wife team performs at Evergreen Friday janis cleugh jcleugh@tricitynews.com
Rob and Sarah Skinner met through a musician-finder website a decade ago. And within six years, the natives of England had hit it off — musically and romantically — and taken its act to Canada. Three tours and 12 months later, the Skinners decided to call Canada home. Now, the Skinners live in a “very small rural town in Ontario,” Rob Skinner said, and are about to make their first trip to B.C. Next Friday, they’ll be at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam to plug their sixth album, Under Utopian Skies, which is “largely about our love for our new country,” he said. “There are songs about the people we have met here,
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songs about our new home and songs about a general feeling of happiness with our decision to move,” he told The Tri-City News. Performing under the name Red Dirt Skinners, the duo has a varied style, writing original tunes that cross jazz, folk, country, roots and alternative music genres, with Rob Skinner on acoustic guitar and Sarah Skinner on soprano saxophone. And their unique sound has won awards. They
are the first band to take accolades at both the British Blues and British Country award shows; the Skinners also have been nominated for Duo of the Year at the International Acoustic Music Awards and shortlisted eight times for a UK Songwriting Award. In addition, Sarah Skinner is the first female musician to be endorsed by Trevor James Saxophones. As for its show in Coquitlam Nov. 8, Rob Skinner told The Tri-City News the audience can expect “a lot of funny and spirited stories about the songs and the experiences that lead us to writing them.” He added: “People often tell us that they feel as though they really know us after hearing all the stories… People are usually surprised at the sheer fullness of sound that we are able to create with just the two of us.” For tickets, call the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way) at 604-927-6555 or visit evergreenculturalcentre.ca.
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Candrina Bailey, executive director of the Coquitlam Heritage Society, which runs its operations out of the historic Mackin House, also called on council to support its programs with more staff. The group is asking for a $309,299 grant for next year’s operations that would also include a part-time assistant for Bailey, who works 20 hours a week and logs substantial overtime to run the organization. “It’s becoming more and more challenging,” Bailey said of the job. Besides the hire, at an annual cost of $30,000, the group also needs to translate its self-guided tour brochure into seven languages to distribute to participants who don’t speak English. Bailey said its exhibits and programs often attract a diverse population.
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With the upcoming redevelopment of Place Maillardville, executive director Gord Pederson said the organization will be out of pocket with Club Bel Age leaving the building. It’s asking council to pro-
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vide $5,400 to make up two years of lost rental revenue as well as $38,330 to fund a part-time marketing and promotions position, $10,221 to increase two manager jobs to full-time status and $9,600 for IT support, for a total city grant request of $584,026. Like other arts and culture societies in Coquitlam, Place Maillardville also has experienced a surge in participation, with a 52% hike in registrations and a 48% increase in visits to the centre over the past five years. The new building is expected to be ready by the end of 2021.
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Board treasurer Andrew Richardson said the Pinetree
Way facility opened in 1996 to serve the community for 25 years and “time’s up” to rethink its future: Its goal is for an additional theatre, bigger art gallery, dance space and an arts education venue. Richardson spoke of the centre’s busy year with performances, school-based programs, art exhibits and rentals, among other things. He also pointed out staffing pressures and potential liabilities with the expensive gear for multimedia shows. Evergreen is asking for a $1-million grant, with six new requests to pay for: a youth programmer/marketing position ($47,200); a fund development manager (($59,000); cleaning and maintenance ($20,000); moveable gallery walls ($25,000); glass doors for the gallery ($10,000); and technical upgrades to the rehearsal hall ($9,000). Coun. Trish Mandewo challenged ECC managers to find additional revenue with outside grants and to form partnerships while Coun. Craig Hodge questioned the $1.25-per-ticket improvement fee, which last year generated about $30,000 for future capital projects, said managers David Mann and Katherine Dennis.
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Brienza booting his way to U17 World Cup Coquitlam midfielder played his way onto team in training MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com
A young Coquitlam soccer player is living his sports dream. Emiliano Brienza is in soccer-mad Brazil, where he’s playing for Canada’s U17 national team at the FIFA U17 World Cup. The team opened the 24-team tournament Saturday, losing 4-1 to the host country at Bezerrao Stadium in Brasilia. And while it would be easy for Brienza to become overwhelmed by the almost 12,000 fans in green and yellow chanting and singing in the rain for the home side, he said the chance to wear the red-and-white kit of Canada is something he never thought possible when he was growing up in Mexico. “We didn’t have a lot of the things,” Brienza said of his native country, from which he and his family emigrated in 2015, when he was 13 yearsold. When Brienza’s family moved, he found an immediate connection to his new home through soccer. He played with Mountain United in the BC Soccer Premier League, then joined the Whitecaps FC Academy in
Coquitlam’s Emiliano Brienza is part of Canada’s U17 national soccer team that is playing at the FIFA U17 World Cup in Brazil this week. WHITECAPS FC PHOTO
September 2018. Last February, he signed with the club’s development squad and subsequently played three matches with its U19 team.
Six players from the Whitecaps academy are on the U17 national side, although Brienza wasn’t initially among them as the team played CONCACAF
qualifying tournaments. But his strong play at midfield and defence in a couple of training camps caught the attention of coaches. Brienza rewarded their
faith in him by scoring a goal in a pre-tournament friendly earlier in October against another soccer powerhouse, Argentina. He said it was easy to fit
into a side that had already been together and played meaningful matches. Having some teammates from the Whitecaps also helped. “You can really see the brotherhood,” Brienza said after bonding with his new mates at camp in Montreal. “It really comes together and everyone is in on it.” That kind of commitment will be required if the Canadian squad is to advance out of its group, which also includes Angola and New Zealand. “We have tough games but it’s not impossible,” Brienza said prior to departing for Brazil. “We have nothing to lose, so we’re going to go there and try to do our best.” Brienza, who has played international matches in South Korea and Mexico with his Whitecaps team, said those experiences pale to what the team faces at the World Cup, which has catapulted stars like Neymar, David Silva, Xavi and Gianluigi Buffon to international attention. “Big players come out of there and hopefully some of us get that kind of exposure that we need,” he said. The tournament is also a golden opportunity to show the world a bright future for Canadian soccer, Brienza said. “I think everyone looks down on Canada, and I think it’s a great opportunity for us to show what we have.”
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Port Moody Blues Caitlin Miller, left, checks a Moscrop defender in the first half of their opening round match at the Fraser North district field hockey championships, Tuesday at Coquitlam’s Town Centre Park. Heritage Woods Kodiaks won the tournament, defeating Centennial 3-0 in the final. The Blues finished third. All three teams, along with Maple Ridge secondary, go on to the provincial championships, that will be played in North Vancouver, Nov. 13 to 15. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS Sign up for our newsletter at tricitynews.com
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Even with a ticket to the nationals confirmed, the Douglas College Royals weren’t about to settle for second class passage. The Coquitlam-based men’s soccer team entered Saturday’s PacWest provincial final with the goal to take it all, usurping the favoured Vancouver Island University Mariners 1-0 to earn a B.C. crown and a higher seed into the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association championships. That eight-team tournament, to be played in Oshawa and Durham, Ont., kicks off Nov. 6 with Douglas facing the host Durham Lords. With a berth locked up after a 2-0 shutout over Capilano University a day earlier, the championship title hinged on who could outlast the other. Going right down to the late stages, it was Yanni Siafakas’ goal with 15 minutes left in regulation that secured the top spot. “We wanted to go to nationals not as a wild card seed but as [provincial] champion, so we knew what we had to do,” remarked Douglas head coach Robby Toor. “We knew [Vancouver Island] was going to put up a good fight, but we just felt confident that we could get it done.” After knocking off Capilano University 2-0 a day earlier in the semifinal, the Royals expected a well-rested Mariners squad to bring the heat early. And they did. Feeling a bit slighted by the PacWest in terms of league awards, the squad had extra incentive to make good on their skills. The regular season champion Mariners, who were ranked third overall in the last national poll, held an edge in possession during a defen-
sive first half. Douglas’ Milan Gandesha registered the game’s first shot, just a minute into play, but Vancouver Island would put a handful of balls towards the net, with Felipe Domingos stopping a pair and Coquitlam-raised defenders Adam Qumizakis and Burhan Waisy blocking the others. Midfielder Rafael Domingos, meanwhile, continued to set a sturdy tone as Douglas gathered its composure. “VIU controlled the first half and were getting some good chances, but not a lot of scoring chances,” said Toor. “I knew if we could get it to halftime [0-0] we’d be in good shape.” The Royals entered the second half with a lot more urgency and composure, turning the tables on the Mariners with scoring chance after scoring chance. Just seconds prior to Siafakas solving Mariner goalkeeper Kevin Picard, Toor tweaked his starting formation and inserted forward Abdul Ali into the lineup. “It was a quick adjustment and we scored 15 seconds right after it on a nice play by [Siafakas]” noted Toor. “The group really dug in after the first half and put their hearts on the line, because while [the Mariners] had the edge in the first half, I could see us being better prepared for the second half.” Felipe Domingos turned aside a redirected header by Hector Valdez with a few minutes to play to cap the win. He’d go on to be named the tourney’s top goalkeeper, while forward Taylor Richardson was chosen the top forward. Rafael Domingos was named the tourney MVP. Richardson and Rafael Domingos counted goals in the semifinal. The Royals roster includes Tri-Cities products Jaxon Bain, Quinn Desaulniers, Jacob McCall, Brayden Rose and Alejandro Varela.
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LEUNG, Chi On Adam October 21, 2019
By Virtue of the Warehouseman’s Lien Act BigSteelBox Corporation
Adam Chi On Leung passed away, surrounded by family, on October 21, 2019 at the age of 73. He is survived by his mother, wife, three children, four siblings, and four grandchildren. Adam is deeply missed and will be remembered for his strength, love, and care for everyone. We will forever cherish the wonderful memories with him in our hearts.
at 880 Lougheed Hwy, Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada claims a PPSA Warehouse Lien against
MARCEIL (GOWER) , Mona Patricia. March 10, 1927 − October 14, 2019 In loving memory of Pat Marceil who passed away peacefully in Ladner, BC, at the age of 92. Pat is survived by her daughter, Carolyn (Joe Harley); and her three sons, James, Bob, and Jeff (Sherry). She is also survived by five grandchildren, Sean (Lorraine), Tim, Brooklyn (Tom Blais), Quinn, and Karsten; and two great−granddaughters, Kay and Alyssa. Interment will be in the Chilliwack Cemetery.
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Services on Friday, November 8 at 11:00 am at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter−day Saints, 6300 Tyson Road in Chilliwack, BC. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to: https://www.heartandstroke.ca
TONG , Raymond October 8, 1946 to October 22, 2019 On October 22nd, we suddenly lost an incredible human being. Raymond was an outgoing, charming man who loved his family. He leaves behind the love of his life, Monica, his son, Nathan, 2 daughters, Cascade (Albert) and Dana (Nick). He also leaves behind his sister and 4 brothers, and a host of nieces and nephews. We will miss you terribly. Rest in Peace.
Michelle Graff of Maple Ridge, BC for arrears of container rent amounting to $1,491.84 plus any additional costs of storage that accrue. If not paid in full, the contents of household belongings and miscellaneous items will be sold online auction via: Ibid4Storage.com on November 12, 2019. Warehouseman’s Lien Act
By virtue of the Warehouseman’s Lien Act will dispose of: Benjamin Towing Corp . Whereas, the following are indebted to Benjamin Towing Corp. for storage and towing on; 1) Registered Owner: BISSONNETTE, Donald Eric 2002, Dodge RAM, 1500 (Black) VIN: 1D7HU18N22J249626 Impounded: April 1, 2019 Amount Due: $4123.00 2) Registered Owner: CASSEL, David Rodney 2009, Chrysler, PT Cruiser (Black) VIN: 3A8FY48959T601457 Impounded: January 8, 2019 Amount Due: $5866.00 A lien is claimed under the Act. There is presently an amount due and owing plus any additional costs of storage, seizure and sale on the above mentioned units.
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Notice is hereby given that on the 15th day of November, 2019 or thereafter, the said vehicles will be sold. . These vehicles are currently stored at Benjamin Towing, 2968 Christmas Way, Coquitlam, BC V3C 4E6.
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