TriCity News December 19 2019

T H U R S D AY DEC. 19, 2019

Tri-City News reader Christine Taylor has been sending in Christmas photos of her golden retriever Bentley, who is 14 and looks like a good boy, for years (left: his first appearance in the paper in 2014) but this is the first time Bentley has made the front page.

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‘We are all in this world together’ Restaurant’s offer to help came from personal hardship MArIo BArtEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

Malik and Jamila Malikzada know hardship.

So when they’re able to offer anyone going through a difficult time a free meal at their Coquitlam restaurant, Jamila’s Kitchen and Grill, they’re not sacrificing the day’s receipts in the cash register till, they’re humbled to be able to help, Malik said.

The Malikzadas are refugees, torn from the life they knew growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan by that country’s civil war. With little opportunity amidst the strife and the country’s education system torn asunder, they embarked in 1995 for an unknown future in Pakistan with only the clothes they wore.

“When a hard situation arises, you take the risk,” Malik said.

In their six years in Pakistan, the Malikzadas worked in a hospital — Malik doing maintenance, Jamila in the kitchen. But when an occasion arose in 2000 to move to Canada, where a robust community of Afghan expats was willing to help them start anew again, they seized it.

For 16 years, the Malikzadas

Malik and Jamila Malikzada have known hardship as refugees from Afghanistan so, Malik says, they’re humbled to be able to give back to the community that has taken them in by offering free food at their Coquitlam restaurant to those who can’t afford it. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

“One of the basic duties of every human being is to help each other.

This is what we need as a community to support each other.”

Malik Malikzada Owner, with his wife Jamila, of Jamila’s Kitchen & Grill

did whatever it took to build a life in their adopted country and raise their three children — the eldest born in Pakistan, the latter two in Canada.

Malik worked a variety of jobs, from McDonalds to a bakery to warehousing to establishing his own import/export business.

But it was always Jamila’s dream to cook food in her own restaurant. Three years ago, they took the plunge. “[Jamila] supported me all these years, it’s time for me to support her passion,” Malik said.

Since opening their little restaurant in a retail strip on the north side Barnet Highway, between a Burger King and a Brazilian steakhouse, the Malikzadas put their offering to help anyone in need on the sandwich board right outside the front door. If a patron indicates they’re hungry but can’t pay,

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It’s all about compassion and community, Malik said.

“One of the basic duties of every human being is to help each other,” he said. “This is what we need as a community to support each other.”

Isa Bailey, a newlyminted customer from Port Coquitlam who dropped by Jamila’s Thursday for the first time to check out its menu of Afghan, Indian and Greek dishes — as well as pizza — said when she saw a photo of the restaurant’s sandwich board on social media, she took it as a clarion call and

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DECEMBER 19 – 25 CALENDAR Friday, Dec. 20 Jingle Bells Night at Lights at Lafarge 7 – 8 p.m. coquitlam.ca/lights

Monday, Dec. 23 Grandparent & Me: Movie Drop-in 1 – 3 p.m. coquitlam.ca/dogwood

Tuesday, Dec. 24 Christmas Eve Skate coquitlam.ca/pslc

WHAT’S NEW?

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2020 Budget

Do You Read our City Page?

Winter Season Fire Safety

Coquitlam’s 2020 budget, (adopted on Monday, Dec. 16) addresses community priorities focused on six areas: social development including housing and childcare, strategies and staffing to support better customer service such as new RCMP officers and park patrols, climate change and environmental sustainability including water conservation, core services, capital investment in new parks and recreation facilities, and tax stability. Resources are provided to meet the demands of the City’s ongoing development activity, growing population and inflation.

Residential property owners will be receiving an average 2.98 per cent increase in 2020 and the average non-residential property tax rate increase is 1.98 per cent. Additional highlights for 2020 include:

We have published this City Page for a full year now and we’re curious how many readers we have. Please visit us on Facebook and answer our poll!

It’s the time of year we need to be extra careful and do what we can to prevent and be prepared for a fire. Candles may be pretty to look at but their open flame can easily ignite anything – choose battery-operated “flameless” candles as a great alternative. Be sure there is a working smoke alarm on every level of your home and that every member of the household knows what the alarm sounds like and what actions to take in an emergency. A carbon monoxide alarm should also be installed in a central location of your home. These inexpensive tools save lives! And they make great Christmas gifts, too!

Y More funding for street sweeping, road maintenance, and managing snow, ice and other extreme weather events,

Many of Coquitlam’s facilities have special operating hours or may be closed over the holidays.

Please visit the facility web page for specific details or refer to the closure dates listed on our ad on the bottom of the opposite page.

Y More resources for seniors’ programming at Dogwood and Glen Pine Pavilions, Y Support for economic development and tourism, Y New cultural resources such as a new librarian at Coquitlam Public Library, IT support for Place Maillardville Society, a community engagement coordinator at Place des Arts, and a new youth programmer and building upgrades at Evergreen Cultural Centre

FITNESS & FUN

Enjoy Fitness Classes, Close to Home Did you know that we offer fitness classes at Summit Community Centre (1450 Parkway Blvd.), Smiling Creek Activity Centre (3456 Princeton Ave.) and Victoria Hall (3435 Victoria Dr.)?

Enjoy a fitness class today! Zumba®, yoga and meditation classes are all included with your ONEPASS. View the drop-in fitness schedule at coquitlam.ca/fitness.

KEEPING OUR COMMUNITY SAFE

Pinetree Closed for Maintenance Pinetree Community Centre will be closed for maintenance on Monday, Dec. 23 and will reopen on Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. The gymnasium will be closed a bit longer starting Thursday, Dec. 19 and is scheduled to reopen Monday, Jan. 20. The maintenance work is necessary to meet public safety standards and service expectations and work includes resurfaced gymnasium floors to improve the play surface with other upgrades such as painting and minor renovations. Visit coquitlam.ca/pinetree for more information and alternative drop-in options for fitness and sports.

See the complete budget report at coquitlam.ca/financialplan.

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See our ad on page 35 for fun volunteer opportunities, free events & more!

2020 COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE See page 23

PUBLIC CONSULTATION DETAILS See page 23

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Collection Schedule Changes With a number of upcoming statutory holidays (Wednesday, Dec. 25 and Wednesday, Jan. 1), we want to remind you that your garbage collection dates will change so please refer to your collection calendar. Also, if there are any delays or a temporary cancellation of waste collection due to snow or ice, and your garbage, green cart and or recycling are not collected by 7 p.m. on your regularly scheduled collection day, please bring them in for the night and place them out again at the curbside after 5:30 a.m. the following morning. If they still aren’t collected, please bring them in again and then wait until your next regularly scheduled collection day. Sign up for Recollect to set up a weekly reminder by smart phone, email, text message or Twitter and you will never miss a collection day. coquitlam.ca/recollect

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Yoga & Play: Adult & Child (18 mos – 5 yrs) This program combines yoga and play to create a dynamic atmosphere that allows adults and children to have fun and be more physically active together. During the class, different stations will teach the principals of yoga. These stations will also provide children with the opportunity to play games, sing songs and work on physical literacy skills. coquitlam.ca/signmeup

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Coquitlam latest to sign on for ride-hailing services

Just because that plastic bag says it’s compostable doesn’t mean you can put it in your green bin

Joint business licence in Tri-Cities, a reg’l licence to be studied GARy McKEnnA gmckenna@tricitynews.com

The city of Coquitlam is calling on the provincial government to create one set of regulations for ride-hailing services looking to operate in Metro Vancouver.

As companies such as Uber and Lyft get ready to launch in the new year, a patchwork of municipal licensing rules have cropped up that Mayor Richard Stewart said could disrupt seamless travel across city boundaries. Council voted this week to send a letter to the province asking for normalized rules across the region.

“Ride hailing is of tremendous value to the safety of the community and transportation in the community,” Stewart said. A unified standard is needed for the Lower Mainland, he added, “so that ride hailing has a chance to provide rides, particularly to the suburbs.”

Coquitlam is the latest city to move forward with third reading for an inter-municipal business licence that will regulate ride hailing in the area. Port Moody and Port Coquitlam approved similar initiatives earlier.

Coquitlam wants regional regulations for ride-hailing services such as Lyft and Uber. ISTOCK PHOTO

Under the agreement, Coquitlam will administer the licences, taking 40% of the revenue, while the other two cities will split the remaining 60%.

Operators will be charged $1,000 for 25 vehicles, $2,500 for 26 to 100 vehicles and $5,000 if they expect to have more than 100 vehicles in the area. There will also be a 10-cent charge for every trip originating in the TriCities except for accessible and zero-emission vehicles.

Attempts to harmonize ridehailing regulations are also being discussed at the Metro Vancouver level.

Last week, the region’s mayors voted to begin looking at creating an inter-municipal business licence for the 22 member municipalities, although implementation could take months. In the meantime, TransLink is encouraging cities

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to be as consistent as possible in setting up their own licensing regimes.

But municipalities are far from unified in their approach to regulating ride hailing. For example, Vancouver will charge $155 per company and $100 per vehicle with a 30-cent “curb access fee” during the peak period between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. In Burnaby, the cost will be $500 per vehicle. And in Surrey, Mayor Doug McCallum has vowed to block ride hailing entirely and was the lone vote against an inter-municipal business licence.

While ride hailing is set to launch in B.C. in the coming months, there are still questions about what impact the service will have on the region.

Last August, a study conducted by transportation consultancy Fehr and Peers on

behalf of Uber and Lyft found drivers for the two companies were adding to congestion on city streets.

The impacts were heaviest in downtown cores. In San Francisco, for example, Uber and Lyft made up 13.4% of all vehicle miles travelled, a percentage that dropped to 3% for the entire Bay Area. Seattle was at the other end of the spectrum, with the companies making up 2% of all vehicle miles travelled downtown and 1% across the region.

Dragana Mitic, Coquitlam’s manager of transportation, said traffic congestion in communities like the Tri-Cities is unlikely to be a significant issue when ride hailing companies hit the streets. But Mitic said staff would be monitoring data it will collect as part of the licensing agreement to see if bylaw or policy tweaks are needed.

“We are aware of the potential for these services to generate additional trips and, if not managed properly, they can result in negative consequences,” Mitic said in an email.

“While it is likely that the negative congestion impacts are more likely to occur within larger urban environments, we will be using the data that is generated [and] collected by the program, and our own monitoring, to conduct transportation analysis and make adjustments if required.”

City is fined when contaminants are found in compost GARy McKEnnA gmckenna@tricitynews.com

More than 1,000 letters were sent to Coquitlam homes after plastics were found in green bins in 2019.

Contamination has been such an issue that the city is ramping up its efforts to educate the public about what kinds of materials can go in the organic waste carts, said Steffanie Warriner, manager of Coquitlam’s environmental services.

“In the majority of cases, once we issue a letter, we do not see repeat issues, which suggests to us that these residents were likely using compostable plastics, unaware that this is actually an issue,” she told The Tri-City News.

Only organic materials, such as yard trimmings, food scraps, and food-soiled paper products are acceptable. Residents may choose to wrap food waste in paper towel or newspaper, or place it in paper bags. Any plastic bag — even those labelled

Green bins are for green waste and only approved waste bags. FILE PHOTO

biodegradable, compostable or municipality-approved — must be kept out of the green waste carts, she added.

The city monitors the waste streams for contamination. If it spots material that should not be in the green cart, residents will receive an information letter, followed, potentially, by a notice of violation and fines of $150.

“In the event of repeat offenders, the city may issue a fine under the solid waste management bylaw or the green cart may not be collected,” Warriner said.

“Further, contaminated green waste may be rejected by our processing facility, which can result in fines against the city.”

• For more information, go to www.coquitlam.ca/ foodwaste.

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FACILITY HOLIDAY CLOSURES

Many of Coquitlam’s facilities have special operating hours or may be closed over the holidays.

Visit the facility web pages for specific details. Closure dates are listed below.

If you require emergency assistance regarding water, sewer or roads, please call 604-927-3500.

Centennial Activity Centre

Glen Pine Pavilion

Summit Community Centre

Dec. 24 – Jan. 1

Dec. 25, 26, Jan. 1

Dec. 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 29, Jan. 1, 5

City Centre Aquatic Complex

Pinetree Community Centre

Smiling Creek Activity Centre

Dec. 25

Dec. 23 – Jan. 5

Dec. 13 – 22, 24 – 26, 28, 29, 31, Jan. 1, 4, 5

Coquitlam Animal Shelter

Poirier Community Centre

Town Centre Recycling Depot

Dec. 25

Dec. 25, 26, Jan. 1

Dec. 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, Jan. 1

Coquitlam City Hall

Poirier Forum

Dec. 25 – Jan. 1

Dec. 25, Jan. 1

Victoria Community Hall

Dogwood Pavilion

Poirier Sport & Leisure Complex

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2020 Council Meeting Schedule

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Tuesday January 14 and 28 Tuesday February 11 and 25 Tuesday March 10 and 24 Tuesday April 14 and 28 Tuesday May 12 and 26 Tuesday June 9 and 23 Tuesday July 14 and 28 No Scheduled Meetings in August – Only as Required Tuesday September 8 and 15 Tuesday October 13 and 27 Tuesday November 10 and 24 Tuesday December 8

JOIN US ON THE ICE! At the Port Coquitlam Community Centre Youth Ugly Sweater Late Night Skate

All meetings commence at 6:00 pm and are held in the: Council Chambers – Third Floor Port Coquitlam City Hall 2580 Shaughnessy Street, Port Coquitlam, BC V3C2A8

Christmas Eve Day Ring, Stick & Puck

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Dec 31, 12:30–2pm

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Helmet, stick & hockey gloves required.

New Year’s Even Day Skates

Dec 15, 1:15–3:45pm

For further information or questions regarding Council Meetings, please contact Corporate Office at 604.927.5421 or email corporateoffice@portcoquitlam.ca.

Dec 24, 10–11:30am (4–12yrs) & 11:45am–1:15pm (everyone)

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New Year’s Eve Day Ring, Stick and Puck Dec 31, 1–2:30pm (everyone)

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$500 fines for paint in creek Paint was washed into a catch basin, fouling Hyde Creek DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

Washing paint down a catch basin that drains into Hyde Creek has resulted in costly fines for a Port Coquitlam homeowner and their painter.

Two fines of $500 for pol-

luting a watercourse were issued after city officials spotted someone washing paint into a catch basin at the end of the work day. The surveillance was conducted after members of the Hyde Creek Watershed Society noticed a substance in the creek, which is home to spawning salmon and other wildlife.

Bob Bell, PoCo’s section manager of streets, earlier told The Tri-City News that he and his staff went upstream and

discovered a home being renovated that had a portable toilet outside. The spills seemed to be occurring at the end of the work day so the staff staked the home out after hours.

“Just like clockwork, there it was,” said Bell, who praised his staff for discovering the source of the spills.

“One of our staff went to the back lane to see over the fence and saw them washing [contaminants] into the catch basin. We went to the front of

the house and told them to stop and let them know the damage they’d caused in the last little while.

“I’m thankful we found it.”

A city spokesperson confirmed that the fines were issued to the home owner and to the friend who did the painting. “Both fines were paid and both individuals understood the severity of their actions,” Pardeep Purewal, the city’s manager of communication, stated in an email.

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Santa’s going to need a bigger sleigh.

The blitz by Port Moody Police Department (PMPD) to deliver Santa and Mrs. Claus to all the city’s neighbourhoods that concluded last night (Wednesday) was so successful, the department’s towering tree in the atrium of its headquarters on St. Johns Street has been overwhelmed by donated food items and toys. All of them are being delivered to Share family and community services.

PMPD’s community relations officer, Const. Jason Maschke, said the six visits over three weeks, in which a small parade of volunteer elves and police vehicles — one of them towing a sleigh transporting the honoured marshals — went better than expected.

Even as hard, cold rain fell on most of those evenings.

Maschke said as word of the effort spread through the community and on social media, the festive flotilla was resoundingly greeted by excited kids of all ages, from toddlers delaying their bedtime for Santa’s visit

Const. Jason Maschke (left) and Sgt. Ian Morrison of Port Moody Police Department show off some of the donated food items and toys collected by PMPD’s Santa blitzes to city neighbourhoods over the past three weeks. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

to seniors rousted from their living rooms by the clamour of sirens and squeals of delight.

He said residents in one neighbourhood along Cambridge Way even lined the curb to sing Christmas carols as Santa passed.

“It was like The Beatles coming to town,” he said.

Maschke said while the initiative was intended as a kind of rolling Christmas mini-parade that would move through each neighbourhood in moments, the visits inevitably turned into a bit of a street party as families streamed out

on to their lawns and sidewalks to welcome the visitors and deliver their donations. He said the excitement and generosity of residents touched everyone involved in the effort, whether it was a collective of kids who’d pooled their efforts to deliver a wagonload of items, or the senior who clutched a single can of tuna in her palms as if it was a Fabergé egg.

Even Santa — a.k.a. Sgt. Ian Morrison, who’s in charge of the department’s community relations section and grew a white beard especially for his role — was affected by the

smiles and laughter of the kids and adults as the motorcade passed.

“I thought what I saw had disappeared from the world,” he said. “I don’t know who had more fun: the kids or us.”

Maschke said he’s already thinking of next year’s blitz with — you guessed it — a bigger sleigh properly made of wood.

“It started as a small idea,” he said. “Hopefully it will take up a nugget of real estate in a child’s mind that they’ll forever remember when Santa Claus came to their neighbourhood.”

Port Moody taxpayers are facing a tax increase of 3.7% in the coming year, according to the city’s draft financial plan that was presented to city council’s finance committee Dec. 3.

The increase amounts to $87 for the average residential property in the city with an assessed value of just over $1 million.

In total, Port Moody’s operating budget is projected to increase by 2.62% while the budget for the city’s police department goes up 1.12%, which includes the addition of a new officer.

The budget also includes the addition of several new services, including a parks caretaker, an emergency preparedness coordinator and $23,000 for the city’s beaver management program. But most of those costs will be offset by revenue of $950,000 anticipated from new electronic billboards that will be erected at two locations in 2020.

The financial plan also features an expenditure of $16.2 million for capital projects next year. Those include the replacement of several vehicles that have reached the end of their lifespan; and improvements

to parks, including $75,000 for new playground equipment at Seaview Park and $80,000 to complete the second phase of the new playground at Rocky Point park that will be designed to appeal to older kids. One of the larger expenses will be $900,000 for new ice-making equipment for Arena 1 and the curling rink at the Port Moody recreation complex.

Last year, the city spent almost $300,000 of its emergency reserve fund to install a temporary ice plant for Arena 2 after its ice-making system had to be shut down in August 2018 because of ammonia leaks detected in the machinery’s brine lines.

In its request to fund the project, Port Moody’s community services department warned the rec centre’s second ice plant is “in a high risk position” for a similar failure.

The city won’t just be spending money, though.

The draft budget anticipates increased revenues of nearly $690,000, including $135,000 in rent from a newly-acquired property at 3016 Murray St. The city also expects $14,650,000 in a one-time density bonus payment from Onni for its latest project in Suter Brook Village.

Port Moody residents will get a chance to provide feedback on the proposed budget at a town hall meeting in early February, with the final budget scheduled to be adopted May 12.

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ll the Christmas gifts in the world wouldn’t generate the kind of spontaneous joy that filled the gym at Heritage Woods secondary school Nov. 29 when student Reid Demelo sunk a three-pointer from just outside the paint.

The basketball game-ending buzzer sounded just as the shot crested its arc and, when the ball dropped through the hoop, jubilant fans and teammates rushed the floor with an earsplitting roar, catching Demelo up in their warm embrace, and sending social media into a flurry of excitement.

Demelo soon became a star as media outlets around the world carried the story.

Why is that?

It wasn’t just that the story was a good news break from Brexit, trade wars, climate change worries and more — i.e., Trump — or that Demelo, who has Down syndrome, did a rare thing. (Maybe not so rare: He has scored a number of baskets over the years and is a multi-sport athlete.)

What was so special is the students’ love for their classmate — and his for them — expressed in their outpouring of glee at his accomplishment, and Demelo’s own confidence, making the shot calmly during the game’s dying seconds.

No amount of teaching can bring about that kind of genuine love, though Heritage Woods deserves some credit.

Demelo, a Grade 12 student, is such a positive a force at

Reid Demelo (right) gets high-fives at Heritage Woods secondary in Port Moody.

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his school that he engenders warm feelings among all he meets, according his coach.

This is the kind of world we want for our teens and one, it seems, they are able to create simply by being open to possibilities.

Parents and other adults are often angst-ridden about the

ability of our young people to navigate an increasingly complex world, and we harp on their use of technology, their endless communicating via social media.

But it turns out our young people are much further along in their social and emotional learning than we give them credit for. They may be communicating using their smart phones but they also know how to be spontaneous and loving.

As we stress about the holiday season, polishing every surface, hovering over every pot in an attempt to make our holiday festivities perfect, we should spend a moment to be spontaneous and try to find a way to show love without obligation or expectation.

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Bears die, government officials are at fault

The Editor, Re. “Travel, expenses necessary to build a ‘global network,’ says SD43 head” (The Tri-City News, Dec. 5).

School District 43 superintendent Patricia Gartland has a lot of nerve incurring more than $73,000 in travel expenses, ostensibly to promote the district’s international education program.

The claim is that it builds a global network.

I’m all for educational partnerships and sharing of ideas but these travels and expenses that result are very suspect.

Former premier Christy Clark

and the BC Liberal government gutted the provincial education budget. Students who achieve great results do so because of dedicated teachers and in spite of, not because of, trustees. Until the education funding is restored to its former level, there is no justification for jet-setting all over the place.

Trustees are supposed to be the guardians and advocates for students and teachers, not spending public money in this way. They should listen to the teachers and researchers who are in the trenches locally and fol-

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That $73,000 could have gone a long way to improving things locally.

Lorell Gingrich, Coquitlam

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The Editor, Re. “Big hikes for admin as teachers fight for pay raises” (The Tri-City News, Nov. 28).

I thought it was obscene to see such a huge pay rise and the amounts that the School District 43’s top staff members earn.

Whilst teachers are fighting

for not only wages but, also, smaller classes and programs that are cut, only the children suffer in all of this. And parents dig deeper into their pockets to pay for supplies for their kids at school.

Take a look at how many people working cannot even get an increase in pay. People cannot afford to buy houses, they struggle to put food on their table, buy gas for their cars, yet certain people are earning six figures.

Maybe they should take a pay cut to fund programs in schools.

S. Mullen, Port Coquitlam

The Editor, Re. “Six bears were killed and it’s humans’ fault” (Letters, The Tri-City News, Dec. 12) and “A deadly weekend for bears in PoCo” (The Tri-City News, Dec. 5).

I agree absolutely with this letter. And it’s time that the BC Conservation Officers (COs) stop their slaughter of innocent bruins. Also, it’s way past time that the COs begin enforcing what rules there are.

And it’s so sad that Port Coquitlam council stood right up and pointed fingers elsewhere. PoCo council is directly at fault for not taking preventive and corrective actions towards negligent citizens.

The fines in PoCo (and ev-

erywhere else, both locally and provincially) are way too low.

Enforcement activities at every level are too random, if ever they actually try to do something at least at the token level.

I’m sure the Coquitlam city council saw only big bucks when the city began the development of Burke Mountain.

Although I haven’t seen the environmental impact studies for the area, I’m willing to bet they didn’t address the issues of the displacement of wildlife and the catastrophic impact on bears.

And now, the bears pay the price for we humans. I hate it.

“Six bears were killed and it’s humans’ fault.” Never was a truer headline written.

M. Sonntag, Port Coquitlam

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THE ENVIRONMENT

No ifs, ands or butts, says Guzikowski Coquitlam tween has started petition to ban plastic cig filters DIaNE STRaNDbERg dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

A 12-year-old Coquitlam girl is taking her Butt Free BC campaign to the next level, calling on the federal government to ban cigarette filters to prevent the plastic waste from clogging waterways and threatening wildlife.

This week, Aniela Guzikowski launched a petition calling on the Canadian government to add cigarette filters to its planned single-use plastics ban, which is to take effect in 2021.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to ban plastics such as bags, straws, cutlery, plates and stir sticks, and to take other steps to reduce pollution from plastic products and packaging.

Guzikowski said cigarette filters that are made of cellulose acetate — a type of plastic that can take years to decompose — should also be on the list.

“I’m hoping that [the petition] gains enough support and enough people want this change that the government takes action.”

Aniela Guzikowski Coquitlam girl pushing a ban on cigarette filters

Her petition, available at change.org, notes that cigarette butts are a huge contributor to ocean plastic.

“I’m hoping that [the petition] gains enough support and enough people want this change that the government takes action,” Guzikowski told The Tri-City News.

A ban on plastic filters would likely mean they could not be used in cigarette manufacture but Guzikowski said that might not be so bad because they don’t do as much as originally thought to reduce toxic substances from entering the human body and may, in fact, create more problems, based on research that plastic filter fibres enter the lungs and cause cancer.

“Once the smokers were

educated that filtered cigarettes aren’t better for their health, I think they would be grateful that someone wanted the change,” she said.

Guzikowski’s campaign has already been raising awareness and she goes out in her community to clean up butts out of concern for litter in local waterways, which are home to several species of fish, birds and other wildlife.

One day, she hopes to take her concern to Ottawa but for now is raising awareness with her petition through various social media channels; she is also planning to do a TED-X presentation in Surrey on the topic.

If she gets 1,000 names on her petition, “that would be amazing,” Guzikowski said.

Aniela Guzikowski has launched a petition asking the Canadian government to add cigarette filters to its 2021 single-use plastics ban. Tri-CiTy News file phoTo

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Meet the (virtual) robot that could keep your Xmas dinner from turning into an argument CliMate chatbot is a ‘conversation coach’ via FB Messenger STEfaN Labbé slabbe@tricitynews.com

There’s nothing like an existential crisis to spice up Christmas dinner conversation.

But when it comes to species-scale extinction — and the heated politics around climate change — dinner table banter can turn hostile.

That’s where CliMate chatbot comes in.

CliMate is a conversation coach launched Dec. 10 and accessed through the Facebook Messenger app to help people with polarized opinions talk — without picking up a carving knife.

In guided practice conversations, users can choose whether they are someone

“Many of us aren’t accustomed to socializing with people who think differently from us, especially about politics.”

Karin Tamerius Social psychologist, writing in the New York Times

concerned about climate change chatting with a climate skeptic, or vice versa. In one example, the bot plays the role of a denier, baiting the user with, [angry face] “Global warming is a hoax.” You, as a climate change believer, are offered several options to respond, from “I can’t believe you’re a science denier. You’re brainwashed!” to “Can you say more about that?”

As you progress from one interaction to another, the bot guides you through a fivestep method to having better

conversations, a strategy developed by social psychologist Karin Tamerius.

“Normally when we have conversations, we’re yelling facts at each other. This is trying to ask with genuine curiosity, reflect, find places of common ground,” said Jodi Stark, a public engagement specialist with the David Suzuki Foundation, which launched the chatbot in collaboration with the U.S. nonprofit Smart Politics.

Stark, who was the main force behind applying the

chatbot to climate change, says she was tired of seeing conversations devolve into name-calling and speaking past one another, with neither side really listening. So she reached out to Tamerius and soon the two were part of a team working to drain the toxicity out of conversations around climate change.

While the CliMate chatbot appears to be the first to address conversations around climate change, the idea of applying bots to help guide social interactions was first popularized in the United States by Tamerius in the lead-up to Thanksgiving 2018. Angry Uncle Bot was launched to help Americans get through a long weekend at a time when the Donald Trump presidency had polarized families.

(Tamerius has since reworked the Angry Uncle Bot to help people navigate conversations surrounding

the impeachment of the U.S. president.)

“Many of us aren’t accustomed to socializing with people who think differently from us, especially about politics,” Tamerius wrote in the New York Times in November 2018. “Our political attitudes and beliefs are intertwined with our most basic human needs — needs for safety, belonging, identity, self-esteem and purpose — and when they’re threatened, we’re biologically wired to respond as if we’re in physical peril.

“So how can you talk with people who disagree with you without setting off this fightor-flight response?”

Of course, politics — like many things — is different in Canada, evidenced by the rise of climate change as a ballotbox issue in October’s federal election.

Despite popular interest among the electorate, regional divisions between Canada’s oil country and the other

provinces remain a barrier in any national project that would wean the Canadian economy off fossil fuels.

“We know we’re not going to be able to act on climate change unless we can talk about it and find common ground,” Stark said.

Tamarius’s research tells us two things, said Stark: that people are swayed more by peers, loved ones and neighbours than by experts and scientists; and that working to find common ground and shared experiences works better than forcing facts down someone’s throat.

“The way a lot of us are having conversations, we’re leaving people entrenched in their own positions. We’re just getting them to dig their heals in.

The more we fuel the divide between these two camps, the slower it is to move forward.

“At the crux of it,” she said, “it’s a communication problem.”

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THE LIGHT LIST

Do you like Christmas lights? Lots of bright lights? Check out these displays Variety of displays featuring lights, music & much more The Tri-City News is publishing a list of large light displays in the Tri-Cities for Christmas. As well, when we publish the list at tricitynews.com, the online version of the story includes a map of display locations.

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• 2988 Forestridge Pl.: Marlene Bilesky once again has her display ready to go and running daily from 6 to 10 p.m. through Jan. 10. She’s collecting donations for Variety The Children’s Charity and you can even drop off a letter for Santa Claus.

• 1417 Garibaldi Pl.: John and Trudy invite you to enjoy their homemade Christmas — this is the 35th year. More than 100 hand-painted display pieces on the house and in the yard. Two themes: traditional Christmas with manger scene, shepherds, wise men and angels; and contemporary Christmas with Santa, reindeer, toy trains, nutcrackers and singing snowmen. Lit up with more than 6,000 lights that are on daily from 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. If you enjoy the lights, they ask that you consider an online donation to Share Family and Community Services (sharesociety.ca).

• Cable Court cul-de-sac: 15 houses decorated for Christmas — this is a little street with lots of Christmas spirit.

• 2638 Brewster Dr.: Dangville, the Christmas village, is back. Dangville, which takes an entire double garage, features 191 miniature houses, most of which are lit up, and 41 animated pieces as well as several hundred elves, people and animals. The elves are busy working in the North Pole while the townfolk living below go about their merry business getting ready for Santa’s arrival. The choirs are singing and church bells ringing, the town in alive and bustling and waiting for you to visit. Open to the public nightly from Dec. 13 to 26, 6 to 9:30 p.m. (closed Christmas Eve and Christmas day). If you are lost or looking for direction, call 604-4640382 and ask for Joe or Julie.

Admission is free, donations accepted for CKNW Kids’ Fund.

• 1440 Cambridge Dr.: Bruce and Barb Murphy’s house features 20,000 lights, an electric tram, electric train with

Photos from some of the displays whose details are on this page (clockwise from top left): Miracle on Rae Street, Port Coquitlam); 2988 Forestridge Pl., Coquitlam; Dangville, Coquitlam; and 3631 Flint St., PoCo. SUBMITTED PHOTOS

bells and whistles, a nativity scene, a huge wreath, hot air balloon, and snowman and family. It’s open daily through Jan. 6 from 5:30 to 10 p.m.

Donations are collected for BC Children;s Hospital.

• 1422 Smith Ave.: Shane Miller’s display features about 25,000 lights — and 5,000 feet of extension cords. This huge display is set to music, with different sequences running in a different order every night, with shows starting from 5 to 9 p.m. daily. For more information, visit Facebook and search for Miller Lights 2019.

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• 3631 Flint St.: “Go big or go home” is the motto for Shannon and Jay, who’ve added yet more huge blowups to their light display. And this year, the lights flash to

Check out the online map accompanying this light list at tricitynews.com Christmas music. Keep in mind this is a display best seen from in front of the property as there many cords to hold it all up.

• 2167 Grant Ave.: Don describes his display this way: “A few thousand lights brightening up a very dark street.” He’s been working since before Halloween, he said, noting: “The trick is do setup as much as possible in better weather and while you still have daylight to work with, then turn it all on when you want. This setup took several days over three weeks. It’s never really done. Constant tinkering. It puts a little stress on the marriage. Good thing Christmas is

only once a year.”

• 1314 Paula Pl.: 13-yearold Gabriel Hyvarinen Bentzen and his grandfather, Digby Bentzen, have for the fifth consecutive year decorated the front and back of their townhouse: more than 7,500 lights, 30 candy canes, an illuminated archway with bells and stars, four blow-ups (Santa, a penguin, reindeer and a puppy), a snowman, Icicles hanging from a tree and tree made up with lights and decorated with miniature ornaments. They’re collected non-perishable food items for the food bank (there will be a box on a bench on the porch) from Dec 13 to 20.

Lights will be on from 5 to 10 p.m., and until midnight from Dec. 23 to Jan. 1.

• 752 Capital Crt.: The Fortier family’s display — which friends call “lights of elegance because we live on a large property… [with a] long driveway with lights all up it to our home” — features some 9,000 lights, reindeer, snowmen, wreaths, Santa and even Mickey Mouse. Lights are on daily from 5 to 11 p.m. Donna Fortier notes: “Our neighbours two doors down have really stepped it up this year, too, and should be on the map.”

• 1228 Oriole Pl.: Thousands of lights synchronized to nine songs — just tune your car radio to 92.3 FM. Donations are accepted for the Royal Columbia’s Hospital NICU. Lights on daily from 5:30 to 10 p.m.

• 3313 Rae St.: Miracle on Rae Street is a magical experience of more than 200,000 lights synchronized to music, plus ground displays. A highlight is the 90-foot decorated tree. Open Dec. 1 to Jan. 5, Sunday to Thursday, 5 to 10 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 5 to 11 p.m. Contributions to the Share food bank are gratefully accepted. On Sunday, Dec. 15, Starbucks will be hosting and serving hot chocolate. (Note: Due to high volume, Rae Street will become one way only; please enter off Prairie Avenue and exit onto Fremont Street.

As a courtesy to neighbours, please don’t block or turn around in driveways.)

• 1929 Tyler Ave.: You like penguins? The Hansens’ display has 75 of them — some handmade out of wood and painted, some inflatable.

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READERS’ SEASONAL PHOTOS

Every Christmas, The Tri-City News asks our readers for seasonal photos for possible use on our final front page before Christmas as well as in the rest of the paper and online. Here are some of the wonderful photos our amazing readers submitted this year. You can see more at tricitynews.com and on our Facebook and Instagram accounts (space permitting, there may be more used in our Dec. 26 edition as well).

WHO PROVIDED THESE PHOTOS? n Top row from left: Lucas Anchor, Maria Pichichero and Jennifer Martel. (Pichichero’s explanation: “My Mom lives at Madison Care Centre in Coquitlam and she was wearing the same pink sweater I wore when I went to visit her Dec. 11.

Staff called us ‘twins’ and took a picture.”) n Middle row from left: Kerri Chisholm, Vivian Ji and Shilpa Shah. n Bottom row from left: Jolan Holmes, Tracy Riddell and Lisa Russell.

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To help hold back that tide of plastic decorations, burned-out Christmas lights and the kind of presents that go straight to the thrift store, the Recycling Council of BC (RCBC) is calling on British Columbians to rethink how they give with some new, greener traditions.

“Canadians already understand the importance of a healthy environment but sometimes we forget that our everyday actions add to the impact,” said RCBC CEO Brock Macdonald in a press release.

“Small changes add up to big results. If everyone in Canada wrapped just three

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Macdonald suggests creating personalized gift certificates that offer a favour or experience rather than a consumer product. One gift certificate could count for a home-cooked meal or a night of babysitting, another for an afternoon of canning or an evening of babysitting.

Try bringing the bookworm in your life to a writer’s festival or workshop; take them to a local theatre adaptation of their favourite novel, he suggests.

If you plan to give a gift, Macdonald suggests wrapping it in tea towels, scarves or even a backpack. Are you set on gift wrapping? Opt for paper, said Macdonald, as cellophane and metallic foils can’t be recycled.

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P R O V I N C I A L S P E C U L AT I O N TA X

Spec. tax relief for some in Belcarra Owners of several water-access cabins won’t pay prov. tax JANIS CLEUgh jcleugh@tricitynews.com

The owners of 57 homes in Belcarra that can only be reached by boat will no longer have to pay the province’s speculation and vacancy tax.

Today, the NDP government issued an exemption to the tax for water-access-only properties as well as for military families.

The announcement comes after months of lobbying by Belcarra Mayor Neil Belenkie and village residents opposing the tax, which they claim is unfair and has forced some cabin dwellers to sell.

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news. “I’m happy for the water-access-only cabin owners… but [the policy] still needs to be fixed in other areas.”

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“One thing we kept hearing about was the road access,” he said, noting the feedback was

relayed to Finance Minister Carole James.

Glumac said the speculation and vacancy tax has been in place for a year and “we’re seeing that it’s been working as intended.” To date, it has collected about $115 million for affordable housing, with most of the taxes imposed on foreign owners.

Still, Glumac said the government is open to more changes to make the tax fairer to British Columbians.

The speculation and vacancy tax is now the subject of a major legal challenge.

This fall, nine homeowners in greater Victoria and Metro Vancouver launched a lawsuit and are seeking certification as a class action. If approved, the suit would cover about 9,200 foreign owners, satellite families and Canadians living outside of B.C. who have been subjected to the tax.

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Email: clerks@coquitlam.ca Fax: 604-927-3015 Mail: City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, B.C., V3B 7N2 In person at City Hall, 3000 Guildford Way at the City Clerk’s Office during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday excluding statutory holidays (Telephone: 604-927-3010).

Input received will be provided to Council in the form of a report at a Regular Council Meeting. Council will consider the input provided and submit a formal recommendation on the application to the LCRB. 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 on our website at www.coquitlam.ca/agendas.

COUNCIL MEETINGS - Start at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, Coquitlam City Hall, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam (with the exception of Council Meetings following a Public Hearing).

PUBLIC HEARINGS - Start at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers (a Council Meeting will commence immediately following the adjournment of a Public Hearing).

COUNCIL-IN-COMMITTEE MEETINGS - Start at 2:00 p.m. on Council Meeting days and are typically held in the Council Committee Room, Coquitlam City Hall.

CLOSED COUNCIL MEETINGS - Generally convene immediately following adjournment of a Council-in-Committee Meeting and are held in the Council Committee Room. The first item to be considered in the public portion of these meetings is a resolution requiring adoption prior to the Council Meeting being closed to the public.

COUNCIL AGENDAS - Are posted on the City’s website by 3:00 p.m. on the Friday prior to the scheduled meeting and are available for viewing at coquitlam.ca/agendas. To receive Council, Committee and Public Hearing agendas via email, sign up for our Council News direct email service at coquitlam.ca/directmail.

WATCH COUNCIL MEETINGS - The City of Coquitlam offers a video streaming service that makes its Regular Council Meetings, Public Hearings and Council-in-Committee Meetings accessible through its website at coquitlam.ca/webcasts.

CITY CLERK’S OFFICE

Additional information concerning this application can be obtained by contacting Sean O’Melinn at 604-927-3016.

604-927-3010

Sean O’Melinn Legislative Services Manager City Clerk’s Office

City Clerk’s Office, 2nd Floor, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7N2

coquitlam.ca/publicnotices

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P R O P E R T Y TA X A S S E S S M E N T S

Look up land values starting on Jan. 2 Assessments reflect market values from July 1 of this year Tri-City residents looking forward to seeing their property assessments Jan. 2 might be a little disappointed to see a slight softening in the value of their homes.

Single-family homes are expected to see the biggest declines of between 10% and 15% in assessed value, and while condos are doing slightly better, many are seeing a drop, too, according to

the BC Assessment Authority.

Property assessments are based on prices from a July 1, 2019 snapshot, so actual market values now could be different from assessments.

For condo owners, property values could see no change to a drop in value of about 15%.

“We first saw signs of moderation during the 2019 property assessments,” assessor Tina Ireland said in a press release. “For 2020 assessments, we are seeing a continued ripple effect of a moderating market expanding across the province.”

All British Columbia property owners will receive their annual property assessment notice in early January 2020.

During December, BC Assessment is providing notification letters to property owners whose assessments are changing significantly more than the average change.

Visit bcassessment.ca on Jan. 2 to access a variety of 2020 assessment information, including searching and comparing property assessments as well as market movement trends.

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C Christmas Worship Christmas Eve featuring scripture reading, carols and candlelight

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Christmas Eve Service

Blue Mountain Church

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“Blue Christmas” For those who hurt at Christmas December 19th 7 pm • IOCO Location

Christmas Eve Services December 24th 4 pm Family Service & Candlelight at our Kinsight Location 1551 Salisbury Ave. Port Coquitlam 7 pm Family Service & Candlelight at our IOCO Location 9 pm Communion & Candlelight at our IOCO Location 1790 IOCO Rd. Port Moody

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. AURENCE LAURENCE AANGLICAN NGLICAN CHURCH STS.TL HURCH 825St.St.Laurence LaurenceSt. St. Coquitlam Coquitlam 825

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E M E R G E N C Y P R E PA R E D N E S S

The Big One is coming. Are you ready?

Register for Coq.’s emergency prep sessions, Jan.-April Are you ready for a major emergency?

You could be if you sign up for one of several free training sessions put on by the city of Coquitlam to learn to take care of your basic needs for at least 72 hours following a disaster.

The Coquitlam Emergency Program has six free Personal Family and Community Emergency Preparedness sessions scheduled from January through April 2020 that use an earthquake scenario to walk you through the steps to being better prepared at home, including what supplies to assemble in your

emergency kit.

Session dates are: • Tuesday, Jan. 14, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Glen Pine Pavilion (1200 Glen Pine Crt.); • Saturday, Jan. 18, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Coquitlam Public Library, City Centre branch (1169 Pinetree Way); • Monday, Feb. 10, 10 a.m. to noon, Dogwood Pavilion (1655 Winslow Ave.); • Tuesday, Feb. 25, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Coquitlam Public Library, Poirier branch (575 Poirier St.); • Tuesday, April 14, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Glen Pine Pavilion; • Monday, April 20: 10 a.m. to noon, Dogwood Pavilion.

Pre-registration is required. Visit www.coquitlam. ca/emergtraining for details and to sign up online.

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SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SERVICES

FRIENDSHIP Baptist Church

Como Lake United Church

~ temporarily at 825 St. Laurence Street, Coquitlam, BC 604-931-8555

December 22nd Christmas Story and Carols for the young and young at heart!

4:00 p.m.

invites you & your family to our Christmas Eve Service Tuesday, December 24 6:00 PM 2950 Dewdney Trunk Road, Coquitlam • 604.945.8500

Christmas Eve 7:00 p.m.

It’s cold, it’s wet and it’s slippery.

And if that isn’t bad enough, winter weather can mean flooding or high winds that cause power failures due to trees and other plant debris hitting power lines.

Coquitlam is advising residents they can take simple steps to prevent impacts to their homes and neighbourhoods by pruning dead and overhanging branches, securing belongings that might blow away in a storm, clearing catch basins of debris and shutting off outside water taps to protect plumbing and draining built-in sprinkler systems.

The city’s emergency preparedness webpage (coquitlam.ca/emergprepared) has more details and tips, including: • the 26 Weeks to Emergency Preparedness Tip Sheet; • a checklist for businesses to be prepared to respond to and recover from a major emergency; • and resources from Emergency Management BC designed for individuals with mobility, visual, hearing and cognitive disabilities to become better prepared for an emergency or disaster.

Candlelight, Carols, Communion

www.comolakeunitedchurch.com

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King of Life Lutheran Church Christmas Eve Candlelight Services 4pm & 10pm Christmas Day Worship 11am Service of Favourite Carols December 29, 10am

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 7pm New Years Day Jazz Band Service 2pm

1504 Sprice Ave. (at Schoolhouse)

1198 Falcon Dr. (corner of Guildford)

Pastor: Eric Krushel www.gslcc.ca

Pastor: Lori-Anne Boutin-Crawford www.kingoflife.ca

604-936-2939

604-941-0552

Trinity United Church Unto Us a Child is Born

Come visit at Christmas ~ Experience rebirth 2211 Prairie Ave. Pt. Coq.

December 19 - Thursday Longest Night Service December 24 - Christmas Eve Family Service Candlelight Contemplative Sunday Worship Weekly

7:00 pm 7:00 pm 11:30 pm 10:30 am

website: ucpoco.ca

(604) 942-0022

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THE LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF COQUITLAM INVITE YOU

O come, little children; O come, one and all. Celebrate with us this Christmas.

Christmas Services December 24th 4:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm

Family Service Carol Sing Christmas Candlelight Service

2211 Prairie Ave, Port Coquitlam (corner of Shaughnessy St & Prairie Ave, north side) www.stcatherineschurch.ca

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THINGS-TO-DO GUIDE

Support your local community by donating to your local not-for-profit For further information visit:

tricity.starlocal.ca/season-of-giving/

weekend eVenTS

Jingle all the way to Lafarge Lake TriCitiesPrideSociety.

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MASCOT PARAde

Search for hidden mascots at Lights at Lafarge (Town Centre Park, 1299 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam) from 5 to 9 p.m. with the city’s Park Spark team. And pose for a snap with the mascots using the social media hashtag #parkspark. Visit coquitlam.ca/ parkspark.

Dec. 20 Red nOSe

Get a ride home from the pub or a party — in your own vehicle — from volunteers with Operation Red Nose. Ride donations go to KidSport Tri-Cities, a charity that pays for sporting registrations for families in financial need. Supported by ICBC, Coquitlam RCMP, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver and Coquitlam Centre as well as local eateries, the service also runs tonight, Saturday and Dec. 31. Call 778-866-6673 for a lift between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. To volunteer with the campaign, visit operationrednosetricities.com to download an application form.

MInOR HOCkeY

Cheer on the Coquitlam Minor Hockey players in their candy cane initiation/ novice tournament, running until Monday at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex (633 Poirier St., Coquitlam).

Call 604-927-6027 or visit coquitlamminorhockey.org.

TOOnIe SkATe

Don’t spend the afternoon indoors. Pull your skates from your closet and head over to the new Port Coquitlam community centre (2150 Wilson Ave., Port Coquitlam) where a spin on Arena 3 will cost $2 per person. The drop in is from 1:15 to 3:15 p.m. Visit portcoquitlam.ca.

JInGLe BeLLS

Get your vocal cords ready

xMAS BRewSkIeS

Coquitlam Park Spark member Sara Yastremski and Noel Reck will lead the Jingle Bells sing-along at Town Centre Park (1299 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam) on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in an attempt to break a record with 2,000 vocalists. janis cleugh/The TRi-ciTY neWs

for a massive sing-along of Jingle Bells led — for the third year in a row — by Noel Reck, the city of Coquitlam’s park operations supervisor.

Coquitlam’s Park Spark team wants to see at least 2,000 singers around Lafarge Lake between 7 and 8 p.m. in an attempt to break a record. The song starts at 7:30 p.m. and songbooks (published by The Tri-City News) will be available. And don’t forget to tour the lake afterward to see the show, the biggest free outdoor display of winter lights in the Lower Mainland. Call 604927-3669 or visit coquitlam. ca/lightsatlafarge to see the Park Spark schedule.

Dec. 21

BOxeS Of LOVe

Help the congregation at Broadway Church (1932 Cameron Ave., Port Coquitlam) pack Christmas food hampers for 100 families and wrap gifts for children, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the campus. A light lunch will be provided to volunteers. To lend a hand or donate, go to cityreach.org/boxesoflove.

IT’S A GAS

FortisBC is throwing a party to thank commuters for their patience as it installed a new pipeline under Como Lake Avenue in Coquitlam this year.

The 30” natural gas line is now servicing more than 210,000 homes and businesses in the Lower Mainland. Talk to officials about the project — and try to win prizes — at the celebration, happening at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex (633 Poirier St., Coquitlam) from 10 a.m. to noon. Call 604-592-7494 or visit talkingenergy.ca.

Be PROUd

Have a coffee with the TriCities Pride Society at Caffe Divano (101 Klahanie Dr., Port Moody) from 3 to 5 p.m. and learn about what’s happening with the LGBTQ2+ club. Visit facebook.com/

Coquitlam’s only microbrewery, Mariner Beer, hosts its third annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Party — featuring three holiday craft suds — from 7 to 11 p.m. at the company (1100 Lansdowne Dr., Coquitlam).

The bash also includes a live DJ, a photo booth and a sweater contest. Call 604467-4160. Meanwhile, the Meridian Arms Pub (3261 Coast Meridian Rd., Port Coquitlam) has its Ugly Christmas Sweater bash starting at 7 p.m. with the Patsy Thompson Band. Call 604941-4711.

OUT Of TOwn

Five Tri-City actors are performing in the Gateway Theatre production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Nathan Piasecki, Julia MacLean, Jocelyn Tsui, Krista Skwarok and Timothy Liu are cast in the show that runs until Dec. 31 at the Gateway Theatre (6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond). For tickets, call 604-270-1812 or visit tickets.gatewaytheatre. com. Meanwhile, Coquitlam’s Erin Palm is reprising her role as Mary Hatch Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life by Patrick Street Productions.

The musical, which has its opening night tonight, is playing the Anvil Centre Theatre (777 Columbia St., New Westminster) from until Jan. 5. Call 604-684-2787 or visit patrickstreetproductions.com.

SALSA LeSSOn

Learn to move your hips and feet to the Latin beats spun in the rehearsal hall at the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam). The Hot Salsa Dance Zone’s Alberto and Teresa will teach a beginners’ class at 8 p.m.; the preChristmas party runs from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Entry is $10.

Parking is free or hop on the Evergreen Extension to the Lafarge Lake-Douglas station, beside the Evergreen Cultural Centre. Visit hotsalsadancezone.com.

Dec. 22

MARkeT BOUnd

There are lots of Christmas stocking stuffers and handmade goods to grab in the Port Moody Winter Farmers Market, at the Port Moody recreation complex (300 Ioco Rd.) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Visit makebakegrow.com.

nIGHT MARkeT

There’s free admission into the inaugural Coquitlam Christmas Night Market, which runs from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam). Vendors will be on hand to seek jewellery, woodwork, food, clothing and toys. Guests can also sit for a free family Christmas portrait. Visit facebook.com/ events/643765139490989.

Send your community events for our weekly Things-to-do Guide at least one week in advance to jcleugh@tricitynews.com

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➊ A coffeehouse fundraiser by the Gleneagle secondary Me to We club hauled in nearly $1,900 to help build a school in Africa. The proceeds were boosted by former Coquitlam mayor Maxine Wilson, who donated $1,000 to the cause, said spokesperson Lucas Hung.

➋ The Saint Mary’s Health Foundation recently gave grants to the Eagle Ridge Hospital Foundation to help the charity buy one of two state-of-the-art trauma stretchers for the resuscitation rooms in the Port Moody hospital’s new emergency department — due to open in September 2021 — and for its operating room nursing education.

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➌ Two dozen students from Gleneagle secondary spent an afternoon last month pulling invasive plants around Noons Creek with Port Moody city workers. “I saw it as a huge success and felt proud to be beside fellow students who are as eager as I am to make a difference in our community,” spokesperson Connor Macmillan said.

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Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Joan Isaacs, MLA Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Joan.Isaacs.mla@leg.bc.ca

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LIBRARIES & LITERACY

Noon Year’s Eve, digital demo & HEROS 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.

PORT MOODY

• Noon Year’s Eve Party: On Tuesday, Dec. 31, you can ring in the New Year without staying up late. Join PoMo Public Library for a family dance party and count down to 12 — p.m., that is — in the children’s area between 11 a.m. and noon. No registration required — just drop in.

• Check out ebooks: From the latest bestselling novels to the best “how-to” guides and classic fiction, Port Moody Public Library has thousands of ebooks and downloadable audiobooks for your electronic device. Find out more by going to portmoodylibrary.ca.

• Intro to ukulele: Join librarians Tuesday, Jan. 7 from 7 to 8 p.m. in the library’s ParkLane Room to learn how to play one of the cheeriest in-

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There are books about books, booksellers and bookrelated events. Planning a bookstore wedding? They have just the book for that. Need a non-fiction book about an infamous underwater library? But of course.

At this unique shop, you’ll also find accessories and appliances for the most discerning reader, such as a cover transformer that looks like a toaster. Concerned that guests will think less of you for the cozy mysteries or bodice rippers on your shelf? Simply pop them into the device to be made over with covers that appear more highbrow or intellectual.

The I Wonder Bookstore is for bibliophiles, readers and dreamers of all ages. Adults as well as younger readers will enjoy the creative titles offered by the bookseller to his customers and the playful illustrations about libraries, bookstores, books and reading.

struments around. Participants will review tuning, strumming and the first three chords. You must bring your own ukulele.

Visit portmoodylibrary.ca or call 604-469-4577 to register.

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• Tech Talk: Digital Demo Day: Learn about streaming video and downloading ebooks, audiobooks and magazines from the library website

in this overview of Fraser Valley Regional Library’s digital content collections. Port Coquitlam residents can borrow digital books and videos, for free, on a variety of devices; find out more by attending this session Tuesday Jan. 7, 2 to 3:30 p.m. — drop in.

• Bullet journaling: What is this bullet journaling thing?

It’s a fun, creative, analog method to schedule and be organized. Look beyond your phone to be organized and stay sane. Join librarians to find out more Wednesday, Jan. 8, 7 to 8 p.m. Call or visit the library to register.

• Storytime: Introduce kids to the love of books and language with storytime.

Children and caregivers will enjoy interactive stories, songs, rhymes and more.

Storytime starts Monday Jan. 6, and Wednesday, Jan. 8 from 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. — drop in.

Info: www.fvrl.bc.ca, the Fraser Valley Regional Library Facebook page or 604-927-7999.

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• English Language Learner Book Club: Are you interested in joining a book club dedicated to English language learners? You’ve come to the right place. Join Coquitlam librarians for a monthly book club and discover the joys of meeting

to talk about books. Drop in to the City Centre branch Tuesday, Jan. 21, from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

• Retirement seminar series: Understand retirement income and expenses, what money comes from the government and what comes from your own initiatives, and learn practical ways to work on a budget. Drop in to City Centre branch Wednesday, Jan. 15, 10 to noon. This is the first of three seminars on retirement, presented with IG Wealth Management.

• HEROS emergency preparedness program: Are you and your family ready for an emergency? Learn what hazards you could face and how to be prepared to help yourself and others at the City Centre branch Saturday, Jan. 18 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and the Poirier branch, Tuesday, Feb. 25 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Register online signmeup. coquitlam.ca/signmeup or by phone at 604-927-4386.

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Port Coquitlam’s Salt N Sear Catering — a catering company using local ingredients and run by Zambianborn Jean Jacque Kabuya — was nominated in the Best Company category.

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OUT & ABOUT CALENDAR MONDAY, DEC. 23 • PoCo Heritage TREES invites kids to bring their parents, guardians and grandparents to free storytime, interactive live entertainment, nature-based crafts and activities, and hot chocolate and treats, 6:30-8 p.m., Kinsmen’s Hall, 2175 Coquitlam Ave., PoCo. You can bring home-made holiday treats to share with others (no peanuts or peanut products) and TREES will provide free hot chocolate.

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TUESDAY, JAN. 7 • 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.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8 • Pacific Digital Photography Club meets, 7:30 p.m., in the drama room at Port Moody secondary school – guests always welcome. Info, including meetings & speakers: www.pdpc.ca.

TUESDAY, JAN. 14 • 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.

TUESDAY, JAN. 28 • 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.

FRIDAY, JAN. 31 • Movie Night in the Museum, 6:30-8 p.m., PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives.

Bring a pillow, blanket or comfy chair and join PoCo Heritage for a free, fun cinema adventure.

Popcorn will be provided.

SENIORS • Members of Dogwood and Glen Pine pavilions, Coquitlam’s recreation centres for people over 50 years of age, can take part in a dedicated skate time on Wednesdays, Oct. 2-Dec. 4, 12:15-1:15 p.m., Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex, 633 Poirier St. Cost: $25 for all 10 sessions, which includes rental skates and helmet, if required.

Info: Ed, 604-944-9706.

• Dogwood Songsters Choir (age 50 plus) practises every Monday, 9:15 a.m.-noon, Dogwood Pavilion; it also entertains in retirement residences once a week and is dedicated to sharing the joy of singing in the community. New members are accepted in January and September. Info: Jan, 778-9410788 or Nadia, 604-931-5610.

JAN. 11: XMAS TREE AWARDS • Christmas Tree Festival awards ceremony, 1-3 p.m., PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives. Join PoCo Heritage as it hands out the awards to winning festival trees; all are welcome; light refreshments will be served.

• Share Family and Community Services is running a walking club for people 65+ as part of its new Active Aging program; the group meets every Thursday at 11 a.m. at the steps down to the lakeside path from Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam. People of all abilities and languages are welcome and can walk at whatever pace is suitable. If you are interested in joining the walking group or would like to start a walking group in another location, contact Share: 604-937-6992 • 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 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, 604-9390327.

• The Club Port Moody, a gathering place for those over 50 at 101 Noons Creek Dr., hosts a number of regular events, including: crocinole, Tuesdays, 10 a.m.; knitting, Tuesdays, 1-2:30 p.m.; cribbage, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-noon; ukelele group, Wednesdays, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Info: theclubportmoody.com.

• Bingo at Dogwood Pavilion, 12:45 p.m., every Friday (except holidays and in July and August).

Info: 604-927-6098.

• Coquitlam 50+ (Glen Pine and Dogwood pavilions) slopitch ball club is looking for man 55 and older and women 50 and older from the Tri-Cities to play ball. It is not necessary to have participated in organized ball in your past life, just have some knowledge of the game and an ability to make it around the bases. Teams play at Town Centre and Mundy parks; practices and games are held Tuesday and Thursday mornings, and the season begins as weather permits. Info: Len, 604941-0081 or lenraili@shaw.ca; or Phil, 604-931-5498 or pjbd2@ hotmail.com.

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• Dogwood Drama Club meets Mondays and Thursdays, 1-3:30 p.m., Dogwood Pavilion, 624 Poirier St., Coquitlam (entrance and parking off Winslow). New members are always welcome for acting roles or backstage crew.

Info: Darlene, 604-937-3536.

• Minds in Motion, a fitness and social program for people with early-stage Alzheimer’s

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• Stroke Recovery Association of BC, Coquitlam branch at Dogwood Pavilion invites people recovering from stroke and their

caregivers most Fridays, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. for speech therapy, exercise, indoor bocce, music, dance, games, speakers, outings, fun and friendship, 624 Poirier St. (enter off Winslow Avenue). Info: Kim Bortolin, 604-927-6093.

• Seniors meet every Friday, 12:30-2:30 p.m., to do fun group activities including physical fitness exercises, games, sto-

rytelling, local tours and recipe sharing. All women and men 50 or older are welcome at Share Family and Community Services’ Mountain View Family Resource Centre, 699 Robinson St., Coquitlam (corner of Smith Avenue and Robinson Street).

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Enhance your experience while visiting Lights at Lafarge. Drop-in for weekly pop-up activities with the Park Spark staff and volunteer team, rainyorSchool shine.

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Sunday, Dec. 22 Mascot Parade

Monday, Dec. 23 Carnival Night

Discover hidden mascots around Lafarge Lake in this fun, interactive hunt. Don’t forget to snap a selfie or pose for a picture with the mascots.

Come one, come all! Try your hand at some fun games at the Park Spark Zone in the TD Community Plaza.

Wednesday, Dec. 25

Thursday, Dec. 26

Happy Holidays from the City of Coquitlam’s Park Spark Team!

Enjoy the dazzling light display that encircles the 1.2-km Lafarge Lake loop.

Tuesday, Dec. 24 Enjoy the dazzling light display that encircles the 1.2-km Lafarge Lake loop.

Friday, Dec. 27 Disco Night

Saturday, Dec. 28 Scavenger Hunt

Grab your friends and family, wear your brightest outfit and join us for a dance party around Lafarge Lake.

Explore the light display and complete our scavenger hunt to win a fun prize!

For more event info including a parking map, visit coquitlam.ca/parkspark

Thank You Light Brigade Volunteers!

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• Council of Senior Citizens Organizations (COSCO) is an advocacy group devoted to seniors’ concerns. Seniors’ organizations and others interested in joining, call Ernie, 604-5769734, or email tsn@shaw.ca.

• Glen Pine 50Plus group plays bridge Mondays, 12:453:30 p.m., Tuesdays, 9:30-11:45 a.m. at Glen Pine Pavilion, 1200 Glen Pine Crt., Coquitlam. New members welcome. Info: 604927-6940.

• Caregiver support group meets second and fourth Friday of each month, Dogwood Pavilion, 624 Poirier St., Coquitlam, 10 a.m.-noon. Info: 604-933-6098.

• Monthly seniors luncheon with Jewish entertainment, Burquest Jewish Community Centre, 2680 Dewdney Trunk Rd. Coquitlam. Info: 604-5527221 or info@burquest.org.

• ABCs of Fraud, a consumer fraud prevention program for seniors, by seniors, gives free onehour presentations to seniors groups of 10 or more. Info: 604437-1940 or ceas@telus.net.

ONGOING • Heritage Detectives, 10 a.m.-noon every Tuesday at PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives; join local historian Bryan Ness in a weekly exploration of different aspects of Port Coquitlam’s heritage and history.

• 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.

• PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives, 150-2248 McAllister Ave., is open Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m., and Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Staff is available TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; volunteers may be on-site at other times. Info: 604-927-8403 or www.pocoheritage.org.

• Bingo at Dogwood Pavilion, 12:45 p.m., every Friday (except holidays and in July and August). Info: 604-927-6098.

• SPARC radio museum on Riverview Hospital grounds is open most Sundays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., with tours given by volunteers; large collection of antique consumer, military, marine, amateur radios and broadcast studio equipment. Located in the old pharmaceutical warehouse on Kerria Drive at the top of the hill. Info: 604-777-1885 or sparcradio.ca.

• 754 Phoenix Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Cadets is

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active from September to June and meets Wednesdays, 6:309:30 p.m., at Moody elementary school. Girls and boys 12-18 welcome. Due to increased interest in the cadet program, a second squadron has been added that meets Tuesdays at Maillard middle school. Info: 754aircadets.ca.

• Burquitlam Community Association holds its monthly meeting on the first Thursday of each month, 7-9 p.m., in the library at Miller Park elementary school, Coquitlam.

• Are you a new immigrant?

Do you have questions, concerns and/or need help? Call RCCG Trinity Chapel at 604474-3131 on Tuesdays and Fridays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., or call outside those times and leave a message and someone will call you back. Trinity will help or direct you to places where you could receive help.

• Saturday hikes leave from Rocky Point at 9:30 a.m. Info: pocomohiking@hotmail.com.

• Eagle Ridge Hospital Auxiliary Saturday coffee program runs Saturdays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., in the ERH lobby, 475 Guildford Way, Port Moody.

Sales of beverages and baked goods raise funds for the purchase of hospital equipment and patient comfort items.

• Royal Canadian Legion Branch 133, 2675 Shaughnessy St., PoCo: meat draws Tuesdays, 4 p.m.; Fridays, 4:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 3:30 p.m.

• Glenayre Scottish country dancers meet Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., at Burquest Jewish Community Centre, 2860 Dewdney Trunk Rd., Coquitlam.

New members welcome, all levels beginner to advanced, singles and couples.

• St. John Ambulance volunteer medical first responders meetings held every Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Tri-Cities branch, 2338 Clarke St., Port Moody. New members welcome to attend. Info: 604-931-3426 or www.sja.ca/bc.

• St. John Ambulance volunteer youth cadets meetings, for people ages 6 to 21, held every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Tri-Cities branch, 2338 Clarke

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You can pick up a copy of the Christmas Songbook — published this month by The Tri-City News — at our office before Dec. 24: 118-1680 Broadway St., Port Coquitlam.

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Noel Reck is at it again.

For the third year in a row, the parks operations supervisor with the city of Coquitlam will stand on the Park Spark stage at the TD Community Plaza in Town Centre Park on Dec. 20 to lead the community in the singing of Jingle Bells at 7:30 p.m.

And it’s not just for fun and good cheer.

The municipality is hoping to draw more than 2,000 voices in an attempt to break a record via recordsetter.com, with the most people singing the holiday standard at once.

“I like to inspire the residents of Coquitlam to take part in our Lights at Lafarge display and one of the best ways to do that is through song,” said Reck, a singer, guitarist, bass player and drummer who has worked with folk musician Greg Drummond and is featured on his upcoming album.

Reck won’t be alone in the Jingle Bells feat: Between six to eight music groups such as Choral Connections, the Coquitlam Ukulele Tiny Instrument Enthusiasts (or

Sara Yastremski and Noel Reck of the city of Coquitlam’s recreation department invite you to sing “Jingle Bells” along with them at Lights at Lafarge on Friday, Dec. 20 at 7:30 p.m. to break a record. janis cleugh/the tRi-citY neWs

CUTIE) and the Vancouver Bach Choir will be stationed around the lake to wait for Reck’s cue. And once they hear his voice over the speakers, everyone will sing in unison. “The sound travels pretty well across the water,” said Sara Yastremski of the city’s Park Spark team. “It’s been successful in the past, with more than 500 people the last time.”

For those not familiar with the full tune, the Park Spark team will hand out songbooks — published this month by The Tri-City News — before the event so participants have the lyrics at hand.

As well, guests are encouraged to dress up in their bright holiday threads and bring bells for the sing-along, which will be captured for recordsetter.com with an aerial photo.

The city is encouraging the public to take transit to get to Lights at Lafarge, the biggest free outdoor winter lights display in Metro Vancouver.

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A dozen years of QuiRing New Year’s eve show with violist, pianist duo janIS CleUgh jcleugh@tricitynews.com

San Francisco is the city that ties the guest performers to the Quirings, a Coquitlam couple who on Dec. 31 will host their 12th annual New Year’s Eve recital at the Evergreen Cultural Centre.

Violist Reg Quiring and his wife, Rosemary O’Connor, a pianist who hails from the San Francisco Bay area, will play three compositions see

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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: JANET KVAMMEN

Award-winning humanitarian, artist & writer shows in PoCo All the Colours Bleed Into One is the title of the artwork at left as well as Janet Kvammen’s collection that’s now on display until Jan. 6 at Western Sky Books in Port Coquitlam. A mixed media/lens-based artist and poet, Kvammen has 24 pieces in her exhibit.

Kvammen is best known in New Westminster as the vice-president of the Royal City Literary Arts Society and her work with the New West Artists. Three years ago, she received a Nehru Humanitarian Award from UBC and Goel Family Charitable Foundation; she also won the Writer’s International Network Distinguished Poet and Artist Award in 2012 and, two years later, the World Poetry Empowered Poet Award. Her art can also be seen at Gallery on 12th Street in New West.

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with Ian Swensen, Cassandra Bequary and Heather Hay — each of whom studied or is currently teaching in the Golden Gate City.

Swensen, who has performed at past QuiRing in the New Year shows, is the Isaac Stern Chair of Violin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He taught Bequary, who is now with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s second violin section.

Hay also earned her master’s degree in music from the conservatory. A former member of the renowned Purcell String Quartet, Hay is the assistant principal cellist with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and is on the music faculty at Capilano University.

For the past two years, she has collaborated with O’Connor. “She’s a big fanatic of chamber music,” O’Connor said of Hay. For their two-hour concert, which includes intermission and a sparking wine reception afterward, Quiring and O’Connor will start their program with George Frideric Handel’s Sonata in A-Major transcribed for viola and piano, from the Baroque period.

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New Year’s Eve is such an interesting time of the year: It’s dark but there’s also this warm feeling that we get as we close the year and look ahead.

This piece is captures that mood.”

The key will be carried through to Johannes Brahms’ Violin Sonata No. 2 in A-Major,

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O’Connor said she’s looking forward to tackling the work as “it has been on my hit list. I’ve been obsessed with it for the past year and I felt like something was calling me to that piece.”

Finally, all five musicians will close the event with Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, considered to be one of the best chamber music works of the Romantic era.

“It’s such a blast to play,” O’Connor said. “It’s so energizing and we’ll be sending off the crowd really happy.”

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SD43 theatre students ready for spring shows Pinetree, Centennial launch district run with Disney musicals janis cleugh jcleugh@tricitynews.com

Musicals about keeping secrets, bullying and family values are among the themes for next year’s high school productions in the Tri-Cities.

Pinetree secondary kicks off the School District 43 2020 drama season with Freaky Friday: A New Musical with shows starting Jan. 30.

Centennial secondary comes next with another Disney musical: The Little Mermaid, from Feb. 6 to 14, while Riverside secondary in Port Coquitlam — under drama teacher Nicole Roberge — follows with Chicago: High School Edition, from Feb. 20.

Charles Harris and his Archbishop Carney regional secondary cast also have a winter offering, presenting James and the Giant Peach from Feb. 26 to 29 at the Terry Fox Theatre, in PoCo.

Terry Fox secondary — under the direction of Dan Tilsley — has Heathers: The Musical High School Edition from April 9 to 18 just before some students head to New Westminster for the National Theatre School Festival later that month (at MetFest, they were selected to represent SD43 with God of Carnage).

April will also see Port Moody secondary’s The Drowsy Chaperone and The Addams Family by Dr. Charles Best.

And, in May, Port Moody’s Heritage Woods and Coquitlam’s Gleneagle secondaries will have two highenergy musicals to wrap up the academic year: Bring It On and Legally Blonde.

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Emerging artist scholarships, worth $5,000, are available for B.C. and Yukon residents ages 17 to 29 to study with a mentor or at a recog-

nized art school; their work will be exhibited for a year at the Vancouver International Airport.

As well, the foundation has a scholarship program for mid-career Indigenous artists — older than 30 — to work with a master artist or on a special project, or attend a recognized school of art.

The deadline to apply for either program is Jan. 30.

For details, call 604-2766261 or visit yvraf.com/programs.

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Hockey dream comes true for PoMo player Jenna Buglioni playing for Canada at IIHF U18 tourney MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

Hands down Jenna Buglioni will have the best winter break story when she returns to class in January at Gleneagle secondary school.

Buglioni, 17, departed yesterday (Wednesday) for Bratislava, Slovakia, where she’s playing for Canada at the IIHF U18 women’s world hockey championships. The tournament begins Dec. 26 and wraps up Jan. 2.

It’s the Port Moody athlete’s first taste of international hockey — and she’s determined it won’t be her last.

Buglioni, who plays for the Greater Vancouver Comets of the Female Midget AAA league and was on the provincial team at last spring’s national championships, is one of only three players from British Columbia on the U18 team’s roster, which has traditionally been dominated by players from Ontario and Quebec. That’s where the numbers, and top coaches, are, she said.

But as teams such as the Comets find success at major tournaments back east, B.C. players are getting more heavily scouted and noticed by the national program. This year’s

Port Moody’s Jenna Buglioni is playing for Canada at the IIHF U18 women’s world hockey championship in Bratislava, Slovakia, Dec. 26 to Jan. 2. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

west coast contingent of three is one more than was on last year’s squad.

“We’re closing the gap,” Buglioni said. “The level of skill is getting better out here.”

After a week-long selection camp in Calgary last summer, Buglioni was among the 23

players named to take part in a three-game rivalry series against the United States in Lake Placid, N.Y., in August.

And while she didn’t register a point in the series, which Canada won 2-1, Buglioni said she felt she’d excelled at other aspects of her game like

playing responsible defence.

“I think I was right in the mix,” Buglioni said. “When you’re surrounded by the best, it brings you to another level you didn’t know you had.”

But with the decision on final roster positions for the team heading to the world

championships not scheduled until November, Buglioni said she had to work hard to keep the momentum of positive feedback she’d received from its coaches through the fall season with her league team.

She set aside her love for field hockey. She continued her

off-ice training in the gym to improve her strength, speed and cardio fitness. She volunteered to coach younger girls, finding inspiration in their energy and enthusiasm.

When Buglioni did get the call, she was waiting in the family car while her dad, John, was picking up some groceries. It was all she could do not to burst into tears of joy when he returned, she said.

“There’s so many girls in Canada and they had the confidence that I could help the team.”

Since that call, Buglioni has immersed herself in completing tasks and meeting performance goals assigned by her coaches, then checking in with them on a weekly basis.

The team, with some new players who’ve been added since the Lake Placid series, will play tune-up games in Europe to get reacquainted prior to its opening match on Boxing Day at the worlds against Russia.

Buglioni said pulling on the red Maple Leaf jersey will be the fulfillment of a dream she’s had since she was a little girl.

But it’s also the beginning of her quest to someday represent Canada at the women’s world championships and Olympic Games.

“I have my foot in the door,” she said, then mixes her metaphors. “I don’t want to take it off the gas.”

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Terry Fox Ravens’ Riley Learn (#39) battles for control of a loose ball with St. Thomas More’s Jack Graham in the first quarter of their BC High School Lacrosse League game, last Wednesday at Gates Park in Port Coquitlam. Fox won, 9-5. Other local teams particpating in the league include the Centennial Centaurs and Dr. Charles Best Blue Devils.

The season wraps up with the provincial championships in March. Last year’s finale, at Town Centre Park in Coquitlam, had to be cancelled because of snow and frozen field conditions. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

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There will be a Memorial Service held at Burkeview Chapel at 1340 Dominion Ave in Port Coquitlam on December 28, at 11:00 am, followed by a luncheon.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Schizophrenia Society of BC.

As you share the stories and the memories of how they lived their lives and how very much they meant, may you find comfort...

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LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICES .

By Virtue of the Warehouseman’s Lien Act BigSteelBox Corporation Sheila Tremblay of Port Coquitlam, BC for arrears of container rent amounting to $1,865.16 plus any additional costs of storage that accrue. If not paid in full, the contents of furniture and miscellaneous items will be sold online auction via: Ibid4Storage.com on December 27, 2019.

WAREHOUSEMAN LIEN By virtue of the Warehouseman’s Lien Act and on behalf of Maple Leaf Self Storage we will dispose of goods belonging to Neno Metchkarov, namely: (1) 1992 Glendale Travel Trailer (26RTV19TXNS927321) to recover $1,411.35 plus accruing storage and any/all other expenses related.

These goods will be made available for sale after January 2, 2020. Goods are currently being stored in Port Coquitlam, BC. Contact 604-434-2448 for further information.

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It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of our beloved Kirk Brisseau.

He passed away peacefully in his sleep on November 20th at the age of 57. He will be greatly missed by his sisters Laurie and Debbie and his brother Kane, along with his nieces and nephews Aaron, Lindsay, Heather and Doug.

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