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POVERTY PROTEST

Robinson a ‘Grinch’, say protesters Finance Minster criticized for assistance clawback STEFAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com

Protester Patrick O’Connor speaks at a protest held Dec. 30 outside B.C. Finance Minister Selina Robinson’s office on Austin Avenue in Coquitlam. The group of anti-poverty advocates is calling on the provincial government to maintain a $300 boost in disability and income assistance payments rolled out during the pandemic.

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Anti-poverty advocates are demanding the province reinstate what they described as “clawbacks” in monthly payments to people with disabilities across the province.

Heavy rain kept a crowd of protesters under the Austin Avenue awning of B.C. Finance Minister Selina Robinson as they pasted a “2020 Grinch of the Year award” to the CoquitlamMaillardville MLA’s constituency office last Wednesday in protest of the reduction in government payments.

“She’s the finance minister, she’s the one who essentially clawed back this money from people. So she deserves this award for a personal attack on the province’s poorest people,” said Tabitha Naismith, an organizer with the anti-poverty group ACORN. Naismith, who has worked on the poverty reduction advisory committee for the province’s Ministry of Social Development & Poverty Reduction, said the group is looking for the government to follow through on commitments to permanently increase disability and income assistance payments so that they keep pace with the rising cost of living and keep people above the poverty line.

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‘They are the murderers’: Families seek justice one year after flight shot down over Tehran Local families choosing to grieve privately STEFAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com

Hamed Esmaeilion remembers a normal life before the missile hit — getting up in the morning, taking his daughter to the school bus and playing games at night.

Then on Jan. 8, 2020, three minutes and forty-two seconds after Ukraine International Flight PS752 lifted off from Tehran International Airport, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard anti-aircraft missile system shot it out of the sky, instantly killing the Aurora, Ont., man’s wife and daughter.

“That three minutes and forty-two seconds doesn’t leave us,” said Esmaeilion a year later. “We are haunted by this. We are all haunted by this. This destroyed us.”

Of the 176 passengers on board the passenger jet who died in the crash, 138 had ties to Canada, including Port Coquitlam’s Niloofar Razzaghi, her husband Ardalan Ebnoddin-Hamidi and their 15-year-old son, Kamyar Ebnoddin-Hamidi.

In the 12 months since, families have endured un-

The shooting down last Jan. 8 of Ukraine International Flight PS752 in Tehran hit the local Iranian community hard. Then, people gathered at a special memorial service for a Port Coquitlam family that was aboard the plane. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

bearable grief, many shut off from family members for weeks and months at a time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s mostly rage — rage and anger,” said Esmaeilion.

“We didn’t have time to mourn. We didn’t have time to cry. We have to work on this case day and night.”

And while Esmaeilion is one of dozens of victims’ families that have since come together under the banner of the Association of Families of Flight PS752 Victims, others like the

Razzaghi and Hamidi families have turned inward, fearing retribution on family members back home.

The Hamidi and Razzaghi families did not respond to requests for interviews, and Esmaeilion said they’re one of a handful of victims’ families across the country that have kept to themselves over the last several months.

A source close to the family told the Tri-City News they are holding a private remembrance and don’t want to organize public events because they still have family

travelling to and in Iran.

But that quiet grieving has come at a cost.

In an earlier interview with the Tri-City News, Niloofar Razzaghi’s brother, Babak (Bobby) Razzaghi, said he spent much of the early part of the pandemic in a three-person bubble with his parents.

During the height of COVID-19 cases in B.C., they would go together on drives for a change of scenery. But everywhere he looked was a painful reminder the “beautiful memories” Razzaghi

had with them.

When reports of the investigation would come over the TV or pop up into a news feed, Razza’s mother would break down again.

“There’s no point.

Another day, something about a black box and we’re all crying. I banned everything at home. I wanted to protect everything, care about every detail that I could,” he said.

On Dec. 30, 2020, Iranian media reports indicated the government would be offering victims’ family members $150,000 as compensation for their losses, something Esmaeilion described as “a slap in the face” rejected by all of the 138 families he works with.

In July, Babak Razzaghi also rejected participating in a class-action lawsuit against the government of Iran, saying it would only serve to put their family members still in Iran at risk of reprisals.

And besides, questioned Razzaghi at the time, what good would it do?

“All of those people on the plane. They are gone. All that money? Nothing can help us forget this thing.”

Only a few families desperate back in Iran have accepted the money, according to Coquitlam’s Fred Soofi, who as an active member of the Persian com-

munity in the Tri-Cities has added his voice to the call for justice.

Soofi said he has been helping victims’ families raise money to hire a team of international lawyers so that when Iran’s final safety report is released in March, they can pursue the case in the courts.

“This is a crime against humanity. It has to be tried in the International Court of Justice in The Hague,” he said.

As of Jan. 5, the campaign had raised over $100,000 in seven days.

Soofi said he’d be adding $5,000 to the cause and urged others to do the same for what’s expected to be a lengthy and expensive legal battle.

“Money is not what gives them comfort. It’s justice,” he said.

That’s proving elusive, said Esmaeilion, as Iran continues to stonewall international efforts to investigate the tragedy.

“Why is Iran leading this investigation?” he said.

“They are the murderers and they are checking their own murder.”

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COVID-19

Outbreak at Coq. seniors home, 20 dead next door Fraser Health says there’s no link between outbreaks DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

A pair of Coquitlam care homes is now grappling with COVID-19 after a tragic month that has resulted in 20 deaths over Christmas.

Monday, Jan. 4, Fraser Health declared a COVID-19 outbreak at The Madison Care Centre, which is located around the corner from the Lakeshore Care Centre where 75 people, including residents and staff, have contracted the disease and 20 residents have died.

As of Jan. 5, seven residents and one staff member had tested positive for COVID-19 at The Madison, located at 1399 Foster Ave., Coquitlam, according to the health authority.

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A worker from the BC Centre for Disease Control picks up test samples at Lakeshore Care Centre in Coquitlam, site of 20 deaths. STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

at the Lakeshore, at 647 Gatensbury St, was declared on Dec. 5. It has 56 beds, with 32 subsidized by Fraser Health and 21 under a pri-

vate pay regime.

The larger Madison, meanwhile, has 137 beds, 96 of which are funded through the Fraser Health Authority.

Both The Madison Care Centre, a long term care facility, and Lakeshore, are owned and operated by The Care Group.

While only one resident has tested positive for COVID-19 at The Madison Care Centre, as many as 43 staff and 32 patients have tested positive at Lakeshore.

While the facilities are located around the corner from each other, Fraser Health stated in an email that it is unaware of any connection between the two that might have led to the coronavirus outbreak at the Madison.

According to the health authority, enhanced control measures are in place at The Madison.

Fraser Health is also working with the sites to identify anyone who may have been exposed, and is taking steps to protect the health of all staff, clients, residents and families.

According to a statement released to the media, Fraser Health has worked with the sites to proactively support staffing levels to maintain care, and has put in place

restrictions to visitors and restrictions on staff, client and resident movements in the facilities.

Meanwhile, a Port Coquitlam care home is also grappling with a COVID-19 outbreak.

Nicola Lodge, at 2240 Hawkins St., had been COVID-19-free since an earlier outbreak was declared over June 26.

However, in midDecember an outbreak was declared by Fraser Health.

As of Monday, Jan. 4 there have been 30 patient and 18 staff cases and one death at the Nicola Lodge.

Precautions taken by staff and Fraser Health have meant restrictions to patients and visitors and, when the Tri-City News visited Lakeshore on Dec. 30, signage and protocols attested to the crackdown on movements at the care home under lock down because of COVID-19.

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Gambling: signs of a problem and where to find help Who hasn’t felt a spark of joy when a Scratch and Win lottery card reveals a win? And, of course, it doesn’t matter whether it’s $3 or $100; it’s the same thrill.

The major shift this year from casino to online gambling, due to Covid restrictions, has fostered conditions for gambling issues to thrive.

Or, maybe you experienced the smug satisfaction of raking in the last pot at a friendly card game? Or, perhaps you were lucky enough to take home a few hundred dollars after an entertaining night out with friends at the casino.

It’s all in good fun. Or is it?

No one ever expects the friendly sports wager between pals to evolve into behaviour that becomes problematic.

“With gambling problems, it always starts as fun. There isn’t enough awareness out there warning people that gambling can be addictive,” says Adrienne Cossom, a counsellor with problem gambling services at SHARE Family and Community Services in the Tri-Cities.

“They don’t notice how it pulls them in, and then it becomes something stressful. It’s a progression for some people.”

“It has become difficult to replace gambling with healthy activities,” explains Heidi Furrer, also a counsellor with SHARE’s problem gambling services. She says that young men, a demographic vulnerable to getting drawn into online gambling, would often go to the gym more regularly or connect with friends.

“It’s a double whammy,” she says of the lack of distractions and increased social isolation.

Cossom says another at-risk group for getting too caught up in gambling is seniors.

Though they might not have made the transition to online gambling, they often overspend on lottery tickets and casinos.

Most importantly, Cossom and Furrer say that people need to know there is support readily available to help them cope. Whether it’s only niggling suspicion that they might have a problem or knowing they are completely overwhelmed, people are encouraged to call the program for support.

Making the call doesn’t mean a commitment to therapy. It’s a way to

get some information and support to take back control.

“SHARE’s problem gambling services are funded by the Provincial Government and provide free counselling to anyone who has concerns about their gambling.

It is also accessible to people who have concerns about a loved one’s gambling,” Cossom says.

The program is highly responsive in that people receive a call back within 24 hours and an appointment to see a counsellor within a week.

There are a few key signs to watch for those unsure if they or a loved one is having problems controlling their gambling.

“The biggest indicator is when a person can’t stick to the limits they’ve set for themselves: Whether that’s limits around the amount of time or amount of money used, or just knowing when to step back because they’ve won something,” says Cossom.

Secrecy is another big clue, she says.

“Not being honest with family and friends about how much you’re

gambling and spending is a sign.”

Another red flag is if gambling dominates a person’s thoughts, says Furrer.

For most people, she says, gambling is not a problem, but rather just a fun and social activity. It’s when gambling is a way of dealing with loneliness or depression, Furrer adds, that it can become problematic.

The loneliness brought on by social isolation during the pandemic can put some people more at risk for problem gambling.

Help is just a phone call away when you connect with the problem gambling team at SHARE. Cossom and Furrer urge people to reach out, even if they just have a question.

“People are not expected to stop gambling if they have a conversation with us. We work with people where they are at, whether that’s stopping or reducing their gambling,” Furrer explains.

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Or, call the Gambling Support Line at 1-888-795-6111 or visit sharesociety.ca/gambling-support.

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Growing number of online threats prompts council to boost 2021 budget

Swim, skate for $2 in '21

IT staff take steps to ensure confidentiality of civic records JANIS CLEUGH jcleugh@tricitynews.com

Coquitlam city hall will spend nearly $100,000 to boost its cyber security this and next year.

Last month, as part of the city’s 2021 financial plan, council set aside $97,500 to handle the rising number of online threats such as malware, ransomware, phishing and denial-of-service.

The request to improve the city’s systems came in October, during the budget presentation by Nikki Caulfield, Coquitlam’s general manager of corporate services.

The technology update will be phased in over two years starting in mid-2021, she told council.

The technology improvement is not related to pandemic, said Danny Bandiera, Coquitlam’s manager of information communications and technology.

Coquitlam city council last month invested $97,500 to upgrade its cyber security to handle the rising number of online threats. PHOTO/GETTY IMAGES

“Cyber threats are constantly evolving,” he said.

“The COVID-19 outbreak is no exception.”

Bandiera did not give examples of previous cyber attacks on the municipality; however, he said civic employees are trained in cyber security awareness, and the new money will “further augment existing internal IT security resources.”

The topic of cyber security came up last month for TransLink when the regional transportation authority said a ransomware attack

affected its phones, online services and payment systems on Dec. 1.

The previous month, the city of Saint John suspended its online services after it sustained a ransomware attack while, in September, the city of Prince George was defrauded of $700,000 in a computer theft.

Civic staff in Port Coquitlam and Port Moody are also on alert to prevent hacker attacks.

While PoCo doesn’t have new funding for cyber security in its draft 2021 budget,

the municipality is currently enhancing its technology with firewall upgrades, increased end-point security and tighter spam filtering, said Aiden Sheridan, PoCo’s information services manager.

And this year, the city will update its network, which will also beef up security at the physical network level and expand networking monitoring.

A security audit is also planned for 2021.

“Ensuring the confidentiality of our records and the

security of our residents, staff and customers is our top concern,” Sheridan said.

In Port Moody, phishing attempts that reference the COVID-19 pandemic are on the uptick, said Paul Rockwood, general manager of finance and technology.

(Phishing is when mass emails are sent out that appear to be from a legitimate source but have malicious attachments or links that can trick the receiver into revealing personal information on their computer).

“There have been recent instances where phishing has been used in an attempt to impersonate government agencies so we are very mindful of this potential threat and continuously adjust our software, policies and procedures to help mitigate risks of a cyber-security event,” Rockwell told the TriCity News.

According to techjury.net, a new cyber attack happens every 39 seconds, with about 94% of all malware spread through email.

Around the world, 30,000 websites are hacked every day.

It’ll only cost a loonie or toonie to drop in for a swim, skate or workout at a Coquitlam recreation centre this year.

Last month, council extended the city’s single admission rates as part of its COVID-19 relief package for residents: $1 for kids and $2 for adults.

The move is expected to cost the municipality about $3.2 million in 2021; however, that lost revenue will be offset, in part, by the city’s $5-million Community Support and Recovery Program (CSRP).

Still, fees and charges will go up this year in other departments such as legal services, planning and development, and engineering and public works.

The fee structure changes in the planning department will likely collect $90,000 more for the city, wrote Michelle Hunt, Coquitlam’s general manager of finance, lands and police, in her Nov. 30 report to city council.

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Business Amendment Bylaw

Notice of high water level and flow in Coquitlam River

Business Amendment Bylaw No. 4202 Notice is hereby given of the intent to consider and adopt Business Amendment Bylaw No. 4202.

COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Starting in January 2021, we’ll be performing the first phase of a project to upgrade our 100+ year old tunnel that moves water from Coquitlam Reservoir to Bunzten Lake for generating electricity at Lake Buntzen 1 Powerhouse.

To do this work, beginning on January 1 up to March 31, 2021, we’ll be diverting water from the Coquitlam Reservoir into the Coquitlam River which means that there will be higher flow and water levels than normal.

With storm season also upon us, we request that the public be extra careful when active around the river since water levels can rise and fluctuate without warning during rainstorms.

For more information on this project, please go to bchydro.com/coquitlamtunnel.

6:00 pm on Tuesday, January 12, 2021

GIVE YOUR INPUT Members of the public can submit written opinions to: corporateoffice@portcoquitlam.ca

or mail: City of Port Coquitlam Attn: Corporate Office 2580 Shaughnessy Street, Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 2A8

The City's Business Bylaw provides a governance framework for local businesses including licences and other regulations.

The proposed update to the Bylaw will ensure the Manager of Bylaw Services and the Manager of Planning have the authority to issue, cancel or suspend business licences.

Prior to Council's consideration of the Bylaw, the public is welcome to inspect the bylaw at : portcoquitlam.ca/bylaws Corporate Office 604.927.5213 corporate office@portcoquitlam.ca

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2021 Council Meeting Schedule Tuesday January 12 and 26

Notice of Public Hearing Zoning Bylaw Amendment

Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 4208

Tuesday February 9 and 23

The intent of the bylaw is to amend the Zone from RS1 (Residential Single Dwelling 1) to RD (Residential Duplex) for 1431 Barberry Drive.

Tuesday March 9 and 23 Tuesday April 13 and 27 Tuesday May 11 and 25 Tuesday June 8 and 22 Tuesday July 13 and 27

WRITTEN PUBLIC INPUT by 4 pm on Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Location: Street address: 1431 Barberry Drive

No Scheduled Meetings in August – Only as Required Tuesday September 14, 21 and 28

GIVE YOUR INPUT

Tuesday October 12 and 26

Members of the public will have an opportunity to express their views at the electronic meeting or can submit written opinions to: publichearings@portcoquitlam.ca

Tuesday November 9 and 23 Tuesday December 14 Committee of Council meetings are held weekly on each Tuesday of the month at 2:00 pm (unless cancelled or re-scheduled).

Council meetings commence at 6:00 pm.

All meetings will be held virtually until further notice.

For further information or questions regarding Council Meetings, please contact the Corporate Office at 604.927.5213 or email corporateoffice@portcoquitlam.ca.

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Council cannot receive new or additional information on this application after the public hearing.

Inspection of documents: Prior to the public input opportunity, the public is welcome to inspect any related documents at: portcoquitlam.ca/publichearings.

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Hard of hearing face unique pandemic challenge Communications pro advocates for clear face masks DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

Yat Li has a lovely voice.

The warmth of his tone, the way he speaks and his compassion for others makes you want to listen to his story.

But the 31-year-old marketing and communications professional wasn’t always a talkative man.

There was a time when Li wouldn’t speak and, as a youth attending Coquitlam elementary, middle and Pinetree secondary schools, he mostly hid behind a mop of straight, black hair.

Born with a deformity of his outer ears, called Microtia, Li struggled with hearing loss and being understood because of related speech difficulties. “I was known as the kid with the long hair,” recalls Li, who now lives in Port Coquitlam and works for the Wavefront Centre for Communication Accessibility.

In class, his teachers would sometimes ask an-

Yat Li, who's hard of hearing himself, says face masks prevent people like him from being able to read lips to help them understand others. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

other student to repeat his answers during oral questioning and Li was embarrassed about his condition that required him to wear prosthesis ears that were large to accommodate a special hearing aid.

“They were gigantic,” Li recalls, noting each day he had to put them on with glue. His hair covered the

problem but his self-esteem was low although gradually he made some close friends at school.

Still, Li was 12 before he could hear sounds properly thanks to the surgical implantation of a bone-anchored hearing system.

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abled, and remembers the day when the system that sends sounds through the skull enabled him to hear birds and road noises that others take for granted.

“I could hear road noises.

I could hear wind. I could hear leaves rustling. I asked my parents, ‘What are these sounds?’”

Born in Hong Kong, and

barred from kindergarten there until he came to Canada, Li has learned the hard way what it’s like to be different.

With his job at Wavefront, Li is able to help others with hearing loss and one big change he’d like to see is more people wearing clear face masks while mouth and nose coverings are required

to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

With fabric face coverings, “You miss the nuance,” Li explains. “By removing these expressions we are removing part of the language that is the primary language for this group and we are adding those barriers,” said Li. Clear face masks enhance communication and may be a boon even for those who suffer only slight hearing loss and rely on lip reading.

Li said he recommends them for the health care profession, retail stores and anyone who works with the public.

His own life experience shows how tolerance and understanding can build bridges.

Li credits resource teachers in SD43 for putting in the effort him improve his communication, although he didn’t appreciate their work at the time.

Now, he says, “It was the footprints of who I am today,” and calls on everyone to be understanding and find a way to support others especially in these difficult times.

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Public Hearing Notice When: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 7pm Where: Electronic Meeting (see portmoody.ca/ph for details and instructions)

When: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 7pm Where: Electronic Meeting, livestreamed at portmoody.ca/watchlive Port Moody Council will consider issuing the following Temporary Use Permits: LOCATION MAP - 2101, 2110, 2122 Clarke Street

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Bylaw No.: 3277 Application: #6700-20-202

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Purpose: To rezone the existing property from the Single Detached Residential (RS1) Zone to the Single Detached Residential â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Small Lot (RS1-S) Zone to allow for consideration of the subdivision of the existing property into four lots.

Purpose: To consider issuance of Temporary Use Permits for up to one year to allow for construction activities including the placing of backfill materials, equipment storage, and project trailers, in order to facilitate Metro Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upgrade of the existing Albert Street Sanitary Trunk Sewer.

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How do I get more information?

You can review applications #3080-20-14 and #3080-20-17 and related information at portmoody.ca/tup after December 28, 2020. You can also contact us at planning@portmoody.ca or 604.469.4540 with any questions.

How can I provide input?

If you believe your property is affected by this Temporary Use Permit application, you can send a submission in writing before noon on January 12, 2021 by emailing clerks@portmoody.ca or faxing 604.469.4550.

Kate Zanon, General Manager of Community Development

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How do I get more information?

You can review the application at portmoody.ca/publichearing after January 4, 2021. You can also contact us at planning@portmoody.ca or 604.469.4540 with any questions.

How can I provide input?

1. If you believe your property is affected by this rezoning application, you can send a submission in writing before noon on January 19, 2021 by emailing clerks@portmoody.ca or faxing 604.469.4550.

2. You may also participate in the Public Hearing by joining the electronic meeting as a participant. Information and instructions for joining the meeting are available at portmoody.ca/ph.

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Share your stories of life in the COVID pandemic Journals, photos, documents will help tell history MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

When historians look back on 2020, what stories will they tell?

At Port Moody’s Station Museum, that story is a living document being written anew every day.

Since last May, the museum has been collecting the personal thoughts, poems, narratives, letters, drawings, paintings and photographs of local residents navigating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Markus Fahrner, one of the museum’s co-ordinators, said for some, documenting their experiences through an exceptional time is cathartic.

For others, it’s a way to mark their place amidst extraordinary events. But for everyone, it’s a telling of history as it happens, even at its most mundane.

Like one regular contributor of a digital journal of his life in a retirement home who shared stories like the time pillows were removed

Markus Fahrner, Brianne Egeto and Jim Millar show off some of the journal entries, drawings and even artifacts like a health advisory sign the Port Moody Station Museum has collected so far to document residents' experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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from the dining hall as hard surfaces are easier to disinfect. But they also create an echo effect, noted the author, which made it harder for residents using hearing aids to make out conversations.

Fahrner said while such

an observation won’t make headlines, it makes the telling of the year just passed “more real.”

He added, “it shares our experiences on a daily basis.”

Another contributor sent along months worth of daily doodles that captured her

thoughts, emotions or interpretations of the days at hand.

Fahrner said the collection gathered so far captures the resilience of the community through the pandemic’s early days and weeks, its sense of hope during the

summer months and its dread as the second wave hit.

It’s a feeling, Fahrner added, that “we’re stuck in something that’s way bigger than anything we’ve experienced.”

Through it all, though, the strength of people shines through.

Fahrner said the public health crisis and its attendant impact on our daily routines has been like a handbrake on our lives.

Without the constant hustle and bustle, we’re looking more inward, reflecting on our own roles in the community and in containing the pandemic.

“They’re questioning, ‘What have I done so far?’”

Fahrner said.

Jim Millar, the museum’s director, said the contributions gathered will provide valuable insights to residents enduring future challenges or calamities, much as there’s lessons to be learned from the Spanish flu that sickened and killed millions around the world from 1918 to 1920.

“One of our purposes is to help people learn from the past,” he said.

Brianne Egeto, another co-ordinator at the museum,

said she’s been keeping her own journal these past months. But, she figures, it might take her five years or more before she can feel enough emotional detachment from the thoughts and observations she’s recording to be able to consider them objectively.

Fahrner said as the pandemic has worn on for so many months, contributions to the project have waned.

He said after an initial flurry of creativity sparked by its uniqueness, people are wearying of the toll it’s taken on their familiar routines, the connections it’s frayed.

He suspects the next burst of energy may happen when the immunizations that are currently rolling out have reached enough of the population so we can begin to breathe easier again, begin celebrating all those activities and people we’ve missed.

The Station Museum is still collecting local stories, observations, documents, photos, drawings and paintings of residents’ lives in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Topic: Extend winter break in schools?

“This is about teachers and students having a workplace where they feel safe.”

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magine waking up one morning to news of a disaster somewhere in B.C. that killed more than 900 people and put 2,500 people in hospital with almost 600 of those folks in critical care.

Such an event would be outrageously shocking and numb any of us to the core, yet that is exactly the level of carnage COVID-19 caused in this province in 2020.

However, because this terrible tragedy stretched over 10 months, its impact was not felt as if it happened at once.

Still, those are the bottom-line figures of COVID19’s toll on B.C. and when you put them all together as an end-of-year exercise, that toll takes on enhanced meaning.

We begin 2021 still very deep in the COVID-19 woods, but vaccines are starting to arrive in larger

numbers so some light is finally coming through.

Nevertheless, we should keep the total yearly B.C. numbers of the damage that COVID-19 caused top of mind as we head into 2021.

The daily reporting of COVID-19 cases can be a bit mind-numbing for many people, I am sure. It can also seem like almost an abstract thing if you don’t know anyone who has had the virus or you are not out of work because of it.

Every day I enter the daily case numbers, hospitalizations, ICU cases and how they break down by health authorities in notebooks and charts I have been keeping since the pandemic was declared last March.

This daily exercise has allowed me to keep running seven-day ‘averages’ of each health indicator (another is the positivity rate) in order

to get a sense how of bad things are, or if things are improving.

A single day of COVID-19 reporting does not tell you a lot.

However, last week 100 people died from the virus and about 40 people were sick enough to require hospitalization. More than 3,300 people tested positive for COVID-19 in one week alone.

Numbers like that should grab your attention.

Do not be surprised if we see similar numbers this week. In fact, they could be even higher if too many people gathered in large numbers at Christmas events.

Symptoms tend to present themselves five to seven days after contracting the virus.

Meanwhile, the demographic profile of our pandemic will likely continue for some time. More than

half (54%) of our positive cases struck people under the age of 40, yet they only account for about 15% of our hospitalizations and just one death.

By comparison, people over the age of 70 account for just 10% of all the cases, but about 90% of all deaths - a reminder that younger people can inadvertently infect their elders, leading to potentially catastrophic outcomes.

There are many COVID19 numbers out there, in all kinds of categories. It is important to keep at least some of them handy as a reminder what this virus can do — and is continuing to do — to our communities and loved ones.

Here’s hoping I don’t have to write a column similar to this one a year from now.

Keith Baldrey is chief political correspondent for Global BC.

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Take care of ourselves first The Editor: Re: “COVID drives down growth rate,” (Tri-City News, Dec. 24) Amid the trials of the COVID era, I was heartened this Christmas by Stefan Labbé’s article noting that Canada’s population growth has all but stopped.

Many agencies claim that growth is “essential” but most of these are large corporations looking for more consumers to exploit, or governments looking for more tax revenue.

For the rest of us, increasing population worsens competition for housing, jobs, and resources, drives up the cost of living, and eats up any savings made by conservation.

We already have plenty of people.

Let’s devote our energies to taking care of the ones that are here, rather than further increasing the load on our already overburdened supply chains and social systems.

Charlie Gibbs Port Coquitlam

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Lengthen walk light The Editor: Do drivers really think they don’t need to heed the pedestrian walk signal?

I know the light at Austin and Hickey is a short one for the Hickey drivers. The light lasts a little longer when a pedestrian like myself hits the button.

I usually try to hurry across the crosswalk so the vehicle doesn’t have to wait for me.

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However, this was not the first time.

Vehicles waiting at the stoplight seeing you across the street still try to go in front of you on the crosswalk.

We need to make this light last longer so that drivers will wait for the pedestrian to finish crossing, Christine Johannink Coquitlam

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Plan for Moody Centre needs more work, say city councillors Proposal to create dense project in the works for 3 years MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

A consortium of nine property owners and developers will have to sharpen its pencils to find more green space and jobs — and less density — if its plan to transform 23 acres of light industrial and commercial space around the Moody Centre SkyTrain station is to be realized.

But there was enough that Port Moody councillors did like in their first real look at the latest iteration of the project during Tuesday’s meeting of committee of the whole for them to recommend the project’s proponents continue working with city staff to refine their plans, including a detailed financial analysis.

Otherwise, said Port

Daylighting Slaughterhouse Creek is part of the new Moody Centre proposal. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

Moody Mayor Rob Vagramov, he’d be just as happy to let the neighbourhood languish with “more hookah lounges there, more Subways.”

That would be a shame and wasted potential, countered Ryan Bragg, a principal for the project’s architecture firm, Perkins+Will.

He said the construction of a dense, urban community — of up to 4,135 homes, spaces for approximately 2,000 jobs, a 1.75-acre public plaza, along with several pocket parks along a pedes-

trian- and cyclist-oriented Spring Street that would form the project’s “backbone” — presents the city an opportunity to become a destination.

“People will come to see this part of Port Moody because it’s different,” Bragg said, adding the narrowness of Spring Street lends itself to creating urban vibrancy that’s hard to replicate outside major metropolises.

Bragg said the neighbourhood — bounded by the SkyTrain tracks and St. Johns Street to the north and

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south, and Moody Street and Electronic Avenue to the west and east — is in “desperate need of a new identity.”

But several councillors said replacing the existing hodge-podge of auto-body shops, strip plazas and warehouses with condo towers up to 36 storeys is not the kind of identity the city needs, or desires.

“The scale of this development isn’t what Port Moody is looking for,” said Coun. Steve Milani.

“I think this is too dense,” Coun. Meghan Lahti added.

“There’s too many towers and not enough green space.”

Others said they wanted to see more benefits to the community in exchange for the amendments to the city’s official community plan (OCP) that would be necessary for the project to proceed.

“I like the amenities but I think there should be more,” Lahti said. “It’s a start.”

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Bragg said that start already amounts to about $135 million.

It includes: • five pocket parks along Spring Street where people can meet • an urban plaza at the entrance to the SkyTrain station that could become a gathering place for community events • a new pedestrian overpass to link Moody Centre to Rocky Point Park • and the daylighting of about 150 metres of Slaughterhouse Creek that bisects the site As well, 400 to 450 of the project’s residential units would be rented at below-market rates and another 300 to 385 would be market rental apartments while its commercial and retail component would provide employment for approximately 2,000 people.

In his report, André Boel, Port Moody’s general manager of planning and development, said the proposal

is “largely consistent” with the city’s growth management objectives: It provides more employment spaces, benefits the local environment and addresses the city’s climate action plan by reducing car dependence as it prioritizes pedestrian and cycling mobility.

But Coun. Hunter Madsen took issue with the proponents’ plan for managing traffic. He said an assertion by traffic consultant Peter Joyce that commuters passing through the city would change their behaviour as the St. Johns Street corridor gets busier is “just replacing the congestion with our own congestion.”

Still, cautioned Coun.

Diana Dilworth, it’s early days.

“We have to be cognizant that that building technology is going to change, transportation is going to change,” she said. “Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.”

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*The first item to be considered in the public portion of this meeting is a resolution requiring adoption prior to the Council Meeting being closed to the public.

**The City is following physical distancing provisions and the public are asked to view the meeting online as set out below.

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COVID RELIEF

Pavilions heed call from seniors during pandemic JANIS CLEUGH jcleugh@tricitynews.com

Back in March, when the provincial government declared its first lockdown, seniors connected to Coquitlam’s two pavilions called on city staff to help.

Many members had visited Dogwood and Glen Pine pavilions daily to lunch and socialize, and they had trouble cooking at home or being alone under the new orders limiting physical interactions. “We were inundated with calls,” remembered Debbie Clavelle, Coquitlam’s manager of community recreation. “Our phones were ringing off the hook.”

Concerned about their regimens and isolation, city staff brainstormed about how they could assist the city’s most frail population.

They talked about the leftover meals from their St. Patrick’s Day events, and how those lunches could have gone to good use.

Within two weeks, city staff had a phone service in place to deliver frozen food packages to their members twice a week. “It was really about comfort,” she said.

Ten months on, the municipal team is being widely credited for providing more than 15,000 homemade meals to Tri-City seniors, with the help of about two dozen volunteers.

Their operation is a “welloiled machine,” said Kayla Doucette, who coordinates the staff and volunteers for the 60 to 70 meal deliveries on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Whipping up the meals at the Dogwood kitchen are Dogwood cook Jill Skabar and Monica Hanser, who runs the Lemon Tree café at Glen Pine. “It’s just been the two of us,” Hanser told the Tri-City News during an interview at Dogwood on Dec. 18. “We’ve got a couple of staff to help us with the washing up now.”

On weekdays, the duo come up with wholesome, affordable meal options such as shepherd’s pie and Salisbury steak — “meat and three veg,” Skabar said, adding, “It’s definitely not hospital food.”

“It’s healthy and tastes good,” said Hanser who showed the inside of a new freezer in the commercial kitchen packed with meals.

Once the orders are in, the organizing begins according to postal code, Doucette said. Each volunteer driver is supplied a list, with instructions to delivery drivers on how to reach a recipient, and a fabric cooler bag filled with frozen meals.

These drivers — many of who are laid off or have reduced work hours during the pandemic — are the lifeline to Meals for Seniors, Clavelle said, noting city staff initially delivered the meals before the volunteers stepped in.

There have also been external donors.

Damian Stanley, chair of the Smiling Creek elementary Parent Advisory Council who has been delivering seniors meals since August, offered $750 to the program on behalf of the Burke

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Mountain school to sponsor 100 dinners; the students also wrote letters to lift spirits. “It was pretty overwhelming what they did,” Stanley said. “Our students played a leadership role during a difficult time, and they found different ways to fundraise during COVID.” The community has also rallied, penning letters, and

offering special treats to the most isolated seniors, and meal sponsorships: Before Remembrance Day, the city linked up with the legion branch so the public could buy meals for 120 veterans.

“We had to cut it off because it was so well received,” Clavelle said.

Janet Wong, a new Coquitlam resident who left

her financial services job last year to look after her husband, started deliveries in September after she joined the city’s Phone Buddies program to talk to seniors during the lockdown.

On Wong’s runs, she only has two or three deliveries so she can spend more time on the doorstep chatting with the most isolated elderly.

Sometimes, Wong talks with them for up to 45 minutes, broaching topics from their mental wellbeing and family to politics and the city’s history.

The meal program “has meant the world to me,” said 43-year Coquitlam resident Elizabeth Thunstrom, one of Wong’s check-ins. “I look forward to her visits.”

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VILLAGE OF BELCARRA “Between Forest and Sea”

4084 BEDWELL BAY ROAD, BELCARRA, B.C. V3H 4P8 TELEPHONE 604-937-4100 FAX 604-939-5034

belcarra@belcarra.ca • www.belcarra.ca

NOTICE OF ELECTION BY VOTING PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY given to the electors of the Village of Belcarra that an election by voting is necessary to elect one Mayor and that the persons nominated as candidates and for whom votes will be received are:

MAYOR - One (1) to be elected Surname

Usual Names

Residential Address

COLE ROSS

Colm Jamie

Belcarra, BC Belcarra, BC

VOTING DATES AND LOCATIONS GENERAL VOTING will be open to qualified electors of the Village of Belcarra on Saturday, January 23, 2021 between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm at the Belcarra Municipal Hall located at 4084 Bedwell Bay Road.

AN ADVANCE VOTING opportunity will be available to qualified electors on Wednesday, January 13, 2021 between 8:00 am to 8:00 pm at the Belcarra Municipal Hall located at 4084 Bedwell Bay Road, Belcarra, BC. VOTING BY MAIL BALLOT is also available. Details are provided below.

If you are not on the list of electors, you may register at the time of voting by completing the required application form available at the voting place. To register you must meet the following qualifications: • • • • •

18 years of age or older on general voting day Canadian citizen resident of BC for at least 6 months immediately preceding the day of registration resident of OR registered owner of real property in the Village of Belcarra for at least 30 days immediately preceding the day of registration, and not disqualified by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualified by law.

To register, resident electors must produce 2 pieces of identification (at least one with a signature). Picture identification is not necessary. The identification must prove both residency and identity.

To register, non-resident property electors must produce 2 pieces of identification (at least one with a signature) to prove identity, proof that they are entitled to register in relation to the property, and, if there is more than one owner of the property, written consent from the majority of the property owners.

MAIL BALLOT VOTING Pursuant to Ministerial Order M429-2020, all Electors within the Village may vote by mail. The Village is encouraging electors to use this opportunity to help carry out a “safer” by-election during these COVID times.

In order to obtain a mail ballot, you must submit an application form with the information as listed below, by email at elections@belcarra.ca by 4:00 pm on Thursday, January 21, 2021: (1) (2) (3) (4)

Full name Residential address Address of the property in relation to which you are voting (for non-resident property electors) Method of delivery of your mail ballot package: (a) pick up at the Belcarra Municipal Hall, OR pick up at the Belcarra Municipal Hall by a person authorized by you (identification required), OR (b) (c) regular letter mail through Canada Post to residential address, OR (d) regular letter mail through Canada Post to an alternate address that you provide when requesting the ballot package

(5) If you are not on the list of electors, to ensure you receive the correct registration application form in your package, you must indicate whether you are going to be registering as a resident or non-resident property elector.

An application form is available on the website, www.belcarra.ca, for your convenience or you may call the office (after Monday, January 4, 2021) at 604-937-4100 to have an application emailed to you. Please note that once you request a mail ballot, you will not be issued another ballot for this election.

To be counted for the election, your completed ballot must be received by the Chief Election Officer no later than 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 23, 2021. The completed ballot package may be mailed or dropped off at the Belcarra Municipal Hall. For those of you dropping off your completed ballot, you may leave your completed ballot with an election official at the entrance without entering the building.

Lisa Zwarn Chief Election Officer

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TRICITYNEWS.COM THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2021

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Evergreen Cultural Centre Tri-Cities premier venue + culture hub for live arts events 604.927.6555

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Honour House Society

A ‘home away from home’ for our military, veterans, emergency services personnel and their families while receiving 778.397.4399 medical treatment in Metro Vancouver

Supporting community groups and nonprofit organizations

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Crossroads Hospice Society

Community Ventures Society 100% of your donation goes directly to families of children with developmental disabilities

Burnaby Hospital Foundation

Burnaby Firefighters Charitable Society

Aunt Leah’s Tree Lots Support Youth and Moms in Need

Providing compassionate, quality care and grief support for the community

Down Syndrome Resource Foundation 604.444.3773

Neil Squire Society 604.473.9363

Using technology, knowledge and passion to empower Canadians with disabilities

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Empowering individuals with Down syndrome to reach their full potential

SHARE Family and Community Services 604.540.9161

Connect, engage and strengthen individuals & families

Wildlife Rescue Association of BC

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Variety is urgently seeking more funding in their five core areas as they are unable to keep up with demand for services

Raising funds for Phase One hospital expansion

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Rehabilitating and promoting welfare of wild animals in the urban environment

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TRI-CITY SPOTLIGHT

Please send your information and photos for inclusion on our TC Spotlight page to jcleugh@tricitynews.com

GLUMAC POST

The Tri-City Predators Female Ice Hockey Association and assistant coach Peter Blaine donated $25,258 to Share executive director Claire MacLean last month. The money was raised during its skate-a-thon.

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MUSIC Port Coquitlam’s Birgit Giesser, a music therapist with the Ridge Meadows Association for Community Living, won the Widening our World (WOW) award last month. The prize recognizes inclusiveness.

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Port Moody-Coquitlam MLA Rick Glumac will have a front row seat on issues arising between Washington State and British Columbia with his new post as premier’s liaison to the U.S. state.

And while a number of issues have been on the backburner since the coronavirus pandemic, the prospect of a high speed rail connection could heat up once vaccines have reduced the perils of the coronavirus pandemic and Glumac expects to be at the table during discussions.

“I look forward to flushing out these details in the coming months. I already work closely with the Intergovernmental Relations Secretariat and several Washington state representatives through my role as vice president of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region. Common issues include economic development, high speed rail and daylight saving,” Glumac told the Tri-City News in a statement.

Last month, Premier John Horgan announced Glumac’s new post, saying that he would be engaged on important cross-border issues, such as the Cascadia Innovation Corridor and the prospect of high-speed rail.

THERAPIST SCORES PROVINCIAL PRIZE

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M AY FA I R SENIORS

T- R E X Lukas Chmelyk delivered the Tri-City News on Christmas Eve with his sister, Kaidence, and a T-Rex character. “Many neighbours shouted their appreciation from their doorsteps and cars,” mom Erika said.

HELPS TO DELIVER PA P E R S O N DEC. 24

REACHES OUT TO 150 REHAB CLIENTS

STUDENTS Terry Fox secondary students Emily Sussex, Leena Tagourti and Hannah Rao bought more than 100 bottles of hand lotion and wrote Christmas messages for seniors at Nicola Lodge in Port Coquitlam last month.

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Coquitlam has two new trustees to steer the public library.

Last month, city council named Monica Heir and Kimberly Sivak to board of directors, joining Steve Leung and Julie Fisher who were reappointed for terms starting in 2021.

Also, council at its Dec. 14 meeting reappointed Nic Dominelli and Eno Muho to the city’s board of variance for terms commencing next year. The statutory body is made up of five citizen representatives to sit for three years.

Members of the Coquitlam Sunrise Rotary Club last month packed toiletries for 150 clients in three Fraser Valley rehabilitation centres; donations were collected from Rotarians and the public.

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Staff at Coquitlam RCMP pulled together last month to support families through the detachment’s 911 We Care Toy Drive.

The 12th annual campaign, which was organized by Jill Van Os, supervisor of Coquitlam RCMP’s 911 dispatchers and telecommunication operators, hauled in more than 360 toys and gifts from the community.

“All of the donations were delivered directly to the Christmas hamper at Share Community and Family Services Society, a Tri-Cities’ charity that supports families in need,” Const. Deanna Law, media relations officer, wrote in a press release this week. “We are looking forward to the opportunity to gather items for families during the holiday season for the 911 We Care Toy Drive 2021.”

Students at Port Coquitlam’s Castle Park elementary wrote cards to seniors living at Mayfair Terrace Retirement Residence “to let them know they were thought of and remembered” at Christmas.

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The Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce named its 2021 board of directors this week.

Mary Vellani of TD Bank will chair the business advocacy group while Ryan Whittle, a partner at Areti LLP, will be the vice chair. Ryan Gorder, a partner and business advisor of MNP LLP, is the treasurer and Randy Webster, the CEO of MedRay, is the past chair. The other directors steering the organization, which is overseen by Michael Hind, are Jason Boyne (Goodbye Graffiti); Kelso Kennedy (RedStamp); Belén Welch (Business Development Bank of Canada); Vineet Verghese (RBC); Ryan Oake (Dominion Lending Centres); Andrea Jabour (Creative Rain Communications); Jennifer McKinnon (Port Coquitlam BIA); Vivien Symington (Club Aviva); Daniel Richardson (BTM Lawyers); and Jenifer Wright (Westwood Plateau Golf and Country Club).

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POVERTY PROTEST

Clawback is ‘inhumane’ CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

the BC NDP government began issuing a $300 COVID19 crisis supplement for those on income and disability assistance.

Then came the BC Recovery Benefit on Dec. 18, tax-free payments of up to $500 for individuals and up to $1,000 to families. Those on disability and income assistance, the government said, would be among the 3.7 million British Columbians eligible for the just-in-timefor-Christmas payments.

At the same time, the $300 crisis supplement would end in December, replaced by a $150 a month in the new year, and cut completely by March 2021.

“To claw back the $300 is inhumane,” said Naismith.

“I’m a single parent. I have two small children. This extra $300 a month has helped me get food for school, clothing, the things that they need.”

ENDS THIS MONTH

Speaking before the legislature on Dec. 17, Robinson pushed back against the idea that the reduction in disability and income assistance payments amounted to a “clawback.”

“The program, the crisis supplement, ends. It ends.

It ends this month. There is nothing beyond that. Rather than just have the program end, we’re saying let’s do another supplement on top of the recovery benefit so that people can have some support over the next number of months,” said Robinson.

The minister also pointed to the long arc of the program, to the fact the NDP government increased income assistance payments by $100 in 2017 and another $50 in 2019 — something Naismith conceded had not occurred in roughly a decade of BC Liberal government.

Robinson was not available for comment but a spokesperson told the Tri-City News the government will “continue to monitor supports for people through the pandemic and review Income Assistance and Disability Assistance rates through the budget process.”

The spokesperson added that starting Jan. 1, the monthly earnings exemption for people on income assistance will increase from $300 per month to $500 per month.

That, wrote the spokesperson in an email, “means people are able to earn more money while maintaining their full benefits.”

Annually, the earnings exemption for people receiving disability assistance will increase from $12,000 to $15,000, added the spokesperson.

‘NO ONE HIRING’

Others showed up to Robinson’s office in a wider call to fight against poverty and a rising sense that wages are failing to keep pace with the cost of living.

Former Marxist-Leninist candidate Roland Verrier has lived in Coquitlam since the 1940s. When he bought his house near Mundy Park in 1967, he said it took him eight years to pay off.

“Now, these young electricians coming up, they can’t even afford a down payment,” he said, before turning to people on income and disability assistance.

“These people that really need it, why aren’t they getting the help? And we’re supposed to be in it all together?”

Others at the protest included Coquitlam’s Ash Manohar, who graduated with an economics degree from Simon Fraser University and was looking to start her career when the pandemic hit.

“I got out of school then I was looking for a job and no one was hiring,” she said.

Ineligible for federal relief, Manohar said she was forced to leave her apartment and move back with her parents.

“I was one of the categories of students that slipped through the cracks,” she said.

Working a couple of parttime jobs, tutoring, living in her parents’ basement — it’s not what the young woman had in mind back in the spring.

“It’s a bit difficult,” she said.

“Obviously, over the next 10 years, [the pandemic] will be temporary. It feels like my life has taken a turn for the worse.”

CITY OF COQUITLAM

2021 COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE In accordance with Section 127 of the Community Charter, notice of the availability of the City of Coquitlam 2021 Council Meeting Schedule is hereby provided. The 2021 Council Meeting Schedule, and any changes to the Schedule that may arise throughout the year, can be viewed on the City’s public notice posting boards and on the City’s website at coquitlam.ca/agendas.

Please note, the City of Coquitlam continues to adhere to the Provincial Health Officer’s Order regarding public gatherings and events. As such, the public will not be permitted to attend Council Meetings in-person until March 15, 2021 or the Order is rescinded. For the most upto-date information regarding Council Meetings during COVID-19 please visit coquitlam.ca/ webcasts or contact the City Clerk’s Office.

January 2021

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March 2021

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April 2021

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May 2021

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June 2021

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July 2021

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COUNCIL MEETINGS – Start at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, Coquitlam City Hall, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam (with the exception of Public Hearing nights, where the meeting will start immediately following the adjournment of the 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). Public participation will be facilitated through electronic means. Please see coquitlam.ca/publichearing for more information.

COUNCIL-IN-COMMITTEE MEETINGS – Start at 2:00 p.m. on Council Meeting days and are held in Council Chambers.

CLOSED COUNCIL MEETINGS – Generally convene immediately following adjournment of a Council-in-Committee Meeting and are held in Council Chambers. 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/list.

WATCH COUNCIL MEETINGS – The City of Coquitlam live streams and archives its Regular Council Meetings, Public Hearings and Council-in-Committee Meetings, which are available to watch at coquitlam.ca/webcasts.

CITY CLERK’S OFFICE

604-927-3010

clerks@coquitlam.ca

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

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R E C R E AT I O N

Additional information about this application can be accessed by contacting Natasha Lock, Planning and Development Department, at NLock@coquitlam.ca.

Written submissions provided in response to this consultation, including names and addresses, will become part of the public record which includes the submissions being made available for public inspection at Coquitlam City Hall (at the Planning and Development counter) and potentially on our website as part of a future agenda package at www.coquitlam.ca/agendas.

Should Council grant first reading to the proposed CWOCP amendment, a Public Hearing will be held with notification to be provided in accordance with the Local Government Act.

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Adjusting to online “was difficult at first for everybody,” she told the Tri-City News. “How do you deliver a speech when you’re used to standing? We had a lot of cut-off heads so we had to get used to sitting, and learn where to look on the computer.”

Jan. 13, the club will host its first-ever virtual open house with the aim to attract more members and talk about how to gain confidence when speaking in public.

District 96 director Carole Murphy will also speak about the club’s international roots while Watt will outline what happens for each weekly session: preparing speeches, chatting about a chosen topic, chairing meetings and learning new words. To register for the open house at 7 p.m., visit eventbrite. com/e/132723891733.

The City of Coquitlam will be receiving the input requested herein up to Wednesday, January 27, 2021. Written correspondence can be provided in one of the following ways: • Email: clerks@coquitlam.ca; • Regular mail: City Clerk’s Office, 2nd Floor, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7N2; • In person: Attn: City Clerk’s Office – please place in one of two City Hall drop boxes (3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam), located at the underground parking entrance or by the main entrance facing Burlington Drive; • Fax: to the City Clerk’s Office at 604-927-3015.

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If your lack of communication skills became evident during Zoom meetings in 2020, you may want to think about polishing your presentation in the new year.

The global pandemic forced most meetings and gatherings to go online, with employers and groups pivoting to the new platform to get business done.

Among the Tri-City organizations that had to learn the “Art of Zoom” last year was the Downtown Coquitlam Toastmasters Club, a 25-member branch that — before COVID19 — met weekly at the Coquitlam campus of Douglas College.

Club president Valerie Watt said she doesn’t anticipate seeing her peers in person until September, when the physical distancing orders are expected to end.

You are now being invited to provide input to Council with respect to the above-noted application.

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If approved, the amendment would facilitate the development of 52 townhouse units and a child care centre.

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The City has received an application to amend the Citywide Official Community Plan (CWOCP) relating to the properties located at 3420 and 3428 Queenston Avenue. The application proposes an amendment to the Smiling Creek Neighbourhood Plan to change the designation of the property located at 3420 Queenston Avenue and a portion of the property located at 3428 Queenston Avenue from Small Village Single Family to Conventional Townhomes.

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“I think the parkour will be very, very popular,” said Coun. Chris Wilson of the discipline that uses military training movements such as vaulting, swinging and rolling.

Still, there were other amenities in Phase 1B that rubbed some councillors the wrong way.

Coun. Dennis Marsden, a former baseball coach, told council he’d prefer a traditional ball diamond rather than a smaller field designed specifically for softball while Wilson said he’d like to see pickleball lines on the sports court. And Coun.

Teri Towner suggested the city install bleachers on the slope, for soccer families to view the games. “There’s not a lot of room,” responded Lanny Englund, Coquitlam’s manager of park planning and forestry, on Dec. 7.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC CONSULTATION

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The next construction phase for a major Burquitlam park starts this spring.

And it’ll have some elements new to parks in Coquitlam: a parkour playground.

Last month, city council OK’d the final design for Phase 1B of Cottonwood Park, a 2.6-acre space on Aspen Street that will eventually grow to 11.5 acres when the park is complete.

Phase 1B, when finished in November, will double the existing Cottonwood Park and will include: • a softball diamond • a Super 8 soccer field • a full-size lit multi-use sport court with six basketball hoops and built-in hockey nets • picnic tables with inlaid chess boards • and parkour elements

City of Coquitlam

HAMES CRES

Spring update for Cottonwood Park

Subject Properties (3420 and 3428 Queenston Avenue) NOT TO SCALE

coquitlam.ca/publicnotices

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BOOKS

‘Dream big,’ Coquitlam author writes in debut novel about teen love and disability ‘My Spring Fling’ is about young love, living life to the fullest: Wegrzynowski

day well: As her youngest daughter was getting ready for school in their Westwood Plateau home, Margret served her Cheerios for breakfast and watched as the right side of Wegrzynowski’s face started to droop.

“I thought, ‘Here we go again,’” Margret said.

This time, though, the impact of Wegrzynowski’s second brain hemorrhage was devastating.

She was too old to be admitted to BC Children’s Hospital so the family took Wegrzynowski to Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster.

And during that surgery, she had a stroke that left her paralyzed for months.

“I slept in the hospital,” Margret said. “I never left her side. The doctor told me to go home but I couldn’t.”

From April to September, Wegrzynowski rehabilitated at G.F. Strong in Vancouver and returned home once.

But, during that short visit, she had to stay in the basement because her father wasn’t able to carry her limp body up the stairs.

By the fall, the Wegrzynowskis realized their lives had to change and, the next spring, they moved to a townhouse on Burke Mountain and installed a stair lift.

Margret also stayed at home to help her wheelchair-bound daughter.

Together, they attend many appointments including monthly visits with

JANIS CLEUGH jcleugh@tricitynews.com

“There are numerous things life throws in our direction. Things which bring us glee. Things which bring us hardship. Things which bring us hope. The best way to approach these things is by having a positive attitude.”

That’s how Jessica Wegrzynowski starts her début novel, My Spring Fling: Young Love and Living Life to the Fullest, a 12-chapter junior adult book that follows two fictional teens — one of them disabled.

Released last month and now available through Amazon, the publication took the Coquitlam author “a very long time to write” as she, too, is disabled.

However, she credits her parents, her sister and Michael Coss — the author of The Courage to Come Back: Triumph Over TBI - A Story of Hope — for inspiring her and for helping her reach her writing dream.

Wegrzynowski’s journey started at the age of 14, when she was a Grade 8 student at Summit middle school in Coquitlam.

At that time, her mother Margret said, Wegrzynowski led a healthy, active life that included snowboarding.

She was also very creative, putting on theatrical plays and writing poetry, her mom said.

But then she started to get headaches.

And she got dizzy.

Soon, she had problems eating and walking.

On Father’s Day in 2003 — after she couldn’t breathe properly — her parents rushed her to Eagle Ridge Hospital in Port Moody.

After an MRI scan showed a tumour in her brain stem, she was admitted to BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.

Burke Mountain author Jessica Wegrzynowski, 31, an honour roll graduate of Port Moody’s Heritage Woods secondary school, holds a copy of her first book, My Spring Fling, a fictional story that is now available via Amazon.ca. JANIS CLEUGH/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

“She was given six months to live,” Margret said. “It was a death sentence.”

Still, Wegrzynowski rallied through the brain surgery on Oct. 31 as well as the subsequent radiation, occupational therapy and physiotherapy treatments — so much so that she not only graduated from Heritage Woods secondary in Port Moody but also made its honour roll.

By the start of her first year at Douglas College, where she enrolled in creative writing, Wegrzynowski had Bell’s palsy on the left side of her face and she was moving around on a walker.

It seemed she was on the path to recovery.

But a month after her 19th birthday, in February 2008, Wegrzynowski suffered another setback.

Margret remembers the

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the Tri-Cities Brain Injury Support Group, the organization that sparked her to write the novel.

“I saw a lot of disabled people there on antidepressants,” Wegrzynowski remembered. “I thought, ‘How are you living your life like that? You have got to live your life to the fullest. Life will always go on. This is just a bump in the road.’”

Over the course of eight years, Wegrzynowski composed Spring Fling on her computer, writing about characters Angela Davidson, a 17-year-old high school student in Grade 11, and her love interest, Joel Harris, an 18-year-old college student in a wheelchair.

She also tapped Pitt Meadows artist Thomas Cetnarowski to illustrate the cover, showing Joel in the driver’s seat of a car on an evening date, under a starry sky.

Wegrzynowski handled all the publishing details on her own, Margret said.

Wegrzynowski said the book is geared for teens but it also has an uplifting message to anyone facing physical and/or mental barriers: Life goes on so dream big.

Her book is also timely given the global pandemic when many teens are struggling at home, Margret said.

“I think, ‘Slow down. Take this time to be with your family, and enjoy every moment of being together because you never know what can happen.’”

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Coquitlam’s wrestling heritage gets an exhibit Exhibit at Poirier Sports and Leisure runs until April JANIS CLEUGH jcleugh@tricitynews.com

Coquitlam has had its fair share of award-winning wrestlers and coaches over the years.

City councillor Chris Wilson represented Canada at the Olympic Games in Barcelona as did Chris Rinke in Los Angeles.

Justina Di Stasio took gold medal in the 72-kg weight event at the World Wrestling Championships in Budapest. And ECCW champion Lindsay Duncan — best known in the ring as Nicole Matthews — wrestles for Shimmer Women Athletes and the NWA: Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling.

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The sport is deeply rooted in the city’s history, and until April, it’s highlighted in a new display in the Coquitlam Sports Hall of Fame section at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex.

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Koskela, exhibits manager for the Coquitlam Heritage Society, Gold Medals and Gimmicks showcases photos and paraphernalia from the various wrestling competitors and coaches.

Koskela singles out two

prominent figures who raised generations of amateur grapplers in Coquitlam.

R.C. MacDonald, a Scottish-born merchant and politician who settled in the district of Coquitlam in 1907, won the 1915 title of heavyweight champion of the Pacific Northwest. The district reeve from 1924 to ’41, MacDonald nurtured many young wrestlers, some of whom went on to compete at the agricultural hall on Austin Avenue, the Tremblay Social Hall in Maillardville and the legion hall on Begbie Street in New Westminster.

In her exhibit, Koskela also includes the types of wrestling styles popular back then with cultural traditions carried on from the homelands: Cumberland wrestling from Scotland, Devonshire wrestling from England, Ssireum wrestling from Korea and Pehlwani

wrestling from India, to name a few.

However, it was during the Depression that wrestling became a form of cheap entertainment, too, with touring shows popping up at the PNE; admission was $1 and betting was allowed.

Some 30 years later, Bill Mitchell lifted the sport to another height in Coquitlam.

A former CFL player, Mitchell was a teacher at Centennial secondary after he retired from the BC Lions in 1968.

Mitchell was initially encouraged by wrestling legend Paul Nemeth to start a high school wrestling program at Centennial as a feeder for the team at SFU, which had just opened.

Soon, Mitchell had junior high school students flocking to Centennial to sign up for the program, which was so successful that SD43 built

a gym for wrestling training.

Among his protégés were Chris Gill (lacrosse); Dan Payne (football); Dean Shmyr (hockey); and John Tenta (sumo wrestling).

During his 28 years at Centennial, Mitchell also founded the BC-Japan Cultural Exchange Program and worked with the provincial and national teams. In 1988, he was the manager of the Canadian Olympic wrestling team that included star grappler Chris Wilson.

In 2014, Mitchell was inducted into the Coquitlam Sports Hall of Fame and, in August, his name was also added to the BC Sports Hall of Fame.

• The Coquitlam Sports Hall of Fame has added two new members to its board: former Tri-City News editor Richard Dal Monte and longtime Tri-City Eagles field hockey player, coach and volunteer Elaine Goodman.

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It is with heavy hearts that the Gillespie family announces the passing of our beloved matriarch, Betty Lou Gillespie. We are thankful that she passed peacefully at home among loving family on December 26th, 2020, a month shy of her 91st birthday. We share this news with heartfelt sadness over our loss, but also with love, gratitude and pride for the life she lived.

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OBITUARIES GILBERT, Dorothy Merle (nee Coello) January 15, 1941 - December 24, 2020 With much sadness we announce the passing of Dorothy. Predeceased by son Stephen, and survived by Husband Don and Sons David (Doris) and Dennis. Dorothy was a private person with her home and family being her life. Many years of Sunday and special day dinners were the highlight of her week. Dorothy grew up in East Vancouver and moved to Coquitlam in the early 60’s. She was involved with her sons’ activities, minor hockey as treasurer for ten years and minor lacrosse as banquet chair for year end celebrations. Thanks to Eagle Ridge Hospital for allowing the family to visit during her final hours to say their goodbyes.

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Born in Grand Forks, BC on January 23,1930, Betty lived in Rossland, Trail and White Rock before meeting and marrying the love of her life, Bob Gillespie, and settling in Port Coquitlam. They quickly became part of the community, where they lived happily and raised their family. She nursed him through the later years of his life before his death in 1993. Betty is predeceased by parents Gordon and Hazel McIntyre, brothers Gordon (Daisy), Butch (Sandra) and Ray, and sisters Irene Johnson (Frank), Eileen Keenan (Joe) and Delores Hogg (Hubert). She is dearly missed by surviving sisters Maxine McIntyre (Don) and Kathleen Thune (Dennis).

Betty is also survived by her seven children: Gord (Diane), Garry (Jan), Mel (Deb), Al (Wendy), Todd (Karen), Tracy and Tim (Renee). She was the foundation and inspiration which supports all their families and her 21 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren and great, great grandchild.

Betty devoted herself tirelessly to raising her family, while also volunteering in community service groups including the Volunteer Fire Department, Ladies Auxiliary and the Royal Purple division of the Elks charity service club.

Mom worked at the Valleyview Geriatric Care Centre, part of the Essondale/Riverview complex, in the food services department.

She was loyal to, and proud, of her large extended family and loved hearing about their many accomplishments. Betty’s cooking and baking skills are legendary and were a highlight of every visit and family gathering. There was always enough food to share and enough places to sit for anyone who walked through her door. She had a quick wit, a great sense of humour and a wonderful laugh.

We have lost our guiding light, but take strength from her memory and the examples of sacrifice, community service, dedication to family and generosity which she exemplified and instilled in all of us.

Current circumstances preclude a celebration of life ceremony at this time, but we hope to have a memorial gathering in the future once it is safe to do so.

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