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COQUITLAM RCMP WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL HEALTHCARE AND FRONTLINE WORKERS FOR THEIR DEDICATION AND COURAGE DURING THE PANDEMIC Law enforcement doesn’t end during social distancing. · Less traffic volume is not an excuse to speed. We are still enforcing road safety. · If you see a crime, call police, don’t just share it on social media. We are here to serve you 24-7. Call 911 for emergencies and 604-945-1550 for non-emergencies.
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Karen Kuhn walks her dog, Rusty, along the PoCo Traboulay Trail at the end of Prairie Avenue in Port Coquitlam on Tuesday. The trail will soon be more accessible as the city reconstructs Prairie to Burns Road to make it safer for cyclists, pedestrians and drivers. For story, see page 9. MARIO BARTEL / THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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A front-line support worker helping people with addictions on the Downtown Eastside has herself been evicted from her Coquitlam home after the landlord feared she would contaminate him with COVID-19. That’s according to the tenant, Katherine G., who spoke with The Tri-City News on condition that her last name be withheld. The dispute started ramping up in late March, when Katherine says her landlord — allegedly a former paramedic himself — began to tape off sections of their shared residence, including the washer and dryer. “At work, people are overdosing on the floor,” she said. “I need to kneel on the ground
and work on somebody. I’m exposed to blood, faeces, urine, insects — things that live on people. All of a sudden, I can no longer do laundry.” And while Katherine and her fellow support workers are encouraged to put on hazmat suits, especially since the outbreak of COVID-19, that’s not always practical. So she usually cycles through a few pairs of cargo pants — clothing that allows her to store the pens and packs of cigarettes she uses to diffuse tense or awkward situations with a client. On top of that goes a removable med-kit containing a full complement of Narcan. On Tuesday, B.C. marked its fourth anniversary since it first declared a public health emergency around the opioid epidemic. “We’re not letting this crisis overtake the response for the overdose crisis here,” said Dr. Bonnie Henry at a press conference April 14.
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Terry Fox Marathon of Hope remembered by his brother Forty years ago, Fox set out on his Marathon of Hope Diane stranDBerG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com
When Port Coquitlam native Terry Fox dipped his artificial leg into the Atlantic Ocean in St. John’s, Newfoundland on April 12, 1980, he had no idea his Marathon of Hope would reach people with cancer all over the world. And now, as the world needs an extra dose of selflessness and hope, the 40th anniversary of that quiet and reflective moment for Terry should inspire us all to do what we can to help others, says his brother. “When he left Newfoundland for his Marathon of Hope, he wasn’t doing it to be to be famous, to be a hero — he wanted to find a cure for cancer,” recalled brother Fred Fox in an interview with the News. At the time, Fox was an unknown entity, with a small crowd to witness the event and his family back home in Port Coquitlam hoping to watch the beginning of the Marathon of Hope on the 6 p.m. news. “It was an amazing day, and
Terry Fox did not want to be a hero when he began is Marathon of Hope 40 years ago on April 12, 1980, yet he became one, with $800 million raised for cancer research. Terry Fox became the youngest Companion of the Order of Canada, at a special ceremony at Port Coquitlam city hall on Sept. 18, 1980. POCO heritaGe MUseUM anD arChives PhOtO
period of time,” said Fred, who is 14 months older than Terry. Terry didn’t complete his cross-Canada run, sadly; it ended 143 days later in Thunder Bay, Ont., because cancer had spread to his lungs. Terry died on June 28, 1981. But his heroic effort to raise money for cancer research inspired many, with $800 million raised in the intervening years, according to Fred. Now, as the 40th anni-
versary comes and goes this week, Fred is hoping that people will use Terry’s selflessness to inspire their own caring — to stay home to avoid spreading COVID-19— and to contribute to the cause that so motivated young Terry. “Unfortunately, people are still diagnosed with cancer every day — that was Terry’s mandate to raise money for cancer research. It’s tough for so many people out there, but it’s still important to give if
they can.” Fox said he hopes the annual Terry Fox Runs will go ahead in September, as planned, but in the meantime, run organizers are providing each other with plenty of support — virtually. On Saturday, 140 run organizers connected via the Zoom video conference platform to share news and hope. “It was a great distraction for them and great to see people that they know. Everybody was wearing their Terry Fox t-shirts, everybody is excited and hopefully soon people will be organizing Terry Fox runs,” Fred said. While it’s true most people are focused on their own family and finances right now, Fred said it’s important to remember others, as his brother did so many years ago when he started on his Marathon of Hope journey. “As we mark yesterday, April 12, and what Terry started — Terry said in his journal that evening after he ran, ‘today is the day it all begins’ — little did he know what he was beginning so many years ago — (and today) there are so many volunteers, people who have dedicated their time and donated to cancer. All those people need to take credit for where we are today.”
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A 24-year-old Coquitlam man suspected of a breakand-enter is facing additional charges for allegedly coughing on three police officers during his arrest. Tyson Helgason was apprehended by the Mounties’ prolific target team on Monday, an hour after a break-in occurred in the 2500-block of Ashurst Avenue. According to the Coquitlam RCMP, the suspect said he was sick at the time and deliberately coughed in the direction of three officers. “We strive to be respectful even during an arrest, and with the new reality of COVID-19, we ask everyone that we’re speaking with if they feel sick or have any
symptoms,” said Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Michael McLaughlin. “In this case, the suspect confirmed with police that he was sick when asked. Despite being told not to face police, he allegedly turned his head towards three officers and purposefully coughed in their faces.” The elderly victims of the theft were home at the time of the break-in, however police said they were not initially aware that a crime had taken place. Investigators were able to recover several pieces of jewellery and a small amount of cash that had been taken from the home. Helgason is facing a charge of break and enter and theft under $5,000. He will also face an additional count of assaulting a police officer.
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SCHOOl DISTRICT 43
Teacher jobs hit by COVID-19 Int’l enrolment expected to plummet in SD43 DIANE STRANDbERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com
Dana Ricci reads with Lark, the comfort dog at her tutoring academy in Port Moody that specializes in working with students struggling with learning challenges. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS E D U C AT I O N D U R I N G T H E PA N D E M I C
Home schooling a challenge for kids with learning disabilities MARIO bARTEl mbartel@tricitynews.com
Lark is missing her people. The golden lab comfort dog is a gentle and accommodating listener for kids reading stories at the Stepping 4words Learning Centre, a tutoring academy in Port Moody that specializes in working with kids struggling through learning disabilities like dyslexia, attention deficit and auditory processing disorders and even autism. But with schools closed and the learning centre shuttered because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lark’s daily routine now consists of lying in
the sun at the historic Perry Roe building where Stepping 4words is located. The learning hasn’t stopped, though. Dana Ricci, who runs the tutoring service along with Carol Gallagher, said the need for students working through challenges to maintain their progress despite the absence of formal learning in school is more important than ever. That’s put extra pressure on parents already struggling with the stresses of working from home, economic uncertainty and protecting the safety of their family. Ricci said when schools were shut, enrolment at her tutoring centre “dropped to
zero.” It has since rebounded somewhat as parents realized specialized learning must be ongoing. Not enough to allow Ricci to bring back a full complement of tutors, she said, but the centre is filling the gaps with online tools and home teaching packages. She said it can be a big ask for parents to pick up the ball from educators that have specific training to work with kids who have special needs. “Parents are intimidated because they think it’s too hard,” Ricci said. “They’re sort of lost in the process.” Educators have also had to adjust, moving their support and encouragement to virtual
platforms instead of one-onone in-person teaching sessions that sometimes include a reassuring scratch of Lark’s ears. Ricci said the switch has led to some interesting revelations, like the sense of control and empowerment kids get by managing their own learning on an iPad. That little boost of self-esteem can have a positive impact on their engagement with their lessons and assignments. Ricci said for parents working with their kids at home, it’s important to keep their interest by guiding their reading to subjects that interest them and play off their capabilities rather than their disabilities.
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Port Coquitlam school sold for $16.2M DIANE STRANDbERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com
Like it, buy it. That was the decision of BC Christian Academy, which has decided to buy the formerLincoln elementary school in Port Coquitlam after leasing the building for nearly 12 years. And last week, School District 43 agreed to the sale that will pump $16.2 million into the public school dis-
trict’s coffers. “BC Christian wanted that site, they’ve been on that site for almost 12 years,” explained SD43 treasurer Chris Nicolls, who said the funding will be placed into a fund for capital spending. The school was closed several years ago due to declining enrolment and has since been leased by the academy, which got its start in Burnaby in 1992. Leasing the building allowed the private independent school to grow its kinder-
garten to Grade 12 programs, including its International Baccalaureate programs. For SD43, whose trustees voted to approve the sale at its board meeting last week, the injection of capital comes as the province is increasingly demanding school boards put up some of the money for new school buildings. “We felt it (the sale) was necessary so we could invest that (money) into school additions and support ministry requirements for seismic upgrades and replacement
for new schools,” Nicolls said, noting that it had to put up $2 million for the seismic rebuild for Banting middle school in Coquitlam and $5 million towards Sheffield, a new elementary school for the Burke Mountain area. According to SD43, the 9.4-acre property is “not required for future educational purposes.” In a letter to the board, BCCAC noted it had been in a “healthy tenant/owner relationship with SD43 since 2009.”
The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a deep bite out of School District 43 finances, resulting in teacher layoffs for the first time in three years. With entire countries in lockdown and foreign travel cancelled to slow the pandemic, 30% fewer foreign students from Asia, South America and Europe are expected to enrol in local schools, meaning SD43 will need fewer teachers, as well. Layoffs, which have not been required while international education and other revenues held steady, will now happen this spring for dozens of teachers, just as the COVID-19 pandemic cuts a swath in the household finances of thousands of Tri-City residents. “We don’t want to scare people,” acknowledged Coquitlam Teachers’ Association president Ken Christensen, who said the layoff and recall process can be stressful and this year takes place just as teachers are dealing with a new virtual school reality. But he said there are a lot of mitigating factors, such as retirements, that can reduce the job cut. In all, as many as 37 teaching positions could be cut to balance the budget, but to get to that number, many more teachers have to be laid off to get to those lowest in seniority. “I think we could have done it this year [not have layoffs] again, but COVID just blew every plan apart,” he said. With COVID-19 hitting the district’s finances, SD43 is planning for a slow rebuild of the program, once travel restrictions and visa offices re-open. However, SD43 treasurer and CFO Chris Nicolls said the program isn’t being wound up and no layoffs are anticipated in the international education department because students are
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re-enrolling for September, and more students could arrive in 2021. “We would have an uptick in international education enrolment in second semester if things improve,” Nicolls predicted. Still the drop in revenue in recent years is substantial, with SD43 pulling in $37 million in 2017/18, at its height dropping to $35.7 million in 2018/19, and further anticipated reductions to $30.2 million this year and $24.2 million in 20/21. SD43 typically generates a surplus from these funds of up to $5 million and uses the money to smooth dips in provincial funding or for new initiatives such as technology. Nicolls expects a reduced surplus next year. But it’s not only reduced international education revenues that are hurting SD43’s bottom line. Budget figures released during a public meeting on Zoom Tuesday, show that $2.5 million in provincial funding is being diverted to smaller rural schools, resulting in financial challenges for the district in 2020/21. Later, Nicolls explained that 42 teachers are being cut because of reduced international education revenues, and another 20 because of the change in provincial money. However, the district will be applying for classroom enhancement funding for 25 teachers because of smaller class sizes needed to address the needs of more students with special needs, including those on the autism spectrum, who are enrolling in the district.
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Care, Connection and Community Message from the Mayor
When I think about what will help us get through these difficult times, what comes to mind is care, connection and community. COVID-19 is testing all of us in new ways, but overcoming the challenges we face is easier when we care for others and for ourselves, when we maintain our connections with each other, and when we continue to engage in our community. We see acts of caring in Coquitlam every day. There are the significant ones, like those made by health care and other essential service providers. And there are numerous smaller but still meaningful acts of caring, like the hiker who steps off the trail to maintain a safe distance, the shopper who buys only what they need, or the neighbour who picks up groceries for someone at risk. Self-care is also critical right now as many of us deal with stress, anxiety, sadness and fear. Don’t neglect yourself. Taking an online fitness class, eating well, establishing a daily routine and spending time outdoors while physically distancing are a few ways to help process the emotions being stirred up by the pandemic. One way to feel less alone is to keep connecting with other people. Take the time to chat with your neighbours over the fence. Try a video call with friends and family who live across town, or across the country. Even a quick text or phone call can brighten your day, or someone else’s. Maintaining a sense of community also helps keep us tethered when so much is beyond our control. In addition to providing the core municipal services we all rely on, the City is also continuing to look for ways to support the community’s well-being. For example, we’ve provided signage and staff at many parks and trails so that our residents can continue to safely get outdoors for their physical and mental health. We’re also working to provide more services and programs online in the days and weeks to come.
Support Local Businesses
Looking for ways to support our local businesses? Start ordering! Did you know that Wednesdays have now been dubbed National Takeout Day? Check out the growing list of 150 + restaurants and businesses open for takeout and delivery in Coquitlam at visitcoquitlam.ca. Pick from a well-known favourite or try something new! Another great way to support your favourite businesses? Buy gift certificates for future use. #SupportLocal
Seniors Phone Buddy Program
If you are a Coquitlam senior living alone or know a senior who could use a friendly weekly phone call, please contact Dogwood Pavilion at 604-927-6098 or Glen Pine Pavilion at 604-927-6940 between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays. Carefully screened volunteers will provide a compassionate and supportive ear to those isolated. Learn more at coquitlam.ca/phonebuddy
Join the 7 p.m. Cheer
The City has been supporting “Hearts for Health Care Workers” by putting hearts in City facility windows to show support for health care workers and other essential workers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Show your support by downloading a heart from our website at coquitlam.ca/covid19 and posting it in your windows. And don’t forget – every night at 7 p.m., open your windows and cheer, yell, ring bells, bang drums or pots and pans to let health care workers and other essential workers know Coquitlam supports them!
Follow the City on social media to stay up to date with what’s happening in your community. And in the meantime, please take care of yourself and others, and take advantage of opportunities to connect and engage.
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Fitness and Recreation Online Resources
While our recreation facilities are currently closed to the public, Coquitlam’s recreation team is still committed to the health and well-being of our community. The World Health Organization recommends that adults get 150 minutes – that’s 30 minutes at least five times per week – of moderate-intensity physical activity throughout the week. To help you reach that goal, our fitness team has been working on instructional videos for all fitness levels, written workout plans and fitness tips. Visit coquitlam.ca/fitness to learn more. If you’re looking for activities for the whole family, our recreation team is developing a catalogue of activities and resources. Check out all the great ideas at coquitlam.ca/onlinerec.
Share Your Story
We love hearing about the creative ways our residents and businesses are having a positive impact on others. And we’d like to hear more about what our community is doing to help make this difficult time a little easier for someone else. If you have a story to share, please email us at media@coquitlam.ca.
Connect With Us
Stay in the know! Follow the City of Coquitlam on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (@CityofCoquitlam) or download our app – CoquitlamConnect – in the App or Google Play store.
Stay Fit at Home
Wall Pushup: Tired of pushing yourself up off the floor? Try doing some wall pushups! These are a great alternative to traditional pushups and provide all the same strength training benefits. Place your hands shoulder-width apart on the wall with a slight bend in the elbows. Start with your feet close to the wall, or try moving your feet further back from the wall to make it harder. Bend your elbows to 90 degrees, then push yourself back up to starting position. Inhale on the way down, exhale on the way up. Repeat 3 sets of 12 repetitions or until fatigue. For more fitness tips, go to coquitlam.ca/fitness.
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COQUITLAM NEWS In BlOOM
Rec programs cancelled until June 30 in Coq.
The blossoms are in full bloom at Coquitlam’s Town Centre park, bringing the hopefulness of spring amidst the anxiety of the public health and economic crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. MARIO BARTEL / THE TRI-CITY NEWS
B U D G E T I M PA C T
Coq. temporarily lays off 800 workers Cost-saving measure primarily impacts staff at rec facilities STEfAn lABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com
The city of Coquitlam has announced it has cut roughly 800 auxiliary employees as it looks to make operational savings in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The cuts were announced in an open letter signed by Mayor Richard Stewart on behalf of city council, in which it noted most of the jobs were connected to the city’s recreation facilities and programs. The city is also looking to find savings through adjusting the timing of some capital projects, continued the letter, without specifying what those projects were. “The world is a much different place today than it was
even a month ago,” wrote Stewart on behalf of council. “With the health and safety of our residents in mind and to curb the spread of the virus, we’ve had to reduce some services, cancel events and programs, and close recreation centres and other facilities to the public.” In an email to The Tri-City News, a spokesperson for the city said its focus is on providing essential services. “We can confirm that these
measures are temporary,” wrote the spokesperson. Stewart also mentioned the city is looking at options for tax relief and has joined other mayors across the region to lobby the provincial government to expand property tax deferrals. “We are considering both the immediate short-term need and the long-term impact on the city’s ability to recover, the services we provide, and the taxpayers who pay for
them,” he wrote. In neighbouring Port Coquitlam, the city announced earlier this week that their residents would not have to pay property taxes until Sept. 2. For residential owners, announced Mayor Brad West, a planned residential tax hike will be slashed, while the average business will see a 0.59% decrease and light industry will see a 3.33% decrease in their bill.
More recreation programs have been cancelled in Coquitlam as a result of the COVID19 pandemic. The city said recently it would be extending the cancellations until June 30 and delaying any new registrations to meet current public health requirements. The decision was made to provide certainty to people while physical distancing protocols remain necessary, the city said in a press release. However, while programs are done until July 1, events and rentals at city parks and facilities have not yet been cancelled and bookings are still being accepted for after June 1. And the city said it is still moving forward with some of its larger summer events, like Canada Day, the Summer Concert Series and Kaleidoscope, although the release noted that these plans could change. • For information about Coquitlam’s COVID-19 response, call 604-927-4383, email covid19@coquitlam.ca or visit coquitlam.ca/covid19.
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KEEP OUR LOCAL BEARS SAFE
We want bears to seek natural food sources, not garbage. Please do your part to keep bears safe and prevent human-wildlife conflict by doing the following: • Keep garbage and food waste securely stored at all times • Separate your waste and put food scraps in the Green Cart, which is collected weekly • Freeze smelly food scraps until collection day, and clean carts after collection to minimize odours
• Only put out Garbage and Green Carts after 5:30 a.m. on collection day – not the night before • Make sure attractants including, pet food, bird feeders and ripe fruit are not accessible to wildlife
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Remember that property owners found allowing wildlife to access attractants, even unintentionally, will receive a $500 fine. For more information visit coquitlam.ca/bearsmart.
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TRICITYNEWS.COM THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2020
Notice of Public Input Amendment to the Zoning Bylaw
Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 4173 The intent of the bylaw is to amend the M1 (General Industrial) zone to permit the accessory retail sales of rebuilt automobiles and light trucks.
PUBLIC INPUT
Location: City of Port Coquitlam
April 15-28
Inspection of Documents
Prior to submitting written comments, the public is welcome to inspect the bylaws, plans submitted by the applicant & any related reports and documents at: www.portcoquitlam.ca/publichearing
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Written comments will be received until 4:00 pm on April 28, 2020 via email, the drop box at the front of City Hall or by regular mail. Council will consider this bylaw for adoption at their April 28, 2020 Council meeting at 6:00 pm.
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PORT COQUITLAM NEWS STREET UPGRADES
Safety improvements coming to Prairie Ave. DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com
Prairie Avenue in Port Coquitlam will get a major facelift to make walking, cycling and driving safer and more pleasant after council approved design plans to refresh and upgrade the major eastwest road. To be constructed in stages, the project will upgrade three kilometres of Prairie Avenue between Shaughnessy and Fremont streets that will include wider sidewalks, street trees, curb extensions, crosswalks, lighting and roundabouts. The project will also include construction of a threekilometre multi-use path from Shaughnessy Street to Burns Road with markings indicating cycling and pedestrian lanes. Utility works will start later this spring to prepare for construction next year in the section between Coast Meridian Road and Fremont Street. The project cost for the work from Coast Meridian to Burns Road is estimated to be $5.6 million and will take place in 2020 and 2021, while rehabilitation and construction on improvements from Coast Meridian to Shaughnessy Street are slated to take place in 2023 based on consideration for the 2022-2023 capital plan. For those living and work-
Port Coquitlam’s planned reconstruction of Prairie Avenue to improve pedestrian and cycling access will mean visitors to the PoCo Traboulay Trail won’t have to walk on the road anymore. MARIO BARTEL / THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Port Coquitlam firefighters battle a blaze on Mansfield Crescent near Victoria Drive early Saturday morning. SUBMITTED PHOTO
crosswalks and in areas with high pedestrian traffic, • A flashing beacon at the Vincent Street crosswalk, and • A total of three kilometres of landscaped boulevards, both with and without trees. While three options were presented to the public for feedback in September, the final concept design is based on a fourth option that reflects public feedback and traffic analysis data, according to a press release. Strict health protocols, such as physical distancing, will also be maintained during construction, reliant on information from provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, the press release stated For more information about the project, visit www.portcoquitlam.ca/prairie.
PoCo family narrowly escapes Saturday morning house fire
ing on PoCo’s north side, the upgrade should improve traffic flow on a road that typically sees 13,000 vehicles a day, and be a boon to walkers and cyclists, according to the city’s mayor. “It’s going to connect to the Traboulay Trail at the east end of Prairie and give people that connection to the trail as well as improved lighting, a significant facelift and really improve the pedestrian safety of the whole Prairie corridor,” Brad West told The Tri-City News. However, construction of the multi-use path requires provincial approvals because of a waterway. Still, many improvements are part of the plan, including: • Parking pockets and curb extensions located strategically on both sides of the road at
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A Port Coquitlam family is reeling after their house burned down while under quarantine in an early-morning fire on the weekend. Sheldon and Jen Jaenicke, as well as their two young daughters, lost their Mansfield Crescent home and all their belongings in the blaze Saturday. The Port Coquitlam father first noticed something was wrong at around 4:30 a.m.,
when he was woken while sleeping on the couch by a “crazy, weird noise,” according to Jen Jaenicke’s sister, Adrienne Lloyd. “He got up, looked to the left and yelled, ‘Oh my god, fire!’” said Lloyd. The mother came running in, grabbed a phone to call 911, and together both parents ran upstairs to scoop their daughters Avalon, 6, and Xanthe, 21 months, from the burning building. When they came back down, Jen pounded on the
floor to warn the downstairs tenant before jumping off the back patio with the rest of the family. “The tenant downstairs thought it was a bear and yelled, ‘Come in, you’ll be safe here,” said Lloyd. Reality quickly set in and the tenant escaped out their back window. Soon the house was engulfed in flames. “It was like a movie,” said Lloyd. “You walk up and see a family sitting in a cop car soaking wet with blankets around them.”
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Council looking for savings Free hand sanitizer refills on Saturday as city reconsiders budget Council taking a second look at 3.62% property tax increase MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com
Port Moody taxpayers could get a break after all. At its meeting Tuesday, city council decided to walk back a decision it had made in finance committee April 7 to move forward on the 3.62% increase in property taxes that was recommended by staff and would have maintained service levels as they were in 2019. But facing growing concerns from residents enduring financial hardships because of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as pressures from other municipalities paring their budgets, council tasked staff to craft a list of potential expenses that could be cut to create a tax savings of approximately 1.5%. That list would then be reviewed by council’s finance committee next week in order to craft a final budget in time for the provincially-mandated deadline of May 15. Port Moody’s chief financial officer, Paul Rockwood, said a 1.5% reduction would mean cutting about $650,000
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from the city’s budget. He added there will also be a significant decrease in revenues that needs to be factored in as well. And that will cause some pain, city manager Tim Savoie added. “This would mean servicelevel cuts, absolutely, positively,” he said. But Mayor Rob Vagramov said the catastrophic financial fallout of the pandemic behooves the city to at least explore ways it could lessen the tax burden on Port Moody residents. “The status quo is not the way forward.”
Coun. Steve Milani agreed, pointing out Port Coquitlam and Langley recently slashed their planned property tax increases, the former to 0%. “I believe the city of Port Moody has to do all it can to support its residents in these difficult times,” he said. Some councillors, however, feared that support could come at the expense of city workers. “I want to make it clear layoffs do not equate to budget decreases,” Coun. Meghan Lahti said. Coquitlam announced last Thursday it’s laying off about 800 auxiliary employ-
ees, many of them in the city’s recreation facilities and programs. Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley speculated on Tuesday his city could shed more than 1,000 staff — about a quarter of its payroll. Angie Parnell, Port Moody’s general manager of corporate services, told council the city’s unionized workers have “a great deal of anxiety and concern around what is happening,” adding she’s had regular discussions with the human resources departments of neighbouring communities. As yet, no city workers in Port Moody have lost their job, Savoie told The Tri-City News, although some have had their duties modified or been reassigned to help out at its emergency operations centre. Coun. Zoe Royer said burdening city workers with additional anxieties over their job security distresses her. “I know we need significant measures of austerity here, but I want to be respectful,” she said. Vagramov countered that just because council could learn where it might be able to cut expenses doesn’t mean it will. “This is for information,” he said of the prioritized list of budget items. “This does not mean we will be cutting.”
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Topic: COVID-19 park closures
“There needs to be people out enforcing this and giving fines. My family was out Friday for a car ride... and we saw lots of people flooding public areas and still gathering.”
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rother can you spare a dime? Or perhaps a few billion of them? And by “you” we’re specifically looking to those who have been on the winning end of the economy during the boom times. The past month has seen unprecedented change in a short space of time, with economic life as we know it shuddering to a halt. One thing that hasn’t let up in any discernible way, however, is the arrival of the bills, which – minus a regular paycheque – many will be forced to pay on credit. Throughout the usual ups and downs of the economy, Canada’s banks have had a Teflon quality that has made
them amazingly profitable ventures. Since the COVID-19 crisis hit, many banks have been offering mortgage deferrals and reduced interest rates for limited periods of time for those who qualify. That’s a good first step, but unless the hardship hitting many people is far more short-lived than most are predicting, more help for both individuals and businesses will be needed. The federal government also has a role to play in encouraging the banks to do the right thing. Similarly, among landlords, it’s hardly the time to be playing hardball with tenants who’ve lost their jobs through no fault of their own. The more that can be forgiven and the more flexible
the options for rent repayment, the better. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a good move when he announced that the federal wage-subsidy program for employers hit by COVID-19 will have looser standards than previously announced. Rather than having to show a 30% decline in revenues, he says they can show a 15% decline in March, and can compare their revenues to previous months rather than the previous year. Charities can also choose whether to include revenues from governments in their calculations when they apply. He says businesses need to survive and workers need to get paid if the economy is to “come roaring back after this crisis.”
Trudeau also announced the federal government will cover 100% of wages for students hired under the Canada Summer Jobs Program. He says he hopes this will encourage businesses to hire students to allow them to get the work experience they need and earn incomes during the downturn. Students trying to earn money to pay for school in September is yet another group being devastated by the pandemic. In the current crisis, everyone is feeling the financial hit. That pain has to be spread around, and not simply rolled downhill to those least able to bear it. At the end of it, we’ll sink or swim not just on our own fortunes, but on the plight of our neighbours as well.
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Park closures pushing people to other public green spaces The Editor, As The Tri-City News has reported, the provincial government has issued a blanket closure of all B.C. provincial parks in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. While I support this closure for the recent sunny long weekend, I would like to see more targeted measures to manage park attendance put into place in the coming days. Would it not be possible, for example, to manage park attendance by closing specific high-traffic areas, by closing vehicle access and parking, or by, as another writer to The Tri-City News
has suggested, instituting a system where people with even-numbered addresses could access parks on evennumbered days and those with odd-numbered addresses on odd-numbered days? Enforcement could be a challenge, but enforcement of the blanket closure will be, too. Last week, on my regular two-hour walk in Pinecone Burke Provincial Park, I encountered four other people and had no trouble stepping aside to give them twometres of space. By contrast, on my one-hour walk on the local streets today, I passed
dozens of people and at times had difficulty leaving them two metres on account of narrow sidewalks and passing traffic. Closing provincial parks pushes people onto busier city streets and into the busier city and regional parks that remain open. I am also now considering driving eastwards to find Crown lands where my dog can exercise. As The Tri-City News article on the park closures has indicated, there has indeed been a chain reaction of pushing people from one green space to another as the provincial parks on the North Shore
and then Buntzen Lake were closed. This chain reaction could be mitigated if targeted measures that allowed people to continue to use their local provincial parks were put into effect. The closure of local green spaces will affect our physical and mental well-being. I am so glad that I was able to enjoy the freshly blooming salmonberry blossoms, violets and trilliums on the slopes of the mountainside on which I live before Pinecone Burke Provincial Park was closed indefinitely. Leni Robinson Coquitlam
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Still, it was a nerve-wracking and somewhat painful experience for the couple when Lindsay was finally admitted into the maternity triage area. With the private birthing rooms already full, the 32-yearold was given a bed behind a curtain, where she stayed for several hours until it was time to push and a room was free. Laughing gas is not permitted because of the possibility an asymptomatic mom with the virus may still emit aerosolized COVID-19 droplets, so Lindsay gave birth without pain medication, and she said the experience was kind of eerie, because everyone is masked, gowned and visored. “I felt safe, I guess,” she said. “I felt like was in a safe little bubble in the maternity award, I felt there were doing excellent job in just keeping us safe.” She was encouraged to breast feed and after about 48 hours in the hospital, was released. Now home, the battle to keep COVID-19 away continues, and the longed-for visits with grandparents, family and friends must be delayed. Instead, people come to the couple’s front porch, leave food and gifts, and wave to baby Henry, now 3.8 kg, through a window. It’s great to be home, but not the way the couple had envisioned the birth of their first born. “We feel fortunate we are in this bubble. We have a roof, we have everything we need but the physical human connection is missing, and there is this uncertainty — when is it going to end?”
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Andy and Lindsay Huerlimann are planners and so it’s no surprise they stocked up on food and necessities as the birth of their baby loomed. They took pre-natal classes, ordered prescriptions, had a trunk full of supplies for the hospital, organized their house and even set up a spreadsheet to keep track of contractions. But neither Andy, an engineer, nor Lindsay, an occupational therapist at the Centre for Child Development, were prepared for the stress of COVID-19 and how it would prey on their minds as the due date crept closer. “It started to ramp up even more because of all these things coming out in the news,” Lindsay said in an interview this week. For most young couples expecting their first baby, the last weeks and days during pregnancy are a whirlwind of social engagements, showers and pre-birth festivities as families and friends come together over the happy event. But as B.C. struggles to stay ahead of COVID-19, strict physical distancing rules are preventing people from getting together. Even grandparents have to stay away. For the Huerlimanns, quarantining from loved ones has been one of the hardest parts of delivering a baby during
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Pinecone Burke Provincial Park will close to the public after the provincial government moved to shut down all B.C. parks in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The decision follows federal and provincial directives that people should stay home to minimize the transmission of the novel coronavirus. The measure is being described by the provincial government as “temporary,” meaning people shouldn’t expect to be allowed back in until further notice. “We tried to provide safe spaces for people to get some exercise and fresh air in our beautiful parks,” said Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy George Heyman in a press release. “But it has proven too challenging to maintain a safe distance between visitors. This action is difficult but necessary. We look forward to the day we can welcome people back to our wonderful parks.” The ministry said the decision to close the park system was made after hearing from the RCMP, local governments, First Nations, local search and rescue outfits and the public. “While many people are observing the physical distancing requirements set by the provincial health officer (PHO), some continue to ignore the order, making enforcement in a wilderness setting challenging,” wrote a spokesperson for the ministry. The news came in the lead
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up to the Easter long weekend, which hails the beginning of a busy spring outdoor recreation season. Michael Coyle, a spokesperson for Coquitlam Search and Rescue, said that despite the shut down of other amenities, like movie theatres and ski hills, search and rescue units across the province have seen a lower than average number of rescues over the course of the pandemic. That’s in stark contrast to reports of packed trailheads from Coquitlam to the Sea to Sky corridor. “The outdoors is relatively safe as long as you maintain your spacing,” said Coyle, echoing provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry’s recent remarks. “But that being said, I did drive to Squamish last weekend and the trailheads are packed. There’s this huge demand.” Coyle describes a “vicious cycle” where one park closes and everyone is increasingly concentrated along the trails that are still open. That was the case at Buntzen Lake before BC Hydro closed it to the public. In earlier talks with Buntzen’s wardens, Coyle said they
had been concerned about exposing themselves to the virus at public facilities like outhouses, where multiple touchpoints and high-traffic areas mean more risk. “With the parks being closed, I do still worry that someone will try some nonpark activity like grabbing a boat and going to the end of Pitt Lake. That’s the worry I’ve had all along,” said Coyle. For Coquitlam Search and Rescue, the pandemic has forced them to take extra precautions, and while not limiting where they work — they’ll still attend a rescue in a closed park — it has affected how they work. Earlier this month, for example, a Coquitlam SAR team responded to an injured mountain biker on Eagle Mountain. Usually, the response would have been bigger and more hands-on. But in this case, once the pareddown team found the mountain biker was not seriously injured, they escorted him down the hill at a distance. “We have to worry about infecting each other, let alone the people we are rescuing,” said Coyle.
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With no soccer matches to cheer for, a group of supporters of the Glasgow Celtic football club is giving voice to patients who could be admitted to the COVID-19 unit at Eagle Ridge Hospital in Port Moody. Members of the Vancouver Celtic Supporters Club that gathers at the Port Coquitlam Legion in the wee hours every week to root for the famous Scottish side recently donated six video baby monitors to the hospital so nurses can keep an ear and eye on their COVID
patients without constant intrusions into their rooms. That insures a high level of care for those patients, and more safety for the nurses working in the unit, said Susan Shergold, whose husband is a member of the club. She said it was a friend of hers, a nurse in the COVID19 unit, who first put out the call. And with more free time on their hands because of the lack of football matches, the 30 members of the Celtic Supporters Club leapt into action. One of the group’s founders, Thomas Ferns, drove around to several electronics stores
and Walmarts just prior to many of the shops’ closures to source the monitors that are worth about $1,000 in total. Shergold said it’s in the Supporters Club’s nature to be generous as members host several fundraisers through the year to help local causes, as well as an annual toy drive at Christmas. “They’re always raising their hands,” she said. “They’re just a really kind-hearted bunch of individuals.” The nurses safely expressed their appreciation by holding up hand-drawn Thank You signs in a photo posted to social media.
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But since COVID-19 hit B.C., past assumptions about how to operate and help people struggling with opioid addiction have changed. “I can understand people’s fear. We’ve had people taken away in ambulance with signs of COVID,” she said. But at the same time, support workers on the DTES are used to working with people who have tuberculosis, HIV and other respiratory or bloodborne pathogens. Considering all the precautions in place, Katherine said, “It’s not a factual fear.” Like your neighbourhood grocery store, measures have been rolled out to minimize the transmission of the virus: only a few drug users are let into safe consumption sites at a time, they are spaced out inside, and are prevented from lingering. “If someone’s not breathing, we can’t provide breaths to them anymore,” said Katherine. “We just call 911 and keep stabbing them with Narcan.” All of those precautions were not enough to alleviate the worries of her landlord, alleged the support worker. “He said that he was going to spontaneously reconsider my living [there] if I didn’t disclose COVID symptoms,” Katherine said, adding that while she never exhibited symptoms, over the next few days the situation escalated. When she returned home on April 10, she found the owner had broken into her room and was packing up her belongings with the help of two neighbours, said Katherine. That’s when she called the Coquitlam RCMP. “They came in and arrested him for breaking into my room and removing things,”
she said. On March 25, as B.C.’s economy spiralled into unemployment, the province had introduced a temporary rental supplement, halted evictions and froze rents, among other actions. But those measures only apply to tenants whose living situation falls under the Residential Tenancy Act. In an email to The Tri-City News, a spokesperson for the office of Minister Selina Robinson, who’s responsible for municipal affairs and housing, said they were aware of Katherine’s case, but have their hands tied. “The Residential Tenancy Act does not cover renters who share a washroom and/ or kitchen with their landlord, and the Residential Tenancy Branch does not have the ability to intervene in these cases,” wrote a spokesperson for the ministry. “Renters in that situation can seek resolution through the B.C. Civil Resolution Tribunal.” So when Coquitlam RCMP officers called in a supervisor to sort out what was legal and what was not, the landlord was found to be acting within his rights and the officers escorted Katherine off the property. “Police have been awesome, very supportive, but they have to follow the law,” she said. Katherine said she walked out of the building with a backpack filled with some clothes, her laptop, Narcan kit and a picture of her daughter. Without a place to live, she checked in at a hotel in Burnaby, taking an extra few days off to study for upcoming exams at the B.C. Justice Institute where she’s a student. In that time, Katherine has been in touch with the offices of three local MLAs, including Minister Robinson, Coquitlam-Burke Mountain MLA Joan Issacs, and Minister
of Public Safety and the Solicitor General’s Office Mike Farnworth. Following their advice, as well as that of the BC Government and Service Employees’ Union, Katherine launched an expedited complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. “I’ve asked for policy changes in the Human Rights
Tribunal. I’ve pushed for mediation. A public apology,” she said. “The government needs to change its policy and legislation to protect everybody — especially those who are still working right now.” But by Tuesday, she said she had spent the last of her paycheque on the hotel, and Wednesday morning, April 15,
she found herself homeless the same day she started her exams and went back to work. Some acquaintances have offered her a place to stay, including a room in Langley and a couch in New Westminster. But neither option was feasible: Langley is too far without a car and self-isolation is impossible without your own room. “My clients are bringing
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC CONSULTATION The City has received an application to amend the Citywide Official Community Plan (CWOCP) relating to properties at 3646, 3648, 3650, 3654, 3674, 3680 Victoria Drive, 4189 Cedar Drive, as well as an unaddressed parcel (“0” Cedar Drive) and an unconstructed road right-of-way portion. The application proposes an amendment to the proposed street network in the Partington Creek Neighbourhood Plan (PCNP) by replacing a future Collector Street and conceptual Local Street portions (Map 1) with two new future conceptual Local Street portions (Map 2) on the subject properties. The application does not propose any land use designation amendments. This amendment would facilitate the rezoning and subdivision of the subject properties to permit a two-phased development of 276 townhouse units, and the transfer of Streamside Protection and Enhancement Areas to City of Coquitlam’s ownership. You are now being invited to provide input to Council with respect to the above-noted application. The City of Coquitlam will be receiving the input requested herein up to Friday, May 8, 2020. Written correspondence can be provided in one of the following ways: •
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Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart is calling out a new kind of litterbug after posting photographs on Facebook of surgical gloves randomly strewn on a road and in an underground parking lot in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic. “I get it,” Stewart wrote. “You think that your gloves might have been in contact with the virus. As a result, you discard them rather than put them in a garbage bag in your car. “This exhibits some especially selfish and antisocial attitudes. If you think something is contaminated, then discard it properly.” Several municipalities across Metro Vancouver have
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asked residents to dispose of used medical protective equipment and soiled tissues in sealed plastic bags to prevent possible transmission. “This needs to stop,” added Stewart. “We can’t look out
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drastic measures, including one commenter who suggested that an additional “criminal charge of biological terrorism would be adequate. Maximum fine of $1,000,000.”
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Here’s how you apply for rent supplement The program, which launched April 9, offers rent subsidies Tri-City renters can get up to $500 in rent support to help them through the COVID-19 pandemic, according to B.C. Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Selina Robinson. Announced earlier this month but officially available April 9, the program, offered through B.C. Housing, will provide $300 per month for eligible households with no dependents and $500 per month for eligible households with dependents. Eligible roommates will each be able to apply for the supplement. However, the program is only for three months, the money goes directly to landlords, and other criteria apply. Still, Robinson said it should help people during this difficult time. “This crisis is putting pressure on people across B.C.,” said the CoquitlamMaillardville MLA. “We’re helping British Columbians get through this by halting evictions so renters will not
lose their home. We’re helping them pay rent with the new temporary rental supplement — providing direct relief on the biggest month-to-month expense for most households.” To receive the rental supplement, you must be: • receiving or eligible for Employment Insurance, the Canada Emergency Response Benefit or experiencing a 25% reduction in monthly employment income as a result of COVID-19; • 2019 household income of less than $74,150 for households with no dependents and $113,040 for households with dependents; • paying more than 30% of current/reduced gross monthly income towards rent; and • not receiving any other rent subsidy from any level of government, including subsidized housing or rent supplements, such as Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) or the Rental Assistance Program (RAP). The supplement will be available for April, May and June 2020. Renters who are eligible for the program and have already paid their April rent are
still able to receive the rental supplement for this month. Once an application is completed and processed, funds will be direct-deposited within approximately seven days. BC Housing has redeployed employees and brought on additional staff to make sure applications are processed as quickly as possible. The rental supplement is in addition to funding available from the federal government and the $1,000 B.C. Emergency Benefit for Workers. It’s part of the Province’s $5-billion COVID-19 Action Plan to provide income supports, tax relief and direct funding for people and businesses, and to support the services people count on. The province has also halted evictions and frozen rent increases for existing tenants during this emergency, is allowing landlords to restrict the use of common areas to protect against the transmission of COVID-19, and has given renters the right to control who enters their units, except in emergency circumstances. For more information about the criteria and to apply go to bchousing.org/bctrs or call 1-877- 757-2577.
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74-year-old COVID-19 survivor has advice — and blood — to give PoMo grandma was on oxygen at ERH but has since recovered DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com
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aren Shoemaker loves to travel, but when a bout of the flu turned out to be COVID-19, the 74-year-old grandmother had to re-think her priorities. Staying close to family is now more important than ever after spending weeks in quarantine and having to be satisfied with waving to her grandkids from her balcony instead of hugging them. “They are a big part of my life,” admitted the Port Moody woman, but how and where she caught COVID-19 is still a bit of a mystery. Shoemaker believes she came in contact with the virus sometime in early March after coming home in February from an aborted cruise to the Caribbean and then visiting Bellingham a few times to run errands. But it took nearly a week to confirm the disease after a swab was taken by a doctor at a Coquitlam medical clinic March 11, and by then Shoemaker, a retired Burnaby school principal, was already in hospital, with a fever, a bad cough and difficulty breathing. “Six days I waited [for the test result],” she said. “Imagine the stress.” For Shoemaker, who turned 74 years old while she was at Eagle Ridge Hospital in Port Moody, the worry and anxiety over possibly contaminating others with the virus was her main concern. Fortunately, when Fraser Health public health nurses scoured her phone for contacts and called everybody, it turned out no-one else was exhibiting symptoms. “It just reinforces the story you’re hearing over and over again, which is stay at home because you don’t know whether or not you have the symptoms,
Karen Shoemaker is a Port Moody resident who was one of Eagle Ridge Hospital’s first COVID-19 patients. She has since recovered, is out of isolation, and is offering advice and her blood if the antibodies would help other patients. SUBMITTED PHOTO
whether or not you are carrying the virus and, without ever intending to, you could be infecting all sorts of people.” Shoemaker’s symptoms gradually set in, but it was hard to distinguish them from a cold. It wasn’t until she lost her sense of taste and smell and couldn’t stop coughing that she started to worry. At the recommendation of an 811 nurse, she was
swabbed at a Coquitlam clinic, but when the normally robust woman started to feel weak from not eating, she called 911 for an ambulance. Since she was ambulatory, paramedics recommended her husband drive her to ERH because if they took her it meant they would have to deep clean the vehicle, which would slow their response to the next case.
After donning masks, the two headed to the local hospital, where upon arriving, Friday, March 13, Shoemaker was put in a bed in a children’s room off of the emergency ward so she could be in isolation. From there she was taken to the Intensive Care Unit where she was again isolated, given oxygen for awhile, and, where alone and afraid, she sank into depression.
“You are closed off and nobody can come in unless they are completely gowned up so nobody wants to come into your room,” she said. It was a harrowing experience, Shoemaker now admits, because she had no idea if she would get better or worse — live or die — and knowing that people younger than her, including a North Vancouver dentist, had succumbed to the
respiratory illness, made the wait for her COVID-19 test all the more frightening. Thankfully her daughter Kristi Blakeway, a former Dr. Charles Best teacher who is now a Male Ridge school principal, was able to bring some personal items that provided Shoemaker with a link to home. Six days after first being swabbed and a second test at ERH, Shoemaker learned that she did indeed have the disease that is spreading across the globe. Fortunately, her symptoms were mild enough to let her go home to recover, but those first few days of notknowing and worrying may have changed her life. And, as one of B.C.’s fewer than 1,500 cases, her story is both remarkable and illustrative. What’s more her husband, Mike, never caught the disease, making it a somewhat random menace, she added. Her experience sheds light on how people might contract the disease, what it feels like to get it and how it can upset one’s life. “It’s the unknown, it’s the unpredictability,” Shoemaker acknowledges. Now that she’s clear of the disease, she is ready to provide advice to others to stay home to avoid catching the disease, and if it will help, she’ll provide her blood with its immunity-rich antibodies to help others in the fight against the global pandemic. “Of course why wouldn’t you, if it’s gong to help,” she said. As for future trips, Shoemaker is staying home for now and will wait until travel and cruise companies have systems in place to protect passengers before she’ll make any more plans. “The thing is you don’t know, even if you have a bad cough like I had, you just don’t know and it’s just unconscionable to be out there among the living if you don’t need to be. If your symptoms get worse go to the hospital.”
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Fire crews will only respond to most serious calls ‘We are writing history right now’ says union president STEFAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com
Fire departments across the Tri-Cities will be scaling back their responses to medical calls after the province dropped them from the BC Ambulance call triaging system for all but the most serious medical emergencies. The order, which was announced by provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry March 31 and enacted overnight, means firefighters will only be called to immediately life-threatening calls, such as cardiac arrest, asphyxiation and car accidents where paramedics can’t remove a patient. According to the BC Ambulance’s colour-coded call-triaging matrix, anything not categorized in the most acute category — known as a purple call — will be handled by ambulance paramedics. That means fire departments in Port Moody, Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam will rarely respond to calls about patients suffering from fractures, falls or burns, seizures or diabetic emergencies. Firefighters will still be brought in for difficult-toreach patients, like in the case of high-angle or water rescues or pulling people out of confined spaces, or if BC Ambulance is delayed more than 20 minutes. In an email from BC Emergency Health Services, spokesperson Sarah Morris said the changes are being made to maintain a reliable supply of personal protective equipment (known as PPE) for health care workers, which includes paramedics. Morris said the new guidelines will not change the way the BC Ambulance Service operates.
Firefighters, she added, would still be called to some redcoded calls (time-critical medical emergencies) if paramedics are expected to be delayed by more than 20 minutes. Still, as the province takes measures to stem the transmission of COVID-19, the implications of scaling back fire and rescue teams could be deadly in other ways. Port Moody Fire and Rescue Chief Ron Coulson, while not criticizing the latest provincial order, did note that in 2016 (the latest data he has), Port Moody recorded the slowest ambulance response time in the Lower Mainland in the immediately life-threatening or time critical (red) and the urgent/ potentially serious (orange) categories — both of which the fire department will no longer regularly attend. “We have the utmost respect for Dr. Henry,” said Coulson. “Of course we’re going to do our part.” But he added: “We’re in a unique spot in the Lower Mainland. It’s no fault of the ambulance personnel — the resources are just not there.” This is not the first measure changing the way firefighters respond to medical emergencies during the pandemic. Fire departments across the Tri-Cities have been receiving daily “clinical” updates as health officials adjust protocols for first responders. Recently, for example, fire departments were told to change up their CPR procedures. When firefighters put a breathing bag on a patient, they usually feed the device 15 litres of oxygen per minute to ensure the patient gets enough air even if their airway is obstructed. But under those volumes, Coquitlam Deputy Fire Chief Rod Gill said, the breathing bag’s vent sends pressurized air laden with possibly infected droplets into the surrounding area, creating a potential
to infect anyone around the patient. Thus, firefighters have now dropped oxygen levels to six litres per minute. The president of BC Professional Fire Fighters — the organization that represents more than 4,000 smoke-eaters across the province — Gord Ditchburn of Port Coquitlam said they, like the rest of British Columbians, are putting their trust in health officials on how to best respond to the outbreak. “That’s trusting the judge-
ment of Dr. Henry. It’s an everchanging landscape, changing by the day, by the hour,” he said. “We are writing history right now.” While firefighters train for disasters regularly, Ditchburn said nobody was anticipating the speed with which the virus has spread. “I don’t think anybody was prepared for what we face today, and what we’ll face tomorrow,” he said, adding that whatever comes next, firefighters will do what’s necessary.
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Child actor gets ready for Netflix debut Glen Gordon will play supporting role in The Main Event STEFAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com
A Coquitlam child actor is set to debut in his first Netflix film, in which a band of friends discover an ancient mask, instantly transforming the movie’s star into a superpowered wrestler. For Coquitlam’s Glen Gordon, who plays a supporting role as one in a core band of friends, it’s his biggest part to date. The 12-yearold Kwayhquitlum middle student has been singing, dancing and acting since he was seven-years-old, and his previous roles ranged from Microsoft commercials to Bertie in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. But this time is something special. “I sat down and saw a rough cut with my family,” said Gordon. “It was awesome.” The movie, titled The Main Event, launches on Netflix
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Glen Gordon with co-stars Seth Carr (Black Panther), Momona Tamada (To All the Boys, Baby-sitters Club), and director Jay Karas (Brooklyn Nine Nine, Parks and Recreation), getting final instructions before the fight scene. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO
Friday (April 10) and features a diverse cast of friends, including lead actor Seth Carr, who played the young super-villain Killmonger in the Black Panther. The band of friends also includes Japanese-Canadian actress Momona Tamada of Chilliwack and IndianAmerican child actor Aryan Simhadri. On screen, the four friends
support each other, helping Carr’s character deal with his new powers that make him “super-fast and crazy strong,” and which launch the aspiring wrestler into a competition to become the next WWE superstar. “It’s kind of like Thor in that [the ancient mask] chooses the most worthy people and gives them superpowers,” he said. “We support him and
help him learn, figure out his powers.” But Gordon told The TriCity News the friendship didn’t end there. “We all became best friends in real life, even the bullies,” he said. When asked what scenes stood out to him most, Gordon singled out some of the wrestling scenes, one where he performs a “new
school” hip hop dance routine and another in which “the bullies” get strung up by their underwear on school lockers. “They were all held up by harnesses. They basically stayed hung on the lockers for a few hours,” he said with a chuckle. As for what the future holds, the young Coquitlam actor said he’s looking forward to doing more recurring TV work, some voice-overs for animations, and maybe one day, moving to the other side of the camera. “I definitely like the behind the camera stuff too. A dream of
mine is to be a director and director of photography,” he said. Of course, like most industries, many productions have been put on hold as the COVID-19 pandemic grinds nearly all aspects of public life to a crawl. His mother, Marnie Gordon, says he’s making the most of quarantine: Gordon has kept himself busy doing virtual dance classes with Coquitlam’s Pulse Dance Centre and has been taking part in daily online acting classes for teens and adults run by a coach on the Sunshine Coast. “It’s a big break, but he wants to keep his skills up. It’s time to work on extra things,” said Marnie Gordon. But that break also means time to be a kid away from all the bright lights — doing puzzles, riding his bike and “doing his photography.” “I really like landscapes,” Gordon said. “I biked all the way to Belcarra from downtown Coquitlam the other day. I could see all the way down Indian Arm. The mountains were still snowy. It was really cool.”
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LENDING A HELPING HAND
Meals on Wheels short volunteers due to COVID-19 Drivers face little risk of contracting virus, says executive director An organization dedicated to delivering meals to seniors, persons living with chronic or acute medical illnesses, or individuals recovering from surgery, illness or injury is in dire need of volunteers in this time of the COVID-19 state of emergency. Inge Schamborzki, executive director of the Health and Home Care Society of B.C. (Care B.C.), said that Meals on Wheels delivers 500 meals a day, half Western-style and the other half Asian. “We have less than 400 volunteers who make up our dedicated, outstanding team,” said Schamborzki. She added the vast majority of volunteers are retired, while there are some who work shift work and are only able to dedicate a limited number of hours during the week. Schamborzki said many
Meals on Wheels needs volunteers to get food out to vulnerable clients, including seniors and persons living with chronic or acute medical illnesses. IStOCk PHOtO
of those volunteers are concerned about COVID-19, despite the fact there is no contact between them and the clients. “We have a 92-year-old woman from Richmond and a man in his seventies who have both been volunteering for 50 years [each],” said Schamborzki. “But we un-
derstand when volunteers are calling in and they feel terrible, but saying ‘I’m worried for myself, my husband, my wife.’” Schamborzki said because there is no contact with the clients there is no need for masks or gloves, particularly since there’s a shortage at hospitals, though hand-washing
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and sanitizing is constant. “We expect our volunteers to be healthy,” said Schamborzki. “And we practise social distancing of at least an arm’s length.” Schamborzki said when a volunteer delivers a meal, they conduct informal safety checks by knocking until the client answers. If they don’t answer the door, the volunteer will try phoning them and their care agencies. If that doesn’t resolve the issue, they call 911. Schamborzki noted 60% of their clients live alone, 15% are over 90 and 50% are 80 or older. “It’s a lot more than dropping off meals,” said Schamborzki. “We’re serving very frail, isolated people who live in the community. That contact is often the only contact they have in a day.” The Health and Home Care Society of B.C. has been operating Meals on Wheels in Vancouver and Richmond since 1967. In 1996, Meals on
Wheels added a service using Chinese-language volunteers. Through both programs, meals are delivered weekdays between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. But, Schamborzki said, volunteers are desperately needed now to keep the program rolling. Schamborzki added she and other administration staff members have been helping to deliver the meals. Due to a shortage of Chinese-speaking volunteers, Schamborzki attempted to drop off a meal to a Chinese client who refused to open the door. Schamborzki left and continued dropping off other meals until a Chinesespeaking staff member was able to reach the man and explain all was well. “When I went back, he opened the door,” said Schamborzki. “And sometimes clients are slow to answer the door because they have hearing problems or mobility issues. That’s why it can take up to two hours to finish
a route.” That also adds concerns that some volunteers could begin to burn out and that’s something Care B.C. wants to avoid. “But, right now we sometimes have to ask, ‘Can you do one more shift?’” said Schamborzki. “We need 60 a day.” Volunteers are needed to not only drive, but also to deliver meals. Schamborzki says parking is such an issue, especially in Vancouver, that the driver often circles the block while the server delivers the meal – so, a driver’s licence isn’t necessary. But, Schamborzki added, a criminal record check is needed though at this point the organization is so short of volunteers it’s accepting them during their waiting period. “But they’re paired with a known volunteer, so it’s working,” said Schamborzki. Anyone interested in volunteering with Meals on Wheels can visit carebc.ca.
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Coquitlam Express look beyond COVID-19 crisis Team begins building for next season by hiring new coach MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com
The Coquitlam Express have a new coach. But whether Dan Cioffi and his players will have a season to play in has yet to be determined. Cioffi, whose appointment was announced by the team on Tuesday, is the former head coach of the Valley West Giants major midget team. He’s also the executive director of hockey for the North Vancouver Minor Hockey Association. Cioffi will also be reuniting again with Express president Dave McLellan. The two were behind the bench for three seasons — McLellan as head coach and Cioffi his assistant — when the team was based in Burnaby and they were cocoaches of the Junior B Delta Ice Hawks when that team won a Pacific Junior Hockey League championship in 2012. As well, Cioffi served as an associate coach of the BCHL’s Salmon Arm Silverbacks for several months in 2011. Fayaz Manji, the owner of the Express, said it’s exciting to be able to move forward even as the team continues to deal with the crushing disappointment of having its aspirations for a BC Hockey League championship cut down by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the ongoing uncertainty of when normal hockey operations can be resumed. “Dan checked all the boxes we were looking for,” Manji said, adding Cioffi’s deep knowledge of the local hockey scene will facilitate a stronger emphasis on recruiting players closer to home. In fact, it was Manji’s desire to emphasize local talent that was one of the factors in the Express’ decision to part ways at the end of March with its former head coach of three years, Jason Fortier, who had led the team to its best record ever and a regular season points championship before the plug was pulled on the playoffs on March 13 just be-
fore the second round was to begin. Manji, who acquired the Express last October, said he was fully supportive of Fortier’s skill for attracting top players from across North America to Coquitlam so the current corps could realize their potential as a group, but that sometimes came at the expense of overlooking talent right in the team’s back yard. “It was a difference in what I considered a more careful review of the local landscape,” he said. “It’s natural a new owner has a certain vision… and there was a slight difference.” Last Friday, Fortier was announced as the new coach and general manager of the Odessa Jackalopes, a Texas
“I’m an optimist by nature. The key is to hit the ground running.”
Fayaz Manji Coquitlam Express owner
junior team in the North American Hockey League. Manji said the abrupt end to the hockey season across North America — at every level — has been difficult emotionally and financially. “It was a crushing blow,” he said. “We recognized early this was an incredible team we had.” Manji added that not only were the players denied their chance to win a league — and possibly Canadian —championship, but many had to disperse quickly back to their hometowns without a proper goodbye when travel restrictions quickly tightened as a way to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Several staff members had to be let go as well. The Express is also on the hook for playoff tickets that were printed but never used, and special merchandise or-
dered in anticipation of a long and exciting post-season run. Manji said several camps for U16 and U18 players, potential recruits and goalies that are revenue generators for the team through the spring and summer months are also on hold. Compounding the team’s financial challenges is an apparent crack in federal assistance programs that is making it difficult for the Express to secure an emergency loan to cover its expenses until revenue can be generated again. Manji said several teams across the junior hockey landscape in Canada are facing similar difficulties because staff are considered seasonal contractors, making them ineligible for assistance to cover payroll expenses. “That’s how the hockey business is run,” Manji said, adding the junior hockey owners and leagues are uniting to make their case to the federal government. “We just want to make sure we’re not being left behind.” Manji said the Express remain on solid financial footing, though, even as his own hotel businesses endure hardships brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. He said some of those losses have been offset by his other business interests in the healthcare industry. “I’m an optimist by nature,” Manji added. “The key is to hit the ground running when the season starts.” Although when that may be is still not known, because Hockey Canada has suspended all events it sanctions until July 31, with further updates as the pandemic crisis evolves. Manji said BCHL commissioner Chris Hebb and all the league’s member clubs have been in constant communication to assess the current situation as well as devise a path forward once the public health crisis has passed. He said the league has drawn up three possible schedule scenarios to account for any further delays imposed by Hockey Canada, from a reglar campaign of 54 games to one as short as 46. Manji said the leagaue also has to account for the COVID situation south of the Canada-U.S. border, as it has one franchise in Washington state.
Coquitlam Express owner Fayaz Manji (second from left) poses with team president Dave McLellan, special consultant Ron Veit and former business manager Alannah Kedra, who’s since been replaced by Kim Osborne. Manji acquired the BCHL franchise last October. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO
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