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HEARTS FOR

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To display your Heart for Healthcare in your window this side should face inwards so the large Heart on the reverse side faces the street.

Ron McKinnon

Member of Parliament Coquitlam - Port Coquitlam COVID-19 has challenged us as a world, as businesses, as neighbours and as families.

But what comes through most vividly, is the essential resilience of our Tri-cities community, as we each do our part, big or small, to atten the curve.

To the frontline healthcare workers – we recognize every individual who has stepped up, appreciate all efforts made and admire how you, your families and friends have adapted to meet the challenges of this pandemic head on.

A simple thank you is not enough for your actions during this time, but please know that it comes with our gratitude, respect and support.

We are all in this together, and together we will get through this.

rmckinnon.liberal.ca 604.927.1080 ron.mckinnon@parl.gc.ca

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Firefighters answer the call to boost city’s spirits First responders doing more than just keeping people safe MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

Port Moody firefighter Jeff Scallion is challenging the city’s kids to create enough art thanking frontline workers to cover the windows of the parking bay at Inlet station that displays the department’s antique 1949 Mercury pumper truck.

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Port Moody Fire Rescue is proud of its antique 1949 Mercury pumper truck.

But now firefighters want to hide it from view.

The gleaming red vehicle with a finicky double clutch is driven in parades, displayed at community events and used to collect donations for the annual Christmas toy drive.

When it’s not out and about, it occupies pride of place in its own windowed parking bay at Inlet station where passersby can admire it.

Jeff Scallion, a lieutenant with the department, is hoping to collect enough drawings, pictures, cards and posters of thank you messages to front-line workers to plaster

the expansive windows of the antique pumper’s parking spot to hide it from view.

The contest, which runs until April 30, is open to kids up to Grade 5, and prizes are going to be awarded in each age category.

But, more importantly, Scallion said it’s part of the department’s ongoing effort to boost morale in the community as it struggles with the stresses and restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

He said firefighters are acutely aware of the impact the public health and economic emergency is having on everyone. They’re reminded every time they respond to a call and have to thoroughly parse a mental checklist to ensure they’ve donned all the proper protective equipment to minimize their own risk of exposure to the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. see

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NEWS IN TRI-CITIES T H E S PA N I S H F L U

How Port Coquitlam became B.C.’s ground zero during history’s deadliest outbreak STEFAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com

As we grapple amidst our generation’s most devastating pandemic, we look back 102 years ago when a troop train arrived in Port Coquitlam carrying the deadliest virus in human history. Here’s how it spread.

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rivate George Agustus Johns was six-feet tall with a ruddy complexion, blue eyes and brown hair, and at 27, he’d signed up to fight in Siberia just as the First World War in Europe was coming to a close.

Johns would never make it.

Somewhere between his army base in Borden, Ont., and the CPR rail yard in Port Coquitlam — a waypoint on the way to Russia — the young army teamster was among the first in B.C. to come down with the Spanish flu — a highly virulent strain of the H1N1 virus that would snuff out the lives of between 50 and 100 million people across the planet and go down as the most deadly virus in history.

Johns stepped into the rail yard with eight days to live. Like the rest of the other roughly 3,000 soldiers who made up the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force, Johns was getting set to ship to Vladivostok as part of a multi-national force tasked with securing a supply line for Tsarist Russia during the Bolshevik revolution.

Within days, his first symptoms would have come on suddenly, a sharp pain in the back or joints immediately

ABOVE: An emergency hospital during the Spanish flu epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, where one theory posits the virus originated. BELOW LEFT: A nurse tends to a soldier from the Siberian Expeditionary Force at the Coquitlam Military Hospital. The hospital, which sprang up around modern-day Aggie Park, once cared for 396 men. BELOW RIGHT: Patients sick with the Spanish flu are unloaded off a train in Port Coquitlam. WIkImEdIA/OTIS HISTORICAL ARCHIvES ImAGE; BRAd NICkASON/THE ‘F’ WORd

debilitating him before a wave of dizziness spun him into a delirium of fever and chills.

As the days wore on, a secondary infection would have begun in Johns’ lungs with the onset of pneumonia and no antibiotics yet in existence to ward it off. His skin would likely have turned blue as it went cyanotic. By 5 a.m., Oct. 10, the young private’s lungs had filled with enough fluid to drown him in his own bed.

A FOREIGN THREAT

Canadians first heard of the Spanish flu from dispatches a world away. As the Allied armies advanced on German positions in the summer of 1918, the silent killer started making headlines at home.

On June 29, 1918, The Vancouver Daily Sun published dispatches from the European front reporting a ‘Hun army’ unable to fight, prostrated by an influenza epidemic known locally as the

‘Flanders grippe.’

Still, it was a far-away threat, and as late as Aug. 15 that same year, the Vancouver newspaper reported that there was “no ground for the general fear that the outbreak of Spanish grippe which has ravaged Europe will spread to this city.”

Few on the West Coast could have known that the fated troop carrier train, which rolled out of Sussex Camp in New Brunswick on Sept. 27, 1918, did so on the

same day the base reported its first cases of the flu, according to historian Mark Humphries.

When Johns came aboard at Borden, Ont., he, like the rest of the soldiers aboard, knew little of the germ theory which governs the spread of a virus through droplets in one’s breath.

As the train rolled through the Prairies, soldiers disembarked in towns and cities like Winnipeg and Calgary, seeding local outbreaks across the Canadian west.

“Because they knew that they would be shipping out, they said goodbye to family members. That distributed the flu into many small communities,” said Mary-Ellen Kelm, a historian at Simon Fraser University who has tracked the effects of Spanish flu in British Columbia.

By the time the train pulled into the railhead at Port Coquitlam, the soldiers — packed into the overcrowded cars — had already started to show symptoms of the illness.

CONTAGION

The first case was reported Oct. 1, and by the next day, the entire troop train was under quarantine at the CPR yard. From that moment, Port Coquitlam would become an early battleground in the fight against the Spanish flu.

In a desperate attempt to contain the contagion, the military commandeered the city’s agricultural hall, or Aggie Hall, on Oct. 12, the same day Johns’ death was first made public in The Coquitlam Times newspaper.

“Private Johns succumbed to the disease Thursday and will be interred at

Westminster,” it read.

Soon, the makeshift hospital filled with so many sick soldiers that patients overflowed into tents on the surrounding lawns.

Not unlike some of the measures suggested today with COVID-19, the Times went on to state the civilian population should “avoid travelling in closely confined carriages” and take part in “plenty of open air exercise with scrupulous care of mouth and throat.”

Soldiers were put on a mandatory lockdown as a no-go perimeter was erected around the building, according to the Times. But with so little known about the spread of viruses, the overcrowded field hospital — like so many across Canada and the world — would trigger an outbreak across the region.

“They couldn’t do much but set up convalescent nursing stations,” said Kelm. “They quickly ran out of nurses because nurses and doctors were some of the most affected.”

But while today personal protective equipment has at times been tough to come by amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in 1918 it was nearly non-existent. Without a powerful enough microscope, no scientist had yet seen a virus, let alone calculated the spray radius of virulent droplets.

Still, upon the virus’s arrival in the Lower Mainland, the tone in the Vancouver-area press went from one of disbelief that the contagion could ever hit its communities, to a state of general lockdown. see

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‘The Spanish flu affected those in the prime of life’ continued from page

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“Doctors said to be preparing for the worst,” warned one newspaper on Oct. 1, as reports came in from Montreal that schools, picture shows, dance halls and public theatres were to be shuttered.

Public health advertisements cautioned all ages of the dangers of wet feet and spitting in public, and in special advisories to children, health officials warned not to “lick off another child’s sucker,” bite another child’s apple and, “Boys, don’t lick your marbles.”

But it was too late. The virus was already amongst the population, spreading with asymptomatic soldiers along the rail lines and into Vancouver’s core.

“You can literally track where soldiers went and where they visited,” said Kelm.

THE SURGE

Within weeks of the train’s arrival, Vancouver school gymnasiums and community centres turned into makeshift hospitals as caseloads surged.

The virus reared its head in North and South Vancouver; soon, 700 cases were reported in the capital of Victoria.

A 2007 study found that almost half the people thought to have died from Spanish flu in Vancouver did so at home, and most of those were pinpointed to addresses stretching from Gastown to the Downtown Eastside and Strathcona neighbourhood, a densely populated area just north of the rail yards.

As the scope of the outbreak became apparent, public figures delivered often conflicting messages to deal with the contagion — sometimes with bizarre pronouncements.

By October, 2018, health officials said it was impossible to quarantine people to their houses as “it would take an army to do the placarding.”

Instead, The Vancouver Daily Sun appealed to the public to look to the virtues of the outdoors.

“Fresh air may be a foe of the grippe — call it Spanish Flu or the slippery sneeze from Timbuctoo if you want to — but a draft is its best friend,” the newspaper printed on Oct. 11.

At the Coquitlam Military Hospital at Aggie Hall, where the country air offered such “drafts,” over 160 soldiers had fallen ill, and by the end of the month, it would jump to 396, a massive spike in a town of no more than 1,200 people.

Soon, reporters at The Coquitlam Times newspaper had become suspicious of the state of the outbreak.

“There seems to be a lot of puerile secrecy or a perverted

conspiracy of silence in regard to the epidemic that can serve no good purpose. It is well that the public should at all times know the true state of affairs in regard to such matters,” wrote the Times in an Oct. 12 report.

Five days later, city council ordered the “closing tightly” of the local theatre, churches and public meetings.

Fraternity clubs were shut down and parents were asked to keep their children away from playmates and confined to their homes.

Public buildings, like the post office and railway station, as well as the shipyard bunkhouses, were fumigated as the publicly disclosed civilian caseload jumped to 13 in Port Coquitlam (it’s unclear how many were ultimately infected and died). Even dog owners were told to rein in their pets or else they’d be destroyed.

“Tie up Fido or annihilate him,” read one column.

Within eight days of the train’s arrival, the virus killed its first victim at the Essondale Hospital on Coquitlam’s Riverview lands, according to research by local historian Niall Williams. Over the next two weeks, at least eight more would die of Spanish flu.

DEVASTATION

By mid-November, with the war over in Europe, the pandemic had already peaked across the Lower Mainland (though caseloads would surge again in February). At the hospital in Coquitlam, 33 soldiers and a Canadian army nursing sister had died.

It’s thought the influenza death rate hit 8.3 per 1,000 people that season in Vancouver, higher than many other major cities across Canada (though measurements vary) and several magnitudes greater than what the country as a whole is experiencing today with COVID-19.

In a series of oral histories recorded in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood half a century later, survivors of the 1918-19 pandemic remember seeing “bodies piled high like cordwood,” waiting to be taken away by overwhelmed funeral parlours.

Nora Hendrix, grandmother of legendary rock star Jimi Hendrix, said she remembers how “plenty of people was dying, dying like flies. Oh, the big, healthy people was just dying like nobody’s business.”

Or as historian Mary-Ellen Kelm put it, “It was just devastating.”

The pandemic is not only remembered for how many it killed, but for how it killed.

Unlike COVID-19, which so far has disproportionately taken older people and those with weakened immune sys-

tems, Spanish flu seemed to kill the strongest, most fit in society. The highest mortality rates, said Kelm, were among those between 15 and 46 years old, as well as pregnant women and newborns.

“The Spanish flu affected those in the prime of life rather than old people. It’s the opposite of what we’re seeing now,” Kelm said.

The spread of the virus across the Tri-City civilian population remains unclear, though studies suggest immigrants and Indigenous peoples were among the hardest hit across B.C. Today, the odd recorded death stands out among local labourers, like Soo Joe Shing Chow, a 42-year-old Coquitlam foreman who died at Vancouver General Hospital three days after he was admitted, or Lawrence Wainwright, a first-generation Coquitlam shoe clerk whose parents had immigrated from Britain and who died before his 16th birthday.

Yet those with money and power were not spared: Matthew Marshall Jr., a 31-year-old alderman (the old term for a city councillor) and timber inspector who never went to war, had gained further notoriety as a soccer star on the Coquitlam’s ‘Black and Tan’ squad before he too was taken by the flu.

A LEGACY OF DEATH

Over 100 years later, Kelm, like all of us, sits at home under quarantine in the face of a new contagion, worrying about how an economy crashing to levels not seen since the Great Depression will impact families.

“The economic results of COVID-19 have shown the huge vulnerabilities of the gig economy… We know that people are teetering on the brink of poverty,” she said.

Still, when she looks back at what stands as the deadliest pandemic in the history of humanity, all the stories point to one sobering reminder.

“People don’t recall anything but disease and death when they look back at 1918,” said Kelm. “I don’t see any record of people saying we lost our jobs. Yes, people couldn’t get crops. Economic hardship was widespread... But people remembered the dead.” *The illustrations in this story are part of the recently released graphic novel, The ‘F’ Word. Drawing on Port Coquitlam’s archival history, the story traces several turbulent years when devastating fire, flood and the flu rocked the residents of a town then advertised as the next Pittsburg. Now in the midst of our own pandemic, hundreds of copies of the story sit in boxes waiting for quarantine to be lifted.

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APRIL 23 – 29 Celebrating Our Volunteers

While many things are different during the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing that hasn’t changed is the positive impact volunteers have on our community and our quality of life. In this special edition of Coquitlam’s City Page, we’re celebrating our dedicated volunteers – and all those who serve the community – as part of National Volunteer Week Apr. 19 to 25.

Join us in applauding the people whose commitment and hard work make Coquitlam a better and safer place to live, learn, work and play.

For information about City volunteer opportunities, visit coquitlam.ca/volunteer.

Message From the Mayor

It’s often said that if you want to feel better, help someone else. That’s a fitting sentiment this week as we celebrate the contributions of Coquitlam’s volunteers during National Volunteer Week.

COVID-19 hasn’t stopped volunteerism. In fact, it’s more important now than ever.

The essence of volunteerism is about giving back in a selfless way – something we’re seeing every day during the pandemic. The most striking example of course is the front-line workers and essential service providers who are putting their health at risk to help keep the rest of us going.

In addition to these COVID-19 heroes, these challenging times seem to be bringing out the best in many people. There are countless stories of people stepping up to help others, both informally and through organized activities, with no expectation of personal reward. That is the true spirit of volunteerism.

During normal times, volunteers play a critical role supporting City services and enhancing our community. They help keep Coquitlam safe and clean, they help protect our environment, they support our seniors, and they are integral to the success of many recreation programs and civic events. These are just a few of many examples.

The City has temporarily put some of our volunteer programs on hold during the pandemic, but there are still opportunities to give back while physically distancing. These include adopting a street or trail, or cheering up a local senior with a phone call or letter.

Many of us have a bit more spare time on our hands right now. This may be your chance to experience the joy and fulfilment of giving back to others. Check out coquitlam.ca/volunteer to learn about the volunteer opportunities available in Coquitlam.

On behalf of the City of Coquitlam and the entire community, I offer heartfelt thanks and encouragement to all of Coquitlam’s volunteers – whether you are active right now or not, and whether you volunteer in a formal program or not.

Never doubt that you are making a difference.

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Letters of Kindness Brighten a local senior’s day with a letter, poem, drawing or anything bearing a positive message.

Submissions received are distributed to seniors who have signed up for the City’s meal delivery program.

Nominations can be made for individuals or groups who volunteer or go above and beyond in the areas of environmental conservation and protection, environmental education and public awareness, sustainable living, and habitat enhancement and rehabilitation.

To participate, simply submit a letter or scanned image to volunteers@coquitlam.ca.

Do you know someone who works hard to promote and protect Coquitlam’s natural environment? Coquitlam is accepting nominations for the 2020 Environmental Achievement Awards until May 1.

Visit coquitlam.ca/enviroawards for information and an online nomination form.

Current Volunteer Opportunities

Because the safety of volunteers and staff is paramount, Coquitlam has suspended some volunteer programs. However, there are still ways to make a difference during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adopt a Trail or Street If you find yourself walking outdoors more often these days, consider signing up for the Adopt-aTrail or Adopt-a-Street program.

Through these programs, volunteers clean up a stretch of trail or road at least once a week (monthly in winter) with equipment provided by the City. They also serve as the City’s eyes and ears, reporting problems, hazards or vandalism they see along the way. The programs are a great way to help keep Coquitlam clean while getting some exercise and fresh air.

Visit coquitlam.ca/adoptapark or coquitlam.ca/adoptastreet for information or to sign up.

Phone Buddies The pandemic can be a lonely and scary time for isolated seniors. Coquitlam residents age 13 and up are invited to become a Phone Buddy to provide social contact and a friendly, empathetic ear to a local senior.

Phone buddies are carefully matched to a senior and call them once or twice per week for approximately 30 to 60 minutes. Training and support for volunteers includes online learning, a bi-weekly check-in with City staff and additional support as needed.

Visit coquitlam.ca/volunteer or email volunteer@coquitlam.ca for information or to sign up.

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Meal Delivery For Seniors

The City is looking for volunteers to help deliver hundreds of meals per week for the Meals for Seniors Program. Vounteers will need to answer a series of questions, as well as completing a police information check. To inquire, please email volunteers@coquitlam.ca or visit coquitlam.ca/meals for details.

Thank You, Coquitlam Volunteers!

Coquitlam would like to acknowledge the hundreds of volunteers who support many important programs and services in the City.

Some programs are currently on hold but new volunteers are always needed.

See coquitlam.ca/volunteer for information about these and other opportunities: Y Community Policing – Volunteers may work with the public at the Community Police Station, help write reports, patrol neighbourhoods and champion new initiatives.

Y Parks, Recreation and Culture – Volunteers may work in a wide variety of areas, including swimming, skating, fitness, aquatics, outdoor recreation, children and seniors’ programs, and special events.

Y Adopt-a-Park – Through this umbrella program, individuals, families, groups or businesses can become stewards for park features such as trails, pollinator hotels, sports dugouts, benches, little libraries and sports equipment libraries.

Y Park Spark – Volunteer opportunities include helping take care of a park, drop-in activities, group park projects and adding park amenities.

Y Citizen Advisors – Community members can apply to join an advisory or statutory committee or board on a variety of City functions and issues.

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Coquitlam RCMP shoplifting blitz shelved due to COVID-19 pandemic Overall property crime numbers are down in Coquitlam

“Through that intelligence we are able to target crime and ultimately reduce it.”

GARY MCKENNA gmckenna@tricitynews.com

The COVID-19 pandemic has delayed a new RCMP initiative designed to curb the rising number of shoplifting calls in Coquitlam.

During a presentation to council last week, Supt.

Annette Fellner said the detachment has seen a steady rise in shoplifting calls since 2016. There were plans to launch a “shoplifting blitz” in coordination with retailers, but she added that the idea has been temporarily shelved while physical distancing protocols are in place due to the pandemic. “[The blitz] was to be set out between March and April and unfortunately that has been put on hold,” she told Coquitlam council during a year-in-review presentation earlier this month. “When we are able to get back to our normal way of business, we have some plans to address that.”

According to RCMP crime stats, there were 333 shoplifting calls in the final four months of 2019, up from the 288 average.

In Port Coquitlam, shoplift-

Annette Fellner Superintendent of the Coquitlam RCMP

The Coquitlam RCMP said they would be launching a “shoplifting blitz” in Coquitlam to curb the increase in shoplifting calls the detachment has seen since 2016. However, statistics show that overall property crime is down in the city since 2016. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

ing was down during the same time period, with 72 calls compared to an average of 91.

Cpl. Michael McLaughlin noted, however, there was an uptick in PoCo last month,

with 29 shoplifting incidents, up 38% from the three-year average.

Overall, property crime — which includes shoplifting, break and entering, theft from

and of vehicles, and fraud — dropped in Coquitlam last year, from 5,154 calls in 2018 to 5,025 in 2019, continuing a five-year downward trend.

Port Coquitlam’s property

crime was up slightly in 2019 to 2,360 from 2,023 in 2018.

While the data shows ups and downs for various offences, the total number of crimes reported in Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam is trending downwards.

Coquitlam’s crime rate was 53 offences per 1,000 residents, down from 64 in 2016.

PoCo’s figures are also trending down, with 65 offences per 1,000 people, below the fiveyear average and down from 73 in 2016.

“There are various reasons for these positive results,” Fellner told Coquitlam council earlier this month. “A lot of our activities are intelligencedriven. Through that intelligence we are able to target crime and ultimately reduce it.”

Assault charges for woman who allegedly coughed on grocery clerk GARY MCKENNA gmckenna@tricitynews.com

A 25-year-old Coquitlam woman is facing assault charges after allegedly coughing on a grocery store clerk who would not sell her extra tissues.

The woman was arrested at her home shortly after police spoke to witnesses and reviewed surveillance footage of the incident, which occurred at a store in Westwood Plateau Village on Monday afternoon.

“This is a great example of why we need to keep perspective, take a breath, and treat essential workers like grocery store clerks with the respect they deserve,” said Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Michael McLaughlin. “Whether you deliberately cough on police, hospital workers, or grocery clerks, abuse or assault against essential workers will not be tolerated.”

Police said the suspect allegedly became irate when the employee would not allow her to purchase more than the store’s maximum amount of tissue paper. The woman who was arrested has no significant history with police.

She has been released and is expected to be appear in court on July 13.

Last week, a 24-year-old male suspected of a breakand-enter was given an additional assault charge for coughing on the three arresting officers.

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PoCo’s historic downtown gets major street makeover DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

Port Coquitlam’s downtown will be a little livelier with a planned revitalization of McAllister Avenue set to start construction next spring.

Work will transform the historic downtown street into a walkable, tree-lined road that will draw people into the city centre, according to a city press release.

But to accommodate the pedestrian thoroughfare, McAllister will be down to one-way traffic between Shaughnessy Street and Mary Hill Road.

As well, parking will only be permitted on one side of the street, with angled spots available, according to plans.

The hope is the changes approved by PoCo will create a distinctive streetscape without affecting traffic along McAllister between Shaughnessy and Mary Hill.

Council selected a streetscape concept that should have limited impact on the area’s current and future traffic, while also retaining a large portion of the on-street parking, said the city.

“We have all seen examples around the world of amazing streets that complement and promote adjacent commercial uses and are bustling with ac-

Port Coquitlam council has approved plans to turn McAllister Avenue, into a pedestrian-focused, tree-lined avenue with one lane left open for cars. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

tivity and excitement,” stated Mayor Brad West in the press release. “McAllister will be a showcase in our community, with unique features seen nowhere else in Port Coquitlam.

The improvements will activate the space, creating a unique outdoor and social environment that is a destination for the community.”

Plans also include the extension of Donald Pathway through the area, anchored by a plaza at McAllister.

Together, McAllister and Donald Pathway will be key features connecting the downtown, according to Coun. Dean Washington.

“It will bring a fresh new appeal to our downtown and set the tone for the redevelopment we’re looking for there,” said Washington, council’s

designate for downtown matters, in the press release. “Our downtown is a special place in our community and needs to be treated as such. We’re taking a leadership role here to signal to future investors the type of downtown we’re working to create.”

A multi-use path for walkers and cyclists is planned for the street’s south side, with a wider pedestrian concourse on the north side. Driving and parking areas will be delineated by different surface materials and physical barriers such as removable posts and planters.

To reinforce the feel of a large open-air plaza, overhead wires will be buried and underground drainage will be installed to allow for a level street surface, providing

greater flexibility for events.

Electrical hookups will be added to support food trucks and entertainment without the need for generators.

Funding for the project is already included in the city’s capital budget, with the detailed design scheduled to be completed this year, and construction in 2021.

In the coming months, the city will also be considering options for extending the Donald Pathway through the downtown, which may include adjustments to adjacent areas such as Veterans Park, Leigh Square and City Hall to better interact with the new amenities and the vision for the downtown.

The work follows the path set out in the downtown concept plan, adopted in late 2018, that envisions redevelopment of selected underutilized properties to make way for tree-lined streets and paths, apartment-style housing and a mix of existing and new shops, businesses and restaurants.

The city also continues to work with Quarry Rock on its proposal to redevelop the parking lot and adjacent lot at 2241-2251 McAllister Ave. with a mixed-use building featuring street-level commercial space and four storeys of housing above, including family-friendly units.

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PoCo approves loan - just in case $30 million may not be needed, says Mayor West DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

Port Coquitlam council will hold emergency meetings and make adjustments if needed to deal with its finances during the COVID19 pandemic, but for now is in a solid position to weather the crisis the city’s mayor asserts.

As Metro Vancouver municipalities grapple with revenue losses and look for provincial relief, Mayor Brad West said the city won’t need to use the new tools announced by the B.C. government today, such as borrowing interestfree from capital reserves to pay for operating expenses like employee salaries.

“At this point, we don’t anticipate we will require it and if that changes the tool will be there and we will be able to communicate with council and the public about what we’re doing and why we’re doing it,” West said.

Earlier this week, council passed a revenue anticipation bylaw that will allow the city to borrow up to $30

million to maintain cash flow as necessary to meet financial obligations due to an extension of tax and utility deadlines to Sept. 2.

Typically, these funds make up 85% of Port Coquitlam’s revenues.

West said the city is in good financial order and the bylaw will only be used if necessary.

However, the big question for many taxpayers is: will taxes have to rise next year to cover any additional costs or revenue losses from the COVID-19 pandemic?

The city has already lopped off its anticipated tax increase, reducing it to zero from 0.48% on the average home, but West doesn’t anticipate a spike in taxes next year to make up for this year’s streamlined tax bill.

“We don’t expect to have significant tax increases next year to make up for the situation we’re in right now,” he said. “Obviously we’re closely monitoring it.

We will be going through the same robust budgeting process next year.”

According to West, the city is benefiting now from years of keeping its house in order, something he thinks the public — and the province — expects.

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Port Moody residents won’t have to dig as deeply into their pockets to pay their property taxes this year.

City council’s finance committee recommended on Tuesday a tax increase of 1.61%. That’s just over 2% less than the 3.62% increase it had initially approved on April 7 before reconsidering last week because of the financial impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on city and residents’ finances.

But just how that savings - estimated to be more than $690,000 - is being achieved is not yet known. Those decisions were made in a closed session earlier Tuesday.

Mayor Rob Vagramov did say, though, “We are not losing any staff as a result of these reductions.”

The possibility of layoffs was a major point of concern for several councillors when staff was tasked last week with compiling a prioritized list of potential cuts to the city’s budget to achieve a savings of around 1.5%.

Instead, Coun. Meghan Lahti said, the economics were achieved “through various methods,” including the reduction or elimination of transfers to reserves and the cancella-

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tion of several city events.

Some of those events have already been scrubbed because of the public health emergency and others were likely due to get chopped because of ongoing restrictions against large gatherings to reduce the risk of transmitting the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

But again, which events are being removed from the city calendar were not revealed, although Vagramov told The Tri-City News that “details will be released in the next week or so.”

Coun. Hunter Madsen said Port Moody residents “will see little changes” as a result of the savings.

“It’s going to look like some lawns and boulevards will need haircuts like the rest of us.”

Coun. Diana Dilworth cautioned while the cuts will save

taxpayers money this year, they’ll likely be in for a bigger jolt next year when many of the excised items are put back into the budget. But, she added, they’re necessary.

“We all agreed on what needed to be done,” she said.

“City hall is hurting as much as the households in our community.”

The revised budget will now go to council for the first of three readings before it’s adopted by the provincial deadline of May 15.

Meanwhile, Vagramov said a plan announced last Thursday

by B.C.’s minister of municipal affairs, Selina Robinson, to help the province’s municipalities get back on a solid financial footing during the COVID-19 pandemic offers some hope, especially as she characterized the measures as a “first step.”

They include giving municipalities greater flexibility to carry debt, allowing them to borrow money interest-free from existing capital reserves to pay for current expenses, and delaying the remittance of school taxes until the end of the year.

Vagramov said city staff are looking at the measures to determine how exactly they can help Port Moody, but, he added, “municipalities need a lot more support from the province that what is currently being offered.”

An immediate casualty of Tuesday’s budget cuts was the city’s community grant program that helps fund projects that benefit local residents and businesses. The finance committee recommended only two grants, worth $4,200, be awarded this year: $1,200 to PoCo Meals on Wheels Society, and $3,000 to Share Family and Community Services.

Last year, seven community groups shared $17,900 to help fund programs like a project by the Burrard Inlet Marine Enhancement Society to reduce litter from cigarette butts, a film about Port Moody centenarian, Mary Anne Cooper and a free phone counselling service by the Pacific Post Partum Support Society.

“This is a really tough budget year,” Vagramov said of the reduced funding.

H E R I TA G E M O U n TA I n

PoMo police ask for help locating wanted suspect Police chopper, dogs could not find 35 year old GARy MckEnnA gmckenna@tricitynews.com

The Port Moody Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in tracking down a suspect who managed to elude a helicopter and the dog unit during a chase Wednesday night.

Tin Tin Alvin Pearly Lawrence, a 35-year-old male with numerous arrest warrants, was spotted by officers in the Heritage Mountain area at around 4:40 p.m. Despite the large police presence, the department noted that Lawrence was not an escaped convict as some had stated on social media.

“Lawrence fled on foot through several Heritage Mountain neighbourhoods,” police said in a statement Wednesday.

“The regional police helicopter, Air One, and the regional integrated dog unit assisted the Port Moody Police during the search.”

TIN TIN LAWRENCE

Lawrence is wanted by Surrey and Langley RCMP as well as the Integrated Auto Crime Unit on two counts of breaching a conditional sentence, break and enter and possession of stolen property under $5,000.

He is described as a Caucasian male with a dark complexion and dark brown curly hair. He is six-feet tall and weighs approximately 154 lbs.

“The Port Moody police requests the public’s help in locating Lawrence,” the department said in a press release. “However, if he is observed do not approach him but call 911 to report the details.”

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Topic: TransLink service cuts

“This really has to happen. I know it will affect some who rely on transit as their only means of getting around. I can’t understand why buses have no fare collections right now!”

“Service cuts to some [extent] I can understand, but 1,500 layoffs when TransLink executives only get a 10% pay cut. They should effectively have their salaries reduced by 50%.”

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he most overwhelming part of COVID-19 for the general public seems to be the numbers associated with it.

The number of dead and the number of sick - both at home and abroad - are frightening when you see the stats growing at a terrifying pace.

Other numbers are overwhelming as well: the number of people who have been laid off from their jobs; the fact cities are starting to lay off mass numbers of staff due to plummeting revenues.

And then there is TransLink - our transit agency.

The numbers paint a grim picture thanks to COVID-19.

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“TransLink’s revenue is down $70 million a month or $2.5 million a day,” said

New Westminster Mayor Jonathan Coté, chair of the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation. “Our transit agency relies heavily on being funded by transit fares and the gas tax. With transit ridership down 80% and driving down 60%, the revenue sources have completely evaporated almost overnight.

That has put TransLink in a bit of a crisis when it comes to their financial sustainability.”

Along with those numbers came a plea from Coté that TransLink needs emergency funding relief from senior governments or transit services in the region will be “unrecognizable” after the COVID-19 crisis.

TransLink dropped the hammer on Monday with unprecedented cuts to transit services, including the

layoff of nearly 1,500 workers. Service reductions will affect all modes of transit on TransLink: SkyTrain, bus, SeaBus, and West Coast Express, and will be implemented this week. A long list of bus routes throughout Metro Vancouver have been suspended. Beginning in early May, TransLink expects another 47 routes will be suspended, and frequency reduced on many remaining routes.

Reduced ridership levels, falling fuel tax revenue and free bussing to promote physical distancing have all contributed to revenue declines.

Coté said TransLink has been engaged in talks with the federal and provincial governments for the last few weeks and has made them aware of the financial stress

the public transit agency is under.

Coté said the transit system’s role is to transport essential workers during this time, but will also be critical when the region tries to get back to normal after this crisis. Without financial help, he said, the system will look vastly different postCOVID-19.

“This isn’t only going to impact our transit system during the health crisis, but it will also impact the transit system as we move into the recovery phase,” Coté said.

And that’s what’s at stake here – the entire future of transit in Metro Vancouver.

We know the federal and provincial governments are being asked for cash infusions from all sectors of our society. Transit should be put near the front of the line.

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Is it time to rethink closing school fields to families?

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The Editor, Today I was outside with my kids on a local school field just kicking a soccer ball around. We have been doing this frequently lately since schools are closed and playground equipment has been made off limits.

Today, however, we were interrupted by the principal of the school, who came out of the building to inform us that we had to leave since the field was also closed.

School District 43 needs to explain itself on this issue.

Why exactly are fields closed?

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an open air field somehow contributes to stopping the spread of a virus.

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With no logical rationale behind these field closings, this stance needs to be reconsidered.

Dave Carruthers Port Moody

The Editor, I am extremely concerned about the likelihood of our government giving a bailout to the Big Oil companies. Over the years they have benefited from effective government subsidies, including the federal government’s billions of dollars buying the TransMountain pipeline expansion project (TMX).

World oil prices are down, investors are turning away from Big Oil, climate change is real and the detrimental effects increasing. When will they get that it is past time to find a better energy alternative(s)?

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No one is saying petroleum products will be totally eliminated or that it will be immediate. What is immediate is the need to not waste any more money on Big Oil subsidies and the TMX and, put most of our money and effort into finding something better.

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SENIORS CARE HOMES

Four dead, 22 infected as care homes grapple with COVID-19 Inside, families paint a picture of extreme isolation & uncertainty STEFAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com

At least four people have died in seniors care homes in the Tri-Cities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, The TriCity News has learned.

Three of the deaths, including two over the last week, occurred at the Dufferin Care Centre in Coquitlam, while the third death took place at the Shaughnessy Care Centre in Port Coquitlam, according to case load data obtained from the Ministry of Health and emails sent from the facilities to family members. Both care homes are in lockdown, with a further 22 infected with the coronavirus at Dufferin and three more at Shaughnessy.

In interviews with family members at Dufferin, the largest care home outbreak in the Tri-Cities, the picture inside is one of lockdown and isolation.

Port Moody resident Heidi LaFaive said she hasn’t seen her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, since February.

Before the outbreak, LaFaive said staff treated her mother “like family.”

“We saw what was going on in the world and decided to take all precautions… to stay away,” she said.

On March 20, Fraser Health announced the first test-positive care of the coronavirus in a staff member at the care home.

LaFaive said she heard about it in a letter the next day.

“It started with a worker upstairs where my mom was,” she said. “It progressed every single day. They were checking temperatures at lunch. Fraser Health came in.”

In those final weeks of March, the initial eight people in contact with Dufferin’s patient zero were isolated and remained symptom-free, said LaFaive.

LaFaive remembers a nurse telling her, “Once it gets in, it’s hard to get out. It just passes from one person to the next.”

That’s when the outbreak sprung up on the first floor, among staff in the kitchen, and later the residents.

As staff went into isolation, Dufferin struggled to get the workers they needed to do laundry, provide housekeeping and dietary care, and run recreation programs for residents (only the laundry department is now fully staffed, according to an April 16 email to families).

The care home has outsourced its meals for 11 days now, according to a post on Dufferin’s Facebook page.

It’s really hard to be so close and feel like your hands are tied.

You can’t do anything.

Heidi LaFaive Port Moody resident

When LaFaive looked at the deaths ramping up at the Lynn Valley Care Centre on the North Shore, a feeling of helplessness set in, she said.

Living only a few minutes away from the facility makes the separation between her and her 72-year-old mother that much harder.

Some family members of residents at Dufferin and Shaughnessy have been going up to the windows to say a quarantine-friendly, “hello,” and others decorated the windows with artwork.

But as the Dufferin facility has lost staff, even meetings over FaceTime have been cut, said LaFaive.

“It’s really hard to be so close and feel like your hands are tied. You can’t do anything,” she said.

LaFaive said she takes some comfort in the fact that while her mother’s degenerative disease affects her brain, she remains physically strong.

Still, she said, “there’s so much that we don’t know, how this is happening.”

To try and get a sense of control over her life, LaFaive started reaching out to friends on Facebook to raise money for material in short supply at Dufferin, she said. Donations came in, and she bought three non-touch thermometers for Dufferin staff, followed by 100 surgical masks. Another 100 isolation gowns are on their way.

“It is really hard. You want to blame someone. But there’s no one really to blame. By the time that people find out they have it, it’s too late,” she said.

Following widespread transmission of the virus between several care homes across Metro Vancouver, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry ordered all care workers in long-term care facilities to stick to one facility. At Dufferin, family members were informed Thursday staff would be assigned to a dedicated unit within the building.

“Other steps include appropriate application and removal of personal protective equipment [PPE], and the use of indi-

vidual slings [cloth component of a personal lift] and closely monitoring hand hygiene practices,” wrote an assistant at West Coast Seniors Housing Management, Dufferin Care Centre’s Vancouver-based parent company.

On Friday, family members of another resident at the Dufferin Care Centre said she was swabbed for the virus.

Later that day, she was dead.

While a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health was unable to confirm the identity of the most recent death at the facility, the death toll had risen to four by Monday, April 20.

Across the province 319 people have been infected with the coronavirus in long-term care homes, including 196 residents and 123 staff.

A resident of a nearby seniors home passes in front of the Dufferin Care Centre the day the facility announced its first case of COVID-19. STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

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PORT COQUITLAM

Teacher, students paint mural under quarantine A connection with nature is the focus of the art work STEFAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com

A Port Coquitlam teacher and three students have found a way to express their love of art, swimming and the resurgence of nature during the COVID-19 pandemic by painting a giant mural poolside at Aggie Park.

The project’s genesis began with the trio of grade 12 girls, who also compete with the Marlins swim team. They dreamed up the idea as part of a graduation project, approaching teacher and professional mural artist, Shannon Thiesen, to help make it a reality.

“After helping the girls grid and draw their design on the wall, we took to our separate sides (good timing given the social distancing protocols) and focused on painting our own half,” wrote Thiesen.

The teens took the Marlin side, being emblematic of their years training in the pool, while Thiesen painted the salmon. Together, the mural represents the com-

munity and its natural beauty, and serves as a reminder of how the arts can connect communities and bring people through times of crisis.

Support from the city of Port Coquitlam came with the caveat that the project reflect the city’s natural environment. The salmon immediately jumped out at Thiesen, as it reflects the Coast Salish origins of the word Coquitlam: Kwikwetlem or “red fish up the river.”

As the COVID-19 crisis inflicts pain and financial hardship on people across the community, Thiesen points to nature’s “silver lining” and how it’s “recovering and reclaiming its power.”

With the design and painting of the project carried out during the current pandemic, Thiesen said she spent a lot of time reflecting on the meaning of her work.

“My hope is the healing trend we are currently seeing in our natural world will continue. The reduction of greenhouse gases and noise pollution, orcas returning to previously traversed waters, improved air quality due to a reduction in industry and traffic,” she said. “Hopefully [this will] bring the sockeye back to the Coquitlam River.”

Teacher and mural artist Shannon Thiesen at work on the mural at the pool at Aggie Park. The mural, which was slated to be finished last weekend, is meant to remind the community of humans interconnectedness with the natural world and how the arts can bring us through times of crisis and connect communities. submitted PHOtO

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Electricity usage plummets

Port Moody firefighter Jeff Scallion admires the antique 1949 Mercury pumper truck that’s on display at the Inlet station fire hall. mario bartel/the tri-CitY NeWS

Businesses are taking advantage of a BC Hydro relief fund that allows electricity bills for commercial properties to be waived during the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than 3,000 applications have already been filed since the program launched on Wednesday, allowing commercial properties forced to shutter during the crisis to waive the expense for

up to three months.

“To be eligible for the COVID-19 Relief Fund, business customers must be on BC Hydro’s small general service rate and have temporarily closed or ceased operation due to the COVID19 pandemic,” BC Hydro said in a statement. “BC Hydro estimates that around 40,000 small businesses in the province will be eligible for the

program.”

The program builds off a similar initiative BC Hydro launched last week for residential customers who have lost employment or income because of COVID-19. So far, 57,000 B.C. residents have applied for the relief fund, which amounts to an estimated $16 million in credits.

Electricity use across B.C. has plummeted since the

outbreak began.

According to BC Hydro, daily consumption has fallen 13% in the first two weeks of April compared to the threeyear average for the same time period. Electricity use has fallen 30% for recreation facilities, 29% in the restaurant sector and 27% in hotels.

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‘We’re still bringing people together’ continued from front page

Scallion said firefighters embrace the cohesive role they play in the community, not only being there in their time of need, but also bringing people together to help each other.

That’s why it’s often an allhands effort for their annual blood donor clinic, pancake breakfast or even promoting the upcoming Hometown Heroes lottery that supports the BC Professional Firefighters’ Burn Fund.

But with most of those efforts now on hold, Scallion said firefighters are finding new ways to connect with the community they serve, like participating in the nightly cacophony of noise that rises from windows, doorways, balconies and stoops to remind front-line workers how much their

contribution to the battle against COVID-19 is appreciated. They’re even offering to do drive-by parades for kids’ birthdays.

“We’re still bringing people together, but now we’re staying apart,” Scallion said.

His boss, Fire Chief Ron Coulson, said firefighters have the capability to turn the current pandemic crisis into a “teachable moment” that reminds people of the importance of looking out for each other and their community.

“We’re doing our small bit to support public safety,” he said.

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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: •

Email: clerks@coquitlam.ca;

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

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Fax: to the City Clerk’s Office at 604-927-3015.

To obtain more information on this application you may email Andrew Yu, Planning and Development Department, at AYu@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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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Business needs gov’t to fill cracks Town Hall a chance for businesses to express concerns MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

Whether the federal government can provide enough assistance quickly enough will go a long way to determine how many Tri-Cities businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic.

Michael Hind, CEO of the Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce, said while he thinks “the government has done a good job in tough circumstances” so far to address the needs of businesses during the crisis, “there’s so many variables” that still need addressing.

That was the message Hind kept emphasizing during a special online town hall meeting last Thursday with the federal Minister for Middle Class Prosperity, Mona Fortier.

While Fortier stuck doggedly to her talking points that the government wants to ensure the health and safety of all Canadians, and is working to make sure nobody falls through the cracks of available aid programs, it’s those cracks that most concern many of the chamber’s 900 members, Hind said.

They include how to adapt the new wage subsidy program to help employers retain staff when many entrepreneurs don’t pay themselves a wage, but rather draw dividends from their own business to cover personal expenses. Other issues include compelling credit card companies to waive or reduce service fees on refunds that are having to be issued by businesses like gyms compensating members for services they can no longer access.

Hind said there’s no end to the combinations and permutations that make a one-sizefits-all approach difficult.

“When a politician announces something, they do it for the right reason, to give

people hope,” he told The TriCity News. “But the real work is behind the scenes with the civil service.”

Hind said the lag time between political announcements and bureaucratic implementation can be worrisome and frustrating for businesses flailing for a lifeline.

“The stress level is pretty high,” he said. “Some sectors are surviving and doing OK, but others are devastated.”

In her town hall, Fortier conceded the government is still in its “emergency response phase” of the crisis and adjustments are being made on the fly as it becomes aware of specific situations that need addressing.

“We have to look at the considerations that there are other realities,” she told several local business proprietors who logged into the session that was conducted using the Zoom virtual meeting app.

Hind said one of those pressing realities is the looming approach of a new month when landlords will be expecting rents to be paid and many businesses haven’t been able to earn enough — if any — money the past month to cover that obligation. He said a coordinated approach that ensures every link in the intricate chain of the local economy is supported will be key.

“I’m not sure the programs go far enough right now,” Hind said.

In the meantime, his organization is doing all it can to keep members in the loop, including daily email blasts with the latest information on government programs as well as other supports, links to resources and updates on its advocacy efforts at three levels of government, as well as its own #SupportLocal, #WeGotThisTriCities and Open For Business campaigns to connect with local consumers.

“This is when we’re needed and we’re continuing to look for new ways to help,” Hind said. “There will be lessons learned from this.”

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Some businesses in the Tri-Cities, like this fitness centre in Port Coquitlam, are finding ways to keep serving their customers even though they’re closed. But with revenues depleted or non-existant, owners are worried whether there will be enough aid, quick enough, from the federal government to help them with things like paying rent, says the CEO of the Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce, Michael Hind.

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FIND A PEACEFUL PARK OR A TRAIL LESS TRAVELED Coquitlam’s more than 90km of trails and 3,400 acres of parks and green spaces offer opportunities to enjoy the outdoors while still helping limit the spread of COVID-19.

Explore some of our less crowded parks and trails to help get fresh air and exercise and to support physical distancing. Visit coquitlam.ca/parkfinder to search for parks and trails near your home.

Trail Etiquette

Be Bear Smart Outdoors

• Stay home when ill • While in public, stay two metres away from anyone not from your household.

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• Prepare for limited access to public restrooms or water fountains Please adhere to restrictions and follow signage and directions from Park Hosts at our busier hot spots.

Bears are Waking Up Please do your part to help keep our local bears safe and so they seek natural food sources. Prevent human-wildlife conflict by following these tips: • Keep garbage and food waste securely stored at all times

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SD43

Schools help keep hungry residents fed Partnership between SD43 and Share produces hampers DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

School breakfast and lunch programs are on hiatus in the Tri-Cities during the COVID19 pandemic but that doesn’t mean kids are going hungry.

Hundreds of hampers of fruits and vegetables are being packaged up at Centennial, Gleneagle and Riverside secondary schools and delivered via school bus to food banks in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody.

The aim of the partnership between School District 43 and Share Family and Community Services is to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to families needing to use the food bank during this uncertain time.

“It’s a great opportunity to help the community — it beats sitting at home,” said Jeffrey Fagan, who works as an assistant to teaching chef

Centennial secondary school culinary arts assistant Jeffrey Fagan, who has his Red Seal certificate, packages up food hampers for Tri-City food banks. SUMBITTED PHOTO

Adam Jonas at Centennial but is now ordering food and organizing the hampers.

Fagan and Jonas are usually crafting menus and organizing food — while also teaching kids the culinary

arts — but due to COVID-19, schools are closed, and kids are learning virtually resulting in large spaces in high school teaching kitchens.

Now these spaces are being used to sort food, said Share

CEO Claire MacLean, while the food banks try to keep up with the demand for nutritious ingredients.

MacLean said Share food banks support 1,900 local families and she expects to see

more people in the coming days as the economy struggles with business closures and people needing extra help to get by.

For the school district, it’s a way to get food to families while schools are closed.

SD43 is using funds it normally spends on school lunch programs to buy groceries for the food bank, according to assistant superintendent Rob Zambrano, while it also supports families directly through local schools.

For example, school staff are delivering backpacks full of food with staples paid for by community donations to families who need them. Backpack Buddies and Starfish Packs are regular programs that run through the school year — and they haven’t stopped despite COVID-19 concerns.

“Many are continuing get that extra support,” Zambrano told The Tri-City News, while the new program to augment food bank hampers is ensuring the broader community gets help, too.

Each week as many 360

packages of potatoes, carrots, onions, fruits, granola bars, beans and other staples are packed up at the local high schools and delivered by staff to the Share food bank, which distribute them.

While the need is great, Share’s McLean said there is plenty of food for everyone and she encouraged those who need the additional help to come, even if they’ve never used the food bank before.

“Our staff are there to ensure everyone is comfortable,” she said.

There is no special paper work or proof of income required, all that is needed is current iID and proof of address for all adult members of the household.

The three food banks are: at Share’s offices in Port Moody, Trinity United Church in Port Coquitlam and Hillside Community Church in Coquitlam. Food is distributed on Wednesdays, but people are encouraged to come at times dictated by the first letter of their last names.

For more go to : sharesociety.ca/share-food-bank.

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Black usually plays live shows at several of the Lower Mainland eateries and bars.

But with physical distancing measures in place, she’s joined thousands of musicians across the world in taking to social media to share their music from home.

That’s taken the form of stay-at-home concerts broadcast by major TV networks and featuring some of the world’s most popular artists.

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Black’s show, while reaching an audience around the world, was ultimately focused on what she could do for her closest neighbours at a time when the food bank rushes to put meals on the tables of TriCity residents.

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A 16-year-old Coquitlam singer-songwriter has raised more than $17,000 for the food bank in a socially-distanced pop concert over the weekend.

What began as an hourlong cul-de-sac concert to entertain her Coquitlam neighbours, transformed into an Internet event as Dani Black looked to entertain homebound families.

“We had 40 of our neighbours show up and another 400 people online for the live streaming,” said Black.

“Together, we raised $17,385 which means the Food Bank will be able to buy $50,000 worth of food because they can turn one dollar into three. It was a really terrific day.”

The funds will be divided between the Greater Vancouver food bank and the Tri-City-based SHARE Family and Community Services food bank roughly based on where donors came from.

In addition, the show prompted donors to pledge another $1,000 in donations to food banks in Langley, Kamloops and Richmond, and as far away as Manitoba, Ontario and the United Kingdom.

Her fans, which come from across North America and as far away as Asia, tuned in to the Instagram live-stream Saturday, April 18, after Black’s father, Ian, warmed up the crowd with some folky classics.

“I wanted to give our neighbourhood something to do for an hour that would be a bit of a reprieve during this stay-athome period we’re all in right now,” said Dani Black, who placed second in the recent Youth Talent Search BC competition.

“Then I started hearing about the growing number of people who were relying on our local food banks because of the virus, and that’s when I thought if we live streamed the show we could turn it into a fundraiser.”

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The Port Moody Farmers Market has received city approval to open this week following doubts whether it would go forward amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Its opening, approved Friday at 2 p.m., will come with several restrictions and will only include farm and food products, according to Tabitha McLoughlin, executive director of Grow Local Tri-Cities.

The city’s winter market halted operations back in mid-March as the COVID19 pandemic swept into the region. But within days the B.C. Centre for Disease Control and the B.C. Agriculture Minister Lana Popham said that under “additional conditions,” farmers’ markets can continue to operate.

What markets have been waiting for, said McLoughlin, is approval from the cities they work in.

“A large part of what we’re doing is so that people feel safe and comfortable coming out to shop,” she said.

In normal times, Port Moody’s winter market hosts roughly 40 vendors. Cut out the artisans and that number drops to 25. On Sunday, when it re-opened from its monthlong hiatus, only 10 and 15 vendors were present, selling

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things like produce, ham, bacon, chicken and beef, as well as baked and prepared foods.

Organizers have added strict measures to ensure shoppers’ safety: there will be clearly defined entry and exit points to ease the flow of people, each booth will be spread out two metres apart and markers on the ground will keep people at a socially distanced two metres.

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“It’s a better way to shop.

We have fresh air. But it’s important that people have that two metres,” said McLoughlin.

For many of the vendors,

building up a new customer base will be critical. As restaurants have closed, many have lost big buyers. In a recent report by the non-profit FarmFolk CityFolk, 47% of farmers across B.C. said they had seen immediate losses and another 73% said they feared more losses later this year.

Still, most planted before the pandemic broke out; with their crops still maturing, nothing has been lost yet, says McLoughlin.

“They have the product.

You can’t slow that down,” she said, adding many are exploring new outlets, like vegetable subscription boxes, to sell their foodstuffs.

Indeed, 10% of farmers across the province said they have seen an increase in demand and sales since the onset of the outbreak.

“We are sold out of beef and our seeds are selling like toilet paper,” one farmer is quoted in the report.

With people cooking at home like never before, the demand continues, the demand for farm products is there, McLoughlin said, adding it is just a matter of accessing it.

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Port Coquitlam seniors are joining their neighbours in banging pots and making noise for health-care workers and others who are making them safe.

What started as a one-time effort on Good Friday, has become a nightly routine for dozens of residents of the Astoria Retirement Residence in PoCo. “We are grateful for everybody who is helping us with what is going on,’” said Shirley Payne, who co-chairs the resi-

dents’ council.

The initiative started when neighbours around the Kelly Street complex started banging pots and honking horns.

“We thought ‘hey, we’ve got to do this,’” recalled Payne.

Notices were put up in the elevator, questions were answered, and a warm crowd stood on balconies making noise — just as paramedics arrived to deal with an emergency.

“It was like we knew they were coming.”

Fortunately, paramedics handled the emergency and the cheering and pot banging continued.

Someone even blew a moose horn, Payne said.

It’s gratitude mostly that has everyone participating in the routine, she said.

“We are extremely grateful to the staff in this building that go over and above looking after us and making sure we are well looked after and well protected. The caregivers are amazing.”

As for health measures, residents have their temperature taken twice a day, visitors are not allowed so families wave to their loved ones from outside the building, and caregivers wear masks and gloves.

Payne said the residents are still finding ways to connect — while also practicing physical distancing — by chatting from their balconies and walking two metres apart around the complex.

“We can walk the perimeter of the building, we use a hockey stick, after all, we’re Canadians.”

Not everybody wants a dog or a cat as a pet — sometimes only a goat or a pig will do.

Port Coquitlam residents can now apply to keep a farm animal as an emotional support animal and may be allowed to keep their special pet — even in a residential area— if they meet certain conditions.

Calling the move an example of city leadership, Coun.

Nancy McCurrach said the special permitting idea was a good one during Tuesday’s Zoom council meeting.

But not every case will be allowed; the bylaw services manager will have the responsibility to decide if someone can keep a farm animal as an emotional support pet in a residential home.

The range of animals peo-

ple want to keep seems to be expanding, with condos and cities fielding requests for animals other than a dog or a cat.

One condo law company based in Ontario said people are seeking to keep a whole new range of animals. But not everyone is on board with offbeat pet choices and sometimes problems arise.

Denise Lash of Lash Condo Law notes how a kerfuffle started when a condo owner in Florida became embroiled in a dispute with his condo association about his pet squirrel. “He claimed that the squirrel was an emotional support animal that helped him deal with posttraumatic stress following a car accident,” Lash states in her blog.

Similarly, Port Coquitlam has already been fielding complaints about people keeping goats, pigs and chickens in their home, which prompted the bylaw amendment giving the city more control.

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But the approval process now gives the city more clout — it can say no, or, if approval is given, require the owner to maintain the animal in such a way that it doesn’t create problems for other residents, such as keeping down the odour.

Port Coquitlam isn’t alone in permitting farm animals as emotional support pets. Calgary recently allowed citizens to have a Livestock Emotional Support Animal (LESA) on their property, with similar requirements to Port Coquitlam, although Calgary requires a $65 permit and a site visit.

In that city, the property must also be large enough to support the animal.

Most people are familiar with therapy animals that are trained to support people with disabilities and receive special certification.

Emotional support animals are, however, a growing trend and offer people another option for dealing with trauma.

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For Port Coquitlam’s Chaz Marshall, expectation and reality are rarely on the same trajectory.

As a 17-year-old freshman for the University of Calgary Dinos, the Terry Fox secondary grad was expecting to hone the craft of his position as the team’s long snapper for a season or two before being thrown into the brink against the bigger, older men of Canada West football.

But in the fourth quarter of his first game, against the University of Alberta, Marshall hustled downfield after snapping the ball to Dinos’ punter Carson Dueck to recover a fumble that sealed his team’s victory over their arch-rivals in Edmonton.

He was named the Dinos’ special teams player of the game, launching his postsecondary football career that culminated with the school’s fifth Vanier Cup national championship last November in Quebec City.

Now home early because of the COVID-19 pandemic and working out on his own as best he can when he would normally be getting ready for spring training camp in late April, Marshall can reflect on a whirlwind 18 months since he lost his last game as a high school senior in the 2018 Subway Bowl semi-finals.

“I am now part of a band of brothers forever connected to this ring and what it represents,” Marshall said of winning a championship as the Dinos’ youngest player.

But that ring that was presented to Marshall and each of teammates in early March is also a symbol of his own can-do attitude.

When Marshall was playing community football in Coquitlam and New Westminster, his friends scorned the lineman posi-

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tion as a demotion from more glamorous placements on the gridiron like tight end. He seized the opportunity.

When told he was too small to be a centre, the 5’5” Marshall studied the position’s blocking schemes and perfected his technique, eventually becoming a starter for

the Ravens that made it to the 2017 Subway Bowl provincial high school championship game.

When a growth spurt never got him to the behemoth status normally expected for his position and college recruiters looked past Marshall’s diminutive stature, he decided

to get smaller. He trimmed 30 pounds from his now 6’ frame and worked with a personal trainer to improve his strength and speed to become a long snapper that specializes in hiking the ball back through his legs to the punter or placekicker several yards behind the line of scrimmage.

That earned Marshall a scholarship to U of C, where, he said, he’s been diligently applying the lessons of hard work, dedication and opportunity that got him there.

“I just wanted a chance,” said Marshall of making an impression in his first year amongst the Dinos’ 105 players. “I was ready to take advantage of it.”

He got ready by attending specialty camps in Washington and Oregon where coaches could teach him the specific techniques on long snapping. At home, he worked with BC Lions long snapper Mike Benson to continue his improvement.

In Marshall’s grade 12 year, he figures he hiked the ball 10,000 times to his dad.

“I was all in to become a long snapper at the university level,” he said of his dedication to task.

But converting that singleminded determination to an actual scholarship offer took a team effort, Marshall added.

While trainer Kevin Phillips, who’s worked with pro football players like the BC Lions’ Lemar Durant, got Marshall ready physically, former NFL player Chuck Herman served as a football mentor to guide his young protege through the rigours of the recruiting process in both the United States and Canada.

It all came together at a special camp at Washington State University where Marshall more than held his own against state and nationallyranked long snappers — in fact, he was named the day’s top long snapper.

Suddenly Marshall was on the radar of recruiters more familiar with their homegrown talent south of the Canada-U.S. border where his position is more highlyregarded and specifically coached.

But it was the University of Calgary that presented the best fit, Marshall said.

“As a team and school, we never quit and felt like we could overcome every adversity thrown at us,” he said.

Just like his own path in football.

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Canucks playby-play man is in the kitchen MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

That Coquitlam broadcaster Brendan Batchelor would be baking up a batch of chocolate chip cookies in April is not unusual.

After all, the voice of the Vancouver Canucks’ radio broadcasts was usually into his offseason by the middle of the month as the team hasn’t made the playoffs since he got the gig in 2017.

But this season was going to be different, Batchelor said.

The Canucks were in the thick of a playoff race when the COVID19 public health crisis stormed the North American continent and the season was abruptly halted on March 12.

“At first it was very weird,” he said. “You go from 100 to zero.”

Batchelor said he’s hopeful that some semblance of a playoff season can still be played.

But he admits calling games in July or August would be disorienting.

In the meantime, Batchelor fills his unexpected downtime going for walks with his wife, a teacher in SD43, binging on Netflix, and baking “pretty much anything with chocolate chips in it.”

In other words, he said, “It feels like the offseason.”

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Mom raised the three of us, looked after her parents, and worked full time. First, as an entrepreneur opening her own dress shop, and later as a Pharmacy Technician where she became a fixture at the Leigh Square Pharmacy in Port Coquitlam, working there from the early ’70s until a move to Wilson St. Pharmacy just before retiring.

Louise was a walker long before 10,000 steps was a thing, and when that became too difficult, she moved to riding a stationary bicycle. She loved to travel with Warde, Hadley, and friends, Maui being a favourite spot to go, as well as cruising. All of us kids were lucky to be included on some of those trips. She also loved to be social and was a volunteer at the Wilson Senior’s Centre and 10,000 Villages.

Louise was predeceased by her parents, Wilfred and Lillian Laidman (nee Neely); infant brother, Claude; and her husband, Michael Mulhall. She is survived by her brother, Warde Laidman (Hadley Hall); children, Candyce Long, Debora Hopkinson (Jeremy), and Brent Mulhall (Wendy Bach); grandchildren, Tai Long, Alyse Jackson, Jenna Swanson (Chad), Cameron (Erica), Toby, Jason Hopkinson, Lucas, and Justin Mulhall, and her great −grandchildren, Kaelen and Khya Swanson, and Zachary and Sloane Hopkinson.

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Thank you for all your support and patience as we navigate through these uncharted times! Our indoor store remains closed but we are so happy to once again invite our customers to shop our outdoor greenhouse/nursery area!

We ask customers to assist us in keeping the 2m distance between other customers and our staff. Be safe and stay at least “ a cart apart” Our priority is to keep you and our staff safe.

Gardening is very therapeutic and we are so happy that garden centres have been deemed an essential service. Planting, growing and learning from nature improves your health, raises your energy and reconnects us to the joys of life!

CHECK OUT THIS WEEK’S PRODUCT SPECIALS! Boxwood

Tasty Vegetable Planters

Ready to go with their own tower perfect for your patio or deck.

Choose from Sweet Pepper, Hot Pepper, Beefsteak Tomato, Cherry Tomato and more. Large 10”pot reg $19.99

Red, spanish, white, shallots and more.

Plant now for summer, fall & winter harvest.

reg $29.99

sale $15.97

Maple Trees

sale

$19.97

reg $3.99

Hummingbird Feeders

Our selection of maple trees is outstanding.

Weeping varieties, variegated, shades of green and red.

Black Gold tomato & vegetable fertilizer

We have a great selection of feeders in all shapes and sizes. Attract these beautiful birds to your yard or patio.

30% OFF

Time to rejuvenate our lawns

sale $1.97 Round up Kills weeds & grass in walkways, driveways and gardens.

Ready to use trigger bottle.

Natural & organic food for your garden and containers.

1.8kg

now

now 25% OFF

reg $12.99

reg $12.99

sale $9.97

sale

$8.97

709ml

April is the best month to get our lawns in shape. Here are a few tips to get your lawn the talk of the neighbourhood.

Aerate your lawn

Dethatch your lawn

- aeration is good if you have got compacted, poor or clay heavy soil. Aeration allows air, water and nutrients to reach the lawn roots. You will want to use an aerator tool.

- thatch is a layer of dead grass and moss that forms between the green grass blades and the soil surface. Dethatching removes this thick layer of decaying moss and dead grass so air, water, and fertilizer can reach the soil allowing your lawn to become thick and lush.

We are featuring our 2 prong D-handle aerator

reg $34.99

Onion Bulbs

Great evergreen low growing border hedge.

3 gallon pot

sale $26.97

reg $39.99

We are featuring our thatch and moss rake

Feed your lawn

Use Home & Garden Spring lawn treat 10kg

- now is the time to give your lawn a good feeding which will help bring your lawn back to a lush and healthy state.

sale $27.97

reg $26.99

Lawn Patch Seed Mix to repair those bare spots quickly 500g

reg $9.99

sale $19.97 sale $6.97

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK • 10 TO 5

Sale ends Thursday, April 30

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