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Boost in Coq. staff salaries driven by top earners More municipal staffers meeting $75K threshold gARY MCKENNA gmckenna@tricitynews.com

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According to a recently released Statement of Financial Information (SOFI), municipal workers took home $92 million in 2019, up from the $87.7 million in 2018, a rise mostly associated with the city’s labour contracts.

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The bulk of the increase comes from employees making more than $75,000 per year, the threshold set by the provincial government requiring names, titles, annual remuneration and expenses to be made public.

In 2018, 439 staffers met the threshold, which rose to 481 in 2019, pushing up the overall salary cost for the highest-paid workers 8.6% from $47.4 million to $51.5 million.

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Tri-Cities Pride rebuffs MLA over ‘continued silence’ STEFAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com

A Tri-Cities LGBTQ+ group has rebuffed a Coquitlam MLA from this year’s online Pride celebrations after what it calls her “continued silence” on several of her BC Liberal Party colleagues who still support a “virulently homophobic and transphobic magazine” following revelations of a party-wide ad buy.

In a statement released on its Facebook page over the weekend, Tri-Cities Pride said it had rescinded its invitation to BC Liberal MLA Joan Issacs (CoquitlamBurke Mountain) to participate in a virtual Tri-Cities Pride celebration. The event includes “politicians of all political stripes” being invited to share a video message of support.

Coquitlam-Burke Mountain MLA Joan Isaacs was among several Liberal MLAs who jointly bought an advertisement in a controversial Christian magazine. She said she won’t be buying any more ads in The Light Magazine and wants a conversation about the topic, saying the NDP is buying ads in controversial publications, too. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

“We didn’t put out that statement until 25 days later.

We wanted to kind of see what action would be taken and we didn’t see that,” said the vice-president of TriCities Pride, who goes by the name West.

“She presented herself as

an ally. Typically, allies need to act.”

The controversy stems from a BC Liberal ad buy in the conservative Christian lifestyle publication Light Magazine, which publishes controversial views about the province’s Sexual

Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI-123) curriculum, LGBTQ issues and assisted death.

According to expense receipts from August, 2019, Isaacs’ constituency office contributed $102 towards an ad buy totalling nearly $1,000 made by the BC Liberal caucus.

Other articles in Light Magazine include those written by Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, a former televangelist and failed People’s Party of Canada candidate who is an outspoken critic of SOGI-123.

After the details of the ad spending were brought to light in June, both Issacs and BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson were among those who distanced themselves from the views of the magazine.

On June 30, Issacs rebuffed Light Magazine on Twitter, saying it was “not

aligned with her personal principles and values” and that she “embraces diversity and inclusion.”

But in the weeks that followed, several members of the BC Liberal caucus did not follow suit, according to the Tri-Cities Pride statement, and pledged to continue buying ads in the magazine.

“Your colleague, Laurie Throness, said he would advertise in the magazine again because it aligns with his values as a ‘Biblical Christian,’” writes the organization, citing a report from CTV. “Your colleague, Marvin Hunt, placed an ad after Wilkinson [said he would not support the magazine in the future],” it continues, pointing to a story by the publication Press Progress, which first reported the ad buy.

As a result, Tri-Cities Pride denied Issacs participation in the video project

extended to all the mayors, MPs and MLAs of the TriCities. Every one has either offered or provided a video of support, with the exception of Port Moody Mayor Rob Vagramov, who asked for more information and forwarded the request to council, and Conservative MP Nelly Shin (Port MoodyCoquitlam), who has not acknowledged the group’s invitation.

Shin, like some of the members of the BC Liberal caucus, has been caught up in the orbit of several controversial figures who hail themselves as advocates in a culture war that has promoted such practices as conversion therapy and the scrubbing of abortion rights as well as sections of the B.C. curriculum which teach about sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Body of 23-year-old Coquitlam man found in burned-out car GARy MCKENNA gmckenna@tricitynews.com

The body found in a vehicle fire in Burnaby has been identified as Randy Joseph Chan, a 23-year-old Coquitlam man police have

been searching for since last week.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was called to the scene of the blaze on July 22 but the vehicle sustained significant damage and police were unable to conduct a thorough examination.

Instead, it was taken to a tow yard in Burnaby “to allow the hazardous gases associated with a recently burned vehicle time to subside prior to further inspection,” IHIT said in a press release.

On July 29, human remains were discovered in the vehicle, which were iden-

tified on Friday, July 31, as those belonging to Chan.

“IHIT investigators are pushing ahead with their investigation and invite anyone who may have information in the hours leading up to Mr. Chan’s disappearance to call IHIT,” said Const. Harrison Mohr.

While investigators were dealing with the burned out vehicle last week, the Coquitlam RCMP released a statement on July 27 saying they were “very concerned” about the well-being of Chan, who had not been seen since July 22.

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told The Tri-City News that Chan had a significant history with police and that those who associated with him may be reluctant to divulge any information about his disappearance.

He also indicated that there was a risk of retaliation in the case.

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I C B C C R A S H D ATA

The most dangerous sections of road in TC Number of crashes has decreased, says ICBC data

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The Tri-Cities has grown to become an increasingly popular alternative to Vancouver living, and with it, the region has seen an uptick in traffic.

But while commutes have grown along many of the region’s arterials, crashes have gone down in each of its municipalities.

Coquitlam has by far seen the most crashes between 2015 and 2019, with a grand total of 43,735 accidents. Still, from a height of 9,306, accidents have consistently gone down year over year, sinking to 8,093 last year.

In Port Coquitlam and Port Moody, that same trend

Coquitlam had 43,735 car crashes between 2015 and 2019. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE

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can be seen, with PoCo totalling 18,934 accidents over the four years, and bottoming out at 3,511 crashes in 2019. Port Moody, on the other hand, registered 7,740 crashes over that period, hitting a low of 1,418 last year.

Across British Columbia, ICBC reported 195,000 collisions in 2019, down from the previous year, which saw 315,000 crashes. In total, there have been 1,575,567 crashes in the Province since 2015.

1. Lougheed Highway: 548 crashes 2. Barnet Highway: 475 crashes 3. Barnet Hwy, Lougheed Hwy & Pinetree Way: 233 crashes 4. Broadway Street & Mary Hill Bypass: 188 crashes 5. Austin Avenue: 174 crashes 6. North Road: 172 crashes 7. Brunette Avenue & Trans-Canada Highway: 166 crashes 8. Lougheed Highway & Westwood Street: 164 crashes 9. United Boulevard: 153 crashes 10. Barnet Highway, Johnson Street & Mariner Way: 137 crashes

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$75K threshold should be reviewed continued from front page

That limit, and the transparency that comes with it, has not been reviewed since 2002.

“It would be nice for the province to recognize that salaries will continue to increase along with inflation and labour contracts,” she said. “The number of employees listed will continue to increase unless the threshold is reviewed and adjusted periodically.”

Last year, council approved a notice of motion put forward by Coun.

Dennis Marsden requesting the province raise the $75,000 minimum threshold and have it indexed to inflation. The matter was taken to the Union of B.C. Municipalities, but the organization made no recommendation.

City manager Peter Steblin was the high-

est paid employee in Coquitlam, making $330,225 in 2019. Deputy city manager Raul Allueva received $256,485 in salary and remuneration, while Michelle Hunt took home $240,007.

Coquitlam’s mayor and council also received more in salaries and remuneration in 2019 as part of an effort to offset a federal tax break for elected officials that ended last year.

While council members technically received more money in 2019, their takehome pay did not change, after Ottawa removed the Municipal Officers’ Allowance, a decades-old tax break covering onethird of their salary meant to help offset expenses related to their public-service work.

As a result, the SOFI report shows Mayor Richard Stewart’s salary

and remuneration jumped 26.6% from $138,928 to $175,436, while his council colleagues remuneration increased 12.6% from $62,215 to $70,054.

Stewart also led the way in expenses, racking up close to $20,000.

Newly elected Coun. Trish Mandewo came in second in expense spending with $15,215, while her fellow first-term Coun. Steve Kim spent $14,914, according to the SOFI report.

Other councillors also accrued expenses, including Teri Towner ($14,683), Dennis Marsden ($14,121), Craig Hodge ($11,796), Brent Asmundson ($11,429), Chris Wilson ($6,797) and Bonita Zarrillo ($6,437).

Zarrillo took time off from council in 2019 to run for federal office and received a remuneration of $62,215.

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BCTF calls for delay in school year start date Teachers’ union has concerns about reopening plan STEFAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com

The British Columbia Teachers’ Federation is pushing back against the province’s plans to reopen schools in the fall following the government’s announcement of a full-time return to school by Sept. 8., a day after Labour Day. In an interview with the Tri-City News, BCTF president Teri Mooring said her organization, as well as dozens of teachers working with the province in an advisory role, had spent weeks under the assumption that the fall semester would mirror the partial re-opening seen in June.

“The whole idea that this was going to be a full return of students came at the last

minute,” said Mooring. “We were alerted to it the day before.”

Looking at a full return has a lot of implications, many of which Mooring said will probably make the Sept. 8 restart date unrealistic.

“This really changes a lot of the thinking that was going into the planning up to now,” she said. “What needs to happen now is there needs to be a lot of planning and everything needs to be rethought.”

According to Mooring, that means re-engaging a variety of working groups to sort out the details in areas like health and safety, educational programming and equity and inclusion.

One of the caveats announced by Minister of Education Rob Fleming yesterday was the hiving off of students into cohorts of no more than 60 students for elementary and middle school-aged students and no more than 120 for high

school students.

“How is our cohort system going to work?” questioned Mooring, pointing to school staff like educational support workers and counsellors who usually go from class to class helping students.

“If not, how do we support those students. We don’t have a pullout system in B.C. anymore,” she said, referring to the practice of support workers entering classrooms to help students.

Classroom equipment is another grey area, said Mooring, as elementary teachers often share manipulative learning tools across classrooms to help teach students subjects like mathematics.

In the case of high school students — which unlike small children, are more likely to transmit the disease — Mooring said class sizes will likely need to be made significantly smaller to support physical distanc-

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ing, especially for teachers and students with compromised immune systems.

B.C. was one of the only jurisdictions in North America to re-open its schools to part-time learning in June. Roughly one-third of all students returned at that time, including in the Tri-Cities.

When Minister of Education Rob Fleming announced the full opening of schools Wednesday, June 30, he targeted over a dozen of the largest schools in the province— most within the Lower Mainland — as too big and crowded to comply with the physical distancing required of 120-student “learning groups.”

In these cases, schools “may need to look at a hybrid approach, with a blend of remote-online and self-directed learning,” said Fleming Wednesday.

But if the June return taught the system anything, it’s that spending up to four days a week in class while

also supporting online learning is unsustainable, said Mooring.

“We understand that was an emergency situation and teachers did what they had to,” she said. “[But] that meant they were doing two jobs. That can’t happen again.”

Despite being caught off-guard by the province’s announcement yesterday, Mooring said she was happy to see a commitment to stock schools with masks and extra funding coming from the province to hire new cleaning staff and to help out with sanitization costs.

Planning doesn’t just need to happen at the provincial level. Each district, school and teacher must now come up with their own plans. All districts are required to publish their back-to-school plans no later than Aug. 26, according to Fleming.

But in an email to The Tri-City News, School District 43 spokesperson

Ken Hoff said planning for the move to Stage 2 reopening, where students attend full time in “learning groups,” began before the summer break.

Now, he said, district staff are working to implement the updated plan from the province.

SD43 school trustee Kerri Palmer Isaak said those plans must be first submitted to the B.C. government for approval by Aug. 21, leaving just over three weeks to work out the details, according to the province’s timeline.

“There’s district-level planning that’s going to need to take place, then teachers are going to need time for their own planning [and] also health and safety training,” said Mooring.

“All that needs to happen prior to students coming to school.”

“I can’t underline enough how complex this planning is going to be…

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Recreation

Drop-in & Programs

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We are moving ahead with our re-opening plans and have pre-registered access to a number of drop-in activities at indoor f ective Monday, recreation facilities eff Aug. 10, as well as registered recreation programs launching on Tuesday, Sept. 8.

The number of visitors and participants at a facility and in the sessions will be limited to ensure both staff f and public safety. Each site has a safety plan that includes: • Training of staff f

Use of Amenities Will Be Adapted

The only public allowed into each facility will be a registered patron and we have assigned diff f erent entrances for the type of activity to ensure we can limit the number of human interactions and reduce potential risk of exposure to COVID-19.

All registered users will be asked to NOT loiter in the facilities. There will be queues for arrival, and once a facility user has finished their session, staff f will be requesting them to leave promptly.

There will be designated washrooms in each facility but no change rooms available in August.

• Use of appointments and registration to ensure physical distancing • Physical alterations to ensure distancing, such as Plexiglas barriers, signs and floor markings

You can be assured that our staff f will closely monitor this transition to ensure activities can be expanded or Be kind, be calm contracted as and be safe. necessary based on – Dr. Bonnie Henry demand and public safety.

• Changes to practices and programs to reduce touchpoints and ensure distancing • Limiting group sizes and adjusting locations as necessary • Enhanced cleaning of touchpoints

August Pre-rregistered Drop-iins

Sepptember Reggistered Proggrammingg & Additional Amenities We will not be publishing a Program Guide for our fall programs because we need to take a gradual approach and make changes based on demand and public safety.

Moving forward, we will launch programs on a monthly basis. You can find important program information at coquitlam.ca/registration.

September Programs & Activities

Programs will be available for viewing on Monday, Aug. 10 and online registration will begin Wednesday, Aug. 12 at 8:30 a.m. through coquitlam.ca/registration (available 24 hours a day, seven days a week) and by phone at 604-927-4386 on Thursday, Aug. 13 at 8:30 a.m. weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (except for statutory holidays), and on Saturdays eff f ective Aug. 15 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

PSLC & CCAC Pool – September off f erings include pre-

registered drop-in leisure swimming, lessons and aqua-fit classes.

• Public hours 6:30 – 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 – 8:30 p.m. seven days a week including statutory holidays

Poirier and Pinetree Community Centres and Centennial Activity Centre – A variety of parent and tot, family,

children, youth and adult programming as well as gymnasium-based sports for bubble groups of six or smaller.

Centennial Room will be used for group fitness. For the first

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Poirier Sport & Leisure Complex

• Arenas 2 and 3 – Pre-registered skating drop-ins (No skate or helmet rentals)

• Fitness studio – Pre-registered drop-in classes (1-hour time slot) • Weight room – Pre-registered drop-ins (1-hour time slot)

City Centre Aquatic Complex

• Weight room – Pre-registered drop-ins (1-hour time slot)

• Pool – Pre-registered drop-in leisure swimming and aqua-fit (40-minute time slot)

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The Landing Teen Centre (Pinetree) and Getaway Youth Centre (Poirier) – Opportunities for youth to engage and

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Park speed tracker finds 85% going too fast ‘People are fed up with the speeding’ says Coq. resident GARy McKENNA gmckenna@tricitynews.com

If you’ve driven a car down Hillcrest Street near the Mundy Park playground during the day lately, chances are you were speeding.

Data from a Coquitlam RCMP BlackCat speed tracker set up in the area last month found that 85% of vehicles were not in compliance with the posted 30 kilometre per hour 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. speed limit. Of the drivers passing through the area, 78% moved at between 31 and 50 kilometres per hour, while 8% were over 51 kilometres per hour.

Lynn Marois, who lives near the park, said people are driving too fast and urged her neighbours to slow down.

“It is a very active place,” she said, while standing under a temporary speed-reader board setup at Hillcrest and Winslow Friday morning. “People are fed up with the speeding.”

Lynn Marois, who lives near Mundy Park, said she wants to see more prominent signage to encourage drivers to slow down. gary mckenna/the trI-cIty neWs

During an interview with The Tri-City News, six cars drove by the sign. None of the drivers were in compliance with the posted speed

limits.

“They just don’t care,” Marois added.

She has been asking the city for more prominent

signage, saying the current speed limit postings are hard to see for passing motorists.

With the playground

nearby, Marois, a grandmother, fears that someone is going to get hit by a car.

“Not in a million years,” she said when asked whether she would ride her bike down Hillcrest Street, one of the city’s designated bike routes. “Not even maybe.”

Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Michael McLaughlin said while there have been no collisions in the area that have resulted in injury, police are aware of the situation and monitoring it closely.

However, he cautioned that the data collected from the BlackCat speed tracker can sometimes “look much worse than it is.” He said the numbers collected lump motorists into categories even if they are only a few kilometres over the limit.

Nevertheless, police were in the area ticketing drivers Thursday afternoon.

“We are very familiar with this particular complaint near Hillcrest and Winslow,” he said, later adding: “The BlackCat demonstrated that there was a measurable issue with speeding and as a result, we’ve done multiple speeding enforcement operations in this area since at least March of 2020 based on

repeated contact from one complainant.”

Speed enforcement is a top priority for the RCMP, McLaughlin said.

While they maintain a regular presence on large arterials, like the Lougheed Highway and Mary Hill Bypass, deploying to side streets is usually based on BlackCat and collision data as well as complaints from residents.

“We are as data-driven as possible, and we put a lot of effort into areas where collisions causing injury are a significant issue,” he said.

“School zones, weather, time of year, construction, pandemic issues — all of these factors are constantly evolving.”

But at the end of the day, McLaughlin said police can’t be everywhere and it is up to drivers to make sure they are adhering to posted speed limits.

“Some of the same people who complain about speeders are themselves getting ticketed for speeding,” McLaughlin said.

“Speeding is not just other people’s problem. If we’re going to reduce speed and make our roads safer, we all have to make a personal commitment to slow down and drive more safely.”

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Port Coquitlam continues to work on completing the second phase of its new community centre, which will include a third arena, gymnasium and children’s area.

The first phase, which included two arenas, a fitness centre and yoga studio, as well as aquatic centre, fully opened earlier this year.

PoCo cancels annual tax sale due to pandemic DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

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PoCo’s capital program $6 million under budget Plan focuses on upgrades to streets, sidewalks & utilities GARY MCKENNA gmckenna@tricitynews.com

Port Coquitlam’s 2020 capital program will not be as expensive as initially thought.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, staff said the construction of roads, new playgrounds and other projects is on time and approximately $6 million under

budget.

“Most of the savings were achieved because anticipated rehabilitation or preparatory work was not needed for some projects,” the city said in a press release. “Any surplus funds will remain in reserve accounts for future capital projects.”

Port Coquitlam is in the midst of a two-year $52.7 million capital plan — the largest one-time investment in the city’s history, according to staff — focused on upgrades to streets and utilities.

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was budgeted for the program in 2020, however that number has now been revised to approximately $18.4 million.

The plan includes 10-km of road construction, lane paving, curbs and gutters along with sidewalks, lighting and speed humps in places like Oxford Street, Kelly Avenue, Hastings Avenue, Broadway Street, Fremont Connector and Cedar Drive.

The city is also working toward completing the 205,000 sq. ft. Port Coquitlam Community Recreation Centre, slated

for 2021.

The project is currently in its second phase, with work underway on a third arena, a gymnasium, children’s area, a cafe as well as outdoor plazas.

“These projects make a real difference in people’s lives every day,” said PoCo Coun. Darrel Penner, who is council’s designate for public works. “From the beginning of the pandemic we have recognized our capital program is essential, and have continued to pursue these projects while ensuring safety protocols are met.”

Dozens of Port Coquitlam property owners who haven’t paid their property taxes for two years will get an extra year to pay their back taxes.

Tuesday, council approved a bylaw change that would allow the city to delay its annual property tax sale for a year to relieve the burden of those in dire straits during COVID-19.

While people don’t usually lose their homes during the annual tax sale because they are often able to buy them back, it’s a threat hanging over 132 properties with outstanding taxes.

Typically, property owners delinquent in their taxes for two years as of Dec. 31 would see their properties go up for a tax sale in September at a minimum bid price equal to the amount of outstanding property taxes plus 5% and the land title registration fees.

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ther equal to or above that price — will be declared the purchaser. If there is no bid, or no bid equal to the outstanding taxes plus 5%, the city will be declared the purchaser.

Once sold the property owner has one year to redeem the property by paying the outstanding property taxes plus any interest that has been charged.

Two properties In 2019 and four properties in 2018 were auctioned off and subsequently redeemed by their owners.

“It is rare for a property owner to not redeem the property and over the last twenty-five years no taxpayer has lost their home due to this process,” according to a staff report.

Delaying the annual property tax sale to Sept. 27, 2021 gives owners a longer time frame to pay their back taxes, however, the outstanding balance will continue to accrue interest.

The initiative is one of a number the city is implementing to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

While allowed by the province, the annual tax sale delay will require bylaw approval and public posting.

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Condo closer to construction PoMo gets tough ‘Unique’ project was first proposed in 2006 mario bartel mbartel@tricitynews.com

A condo project 14 years in the making is closer to finally getting built.

On July 28, Port Moody council gave third reading to amend zoning bylaws and the city’s official community plan for the 173-unit development at 3000 Henry St. The proposal’s proponents said the community, as well as the building’s future residents, have been better served by the protracted process.

Coun. Zoe Royer said the terraced, U-shaped structure nestled into the foot of the Chines hillside is “the perfect marriage between the natural environment and the built environment.”

Moreover, Coun. Meghan Lahti said, the developer’s plan to make 17 units more affordable to Port Moody residents through a rent-toown program, a provision to build six lock-off suites that can accommodate extended families or be divided to create an income property, as well as a partnership with

A terraced 11-storey, 173-unit condo building on Henry Street is closer to getting built after council gave third reading to zoning amendments. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

Kinsight to manage a large ground-floor unit that will allow several of its clients to live independently with supports “is a unique opportunity.”

Phillip Scott, a real estate development consultant who’s acting as the project’s manager, said its long gestation has resulted in a “much more inclusive and creative building” that will be a “landmark” in the city.

The project got as far as third reading eight years ago then was put on hold for six years over concerns about geotechnical, environmental

and stormwater management issues. It was briefly revived by another developer in 2018 before it was acquired by Vancouver-based Aultrust Development, whose managing partner is Port Moody’s Navid Morawej.

Morawej conceded the project “does have an extensive history” but, he told council, his company’s effort to address affordability issues has generated “lots of interest” in the community about its rent-to-own program.

Architect Tim Ankenman

said while the overall design of the building has remained much the same as was first proposed in 2006, enhancements to some of its ingredients like engineering refinements to ensure the stability of the steep slope at the back of the property, amenities such as workshare spaces and green roofs and a commitment to protect two nearby streams as well as dedicate more than half the property as parkland have made the project “a lot richer.”

Council’s assent came after a public hearing in which several young people expressed optimism the rent-to-own program might allow them to afford to buy a home in Port Moody.

But some neighbours told council they were leery about the project’s impact on traffic, especially when the nearby middle school is in session, as well as concerns about the stability of the steep hillside.

“It’s a good project, just at the wrong location,” said one speaker.

But Port Moody’s general manager of planning and development, André Boel, said should the project get its final green light to go ahead, “our main goal… is to make sure it is built appropriately.”

on renovictions Part of city’s new affordable housing strategy mario bartel mbartel@tricitynews.com

Port Moody is going to make it tougher for landlords to evict tenants so they can renovate or repair their unit.

At their meeting July 28, city councillors gave three readings to amend existing bylaws that will require landlords to have all the necessary permits in place before they can issue a notice of termination to a tenant living in a unit to be repaired or renovated. The landlord must also offer the tenant being displaced a comparable unit in the same building, on the same or better terms.

If that’s not possible, other temporary arrangements can be made in writing, along with a commitment to allow the tenant to return to their original apartment after

the repairs or renovations have been completed with no increase in rent.

Landlords that don’t comply with the new rules would face a fine of $500.

In a report, Port Moody’s social planner, Liam McLellan, said the new rules are modelled after similar bylaws in Port Coquitlam and New Westminster.

He said they “will ensure landlords repair or renovate units in a manner where the tenant does not have to move, or the tenant is allowed to move back into the unit at the same rental rate,” McLellan said, adding many of the city’s 532 rental suites located in multi-unit buildings were constructed before 1977 and are likely in need of upgrades or replacement.

The enhanced protection from renovictions is one of several recommendations issued by council’s affordable housing task force in its April 14 interim report.

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Topic: Enforcing speed limits “Bring back SpeedCheck and Road blocks. There is almost zero enforcement, and drivers know it. Fake cardboard RCMP doesn’t stop bad behaviour... Hit their wallets”

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B.C.’s COVID-19 schools plan needs work to convince BCTF

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ince the COVID-19 pandemic began back in March, we have learned to manage the risk the virus has brought into our lives.

Now everyone in the public and private school systems is going to have to buy into the risk analysis that is paving the way for classes to resume.

The BC Teachers’ Federation is pushing for significant changes to the plans, but other education organizations — representing trustees, principals, vice-principals, and parents — are on board with what is being proposed.

Some teachers are understandably nervous about students coming back to schools in much bigger numbers than what we saw when schools opened back in June. The BCTF seems particularly con-

cerned about the older grades returning potentially at 100% levels, rather than the 40% levels that seemed to be the plan until a short time ago.

There also seems to be some apprehension and confusion around the proposed “learning groups” that for older grades can include up to 120 students and staff.

Public health officials approved the learning group numbers (it is a maximum of 60 for younger grades).

They are different from the number of people in actual classrooms and represent likely members of several classrooms that will share different courses, lunch breaks and common activities.

However, with so much COVID-19 racing around the world, particularly in the U.S.,

gathering in large numbers these days has people nervous. Can education officials come up with a final version that will placate any fears out there, among teachers, parents and students?

I am betting they will.

Too much is at stake to keep the schools closed for an extended period, or until a vaccine for the virus is discovered. The elevated risk of exposure to the virus that comes with open schools is being weighed against the risks that a prolonged school closure would pose to the mental health of young people, to say nothing of their long-term education prospects.

If we can open restaurants, bars, grocery stores (and even strip clubs) in a safe fashion, surely we can find a way to

open schools safely.

The public has bought into all kinds of changes to our behaviour and lifestyle that have been suggested or required by public health officials.

There is no reason to think the same kind a “buy-in” will not be seen among the school population. In announcing the back-to-school plans, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry made a key observation.

“We have always had risks in our schools,” she said.

“There is no such thing as no risk.”

When it comes to COVID19, we cannot eliminate risk of contracting the virus 100%, but we can minimize risk and manage it.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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YOUR LETTERS COQUITLAM RCMP

Teach children to thank police The Editor, We are fortunate to reside in a community, where our streets are safe, and our children can run, play and be kids.

Let us all support the men and women who make this possible, our RCMP. Are they all perfect? No, but neither are we. They have chosen a career path, where they will see the worst of humanity. They are there in the middle of the night, breaking the news to a family that their loved ones will never come home. They intervene

RCMP officers on the scene of a fatal collision in Port Coquitlam involving a van and a cyclist. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

even when off work, if they see an assault, robbery or drug deal happening.

Sometimes it costs them their lives, as recently seen in Nelson.

They prepare their reports and arrest the bad guys, only to see them back on the street. They lay awake at night reliving the tragedies of the day, the teen who committed suicide, the drug overdoses, the motor vehicle accidents, the father who lost his job and committed suicide.

Let us as a community unite in supporting our police.

Praise the police in front of your children, say “Thank you!”

Rita Luterbach Coquitlam

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Mouth-breathing joggers, mask up on narrow paths The Editor, My friend, who is has health issues and must use a scooter, just brought to my attention that people jogging should avoid narrow sidewalks for their exercise routine.

The jogger is breathing heavily, with an open mouth, and someone in a scooter or wheelchair

(and sitting at a lower elevation) will be in the path of their out-breath, and unable to do anything about it.

Please remind joggers to find a place that has more open space, and to use a mask for more congested areas.

Laura Redmond Coquitlam

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Teacher reprimanded Fellner calls it quits in Coq. for pulling headphones STEFAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com

A Coquitlam teacher who had “inappropriate physical contact” with students on a number of occasions has been reprimanded and ordered to take a course at the Justice Institute of B.C. to correct her behaviour.

The allegations against Brigitte Marie Monique Vivianne Lépine stem from a series of complaints during the 2018-19 school year, while she was a Grade 7/8 French Immersion teacher at a School District 43 middle school.

On multiple occasions she got physically rough with the students, removing students’ earphones by tugging on the

wire, hauling another student by the collar back into class, and in one instance, yanking a student from their car.

Near the end of the year, Lépine told her class “she could not wait for the summer so that she could not have to deal with them anymore,” according to the discipline outcome from B.C. Commission for Teacher Regulation.

A week before a report was filed to the teachers’ discipline body, SD43 issued Lépine a letter of discipline and suspended her for one day without pay. That suspension was served Oct. 11, 2019.

At the time, the district required her to complete a course on communication and directed the teacher to “refrain from using physical

contact with students except in an emergency.”

According to the consent resolution agreement with the teachers’ commission, which was made public this week, Lépine admitted her actions constituted professional misconduct.

She has only been on the job for a little over a year, but Supt. Annette Fellner says she will be moving on as top cop at the Coquitlam RCMP detachment.

The department announced this week that the search will begin to find a new officer in charge

after Fellner took a role as assistant operations officer for the Lower Mainland district at E-Division in Surrey.

“It’s been a great opportunity and a pleasure to provide policing services to Anmore, Belcarra, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and the

Kwikwetlem First Nation,” Fellner said in a statement.

“I’ve appreciated all the feedback — both positive and constructive — and it’s bittersweet moving to a new job. The next officer in charge will have a great opportunity here.”

Fellner’s last official day will be on Aug. 7.

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2016 tragedy

Owner gets extension to fix house burned out by fire Plans to turn property it into two rental suites mario bartel mbartel@tricitynews.com

The owner of a Port Moody home where a fire in 2016 killed a woman and displaced her six children will get more time to fix the damaged structure.

At its meeting July 28, council agreed to a staff recommendation that Arian Soheili be given until the end of the year to abide by a remedial action order he was issued last May to clean up the property on Dewdney Trunk Road or have it demolished by the city at his expense.

In a report, Port Moody’s senior bylaw enforcement officer, Patrik Kolby, said “substantial” work had been completed since then, including the removal or replacement of fire-damaged windows, siding, roof, gutters, fascia and other features. He added rubbish and building debris has also been cleared from the site.

“This has eliminated the obvious evidence of the fire

that occurred there nearly four years ago,” Kolby said.

Council issued the remedial action order after the city had received numerous complaints about the state of disrepair at the property.

Coun. Steve Milani said the charred home was a constant reminder to the neighbourhood of the tragic events that unfolded on a Sunday afternoon in July, 2016, when the woman perished and five of her children had to escape out a second floor window with the help of neighbours who hoisted a ladder. Another wasn’t home at the time. A man was subsequently charged with second-degree murder and eventually convicted last year.

On June 6, Soheili asked for more time, saying he’d been bogged down by the demands of his full-time profession in information technology as well as permitting delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two weeks later he told council he was making progress on renovations to the home, which he plans to subdivide into two rental suites, and he’d made good on fines levied for the unsightly premises.

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Port Moody pianist gets the Entertainment Tonight touch Martin Mayer was inspired by host turned musician mario bartel mbartel@tricitynews.com

Few people get to meet their heroes, let alone get their phone number.

But a unique connection with former Entertainment Tonight host turned composer John Tesh has culminated in a new album by Port Moody pianist Martin Mayer that is scheduled to be released early next year.

The album, entitled The Solo Piano Collection, is a compilation of the best pieces Mayer’s written through his 25-year career as well as half-a-dozen

new compositions he put together while riding out the COVID-19 pandemic in his Klahanie home that also contains a recording studio.

Mayer said his career never would have happened were it not for some idle channel surfing more than 20 years ago that landed him on a PBS presentation of Tesh in concert with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

It got a boost when he was able to enlist accompaniment from Grammywinning violinist Charlie Bisharat, who played with Tesh as well as other renowned musicians like Lady Gaga, Elton John and Yanni. Then it got a golden endorsement when he was able to perform one of his

new pieces for Tesh himself, after a show in a Seattle jazz club last November.

Mayer said the moment was “pivotal” and has blossomed into an ongoing professional relationship with the onetime TV personality.

“He’s just been super great about it.”

Mayer started playing piano when he was 11 years-old, but it wasn’t until he stumbled upon Tesh presenting his own new-age keyboard compositions in the dramatic outdoor venue that he realized the direction his musical inclinations should take.

“I’m not going to be a classical pianist,” said Mayer, who studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music as well as Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton.

He wrote a letter to Tesh, inquiring about the availability of his sheet music so he could learn to play the compositions that had captured his imagination.

It was the TV announcer’s ability to forge his own path by doing things like composing the themes for sports shows while working in front of the camera that made Mayer realize he’d have to create his own opportunity.

Mayer took out a $35,000 loan to hire a 20-piece orchestra, film and audio crew, as well as a venue, so he could produce his own live concert program that premiered on his website when he was 19 years-old.

That led to an offer to tour in China, visiting 16 cities in six weeks. It’s been a favored destination ever since, although he’s also played venues closer to home, like the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam.

“Piano is huge in Asia,” Mayer said, adding he was

set to embark on another 20date tour in China this fall until the global pandemic shut down much of the live entertainment industry.

Mayer hasn’t been idle in his downtime, though.

In addition to writing and recording, he had to navigate the creative and technical challenges of collaborating remotely with other musicians like Bisharat, who’s based in Los Angeles. That meant communicating his intent for the pieces, but leaving enough room for each musician to add their own creative sparkle.

“It’s a matter of having a conversation, providing good direction and then give the artist room to breathe,” Mayer said.

The result, he added, is the story of his own musical journey, including a touching tribute to his mother, who had left the TV guide open to the listing of the Tesh concert on that fateful day so many years ago.

• To learn more about Martin Mayer’s music, as well as his previous albums and links to performance videos, go to www.martinmayermusic.com.

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Coq. teen receives Courage to Come Back award Andrew Teel recognized for his charitable work GAry MCKENNA gmckenna@tricitynews.com

It all started with a warm embrace.

Five-year-old Andrew, struggling with fetal alcohol (FAS) and post-traumatic stress (PTSD) syndromes, had been bouncing around foster placements for years when he asked his Ranch Park elementary kindergarten teacher, Sandy Teel, for a hug.

The teacher and student quickly connected and a year later the Teels adopted Andrew, giving the young boy a “forever home” and helping to create a sense of stability in his life.

This week, the 18-year-old Coquitlam resident, who graduated from high school last month, was awarded the Coast Mental Health Foundation Courage to Come Back Award in the youth category, recognizing the teen’s charitable contributions and advocacy for change in the foster-care system.

“I want to be known for who I am, not what I have,” he said. “All I can do is decide what matters to me and work hard to make it happen.”

PTSD and FAS have severely impacted Teel’s cognitive abilities, learning, mobility and processing skills.

Despite these limitations, he said he was determined to find ways to overcome the barriers. He defied expectations by excelling in school and sports, while developing a deep sense of empathy for

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Back to the land for PoMo garden project MArIO bArTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

Port Moody won’t become Green Acres just yet.

At its meeting July 28, council referred a proposal to spend almost $40,000 to install food gardens in planters in front of city hall, as well as at Pioneer Park and in front of the Art Centre, back to staff to find a way to get more community involvement included in the project.

Mayor Rob Vagramov said while the idea of the city growing vegetables and fruit is admirable, the increasing need for community gardens as more people move into condo towers and townhouses where they can’t plant gardens of their own demands a more community-based approach.

In a report, Port Moody’s general manager of environment and parks, Lesley Douglas, said the program would expand on a 2017 initiative that placed 16 container gardens with fruit and vegetable plants in front of

city hall. Weekly tours were conducted to promote discussions and sharing of food production best practices.

Douglas told council the program was discontinued in 2018 because the fruit and vegetable planters required more maintenance like tilling the soil than planters filled with display plants.

In her report, Douglas estimated installation and maintenance costs of $17,790 for 16 large planters in front of city hall, $9,970 for construction and maintenance of a raised planter in Pioneer Park, and $8,030 for a victory garden in existing plant beds at the Arts Centre.

She said the garden program would be supplemented by backyard gardening workshops and a family-oriented education program on edible gardening. The produce would be shared with various community organizations.

“It’s about food literacy,” she said, adding participants could then take the knowledge they gained back to their own gardening projects.

animals and other people.

In Grade 5, he donated his birthday money to the SPCA and began raising money for Covenant House, eventually contributing $60,000 with his Twonies for Teens campaign. Covenant House provides services and hope to young people fleeing abusive homes or who have aged out of foster care, an issue that is near and dear to Teel.

The award he received this week is not the first time Teel has been recognized for his hard work.

In 2017, 900 people in the Vancouver Convention Centre ballroom gave him a spontaneous standing ovation when he received the Outstanding Youth Philanthropy award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

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Pamela Clarke has run marathons in world-class cities like New York and Chicago. But when her plan to run the Berlin Marathon in September was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, she discovered her most favoured destination was right beneath the soles of her sneakers.

Clarke has just finished running all 452 streets in Port Coquitlam, her hometown for the past 20 years.

She said she embarked upon the project last April as a way to salve the loss of her Berlin run. Along the way, she developed a whole new love for her community.

“I feel like this is my home now,” said Clarke, who grew up on Vancouver Island.

“You can run and feel safe anywhere here. We really do

Pamela Clarke prepares to run in one of her favourite parts of Port Coquitlam. She recently finished running all 452 streets in the city. mario bartel/the tri-city news have the mountains and the river and beautiful neighbourhoods.”

Clarke took up running about 10 years ago as part of her own plan to lose weight and get active. In 2011, she

completed her first 10 km run and she’s since run several marathons and even ultra-marathons. She’s currently in the final stages of completing a challenge to virtually run the breadth of

the state of Tennessee, about 1,000 km.

Most of Clarke’s training is done on familiar routes close to home. But it wasn’t until a friend told her of an app called CityStrides that

would allow her to track which streets she’d already run that she tweaked to the idea of covering each street in Port Coquitlam.

Downloading her stats into the app, Clarke discovered she’d traversed 38% of PoCo’s streets over the years.

“You think you’ve done it all,” she said of the 62% of the city’s streets she hadn’t yet travelled.

Neighbourhood by neighbourhood, Clarke started plotting routes 20 streets at a time.

Some, like those in Citadel Heights, were long, winding up and over the undulating contours of the terrain. Others, like Prince Street, could be covered in several dozen strides. Some had sidewalks. Others just a narrow shoulder. There were gravel trails along the Fraser and Pitt rivers, as well as around the Blakeburn lagoon, a beloved destination.

And then there were the cul de sacs. So many in fact, diverting her routes to loop through each one got “a bit tedious,” Clarke said.

But everywhere she went, Clarke said she was impressed by the care people take in maintaining their homes and gardens. When she told kids along the sidewalk what she was up to, they cheered her on.

As Clarke’s quest progressed, she fine-tuned her routes so she could end her training at one of the city’s growing number of craft breweries, a carb-laden reward for her efforts. She also targeted streets she’d somehow missed, including those that wound through complicated townhouse developments.

And when the map on her app was completely filled with purple lines, snaking, looping and twisting over every street in the city, Clarke said she jumped around her house with joy.

While her accomplishment represented about 750 km of total running, Clarke said it provided new purpose to her training.

“Instead of running down the same route for 15 years, you can get variety,” she said.

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