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Burnaby MP Kennedy Stewart thinksPremier Christy Clark is making dealson the fly, when it comes to heavy oilprojects in B.C.

Stewart, MP for Burnaby-Douglas, wascommenting on the recent frameworkagreement between Clark and Alberta

Premier Alison Redford.All this stuff seems to be happening on

the fly without any consultation or inputfrom the local communities that will beimpacted, he told the NOW.

Clark and Redford announced Tuesdaythat the two had reached a frameworkagreement, where Alberta would agree tosupport B.C.s five conditions that must bemet for heavy oil projects in the province.

In return, the B.C. government, whichwants a bigger share of the profits, agreedto not go after Albertas royalties.

B.C.s five conditions for oil companiesare that the environmental review processis met, that there are world-class oil spillprevention and cleanup measures in placefor spills on land and water, legal require-ments over aboriginal and treaty rightsmust be addressed, and B.C. must receive

a fair share of the economic benefits toreflect the risk the province faces.

How much money will it take tosway Christy Clark to put these pipelinesthrough, and this is the question my con-stituents have been asking, Stewart said.

Enbridge and Kinder Morgan are hop-ing to build pipelines from Alberta to

Sitting up against rocks and boulders,wounded men were slowly losingtheir lives, their bodies stained redfrom blood.

The Allied forces weretasked to take the eight-kilometre stretch of landfrom the Germans, leavingmany soldiers vulnerableon Omaha Beach, waiting,row by row.

No poppies wereblowing in the wind andno larks were singing in

the sky. Just the battered, beleaguered,exhausted and bleeding soldiers strandedacross the beach after storming it in one ofthe most gruesome and infamous battles ofthe Second World War.

The soldiers who did survive theonslaught of bullets, mines and grenadesneeded aid, and it was coming. A carrierfilled with nurses and doctors was pullingup on shore to help those entrenched in thesand. And one local man was on that ship.He has the black-and-white photograph,approaching the beach from the carrier, toprove it.

Signs of mortar shells, tanks and bil-lowing smoke are nowhere to be seen in aquiet South Burnaby neighbourhood wherea Battle of Normandy veteran and the lastliving Freeman of the City calls home. Thefreeman title is an honour bestowed upondistinguished persons in public service,and Burnaby had five, part of the city and

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Although the North Burnaby Legionclosed its doors earlier this year, the presi-dent is still braving the cold every week byselling off parts of the old bar just to makesure his club survives.

With the building that houses the BurnabyHeights Legion BranchNo. 148 going throughredevelopment, president Dave Taylor isdoing what he can to make sure his club willstill have funds to last the next few years.

Redevelopment was the only option for thebeleaguered legion because it suffered finan-cially due to changes to B.C.s smoking anddrinking laws, and increasing property taxes.The branch, established in 1937, is expectedto move into the western portion of the newfour-storey development. The Legion is put-ting up the land as its part of the deal.

Since closing in January, Taylor stays atthe Legion four days a week for its garage-type sale.

I started bringing everything out thatweve accumulated over 77 years, he toldthe Burnaby NOW. And bits and pieces ofthe building I took out, pool tables just

basically what we couldnt afford to storebecause well be closed for a couple of yearsand storage isnt cheap.

Most of the memorabilia is in storage,but Taylor said hes selling some of it as itsone of the only ways his Legionbranch can make money at thispoint.

Ive been doing what I can toraise funds, he said. Ive beenselling off everything we dontneed, and that money will be usedfor anything to tide us over. Ourexpenses have also gone to noth-ing. There isnt a lot of expenseanymore because were not oper-ating the building.

Taylor cancelled the buildingsheat and electricity, which meanshes at the Legion four days aweek in the bitter cold trying toraise money.

Now its chilly to sit here, he added.Sometimes we go outside and it gets warm-er.

Despite the roadblocks, the Legion is con-tinuing its poppy campaign this year, accord-ing to Taylor. There are collection cans invarious businesses up and down the BurnabyHeights neighbourhood.

The only thing we can do here, basically,is with our poppy campaign, he said. Themoney we raise from them can help differentorganizations that look after veterans.

Theres a lot going on. Theres nothing I

should dwell on. When the need arises, wehelp out.

Taylor said the organization helps makesure Canadas veterans are taken care of.

We have to make sure they (federalgovernment) look after veteransstill, he noted. Civilian com-mand isnt very involved in mak-ing sure the federal governmentlooks after older veterans andnewer ones coming back fromsome of these conflicts espe-cially in Afghanistan. We run pro-grams to help them.

Taylor said the Legion isimportant to keep around, ensur-ing that veterans and friends ofveterans have a place to go.

I would rather keep this one,he said. Unfortunately thatwasnt an option. So, well have a

new building.Membership applications and renewals

are still rolling in, Taylor says the Legionkeeps going because of a core group of vol-unteers.

Membership fluctuates, he said. Itdoesnt matter how many you have. We havea core bunch of people that are still keepingthis going, and thats what you need. Wehave lots of volunteers when we need some-thing. Its an ongoing deal. I retired two yearsago, and I dont see home much because Imhere all the time doing something.

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Dave Taylor, president ofLegion Branch No. 148 in TheHeights, is keeping the branchalive as it waits for a new space

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Social studies students fromCariboo Hill Secondary spentWednesday and Thursday plantingCanadian flags on the lawn at GeorgeDerby Centre.

It has been so positive, peopleare stunned. They are just feelingthe remembrance, the respect,said Linda Bush, the coordinator ofadministrator services with GeorgeDerby Centre.

The weatherproofed flags arepart of a public awareness campaignspearheaded by the centre and itsvolunteer society. For a $5 donation,members of the public can pledge aflag to honour a veteran.

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Who knew? Count emall up and B.C. has1,660 elected officialssitting on 250 local councils andschool boards across the prov-ince. That works out to one forevery 2,000 registered voters.

Its also a lot ofpaycheques. Someof the lucky onesget to collect twopaycheques, if they happen tobe chosen to sit on a regionaldistrict, the two biggies of coursebeing Metro Vancouver and theCapital Regional District.

According to their websites,Metro Vancouver deliversregional services, planning andpolitical leadership on behalf of24 local authorities and theCapital Regional District is theregional government for the 13municipalities and three elec-toral areas that are located onthe southern tip of VancouverIsland.

Thats 40 communities witha combined population of 2.7million, or a little more than 60per cent of B.C.s total popula-tion, each elbowing the other forpolitical space within the twodistricts. (The City of Toronto ishome to 2.8 million residents.)

Practically speaking, though,neither Metro Vancouver or theCapital Regional District havemuch in the way of real author-ity despite their lofty missionstatements, because Big Brotheris never really far behind. Thinkdebating clubs with privileges.

Should one of the districts actu-ally choose to bite off somethingcontentious, chances are it willstill need Victorias stamp ofapproval.

Metro Vancouver wants toburn a cool half billion dollars

on a new garbage incin-erator, but theyll needVictorias A-OK beforestriking the match. In

fact, they need it just to put aproposed solid waste manage-ment bylaw into effect.

The folks at the CapitalRegional District are being calledupon to make all the politicallysmelly decisions regarding anew sewage treatment plant,while the purse strings remaintightly controlled over at theoffices of Partnerships B.C. Thefederal and provincial govern-ments called it a condition offunding. Cynics might haveanother expression for it.

So if its all mostly show,imagine how local taxpayersmust feel. Voters dont get tochoose their district represen-tatives, local councils do. Thepower of the ballot box is farremoved from the daily goings-on at the two regional districts.

Thats why its far easier tovote to try and place a sew-age sludge treatment facility insomeone elses backyard as theCapital Regional District sewagecommittee wanted to do earlierthis year, if you dont have toface those voters yourself.

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As time goes by, their sacrifice enduresAs we prepare for another

Remembrance Day, the immensity ofveterans actions endures.

If the attendance at last yearsRemembrance Day ceremonies inBurnaby is any indication,people continue to respect andhonour the sacrifice of pastgenerations.

Perhaps it is the fact that fewer andfewer veterans remain from the SecondWorld War. Their personal stories ofvalour and courage like the story of

George McLean starting on page 1 oftodays paper have often been sharedin the media and books and family his-tories. But with fewer veterans to relaytheir stories personally, their sacrifices

take on a special significance.Perhaps, also, our rather cushy,risk-free lives highlight theincredible sacrifice of veterans.

For most of us, the spectre of deathappears more in the form of close callson the highway and high cholesterol orcancer.

War is almost an abstract in our dailylives we see it on TV, but its far away.And if its in Afghanistan or Syria, itscomplicated and mired in politics andchanging goals.

Do we ever consider what we woulddo if our country went to war as it did in1939?

What would we do if faced with atrue threat or call to action?

Could we put down our smartphones,golf clubs and lattes and pick up weap-ons instead?

Have we become too soft to thinkof sacrifice? Are we even capable ofunderstanding that heroes are more thanhockey players?

At the moment of silence Monday,we ask you to consider what causes youwould risk life and limb for.

Would you pay the price for freedomthat other generations paid?

And, after those thoughts, be thank-ful that the younger generations ofCanadians have not had to make thatsame decision.

Too many cities,too much money

Cautionary tale for school reformDear Editor:

A cautionary tale for Kindergarten to Grade 9curriculum renewal:

There once was an impatient farmer. He wasso anxious that he went into his field every day tomeasure his plants. To his dismay, they just wouldnot grow as fast as he wanted them to.

So one day he devised a solution. He wouldtug each shoot upward just a little bit each time hevisited. Thus his plants appeared taller when hemeasured them.

The farmer was happy to see this result. For sixdays he went around boasting about his brilliantnewmethod of encouraging growth. On the seventh

day his neighbours came to see for themselves thismiracle only to discover that the crop had with-ered in the night.

Some of the principles outlined in the renewedprovincial curriculum and assessment testing forK-9 students remind me of this fable. Their authorclaims that the principles reflect the growing bodyof research on brain development and learning.

But sooften todays insight fromresearchbecomestomorrows discredited idea in practice. For exam-ple, whole-language learning and sound-it-outphonics have each had their turn as insight anddiscredited idea in teaching of reading and writingin our public schools.

I believe that a childs brain is like a digital

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But even though theregional districts arentexactly omnipotent, sittingon one does make balanc-ing the family budget alittle easier.

Last year, council-lors and mayors from theLower Mainland who wereamong the lucky few to bechosen as Metro Vancouverdirectors collectively tookhome $870,000 in stipendsplus $61,000 in expenses;and all of it on top of theirlocal council salaries.

Christmas even cameearly for them. Last month,Metro Vancouver awardedits directors a 2.3 per centpay increase retroactiveto the beginning of 2013;despite the fact that there

were no reports of directorspanhandling to make endsmeet during the year.

For a Metro Vancouverdirector that means $354for every regional districtmeeting that is wrapped upwithin four hours or $88.50per hour. God forbid themeeting should run overfour hours because then thefee doubles. For directorswith additional responsi-bilities or titles, it can bringa whole new meaning totwo-income households.

The mayors of Burnaby,NewWestminster,Richmond and the districtof North Vancouver alltook home at least $26,500from their gigs at MetroVancouver last year, andthats on top of the average

$105,000 that they wereeach paid by their respec-tive communities.

And for MetroVancouvers top dog,Greg Moore, it means anextra $70,865 from MetroVancouver over and abovehis $85,418 salary as mayorof Port Coquitlam.

All nice work if youcan get it, but likely notthe most ideal model forregional governance in2013. Two megacities isntthe answer, but maybe 40communities is no longerappropriate. And its timefor the provincial govern-ment to step up and showsome leadership on theissue.

Dermod Travis is the exec-utive director of IntegrityBC.

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Government: Too many layers?

recorder uncritically absorbing every-thing the child encounters.

This divine design is intended to equipour children to take in the large amountsof information (facts, data and images)they must first absorb before they can startlearning the skill of pattern recognitionthat enables them to make sense of theworld.

Only then, after mastering second-orderpattern recognition can they learn third-order adult skills of critical thinking andfinally how to constantly evaluate incom-ing information keeping or discarding itas appropriate.

The period of uncritical absorption laysthe foundation for all that follows. Just asdwellings built on incomplete foundationslater sag; so educations based on incom-plete absorption of evidence-based knowl-edge (from maths to reading and writing,history, biology, chemistry, physics andgeography, etc.) will later fail.

K-9 students already have all that theycan do in an average school day to absorbthe basics of what they need to knowto prepare for their lives in what prom-ises to be an intensely competitive globaleconomy.

Lets not require them to also practisecritical thinking so soon.

In short: lets get back to basics, lets laya solid foundation of literacy and numera-cy in K-9 and leave the critical thinking to

high school (grades 10 to 12).Heather Leung, via website

Lay off the tree theatricsDear Editor:

Re: Trees bylaw just doesnt cut it , andTree bylaw issue not so clear cut, BurnabyNOW, Oct. 25 and Nov. 1.

I could not have agreed more with thewriters.

I love trees. I believe they play a won-derful, colourful part in our landscaping,but more importantly, we all know thatthey are an immeasurable, vital element ofour universe.

That said, I also believe that neitherthe city nor anybody else should have thepower to stop anybody from cutting atree on their property if they choose to doso. In fact, in my opinion, trees that canpotentially grow beyond 30 feet in heightshould not be allowed to be planted withinthe city.

From my house, I have a wonderfulview of Cypress, Grouse and Seymourmountains. It is a spectacular view.

However, with trees getting taller andtaller, I can see that in the very nearfuture, I will lose that view, which willbe replaced by a blanket of trees. I havealready witnessed that in another part ofthe view I used to be able to enjoy.

As I said, trees are a must-have for allaspects of life, but lets not get too theatri-cal about them.

Frank Di Cesare, Burnaby


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Salmon are returning to spawnom Still Creek, a promising sign thatthe health of the local waterway isimproving.

What weve seen on Still Creek inrecent days has been really exciting,said Burnaby resident Mark Angelo,retired chair emeritus of BCITs RiversInstitute and the founder of WorldRivers Day. On some of the stretchesof the creek, weve seen lots of chumsalmon, and its been really neat tosee.

The salmon spectacle has beenattracting onlookers, according toAngelo.

I would see neighbourhood resi-dents and school kids, or people whohad read about it online, Id seesome people who had travelled quitea distance just to see these fish, hesaid. For the people of Burnaby tocome see the salmon life cycle playout in their own backyard is just soexciting.

Still Creek feeds into BurnabyLake, so the spawning salmon wouldhave travelled up the Fraser River,up Brunette Creek, across the lakeand then up Still Creek, according toAngelo.

Once one of the most pollutedwaterways of the Lower Mainland,Still Creek has come a long way,Angelo pointed out.

According to Angelo, many groupspartnered over the years to help

Salmon returning to BurnabyJennifer Moreaustaff reporter

Salmon run:Mark Angelo,above, withsalmon spawningat Still Creek,just off GilmoreAvenue (seen upclose at left).

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Simon Fraser Universitys Freeman Legacy project.George H.F. McLean has lived in Burnaby for more

than 60 years, raising a family and serving the public.On his dining room table, a large scrapbook filled

with memories is splayed open with black-and white-photographs some even falling out. Many haveMcLean in them but most he took himself during thewar and mailed to a cousin in Scotland to have devel-oped including a snapshot of the chaotic Omaha Beachfrom the water.

I was on the landing craft that delivered the doc-tors and nurses to Omaha Beach, he said. We weredoing special duty because Omaha had badly shotup a lot of wounded that they were just sitting againstthe rocks, bleeding and it was heart-wrenching to see allthese young guys wounded, waiting for attention.

They were stuck on the beach because the captainordered the ship to land far up on it so the nurseswouldnt get their feet wet.

We spent the night withthe Germans threatening usfrom above, and we had aguy who was really nervous,McLean said. He was cry-ing. He was a grown man,you know? We were the lastlanding craft ever to leave theshores. It was quite an ordealwhen youre not sure whathappens to the ship.

McLean was 16 when hefibbed his way into the RoyalCanadian Navy a few yearsafter war was declared. He was

trained as an engineer and volunteered for a combinedoperation unit that would respond to any crisis. He wasshipped off to Toronto, then Detroit to receive the neces-sary training.

I was a big kid at that time, he noted. And quitemuscular, I weighed about 200 pounds.

The next thing he knew, he was boarding a landingcraft in Orange, New Jersey as a member of the crew.

We headed out for Africa, McLean, now 88, said.We landed in Morocco. We were delivering a numberof soldiers that would back up the British regiment thatwas pushing the Germans out of Africa at the time.

Tunisia was the destination, which is where a Germanstronghold was waiting for them.

They (German military) had built a base, he said.I think they expected it to be there forever. So we tooktheir base and it was a mistake because they kept bomb-ing us. One night, they came over and they dropped aseries of bombs and they killed 28 British seamen.

McLeans first taste of war, identifying blown up bod-ies of men still brings tears to his eyes as he retells it.

We had to go identify the bodies, he added. Andhere we are, pulling people out it was a terrible expe-rience for a young fella. One guy lost his head. How doyou identify him? The war had its ups and downs. Wewere widely exposed.

As a crew member, McLean travelled to Gibraltar,North Africa, Malta, Sicily, Britain and France.

Everywhere we went, there were wounded soldierswaiting, McLean said. We had 12 nurses and an entireroll of doctors that were transported on D-Day.

However, being on a ship travelling the waters didnot mean the ship McLean was on was immune fromattack.

When that German plane dropped that bomb theimpact lifted us out of the water, and we were a 20,000-ton ship, he said. And it threw me to the deck.

That incident almost cost them their lives, but theinjury he sustained instead took a toll on McLeans hear-ing.

I hit my head on the deck there, he added. TheGerman plane, I could see the pilot, they were 200 feetabove my head and they just kept going. They were overthe mast. He didnt realize his bomb missed us, and wewere lucky because we have 1,150 American soldiersaboard and 1,000 Dutch men. He couldve really scored.

After the war, McLean moved to his South Burnabyhome at a time when the house he built was surroundedby farms. His wife died in 2006, but hes left with his fivechildren, eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchil-dren.

He entered into municipal affairs in 1957 and stayedfor the next 30 years. He sat on many civic committees,coached minor hockey and is involved with many orga-nizations such as the Royal Canadian Legion, RotaryClub and Burnaby Hospital Society.

Hes also an active participant in the Memory Project,which is a Veterans Affairs of Canada program bring-ing veterans who share their stories into the classroom.By the end of the war, he was awarded many medals,including the North Africa Star, France/Germany Star,the Italian Star and the Malta Star.

Despite the sounds of war far behind him and a lifefilled with volunteering and raising a family, not a daygoes by that McLean doesnt relive the memories ofbattles and fallen friends.

No, never, he said about ever forgetting the expe-rience, while choking back tears. I wake up thinkingabout it.

Neverforget:SecondWorld WarveteranGeorge H.F.McLeanholds upa pictureof his 16-year-oldself in RoyalCanadianNavyuniform.

McLean: We spent the night with theGermans threatening us from abovecontinued from page 1

When askedabout ever forget-ting his experi-ence, McLeansays, No, never... I wake upthinking aboutit.




B.Cs West Coast (and Kinder Morgansterminus is in Burnaby), but both needNational EnergyBoardapproval beforepro-ceeding. B.C. is already on record opposingEnbridges Northern Gateway project, as itcurrently stands, and this new frameworkdoesnt change that, according to Clarkspress secretary, Sam Oliphant.

Its the National Energy Boards job todecide what pipeline or heavy oil projectscan move forward, but Clark has the powerto stop the projects, dead in their tracks,according to Stewart.

Premier Clark hasmade this clear. Shessaid she wouldnt provide electricity, shessaid in previous interviews she would notprovide land permits. If the premier ofprovince says no pipeline, the federal gov-ernment wont push it through. She has aveto over both pipelines, Stewart said.

Jonn Axsen, assistant professor with

SFUs school of resource and environmentalmanagement, doesnt think the premier hasthe social licence to allow either pipelineproject, even if her five conditions are met,and he also raised concerns about climatechange and oil spills. Axsen conducted anationwide survey on the issue and foundB.C. residents were more likely to oppose apipeline coming through the province.

I think its pretty clear, if there is anyserious movement to go forward with thepipeline whether its Northern Gatewayor Kinder Morgan there will be resistancefor almost any action, he said. Its veryimportant for our policy makers to payattention to the case where theres a largechunk of the population who are quiteconcerned or against the pipeline. Thatsuggests to me the protests are not goingto go away; the resistance will be big andwidespread and will not stop.

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Its been so exciting tosee this stream come back tolife, Angelo says.

Last year, Still Creek alsosaw unusually high num-bers of returning salmon,so this years promising runmeans 2012 was not a one-off, according to Angelo.

(Still Creek) can pro-vide a blueprint for othercities with severely dam-aged waterways flowingthrough them. If a plan isput in place, and theres awill and desire, we can turnthings around, he said.We can never give up onany waterway.

Burnabys Stoney Creekis showing high numbers ofsalmon returning this year,according to local stream-keepers. The NOW has alsoheard reports of salmon in

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Interested in dance? You maywant to stop by the ShadboltCentre for the Arts for its nextArt on the Spot event on Saturday,Nov. 23.

The centre is continuing its seriesof free, drop-in arts demonstrationswith a performance by Raven SpiritDance.

Jeanette Kotowich will danceFrost Exploding Trees Moon, cho-reographed by Floyd Favel andMichelle Olson.

Olson, by the way, is a danceinstructor at the Shadbolt Centre.A bio on the Shadbolt websitenotes that shes a choreographer,performer and artistic director ofRaven Spirit Dance, who focuseson developing work in the areas ofdance, theatre and opera. She hasstudied at the University of NewMexico and with Full Circle FirstNations Performance.

The performance runs from 11a.m. to noon in the atrium.

Clef Society concertFuture musical stars are on stage

at the Shadbolt Centre this week-end.

The Burnaby Clef Society isholding its monthly concert thisSunday, Nov. 10 at 2 p.m.

The concert will feature studentsof the Broadway and MarkhamPiano Studio.

The Clef Society concerts arefree to members. Non-memberscan buy a membership at the door.Otherwise, tickets are $10.

Refreshments are served at inter-mission.

Music for lunchtimeThe Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

is offering up A Little Lunch Music.The series features noon-hour

concerts by Shadbolt Centre musicinstructors and a variety of localmusicians in a range of genres.

The concerts happen at EncoresCaf from noon to 1 p.m., includinga special buffet lunch for $12 start-ing at 11:30 a.m.

The events take place on thefourth Thursday of the month(excluding December). Thenext one is Nov. 28, when theWilson/Schachte Duo featuringCameron Wilson on violin andBudge Schachte on guitar will beonstage. The concerts are all freeand open to everyone.

Do you have an item for Lively City?Send arts and entertainment ideas toJulie, [email protected], orfind her on Twitter, @juliemaclellan.

I Cant Believe Its Not Butter Chicken isback and a Burnaby performer is part ofthe fun for the Butter Chicken Best OfShow.

The live sketch comedy night is onstageNov. 15 to 17 at the Newton Cultural Centrein Surrey.

Burnabys Sabrina Saran is part of thelineup for the show, produced by SouthAsian Arts and Bollywood Shenanigans.

It combines whats being billed as best-of-the-best bits from previous Butter

Chicken Shows. Since 2010, theyve beenserving up ethnic-inspired comedy inshows such as I Cant Believe Its Not ButterChicken, The Butter Chicken Reloaded, TheButter Chickens Back ... Alright, and TheFellowship of the Butter Chicken.

No topic is out of bounds for thesecomedy crusaders as they act, sing, danceand Bollywood their brains out in rapidfireskits penned by the Bollywood Shenaniganscrew, a press release says.

The show also features Munish Sharma,

Leena Manro, Jason Vaisvila, Kallol Mitra,Carmel Amit and Stuart Gray.

Its on for five performances over threedays, with 7 p.m. shows on Nov. 15, 16and 17, plus a 9:30 p.m. show on Nov. 16and a 4:30 p.m. show on Nov. 17. Ticketsare $20 in advance or $25 at the door andcan be purchased online at butterchicken.eventbrite.ca.

For more information, check out www.bollywoodshenanigans.com.

Julie MacLellan

The Burnaby Art Gallery is presentingeclectic selections from its collection at threenew exhibitions at local library branches.

The Burnaby Public Librarys Metrotownbranch is playing host to Haydn Thomas:ESC CTRL, until Feb. 2.

The exhibition includes a series of pencilcrayon drawings by Thomas, combiningforms and motifs drawn from nature.

Patterns emerge from these formsthrough a wandering, unplanned drawingprocess, with the artist seeking to allow thedrawings themselves to unfold and bloom,a press release explains.

Thomas is inspired by various sources Ukrainian Easter eggs, Indian and Tibetanmandalas, Moroccan rug designs, Polishand Eastern European lace work.

Thomas is presenting an artist walkon Nov. 17, meeting in the atrium at theMetrotown library at 2 p.m. He will discusshis ideas on drawing and his recent experi-

mentation with patterning from variousmushroom and fungus spores, then lead awalk to look at and collect natural patternpieces in Central Park.

The walk is free, and everyone is wel-come. The Metrotown library branch is at6100 Willingdon Ave.

At the McGill branch in North Burnaby,art lovers can enjoy The Natural Numeral,an exhibition that draws on the galleryspermanent collection to examine the use ofnumbers in printmaking.

The release notes that the works refer-ence the Gregorian calendar and seafaringcharts, and draw upon scoring systems andthe ordering of objects, precise measure-ment and cures for insomnia.

What can also be noted when viewingthese works is the graphic presence of thenumeral in other words, the number asform or shape, the release notes.

The McGill library is at 4595 Albert St.

At the Tommy Douglas Library branchon Kingsway, viewers can check out RareBooks, a special exhibition of eight rarebooks from thegallerys library and resourcecollection. The library is at 7311 Kingsway.

For more details, check out www.burnabyartgallery.ca, or drop by any of thelibrary branches during opening hours.

LIVELY CITYJulie MacLellan

Dance atShadbolt

Bollywood shenanigans: Sabrina Saran of Burnaby is onstage in I Cant Believe Its Not Butter Chicken: The Best Of Show, runningNov. 15 to 17 at the Newton Cultural Centre.

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Gallery offers exhibitions at librariesThe art ofnumbers:Kay Murray-WebbersNumbered Days(1976) is partof The NaturalNumeralexhibition atthe McGilllibrary branch.Photo contributed/burnaby now



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The Vancouver Foodsterhimself, Richard Wolak, isserving up a delicious eve-ning in Burnaby Heightsnext month.

Wolak, writer andfounder of www.VancouverFoodster.com, isorganizing a Tasting Platestour of the neighbourhoodon Dec. 11.

Though Wolak was a fanof Romana restaurant onHastings Street, he was notaware of the other eateriesopening in the area untillast spring, he says.

Ive been at Romana,for years Ive gone there,but all I knew was Romana,I didnt realize there wasmore to the neighbour-hood, he says, adding thatthe neighbourhood came onhis radar again last springwhen Chez ChristopheChocolaterie Patisserie andGlenburn Soda Fountainand Confectionery opened.So he made a visit to theneighbourhood.

When I did, I was like,Wow, theres all these newrestaurants, its a real hubnow, he says. Its a hugeresurgence of that neigh-bourhood.

Wolaks event is intend-ed to make foodies inVancouver aware of theneighbourhoods offerings,he says.

I think an event likethis is gonna put it moreon the radar for people inthe city, Wolak says. Thepeople who go to my eventsare all foodies from all overthe city.

Thus far, four locationsare confirmed CioffisMeatMarket andDeli, CaffeDivano, Chez Christopheand Glenburn.

Wolak says four morelocations will be confirmedin the next week.

The idea is, therell beItalian, therell be Greek,therell be Thai, he says.

Cioffis is planning tast-ings on both sides of theirlocation the meat marketand the deli. Caffe Divanois serving up coffee andhot chocolate, and Chez

Christophe and Glenburnwill be offering desserts.

Wolak began his TastingPlates event series nearlytwo years ago, he says.

I did one and it wasa huge hit, and everyonewas like, when is the nextone? Wolak says.

Since then, he has beenpacing how often he holdsevents, so that they arenttoo close together, he says.In the summer, he did onein North Vancouver.

North Van was a hugehit, he adds.

He has to check out eachlocation before adding itto the event and has beenvisiting many places in theHeights recently, he says.

Ive been eating a lotin that neighbourhood.Wolak says. Any place thatI have any ofmy events, Ivegot to have eaten there firstand its got to be good. If itsnot good, Im not invitingthem.

But Wolak also looks forsomething special at theplaces he adds to the tours.

If people are going totry the food, its got to begood food, first of all, butits got to be something abit more enticing there forpeople, he says.

Because the Burnabyevent is in mid-December,there will be a bit of a holi-day theme, as well, accord-ing to Wolak.

The focus is Burnabyand Burnaby Heights, butbecause its so close tothe holidays and BurnabyHeights neighbourhood isgoing to be lit up with allthe lights in the neighbour-hood, I thought, well, mightas well make it holidayish,he says.

Tasting Plates, BurnabyHeights edition, takes placefrom 6 to 9:30 p.m. on Dec.11. Early bird tickets to thewalking and tasting tour areon sale until Nov. 12. Earlybird tickets are $24.50 plus afee and GST, advance tick-ets sold after Nov. 12 are$40 plus a fee and GST, andregular tickets are $50 plus afee and GST.

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The mats will be donat-ed to the B.C. SPCA.

Mats we collect will bedonated to the B.C. SPCAwhere they will have asecond life giving the res-cued animals somethingmore comfortable to lieon, stated a press releasefrom the studio. Thereare a myriad of reasonswhy a good number of theanimals cannot have a bedmade of cosy blankets, soan old yoga/pilates mat isjust the ticket.

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The workshop on Nov.19 will teach business own-ers how to respond to com-petitive bid documents. Thecitys purchasing depart-ment is hosting the interac-tive how-to workshopto help small and mediumbusinesses improve theirsubmissions to bid oppor-tunities.

The free workshop takesplace from 10 to 11:30 a.m.in council chambers at cityhall, 4949 Canada Way. Toregister, call 604-412-0100,sign up online by clickingon the events tab at bbot.caor email [email protected].

BCIT studentsearn bursaries

Two Burnaby studentshave the New Car DealersFoundation of B.C. to thankfor helping drive theirfutures forward.

Alvin Chen andMengYu Chen each received a$500 education grant fromthe foundation throughits bursary program,CarCareerBC.

Both are attending BCIT Alvin is enrolled in theautomotive technicianfoundation program andMeng Yu is enrolled in theautomotive service techni-cian program and works atNorth Shore Acura.

In all, nine BCIT stu-dents received bursariesfrom the foundation. In2013, more than $30,000in education grants wasawarded to individualsthroughout B.C.

BCIT aerospaceprogram soars

BCIT is flying high afterreceiving an award fromthe B.C. Aviation Council.

BCITs aerospaceprogram was given theRobert S. Day Award forits outstanding contribu-tion to the promotion anddevelopment of aviation inB.C., and whose programsgraduate 200 job-ready per-sonnel annually, accord-ing to a press release fromthe council.

The Silver WingsAwards were presentedon Oct. 30 at the annualawards gala, as well as$10,000 in scholarshipsfor students in the fieldsof flying, engineering andaviation management, therelease stated.

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Local businesses knowthat planning for theholidays begins long beforeDecember.

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Be sure to let theBurnaby NOW know aboutit, and Ill include a men-tion in our business col-umn. Just be sure to give usplenty of notice at leasttwo to three weeks. Emailthe pertinent details [email protected].

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Payingour respectsPoppies are on lapels asRemembrance Day ceremonies inBurnaby are around the corner.The Edmonds Community Centre ishosting the first Remembrance Dayservice on Nov. 9. Locals have theopportunity to participate in honouringthe men and women who have served inwartimes from 1 to 3 p.m.

On Nov. 11, there will be RemembranceDay parades and ceremonies in bothNorth and South Burnaby.

The Royal Canadian Legion BranchNo. 148 of North Burnaby is once againorganizing the parade, which begins at10:30 a.m. from the Safeway Parking lot,4440 Hastings St. Then it travels easton Hastings Street, taking a left on BetaAvenue heading north. The ceremonystarts at 10:45 a.m. at the cenotaphin Confederation Park, atWillingdonAvenue and Penzance Drive.

Following the ceremony, there will be areception at ConfederationSeniors Centre.

The Royal Canadian Legion Branch No.83 and the Korean Veterans AssociationUnit 14 will conduct the Nov. 11 paradeand ceremony in South Burnaby, whichstarts at 10:15 a.m. at the legion at5289 Grimmer St. The parade will thenmarch west and turn left onto Royal OakAvenue, heading south, and then turnsright on Imperial Avenue. From there,it will go west and turn right on JubileeAvenue until it reaches the cenotaph.

The streets surrounding the parade routewill be barricaded prior to the paradeuntil the ceremony ends around12:30 p.m.

Theres also a Remembrance Day loonieskate at the Kensington RecreationComplex, 6159 Curtis St. Children underthree skate for free. Skates and helmetsare included in the admission fee.

Also, all Burnaby community centres willobserve a moment of silence on Nov. 11at 11 a.m.

For more information, visit www.burnaby.ca.


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Battleeld poem lives onThe famous lines by Lt-Col. John McCrae, scrawled during the Battle of Ypres,have become enshrined in the innermost thoughts and hearts of all soldierswho hear them.John McCrae was their voice.The poem circulated as a folk song, by word of mouth and all who hear it are deeplytouched.The poem speaks of Flanders fields, but the subject is universal the fear of the deadthat they will be forgotten, that their death will have been in vain. Remembrance, assymbolized by the poppy, is our eternal answer which belies that fear. Sadly, McCraedied of pneumonia atWimereux near Boulogne, France on January 28, 1918 when hewas 44 years old. His words, however, are immortal.

In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

Source: Royal Canadian Legion website,www.legion.ca

IN FLANDERS FIELDS

ThePoppy is a symbol of remembrance

The poppy hasstood as the officialsymbol of CanadasRemembrance Day since1921, a visual reminder ofall those who made theultimate sacrifice for war.Some may wonder whythis small flower is usedto represent the fallensoldier.

Poppies and fallensoldiers have a longhistory together. Theorigins of the flowercan be traced back tothe Napoleonic wars inFrance. During thesetimes of unrest and battle,many soldiers went onto final resting placesin graves in Flanders,France. Ensuing literaturedescribing how poppiesgrew so thickly andvibrantly over thesegraves in soil that oncecould not produce muchvegetation. Lt.-Col. John

McCrae observed howpoppies grew so wellamong the makeshiftgraves of the soliders.When McCrae lost afellow soldier and close

friend, he penned a poemcalled In Flanders Fieldsand portrayed the pictureof war and the poppyflower visual.

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The Royal Canadian LegionBranch #148 - North BurnabyNorth Burnaby Cenotaph,Confederation ParkWillingdon Avenue and Penzance Dr.Parade begins at 10:30 a.m.from Safeway parking lot,4440 Hastings StreetCeremony begins at 10:45 a.m.

The Royal Canadian LegionBranch #83 - South BurnabySouth Burnaby Cenotaph,Bonsor ParkImperial Street and Nelson AvenueParade begins at 10:30 a.m.from Legion #83, 5289 Grimmer StreetCeremony begins at 11:00 a.m.

BurnabyRemembersOn this November 11th, take a momentto pause, reect and remember.

For more information, please go towww.burnaby.ca/remembers

Themanwhomadeboots for the soldiersBurnaby is a citywith a past, and itis that past that wechoose to honour withour Then and NOW series.

Each month, the BurnabyNOW will publish aphoto from the BurnabyArchives of days gone byalongside a similar recentphoto of the city. Thesephotos will provide aglimpse of what life waslike in Burnabys earlydays, what has changedand what hasnt.

Keep an eye out nextmonth for the nextinstallment in the series.

Good quality boots wereessential to the comfortand even survival ofsoldiers in the SecondWorldWar, and Bill Priceworked hard to make sureCanadian soldiers had thebest.

Price was a shoerepairman by trade,according to his son,David Price.

Bill was a sticher operatorat a large shoe repair shopat the corner of MainStreet and Broadwayin Vancouver and soonfound his skill declared anessential service.

During the war years hewanted to go work for theshipyards, to make moremoney, David said. Theysaid, if you go work forthe shipyards, well putyou in jail.

He repaired all thefootwear for all theCanadian forces.According to David, theair force got double-soledshoes, so they would lastlonger.

Though Bill was neverrecognized for the

service he providedduring the war, he wasable to join the ImperialVeterans Corps of B.C.The Imperial Veteransled the RemembranceDay parade in NewWestminster for manyyears, according to David.

Bill moved to Burnabyfrom England when he

was about five years old,David said, in 1905.

The family lived nearRoyal Oak Avenue andKingsway, he said, addinghis uncle Bert, whoworked for the City ofBurnaby, lived next toOakalla.

Right next door to it wasa raspberry farm and a

hay farm - that was myuncle, David said.

Bill passed away in 1993.By Janaya Fuller-Evans

Then:William Francis Bill Price, leading his last RemembranceDay parade in 1989.

Photo #315-449 contributed by the Burnaby Archives/BURNABY NOW

Now: The Burnaby Heights Remembrance Day parade on Nov.11, 2012, led by Royal Canadian Legion, Burnaby HeightsBranch 148. File photo/BURNABY NOW


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It is a weekend to remember inBurnaby. Were continuing with our pop-ular feature our staffs Top 5 (Or More)Things To Do This Weekend. Heres ourlist for Nov. 8 to 11.

1Get shopping early at A Marketwith Heart, the fourth annual pre-Christmas market at South BurnabyUnited Church hall, 7591 Gray Ave.,on Friday, 4 to 8 p.m. Do some earlyChristmas shopping whileyou improve the lives ofthousands. Gift items andtreats being sold to raisefunds for the Stephen LewisFoundation Grandmothers toGrandmothers, Ten ThousandVillages, fair trade and sociallyconscious local organizations,and many more eco-friendlyvendors.

2Get honouring Canadasveterans a couple of daysearly at a RemembranceDay service at the EdmondsCommunity Centre at 7433Edmonds St. from 1 to 3 p.m.Join the service honouring the men andwomen who served in wartimes. Formore information, call 604-297-4838.

3Get creative with the family at theBurnaby Art Gallerys family pro-gram in connection with the Storms andBright Skies: Three Centuries of DutchLandscapes and Inner Realms: DutchPortraits exhibitions at the gallery. Drop-in, no registration required, activities onthe half-hour from 1 to 4 p.m. The galleryis at 6344 Deer Lake Ave. For more infor-

mation, go to www.burnabyartgallery.ca.

4Get into Vancouver to check outsome Burnaby talent at the CircleCraft Christmas Market. Douglas BalletAcademy dancers are performing onSunday at 5 p.m., and local vendors areamong the 300 exhibitors. The markettakes place at the Vancouver ConventionCentre West. Among the exhibitors thisyear is Burnabys RoseHip Hat Studio

(www.rosehiphats.com), withhats made with vintage textilesand earthy fibres. The marketis open Thursday, Friday andSaturday from 10 a.m. to 9p.m., Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7p.m. and Monday from 10 a.m.to 5 p.m. Admission is $12regular or $10 for seniors andstudents; children under 12 arefree. Check out www.circlecraft.net for more information.

5Get attending one of theRemembrance Day cer-emonies on Monday, Nov.11. The South Burnaby paradebegins at 10:30 a.m. from

Royal Canadian Legion branch No. 83,5289 Grimmer St. The ceremony at theSouth Burnaby cenotaph in Bonsor Parkbegins at 11 a.m. The North Burnabyparade begins at 10:30 a.m. in the Safewayparking lot at 4440 Hastings St. The cer-emony at the North Burnaby cenotaph inConfederation Park begins at 10:45 a.m.

Email your Top 5 ideas to [email protected]. You can also check out ourfull arts and events calendar listings at www.burnabynow.com.

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It was the first yearfor the Stingray, the onlyyear for the split rearwindow, and although thecar was red instead of itsoriginal Sebring Silver,magical phrases in theEbay ad such as restoredwithin the last year, newpaint, and perfect inter-ior, and 20 or so goodphotos had the WheelbaseMedia gang convincedthat the price was morethan fair.

Ebay and other onlinesources can be great placesto find rare and uniquevehicles that are just notavailable on local car lots unless youre sloppywith the transaction.

This could be the sub-ject of a book and sometime spent in a courtroomover what was blatant mis-representation by the sellerof this particular vehicle.

Certainly the experienceprovided some practical,real-world, expensiveadvice for anyone contem-plating buying a vehiclethat they have foundsomewhere online.

Keep in mind that thesesites are merely a conduitto the vehicles.

The actual transactionis between you and theseller/buyer, which meansyou need your game faceon at all times.

In hindsight, it was easyto see what went wrong.At the time, however, alllooked rosy.

Cheerful correspond-ence from the seller, a sup-posedly reputable used-cardealer from the Bronx inNew York with words ofhigh praise from manyother buyers, put theWheelbase gangs mind atease, even as the money,$30,600 of it, was now inthe hands of the seller.

Rather than drive fora couple of days to showup with the cash and col-lect the car, it was decidedto send the money andhave the car shipped in anenclosed transport truck.Thats how confidenteveryone was about theVettes condition.

Imagine the surprise ofa car that barely ran (sellerdescription: beautifulrunning), poured bluesmoke from its burned-out engine, had plenty ofinterior tears, and uponcloser inspection, had beenhit, at one time or another,on three of its four cor-ners (description: Verystraight and clean body).

Sloppy bodywork cov-ered by cracked and fadedpaint that was at least 20years old (description:restored within the lastyear).

Weeds had grownthrough the wheel cov-ers and the passengerside front floor pan wasfilled with water from anobvious leak (description:always garaged through-out).

You mean you didntgo look at the car beforebidding?

Wheelbases hired-gunbody man, Mike, wasquick to point out theobvious problem and thebiggest mistake.

Me, I wouldnt nor-mally drop $306 on avehicle located on thesame street without seeingit first, let alone $30,600 forone thats more than 1,500kilometres away.

Absolutely nothingbeats buying a local carthat you can touch, hearand drive, so dont let dis-tance be an excuse for notpicking over a prospectivepurchase up close.

This, however, isactually trickier than itseems since the durationof an Ebay auction, inparticular, is usually sevento 10 days.

Often youll stumbleover an auction that hasjust a day or two remain-ing, which, depending onthe location of the vehicle,might be almost impos-sible to see in time todecide whether you wantto bid at all.

This, of course, assumesthat after all that time andeffort, you actually bidenough money to get thevehicle. So, what do youdo?

If youre serious aboutgetting your moneysworth, its better to be outthe travel time and theairfare (if you have to fly)than risk a bad purchase.But is there any otheroption?

The more reputablesellers will let you inspectthe vehicle before hand-ing over the money, evenafter the auction is over

and youve committed tobuy. Although many sell-ers dont state this up frontin their payment terms,its obviously in your bestinterest to at least askbefore bidding (and notafter).

If none of this is pos-sible, the last resort is tohave someone who lives

near the vehicle check itout and report back toyou.

Of course, it has to besomeone with some know-ledge about the year andmodel of vehicle, whichmight be difficult to findon short notice.

For older cars, contactthe appropriate local car

club and inquire about aninspection.

Ahhhh, good commonsense.

But where was the com-mon sense when it came tothe Corvette?

Lulled into a false senseof security by what wasthought to be an accurateand honest description

(even with flowery prosedialed out), and no doubtcaught up in the excite-ment of auction madness,if youre going to trust atotal stranger with your$30,600, you need to mini-mize, or entirely negate,the risk.

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