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Parts of Alpha Second-ary School could meet thewrecking ball in a matterof weeks with the start ofa $27.2-million partial re-placement of the school.
School officials and Burn-aby North MLA RichardLee were at Alpha Mon-
day morning for the offi-cial ground breaking on theproject and to unveil designplans.
The project, scheduledfor completion in fall 2018,involves the replacement oftwo classroom wings andseismic upgrades to the restof the school.
The district had origi-nally hoped to see 60-year-
old Alpha replaced entirelybut was told by the provincefunding wasn’t available.
“It’s not a new school, butgiven the limitations of thebudget, it’s the best possibleoutcome,” principal PaulFester told the NOW.
The project will increasethe school’s student capaci-ty from 1,025 to 1,100.
Besides a new classroom
block, the school will alsoget a new science “superlab” – six classrooms thatwill open up onto a large labfor experiments – and a new“learning commons” to re-place the current library.
Unlike a traditional li-brary, the learning com-mons will have fixed shelvesonly along the walls, whileall the shelves in the mid-
dle of the space will be onwheels.
“You can actually re-cre-ate the space for whatev-er kind of learning oppor-tunities you need,” Festersaid. “I’m not even goingto predict what we’re go-ing to do in it because wewant it to be very flexible, so– especially as the new cur-riculum’s coming up – we
can go ahead and use it inwhichever way our teacherscan imagine.”
The project will also bringmuch needed technologi-cal upgrades to the school,including a proper fibre-op-tic backbone and improvedWi-Fi.
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It’s a problem that boththe construction industryand work safety organiza-tions have been trying to geta handle on for years.
Exposure to asbestosis not only dangerous forworkers in the constructionindustry, but also the gener-al public.
In light of the dangers,Burnaby city council is hop-ing to put pressure on theprovincial government bypassing a resolution callingfor mandatory certificationand licensing of asbestosand hazardous material re-
moval contractors.Along with the resolution,
the city is sending a letter tothe provincial governmentand the Premier with the re-quest.
Asbestos was a popu-lar building material for de-cades, but exposure to thefibre is linked to several dis-eases, including lung cancer.
Coun. Sav Dhaliwal, whomade the motion at Mon-day’s council meeting, saidcertification for asbestos re-moval is a longstanding is-sue, adding there isn’t ade-quate protection for workersin the industry.
“I think the situation hasbecome so serious, when welook at the stats, the numberof deaths and other illness-es, we need to have someaction on it,” he said, not-
ing asbestos exposure is theleading cause of work-relat-ed deaths in B.C.
The city councillor alsopointed out there is current-ly no provincial certificationor licensing in B.C. to en-sure standards or allow forthe suspension of non-com-pliant contractors.
Dhaliwal did suggestthere should be time andreasonable notice for the in-dustry to adjust to any regu-lations.
An association that rep-resents the construction in-dustry said it welcomescertification for asbestos re-moval contractors, but ar-gued it may not be enoughto address the issue.
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CITYNEWS TapwatergettingbetterBurnaby residents will
be happy to know the H20that comes out of their tapsevery day is pretty darngood.
On Monday, the city’sannual drinking wa-ter quality monitoring re-port for 2015 was present-ed to council, which foundoverall the water quality inBurnaby continues to im-prove over previous years.
In 2015, a total of 2,900routine drinking water sam-ples were obtained in Burn-aby for bacteriological anal-ysis; 1,617 samples weretaken by city staff and an-other 1,283 samples col-lected by MetroVancou-ver staff.
According to the report,there was no E. coli detect-ed in any of the potable wa-ter sampled. At no time didthe percentage of samples
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The report also not-ed 93 per cent of the sam-ples taken met chlorine re-sidual objectives, while thepH (physical/chemical), vi-nyl chloride and the disin-fection by-products mea-sured as trihalomethanes,bromochloromethanes andhaloacetic acids were foundto be below federal guide-lines.
“The city continues toprovide excellent drinkingwater to its citizens,” saidCoun. Anne Kang, whoadded when she hosts out-of-town guests, she getshigh praise for the tap wa-ter.
She also encouraged resi-dents to conserve water inlight of last summer’s dry
weather, noting the city hasrain barrels available for usein gardens.
Mayor Derek Corriganlamented over the popular-ity of bottled water, notingpeople will pay as much asthey do for a litre of gaso-line for water that’s no bet-ter than what comes outthe tap. He argued stickingto tap water not only savesmoney, but also oil that’sused in producing plasticbottles.
“If you ever see thoseplastic bottles in our lakesand rivers you know whatdamage they can do,” Cor-rigan said.
The city will continue toreplace aging water mains,undertake routine flushingof water mains and moni-tor water as part of its waterimprovement program.
– By Jeremy Deutsch
There’s no shortage ofhigh-end souped-up ridesrunning around the Low-er Mainland, and one of thebigger gatherings for car fa-natics has been at Burnaby’sMarket Crossing shoppingcentre.
For years, onThursdayswhen the weather was nicein the summer, the market’sparking lot played host to anunsanctioned car meet. Atits height, hundreds of carswould show up, with own-ers showing off their wheels.
But the meet, at least atMarket Crossing, appears tobe coming to an end.
After receiving a num-ber of complaints from bothcustomers and businesses,the shopping centre’s man-agement recently decided toclamp down on the meet.
JulieWright, the mall’sproperty manager withWestbank Projects Corp.,said some of the customersfelt intimated by the crowdsor couldn’t find parking.
She also noted some ofthe people attending themeet were engaging in “ag-gressive behavior,” includingpublic drunkenness, racingand doing burnouts.
“I’ve tried to reach outto these groups, but no onewants to take responsibili-ty for the group, and no one
wants to talk to the man-ager of the mall to discussa better resolution for this,”Wright told the NOW. “Itwas becoming such a safetyissue we felt like we had togo beyond just having a se-curity presence.”
In March, aYouTube vid-eo surfaced showing a fightat one of the meets.
So in the last few weeks,management has hired a se-curity team to set up at theentrances to explain to any-one coming to the car meetthat the event is not allowedand the mall is on privateproperty.
Wright said the mes-sage appears to be gettingthrough, noting last weekhardly anyone showed upfor the meet. She said she’sheard through social me-dia the car group has movedtheir event to another loca-tion.
London Drugs was oneof the businesses that re-ceived and passed alongcomplaints to the mall man-agement.
Tony Hunt, the gener-al manager of loss preven-tion for London Drugs, saidthe business received com-plaints about people havingtrouble finding parking toaggressive driving.
He said the businessasked mall management toaddress the concerns.
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“Clearly we want to havea nice, safe, easy-to-vis-it parking lot that peoplecan come to and park whilethey’re doing their shop-ping,” Hunt said.
Not everyone is pleasedby the mall’s approach.TheNOW received an emailfrom a customer who saidshe was told she couldn’tenter the parking lot be-cause of the car she drove,which was a Honda Civic.
Both London Drugs and
the property managementcompany acknowledged thecomplaint, suggesting it wasnever the intention to pre-vent people from shoppingat the centre.
The NOW also attemptedto reach out to the organiz-ers of the car meet but wasunsuccessful in getting a re-sponse.The Facebook pageVan City Meets had recentposts about the car meet,but it was unclear who wasrunning the page.
For their part, Burna-
by Mounties said they werecalled to the market in thelast couple weeks for theevent, but just to keep thepeace.
RCMP Sgt. Derek
Thibodeau said he’s notaware of any criminal trou-ble, noting the number ofcars has dropped off re-cently.
“We’re not anticipat-ing there to be any issues orproblems,” he said.
As for why Market Cross-ing was chosen for the carmeet,Wright suggested thelocation is central, it’s well-lit for people to take pic-tures and there are 24-hourrestaurants.
Construction Associations(COCA), a group that rep-resents several construc-tion associations in B.C.,suggested the problem isn’twith the “gold standard” ofasbestos abatement compa-nies, but rather the fly-by-night businesses that under-cut the industry and dumpwaste where they’re notsupposed to, in places like
city parks.He said the companies
operating in the under-ground economy are mak-ing deals with homeownersthat regulated companiescan’t match.
Baspaly said regulationslike the ones proposed byBurnaby could have unin-tended consequences bydriving up the costs for cer-tified companies and push-
ing people to seek operatorsin the underground econ-omy.
He said enforcement andincentives need to be part ofthe answer, adding his or-ganization is urging all theparties with a stake in theissue to come together towork out a solution.
“It’s a complicated issue,it’s a pervasive issue andpeople are still very much at
risk,” Baspaly said.The head of COCA said
he’s not exactly sure howmuch asbestos is in the cur-rent building and housingstock in the region, but an-ecdotally he’s heard frommembers that it’s a “big is-sue.”
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TrudeaugivethandtakethawayLast week Premier Chris-
ty Clark, Prime MinisterJustinTrudeau andVancou-ver Mayor Gregor Robert-son were cheek to jowl pos-ing for photos at the bigmultimillion-dollar transitfunding announcement inBurnaby.They put on theirbest faces and paraded to-gether for the media.
This weekVancouverMayor Gregor Robertson isproud to announce that hiscity is the latest to launcha court challenge aimed at
putting the brakes on theTrans Mountain pipeline.
The government givethand then taketh away.
If JustinTrudeau thoughtthat coming through withhis promise of major transitinfrastructure bucks wouldcool the anti-pipeline fer-vour on theWest Coast, hewas wrong.
Vancouver’s court chal-lenge is somewhat likeBurnaby’s. It’s a no-holds-barred attack on both theNEB process and the de-
cision to recommend ap-proval.
In a statement, Robertsonsaid the board ignored keypieces of scientific evidenceabout what would happen ifthere was an oil spill. And,of course, the NEB did noteven address the larger pic-ture of greenhouse gas om-missions.
The city also asked thecourt to prevent the federalgovernment from making adecision until the NEB goesback and looks at it all again
under a proper process –one that allows cross-exam-inations and true communi-ty consultations.
ButTrudeau’s cagey an-swers to questions aboutthe pipeline approval areno comfort to anti-pipelineforces.
Trudeau keeps pointingto how hard it is to pleaseeverybody and how there’s alot of give and take in proj-ects.We’re thinking he’s nottrying to let the oil baronsdown softly. He’s more like-
ly signalling to the oil com-panies that they’re going toget their way again.
It’s one of those politi-cal dilemmas that has got usstuck in an Earth-damagingvicious circle.
Trudeau knows that con-tinuing dependency on fos-sil fuel essentially harmsthe planet and Canada. Butcutting it off now dampensa bit of the economic flowto Alberta and the federalgovernment.
He, like the rest of us,
wants it both ways. A clean-er, healthier planet and theability to keep the moneyflowing at the same time.
Perhaps he will find that“sweet spot” on the fenceand be able to balance hissupporters and his princi-ples. But we doubt it.
Perhaps he’s even hopingthat one of the court chal-lenges does stop the pipe-line.
If he is, we’re with him onthat faint hope.
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Transiteasierthanhousing
Prime Minister JustinTrudeau flew into townlate last week and began tosolve one pressing issue fac-ing MetroVancouver andthen found himself smack inthe middle of another onewhere a solution may proveto be more elusive.
Trudeau followed throughon a key election promiseand provided almost a half-billion dollars for transit im-provements, almost all ofthem in the metro region.
But no sooner did he dothat with a lavish photo-opat a transit station than hefound himself facing ques-tions about another ma-jor issue: the out-of-controlhousing market in MetroVancouver.
The transit funding is forwhat is called “Phase 1” of amulti-billion-dollar plan forall kinds of transit and trans-portation projects. Phase 1will pay for more cars onvarious rapid transit routes,a third SeaBus, variousmaintenance projects andpre-construction planningfor two megaprojects: theBroadway subway line andthe Surrey light rail lines.
There’s no reason to thinkTrudeau won’t bring hisgovernment’s chequebooksome months from now tohelp fund the next phase oftransit improvements, whichwill include constructionmoney for those megaproj-ects.
Of course, that is basedon the assumption thatMetroVancouver’s mayorswill find a way to fund theirshare.The first phase wasrelatively cheap, and so find-
ing a way of paying for it –fare increases, some landsales and a minor propertytax increase – wasn’t a par-ticularly onerous task forthem.
But the next phase ismuch more expensive.Themayors are already makingnoise about getting a shareof the province’s carbon tax,but the odds of that happen-ing appear remote, so theymay have to swallow hardand dig deep into the walletsof municipal taxpayers.
As for the prime minis-ter, he attended a round-ta-ble discussion on the hous-ing problem the day afterhis splashy transit event.He seemed less sure aboutthings at this gathering, call-ing the housing situation a“crisis” but at the same timeexpressing concern that thewrong kind of action couldmake matters worse.
His hesitation here is un-derstandable. Everyoneseems to be a housing ex-pert these days – journal-ists, Realtors, developersand homebuyers – but I’veseen no evidence that anyone thing is unquestionablythe root of the problem, andwhat the magic bullet solu-tion is.
Ask three economistswhat the cause and solutionare, and chances are youwill get a variety of answers,some of them contradictory.
Many point to foreignmoney flooding the market,but banning foreign invest-ment outright may trigger adifferent kind of economicproblem.
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City hall pay ratesraise questionsDear Editor Itwaswith a sighof relief thatwe read that Burnaby city councillors andother city staff (some700of them) earned themodest sumof $70,000per annum (beforeconsidering variouswrite-offs and themysti-cal/mythical “returning allowance”).Wearegiven towonder if this has anything todowithMaclean’smagazine’s honorific of Burnaby asbeing the country’s “Best RunCity” designa-tion, someyears back?All told, $153.83million, last year!If thatweren’t enough,weare absolutely
giddywhenmadeaware that school districtsalaries (2015) addedup to about $170million,before expenses.Especially given that provincial examsare to
bedoneawaywith, leavingparentswith littleto judge as towhether they are getting valueformoney. If I were abettingman, Iwould giveyougoododds they aren’t.LarryBennett, Burnaby
Housing crisis has noeasy answers
Others say the housing supply itself hasto be greatly increased.
The B.C. government is pressingTrudeau to change tax rules to make iteasier to build rental properties, and forthe federal government to once againbuild social housing. Provincial officialshave told their federal counterparts to re-lease federal lands that aren’t needed tobuild more housing, to eliminate GSTon all construction of new rental proper-ty and to reduce the capital gains tax onhousing used for rental property.
This reflects B.C.’s position that the saf-est kinds of action can take place on thesupply side of the equation, rather thantrying to monkey around with dramat-ic devices on the demand side that couldmake prices tumble downwards too much.A recent Bank of Canada study, for ex-ample, concluded that a 25 per cent re-duction in housing prices would translateinto 23 per cent of homeowners suddenlyhaving their mortgages “underwater” (i.e.negative equity) and seven per cent wouldthen have an unsupportable debt load.
The B.C. government itself is likely togive the City ofVancouver the power totax vacant property owners, provide in-centives to municipalities to encouragehigh-density housing along transit lines(particularly rapid transit station) and willperhaps do some tinkering around foreignownership.
So caution seems to be the watchwordfor both political leaders on this issue.
And our new prime minister is aboutto discover that signing a big cheque topay for things like transit is a much easi-er endeavour than finding the right kindof action to take to deal with the explosivehousing market.Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for
Global B.C.
SFU president revivesplan for local gondola
MikeBHopefully it’s just the air on topof BurnabyMountain but Petter has togive his heada shake to even sug-gest putting in a gondola to SFUwillprovide economicbenefits, Translinkmight be aneasy sell but other levels ofgovernmentwill see through thehazeand see it forwhat it is-a hugewaste ofmoney. Consider the last timeSFUwastrying to sell this thing they admittedthat itwouldn’t help the large chunkofpeoplewhoget to SFU fromHastingsStreet and thebuseswouldhave tocontinue evenwith the gondola.If there is a problemwithbus service totheuniversity howabout addingmorebuses, not onlywould this require littleor no study, it couldbeactive in a fewdays and in the event ridership is slowsomedays of theweekor year thebuses couldbeusedonother routes.It’s a nobrainer andhopefully Translinkwon’twaste anymoreof their timeandmoney thinking about the gondola. Ifyoubelieve Translink they constantlytell everyone theydon’t have enoughmoney for evenbasic transit needstherefore the last thing they shouldwastemoneyon is a glorified ski lift.
LouK Translink can’t afford existingupgrades. This one is a dud. Put it 6”under. AndrewPetter, stickwith educa-tion and stay out of transit.
RyanMcLaughlin Thebusiness casefor theproject is very strong. It foundtheoverall benefits of theproject vastlyoutweigh the costs. And it’s onlymar-ginallymore costly than runningbusesifwe ignore all the other benefits.Respectable people don’t considertaking transit to SFUas it stands. Theconditionof the trip in that bus up thehill is simply abysmal.
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THE 2015 CITY OF BURNABYANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT
on MondayJune 27, 2016at 7:00 PM
In accordance with Section 99 of the CommunityCharter, the Council of the City of Burnabywill receive the City’s 2015 Annual FinancialReport which includes the City’s FinancialStatements for the year ended December 31,2015 in the:
Council ChamberCity Hall4949 Canada WayBurnaby, B.C.
The Annual Financial Report is available forinspection by the public on the City’s websitewww.burnaby.ca and copies are also availablein the Finance Department, Burnaby City Hall,4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, BC, during regularbusiness hours.
Should you have any comments or questionsyou wish to convey to Council concerning theAnnual Financial Report, please submit viafax at 604-294-7537, email [email protected] submit them in writing to theCity Clerk prior to 4:30 PM, Thursday,June 23, 2016.
ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENTS
PUBLIC HEARINGThe Council of the City of Burnaby hereby gives notice that it will hold a Public Hearing
TUESDAY, 2016 JUNE 28 AT 7:00 PMin the Council Chamber, Burnaby City Hall, 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, B.C., V5G 1M2to receive representations in connection with the following proposed amendments to
“Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965”.
Rez. #16-15
450 Clare Avenue
From: CD Comprehensive Development District (based on RM3 Multiple Family Residential District)
To: Amended CD Comprehensive Development District (based on RM3 Multiple Family ResidentialDistrict, P2 Administration and Assembly District, and in accordance with the development planentitled “New Site Build” prepared by Roehampton Communications Ltd.)
The purpose of the proposed zoning bylaw amendment is to permit the installation of rooftop antennas andancillary equipment.
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2360/2390 Douglas Road and 5343 Goring Street
From: M2 General Industrial District
To: CD Comprehensive Development (based on RM5s Multiple Family Residential District),C1 Neighbourhood Commercial District and Brentwood Town Centre Development Plan asguidelines, and in accordance with the development plan entitled “5345 Goring Street and2360 / 2390 Douglas Road” prepared by CDA Architects Inc.)
The purpose of the proposed zoning bylaw amendment is to permit construction of 32 and 26-storeyresidential apartment buildings with ground oriented work/live townhouses with underground and abovegrade structured parking.
All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by a proposed bylaw shall be afforded areasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the bylaw.Written submissions may be presented at the Public Hearing or for those not attending the Public Hearing mustbe submitted to the Office of the City Clerk prior to 4:45 p.m. the day of the Public Hearing. Please note allsubmissions must contain name and address which will become a part of the public record.
The Director Planning and Building’s reports and related information respecting the zoning bylaw amendmentsare available for public examination at the offices of the Planning Department, 3rd floor, in Burnaby City Hall.
Copies of the proposed bylaws may be inspected at the Office of the City Clerk at 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby,B.C., V5G 1M2 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. weekdays from 2016 June 15 to 2016 June 28.
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NO PRESENTATIONS WILL BE RECEIVED BY COUNCILAFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC HEARING
1) BURNABY ZONING BYLAW 1965,AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 22, 2016 – BYLAW NO. 13614
2) BURNABY ZONING BYLAW 1965,AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 23, 2016 – BYLAW NO. 13615
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weeks, once city permits arein place, crews are sched-uled to begin demolition ofthe single-storey classroomwing, according to secretarytreasurer Greg Frank.
Space in other parts of theschool will be reconfigured,he said, to create extra class-rooms to house studentswhile the new classroomblock is built, starting in thefall. Students will then be
moved into the new wingwhile the old parts of theschool are seismically up-graded.
“It’s like a game of Chi-nese checkers where every-thing moves around,” Festersaid of the two-year project,“but there’s a plan that’llwork really nicely for peo-ple.”
Most of Alpha Second-ary is currently rated athigh or highest risk of wide-
spread damage and struc-tural failure during an earth-quake.The province firstannounced seismic-upgradefunding for the school inMay 2012.
Alpha hosts an openhouse Monday, June 27from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. inthe school library. Render-ings will be on display, andthe project manager andprincipal will be on hand toanswer questions.
Comeon in:Anartist’s renderingprojectswhat themainentranceof AlphaSecondarywill look likeafter a$27.2-millionpartial replacementof the school starting this summer. PHOTOCONTRIBUTED
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The MP for BurnabySouth has renewed his callfor a made-for-B.C. afford-able housing strategy.
Kennedy Stewart pre-sented a petition signed byhundreds of British Colum-bians in the House of Com-mons last week.The signa-tories are asking the federalgovernment to act on theprovince’s housing crisis byimplementing an affordablehousing strategy.
Stewart tabled a motionlast year outlining what itwould look like – everythingfrom a boost of federal dol-lars into social housing, in-cluding non-for-profit co-operatives, to addressing theimpact of investor specu-lation and housing vacan-cies on the high price of realestate in urban markets.The strategy would also seehousing costs not compro-mise an individual’s abilityto meet basic needs, such asfood, clothing, health careand education.Targets andobjectives would also be setto prevent, reduce and endhomelessness.
“I called it a crisis in the
House, and it is,” Stew-art said of the Lower Main-land’s impenetrable housingmarket. “It’s the absoluteNo. 1 issue in our city.
“When I am in my of-fice, there’s just a stream ofpeople coming in, talkingabout their personal prob-lems with housing, whetherit’s young people who can’tafford to buy anything.Thenthey move to the rental mar-ket, and that’s also very diffi-cult, very expensive.
“I was talking to onewoman last week, who now,because her pension hasn’t
increased, is actually sleep-ing on relatives’ couches.She’s lost her house alto-gether. All of her supportnetworks are in Burnaby,but she can’t afford to rent,”the MP explained.
Kennedy added he’s dis-appointed the Liberalshaven’t acted on one of theirelection promises, whichwas to remove the GST onnew capital investments inaffordable rental housing.
TheTrudeau governmentis now required to provide aresponse to the petitionerswithin 45 days.
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Volunteers with the Burn-aby-basedWildlife Res-cue Association of B.C.have been busy saving babycrows and reunifying themwith their parents. Humanswho think they are helpingare inadvertently kidnap-ping the fledglings.
Yolanda Brooks, spokes-person for the organization,says baby crows leave thenest and spend seven to 10days on the ground beforethey learn to fly. During thisvulnerable period, their par-ents keep watch and con-tinue feeding the fledglings.They also dive bomb any-thing that may be a threat totheir babies.
“People see the crowsand think it’s in distress andbeing attacked by a larg-er crow,” Brooks explained.When people try to helpthe baby on the ground, theadults then dive-bomb thehuman.
“We get a lot of calls ofpeople saying the crows areattacking the baby, and I’mtrying to help the baby,” sheadded.
The Burnaby Lake carecentre has taken in 132crows since May and had20 in care at press time.Brooks said the associationhas been reuniting fledglingswith their parents by return-ing them to where they werefound and placing the crowsin the nearest nest.
The volunteers often getdive bombed while placingthe crows.
The crows will still callout to each other, and theparents will start feedingtheir young again.
“Birds have no sense ofsmell, so it’s easier to dothat if we can locate the
nest,” Brooks said.Brooks wants people to
know they should leavebaby crows alone, unless
they are bleeding or havesome kind of visible wound.Young crows can be identi-fied by their blue eyes but
may be close to adult size.Brooks has a tip for peoplewho have to frequently crosshostile crow territory: carry
an umbrella to protect your-self from diving parents.
Helping hands It’s baby crow season. If you spot a fledgling crow on the ground, don’t remove it unless it’s clearly injured. It’s probably justlearning to fly, and you could be taking it away from its parents. PHOTOPAUL STEEVES, CONTRIBUTED
VolunteersreunitebabycrowswithparentsWildlife Rescue urges people tostay away from baby birds
Burnaby has lost a long-time volunteer who madeenormous contributions tolocal festivals.Shauna Pratt passed
away on June 7, just a fewmonths after she was diag-nosed with stomach can-cer. Pratt, who was in her60s, volunteered with Hats
Off Day, Burnaby’s biggeststreet festival.
“She was just someonewho was so full of energy, sofull of life and really caredabout her community. Itwas a huge loss for Burnabyin general,” said Jeff Schef-fel, a Hats Off Day volun-teer who worked alongsidePratt for four years.
Pratt coordinated the bar-ricade volunteers for HatsOff Day and for three de-cades was a minister with
the Church of Scientology.She also worked in ICBC’spublic relations and market-ing department.
According to Scheffel,Pratt would bring both sci-entologists and volunteersfrom outside of her church.
“She was really super wellorganized, always energet-ic and enthusiastic, willingto help out whenever shecould,” Scheffel said. “Shewas hugely instrumental inputting on many of (Burna-
by) events.”Pratt also helped with the
Edmonds City Fair and theEdmonds Festival of Lights.
There will be a celebra-tion of Pratt’s life on Sun-day, July 10, at 11:30 a.m.at Horizons Restaurant inBurnaby.
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The Bob Prittie Me-trotown library branch ishosting a free workshop
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Burnabybids farewell to longtimecityvolunteerGiver:Shauna Prattpassed awayon June 7.She was alongtimevolunteerwith theannual HatsOff Day event,and she alsohelped withthe EdmondsCity Fair.PHOTOFILE
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with nutritionist SharonPendlington on Mon-day, July 4, from 6:30 to 8p.m. Pendlington will dis-cuss how your diet can im-pact your health. She willalso address issues with themedical system and food in-dustry. Pendlington runsPersonal Nutrition, her ownnutrition consulting busi-ness.The workshop is free,but you must register to
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The library is continu-ing its series of Pop-Up Li-brary events with a visit tothe Burnaby Artisan Farm-ers’ Market on Saturday,June 25.
The library will be onhand at the market, locat-ed in the Burnaby City Hall
north parking lot at 4949CanadaWay, from 9 a.m. to2 p.m.
At the Pop-Up Library,visitors can browse, borrowand even return library ma-terial.
Books will be available forall ages, and you’ll be ableto learn about library ser-vices and register for a li-brary card if you don’t al-ready have one.
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You can find out moreat www.bpl.bc.ca or callKelsey, the community out-reach librarian, at 604-436-5426.
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They’re travelling theworld with a musical mes-sage of love.
TheWatoto Children’sChoir is touring Canada,and the choir is making astop in Burnaby on Satur-day, June 25 for a concert atNelson Avenue Communi-ty Church.
The choir’s singers areAfrican children who havebeen orphaned and whonow take their message of
love around the world.“After losing my parents
I felt alone, with no one tolove me,” said six-year-oldJackie Nakku in a press re-lease from the choir. “NowI know that God is my fa-ther. He loves and cares forme. As I travel on the choir,I am going to show peoplethat God loves them too.”
Since 1994,Watoto Chil-dren’s Choirs have travelledall over the world sharing
the stories of Africa’s or-phaned and vulnerable citi-zens.
For information about thechoir and its mission, seewww.watoto.com.
Nelson Avenue Commu-nity Church is at 5825 Nel-son Ave.The concert is at 6p.m. Admission is free, withan offering in support of thechoir to be taken during theperformance. For informa-tion, call 604-435-4123.
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Wrapped in Colour, fea-turing the work of Pepe Hi-dalgo and MariaVoronova,is set to run from July 9 toAug. 6.
An opening reception isset for Saturday, July 9 from2 to 4 p.m.
A press release notes thatthe artists’ cultural back-grounds shine through inthe exhibition.
Hidalgo is a Spanish-bornartist “who applies a poeticand often metaphorical lan-guage in order to reflect onhis closely related subjectsof historic meaning andmemory,” the release notes.“His work depicts a suspen-sion in time; a cord alwaysvisible as a connection be-tween the present and thepast.”
Voronova is Russian-born, and her work reflectsthe magical realism of Cha-gall.
“Her work strives tonourish the soul of the spec-tator by creating compo-sitions, according to thedecorative discipline, withdreamlike images in whichfiction and reality meet,” therelease says. “Reflection ofthe beauty of the real is in-terpreted byVoronova intodreamlike, colourful works.”
Deer Lake Gallery is at6584 Deer Lake Ave.
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A Burnaby-based non-profit that fixes up old com-puters and redistributesthem to schools, non-prof-its and libraries hit a majormilestone last month.
The B.C.Technology forLearning Society has beenaround since 1993, andlast month the organizationhanded out its 150,000threfurbished computer.
“It is quite a big impactwhen we look at waste andaccess definitely,” execu-tive director Mary-EmWad-dington said of her organi-zation’s work over the last23 years.
B.C.Tech takes in com-puters and related equip-ment donated by govern-ments and businesses, fixesthem up and redistributes
them for free or at a re-duced cost to schools, li-braries, registered not-for-profit learning organizationsand aboriginal communi-ties.
The process doubles thelife of the computers inquestion, according toWad-dington.
“More than half of thelifetime carbon emissions ofinformation and communi-cations equipment can begenerated during manufac-turing,” reads her organiza-tion’s website. “By reusingequipment, we reduce theamount which needs to bemanufactured.We also re-duce what ends up in land-fills or being recycling.”
For other non-profits,meanwhile, like BurnabyNeighbourhood House, theprogram is a godsend forother reasons as well.
“When you think aboutthe pressures on non-prof-its, technology is an ex-tremely big expense,” Burn-aby Neighbourhood Houseprogram director KimberlyBarwich told the NOW.
Burnaby NeighbourhoodHouse uses computers from
B.C.Tech to run tax clin-ics for between 2,000 and2,500 low-income familiesand individuals every year.
It also offers free comput-er training for people whomight not have their ownmachines to work on.
“If you can’t navigate
technology now, you arevery lost,” Barwich said.“There are a number ofpeople who are still lagging,and so we support themwith clinics that they cancome to free. … If you’relooking for a job or you’retrying to make it in this par-
ticular kind of environment,you really need to knowhow to use your technology,and it’s really hard to reachfor some people.”
Besides refurbishing 680tonnes worth of computerover the last couple decades,B.C.Tech has also provided
300 youth with paid workexperience fixing comput-ers.
The non-profit also pro-vides 20 Burnaby highschool students a year withone-week work experienceplacements.
Keepingup:From left, LilyTse, Clara LeongandDanielParkhone theirtechnologyskills at aBurnabyNeighbourhoodHousecomputer cafe.The local non-profit offersfree computertraining tonewcomersandlow-incomeindividuals. B.C.Technologyfor Learningsuppliesrefurbishedcomputers fortheprograms.PHOTOCORNELIANAYLOR
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Hopefully, this one won’t comeback to bite them.
The Burnaby Lakers pouredout a strong performance and gaveway to a hard-charging Coquitlamrally on Saturday, ending in an 8-7loss.
The Adanacs’ Ryan Johnsoncapped a four-goal run against the
Lakers, burying a short shot pastTye Belanger with just 13 secondsleft in regulation to give the hometeam the win.
Last year, the club missed theplayoffs after finishing tied forfourth place, but having a worsegoals-for and against differential.And this year’s playoff race lookslike it will be equally as tight.
Burnaby, which sits fifth in theWestern Lacrosse Association with
a 3-3 record, had earlier built up athree-goal advantage with a pair ofmarkers to start the third.
But a stand-out effort from for-mer Lakers netminder Dan Lewiscued up Coquitlam’s rally, whichstarted with 9:33 to play and sawa powerplay tally followed by ashorthanded goal before a last-minute blitz.
The Adanacs tied the game with39 seconds on the clock with Lew-
is on the bench for an extra attack-er, then repeated the feat for John-son’s winner.
It was a game that Burnaby hadbattled back from an early deficitto stake out its lead.Trailing 2-0and 4-3, the visitors counted twomarkers to end the middle frame –by Robert Church and Jason Jones– then kicked off the third withtwo more – from Jones, with hissecond, and Steven Neufeld.
Then the tide turned.Lewis finished the night with 39
saves, while Belanger turned aside33 Adanac shots.
Also scoring for Burnaby wereTyler Digby, with two, and JoshByrne.
The Lakers, who hosted sec-ond-placeVictoria yesterday (pastthe NOW’s deadline), visits firstplace Maple Ridge on Sunday.
Power fromthepoint:BurnabyWinterClubalumnusDanteFabbro, shownaboveplayingat the IIHFWorldunder-18 championships inApril, enters thisweek’sNHLEntryDraft embracing theexperience, after havingestablishedhimself asoneof the top-eight eligibledefencemen. PHOTOMINASPANAGIOTAKIS/HHOF/IIHF IMAGES
FabbroreadyforNHLdraftspotlightHockey draft experts forecast BurnabyWinter Club product to go in the first [email protected]
The suspense likely ends ear-ly Friday evening, when the but-terflies and nerves will be tradedfor an anticipated call, hugs andtears of joy from family members,a walk to the stage where a jerseyand handshakes await, followedby photos and interviews galore.
For BurnabyWinter Clubproduct Dante Fabbro, thisweek’s 2016 NHL Entry Draftin Buffalo is where a young kid’sdream is realized. But thanks tolessons learned and past experi-ences gained, the just-turned-18year old will enter the next phaseof his career with plenty of per-spective to balance it all out.
“It’s been a little bit of a whirl-wind, actually, having seen my
buddies go through the same pro-cess,” Fabbro told the NOW lastweek. “I’m taking the time tosoak everything in. It’s been a funcouple of weeks but as the draftnears its something I’m thinkingabout more and more.”
The NHL combine earlier thismonth pulled together all thetop talent available in this year’sdraft and gave them a glimpseinto what the future may hold.Grilled by hockey people fromnearly every NHL team, the teenswere put through a mill of gruel-ing physical tests devised to revealweaknesses as much as strengths.
When you have your demean-or and skills dissected by scouts,general managers and online fansalike it’s hard not to wilt a lit-tle under the microscope. Butjust as he regularly stared down
and stopped an oncoming oppo-nent on the ice, Fabbro wheeledit around and wasn’t taken by anycurve balls.
“The interview portion of thecombine was definitely somethingwhere you just had to be yourself(or) they would see right throughit if you were not. Just keep a coolhead and be yourself,” he said.“The training portion you hadguys who’s season just ended andother guys had a little bit longer– it’s pretty much standard in thesummer where you want to set (amark) and through the summeryou want to beat those things.”
Born in NewWestminster,the 6-foot-tall blueliner has seenhis stock rise over the past 12months, including as one of Can-ada’s top defencemen at theWorld Junior under-18 champi-
onships in April.A disappointing fourth-place
finish also saw players separatethemselves and show their skillsagainst elite competition. By tal-lying eight assists in seven games,on the same ice surface as fellowfirst-round prospects like JessePuljujarvi, Alexander Nylander,Clayton Keller and Penticton andCanadian teammateTyson Jost,Fabbro raised the bar. His BCHLstats for 2015-16 in Penticton, 14goals and 53 assists in 45 games,earned him the top defencemanaward.
A right-shot defender, he wasrecently ranked 18th amongNorth American skaters by theNHL’s Central Scouting Bureaulast month. Others forecast himgoing in the mid-teens.
TheLions’shareThe NOW recognizesthe district’s highschool athletic awardwinners - first up,Burnaby MountainAthlete of theYear, male senior –
Jasper Chen (cross country, basket-ball, volleyball, ultimate)
Jasper won the school’s Heart ofthe Lion award for the cross countryteam and qualified for provincials.
With the ultimate team, he was aleader on and off the field, receivingtheir MVP award. Jasper also wonthe Athletic and Academic Award(AAA) for maintaining honour rollstatus while participating in at leasttwo sports.To cap his senior year,Jasper won the Silver Lions Medal-lion, which recognizes athletes whoaccumulate points throughout a highschool career for sports participation.
Athlete of theYear, female senior– Emily Makihara (track, netball andbasketball)
Emily received the Heart of theLion award for both track and net-ball. She earned the AAA prize and acoveted Gold Medallion award.
JuniorAthletes of theYear – AlexRomero (male - cross country, ulti-mate) andTaran Jhuti (female - trackand field, basketball, volleyball)
Alex collected the MVP award inboth sports. A AAA recipient, he waspart of Mountain’s 14th place finishat the cross country provincials.
As a Grade 10,Taran played up inboth senior volleyball and senior bas-ketball, earning the volleyball MVPaward. She placed second in both200-metre dash and discus at thedistrict level.Taran also collected anAAA and a Silver Medallion.Juvenile – Ryan Roberts (male -
cross country, volleyball) and GboyaMale (female, basketball, volleyball).Bantam – Kosta Adzic (male -
cross country, basketball, track andvolleyball) and SophiaVivero (female- basketball, track and volleyball)AcademicAthlete of theYear –
Cynthia HuangSportsmanship – Noa Kozulin
SCHOOLSPORTS
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Sinclair to lead inRioCanada unveiled its na-
tional women’s soccer teamfor the 2016 Rio Olympicsand Burnaby’s ChristineSinclair will lead the charge.
The team captain is ea-ger to return Canada to thepodium as it did in 2012,where it finished third.
“I’m excited.This willbe my third Olympics andit is an honour every singletime,” said Sinclair. “Theyoung players coming intothis Olympic squad have
brought an energy and pas-sion to our team and theyhave risen the bar.”
Sinclair stands as Cana-da’s all-time leading scor-er with 162 internationalgoals, and the nation’s mostcapped international playerwith 243 games.
OAKEYS FINISHSECOND
The Burnaby Oakeyspicked up the regional sil-ver medal last week in asqueezed two-days of play.
The under-12 softballteam battled Coquitlamhard and held a 12-7 leadheading into the final threeouts but fell 13-12.
It was the team’s thirdgame of the day, after rainscrubbed most of Saturday’saction – although they didopen the tournament with a24-11 victory.
Burnaby catcher RioKada was named the tour-ney MVP, delivering onboth sides of the plate.
SPORTSSHORTS
PreparingforthatNHLdreamWhere ever he goes in the draft, Fabbro
knows where he’ll be in September. He isslated to join the student body and hockeyplayers at Boston University as a freshman.
Asked whether his older sisters Gina andSophia needle him about joining the ranksof the higher learned – both attend AustinPeay College inTennessee on soccer schol-arships –Fabbro laughed.
“They’re pretty supportive and havebeen like that my entire life.We have ourfights and stuff like that but it’s a friend-ship-love relationship and obviously I can’tsay enough good things about my sistersand my family and how I grew up. I have
had a pretty blessed life so far and hopefullythings will continue on that way from here.”
The combine didn’t overwhelm the soft-spoken teen.Twenty-eight of the league’s 30teams sat down and interviewed him.Theglare, he realizes, will only get brighter.
“It’s pretty crazy, honestly.You’re kind oflost for words almost.You grow up watchingthe NHL, all the superstars and its so manykids dream – it might sound cliché but itsevery kids dream to go and play hockey ifyou’re lucky to do so,” said Fabbro. “It’s go-ing to be a fun experience for me and defi-nitely my family who’ll be there. I want toshare it with them and give back to them asmuch as possible.”
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