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Apleafromcityteen
Sadie DeCoste is too young to vote in theupcoming transportation referendum, soshe’s counting on her elders to think of hergeneration.
DeCoste, a member of the environmentalclub at NewWestminster Secondary School,joined a cross-section of local organizations atcity hall Monday morning to launch theVoteYes NewWest Coalition, which is urging citi-zens to voteYes in the upcoming transit refer-endum. DeCoste said youth use public tran-sit daily, taking buses to and from school andriding the SkyTrain to part-time jobs andfriends’ houses.
“Public transit is the most feasible meansof getting from one place to another,” shesaid. “We are the generation that will face theimpacts of climate change, the human rightsissue of our time.”
In order to combat climate change,
VoteYes NewWest launchescampaign for transit referendum
JUSTVOTEYES NewWestminster Secondary School student Sadie DeCoste is part of a Vote Yes NewWest coalition that’s encouragingcitizens to support a .05per centhike in theprovincial sales tax in theupcoming transit referendum. PHOTOLARRYWRIGHT
NewWestminster has pruned the pro-posed 2015 tax rate increase to 2.36 percent.
Following the Feb. 2 meeting when coun-cil considered a financial plan that includ-ed a tax hike of between 2.75 and 3.45 percent, staff did some further refinements onthe budget. On Monday, council approveda provisional budget incorporating a 2.36tax increase that will go out to the commu-nity for consultation.
“I think given the cost pressures, the reg-ular inflationary cost pressures and the fact
we have a major facility like Anvil Centrecoming on-stream and affecting the budgetthis year, I am pleased with that,” said May-or Jonathan Cote. “This budget still has anopportunity to deal with some of the staffenhancements but also was putting morefunding toward the replacement of the Can-ada Games Pool. I’m happy that it’s able tomove the city forward with our strategic ob-jective and address the cost of Anvil Centrebut keep the number down to a more rea-sonable number.We have been in that rangefor the past four years. It is pretty consistentwith what other municipalities in MetroVancouver are also considering.”
As part of this year’s budget process, staff
will be reporting back to council with moreinformation about the cost, revenues andbusiness plan for Anvil Centre.
Council’s approval in principle for thisyear’s budget came after an $188,798 re-quest for four labourer positions in theparks horticulture division was halved.
Dean Gibson, the city’s director of parks,culture and recreation, said the city has cre-ated many new parks and green spaces, in-cluding landscaped areas near new residen-tial developments and traffic calmed areas.All of the existing and new areas need to bemaintained.
Claude LeDoux, the city’s horticulturemanager, said his department has “pushedthis to the brink” and needs additional staffto ensure the parks and open spaces meetthe city’s standards of maintenance.With-out more staff, he said citizens will see more
areas that are untidy, as staff won’t havetime to get to all the sites in the city.
Coun. MaryTrentadue questioned atwhat point the city “stops making the cityso beautiful” because of the costs involved.
In response to budget pressures, Gibsonsaid the city reduced the number of hang-ing baskets in the city a number of yearsago. A further cost-cutting measure couldsee landscaped areas returned to grass orreplaced with natural turf or rocks, as thatwould be less costly to maintain.
“People appreciate beauty,” said Coun.LorrieWilliams. “I, for one, will support thisrequest.”
Coun. Bill Harper said it’s incumbenton the city to maintain the quality of greenspaces in a way that residents have come to
Cityshoots for2.36percenttaxhike“I’m happy that it’s able to move the city forward with our stra-tegic objectives and address the cost of Anvil Centre...”– Cote
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TWOOUTOFNINE:NewWest residentsDaniel Flett andMarkPriorwon theSet for Life lottery last year. Bothmen took the$675,000payout rather than the$1,000aweek for 25 years. PHOTOCONTRIBUTED
Whataretheodds?Two NewWestminster men cash in big with lottery wins
Two NewWestminstermen are set for life afterwinning the lottery of thesame name last year.
Mark Prior and DanielFlett both opted to take the$675,000 payout versus the$1,000 a week for 25 yearsafter winning big in thescratch-and-win game.
Prior bought his ticket inVancouver after an outingwith his elderly father, whohas since passed away.Theyhad gone to Jericho Beach.On the drive home, Prior’sdad asked to him to pick upsome strawberries.
The stop proved to be asweet one.
When Prior was in thestore, he remembered afriend who had won the Setfor Life lottery and decid-ed to buy a ticket for him-self. But the store clerk saidhe didn’t have any. Priorwas just about to walk out
the door when the clerkcalled to him and said hehad found a ticket, whichproved to be the winner.
After he won, Prior’s dadsaid to him, “You alwayshad your mother’s bloodyluck.”
Prior, who is in his 60s,chose the payout versus the$1,000 for a week for 25
years.The Moody Park res-ident works as a set design-er in the film business.
When Prior returnedhome after the win, he“kind of faked it a little bit,”but when he finally told thefamily about the big winthey were, not surprisingly,ecstatic.
“My son jumped up and
he was screaming and hoot-ing around the yard,” Priorsays, laughing.
Meanwhile, winner Dan-iel Flett, 76, a NewWestresident for 14 years, alsobought his ticket inVan-couver. He picked it up ata pharmacy and brought ithome.
“I couldn’t believe it,”Flett says, describing hissurprised reaction after hescratched and saw he had awinning ticket. “I had to sitdown and walk away andlook again.”
Flett went for the pay-out because he would be101 by the time he got the$1,000 a week for 25 years.
The retiree has just onefamily member – an 86-tear-old sister in Kamloops– to share the money with.
“I’ve given more mon-ey out than I have spent onmyself,” he says.
His one splurge, Flettsays, was to buy a $1,000mattress set.
StillnotrialdateinMeskinedeath
CRIME
There is still no trial datefor a NewWestminster teenaccused of killing a 20-year-old Surrey man more thanone year ago.
The 16-year-old (whosename cannot be releasedbecause he is a young of-fender) is facing one countof second-degree murderafter he allegedly beat Ka-rim Meskine to death nearthe 22nd Street SkyTrainstation on Dec. 17, 2013.
The teen appeared inNewWestminster SupremeCourt via videoconferencefrom the BurnabyYouthDetention Centre onThurs-day afternoon.
The accused has beenin court several times inthe past six months to set adate, and each time the de-cision has been postponedto a later date.
During the Feb. 12 ap-pearance, the teen’s defence
attorney, Gloria Ng, askedthe judge to postpone fixinga date until March 26, cit-ing she and Crown counselwere working towards a res-olution.The additional timewould allow the discussionsto continue, Ng added.
In an emailed statementto the Record, Crowncounsel spokesperson NeilMacKenzie said “recent ad-journments have been atthe request of defence, whowishes to pursue addition-al discussion with Crowncounsel. Such discussionsare not unusual in any pros-ecution, however are treatedby the Branch as confiden-tial. Crown remains pre-pared to have a trial datefixed in the case.”
The presiding judge ap-proved Ng’s request to fix adate a later time.
The NewWestminsterteen will return to SupremeCourt via videoconferenceon March 26 to fix a datefor his trial.
Folks who have beenwaiting to see who spentwhat and who donated tolocal election campaign aregoing to have to wait a whilelonger.
While the City of NewWestminster’s election officehas traditionally acceptedthe statements from candi-dates for mayor, council-lor and school trustee, Elec-tions B.C. is now collectingthe information.
“They receive them andpost them through their sys-tem,” said Philip Lo, thedeputy chief election officerin NewWestminster. “Weare required by the new leg-islation to provide a link onthe city’s website.”
Don Main, communica-tions manager with Elec-
tions B.C., said candidates,elector organizations andthird-party sponsors are re-quired to file financial dis-closure statements for the2014 General Local Elec-tions with Elections B.C.by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb13.
“We are expecting over3,600 statements,” Mainwrote in an email to theRecord. “Under the Lo-cal Elections Campaign Fi-nancing Act, Elections B.C.is required to post the state-ments as soon as possi-ble after the filing deadline.Elections B.C. is scanningeach statement to makethem ready for publicationon our financial reports andpolitical contributions sys-tem.”
Elections B.C. hopes thestatements will be availablebefore the end of February.
Download the LAYAR app to your smartphone.Look for the LAYAR symbol. Scan the photo or thepage of the story as instructed. Ensure the photoor headline is entirely captured by your device.Check advertisements that have LAYAR content,too. Watch as our pages become interactive.
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All smiles:MoodyPark residentMarkPrior holdsuphiswinningcheque. PHOTOCONTRIBUTED
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DeCoste said society needsto reduce its reliance onfossil fuels and the regionneeds to provide viable al-ternatives to driving. Al-though youth will be inher-iting today’s transportationinfrastructure, she notedthe majority of them are notable to vote in the mail-inreferendum.
“That is why we are ask-ing you, the adults, to keepour future in mind as yougo to vote on the transit ref-erendum,” she told a crowdgathered at Monday’s pressconference. “We value a re-gion that is livable and con-nected.We value a future inwhich we are less reliant onfossil fuels.We believe thatan improvement in publictransportation is essentialfor our sustainable future,and as such, we urge you tovoteYes.”
Beginning March 16,MetroVancouver residentswill be receiving mail-in bal-lots and will have until May29 to vote on the Mayors’Council’s plan.The Mayors’Council on RegionalTrans-portation is seeking for a 0.5per cent increase to the pro-vincial sales tax to generatefunding to expand the re-
gional transit and transpor-tation system.
Members of city coun-cil, the board of education,the local MLA, and local la-bour, business, cycling, en-vironmental and health of-ficials attended the launchof theVoteYes NewWest co-alition, which is committedto supporting aYes vote inMetroVancouver’s upcom-ing transit referendum andpromoting in the benefits ofbetter transit and transpor-tation for NewWestminster.
NathanWoods, presidentof Unifor Local 111, spokeon behalf of B.C. Federa-tion of Labour and NewWestminster and DistrictLabour Council – whichsupport aYes vote.Woodssaid bus drivers witness peo-ple waiting at stops and be-ing left behind because thebuses are full, as well as thetraffic congestion on roadsthroughout the region.
The proposed increasein the provincial sales taxwould be used to fund awide range of transporta-tion and transit initiatives,including a new PattulloBridge, upgrades to the ma-jor road network, increasedcapacity of Expo and Mil-lennium SkyTrain lines, in-creased bus service, addi-
tional HandyDart services,and cycling and pedestrianimprovements.
Lisa Mu, a medical healthofficer with the FraserHealth Authority, said trans-portation is a key determi-nant of health, as it providespeople with ability to ac-cess services, connects fam-ilies and friends and im-pacts air quality.With manydeaths being attributed toair pollution each year, shehopes people will choose atransportation future thatimproves the health andwellbeing of people in theregion and voteYes.
“With aYes vote, we cancreate communities of be-longing, where the diversi-ty of all people is welcome.People on the margins ofour communities - those liv-ing with disabilities, withmental illness, with sub-stance use issues, thoselooking for work or livingwithout a home – will nev-er be contributing membersof our communities withouta fulsome public transpor-tation system, “ said LyndaEdmonds, executive direc-tor of Fraserside Communi-ty Services Society.
NewWestminster willspend up to $20,000 to sellaYes votes to citizens in theupcoming transportationreferendum.
Council recently ap-proved a transportation andtransit referendum actionplan that promotes voter
registration and encouragesresidents to voteYes in thereferendum on theTrans-Link Mayors’ Council vi-sion and investment plan.
“We think it’s in ourcity’s best interest to pro-mote the yes campaign.The budget that’s been setis $20,000.We think that isa good investment becausetransportation is so impor-
tant to NewWestminster,”said Mayor Jonathan Cote.“There are over 400,000 ve-hicles driving through ourcity. Wee see every singleone of our neighbourhoodsis impacted.”
As part of the action plan,the city created aVoteYesNewWest coalition that willcampaign in support of aYes vote in the referendum.
“We are utilizing our ex-isting resources, wheth-er that be through the CityPage, our website, the digitalreaderboards, our reader-board at Sixth and McBrideto communicate the bene-fits of aYes vote,” said BlairFryer, the city’s manager ofcommunications. “In addi-tion to that, council has ap-proved up to $20,000, if re-
quired, to supplement ourexisting resources.”
Fryer said the city is re-ally focusing on its existingresources, such as the utilitybill.The next bill going outto citizens will include infor-mation on the benefits of aYes vote and how to register.
“Council has made it acity priority.We haven’t sec-onded or brought any new
staff in, but we are able toaccommodate it within ourexisting workloads,” he said.“This has become a prior-ity and city council wants tomake sure residents knowthe benefits to a yes voteand are fully informed be-fore they cast a vote.”
Part of the city’s plan is toencourage people to vote inthe referendum.
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Campaignneedsreal folks, fewersuitsAs debate on theTrans-
Link tax vote heats up, theYes side threw CEO IanJarvis under the bus.
By tossing Jarvis – whosesalary had become a sym-bol ofTransLink waste – tothe curb, theYes side hopesto up their chances of suc-cess at the ballot box.
The move is presumablymeant to signal a new era,where the new tax theYesside craves won’t go to a fatcat’s bloated paycheque.
Except of course that it
will – two salaries, in fact,instead of one.
Jarvis will continue to bepaid more than $420,000in an “advisory” capacitywhile a new interim CEOgets $35,000 a month.
Just how those opticswill convince anyone thatsound financial decisionsare around the next cornerremains a mystery. In fact,given the timing, it almostlooks like an attempt tosabotage the referendum.
While Jarvis was a high-
ly paid executive who pre-sided over a number ofbungled projects atTrans-Link, his departure doesn’tchange some basic prob-lems.
TransLink is still run byan unelected board thatspends public money withlittle accountability. But theability to change anythingabout that board is not onthe ballot.
B.C.’sTransportationMinister has saidTransLinkneeds new leadership. He’s
right – just not in the wayhe’s pitching it.
TransLink is a creation ofthe province.
To fix it, the provinceneeds to step back and re-turn the board to locallyelected officials whose po-litical fortunes could be tiedto its performance.
Until then, the need formore transit and the bloat-ed bureaucracy ofTrans-Link will continue to belinked in the public mind.
NewWestminster
launched itsVoteYes NewWest campaign on Mondayand wisely had some youngpeople step up and say whyit’s vital that the referen-dum passes.
If theYes campaigncould hide all the electedsuits somewhere and justput regular folks who de-pend on transit up front,the whole campaign mighthave a better chance of suc-ceeding.
Truck drivers, students,delivery drivers, retail work-
ers – those who really de-pend on a working transitsystem.
As teenager Sadie De-Coste said at the launch inNewWestminster Monday,“Public transit is the mostfeasible means of gettingfrom one place to anoth-er. ...We are the generationthat will face the impacts ofclimate change, the humanrights issue of our time.”
She’s right. But can vot-ers see beyondTransLink’sincompetence to voteYes?
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Up, up and up some more.That was the only direction property values in New Westmin-
ster were heading, according to an article in the Jan. 7 Record.Homeowners were receiving their property value assessment
notices, and most were seeing big increases – on the order of15 to 20 per cent. For instance, a single-family home in Queen’sPark with a value of $473,000 the previous year was valued at$550,000, and an older single-family home in Sapperton previ-ously valued at $247,000 was now worth $277,000.
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MYVIEWKEITHBALDREY
HowlongcanClarkcruise?
Last week’s throne speechand this week’s provincialbudget make it clear theprovincial government isvery much on cruise control,and I suspect that’s just theway Premier Christy Clarkwants it.
The throne speech wasdescribed by many as“threadbare” and an indi-cation the B.C. Liberals areout of gas, to which Clarkretorted that the speechwasn’t about generatingnews headlines but was in-stead a reiteration of hergovernment’s ongoing plan.
The budget was anothersteady-as-she goes econom-ic document, which achievesthe B.C. Liberals’ number 1priority of all: balancing thebooks. But the budget con-tinues to be balanced onthe proverbial razor’s edge,which means there are fewdollars available for manynew spending initiatives.
Things weren’t always likethis, of course. In the run-upto the last provincial elec-tion, the Clark governmentwas running around, an-nouncing all kinds of things.The premier herself triedto dominate news coverageand her critics derisively la-beled her “Premier Photo-op.”
But the premier is no-where near as active in themedia these days, and hergovernment is not feverishlytrying to change the world.The coming legislature ses-sion will see only a modestamount of legislation – lessthan 30 bills in all likelihood– and I suspect little of it will
be controversial.In conversations with
B.C. Liberals, I get the dis-tinct impression they see noreason to do anything par-ticularly dramatic.Theysense their voter base seemscontent with the state of theprovince, and so a laissez-faire approach has been ad-opted by the government.
Clark herself seems par-ticularly confident, if notcontent in how things aregoing. No one pays atten-tion to polls anymore (notthat there have been any), sothere is no evidence that ifan election were held todaythat her party would be introuble with the electorate.
And the premier contin-ues to toy with the NDPOpposition, which is by nomeans as comfortable in itscollective skin as the B.C.Liberals. Clark uses theNDP as the butt of a num-ber of jokes in speeches shemakes to party faithful, andin the legislature (whichshe attends only a couple ofdays a week) she appears torelish any question periodencounter.
Still, even when a gov-ernment is content to trav-el along on cruise-control,something can come out ofnowhere to force it to makea sudden, sharp turn alongthe way.There’s nothing insight right now, but the yearis young.
Keith Baldrey is chief po-litical reporter for Global B.C.See an extended version of thiscolumn online at www.newwestrecord.ca.
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Public transit is the mostfeasible means of getting
from one place to another.
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Tax hike math justdoesn’t add upDear EditorWhen I started in thenews indus-try atCKNW in themid-’60smyboss (and thestation’s news editor), the lateWarrenBarker,drilled it intomyhead tonever accept at facevalue financial figures providedbyany govern-ment entity. In reading the Feb. 4 TheresaMcManus story, “There’ll be a tax hike.…Citylooks at rangebetween2.75 to 3.45per cent,”his advice hasproved correct again.The article states: “The 2015draftbudget
is proposing about $110.1million toprovideongoingmunicipal services, an increase from$105.9million in 2014.” The story says that’sa $4.2-million increase in expenses. Themathon the increase is correct. The $4.2-millionincrease, however, represents a 3.9665percent hike on thebasic budget amount ($105.9million X 3.9665per cent = $110,100,520),which is substantially higher than the 2.75 to3.45per cent quoted in theheadline and thebodyof the story.The article goes on to say that “In addition
to thebasebudget, council is considering ad-ditional funding requests fromdepartments.If approved, the fundsneededwould increasethe tax rate from2.75 to 3.45per cent in 2015.”Thedifferencebetween these tax rates is 0.7per cent. Add the actual basebudget increaseof 3.9665per cent plus the 0.7 per cent differ-ence in the stated increases and youhave a4.6665per cent tax increase. (I have checkedthese figures several times andget the sameresults each time.)These yearly tax increases already exceed
the cost-of-living index and show theCity ofNewWestminster, the council and their bu-reaucrats have little regard for the taxpayer’smoney.I also hope thatMs.McManuswill scruti-
nize suchgovernment-provided figuresmoreclosely in the future.DennisRyan,NewWestminsterEditor’s note: The Feb. 4 story was based onpreliminary budget discussions. See pg. 1 forcity council’s latest budget actions.
It’s time to just ditchthe Pattullo BridgeDear Editor Let’s revisit the ideaof removingthePattullo Bridgepermanently. Take themoneyallocated for the renoanduse it for aremoval instead.There are twoother bridges drivers can
nowuse.NewWestminster is just not set uporready formorebridge traffic; aswell, thePortMann crossingneeds thebusiness.Closing thePattullo permanentlywould
save ahugeamount ofmoney and solve somanyproblems. It just seems like ano-brainer.We candobetter.Motorists and truckerswould adjust andalter their routes and travel-ling times accordingly, and life goes on.As our transportation systemevolves over
thenext decade,we should then revisit theideaof anadditional crossing.ThePattullo is not only old and ready to go,
but so is its location.Ready for a rethink?Let’s notwaste anymore timeormoneyon
thePattullo.TedGenereux,NewWestminster
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@ChuckPuchmayrQueensboroughresidents vote overwhelmingly tosupport the #newwest council in theupcomingTransit referendum#gavin-Palmer opposed
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@BarbAdamski That’s just a pollanyway.Nothing counts except your xon the referendumballot.
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NewWest Pride is seekingto expand its territory so it’snot bursting at the seams.
The group is apply-ing to city hall for a festivalgrant to help with some ofthe costs of organizing thegrowing NewWest PrideFestival.
“This will be our sixthyear,” said president JeremyPerry. “We started as a smallcommunity event inTipper-ary Park.”
By 2014, the Pride Festi-val had grown into a nine-day event that included 23events at venues around thecity.
“We had many, manysold-out events,” Perry said.
Perry recently appearedbefore city council to elabo-rate on the group’s grant ap-plication.
“We definitely got a lotof feedback from differentbusinesses about the eco-nomic impact,” he later toldthe Record. “It was verypositive.”
Events exceededorganizers’ – andlocal businesses –expectations.
According toPerry, an event atSteel & Oak Brew-ing Company at-tracted the brew-ery’s biggest crowdin its tasting room,and the Met hadits highest day ofsales ever.While organizersof a bowling event at LuckyStrike Bowling Lanes antici-pated a few folks would turn
out for their event,they were over-whelmed by the re-sponse.
“It never oc-curred to them itwas going to be apopular event,” hesaid about the or-ganizers. “Everysingle spot on ev-ery single lane wasfull. People were
being turned away.”NewWest Pride Society
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ty on Columbia Street thissummer.The hope is thecity will allow the party tostretch from Fourth Streetto Eighth Street this year,instead of having it betweenFourth and Sixth streets.
While the event has nev-er caused problem, organiz-ers want to ensure conflictsdon’t occur by making surethe street doesn’t becomeovercrowded.
“We are bringing in agood crowd, looking tospend money in our city andhaving fun in a good way,”
Perry said.The festival has attracted
such a buzz that organizershave heard from people whoare booking flights, hotelsand vacation time to attendthe 2015 event.
Council hasn’t madeany decision on the festivalgrants at this time.
“You did a really good jobof bringing people to townand showcasing NewWest-minster, at the same timeputting on a great event,”said Coun. Patrick John-stone.
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Taskforcecostsraisedebateexpect. He said the request-ed money is a “fairly smallamount” in the $110 mil-lion budget.
Ultimately, council de-cided to halve the $188,798request – a decision result-ing in a four-to-three vote.
Mayor Jonathan Coteand councillors JaimieMcEvoy, Chuck Puchmayr,MaryTrentadue support-ed the lesser amount, whilecouncillors Harper, PatrickJohnstone andWilliamspreferred approving the fullamount requested.
Trentadue said the de-cision to halve the requestwas a “reasonable halfwaypoint” and isn’t a reflec-tion on staff or the workthey do.
“We have to really tryand rein in the expenseswherever we can,”Trenta-due said.
A $200,000 budget forthe four mayors task forcesalso generated some debatein council chambers.
One of Cote’s first ac-tions after being electedmayor was to establish taskforces to address key civic
issues – public engagement,transportation, housing af-fordability, and the devel-opment of an economic
health-care cluster aroundRoyal Columbian Hospital.
Cote said the moneyisn’t specified for any pur-pose, but will provides the
city with funds to imple-ment actions that are rec-ommended by those taskforces.
“Those recommenda-tions will likely have somecosts,” he said. “We don’tknow what that is yet. …It is funding that would beavailable to the task forcesto accomplish the goals.”
Trentadue said councilneeds “to be more realis-tic” about the ripple effectit has when asking staff towork on specific projects asit impacts the budget andstaffing levels.
Colleen Ponzini, thecity’s manager of finan-cial services, said the fundsdon’t have any impact on
taxation because they’recoming out of the commu-nity development reserve.She said the city would notdraw on the funds in thereserve if the task forces donot require them.
Harper said he expect-ed the health-care clustertask force would need tohire consultants to do some“key analysis” related to itswork within a year.
McEvoy said projectscould get hung up if mon-ey is not available to imple-ment those initiatives.
He said the city needs tobe more “nimble” and beable implement initiatives.
Puchmayr expressedconcern task forces aredoing work the city hasdeemed to be priorities, sostaff would be doing thatwork regardless of wheth-er task forces had been es-tablished.
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Dreams are born here.Born and nurtured andgrown into reality thanksto the passion, energy andenthusiasm of a group ofteachers and students with amission.
That mission?To offer upmusical theatre at the high-est level on the MasseyThe-atre stage.
They’re just days awaynow from the opening nightof Footloose, which runs Feb.25 to 28 and draws uponthe talents of some 100 stu-dents as cast, crew andband members.
Enthusiasm is spillingout all over from the smallgroup of students who’vegathered to chat to the Re-cord about this year’s pro-duction.
“It’s been crazy!There’sso much energy between ev-eryone,” says NoahWright.
The Grade 10 student isparlaying his choral sing-ing background into thelead role of Ren, the Chica-go boy who moves with hismother (played by SophieLabrosse) to a small farm-ing community where theydiscover strict rules – in-cluding a ban on dancing.
(Yes, if that plot sounds
familiar, it’s pretty similar tothe 1984 movie upon whichit’s based – and, for the re-cord, Noah promises he’lldo Kevin Bacon justice.)
The affable teen admitsto being a newbie to theworld of musical theatre –the closest he’s come thusfar is performing with LosCastores Mariachi Band(where, incidentally, he per-forms alongside Jolene Ber-nardino, who is in FootlooseasVi Moore, the mother ofRen’s love interest).
“This is really my firstexperience with the stageproduction and acting andsinging,” Noah says. “It’s sodifferent from just standingon a stage in front of people,singing.”
What’s made it work forhim, he says, is the talentthat surrounds him onstage.
It helps, he notes, thathis onstage best friend,Wil-lard, is played by his real-life friend Isaac McAndless-Davis.
“We feed off each oth-er,” he says. “It’s a give andtake.”
Noah also has Grade 12student Howard Dai nextto him as Rev. Shaw Moore,the father of the rebelliousgirl who catches Ren’s eye.Noah credits Howard forhelping him “go through theprocess of changing fromNoah to this Chicago boy.”
For Howard, the musicalhas come with the specialchallenge of playing some-one entirely unlike himself– an uptight, middle-agedpreacher.
“Physically, it’s the com-plete opposite of who I am,”he says with a laugh. “I haveto ground myself, to con-stantly be aware of my phys-icality. I am not Howard, ev-
ery part of my body is notHoward.”
His onstage daughter, Ar-iel, is played by Grade 9 stu-dent Sarah Labrosse – who,despite her youth, has al-ready amassed a lengthy re-sumé that includes dancelessons with the NorthwestAcademy of PerformingArts, classical voice stud-ies, piano and trumpet play-ing, and performances withRoyal City MusicalTheatre,Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance!and ShowStoppers.
“I’ve had such an amaz-ing time working with Sar-ah,” Noah says.
Sarah – who, in person,
comes across as sweeter andsofter-spoken than the hard-edged rebel Ariel – says mu-sical theatre has always beenon her radar.
“I just liked singing whenI was little,” she says, notingher elder sister – yes, that’sSophie, who plays Ren’smother – got her interest-ed in it, and they did RoyalCity MusicalTheatre’s Jo-seph and the AmazingTechni-color Dreamcoat together.
She admits to beingshocked to having beencast in a lead role, given heryouth.
“It’s really awesome,”she says, her dark eyes wid-
ening. “I’ve gotta live upto other people’s expecta-tions.”
Keira Jang, a Grade 10student, plays Ariel’s side-kick Rusty.
Keira, like Sarah, alreadyhas a lengthy resumé in theperforming arts.
She’s been dancing andsinging since she was threeand acting since the age offive, and she started gettingserious about theatre at theage of seven.
She’s been in multiplepantomimes with the FraserValley Gilbert and SullivanSociety, and she’s also ap-peared in productions with
bothTheatre Under theStars and Royal City Musi-calTheatre.
Keira says the casting ofthe production has been ex-cellent and that the quali-ty of the show is going to bejust as high as anything she’sbeen in in the past.
“Everyone is so commit-ted to the production. Ev-eryone is exceptional witheverything,” she says. “Theproduction itself is so pro-fessional.”
And she notes that qual-ity isn’t just on the perform-ing side but the technicalside as well.
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Everybodycut footloose:NoahWright isRenandSarahLabrosse is Ariel in theNewWestminster SecondarySchoolproductionof Footloose,onstageat theMasseyTheatre Feb. 25 to28. PHOTOLARRYWRIGHT
NWSSkicksofftheSundayshoesStudents bring Footloose to the stage atMasseyTheatre Feb.25 to 28
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Which is where AndieLloyd comes in.The Grade12 student is serving as as-sistant stage manager andproduction assistant, whichmeans she’s overseeing justabout all aspects of the be-hind-the-scenes and orga-nizing work.
“I angry-text them whenthey don’t show up tothings,” Andie jokes, add-ing that the job has entaileda whole lot of stress and awhole lot of work – but it’sworth it in the end.
“The production side of itis really, really polished andgreat,” she says.
For every one of the stu-dents involved, the musicalis an enormous time invest-ment – there are rehearsalsevery day at lunch and afterschool, plus one full-day re-hearsal each weekend.
All of the students arequick to point out that if it’sa lot of work for them, it’seven more so for the teamof teachers leading them –the same production teamthat has brought previousNWSS musicals Annie,ByeBye Birdie and Grease to thestage.
Director Frances Mon-teleone works alongside vo-cal coach Kelly Proznick,orchestra conductor SteveClements, choreographersLindsayWaldner and Pe-ter Ha, stage manager JulietBrown and acting coachesTraci Cave and Gower Rob-erts – all NWSS teachers,with the exception of Rob-erts, an NWSS alumnuswho’s returned to assist.
“These teachers are thebest,” Noah says. “They arejust amazing.”
“They still have to teachclasses,” Howard points out.“I can’t imagine how theydo it.”
The teachers have nineyoung children betweenthem, all of whom have be-come familiar faces aroundrehearsals – Monteleonejokes that her five-year-olddaughter has I Need a Herodown pat.
Monteleone says theteachers have become atight-knit group over theyears and rely on each otherto get through the long roadto opening night.
For her, it’s easy to ex-plain why she’s willing toput in all the extra effort.
“I love this aspect of myjob. Every single one ofthese students is here be-cause they love performing,”she says.
She knows, too, that theexperience of being part ofthis musical will be a defin-ing high school moment formany of the others – for the49 cast members, the bandmembers, the crew.
“I think a lot of them willlook back on this, after highschool is over, and it will bea highlight,” she says with asmile.
There’s no doubt aboutthat in the minds of heryouthful cast members – allof whom are ready to wowthe city on opening night.
“You put in all this timeand effort, you just knowit’s going to be great,” saysKeira.
Footloose is onstage fromFeb.25 to 28,with nightlyshows at 7 p.m.There’s also a2 p.m.matinee on Saturday,Feb.28.
For more information, seewww.nwssmusic.com.Fortickets, see www.ticketsnw.caor call the MasseyTheatre boxoffice at 604-521-5050.
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Many plays have powerfulthemes and symbolism, butit takes an actor like DavidAdams to convey those mes-sages onstage.
The NewWestminsterresident stars in the Gate-wayTheatre production ofValley Song, the 1995 AtholFugard play set in post-apartheid South Africa.The story delivers a power-ful message about racial in-equality, and it also holdsa lot of meaning for Ad-ams, who is a native of CapeTown.
“I was born there in the’50s, and of course, that wasthe height of the system ofapartheid – that was sort ofinstitutionalized racism,” hetold the Record. “In 1960,when I was five years old,my father decided to moveaway, even though he was a
real dyed-in-the-wool SouthAfrican.”
Adams’ family left afterthe Sharpeville massacre,in which police opened fireon a group of black protest-ers who were demonstratingagainst newly penned racial-ly oppressive laws, killing 69people.
“My dad was so disgust-ed by that that he said, ‘Ican’t bring my family up ina country like that, as muchas I love this country.’”
Additionally, Adams not-ed that because of his mixedethnic background – Eng-lish on his dad’s side, SouthAsian and Dutch on hismom’s side – he wouldn’thave had the same oppor-tunities to excel in life inSouth Africa, including theability to own land.
“When we lived there,my family is designated un-der apartheid as ‘coloured’or of mixed race,” he said.“I wouldn’t have had thesame kind of open oppor-tunities for education, forwhere I wanted to live, andso I’m grateful to my dadfor making that very difficultchoice.”
Now, more than 50 yearslater, Adams is in the leadrole of Valley Song, playingAbraam “Buks” Jonkers,an elderly farmer of mixedrace who represents the oldSouth Africa. Despite theabolishment of apartheidand the election of NelsonMandela as president, Bukswants to maintain the sta-tus quo.
“He’s been so dyed-in-the-wool in terms of beinga second-class citizen thathe is still fearful of the whitepeople coming in and buy-ing up the land,” said Ad-ams. “He was sort of givenhis land as a birthright, andhe doesn’t know if he’ll beable to stay there.”
In contrast, Buks’s vo-cally gifted granddaughter– played by Sereana Malani– is more optimistic and am-bitious, full of hope for a ra-cially equal South Africa.
“She wants to move tothe big city and become afamous singer, and she seesthe end of apartheid as thebeginning of what could os-tensibly be a brilliant, newcareer,” said Adams.
While only two charac-ters appear onstage, Adamspulls double duty – muchlike Fugard did – voicing thewhite, middle-aged narratorwho interacts with Buks andVeronica, bringing his ownpoint of view to the story.
“It’s interesting, eventhough the play is not overt-ly political, you can drawthose parallels because ev-eryone is wanting to fig-ure out how they fit into thenew South Africa,” said Ad-ams.
The play’s symbolism has
made Valley Song one of Fu-gard’s most timeless works,and Adams is thrilled to per-form in a play so close to hisheart.
“I’ve always admired hiswork, and getting a chanceto do this play as a kindof tribute to my ancestry,my background, was also agreat opportunity,” he said.“It also felt like, by doingthe show, I could say a little
something about how I feltabout Nelson Mandela, whohas always been an idol ofmine. It feels like we’re pay-ing a little homage to him.”
The 90-minute play runsuntil Feb.21 at the GatewayTheatre,6500 Gilbert Rd.,Richmond.For the perfor-mance schedule, tickets andmore information, check gatewaytheatre.com or call 604-270-1812.
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Drama: SereanaMalani andNewWest’s David Adams in Valley Song,on until Feb. 21 at the Gateway Theatre. PHOTOCONTRIBUTED
SouthAfricanstoryonstage
It feels likewe’repayinga littlehomage tohim.
NewWest actor has a personal attachmentto his starring role inValley Song
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Community
NewWest youth with aburning desire to try outfirefighting are in luck.
The 2015 NewWestmin-sterYouth Firefighter pro-gram includes first aid/CPRcertification, a live fire, lad-der carrying, searches, hosehandling, an interactive autoextrication demonstration,high-angle rescue and a fit-ness challenge. Applications,which are available at thefire hall at Sixth Street andMcBride Boulevard, mustbe dropped off at any of thecity’s recreation facilities this
week.The youth fire academy is
open to students in Grade10 to 12 who are interestedin the fire service as a pos-sible future career. It’s be-ing held July 7 to 11 at theQueensborough fire hall (fi-nal day is at the Justice In-stitute campus in MapleRidge).
Anyone with questionsabout the youth firefighterprogram can contact Capt.DanWilson at [email protected] or 604-519-1014.
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ed to attend the screening ofa documentary film aboutthe persecution of Bahá’ísof Iran.
The persecution of theBahá’ís and the denial ofeducation to Bahá’ís is thesubject of To Light a Can-dle, a new documentary byIranian-Canadian journalistMaziar Bahari.The doc-umentary is being screenedon Friday, Feb. 27 from 7 to9 p.m. in the lecture theatre(Room 2203) at DouglasCollege, 700 Royal Ave. andwill be followed by a paneldiscussion.
“Maziar Bahari was im-prisoned in Iran, followingthe 2009 Iranian presiden-
tial elections, and is featuredin the major motion picture,Rosewater, which was pro-duced by AmericanTV per-sonality Jon Stewart,” saidorganizer Eman Elmas-ri. “The film documents thepersecution of the Bahá’ís inIran and focuses on the deni-al of their higher education.”
According to a press re-lease bout the event, Iran’sgovernment forbids mem-bers of the Bahá’í faith, thecountry’s largest non-Mus-lim religious minority, fromstudying at universities. Inresponse, Iranian Bahá’íprofessors who were firedfrom their university postsdeveloped an informal, dis-
tance-learning program totry and provide some train-ing in subjects ranging fromaccounting to biology.
“Though degrees arenot recognized by the Ira-nian regime, some Cana-dian universities have ac-cepted Bahá’í students intograduate programs,” statesthe press release. “The Ira-nian government has at-tacked that program pro-viding informal universitycourses, arresting those in-volved in trying to providesome university educationto Bahá’ís. Included amongthose arrested have been afew with graduate degreesfrom Canadian universities
who have returned to Iranto help provide some uni-versity education to Bahá’íyouth.This is only oneamong several ways the Ira-nian regime is persecutingBahá’ís – persecution in-volving arrests, attacks onbusiness, hate propagandaand destruction of cemeter-ies that has intensified overthe past 18 months.
A global campaign, Edu-cation is Not a Crime, is be-ing organized and support-ed by Bahari and a numberof prominent individuals,including Nobel Peace Prizewinners, educators, writersand actors RainnWilsonand Mark Ruffalo.
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ClanseniorbreaksrecordErin Chambers sets all-time conference scoring mark with career-high game
Erin Chambers did notwaste any time becomingthe new Great Northwestconference all-time careerscoring champion.
The Simon Fraser Uni-versity senior scored a ca-reer-high 41 points to leadthe Clan women’s basket-ball team to an 82-75 winover Saint Martin’s andsmash former MontanaState Billings Bobbi Knud-son’s 2014 career recordby 11 points in Saturday’sconference win.
Chambers, the currentNCAA Division II scoringleader, went into the gameneeding just 30 points to tiethe conference career mark,following a 19-point effortearlier in the week in SFU’s68-45 loss toWestern Ore-gon on Feb. 12.
“TheWestern Oregongame was terrible, no ex-cuses. But I don’t thinkabout the numbers, I justlike to play the game,”Chambers said.
The Clan forward nowholds the Great Northwestcareer record with 1,842points and counting.Withthree regular season gamesstill to play, Chambers hasa real possibility of sur-passing 1,900 points in herNCAA career.
Chambers’ 41 points wasalso the third-highest sin-gle-game point total in pro-gram history.
Canadian Olympian andClan Hall of Fame memberTeresa Gabriele holds theschool record of 45 pointsset in 2002 againstTrinityWestern University.
Another Olympian andClan hall of famer MichelleHendry of NewWest-minster scored 42 points
against CentralWashingtonin 1990 in NAIA play.
“Getting the record wasamazing, but to me to beheld up withTeresa andMichelle, who were suchgreat players, is amazing,”Chambers added.
Chambers hit 13 of 23field goals in the game and13-for-16 free throws.
Senior guard Katie Lo-wen chipped in with 15points and MegWilsonadded a double-double,with 12 points and 10 re-bounds.
“Erin shot the ball ex-tremely well with tight de-fence on her all night. Itwas nice to see her get therecord and win the game,”said SFU head coachBruce Langford in a Clanpress release.
With the win, SFU im-proved its conference re-cord to 9-6 and clinched aberth in the Great North-west playoffs.
Earlier, the Clan scoreda season-low 45 points in a13-point loss against last-placeWestern Oregon.
SFU made good on justfive of 24 shots from thefloor in the first half andfinished with under 30 percent shooting.
Only Chambers shot indouble figures for the Clan.
SFU will play its finalhome game of the seasonthis Saturday against Alas-ka Fairbanks.
Conference leader AlaskaAnchorage will be in townonThursday to take on theClan.
“It’s going to be weird. Itfeels like I just started, butit’s over now,” said Cham-bers, who plans to contin-ue playing basketball in Eu-rope and hopefully withthe Canadian women’s na-tional program after gradu-
ation.“Basketball is not over
for me. I want to keep in-volved in the game.”
But Chambers still has
plenty of work to do, help-ing the Clan prepare for theNCAA post season and ashot at making it to the Div.II national championships.
“Every single night mygoal is to do my best,”Chambers said. “I’m a bigcompetitor. I don’t like totake days off.”
Record setter:SimonFraserUniversity senior forwardErinChambers scoredacareer-high41points tobreak theGreatNorthwest conference career scoring record lastweekend. PHOTOLARRYWRIGHT
DistrictschoolsqualifywellonmatsTomBerridgetberridge@newwestrecord.ca
NewWestminster andBurnaby schools had somestrong showings at the B.C.high school zone 4 wres-tling championships.
Defending provincialgirls’ champion St.ThomasMore won five weight class-es and was a finalist in twoothers to win the zone ag-gregate with 69 points overrunners-up Centennial and
host Port Moody.Burnaby Central, which
has won seven high schoolprovincial banners since2000, placed second be-hind Pinetree in aggregateboys’ standings. NewWest-minster finished right be-hind Central in third.
STM’s Natalie Nelsonwon at 64 kilograms, Ni-cole Depa took top spot at57kg andTaylor McIntoshplaced first at 60kg.
Caileen Corbett, at 40kg,
and Amanda Silveri, atplus-90kg, were both unop-posed.
Ciara Corbett was a run-ner-up at 51kg, while Mea-gan Chow and Gabrie-la Chow were second andthird, respectively, at 43kg.
Juliana Casas, Gabri-ella Bellini and Domini-ka Maludzinski also placedin their respective weightclasses. Livleen Sidhu waspetitioned in at 69kg.
Central’s MeleViklani
topped the girls’ 75kg divi-sion, while Sanna Bhayan-na was third at 47kg.
Vanna Oropilla and SaraBrinkac also qualified forCentral. Burnaby North’sChelsea Coombes was peti-tioned in at 51kg.
On the boys’ mats, Cen-tral’s Sanan Parshakooriwas first at 60kg and AlecShaw won at 63kg, whileNazeeb Omar and AnselHait were winners at 74and 84kg, respectively.
Aidan Labreche was pe-titioned in at 41kg, whileFaraz Faziahizadeh andBillyTrengrove also quali-fied.
“All these kids, if theywrestle well, they couldplace,” said Central coachGianni Buono. “We’re abetter team than last year,but this year these guysare a blue-collar team andcould get into the top sixwith a good tournament.
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NewWestminster willhave to take the long wayhome at the Crehan Cupgirls’ basketball champion-ships.
The Hyacks left too manypoints under the ring andwere sadly outreboundedby the smallerVancouvercity champion SirWinstonChurchill Bulldogs follow-ing a 64-50 loss at ArgyleSecondary on Day 2 of theLower Mainland AAA girls’qualifier.
The two teams tradedpoint for point throughoutthe opening half, but it be-came evident as the gamewent on that NewWest’smissed shots in close andfew second-chance oppor-tunities might well becomethe eventual storyline.
That scenerio playedout in the second half asChurchill took advantage inthe third quarter, outscoringthe No. 4 seeds 19-10 in thequarter, while holding theHyacks to just nine pointsin the final frame.
“Usually we’re bet-ter. Maybe we had somenerves,” said MadisenObrovac, who posted ateam-high 16 points and ledthe Hyacks on the boards.
With starting point guardJustice Steer and senior postHannah DeVos both outwith injury, NewWest willhave its hands full on theback side of the draw.
Burnaby Mountain hadthe best showing amongBurWest teams at the Main-lands.
The No. 9 seed threw ascare at its second-seededhosts before falling 74-71 toArgyle on Monday.
Guard Jacey Bailey scoreda game-high 33 points andgrabbed 13 rebounds tolead the Mountain Lions.
Teammate Alix Gabri-el knocked down 25 points,including 15 in the fourthquarter, to keep the Lionswithin a bucket up to the fi-nal ticks of the clock.
“Our coach said, ‘It’s notthe dog in the fight, but thefight in the dog,’ and that’swhat we did,” said Bailey.
Burnaby South also lost,falling 56-49 to No. 3 seedHandsworth. Ana Lukichad 20 points for South, 16coming in the second half.
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Passing fancy:EkaterinaDella Vedovahelped theNewWestminsterHyacksupsetNo. 2BurnabySouth32-21 inBNWjuvenilehigh school girls’ playoffs lastweek. The Grade9girlsare inRichmond thisweek for theV&D’s. PHOTOLARRYWRIGHT
The Douglas CollegeRoyals held on to their No.1 national men’s volleyballranking with a five-set winover Columbia Bible Col-lege last weekend.
The Royals blanked theNo. 5-ranked Bearcats3-0 on Feb. 13 but werestretched to a five-set tie-breaker onValentine’s Dayin PacWest regular seasonplay.
Douglas dropped theopening set 29-27, but ral-lied in the second and thirdsets before the Abbotsfordvisitors forced the tiebreakwith a 25-23 win.The Roy-als outlasted CBC 17-15 inthe final set.
The wins improved theRoyals’ first-place record to19-3.
The Douglas women alsowon both matches againstthe winless Bearcats.
Douglas finishes up thePacWest season with ahome-and-home againstCapilano this weekend.
In PacWest basketball,the Douglas women got 20points from Chloe Kennedyin a 75-56 win over LangaraCollege on Feb. 13.
The Royals got the jumpon Langara, outscoring thelast-place Falcons 19-5 inthe opening quarter.
Simran Bir and GaralineTom came off the benchto score 13 and 12 points,respectively, for the Roy-als. Rachel Beauchamp alsonetted a dozen and had ninerebounds for Douglas.
The Royals outscoredLangara 37-14 off thebench.
The win improved theRoyals’ record to 11-6,keeping them in third place,four points up on CapilanoUniversity.
Douglas takes on un-beaten Quest University inSquamish this Friday.TheRoyals are back in town Sat-urday for a match on theNorth Shore against Cap.
The Douglas men’s bas-ketball team lost its game toNo. 2 Langara 60-58 to re-main in fourth spot.
Throwscoachnamed
We could crack the top 10,” Buono added.NewWestminster did well to finish just five points behind
Central in third place.TJ Cordoviz took first at 45kg and Sammy Sidhu won at
66kg, while Justice Champagn was unopposed at 90kg.David Penalver and Connor Pattison were runners-up at
51 and 84kg, respectively. Hossein Shidfar placed third at78kg, as didYanni Angelopoulus at 110kg.
Isaiah James and Logan Charron also qualified for NewWest.
STM had success at the lighter weight classes with JoelCalica taking first at 48kg and Daniel Alphonso winningat 51kg. Aidan Field and Cristian Costa were second andthird, respectively, at 45kg. Stefano Pozzolo was also peti-tioned in at 51kg. Daniel Sulentic qualified at 60kg.
Burnaby South’s Jim Sidhu is a favourite in the boys’heavyweight division, while David Awayo, Marcus Awayoand ErikTwinn were all qualifiers at 70-plus kg.
The B.C. high school wrestling championships will beheld in Abbotsford from Feb. 26 to 28.
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NewWestboysthird
Former Canadian javelin champion KristaWoodward isthe new throws coach for the NewWest SpartansTrack andField Club.
Woodward will lead the throws program for the SpartansandVancouver Olympic clubs for junior development andmidget athletes, and also prepare multi-event athletes forthe world youth championships in Cali, Columbia in July.
The six-time national champion was the first Canadian inher age group to throw over 50 meters.Woodward went tothe University of Georgia on a scholarship, where she wonfour Southeastern Conference titles and was a four-timeAll-American.
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