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August 31 2012 www.newwestnewsleader.com new westminster’s dylan myers, who has plans to eventually be a firefighter, is the captain the douglas college royals, hosts of the 2012 canadian championship. see Page A27
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max Jacquiard enjoys living near the railway yard along new westminster’s Quay, as it fuels his passion for painting trains. His depictions of historic steam trains in iconic settings are in a new coffee table book to be released sept. 8.
Jacquiard a colourful train master
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for good reason, though. He was inducted because of a talent that tugs at the heartstrings of those with locomotives running through their blood. The New Westminster resident has been painting since the 1970s. That’s not special. What is special is for the last three decades the paintings all have trains in them, and those works are treasured possessions of those with rails in
Max Jacquiard was 17 in 1951 when he went to work in the railyard of Pacific Great Eastern— predecessor to BC Rail—in Quesnel. He didn’t last much more than a week. The job just wasn’t for him. So for someone so resistant to working the rails it’s a bit strange he’s a member of the Canadian Railway Hall of Fame. He’s there
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their DNA. Many of his best works have been put together in a collection by author Barrie Sanford entitled Train Master: The Railway Art of Max Jacquiard, which will launch on Saturday, Sept. 8. Jacquiard’s early formative years were spent in Northern Manitoba near the Saskatchewan border. The family with a Swiss-French heritage lived in a log cabin built during the
Depression on Ross Lake on the opposite side to the mining town of Flin Flon. The end of a Canadian National Railway branch line ran alongside the lake just a few hundred yards from their cabin. He would watch in fascination as the steam engines chugged by, their parts moving in percussive synchronicity complete with bells and whistles. please see stORY, A9
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New West’s Kyle Turris has signed a five-year $17.5million contract extension with the NHL’s Ottawa Senators. The deal will not take effect until the 2013-14 season when he will earn $3.5 million a year until 2017-18. A year ago, Turris was a restricted free agent and was a holdout with the Phoenix Coyotes. He had asked to be traded from the Coyotes, who chose him third overall in the 2007 NHL entry draft, but Phoenix was reluctant to do so. Turris and the Coyotes eventually came to an agreement on a twoyear, $2.6 million deal that will pay him $1.6 million in the upcoming season. Phoenix traded Turris to the Senators on Dec. 11, 2011, and he went on to set career highs in goals (12), assists (17) and points (29). He also picked up a goal and two assists in Ottawa’s seven firstround playoff games against the New York Rangers. Turris has played 186 career NHL games scoring 75 points, including 31 goals.