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OctOber 19 2012 www.burnabynewsleader.com Jesse Peters delivers his distinct jazz sound at shadbolt next weekend—a chance to indulge in some fall culture. See Page A9
Teachers advised not to show Todd video Wanda chow
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Rob Blackwell and Greg Zayadi of Anthem Properties, check out a model of the first tower to be built at the new Station Square development, which will eventually be comprised of five new towers.
Station Square begins major transformation wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
Back in the 1950s, Keith Beedie heard that a large piece of property, home to the Ford Motor Co. and Kelly Douglas, could be had for a price. “They wanted $1 million for it. I thought, ‘are they crazy?’” He never would have dreamed back then that one day he’d own a large piece of the property, and that the company he founded,
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redevelopment. When Beedie bought the property It’s the first residential highrise with Anthem about eight years ago, project for Beedie Living in Burnaby the site was seen as a good piece of and for Ryan, it’s something of a land with great tenants generating homecoming. His parents still live decent income. It was also a site nearby in the house they built about calling out for a facelift. 50 years ago and the company’s “It was a great piece of property offices were down the street on that wasn’t really living up to its Kingsway for 50 years until a recent potential,” Ryan said. move to Gilmore Avenue. ••••• Ryan recalled riding his BMX The first of five new towers will be bike in the neighbourhood to play built on the northeast corner of the video games at a gas station across site, where Red Robin and Boston the street, and working at the IGA Pizza to be. 1:20 PM at Old Orchard Shopping Centre a 4x1.25_bottle_depot_ad_final.pdf 1 used 12-03-05 couple blocks away. please see OLD cINeMAS, A3
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Burnaby-based Beedie Development Group, would have a hand in its transformation. The company, which until now had mainly been known for its industrial development projects, is now run by his son Ryan Beedie and is half-owner of Station Square shopping centre through its residential development division, Beedie Living. Along with partner Anthem Properties, the developer is launching sales this weekend of condominium units in the first of five new towers slated for the major
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A crisis trauma response consultant for the B.C. Education Ministry is recommending the Amanda Todd video not be shown in classrooms out of concern for its impact on vulnerable students. Kevin Cameron, executive director of the Canadian Centre for Threat Assessment and Trauma Response, was lead author of a notice sent to school district superintendents and principals around B.C. warning of the potential effects of showing the YouTube video. Coquitlam teen Amanda Todd created and posted the video online several weeks ago. It recounted how she became a victim of an online stalker who caused her to be severely bullied, emotionally and physically, both on the Internet and at a number of schools she attended. She committed suicide last week. Cameron, who works nationally and internationally, and led the crisis response team in Taber, Alta., after the school shootings there in 1999, just days after the Columbine shootings. please see MANy, A5