THE WEDNESDAY
APRIL 3, 2013
CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
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TRI-CITY NEWS CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
Real life on the stage
Inspiration in photos
SEE LIFE, PAGE A14
SEE ARTS, PAGE A22
INSIDE
Tom Fletcher/A10 Letters/A11 A Good Read/A18 Sports/A26
Music is medicine at Crossroads Hospice
MARIA SPITALE-LEISK/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
As Crossroads Hospice Society celebrates its 25th birthday, it also marks the 10th year of the Crossroads Inlet Centre Hospice in Port Moody, where myriad methods are used to ensure a peaceful, comfortable end of life for dozens of people each year. Among the methods used to ease residents’ pain and anxiety is music therapy and, to that end, Jennyfer Hatch (above) has been singing for the last few weeks with Pearle Horne, who has resided at the hospice since February. For more on their story, and on the society, see page A3.
PoCo Sports Alliance has ambitious plans By Diane Strandberg THE TRI-CITY NEWS
For 100 years, since Port Coquitlam’s inauguration day was capped with a baseball game, the city has been known for its sports culture. But the new PoCo Sports Alliance (pocosport. com) launched last year will deepen and enrich the culture and spread it further afield, predicts Ryan Clark, the group’s executive director. see LEADERSHIP, SPORTSMANSHIP, page A5
End trash incineration: study Report criticizes carbon emissions from waste-toenergy plants By Jeff Nagel BLACK PRESS
A new report urges Metro Vancouver not to
build any new waste-toenergy plants and says its existing garbage incinerator in Burnaby be phased out. Those are among the recommendations in a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. I t s p a p e r, t i t l e d “Closing the Loop,” ex-
amines solid waste policy through the prism of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and encouraging green industries. Author Marc Lee takes aim in part at Metro Vancouver’s advancing strategy of building a new waste-toenergy plant to consume
370,000 tonnes of garbage by 2018, ending the region’s use of the Cache Creek regional landfill. The Burnaby incinerator, which burns 280,000 tonnes of waste per year, is a heavy carbon emitter even using disputed official estimates, according to the report, making it a considerably worse
source of electricity than burning natural gas. “Incineration has adverse consequences for health and GHG emissions, and requires a steady stream of waste that is inconsistent with zero waste objectives,” the report said. see LANDFILLING, page A13