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Wait For Me Daddy to get stamped Canada Post chooses iconic photo to commemorate Grant Granger
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Rachel Wallace caught this great shot of production on Columbia Street last weekend on the film Nautilus, a re-make of Godzilla. The Royal City was dressed up to look like San Francisco, including renaming Columbia to ‘Sansome’ and the intersection at Sixth looked like the terrible lizard had just stomped through, with crushed police cars and buses.
New Westminster’s $100K club grows Grows by 14 to 78 members according to SOFI report Grant Granger
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Seventy-eight City of New Westminster employees were members of the $100K club in 2012. That’s an increase in membership of 14 from 2011, although it’s only 12 more than 2010. According to its annual Statement of Financial Information report, 201 of the city’s employees received total compensation of at least
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$75,000. That’s four more than in 2011. They were topped by chief administrative officer Paul Daminato, who collected more than $203,000, including $4,600 in expenses in 2012. Daminato retired in January after working for the city for 31 years. He was replaced by chief planner Lisa Spitale, who took over the duties on June 1. She was the city’s seventhhighest earner in 2012 with a total compensation of $163,417. The second-highest earner was fire chief Tim Armstrong at
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$182,611 followed by parks, culture and recreation director Dean Gibson ($175,812), engineering director Jim Lowrie ($172,551), finance director Gary Holowatiuk ($168,782) and electrical utility manager Rod Carle ($167,467). It’s the same monetary compensation order as it was in 2011. The city also reported 313 suppliers who received payments of 25,000 or more for goods or services. The biggest payment was nearly $25 million for electricity from BC Hydro. More than $10 million went to Metro Vancouver
for sewer and water. Nine contractors received more than $1 million for projects around the city. By far and away the largest amount went to PCL Constructors at $12 million. The next closest was more than $5 million to Wilco Landscape followed by Kinetic Construction ($4m), Matcon Excavation ($3.8m), Winvan Paving ($3.75m) and Pedre Contractors ($3.1m). The city’s total expenditure for goods and services was $113.7 million.
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When Coun. Lorrie Williams was in Ottawa on Federation of Canadian Municipalities business last November she made a side trip. She had an appointment with Canada Post to pitch putting the iconic Second World War ‘Wait For Me Daddy’ photo shot in New Westminster on a stamp. Williams met the department head who makes the decisions on commemorative stamps and his artistic advisor, and told them about how the city was going to build a statue basically where the picture was taken at the foot of Eighth Street. She told them about all the celebrations that would be involved when it is unveiled Oct. 4, 2014, and she told them how important the picture was in symbolizing Canada’s war effort. She told them Whitey Bernard, the little boy in the photo—shown breaking free from his mother and stretching his arm out to his see ‘i’m GoinG’, a9