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City aims to save bit of heritage Booth farm seen as possible spot for public events By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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These Grade 8 kids from Sir Frederick Banting middle school — Margarita Tellez, Rohan Banga and Victoria Yule — will be among 36 leadership students walking with Guy Black on Friday to celebrate peace and honour the 60th anniversary of the Korean War ceasefire.
The city of Coquitlam is looking to save a 112-year-old farmhouse that once hosted community picnics and other large gatherings. This week, council hinted the city wants to buy the home that used to belong to Maillardville pioneer Ralph Booth. The house, located at 1746 Brunette Ave., and an adjoining lot are currently owned by the estate of Rosaleen Morgan. Coun. Craig Hodge, chair of the city’s Maillardville Commercial and Cultural Revitalization Advisory Committee, said during Monday’s council-incommittee he hopes the
city can acquire the historical asset and turn the area into a half-acre public park that would also serve as a future trailhead to the BC Hydro corridor. Hodge envisions Booth Farm being restored as a place “where the community can come together and have picnics like at the turn of the century,” when Fraser Mills workers and their families congregated there. Under the city’s heritage inventory, which was revised in 2007, Booth Farm is considered one of eight “primary properties” in Maillardville with historical value. The other seven are: • 1120 Brunette Ave. (Ryan House), built in 1908, owned by the city; • 1120 Brunette Ave. (Mackin House), built in 1913, owned by the city; see DESIGN, page 12
A walk for peace and remembrance No arrests yet By Diane Strandberg THE TRI-CITY NEWS
For more than a decade, Port Moody’s Guy Black has been working to get recognition for Canada’s Korean war vets. Now, it’s his twin sons he’s thinking about. As Black prepares for his biggest, most complex venture in the long road to commemorate the efforts
of Canadian soldiers who fought to bring peace to the Korean peninsula, he’s hoping to leave behind a legacy for generations. To that end, he has engaged his sons’ school, Sir Frederick Banting middle, in a ceremony and walk to help him honour the Canadian Korean war vets and to mark the 60th anniversary of the ceasefire. see 72 KM WALK, page A6
Friday morning at Sir Frederick Banting middle school in Coquitlam, 600 students, dozens of dignitaries and veterans will hold a ceremony, then walk to SFU’s Burnaby Mountain campus for a Gapyong stone ceremony at noon. Guy Black, a Port Moody resident and
longtime advocate for Korean war veterans, will continue the journey with a few friends and supporters to the summit of Mt. Seymour, for a ceremony with members of the North Shore Rescue team at 10 p.m. Black’s walk will continue overnight to Burnaby’s Central Park
for an 11 a.m. ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the ceasefire and 2013, theYear of the Korean War Veteran. Stones will be collected on the route and delivered to the consul general of the Republic of Korea and will be taken back to Korea for depositing at a war cemetery.
By Gary McKenna THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Police are still investigating a late-night shooting last Thursday believed to be related to drugs that left two people injured. Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Jamie Chung said the victims are recovering and have been cooperating with the police investigation.
“We have finished processing the crime scene,” he said. “We are still talking to some of the witnesses but no arrests have been made. That is as much as I can say right now.” The shooting occurred around 11 p.m. in the 3200-block of Ballenas C o u r t i n t h e N ew Horizons subdivision see SHOOTING, page A8