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Ron Hrynuik, general manager of Bridge Studios in Burnaby, says the film industry is now back on the upswing after increased competition and a strong Canadian dollar slowed the number of productions coming to B.C. in recent years.
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In many ways, the health of the local film industry was mirrored by the recent health scare of Ron Hrynuik. Hrynuik, the general manager of Bridge Studios in Burnaby, was skiing at Blackcomb in February 2012 when he collapsed from a heart attack. Luckily for him, the man skiing
right behind him happened to be a doctor visiting from Seattle. The doctor performed CPR until an automated external defibrillator (AED) arrived to jump-start his heart. Hrynuik, 54, ended up having quadruple bypass surgery and was off work for a lengthy period of recovery. That coincided with a downturn in the local film business when productions were slow to arrive at Bridge Studios.
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“They didn’t miss me,” the North Burnaby resident said with a laugh. It was a far cry from 2007 and 2008 when productions were lined up for studio time one after the other. That was followed by a drop in business in 2010 when the Canadian dollar started going up, a jump in bookings in 2011 and then a really bad year in 2012. “Nobody saw it coming,” recalled Hrynuik, who also serves on the board of the Motion Picture Production Industry Association of
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Kinder Morgan Canada will ask the National Energy Board to force a resistant City of Burnaby to give it access to study a possible tunnel through Burnaby Mountain for its proposed Trans Mountain oil pipeline. President Ian Anderson said the company will also seek formal permission from Burnaby but hopes to secure an order from the NEB within weeks if the city doesn’t relent. Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan has indicated his city won’t cooperate with Kinder Morgan unless it’s forced to do so. The city would have the ability to appeal any NEB order, potentially causing further delay. “My hope is that we can get the permission of the city,” Anderson said in a media conference call Friday, adding he hopes to repair what has become a “toxic
relationship” with Burnaby as quickly as possible. The company wants to conduct test drilling into the mountain as part of environmental and geotechnical work to assess whether either a bored tunnel or directionally drilled route is possible there that would avoid the need to run the twinned pipeline near homes to the west of the mountain to reach the Westridge Marine Terminal. Anderson said he prefers a bored tunnel because that could let Kinder Morgan to deactivate the existing section of pipeline approaching the tanker terminal and relocate it through the mountain as well. He said he wishes the revised route had been pursued sooner, but called the idea of drilling through Burnaby Mountain an “engineering revelation” that came to project planners as they gained more understanding of the sensitivities along the original route. A tunnel would drive up the project’s costs, but Anderson
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could not say by how much. The proposed route change unveiled this spring prompted the NEB to this month push back a final recommendation on project approval by seven months to allow more time for study. That will take it to Jan. 25, 2016 – past the next federal election – but Anderson said he did not expect the delay to
threaten the project. “I don’t consider the election cycle to be a determinant of the national interest on a project such as ours,” he said, adding the proposed $5.4-billion pipeline would be buffeted by politics regardless. The company has been under fire from intervenors – including the provincial government and
Lower Mainland regional districts – for failing to adequately answer numerous questions they have posed. The province said it couldn’t assess the project’s risks without access to its emergency response plan, which Kinder Morgan had refused to publicly divulge as part of the NEB process over security concerns. Anderson said the company will publicly table by Aug. 1 a sanitized version of the emergency plan that’s stripped of private and confidential information as well elements that could undermine security. But it’s unclear if that will satisfy the intervenors, because Anderson said Burnaby and the province may already have a copy of the non-confidential plan. He said it will ultimately be up to the NEB to decide whether or not Kinder Morgan has been right in declining to answer some intervenor questions as irrelevant to the project. —with files from Wanda Chow
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That meant it was equivalent to 16.5 per cent of overall spending. Concern about the slowdown led last year to calls for the provincial government to match Ontario’s tax credits and a campaign dubbed “Save B.C. Film.” Burnaby is home to 62 per cent of purpose-built film studio space in the Lower Mainland, which itself has 88 per cent of all such space in the province. According to a 2013 city staff report, the industry injected at least $408 million in direct and
spinoff spending into the Burnaby economy in 2012. It directly employed at least 2,425 Burnaby residents as cast and crew, with combined earnings of more than $32.9 million. Hrynuik stressed Burnaby city hall has been hugely supportive of the industry, knowing what a difference it makes to the economy. the B.C. AdvAntAge
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film industry is recovering based on what it has to offer Hollywood. Film producers may have tried other locations and their incentives, but appear to be coming back, he said. In addition to a favourable exchange rate, B.C. is closer to Los Angeles and in the same time zone, compared to Ontario, and the facilities and experienced local crews have a sterling reputation. “You can film every day of the year here. In Toronto, you’re not going outside in January.” But in general, the industry is something of a
“revolving door,” Hrynuik said. While “business is brisk right now” there are spaces available for bookings. At Bridge Studios, last week four smaller productions started and one big production finished. Two TV shows will be returning—Once Upon a Time for its fourth season and Motive, a Canadian co-production will be back for a third season. Those shows take up 70 per cent of the site at Bridge. Similarly, Paul Clausen, vice president of Mammoth
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Beech gets Liberal nod in Burnaby North-Seymour Was BC’s youngestever elected official at age 18
to attend Simon Fraser University. Since then he’s been focused on getting an education and building a career as an Wanda Chow entrepreneur and teacher. wchow@burnabynewsleader.com Beech has a bachelor degree At age 18, Terry Beech was in business and economics from B.C.’s youngest-ever elected SFU and an MBA from Oxford official when he became University. He co-founded a city councillor in Beech Partners which Nanaimo in 1999. works with entrepreneurs, Now 15 years later, small businesses he’s hoping to get back and startups and into public service Hiretheworld.com which after winning the serves as a global graphic BeeCh nomination Wednesday design marketplace. And as the federal Liberal he currently serves as an candidate for the new riding of adjunct professor in innovation Burnaby North-Seymour. and entrepreneurship at SFU Beech, now 33, said he was and the University of B.C. always interested in politics and He was always looking for how the country is run, perhaps an opportunity to get back into unusually so for a teenager. “I politics but “I wanted to do it as paid for cable when I was a teen service, not as a job.” That’s why so I could watch CPAC and pay he focused on his business and attention to question period.” gaining financial stability first. He was coaching his high He told his wife, Ravi, that school debate team when he he’d wait until after their started using Nanaimo city wedding before he made a council agendas to find issues decision. They were married a to debate for practice, followed year ago and last Wednesday, by watching the meetings to see Ravi and her mom were busy what happened. preparing all the food for the That’s when he got the idea riding’s nomination meeting at that he could run for office, Confederation Centre, where serve the community and make Beech was acclaimed. a difference. He feels the new riding, His debate team became his which now includes North campaign team and he was Vancouver and North Burnaby, elected to Nanaimo council. is winnable. He lives in North “It turned out to be one of the Burnaby but is familiar with most fulfilling jobs I’ve ever North Van, having attended had … You actually can see the Capilano University at one difference that you’re making.” point. At the end of his three-year So far, the issues of most term he didn’t seek re-election concern he’s hearing from because he moved to Burnaby constituents is the economy and
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Two announcements last week underlined just how important the Fraser River is to the local economy and why it’s vital more steps be taken to prevent flooding. A new report commissioned by the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with other chambers in the region, warns a massive flood would cause tens of billions of dollars in damage and catastrophic losses for the 300,000 residents of the floodplain, as well as business and industry. As well, the Lower Mainland Flood Management Strategy wants an action plan to begin the process of raising dikes and improving other flood defences in the years ahead. Saskatchewan and Manitoba were recently hit with severe flooding and it’s likely the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley will see flood damage in the future. In fact, recent studies by the province project that major floods will be more frequent and severe as a result of climate change. Richmond, being below sea level to begin with, already has an extensive diking system. But with global weather patterns taking a turn to the extreme in recent years, cities on floodplains cannot take flooding for granted. Look at what happened in Calgary and many parts of normally dry Alberta last year, when the Bow River swelled past its banks. While Richmond may be prepared, many dikes in the Fraser Valley are too low. Yet if Fraser Valley dikes are strengthened, that means more water will be being directed at Richmond. That’s why a coordinated strategy is essential. It’s good that business groups and government are taking a proactive approach at a potential future risk. Let’s hope senior governments put their money where there mouths are in doing upgrades now, rather than throwing money at cleaning up a disaster zone in the future. —Richmond Review/Black Press
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B.C. back in black, deep in debt VICTORIA – When the audited public accounts confirmed a $353 million surplus for the last fiscal year, B.C. Liberal political staff were quick to remind reporters of the NDP’s main theme from last year’s election campaign. Pages of election quotes from almost every NDP MLA were waiting to be distributed. It was a “bogus budget,” one of the more polite tags applied to the government’s pre-election fiscal plan. “It underestimates the costs in a whole bunch of ministries and we’re going to have to review that because all of the decisions that we propose in our platform will have to be implemented,” said then-leader Adrian Dix, describing the NDP’s plans to tax and spend more. Skeena MLA Robin Austin targeted health care in the budget debate: “Bearing in mind that our population is actually increasing, bearing in mind that our population is aging, I think it’s very unrealistic to think we can actually limit health care expenditures to 2.7 per cent.”
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As it turned out, health care spending grew by just over two per cent. It still went up by $360 million from the previous year, but after annual increases of six or seven per cent had become the norm, this is quite an achievement. New agreements remain to be negotiated with doctors and nurses, so we’re unlikely to see the same cost control results for the current year. Ottawa’s health care transfer payment formula has changed, and increases are to be capped at three per cent a year by 2016, so this is the kind of spending restraint all provinces are expected to produce. Education was the only other ministry to receive significant extra funding last year, up $299 million despite continuing enrolment decline. Like health,
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the education budget goes up every year, and these increases, along with strong student performance results, expose the rhetoric of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation about a cash-starved system for what it is. But the biggest fabrication of last year’s election was the “debt free B.C.” slogan emblazoned on the side of Premier Christy Clark’s campaign bus. The public accounts confirm that the province’s total debt rose to just over $60 billion, the latest of a series of increases since 2008. The much-touted balanced budget is on the operating side, while the province continues to pile up debt to pay for the Port Mann mega-project, hospitals, schools and other big infrastructure. Finance Minister Mike de Jong emphasized the difference between capital and operating expenditures. “We’re borrowing to build as opposed to paying for the groceries,” he said. “Debt free B.C.” was not an outright misrepresentation, merely one of the most far-
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Fiscal caution or piracy? Re: Burnaby finances in good health (NewsLeader, July 18) It is pretty funny that the NewsLeader did a two-page story on the health of Burnaby’s fiscal reserves. I checked out the Fraser Institute’s “study” for myself. It presents Burnaby, along with 17 other municipalities, on a list of communities with positive net financial assets. The report does not even include a single sentence about our great city. This is old news. In fact, the fiscal reserves will have grown substantially after the city posted a $100-million surplus in 2013. This is not an anomaly. Between 2009 and 2013, the city accumulated surpluses in excess of $482 million. It is not difficult to build a surplus when a municipal government misleads its constituents by overestimating its annual needs and underestimating how much tax it will collect. According to BC Stats estimates, Burnaby’s population was 231,811. Its overall tax levy, which it controls, for city services was $213.5 million in 2013. Consequently, Burnaby had the highest per-person tax levy of the four municipalities in the “strongest financial positions” in the Fraser Institute’s simplistic study. If you collect more taxes from residents and businesses than other municipalities, as Burnaby does, your net assets will grow faster than your neighbours’. Is the Burnaby Citizens Association’s approach fiscal caution or fiscal piracy? Finally, I am disappointed the NewsLeader would allow Coun. Paul McDonell and the Mayor to misrepresent the position of their critics without contacting the critics themselves. No one is suggesting dipping into the reserves in place of paying taxes. Clearly, with average annual surpluses of $96 million, the city could have minimized tax increases, maintained its reserve and still self-financed amenities like the Edmonds
Community Centre. The one who pays the piper calls the tune I suppose. Rick McGowan Burnaby
THANKS MAYOR Re: Pipeline firm to seek hammer over Burnaby Congratulations and a thank you Mayor Corrigan, you are speaking for us all, and that’s 205,000 citizens of the City of Burnaby. Good stuff. Peter Dickinson-Starkey •••••
The arrogance of Kinder Morgan is astounding. Gail Benedet •••••
Not really—it’s commonplace, actually. For example, Nestle wants to privatize water supplies and denies that water is a human right. These people are sociopaths that view humanity as a resource to be exploited. If our legal machinery was firing
on all cylinders, these people would be automatically ordered to undergo a psychological assessment, and locked away where they can’t do any further damage. Greg Monks •••••
I am so glad Mayor Derek Corrigan is saying what he is saying and doing what he is doing. We don’t need a big Houston corporation owning giant, exclusive right-of-ways that bar the citizens of Burnaby or of the province of B.C. from city-owned park land. Plus, we don’t want the added higher risk of environmental contamination. By land or by sea. No extra pipelines or extra Pacific crossings by tanker traffic in and out of Stanley Park and Burrard Inlet waterways. Dropping their bilge water times two, using up fuel to cross and spewing pollution. Karin Alzner —online comments burnabynewsleader.com
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Police seek missing teen Hasn’t been seen for over a month Burnaby RCMP are seeking the public’s help in finding a teen who hasn’t been seen since last month. Zoe Denise Olesen was last seen on June 16 at 5:30 p.m. She was reported missing to police on July 16. Olesen is described as a 15-year-old Aboriginal Metis girl with long hair dyed pink, blue and
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purple. She is five-feet-four, 115 pounds, has green eyes and wears glasses. She was last seen wearing blue jeans and a red/blue plaid shirt with a white tank top underneath. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call Burnaby RCMP at 604-294-7922 and quote file number 2014-31998.
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Children do not often attend dinner parties. Adults with children typically leave the kids with a babysitter when attending a dinner parties with colleagues or friends. But some hosts choose to make their dinner parties kid-friendly. This can make things easier on guests, who won’t have to go to the trouble or expense of hiring a babysitter for the night. It also can make things easier on hosts with children of their own and don’t want to add finding a sitter to their list of things to do in the days leading up to the party. Kids can add some life to a dinner party, but hosts may to employ a few strategies to ensure their kidfriendly dinner parties are enjoyable for adults and children alike. FEEd ThE kIds FIRsT
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Kids can’t ignore their appetites as long as their adult counterparts, so make sure dinner for the kids is served once all of them have arrived.
or watching movies they have already seen. Let youngsters know in advance that if they fulfill their responsibilities at hosts they can choose how to spend the following day or weekend. choosE aN aduLT ENTREE ThaT’s sIMPLE To PREPaRE
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No matter how well behaved kids may be before and during a dinner party, hosts should not add to their already considerable workload by preparing an especially complicated meal for their adult guests. Keep things simple, especially if you are preparing a separate meal for the kids. Much of the stress of hosting a dinner party comes with preparing the meal, and that may only prove more stressful if you are preparing two meals while simultaneously catering to the needs of your youngest guests. coNsIdER hIRING a babYsITTER
Sometimes hiring a babysitter makes sense even when mom and dad are home. A babysitter can look after the kids while the parents are elsewhere in the home enjoying a good meal and great company. Adults attending the party with their children can split the cost of a babysitter, even if he or she charges extra to look after several kids at once. Hosting a kidfriendly dinner party can make for a memorable night for parents and their children. Hosts can make the night even better by employing several strategies to make the party feel like a more traditional affair even if the kids are in the next room.
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Belle beaten by teen in B.C. Amateur playoff Burnaby’s Michael Belle had a B.C. Amateur Golf Championship in his grasp before losing a five-hole playoff to Jordan Lu, 17, of Vancouver on Friday. Belle led for much of the tournament at the Seymour Golf and Country Club in North Vancouver. He had a three-shot lead after 11 holes in the final round. He even went into the 72nd hole of the fourround tournament with a onestroke lead but Lu, who started the day four strokes behind Belle, made a birdie to force a sudden death playdown. “It was tough coming down the stretch. My nerves got the best of me coming down 15, 16, 17, 18. But other than that I was pretty happy with the way I played,” Belle told Dan Russell
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Burnaby’s Michael Belle swings away at the B.C. Amateur last week.
on his Sportstalk Sunday Golf show on CISL. “The last (playoff) hole I had a 12-footer
to win and ended up threeputting to lose. It was a tough way to lose, but that’s how it goes sometimes. “You try to put that tough 12-foot putt out of your mind, but I didn’t and I ended up missing that three-foot putt (for par) in the end.” Belle, who just finished his senior season playing for the Simon Fraser University men’s golf team, shot an even-par 284 (69-71-71-73). Alex Francois, 16, of Burnaby finished tied for fourth just two strokes back of Belle and Lu. Francois and Roy Kang, 15, beat out 64 teams to win the best-ball competition with a combined 19-under 265. Both Belle and Francois recorded hole-in-ones on the first day of play last Tuesday.
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Alex Fediaev, left, of Burnaby, wrestles Logan Schell of Prince George on Saturday at the B.C. Summer Games in Nanaimo. Fediaev won the match and went on to take a bronze in the 63-kilogram division.
Lakers leap into second The Burnaby Lakers moved into second place in the Western Lacrosse Association and clinched a playoff spot with a pair of one-goal wins on the weekend. The Lakers began at home by edging the Coquitlam Adanacs 7-6 in overtime at Bill Copeland Arena on Friday. They then went to Maple Ridge on Sunday to nip the Burrards 8-7 and leapfrog over them into second place. Burnaby is 9-6-0 with three games left, one more than Maple Ridge which is 8-7-1. The Victoria Shamrocks (13-1-2) have already locked up first place. Casey Jackson scored the only goal of the 10-minute overtime Friday on the power play 2:33
U.S. wins Quidditch Global Games Kolby Solinsky
Team USA won its secondstraight Global Games, Coach Hugh Podmore and destroying Australia in the final, Team Canada played host to 210-0. Canada won bronze at the world last weekend at the its own event, and fared well 2014 Quidditch Global Games, against the eventual champion a sort-of world cup Americans, losing for the once-fictional video-online] 130-70 in the first sport invented by match of the day. JK Rowling. The Canucks then burnabynewsleader.com “It’s a huge beat Harry Potter’s honour. It’s very good to be the nation, the United Kingdom, host nation,” Podmore said on 60-40 in the third-place game. Saturday at the all-day event at “Canadian Quidditch is Burnaby Lake Sports Complex really, really strong,” said West. Podmore. “We’ve been able to have a “This is our chance to get out lot of fans come out here and there and prove it.” support us, which has been It was a homecoming for fantastic.” Canada’s captain, who went to
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in. Jason Jones had two goals and an assist with Robert Church getting a goal and three assists. Other Burnaby scorers were Tyler Digby, Dane Stevens and Scott Jones. Tyler Richards stopped 39 of 45 Coquitlam shots to get the win. He stopped 33 of 40 in Maple Ridge on Sunday while Jackson had a goal and five assists. Scott Jones notched two goals and three assists with other goals going to Digby, Justin Salt, Stevens, Shaun Dhaliwal and Jason Jones. The Lakers will travel to Vancouver Island to take on the Shamrocks on Friday and the Nanaimo Timbermen (4-10-1) Saturday. They finish the WLA regular season by taking on Coquitlam at home Aug. 1.
high school in South Surrey at Southridge School. Podmore then went on to university at McGill in Montreal—where he first picked up Quidditch—and now lives in Toronto as the coach of his own national squad, where he also plays for Valhalla Quidditch club. “I’ve been playing Quidditch for a while, all my friends think I’m a little bit silly,” he said. “But it’s nice to come back with Team Canada and have this tournament here and show everyone what it is that we really do at the top level game.” Other nations at the event included Belgium, France and Mexico.
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BISON Transport is looking for positive, team oriented Tractor Trailer Technicians for our expanding maintenance team in Langley. Great company with leadership opportunities. Competitive wages and benefits dependent on experience and qualifications. Red Seal and BC Safety Certification an asset. To apply, visit the Careers page on www.bisontransport.com.
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HEAVY DUTY TRUCK/ TRAILER MECHANICS K-Line Trailers is a custom transport trailer manufacturer in Langley, BC. We seek long-term, F/T, qualified Truck-Trailer mechanics to repair, maintain, inspect and certify trucks and trailers. Must have appropriate hand tools, be a solid self-starter but great in a team setting. MVI/CVI required, Class 1 drivers an asset. • Highly Competitive Wages • Health, Dental, RRSP Benefits that grow with long-term employment Please email resume: employment@klinetrailers.com
TRANSPORTATION
FOR LEASE OFFICES FOR DOCTORS, CHIROPRACTORS, MEDICAL SPECIALISTS, NATUROPATHS or RETAIL PREMISES for LEASE by Burnaby General Hospital LESS THAN ONE BLOCK FROM BURNABY GENERAL HOSPITAL - ALMOST 900 square feet. Available NOVEMBER 1st or SOONER. INCLUDES 4 PARKING SPOTS, STORAGE, APPLIANCES AND TELEPHONE SYSTEM. ONLY $3,500 per month, triple net or best offer. Please call 604.3312505 for more information
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REAL ESTATE
WORK WANTED
Writer: creative, innovative, poetic, yearning to fulfill my creativity! Do you need someone to write: short stories for film/tv, marketing, advertising, slogans, or to come up with a brilliant idea for business? Please contact: berliner10@shaw.ca
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FINANCIAL SERVICES
Are You $10K Or More In Debt? DebtGo can help reduce a significant portion of your debt load. Call now and see if you qualify. 1-800351-1783
GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com IF YOU own a home or real estate, ALPINE CREDITS can lend you money: It’s That Simple. Your Credit / Age / Income is NOT an issue. 1.800.587.2161. Unfiled Tax Returns? Unreported Income? Avoid Prosecution and Penalties. Call a Tax Attorney First! 855-668-8089 (Mon-Fri 9-6 ET)
LANDSCAPING
GREENWORKS Redevelopment Inc. Hedges, Pavers, Ponds & Walls. Returfing, Demos, Drainage, Concrete cutting, Jack hammering, old swimming pools filled in & decks. 604-782-4322 778-710-2185
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KILL BED BUGS & THEIR EGGS! Buy Harris Bed Bug Killer Complete Treatment Program or Kit. Available: Hardware Stores, Buy Online: homedepot.com
MOVING & STORAGE
KILL ROACHES! Buy Harris Roach Tablets. Eliminate Bugs - Guaranteed. No Mess, Odorless, Long Lasting. Available online only @ Ace Hardware & The Home Depot
.A East West Roofing & Siding Co. Repairs, new roofs, torching, gutter services. 10% off. 604-783-6437
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RUBBISH REMOVAL
1PRO MOVING & SHIPPING Across the street - across the world Real Professionals, Reas. Rates. Best in every way! 604-721-4555.
MAPLE RIDGE. Large, new 1 bdrm & den grnd flr apt. Luxurious, s/s appls, granite counters, prkg, F/P. $1100. Avail now. 604-730-6957 NEW WEST, 1 Bdrm, 621 Colborne Ave. No pets, close to all amens, New flooring, completely renovated. $735/mo. Avail Aug 1st or ASAP. 604-454-4540 or 778-867-2531
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From 1, 3, 5, 7 & 10 Ton Trucks Licensed ~ Reliable ~ 1 to 3 Men Free Estimate/Senior Discount Residential~Commercial~Pianos
LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE JUNK REMOVAL By RECYCLE-IT! 604.587.5865 www.recycleitcanada.ca
REAL ESTATE
ABE MOVING - $35/Hr. Per Person *Reliable Careful Movers. *Rubbish Removal. *24 Hours. 604-999-6020
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APARTMENT/CONDOS
Deluxe 1, 2, 3 bdrm rentals Fitness centre, pool, close to Metrotown Skytrain AVAILABLE NOW! Call or e-mail: 604.433.5321 / parkviewtowers@ bentallkennedy.com www.rentparkview.com Proudly Managed by Bentall Kennedy Residential Services
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AUTO FINANCING
mikes hauling 604-516-9237
FLEETWOOD WASTE Bin Rentals 10-30 Yards. Call Ken at 604-294-1393
Running this ad for 10yrs
PAINT SPECIAL 3 rooms for $299, 2 coats any colour (Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls Cloverdale Premium quality paint. NO PAYMENT until Job is completed. Ask us about our Laminate Flooring & Maid Services.
$159,000 - #9-45 Fourth Columbia Skytrain Stn at your doorstep 1 bdrm 645sf NE facing, PETS OK. Pat Ginn, 604-220-9188 Sutton Westcoast
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SUNDECKS
If you need a Vinyl Deck Expert for new & old deck. Call Gill for a Free Estimate 604-728-3785
For Lease $1500 pm or for sale $699,000 Gas Bar/Grocery Store, Fruit Stand, Restaurant, lots parking,7500 sq.ft. bldg on Trans Canada Hwy, Sicamous. 1 (250)3090975
2009 TOYOTA RAV4 LIMITED V6, 3.5L, 4/dr, 4WD, 5spd, 83K. Pyrite colour, leather int, satellite radio, Bluetooth, a/c, pwr sunroof, heated front seats, rear fold-down seat, push button/smart key. One owner, non-smoker. LOADED! Exc Cond! $19,950 604-338-4114
TOWNHOUSES
PITT MEADOWS: 2 - 3 bdrm co-op T/H $1097/mo - $1199/mo. Shares req’d. Close to WCE, schools & shopping. No subsidy available. 19225 119th Ave. For more info & to book an appt. call 604-465-1938
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MISC. WANTED
FIREARMS. All types wanted, estates, collections, single items, military. We handle all paperwork and transportation. Licensed Dealer.1.866.960.0045. www.dollars4guns.com.
AAA SCRAP CAR REMOVAL Minimum $150 cash for full size vehicles, any cond. 604-518-3673
PARKVIEW TOWERS
STEEL BUILDINGS...SUMMER MELTDOWN SALE! 20X20 $5,419. 25X26 $6,485. 30X30 $8,297. 32X34 $9,860. 40X48 $15,359. 47X68 $20,558. Front & Back Wall Included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-6685422 www.pioneersteel.ca
CURLY JOE’S MOVING - Free moving for people on social assistance or disabilities. 604-618-7766
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STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% OFF! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca.
#1 FREE SCRAP VEHICLE REMOVAL ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT $$$ PAID FOR SOME 604.683.2200
Auto Financing Dream Team - www.iDreamAuto.com or call 1.800.961.7022
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REPAIRER’S LIEN ACT Whereas, Jason, indebted to Mint Auto Body for repair’s on a 1998 Mercedes VIN: WDBFA67FXWF160203. There is presently an amount due and owing of $12,000 plus any additional costs of storage, and sale. Notice is hereby given that on the 5th day of August, 2014 or thereafter, the said vehicle will be sold. For more information call Mint Auto Body LTD. 604-433-1207
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Brakes Oil Changes Vehicle Diagnostics Preventative Maintenance SUMMER SPECIAL $1888 $5999
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