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Workers are putting the final touches on a new urban beach at the east end of New Westminster’s Pier Park.
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Gather up your beach towels, sand buckets and sun screen. The urban beach on Timber Wharf, at the east end of Westminster Pier Park, is scheduled to open on Saturday. Although, said Dean Gibson, New Westminster’s director of parks and recreation, it’s still a bit
of a work in progress. Gibson said while the sand, logs and expansive wood seating areas, as well as a row of shade trees will all be in place, the umbrellas envisioned for the site aren’t yet ready from the manufacturer. “They’re just not an item you walk into Walmart and buy,” said Gibson. The beach is built on top of the asphalt deck that was left undeveloped after the completion of the first phase of Pier Park in
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2012. It will be a temporary feature until the city can secure the funding to bolster the structural supports of that end of the park to fully develop it. That could take years. In the meantime, said Gibson, visitors will be able to dig their toes into the tons of beach sand that was dredged from the upper reaches of the Fraser River. Although kids won’t be able to bury dad up to his neck in the sand as it’s only about a foot deep. “It’ll be up to people’s
imaginations as to how they use it,” said Gibson of the new beach, which was budgeted to cost $65,000. The beach is adjacent to two beach volleyball courts which were added to the park last year. An off-leash dog park, fitness area and a sculptural water garden featuring play misters will be built in the fall, said Gibson. “We just couldn’t technically get to that aspect,” he said. In total the project is budgeted to cost nearly $310,000.
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The mother of a woman killed walking in a New Westminster crosswalk last year has called on British Columbia to change its motor vehicle laws. A disappointed Margaret Snowball made the comment after the man driving the Jeep that ran over Gemma Snowball, 25 at the time, received the “maximum” penalties for his conviction. Ryan Follack, 30, was fined $2,000 and given a five-year ban on driving in British Columbia by provincial court Judge Rory Walters on Tuesday. Follack pled guilty to driving without due care and attention in connection with Gemma’s death at Sixth Street and Sixth Avenue on a rainy March 11, 2013 night. “He’s got away with killing Gemma,” said Margaret following the sentencing. “I really feel changes in the law need to be made in British Columbia. It is totally wrong. There was no mention in the charge of it being a fatality. I’ve been totally disgusted by it, to be honest.” Please see ‘I WILL NOT’, A3
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