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Anti-pipeline protesters celebrate their ‘victory’ at a rally Saturday for First Nations and Indigenous supporters of the weeks-long effort to prevent Kinder Morgan from completing its geotechnical survey work on Burnaby Mountain. The company removed its equipment from the mountain early Saturday after it lost a request to extend an injunction protecting its worksites to Dec. 12.
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The mood of anti-pipeline protesters on Burnaby Mountain over the weekend was as bright as the sunshine. A series of rallies organized as part of the protesters’ defiance of Kinder Morgan’s surveying work turned into celebrations when work crews packed up their equipment
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When Ron and Roberta LaQuaglia opened up Glenburn Soda Fountain and Confectionery on Hastings Street, they believed support from the local community would be crucial to its success. “So we feel like it’s even more important that we walk that talk as well,” said Roberta LaQuaglia. Glenburn Soda is among several Burnaby businesses taking part in Buy Local Week, which runs Dec. 1 to 7. It’s an annual campaign by LOCO BC to raise awareness that buying local not only keeps money in the community, it has huge economic spinoffs. The non-profit alliance of local businesses is calling on all British Columbians to shift at least one per cent of their Christmas shopping to local businesses or to goods produced locally. With the average Canadian spending $1,500 over the holiday season, that’s just $15 for every person in the province, said Amy Robinson, founder and co-executive director of LOCO BC. That translates to 3,100 jobs in B.C. and $94 million in wages for B.C. workers.
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Ron LaQuaglia and his wife Roberta own Glenburn Soda Fountain and Confectionery, and are proud to not only be a local business, but also to be a business that buys local whenever possible.
The group defines local businesses as those that are more than 50 per cent owned by British Columbians and local products as those produced in the province. “A lot of consumer shopping habits are based on convenience,” Robinson said, referring to the popularity of supermarkets and big box stores. “No matter where you shop, look for locally grown or made products.” And while it’s not possible to find, say, locally-produced TVs, Robinson noted they can still be bought at competitive prices at B.C.-owned companies such as London Drugs.
Some businesses, like Urban Digs Farm in South Burnaby’s Big Bend area, are as local as they come. Its farm stand at 4992 Byrne Rd. is open Saturdays until Dec. 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and sells produce grown and meat raised on the farm itself. Co-owner Julia Smith makes a point of using local suppliers and businesses such as Vancity. It keeps the money in B.C. and creates jobs in the local economy, Smith said, noting Americanbased companies would see profits flow back to the U.S. As a farm, Smith said her products are fresher because
they don’t have to be shipped long distances. And supporting local farms is also the best way to protect the Agricultural Land Reserve from the threat of development. Buying local is also about creating a community, said Lisa Beecroft, owner of Caffee Divano on Hastings Street. “If you come to a local independent, it’s helping a family. When we shop, we shop locally too. It continues to filter back into the community.” Knowing the owners of local businesses creates a more “authentic connection” which
“enriches the community so much more,” Beecroft said. Independent businesses bring diversity to the community, she said, compared to chain stores and restaurants that tend to be exactly the same wherever in the world they’re located. “If you no longer had a choice of independents, what a shame that would be.” Back at Glenburn Soda, whenever possible, they buy local goods to produce their ice cream creations— from Birchwood Dairy in Abbotsford, Avalon Dairy in South Burnaby, and Krause Berry Farm in Langley, for example—and during its peak season they employ up to six people. And while some might assume local businesses can be more expensive, it’s often a misperception, LaQuaglia said, noting that people can get “local” mixed up with “organic” or “specialty.” Glenburn chooses not to use cheaper, more processed ingredients in an effort to lower prices and increase profits, she said. “I can’t stand behind that product, the same way that I can with my local stuff … It’s about comparing apples to apples.” LaQuaglia noted Glenburn is also selling the experience of having ice cream at an oldfashioned soda fountain. “It’s not simply ice cream in a cup you’re buying, it’s about the whole experience.”
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This year, after decades of not supporting spawning, Buckingham and Still creeks saw salmon return. The city’s four town centres are also becoming complete communities, as first envisioned more than 20 years ago, focusing density to protect single-family L ILY CIA DA SPE5 INK 9 DR $
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benefits has been achieved thanks to funding from developers in exchange for being allowed to build increased density. Recently, $1 million of that funding was approved to support development of 122 units of affordable seniors rental housing by the George Derby Care Society. That density bonus money
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Let’s talk. You’ve probably seen us on the news recently regarding Burnaby Mountain and our Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project.
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I think it would be good for us to talk.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline has been operating between Edmonton, AB and Burnaby, BC
We’ve talked a lot with communities about their concerns and in Burnaby the feedback was to look into routing the pipeline through Burnaby Mountain, rather than through their streets and neighbourhood.
since 1953. In April 2012, we proposed to expand the
Our work on the mountain over the past few weeks has been a part of that feasibility study. Though we estimate it will cost Kinder Morgan $40 million more than the original route through residential streets, we want to acknowledge the best interests of the residents of Burnaby.
pipeline by building a second pipeline alongside the original. Our goal for the entire route has been to build adjacent to the existing pipeline within our existing right-of-way. However, sometimes there are good
We are drilling two 6-inch diameter test holes to investigate the possibility of routing the pipeline through Burnaby Mountain. We are being respectful of the environment, and when we are done, we will leave the mountain as healthy as we found it.
reasons to look at other options, such as safety concerns, residential or industrial development that has expanded since the original pipeline was built, or environmental considerations.
Unfortunately, demonstrators chose to block our crews from doing their work and, in order to maintain the safety of our employees, contractors and the public, we were forced to pursue legal action to secure our worksite. Freedom of speech is fundamental to our way of life. Equally so is the Canadian right to go to work and conduct business safely. We have always believed these two principles can coexist if we all communicate.
We’ve been engaging with Aboriginal groups, Landowners, communities and stakeholders since April 2012. We’ve reached agreements with 18 Aboriginal groups, to date. The current work on Burnaby Mountain is to study the proposed route through Burnaby Mountain. Our application is before the National Energy
We believe we have been good neighbours for over sixty years in local communities, including the City of Burnaby, and it is very important for us to continue open relationships.
Board, an independent federal agency, to determine if the project should be approved to proceed in Canada’s best interest. Ultimately, the federal government will make the final decision.
We have conducted many workshops and open houses, met with thousands of people and continue to respond to questions daily. The feedback we have received to date has made our project better and has resulted in important changes to our route.
The National Energy Board has a recognized process to voice concerns, ask questions and introduce evidence for consideration.
Trans Mountain made a commitment to everyone who participated in our consultation that we would listen closely and do our best to respond to concerns.
Over 1,600 people in BC and Alberta have registered to participate. If approved to proceed, construction of the
Our work on Burnaby Mountain is part of keeping that commitment.
expansion would begin in mid-2016 and would be in operation by late 2018.
On behalf of all the people who work on the pipeline and project, I truly hope we can keep talking throughout the process. Your input is important to us. We’ll be providing more opportunities for dialogue including our upcoming telephone town hall on December 3rd. Go to TransMountain.com to sign up. We welcome the opportunity to talk.
Many other project details and information about upcoming opportunities for dialogue can be found on our website www.TransMountain.com
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A Burnaby property owner is seeking a rezoning application to build a new house that would be larger than what is currently allowed. And what a house it would be. The 2.3-acre (0.9 hectare) site would combine 7846 and 7870 Government Road, located across the street from Seaforth elementary and stretching south to Kentwood Street. The neighbourhood’s homes are mainly larger two-storey houses, some with outdoor recreation facilities such as swimming pools, said a city planning report. In this case, the applicant proposes to consolidate the two lots and build a 28,855-squarefoot house. It would be one storey high, with heights ranging from 12 to 27 feet, with an attached three-car garage. Perhaps the most intriguing
feature would be located in the lower of the two cellar levels—a 7,740-square-foot ice rink (a little less than half the size of an NHL rink) with a lace-up area, storage, mechanical room and, of course, a Zamboni garage. The outdoor patio area would be, at about 12,400 square feet, far larger than most people’s homes. It would include a swimming pool, tennis court and a 1,400-square-foot “accessory service building.” The project’s architect, Michael Green, said in a letter to city planners that the house would have greater than required setbacks and a central courtyard would provide natural light and serve as a “comfortable buffer” between the house and the neighbourhood. “The perceived scale of the proposed house is significantly reduced by burying a large
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component of the house, the ice rink and related functions, underground to allow the house to maintain a scale consistent with the neighbourhood,” Green wrote. Privacy is obviously a concern for the applicant. Preliminary plans indicate the intention is to “maintain significant areas of landscaping,” the city report said. Privacy walls are proposed for the east elevation “such that only the uppermost portion of the glazing faces onto neighbouring properties. This glazing is further screened by landscaping.” Next door to the west, there are two large properties with adjoining rear yards, one with a single-family home on it and the other vacant. There likely won’t be any complaints coming from there about the proposed mansion. The applicant owns those too.
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Oh, how times have changed. It was just over 60 years ago that work on the Trans Mountain oil pipeline was nearing completion. The project was far from controversial. Farmers and property owners sat down with company officials and negotiated easements, talked about mitigation, and jousted over compensation. By May 6, 1953 the excitement was almost palpable. “Oil to flow by September,” read a front page story in a newspaper. The project had an estimated price tag of $97 million and would bring local employment to about 150 men. It would initially deliver 150,000 barrels of crude a day to the tank farm under construction in Burnaby. With the completion of additional pumping stations, that flow would increase to 300,000 barrels a day. For company vice-president H. H. Anderson, construction carried an almost mythical nuance. “There are few industrial endeavors which have captured the public’s imagination like this pipeline project,” he said. “It has the same audacious aspects as the building of a transCanada railroad.” Fast forward to 2014 and that romanticism seems hard to find. As protests become increasingly confrontational, most of the employment is going to security officials. To be clear, construction hasn’t even started yet. What Trans Mountain was doing on Burnaby Mountain was seeing if its plan to drill through the mountain is more feasible than following its existing right-of-way through the city’s neighbourhoods. But the battle lines are drawn. They demonstrate the gulf between the world view of the 1950s and the attitudes felt by a growingly militant population today. —Chilliwack Progress/Black Press
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Nisga’a prove their critics wrong VICTORIA – It has been 15 years since I wrote a commentary objecting to the B.C. government pushing aside its own hardwon treaty process to reach an unprecedented land-and-cash settlement with the Nisga’a Nation for their ancient Nass River territory. My objection, and that of many others, was the imposition of a parallel state with collectively owned land enshrined for all time. This was an ailing NDP government rushing to enable a property ownership system that has demonstrated little but failure and suffering around the world. The Nisga’a are proving me wrong, and this was again demonstrated at a little-noticed ceremony at the B.C. legislature last week. The B.C. government had just passed amendments to allow a gas pipeline through Nisga’a Memorial Lava Bed Park, the first co-managed provincial park in B.C. history. Another bill enabled the Nisga’a Lisims government to impose industrial property tax on liquefied natural gas production. Legal documents
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were signed so the Nisga’a legislature can do the same this week. In recent years, the Nisga’a disposed of concern about collective land restrictions by adopting a private property system. And Supreme Court of Canada decisions have repeatedly answered protests about the establishment of a parallel state – that’s what it is, so get used to it. The Nisga’a have moved to assemble four fee-simple tidewater sites for LNG terminals, joining the Haisla Nation at Kitimat in reaching aggressively for a modern economy through gas export. The Nisga’a have partnered with TransCanada Corp. on a 900-km pipeline to supply the $11-billion LNG project led by Petronas for the Prince Rupert port. And they don’t intend to stop there.
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“We want to be part of the Canadian business establishment,” said former Nisga’a Nation president Joe Gosnell. The signing ceremony was briefly disrupted by one of a small group of Vancouverbased Nisga’a who have been using modern protest tactics against this decision. We weren’t consulted, it’s a desecration of victims of a volcanic eruption, it’s a threat to eelgrass beds, and so forth, say well-rehearsed young men with video cameras running. Nisga’a President Mitchell Stevens has patiently and repeatedly explained that Nisga’a legislature rules were relaxed to allow every hereditary chief to speak to elected leaders on this pivotal move. After that it received the required two-thirds majority support. Gosnell, the revered chief negotiator who carried the treaty over the goal line in 2000, moved slowly with the help of an ornately carved cane to speak at a reception. He seemed genuinely surprised that he has lived long enough to
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see the fruits of generations of labour. Gosnell recounted the 1887 paddling trip down the B.C. coast from the Nass Valley to Victoria to present the Nisga’a territorial claim, where the tribal leaders were turned away on the steps of the legislature by Premier William Smithe. It would take until 1910 for Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier to promise a settlement, and until 1949 for Nisga’a Chief Frank Calder to be elected to the B.C. legislature. In 2000, when the treaty received royal assent in Ottawa, Gosnell took part in a ceremonial burning of the Indian Act and got to work on implementing self-government. And on Nov. 27, 2014, B.C. Liberal, NDP and independent MLAs voted unanimously to open the way to an industrial future for the Nisga’a. “That’s what being alive means to me today,” Gosnell said. “You’ve got to have big dreams. Maybe all those dreams won’t come true, but at least you have the ability to dream big. And boy, are we ever dreaming big.”
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Should we give up our right of protest? Re: It’s time to take a stand (Letters, NewsLeader, Nov. 26) Gavin Wishart sure hit the nail on the head when he pointed out, “business interests have hijacked those rights.” (meaning basic human rights) In the very next letter, Dave Taylor wrote about “the 60 people who are out of work now at Horizons restaurant“ and, following that one, Ray Power sticks up for “those jobcreating private enterprises that pay the taxes.” As far as protests go, I was on strike and lost maybe a total of over two years’ pay while “protesting” to the company I worked for, namely B.C. Tel/ Telus during those times, so the loss of a couple weeks’ pay for the restaurant workers, (assuming here that the drilling only lasts that amount of time, and not yet assuming that the pipeline’s actual work will ever take place at all) doesn’t—to me—mean very much at all. And I suspect that they too, and the restaurant owners, should join that drilling protest group to protect “their” mountain before a tank farm enterprise that will get three times larger helps crowd them out of business in some way, some day! I grew up roaming Burnaby Mountain, and am no fan of Mayor Derek Corrigan and company, but they’re doing what’s right on this one. People even came from the Island to protest. Does Mr. Power think they have no right to do so as well? Giving up one’s freedoms seems to be a given to some people these days. Dennis Robinson Burnaby
MORE TO WORRY ABOUT THAN SHOPPING Re: Editorial on Canadians shopping in the U.S. (NewsLeader, Nov. 26) You seem worried about the Christmas shoppers spending a few dollars in the U.S. I find that funny. Canada was once a free country but we have sold it all to foreign countries for a pittance, and outsourced most of our work. About 95 per cent of our products are purchased from China. We sold our oil and gas to foreign countries, and we want to build pipelines to give our resources away. We gave away our container ports. Who owns our railroads? Who owns most of our real estate? Canadians will sell out to anyone for a dollar! We have no pride. The list could go on forever—and you worry about spending a little shopping money in the U.S. Floyd Friend Burnaby
NO BENEFIT TO CANADIANS Re: No-win situation (Letters, NewsLeader, Nov. 26) Ray Power tries to imply that this Kinder Morgan pipeline will somehow benefit Canadians. But the truth is that not one barrel of this additional bitumen crude is earmarked for local refineries, as the increase that Kinder Morgan, as well as Enbridge proposes is strictly for export to China and other Asian nations. Even Premier Christy Clark has stated that B.C. will realize few benefits from
these pipelines, but we will receive all of the risks for any environmental disaster. Kinder Morgan estimated that in the worst-case scenario, a clean-up would cost no more than $300 million, but experts cite costs into the billions, and neither Kinder Morgan nor Enbridge has the money to clean up the environment when a major spill occurs. Taxpayers will be left to pay for Stephen Harper’s incompetence in pushing to allow this to happen. Funny, I don’t remember anywhere in any Conservative campaign documents that they were lobbyists for the U.S.based oil industry. Make no mistake, it’s a question of when a spill will occur, not if it will occur. Ask the people along the Kalamazoo River in Michigan if they, or the U.S. government are satisfied with the clean up by Enbridge. That company was ordered to come back and finish cleaning up the oil that sank into the sediment, which is the problem with the bitumen coming from Canada’s tar sands, as opposed to crude coming from drilled wells. Kinder Morgan’s proposal to triple the size of the pipeline going to Westridge Terminal will require the number of tankers traveling along our dangerous and fragile coast to balloon, along with the chances of a disaster. Wayne McQueen Burnaby
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said Jenness Murray, the chair of the Centre of Excellence in Analytics. “We are the Silicon Valley of the North.” Students will learn how to use analytic models to make decisions, discover trends, make predictions and forecast to avoid problems. Those skills can be applied to fields like business, law enforcement, energy or healthcare. “Analytics is all about using information to forecast marketplace changes, mitigate risks and seize opportunities for growth,” said Murray. The Centre is a collaboration between BCIT and software company SAP. “The need for experts in analytics and cloud technologies in addition to programming skills will grow sizeably over the next three years,” said Kirsten Sutton, the managing director for SAP Labs Canada. “We believe these initiatives will help create a wider pool of technology-focused graduates for Canadian companies to draw upon.” newsroom@burnabynewsleader.com
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Nine seniors flu clinics reinstated Fraser Health sends nurses back to seniors centres Jeff Nagel Black Press
Fraser Health is reinstating nine flu vaccination clinics for seniors in various community centres after its decision to halt them this year triggered a backlash. More than 40 community centres that hosted seniors flu shot clinics last year were told earlier this fall they would not be run again as people have increasingly gone to pharmacists and doctors’ offices instead in recent years. Health Minister Terry Lake ordered a review after the NDP made it an issue in the Legislature last month. Fraser Health spokesperson
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locations weren’t as accessible for seniors as the community centres they routinely visit. There have also been complaints of lack of privacy in supermarket pharmacies and administration charges by some pharmacies – which Juma said should not happen for seniors. “If you are eligible for a free flu vaccine shot there should be no cost whatsoever,” she said, adding those incidents should be reported to the public health unit or the B.C. College of Pharmacists. “Seniors should not be paying any type of fee to get their flu shot.” The shift in focus away from seniors centres was intended to let public health staff focus more on other groups, including people in homeless shelters and children under five, who cannot be vaccinated by a pharmacist.
Red nose has big first week Total donations were up over last year during Operation Red Nose’s opening weekend, which saw volunteers braving snowy streets Friday night. Operation Red Nose is a volunteer-run safe-ride-home service provided during the four weekends before Christmas and New Year’s Eve. It’s offered between 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. with volunteers driving
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But the court proceedings and a week of daily protest marches up Centennial Way in wet, muddy conditions seemed a distant memory as hundreds of protesters and supporters from as far away as Venezuela, Ontario and Prince George joined hands, listened to speakers and music and revelled around a small stage perched on the slope near Horizons restaurant. The sky was blue, the sunshine warming, and tobogganers nearby squealed with delight in the season’s first snowfall. “We won this skirmish,” said one protester to cheers from the crowd. “We’re all in this together,” said Tara MacLean Grand, a performer who’s also a veteran of the anti-logging protests in Clayoquot Sound in 1993. Sunday’s rally was billed as an “International Day of Action for Burnaby Mountain and All Land Defenders.” Meantime, Saturday’s celebration was an amalgam of two rallies, one for mothers and their children and another for indigenous and people of
colour. Organizers said it was those groups who are most affected by environmental destruction. The rally featured First Nations’ drummers and performers, some of whom had been a constant presence on the mountain in the weeks leading up to the arrival of Kinder Morgan’s survey crews. First Nations had also been prominent in the last wave of arrests on Thursday, which included Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the B.C. Union of Indian Chiefs. He was taken into custody by Burnaby RCMP when he ducked under the police tape surrounding Kinder Morgan’s borehole No. 1 in the woods on Burnaby Mountain’s western flank. Also arrested that day was Amy George, the daughter of the late Chief Dan George. Trans Mountain said it pulled its survey crews off the mountain early because it was confident it had obtained sufficient data to meet the requirements of its filing to the NEB. The company also said in a statement it would assess
damage to the park as a result of the protests and would work with the City of Burnaby to return the area to its prior condition. As most of the protests coincided with a week of heavy rains, much of the hillside opposite the injunction area on Centennial Way as well as the trails accessing the company’s first borehole site in the woods had been turned into muddy bogs. Protesters also tried to make amends, as they put out a call on social media to cap their celebrations at Horizons, which reopened Sunday after being closed since Nov. 20 when RCMP created the exclusion zone that cut off access up Centennial Way. But they know their battle isn’t over. Saturday they were looking for volunteers to safely store tents and kitchen supplies that had been used in the protest encampment on Burnaby Mountain. “We could load it and have it ready to go next time we need to deploy,” said a notice on their Facebook page. twitter.com/newsleaderfotog
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And… in between the shopping and the baking and the attending of various functions over the next few weeks, you might be looking for some fun family activities to put you in the Christmas spirit. Look no further than the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts—as we gear up for our own festive season. If you find yourself typically Geraldine Parent humming or singing along to your favourite tunes perhaps Sharron and George’s Super Fun Christmas Sing-a-long is the perfect outing for you. On Dec. 11 and 12 at 8 p.m., don your Christmas sweater, grab your tambourine, kazoo and some friends, and join Sharron Matthews and George Masswohl for this holiday sing-a-long featuring all the Christmas songs you love to sing! On Saturday, Dec. 13, Seasonal Celebration returns from 3 to 8 p.m. This free annual holiday festival will be done Italian-style this year, and is sure to delight with entertainment in the atrium, food demonstrations, and a market featuring vendors from the Italian Farmers Market along with lots of arts and holiday activities. Check out the special bottle kiln firing and other outdoor events planned for that evening. While at Seasonal Celebration you won’t want to miss the presentation of Befana’s Star: A Traditional Italian Christmas Story. Legend has it that on the Epiphany (January 6), a bright star appears in the eastern skies leading The Three Magi to Bethlehem to meet the Child King. Inspired by their quest, an eccentric old Italian woman decides to follow this star herself and bring some of her cakes and cookies as gifts to the child. In the Italian tradition, the old Befana still delivers gifts to all the children around the world on the eve of the Epiphany. Join Bella Luna’s ensemble in a colourful retelling of this story with people, puppets and Panettone. Performances are Dec. 13 and 14 at 4 and 7 p.m. For tickets to either production or additional information about Seasonal Celebration visit shadboltcentre.com. Geraldine Parent is the arts services manager at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
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Christmas Belles: The Vagabond Players presents Christmas Belles. It’s Christmas-time in the small town of Fayro, Texas, and the Futrelle Sisters are in turmoil. One is overdue with her second set of twins, one is in jail, and one is desperately trying to keep the Tabernacle of the Lamb’s Christmas Program from spiraling into chaos. When: Dec. 3-20, Wednesday to Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday matinees, 2 p.m. Where: Bernie Legge Theatre, Queen’s Park, New Westminster. Tickets: $15, Seniors/Students: $13. ($10 previews Dec. 3-5). Reservations: 604521-0412 or reservations@ vagabondplayers.ca
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