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Kids today – are pretty impressive Cornelia Naylor staff reporter

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alvation Army associate pastor Michael Collins has no time for people who gripe about “kids today.”

One of the things he points to to shut them up is a group of students from Burnaby North Secondary that he calls “the finest group of kids ever put together in the history of the planet.”

Called Small Steps, the volunteer club has helped Collins’s Cariboo Hill church prepare food for the homeless year-round for three years.

From now until Christmas Eve, the group will also supply volunteers for the church’s kettle campaign.

“These kids are awesome,” Collins said.

Small Steps was started in 2011 by Burnaby North student Sydney Juzenas as a club that would focus on hands-on activities rather than fundraising to help those in need.

“The club was called Small Steps since the students are taking small steps to make our community a better place,” cur-

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Christmas spirit: Burnaby North Secondary Small Steps volunteers Kethy Lin, middle, and Lilyan Jia exchange holiday greetings with Rick Jang as he stuffs a donation into a Salvation Army Christmas kettle at the Kensington Safeway. rent executive Jessica Jordan Su said.

The group has four executives (Su, Vicky Wang, Pamela Liu and Grace Lu this year) instead of a president, vice-

president and such, and one of the keys to the club’s success, according to Su, is not killing its membership with endless meetings.

Aside from a couple meetings, most of their information is passed on via email Students Page 8

Burnaby surgeons blast Fraser Health decisions Cornelia Naylor staff reporter

Surgeons at Burnaby Hospital have lost confidence with the management of Fraser Health surgical services, according to a recent letter signed by 18 of the hospital’s surgeons.

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The plan was instituted to reduce wait times and thereby avoid the loss of payfor-performance funding from the province, but the doctors call it a “meaningless make-work project” for everyone involved.

The letter accuses the health authority

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few years ago, the Burnaby Christmas Bureau created a special section for books in the toy room, where registered low-income families pick out gifts for their children.

Stephen D’Souza, executive director of Burnaby Community Services, noticed that’s where parents spent most of their time.

“It’s actually the area where parents took the longest.

We had a bottleneck around the books,” he said. “They were very ON MY BEAT deliberate.

They would Jennifer Moreau take the time to look at the books and decide what was best for their child.”

The popularity of children’s books inspired the folks behind the bureau to make the section a permanent fixture in the toy room and call it the Books for Kids campaign.

“We didn’t see that as our role in the community, but it’s something we are embracing because our clients need it,” D’Souza said.

“We can’t discount the value of a child having a new book that’s all their own.”

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also more interactive than regular toys, she Burnaby Community Services, which facilitates the bureau, partnered with Literacy added.

“Reading together, especially when chilNow Burnaby, a collaboration of people and dren are small, that’s really important,” she organizations dedicated to improving litsaid. “That goes a long way in preparing eracy. The Burnaby Public Library, which is children for school if they already a member of Literacy Now, was have interest in books.” able to buy books at discounted “We’re becomThe bureau may be flush with rates from First Book Canada, ing increasbooks, but D’Souza is still encourand the toy room is now teemingly aware of aging more donations. Anything ing with nearly 20 shelves full of not distributed through the toy children’s books. the importance room will be given to families “We’re becoming increasingly of literacy in our throughout the year. D’Souza is aware of the importance of litalso hoping to expand the Books eracy in our community to break community to for Kids campaign as part of his the cycle of poverty,” D’Souza break the cycle of organization’s ongoing commitadded. ment to improving literacy in Susan Cathcart, the compoverty.”

Burnaby. Burnaby Community munity literacy coordinator for Services has already started a Literacy NOW Burnaby, thinks Stephen D’Souza Burnaby Community Services book swap at the Brentwood the book section is a great idea.

Resource Centre, where families “A lot of families with low can pick up and drop off books. incomes don’t have access to books for their To get involved with the Burnaby children, so I think it’s really a good idea to Christmas Bureau, visit www.burnaby encourage children to read,” she said. communityconnections.com.

Learning to read involves more than People can donate a new, unwrapped understanding the words, Cathcart explained, gift for the toy room, or sponsor a family or and it helps children develop a keen sense senior. of curiosity and imagination. Books are

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performance funding from the province for patients who spent more than a year waiting for surgery.

As of Oct. 9, 143 people scheduled for surgery at Burnaby Hospital fit that bill, and another 1,004 had waited between six and 12 months.

Under the province’s pay-for-performance system, every patient who waits more than a year costs the health authority $1,400 in provincial funding.

The 18 Burnaby Hospital surgeons put the blame for the costly wait-lists squarely on the health authority’s shoulders.

They said the hospital gets only half the OR funding of Surrey Memorial, and Burnaby has only enough money to open six of its 10 operating rooms.

“We, the surgeons of BH, have repetitively documented the lack of resources that FHA provides to BH as compared to its other acute care sites,” states the letter. “It is obvious that the only way that the surgeons of BH can reduce their waiting lists is by having access to more operating

Blair, because the latter are regional room time to do the surgery.”

But change could be coming, hospitals and need bigger budgets. according to Blair, who told the NOW He said local surgeons could be right that the health authority could open about needing more operating room another operating room at Burnaby resources.

The health authority Hospital by the end just wants to make sure January.

“It’s not a make- funding decisions are He said Fraser Health has taken a close look in work project. It’s based on hard data.

“We don’t know essenthe last couple of weeks at not something tially,” he said. “We’re different funding models we’re doing to trying to find out, but we that consider the capacity need to do it with data. of sites to deal with their avoid funding We can’t listen to the surcollective wait-lists. issues. It’s some- geons and just hand them A decision about whether Burnaby thing we’re doing more money.”

In the meantime, Blair Hospital needs more OR on behalf of said, surgeons need to do resources should be made their part to move waitbefore Christmas, accordpatients.” lists along, and the reasing to Blair.

PETER BLAIR sessments of patients who “If we do decide that FHA surgery director have waited more than 40 they need extra funding weeks is part of that. for more capacity it will “It’s not a make-work project,” probably take us until the end of January to get it up and running,” he said. “It’s not something we’re doing to avoid funding issues. It’s he said.

While comparing Burnaby’s something we’re doing on behalf of OR budget with RCH’s or Surrey the patients.” twitter.com/CorNaylor Memorial’s is pointless, according to

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New chair blasts Clark for comments Cornelia Naylor staff reporter

An experienced hand has taken the helm at the Burnaby board of education.

Trustee Ron Burton, who was elected to his 10th term last month, was sworn in with his fellow trustees at a public ceremony at Burnaby Central Secondary Tuesday and promptly acclaimed chair for the fourth time in his 27 years on the board.

Burton replaces trustee Baljinder Narang, who has held the post for the last two years and who will now serve as the board’s representative at the B.C. School Trustees Association.

During his first address as the new board chair, Burton took aim at Premier Christy Clark for criticizing the parents of Burnaby 11-year-olds Kate FinkJensen and Naomi Cech, who crossed a police line during the recent Burnaby Mountain protests against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Clark had said that teaching kids it’s OK to break the law isn’t OK. Far from criticizing the girls, Burton said they had stood up for their beliefs and that he hoped Burnaby schools had something to do with their choice.

“There’s a time and place for civil disobedience,” he said. “When it furthers and benefits the entire community, that’s the time for you to stand

up for your beliefs.”

Without civil disobedience, Burton said, Clark would not be a woman in office and would not even have the vote.

His remarks drew enthusiastic applause from the audience.

“I know the Cechs quite well,” Burton told the NOW after the speech, “and it really threw me that she said that about them in the paper.”

During the meeting, second-term trustee Harman Pandher, who teaches elementary school in Surrey, was acclaimed as vice-chair – his first leadership role on the board.

“I think I’m ready,” he told the NOW. “The first term is a steep learning curve, but I did get my feet wet as the chair of the education committee, and I’m looking forward to the challenge of the next four years.”

Katrina Chen was the lone newcomer to the board, having been elected last month in the place of James Wang, who won a city council seat.

“I’m really thankful to the people who trusted me,” she said, “but I feel like it comes with a lot of responsibility that I’ll have to do a good job.”

The first regular public meeting of the new board is on Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. at the school board office, 5325 Kincaid St. For more information, visit sd41.bc.ca and click on the board of education tab.

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It’s in our nature to give more than receive

psychology professor Lara Aknin says Having trouble getting into the Christmas spirit? Consider helping a local people feel better about themselves when they spend money on others. charity or volunteering, and know there’s According to Aknin, who recently something in it for you – happiness. spoke in Surrey on this subject, there’s a Psychologists have long cited the bengrowing body of research that efits of generosity, including shows people are not inherently reduced stress and an improved Burnaby NOW selfish, and that when we help sense of well-being, happiness, others, we increase our own social connection and purpose happiness. This innate drive to in life. That’s not to mention give starts early. Aknin’s research team the concrete aid you’re offering another found children as young as two were organization or fellow human being. happier giving away treats than they If you need convincing, Burnaby SFU

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This Christmas, give yourself the gift of happiness and consider lending a hand to the number of local organizations we’ve featured in our paper, be it the Burnaby Christmas Bureau or Burnaby Family Life’s pregnancy outreach program. Behind the organizations are real families, local moms and newborn babies that all need help.

Or perhaps you have a charity or cause that’s close to your heart. Just remember the real meaning of Christmas isn’t about

material things, overcrowded malls and last-minute purchases. The things that count, that really matter, are the nonmaterial – the gestures from one human being to another that say you are not alone.

So reach out to that isolated senior in your building, drop an unwrapped gift off at the Christmas Bureau toy room, or send a cheque to the pregnancy outreach program in a loved one’s name.

Just remember: when you help others, you’re helping yourself, too.

B.C. failing on human rights

lack of English fluency and ritish Columbia is the only isolation – to deal with this province in Canada that discrimination on their own. does not have a Human A Human Rights Commission Rights Commission. That makes – if we had one – could invesus the weakest province when it tigate, issue public guidelines comes to fostering human rights that would provide information, awareness and preventing diseducation and protection to both crimination. Currently B.C. only workers and employers, and has a Human Rights Tribunal, monitor the situation. which mediates and adjudicates Recent events have also complaints about discrimination heightened our awareness of the after it has occurred. prevalence of sexual The tribunal does harassment and vioits job well. But the lence against women. onus to identify and Gwen Brodsky and Our institutions report human rights Shelagh Day – even sophistiviolations rests on cated ones like the individual British University of British Columbia Columbians, who must know (e.g. rape chants and campus their rights, navigate the comsexual assaults) and the CBC plaints process, and handle the (Jian Ghomeshi) – have yet to risk of failure. We know that institute adequate practices the complaints that get to the and protocols that can prevent tribunal are only the “tip of the discrimination against women, iceberg” and that many of the and respond effectively when it tougher, more systemic issues occurs. are not resolved through indiBecause women often do vidual complaints. not trust the police to help For example, troubling them, most do not report sexual evidence has come to light of assaults. Again, a Human Rights abusive treatment of temporCommission – if we had one – ary foreign workers and recent could develop standards, protoimmigrants in the food service cols and supports for employers and tree planting industries. and key service providers like Workers have been subjected the police. to intimidation and sexual and The accommodation of people racial harassment, and coerced with mental health issues, and of into using overcrowded and workers who are also caring for inadequate accommodation prochildren, parents, or a disabled vided by the employer.

These workers are too vulner- family member, is an emerging able and face too many obstacles part of human rights law. A – including fear, financial need, Human rights Page 7

IN MY OPINION

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Clean energy essential for B.C. Dear Editor:

There has been much talk lately on whether B.C. should forge ahead with the building of the Site C Dam. The NDP argue against it while other people say we should avail ourselves of green energy from independent power producers. Some say we need neither, and I would disagree with them.

In my opinion, doing nothing would be very shortsighted and would repeat a costly mistake made by the NDP government of the 1990s. Back then, the NDP government froze B.C. Hydro rates for purely political reasons and starved B.C. Hydro of the financial resources needed to expand and maintain the province’s aging hydro dams and keep electricity distribution and transmission systems in top working order.

B.C. Hydro has more than $14 billion worth of infrastructure upgrade and renewal projects that have either already been completed, are in progress or under consideration, including the $8 billion Site C dam project. These infrastructure renewal projects, including Site C, along with conservation efforts and acquiring renewably-sourced electricity from independent producers, are key to restoring B.C. to electricity self-sufficiency and allowing our province to regain its status as a net electricity exporter; something which has always been to the financial advantage of the province.

However, we must also prepare for increased energy demands that go beyond Site C. For example, new mines and port expansions, and the likelihood of an emergent LNG industry, that will consume more electricity than our current and planned

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generating capacity.

Repeating the NDP’s mistake of the 1990s and postponing investments in our province’s valuable but rapidly aging clean energy assets, including Site C, is shortsighted and not fair to future generations who will end up paying the price. We must move ahead with Site C as well as independent renewable energy projects so we can meet the future needs of a growing province.

Staying the course with the forwardthinking policy of electricity self-sufficiency will allow us to leave a legacy of clean energy for future generations at affordable hydro rates. Let’s not allow ourselves to fall into the same short sighted trap the NDP did in the 1990s. The true cost of such a mistake is inestimable and it should not have to be borne by future generations due to negligence on our part.

David Field, B.C. Citizens for Green Energy

Liberals need to wake up Dear Editor:

As a resident of Burnaby, I am dismayed that the provincial government has been so dismissive about the dramatic events that have been unfolding on Burnaby Mountain.

Lone Liberal MLA Richard Lee is still repeating his election mantra about the proposed pipeline not being an issue in Burnaby North, in spite of the fact that

many of his own constituents have just been arrested for protesting it.

He continues to maintain that the pipeline won’t run through Burnaby North.

But, who knows where it may end up?

Kinder Morgan has already changed the route at least twice.

Even the National Energy Board accepts that the pipeline is an issue for Burnaby North residents.

Many of us have been granted intervenor or commentator status in the upcoming hearings. Community awareness and concern about the impact of the pipeline has been growing significantly since Mr. Lee received his talking points in May 2013.

That our MLA can only respond to a developing crisis by repeating his party’s five tired old so-called conditions demonstrates he is either not paying attention to the mood of his constituency or he has sided with Kinder Morgan against us.

And then there is the appalling statement by his leader, Christy Clark. The premier trivialized the meaning of the protest on Burnaby Mountain when she chose to lecture Burnaby parents for letting their children participate.

Does she really think we have forgotten that during the last election she had already demonstrated her disregard for the law when she chose to run a red light on a dare from her child? When government isn’t seen to be standing up to a Texasbased oil giant they shouldn’t be surprised when citizens do for themselves.

Janet Routledge, Burnaby

Human rights: B.C. needs better continued from page 6

Human Rights Commission – if we had one – could provide education, information, and advice, so that complaints could be avoided.

Most employers, service providers and landlords want to comply with human rights law. But right now, we provide little help or encouragement.

These are just a few examples of how a commission could help advance human rights in British Columbia. And there is no shortage of other pressing issues a commission could help us deal with: not enough supports for youth with mental health problems; race and sex bias in policing; the concentration of aboriginal, immigrant and racialized women and youth in low-wage employment; homelessness and lack of affordable housing … just to name a few.

Without a commission, B.C. has no public institution that can take steps to prevent discrimination, educate the public, initiate inquiries on broad systemic issues, develop guidelines, and promote human rights compliance.

We do not have the institutional machinery necessary to make good on the stated purpose of B.C.’s Human Rights Code – which includes to “identify and eliminate persistent patterns of inequality” and to “prevent discrimination.”

Despite its importance, B.C.’s human rights system has had a volatile history. A commission was first formed in 1973, disbanded in 1984, later reinstituted, but disbanded again in 2002.

Now even the truncated human rights system we have left appears to be under review by the provincial government, and may be hollowed out even

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further by funding cuts for advice and assistance to people who take complaints to the tribunal.

We should not be playing political football with the human rights system.

Governments need to be committed guarantors of human rights and supporters of strong, stable human rights systems.

That’s what British Columbia needs now – adequate resources for advice and legal representation, and a new independent commission appointed by the Legislature that provides British Columbians with real tools to prevent discrimination.

Gwen Brodsky and Shelagh Day are co-authors of Strengthening Human Rights: Why British Columbia Needs a Human Rights Commission, published by the Poverty and Human Rights Centre and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

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Every year, the NOW compiles a collection of the best, most spectacular Christmas light displays in Burnaby.

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Ringing in change: Burnaby North Secondary Small Steps volunteers Kethy Lin,

the homeowner’s or resident’s name (if known) and any charity or non-profit cause the display might be raising money for.

We’ll run a complete list of local displays closer to Christmas.

Email jmoreau@burnabynow.com with all the details – and feel free to include a photo if you have one available.

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left, and Lilyan Jia accept a donation at a Salvation Army Christmas kettle.

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and Facebook to a volunteer network now about 180 strong.

Members put in as much or as little volunteer time as they like.

Their main activity has been helping in the Cariboo Hill Sally Ann’s kitchen.

Five to six volunteers spend about three hours every Sunday and Tuesday night, helping the church make 2,000 sandwiches, five five-gallon pots of soup and 10 gallons of hot chocolate for the homeless.

“There are days when, if they didn’t come, the people on the street would be waiting for food that didn’t arrive,” Collins said.

The club’s help with the kettle campaign has been a godsend, too.

With a shortage of volunteers, the Sally Ann sometimes has to pay people to work their kettles, something that cuts into the money raised for good causes.

When Cariboo Hill ran short of volunteers, however, Small Steps stepped up.

They’ve taken on the lion’s share of shifts at the Kensington Safeway by Hastings Street and are also helping with the Safeway on Hastings Street by Willingdon Avenue.

“Volunteers are always better,” Collins said. “They want to be there, and these kids, they laugh, they’re having fun, people see them who know them, so they always do very well with their kettles.”

Small Steps volunteers have been looking after the Sally Ann kettles since last

Tuesday.

For Grade 10 student Kethy Lin, who was in front of the Kensington Safeway last Wednesday, it’s just one more way to help out.

“If you were ever stuck and down, you would want someone to help you,” she said.

Her partner-in-jingling, Lilyan Jia agreed.

“It’s just good karma, you know,” she said.

The two girls weren’t satisfied just to shake their bells.

To every shopper who passed they also called out “Please donate!”

“It’s kind of weird,” Jia said. “I would always see those people with the bells. I never thought I would be one of those.”

Su, meanwhile, hopes she and her fellow Small Steps volunteers raise more than money at the Christmas kettles this holiday season.

“I’d like to think it brings joy to people, knowing that teenagers and students are actually willing to do these kind of things and are actually happy to be volunteering instead of just lazing around at home,” she said.

The group has certainly won Collins over.

“They’re tireless and they’re joy filled and they’re just delightful kids to have around,” he said. “They have just been a complete surprise blessing to us at the Salvation Army.” twitter.com/CorNaylor

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Season’s Greetings gs and may you enjoy a prosperous New Yearr

The holiday season has always been one of my favourite times of the year. When hearing Christmas songs, I can’t help but think about big turkey dinners, nicely decorated trees, and the relaxing moments away from our busy work schedule. It’s a time for celebrating family and friendship, and giving thanks for the things we hold dear.

It’s also a time to remember those who aren’t as fortunate, and to lend a helping hand if we can. There are many ways you can help spread holiday cheer to those in need, from donating warm clothing and food to a local charity, to volunteering at community outreach events.

One of the most enduring holiday fundraising efforts is the Salvation Army Kettle Drive.

Kettles can be found outside many stores and supermarkets, but you can also go to fillthekettle.com to make a donation, which goes toward providing everyday needs such as food, clothing and shelter.

Please give if you can. I wish you a joyous holiday season and a very happy new year.

You are Warmly Invited to My

14th annual

Open House

3pm to 7pm, • Thursday, December 18th 1833 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby You are welcome to bring non-perishable food items, new children’s toys, story books or new clothes to be distributed to Burnaby charities.

COFFEE WITH RICHARD! JOIN ME FOR A COFFEE & LET’S TALK.

DATE: Saturday, December 27 TIME: 9:00 - 10:30 am PLACE: Caffe Artigiano 4359 Hastings, Burnaby

RICHARD T. LEE,

MLA Burnaby North

Ph: 604.775.0778 • Fax: 604.775.0833 • richard.lee.mla@leg.bc.ca www.richardleemla.bc.ca

Burnaby NOW • Friday, December 12, 2014 • 9

Dental emergencies to get quicker service Cornelia Naylor staff reporter

Parents who find themselves holding a handful of their kid’s teeth and in need of emergency dental care, will now find quicker help at Fraser Health hospitals, thanks to one Burnaby dad.

In September, the NOW published a story about Keith Renfrey, whose sevenyear-old son had knocked out seven of his teeth, including three permanent front teeth, during a shopping trip near Royal Columbian Hospital.

Knowing time was of the essence if the teeth were to be saved, Renfrey picked them off the ground, packed up the family and headed to the New Westminster hospital.

But they had gotten no advice from staff on what to do with the teeth, according to Renfrey, and they had waited an hour only to be told the hospital was not equipped to deal with dental emergencies.

Since it was a Sunday, it had taken another two hours before Renfrey’s son’s teeth could be re-implanted during an emergency dental visit on the far side of Burnaby.

The experience had angered the local dad, and he lodged a complaint with Fraser Health’s Patient Care Quality Office.

“I said I want real follow-up; I want something changed,” Renfrey told the NOW. “I don’t want an apology; I want

something changed.”

Last month, Fraser Health emergency program director Neil Barclay sent him an email saying changes had been made at all 12 Fraser Health hospitals.

Each emergency department in the region is now equipped with a dental emergency “kit,” which includes triage instructions for nurses and physicians, Hank’s solution (the most effective medium for keeping knocked-out teeth alive) and gauze.

Staff has also received information about how to deal with patients who come to emergency with dental emergencies.

“This should result in speedier triage of patients with avulsed teeth,” Barclay wrote.

Finally, the health authority is also continuing to work with the College of Dental Surgeons of B.C. to develop a formal oncall system.

Barclay, however, said this last piece will take “considerable time.”

Renfrey is pleased with changes.

“I’m happy with that,” he said. “I feel good that it’s out there.”

His son, meanwhile, who spent the first month after the accident on an all-liquid diet, is recovering nicely.

Recent two-month follow-up X-rays showed that his three permanent teeth, which are currently being secured with braces, are doing “really well.” twitter.com/CorNaylor

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Give every baby a healthy start!

Larry Wright/burnaby now

High water: This bench at Burnaby Fraser Foreshore Park would probably have been a nice spot to sit – until the rains came. The city has seen some localized flooding in the Big Bend area.

High waters keeping city crews busy Homeowners urged to do their part by keeping drains in front of their homes clean Cayley Dobie staff reporter

While municipalities across the Lower Mainland recover from the recent storm that pounded the region with hundreds of millimetres of rain, Burnaby’s dikes and drainage systems are proving their worth.

While the city has seen some flooding, Erik Schmidt, superintendent of roads and drainage, says it’s concentrated mostly in South Burnaby’s Big Bend area.

“We’re seeing some localized flooding in some of the trails in the parks areas that are along the river front, but these are some low-lying areas that are sort of in the flood prone areas,” he told the NOW. Frequent users of Burnaby’s Fraser Foreshore Park will have noticed signs posted by the engineering department indicating that portions of the trail system are closed until further notice.

This is not uncommon at this time of year, Schmidt added, as the area does often experience seasonal flooding.

Despite this, the city’s dikes along the Fraser River between both the New

Westminster and Vancouver borders are holding out against the especially large tides (commonly referred to as a king tide).

“We’ve been monitoring our dikes and our flood boxes and everything has been performing as planned,” Schmidt said.

While the rest of the city has remained relatively dry, Schmidt said cleanup crews have been clearing storm drains of debris so the water drains.

“We’re seeing a lot of rainfall, too, and that’s throughout the city, and so we’ve got crews out. We’re obviously sweeping the roads trying to … clean up as much leaves as we can,” he said.

Residents can do their part to keep water from pooling on streets by keeping the drains in front of their homes clean and avoid blowing or sweeping leaves in to the drains.

While residents are encouraged to clear out debris from drains, some may not be as able-bodied as others. Seniors or people who can’t physically clean out debris can call the city for assistance.

“If someone phones, we’ll send a crew out,” Schmidt said. “We’d prefer that if people are capable of doing it themselves if they could do it. That just frees up the resources to respond to those who really need it.”

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Last year, 58 women who sought support through Burnaby Family Life’s outreach pregnancy program were turned away because of a lack of funding. You can help make sure that every baby gets the healthy start they deserve by donating to Burnaby Family Life’s crowdfunding campaign.

Every donation can make a difference:

• $25: Provides food coupons for healthy milk and food supplements.

• $50: Provides a healthy lunch for all the women in one of the programs.

• $75: Provides five women in the program with essential vitamins to maintain the health of their babies.

• $100: Provides the services of a dietitian to help the women in a program learn about and maintain healthy eating habits throughout the pregnancy.

• $1,600: Covers the cost for one woman to attend the entire program.

You can make a donation at fundaid.ca/burnabyfamilies

WATERMAIN FLUSHING The City Engineering Department will be commencing its annual program of flushing and cleaning watermains on October 1st to December 19th, 2014.

This activity may cause pressure fluctuations, some discoloration and sediment in the water supply reaching your home or business.

These conditions should be of short duration and do not pose a health hazard.

If your water appears discolored after our crews have finished flushing, clear your water by running a cold water tap.

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Sparking vision: Burnaby NOW health reporter Cornelia Naylor tries her hand at the Fortius Sport & Health centre’s Nike SPARQ Sensory Performance Station.

The only one of its kind in Canada, the unit tests 10 different kinds of visual skills, like depth perception and eye-hand coordination.

The eyes have it for this sports doctor Cornelia Naylor staff reporter

For Fortius Sport & Health eye doctor Kevin Loopeker, vision is about more than seeing clearly.

It’s about function.

“You can have great clarity, but it doesn’t mean your visual system is functioning very well,” he said.

Take a child who has perfectly good vision but whose eyes have problems

tracking.

No type of corrective lens will fix the problem.

Fortunately, there are things that can be done, and that’s where Loopeker’s interest in the function and development of vision comes in.

It’s a philosophy that departs from the traditional, optics-based optometry practised in Canada, he said, and explains why the Richmond native spent much of his professional life before 2003 in the

U.S. – first at Pacific University College in Oregon to get his doctorate of optometry and then at the State University of New York to earn a certificate of advanced clinical competency in vision therapy and rehabilitation.

In New York, Loopeker spent a year helping people with brain injuries and learning disabilities with vision rehabilitation.

It might seem like a strange fit for someone who always knew he wanted to

focus on sport vision, but Loopeker said it’s not.

“The two are meshed together,” he said.

Working with kids on tracking, focusing and visual attention, for example, he said he has seen kids make gains in school and sport alike.

“After doing training with this, not only did their academics improve, dad would come back and say, ‘Hey, Johnny Doctor Page 14

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Cornelia Naylor

For 14 weeks, NOW health reporter Cornelia Naylor has been assigned to undertake a “Fortius challenge,” setting fitness and performance goals and experiencing first-hand the many ways Burnaby’s

Fortius Sport & Health can help.

As a rehab project, the team will zero in on a lingering shoulder injury, but Cornelia will also get a chance to sample everything else Fortius has to offer, from massage therapy and diet advice to vision testing and a scientific analysis of her running gait.

This week: vision testing.

Here’s her sixth report: y dreams of becoming an Olympic shooter are over.

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doctor Kevin Loopeker has just told me that I’m left-eyed.

I’m also right-handed, so he said it’s doubtful I’d ever be able to shoot at an elite level since my eye and weapon would be naturally unaligned.

Luckily I hadn’t gotten around to actually taking up the sport.

It’s a good illustration, though, of why there are a group of eye specialists and a whole lot of expensive vision-related equipment at a sports medicine

centre.

“A lot of people ask me why do we have vision here,” Loopeker says. “Just try to perform a new sport with your eyes closed.”

There are blind athletes, of course, and better testing at a place like Fortius could help with more accurate classification for competition.

But sighted athletes rely heavily on their vision – even if they sometimes take it for granted.

“It tells you where you are in

space,” Loopeker says. “It tells you where the ball is, it tells you where your opponents are, it helps with your balance and it tells you when the ball is going to arrive.”

Vision, especially for athletes, goes well beyond being able to see clearly, for Loopeker.

“There’s more than one skill,” he says.

Besides clarity, there’s eyehand coordination, peripheral awareness, depth perception, Fortius Page 14

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tracking, visual memory and many more.

Which of these athletes need depends on their sport and position, according to Loopeker A football quarterback, for example, needs skills like peripheral awareness, he says, while an Olympic shooter needs exceptional clarity and stable focusing in one eye.

So – while Fortius’s performance vision centre has all the equipment for regular eye testing – it goes well beyond making sure athletes’ eyes are healthy and they can see 20/20.

Take the centre’s Nike SPARQ Sensory Performance Station – the only one in Canada.

A 30-minute test on the unit’s touch-screen TV evaluates 10 different visual skills and compares athletes to others around the world playing their sport and position.

It’s one of the ways Fortius’s eye experts uncover weaknesses that could be holding athletes back.

Once those have been pinpointed, some can be corrected with what Loopeker calls “physiotherapy for the eyes.”

All that work happens in the “fun room” or the “kindergarten room for the eyes,” a.k.a. the Fortius vision training room.

“What really sets us apart is this room here,” he says.

Besides the Nike SPARQ, the room contains an array of what look like toys and arcade games.

“It’s just adding the science rather than making it recreational,” Loopeker said.

Some of the “toys” are as simple as baseballs with letters written on them hanging from the ceiling. Those are for strengthening eye-tracking skills.

Somewhat more high tech are the Nike SPARQ Vapor Strobe glasses.

I put on a pair and play a game of catch with Loopeker.

It’s a bit like looking through a venetian blind opening and closing dozens of times a minute.

By limiting visual input, Loopeker explains, the specs force the wearer to be more attentive, to anticipate and predict.

It’s a tool he uses with a handful of junior hockey goalies training at Fortius.

When I take the glasses off, the ball seems bigger and slower and easier to manage.

Trippy.

Loopeker likens it to pulling off the highway after driving 120 km/h for a couple hours: 50 km/h seems almost too slow.

More than half of Loopeker’s clients at Fortius see him to get help with the light sensitivity, headaches and peripheral motion sensitivity that come with concussions.

Doctor: Vision key for athletes continued from page 13

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SPARQ specs: Burnaby NOW health reporter Cornelia Naylor plays a little catch in the Fortius vision training room while wearing a pair of Nike SPARQ Vapor Strobe glasses.

It’s important work, but Fortius’s vision experts would like to see more athletes – especially developing athletes – take advantage of the centre’s expertise and tools to boost their performance.

The challenge is getting the

word out.

“Awareness is the biggest thing,” Loopeker says.

Next stop, base-line concussion testing.

Follow Cornelia Naylor on Twitter, @CorNaylor

can finally hit a baseball.’”

So, when Loopeker came back to start his own clinic in Richmond 11 years ago, he continued his work on both fronts, gaining a reputation in both the education and sport realms, presenting to homeschoolers and at teacher professional development days, as well as working with highlevel athletes.

In 2012, he earned a diploma in sportvision practice through Sportvision UK. It was his work under the SportMedBC umbrella that got him plugged into the Fortius project.

“Basically this was eight years in the making,” Loopeker said of the Fortius performance vision centre.

Asked if the expensive, state-of-the-art facility was a hard sell to the other founders, Loopeker said the potential was clear to them, even if it hadn’t always been on their radars.

“I don’t think it was a hard sell,” he said. “I think some lightbulbs went on.”

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Reaching out: Kia Kadiri, Tadaaki Hozumi and Mattias Boon are the faces behind Safe Cypher – a series of workshops being put on next February by the Streetrich society. The local group provides youth free drop-in classes (like dance and creative writing), so they have a platform to discover their own voices.

Hip hop group reaches out to youth including delving into hip hop’s history.

“We’ll examine why it’s such an influential culture and how marginalized people had a voice, how they pursued hip hop to survive, not to just express themselves,” she said. “There were gangs and violence Tereza Verenca and people didn’t have a lot of choice staff reporter when it came to doing drugs and being A local community group is hoping to involved in that scene, but hip hop was an put a B.C. Arts Council grant to good use outlet to overcome that.”

From a cultural perspective, a few hours come 2015.

Burnaby’s Streetrich Hip Hop Society will be devoted to looking at different received $1,025 from the provincial gov- genres of music, including funk and jazz.

“Specifically, how it ties into the music ernment last week, as part of the $1.86million pie doled out to various art-based industry today, how artists of colour are represented in mainstream media and organizations.

Streetrich has been around for the last how to have these conversations without alienating people,” she said. two years, providing free The workshops will also drop-in lessons to youth who “There were involve a lot of self-reflection, do not have the means to take gangs and asking participants to think structured classes (everything from break dancing to creative violence and peo- about their coping mechanisms confronted with serious writing). The end goal is to ple didn’t have a when issues. help them discover their own lot of choice …

“How do you navigate voice through the hip hop through You can’t bring platform. but hip hop was your ownthat? politics into the room The grant money will an outlet to over- and I think that’s a divide we help fund Safe Cyphers – a have with some facilitators,” series of four workshops to come that.” said Kadiri. be held every Sunday during All in all, it’s about going February, also known as Black KIA KADIRI Streetrich back to hip hop’s roots, underHistory Month. standing how it is represented “The program is for facilitators dealing with youth, who may not nec- in the present day and being able to comessarily have a lot of training to be better municate that to youth.

“It gets adopted by all these organizateachers,” said vice-president Kia Kadiri.

“They may not know how to create an tions who try to make it cool, but don’t go atmosphere that’s comfortable for youth, into the deeper issues that come from the whether that’s dealing with sexual orienta- culture,” she went on to say.

A venue for the free workshops has yet tion, discrimination or race.”

Kadiri, a rapper herself, added another to be announced.

Registration will be required because important component of the sessions is discussion around using proper terminol- space is limited.

For more information, visit streetrich. ogy in conversations with teens.

“There are some people who are really ca.

There were two other grant recipipassionate about speaking out, but maybe they use the wrong wording. If you don’t ents from Burnaby – the Nikkei National know the right terminology, you have to Museum ($15,000) and Russell Sholberg be humble and recognize that. Don’t claim ($1,750).

Follow Tereza Verenca on Twitter, to be a master of anything.” @tverenca The curriculum will cover other topics,

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Saturday, Dec. 13, from 3 to 8 p.m. here’s no shortage of Christmas fun There will be entertainment and in Burnaby. This weekend’s Top activities for the whole family, all with an 5 list includes fun activities with Italian theme. opportunities to get some to-do tasks There’s also a Christmas market (with cleared off your Christmas list. vendors from the Italian farmers’ market) Stop by the Little Elves Christmas in the atrium, cooking demos, children’s Craft Fair at the Burnaby crafts and performances.

Neighbourhood House community Outside, the centre’s ceramics departhall this Saturday, Dec. 13. The sale is on ment is assembling and firing up a kiln from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 5024 Rumble St. made of hundreds of empty wine bottles, Teens in the Burnaby Neighbourhood which means onlookers can see what’s House’s Leadership 2 Youth program happening inside. organized the sale to raise money for Admission is free. The families in need.

Shadbolt is at 6450 Deer Lake Admission is by donation.

Ave. There will be baked goods, plush toys, recycled wood Take a spin on Burnaby’s crafts, baby items, jewelry vintage carousel and supand more. port the Burnaby Christmas The youth are selling Bureau. cookie jars they made themWe’ve mentioned Heritage selves, with cookie recipes Christmas at the Burnaby and ingredients inside.

Village Museum before, but The best part of the fair is this Saturday, Dec. 13, all you can get some Christmas proceeds from carousel rides shopping done and know between 5 and 9 p.m. go to the money you’re spending the bureau, which provides (or more) will go towards helping local, local, low-income families low-income families. with gifts and food for the Things to do holidays.

Want to learn how to this weekend Admission at the gate is cook Le Tigre style? free, and carousel rides are The Nikkei Centre is $2.50. The museum is at 6501 hosting another session of Deer Lake Ave., and it’s open from 1 to 9 the Famous Chef’s Cooking Classes on p.m. daily.

Sunday, Dec. 14, and Sandy Wei Yu While you’re there, check out the Chen, award winning chef with Le Tigre scavenger hunts, photo ops with Father food truck, is leading the class.

Christmas, live entertainment and vinLe Tigre specializes in contemporary tage-inspired displays. versions of classic Chinese cuisine, with Also on Saturday, the Newcomers’ a focus on local sustainable ingredients.

Choir will be performing onsite in the The event is from 1 to 3 p.m. at 6688 church, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. The choir is Southoaks Cres. a collection of people who speak English The menu items are: “miso-awesome salad,” tuna tataki, homemade pasta with as a second language.

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Holidays: Gordon Gerrard leads the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for its Traditional Christmas.

Enjoy the VSO The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is making sure that everyone gets into the Christmas spirit.

The orchestra is once again touring the Lower Mainland with its Traditional Christmas concert – and it’s coming to Burnaby for two shows at the Michael J. Fox Theatre on Sunday, Dec. 21.

The orchestra, led by associate conductor Gordon Gerrard, is joined by special guests for the occasion.

Host Christopher Gaze of Bard on the Beach fame offers up Christmas readings, and the UBC Opera Ensemble and the EnChor choir lend their voices to seasonal favourites.

“Be sure to get your tickets early – every performance last year was sold out, and tickets are going fast again this year,” a press release notes.

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Merry Christmas: Van Django, a Vancouver-based string quartet, is bringing a Christmas variety show to the Michael J. Fox Theatre Dec. 18. Holiday classics promise to have the feel of American swing music of the 1930s.

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Four musicians who make up Van Django – a string swing jazz quartet – are bringing their Christmas variety show to the Michael J. Fox Theatre Dec. 18.

The Vancouver-based group, which features Cameron Wilson on violin, Budge Schachte on guitar, Finn Manniche on guitar/ cello and Brent Gubbels on acoustic bass, got together in 1998. Since then, they’ve toured Canada, the U.S., Europe and China.

Given last year’s well-received show at the St. James Hall in Vancouver, the guys decided to do it again.

“The concert did sell out, which really came as a shock to all of us,” said Wilson in a phone interview with the NOW. “There was such buzz about it that we started to make it into a mini-tour in the Lower Mainland.”

Van Django’s sound can be described as gypsy jazz, with influences from guitarist Jean “Django” Reinhardt and American swing music of the 1930s.

“It’s something that’s going to be a little bit different, but it will tug at the heartstrings and be toe-tapping, too,” he added. “There’s also an elegance to it because it’s all string instruments. The guitars are basically the drums, providing the rhythm.”

The concert also features harmonica virtuoso Keith Bennett and vocalist L.J. Mounteney.

The holiday fun gets underway at 8 p.m.

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When it comes to electric motor vehicles, one company steals the headlines and the other quietly goes about making the sales figures. Tesla might shine in the spotlight, but in terms of putting keys in the hands of ordinary consumers, the Nissan Leaf is doing for electric mobility what the Prius once did for hybrid technology.

It’s pretty amazing when you think about it. Here, sold at a regular dealership alongside ordinary internal combustion engines, is a perfectly ordinary car with four doors and a hatch that just happens to plug into the wall. It’s not wildly futuristic, nor impractical, nor really avant garde. It’s just a car.

Mind you, there are all sorts of details that make the Leaf an unusual choice of transportation. On the market for four years now, Nissan’s electric car is unique in many ways. The question is; does it work for you?

Design:

With no need for a conventional radiator or the other trappings of a gasoline-powered car, the surprise is how much the Leaf actually looks like its entry-level cousin, the Note. It’s got an amphibious-looking face, LED headlights and taillights, a few blue-meansefficient badges here and there, but to the average onlooker, it’s just a pleasant little hatchback.

Standard wheel size is a 16” steel wheel, with S models coming with 16” alloys, and SL models equipped with 17” alloys. All cars come with a rear spoiler, with the SL trim gaining a small solar panel embedded in it.

Mudguards are standard.

Environment:

Inside, the Leaf is again mostly ordinary, with a few unusual touches. Because it saps power to warm up the

cabin, there are heated seats front and rear, and a standard heated steering wheel. This latter is just the best. I don’t know how we all manage to live through the winter without a heated steering wheel.

The seats are nicely comfortable, with plenty of rear leg room, and the trunk is well-sized.

Because it was designed from the ground up to be an electric car, the Leaf doesn’t suffer from the cargo-loss you find it electrified versions of regular cars, such as the Ford Focus EV with its cramped rear hatch.

Other than that, some futurism extends into the cabin, where the instrument display shows a series of dots displaying power use or regeneration. Midrange models and up get a range indicator as part of the satellite navigation that shows how far you can go on a charge, and the puck-shaped gear-lever is like something you’d expect to find on a Star Trek shuttle.

Performance:

Forget Rolls-Royce: this is probably the quietest car I’ve ever driven. Heavily insulated against road noise, the Leaf is whisper quiet, especially at city speeds, with the loudest thing in the car being the fan.

Power comes from a 107hp, 187lb/ft electric motor that provides instant shove from rest through a single-speed transmission. While the Leaf is nominally no more powerful than a Micra, the immediate availability of the torque means that it feels much faster.

That’s assuming you have it in the right mode, however.

Put the Leaf in eco-mode, and the throttle response drops to a level that makes it feel like you’re driving through maple syrup. Range is improved, but the car feels very slow.

Flick it back into regular mode while driving (just a push of the thumb on the steering-wheelmounted button), and the Leaf surges forward with glee. It’s actually pretty fun to scoot around in regular mode at city speeds, with the Leaf’s point-and-shoot torque meaning you can zip forward to merge with ease.

Now, here are a few words about the range. The ‘15 Leaf is much quicker to charge than previous models, but with the batteries fully topped off, still only provides a total theoretical range of 135 kilometres. That’s about a quarter of your average compact commuter,

and if you run low on electric power, recharging is a somewhat more involved affair than just popping over to the gasoline pump.

However, for most everyday driving tasks, the Leaf is more than up to the job. I drove it home, up the hill from downtown to the North Shore, didn’t bother plugging it in, then I drove to and from Richmond in rush hour. Even though the weather was cold enough to be running the power-sapping heater nearly full blast, there was still enough juice left over to run for groceries, or pick up kids from school, or all the other little endof-day tasks you might have.

You don’t even really need a quick charger at home, as the lower mainland is dotted with chargers these days.

Park out front at the Granville Island market, and you can charge up your car for free.

It’s an interesting way to get around, with hardly any drawbacks. Yes, long-distance road trips are a bit tricky, but that’s why you buy a Hellcat Challenger as a second car. Or maybe that’s just me.

Features:

As mentioned, mid-range Leaf models come with satellite navigation, based on a 7” touchscreen display. A backup camera is standard, and the top-level cars come with Nissan’s clever Aroundview monitor which shows a view all around the car - hence the name, obviously.

Keyless entry and pushbutton start are standard, as is the aforementioned heated steering wheel, which I may have allegedly tried to steal and install in my own personal car - allegedly.

There’s also a huge suite of Bluetooth-related technologies, including streaming audio and a handsfree text-message assistant. Possibly the most interesting smartphone-related feature is the Carwings app, which lets you monitor your Leaf’s charging, battery levels, and even kick on the air-conditioning remotely.

Fuel economy is officially rated at the equivalent of 1.9L/100kms, or about $3 to charge. You can also set the Leaf up to draw power during off-peak times, when electricity is cheaper, bringing costs down further.

Green Light:

Very quiet ride good; very responsive torque; smart available features; spacious cabin

Stop Sign:

Slow to heat up; power use saps range; no incentives in BC make it costly

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It’s a completely usable electric car for every day. If the range fits your intended use, it just works.

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Cars could soon be powered by own body panels time after the new gasoline-powered R8 launches later in 2015.

Diesel power rules in highway economy:

Toyota’s Mirai is the “future”

Toyota says its first production hydrogenpowered fuel-cell vehicle represents a turning point for the automotive industry, just as the Prius did more than a decade ago. The four-door, midsize Mirai sedan “fully competes” with traditional internal combustion engines, using no gasoline and emitting only water vapour. Mirai is “future” in Japanese, and it’s powered by hydrogen, it refuels in about five minutes and travels up to 500 kilometres before refilling is needed. The Mirai will be available first in California starting in late 2015, with additional markets tracking the expansion of a convenient hydrogen refuelling infrastructure. Its fuel-cell “stack” has been dramatically reduced in size to fit under the front seats. It converts hydrogen to electricity, which is fed to a nickel-metal-hydride battery pack before being doled out to a 152-horsepower electric motor. The Mirai lists for US $57,500.

Audi all-electric and hybrid R8 sports cars

Not only will Audi build an electric version of its next-generation R8 sports car, it will also make a plug-in hybrid version. Audi technical chief Ulrich Hackenberg told Britain’s “Car” magazine that both versions are possible, and would help the automaker comply with coming stricter global emissions regulations.

The all-electric R8 E-tron is expected to deliver up to 400 kilometres of range on a full charge. Earlier this year Hackenberg said that the company had managed to increase the range of the electric R8 for production, eclipsing the 210-kilometre range of its prototype cars. The two alternately fuelled R8s will become available some-

A United Kingdom study confirms what has been popular wisdom for years: in terms of fuel economy, hybrids do best in cities, while diesels excel on highways.

The study by Emissions Analytics found that both hybrids and diesels did worse in city driving, but the penalty is greater for diesels: seven per cent compared to three per cent for hybrids. The hybrid advantage disappears in highway driving, however, where diesels really show their stuff. Notes alternative vehicles Web site, Green Car Reports, while diesels have been known to easily meet or exceed their government highway ratings, “hybrids seem more sensitive to factors like driving style, and sometimes have trouble matching their fuel economy ratings” in real-world driving.

Air Force tests vehicle-to-grid energy potential

The United States Air Force has unveiled a fleet of 42 plug-in electric cars it will use in a vehicle-togrid demonstration program at its Los Angeles, Calif., base. The vehicles are modified to discharge power back into the electrical grid through a network of specialized charging stations installed around the base. The fleet is comprised of Nissan Leaf electric sedans, extended-range electric trucks and vans converted

by Via Motors, Ford FSeries pickup plug-in hybrid conversions, and extended-range electric commercial trucks and shuttle buses. The fleet is expected to provide up to 700 kilowatts of energy to the base’s grid. The demonstration is part of a US $30 million project to test vehicle-to-grid technology at designated military bases across the United States.

Panels could replace batteries

Future electric cars might not need batteries, but will instead be powered by their own body panels. Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, are working on new lightweight superca-

pacitors in the form of a thin, strong, high-energy density film made of two all-carbon electrodes wrapped around an electrolyte, reports emerging technologies magazine, Gizmag. The film would be set in vehicle body pan-

els such as hoods, roofs, trunk lids and doors.

Aside from being heavy, batteries are limited in how fast they can accept and discharge energy.

Supercapacitors, on the other hand, can accept and release energy in large

bursts, with nearly instant charge times. They don’t, however, don’t store as much energy as batteries do. The short-term idea is to combine the two mediums, while further developing supercapacitor storage.

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ARTS CALENDAR TO SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14 Stealing Christmas, a holiday play by Forte Theatre Society, part of Heritage Christmas celebrations at the Burnaby Village Museum, in Brookfield Hall, runs Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30, 4 and 6:30 p.m. Info: www.burnabyvillage museum.ca

TO SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 Christmas Belles, presented by the Vagabond Players in the Bernie Legge Theatre, Queen’s Park, with shows Wednesday to Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Tickets $15, or $13 for students and seniors, with $10 previews on Dec. 3, 4 and 5. Reserve at 604-521-0412 or email reservations@vaga bondplayers.ca

TO SUNDAY, JANUARY 4 Kip Fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa, a photography exhibition exploring the question of multiracial identity, at the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre, 6688 Southoaks Cres., www.nikkei place.org, 604-777-7000.

TO FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 Cover Story: Album Art Reimagined, a group exhibition presented by the Arts Council of New Westminster in the Community Art Space at Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia St. Info: www.anvilcentre.ca or call 604-527-4640.

TO SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 All is Unmentionable, Up in the Air, an exhibition of work

by Eli Bornowsky, at Burnaby Art Gallery, 6344 Deer Lake Ave. Open Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. By donation (suggested donation $5). Info: 604-297-4422 or www.burn abyartgallery.ca.

TO SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Cory Collins: Re-Mappings, an exhibition at the McGill branch of Burnaby Public Library, 4595 Albert St., part of the Burnaby Art Gallery’s outreach exhibitions, featuring the work of the Newfoundland-based artist, writer and behaviour therapist. Info: www.burnaby artgallery.ca.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 A Call to Nurse: Memories of Life On and Off Duty in a Hospital Training School 1901-1978, featuring nurses from the Royal Columbian Hospital School of Nursing, book signing from 2 to 5 p.m. at Black Bond Books, Royal City Centre.

Sharron and George’s Super Fun Christmas Sing-Along, 8 p.m. at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, featuring Sharron Matthews and George Masswohl, plus special guests. Tickets $27 to $35, through tickets.shadbolt centre.com or call 604-2053000.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 O Nata Lux, a Christmas concert by New Westminster’s Amabilis Singers and the Shaughnessy Heights United Church Choir, 2 p.m. at

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Scrooge: a dramatic reading with music, with script

by Orson Welles based on Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, featuring David Adams, Duncan Ollerenshaw, Sanders Whiting and others, $20 regular, $15 seniors/students, $10 children, at Queens Avenue United Church, 529 Queens Ave., 604-522-1606.

Hearth and Fire, a concert by the B.C. Girls’ Choir and the Band of the Fifteenth Field Artillery Regiment, at the Michael J. Fox Theatre in Burnaby, 7:30 p.m. Info: 604542-1698 or email manager@ bcgirlschoir.org.

Spirit of the Season, an open house at Van Dop Gallery, 421 Richmond St., 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with an extensive collection of unique gifts and festive treasures. Info: www. vandopgallery.com.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14 O Nata Lux, a Christmas concert by New Westminster’s Amabilis Singers and the Shaughnessy Heights United Church Choir, 7:30 p.m. at Shaughnessy Heights United Church, 1550 West 33rd Ave., Burnaby, tickets $20 adults and seniors, free for children under 11. Call 604-503-2074 or see www.amabilissingers. org.

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Sing along: Sharron Matthews and George Masswohl bring their Christmas show to the Shadbolt Centre to the arts tonight (Friday).

Grill, 447 Columbia St., with featured poets Sonja Grgar, Franci Louann and host Renee Saklikar, plus open mike. Info: www.poetic justice.ca.

Burnaby Newcomers’ Choir, performs 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the church at Burnaby Village Museum, as part of Heritage Christmas. For choir info, see www.miusc.ca.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 15 A Christmas Story, an evening of stories and song, presented by musica intima at Knox Presbyterian Church, 403 East Columbia St., New

West. Tickets $35, or $30 for seniors, $10 for students.

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ed by the New Westminster Secondary School jazz and concert bands, at Massey Theatre, $8, or free for kids under 6. Call 604-521-5050 to book.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16 Spoken Ink, featuring author Melia McClure reading from her debut novel, The Delphi Room, at La Fontana Caffe, 101-3701 Hastings St., Burnaby, plus open mike.

Open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m., reading at 8 p.m. Info: www.burnabywritersnews. blogspot.com or bwscafe@ gmail.com.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 Holiday artisans fair, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the community square on the second floor at River Market, 810 Quayside Dr., with jewelry, knitting, crafts and much more. Info: www.rivermarket.ca.

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ARTS CALENDAR continued from page 27 in the backroom at the Heritage Grill, 447 Columbia St., with special holiday season open mike. Info: www. poeticjustice.ca.

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, brings Traditional Christmas to the stage at the Michael J. Fox Theatre, with shows at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., with special guests Christopher Gaze, EnChor and the UBC Opera Ensemble. Tickets $42, or $37 for seniors and students. See www.vancouversymphony.ca for more.

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United: Kevin Lee, left, leads the Newcomers’ Choir.

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The Nutcracker, presented

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 20 Mandarin language tour, at Burnaby Art Gallery, with gallery guide Dong Yue Su leading an exploration of the current Eli Bornowsky exhibition, 6344 Deer Lake Ave., noon to 1 p.m. No registration required. Suggested donation $5. Info: www.burnabyart gallery.ca, 604-297-4422.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31 New Year’s Eve 2015 Glitz & Glamour dinner and dance, at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown, with six DJs and three stages featuring Top 40, Latin and Caribbean, and “old school” music, tickets through www.ticketmaster.ca or 1-855-985-5000.

A Child’s Christmas in Wales, the holiday favourite

by Dylan Thomas, with live original music, readings and favourite carols, presented

by Colleen Winton, Russell Roberts, Sayer Roberts and Gower Roberts, with Brian Tate, 7:30 p.m. in the Anvil Centre Theatre, 777 Columbia St., $30 regular, $25 for seniors, $20 students. Tickets: www.ticketsnw.ca or 604-5215050.

ONGOING Newcomers’ Choir, meets Saturdays from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. in multipurpose room 2 at Edmonds Community Centre, 7433 Edmonds St., Burnaby. For all who want to improve their language or singing skills, or both. Info: www.MIUSc.ca.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14 Artist and curator’s talk and tour, with artist Eli Bornowsky and assistant curator Jennifer Cane, at Burnaby Art Gallery, in conjunction with the gallery’s ongoing All is Unmentionable, Up in the Air exhibition, 7 to 9 p.m. at the gallery, 6344 Deer Lake Ave. Free, no registration required.

Info: www.burnabyartgallery. ca, 604-297-4422.

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City officer honoured for 20 years’ service Cayley Dobie staff reporter

It all started in February 1988.

Andy LeClair was visiting his brother in Burnaby for the very first time, and much to his surprise, he and his brother went for a run in 15-degree weather – he was in love.

LeClair, who was living in Quebec at the time (where it was a balmy -35 in February), thought it would be nice to one day live in the Lower Mainland. The opportunity to do so would come in the early ‘90s.

LeClair comes from a long line of police officers. His brother Steve is a staff sergeant in Whistler and both his grandfathers were police officers, so it’s no wonder he ended up a member of the Red Serge.

After graduating from university with a bachelor of arts in psychology, LeClair, who is originally from Prince Edward Island, applied to both the RCMP and a local police department. The day before he was set to start training with the local police department, LeClair got a call from the Mounties – he’d been accepted into the fold.

Following his training in Regina, Sask., LeClair was hoping he would be posted in an urban location, but he never imagined he’d get sent to Burnaby, especially when his brother was already posted here.

But in the end that’s exactly what happened.

LeClair packed his bags and headed West.

More than 23 years later, LeClair is an anomaly in the RCMP. While most officers in the national police force move from post to post, often staying less than 10 years in each town or city, LeClair has spent his entire career in Burnaby.

Looking back, the posting was one he is still thankful for because it allowed him, he told the NOW, to pursue a career in urban policing, which was his goal all along.

“I’ve always been geared to city policing. I like the tempo of it, I like the exposure to what you get here, so it’s really suited my career path as far as what my real interests were,” LeClair said.

The local staff sergeant has held nearly every role within the Burnaby RCMP. He’s been a general duty constable, a school liaison officer, he’s worked in the investigational operations unit and in the community operations unit, he’s worked in the criminal intelligence and gang units, he’s been a general duty corporal and he was part of Burnaby Strike Force when it first started. He was also a member of the emergency response team (that’s Canadian for SWAT) back before it was an integrated unit, and stayed on for about a year-and-a-half after it became an integrated unit.

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Honoured: Burnaby Staff Sgt. Andy LeClair, right, with his son Ben, centre, and RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson at an award ceremony on Sept. 9 where LeClair received the Order of Merit of the Police Forces.

“My career has been pretty varied because I started doing general patrol, then I went to school liaison in the mid-’90s and that was a great, great job,” he said. “To this day I go for a walk on Hastings (Street) and I bump into students with their kids now and they recognize me. So that

really was a great job to get traction in the community.”

In September, LeClair was honoured for his long-term dedication to the community, policing, crime reduction and voluteerism at a special ceremony in Ottawa, where he was presented with the Order of Merit of the Police Forces

by Gov. Gen. David Johnston.

“It’s an award that kind of speaks to the totality of your service and your commitment to the community,” LeClair said, “so it’s a little bit tough to say why I should get it over other people because there’s so many

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committed police officers that deserve an award like that, but I was supported by the officer in charge and I feel tremendously honoured that I received it.”

Any success he’s had within the RCMP is because of the collaborative nature of the Burnaby department and the emphasis it puts on teamwork, according to LeClair.

Today, LeClair is secondin-command of Burnaby RCMP’s community operations section. Promoted to the rank of staff sergeant in 2012, he is responsible for advising the section’s inspector on investigations and initiatives the officers are undertaking. He also oversees the prolific offenders suppression team.

“It’s a team that works identifying our most prolific criminals and those are usually property crime-type of criminals, the repeat offenders, the people that affect most people in the community,” he said. “Then there’s the community response team and there’s a bit of overlap, obviously, because they’ll target a bit of the same people.”

Both the prolific offenders suppression and community response teams target criminal activity that results in repeat calls for service. These are the repeat offenders or problem houses that require further investigation and concrete strategies for dealing with the problem, LeClair explained.

“Crime reduction is a little bit different than community policing,” he added. “(It’s about) targeting the individuals that are doing the crime, working collaboratively with other resources and stopping them from doing crime.”

Working out of the Hastings Street community police office, LeClair is happy with the success he’s had over the years and is pleased to still be a part of the community. When asked if he has any intention of leaving Burnaby, LeClair said he doesn’t, but added he isn’t one to dictate his career.

“It’s been a great career in Burnaby,” he said. “If I’ve got anything, I’ve got corporate knowledge of Burnaby. I know the people of Burnaby and I’m one of the residents of Burnaby.”

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Burnaby Staff Sgt. Andy LeClair, left, and the Governor General of Canada, David Johnston at an award ceremony on Sept. 9 where LeClair received the Order of Merit of the Police Forces.

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Simple tips for cooking the perfect pasta ON COOKING

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staple in almost every home’s pantry is spaghetti or some form of pasta that makes its way to the dinner table on a regular basis. Many of us take the time to focus on building the flavour and complexity of the accompanying sauce for our pasta of choice;

however, the pasta itself needs attention as well.

This column will be focused on unraveling some myths and procedures in what seems to be one of the simplest tasks in the kitchen – boiling water and cooking pasta.

The first thing to examine is the dry pasta noodle and the transformation that takes place during the cooking process. The most obvious observation is that cooked pasta is larger in volume and flexible, compared to dry raw pasta.

What makes this possible is the absorption of water during the boiling process.

The cooking process of any food needs to be analyzed because this is our chance of infusing flavour into the ingredients being cooked.

Everyone has heard of the process of salting water when boiling pasta, but few know or realize the reason why. Some believe it is to help the pasta from sticking or to help keep the water from boiling over; however, the reason is to season the pasta and to increase the flavour. Pasta on its own is very bland, and combining bland cooked pasta with a sauce that you have perfected will be a

detriment to your finished dish. If the pasta water is salted liberally, then the pasta will be absorbing salt-water, instead of just water, and thus your pasta dish will be seasoned from the inside out.

Another no-no is to add oil to your pasta water.

This idea probably first came about to prevent the pasta noodles from sticking together, however, it will affect your finished dish negatively. A film of oil will always be left on the drained noodles. This thin film of oil will inhibit the starchiness of the cooked pasta and then in

turn lead to the accompanying sauce to not stick to or absorb into the noodles as much.

That being said, drained cooked pasta should not be oiled for the same reason.

A better way to help prevent your pasta noodles from sticking together during the cooking process is to stir the noodles constantly for the first two minutes of cooking time.

By that point the water will have returned to its full-boil action and the agitation of the bubbling water will keep the pasta moving and prevent it

from sticking.

Once the pasta has been drained, do not rinse it. Rinsing will cool the pasta down and also wash away some of the starchiness that we want to help secure the sauce to the noodles.

Homemade “spaghetti” is a very common dish in many households, and whether you use spaghetti, linguine or other types of noodles, I hope these few simple recommendations help to make your meal more enjoyable and flavourful.

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HEALTH

Don’t let technology trivialize your daily life

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Dr. Davidicus Wong

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s I entered the crowded restaurant, I immediately noticed one round table that stood out from the others. My kids were sitting with their cousins around that table, each with head bowed over folded hands and appearing to be in sol-

emn prayer.

Then I realized that they don’t pray that way.

(They pray with their heads up and eyes wide open, although I’ve always told them that they weren’t ready to do this until they could see the divine all around them.)

As I drew closer, I saw that they were each absorbed in their smartphones. Oblivious of one another, they were looking at Facebook, Instagramming, texting and playing games.

At least they were sitting down. I see people young

and old in malls, on sidewalks and crossing streets walking distractingly in the same prayerful posture with only a vague idea of where they are headed.

Until there’s an app to tell them that the light is red and they’re about to have an accident, I can’t think of a more dangerous way to walk, other than adding dark clothes, earphones and loud music.

Some drivers are no less distracted. Although it’s illegal to text and drive, I still see others glancing at their phones and some even holding onto their

phones as they make their turns. In pre-cellular days, drivers were only distracted as they put on makeup, reached for their French fries, shouted at the kids in the backseat and argued with their partners.

My rule of thumb for smartphone safety is this: Ask yourself, “Would it be safe to read a book at this time?” If it isn’t, resist the urge to answer that call, read a text or check your mail. It’s just not that urgent. Your safety and the well-being of others are.

I agree that text and email communication can

be convenient and efficient.

We don’t have to answer them right away, but sometimes we do – when we should be attending to other more important tasks or one another.

I notice that in elevators, strangers are ruder than ever. To completely avoid small talk and any acknowledgment of the human being standing in front of them, they whip out their smartphones before the doors close with eyes to the screen for the duration of the ride.

Ask yourself, “Does my use of communication

technology bring me closer to others and enhance my experience of real life?”

How much of each day is consumed by pointless games, trivial posts and empty entertainment?

Be mindful in your choice of communication.

Is this message best sent by text, email or phone? I often find that I feel most connected and understand best the experiences of a friend with a face-to-face heart-to-heart chat.

Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician and regular columnist. See more at davidi cuswong.wordpress.com.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 Come Meet Santa, the Burnaby Hospice Society Thrift Store will have Santa present from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. People of all ages can come take a photo with Santa for free. Store is at 6855 Kingsway.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14 Local Volkssport club, hosting a non-competitive 5K/10K walk in Central Park. Free for new participants. For more info, contact Verni at 604-6828390.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18 Making the most of the patient-doctor relationship, with Dr. Davidicus Wong, popular Burnaby NOW columnist, at Byrne Creek Secondary, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

7777 18th St. Registration: 604-259-4450 or email lcul len@divisionsbc.ca.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 Used Kidstuff Sale, Edmonds Community Centre, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bargains on maternity clothes, used children’s items and clothes, toys, etc.

Admission is free. Anyone interested in selling items can register in person at the centre on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 10 a.m. One table rental is $19.65 (max two tables).

Edmonds Community Centre is at 7433 Edmonds St.

ONGOING Old age pensioners’ organization branch 12, is holding an event the first Monday of each month from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Edmonds Community Centre. Learn what’s happening to social security programs. For more information, call 604-297-4838.

Telespeakers Toastmaster, meetings on Friday mornings from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Burnaby room in the Telus building, 3777 Kingsway.

Telespeakers provides a safe atmosphere where you can improve your speaking skills. We have many members with various experience levels from beginners to

distinguished Toastmaster designations. We welcome new members and guests and encourage you to learn at your own pace. To be the best you can be, go to www. telespeakers.com.

East Burnaby Family Place, offers a parent-and-child drop-in Tuesday and Friday mornings only from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come and meet others in a supportive and friendly environment while children from birth to five years old explore large and small motor-skill toys, arts and crafts, circle-time (at 12:30 p.m.), etc. For parents, we have a clothing exchange, resource rack, ECE qualified teacher, support/health workers, parenting workshops, etc. Call Andrea at 604-4441090 or visit www.ebfp.ca for more info.

Burnaby Cactus and Succulent Society, meets once a month at Bonsor. For more information, call Pat at 604-921-7042.

Burnaby and New Westminster Newcomers’ Friendship Club, welcomes women new to the area, as well as longtime residents.

Dinner meetings on second Wednesday of each month, plus various events including book club, craft group, social Saturdays. Info: email dorisfriend39@gmail.com, call 604-492-4638, or visit www. burnabynewwestminster newcomers.com.

Introduction to Speed Skating, hosted by Burnaby Haida Speed Skating, at Kensington Arena, 6159 Curtis Ave., $25 for unlimited sessions within a two-week period, on Wednesdays from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. and Saturdays from 3 to 4 p.m., Fee includes the use of club speed skates. Info: bbyspeed skating@gmail.com.

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Health alert, Mondays, dropin 9 to 11 a.m., presentation at 10:30 a.m. at Bonsor 55+ Centre, 6533 Nelson Ave. Buyers’ seminar, buyers beware – everything you need to know about buying your first home, every second Thursday at 7 p.m. at Keller Williams Black Diamond at 252-5489 Byrne Rd. Seating is limited, RSVP to 778-8616859.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS continued from page 34 at the Confederation Seniors Centre. For information, call Eric Kitson at 604-299-3335.

New members’ tour, last Monday of the month, 10 to 11:30 a.m., Bonsor Recreation Complex, 6550 Bonsor Ave.

Wednesday and Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. Drop-ins welcome. Call 604-297-4838 for more information.

Loudspeakers Toastmasters, meets Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m., Community Room, 3605 Gilmore Way, off Canada Way, Burnaby. All welcome.

Are you gay, bisexual or just not sure? Need a safe place to talk? HOMINUM is an informal discussion and support group to help gay, bisexual and questioning men with the challenges of being married, separated or single. We meet every Monday evening in locations around the Metro Vancouver area. For information and meeting location, call Don: 604-329-9760 or Art 604-462-9813.

Practise dancing skills, at the weekly social dances at the Edmonds Community Centre for 55 plus. $1 for members and $2 for non-members.

On Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m., Sundays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Mondays from 1 to 3 p.m. For more information, call 604-297-4838

Drop-in English conversation class, at the Burnaby Multicultural Society. Anyone welcome for socializing while practising English.

Class accommodates all levels. Every Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon, and Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 2:15 to 4:15 p.m. at the Burnaby Multicultural Society, 6255 Nelson Ave. For more information, call 604431-4131 ext. 27 or ext. 29.

Salsa Speakers Toastmaster club, Do you want to improve your public speaking and leadership skills? Do you want to build your confidence and have some fun, too?

Then visit us every Monday evening from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m., 3605 Gilmore Way. Admission is free for guests.

For more information call 604-872-1484 or 604-4351578.

Burnaby International Folk Dancers, meet every Tuesday night 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Charles Rummel Centre, 3630 Lozells. Learn folk dances from around the world in a friendly club environment.

New dances taught every night; all levels welcome, no partner needed, drop-ins welcome. Info: 604-436-9475.

Line dancing at Deer Lake United Church, 5135 Sperling Ave., every Monday at 10 a.m. Beginners welcome. Call Georgie Cole at 604-522-5647 for more information.

Carpet bowling, at the Edmonds Community Centre for 55 plus is every

Knitting, crocheting, sewing and other craft activities group will meet at the Edmonds Community Centre for 55 plus every Friday from 1 to 3 p.m. Beginners welcome. For more information, call 604-297-4838.

Burnaby South Stroke Recovery Branch, meets every second and fourth Friday of the month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Edmonds Community Centre.

The club offers speech therapy, exercise sessions, caregiver support and other social activities for stroke survivors over 55. For more information, call 604-297-4838.

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SECTION COORDINATOR Tom Berridge, 604-444-3022 • tberridge@burnabynow.com

Ice dance team a pair to be reckoned with Tom Berridge sports editor

When Timothy Lum and partner Brianna Delmaestro dance, angels don’t actually run and hide their wings, like rocker Bryan Adams implied, but judges sure do sit up and take notice.

The newest ice dance pair in Aaron Lowe and Megan Wing’s Champs International Skating Centre stable of up-andcoming national-calibre junior dance skaters recorded the highest combined points total of the season, winning the Skate Canada Challenge in Pierrefonds, Que. last weekend.

Lum and Delmaestro, who were partnered together less than two years ago, topped the junior ice dance at Skate Canada with personal-best scores in both the short and free dance programs en route to a best-ever 141.64 total score.

Delmaestro was a singles skater until 2011, and both had different partners prior to being matched together in 2013.

The match produced instant results internationally, with two fifth-place efforts in International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix events last year and a pair of podium results this season, including a silver-medal skate at the Ljubljana Cup in Slovenia in August. “(Timothy) definitely brings a lot of energy to our sessions. It really helps and it makes things fun,” said Delmaestro. “Somehow he pulls off being confident with being humble at the same time.”

The pair’s Skate Canada totals were more than 10 points higher than their previous international personal best, a tremendous leap in improvement in figure skating circles.

Lum and Delmaestro placed first after the short dance with a 56.10 score and then skated away with gold at Skate Canada with an 85.54 total in the free dance.

Focusing on the details and working together on accomplishing those muchneeded higher levels is

hard work, but making it feel like fun can not be understated.

“I think we really like each other and we’re very good friends,” Delmaestro added. “I think we really enjoy skating together.

We’re both pretty motivated.”

Burnaby’s Danielle Wu and Spencer Soo placed second in the junior dance with a 130.30 total at Skate Canada, edging out thirdplace finishers Lauren Collins and Shane Firus of Central Ontario.

The Skate Canada Challenge is the only qualifying event for novice, junior and senior skaters for the national figure skating championships to be held in Kingston, Ont. from Jan. 19 to 25.

The Champs centre also had a strong contingent of junior women competing at Skate Canada.

Sectional singles women’s champion Kelsey Wong of Burnaby placed runner-up with a 126.38 total score to Alberta’s Triena Robinson at Skate Canada.

Sarah Tamura of Burnaby, who won last year’s novice sectional title, placed fourth.

Cailey England of Kelowna nipped Tamura and Champs centre skater Megan Yim by mere fractions of a point for a spot on the podium – all with 122-plus points – in a tightly packed race between B.C. skaters for the bronze medal In international news, former national junior ice dance champions Madeline Edwards, 18, and 19year-old ZhaoKai Pang of Burnaby are currently in Barcelona, Spain for the ISU Junior Grand Prix figure skating final.

Edwards and Pang are the only B.C. skaters that qualified for the final.

The Champs centre couple had a silver-medal performance in France and a gold-medal win in Aichi, Japan later in the GP season.

Ontario’s Mackenzie Bent and Garrett MacKeen will also compete in junior ice dance in Barcelona.

For more photos, scan with Layar Jennifer Gauthier/burnaby now

The set up: A Burnaby Minor C1 pair get in a position to score against the New Westminster Royals C3 house team in a Presidents League orange group bantam hockey game at Moody Park Arena last Saturday.

Conference topper leads the Clan in GNW hoop home opener Tom Berridge

sports editor

The Great Northwest conference scoring leader sparked a secondhalf comeback for the Simon Fraser University women’s basketball team.

Erin Chambers scored 15 of her game-high 23 points in the second half to pace the Clan to a 74-71 victory over Great Northwest conference cross-border rival Western Washington Vikings on Terry Fox Night at the West Gym on Saturday.

Chambers, who currently leads the women’s NCAA Division II scoring averaging 26 points per game, drained three free throws, while Clan teammate Meg Wilson scored a lay-up to give the home team a 6965 advantage with just two minutes remaining to play in their conference home opener.

Western Washington led by as many as 14 points in the opening half and was leading by nine with under 15 minutes left to play.

“In the first half, we were giving them too many open looks, so

Photo courtesy of Ron J. Hole/SFU Athletics

Either hand: Erin Chambers scored a game-high 23 points to lead SFU to a 74-71 win over Western Washington last weekend.

we knew we had to do a better job defensively, contesting their shots and getting our hands in their faces,” said Chambers in a school

press release.

Wilson added a double-double to SFU Page 40

Clan club posts shutout to end 2014 schedule Jordan Liem posted the first shutout of his B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League career in Simon Fraser University’s 40 victory over Eastern

Washington University last Saturday.

Liem stopped all 19 shots fired his way on Teddy Bear Toss Night at the Bill Copeland Sports

Centre.

Adam Callegari scored what proved to be the game-winning goal, opening the scoring in the first minute of the middle frame

from second star Jono Ceci and leading scorer Nick Sandor.

SFU’s next game is against UVic on Jan. 10 at the Copeland centre.

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UBC names its Steelers move into third place new head varsity with win over Delta Ice Hawks football coach JR B HOCKEY

Tom Berridge sports editor

The Grandview Steelers are hoping to finish the Pacific Junior Hockey League 2014 schedule with a flourish.

Following an up-anddown first half to the junior B hockey season, Grandview made it back to .500 following points in its last four games, including a 4-2 win over Port Moody on Dec. 6 and a 4-1 victory at home over the Delta Ice Hawks.

“We’ve been so up and down with the young kids we have. It’s a learning thing,” said Grandview head coach Aldo Bruno.

“It’s been a little bit of a yo-yo.”

The Steelers could conceivably extend their winning streak to four games, with a pair of upcoming games against Mission on Saturday and back home Sunday against Ridge Meadows.

The following week, Grandview takes on two of the top league clubs – Langley and Richmond – two teams the Steelers have stolen points from in recent weeks.

Earlier in the week, Grandview stole a point from the Langley Knights following a 5-4 doubleovertime loss at the George Preston centre.

With more than a dozen

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Ice Hawks down: Ian Prevost, centre, had two goals and was named a game star in the Grandview Steelers recent win over Delta rookies in the lineup, Bruno is more than happy with the consistent effort put out by the first years.

After losing four players to junior A to begin the season, Grandview is also getting more production from its veteran players and it’s showing in the results, said Bruno.

Rookies Ian Prevost and goalie Nicholas Anderson were both named stars in the win over Delta at the Burnaby Winter Club.

Prevost picked up a couple of goals in the

club’s 12th win, while Anderson made 24 saves in goal.

In Port Moody, firstyear Nico Bruno tallied the game-winning goal early in the middle period.

First star Jordan Hall, a fourth-year forward, set up both Mitchell Steinke and Bruno for secondperiod tallies in the win over the Panthers.

Fifth-year forward Matteo Belmonte is also finding his stride, tallying into the empty net to ice the win with his fifth point

in his last six games after mustering just one point prior to mid-November.

“We have to play our game and get it into our heads that we can beat (the best),” said Bruno.

Grandview also received the services of former Northwest Giants skater Quinn Thompson, who was released by Victoria of the B.C. Junior Hockey League.

The Steelers will host the Ridge Meadows Flames at the Burnaby Winter Club on Sunday at 4 p.m.

BURNABY NOW SPORTS BRIEFS Burnaby Minor product Marcus Vela was named to the Canada West roster for the World Junior A Challenge.

The 6-2, 200-pound righthander, who has five goals and 19 assists with the Langley Rivermen of the B.C. Hockey League, was selected to the Canada West forward line.

Joining Vela on the all-west region squad are defencemen Carmine Buono of Burnaby and Burnaby Winter Club products Dante Fabbro and Viktor Dombrovskiy.

Canada West opens the challenge against Denmark in Kindersley, Sask. on Sunday.

The gold-medal game is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 20.

Got Mavs number

Tyler Morley of Burnaby bagged a couple of goals to pace the University of Alaska Fairbanks varsity hockey team to a 5-4 overtime win over No. 2 nationally ranked Minnesota State Mankato in Western Collegiate Hockey Association play on Dec. 5.

The victory improved Alaska’s all-time record against the Mavericks to 12-1-0. It was also just the second conference loss of the season for Minnesota State.

Correction

An incorrect email address was listed in the Burnaby NOW’s Friday, Dec. 5 sports story Seniors looking to bolster rosters.

Interested hockey players can get in touch with the group by calling Robin Ross at 604-420-2624 or email him at robinjross@telus.net.

Four-point night

Former Northwest Giants forward Jansen Harkins had a fourpoint game for the Prince George Cougars in a 6-3 win over the Kamloops Rockets last Saturday.

Harkins tallied his eighth and ninth goals of the year and was a plus-four in the Western Hockey League game for the third place Western conference Cougars.

We’re No. 1

The Burnaby South Rebels moved into top spot in B.C. high school basketball following a tournament win at the Heritage Kodiak Klassic last weekend.

The 5-0 Rebels boys moved up from second place to take over No. 1 in quad A polling after knocking off No. 3 Vancouver College in

overtime and No. 4 Terry Fox in the semifinal in tournament play.

The Rebels edged No. 6 Oak Bay 85-83 in the championship game.

Different directions

St. Thomas More Knights were knocked out of first place in B.C. high school AAA boys’ basketball rankings. The Knights fell to fourth place, while the Byrne Creek Bulldogs moved up to seventh from 10th in this week’s polling.

The STM girls remained on top of the polls in AA for a second consecutive week.

Treading water

EDC FC Burnaby A is in sixth place in the tightly bunched Vancouver Metro Soccer League premier division following a wide-open 5-3 loss to CCBRT United last week.

EDC started the premier season with a 2-2-2 record. They are 2-4-2 in their last eight games.

Rizal Ganief leads the squad with seven goals, while Habib Mohammed has five.

EDC takes on Columbus FC A at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West Field 3 this Friday. Game time is 8 p.m.

Blake Nill was named 2008 to 2013 as Canada the 18th head coach of West’s top team.

He takes over a the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds Thunderbirds program that football program on celebrated its 90th year this past January and has won Tuesday.

One of the most success- three Vanier Cups.

However, the program ful coaches in Canadian Interuniversity Sport hasn’t won a conference football, Nill joins the and Vanier Cup since Thunderbirds after nine 1997.

“After speaking with years as head coach at the UBC’s managing direcUniversity of Calgary.

Prior to that, he spent tor of athletics and recreeight seasons as head coach ation Ashley Howard and at Saint Mary’s University. a number of key backers, In 17 seasons as a head I can see their passion to coach in the CIS, Nill has a bring the program back career regular season and to where it’s been before, winning the Vanier Cup,” playoff record of 130-47.

Nill takes over a said Nill. “I am here to win, Thunderbirds program that for me and for UBC. That means winning finished out of on the field and the playoffs in graduating stu2014. dent-athletes.”

“I made the “I’m ready for a “ B l a k e move to UBC understands because I was new challenge how to creready for a new and a fresh ate the kind of experience and performance I love to build start.” culture that our programs,” team needs,” said Nill in a BLAKE NILL T-Birds press Incoming UBC grid coach said Howard in the release. release. “This “UBC football was a difficult decision to make. I was can be the flagship proable to work with an amaz- gram that captivates the ing group of people and interest of our students and players in Calgary, but I’m community with a great fan ready for a new challenge experience, but we need a and a fresh start. I’m going more exciting and successto need some time, but the ful product on the field.”

A native of Hanna, Alta., building blocks are in sight at UBC and I am very excit- Nill’s first head coaching ed about the program’s job in the CIS was with Saint Mary’s University in future.”

“Coach Nill has a Halifax, N.S. He led the Huskies to a proven track record at the CIS level, not only in his record six-straight Atlantic results on the field, but in University Sport champihis leadership skills and onships from 1999 to 2004, his ability to engage with four trips to the Vanier staff, alumni, partners, and Cup, includng two champimost importantly, the stu- onships in 2001 and 2002.

Nill was a CIS coach of dent-athletes,” said Ashley Howard, UBC’s managing the year in 1999 and a finaldirector of athletics and ist on six other occasions.

He has also been named recreation.

Over the last nine years, Canada West coach of the Nill led the Dinos to three year three times.

Nill began coaching Vanier Cup appearances in 2009, 2010 and 2013 and a at St. Francis Xavier as a record six straight Hardy defensive coordinator in Cup Championships from 1992.

SFU: Closes 2014 at home continued from page 39

the Clan win, scoring 18 points and a game-high 10 rebounds.

Pepperdine University transfer Alisha Roberts of Burnaby chipped in with nine points off the bench, including two-for-two from beyond the arc.

The win improved the Clan’s overall record to 5-2.

Tia Briggs led WWU with 18 points, while Kayla Bernson added 14 points and eight boards for the Vikings.

SFU finishes up the 2014 schedule with back-to-back games at home against Cal State Dominguez Hills on Dec. 20 and 21.

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