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Study probes homeless youth health Cornelia Naylor

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given the influx of development.

He added that by being fiscally conservative, council has lost its political idealism in the process.

“Nobody joins the NDP or gets into politics on the left unless they’re idealistic to a certain extent. I think this council just needs to rediscover what they’re all about and figure out what side they’re on,” said Erb. ACORN, short for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, would like to see Burnaby have an affordable housing strategy and a standards of maintenance bylaw, which would bring in routine inspections to prevent landlords from letting their buildings deteriorate.

Burnaby has a youth homelessness problem, say local service providers, and a recent provincewide health survey has given them a chance to shed light on the issue.

Last fall, a youth worker with Burnaby’s St. Leonard’sYouth and Family Services tracked down nearly 50 local homeless and street-involved youth at skate parks, schools, youth centres and even under bridges, to ask them questions about their health.

Their answers have been included in a provincial report published Thursday by the McCreary Centre Society titled “Our communities, our youth:The health of homeless and street-involved youth in B.C.” It’s McCreary’s second provincewide report on homeless youth but the first to include Burnaby input.

“As a community, we do need to recognize that we do have a youth homelessness issue,” said Alison Grauer, director of St. Leonard’s integrated community youth services program, “so it was a good opportunity to partner with a very recognized agency that does important work around all sorts of work in the community to give voice to that.”

People working with youth in Burnaby wanted to be included in the study, McCreary executive director Annie Smith told the NOW. “There was a real push to include Burnaby separately,” she said. “A lot of people just assume that everybody just goes to Vancouver and uses those services, but that’s not what people locally were saying. Burnaby young people are using services in Burnaby and connected to community in Burnaby, not in Vancouver.”

The survey, conducted in 13 B.C. communities, features input from youth who did not have a home; were couch surfing or living on the street; were involved in street life; or were living in unstable conditions, such as a single-room occupancy apartment, a motel, or in a home without adults.

Burnaby data is not listed separately in the report, but Grauer said being

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RED TAPE Rick Erb, co-chair of ACORN’s Burnaby chapter, stands in front of two apartment buildings in the Maywood area. The building on the left is subject to demolition should Belford Properties be granted a rezoning permit from the city. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

Who will fight for renters?

Burnaby anti-poverty group calling on mayor and council to stop demolitions Tereza Verenca

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A local anti-poverty group is calling on Mayor Derek Corrigan to “marshal his forces” and fight for Burnaby renters, similar to how he’s stood up to the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.

“I know if he’s got the heart to do that, to protect us from another great oil spill, he is a man of good sentiment,” said Rick Erb, co-chair of ACORN’S Burnaby chapter.

Erb’s comments are in response to a recent Fraser Institute report, which names Burn-

aby as the second least-regulated municipality in Metro Vancouver when it comes to residential development.

This council just needs to rediscover what they’re all about.

The right-wing think-tank’s study, titled “New Homes and Red Tape: Residential LandUse Regulation in B.C.’s Lower Mainland,” analyzed 10

cities in various categories, including construction approval times, timeline uncertainty and regulatory costs. Abbotsford ranked No. 1 for having the least amount of red tape, while the District of North Vancouver and Vancouver had the most.

For a developer looking to build in Burnaby, it’ll take close to 11 months to get approval from the city, cost $17,542, and there’s a strong chance the area would have to be rezoned.That’s significantly lower when compared to the District of North Vancouver, which has an approval timeline of 16 months and $40,000 worth of fees.

But as the strongest NDP council in the province, Erb said, the City of Burnaby is doing little to avoid displacing the poor

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No marks as SFU strike continues Cornelia Naylor

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ON THE PROWL: Residents of the Pine Ridge Housing Co-op were told that if they wanted bear-proof bins, they needed to catch the bears red-handed, so residents banded together to document the bears scavenging through the co-op. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

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Residents question Burnaby’s lack of consistency when it comes to bears Ethan Reyes

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Residents at some North Burnaby housing complexes are finding their garbage bins being looted by more than the average scavenger.

There have been numerous sightings of black bears digging into food scraps carts in the Ash Grove Crescent area of Burnaby Mountain, where residents are contending with both visits from the local wildlife and conflicting reports from the city.

Glen Porter of the Pine Ridge Housing Co-op is no stranger to ursine encounters.

“Over the years, we’ve often had bear visits.They’re not aggressive, but they have been getting into the food bins,” Porter said.

At one point, the residents of Pine Ridge even resorted to putting their food scraps into a metal dumpster to keep the bears away.The dumpster was padlocked, but the added security combined with the heavy metal lid meant that the co-op’s older residents struggled with dealing with their food scraps.

After informing the City of Burnaby of his co-op’s problem, Porter was told

Caught in the act: Local co-op residents got bear-proof bins when they sent these photos to the city. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

that if he wanted some sort of bear-proof bins, he would need to catch the culprits red-handed.

Residents of the Pine Ridge Housing Co-op banded together to document the bears’ dumpsterdiving, while maintaining a safe distance from the animals. “We had people leaning out of their windows taking pictures,” said Porter.

Although the city did provide reinforced bins to his co-op earlier this month, the former biologist feels the improvements may have been more improvisation than a permanent solution, citing how, save for some metal additions, the bins were mostly the same.

“These are not the last

word in bear-bins,” said Porter affably, who added that he was both satisfied with the city’s response and the bins’ effectiveness, as he has not seen a bear since.

But when Carole Jantzen of the neighbouring Mountainside Village made a similar request to the city, she was told that the city doesn’t have a plan for bear-proof bins and that they don’t work.

Jantzen feels that residents of Burnaby are caught in a crossfire. “(We’re) required to compost, but B.C. Conservation says not to leave anything that will attract bears.What do you do?” she asked.

Jantzen also said that both the city and Conser-

vation B.C. impose fines for non-compliance, something that she said isn’t a solution.

The B.C.Wildlife Act has provisions to protect wildlife, including a fine of “$50,000 and/or six months in jail,” for people who fail to comply with written warnings from conservation officers.

In April, North Burnaby resident Nicole Fenwick wrote to the city about the way in which it was dealing with bears.

In her address, Fenwick suggested that the city consider WildSafe B.C. training for residents in order to educate them about food scrap management.

Burnaby’s assistant director of engineering, Dipak Dattani, replied, in an email sent in May, that “we’re still in the midst of our overall review of the bear situation.”

“There’s bears on Burnaby Mountain, we know that,” said Fenwick, who was at a loss to explain why cities like North Vancouver and Coquitlam had regulations in place to protect against bears, while hers doesn’t.

“It seems crazy,” she said.

Calls to the City of Burnaby were not returned.

Thousands of SFU summer students might not get their marks this summer because of a labour dispute between the university and its Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU).

Union members, including teaching assistants, tutor markers, sessional instructors and language instructors, endorsed strike and picket action in a vote last week and issued the university a 72-hour strike notice last Friday.

The union launched job action Tuesday, announcing members would withhold grades and opt out of group marking outside of SFU business hours effective July 21.

“There’s over 10,000 students up here,” said TSSU spokesperson Derek Sahota, a master’s student in the physics department, “and we teach actually the ma-

jority of the classes in the summer because a lot of the professors don’t teach in the summer. A substantial number of SFU students won’t be receiving their grades …

There may be more dramatic things coming, but the initial stages will look a lot like what was happening previously, so withholding the grades.”

The union launched the action after months of unproductive talks with SFU administration, according to English PhD candidate George Temple, another union spokesperson.

“We’ve been bargaining for 15 months, and the employer in our last bargaining session, said that our core issues were either not going to be addressed or they just told us they weren’t really issues,” he said.

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Cops cracking down on impaired drivers Tereza Verenca

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A warning to drivers: Burnaby Mounties are out in full force right now with extra road blocks.

It’s all part of the RCMP’s annual CounterAttack program, which aims to nab impaired drivers under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

“If you’re going to drink and drive in Burnaby, expect to get caught,” said Staff Sergeant Gerard Sokolowski in a press release.

Burnaby RCMP Traffic Services will be adjusting their shifts to target prime days and times when impaired drivers are more prevalent on the roads and when most impaired-related crashes occur, the release stated.

Over half of the traffic cops belong to Alexa’s Team, a group of officers created in honour of fouryear-old Alexa Middelaer, who was struck and killed by a drunk driver in 2008.

For a Mountie to be part of Alexa’s Team, he or she must have a total of 12 impaired driving investigations in a given year resulting in

a Criminal Code impaired driving charge, according to the release.

Road blocks will also have specially-trained drug recognition experts on hand.

“Most people don’t know this, but many prescription medications and over-thecounter drugs can impair your ability to safely operate a vehicle,” said Cpl. Daniela Panesar with the Burnaby RCMP. To kick off last year’s CounterAttack program, Alyssa Alanis shared her survival story with media.

She was one of seven youths involved in a serious crash on Feb. 27, 2010 in Burnaby.The driver was impaired and lost control of his vehicle while speeding down Willingdon Avenue near Still Creek Drive.

“Before you make that choice, don’t forget, you need to think about the consequences of the choice that you make,” Alanis said during last year’s NOW interview. “The consequence of one simple choice that you can make can change not only your life but it can change others. Not only change it, but it can end it.”

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Wondering what to do with all those goodies growing in your garden? The Burnaby Village Museum and Burnaby Food First are teaming up to present a series of free workshops on preparing and preserving your bounty.

From jam-making to pickling, these expert-led sessions teach participants how to make the most of their backyard of balcony harvests.

The series kicked off with a jam-making session last Sunday, led by Alice Macpherson, a master canner.

The next event is on Sunday, July 26 in the museum’s discovery room. Holistic nutritionist Suzan Anbari will teach people how to use

fresh, local, in-season ingredients in nutritious recipes.

Interested in making your own pickles? Nutritionist and chef Andrea Potter will teach people how to prepare the perfect batch of pickles on Sunday, Aug. 2, from in the outdoor meadow.

On Sunday, Aug. 23, Potter will return for a workshop on preserving your harvest by creating low-cost healthy snacks.

The last session is on Sunday, Aug. 30, when gardeners Leanne Zmud and Lisa Schuster cover the basics of winter container gardening. All workshops are free and run from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.There’s no need to pre-register; just drop in.

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City needs affordable housing, ACORN says ing to hang on and just stay around the neighbourhood “We’re disappointed there and live their lives, there’s a big difference between afisn’t an affordable housing fordability and affordabilistrategy at this point, and ty for people who are in the we’d like to see something condo market.” adopted,” Erb noted.

Jordan, meanIn the last five while, said while years, 12 buildings regulatory costs in Burnaby have might be lower been bulldozed for than other munica loss of 275 rentipalities on paper, al units, according developers usualto Coun. Colleen ly have to pay more Jordan, chair of overall. the city’s planning “In most municand development ipalities, they colcommittee. lect fees from the The units have Colleen Jordan developers upfront been replaced with councillor for local infrastruc2,048 new strature and eventually, the city ta units and 1,100 more are spends that on sidewalks, being built in Metrotown, streets, etc.,” she explained. where no rentals previously “We make the developers existed, Jordan added. do that as part of the conBut Erb said the new restruction process. Our staff placements are significantly have told us in the long run, more expensive to rent.

“For renters, who are try- it’s going to cost the city Continued from page 1

more 20 years down the road to do that work than if the developer does it now.”

Even though project approval in Burnaby takes 10.5 months, according to the report, Jordan said the timeline is longer than staff is comfortable with.The Southgate neighbourhood master plan, for example, was approved at council’s July 20 meeting, marking four years since the process started, she said.

“If people want to build a house, it shouldn’t take them four months just to get the paperwork done, so we’re trying to speed that process up for them because time is money.”

Corrigan could not be reached for comment at press deadline.

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SFU and union at impasse Continued from page 3 instructors, who represent 25 per cent of the university’s teaching positions but have little job security, according to Temple.

Other demands, according to Temple, include protecting teaching assistants and tutor markers from overwork and underpay, giving grad students more access to teaching-assistant and tutor-marker jobs, extending SFU’s standard benefits package to continuing language instructors and guaranteeing union members the basic protections of

B.C. law for health and safety training and payment of wages.

SFU agreed talks between the two parties have been unproductive but blamed the union for the impasse.

“Since June of 2014, nearly all proposals presented by the university remain on the table and unresolved,” SFU communications director Kurt Heinrich told the NOW in an emailed statement.

“We remain committed to developing a new collective agreement that benefits SFU students, as well

as TSSU members and the university.To move forward, we requested mediation through the labour relations board earlier this month, but the union declined to participate and instead held a strike vote.”

Heinrich said the best way forward would be to enlist the help of a mediator.

The union, however, has argued SFU’s administration has refused to bargain on most of the union’s core issues, so there was no reason to expect the employer would respond favourably to mediation.

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C’mon Burnaby, make the first move It’s starting to sound like a broken record – Burnaby needs an affordable housing strategy.We hear it often from readers, concerned citizens and most recently, ACORN, a local anti-poverty group (see our page 1 story).

You’d think someone at city hall would have got the message by now, but sadly it seems they haven’t.

Rick Erb, co-chair of ACORN’s Burnaby chapter, wants what most resi-

dents in any city want: for the local elected officials to take a stand on behalf of their citizens, in this case a growing group of renters who are being forced out of their homes.

Over the last five years, 12 rental apartment buildings have been reduced to dust and, along with them, 275 rental units.Where do those people go? New Westminster? The Tri-Cities? Surrey?

Isn’t it unfair to demolish people’s homes without of-

fering them somewhere else to go?

Yes, you’re right, there are still rental units available in Burnaby, but they’re dwindling fast as developers build more and more towers – many of which are unaffordable for most people.

Last week, the Fraser Institute released a report on residential land-use regulations in the Lower Mainland.The report lists Burnaby as the second least-regulated municipality

when it comes to residential development.

This report is concerning, especially since Burnaby has been an NDP stronghold for decades.

Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan was quoted recently in an article in the NOW saying it wasn’t “up to the property taxpayer to try and subsidize the other people’s homes.”

Regardless of whether we agree, his remark leaves us wondering whose responsi-

bility it is.

Corrigan and his crew keep pointing fingers at the provincial and federal governments, saying it’s up to them to get the ball rolling on an affordable housing.

Earlier this month, Coun.

Colleen Jordan told the NOW that Burnaby will need an additional 7,400 units of low- to mid-market range housing by 2012, but exactly how the city is going to go about building these units seems to be a whole

other story, one riddled with “significant challenges,” according to Jordan.

Like Corrigan, Jordan points to the province and feds, saying that it’s up to them to help get these units built. And yes, it’s true, Canada could benefit greatly from a national housing strategy, but we can’t just keep passing the ball around. Eventually, someone’s got to step up and do something.

MY VIEW DERMOD TRAVIS

The Liberals are out of scope Health minister Terry Lake may not have clued into it yet, but that idea to ask the Office of the B.C. Ombudsperson to investigate the 2012 health ministry firings isn’t flying so well.

Might have flown eons ago – had it been the very first inquiry – but not when it risks simply being the latest inquiry.

It’s a political bind of the government’s own making.

Whatever moral authority they thought they had to set the investigatory framework on their own again was lost three or four investigations back.

Simply put: the public doesn’t buy the idea that the government actually wants to get to the bottom of this scandal.

Likely a bit to do with three of the government’s favourite words when it comes to investigating itself: out of scope.

Consider Marcia McNeil’s 2014 terms of reference into the human resources aspect of the health ministry firings.

Out of scope?

“Ministry of Health policies and practices related to research, contracting and data-management at the time the allegations were made; any changes that have been made to those policies and practices in response; the circumstances of any privacy breach or inappropriate data access related to the allegations; and decisions made following the terminations in the context of settlement of grievances

and legal claims.”

Which pretty much covers anything of significance related to the scandal.

There was the 2013 review of the multicultural outreach plan headed up by deputy minister to the premier, John Dyble.

Out of scope?

“The review does not include external partisan activities or activities that relate to the use of caucus resources.”

Kind of a critical part to the outreach plan.

Even still – despite conducting 27 interviews, gathering 10,000 pages of documents and directing a forensic analysis of electronic data – Dyble and his team of three deputy ministers didn’t stumble across whatever it was that led to the appointment of a special prosecutor into the outreach plan only seven months later.

Which is telling, given how eager the government was a few months before to claim they had made a make-believe call to the RCMP and provided the police force with make-believe results of an internal investigation into make-believe crimes in the health ministry.

Weird, particularly given that two of the four deputy ministers were also part of the health ministry investigation.

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Dear Editor I am growing tired of hearing about the water shortage in Metro Vancouver.

As far as I can remember, every year there is a restriction placed on our water usage. Why are the local reporters not investigating and asking our local officials some hard questions?

During the transit plebiscite approximately $2 to $5 million was spent by the Yes side. Why are the officials able to find money for campaigning but not for fixing our infrastructures?

There is a contradiction here. The mayors of the Lower Mainland are redirecting blame by asking neighbors to call in and/shame their neighbours. We, the citizens, are not the problem. Urban planners need to be planning for our citizens and for any variations in weather patterns. I should not be ashamed to use water in the summer. I do not misuse my water consumption. But something is wrong when paid officials blame/shame us for their mismanagement of water.

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What about a promise made, a promise kept?

Dear Editor In 2013, Christy Clark promised an LNG industry that would inject new life into the B.C. economy and ultimately make B.C. debt free. More than two years later the predicted economic tsunami has yet to hit our shores.

There are 19 proposals to build LNG export facilities on our coast, but no one (including industry experts) believes more than a few will actually be built. Certainly, Clark’s prediction that the first would be constructed this year slowly crumbled with the fall of oil prices. As for her election promise of a revenue-rich “prosperity fund,” it hasn’t been mentioned in several months.

And no wonder, beginning with the halving of the proposed seven per cent LNG tax, the B.C. Liberals are resorting to unprecedented measures to salvage their LNG dream. If there is a quid pro quo in Bill C-30, it’s that the company gets a guaranteed level of profit locked in for 25 years and the B.C. Liberals get to say, “See. We were right. B.C. will have a LNG industry.”

That may satisfy Clark et al, but as far as I’m concerned, it falls far short of promise made, promise kept.

Bill Brassington Sr., Burnaby

Use common sense Dear Editor I recently spent a few hours at Fraser Foreshore Park during the hot weather to enjoy the outdoors and the cool breeze that comes off the water.

I was shocked to see not one or two but three different groups with portable gas barbecues sitting on the grass as they cooked their meals. Don’t get me wrong, I love my barbecue as well, but I’m wondering if common sense has completely left some of us.

There is currently a ban on charcoal barbecues and smoking in Burnaby parks but no restrictions on gas/propane barbecues. What would compel someone to put their barbecueson the tinder dry brown grass and light it?

The flames would be inches from the ground with a table-top barbecue and most certainly a serious fire hazard. Let’s all use a little common sense with respect to things like this. Just because they aren’t banned doesn’t mean there is no danger to use them.

Miles Luciak, Burnaby

Garth Kirkham Mayor Corrigan doesn’t like it because it would reduce his and the NDP’s stranglehold on Burnaby politics. Pretty easy to steamroll when you can out spend your competition by over a 2000% margin.

The national and provincial NDP and unions are willing to keep paying to keep Burnaby under Czar Derek’s rule.

Rick McGowan Understandably, the Mayor is unconcerned. With a population of roughly 225,000, the new limits would allow his party to spend about $723,000. This is more than the BCA spent last time. bill smith Corrigan must be the undisputed North American leader of clientelism by a huge margin. The only difference between Greece and Burnaby is that the Greeks borrowed the cash from the EU and eventually got cut-off. Corrigan, on the other hand, can faithfully raise our property taxes year after year without fail. Corrigan is free to drink from the well with complete impunity until one day, god forbid, the bubble bursts.

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Glen Porter Another difference between Burnaby and Greece is that Burnaby is debt-free. bill smith And why is that? The cash the Greece takes from the EU is recorded as debt and must be repaid.

The excess cash that corrigan takes from us is recorded as ‘surplus’, and never needs to be repaid.

Glen Porter It’s repaid in services. bill smith By “services”, if you are referring to the 642 of the city’s employees made more than $75,000, corri & friends first class airfares, golf benefits and rampant clientelism, then I’d have to agree.

Glen Porter If you think property tax revenues are being used inappropriately, that’s your opinion and you are entitled to it. I just find it strange to hold up a well-managed and debt-free jurisdiction (Burnaby) as equivalent to a jurisdiction (Greece) that is much maligned for being hopelessly in debt.

If (as I suspect) you disapprove of the way Greece has managed its finances then I think an expression of gratitude would be in order for living in Greece’s polar opposite, Burnaby.

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Tech institute gets $2.3 mil for new equipment Cornelia Naylor

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A triple-axle dump truck, a cryogenic freezer unit capable of chilling to -86C and a wind turbine hydraulic pitch hub training system with wind-farm simulation software are just a few of the toys BCIT will be able to buy with $2.3 million in provincial funding

announced last week.

“This funding for trades training equipment will support students entering indemand sectors throughout the province,” BCIT president Kathy Kinloch said at the Burnaby technical institute last Friday. “Our students will be able to train on industry-current equipment, allowing them to hit the ground running once

they reach the jobsite.”

Kinloch hosted Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson and Burnaby North MLA Richard Lee for the funding announcement and a carpentry demonstration Friday morning.

“This investment in training equipment for trades means current and future BCIT trades students will be at the front of the hiring

‘Real concerns emerging around mental heatlh’ Continued from page 1 involved in the survey was a good way to get local service providers talking about gaps in services.

There are no safe houses for homeless youth in Burnaby, for example.

“If they’re truly homeless, they have to go to Vancouver or Surrey,” Grauer said.

Youth in Burnaby are also doubly disadvantaged when it comes to housing, she said, because of their age and because the city is short

on low-income rental stock.

“You can imagine a 17-year-old coming up to your suite to rent,” Grauer said.

Local youth who took part in the survey also lamented the loss of youthspecific employment services centres, Grauer said.

Provincially, the most alarming findings in the report, according to Smith, are related to mental health.

“We saw real concerns emerging around mental

health compared to previous survey years,” she said.

For example, 68 per cent of youth (62 per cent of males, 72 per cent of females) reported having at least one mental health condition, while 42 per cent had seriously considered suicide in the past year, and almost a third (31 per cent) had attempted suicide.

To read the full report, visit www.mcs.bc.ca/hsiy_ reports#2015.

BCIT trades students will be at the front of the hiring line. line,” said Lee. The $2.3 million earmarked for new BCIT equipment is part of $185

million over three years the province has promised to spend on new trades-training equipment and facilities across B.C. under its B.C.’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint.

BCIT has received more than $20 million under the plan, according to a government press release.

“New trades training equipment at BCIT ensures students train on the same

types of equipment used on jobsites throughout B.C,” Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson said in the release. “This training will help students graduate ready to take advantage of opportunities in sectors, including LNG, and shipbuilding and repair that support our diverse, strong and growing economy.”

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On stage: Alex Ross (centre) of Burnaby plays the role of Francis Flute in the upcoming production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The show runs from July 29 to Aug. 16 at the Bernie Legge Theatre in New Westminster. For tickets, call 604-521-0412 or email reservations@vagabondplayers.ca. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

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Four Burnaby actors hit the Bernie Legge Theatre stage later this month for what promises to be a contemporary rendition of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

“It’s set in modern day,” said Burnaby resident Alex Ross, who plays the character of Francis Flute. “It just makes it a little more relatable, but the story itself is quite timeless.”

The well-known 16th century comedy revolves around the marriage of the Duke of Athens, which includes the adventures of four young lovers, some

fairies and a group of six craftsmen, Flute being one of them. Not to mention, this all happens over the course of one single enchanted evening.

The production is being put on by Vagabond Players and Alchemy Theatre, which Ross co-founded last year with some other actors.The group had met on the set of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), which was also staged at the Bernie Legge Theatre, and realized they all carried the same passion for acting.

“With community shows, you get a real mixed bag.

You get like people who have been doing it their whole lives and they just

love it, but there’s also people where it’s sort of a hobby. I don’t feel like any of us were just in it as a hobby,” he said of their desire to create the non-profit organization.

I think it’s a very vital part of the community and I hope it continues to be.

When it came to picking this year’s play, Ross said A Midsummer Night’s Dream made sense because it’s

one “everyone can have fun with.”

“So far, all of our shows have been like that, which I think is important, because if we’re having fun, the audience is too,” he added.

One of his favourite parts about rehearsals so far, he noted, has been watching what everyone else is bringing to the table.

“I look forward to what Boris is going to do with Puck, what Rose is doing with Titania, what the lovers are up to, all that kind of stuff, especially since it’s an ensemble cast and I don’t really get to see what the other people are doing.”

Ross, who moved to Burnaby five years ago af-

ter finishing a theatre degree in Kamloops, is also a bit of a techie.When not rehearsing as Flute, the 29-year-old can be seen working on the lighting design. Asked what he enjoys more – being behind the scenes or in the spotlight – Ross said it’s performing.

The actor said he hopes Alchemy Theater continues to grow, offering community theatre for a long time to come.

“People hear community theatre and a lot of people roll their eyes, but it’s some of the most talented people I’ve ever seen anywhere,” he said. “I think it’s a very vital part of the community and I hope it continues to be.”

The other three actors from Burnaby are Rose McNeil (Titania), Chris Fofonoff (Starveling) and Nina Dosdall (Cobweb).

A Midsummer Night’s Dream runs from July 29 to Aug. 16 at the Bernie Leggie Theatre in New Westminster,Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.

Tickets cost $15 for adults and $13 for youth and seniors.

There are a couple of $10 preview nights on July 29 and 30. For reservations, call 604-521-0412 or email reservations@vagabond players.ca.

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Artsnow ‘I was hooked the first time I turned the torch on’ Ethan Reyes

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There is a bleakness to the Grandview-Woodland section of East Vancouver; the semi-industrial area teems with humourless and washed-out structures.

Walking down Frances Street, nestled between an office building and on autobody, shop lies a building no less unassuming than its neighbours.

But just inside, rods of sparkling borosilicate glass are spun into crystalline forms as beautiful and bizarre as the imagination will allow.

Crossing through the doorway, to where the propane torches burn at 3,000 degrees, is taking a step into the sweltering domain of Burnaby glassblower Braden Hammond.

Hammond speaks excitedly about his trade and has the bearing of someone who is thoroughly enjoying himself. He has been busy crafting glassworks, which he sells at places like the Craft Circle Market, running until July 26 in Vancouver.

Hammond has been a vendor at the Circle Craft Summer Market for the last two years, and at the Christmas market since 2005.

Hammond said the market has been a great way to showcase his work, as well as giving him the opportu-

nity to sit face-to-face with clients, calling it his big break as an artist.

Hammond added that the summer sun not only brings out customers, but the best in his art as well, saying how the glass “warms and sparkles in the sun.”

A glassblower for 12 years, the big man originally discovered his passion on the internet while working as a teacher’s aide.

“I didn’t get it, and that’s what drew me in,” Hammond said, who added that he can barely stay away from his craft for more than two days.

The 35-year-old left his hometown of Winnipeg for Burnaby because of its flourishing art community, but found that the only place he could learn to blow glass was in the United States. He spent two weeks in Santa Cruz, California in the summer of 2003, and has never looked back.

“I was hooked from the first time I turned the torch on,” he said behind a wry smile.

Hammond describes his artistic process as excruciatingly technical.The determination required to create something out of a material as unforgiving as glass is not easy. Hammond credits his time playing basketball for the University of Winnipeg as the source of his work ethic, though that isn’t

to say there haven’t been mishaps.

Before it becomes art, the glass Hammond works with comes in long crystalline tubes called borosilicate, or scientific glass. It’s the material the beakers in high school chemistry lab were made of. After being superheated and shaped, the nearly finished product needs to be left in a kiln for

an hour to harden.

One day, after spending 20 hours creating an ornate glass dragonfly for a customer, Hammond dropped the piece on his way to the kiln. Undaunted, Hammond went right back to work.

“You have to be prepared for failure,” he said.

Hammond met his partner Kristina Holtz through

a mutual friend. Holtz assists Hammond in the studio, while also working for the City of Burnaby. Holtz has been a part of Hammond’s success from the beginning, even convincing her parents to let Hammond sell his pieces from their garage.

Now a long way from that North Burnaby carport, Hammond admits that life

as an artist isn’t always an easy one. Finding new clientele and consistently performing at peak capacity are just a couple of the challenges that Hammond faces regularly, but Hammond is undeterred. By the sweat of his brow he’s shaping his future, and even in the low light of his studio, it shines brightly.

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LOOKING FOR A GOOD CARDIO WORKOUT THIS WEEKEND? Try Burnaby’s version of the Grouse Grind.

The Velodrome Trail starts in the Harry Jerome Sports Centre parking lot and runs up the north side of Burnaby Mountain. It’s considered an intermediate-level hike, with approximately 500 steps over three kilometres and an elevation gain of 240 metres.When you get to the top, you’ll emerge close to the totem poles by Horizons Restaurant. Pack a lunch and take a camera, because the views of the Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm are incredible. Save this trek for Saturday, when the forecast calls for less rain. Some people park at the top by Horizons and hike down the mountain and then back up, since parking at the bottom can be a challenge.

Take a hike up the ‘Burnaby Grind’

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DON’T MISS THE FREE OUTDOOR MUSICAL PERFORMANCE on Sunday, July 26, at 6:30 p.m. in Burnaby’s Edmonds area.The show is part of EPIC’s Music in the Park series, and the performers are Malaya Cooks, Vancouver Ocarina Family and Michelle Kwan.The weather forecast for Sunday is cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers. Check EPIC’s website, at www. epiccommunity.ca, after 3 p.m. on Sunday to see if the show has been cancelled. If it’s still on, you may want to bring an umbrella with your lawn chair, just in case.

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TAKE THE WEE ONES to the teddy bears’ picnic at the Burnaby farmers’ market on Saturday, July 25.

The market runs 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the city hall parking lot at 4949 Canada Way. Story time for the children is at noon, and there will

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be a teddy bear parade.

Parents, meanwhile, can shop for produce, herbs, baked goods, artisanal products and more.

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HEAD TO THE NIKKEI CENTRE for a weekend of Japanese film and food.

The centre is hosting a trio of films and an all-you-caneat barbecue.The first show is a screening of Pale Moon on Friday night at 7 p.m.

On Saturday, Twilight Sasara Saya is on at 2 p.m., followed by the garden barbecue from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.The final film on Saturday is Snow on the Blades.

A single bill is $10, while a film and the barbecue cost $25. A double bill and the

barbecue cost $30. If you just want to attend the barbecue, it’s $20.There are discounts for members.The centre is at 6688 Southoaks Cres. Info and tickets: 604777-7000.

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GLEAN SOME INSPIRATION from the demonstration garden at Burnaby Village Museum this weekend.The garden was sown with seeds suggested by local gardeners, and they are all plants of veggies that fare well in Burnaby’s climate and soil conditions.

There are some unusual items growing – like chayote, for instance – and there will be information available on recipes and

Growing inspiration: Stop by the Burnaby Village Museum this weekend and check out the demonstration garden, which is growing more each day. Many of the plants were suggested by local gardeners. PHOTO FILE

how to prepare and preserve the harvest.The museum, at 6501 Deer Lake Ave., is open 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

on Saturday and Sunday.

Admission is free.

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Saturday and Sunday events to jmoreau@burnabynow.com.

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Your journey starts here.

Less weight is as good for trucks as it is for sports cars.

BY BRENDAN McALEER

brendanmcaleer@gmail.com • Tweet: @brendan_mcaleer

If you travel down South to Tacoma and walk through the doors of the LeMay automotive museum, you’ll currently find a display dedicated to the history of the Ford F-series pickup truck. They’ve got workin’ rigs stretching right back until 1948, although of course the old Fords are retired from heavy lifting, spending their days cruising or under the spotlights.

I drove down there to check them out in this machine, something that the horny-handed sons of the soil that drove the old F-series would have trouble recognizing as a work vehicle. It’s got satellite navigation, air-conditioning, cruise control, power windows, a giant sunroof – heck, there’s even a backup camera and blind-spot monitoring.

You half expect the original trucks to gang up on the shiny new city slicker like that part in the Old El Paso commercials where the salsa label says “New York City.” Goldangit! That truck’s jest too darn fancy for these parts!

However, well-equipped F-150s are finding their way into more and more Canadian driveways these days, not just as tools for work, but for fun as well.

Let’s pick apart this latest generation of best-seller and see whether this particular steed is it for a cowpoke, or just the dude ranch.

Design:

in bedliner have the bed set up for gear or gravel.

future would come with a tiny little 2.7L turbocharged V6, they’d have laughed you off the farm. Here though, Ford actually charges $1300 for their EcoBoost option. If a small-displacement V6 seems a little feeble for hauling around this much truck, note that it’s actually pretty stout: horsepower is rated at 325hp and torque at 375lb-ft.

The FX4 designation sets the F-150 up as an offroadready sport truck – not a baja-style Raptor, but tough enough for some gravel road stuff. 18” alloys are shod in tough looking tires (most real offroad folks will swap ‘em out for something a little more aggressive) and there’s some light skid-plating underneath.

Environment:

One of the really loveable things about a truck as opposed to a car, is that nobody ever tries to achieve a so-called cockpit-like feel.

Thus, the front seat of the F-150 comes with a whole ranchland’s worth of room, and plenty of cubbyholes in which to store all manner of detritus: work gloves, rope, tackle, maps to interesting places. Or, in my case, an empty sandwich wrapper and an extra-large coffee cup (at least it wasn’t from Starbucks).

While trucklike in acreage, the F-150s cabin is relatively car like in feature loadout. The Sync system works in the same manner as it would in a Ford Taurus, the radio and air-conditioning controls are again familiar, and you’ve got power seats and a simply enormous panoramic moonroof.

Welp, she’s a truck all right. If the old F-series started out small with curvy sheetmetal, the current heavy half-ton is the size of an oil tanker.

It’s squared-off both head-on and in profile, with C-shaped headlights that bracket a grille big enough to function as a cattle grid.

Passenger space in this four door version is excellent, and the rear seats also flip up to provide a flat loading surface if you need to leave stuff locked in the cab.

Everything appears rugged, but it’s also plenty comfortable. It’s certainly not 1948 anymore.

Never mind the styling; it’s all the little helpful details that make the F-150 so handy about the house. There are a couple of side steps that lower down on each side to better access cargo, as well as one on the tailgate. Multiple tie downs and a spray-

However, the F-150’s been well-equipped for at least a decade, depending what options you get. The real future-shock from Ford here is the huge weight drop that the F-150’s had thanks to more aluminum in its construction. As much as 300kg has been sliced from the curb-weight of the largest F-series.

Performance:

Less weight is as good for trucks as it is for sports cars. While frame strength is still solid, the lighter F-150 benefits from increased tow ratings, better fuel economy, and better handling.

It’s quite literally lighter on its feet (well, tires) – and there’s more.

If you’d told the owner of an early F-series truck that the pickup of the

Mash the throttle, and that’s good enough to really wake the F-150 from its slumber and get it down any on-ramp with ease. Torque comes on readily, and even though you’re high up and driving an obviously large vehicle, if you need to pull out of the slow lane into faster moving traffic, the EcoBoosted F-150 can actually find a gap quite easily.

Slow your roll, and the V6 is barely-there quiet. In fact, it’s nearly a complaint, as the truck doesn’t have that country-fried V8 rumble you’d expect. Still, the whistle of turbochargers is a bit like the big diesel rigs, and then there’s the whole Eco part of EcoBoost.

A disclaimer: not everyone has been successful at getting their boosted Fords to match the official fuel economy ratings. However, out on the interstate, running down through Seattle, I managed to get within 0.4L/100kms of the official 10.4L/100kms highway. That’s not bad, not with a 70mph (112km/h) speed limit in many places and slowdowns in Everett and Seattle.

Still, even if it burns gas like a car and has most of the interior features, the F-150 will still ride like a truck. It’s comfortable enough, but hit a few freeway expansion joints, and you can feel the shudder going through the frame.

Overall though, it’s an impressive performance combining decent speed, good comfort, and liveable fuel economy. This F-150 might be set up as a fun-first kind of truck, but it all works.

Features:

The F-150 comes pretty basic, but options extend to everything from satellite navigation to blind-spot monitoring.

Official fuel consumption is 13.3L/100kms city and 10.4L/100kms on the highway.

Green Light:

Strong low-end power; comfortable cabin; plenty of practicality; smooth start-stop system

Stop Sign:

Fuel economy still relatively average; options can be expensive

The Checkered Flag:

Canada’s best-selling truck, and you can see why.

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I knew I wanted to be a family doctor when I was 10 years old and a patient at Burnaby Hospital.

I was admitted for a flareup of inflammatory arthritis with fevers, rashes and painful joints.

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• Use lots of natural elements in keeping with the setting.

• Salvaged pieces can add nostalgic charm to bathrooms – think clawfoot tubs and vintage light fixtures.

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One of Smythe’s signature design "ps is to look right outside the door of your mountain or waterfront cabin and take your colour pale%e cues from there.

“Look out the window; perhaps it’s the smokey blue or lake green of the water, or the morel mushroom brown, the greys in the rocks or the colours of the trees and aowers on your property,” he adds. “Mother Nature gives you all you need.”

Smythe’s Top Style Tips for Co!ages and Cabins ! Remember that your retreat is about relaxed living. Washable slipcovers, painted ]nishes and simple shapes allow people to live with style and ease. ! Combine vintage and new; this is all about pulling together what you love. Source out secondhand stores, country auc"ons and aea markets for some one-of-a-kind treasures. ! Add sweat equity to add interes"ng personality to your co%age. “We took a tree stump from the property to create a side table and birch branches to make the legs on the gorgeous dining room table,” he adds. “We also made a lamp out of a birch log. You can buy an inexpensive lamp wiring kit from any hardware store and in minutes you have a unique lamp.”

Remember, it’s the cabin, so you don’t have to be staid and traditional – your holiday getaway is the perfect place to indulge your love of colour and bring out wild or eccentric accessories.

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But this leniency vanishes under Schedule 3 when no lawn sprinkling is allowed anywhere, no further permits will be given and permits previously issued are not valid.

Apparently engineering departments are the ones to contact on water issues in areas of Metro Vancouver.You might talk to them about your case.

Under Schedule 3 in the GVWD Water Shortage Response Plan, any watering of flowers, vegetables, planters, shrubs and trees must be done by hand using a spring-loaded shut-off nozzle. Nematode lawn treatment is not mentioned.

Grey water is always allowed under Schedule 3 in any conditions.

This means scooping water out of baths, shutting drains while you have showers so water builds up – and filling watering cans from

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Question: We have a European chafer beetle infestation at my son’s property in NewWestminster. I am scheduled to pick up a package of nematodes at a garden centre, which has not been particularly helpful in answering my questions.

There are plans to implement Schedule 3 water restrictions in NewWestminster this weekend.

It would seem unproductive to apply the nematodes now.

How long can nematodes survive in the fridge? Can nematodes be applied in the fall?

And what month?

Ed, Tsawwassen Answer: When I used nematodes (against the black vine weevil) instructions came along in the package. It warned nematodes are perishable living things and two weeks was said to be the limit of time they could spend in the refrigerator.

It appears that city staff are aware that nematodes

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The lawn being treated with nematodes should at least be moistened before applying them and again afterwards for two or possibly three days. Instructions with your package should clarify this further.

The nematodes will need to be mixed with water and stirred now and then as you sprinkle them on. Because nematodes are very tiny

worms, they need to directly contact the soil.

Fall treatment wouldn’t work. Mid-July to the end of the month is most effective because this is when chafer larvae hatch and are still close to the surface of the soil within reach of the nematodes.

By August, the larvae are bigger and have gone down deeper.

Question: How much water should a

person give potato plants? I don’t want to give them too much because of rot. But my soil is so sandy and they dry out and droop in this heat.

Pat, Langley The usual amount is an inch of water a week, but because you have sandy, well-drained soil and we’re having a very hot summer, I’d give them two inches. Under present circumstances, grey water would be best.

It’s important to avoid wetting the foliage, if possible.Wet foliage encourages late blight.

Watering is most important in the early stages of potato growth.You might check whether your potatoes truly need watering or do they droop under hot sun but recover after the sun goes down and temperatures cool.

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Tippy canoe and West Games, too Burnaby Central teen is off to Fort McMurray,Alta. in August for Summer Games Ethan Reyes

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A Burnaby canoeist is poised to make her first appearance at the 2015 Western Canada Summer Games this August.

By finishing second overall at the Burnaby Lake open age trials this past May, Samantha Loutet qualified for a spot in the Western Canada Summer Games in Fort McMurray, Alta., which will mark her first time competing at this level.

“I’m nervous, but I’m also excited.There’ll be lots of people there who do what I do. It’ll be good competing against people I’ve never raced against before,” said Loutet, who has won numerous gold medals at smaller regattas, from Bellingham to Nanaimo.

Although she now feels very passionately about canoeing, the honour roll student and her mother stumbled onto the sport almost entirely by accident.

A Groupon for one week with Canoe Kids, an instructional program held at Burnaby Lake, was the first foray into the world of competitive water sports for Loutet and her twin sister Katrina and it wouldn’t be their last.

The fourteen-year-old enjoyed the one-week program so much that she

Going to the Games: Samantha Loutet, right, seen with her coach Wes Hammer, will be representing B.C. at the Western Canada Summer Games in Fort McMurray, Alta. in August. PHOTO ETHAN REYES

signed up for the threeweek program, and finally for the Canoe Kids sprint class, which teaches competitive racing in racing canoes like those seen at this year’s Pan-Am games.

“It just escalated from there,” said Loutet, who is now entering her fourth summer paddling. “I (wanted) to keep doing this.”

After three weeks of

camps, Loutet took part in her first regatta – the Pacific Cup. The following year, the girls took out a membership at the club and volunteered in the learn-to-pad-

dle camps in the mornings, while practising in the afternoons.

By 12, the twins had chosen their crafts – Samantha Continued on page 24

Academic athletes earn top honours

Simon Fraser University middle distance runners Jennifer Johnson and Cameron Proceviat were singled out for academic excellence by the U.S.Track and Field and Cross-Country Coaches Association.

The Clan pair were given All-Academic honours following a successful season both on and off the track.

Johnson, a grad student in international studies, was ranked fourth in NCAA Division II in the women’s 5,000 metres, while achieving a 3.93 grade point average. She also earned All-American honours in cross-country and on the indoor track.

Proceviat, a Burnaby resident, achieved all-conference honours in outdoor track, winning his first-ever Great Northwest conference title in the men’s mile.

He also won three conference indoor championships in the 800m and on two SFU relay teams, while earning a 3.85 GPA in molecular biology.

Proceviat was a key member of the men’s crosscountry team that qualified for the Div. II nationals for the very first time.

Earlier this year, Johnson and Proceviat received the SFU Terry Fox Awards for Inspiration.

National team comeback nets water polo medal

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Returning to the women’s national water polo team proved to be a silver lining for Burnaby’s Jakie Kohli.

The Moscrop Secondary grad shared a silver medal in the pool with the Canadian team, following a 13-4 loss to the United States in the championship final of the Toronto Pan Am Games on July 14.

“Yeah, I’m really glad (I came back). It was pretty big. It was my first (competition) at such a high level. It’s a lot different in Canada, winning it before a home crowd – definitely a lot of pride there,” said Kohli. “It was pretty great,

being home in Canada made it special.”

The second-place medal marked the first water polo medal of the Games for Canada.The men’s team won a bronze medal behind the U.S. and Brazil a day later.

After a successful collegiate career on an athletic scholarship at Indiana University, Kohli semi-retired from the national program and took time off in 2013 to travel to Australia to work and play in the international pro league Down Under.

Back in Canada, a friend convinced her to give the national team another try.

Kohli was given an invitation to a two-week camp last summer and the new

women’s head coach apparently liked what she saw.

The 25-year-old Kohli was used sparingly in Canada’s opening 7-7 draw with Brazil, but scored a goal on the counter attack from her centre-back position in a 15-4 victory over Venezuela in group play. She also tallied a late marker in Canada’s 14-7 win over Cuba in the semifinals.

Canada must still qualify for the Summer Olympics.

“The ultimate goal is Rio,” said Kohli.

The Canadian women will likely have to earn a berth to the Olympics through the European zone along with the United States.

On to Rio : Burnaby’s Jakie Kohli shared a silver medal with the national women’s waterpolo team at the Pan Am Games in Toronto. PHOTO COURTESY CANADA WATERPOLO

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New Westminster sprinter Raquel Tjernagel qualified for the women’s 200 metres at the Pan Am Games in Toronto on Thursday.

The 17-year-old New Westminster Secondary senior finished fifth in her heat in a time of 23.63.

The top-four finishers in each heat and the next four fastest times moved on to the semifinals, which were run later in the day (after NOW deadlines).

Nercely Soto of Venezuela, Sheniqua Ferguson of Bahamas and Kanika Beckles of Grenada all qualified from the heats

These eyes: Activity on the dock at the Cascadia masters rowing championships at Burnaby Lake on Sunday are reflected in the lenses of a participant. PHOTO LISA KING

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Former Simon Fraser University star Nayo Raincock-Ekunwe shared a gold medal with Canada’s women’s basketball team at the Pan Am Games on Monday.

The national women’s team upset the United States 81-73 to win Canada’s first-ever basketball gold at the Games.The women’s previous best was a silver medal in Winnipeg in 1999.

Kia Nurse, who earlier in the season won an NCAA Division I title with the University of Connecticut, led the Canadian team with 33 points.

Canada was a perfect 5-0 at the Games, including a

pool-topping performance during the preliminary round against Venezuela, Argentina and Cuba.

The Canadian women breezed into the Games final with a 91-63 victory over Brazil in the semifinals.

In the final, Canada led by as many as 17 points after opening the first quarter, trailing the U.S. 23-13.

Playing in front of a sellout crowd of 3,300 flagwaving fans at Ryerson University’s Mattamy Athletic Centre, Canada took an 11-point lead into the final quarter.

Raincock-Ekunwe scored 11 points and added four rebounds in the opening one-sided 101-38 win over Venezuela.

The former Great Northwest Conference player of

the year added eight points in a 15-point win over Argentina and went three-forfour from the free-throw line in a narrow 71-68 victory over Cuba to top Pool B. In the semifinals, Raincock-Ekunwe chipped in with seven points, including five-of-six from the charity stripe, and three rebounds for Canada.

While with the Clan, Raincock-Ekunwe set a conference record 61 double-doubles in her university career and finished her senior year ranked first in NCAA Div. II with a 66.1 field goal percentage.

Next month, Canada’s women’s team can earn a berth into the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro through a qualifying tournament in Edmonton.

with faster times.

Tjernagel, who ran a personal-best 23.34 in the 200m at the Brian Clay International meet in California in April, outpaced Sharolyn Josephs for the final berth in the semifinals despite a personal-best time of 23.70 for the Costa Rican runner.

Kamaria Durant of Trinidad and Tobago had the fastest time in the heats, clocking a 22.74 in Heat 2.

Evelyn Ashford of the United States holds the Pan Am Games record with a time of 22.45 recorded in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1979.

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Paddling, ‘the best feeling’ Continued from page 23 in canoe and Katrina in kayak.

In 2014, the pair went to the B.C. Summer Games, with Samantha taking a bronze medal in the 200-metre single canoe, a gold in the 2,000m pairs and a silver in the 500m pairs, as well as a silver in the 500m fours. She also shared a third-place medal in the kayak fours.

The Burnaby Central student could find herself competing against young women in their late teens at the Western Canada Games.

“Women’s canoe doesn’t have a lot of people,” said Loutet, “If you’re at that level, you just go up.” Her favourite races are the 200 and 500m distances.

Practices run twice on Mondays,Wednesdays, and Fridays with a single practice on Thursdays.Though dry-land practices have begun incorporating themselves into her preparations, Loutet enjoys her training out

on the water much more and hopes to keep out of the weight room for a little while.

And while some of her teammates complain of knee pain after extended periods in their canoes, Loutet rarely tires of her time paddling, and slight leg spasms from exhaustion are the only things resembling injuries that she has suffered to date.

“She should do well at Westerns,” said Burnaby Canoe and Kayak Club head coach Wes Hammer, who is an athlete himself, having competed in the 2007 Pan Am Games.

In what little free time she has in the summer, Loutet enjoys playing soccer, catching up with friends and watching Netflix.

When asked about the feeling that paddling brought her, Loutet was almost at a loss for words. “I just focus on myself; you just feel in the zone. It’s the best feeling,” she said.

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