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Walking through grief By Tereza Verenca
tverenca@burnabynow.com
When Colin Wong lost his wife last year from uterine cancer, he bottled up his grief. Every time he talked about her passing to friends or family, he’d cry “very badly.” He would turn down social gatherings and almost never come out of his “cave.” Things changed a few months ago when a counsellor at the Burnaby Hospice Society suggested he attend the organization’s new, weekly bereavement walk. Since June, volunteer Ron Bahrey, 72, has led a small group of people every Monday around the Burnaby Mountain golf course, teaching them the practice of mindfulness. “With grieving, you get all kinds of people out there telling you how you should be feeling, where you should be at this point,” said Bahrey, a
MOVING FORWARD: From left, Ron Anderson, Ron Bahrey and Colin Wong take a walk around the Burnaby Mountain golf course during a recent ‘bereavement walk’
Continued on page 9 led by Bahrey. The weekly, one-hour walks are designed to help those working through grief connect with others facing the same challenges. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
SAYS HE HASN’T MADE A DECISION YET
Mayor Corrigan keeps us all guessing By Jeremy Deutsch
jdeutsch@burnabynow.com
The rumours about the mayor’s political future began to swirl as soon as his wife, MLA Kathy Corrigan decided she was retiring from provincial politics at the end of her term in 2017.
But Derek Corrigan insists he hasn’t made a decision on whether he’ll seek another term as mayor of Burnaby in 2018. “At this stage I would be leaning toward running again,” he told the NOW recently when asked about his future. “I’m really going to
have to have a hard look at it as I get closer to the election date.” That said, Corrigan pointed out he turned 65 this year, and any decision would be based on health and how he feels about the job. “You sign up for a four-
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year term and you want to be able to give it everything it needs,” he said, noting he would be 71 years old at the end of another term. Corrigan has been in civic politics for almost 30 years, first as a city councillor, and then becoming mayor in 2002. He’s been re-elected
four times since. In 2014, Corrigan was re-elected as mayor with 28,113 votes, or 68.9 per cent of the ballots cast. The mayor said he hasn’t lost his passion for the job but suggested the issues he wants to tackle in the position never end, adding that
at some point he’ll have to leave it someone else to handle. Corrigan also said he’ll be looking closely at how the public feels about him before making a decision. “You always have to be brutally honest where you’re Continued on page 8
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