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t’s that time of year again, and we all know what that means: the Christmas light extravaganza is once again upon us.

We know you’re on the hunt for the most outstanding displays in Burnaby, so it’s become something of a tradition for us to make it easier on you by presenting a list of the top must-see houses in Burnaby this holiday season.

Now, who doesn’t love a nice light fixture on the roofs of our houses or displays in the front of our lawns, but there are those who go above and beyond to impress passersby.

There are also some who take it to the next level not only to wow the community, but to help by raising money with their eye-catching displays.

Here’s our list of this year’s best and brightest light displays in Burnaby: ! 5951 Baffin Pl.: The Sherwood house is all done up again this year with a small tribute to the Grinch and his little dog Max. The lights twinkle from every corner of the house and bring a new definition to the word “cheer.”

Contributed photo/burnaby now ! 4990 Belleville Ave.: With the help of their candy canes in all different sizes, huge Charity drive: The DuPlessis family, at 8222 Burnlake Dr., is collecting donations for the snowmen and twinkling snowflakes, the B.C. Children’s Hospital.

Dube family is collecting for Variety – The Children’s Charity. multi-coloured arches lit up to wish you a ics should know about. Its giant lit-up trees, ! 6908 Bryant Ct.: This year the Khan famMerry Christmas. stars, sleighs and thousands of dazzling ily decided to raise money for the Kidney ! 6728 Grant Pl.: Once again, the Jacoboni lights make this house the one to see every Foundation of Canada. You’ll find frosty family is lighting up the corner of Sperling Christmas. All proceeds go to the Michael lights with a fountain where the Avenue and Grant Place. The display Cuccione Foundation for cancer research.

For a reindeer graze, and Santa and his ! 1225 Sperling Ave.: Beautiful blues and video and features animated Christmas charhelpers politely ask for your donagreens outline the Milano family’s house. more pics, acters from Sesame Street and Star tion.

This is a new brilliant display of lights to scan with Wars as well as our favourite characLayar ! 7720 Burgess St.: Reindeer, ters like Charlie Brown, Mickey and check out this Christmas holiday, for sure. reindeer everywhere. As you walk Rudolph. You’ll have to come and ! 545 Sunset Ave. (Coquitlam): Just on the along the sidewalk, you’ll find two see for yourself who else they have Coquitlam side of the border with Burnaby, pastures of your favourite holiday animal hanging around. All collections are going to you’ll find the home of Darren Pennington frolicking on the lawn of the Halliday home. the Alzheimer’s Society of B.C. all lit up for the holidays. His house has two ! 8222 Burnlake Dr.: This family is collect! 950 Kensington Ave.: Burnaby’s best eight-foot trees, which dance to music, and ing for the B.C. Children’s Hospital. The Christmas lights are up again, and it’s all there are 2,000 lights on the roof and a candy DuPlessis family has outdone themselves this thanks to Bortolo Rinaldo. Rinaldo has raised stick fence. Visiting hours are 5 to 10:30 p.m. year. With beautiful new improvements to over $110,000 with his Christmas display, For a complete photo gallery and interactive their already huge festive display, the house and you’ll find out why from about a mile map with all of the displays, go to our site at www. features snowmen galore and a magical large away. This is the one house all holiday fanatburnabynow.com and click on the Community tab.

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Bright lights: ! 4466 Frances St.: This display is uniquely Far left, the made up of 95 per cent salvaged PVC pipe.

Pennington home The Tallaricos hope you enjoy their pretty

in Coquitlam, at 545 Sunset Ave., has thousands of lights on display. Left, the Sherwoods are located at 5951 Baffin Pl.

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Julian will stay in Ottawa MP decides not to run for B.C. NDP leadership Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

He’s staying put. After months of mulling over a shot at the provincial NDP leadership race, BurnabyNew Westminster MP Peter Julian has decided to stick to his post in Ottawa.

Julian made the announcement Thursday, at a press conference held in his Burnaby constituency office.

“There are many talented potential leaders in our party, and I particularly hope to see many of the talented women in our movement step forward to run for leadership in the new year,” Julian said in a written statement. “But I won’t be among them.”

Julian outlined the issues he reviewed while considering whether to run provincially – including B.C.’s high rates of child poverty, homelessness and debt – but he decided to stay at his federal post.

“Members of our federal caucus have been particularly convincing in telling me that my current work as national caucus chair is important to achieving a historic victory for working families in Ottawa in 2015 with a potential new NDP government,” he said.

In September, B.C. NDP leader Adrian Dix announced he was stepping down and that the party would hold a leadership race to replace him.

The NDP leadership race will likely happen in fall of 2014, but no date or location has been confirmed yet.

Meanwhile, BurnabyDouglas MP Kennedy Stewart is still considering running for the B.C. NDP leadership. He has a team to help him plan, and they meet regularly.

“We’re meeting twice weekly and seriously considering this bid, but I won’t be making my decision till January,” he said.

“This is the biggest political decision I’ll make in my life, but I’m taking the time to do it right.” twitter.com/JenniferMoreau

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Unconditional love is the best Christmas gift

tions and corralled volunteers to put Community news is full of Good on a dinner with some of the most Samaritan tales, especially during the troubled teens in our province. The holidays, but once in a while, we come evening includes entertainment and across someone who really stands out. gift bags for the kids, but what really Take Evelyn Florendo, for example. stands out about Evelyn is the love she The Vancouver senior, widow and gives. devout Catholic marked a As the teens file out of the major milestone this month: prison’s gymnasium after three decades of organizBurnaby NOW dinner, she makes a point ing Christmas dinner for the of hugging every last one of teens in Burnaby’s youth them and says, “I love you.” The kids, prison. who sometimes look a bit quizzical at Can you imagine? first, always break out in a smile, and For 30 years, she’s gathered dona-

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Keith Baldrey’s look back at 2013 IN MY OPINION

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Keith Baldrey

s the year draws to a close, it’s time to take stock of things I’ve put in this column for the last 52 weeks. Things like predictions and forecasts – you know, activities that can make me look like a genius or an utter fool!

It can be challenging to go out on a limb fairly regularly in such a public way, and open myself to humiliation and contempt, or deep-seated admiration (this, trust me, rarely occurs). But it makes my email more interesting.

In any event, let’s look back at some of my track record: Wrong: the NDP would win the spring provincial election.

Might as well get this major gaffe out of the way right at the start. Like pretty well every other columnist, reporter, pundit etc. (with the notable exception of fellow North Shore News columnist Trevor Lautens) I predicted an NDP cakewalk to victory.

I should have stuck to my original take on the election result, made shortly after both parties’ leadership contests. At

a business conference, I held up a newspaper photo of a beaming Christy Clark and one of an uncomfortable looking Adrian Dix, and boldly predicted the smiling, confident Clark would wipe the floor with Dix. Then those darn polls started to appear… ! Right: The Green Party would elect an MLA during the election. Well, at least I got something right about that contest. Andrew Weaver won, as I expected, in Oak Bay-Gordon Head. Driving around that riding a week before election day I noted how I had never seen more campaign signs for a single candidate on peoples’ lawns.

Boulevards are public spaces, but private lawns? Those are earned, dedicated votes. ! Wrong: The so-called “ethnic memo” scandal would hurt the B.C. Liberals in the election. The scheme that saw tax dollars mixed up with doing blatant partisan work for the B.C. Liberal party mattered not a whit with voters. That suggests voters may hold the cynical view that all political parties are guilty of such things and end up not giving any party an advantage on the issue (this may mean the Senate expense scandal seemingly dogging the Harper government may not be a major factor that determines the outcome of the next federal election).

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some say, “I love you, too.”

Evelyn started the dinners 30 years ago after reading about incarcerated youth who were slashing themselves and committing suicide.

At the first dinner ever, there was a 12-year-old boy waiting patiently on the sidelines till Evelyn finished passing out gifts.

He then approached her to say that was the first time in his life that he had ever received a Christmas present.

He was so happy, he thanked her and gave her a hug.

Some of you readers may be thinking: “These are not innocent youth.

They are criminals and shouldn’t be coddled.”

But these kids are young and still in those formative years where their lives could take any number of directions.

And when someone like Evelyn comes along with no judgments and unconditional love, that can only help set the path a little straighter.

This Christmas, don’t be stingy with love, dear readers, it’s the best gift you can give.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Put tree bylaw to a vote in 2014 Dear Editor:

I think city council should postpone the controversial changes to Burnaby’s tree bylaw until the November 2014 civic election when these changes can be included on the ballot for approval .This would give the almost 32,000 Burnaby residential property owners a chance to give their opinion on the subject.

The city-conducted survey which resulted in only 158 responses cannot in all honesty be taken seriously as a majority backing for this infringement of property rights.

If city council really wants to be fair and believes in democracy, then they should postpone implementation of the changes until the results of the 2014 ballot

are known.

Wayne Lutz, via email

When can we enhance the CPP?

Dear Editor:

Earlier this week the Harper government nixed the idea of enhancing the Canada Pension Plan, a move that a majority of provincial governments regard as crucial to future retirees. Predictably, B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong lined up with the feds and parroted MP Jim Flaherty’s mantra about the economy being too “fragile” to accommodate the change.

So, if that’s true, the plan must be to identify the non-fragile economic conditions that would allow Pensions Page 7

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Pensions problem for feds continued from page 6

enhancement to proceed, right? Wrong.

Apparently the matter of identifying future economic triggers that would allow an improved Canada Pension Plan has also been nixed by the federal government. In de Jong’s words “the subject is closed.”

The fact of the matter is that employers in Canada don’t want to contribute more to the Canada Pension Plan, not even the very modest amount phased in over several years supported by several provinces.

And, of course, financial institutions would rather have our retirement savings in RRSPs and pension funds so they can collect those outrageous administrative fees they charge.

Should we be surprised that the federal Conservatives opted to allow corporate interests trump public interests? Should we be shocked that once again the B.C. Liberals have failed to speak up in support of the people of this province? No, of course not.

It’s happened before. It will happen again.

That’s the thing about Grinches.

Their behaviour is predictable.

Bill Brassington, Burnaby

Predictions: Some right, wrong continued from page 6

In any event, the B.C. Liberals ended up doing much better than the NDP when it came to winning support of the ethnic community vote in the election. ! Right: B.C. Hydro rates would increase significantly. Anyone with basic knowledge of the energy issue could see the inevitability of this. But with an election hovering over the politicians for a lengthy time, none of them (from either major party) wanted to admit that or even talk about such a thing. But the day of reckoning has come, and rates are indeed going up. ! Wrong: It was going to be impossible for the provincial government to balance its budget, as tabled back in February.

I may be a tad premature

here, as the final numbers won’t be known for a few months yet. But it appears that halfway through the year, Finance Minister Mike de Jong may indeed balance the books, albeit on the proverbial razor’s edge. He’s been able to hold the line on spending, and there may enough of a built-in cushion (called the “forecast allowance”) to offset any significant decline in revenue. ! Right: The smartmeter protest was a lot of noise about nothing. It turns out that 99 per cent of B.C. Hydro customers have taken the smart meters, while the rest – a mixture, it seems, of the tinfoil-hat crowd and chem-trail chasers – have opted to pay more than $400 to keep the old analog meters. Bill Vander Zalm is one of their cham-

pions, but he failed to find anywhere near the success he had fighting the HST. And now a new year is about to begin and more issues will emerge that I’ll try to navigate, likely with mixed success. For example, what will be the result of the TransLink referendum? Who will win the NDP leadership race (assuming someone actually runs for the job)?

Will Premier Christy Clark make any mistakes that seriously erode her popularity?

As always, it will be a busy year in B.C. politics.

And I look forward trying to read the tea leaves, hopefully with much success. At least there is no provincial election on the horizon!

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C.

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Kensington Square may see a liquor store again Stefania Seccia staff reporter

A proposed B.C. liquor store could be headed to Kensington Square Shopping Centre, taking council another step closer to having one in every Burnaby community.

The B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch has applied for a rezoning application to allow for a 4,600-square-foot store where one used to sit from 1974 to 2006.

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Committee at work: From left, back row, Staff Sgt. Maj. John Buis, Burnaby RCMP; Chris Hildred, southwest community policing office, citizen representative; and Brian Pound, citizen representative. From left, front row, Margaret Manifold, social planner; Joan Selby, senior social planner; Diane Gillis, citizen representative; and Coun. Pietro Calendino, chair of the community policing committee.

Police committee reaches out Cayley Dobie staff reporter

The growing immigrant population has become an integral part of Burnaby, and some worry the city and police aren’t doing enough to connect with these new Canadians.

According to the 2011 national census, the population of visible minorities reached 59 per cent of the total population, with 53 per cent of the total population reporting their mother tongue as neither English nor French.

Burnaby’s community policing committee met with foreign language media last week in the hopes of forging a connection with the large population of new Canadians.

“The committee is trying to disseminate initiatives to keep people safe,” said Diane Gillis, chair of the policing committee’s communica-

tions sub-committee.

Gillis, president of the Kingsway Imperial Neighbourhood Association, told attending media she was concerned new Canadians weren’t as well informed about crime prevention and safety practices as those born in Canada.

“The committee is struggling to get information out to the immigrant community,” she told reporters from Ming Pao News, Korean News and World Journal at the Nov. 28 meeting.

Gillis added she’d like to see more safety and crime prevention tips included in the foreign language newspapers – but crime prevention isn’t news, countered reporters.

City Coun. Pietro Calendino and Burnaby RCMP Staff Sgt. Maj. John Buis agreed with reporters.

The real concern should be finding an effective way to get the safety and crime prevention information to new

Canadians, Buis said.

“It’s about determining what’s meaningful to these communities,” he added. “We need to understand our clients better.”

This means understanding what’s important to the immigrant community and what information would serve them best, Buis said.

Gillis stressed the committee should be building trust between new Canadians and the police so they can feel safe in their new community.

The committee publishes a quarterly crime prevention column in Burnaby’s municipal newsletter, InfoBurnaby.

The columns include safety tips, emergency phone numbers and how to report a crime.

For the most recent InfoBurnaby newsletter, visit www.tinyurl.com/ InfoBurnaby. twitter.com/cayleydobie

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A10 • Tuesday, December 24, 2013 • Burnaby NOW

B.C. gov’t gives $865,000 grants-in-lieu to city staff reporter

The B.C. government is giving Burnaby about $865,000 in grants-in-lieu of property taxes.

The province distributes the grants-in-lieu annually, which are payable on land owned by the provincial government, including courthouses, government offices and ambulance stations.

This year’s payments increased by $1.3 million over last year.

Since 2002, the province has distributed more than $208 million as grants-inlieu since to B.C. municipalities.

Wiring project

A B.C. Hydro underground wiring project worth $250,000 is moving ahead in Burnaby.

The project will be on McKay Avenue, fronting Maywood Park.

It’s expected to improve the streetscape by removing the hydro poles and overhead wires along the east side of the street.

B.C. Hydro is expected to share one-third of the cost through its beautification program.

Holiday events Looking for something to do with the kids over the holidays?

Here are a couple of ideas: ! Get chugging along at the Santa Express miniature train at Lougheed Town Centre. The train runs until Dec. 28. Volunteers from the B.C. Society of Model Engineers offer rides on their mini train around Santa’s Wonderland during mall hours. Rides are by donation. ! Check out a new children’s play by the Open World for Kids Foundation, Holiday Miracles or Yaga the Witch is in Opposition.

The play is taking place at the Serbian Cultural Centre, 7837 Canada Way, on Dec. 28. Tickets are still available for the 4 p.m. show.

Children’s tickets are $25 (which includes a gift) and adult tickets are $12. Tickets will not be sold at the door.

For more information and to buy tickets, go to tinyurl. com/YagaWitch. ! Illuminations at Heritage Christmas is ongoing at Burnaby Village Museum until Jan. 4. Check it out at www.burnabyvillage museum.ca.

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On Nov. 12, the city received a 22-member del-

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Grayson Smith reads to his almost-one-yearold son, Josiah, from his new book, Flight of the Mite. Smith founded his own publishing company, Peppermint Toast Publishing, with an eye to working with authors and illustrators of children’s books.

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Publishing company takes flight New indie publishing company works with Hemlock Printers on first children’s picture book

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t all began because Grayson Smith had written a story for his niece and wanted to turn it into a gift.

Now he has his own independent publishing company, Peppermint Toast Publishing, and he’s about to launch the company’s first book – that very story he first wrote for his niece four years ago.

Flight of the Mite, which tells the story of a tiny ON MY BEAT mite with a big Julie MacLellan imagination who goes travelling to a star, was launched at a special event earlier this month and is now available for sale online (www.pepperminttoast.com).

Getting to this point has been a labour of love for Smith and for his wife’s cousin, Alana Kyle, whom he drafted to illustrate the book.

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So he thought of Kyle, who studied at Emily Carr University and also has a diploma in illustration and design from Capilano University. Kyle agreed to take a look at his story, and their partnership took off.

They admit it’s taken a long time to come to fruition, since both have also been pursuing other jobs. Smith is a Delta police officer, and Kyle recently gave up her job as a receptionist in a physiotherapy centre.

With more time to devote to her art, she decided to put her mind to trying to make a go of illustration work – and the chance to illustrate a children’s book was one she leapt at.

“I’ve always loved kids’ books,” she says, noting she’s inspired by the work of such illustrators as Richard Scarry. “I was always drawn to that way of conveying something in a picture.”

While she originally viewed the book as a chance to beef up her own illustration portfolio, it quickly became a project close to her own heart.

“I’m really excited to share it with everybody,” she says.

Smith notes that the bulk of the labour was in fact Kyle’s. He wrote the story himself in a day, he says, and though the editing process was meticulous, it was

foundation will help to market the book. nothing compared to the hours that Kyle For his printing, Smith has partnered spent on the drawings. with Burnaby’s Hemlock Printers – a “There’s a lot of hours in there,” Kyle company he was attracted to because of says, noting she spent many early mornits reputation for sustainable, environings and long nights on the project, occamentally friendly practices. sionally dragging herself away from the Looking to the future, Peppermint desk to go for a run. “It was kind of like Toast Publishing will provide a eat, sleep, draw, run, eat, sleep home base for other would-be draw.” authors and illustrators who’d While researching how best like to have their own children’s to publish the book, Smith diswork published. covered that most traditional “I think there’s a lot of people publishing houses don’t accept out there who have an idea for submissions from author-illusa children’s book,” Smith says. trator partnerships – they tend to “Almost everyone has kids in choose an illustrator for a story. their lives they would love to He also looked into selfhave a unique gift for.” publishing but decided the best He’s not sure what to expect, route was to in fact set up his Alana Kyle but he says social media is own publishing company. illustrator already providing its reach. Just He admits it hasn’t been an the other morning he sent off a easy process. book to West Liberty, Ohio, and he has no “It’s a really steep learning curve, but idea how that person found him. for the most part everything is sorting He’s looking forward to seeing what itself out,” he says. lies ahead for Peppermint Toast.

He’s marketing his book and the “I don’t think it’ll necessarily become company mainly through social media, Scholastic overnight, but it’s interesting including some partnerships with parenthow far-reaching it can be,” he says. ing blogs.

Check out www.pepperminttoast.com He’s also struck up a partnership with the B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation – for more details or to purchase a copy of his company will give $3 from every book the book.

Follow Julie on Twitter, @juliemaclellan sold to the foundation, and in return the

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A12 • Tuesday, December 24, 2013 • Burnaby NOW

They danced their way to the world podium Douglas Ballet Academy students earn honours for Canada at ballet, jazz and modern world championships Four local dancers stood on the podium for Canada at the recent International Dance Organization world championships in Poland.

The dancers from Burnaby’s Douglas Ballet Academy were in Mikolajki, Poland from Dec. 7 to 15 competing in the championships in ballet, jazz and modern dance.

Caroline Kiddie and Jenny Lian were competing with the Canadian junior team, while Morgan Bringeland-Powell and Emily Wismer were with the adult team.

Caroline and Jenny were part of Canada’s goldmedal finishes in junior small group ballet and junior large group ballet.

They also helped the team to a fourth-place finish in the junior large jazz and sixth-place finish in the junior large modern.

Emily and Morgan were part of the adult small group ballet’s bronzemedal finish and a silvermedal performance in adult large group ballet.

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Emily also ranked seventh in the world in adult solo female ballet.

The Team Canada ballet groups were choreographed by Josh Beamish, and the jazz and modern groups by Danielle Gardner of So You Think You Can Dance fame.

The world championships brought dancers from 24 countries together to compete. Canada emerged on top, with the national director, Bonnie Dyer, taking home a trophy for Team Canada’s top standing for the second year in a row.

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Medal winners: Morgan Bringeland-Powell, Jenny Lian, Emily Wismer and Caroline Kiddie represented Canada at the International Dance Organization world championships.

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Vegas dream wedding takes place in Burnaby Janaya Fuller-Evans staff reporter

It looks like Burnaby resident Danielle Callaghan won’t be having a blue Christmas now that her dream of a Vegas wedding has come true.

The 28-year-old was going to marry her fiancé Jim Mellish in Las Vegas last summer, but the pair had to return home due to an illness in the family, Callaghan told the Burnaby NOW recently.

“On July 10 we left, we went to get married in Las Vegas Nevada, and we went there and a few days later, right before the wedding one of our family members got very, very ill and they said we had to come home to say our goodbyes,

so we left right away,” she said. “We left with intentions of getting married and unfortunately our dreams and wishes that were all planned and paid for didn’t end up going through.”

The couple wasn’t able to recoup any of the costs, so they decided to approach a local casino and see if they could have a simple wedding there instead.

“Jim and I always wanted a Las Vegas wedding and we had to come home from Vegas, so we thought the next best thing is the Grand Villa Casino,” Callaghan said.

But, as casinos are not known for their subtlety, Callaghan’s plan for a simple replacement wedding turned into a Vegas-style extravaganza once Grand Villa decided to help.

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Photos by Jason Lang/burnaby now

Happy couple: Above, Danielle and Jim Melish sign wedding papers at the Grand Villa Casino as the showgirls look on. At right, Elvis walks Danielle to the altar.

Wedding: ‘It’s a blessing from God’ continued from page 13

“They got back to me and they came up with these big elaborate plans and I was like, ‘oh my good Lord, I’ve been blessed.

This was God’s plan to get us married after all these years,’” Callaghan said.

And so, a year after getting engaged at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Callaghan and Mellish were able to have their dream wedding … all without leaving home. The couple tied the knot Dec. 7, after a week or so of planning by the casino.

“Grand Villa is paying for everything.

It’s a blessing from God,” Callaghan said.

“Jim and I are getting married on Dec. 7,

and seven is our lucky number here at the Grand Villa.”

Kathryn Rehm stepped in as marketing manager of Grand Villa at the end of November, and the wedding was her first assignment, she said.

“I heard about this wonderful girl getting married, and so I just wanted to make it work for her, so we set aside two rooms for her at the Delta,” she said. “We ordered up an Elvis because she almost cries when she talks about Elvis marrying her and it’s adorable. And we thought showgirls would be fun to bring that Vegas vibe.

And then we’re getting some pink flowers because pink’s her favourite colour, so it’s

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Elvis hosted the wedding and serenaded casino guests afterward, according to Rehm, and the couple had dinner at Personas Café.

Rehm is getting married this summer, she said.

“I’m actually getting married in June, so I have some experience planning,” she said, adding she thinks this is the first wedding the casino has held.

Though it required a lot of planning in a short amount of time, Rehm said it seemed like perfect timing, during the season of giving.

“We thought why not give back to someone who couldn’t get a wedding done in Vegas due to unforeseen circumstances, so we wanted to help out, just a good deed,” she said. “It’s the holiday season and we thought, why not make someone else happy?”

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or many of us, the arrival of winter means ski season, skating lessons and hot chocolate by the fireplace. Unfortunately, for many seniors, winter can lead to isolation, depression and increased fall risk due to weakened muscles. As the temperature drops, anxiety over falls and injuries rises. Many seniors choose not to leave their home for fear of slipping and falling on icy sidewalks, or simply because it is too cold for them.This may mean

skipped trips to the grocery store, missed medical appointments and unfilled prescriptions. This year, as you prepare for the holidays remember the seniors in your community who may appreciate the extra attention and help. A short visit can lift their spirits and provide you with an opportunity to make sure their basic needs are being met.

“For many seniors, winter is a difficult time of year, often leaving them

feeling lonely as they lose touch with their social networks,” says Dr. Grace Park, program medical director for Home Health at Fraser Health.

“Dropping by to check in on them will not only brighten their day, but it means you can ensure they are well, and have everything they need.”

For more information about seniors’ care and services, call the Home Health Line at 1-855-412-2121.

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Deck the halls and learn about holly GREEN SCENE Anne Marrison

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any of us don’t have space anymore for a holly tree in the garden, but holly is still a lovely traditional decoration at Christmas and a great wildlife tree all through winter.

Southwest B.C. has a perfect climate for growing holly. This easy-tempered tree likes any average soil that isn’t swampy. It also handles sun or shade though produces more berries in sun. Berries come from female trees. The males are pollinators only.

Seedling hollies often pop up in gardens thanks to birds, but it’s a gamble to keep any around hoping you’ll end up with free holly trees and lot of berries. Many self-seeding hollies are males.

The way to tell the gender is to take a magnifying

glass in May and look deep into one or two clusters of the small, white holly flowers. The females have a tiny knob deep in each flower centre. Males just have stamens.

But holly pollination problems seldom happen. Very often people are thrilled when a baby holly appears in their garden.

By the time they’ve clued in that it’s a male and will never have berries, it’s too big to move.

The link between holly and the winter solstice dates back to first to pagan Europe, then Roman times, when holly was believed to protect houses from lightning and evil spirits. Later, the Christians saw the red berries as drops of blood and the evergreen leaves as eternal life.

But holly berries aren’t always red. An occasional tree has yellow berries: sometimes rich golden, other times almost white.

Among the bright-berried Christmas type hollies there are two main kinds: the English holly (Ilex aquifolium) and the American holly (Ilex opaca).

There are about 400 holly species. One sometimes seen here is the Winterberry (Ilex verticillata). The female is thickly covered with tiny brilliant red berries in winter.

Many hollies are very useful trees. The wake-youup herb tea Yerba Mate is made from a Paraguayan holly, while a North American holly (Ilex vomitoria) has been used as a purgative.

Berries aren’t all hollies have to offer. There are gorgeous variegated holly males such as Silver Queen and Golden Queen.Yes, these are males. There’s also another called Golden King. This is a female.

Another alternative holly is the Porcupine Holly. This can be gold-variegated or silver-variegated and gets its name from the sharp bristles on the leaf surface and spines on leaf edges. Both are males and would have to be propagated by cuttings.

Anne Marrison is happy to answer garden questions.

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Canada’s goalie: Kimberly Newell of Burnaby led Canada to the gold medal at the under-18 women’s world hockey championships with an overtime win over the United States in Finland to start 2013 off right.

Burnaby’s Kimberly Newell gave Canada something to cheer about in the new year, backstopping the under-18 women’s national hockey team to a world title in January.

Newell, a freshman goalie at Princeton University, was named Canada’s player of the game, stopping 39 of 40 shots, including 20 in the opening period, to pace Canada to a 2-1 overtime victory over the United States at the 2013 International Ice Hockey Federation world championships in Heinola, Finland.

The win gave Canada its third u-18 women’s title and second in a row, tying it with the United States for most wins since the competition began in 2008. Canada also claimed a world title in 2010.

Newell was named the goalie for the all-world tournament team by the media.

She also led all goalkeepers with a 96.00 save percent-

age, while allowing just three goals, including two on power plays, in three starts for the Canadians.

Newell made 72 saves and gave up just one regular-strength goal in the competition, while posting her first international shutout in a 4-0 victory over Finland in a preliminary pool matchup on Dec. 30.

In the final, a huge firstperiod stand by Newell gave Canada the opportunity it needed to find its skates after a slow start.

Outshot 20-1 in the opening period, Newell allowed the only goal by the U.S., but made what sportcasters described as a “fantastic paddle save” to deny the Americans a second counter on what appeared to be a sure goal midway through the period.

“It’s all about preparation,” said the 17-year-old Newell.

“I felt like I really prepared well for this game and despite the number of shots, we were able to push back and get stronger later in the game.”

Burnaby athletes excel on ice to start the year off right January:

Canadian figure skating championships.

Rory McDade as the head coach of the WLA Burnaby Lakers.

Northwest Giants won a second AAA midget hockey title at the 35th annual Mac’s Cup tournament in Calgary following a 3-2 double-overtime win over the Carolina Junior Hurricanes.

Zhao Kai Pang of Burnaby and Madeline Edwards won the junior ice dance gold medal at the Canadian figure skating championships. Nicole Orford and Thomas Williams earned a bronze in the senior dance.

The Burnaby Lakers selected Robert Church with the fourth overall pick at the Western Lacrosse Association junior draft.

SFU lose to Division III Arizona State in the first Great Northwest Hockey Showcase.

Sea Cadet Louisa Tsang became the first cadet to score a perfect round at Olympic Park at the Pacific region Lower Mainland Zone 4 biathlon championships in Whistler.

Burnaby novice ice dancers Danielle Wu and Spencer Soo led a podium sweep for the B.C. Centre of Excellence at the

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Simon Fraser University won the Women’s Collegiate Wrestling Association title for the first time, winning all six of its gold-medal bouts in Bristol, Tennessee.

February: Bob Johnston was replaced by

St. Thomas More Collegiate won both the boys’ and girls’ aggregate titles at the Lower Fraser Valley wrestling championships.

Burnabygymnast Briannah Tsang placed second on the vault at the Elite Canada women’s artistic gymnastics championships.

Burnaby Minor Baseball Association was named the association of the year by B.C. Minor Baseball.

The Burnaby Mountain Lions

upset league winner Bryne Creek 85-72 to win the district senior boys’ basketball title.

Mariya Chekanovych shared in five of SFU women’s seven Pacific Collegiate Swimming Conference championship titles, including a new conference record in the 100yard breaststroke.

Helen Crofts helped SFU win three of four track titles at the Great Northwest conference indoor championships, including a second straight 800-metre women’s title.

SFU women’s basketball coach Bruce Langford won his 300th career game as head coach of the Clan.

Burnaby defeated Richmond to win the B.C. Tier II under-14 youth field lacrosse championships.

Amar Dhesi became the first B.C. wrestler to earn a full athletic scholarship to a NCAA Division I program. He won his fifth medal and fourth consecu-

tive gold medal at the high school provincials.

March: The Burnaby South Rebels earned their first entry into the B.C. AAA girls’ high school basketball championships since 1964, where they finished in 13th place.

Burnaby South and Burnaby Mountain both qualified for the B.C. AAA boys’ high school basketball championships. South lost 68-58 to Kitsilano in the championship final.

Grandview Steelers Nick Hermary was named the Pacific Junior Hockey League rookie of the year.

SFU senior Nayo RaincockEkunwe was named the Great Northwest conference female basketball player of the year.

Burnaby South upset Pitt March Page 21

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to a Chinese player from Edmonton in three games.

She reversed that loss in straight sets in the individual singles final.

“It was my first year for regular classes (after two years of English language training). All my attention was on school, and when I was at the tournament, I was still doing my marketing homework,” Huang said.

Huang is a four-time CCAA female badminton player of the year and was named the national association’s female athlete of the year across all sports in 2012. She is also a five-time PacWest player of the year.

When the 18-year-old Huang first came to Canada in 2008 to attend Douglas, she defeated five-time Canadian women’s national champion Anna Rice in straight sets at a national ranking event prior to the Olympic Games.

She also won the U.S. Open women’s singles title in 2009.

Tom Berridge sports editor

Burnaby’s RuiLin Huang was the undoubted queen of the court at the Canadian Colleges’ Athletic Association badminton championships.

The fifth-year Douglas College accounting student won an unprecedented fifth consecutive women’s singles title – the first-ever five-time women’s champion since the CCAA began keeping records in 1982.

At her final national collegiate championship, Huang swept her entire competition, including a 21-12, 21-13 victory over Vancouver Island University wild card opponent Melissa Liew in the gold-medal final.

Huang, who has won five straight PacWest provincial titles, has a career college record of 207 wins and just one defeat in a team match.

That one loss came in her third year in Canada

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The best: Burnaby’s RuiLin Huang won five consecutive national women’s badminton singles titles in her college career.

Five of the top AAA bantam hockey teams in their regions will headline Burnaby Minor’s 51st annual Bantam Christmas Tournament this year.

Tier 1 leader Seafair and five-time tournament champion Burnaby Winter Club make up a strong one-two punch from the Pacific Coast association.

Cowichan Valley, the top team from the Vancouver Island, will join state powerhouses Alaska Junior Aces, Arizona Bobcats and the San Diego Gulls as possible contenders at the popular postChristmas tourney.

This year’s tournament will adopt a 12-team format, beginning with divisional matchups running all day Friday, Dec. 27 and Saturday, Dec. 28 at Burnaby Lake and Bill Copeland arenas. Admission is free.

The crossover pool games and elimination round matchups begin Sunday, Dec. 29.

The quarter-finals will start Monday, Dec. 30, with semifinals following in the evening.

Medal games will take place on Tuesday, beginning with the bronzemedal final at 9 a.m. The championship final is scheduled for noon. tberridge@burnabynow.com

March: Hoop madness resulted in program-first for STM junior girls’ team scored a program-first second-place finish at the B.C. high school championships.

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