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Pipeline protest has a ‘festive’ feel to it oil being shipped through our community and having an increase in the amount Hundreds of people gath- of tanker traffic through our ered in Burnaby on Saturday inlet. And the storage tank on to protest the Kinder Morgan Burnaby Mountain, we don’t pipeline expansion. want that to triple capacity,” The event started with a Walmsley said. people’s procession in Forest The march had a festive, Grove Park, where protest- celebratory tone to it, accorders followed the pipeline’s ing to Walmsley. route down to a larger rally in “There were a lot of peoWestridge Park. ple in costume, “We are in the there was music, process of buildthere were peoing a mass moveple playing guiment of people tar as we were who are commitwalking,” she ted to stopping IN BURNABY said. “The whole pipelines from thing was really the tar sands, and this was respectful. There wasn’t anya step forward in building body being provocative or that movement,” said Ruth violent.” Walmsley, one of the rally As previously reported in organizers and a member of the NOW, the people’s proBurnaby Residents Opposing cession will be featured in an Kinder Morgan Expansion. art exhibit at the UNIT/PITT Walmsley estimated there Protest Page 8 were about 300 to 400 people in total, by the time the proWhat do the foxes say? cession joined the larger rally, The ‘people’s procession’ and some came from as far as against the pipeline Galiano Island. included costumed “We don’t want this protesters. pipeline. We do not want to Jason Lang/burnaby now assume the risk of having this
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Music teachers rally to protect program Cornelia Naylor staff reporter
Local music teachers are urging parents to speak up to save the Burnaby school district’s unique elementary school music program. Teachers fear the program, which sees every kindergarten to Grade 7 student in
the district get an hour and a half of music instruction every week, will be decimated as the school board looks to cut $3.1 million from its operating budget. “We want the trustees to realize how much parents value what we already have and that we don’t want to lose what we already have, as we have seen in other districts,” Suncrest Elementary music teacher
Pam Hetrick told the NOW. She has written a letter urging parents to contact trustees to let them know how they feel about their kids’ music education. The Burnaby school music program is unique in the province, Hetrick said, in that it offers kindergarten-to-Grade 7 instruction in all schools, and each school has a dedicated music room and qualified music
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