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Massive oil tanks are firefighter’s nightmare Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

Burnaby’s deputy fire chief is raising alarming safety concerns about Kinder Morgan’s plan to expand the Burnaby Mountain tank farm.

Dept. Fire Chief Chris Bowcock is worried the 13-tank storage facility slated for expansion on the south side of Burnaby Mountain, would be an uncontrollable disaster in the event of a major fire or earthquake. His worst-case scenarios involve clouds of poisonous gas, explosions of molten crude and fires burning for days – all close to residential areas and Forest Grove Elementary.

“I think from the fire department’s perspective, we are coming at this as community advocates for fire and safety,” Bowcock told the NOW. “We believe our responsibility is to the citizens of Burnaby – the protection of their lives, their property – and the health of the community as a whole.”

Kinder Morgan filed its application to the National Energy Board in December.

The company is proposing to twin the Trans Mountain pipeline and expand the tank storage facility, increasing capacity from 1.6 million barrels of oil to 3.6 million by adding 14 new tanks.

According to Bowcock, Kinder Morgan raised three safety concerns about the tank farm in the application: potential discharge of sulphur-based compounds, such as hydrogen sulphide, a poisonous gas; toxic

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smoke plumes in the event of a fire; and a “boil-over” event, when a tank is left to burn for an extensive period of time and eventually explodes, spraying molten crude the length of 10 tanks.

“So if you have a 100-foot tank, the

dispersal rate of that molten crude would be 1,000 feet – that’s a great distance,” Bowcock said.

For 15 years, Bowcock worked as an emergency management consultant and conducted field training for tank-fire sup-

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Council OK’s two Station Square highrises Jacob Zinn staff reporter

The next two Station Square highrises are set to join Burnaby’s skyline, and the first Brentwood tower is one step closer to approval, following Monday night’s city council meeting.

Council gave final adoption to the construction of the two Metrotown towers – 38 and 48 storeys – atop a lowrise com-

mercial podium, and gave third reading to Brentwood Town Centre’s first 53-storey skyscraper, to be located at 4567 Lougheed Hwy. The city reports noted that dozens of prerequisite conditions for both developments have been satisfied, including installation of underground wiring, granting of necessary easements, provisions for cyclists and designs of units adaptable for people with disabilities.

“We will be filing disclosure once we’re all set up and we’re able to sort of go to market with it,” said Greg Zayadi, vicepresident of sales and marketing with Anthem Properties, one of the developers of the Station Square towers. “We’re just getting everything set up and we’re good to go.”

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Caught between a rock and the city City says homeowner’s stone pillars are on city land – but she says they were approved Jacob Zinn staff reporter

A South Burnaby homeowner claims the city is coming down on her over some previously approved landscaping on her property, but the city argues that the homeowner is encroaching on public property.

Last August, Louise Leblanc, who lives on Clinton Street, hired a landscaping company to do extensive work to the front of her property, including installing two large, stone pillars at the top of her driveway. However, city engineers have sent several letters to Leblanc since October, ordering the pillars to be moved back from the curb.

“They said that the pillars that we put to delineate the start of the driveway… had to be moved because the city would be putting in sidewalks at some point,” said Leblanc.

While the city widened the road by three feet when it recently installed curbs on both sides of the street, Leblanc said her husband, a civil engineer, checked with the city’s engineering department and was told it was still too narrow for sidewalks.

“My argument with the city was that sidewalks wouldn’t be going in, but they said (they were) looking 30 years down the road.

There’s always a possibility, I’m not going to deny that, but we would be more than willing to move the pillars at that time, and we’ll sign something making us liable for doing so.”

However, Leon Gous, Burnaby’s director of engineering,

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Stonewalled: Louise Leblanc says the City of Burnaby has ordered her to move two pillars recently installed at the top of her driveway. The city says the pillars are on public property. said that even though sidewalks have not been paved on Clinton, the front of the lots are public property and are meant to be used for pedestrians to walk on.

“We have a boulevard for a reason – it’s partly for public access if there’s sidewalks,” he said, noting that he’s received about five complaints from neighbours about the pillars. “If there isn’t, then you can still walk along it off the street.

“The two stone pillars … they’ve put right up to the curb and built rock walls up to them, so basically they’ve blocked off the public sidewalk.”

According to Gous, Leblanc would have to move the pillars about four metres back – the distance from the curb to her property line – as well as shorten one

of the rock walls. Otherwise, the city may remove the pillars and bill the work to Leblanc.

He likened it to people putting election signs on public property.

“We will remove them and you can come fetch them – they remain your property, but they’re not allowed to be on public property,” he said.

Leblanc maintains that the pillars are part of the driveway, which is considered a private access road to private property rather than public property. She said she feels like she’s being singled out by the city as she’s seen other nearby residences with landscaping work up to the curb.

“We have other properties that have landscapes all the way up to the street – not only on our street

but in the surrounding neighbourhood,” she said.

Leblanc noted she and her husband are willing to compromise with the city, saying, “I’m sure we can come to an agreement that isn’t, ‘Take everything out.’”

Gous acknowledged that engineers have had “a bit of a backand-forth” with the Leblancs and said the city is trying to give them one last chance before workers are sent in to move the pillars.

“It’s unfortunate – we never want to get to that position, which is why we go to a lot of trouble working with people,” he said.

“At the end of the day, it’s going to cost them money to move these rocks, but it’ll cost them more if I remove them and they have to go reinstall them.”

Pot: Fed rules and city bylaws collide Jacob Zinn staff reporter

While the federal government’s new medical marijuana regulations took effect nearly a month ago, a recent injunction to temporarily allow previously licensed users to continue growing on their

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but that didn’t mean that if you got a federal licence that you were licensed at a provincial or local level,” said Lou Pelletier, director of planning and building with the City of Burnaby.

Pelletier said that even if a medicinal user wants to grow only for themselves, to do so legally, they would have to rezone their property to industrial.

“The bylaw in Burnaby has been changed, so looking backwards at what the federal licence is isn’t really material to what we look at when someone comes forward and says, ‘I’d like to get local approval for this,’” he said, likening it to licensing programs for other fields.

“I can get a licence to drive a taxi from Burnaby, but if I go to Ontario, that doesn’t mean I have a licence to drive a

taxi in Ontario. I still need to go through a local approval process.”

Similar bylaws have been put in place in other Lower Mainland cities, including Surrey and Richmond, restricting commercial grow operations to specific zones.

Pelletier noted that the city does not keep track of the number of medical marijuana users in Burnaby, though the bylaw amendment will allow the city to map out new medical grow-ops when owners apply to rezone their properties. In addition, the rezoning process requires a public hearing to give residents their say if a medical marijuana production facility is proposed for their neighbourhood.

Pelletier added that at this time, no one has applied to rezone their property to grow medical marijuana, commercially or otherwise.

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TWO TENANTS FACING EVICTION

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The growing tension over a bedbug infestation at 4105 Albert St. is spinning out of control, and the rift between tenants and the building manager is worsening.

“A lot of people are afraid,” said tenant Gerry Cole. “Now I am being victimized by the landlord, and they are seeing that.”

Many of the residents in the building are living on limited incomes, they are elderly or dealing with mental illness issues, Cole added. It’s not easy for them to find another apartment.

William Yen, the building owner who has 13 properties in the Lower Mainland, attributed the conflict to one or two troublemakers.

According to Yen, the issue is `one tenant who refuses to have her suite sprayed, so she’s been served with an eviction notice.

“She has a couple of kids. She wanted to stay in a hotel, we agreed to pay,” Yen said, referring the NOW to Local Pest Control company for more details on the bugs.

Erick De Carvalho, sales manager with Local Pest Control, confirmed the infestation has been ongoing for a couple of years, but his company was only hired in recent weeks. It’s unclear how many suites are infested, but De Carvalho was told there are only three units in the building

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Troubles: Tenants at 4105 Albert St. are frustrated with an ongoing

bedbug infestation, and the manager is now trying to evict two people. with bedbugs, and they are coming from one apartment and a noncompliant tenant.

“The issue is resulting most likely from one individual suite and tenant,” he said, adding that tenant is not cooperating with steps to prepare the place for treatment.

“When we came in to treat last time, he hadn’t followed a single step, and the infestation is quite widespread in that unit,” De Carvalho said. De Carvalho has proposed to inspect every single suite and is wait-

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However, the building manager, Nader Pourbazyar, said the tenant in question has been cooperating, but he was evicting another noncompliant tenant who wouldn’t leave her suite so it could be treated. He’s also evicting Cole for allegedly running a marijuana grow-op out of his suite.

The other tenant and Cole are fighting the eviction, and Cole is extremely frustrated.

“I’m way past that,” he said.

“Nobody is helping me.”

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Federal Online Crime Act bill goes too far Bill C-13, the Protecting Canadians aimed at legitimizing police and govfrom Online Crime Act, is the latest ernment snooping through our private Tory Trojan horse that would underinformation — without any oversight. mine citizens’ privacy rights under the Search warrants exist for a reason. guise of protecting us from They provide an important online evil. check and balance.

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experts to divide the bill into two parts – to distinguish between cyberbullying and terrorism – but he refuses to do that.

There are those who make the argument that they have nothing to hide, so such laws don’t concern them.

But hands up those who’d like the state to have access to everything they’ve plugged into a search engine in the past month? Every email they’ve sent to friends or website they’ve visited? Admittedly, Canadians already

give up a lot of privacy willingly. They trade use of “free” sites like Facebook and Google for their information.

But a year after Edward Snowden’s revelations about massive online surveillance were made public, the fact remains citizens should have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a free country – including online. Anything less is a move down the slippery slope to Big Brother’s surveillance state.

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Will B.C.’s soap opera ever end?

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he B.C. Liberal government has largely shed the labour relations headaches it helped create when it first took power in 2001, with one glaring exception.

That would be its tumultuous, antagonistic and befuddling relationship with the union that represents B.C.’s public school teachers.

Watching the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the government engage in a seemingly neverending struggle to determine who wields the power in schools and classrooms is akin to viewing a soap opera in which you’re never really sure which character is in charge.

In recent years, the government has established an impressive record in negotiating collective agreements with a host of public sector unions, with rarely a peep of unrest and without draining the public treasury as well.

Not so its dealings with the BCTF, which have been characterized by strife, suspicion and almost a complete lack of success. The fractious relationship is

played out in public, with dueling news conferences or protest rallies, and it’s getting rather tiresome.

Yet here we go again.

The government and the union are on yet another collision course, which will almost certainly end in a way that pleases neither party. The gap between the two sides on so many issues is so vast, it will take a miracle to close it – and it would involve shifting hundreds of millions of dollars from one side to another.

As I write this, the union is looking for a salary increase of almost 16 per cent (compounded) over four years, while the government is offering over seven per cent over six years.

Given that a one per cent pay hike is the equivalent to about $25 million, that’s a gap of about $75 million a year, and that doesn’t include an improved benefit package and other improvements the BCTF is looking for.

On the important issues of class size and class composition, the union is seeking a return to contract language and staffing levels that were in place in 2002.

That would cost about $300 million a year over what is currently spent, while the government is offering to top up its Learning Improvement Fund by $75 million this year. The gap: about $225 million.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Class size impacts teaching style

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Peter Cameron, speaking to media on behalf of the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association, has been dismissive of the notion that class size matters to student outcomes. Seemingly as a side note, he acknowledged that class composition has some impact.

Then, he strongly emphasized that teacher competence is a very important determinant of improved student outcomes. What he neglected to mention, but most likely understands, is that the three factors are interrelated in important ways and cannot be sensibly discussed as separate issues. Arguments in favour of including class size and composition

in the teachers’ contract are fundamentally about institutionalizing working conditions that facilitate teacher competence, and thus support the diverse and varied learning needs of students.

I have been a teacher for over two decades, in large and small class-size situations, in public schools in the Lower Mainland of B.C., and in private schools overseas. I have found that class size has had little impact on the numbers of hours I devote to my work, but it does have a very strong impact on the quality of my interactions with students. When I teach large classes and have a larger student load overall, I have to shift to more of a “mass consumer” approach, rather than attending to individual and diverse learning needs of my students.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Yes, class size matters continued from page 6

Both instructional approaches take time and energy, but the way that time is utilized is different. In large classes, students get less individual and personal care, and I as a teacher learn my craft more slowly.

One of the things that I love about my work is that I never really feel as though I have mastered it, thus I’m provoked to continually strive and struggle to learn and improve.

Even though over 3,000 students have been in my various classrooms over the years, when I have time and capacity to attend more closely to individuals, students are still showing me more and more layers of the ways in which they understand and make sense of things (or, misunderstand and struggle to make sense).

Thus, they continue to teach me how to be more useful to them as their guide and mentor. Each of those layers revealed to me by individual students is part of

the ongoing training that helps me learn to be useful to a higher percentage of my students each year (when one student wakes me up more fully, all my students benefit).

Smaller classes are important for students, for the teachers, for the system as whole, and thus for our society.

Smaller classes, with supports appropriate to the diversity of learning needs within those classes, establish conditions in which teachers have the capacity not just to provide academic instruction to the masses, but also to provide care, and to more effectively learn and develop their professional expertise.

The institutionalization of class size limits and support for diversity in class composition is an investment in current and future students, which ultimately is an investment that supports the longterm heath and development of B.C. as a whole.

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to the Supreme Court of Canada).

The BCTF doesn’t exactly have clean hands in this little ongoing drama either. I find teachers, for the most part, to be a passionate, committed bunch (many dip into their own pockets to pay for their students’ needs, including food) but their union is another story.

It is an ideologically hidebound organization that doesn’t really fit into a labour relations model, which makes its efforts at collective bargaining feeble and ineffective at times.

Unlike other public sector unions, it refuses to take into account the government’s fiscal position or ability to pay and exhibits an often maddening sense of entitlement, as if the interests of its membership trumps everything else public tax dollars fund.

But it has also proven to be a resilient foe of the B.C. Liberal government and has tripped it up on more than one occasion.

It may not win at the negotiating table very often, but it has posted big victories in court and at the Labour Relations Board.

When both sides won’t trust or respect each other, they make mistakes and misread each other’s moves.

That’s been happening in the current breakdown, even though bargaining continues (without much progress being made, it seems).

This current contract impasse may be headed for a legislated resolution, or perhaps if the two sides can get at least a little closer to each other’s position some kind of meaningful mediation can take place.

In any event, until a mutual trust and respect finds its way into the picture, we’re going to see a replay of the current melodrama as soon as the next contract expires.

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

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Add it up and the difference between the two sides’ position is a whopping $300 million, and as I noted, this does not include a raft of other expensive items.

But deeply embedded in this dispute (well, actually, the never ending dispute) is something that appears to cripple any chance of a successful, negotiated outcome: a mistrust and a lack of respect of each other.

The government poisoned the well when it arbitrarily stripped language governing class sizes from the collective agreement back in 2002 and things have never really got back on track ever since.

The union has won two court challenges on this one issue, and the government won’t give up the fight and is appealing the ruling to a higher court (and depending on who wins there, the loser will no doubt try to appeal

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Firefighter: Tank farm concerns continued from page 1

and away from residential areas, for instance. According to Bowcock, the tanks must be placed no closer than the diameter of the tank, so if you have a 100-foot diameter tank, the next tank should be at least 100 feet away. There should also be 360-degree access to the tanks, in case of emergency.

Bowcock is concerned about increasing density of the tanks, which he says increases the chances of a fire at one tank spreading to another.

The massive oil tanks have been on Burnaby Mountain for decades, without any major explosions or firestorms, but that doesn’t seem to reassure Bowcock.

“You have to balance the frequency of occurrence with the consequences of occurrence,” he said, adding the region is due for a major earthquake.

And if a fire were to start at the tank farm, it would very likely burn for days, according to Bowcock.

“The amount of heat firefighters are taking on, the amount of risk you’re exposing them to – if you can’t create a safe environment to fight the fire, it may not be extinguishable,” he said, adding it can take four to seven days for a tank to burn off all of its fuel.

According to Bowcock, tank farm fires can start from lightening strikes, even though there are “counter measures” on the tanks.

“Lighting hits high points, and it hits metal objects. Depending where a tank farm is located it can be more or less susceptible to lightning strikes,” Bowcock said.

Any kind of “hot work” – welding, for instance – or errors, human or otherwise, could also start a fire.

The fire department’s concerns were included in the City of Burnaby’s information request, recently filed with the National Energy Board, as a part of the pipeline hearing.

“We have a lot of questions based on the application. The application didn’t provide much specific information on how these risks and emergencies could be managed and reduced,” Bowcock said. “We have concerns about whether it’s even possible to reduce these risks, … and if it is possible, we have no info on how that’s going to be achieved.”

Bowcock said the Kinder Morgan expansion proposal presents too many uncontrol-

lable risks that could have unacceptable consequences for the NEB to accept the proposal.

Oil and gas facilities are required to have their own firefighters onsite, as the prime responsibility for handling a potential fire falls on the operators. However, the city’s fire department may be called on to help, especially with rescues or evacuations, Bowcock explained, and Kinder Morgan’s firefighting capability is “at question,” he added.

The NOW posed Bowcock’s concerns to Ali Hounsell, spokesperson for the Trans Mountain expansion.

“First and foremost, there’s nothing more important to Trans Mountain than the safety of our neighbourhoods, the community and our employees,” she said. “Safety is our top priority, and in 60 years of operation in Burnaby, we’ve never had a fire at the terminal.”

Hounsell said the pipeline application included risk assessments that deal with worst-case scenarios, and worst-case scenario planning assumes there’s no emergency response to a fire, which in reality would not be the case.

“It is important to remember that the assessments contained in the application are preliminary, and we will use the reports to inform the design of the facility and development of our operational emergency response plan. So, we expect the final design will result in significant decreases in the mitigated risks that you see prevented in these types of reports,” she said. “We’ll develop more detailed emergency response plans for the expansion, and we’ll provide updated risk assessments as well.”

Hounsell wasn’t sure when that information will be available, but since the fire department’s concerns were raised in the first round of information requests for the pipeline hearing, Kinder Morgan will formally reply through the hearing. The deadline for the company to respond is June 13.

“We would also look forward with local emergency responders to help develop any response plans moving forward,” Hounsell added.

As for the hilly location and proximity to homes, Hounsell said there is no proposal to move the facility but reiterated that there have been no fires in six decades.

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City questions port plans The City of Burnaby is asking Port Metro Vancouver to revise its drafted land use plan to bring it in line with the city and Metro Vancouver’s own designations.

Council voted several weeks ago to request that the port amend its land-use designations for a number of Burnaby properties in its plan. The request asks Port Metro Vancouver to conduct further research of Berry Point and Shellburn Lands, designate the water lot of Burrard Inlet Conservation Area and two waterfront properties in Barnet Marine Park for recreation, and limit the capacity of bulk shipments in and out of the Westridge Marine Terminal.

It also asks for recreation and conservation designations to be added to an industrial area from Wiggins Street to city

boundaries.

Coun. Nick Volkow said the city and the port seemed to have an agreement on the majority of the properties in question, but raised concerns with the port’s ideas for expansion of the Westridge Marine Terminal. The city opposes expansion of the terminal and increased petroleum exports, citing risks to the environment in Burnaby and surrounding regions.

“There remain some points of contention between us and Port Metro,” added Mayor Derek Corrigan. “I think it’s important that Port Metro Vancouver come to the table with local governments and, as much as possible, bring their land-use plan into conformance with our zoning.”

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Last month, the city acknowledged issues with the Brentwood development by creating a city manager’s report that addressed a number of concerns raised at a lengthy public hearing about the site in February.

The city has yet to hold a public hearing for the second proposed Brentwood tower, though the city manager’s report noted that additional hearings and open houses will be held for each phase of the Brentwood development.

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f you’ve got talent, then the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre wants to hear from you.

The centre is taking applications until May 31 for Nikkei’s Got Talent – a talent show that will be held in conjunction with its Nikkei Matsuri family Japanese festival.

Performers will take part in auditions on three consecutive Sundays: June 29, July 6 and July 13.

Twenty applicants will be chosen for the semifinal, which will take place on the first day of Nikkei Matsuri on Aug. 30. Ten will then advance to the finals the next day.

The grand prize is $500, with $200 to the runner-up.

Any talent is welcome – last year there were street dancers, hip hop artists, singers and many others.

Performers can compete individually or as a group (up to 10 members per group).

To apply, check out the details at www.nikkeimatsuri.ca, email talentshow.nikkei matsuri@gmail.com or call 604777-7000.

Help with new mural

Wesburn Community Centre is getting a new mural, and community members are being invited to get involved.

The city’s community arts team is holding brainstorming sessions to seek community ideas for the creation of the new mural.

All ages are welcome to take part, and no experience is necessary.

The sessions are all free.

One was held May 22, and the next sessions are coming up Thursday, May 29 and Thursday, June 5.

In July, the centre will hold painting sessions where community members can join in.

The previous mural was painted in June of 1977, and the community was involved that time around, too.

To get involved this time, call the city’s community arts coordinator at 604-297-4532.

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Master artist in training: Marcus Collins isn’t afraid to get messy in pursuit of a masterpiece, as evidenced by his efforts at Advantage Preschool. He’s one of the preschool students who are taking part in Adventure Through the Arts, a public exhibition of the students’ work that’s being held Friday, May 30.

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Every child is an artist.

Just ask the kids at Advantage Preschool, where art is not only part of their daily life – it’s about to be the focus of their first public exhibition.

Adventure Through The Arts, a gallery of preschool artwork, is taking place on Friday, May 30 at the Alan Emmot Centre.

It’s been organized by Ellen James and Laura Miks, the owners of the preschool – which has served more than 800 students in the South Slope area since it opened in 1987.

“Every year we are blown away by the abilities of our young artists,” James said in a press release. “The whimsical beauty of their creations are often masterpieces in our eyes. The students’ parents themselves have shown such an interest and appreciation for the art of their children that we thought it would be very meaningful to have a real gallery display.”

James said the event will highlight the importance of art in the lives of children and should also be inspirational and educational to anyone involved with young children – including early childhood educators and elementary school teachers.

Two local artists – Daniel John Campbell from the Alligator Design Group, and New Westminster artist Susan L. Greig, owner of the new 100 Braid Street Studios – will be on hand to lend their support to children’s art programs.

The Adventure Through the Arts showing will be open to the public on Friday, May 30 from 5 to 8 p.m., and it will include a gallery showing, a silent auction and a marketplace. The young artists will be on hand for the first hour.

The Alan Emmot Centre is at 6650 Southoaks Cres. Entrance is by donation.

Call 604-435-1263 or see www. advantagepreschool.ca for more details.

Beck set to play Deer Lake

Everywhere he goes his latest tour is earning raves – and now Burnaby audiences will have a chance to find out why.

Beck has just been announced as the next artist for the Deer Lake Park concert series this summer.

He’s taking to the stage on Tuesday, Aug. 19, and tickets go on sale Friday, May 30 at 10 a.m.

Beck’s current album, Morning Phase, is firmly entrenched in the top 40, and his performance at the Coachella festival earned a nod in Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Things We Saw at Coachella 2014.

Tickets are $59.50, plus service charges, available through ticketmaster at 1-855-9855000.

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Summer sounds: Beck is the latest artist to be announced for the Deer Lake Park concert series. Tickets go on sale Friday for the Aug. 19 concert.

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In the spotlight:

The Maple Leaf Singers are offering up Rock, Roll and Remember on May 31 and June 1.

The choir, which rehearses weekly in Burnaby, is taking to the stage at the Massey Theatre in New Westminster, 735 Eighth Ave. Photo contributed/burnaby now

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Singing down memory lane Do your remember your first heartthrob? Your first date? Your first dance?

The Maple Leaf Singers will help you walk down memory lane at their concert this weekend at Massey Theatre.

The Burnaby-based choir, which is in its 46th year of performing, will offer up chart toppers from the 1950s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s in its Rock, Roll and Remember concert.

Think songs like Michael Jackson’s Man in the Mirror, Manhattan Transfer’s The Boy From New York City, Stompin’ Tom Connors’ The Hockey Song and Queen’s We Will Rock You – plus Broadway classics, spirituals, classical twists and inspirational pieces.

“We don’t put on a concert, we put on a show,” says musical director Wilson Fowlie in a press release. “We may be a community chorus, but our audiences get a professional package: talented singers, energetic choreography and colourful costumes, along with a big dose of fun.”

The Maple Leaf Singers are a registered charity that performs more than a dozen shows a year at community centres, churches, seniors’ residences and various special events.

Rock, Roll and Remember is on Saturday, May 31 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 1 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20, or $10 for children 12 and under. Call the Massey ticket centre at 604-521-5050 or buy through tickets.massey theatre.com.

Check out more about the choir at www.mapleleaf singers.com.

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Burnaby librarians can help.

The McGill branch of Burnaby Public Library is holding a Librarians’ Choice – Best Books for Summer event on Thursday, June 5 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Librarians will offer up quick reviews of their picks for summer reading.

It’s free, but space is limited – register online

at www.bpl.bc.ca/events, call 604-299-8955 or drop in to the library at 4595 Albert St. Check out www.bpl. bc.ca for all the details about this and other programs offered by public library branches.

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heir kids might not want to hear it, their doctors might not have brought it up, but a group of New Westminster seniors is ready to start talking about what kind of medical care they want (and don’t want) if they ever get too sick to decide for themselves.

“My doctor has never discussed this with me. Maybe she’s not prepared to, but I will go and talk to her,” Patricia Redman told the Burnaby NOW. “If they’re not ready to discuss it,” Dianne Clark said of her two daughters, “I need to write stuff down.”

Redman and Clark were part of an innovative new workshop on advance-care planning this month.

Sponsored by the Fraser Northwest Division of Family Practice to mark national Advance Care Planning Day on April 16, it brought together both seniors and family doctors to learn about planning ahead for their future care in case a severe illness ever renders them unable to make decisions for themselves.

It’s rare to see doctors and laypeople learning together, said co-facilitator Dr. Charlie Chen, a hospice and palliative care consultant for Royal Columbian Hospital and the New West community.

The content they need to know on most health-related topics is usually quite different, he said.

Not so with advance-care planning.

“It’s an activity that everybody should know how to do, even doctors for themselves,” Chen said. “We also believe that if doctors engage in the creation of

Area doctors and seniors learn together about advance-care planning at a pilot workshop sponsored by the Fraser Northwest Division of Family Practice in New Westminster last month. More such workshops may be in store for the future.

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their own advance-care planning, they’re going to be more able to facilitate advance-care planning for their patients.”

When patients don’t have a plan, the result is usually a lot of stress on relatives and doctors.

It’s a scenario Dr. Marianne Russell, who was at this month’s workshop, has dealt with many times. A family doctor, who has worked as medical coordinator for a

seniors’ residential-care facility, she has seen how stressful it is for families to try to make decisions for loved ones who haven’t made plans for themselves.

“You’ll have family members that may have no idea what their relative wanted, and that’s a problem for the family member,” Russell said. “They feel an immense responsibility and sometimes guilt.”

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Having begun his own advancecare planning at age 38, the 44-yearold doctor said the process also pays off in terms of greater self-understanding long before health-care issues come into play.

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“If I lose a faculty, can I compensate and still have a good quality of life, and which faculties would I be willing to lose?” she said.

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Having a chance to discuss such issues, especially among fellow seniors and doctors, was helpful, she said.

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be interested in this Rotary fundraiser. The Rotary Club of Burnaby Deer Lake is selling five- and 13.5-kilogram buckets of strawberries to help raise money for philanthropic work. The smaller bucket is $35, and the larger one is $59.

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The NOW’s popular health columnist will be speaking on the doctor-patient relationship in Burnaby in early June.

The event is open to the public and runs from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Monday, June 2 at the Bob Prittie Metrotown library branch.

Wong plans to offer advice for patients, including how to prepare for a doctor’s visit, how to find the right doctor, how to communicate with medical staff, and more.

I suspect this one will be well attended as well, so register early and save a seat by calling 604-4365400, or register online at bpl.bc.ca/events.

Look for Wong’s regular columns in the Burnaby NOW for advice on health and well-being.

The library branch is at 6100 Willingdon Ave.

Summer reading

Looking for something to read this summer? Local librarians have several recommendations, and they will be presenting them on Thursday, June 5 at the McGill branch, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 4595 Albert St. The session is free, but as always, space is limited, so make sure you register ahead of time by calling 604-299-8955.

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Are you one of those people who doesn’t have a computer?

Now, you can check out the Kinder Morgan pipeline application at the library. It’s only 15,000 pages, or about three metres of files.

Kinder Morgan, which plans to build a second pipeline through Burnaby, dropped off a hardcopy of the application at the Bob Prittie Metrotown library branch.

While the electronic version is available online, on the National Energy Board and Trans Mountain website, the paper version will be helpful for people who don’t have a computer or prefer to read on paper.

The application is kept on the second floor of the Metrotown branch.

Thanks to librarian Linton Harrison for the email about that.

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Art fundraiser helps firefighters’ burn fund Cayley Dobie staff reporter

Firefighters know all too well how burns can change someone’s life, so when a Burnaby firefighter was given the chance to help victims of these severe injuries, he jumped at it – and now he’s getting his whole family involved.

Tyler Bruce is a second-generation firefighter with the Burnaby Fire Department, following in the footsteps of his father and uncle.

In 2008, the New Westminster native was called to an apartment fire and when he arrived on scene, the first thing he saw was a young boy who had been severely burned.

“I didn’t want to show any emotions because we’re not really supposed to show emotions,” Bruce said, thinking back to that day nearly six years ago.

The incident left Bruce shaken to his core. He said his emotions were so strong he had to pull over to the side of the road on his way home from work that day.

“That’s when I thought of my kids and it was just the ‘What if?

What if that was my kids?’ It definitely hit home. I hugged my kids for probably 45 minutes when I got home,” he recalled.

Bruce knew he had to do something to help kids who suffer severe second- and third-degree burns, so he began volunteering with the B.C. Professional Fire

Fighters Association Burn Fund at its Young Burn Survivor Camp.

At the camp, Bruce reconnected with the little boy he had met at the apartment fire and was shocked to see how much of a difference the camp made in the young boy’s life.

“I have kids roughly the same age as him, so it really affected me that way. Just to see what his family went through and how withdrawn he was,” he said. “The burn camp just brings him out like tenfold, it’s amazing to see the difference, and I think it was really important for him.”

This experience has left a lasting impression on Bruce. He now volunteers annually at the camp and tries to help the association as much as he can, so when his aunt Betty approached him about donating his uncle’s art collection, he knew exactly where she could donate it.

John Carr, Bruce’s uncle, was a firefighter in Burnaby for many years and in his spare time he collected art, all kinds of art from oil paintings to First Nations carvings and paintings. When he died of a heart attack in the late ‘90s, the collection remained untouched.

“He accumulated a lot of art over the years, and my aunt, this year, decided she wanted to donate it, and she chose the burn fund because it’s a big part of me and she just wanted to help out,” Bruce said.

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Priceless: Tyler Bruce, right, convinced his aunt Betty, left, to donate a large portion of his late uncle’s art collection for a fundraiser in support of the Burn Fund’s new facility in Vancouver. The facility will provide a home away from home for victims of severe burns and their families while seeking treatment in the Lower Mainland.

With the assistance of burn fund project director Erik Vogel, also a Burnaby firefighter, and the Langley Arts Council, John Carr’s collection was appraised and soon the public will have a chance to purchase more than 1,000 pieces

when they officially go on sale on May 28.

All proceeds will go toward raising the final $2 million needed to build the Burn Fund Centre in Vancouver. The centre will provide eight short-term stay units

for burn and trauma patients and their families. The centre will also house a public education resource centre and retail space.

To view and buy pieces from the John Carr Collection visit www.johncarrcollection.org.

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Dancer Heather Laura Gray takes to the stage in The Art of Stealing, onstage at the Firehall Arts Centre May 28 to 31.

Music students at Burnaby North Secondary School are ending their year in style.

The students are holding their Sweet Swingin’ Spring concerts on June 3 and 4.

The jazz bands and choir will be featured on June 3, with the concert bands, orchestra and marching band on June 4.

Concerts will start at 6:30 p.m. both days, either in the north gym or – if weather allows it – outside in the courtyard.

Admission is by a suggested donation of $5 per person.

Burnaby North Secondary School is at 751 Jason Lang/burnaby now Hammarskjold Dr. On the go: The Burnaby North marching band in the Hyack twitter.com/juliemaclellan

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Dancer featured in Art of Stealing Jennifer Thuncher contributing writer

Burnaby’s multi-talented Heather Laura Gray is set to perform with the Vancouver-based contemporary dance company, The Response, in the world premier of The Art of Stealing, a tale of surviving in a postapocalyptic world.

In the piece, Gray’s character and her fictional older brother (Kevin Tookey) try to make it through the dogeat-dog world they find themselves in after the world as they knew it has come to an end.

Along the way, the pair meets up with the rest of their gang of survivors and together they fight and support each other in an effort to endure.

Throughout the performance, the theme of what people steal from each other, figuratively and literally, is explored.

“There are some twists and turns that happen with my character that are a lot of fun,” Gray told the Burnaby NOW over the phone earlier this week as she made her way home to Burnaby on the bus.

Gray said dancing in this performance gives her a chance to focus on being physical in a way her other work as a choreographer doesn’t.

“It is so much fun, I get to be a collaborator, but in a different way,” she said.

Gray has worked as a choreographer on commercials (recently for Crayola), and was one of the choreographers on the set of the Vancouver-shot series The Killing and the Canadian

film, Random Acts of Romance.

Gray said being one of six dancers under the choreography and direction of Amber Funk Barton was an opportunity to worry less and move more.

But giving up control over the process isn’t always easy. “(It is) challenging to be more focused as a dancer and in my own body and not necessarily in my mind,” she said.

Thirty-something Gray grew up For info in Burnaby and and tickets, attended Morley Elementary and scan with both Moscrop and Layar Burnaby Central secondary schools.

She later headed to ballet school in Montreal and then spent five years working in Toronto. She is now back living in Burnaby.

“Burnaby has been my jump-off point. I keep coming back to it,” she said.

She said the world portrayed in The Art of Stealing is the exact opposite of the community she got to be a part of growing up.

“The idea of having a lot of neighbours that I got to have great times with and to build a community – this is the complete opposite. In this world we are scared of everyone. It is as if Burnaby were completely desolate and we were just trying to find food to survive.

“For me Burnaby is a beautiful, comfortable place, and definitely the piece is very much in a state of anxiety and struggle.”

The Art of Stealing runs May 28 to 31 at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver.

See firehallartscentre.ca/ event/the-art-of-stealing.

Celebrating 10 Years of Outstanding Education A New Head of School The Board of Directors at Brockton School are pleased to present Ms. Karen McCulla, M.Ed., B.Ed., B.Sc. (Honours), as the next Head of School commencing July 1, 2014. Karen is a passionate and well-respected educator and leader who comes to the position with a strong and proven track record in education.

She joins Brockton after spending the past twelve years with Crofton House in Vancouver. Prior to that, Karen held various teaching and leadership positions in a number of respected educational institutions both locally and abroad.

Karen is a great fit for Brockton and the leader who is able to guide the school through the next exciting chapter of its journey.

Inaugural Grade 12 Graduation and Gala Concert Friday, June 6, Brockton School will celebrate their Grade 12 graduates as they head off to their universities of choice including UBC Engineering and Emily Carr Art Foundations. Contact the school office for tickets.

About Brockton School Established in 2004 Brockton School offers full day Kindergarten along with Grades 1 through 12.

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Doctors help shape stories HEALTHWISE

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Physicians are privileged to listen to the personal stories of our patients, and we are entrusted to become a part of these stories as we, understanding each person’s personal values, guide them in making the most appropriate choices for themselves.

At a recent strategic planning session for the Burnaby Division of Family Practice, I invited all board members to share their stories. Why did they choose medicine as a career? Why did they choose family medicine as a specialty?

Why did they choose to practise in Burnaby, and why did they join the Burnaby Division of Family Practice?

Medicine chose me when in Grade 6, I was admitted to Burnaby Hospital for inflammatory arthritis and was moved by the nurses and doctors who cared for me as a person and not just the disease. I wanted to help others to cope with challenging and uncertain circumstances and see and treat them as whole people.

I chose Burnaby because this was my hometown.

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North, played in most of the parks, learned to swim in the Kensington outdoor pool and spent countless hours in the Burnaby Public Library. To work in Burnaby was to give back to the community that has given me so much more.

I chose to lead the Burnaby Division of Family Practice because this non-profit organization’s purpose resonated with my personal calling. The Burnaby Division’s mission is to engage, support and mobilize family physicians in co-creating a network that will support the wellbeing of all members of the Burnaby community.

At the heart of our mission – at the core of all that we do – is the well-being of every patient.

Our organization and the GP for Me initiative ask all family physicians to expand their circle of care.

As a group we are engaged in the care of everyone in our community, especially those who do not yet have a family physician and are not receiving the care they need.

Our organization is involved in multiple initiatives that will ultimately enhance access to primary care, the health of our community and the patientdoctor relationship.

On Monday, June 2, I’ll be speaking at the Metrotown branch of the Burnaby Public Library on The Patient-Doctor Relationship: making the most of each visit with your family doctor. For more information, call the library at 604-436-5400 or register online at www.bpl. bc.ca/events.

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Joining the B.C. heptathlon elite Tom Berridge

sports editor

Nina Schultz joined a celebrated list of remarkable Burnaby/ New Westminster multi-events athletes.

The New Westminster Secondary School junior became the fifth district female athlete since 1980 to win the B.C. high school heptathlon title in Abbotsford last weekend.

Schultz defeated three of last year’s runners-up in her provincial multi-events debut, recording two wins and three other top-three finishes in the two-day, sevenevent competition.

The Grade 10 athlete opened with a win in the 100-metre hurdles – the first of three personal bests in the competition – in a quick time of 14.92, which would have been a gold-medal time in the individual race at the provincials last season.

She also won the long jump to start Day 2 of the competition with a tremendous leap of 5.72m – another possible first-place jump and best individual effort in the field event since Sabrina Nettey’s six-metre winning leap in 2008.

What was even more incredible was Schultz’s PB jump was half a metre farther than her previous best.

On the opening day, Schultz finished runner-up in the high jump at 1.59m, while placing third in both the shot put, at 9.51m, and the 200m, in a time of 26.55.

Schultz finished in mid-pack in the javelin and 800m on the final day of the multi-events but still managed to hold off last year’s runner-up, Robyn Buckingham of Walnut Grove, by nearly 150 points. She also defeated Hannah Beaton of Langley Fundamental and Monique Lisek of Maple Ridge – last year’s third- and fourthplace finishers, respectively.

Stephanie Cho of Winston Churchill placed third in this year’s multi-event final with 4,342

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A big jump: Nina Schultz uncorks a winning 5.72 metre long jump at the B.C. high school combined events championships in Abbotsford last weekend. total points.

“For my first heptathlon, it was pretty good. I was really happy

with my hurdles. In my high jump, I went out at 1.62m. I was pretty disappointed with 1.59m,”

said Schultz, who has a career leap of 1.75m in the high jump.

Schultz’s winning score of 4,655 points was far off four-time heptathlon champion Georgia Ellenwood’s B.C. record 5,296 numbers from last year.

But when put into perspective, Schultz’s aggregate total is among the best of any past multi-event’s winner.

Ellenwood won her first of four titles as a Grade 9 with a 4,661 total.

G.P. Vanier’s three-time winner from 2004 to ‘06, Katie Gallagher, scored a personal-best 4,554 in the 2005 championships.

Burnaby Central’s Angela Anoliefoh and Natalie Jackson shared four titles between them from 1996 and 2000. Jackson’s best 4,712 came in her senior year, while Anoliefoh won as a junior in 1998, when she won with a 4,553 total score.

Another Burnaby Central great, Charmaine Cotton, won back-toback heptathlon titles 20 years ago with a best score of 4,179.

Perhaps the best of all BurWest high school heptathletes was Allison Eades, who won four consecutive titles from 1980 to ‘83, breaking her own provincial high school record three times with a B.C.-best 5,156 aggregate in her final year.

That record did not last long however. D.W. Poppy’s Kelly Ann Kempf set a new standard of 5,262 in 1985, which stood up for nearly three decades until Ellenwood’s record-setting performance last year.

While Schultz fully intends on becoming B.C. high school sports ninth multi combine-events winner, she has no plans to continue the gruelling event into her postsecondary future.

“I’ll definitely do (the heptathlon) in my high school years. I don’t mind most of the events. … But personally, I don’t want to pursue it, it’s such a tough event,” she said.

Six hat tricks for rookie Jr. Laker Tom Berridge sports editor

Burnaby Laker rookie Aidan Milburn recorded his sixth hat trick in eight B.C. Junior Lacrosse League games.

Milburn collected a goal in each of the three periods, while raining a gamehigh 22 shots on goal for Burnaby, which lost 11-7 to the Nanaimo Timbermen in the Hub City on Saturday.

Milburn moved into second place in league scoring with 36 points, including a league-best 24 tallies.

The loss was Burnaby’s fourth in a row, dropping the Lakers into a tie for sixth place with the Langley Thunder.

The Lakers outshot the T-Men 55-43 in their own barn, but Nanaimo keeper Peter Dubenski was on his game, stopping 48 of them.

David Mather had 32 stops for the Lakers at the other end of the floor.

Randy Jones counted a pair of goals for Burnaby, while aged-up rookie Tyler Vogrig chipped in with a goal and two helpers.

Brett Hawrys led all scorers with four goals in a six-point outing, including the eventual game-winner in the final seconds of the second period. Nanaimo teammate Dane Sorensen added a hat trick after scoring the opening goal of the game on a shorthanded marker.

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Burnaby teen medals twice in Asian world qualifier Tom Berridge

sports editor

St. Thomas More sprinter Zion Corrales-Nelson won a pair of bronze medals at the Youth Olympic Games Asian qualifying track and field meet in Bangkok, Thailand last week.

The Grade 10 Burnaby phenom, running in her international debut for the Philippines, placed third in the women’s 400-metre run and then settled for a second bronze in a photo finish in the 200m, matching runnerup Ge Manqui of China with

a 24.30 clocking at Thammasat University Stadium in the Thai capital on May 22.

“I think I did pretty well with the heat,” said Corrales-Nelson of her first truly international meet.

“It was a little new to me. I tried to treat it like a meet back home, but it was a little scary. It was like people I didn’t know. I guess it was nerves.”

Corrales-Nelson, a 15-yearold Filipino-Canadian, was the sole competitor representing the Philippines at the Asian area qualifier.

Nevertheless, Corrales-

Nelson’s personal-best time in the 200m qualified her for the World Junior Championships to be held in Oregon in July.

Last season, she ran a windaided 24.01 in the 200m.

Corrales-Nelson, who has run 54-second 400m times in the past, needs to run a 55.16 or better time in the metric quarter-mile to qualify for the World Youth Games to be held in Nanjing, China in August.

With her results, CorralesNelson became the second Filipino woman to qualify for Oregon.

Sixteen-year-old FilipinoAmerican Kayla Richardson will join Corrales-Nelson at the world juniors.

Corrales-Nelson will also represent STM at the B.C. high school provincial track and field championships in Langley this week, where she will compete in three individual events and in the relays.

“The provincials are a big deal,” she said. “It’s three days and a lot of events. But I don’t mind. I think I’m used to it. It doesn’t bother me that much.”

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Skip to my lou: EDC FC Burnaby, in white, dropped its first game of the Pacific Coast Soccer League season 3-2 to Coquitlam Metro-Ford.

Clan junior named player of year Tom Berridge

sports editor

Erin Chambers became the second Simon Fraser University athlete to earn Basketball B.C.’s female university player of the year.

The Clan junior received the honour at the Basketball B.C. Hall of Fame and awards evening at the Langley Events Centre on May 12.

Former SFU star Nayo RaincockEkunwe won back-to-back Basketball B.C. awards in 2011 and again in 2012.

This season, Chambers led the NCAA Division II Great Northwest conference in

scoring, averaging 23.1 points per game, the only player to average more than 20 points.

Chambers was also sixth overall in Div. II scoring, the highest ever by a Clan athlete since the Burnaby Mountain school joined the NCAA. She also broke seven conference records in her junior year, including 220 field goals in a season, 692 points in a season, as well as scoring average.

The awards cap off a year in which Chambers was named an All-American honourable mention, while she also helped lead SFU to the round of 32 in the NCAA tournament.

STM caps unbeaten season Tom Berridge sports editor

St. Thomas More capped an unbeaten junior girls’ soccer season with a playoff title, but it wasn’t without its anxious moments.

The Knights fell behind 2-0 in the opening 20 minutes of play and needed a second-half comeback to rally past York House 4-2

in the the Lower Mainland independent league junior girls’ soccer final last week.

Carling Bauer got the Knights back on even terms with a goal in both the first and second half, before junior Delaney Davidson tallied STM’s next two, including the game-winner on a partial breakaway 10 minutes from full time.

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Six years ago, Daniel Turner, owner of the landmark Cockney Kings Fish & Chips in New Westminster, purchased the Burnaby restaurant. There, he continues the four-decade long tradition of serving up the best fish and chips in town.

“The Burnaby store is where I got my start and where I managed until 1999 when I purchased the New Westminster restaurant,” adds Dan. When asked what his secret to his success is, Dan says it’s the fresh fish and chips and local seafood, as well as friendly and great customer service.

“There’s also a great vibe and energy here … a really nice little buzz which customers themselves create,” says Dan, adding some of his staff at his first location have been with him 14 years.

Cockney Kings has earned quite a reputation for serving generous pieces of fresh fish in a batter that is light, almost fluffy and sinfully delicious.

In 1965, founder Len Evans opened the fish and chips restaurant and soon people were flocking in. Dan began working at the popular spot in 1985 when he was 11 years old. He started as a dishwasher and soon moved up the ladder until he purchased it.

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However, the British-style eatery is renowned for much more than just fish and chips; they also offer Louisiana shrimp and chips, chicken fingers and other daily specials.

“We introduced fish tacos and Haddock and customers love them,” adds Dan. The success is simply that: “We are a family run business and that extends to our customers, they don’t just feel like our family… they are our family!”

Meanwhile, Dan strongly believes in giving back to the community which has been so good to him. Whenever possible, they help out at local fundraisers and often provide donations to nonprofit organizations.

The traditional English fish and chips eatery seats about 72 inside and is located at 6574 East Hastings St. in Burnaby. Drop by and taste for yourself why Burnaby residents have voted Cockney Kings Fish & Chips the Best in Burnaby for over 15 years. For more information, call 604-291-1323 or visit www.cockneykings.ca.

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