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SPLISH SPLASH: Did somebody say November? Mother Nature took it upon herself to turn very, very wet this week – and then promptly surprised us all with sunshine as this paper was heading to press. But we recommend not leaving your umbrella at home just yet, as Environment Canada is calling for showers today (Wednesday) and rain tomorrow, before the weather clears up a little for Friday and Saturday.

Anti-pipeline protesters will be in court again Wednesday (today) now that Kinder Morgan is seeking an injunction to ban protesters from Burnaby Mountain and beyond, so the company can finish survey work for a new pipeline route. Kinder Morgan also hit the protesters with a civil suit, with claims of damages and lost costs that could total millions.

Last Thursday, five protesters were served with legal papers: Alan Dutton of Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE), Mia Nissen, Adam Gold and SFU professors Kinder Morgan Page 5

‘GAY SERUM’ RUMOUR SAID TO BE TARGETED AT MANDARIN-SPEAKING VOTERS

Race and homophobia hit the campaign Cornelia Naylor and Jacob Zinn staff reporters

Both sides of Burnaby’s civic election campaign are brandishing the race card after reports Madarin-speaking parents have been told schools are injecting students with a gay serum.

Burnaby Citizens Association trustee Harman Pandher said he first heard about the rumour while door-knocking a week or two ago.

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The rumour was purportedly being spread by someone claiming to be a volunteer with the opposition, Burnaby First Coalition (BFC), and had been confined to the Mandarin-speaking community, with new immigrants being targeted, according to Pandher.

“We’re not hearing this in the mainstream media, we’re not hearing this at all candidates events or on party websites – it’s being done sneakily, and it’s unfortunate,” he

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Pandher said he’s not sure who’s spreading the rumour, but added it seemed like it was an orchestrated campaign.

“I don’t know how effective this type of smear campaign is. I think our voters are smarter than that, but there are people who are new to Canada and might not be that familiar with issues and the type of diversity we have in our community.”

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See Jennifer Moreau’s blog, Community Conversations, for more details on Kinder Morgan’s court case against protesters on Burnaby Mountain

Homeless people have set up tents and are living in Central Park in Burnaby.

While officials roust them out on a regular basis, many have concealed their gear quite far in the bush – like this individual.

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At last count, Burnaby had fewer than 60 homeless people, yet homelessness is still a significant concern throughout the Lower Mainland and a hot topic leading up to B.C.’s municipal elections.

Homelessness was voted the second largest issue in Burnaby by our readers in a recent online poll, and there is a general consensus among mayoral candidates that homelessness needs to be addressed. But how, or even if, the city should be the driving force behind any permanent solutions is where candidates and slates differ.

Mayor Derek Corrigan’s Burnaby Citizens Association responded with its recent statement on housing and homelessness, acknowledging that homelessness is an important social issue throughout Metro Vancouver, but one that is not the responsibility of municipal governments.

“The BCA will always support social housing and treatment centres but will not perpetuate the problem of homelessness by creating overnight shelters that don’t lead anyone to permanent housing and don’t provide treatment for the many people in need of both housing and complementary

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medical care,” stated the BCA. The statement emphasized the need for long-term solutions and touted Burnaby’s 100-bed Mental Health and Addiction Centre at Willingdon, which is about to close “because the provincial government sold the land to balance its budget.”

Rather than deflect the issue to the B.C. Liberals and federal Conservatives, Burnaby First’s Daren Hancott said the city must partner with other levels of government to tackle homelessness. He also noted the BFC would find room in the budget to help Burnaby’s displaced, with or without an intergovernmental partnership.

“If they didn’t do it, we would do it,” he said. “We would find a cautious solution because it’s a complex problem.”

Hancott also stressed that, unlike the stereotype, not all homeless people are mentally ill or drug-addicted, and Burnaby has many groups ready and willing to address the issue.

“There’s dozens of organizations that want to help, it’s just they don’t have the funding to do it and we’re not doing anything. When we see our brothers and sisters

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in Burnaby suffering, especially on cold nights and dark nights and windy nights, we need to do more.”

Independent candidate Helen Chang proposed establishing a homelessness committee and working with the province to provide more social housing. In the short term, she suggested creating a winter shelter, with a long-term goal of developing more affordable housing over the next five to 10 years.

“Whether or not we agree that homelessness is a community responsibility, homelessness is an issue and we should take care of (the homeless),” she told the NOW. Allen Hutton and Sylvia Gung, who each ran for the mayor’s seat in the last election, both agreed homelessness is a top issue for the city. Hutton suggested Burnaby’s Task Force on Homelessness apply to the city to work out of city hall in an effort to engage the powers that be in the group’s initiatives.

Raj Gupta – who is running for mayor in Burnaby, council in New Westminster and school board in Vancouver – pledged he would provide homeless shelters in the city and construct more rental complexes.

ing will be on the third floor of the Metrotown Community Resource Centre (4460 Beresford St.) and will discuss issues relatLast week’s question Do you think the pipeline is an election issue?

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ing to families, youth, seniors, women, persons with disabilities and newcomers. The dialogue runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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New publisher at the helm There’s a new face at the helm of the Burnaby NOW, now that longtime publisher Brad Alden has retired.

Alvin Brouwer, president of Lower Mainland Publishing, is now publisher of the Burnaby NOW and The Record, and sales and marketing director Lara Graham is associate publisher.

“I’m an enthusiastic optimist, and I really believe in our industry,” Brouwer said. “I also believe we really have to accelerate our efforts on the digital side, which is what we are starting to do.”

Brouwer has a long history in the newspaper business. He spent 25 years at Metroland Media, a community newspaper chain in Ontario, t h e n moved to Postmedia to become Alvin Brouwer p r e s i d e n t of business ventures before joining Glacier.

Lower Mainland Publishing is Glacier’s community newspaper division.

Lara Graham Brouwer is also president of Glacier Media Digital and publisher for the Delta Optimist.

Brouwer said readers can expect to see accelerated efforts on the digital media side while he is publisher.

“Although it’s a good paper today, I think it’s going to be a better paper,” he said.

Meanwhile, Graham will maintain her role as sales and marketing director in New Westminster and Burnaby, a post she’s held for the past eight years, while she takes on more responsibility as associate publisher.

“I’m really excited to be given this opportunity as associate publisher.

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Both Brouwer and Graham will be attending public functions on behalf of the newspaper.

The two took over their new responsibilities following the retirement of Alden, who spent more than two decades in the industry.

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Kinder Morgan: Protesters keep presence on Burnaby Mountain continued from page 1 ing to work with them to make sure things Lynne Quarmby and Stephen Collis. The were respectful and things did not get type of application Kinder Morgan is seek- out of hand, and we continue to do that,” ing will prevent anyone from protesting Dutton said.

The protesters are still maintaining a against the pipeline work, not just those presence on the mountain, with some even served.

Collis, an SFU professor and spokesper- on night watch.

The protesters are a mix of people, includson for the protesters, was feeling nervous ing members of BROKE, some people conTuesday, before the court hearing.

“What they really want is the injunction nected to SFU, and a younger anti-pipeline so they can get to work. This is a pretty demographic of people from Vancouver.

The five protesters served with legal aggressive company,” Collis said. “The scariest thing is the civil suit, which will papers all have lawyers, and there are two fundraising campaigns to help with follow next.”

The court case follows last Wednesday’s the court costs. By Tuesday at press time, heated confrontation on Burnaby Mountain, BROKE’s fundraising campaign raised an where protesters shouted foul language at estimated $5,000, while a second campaign Kinder Morgan workers, driving them out hit more than $32,000. Collis said that’s not of the woods. One protester then chained enough to cover the legal fees, which are an estimated $20,000 per person himself to the underside of for just one week in court. their work vehicle.

“I have been More than 100 people packed Besides the injunction, the standing in a the courtroom last Friday for company is accusing the prothe initial hearing, which was testers of trespassing, assault, public park. I adjourned till Wednesday. intimidation, nuisance, induchave not Collis said environmening breach of contract and contal organizations around the spiracy. trespassed. … have expressed support.

“It’s a bullying tactic,” Kinder Morgan world More than 40 groups, includQuarmby said. “I have been is claiming we’re ing Greenpeace, 350.org and standing in a public park. I the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs have not trespassed. The RCMP trespassing.” have signed an open letter of have been by to chat with us. support for the protesters.

No one said a word to us about LYNNE QUARMBY “It’s become an international trespassing. Kinder Morgan is SFU professor cause. Support is coming from claiming we’re trespassing.”

The trespassing allegation stems from everywhere,” Collis said.

The NOW contacted the Trans Mountain an incident in Barnet Marine Park, where two protesters crossed into a work area media line for updates, but media relations Kinder Morgan had marked off with signs. staff kept deferring to the Wednesday court The NOW is not aware of any instances of appearance.

Kinder Morgan is trying to complete surphysical assault, where someone actually kicked, punched, pushed or hit a Kinder vey work by Dec. 1 for a new pipeline that Morgan worker, and no one from the Trans would connect the Burnaby Mountain tank Mountain media line answered our query farm with the Westridge Marine Terminal.

The Burnaby Mountain line is part of the about the assault allegations.

According to Collis, the company is larger Trans Mountain expansion plan, a claiming their workers were verbally $5.4 billion project currently under review abused and yelled at, and they felt threat- by the National Energy Board. Kinder Morgan’s original NEB application had ened.

“A bullhorn was used too close to their the north Burnaby section of the line runears. That’s part of the assault they are ning through the Westridge residential claiming,” Collis said. “You would like area, which garnered some negative feedpeople to be calm and not get angry, but back, so the company opted for the mountain route instead. However, the City of this is a situation of heightened passion.”

On Tuesday, Dutton was working on an Burnaby, which is adamantly opposed to affidavit to demonstrate the protesters were the pipeline expansion, owns the Burnaby Mountain conservation area and ticketed trying to maintain order on the mountain.

“If we aren’t peaceful and respectful, Kinder Morgan for cutting down trees in a we will lose public support, so we are public park. That led the company to seek trying to maintain, as much as possible, an NEB order to force the city to back off, an orderly demonstration,” Dutton said. leaving only the protesters to face Kinder However, some protesters were unruly, Morgan.

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This is the problem with rag-tag coalitions

each other in policy matters, it simply is As election day draws closer, many not truly representative of the city. And voters in Burnaby must be scratching that is wrong. their heads as they ponder their choices.

Once upon a time in Burnaby there The Burnaby Citizens Association curwere different voices on city council and rently has all seats on city council and all in the school board. But they seats on the school board. We are gone. There is no check and think one-party rule, whichbalance in Burnaby. ever party it is, is not a good Burnaby NOW So, a voter looking for other thing. We think that it doesn’t political voices would almost truly represent all voices, and certainly look to the Burnaby First certainly leads the ruling party to behave Coalition. But the BFC, in an effort to in an often entitled and arrogant manmuster a full slate to run against BCA, ner. While it may be extremely efficient to run a city when everybody agrees with seems to have hoped that no one would

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look too closely at all of its candidates and the baggage they brought with them.

Its plan to woo voters seems to have hinged on a single pledge to not raise taxes.

The ‘gay serum’ story didn’t get legs because it was fanned by the internet and media. It got bandied about because BFC has folks in its coalition who were opposed to the school district’s 2011 antihomophobia policy and, probably still are. It’s not a big leap to think that those folks and their volunteers are still beating that drum. But aside from that story,

BFC has also shown a lack of thoughtful leadership on the pipeline in Burnaby.

It’s a big issue, and the BFC mayoralty candidate’s comments downplaying it and saying his coalition has people for it and against it merely underlines the problem with coalitions. Voters just can’t be sure what they are voting for.

We think voters are hungry for responsible, diverse political leadership in this city. But BFC, at this point, has to do more than hope for voters to support them on an “anybody but BCA” platform.

Climate change isn’t a factor IN THE HOUSE

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here has been some wellreasoned and pointed criticism aimed at the B.C. Liberal government’s never-ending push to establish a liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry in this province, particularly on the issue of whether that industry will hinder attempts at fighting climate change.

But critics who assail the government with the argument that boosting LNG at the expense of increasing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are missing a key, central point: the B.C. Liberals are not nearly as interested in curbing GHGs as they are in creating a new revenue stream for government.

While the NDP, the Pembina Institute and Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver all pitch valid critiques of the government’s recently unveiled legislation that established the “rules” when it came to emission from LNG operations, they fell on deaf government ears.

The B.C. Liberals, like the Social Credit dynasty they were borne from, are driven by a central philosophical tenet: in order

to do anything in this province, they must hold political power.

Everything the government does flows from this realization, that political power drives public policy and not the other way around.

The B.C. Liberals know they were elected not by those with an intense interest in fighting climate change, but by those whose top priority was doing whatever it takes to ensure a growing economy.

The debates that take place in Kitsilano Starbucks outlets are less relevant than ones you hear in coffee shops and bars in Surrey, Kamloops, Prince George and Kelowna.

On paper, the government says it is still committed to reducing GHG emissions by 33 per cent (from 2007 levels) by the year 2020. Whatever. It is a toothless, paper commitment and nothing more.

The 2017 election will not feature GHG emissions and climate change as its central, vote-determining issues and it’s unlikely the election after that one will either, and the B.C. Liberals are well aware of that. They also know that the vast majority of voters have little concept of, say, “one ton of greenhouse gas emissions” and can’t equate that with something easier to visualize, like a pay cheque for example.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Linear park raises safety issues

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The City of Burnaby’s decision to create a linear park on the east side of Willingdon Avenue between Lougheed and Hastings street raises a number of safety concerns.

The proposal includes a provision for a bicycle route and a pedestrian route. Given the conflict between bikers and pedestrians in areas, such as Stanley Park, one trusts that adequate safety measures are in place when the Willingdon linear park is built.

Further, and most importantly, ultra safety measures must be in place to ensure that pedestrians, especially children, do not fall foul to a traffic hazard along the highly occupied Willingdon Avenue.

This may well require a barrier – such as a steel fence – to be installed, similar to the type erected at various Burnaby schools.

Mike Horton, Burnaby

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Story skewed to the right continued from page 6

“right-leaning” opinions.

The percentages cited for residents, 48 per cent and businesses, 52 per cent, seem fair to me. Businesses take many resources from our city and need more to run their enterprises than a citizen who is simply a resident, so what is wrong with this division?

Does the Burnaby NOW have any policy to take some responsibility to fairly report both sides of issues, particularly during this election period? I can only hope so!

Patrice Pratt, Burnaby

Just say no to free golfers Dear Editor:

I am writing with regard to the $42,000 in free golf passes for city officials article in your Oct. 31 issue. Evidently the “yes vote” was skewed by the unethical solicitation by some officials of their “friends, colleagues, and personal lists” to support this elitist benefit. I for one will vote “no” to this excessive perk by refusing to vote for any of the listed officials who benefited from free golf last year.

For those citizens who missed the column in 24 Hours and wish to register a strong no to free golf for city officials, my

“no” vote in the coming elections goes to: Colleen Jordan at $4,674, Wayne Peppard at $7,898, Paul McDonell at $2,633, to Katrina Chan whose husband elicited 60 to 70 people to vote yes, to Lee Loftus at $2,677, and to Alan Hutton.

Golf is a sport for the wealthy, beyond the finances of the average Burnaby citizen who enjoys the wealth of gorgeous park lands in our picture-perfect Burnaby, freely available to all. City officials should “pay as they play” or take a very long walk in the woods.

Patricia Fieldwalker, via email

Wards are the answer Dear Editor:

Re: “Voting should be easier than ever,” Burnaby NOW, Oct. 24.

Making voting easier may not increase voter participation if they don’t feel engaged with their city council.

I think more voters would participate if councillors were running in wards. Instead of a lengthy ballot with perhaps 20 at-large councillors, a ballot for a ward might have three to four candidates to choose from.

As well, wards ensure that there are voices on council to speak for every neighbourhood of the city.

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folks like Weaver are incorrect in their conclusion that those lofty targets for cutting GHG emission levels can’t be met with a growing LNG industry.

It’s rather that in the stark world of political reality, their arguments aren’t necessarily that politically relevant. !

Some interesting financial nuggets have been unearthed by B.C. Auditor General Carol Bellringer in her massive audit of the government’s 2013/14 financial statements.

She highlighted three different unusual aspects of the government’s budgeting methods, and in her report dutifully noted that the financial statements “can tell an interesting story.” Why, yes they can.

For example, she noted the government is paying significantly higher interest rates on the debt it accumulates from public-power

partnerships than it does on its own borrowing.

While the interest rates on regular government debt averages about four per cent, those rates average more than seven per cent on P3 projects (and in one case exceeded 14 per cent). Interesting, the government – which has the ability to reply to an auditor general’s findings within the report itself – chose to stay silent on this point in her report.

She also tallied up the incentives paid to the oil and gas industry over the past five years. The incentives are credits designed to encourage the production of oil and gas, and the total has now ballooned to $1.25 billion.

While it’s no doubt true that a lot of companies wouldn’t be as active in gas exploration without those credits, that $1.25 billion can be deducted from future royalty payments, which means a lot

of natural gas will have to be extracted before the government even sees a nickel from many companies operating in the sector.

Bellringer noted last year’s budget included revenue generated by the sale of more than $600 million in public assets, and she rightly pointed out those were one-time sales that can’t generate similar revenue in the future.

That was not a new observation (many people pointed this out when Finance Minister Mike de Jong tabled the 2013-14 budget) but it serves as a reminder how difficult it may be to balance future budgets.

This was Bellringer’s first major report on government finances since she was appointed auditorgeneral at the end of May, and it’s an encouraging sign that she’s going to be a force to be reckoned with.

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

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Legislation is needed continued from page 7

on Nov. 15, but the Union of B.C. Municipalities should take a position and press the provincial government for legislation.

Derek Wilson, Port Moody

We need bear-proof bins

Dear Editor:

I live in North Burnaby, and we see bears (and other wildlife) on the trails around our house every year, without fail. We feel lucky to live in a place with so much wildlife.

However, since Burnaby changed garbage pickup to city-provided bins, we have had a problem. The bins are not animal proof. When contacted on this issue, the sanitation department’s line was clear; it’s our problem. We are told to store the bins “securely.”

We can modify the bins, but if the city doesn’t like the modification, they will charge us for a new bin. We cannot buy a third-party bear-proof bin, like the ones used in Whistler, Squamish or Revelstoke (bear-aware cities) because they will refuse to pick them up.

This leaves me and my neighbours in a bind. We have two bears knocking over garbage bins every night this week. We want to do the right thing, but because of how the properties are laid out it is impossible to store the bins securely unless I keep them inside the front door. We would

gladly buy bear-proof bins, but there is no option to do so. Bears habituated to garbage are routinely killed as they become used to human interaction, and this inevitably leads to aggressive incidents.

City of Burnaby: please give your citizens the tools or the options to help us reduce the chance of bears being killed in the city of Burnaby. Either provide us with a bear-proof bin, or let us buy one. You are blaming the citizens for a situation you’ve created.

Michael Coyle, Burnaby

Take fireworks out of city Dear Editor:

We are about to take time to remember those that fought for our freedoms. We will take a few minutes of silence, the sounds of gunfire long forgotten.

But what do we do? For nearly a week, we bring back the memories of gunfire in the peace of the night for those still around trying to forget those sounds. Not only those, but our new citizens that do not understand this ridiculous ritual of burning money just to hear the sounds of gunfire in the peaceful night, the sounds that some thought they left behind.

I could go on about young people throwing them out the windows of their cars or off balconies of apartment buildings after a night of partying.

But what’s the point?

It’s time: Take it out of the cities.

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Quiet on the fire front

It was a relatively uneventful summer for firefighters in Burnaby.

The department, which presented its third quarter report to city council on Monday, reported only a slight increase in calls during July, August and September compared to April, May and June.

The fire department responded to 3,688 incidents during the third quarter, up 109 incidents from the preceding quarter, according to the department’s 2014 thirdquarter report.

The increase is mainly the result of about 150 additional rubbish, bush and other fires, as well as increases in the number of vehicle fires (20 this quarter compared to 13 in the

spring) and false alarms, according to the report.

Incidents including motor vehicle accidents, building fires and medical emergencies all saw decreased calls for services.

What’s more, there were only about 130 additional incidents in July, August and September of 2014 compared to the number of incidents during the same time last year, the report detailed.

As for the year to date, 2014 is shaping up to have a higher number of incidents than 2013 with the department already reporting 10,647 from January to September compared to 10,253 incidents the year before.

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Pandher’s BCA colleague, trustee candidate Katrina Chen, has been quoted in local media saying the rumour is an attack on the Chinese community as well as an attack on the gay and lesbian community.

But BFC mayoral candidate Daren Hancott said it’s the BCA that’s “fanning the flames of racism” by bringing the rumours to the media.

In a press release on Monday, he pointed to racist online comments posted since the stories were first reported Thursday.

He had heard nothing about the rumour before being contacted by the media, he said, and other BFC candidates were equally shocked.

“Everybody I’ve talked to knows nothing about this, and we’ve talked to thousands of people,” he said.

The timing, less than two weeks before the election, has him suspecting sabotage.

“I think it’s smear campaign by some BCA people or supporters,” he said.

The gay-serum rumour echoes back to the controversy that surrounded Policy 5.45, an anti-homophobia

policy developed by the school district prior to the 2011 municipal election.

Burnaby Parents’ Voice, a political group formed to oppose the policy, feared it would infringe on their right to educate their children about sexual identification. The group included current BFC candidates Charter Lau, Heather Leung and Helen Ward.

When asked if he thinks the rumour is related to the Parents’ Voice group or Policy 5.45, Pandher said he didn’t want to point fingers but noted it would be hard not to link it to them. “ W e thought this issue was dead three years ago, and it’s rearing its ugly head again,” he said.

But Hancott said the 2011 battle between BCA and Burnaby Parents’ Voice has nothing to do with BFC, and the school district’s anti-homophobia policy is not an election issue this time around.

“We’ve had townhall meetings; we’ve talked to thousands of people,” he said. “This has not been an issue.”

Asked if he personally supports the district’s policy, Hancott said he doesn’t know enough about it and wouldn’t be looking into it

before Nov. 15 because it’s not an election issue.

“It’s not come up, so I’m more focused on the equal opportunity, the equal rights of every single child to reach their full potential,” Hancotte said.

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12 Here & Now

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15 The Heights

SECTION COORDINATOR Jennifer Moreau, 604-444-3021 jmoreau@burnabynow.com

Keeping pace with a changing world

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ne of the first questions Don Danbrook faced after doctors took the tubes out of his nose that had helped him breathe on a respirator for a week was, “Do you know how to use a computer?”

He didn’t.

Not surprising since the year was 1984, and hard-working, hard-partying welders like Danbrook didn’t have much to do with that kind of technology in those days.

His learning curve would be steep.

A few months before his 25th ON MY BEAT birthday, he had Cornelia Naylor fallen off a porch and onto his head, crushing vertebrae and damaging his spinal cord.

He’d been airlifted to Shaughnessy Hospital, survived a couple cardiac arrests and spent a week outfitted with a cuffed tracheostomy tube that allowed him to breathe with a respirator but prevented him from speaking.

For a month, he shared a room with a 21-year-old University of Victoria student and basketball star named Neil Squire.

Little did Danbrook know what a central role that name would play in his new life as a quadriplegic.

Squire had become a brain-stem tetraplegic, unable to move his legs or arms and unable to speak, after a car crash in 1980.

His second cousin – inventor and engineer Bill Cameron – would soon find a way to help him communicate using a mouth-controlled tube and an old teleprinter.

That work would grow into the Neil Squire Society, an organization dedicated to using technology and knowledge to empower Canadians with physical disabilities.

The society celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. or Danbrook, the organization has been a vital support for three decades.

“They’ve made a huge difference,” he said.

Now 55 and a certified general accountant who works in real estate, Danbrook is just wrapping up a one-year contract at Penny and Keenleyside Appraisals, a job he got through Neil Squire’s Working Together program, which offers wage subsidies to employers who hire people with disabilities.

Neil Squire staff helped him set up his office, including an array of adaptive technology, ranging from a mouth-controlled joystick that acts as a computer mouse, to voice activation software, to a rubber-tipped stick he holds in his mouth to poke the numbers on the office phone.

Thirty years ago, that stick was about all the adaptive technology he had.

“At first they had me poking around on a typewriter learning how to type,” Danbrook said.

“I went from a fairly physical job to not being able to do much physically.

It was certainly a shock. I didn’t really know what I was going to be able to do.”

Turns out he was able to do an awful lot thanks in large part to technologies

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Multitasker: Accountant Don Danbrook works on commercial real estate files at New Westminster’s Penny and Keenleyside Appraisals, a job he got through the Neil Squire Society’s Working Together Program. Before the contract, the society also helped him set up his office, including an array of adaptive technology. and training he got from the Neil Squire Society.

He credits the organization’s “breath switch” for getting him through his CGA program.

The technology – developed for Squire himself – allows users to command a computer with Morse code generated by sips and puffs on a specialized tube or straw.

At his peak, Danbrook could type 32 words a minute with it.

For him, it meant independence, not having to arrange for someone to scribe for him when he was doing assignments for school.

“It made all the difference, just being independent and using a computer,” he said. ut, in a pattern that has repeated itself for Danbrook and the Neil Squire Society for three decades, the pace of technology soon outstripped their retrofit solution.

The breath switch was built around a DOS operating system, so when most computers moved to Windows’ graphics-based interface, users with limited manual dexterity like Danbrook lost accessibility.

“People needed to be able to move a mouse around,” said Neil Squire executive director Gary Birch, who was then the society’s head of research and development. “It set us back. It set everyone back hugely.”

Soon, though, Birch’s team developed the Jouse, a mouth-driven joystick with a hollow tube that allowed users to click and drag with sips and puffs.

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Again, the innovation made computers accessible for users like Danbrook, who still uses a Jouse2 today.

But the shift in technology set him back as well.

Instead of typing 32 words per minute, the best he could do with a Jouse was to hunt and peck on an onscreen keyboard, painstakingly moving the cursor to a new letter for every keystroke, straining his jaw and neck.

“When I started typing with the onscreen key board, it got so I couldn’t chew with the left side of my mouth For anymore,” he said. photos, The advent of affordable scan voice activation software has with since taken some of the pressure Layar off, and Neil Squire technicians have come in handy there too, helping Danbrook through some recent frustrations with an uncooperative microphone. he next big challenge facing Danbrook and the Neil Squire Society is the shift to mobile technology.

People like Danbrook are once again in danger of being left behind, as the rest of the world relies more and more on smart phones and tablets to bank, shop and communicate.

“I can’t use it myself,” Danbrook said of his iPhone. “I have to get somebody else. I can’t turn it on, to start with. I can’t do anything.”

The advent of the ubiquitous smartphone has been a tipping point of sorts for the Neil Squire Society, which doesn’t have the resources to keep up with the now lightning-fast pace of technological

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change.

“The resources involved in doing that are so huge,” Birch said. “Wherever possible, you want to leverage or use the solutions that are already out there in the mainstream.”

Ideally, Birch said, the future would see Neil Squire work with government and industry as a service provider, ensuring all new products are accessible “out of the box” for people like Danbrook.

“It doesn’t need to be rocket science to ensure that people with disabilities’ needs are being met as they design new services and products,” Birch said.

Government regulations that force industry to make products accessible aren’t his first choice, but market forces alone won’t create the necessary change, he said, because the demographic buying accessible devices is still relatively small despite an aging population.

“I’d like to be working with industry on this one,” Birch said, “and I think industry will come around eventually, but sometimes you need both the carrot and the stick.”

Neil Squire has already helped push the needle toward more government regulation, playing a significant role in 2008 accessibility hearings that led to a CRTC ruling requiring all providers have to carry at least one cellphone fully accessible to users with severe mobility impairments, like Danbrook.

It’s a start, according to Birch, but there’s still a lot more work for his organization to do.

“The ruling exists,” he said. “The enforcement doesn’t exist.”

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Community joins forces to create Wesburn mural HERE & NOW

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Jennifer Moreau

he City of Burnaby’s community arts development program wants to thank all those who helped make the new Wesburn mural a success.

Shelley Twist, the program’s coordinator, said more than 200 people helped design and paint the new mural at Wesburn Community Centre.

The four-month project wrapped up in late

August, and the mural wraps around the entire building.

Artists Todd Polich, Valerie Methot and Anna Talbot collaborated with community members to come up with the theme and imagery for the piece, which centered around healthy living.

The new mural replaces one that was painted in 1978 as an anti-graffiti measure.

Local resident Marilyn Wood, who helped paint and design the original mural when she was just a Grade 7 student, also helped paint the new mural.

Wesburn Community Centre is at 4781 Parkwood Dr.

Remembrance Day event set

The Burnaby Historical Society is hosting a Remembrance Day-themed event on Wednesday, Nov. 12 at the Burnaby Village Museum.

Guest speaker Radovan Putnik will talk about the events that led to the First World War, including the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

The presentation will focus on what people were thinking 100 years ago, as the war began.

The event starts at 7:30 p.m. in the museum’s Carousel Room, at 6501 Deer Lake Ave. Admission is free.

Boots for kids

The Rotary Club of Burnaby-Deer Lake wants to keep children warm and dry this winter.

The club’s annual Boots for Kids campaign is in full swing, and volunteers are looking for donations to help buy more boots, as demand for the program is increasing.

The project started four years ago in two local schools but now serves seven.

The Rotarians collect money to buy new boots, which are then distributed to kids from low-income families.

For more information, or to donate, call Janice Froese at 604-420-0038 or

For more photos, scan with Layar Photo contributed/burnaby now

Colours of the city: From left, city councillors Paul

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End of an era for Burnaby’s Clef Society LIVELY CITY

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ad news for music lovers in Burnaby: The Clef Society is officially winding down its operations.

The society is holding its final recital on Sunday, Nov. 16, starting at 2 p.m. at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

The recital will feature students from the Broadway and Markham music studio of North Vancouver, with a wind-up party to follow.

The society, which has been working to promote and support young musicians since 1949, went public in September with its need for more volunteers to keep the group running.

The group issued a plea for new helpers, noting the existing board members have been serving for many years and new blood was needed to keep things running. Unfortunately, however, only two new members turned out to help – not enough to keep the group going.

Alicia Brady Deaust,

who was one of the two, wrote in an email to the NOW that she originally showed up at the AGM on the off-chance that not enough people turned out.

“I can’t help wondering if only two more people had come to the aid of this society, it would still have the resources to continue on – providing a public venue for young classical musicians to hone their performance skills,” she wrote.

“If … public volunteerism is on the decline, then societies and associations that drive community initiatives and engagement are at risk. What do our communities stand to lose if one by one cultural societies like the Clef continue to dissolve?”

The Clef Society has run a monthly recital series, as well as hosting an annual concerto competition for top young classical performers.

Those who want to support the society can turn out for its final recital next Sunday.

along with a couple of leadup events.

The Saturday afternoon art sale runs from noon to 5 p.m., featuring original artist works from the gallery’s rental and sales program, plus works from the Malaspina Printmakers and the Joyce Williams Gallery.

Charles van Sandwyk will be on hand for a book signing and book sale.

Also included are seven silent auction items, door prizes and more.

On Thursday and Friday, Nov. 20 and 21, you can check out a pre-sale event: from 7 to 9 p.m. each night, you can stop in to check out works from the

Burnaby Art Gallery art rental program, which will be for sale for 15 per cent off.

On Friday, Nov. 21, artists Susan Gransby, Joseph Therrien, Barbara Zeigler, van Sandwyk and art historian Hilary Letwin will be on hand for a panel discussion about collecting works on paper. That runs from 7 to 9 p.m.

Check out all the details – including silent auction items – at www.burnaby artgallery.ca.

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Frankie himself won the Mr. World Canada title in 2012 and went on to finish in the top 10 at the Mr. World competition, earning the Mr. World Talent title.

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For the love of books: Paul Kirkpatrick, owner of Companion Book at Hastings Street near Gilmore Avenue, left a job in the corporate world to open a used bookstore in the Heights. This month is the shop’s 10th anniversary.

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It all started with a dream

By Cayley Dobie

Ten years ago, a Burnaby man had a dream to leave behind the corporate world and do something else – something invigorating, something interesting, something he’d never done before.

location instead, more speciecally, in the Heights.

As a Burnaby resident, Kirkpatrick was aware of the Heights but hadn’t spent much time in the area.

For several days, Kirkpatrick wandered up and down Hastings Street, talking to merchants and While dreams like these rarely people on the street, and checkcome true, in the case of Paul Kirkpatrick, it did, and the result ing things out. was a place where readers, book “It was really friendly and lovers’ and collectors can all call everyone seemed to know each home. other. It was more like the small towns I grew up in than VancouKirkpatrick is the owner of ver,” he said.

Companion Book at Hastings Street near Gilmore Avenue.

This month, the bookstore is celebrating 10 years in the Heights but Kirkpatrick can still remember when the store was just a far off dream.

Coming from a small town in Ontario, the Heights was seductive. Kirkpatrick eventually found a space that matched exactly what he was looking for in a bookstore. Unfortunately, it was still occupied by an Italian “I was escaping from the corpotailor shop who had been there rate world – and the craziness since the early 1960s. and bureaucracy and politics and all that stuff – and I decided on a “I tried to convince him (to sell), bookstore. That’s what I wanted because he was in his late ’70s, to do, so I was looking around that he should just close down all over the place for a location,” his business, and I even offered he said. him a pile of cash to just close Kirkpatrick was initially looking down his business and let me rent the space,” he recalled. at stores in malls, but a realtor friend suggested a street front

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wasn’t as easy a sell as Kirkpatrick had hoped. On top of the “pile of cash” he offered, the tailor required some additional motivation – Kirkpatrick had to buy the tailor shop, inventory and all.

“It was a matter of pride with him,” he said. “So for exactly one month I was in the menswear business.”

For one month, Kirkpatrick sold off as much of the stock as possible in order to clear out the space and make room for the bookstore. When the stock was enally gone, he set about designing the shop customers see today. A short four months later, Companion Book opened its doors at the end of November 2004.

“I had gone around to garage sales and other bookstores and bought stock, enough that I rented a garage,” Kirkpatrick said. “I had elled it with books, and I egured, ‘OK, I’ve got enough to ell the store.’”

Boy was he wrong. Kirkpatrick’s stock only elled about two shelves on each bookcase in the

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Time to honour the selfless and brave

By Vanessa Yip, Heights contributor This month, it is even more important to take a moment out of our fast-paced lives to reflect and honour those who have served, and are serving, to protect Canada. So often our lifestyles have become accustomed to all that is instantaneous that we sometimes forget to pause, understand and connect with things on a deeper level.

Troubles such as war have always been on the forefront of the world’s attention. Here in Canada, we are extremely fortunate to live where many of our daily practices and privileges are not something we have to fight for. Having been born and raised in Canada, I have been incredibly lucky to have grown up in a society that is so multicultural, accepting

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One of my earliest memories of Remembrance Day was singing the famous poem, “In Flanders Fields” in elementary school. I remember feeling extremely saddened, despite having a less than concrete context of what the song truly meant.

It made me feel like I had a duty to continue the legacy of these soldiers and make sure they were not forgotten. To this day, it amazes me how our Canadian culture and the mantra of “The true North, strong and free” was able to shape me at such a young age. I do not believe I will ever fully understand the extent of what those in war have gone through; however, I do believe that with respect and empathy, we as

a society can do our part to honour the selflessness, bravery and loyalty of their service.

In the wake of tragic events both on home soil and abroad, Canadians have maintained their undying hope and unity, time and time again. This strength is what resonates with me, and I hope everyone in our Heights community will join me to show our respect this Remembrance Day. A local Remembrance Day ceremony, hosted by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 148, will be held at Confederation Park Cenotaph at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11. A procession on Hastings St. will precede the ceremony, beginning at Hastings and Willingdon.

Vanessa Yip is a marketing and communications assistant with the Heights Merchants Association.

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store. It took him about oneand-a-half years to ell the remaining shelves.

“There was a lot of people that believed in me,” he said.

“They’d come in and trade their books. It didn’t look like I had much to trade for at that point, but they were willing to take credit on their books and trust me.”

The store, which is reminiscent of most pre-Chapters’ bookstores, was designed with readers and book lovers’ in mind.

Kirkpatrick did a lot of research on what makes a good bookstore prior to opening the doors. He determined the number one complaint from bookstore customers was poor lighting, so he installed rows and rows of lighting that run above every shelf.

When it erst opened, Companion Book’s stock was redective of Kirkpatrick’s own taste in literature. The science-ection section was the dominant section of the

store (and to some degree, still is), but as time went on Kirkpatrick brought in more and more books his customers were interested in.

The romance section, for example, was one Kirkpatrick initially overlooked because it wasn’t something that interested him. Today, the romance section takes up almost an entire row of bookshelves.

The store also carries nonection books on spirituality, biographies, mysteries, horror, crime books and children’s books.

“We tend to have a lot of titles that, if they’re not out of print, they’re a little bit older so Chapters and those guys don’t have them on their shelves anymore,” Kirkpatrick said.

A unique part of the store is the trade-in policy. Most of the books you’ll end inside the shop were brought in by customers and traded for credits towards the purchase of more books. “(Customers) trade their

books, they get credits,” Kirkpatrick said. “We egure out which ones we want, and we are picky.”

After 10 years in the business, Companion Book can afford to be picky. The store makes about 95 per cent of its business on trade-ins, and accepting only the better-quality books helps to draw in new customers who haven’t shopped at a used bookstore before, Kirkpatrick said.

“That’s the way we like them. I want good ones so that we have a good stock to offer people,” he added.

People trading in books get about half the amount the book will be priced at, in credits. These credits can be used towards the purchase of more books. In addition to the huge selection of used books, Companion Book also sells some new books and rare collectible books.

When asked if Kirkpatrick has any intention of slowing down, he replied with a simple and certain, ‘No.’

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Companion: Paul Kirkpatrick built Companion Book from the ground up by buying books at garage sales and encouraging customers to trade in books they’ve finished reading.

“I’ve really enjoyed it. I’ve made a lot of really good friends up here, and I really feel like we’ve become a part of the community,” he

said. “I’m really glad to be a centre for people who like books and like to read.”

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Christmas is coming Everyone’s invited to help decorate the Christmas Bureau’s toy room

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An open house is set for Thursday evening.

Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

The Burnaby Christmas Bureau is gearing up for another season of giving, and organizers want local residents to help decorate the toy room, where lowincome families pick out gifts for their children.

Burnaby Community Services runs the bureau, which supplies families and seniors in need with gifts and food for the holidays.

Stephen D’Souza, executive director at Burnaby Community Services, wants to turn the toy room into a “winter wonderland” for families.

“It’s really about having the community in. The community has always been about helping the Christmas Bureau and the seniors,” said D’Souza.

“It’s to make the space as welcoming for the families to use it.”

The open house decorating event is on Thursday, Nov. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m.

The toy room is at 7252

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Kingsway, and registration for families and seniors opened on Saturday.

“The space has been donated by the City of Burnaby, and we are grateful for that,” D’Souza added.

Roughly 30 people from the Burnaby Vega office will be there to help. Shannon Cotram, an office administrator with the Burnabybased health supplement company, said staff wanted

to support a local cause.

“Especially if it is involves little children,” she added. “We want to do anything we can to help this Christmas. We really love to contribute.”

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Cornelia Naylor

urnaby South Secondary math teacher Amos Lee got an enthusiastic pat on the back from the school board last week after winning a certificate of achievement and $1,000 for the Prime Minister’s Awards for Teaching Excellence in October.

Lee, who teaches grades 8 to 12 math and calculus, was one of 25 winners across Canada to earn the regional-level award.

Nominees highlighted his gift for making math “a fun learning experience instead of a burden.”

His principal, Lee Anne Kristmanson, told trustees that he excels at helping both gifted and struggling students succeed.

As part of her presentation, Kristmanson read out a letter from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that stated Lee had been named by one of their first-year students as a teacher who was especially influential in her development.

“It is a remarkable achievement and a great honour to change a life, so we congratulate you …,”

stated the letter.

Lee said he felt honoured.

“In our job we don’t get much recognition, whether it be financial or otherwise,” he said, “so it’s just nice to know the work that you do does help and pay off in the end for some students.”

Top students

The Burnaby school district’s academic crème de la crème took centre stage at a school board meeting last week as eight 2014 grads were recognized for winning the Governor General’s Academic Medal.

Joining the ranks of more than 50,000 past winners across Canada since 1873, including Pierre Trudeau, Tommy Douglas, Kim Campbell and Gabrielle Roy, the grads with the highest average at each of Burnaby’s high school were honoured.

The winners were Alpha Secondary’s Mohammad Asadi Lari, now at UBC in the faculty of medicine; Byrne Creek’s Justin Lin, now studying engineering at the University of Toronto; Burnaby South’s Anna Ye, also studying engineering at U of T; Burnaby North’s Nancy Lum, now studying kinesiology at SFU; Burnaby Mountain’s Zahra Rajwani, now studying sciences at UBC; Moscrop’s Jenny Zhang, now studying

life sciences at McGill University; Cariboo Hill’s Natasha Williams, now in international education at UBC and Burnaby Central’s Pasindu Muthukuda, now studying engineering at UBC.

Science mind

An award-winning student innovation to reduce the power consumed by idle electronic devices has a Burnaby connection.

Alberta Kragl, who lives in Burnaby but attends Stratford Hall School in Vancouver, was part of a team that tied for the top award in the 2014 SHAD Entrepreneurship Cup. Kragl attended SHAD’s Canada-wide summer science and entrepreneurship program at Dalhousie University.

As part of the program, student teams create simulated startups, developing products and creating prototypes, as well as marketing, business plans and websites.

This year students were challenged with the theme of “Living large with a small footprint.”

Kragl’s team developed a way to use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to automatically limit power to idle devices, saving electricity and money.

Kragl’s team also placed first for the best application of scientific principles.

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Academic heavyweights: Some of the Burnaby school district’s top graduates join trustees for a photo-op after the school board recognized its eight 2014 Governor General’s Academic Medal winners last week. The medal is awarded annually Canadawide to the graduates with the highest grade averages at their schools.

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Screening tests are recommended for the early detection and treatment of particular medical conditions in individuals of average risk and no symptoms.

For example, the stool occult blood test (FOBT or FIT) is recommended as a screen for colon cancer for adults over 50 years every two to three years.

If it is positive (indicating a source of bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract), the next test is usually a colonoscopy (in which a flexible scope is inserted into the anus and used to see and remove polyps and other growths in the large intestine).

However, if an older adult has obvious blood in his stools, his physician will likely arrange a colonoscopy without the need for a positive stool occult blood test. If another individual with no symptoms has a family history of colon cancer, the first surveillance colonoscopy should begin at an age 10 years before the age at which the relative was diagnosed.

For example, if a woman’s father was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 52 and her sister was diagnosed at age 48, she should have her first colonoscopy at age 38.

These are the screening tests for other conditions. ! High blood pressure: For adults 18 and older, blood pressure should be measured at every appropriate medical visit (e.g. annually). Once hypertension or high blood pressure is identified, the patient and doctor will discuss the appropriate frequency of rechecking blood pressure. ! Cervical cancer: The pap smear is a sample of cervical cells taken during a pelvic examination, but please note that a pap smear is not necessarily done with every pelvic exam, which may have been necessary for pelvic pain or infection.

A woman should always clarify with her physician what tests were done dur-

high tech imaging. It’s high touch with your doctor’s gloved finger checking the size and shape of the prostate. My patient, Tom calls it the fickle finger of fate.

This is not the right time to ask your doctor for a second opinion.

Doctor (as he snaps off his glove): You have a huge prostate and you need surgery.

Patient: Can I have a second opinion?

Doctor: You already did.

I used two fingers and they both feel the same.

The PSA (prostate specific antigen) is a blood test to detect levels of a protein produced by the prostate. It may be elevated by benign enlargement of the prostate or by prostate cancer. It is not recommended as a routine screening test for men at any age. Men should discuss the value of this test with their physicians as it has to be interpreted in conjunction with the rectal examination.

The PSA is not recommended as a screening test because an abnormal test may result in investigations and treatment that may cause more harm than a slow growing prostate cancer that may not otherwise affect the patient.

Dr. Davidicus Wong is physician lead of the Burnaby Division of Family Practice.

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Women should start pap smears at age 25 and continue at a frequency of every three years (or more frequently depending on the recommendations of the B.C. Cancer Agency, which interprets the pap smears and sends reports to the physician). Women 70 years and older may stop screening after three successive normal paps in the previous 10 years. ! Diabetes: The fasting glucose blood test was formerly recommended as the screening test for adults over age 40. The confirmatory test was the two-hour 75 gm glucose tolerance test.

The newest recommendation is the Hb a1c blood test only in high risk and very high risk patients based on the FINDRISC or CANRISK calculators.

Those found to be high risk for diabetes should be screened every three to five years; those at very high risk every year. ! Breast cancer: Monthly self-examinations and annual clinical examinations are no longer recommended. Screening mammograms are now the only remaining screening test and the Canadian guidelines recommend them every two years in women from age 50 to 70. ! Prostate cancer: The standard screening test is the annual DRE (digital rectal examination). Don’t be fooled by the name; it’s not

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Living on the Flats, Burnaby’s Crabtown and Vancouver’s Blenheim Flats, 7 to 8 p.m.

Speakers from Burnaby Village Museum and Burnaby Archives will explore the history of these fascinating neighbourhoods along the waterfront. McGill library branch, 4595 Albert St. Register online at www.bpl. bc.ca/events or by calling 604-299-8955.

Burnaby Rhododendron and Garden Society, meets at 7 p.m., in the Discovery Room, Burnaby Village Museum, Canada Way at Deer Lake Ave. Please join us for Margaret Cadwaldr’s presentation on Wisley Garden.

Refreshments served, everyone welcome. Info: brags.ca.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6 New Vista foot care society, $30 for initial visit, $28 after, at New Vista care home, 7550 Rosewood St. Call for appointment: 604-527-6000 ext. 1159.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 Annual Country Market and Christmas Bazaar, at St. Theresa’s Parish, 5146 Laurel St. Enjoy the tea room, raffle, and Christmas gifts, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 The Burnaby Historical Society, meeting on First World War, the war to end all wars, at 7:30 p.m. Guest speaker is Radovan Putnik who, with the aid of maps, will discuss the lead-up to the assassination of Archduke

Ferdinand of Austria at the Latinski Bridge in Sarajevo.

Meet at the Burnaby Village Museum, Carousel Pavilion, located at 6501 Deer Lake Ave. All welcome.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Fair Haven United Church Homes, Christmas craft sale, 1:30 to 3 p.m., 7557 Sussex Ave. Baked goods, Christmas crafts, tea, raffle prizes.

Maywood Community School, flea market, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 4567 Imperial St. Admission: 50 cents. Door prizes and concession.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Speaker Patrick Hill: So where do you go at night?

A Pacific sailing adventure, 7 to 8:30 p.m. McGill library branch, 4595 Albert St. Hill and his wife built their own 42-foot sailboat and sailed with their kids to Tahiti, Polynesia, Hawaii and up to Alaska on a 14-month voyage of over 15,000 miles.

Register online at www.bpl. bc.ca/events or by calling 604-299-8955.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 St. Helen’s Bazaar, in Parish Hall, 3871 Pandora St. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Come and enjoy fresh homemade baking, lunch and dinner (pasta/sausages/chicken), crafts, Lucky 7, games for kids, silent auction, raffle and more.

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ONGOING Practise dancing skills, at the weekly social dances at the Edmonds Community Centre for 55 plus. $1 for members and $2 for non-members.

On Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m., Sundays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Mondays from 1 to 3 p.m. For more information, call 604-297-4838 Knitting, crocheting, sewing and other craft activities group will meet at the Edmonds Community Centre for 55 plus every Friday from 1 to 3 p.m. Beginners welcome. Call 604-297-4838.

Burnaby South Stroke Recovery Branch, meets every second and fourth Friday of the month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Edmonds Community Centre.

The club offers speech therapy, exercise sessions, caregiver support and other social activities for stroke survivors over 55. For more information, call 604-297-4838.

Bingo every Saturday at the Edmonds Community Centre for 55 plus, buy paper cards from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and the game starts at 12:30 p.m. For more information, call Tom at 604-430-2763.

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27 ’Dogs done in shootout 27 Senior VB finals tonight 27 Boxing event on Thurs.

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Runners post program first in 25th spot, just out of the points, and Brittany Evans was 31st overall in the 86Simon Fraser University women field. won its first Great The eighth-ranked Northwest team title in the NCAA Division II Clan tightest-ever finish in con- will compete in two weeks ference cross-country his- time at the West Regional tory. meet in search of a top-six The women’s Clan placing to the nationals. team edged out five-time The Clan men’s team defending champion equaled last year’s finish, Alaska Anchorage by placing third overall with a single point and third- 35 points. place Western Washington Oliver Jorgensen earned by two points, his second garnering 62 straight all-con“The girls came ference award, total points at the confertogether and ran finishing less ence chamthan a minute a superb race.” pionships in behind conferMonmouth, ence freshman BRIT TOWNSEND Oregon on SFU cross-country head coach of the year and Saturday. race winner SFU sophHenry Cheseto omore Rebecca Bassett of Alaska Anchorage. placed second in the wom“Oliver did an excelen’s individual six-kilome- lent job today breaking tre race, while senior trans- up the Alaska runners,” fer Jennifer Johnson was said Townsend. “Seven of fifth overall. the top-10 men were from “I am so proud of the Anchorage and Oliver team today,” said Clan maintained pace with them coach Brit Townsend in a and was able to finish at Clan press release. “The the top of the pack in sixth girls came together and ran spot.” a superb race.”

Marc-Antoine Rouleau Bassett clocked a time of placed 13th, while Cameron 20:32.08 and Johnson was Proceviat of Burnaby was less than 15 seconds back, 16th. Austin Trapp and both just seconds behind Travis Vugteveen roundchampion Katelyn Steele of ed out SFU’s point scorWestern Washington. ers in 20th and 30th place, SFU’s other three time respectively. contributors all finished The West regionals will among the top-20 run- be held in Billings, Montana ners. Miryam Bassett on Nov. 22. placed 17th, while Kansas The top six men’s and Mackenzie and Peggy Noel women’s teams will move were 18th and 20th, respec- on to the Div. II nationals, tively. which will be held on Dec. Emma Chadsey finished 6 in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Arms and legs: Eric Luna of Warner Pacific, in red, gets the upper hand on University of Alberta’s Cody Osborn in a 70-kilogram bout at the Clan International wrestling meet on Saturday.

Knights clinch first round playoff bye Tom Berridge

sports editor

Terrell Jana might well be described as the St. Thomas More Knights’ All-Weatherman.

The Grade 11 STM pivot followed up a career game last week against W.J. Mouat with another solid outing under extreme conditions in Cloverdale on Friday, to lead the Knights to a 33-14 win over Lord Tweedsmuir.

The win clinched second place for the 6-1 Knights in the B.C. high school football AAA varsity Eastern conference.

Jana, who racked up more than 400 all-purpose yards in a last week’s 50-14 win over Mouat, including a

school record 97-yard touchdown run, rushed for two touchdowns and threw for two more against Tweedsmuir.

Jana rushed for 157 yards and passed for 131 more yards, including 57 yards and one touchdown reception to his favourite target J.J. DesLauriers.

The senior receiver is currently second overall in regular season play with 21 catches for 496 yards and a league-high nine touchdowns.

Matt Duda, who garnered 55 yards in catches, hauled in the other TD from Jana. Andrew Flett with 67 yards on the ground also got himself into the end zone for a score.

Spencer Moore, who is currently fourth overall in regular-season

tackles with 51, led the Knights with 10 stops and one sack against Tweedsmuir. Demarius Henderson chipped in with six tackles and one sack, while Flett had five tackles.

Duda continued his fine two-way play for the Knights, contributing seven tackles and two fumble recoveries in the soggy outing.

“It was a very wet field and tough sledding for both teams,” said STM head coach Bernie Kully. “It was a good character win for us (on Friday) and gave us second place in the Eastern division and a decent playoff draw.

“Now the second season begins for us,” Kully added. “I am looking forward to seeing how things play out for us.”

Good things to come from BNW in HS cross-country Tom Berridge

sports editor

Good things are yet to come for Burnaby/New Westminster district runners.

St. Thomas More’s Cobi Juni placed fifth and Grace Fetherstonhaugh of New Westminster finished with a bronze medal in their respective junior races at the B.C. high school cross-country championships in Victoria on Saturday.

Juni clocked a fifth-place time of 18:22 in the junior boys’ 5.1 kilometre race, less than a minute

behind winner Joel Harrison of Walnut Grove.

Charles Yu of Burnaby Central finished in 46th spot with a 19:42 clocking. Central teammate Matthew Pomponio placed 65th overall. Shae Janke of Burnaby South was 81st.

Eric Zhang and Tomas Ward also scored points towards Central’s 14th-place team finish.

At the 4.1km junior girls’ distance, Fetherstonhaugh finished third in a time of 16:28.

The gold medal came down to a tight finish between winner Taryn O’Neill of George Elliot

and runner-up Julie Sevsek of Clayton Heights, both finishing under 16 minutes.

Emily Chilton finished in 13th spot in 17:22 to help the New West team, including Michelle Li and Ellery Hardy, to seventh place.

Rachel Wong and Lauren Semkow of Moscrop placed 53rd and 70th, respectively, in the field.

Burnaby Mountain’s Saira Purhar was 60th. Tea Cecic of Alpha finished 85th.

In the senior division, Byrne Creek’s Jemal Reta finished in

20th place in the boys’ race.

Nathan Tadesse of North Surrey won the 6.1km boys’ race in a time of 20:35. Sean Bergman of Kelowna was just 13 seconds behind in second place.

STM’s Alessandro Pozzollo placed 47th in the large senior boys’ field. Julian Hart of Moscrop was 82nd.

Alpha’s Hamish Clinton placed 90th and Andrew Woinoski of Burnaby Mountain was 95th in the field of 235 runners.

Dover Bay won the senior boys’ team title handily.

Robyn Lee was the top senior

girls’ finisher from Burnaby, placing 49th for the Burnaby Mountain Lions.

Reesa Wright of Central was 95th and Taylor McIntosh of STM was 98th in the field of 225 senior girls’ competitors.

West Point Grey edged both Sentinel and Semiahmoo for the senior girls’ team aggregate.

Central girls, including Sara Brinkac, Natasha Louie, Laura Choo and Amber Chan, contributed points to the team’s 15thplace finish.

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Byrne Creek drops soggy zone shootout Tom Berridge sports editor

The Byrne Creek Bulldogs lost a heartbreaking 3-2 decision in an overtime shootout to the Handsworth Royals in B.C. high school zone senior boys’ soccer.

Played under heavy rains, Byrne Creek forced the shootout following a last-minute penalty kick

by Rozmehr Aghabaygy in the second period of overtime at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West on Monday.

The Bulldogs led 2-0 at one stage of the second half following goals by Body Geoffrey and Edris Najm.

But Handsworth quickly answered, tying the game 2-2 with 10 minutes left to play in regulation time.

The North Shore runner-up scored first in the second overtime session.

In the shootout, Handsworth was successful on all five penalty attempts. Byrne missed its second shot at goal.

Bulldogs’ keeper Ziad Abonofal, who stepped in for the team’s injured goal-

ie at the beginning of the season, made apologies for his play.

“I’m not a goalie,” said the converted midfielder.

“But I had to play for (my teammates). It was pretty tough for me. I did my best. I missed my penalty and that’s why we lost. I’m pretty disappointed. But we didn’t give up. We scored in the last two minutes.

Everything was good.”

The loss eliminated the Bulldogs from provincial high school championship qualifying.

“Coming from a small school in the middle of nowhere, I feel with the players we had and no subs, we showed the will,” said Aghabaygy. “Penalties can go either way.”

In the AAA zone championship game, Sutherland won be default over Burnaby Mountain following a no-show by the BurWest No. 1 Lions.

District regular season champion Alpha and Cariboo Hill took on the top two North Shore schools in AA zone qualifying matches on Tuesday (played after NOW deadlines).

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Ring leader: BNW’s Tara Holmberg, with ring, scored a goal to help give the

home team a 6-3 win over Richmond in Lower Mainland 18-and-over girls’ ringette at Burnaby Lake Arena on Saturday. Michelle Stevens led the way with three goals, while Brittany Hewitt and Kiah Duruisseau also scored.

Moscrop and North to VB finals League champion Moscrop and runnerup Burnaby North both went to four sets before moving on to the playoff final on Wednesday.

North defeated a plucky New Westminster team 3-1 in the opening girls’ volleyball semifinal matchup at Moscrop on Monday.

Host Moscrop also

struggled against fourthplace Burnaby Mountain before finally prevailing 25-17, 18-25, 26-24, 25-20.

“Mountain played great (defence) and served and swung well, digging everything we hit at them,” said Moscrop coach Kim Or. The district girls’ playoff placement finals wind up today (Wednesday)

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at Moscrop, beginning at 5:30 p.m. The BNW final is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.

In senior boys’ Lower Mainland volleyball qualifying, Burnaby North and Moscrop will also match up in the district final at North on Wednesday. Game time is also 7:30 p.m.

– Tom Berridge

Two of the North Burnaby Boxing Club’s WBC Canadian amateur champions will be headlining the annual Confratellanza Italo Canadese boxing card at the Italian Cultural Centre on Thursday.

Middleweight champ Robert Couzens will take on Julian Kim of Port Kells in a five-round main event for the B.C. super middleweight title.

In the semi-Main event, lightweight champion Leo Sammarelli will meet City Boxing Club’s Matt Andreatta in a four-round featured bout.

The late George Angelomatis, who coached 12 national champions, including former Olympians Dale Walters and NBBC’s Manny Sobral, will be honoured at the 33rd annual show.

NBBC boxers Cory Tuttenham, Rhett Gibbons, Dave Kelleher and Kian Heidrari will also be on the card at the Night of Fights.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m.

Fights will begin at 8 p.m.

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Meet your Burnaby Citizens Association School Trustee candidates

Your Burnaby Citizens Association candidates are proud that under BCA leadership, Burnaby…

CORRIGAN TRUSTED LEADERSHIP For City Council

CALENDINO, Pietro DHALIWAL, Sav JOHNSTON, Dan

Ron Burton

Ron has been a Burnaby resident for over 30 years and is an SFU graduate. A school trustee since 1987, he has demonstrated a strong ability to build consensus on every trustee committee.

Ron is a Michael J. Fox Theatre board member and a founding member of the BC Public Sector Employers’ Association.

Katrina Chen

Katrina is commissioner for Parks, Recreation & Culture. She has a BA from SFU and a UBC Immigration Certificate. She is a bilingual Taiwanese Canadian emcee and an executive member of the Global Federation of Chinese Business Women Association of B.C. and the Greater Taiwanese Canadian Association.

● is debt-free and financially strong, with robust financial reserves that allow the city to avoid costly borrowing and keep taxes low;

Meiling Chia

Meiling is a former business owner and serves on the local PAC. She is a member of the Youth & Community Services and School Building & Grounds committees, and is a director of the Global Federation of Chinese Business Women.

She is fluent in English, Cantonese, Taiwanese and Mandarin.

● is focusing its high-density development in vibrant, pedestrian-friendly town centres, close to transit hubs, and is preserving

JORDAN, Colleen KANG, Anne McDONELL, Paul VOLKOW, Nick For School Trustee

BURTON, Ron CHEN, Katrina CHIA, Meiling HAYES, Larry NARANG, Baljinder PANDHER, Harman WONG, Gary On November 15 Re-elect Mayor Derek Corrigan and Burnaby’s BCA Councillors and School Trustees

Larry Hayes

Baljinder Narang

Harman Pandher

Larry is chair of the Youth & Community Services Committee and is the representative to the School Trustees Association. He is a past commissioner for Burnaby Parks & Recreation, and an honorary life member of the Burnaby Minor Hockey Association. He was also elected to the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame.

Baljinder holds an MHE from Dalhousie University and is an occupational therapist, a community volunteer, chair of the Board of Education, and a member of the Management and Policy committees. She is president of the Sikh Research Institute Canada. Her three children all graduated from Burnaby South Secondary.

Harman was raised in Burnaby, attended Second Street School and graduated from Cariboo Hill Secondary. He earned a BA and a BEd from UBC. He is an elementary public school teacher, chair of the Education Committee, a member of the New Vista Society board and the proud parent of a public school student.

Burnaby Citizens Association school trustees engage with teachers, administrators, parents and generous community partners to enable each student to choose a uniquely suitable educational path. The trustees’ focus on expanding opportunities for students ensures that Burnaby has a voice that is heard at all provincial and regional education decision-making tables.

…working to ensure that every Burnaby student continues to receive an excellent education in a welcoming environment.

Drop into our campaign office: 7645 Royal Oak Ave. Call us at: 604.437.0303 For more information visit: burnabycitizens.ca Authorized by Timo Sokkanen, financial agent, 604 764 8701.

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Outstanding financial management by your Burnaby Citizens Association council has enabled the city to work with residents, businesses and non-profit organizations to plan and develop the many recreational facilities, parks, child care facilities, seniors centres and affordable housing options that we all now enjoy.

Your Board of Education has ensured that Burnaby schools offer exceptional educational opportunities and that all Burnaby students have access to welcoming, inclusive public schools.

Gary Wong

Gary has lived in Burnaby for 25 years. His children graduated from Burnaby public schools. He is a member of the Policy, Management, Community Relations and Finance committees and was governor of Langara College. He volunteers for Burnaby Public Library and Burnaby Family Life.

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WANG, James

Left to right, your Burnaby Citizens Association candidates for Burnaby City Council: Nick Volkow, Pietro Calendino, Dan Johnston, Mayor Derek Corrigan, Sav Dhaliwal, Paul McDonell, Colleen Jordan, James Wang, and Anne Kang.

We are proud of our city’s achievements and look forward to working with you to keep Burnaby great.

On No v M and ayo emb Bur r D er 1 e n 5 and aby’s B rek C Re C o -e Sch ool A Cou rrig lect an Tr nc ust ees illors

Mayor Derek Corrigan

single-family neighbourhoods and our abundant parklands;

● is a diverse and welcoming community – in Burnaby homes more than 100 languages are spoken; ● offers exceptional elementary, secondary and post-secondary

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educational opportunities; has protected more than 25% of its land as parks and green space;

● is a safe city – crime rates continue to drop; and ● attracts and supports

leading-edge businesses.

Authorized by Timo Sokkanen, financial agent, 604 764 8701.

The Survey Says…

A September 24 to October 5 online study by Insights West asked 2,138 Metro Vancouver residents in 19 municipalities for their thoughts on various aspects of the region’s municipal governments. Burnaby’s municipal government tied for first in the categories of… ● Best overall ● Making city hall work in a transparent and unbiased fashion ● Listening to the community ● Dealing with transportation ● Handling city finances ● Being transparent

Authorized by Timo Sokkanen, financial agent, 604 764 8701.

And Burnaby was first in… ● Managing development and growth ● Protecting the environment ● Being respectful ● Being collaborative

Fraser Institute reports Burnaby has “best overall financial position” A Fraser Institute report comparing municipal government finances, highlights the fact that Burnaby, with its assets of $2,914 per person, has the best Overall Financial Position of 17 Metro Vancouver municipalities (defined as “the difference between the government’s gross liabilities and financial assets”). October 2014

Pietro Calendino

Exceptional financial management and community-led planning have made Burnaby great…

The city’s innovative Community Benefit Bonus Policy enables us to provide a wide variety of valuable community amenities at no capital cost to taxpayers.

To date, these include:

● the construction of the Holdom and Brentwood resource centres and two new centres in Metrotown; and,

● 146 child care spaces;

● housing grants to support affordable and/or special-needs housing – most recently, ● environmental and urban design $1 million toward the George Derby affordable improvements to trails, parks and streets. rental project; ● enhancements to seven city parks; ● construction of the Tommy Douglas Library and the Bonsor 55+ Centre and renovations to existing facilities;

Sav Dhaliwal

New child care facilities Up to 12 new facilities with 600 spaces will be added on schoolgrounds throughout Burnaby over the next three years.

Dan Johnston

For more information on council candidates, go to

Authorized by Timo Sokkanen, financial agent, 604 764 8701.

and there’s much more to come…

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