Burnaby Now December 31 2014

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Headline makers and head shakers of 2014

New Year’s Eve has arrived – and, for those of us in the newsroom, what better time to pause, reflect and remember all that’s happened in Burnaby in 2014.

When it comes to news headlines, Burnaby is never short of things to write about – from those stories that are very specifically local to those that garner national and even international headlines.

Earlier this month, the Burnaby NOW editorial team sat down to discuss the top stories of the year. Our collection of awards, honours and special mentions include The News Story of the Year, The Newsmaker

of the Year, and several other awards, such as our Critters Causing Chaos and Grubbiest City awards.

Our choices are obviously subjective. How does one judge the relative merits of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion protest over the dozens of stories that came out of the 2015 civic election? Where do critter stories, like the case of Sienna the bandit cat’s stash of 50 gloves, rank?

We don’t pretend these “awards” can possibly touch on everything important that happened this year – but they do cover many of the highlights.

To see the News Story of the Year, turn to page 3.

On page 13 we shine the spotlight on people who make our city great. Meanwhile, on page 19 sports editor Tom Berridge dishes on the accomplishements of athletes in Burnaby – certainly not something to be missed.

A big thank you to all of our newsmakers and those who pass on news tips and ideas – we couldn’t do it without you!

Go to www.burnabynow.com to check out the awards that didn’t make it into the print edition.

NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR: DEREK CORRIGAN

Burnaby’s ‘mother bear’ had a busy year

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t’s no surprise that Burnaby’s top newsmaker for 2014 was Mayor Derek Corrigan.

Love him or loathe him, the five-time mayor of British Columbia’s thirdlargest city made his way to the NOW’s front page more than a dozen times this year in the lead-up to the Burnaby Citizens Association’s threepeat at the November municipal election.

Throughout 2014, Corrigan made headlines for countless reasons: Opposing the Kinder Morgan pipeline, opposing the Metro Vancouver mayors’ council’s $7.5-billion transportation improvement plan, and for opposing public washrooms at the to-be-renovated Metrotown SkyTrain station.

In fact, he opposed a lot of other things, too: Port Metro Vancouver’s Fraser Surrey Docks coal expansion; New Westminster’s draft transportation plan; the Fair Elections Act, otherwise known as the Conservative

government’s Bill C-23; a gondola linking SFU to the Production WayUniversity SkyTrain station; San Francisco-based ridesharing service Uber.

But don’t go thinking the 27-year council member is a card-carrying NIMBYist. Corrigan supported a lot of things in 2014, like highrises, including the 53-storey Brentwood towers and two of the five Station Square skyscrapers.

However, by far, Corrigan was in the news most often because of comments he made over the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. It’s only fitting the controversial project is also our top news story of the year.

“We’ve decided as a city to stand up and fight, and fight we will,” he told 200-some residents at a town hall meeting in March, vehemently against the twinning from the get go.

In his own words, Corrigan waged war against Kinder Morgan, vowing to stand in front

Newsmaker:

Residents might have a love/hate relationship with Mayor Derek Corrigan but the 27year council member continues to make headlines in Burnaby and throughout Metro Vancouver.

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of a bulldozer to prevent work on Burnaby Mountain while calling for the energy giant to pick up the tab on policing costs.

“It’s an inordinate expense, and if the (B.C.) Supreme Court

would have enforced our bylaws, or if the NEB had respected our bylaws, there would be no protesters on the mountain right now, and we wouldn’t have these police resources being spent,” he told the

NOW last month.

That wouldn’t be the first City of Burnaby bill footed by someone else.

Corrigan’s name popped up in the NOW’s scoop on current and former city officials spending

nearly $42,000 of taxpayer money on golf in 2013.

The mayor was in the top three big spenders, racking up $5,717.65 between the Riverway and Burnaby Mountain courses.

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5 Award winners

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NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR: KINDER MORGAN’S PROPOSED PIPELINE EXPANSION

Battle over proposed pipeline expansion heats up I

f there’s one fight that captured our readers’ attention this year, it was the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion and the city’s battle with the company on Burnaby Mountain.

Local opposition to the proposed pipeline has been fierce, with pipeline opponents raising concerns about oil spills, tanker traffic and climate change.

It’s no secret Mayor Derek Corrigan and council are against the pipeline expansion anywhere in Burnaby, but when Kinder Morgan started survey work for a proposed pipeline route through a city-owned conservation area, Burnaby fired back with stop work orders and fines for violating a local bylaw that prohibits cutting trees in public parks.

Kinder Morgan then went to the National Energy Board, which issued an order directing the city to back off. That’s when hundreds of residents from Burnaby and beyond descended on the mountain.

When Kinder Morgan showed up for work, protesters drove their contractors away, some shouting foul language, and one young chap chained himself to the underside of a work vehicle.

This time, Kinder Morgan went to the B.C. Supreme Court, asking for an injunction. The company’s lawyers were arguing that people’s facial expressions constituted assault, and although there may be legal merit to that argument, the public found it absurd. People posted selfies of their menacing “Kinder Morgan faces” on social media, and the #KMFace Internet meme went viral.

On Nov. 14, the court gave Kinder Morgan its injunction, ordering protesters to stay away or risk arrest. Police arrived on the mountain in larger numbers on Nov. 20, sealed off Centennial Way and set up a no-go zone around Kinder Morgan’s work areas. But that didn’t stop hundreds from gathering on the mountain for what would become a 10-day standoff.

In all, 126 people crossed the injunction line, including two 11-year-old girls. The girls were not arrested; they were simply detained and released, but that sparked another controversy over whether their parents should have them cross and adults in general should take their kids to protests. Even Premier Christy Clark

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Arrested: Hundreds of people gathered on Burnaby Mountain in late November in opposition to Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. In all, 126 people were arrested for crossing the court injunction line. chimed in, criticizing the parents for letting their kids break the law, while her detractors quickly pointed out how she ran a stop sign with her kid and a reporter in the car.

Other high-profile appearances on Burnaby Mountain included David Suzuki, who admonished the RCMP for allegedly pulling his grandson across police lines so he could be arrested. Many Burnaby residents were arrested for violating the injunction, including Ruth Walmsley and Peter Cech, father of one of the 11-year-old girls. Both adults are members of Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion. SFU professor Lynne Quarmby was also arrested.

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs also crossed the injunction line on Nov. 27. Dressed

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s always, there were a few stories and people that clearly grabbed the headlines and earned the distinction of being our news story and newsmaker of the year.

But they weren’t the only ones that stuck in our minds when we looked back on the year that was.

So the Burnaby NOW editorial staff put their heads together and came up with this list of other “awards” to bestow upon the moments and the people who made our jobs – and our lives – just that much more interesting in 2014. See more at www.burnabynow.com.

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in a suit, with red face paint, the First Nations leader stood facing police at the injunction line in the woods, in the thick of a drumming and singing crowd. Phillip slipped under the police tape, and RCMP respectfully took him into custody.

Later that day, news broke that a B.C. Supreme Court threw out all civil contempt charges against the protesters, because Kinder Morgan screwed up the GPS coordinates, which meant no one really knew where the injunction areas were. Protesters followed up with more celebratory gatherings on the mountain.

The Battle on Burnaby Mountain has all the hallmarks of a classic David and Goliath tale, but the central issue is whether a federally appointed body, like the NEB, can override a city’s bylaws. It’s something the courts have yet to rule on,

and the city is still pursuing legal action to defend its bylaws. The NEB Act already allows companies like Kinder Morgan to conduct survey work and build pipelines on Crown land and private property without the landowners’ permission, but never before has a city come up against the NEB the way Burnaby has, meaning any court decisions on the matter will be precedent setting and could have implications for other municipalities across the country.

The mayor is spot on when he says this is just Phase 1 of a very long war. We are certain Kinder Morgan will dominate the headlines for 2015 and years to come.

If something as simple as survey work led to a 10-day standoff with police and protesters, one can only imagine what will happen if Kinder Morgan actually starts building the pipeline.

Corrigan: Four more years as Burnaby mayor continued from page 1

Prior to that, he caused a media firestorm when his distracted driving ticket from last July was thrust into the spotlight, around the same time his wife – BurnabyDeer Lake MLA Kathy Corrigan and then-Opposition public safety Visions* Superstore* Natural Factors* Shoppers Drug Mart* The Bay* Target* Staples* * not in all areas

critic – was lobbying the provincial government to do more to prevent distracted driving. (Corrigan is disputing the ticket and his court date is set for March 18.)

But scandals aside, Corrigan maintained a strong level of support from Burnaby residents, garLast week’s question Are you making any new year’s resolutions?

YES 29% NO 71% This week’s question Did you stick to your new year’s resolutions last year?

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nering 68.85 per cent of the mayoral vote and ensuring the BCA its third straight sweep at the polls.

He is the face of Burnaby for another four years, which means four more opportunities to be the city’s biggest newsmaker – for better or for worse.

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CRITTERS CAUSING CHAOS

Beavers take out a coal train The inaugural Critters Causing Chaos Award goes to the beavers that managed to take out a coal train early in the year.

Heavy rains breached a beaver dam on Silver Creek, just parallel to Government Street, and the high water washed out the tracks. A CP train carrying coal, among other things, derailed from a CN track on Jan. 11, spilling 82.8 cubic metres of coal into Silver Creek, a

small waterway that leads into Burnaby Lake. The shores were coated in black, and the endangered Western painted turtles had to be taken into Environment Ministry custody, while remediation work took place.

The beavers have appeared to move on, and CN restored the creek banks. As for any long-term damage, we’re still waiting for the final report on this one.

THE ‘GRUBBIEST’ CITY AWARD File photo/burnaby now

City favourite: The folks at Riverway must feel pretty good about themselves – they’re the golf course preferred by city officials, who accumulated nearly $42,000 in tee times in 2013, as uncovered by the NOW in 2014.

THE 19 TH HOLE AWARD

Free golf for city officials Who knew we had so many avid golfers at city hall?

The NOW caused quite a ruckus when it came to light that current and former city officials charged $41,904 in golf to taxpayers in 2013, as part of Burnaby’s complimentary pass system.

Every year, the city issues passes to current and former councillors, commissioners, school trustees, library board members and other nominees, grant-

ing them free access to numerous city facilities, including the Riverway and Burnaby Mountain golf courses.

The news prompted letters of outrage from residents – and support from one freeman who benefited from the pass – yet the parks commission recently approved its list of 2015 complimentary pass recipients.

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Turns out the raccoons weren’t to blame – they were only feasting on the European chafer beetles’ tasty grubs buried underground.

Soon enough people were writing and calling the newsroom to voice their own frustrations with the lack of action by the

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Residents lamented that it wasn’t only their lawns that were the targets of the hungry little bandits but city properties, including boulevards.

The city eventually responded, saying it was considering reintroducing a citywide nematode program, as it had done when the chafer beetle problem was at its height in 2004.

The city would offer nematodes for purchase at a subsidize price, and city properties would be treated as well. The program will likely be tabled as part of the 2015 budget.

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2014: A Year in Cartoons

Rice says:

How Ingrid saw it From the local to the national, there aren’t many headlines that elude the eagle eye of cartoonist Ingrid Rice.

Rice (shown in a self-portrait at right) is responsible for the cartoons that grace our editorial pages throughout the year.

She began her career in 1992, freelancing to The Vancouver Sun, and started

Clockwise from top left, Rice took aim at the teachers’ dispute in January, the Olympics in February, the anti-vaccine movement in March, the Senate in May and the radicalization of Canadian youth in July.

to syndicate her work across Canada in 1994.

In celebration of the year past, we’ve chosen a few of our favourite images from 2014 to pay tribute to her work.

She’ll make you laugh.

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Sometimes she’ll even make you cry.

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MOST PREDICTABLE HEADLINE AWARD

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Was anybody really surprised that the Burnaby Citizens Association went three for three?

Perhaps there was some doubt that Burnaby would be under one-party rule for the next four years. The incumbent party had some competition in the council candidates from the Burnaby First Coalition, but the opposition group just wasn’t able to garner enough votes to get a single member on city council.

That said, all but one of the BCA’s

council members ran for re-election, with BCA school trustee James Wang taking the place of departing councillor Richard Chang.

So maybe voters went with the devils they knew, rather than the ones they didn’t.

Whatever the case, the BCA proved they have the support of most voters – or, at least, of the 41,000 residents who voted – and dominated the ballot once again.

Better luck next time, BFC?

Sneaky cat: This Burnaby calico stole more than 50 work gloves from a

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Sienna the cat burglar Dawn Palmer had no idea where all the work gloves were coming from but she knew they must belong to someone.

The gloves just started appearing one day, in Palmer’s dining room, the back balcony, on the floor and at the front door. There were nylon ones, fabric ones, and never in a matched pair, just singles.

Turns out Palmer’s calico cat, Sienna, had gotten a taste for work gloves and she wasn’t about to stop anytime soon, she was proud of her stash and would often announce another catch with a few cheerful meows. Before Palmer knew it, Sienna had collected more than 50 gloves – but where oh where were they coming from?

Could they be from the nearby school? Or construction sites down the

street? Or her neighbours? They were doing some landscaping work…

She contacted the NOW hoping some exposure would help locate the owner of the gloves and soon enough, Palmer got a call from her neighbour across the street, Louise LeBlanc, who was certain the gloves belonged to her.

While a little miffed (I mean, who wouldn’t be – the LeBlancs kept buying more gloves for their landscapers every time another one went missing, that’s a lot of money and certainly a lot of gloves), LeBlanc found the situation rather amusing noting that she had initially assumed it was a raccoon stealing the gloves. She even had video footage of what appeared to be a raccoon struggling to drag a coat across the lawn – turns out it was Sienna all along, what

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Mayor Derek Corrigan.

Hancott’s colleagues didn’t fare any better, as the BCA swept the polls on Nov. 15.

Following the results, Hancott couldn’t say if he would run for mayor in 2018, but if he does decide to take on the juggernaut BCA again, he has four years to figure out how to at least get one person elected to one seat on either the school board or city council. Is that asking too much?

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Not to be outdone, Burnaby Citizens Association candidates Harman Pandher (since re-elected and acclaimed school board vice-chair) and school board newbie Katrina Chen told local papers that some local citizens told them that somebody claiming to be a Burnaby First volunteer was telling voters the BCA-run school district was injecting kids with an elixir to make them gay.

The BCA cried fearmongering. The BFC cried smear campaign. Fans of enlightened political discourse wept.

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Development boom continues It wouldn’t be Burnaby without a few more highrises, now would it?

This year saw the approval and development of the two 53-storey Brentwood towers, as well as two of the five Station Square buildings.

Mayor Derek Corrigan touted the creation of 3,000 jobs during the second phase of the Station Square development as it joins the Metrotown skyline. On the flipside, the ongoing development throughout Burnaby brought stories

of residents who may be forced out of the city, like Tisa Nowak and her 200some neighbours. Their affordable lowrise rental building is set to be torn down in favour of two towers, one at 26 storeys, the other at 41.

Any time a development of such a magnitude goes to a public hearing, residents pack council chambers. It’s an eternal hot-button issue, and development will certainly be in the running for 2015’s top news story.

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So why are the BFC’s signs still on boulevards? In neighbouring municipalities?

BFC signs are still along Stewardson Way in New Westminster (as of December 29) – a double whammy for bylaw violations.

When the BCA put signs on city boulevards – which turned out to be permitted, with prior consent from city council – Burnaby First called hypocrisy.

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A Burnaby woman who lost her fit, 43-year-old husband to a sudden cardiac arrest six years ago is “thrilled” with a new defibrillator registry launched this month.

The B.C. AED (automated external defibrillator) Registry is a provincial database that will allow emergency dispatchers to help callers trying to save someone from a heart attack find a nearby AED. Whether the defibrillators are in a drugstore, church, school, hockey rink or individual home, the registry will allow dispatchers to locate all registered AED’s within a 300-metre radius of the incident.

Once Good Samaritans get their hands on the lifesaving devices, dispatchers can then guide them

through how to use them until paramedics arrive.

“That’s huge,” said Denise Giammaria, director of the Gianfranco Giammaria Memorial Society.

Her organization – founded in 2008, after her husband Gianfranco died of a sudden cardiac arrest during a hockey game – has placed 64 AEDs in public places in Burnaby, Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver and Pitt Meadows.

Although Giammaria would like to see a law making AEDs mandatory in certain kinds of venues, she’s pleased with the new registry.

“We are thrilled that they’ve made these advances,” she told the NOW. “We just encourage anyone who doesn’t have an AED to look into acquiring one and

those who do have an AED that they register it because they do save lives.”

Anyone can register an AED, but registrants are required to complete monthly maintenance checks and will receive email reminders to change AED pads and batteries.

B.C. Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) will also provide postincident support.

There are already 288 AEDs in the registry, but hundreds more are still unregistered, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation is urging anyone who owns one of the devices to get it online.

“It only takes a few minutes to register your device,” stated a Heart and Stroke press release.

“Those few minutes can save a life.”

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Mounties looking for witnesses Cayley Dobie staff reporter

Burnaby RCMP are looking for witnesses after a Burnaby woman suffered a broken knee when she was hit by a car recently.

The collision happened just after 10 p.m. on Dec. 17. The victim was crossing at Beta Avenue and Ridgelawn Drive when an oncoming car hit her, according to Burnaby Staff Sgt. Rob Marks.

From what the victim told police, she had her head down and when she looked

up “that’s when she was struck by a vehicle,” Marks said.

The vehicle fled the scene before police and paramedics arrived. No one saw the licence plate number, and investigators don’t have much information at this time other than the vehicle was silver and heading eastbound on Ridgelawn Drive, Marks added.

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ome may accuse the media of being driven by “bad news” and always looking for the down side to get a better headline.

That might well be true.

But here at the NOW, we’re proud of the fact that we’re also always looking for the up side – and for the people who fill the community with the kind of “good news” that we all need more of in our lives.

At the end of the year, we like to take a look back at some of those people we’ve encountered throughout the year – and we salute them with our “If Everyone Were Like Them, The World Would Be a Better Place” award. Here are our award winners for 2014:

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Kim FinkJensen speaks into a microphone with her daughter Kate and Naomi Cech. The 11year-old girls crossed into the injunction zone during the protests on Burnaby Mountain last month.

Georgie Cole

Georgie Cole came into our lives in March, after being named the winner of the Kushiro Cup as the city’s 2013 Citizen of the Year for her five decades of community service. She’s known as a passionate advocate for families, children and youth, with a wide range of community volunteer experience – from literacy programs in schools to the Eastside Opportunities Society to work with Deer Lake United Church, East Burnaby United Church, Block Watch, the Burnaby Barracudas Swim Club and Robert Burnaby Park. And, with all that, this good-natured volunteer was nothing but gracious about her many accomplishments, saying she was simply “humbled” to win. We need more people with that kind of energy and attitude.

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Kate and Naomi

This pair of 11-year-olds may be at the other end of the age spectrum from Georgie Cole, but they share the same passion for working for what they believe in. In this case, the two young students came into the limelight in November during the high-profile protests against Kinder Morgan’s work on Burnaby Mountain; in consultation with their families, they made the decision to cross the injunction line – an act that had already seen countless adult protesters arrested.

But Kate and Naomi were undaunted.

“I’m 11, and Kinder Morgan is wrong.

What they are doing is wrong, they can’t just go around drilling holes in mountains just ‘cause they want oil and money. It’s wrong,” said Naomi.

The two were with Kate’s mother, and police escorted all three away from the scene. The fact that two girls so young were willing to take that step is admirable: they took the time to consider a serious issue and they took a stand for what they believe in. If more people lived with such courage of their convictions, the city – no, the country – would undoubtedly be a better place.

Stephen D’Souza

Anyone who’s been in Burnaby for any length of time knows about Burnaby Community Services and the phenomenal job it does helping people in our city who

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Cool dudes: Above, Stephen D’Souza is the executive director of Burnaby Community Services and one of the NOW’s do-gooders. Left, Hippie Mike, a.k.a Mike Faux, is on our list for his work encouraging girls and boys to grab a skateboard and get moving. need some extra assistance – for all kinds of reasons. D’Souza certainly doesn’t do it alone – there’s a veritable army of helpers involved in the organization’s efforts – but his calm, capable, kind and 100 per cent genuine commitment to his causes is certainly a huge part of the reason for its success. To Stephen and the team: We salute you, and thank you – at Christmas and always.

Hippie Mike

You read that right – and if you don’t recognize the name, then you’re obviously not a skateboarder (don’t

worry, most of us didn’t know it either).

Hippie Mike – a.k.a. Mike Faux – rolled into town with a special event at Bonsor skate park over the summer, part of his Supertour.

Hippie Mike is an ambassador for his sport, with his emphasis on opening it up to competitors of all ability levels, both boys and girls. But it’s not just about the sport for him – it’s about offering opportunities to build confidence in young people, and it’s also about educating kids about charitable cause. For each of his events, he requires either two food items or a $5 donation to a local food bank to

enter the contest. A dreadlocked ambassador of good citizenship? Yup, we’ve gotta vote for Hippie Mike.

Burnaby North’s “Small Steps” group

Burnaby North’s “Small Steps” group: This group of teens is a shining example of what we should all mean when we talk about “kids today” – in the best possible way. Small Steps was started in 2011 by Burnaby North student Sydney Juzenas as a club that would focus on Small Steps Page 14

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“We haven’t had any money in child care for years, no capital grants for years,” Frouws said. “So this is a good sign, but there’s been a drought for a while. … Hopefully that’s sign there’s more for building a system, a system that will keep things stable.”

Frouws would like to see the provincial government fund operating costs for child-care centres, so they can keep the fees reasonable for parents. Frouws said a family can expect to pay $1,000 a month in childcare fees for children three and under.

SFU Community Trust is also providing funding for the project, and Frouws is in talks with the Burnaby school district, as she’s hoping to have the modular on the University Highlands Elementary school grounds. The living building concept means the modular would be constructed to rigor-

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hands-on activities rather than fundraising to help those in need, and the students are continuing to work in a variety of capacities in the community. Their main activity has been helping in the kitchen in the Salvation Army’s Cariboo Hill temple, and they’ve also been active on its kettle campaign. They organize their efforts primarily through a Facebook group some 180 members strong – members can donate as much or as little time as they like. And, together, they’re making a huge difference in the community.

Congratulations, Small Steps students, for proving just what “kids today” are made of.

What do you think? Who were the community heroes of 2014? Drop us a line to let us know what you think.

Email editorial@burnabynow.com or tweet us, @BurnabyNOW_news.

The SFU Childcare Society is planning to open a new “living-building” modular with more child-care spaces, thanks to $500,000 in funding from the provincial government.

The SFU Childcare Society, which operates 15 child-care programs on Burnaby Mountain, secured funding from the government’s B.C. Early Years Strategy.

The new spaces are part of the government’s plan to provide 2,000 new childcare spots in B.C. by 2016. Currently, there are roughly 107,000 government-supported child-care spaces in B.C. Pat Frouws, the society’s executive director, was pleased with the $500,000-grant, and she’s hoping it’s a sign there’s more to come.

ous environmental standards. Frouws estimated the modular would provide 24 to 48 child-care spaces for families connected to the elementary school or UniverCity development.

“We’re hoping to relocate on the school grounds. By doing that, we’ll be able to offer more spaces there,” she said.

Frouws’ society is also calling for a $10a-day child-care program in B.C., to make child care affordable for families.

Burnaby North MLA Richard Lee lauded the funding announcement in a government press release.

“Good child-care services help families maintain a healthy and well-balanced life,” said Lee. “Through this funding, families in Burnaby can have more choices and support in taking care of their children.”

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Another charismatic year for local art scene

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ith the end of the year upon us, it seems only fitting that I take some time to look back at the year that was and highlight some of the amazing stories and people that came to my attention this year.

Some of those stories were good news – like the arrival of a new theatre company to stage musicals at the Michael ON MY BEAT J. Fox Theatre.

Julie MacLellan Others were cause for sadness, such as the loss of the Clef Society after 65 years of operation.

So, without further ado, I present my year-end “awards” for the movers and shakers on the arts scene in 2014.

BEST NEW EVENT OF THE YEAR

Looking back over the year in the arts, there’s one new event that really stands out: Living Room Art in the Heights. The Oct. 18 event brought together a group of artists of all kinds – dancers, storytellers, musicians, visual artists, photographers, filmmaker – to stage an evening of artistic displays and performances in a private home in Burnaby Heights. It was a brilliant idea, and it came to Burnaby thanks to the vision of Yunuen Perez Vertti – a newcomer to the city who came to Burnaby from Houston, Texas a year ago.

It was a brilliant celebration of art and community, and we hope to see many more similar events in the future.

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Best booster: Jeff Neufeld earns our Best Live Music Booster nod for his efforts to promote live music in Burnaby and New Westminster

BEST NEW ARRIVAL

Here’s to another fresh face that arrived in Burnaby this year: Align Entertainment. Though the company is based in Coquitlam, it’s chosen our very own Michael J. Fox Theatre as the home for its large-scale musicals – and we couldn’t be happier to have them. Align kicked off what looks to be a successful existence with a well-received run of Shrek: The Musical in February. And it’s already selling tickets for its next show: The Addams Family, which runs at the Michael J. Fox Theatre in February 2015.

If its first outing is any example, it’ll be a high-quality show with something to appeal to every member of the family, from the very young on up. Yahoo!

BEST FAMILY AFFAIR

They’re just plain irresistible, onstage and off. I give this year’s Best Family Affair nod to the father-daughter team of Steve and Aubrey Maddock, who appeared together in the Royal City Musical Theatre Company’s production of Annie in April. Steve starred as Oliver Warbucks, and Aubrey brought her singing and dancing skills to the forefront as the orphan Kate.

They’re both powerhouse performers on stage – and off stage, they’re just darn nice people. I have a feeling we’ll be hear-

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Highs and lows: Above, Ken Broadway performs

during the Clef Society’s final recital in November.

Left, Ranae Miller as Princess Fiona, Will Hopkins as Shrek and Caleb Di Pomponio as Donkey in Shrek the Musical, presented by Align Entertainment at the Michael J. Fox Theatre. ing more from both of them in the near future.

BEST LIVE MUSIC BOOSTER

All musicians know that it can be tough finding places to perform – but, thanks to Burnaby’s Jeff Neufeld, it got a little bit easier in 2014. Neufeld was a driving force behind a couple of new local performing series this past year.

First, he organized a series of new open mike nights at the Blenz in Uptown New Westminster, offering a platform for both experienced and emerging artists to share their work with an audience. Then he worked with Lindy and Jim McQueen to stage Music in the Park, a free outdoor

musical performance series in Edmonds.

Seeing a musician who’s willing to share his own talents and help to boost others just makes us believe in the goodness of the world. Thanks, Jeff.

SAD FAREWELL OF THE YEAR

This solemn nod goes to the Clef Society of Burnaby, which gave its official farewell performance on Nov. 16 after more than 65 years of operation. The non-profit society – which was incorporated on Feb. 8, 1949 – was formed to advance music in Burnaby by fostering an appreciation of music, promoting musical instruction and encouraging outstanding musical talent, especially in young musi-

cians. It held a regular monthly recital series at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and also hosted an annual scholarship musical festival and concerto competition that attracted some of the best young musical talent in the region.

This past September, it went public with its need for more volunteers to keep the group running, noting that the existing board members had served for many years and new blood was needed to keep things running. But, with only two new volunteers stepping forward, it wasn’t enough – and the society had to dissolve.

Our thoughts are with everyone who tried so hard to make it work – and our gratitude for your 65 years of effort will be eternal.

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Arts: Footlight Theatre Society makes its comeback PEOPLE WHO MADE ME COMEBACK OF THE YEAR SMILE continued from page 16

Here’s one that started out in a similar fashion but had a much happier ending. At the beginning of the year, the Footlight Theatre Society was struggling. It has a history stretching back some 48 years – it began life as Burnaby Civic Opera in 1966, then morphed into Heritage Musical Theatre in the 1970s before producing its first show as the Footlight Theatre Company in 1989.

Footlight made its name over the years for producing annual, splashy productions of Broadway favourites – The Wizard of Oz, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Sound of Music, to name but a few – featuring large casts, with a focus on young community talent. But Footlight ran up against a wall in 2013 when its board was faced with some tough decisions: given the unexpected departure of some board members, and the financial climate of the times, could Footlight manage to stage its annual fall production?

In the end, the show was a no-go, but the board opted to stage a fundraiser instead. At the beginning of 2014, the organization regrouped – it expanded the professional base of its board and rethought its approach, working for months on plans for a fall production. It all culminated in The Marvelous Wonderettes at the Shadbolt Centre in November.

Welcome back, Footlight – we’re glad you haven’t left us!

There’s no one “award” category that seemed to encompass these folks, so I’ll just put them together in the category of People Who Made Me Smile. They all did – just by sharing their enthusiasm and their passion for their artistic endeavours. There was Ken Overbey, who starred as Donkey in the Theatre Under the Stars production of Shrek: the Musical. There was Marcus Takizawa, a viola player who brought his talents on the underappreciated instrument (the “middle child” of the string world, as he calls it) to the Bard on the Beach stage.

There was Lauri Lyster, who sat down for a candid chat about her trailblazing career as a drummer. And there was a trio of emerging opera singers – Pamela Morgan, Irina Kim and Julia Fox – who shared their delight in being onstage in Opera Mariposa’s Suor Angelica. Thank you all. It’s people like you who make my job a delight!

To all of the above-mentioned folks, and to everyone out there creating art of all kinds in our city: I salute you. You are all helping to make our city a better place to live, and your efforts are not going unnoticed.

Who were your favourite movers and shakers on the arts scene in 2014? What was the best local production you saw?

Who should we watch for in the coming year? Send your comments and ideas to Julie, jmaclellan@burnabynow.com, or find her on Twitter, @juliemaclellan.

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20 Fifth netball title

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20 It was a quite a year

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It was truly a memorable 2014 in Burnaby The St. Thomas More Knights won their first-ever AAA high school banner in basketball in March.

The No. 2-ranked Knights defeated honourable mention Charles Hayes Rainmakers 53-38 in the B.C. boys’ championship final in Langley – STM’s first provincial title in 38 years.

STM was led by tournament MVP Reese Morris, who had a game-high 16 points and 12 rebounds.

“It’s the best moment of my life. The best basketball moment I’ve ever had,” said Morris.

Ice dance bronze

ZhaoKai Pang of Burnaby and ice dance partner Madeline Edwards won the bronze medal at the world junior figure skating championships in Sofia, Bulgaria in March.

Pang and Edwards recorded personal-best scores in both the short and free programs to finish with a career-high 139.65 points.

“It was a really emotional free dance. We didn’t leave anything out,” said Pang.

Three banners

St. Thomas More swept the B.C. high school wrestling championships, winning three separate provincial banners in March.

The Knights won its first-ever aggregate title

with 142 total points, almost doubling overall runner-up W.J. Mouat at the meet.

STM also won its first boys’ aggregate, while the girls’ took top spot after finishing the year before in second place.

“The beauty of it all was even though we had a lot of great performances, we could have had more,” said STM wrestling coach Doug Corbett.

Tops in college

Burnaby badminton player RuiLin Huang was named the collegiate athlete of the year at the Sport B.C. athlete of the year banquet in March.

Huang, who posted a career record of 207-1 while at Douglas College, won the award after a first collegiate nomination in 2012.

“I was so surprised.

Last time, I had so many doubts,” said Huang.

Seventh title

The Northwest Giants won a seventh consecutive B.C. major midget hockey league title in March.

The Giants edged the runner-up Okanagan Rockets by a single point after the second-place club tied a game in its final season series against a fifthplace club.

“We had a little help. It was pretty shocking when we heard the news,” said head coach Clint Thornton.

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Heavy favourite: Amar Dhesi is the Burnaby NOW’s athlete of the year for 2014.

Year turns gold for 2014 athlete Tom Berridge

sports editor

Amar Dhesi was awarded a junior world championship gold medal after defending freestyle champion Geno Petriashvili of Georgia was disqualified following a failed drug test.

Dhesi, who lost to Petriashvili at the FILA junior world championships in Zagreb, Croatia in August, was subsequently awarded the gold medal.

The Burnaby Central high school grad and pre-season All-American at Oregon State University became one of just a handful of Canadian wrestlers to have been named a world champion and the first in men’s freestyle since Gia Sissaouri

in 2001.

“This news results in Canada winning its first male junior world wrestling in 25 years,” said Wrestling Canada Lutte executive director Tamara Medwidsky in a press release.

The world championship title followed Dhesi’s gold-medal performance at the 2014 Junior Pan American championship in Toronto in June. Dhesi was also a runner-up at the Canada Cup. The good news comes following a recent knee injury to Dhesi in November in an exhibition match that forced the Canadian to sit out his sophomore season at Oregon State as a redshirt.

As a starting freshman at State, Dhesi finished 2014 with a 27-10

record, placing second at the Reno Tournament of Champions and holding a top-20 national ranking for most of the season.

Dhesi also placed runner-up at the Pac-12 conference championships – his first runner-up title – earning an automatic entry into the nationals, where he was seeded 16th and won two of his four bouts.

Dhesi had won three consecutive matches leading up to the world championship final, including a come-from-behind 7-6 decision in the final minute against American rival Adam Coon of Michigan in the semifinal.

Coon was Dhesi’s opponent in the final at the USA junior nationals in 2013, becoming the only Canadian to win the tournament in 20 years.

Record x-country accomplishment deserving of top team It was all about teamwork for Simon Fraser University in cross-country in 2014.

Clan runners finished seventh overall for a second consecutive season at the NCAA Division II women’s cross-country national championships.

The Great Northwest conference and West Region champion Clan women finished ahead of all regional competitors for a third straight meet this season, edging five-time defending conference champion Alaska Anchorage for seventh place with an overall team time of 1:51.39.9 at Tom Sawyer Park in Louisville, Kentucky in December.

“We can’t be disappointed finishing seventh because we were the No. 1 team in the region,” said SFU head coach and West Region coach of the year Brit Townsend.

Grad student Jennifer Johnson and sophomore Rebecca Bassett both earned AllAmerican status, finishing 24th and 35th, respectively, over the 5.78-kilometre distance.

The unseeded SFU men’s team finished in 20th place overall. Oliver Jorgensen led the men’s Clan, placing 75th overall in a time of 32:18.20 in the 9.65km race.

“Our guys … set a goal to make nationals this year, were unranked coming in, and then ran tough and strong to surprise everyone,” Townsend added.

Earlier in the month, the SFU women won their first-ever Great Northwest conference title in the tightest-ever finish in conference cross-country history. Bassett and Johnson placed second and fifth, respectively.

Weeks later, SFU placed first in the women’s division at the West regional qualifying meet in Billings, Montana, while the men qualified for the nats for the first time.

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Program first: SFU coach Brit Townsend was named the NCAA Division II West Region’s women’s cross-country coach of the year in November.

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YEAR END

2014 was quite a year

MORE 2014 MOMENTS B.C. won a fifth consecutive Canadian netball national championship title at the Fortius centre in Burnaby in May. B.C. defeated Ontario 48-34 following a pivotal 15-4 third quarter.

“The difference was we stuck to our B.C. game,” said 10-year goal defense veteran Shawnette Cockburn.

The long run

St.ThomasMoresprinter Zion Corrales-Nelson won two bronze medals running for the Philippines at the Youth Olympic Games in Bangkok, Thailand in May. With her results, Corrales-Nelson became the second Filipino woman to qualify for the world junior championships.

“I tried to treat it like a meet back home,” she said.

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Burnaby twins Emma and Evan March helped the South Vancouver baseball team win the Canadian Little League championships and earn a berth at the 75th Little League World Series.

Bowls pair

Burnaby lawn bowler James MacGowan shared in a national pairs bowls title at the Canadian championships in Winnipeg in August.

“It was one of those last bowl, nerve-wracking pressure shots,” said MacGowan

The Burnaby Velodrome played host to Cycling Canada’s junior and under-17 cadet national track championships in November.

Up-and-comer Maggie Coles-Lyster was a standout for the B.C. team, winning the u-17 women’s overall omnium.

Kind of a drag

A local paddler shared a pair of gold medals at the ninth international Dragon Boat Federation club crew world championships in Italy in September.

Paige Misfeldt helped the crew win the women’s and mixed 200 metres races.

Podium debut

Race car driver Remo Ruscitti won three International Motorsports Association races in July, including his first two rides in Prototypes Lights.

“It was awesome and I can’t thank everybody enough,” said Ruscitti.

Mountain medal

Mountain United FC won its first medal at the Canadian Soccer Association club championships in October.

The under-17 boys won a bronze medal in a penalty shootout over Alberta.

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Fighting back: The Northwest Giants fought back in their final B.C. major

Two out of three

midget game in 2014 against the Okanagan Rockets. The third-place Giants will head to Calgary over the Christmas holidays to try their luck at the Mac’s midget tournament, a major competition it won in 2009.

The Burnaby Lake Rugby Club sent three teams to the provincial championships in May, coming home with a seventh premier women’s title and a second banner in Division 1.

Boxing belts for NBBC

The North Burnaby Boxing Club won four WBC title belts at the Canadian amateur national championships in October. Leo Sammarelli, Robert Couzens, Adam Querido and Rosalia Calla won titles.

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Crowley was the hero of Canadian lacrosse at the International Lacrosse Federation world championships.

The national team midfielder was named player of the game in the field lacrosse championship final, scoring five of Canada’s opening six goals, including the eventual game-winner in an 8-5 victory over perennial champion United States at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado in July. “(Today) world champions sounds pretty good,” said Crowley. “In 2010, … I was a late addition. But this time, I made sure I was prepared for it. All my preparation was for this gold-medal game.”

Luke Keough led an allUnited Healthcare podium sweep at the Giro di Burnaby in July.

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