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Witnesses sought in shooting Cayley Dobie

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Anyone who may have witnessed a police-involved shooting near Canada Way and Rosewood Street early Sunday morning is asked to contact the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. Members of the provincial police watchdog were dispatched to Burnaby at 3:18 a.m. on March 1 after Burnaby RCMP reported a suspect had been shot during an altercation with police.

Officers with the Burnaby RCMP were on patrol at about 2:45 a.m. when they came across an alleged robbery in progress at the 7-Eleven at Canada Way and Edmonds Street, according to a media release from Burnaby RCMP. The officers attempted to arrest the two male suspects, but they fled the scene in a vehicle.

“A police vehicle was rammed. Shots were fired, and both suspects fled in the ON THE SCENE Mounties were on scene Sunday at Rosewood Street and Canada Way following an alleged robbery where one of the suspects Continued on page 4 was allegedly shot by a Burnaby RCMP officer. The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. is investigating. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Parents stand against funding cuts

School district budget presentation to parents didn’t detail $4-million surplus to start next school year Cornelia Naylor

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A Burnaby school district budget breakdown presented to parents last week left out the fact that local schools will be starting next year about $4 million in the black.

Last Monday, secretary-treasurer Greg Frank provided parents with a budget overview for the 2014/15 and 2015/16 school years at a monthly district parent advisory council (DPAC) meeting.

A handout distributed at the meeting and now posted on the DPAC website projected the district facing a $4.5-million shortfall next year with no anticipated reserve funds to cover it.The amended 2014/15 budget

passed by the board the following day, however, indicates the district will go into next year with a $4 million unrestricted surplus.

The discrepancy did not concern DPAC chair Jen Mezei.

She told the NOW the district had told parents the figures at the meeting were preliminary and that the shortfall would likely be smaller in reality because the district had ended up with a surplus – though the size of the surplus was not specified.

She said she expected DPAC to be updated on current budget figures in upcoming discussions with the district.

At Monday’s meeting, however, parents passed a motion to “take a position against the education funding cuts” announced in

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the provincial budget last month. meeting, but the presentation wasn’t meant “How are we going to cut an already to be a full explanation of all the details. stressed budget?” Mezei stated in a press reThat kind of explanation won’t be availlease after the meeting. “The level of fundable until after the province announces next ing provincially has not been able to provide year’s funding in mid-March, he said.

B.C. students with the level of resources and “DPAC’s objective was to start a discussupport that parents want.” sion amongst their members to The DPAC chair said the start looking at budget priorimotion was sparked by the DPAC’s objective ties and budget adjustment provincial budget announceFrank said. was to start a discussions,” ment Feb. 17, not by the dire He added that even after discussion … budget picture presented to this year’s surplus is applied parents by the district last to next year’s budget, the disweek. Of particular concern trict still expects to face sigto DPAC was a plan by the nificant shortfalls. province to cut school district The school district’s prelimiadministrative costs across the province by nary 2015/16 budget is scheduled to go be$54 million over the next two years. fore the school board for approval April 28.

Frank told the NOW the district gave parA public budget forum is scheduled for ents as much information about next year’s April 9 at Burnaby Central Secondary at 7 budget as early as possible at last week’s p.m.

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MAKING A CASE From left, School District No. 41 music teachers Reg LaPlante, Ryan Phelps and Janet Nordstrand urged the school board at last week’s meeting not to make cuts to the school music program next year. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

Music teachers on alert Making the case to protect music programs if budget cuts are needed trict proposed covering part of a projected $3.1 million shortfall by cutBurnaby music teachers ting almost nine non-enare circling the wagons ear- rolling teaching positions, ly to protect the school dis- which include music teachtrict’s music program. ers, librarians and resource The school district won’t teachers. find out how much money Teachers and parents ralit’s getting from the provlied around the music proince for next year until gram, however, and the dismid-March, but a delegatrict eventually made cuts tion of music educators has elsewhere. already appealed Now, as the disto the board to trict gets ready to preserve the dishammer out next trict’s music proyear’s budget, staff grams and staffing from the board oflevels. fice have already “We all hope been in touch with in this time of fisthe music educal constraint, that cators associathe board choostion, Phelps told es to continue to the NOW, and Chen support and main- Katrina the group is wortrustee tain music staffried the district is ing at its current levels, once again looking for placto continue to have certies to cut. fied music educators in ev“That’s sort of what preery school and to allow our cipitated a bit of our prelearners to have as much sentation to the board on time in the music class as (last week),” Phelps said. they do currently,” Burna“We’ve been so lucky in

by Music Educators AssoBurnaby that the board has ciation chair and Gilmore been able to continue to Elementary music teacher support us for so long, and Ryan Phelps told trustees the worry that we do have at a school board meeting is that things might start to Tuesday. change and go another diDuring early budget rection.” planning last year, the disBurnaby is among only

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a few districts in the province to have a certified music teacher and dedicated music room in every school and to provide all kindergarten-to-Grade 7 students between 90 to 100 minutes of music instruction every week.

The district also supports a number of honour ensembles and festivals.

That’s all as it should be, according to Phelps.

His appeal to the board this week emphasized music’s unique ability to engage all students, including English language learners and students with exceptional needs.

“I really think that it engages students right from the very beginning, and it encompasses everybody in the school,” Phelps said.

Board members were sympathetic.

Trustee Katrina Chen said music was her first avenue to friendship when she came to Canada as a 17-year-old.

“I spoke very limited English,” she said at the meeting, “but I was able to make friends through my band classes and also my choir classes. I was able to use music to communicate with my fellow classmates,

so we all know the importance of music.”

Chair Ron Burton also referenced personal music experiences at school and said the board would “keep the music program in mind” as it deliberated over the budget in coming months.

The worry that we do have is that things might start to change and go another direction.

Burton told the NOW the board is proud of the program and has tried to keep it intact in the past by finding administrative savings, but there’s no guarantee deeper cuts won’t be needed for next year.

“We can’t say definitively we won’t touch it,” he said.

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Burnaby commercial Foundation. banker and three-time fedCunningham holds a eral Liberal candidate for master of business adminBurnaby-Douglas, Bill Cun- istration from SFU and a ningham, is Simon Fraser bachelor of commerce from University’s new board University of Alberta. chair.

Cunningham ran unsucCunningham, who served cessfully as a Liberal candias deputy chair last year and date in the riding of Burnahas been on the SFU board by-Douglas in three straight since 2011, began federal elections his three-year term in 2005, 2006 and with the gavel on 2008. He was deJan. 30. feated by NDP inHe is currentcumbent Bill Sikly the manager of say each time. commercial credit Cunningham, with TD Commer45, is also a former cial Banking based president of the in Richmond, B.C. Liberal Party of and has worked for Canada in B.C. Bill Cunningham TD Bank Group He told the offices in both Cal- SFU board chair NOW on Friday gary and Burnaby. that his communiHe was the executive dity activism and role as a parrector and senior advisor for ent of two young boys have the Government of Canaprecluded further active poda’s Minister’s regional oflitical involvement. fice inVancouver from 2004 “I have no intention of to 2006. He is also on the running again,” he said. board of directors of the “I’m not involved actively Down Syndrome Research in provincial or federal poliFoundation. tics.”

Other boards he has Other new appointments served on include the SFU to the SFU board include Alumni Association, the Julia Kim as deputy chair Vancouver Society of Chiland Christopher Lewis and dren’s Centres,TD Friends Elio Luongo as order-inof the Environment Founcouncil members. dation and the InnerChange – Cornelia Naylor

Highrise cut to 42 storeys A highrise proposed for Gilmore Avenue and Douglas Road is going back to public hearing, albeit with a bit of a trim.

In 2013, the Aviara II developer put forward a plan for a 52-storey highrise east of the Aviara I project at Gilmore and Halifax Street.

After the project went to public hearing, the applicant, LM Aviara Communities Ltd., realized the proposed support structure was inefficient and uneconomical, according to a report

from Burnaby’s director of planning and building, Lou Pelletier.

The design has been tweaked and the applicant has submitted a proposal for a 42-storey highrise instead.

Two low-rise apartment buildings, four and six storeys respectively, are still part of the proposed project.

The development proposal will go to public hearing on March 31 at 7 p.m. in the council chamber at city hall.

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Pipeline questions still unanswered: city Jennifer Moreau

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The cities of Burnaby and Vancouver are saying nearly half of their questions for Kinder Morgan have gone unanswered.

The responses, which Kinder Morgan filed on Feb. 18, are part of the ongoing National Energy Board hearing to review the company’s plan to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline, which runs through Burnaby.

“In May of last year, we submitted 1,679 questions, 62 per cent of which Kinder Morgan chose not to answer and for which they

gave only partial answers to 14 per cent,” said Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan in a joint press release with Vancouver. “Because the city has very significant questions that focus on the hundreds of ways in which Kinder Morgan’s proposed pipeline and tank farm would threaten our city and region’s safety, security and livability, we again asked Kinder Morgan to provide answers. Unfortunately – but not surprisingly – Kinder Morgan has again failed to show respect for our citizens’ questions by refusing to answer almost half of them.”

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Robertson also bemoaned that puts our environment the city’s unanswered quesand economy at risk.” tions.

The cities asked ques“The continued lack of tions on a variety of topics, information from mostly on the enviKinder Morgan ronmental, health and their inabiland safety risks of ity to adequatethe project.The inly answer quesformation request tions about their procedure is the emergency manNEB’s way of letagement plans is a ting intervenors in huge concern for the pipeline hearresidents and busiing ask the companesses in Vancouny questions, now ver and across the Derek Corrigan that oral cross-exBurnaby mayor region,” Robertaminations are no son said. “The city longer done. continues to find very sigFollowing the first round nificant gaps in the inforof information requests last mation that Kinder Morgan spring, Burnaby,Vancouhas provided for a project ver and the provincial gov-

Two charged in killing

Two men are facing charges for their alleged roles in the killing of a 27year-old man at Edmonds SkyTrain station two weeks ago.

Homicide investigators arrested two men – a 22year-old and an 18-year-old – in connection with James Enright’s death in Burnaby on Feb. 15.The 22-yearold has been charged with second-degree murder, while the 18-year-old is facing charges of manslaughter and assault causing bodily

harm, according to a media release.

Burnaby RCMP arrived at Edmonds station on Feb. 15 shortly before 1 a.m. Enright was found in need of medical attention and was taken to hospital but died a short while later.

Investigators allege Enright was stabbed during an altercation at the Edmonds SkyTrain station bus loop with the two accused.

“This has been a gruelling investigation with many witnesses,” Sgt. Stephanie

ernment all lamented the lack of answers from Kinder Morgan.

Kinder Morgan Canada president Ian Anderson recently told the NOW that some of the questions in the second round were not relevant or outside the scope of issues, as defined by the NEB. “Having said that, we’re doing, I think, a more fulsome job of responding to as much as we possibly can within that scope, and I think intervenors will find that as they see the answers,” Anderson said. “The NEB process is not the only way they are going to get answers from us.We’re deal-

ing directly with communities on their local issues, their local concerns that may not be relevant to the NEB filing, but may still be relevant to our relationship with the community.”

Trans Mountain spokesperson Ali Hounsell also pointed out that intervenors are free to file motions with the NEB if they want more answers.

“Ultimately, last time, we went back and provided information for a whole lot,” she said.

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Ashton, spokesperson for the homicide team, said in a media release. “It is with the help of the public and the media this matter is now before the courts. IHIT is thankful for the support of the public in assisting with this investigation.”

The names of the accused are protected under a publication ban and won’t be released.

The ban also prevents any other details from being released.

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Investigators seek witnesses Continued from page 1 vehicle,” stated the release.

Officers found the suspects’ minivan a short distance away. Investigators believe one of the suspects had crashed the vehicle into a fence at Canada Way and Rosewood Street. He was found near the vehicle suffering from a serious injury allegedly caused by a gunshot, according to the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. The suspect was taken to hospital for treatment while officers located and arrested the second suspect. He

remains in custody at this time.

No officers or bystanders were injured.

Members of the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. were on scene in Burnaby Sunday morning laying down yellow markers along Canada Way between Edmonds and Rosewood streets, combing nearby surveillance footage and canvassing the area for witnesses.

According to the investigations office, its members are conducting a “standard investigation” into the inci-

dent and believe there were people in the area of Canada Way and Rosewood Street prior to the crash. Investigators are asking anyone who may have been in that area between 2:30 and 3 a.m. to contact the office at 1-855-446-8477.

No other information is available as it is still early in the investigation, according to the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. The Burnaby RCMP is continuing to investigate the robbery. No information is available at this time.

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Snakes alive in Burnaby Construction in Delta disturbs hundreds of hibernating garter snakes – and now they’re sleeping it off at wildlife centre

By Jennifer Moreau

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There’s a low hissing sound in the halls of the Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C.The Burnaby-based rehabilitation centre has been flooded with hundreds of snakes from Delta.

“It’s kind of a low-level hiss because they are writhing,” said association spokespersonYolanda Brooks. “We’ve never had anything like this at all.We get the odd two or three snakes a year.This is a completely different incident.”

Brooks said about 12 snakes were brought in last Thursday, but when she came to work the next day, there were hundreds.There are more than 400 snakes in the association’s care.

“I’m snake-wrangling. Some of them keep trying to get out of the bucket, so I have to put them back in,” Brooks said.

Brooks said the snakes are from a worksite in Delta, where crews are upgrading a dike.

Brooks said they are three species of garter snakes, which tend to overwinter in large groups.

“Obviously, they just disturbed the snakes from the hibernation,” she said.

Brooks said the association will keep the snakes in an outdoor enclosure until April, and then government biologists will release them back where they were found.

The snakes are in plastic bins filled with sawdust, with 20 snakes to a

bin.

The Wildlife Rescue Association helps more than 4,000 injured or orphaned animals every year and runs a rehabilitation centre close to Burnaby Lake.The association is hoping the public will donate money to buy more plastic tubs if need be.

For more information on the association, go to wildliferescue.ca.

Tubs of snakes: Janelle Vanderbeek holds just a handful of the hundreds of garter snakes that have been dropped off at the Wildlife Rescue Association. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

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The chequered road to civic power Is it time for the provincial government to crack down on municipal election spending?

It’s a question that’s being asked around the province since election spending reports were released last week.

In some cases, candidates vying for seats on municipal councils and school boards forked over some very big bucks in order to secure the seats they now hold.

Compounding that is-

sue is the fact that those very same bucks come in many cases from two funding sources that always raise controversy: labour and business.

Case in point: the Burnaby Citizens Association went into the 2014 election with a whopping $484,649 in contributions, up by more than $200,000 from the previous election. Of that money, a full $161,325 came from trade unions – the largest single donor be-

ing the city workers’ union, CUPE Local 23. Add to that $144,100 from corporations, and you can’t deny that the BCA is benefiting greatly from both sources of funding.

Now, we’ll be the first to acknowledge that simply accepting a campaign donation does not create an automatic conflict of interest.

It’s perfectly possible for candidates, regardless of their political stripe, to accept money from a union or

a corporation and still make sound, balanced judgements about civic issues.

But the fact of the matter is, seeing large amounts of money flowing in to candidates’ campaigns from business and labour raises voters’ suspicions about just how fair the process is.

And in politics, as they say, perception is reality.

Runaway spending and lavish donations in civic election campaigns sully the discourse at the council ta-

ble and erode public faith in the system.

Other areas of the country are already taking action to address these concerns.

Toronto outlaws business and union donations for municipal candidates.

Quebec and Manitoba cap spending in city elections based on the size of the population.

We would welcome a combination of either. Local government should not be a hobby for the independent-

ly wealthy or a business expense for developers.

Of course, any new rules should come with watchdog power that provides Elections B.C. teeth to enforce them and to investigate complaints. Ultimately, we feel a community is best served by a council that reflects a diversity of ideas, values, expertise and backgrounds – and the best way to get that is to level the playing field for all.

MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Penny pinchers have the power Two issues have sprung to the fore in the opening weeks of the legislature that put the stingy (some would say miserly) ways of the B.C. Liberal government on full public display.

One of them is public education, while the other is another seemingly endless tale: how much funding the B.C. Ferries system should receive from taxpayers.

Let’s tackle the complex education system first.

In a classic case of giving with one hand, while taking with the other, the government has topped up a special learning fund by $23 million while at the same time cutting school board budgets by $29 million (followed by a further $25 million chop the following year). But while the public education system is being squeezed (yet again), the government has topped up the budget for independent schools by $30 million.

There have been howls of outrage from B.C. school trustees about these pending cuts, but Premier Christy Clark has characterized the cost-cutting exercise as merely going after “lowhanging fruit.”

That dismissive comment was like throwing oil on a long-simmering fire.

School districts have been grappling with rising, unfunded costs in the system for years.Things like inflation, pension improvements, rising MSP premiums and B.C. Hydro rates haven’t been covered by additional

funding for quite a while.

Nevertheless, the provincial government is convinced legitimate savings can be found, either through a greater emphasis on shared “services” between some school districts or simply eliminating spending waste. Still, one can’t help but wonder whether there is a hidden agenda at work here: a not-so-subtle push to get some school districts to amalgamate.

It’s a different case when it comes to forcing “savings” on the B.C. Ferries system.

B.C. Ferries has already gone through a significant round of cost-cutting and consolidation, as sailings on many routes have been eliminated.There’s not much more there to cut and B.C. Ferries does not have control over certain cost items.

For example, the size of crews on ships is mandated

by Transport Canada, not

by B.C. Ferries, and labour is a huge cost item.

B.C. taxpayers already generously fund B.C. Ferries, to the tune of about $190 million a year in subsidies. But without any increase to that subsidy, fares will undoubtedly continue to climb, as B.C. Ferries has limited power to deal with two big cost items: labour and fuel costs.

And so far, the pennypinching B.C. Liberals show no sign of even entertaining the idea of boosting that annual subsidy.

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

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Dear Editor Could Mayor Corrigan be considered a terrorist, asks the rather prolix member from Burnaby-Douglas, because of his participation in a demonstration against Kinder Morgan on Burnaby Mountain this summer? He asks this, presumably, out of fear of the proposed security legislation put forward by the federal Conservatives – the controversial Bill C-51. Now I wouldn’t care to proffer comment on that matter, but it does seem to me that he might have been charged with criminal trespass, or, at the very least – aiding and abetting same.

That said, we are emboldened to ask how Mary Wagner, of Toronto, presently a prisoner of conscience there (her face now appearing on Polish postage stamps) for the hideous crime of distributing roses outside of an abortion clinic there. Or, if you wish, closer to home, how and why Linda Gibbons, has spent more time behind bars than most murderers and child-molesters in this country, for the heinous crime of protesting inside a so-called bubble zone! If Mr. Kennedy Stewart seeks a paladin of virtue re: freedom of expression, he might want to start with those already silenced behind bars.

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Keith Just further proof that money buys elections, especially at the local level. It’s really kind of sad that the BCA had to spend nearly half a million dollars to get re-elected, especially considering their opponents only spent just under $30,000. If Mayor Corrigan and his minions are really doing such a great job, why was it necessary to spend over 10 times the competition?

Anyone else happen to notice that the Burnaby Firefighters were one of the lowest contributors to the BCA and now find themselves at a contract impasse with Burnaby?

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Dear Editor So, the B.C. Liberals produced a balanced budget. Accordingly to the premier, it’s a feat that might not be equalled by any other province this year. Makes you proud, does it not? I mean, who would have thought they could achieve something that you and I do as a matter of course every year with our household budgets? It’s a simple equation really: don’t spend more than you can afford.

How’s the provincial debt, you ask? Well, sorry to say not so good. It isn’t going down.

In fact, it has increased We all have to a stagto pay for our gering $61 billion and mistakes. climbing. The good news is they’re going to use the current $879-million budget surplus to pay some of it off. The bad news is they’re planning to borrow another $14.2 billion over the next three years.

Why borrow more money? Well, partly to build transportation infrastructure, which, according to government and business leaders, helps grow the economy. I don’t know about you, but I don’t recall seeing much economic growth as a result of past bridge twinning or perimeter road building, so I have to wonder about that. Couldn’t we just save up surpluses in a capital expenditure fund instead of borrowing? Isn’t that what the City of Burnaby does?

But the bottom line is we elected these guys in the belief they could manage our finances better than the other guys. So, if it hasn’t turned out that way, we have no one to blame but ourselves. It’s our own fault. And, as you know – not to put too fine a point on it – we all have to pay for our mistakes.

Oh, my, how we will pay.

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More about the NEB JohnCHunter “Reasonable”: I think you have many of your “facts” wrong. I testified frequently before the NEB and OEB on energy matters in the 80s and 90s and know them and their acts well.

I have also done part-time consulting work for the BCUC, the major B.C. energy regulator, and various energy companies, including KMC. Hence, I have a fair knowledge of regulation and energy.

Kinder Morgan had a valid permit from the NEB to do their Burnaby Mountain work and the courts found as much in granting the injunction. KMC did not need a permit from Burnaby. The jurisdiction for inter-provincial pipelines is FEDERAL, not provincial and certainly (thank God) not municipal. Can you imagine the CHAOS if every community from Burnaby to Edmonton had a binding say over an interprovincial pipeline, power transmission line, or railroad line? Nothing would ever be built.

Some members of the public were arrested on Burnaby Mountain for breaking an injunction of a B.C. court.

KMC broke no law even though they goofed on the GPS co-ordinates; hence, KMC personnel were not arrested nor should they have been. … Perhaps before you call people “CRIMINAL you would make your accusations more specific? And read the NEB act and the definition of “criminal”?

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It seems firefighters won’t be getting a new contract anytime soon after an unsuccessful round of mediated talks between the union and the city.

Not even a third-party mediator could get the two sides to agree to a new contract when firefighters and city staff met for mediation on Feb. 5 and 6.

This wasn’t much of a surprise for Rob Lamoureux, president of the International Association of Firefighters Local 323, which represents 281 firefighters in Burnaby.

“We were hoping for a third party to come in and be able to bridge the gap, but that was unsuccessful,” Lamoureux said. “We both parted ways there to go to the next step, which would be arbitration.”

Across the province, 15 fire departments have signed new collective agreements, 13 of which were signed freely without the assistance of a third-party arbitrator. In neighbouring New Westminster, the fire department’s union and city agreed to a seven-year contract in December, which included a 2.5 per cent wage increase retroactive to Jan. 2012. Delta firefighters, who were the first in the Lower Mainland to sign a new deal, also agreed to a long-term agreement, opting for eight years.

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We were hoping for a third party to come in and be able to bridge the gap, but that was unsuccessful.

As the Burnaby firefighters’ union and city prepare to go to arbitration, union members can’t help but think they’re going to get the same deal Vancouver and Prince George got, leaving Lamoureux wondering if it’s worth even hiring an arbitrator.

But according to Lamber Chu, the deputy city

manager and liaison for the Burnaby Fire Department, it’s not that simple.There are other clauses and attachments proposed for the new collective agreement that need to be decided upon.

“Those are the issues that need to be worked out. It’s not just settled on the term of the contract duration and also the wage increase,” he added.

Chu couldn’t say how much going to arbitration would cost the city until an agreed-upon arbitrator is hired.

“It all hinges on who is available, what’s their charge-out rate and how long the arbitration will be,” Chu said. “Definitely, we’ll be looking at that cost to the city. So, at this point in time, once we get the arbitrator appointed and also a schedule set up, we’ll probably have a better handle of the costs.”

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done on staff time, Chu bitration in a timely manadded. ner.

“I don’t know what the fiBut with summer right nal bill is,” he said. around the corner, “Probably only a Lamoureux said couple thousand it’s unlikely they’d dollars for the mebe able to enter diator.” into arbitration beNeither Chu fore July, meaning nor Lamoureux it’ll probably take would say what until the fall to get has the two parties moving on the next at odds, but in an step. earlier interview “UnfortunateRob Lamoureux with the NOW, ly, the popular arChu said he hopes firefighters’ union bitrators are the the city and the busy ones, and firefighters’ union can come their calendars are quite full. to an agreement through ar- I’d be surprised if we could

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If it does take until the fall to meet with an arbitrator, it’ll mean Burnaby firefighters have been without a contract for nearly four years.

The previous two-year collective agreement expired in 2011, and if Burnaby follows what Vancouver and Prince George have agreed upon, Lamoureux and Chu will be back at the bargaining table come Jan. 1, 2016.

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Meet the Karamessinis: From left, Eva, Niki and Bia, Ari, Maximo and Thanasi with Pam and Tom, and Denny with his niece Anika. Pam and Tom Karamessinis opened Sfinaki Greek Taverna in the Heights in December 1995 with their four children Eva, Niki, Bia and Denny. This year marks the restaurant’s 20th anniversary.

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Spring break fun in the Heights

By Sydney Van Alstyne, Heights contributor It’s no surprise that spring has sprung on the Heights. The late winter sunshine showed us a springtime teaser; and as I walk down Hastings Street, I already see gowers in full bloom. It is a great reminder that spring break is approaching. Two weeks off means lots of fun for the kids, especially when there is plenty of fun things to do on the Heights.

the ball around and burn off some energy. Confederation Park has playing helds, tennis courts, a skate park, and off-leash dog areas for you to explore.

Bring some cold cuts from one of our delis and fresh bread from a Heights bakery to enjoy a homemade panino.

Fresh air paired with fresh food sounds like the perfect day to me!

Let your child express their creativity and try something new in an art class at 4Cats Art Studio or Artspace Children’s Art Centre. There is nothing Start the break off right by enjoying the more hands-on and rewarding for a kid than creating a sculpture with clay or outdoors. With incredible views and painting a canvas all by themselves. parks, Burnaby Heights has the perfect Let them explore their creativity with spots to host a family picnic. Take the the dynamic teachers the Heights has to family to Confederation Park to kick

offer. They can take home their art and have something special to remember this spring break by.

While they are in class, you can get your errands done around the Heights.

Scope out the after-class treats all over the Heights, such as Chez Christophe, Bon Bon Bakery, Glenburn Soda Fountain, and others.

No matter how you choose to celebrate this spring, enjoy all the family fun the Heights has to offer.

For a list of our merchants, please visit www.burnabyheights.com.

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Sfinaki turns 20

By Cayley Dobie

Back when a loaf of bread and a dozen eggs would cost you about $2, Toy Story was the hrst (and only) fully computer generated feature hlm and Bill Copeland was mayor of Burnaby – the Karamessinis family was girting with the idea of opening a Greek restaurant in the Heights.

In 1995, Tom Karamessinis and a business partner owned and operated a Greek restaurant in New Westminster that also served pastas, pizza and more, but Karamessinis and his wife

Pam were looking for a change.

According to their kids Eva, Denny and Bia, the couple pitched the idea to their children, most of whom had graduated high school by then and were working odd jobs here and there. It was Karamessinis, who had owned a few restaurants in the Heights in the ’60s and ’70s, who suggested they open shop on Hastings Street.

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‘There was nothing to really manage, it was just us’ Continued from page 10 ... neighbourhood,” Denny said. He was in Grade 9 when his family hnally opened Shnaki Greek Taverna at 4061 East Hastings St. in Burnaby.

Before the Heights became what Eva calls the Commercial Drive of Burnaby, it was a quiet neighbourhood with a few family-owned restaurants and delis here and there.

When Shnaki hrst opened on Dec. 1, 1995, business was slow and it was just the Karamessinis family working in the restaurant. Eva and her sisters would come in to waitress after work while Pam and

her sister worked in the kitchen.

Denny, who now manages the restaurant with his father, would help out after school, and Tom would do pretty much everything and anything to keep it all running smoothly.

“When we hrst opened, it was just us. There was nothing to really manage, it was just us. Yes, we had to manage the customers and all that other stuff, but it wasn’t like we had an overhead of people working here at that time,” Eva said.

Denny and his sisters joke that their parents were lucky to have a

family big enough to run the restaurant. Even today, Eva, Bia, Niki and Denny still work regularly at Shnaki, either serving customers or cooking in the back with their mother (yes, she and her husband still work there, too).

things to pump up and for us to get established and get our regular clientele and just become part of the neighbourhood,” Eva said.

Since then, Shnaki hasn’t had a down year. The restaurant has had a steady amount of success As business eventually picked up throughout its 20 years and today, and word about the new Greek res- customers come from all over the taurant on Hastings Street spread Lower Mainland, including Burnacross the Lower Mainland, the aby, East Vancouver and the North Karamessinis family hired some Shore to enjoy the Karamessinises’ extra bodies to come in on busy authentic Greek cooking – similar nights – many of them are still to what you’d hnd cooking at the working in the restaurant.

Karamessinises’ own backyard “We started out small and not very barbecues. busy, and it took a few years for For the Karamessinis kids, the

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Heights has become a second home and now a hrst home for many – Denny, Niki and Bia all live in and around the Heights now. In fact, Karamessinis’s grandkids often mistake Shnaki as his and Pam’s home, Bia laughed.

When asked what the future has in store for Shnaki and the Karamessinis family, Denny said he hopes to see it stay open for years to come, and maybe even one day the next generation of Karamessinises will want to take it over.

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The small Burnaby independent high school topped the B.C. high school wrestling championships for a third consecutive year following last weekend’s provincial championships in Abbotsford.

Individual champions junior Caileen Corbett, fifthyear senior Nicole Depa and Livleen Sidhu, who started wrestling in Grade 9, led the lady Knights to a resounding defence of the aggregate girls’ banner, garnering a ladder-topping 83 total points, far outdistancing runner-up Ucluelet by more than 50 points.

The STM boys chipped in with 30 more team points to secure the program its third straight aggregate title.

“It’s a great feeling and a great feeling for (the team),” said STM wrestling coach Doug Corbett. “I told them, ‘Don’t let anyone take (the banner) away from you. All the girls wanted to do better than they did last year, and they did.

“It’s very difficult to do.

We have a good coaching staff and that makes a big difference. But we put in a lot of extra time as a group.

We’re lucky we got a lot of good support, but our kids buy into it.”

Caileen Corbett won at 40 kilograms, while Depa topped the field at 57kg and Sidhu earned gold at 69kg.

Ciara Corbett won a silver

medal at 51kg and Amanda Silveri was also a runner-up at 110kg for STM.Taylor McIntosh earned a bronze medal at 60kg.

Also making the podium were fifth-year Meagan Chow and Gabriela Chavez, fourth and sixth, respectively, at 43kg; and Natalie Nelson, who also placed fourth at 64kg.

The Knight boys also wrestled well, with Stephano Pozzolo and Joel Calica, who came back from a rib injury in December, placing second in their respective 45 and 48kg weight classes.

Daniel Alphonso was fourth at 51kg.

But the jewels in STM’s crown are the girls who, for the past decade, continue to place as a top-five team at the provincials.

“The team we had this year was pretty solid,” Corbett said. “It is perhaps the smallest team we’ve had, but the (wrestlers) we had were good.”

Notre Dame’s Serena Woldring won the girls’ 75kg gold, while teammate Toni Medeiros was third at 40kg.

Chelsea Coombes of Burnaby North won a bronze medal at 51kg and Mele Viklani of Burnaby Central was fifth at 75kg.

On the boys’ side, Jimmy Sidhu of South won at 130kg, while brother Sammy Sidhu, who wrestles with New Westminster Secondary, was fourth at 66kg.

TJ Cordoviz of NWSS Continued on page 16

Hands in the pie: EJ Mabone battles for a loose ball with a Sir Winston Churchill player during the Lower Mainland 4A high school boys’ basketball championship final in Richmond last Friday. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Rebels bounced by Bulldogs Tom Berridge

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Burnaby South got taken to school by the Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs at the Lower Mainland high school quad A boys’ basketball championships.

The defending B.C. 4A champs spotted South an 8-0 start and then took over at both ends of the court en route to a 94-86 win in the title game at the Richmond Olympic Oval on Friday.

Churchill finished the first quarter on a 25-7 run and then dominated the second with 28 more points to go into halftime with a big 19-point lead.

South managed to shave the deficit down to single digits by the final quar-

ter, but near-perfect 21for-26 shooting from the free-throw line allowed Churchill to hold on to its advantage.

“Athletically, we couldn’t compete with them. Jermaine (Haley) can jump out of the roof.Tyus (Batiste) can jump out of the roof.We had to do something else,” said second team tournament all-star Karn Virk, who had 19 points for the Bulldogs.

That something else was solid fundamental basketball - finding good looks on offence, keeping South largely to the perimeter and getting to the backboards at both ends of the floor.

First-team all-stars Lambert Pajoyon and Harry Liu led the Bulldogs

with 26 and 20 points, respectively. Gary Minhas chipped in with 16, including nine-of-10 fourth quarter points from the charity stripe.

South’s Jermaine Haley led all scorers with 39 points, including 16 in the final 10 minutes in a lastditch effort to claw the Rebels back into the game.

Batiste was next with 18 points, including four three-pointers.

Haley and Batsiste were both named first team allstars. Nic Trninic was a second-team pick.

“They just worked harder than we did,” said Burnaby South guard EJ Mabone, who had 13 points, one block and four steals for the Rebels. “They were beating us at all aspects of

the game.”

South managed just 10 rebounds in the first half of play, and just two off the offensive glass.

That stat and Churchill’s ability to put up more than 50 first-half points, stifled the Rebels’ transition game.

“That was probably (Churchill’s) best game, but it wasn’t anywhere near our best game,” Mabone said. “We have to work on our team defence.”

Despite the loss, South advanced to the B.C. high school championships in Langley with the second Mainland berth.

Honourable mention David Thompson will be making its first appearance Continued on page 16

AAA Knights qualify third for hoop provincials Tom Berridge

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St.Thomas More will enter the B.C. high school AAA boys’ basketball championships as the seventh seed following a third-place finish at the Lower Mainland championships.

The Knights bounced back from a double-digit

loss to McMath in the semifinals to beat McNair 6558 in the third and fourth placement game at the Richmond Olympic Oval on Friday.

STM led by as many as 15 points in the first half, but trailed by a single point with four minutes left to play against the Richmond school.

“We go through these spells of lackluster play and being half asleep, and we’re still working on getting the kids to buy in to the half court,” said STM head coach Aaron Mitchell.

“We needed to wake up,” said JJ DesLauriers, the Knights’ second team tournament all-star. “I think we put a lot of pressure on our-

selves and we want to play too much out of our comfort zone.”

Grade 10 forward Cam Morris, who led the Knights with 18 points, was named to the tournament first allstar team.

“At the end of the day, we just needed the win,” Mitchell added.

Charles Tupper won the

Mainland final for a second straight year, defeating Richmond’s McMath.

The provincial AAA championships takes place at the Langley Events Centre from March 11 to 14.

JV KNIGHTS PLACE 6TH STM’s junior varsity basketball team wound up in sixth place at the B.C. high

school boys’ championships in Langley.

The JV Knights went into the final quarter tied 28 points apiece with Terry Fox, but it was the Ravens who emerged with a 49-42 win at the LEC on Saturday.

After a slow and mostly Continued on page 16

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Sportsnow SFU icon passes The Simon Fraser University community lost its founding athletic director Lorne Davies on Saturday after battling health issues.

Davies, 84, is survived by his wife of more than 60 years, June, sons, Lorne Jr. and Glyn, and a large extended family.

“Lorne meant everything to SFU athletics – it was his life’s work,” said senior director of athletics and recreation, student services, Milton Richards in a Clan press release. “We will forever carry his spirit in our hearts every time our student athletes put on the Clan uniform to enter competition. Our crest will always be a tribute to Lorne, his values and his vision.”

Funeral arrangements

Final four: Burnaby Winter Club, in white, scored on this play and went on to post a 5-2 victory over the Vancouver Thunderbirds in a Pacific Coast Amateur Hockey Association rep atom A1 final-four playoff game at the winter club on Sunday. With the win, BWC improved its playoff record to 2-0.

have not yet been made, but the family has requested that in-lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lorne Davies Endowment.

Davies became the first athletic director and football coach at SFU in 1965, and almost immediately began masterminding some of the most forward-thinking measures in Canadian university sport. Davies hired full-time coaches, promoted female participation in university sport, awarded athletic scholarships to studentathletes, and took the Clan on a path to compete in the United States against American competition in the NAIA – offering studentathletes access to the American athletic experience with a Canadian education.

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‘We ran out of gas’ Continued from page 15 unproductive first three quarters by both teams,Terry Fox started the final stanza with some added jump, racing off with an 11-4 start and never looking back.

Fox was led by Xavion Fleary, who scored a team-high 11 points in the second half.

“I knew the game was on the line, so I just played my hardest,” said Fleary, the player of the game.

STM’s Richard Galicia, a tournament second team allstar, led all scorers with 19 points.

Earlier, the Knights got by Fraser Heights and No. 9 MEI before getting bounced from the quarter-finals by topranked Kitsilano 55-50.

STM then defeated Rick Hansen to set up the fifth-place showdown with Fox. “We ran out of gas a little bit,” said STM coach Dominic Zimmermann. “Terry Fox is a very tough team. But I’m proud of these guys.We worked hard and surprised a lot of people.”

Seventh-seeded Killarney pulled off an upset in the JV final, defeating Kits 64-55 in the championship final.

B.C. 4A boys March 11 Continued from page 15 in 47 years following an upset 74-63 win over No. 3-ranked Vancouver College for the Mainland’s third berth into the B.C.s.

Thompson’s Harry Brar, who averaged 38 points per game, including 54 in a double-overtime win over St. George’s earlier in the Mainlands, was named the MVP. The 4A boys’ provincial championships will take place at the Langley Events Centre from March 11 to 14.

Notre Dame boys fifth Continued from page 15 placed third at 45kg, while Connor Pattison was fifth at 84kg and David Penalver was sixth at 51kg.

Aidan Labreche of Central earned a silver medal at 41kg.

Central teammate Ansel Hait was fourth at 84kg.

Notre Dame’s Sira Santiago and Flixzl Reyes both placed fifth in their respective weight divisions.

Abbotsford Traditional topped the aggregate boys’ standings with 81 points.WJ Mouat finished third overall with 76 total points.

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