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Sinkhole takes out part of city street Crews repairing hole on Albert Street between Gamma and Delta By Janaya Fuller-Evans

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HELP WANTED: Burnaby’s Flor Padilla with her children Jalen and Rayna. Padilla wants the city to offer evening child-minding options at local rec centres for parents who take classes. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

Should kids go to class? Mom who wants to attend night courses says city needs to provide child care By Jennifer Moreau

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When Burnaby’s Flor Padilla signed up for an evening ukulele class at Edmonds Community Centre, she already sensed trouble. She had planned to bring her two young children to sit on the sidelines, since there was no child-minding beyond noon at Edmonds. But when she called to see if that was OK with the centre, the answer was no, and she had to drop the class. That wasn’t the first time.There was also the “fitness fiasco,” when Padilla was told she could no longer attend a Wednesday evening class at Cameron with her kids be-

cause they were a liability. “Yeah they were noisy, because they were chatting it up, but I didn’t see any liability issues.There was no heavy equipment. They were in my care,” Padilla told the NOW. “I was told nobody complained. It was strictly because of their policy, which is not written down, … that children are not allowed in a fitness class.” Padilla left confused and angry. Padilla works in a government office during the day, and her husband works long hours, so she has taken her kids to classes, even though she knows it’s not ideal. Her kids are two and four years old.They entertain themselves on the sidelines with toys, and they are also enrolled in a host of their own activities.

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In an email to Padilla, Cameron’s supervisor, Robin Juergensen, apologized for the fitness class situation and empathized with Padilla as a working mother, but she also explained Burnaby’s recreation centres don’t let children sit in on adult classes. “To assist parents to participate in recreational activities for themselves, we do provide child-minding services at locations and times where there is sufficient demand for the service,” Juergensen wrote. “This is a consistent practice in City of Burnaby recreation facilities for the safety of the child and participants, because there is a risk of injury to the child in an adult activity and a risk the child may inadvertently cause injury to a participant.This practice is not Continued on page 8

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Some Albert Street residents may have experienced a sinking feeling when they returned home from work Monday. The street between Gamma and Delta avenues was cordoned off after a sinkhole developed there Monday around noon, according to Marilyn Towill, Metro Vancouver’s division manager for transmission operations, water services. According to Towill, the sinkhole is a result of water flowing beneath the road, washing away the gravel bed under the asphalt. “We’re still investigating the cause of the water and the damage to the street,” The she said, adding it doesn’t look like water was residential propercontained ties have sustained any damage at this primarily to point. the road. “Because of the slope of the land, the water was contained primarily to the road,”Towill said. There were also no reports of injuries, according to Towill. “We are pleased with that,” she said. Metro Vancouver is working with the City of Burnaby to determine the source of the water, as both the regional authority and the city have done infrastructure work in the area in recent years,Towill said. A crew from Metro Vancouver was on site Tuesday morning, beginning repair work on the sinkhole. They will peel back the asphalt and replace the gravel fill before repaving the Continued on page 5

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Their journey begins here By Jennifer Moreau

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The Stoney Creek Environment Committee celebrated its 25th anniversary this past weekend and released thousands of coho smolts into the water to bolster the local salmon population. As always, the volunteer streamkeepers called on local families to help set the tiny fish free. “It went really well. It was a gorgeous day, and everybody thought there were more people this year than there were before,” said Alan James, a volunteer streamkeeper with the Stoney Creek Environment Committee. James guessed that around 2,000 people came out. Adults and children helped by taking plastic bags of fish to the creek, where they let them swim away. The Kanaka Creek hatchery supplied the smolts, which are just over a year old, and they leave the creek for the open ocean soon after their release.The streamkeepers’

Swim free: Kids helped release thousands of coho smolts into Stoney Creek. The event was in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Stoney Creek Environment Comittee. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

hopes are the salmon will return to the Burnaby creek to spawn.This round of salmon had their fins clipped, so streamkeepers will be able to tell if any fish from this year’s release made it back alive.They’ll look for the clipped fins when they count the dead spawners in the fall. “In the past, we got fish back, but we don’t know if they are fish from the fish release or they were born there,” James said. Overall, James said the Stoney Creek salmon population is “doing pretty well.” “We had reasonable returns last fall, not as good as the previous year, but still substantial,” he said, adding the salmon’s survival probability is mostly determined by open ocean conditions, which includes predators and food sources. “The small bit the streamkeepers have done is so that when they do come back, they have a place to spawn,” he said. For more photos, go to www.burnabynow.com

Ready to go: Volunteer Armaan Rashid, 12, hands out the bags of fish for release during the event at Stoney Creek. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

WRIGGLE ROOM: From left, Agatha Soful scoops fish into a bag held by a squeamish Raunag Singh. About 2,000 people turned out to the salmon release at Stoney Creek. The smolts, supplied by Kanaka Creek hatchery, were just over a year old. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

MP calls for study on foreign ownership Stewart reacts to news story saying foreign land speculators are snapping up old rental apartments in Burnaby By Jennifer Moreau

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Burnaby MP Kennedy Stewart is renewing his call for Statistics Canada and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to conduct a housing study, which would include data on foreign property ownership. Stewart’s raised the issue following a Business inVancouver article stating foreign owners were snapping up property around Burn-

aby’s main town centres. “It could be that there’s a lot of foreign investment, and we get the sense that seems to be in Burnaby,” Stewart told the NOW. “That’s definitely been the case in other municipalities.” But to be sure, Stewart would like to see the two federal agencies conduct proper studies. “We don’t really know the extent of whether this is happening or not,” Stewart said, adding cities don’t have the time and resources to do the work. “CMHC

and Stats Can are supposed to be helping us understand what’s happening with housing markets, and they just don’t do this work.” According to Business InVancouver, Burnaby’s been hit by a “wave of land speculators led by mainland Chinese buyers (who are) snapping up old Burnaby rental apartment buildings, driving per door prices above $350,000 and razing the units for highrise condominium construction.” Stewart said there’s no real way to tell how many foreigners are

buying local property, because sometimes domestic companies make the purchases for them. Last fall, Stewart tabled a motion on affordable housing in the House of Commons, which proposed examining the impact of investor speculation and housing vacancies on the high price of real estate in Greater Vancouver. It’s unlikely federal MPs will debate that before they dissolve Parliament before next election, at which point the motion becomes null and void.

Coun. Colleen Jordan chairs the city’s committee responsible for affordable housing. She agreed with Stewart’s proposal. “It’s something that pretty clearly needs to be studied and examined, rather than a whole bunch of people giving anecdotal evidence.We need to know what role foreign ownership plays,” she said. Jordan was not aware of any city efforts to track foreign ownership.

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Beware: Crews are at work repairing a sinkhole that developed Monday on Albert Street. The street is barricaded off for safety between Delta and Gamma as crews work on the sinkhole – which was estimated to be 1.2 metres deep, 4.8 metres long and 1.8 metres wide as of Monday night. PHOTOS

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Burnaby’s main antipipeline group wants local residents to talk to their neighbours about Kinder Morgan and prepare questions for an upcoming meeting. BROKE, Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion, is hosting a town hall meeting on safety, health and environmental concerns related to the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. “Taxpayers have always borne the costs associated with emergency response, including evacuations and medical care resulting from oil pipeline failure, oil spills and noxious gases from tank farms and substations,” said Elsie Dean, a founding member of BROKE. “The companies that are found

responsible for spills and oil pipeline ruptures should pay not only for cleanup, but for all emergency and medical care as well, not the people who live here.” The meeting is Wednesday, May 20, at Forest Grove Elementary, from 7 to 9 p.m. The speak-

Taxpayers have always borne the costs.

ers list includes representatives from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Mayor Derek Corrigan, Dipak Dattani from the city’s engineering department, local resident John Clark, SFU professor Angela Brooks, and deputy fire chief Chris Bowcock.

Road barricaded for safety Continued from page 1 street, according to Towill, who added she couldn’t be sure how long the repair work and investigation would take. “I expect it’ll be a few days,” she said.

The roadway is blocked to traffic and Towill advises people in the area to stay clear of the sinkhole itself, as the ground is uneven around it. “The area is barricaded off for public safety,” she

said. “We ask people to respect the barricades that are in place.” Metro Vancouver estimated the sinkhole was 1.2 metres deep, 4.8 metres long and 1.8 metres across as of Monday night.

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A story by Business in Vancouver, a sister publication of Burnaby NOW, is raising quite a ruckus. BIV’s story said a wave of land speculators led by mainland Chinese buyers is snapping up old Burnaby rental apartment buildings, driving per door prices above $350,000.The buyers, of course, hope to flip these parcels of land to developers who want to build highrises.The land rush is

centred around four transit-linked Burnaby town centres, where, according to BIV, at least three dozen apartment rental buildings have been bought for demolition in the past year. This really shouldn’t be a surprise. Foreign speculation on B.C. real estate is not news.What differentiates this story from previous ones is that a broker actually provided some details and figures.

Stewart’s gesture is, unfortunately ... a cry into the dark Ben Williams, a broker with Burnaby-based London Pacific Property Agents Inc., told BIV that,

“At least 95 per cent of recent (new) condominium sales in Metrotown are by buyers of Chinese descent.” Many of those foreign owners of the new condos are putting them up as rental stock, but these will not be rented for $1,000. The average investor condo in Metro Vancouver rents for $1,400. And with a vacancy rate of 0.7 per cent it’s a good business to get into.

Burnaby MP Stewart Kennedy called for a study on the whole deal in an effort to get a handle on what policies or rules could be put in place to ensure that the market is not driven entirely by foreign ownership. The city has no real jurisdiction over such things, and can really only try to help those who have been evicted when their old apartment buildings are razed.

Stewart’s gesture is, unfortunately, just that. It is a cry into the dark. It is clear that both the federal and provincial government have no intention of doing anything about this issue. It might, after all, slow down the cash flow. And that, as we know, for the political leaders in power, is all that matters. COMMENT ON THIS AT

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MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

A tale of two premiers They occupy opposite points of the political spectrum, but I bet Premier Christy Clark and newly-elected premier-designate Rachel Notley of Alberta will get along just fine in the years ahead. That’s not to say Clark won’t secretly hope that Notley’s government falls flat on its face from time to time.That’s because any serious miscue by the Alberta New Democrats will reflect badly on the B.C. NDP. Certainly the odds favour Notley looking at a very rocky road ahead. While Notley established herself as a first-rate political campaigner, almost all the caucus members she helped get elected have zero experience in running government at any level and in fact lack experience in pretty much of anything other than teaching, nursing and social work. And the circumstances for this untried and untested youthful gang of political novices to take power couldn’t be more daunting: government finances are in terrible shape, the province’s number 1 industry (oil extraction) is gasping for air, and there is no relief in sight. Aside from the inexperience problem, there is the issue of the Alberta NDP’s policy platform. I suspect most voters’ intent was focused on kicking out the Progressive Conservative government and saw the NDP as the best horse to ride to accomplish that goal,

and paid less attention to what the NDP was actually proposing to do. Notley has said she will raise corporate taxes by onefifth, gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and likely raise oil and gas royalties, as well as consider a new regulatory regime for the oil industry. Already, there are signs the business community in Alberta is hyperventilating. This is all well and good for those who hate the business community, or at least the fossil fuel industry. But any fleeing of business from Alberta means an economic downturn, and less government funding for health care, education and social services (or higher taxes and/or debt). Of course, B.C. would stand to benefit from any business that relocates in this province because of a friendlier tax regime, something Clark will no doubt seize upon for her political advantage. In the short term, however, look for Clark and Notley to forge an alliance on a number of issues.The new Alberta premier will likely support Clark’s five conditions when it comes to the approval of pipelines running through B.C., and the two will probably work together on climate change issues. Clark will be wishing her new colleague all the best, but only up to a certain point, especially as the next B.C. election draws nearer . Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C.

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Principal’s office torched As many as 50 Gilpin Elementary students were relocated to their school’s gymnasium for classes after a suspicious Thanksgiving blaze completely gutted their principal’s office. At least two classrooms had to be shut down because of smoke damage from the fire that also damaged the school’s roof and custodian’s room. Initial phone calls to the school went unanswered. “My phone melted,” a receptionist later told the NOW.

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Dear Editor The proposed legislation to limit remittance fees to five per cent is very important and must be supported by the Liberal government, as it will benefit poor people around the globe and cost Canadian citizens nothing. My sister and I are like many immigrants living in Canada who help support their families by sending small amounts of money whenever we can, but we are frustrated that big money transfer corporations are charging us so much when we do. Not long ago, we wanted to send $100 to our sister, aunt and cousin in Colombia but were It hurts when shocked when we hear stories charged $38! still sent about what our We the money family is going because our sister is a sinthrough. gle mother, and our aunt and cousin are having troubles with steady work because of Colombia’s economy. The money we send is so important for our family to buy necessities like diapers, food, baby clothes, or to pay hydro, gas and water bills. Life in Colombia is very expensive and the cost for goods is similar to Canada, but wages are paid in pesos and, unless they receive help from their families, people must go without. It hurts us when we hear the stories about what our family is going through, and we wish that we could send more. However, we are both on fixed incomes here in Canada and we do the best we can. If this bill was passed, we could send more money home and our family would have a better life. Carolina and Diana Fernandez, Burnaby

Parties already know if you’ve voted Dear Editor: Re: How private should your vote be? Our View, April 22, Burnaby NOW. As someone who has worked for Elections Canada and Elections B.C., I can tell you that the political parties already have access to know if you’ve voted. On voting day, the polling clerk records who has voted, and scrutineers from any party have the right to a copy of that list throughout the day. Typically, they take that list and cross-reference it with their own list of supporters to see who hasn’t voted yet, and will follow up and encourage that person to mark their ballot. In many cases, a ride can be arranged as well. All parties have access to this form, which is linked to the overall voters list, which they also have access to. Every voter is identified by a number and polling station. As long as the party has enough scrutineers, they can collect the sheets at the end of the night and know who voted, but never, ever who they voted for. Nor do the polling clerks working the election. I am incredibly impressed with how well our system works. While it might seem simple – mark a piece of paper with an X – it is an amazingly secure and private method for people to elect our government officials. As long as they choose to vote, of course. Brad Sherwin, by email

Craig What a surprise, the Burnaby municipal government, all N.D.P card carrying members, blaming the provincial government for the increase in city taxes. The reason taxes are going up approx. 3% as they do every single year is because of many reasons, not just one. For instance, as of 2013 Burnaby had 184 people making more than $100,00 a year, That was a 27.8 % increase from 2012. I couldn’t find the figures for 2014 but I think it’s safe to say it has increased. Burnaby council has been on record saying that some of the increase is because of municipal wages going up across the board. That has nothing to do with the Provincial government. The city keeps making approx. 30-40 million per year interest on the cities investments and then sit on it. It’s hard to believe the city needs to collect all this money. They make announcements about city projects and then sit on them for years. Edmonds park, formerly known as Richmond park has been under construction for 3 years now. The Beresford art walk has been talked about for years but has really nothing to show for it. If you want improvements in your streets lighting or sidewalk the street residents have to pay for it, your city taxes will not pay for that. Burnaby city hall is one big piggy bank for unions and their friends.

Was oil spill response really a ‘disgrace’? Harmel Guram It’s funny that all of the critics of Burnaby Council when it was dealing with Kinder Morgan’s activities on Burnaby Mountain are nowhere to be heard from after the English Bay oil spill. Where are Ziggy Eckhardt, Larry Bennett and the rest of their herd of sheep now? earlrichards The best strategy for the stopping toxic, tar sands spills is not to let the tar sands pass the AB/BC border, because there is no world-class equipment to clean-up a spill. The tar sands will sink to the bottom and the Western Canadian Marine Response Corporation only cleans surface spills. WCMRC has no equipment to clean the tar sands from the bottom of the Harbour or from the Salish Sea. WCMRC is 50% owned by Kinder Morgan and the other 50% is shared between Esso, Shell, Chevron and Suncor.

More on the pipeline Robert Turecki When will lower governments get it through their thick heads that they don’t have any jurisdiction in the matter. Besides grandstanding to their faithful, why don’t they try to get elected to the provincial or federal governments. The rest is all photo-ops.

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City now Child-minding: Where and when to ﬁnd it Burnaby rec centre child-minding hours: Edmonds Community Centre: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to noon. Bonsor Recreation Complex: Monday to Saturday, 9 to noon, except holidays.

Eileen Dailly Pool: April 13 to June 25, Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to noon, and from June 29 to Aug. 14, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9 a.m. to noon. ($4.60/ hour.)

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Mom in search of child-minding Continued from page 1 because we don’t encourage families to recreate together, we actually offer a variety of activities for families to be together at Cameron Centre and other City of Burnaby recreation facilities.” Most of the city’s rec centres offer child-minding for $4.60 per hour, but only from 9 a.m. to noon, which doesn’t really help working parents who want to attend evening classes, Padilla pointed out. In neighbouring New

Westminster, Centennial Community Centre offers child-minding for the same price, seven days a week and as late as 6:30 p.m. on weekdays. “There should be something available in the evening, especially for adults like myself,” she said. Of course, Padilla could always call a sitter, but that can be costly. “We live in the most expensive city. For me to have a private babysitter every time I want to do an activity

If you expect young families to move into Burnaby you have to help us a little bit.

would be costly,” she said. What Padilla would really like to see is some childminding available in the

evenings. “I’m not trying to be a bitch or anything, but if you expect young families to move into Burnaby you have to help us a little bit,” she said. The NOW contacted Juergensen and Dave Ellenwood, the city’s parks director, but did not hear back by deadline.

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Eoin White is in shock and disbelief after a second earthquake shook Nepal Tuesday. White, a retired Burnaby fire captain, was already raising money for the Nepalese families he works with through his Mount Everest trekking company after the first quake hit on April 25. News of the second quake has White worried, as the epicentre is much closer to Everest. “I was shocked and also very concerned because of where it’s happened now. The people that were there in that region, their house fell down, but the (first) earthquake was miles and miles away,”White told the Burnaby NOW Tuesday morning. “Now, the earthquake is right underneath their house. It’s going to be a real concern.” White is a legend in Nepal, where he’s run his trekking company for the past 12 years.The Nepalese families he works with call him “papa,” and some believe he is their father reincarnated. White launched a FundAid campaign on May 5 hoping to raise $35,000, which would cover the costs of new homes for seven families. Since then, he’s raised more than $13,000 online – that’s not counting the thousands in pledges and donations coming from his network of mountain trekkers and firefighters. Meanwhile,White has been calling and emailing Nepal, but the phone lines are overloaded, so he has no idea if everyone is OK. White’s families are in the Khumbu region surrounding Everest.

Before the quake: Eoin White (centre) with one of his “sons,” Kami Nurba Sherpa, at far left. Kami’s tea house, in the background, was damaged during the first quake. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED, FILE PHOTO

“Funny, I was just talking to two of my Sherpa families last night about the reconstruction and materials needed after the quake,” he said. “When you have an earthquake like that, you don’t have another one for 100 years or so – I just told them that last night.” The April 25 quake measured 7.8 on the Richter scale and left more than

8,000 dead, 18,000 injured and countless people sleeping outdoors. Tuesday’s quake has only added to the death toll; at least 66 are dead, and those numbers will likely rise. White is also hosting a fundraising party, clothing drive and dinner at his home to help gather more aid for Nepal.To donate, go to www.fundaid.ca/nepal.

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Rebecca ‘Becks’ Gilhooley Occupation DANCER Why is she in the news? Rebecca Gilhooley knows what it takes to make it in the world of professional dance – and she has set her feet on the path to success. The 25-year-old grew up on Capitol Hill and attended Gilmore Elementary and Alpha Secondary, where she graduated in 2007. She’s a professional contemporary dancer, choreographer and teacher now based in New York City. Among the highlights of her career so far was a stint on the Netherlands version of So You Think You Can Dance, where she was among the top eight female contestants. She was also recently

It really seems like you’re living the dream right now: working as a dancer in New York City. Did you ever imagine this future when you first started dancing? No, I certainly did not, I feel tremendously fortunate to have experienced what I have. I’ve had two ankle surgeries (one at 17 and one at 19) which now I understand was fairly normal within our industry, but it was pretty scary back in the day. What got you into dance in the first place? It’s sort of a crazy story. My family had just moved to Burnaby from Alberta and my mother was looking for an after school activity for me.We ended up living just down the street

selected as one of 12 women to attend the prestigious contemporary program at the Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival. “Despite always having large ambitions to be a professional dancer, I never dreamed that my career would take the shape that it has,” she writes. “I am grateful for the variety of experience and adventure that I have seen, the expertise I have gathered, and I look forward to what’s on the horizon.” Gilhooley hopes her story will serve to inspire young people to follow their own dreams. – Julie MacLellan

from the original location of Danzmode Productions, and I could walk there after school – in a way sometimes it feels like dance found me. I was about 11 and had only dabbled in musical theatre, so I was a total latecomer to the serious competitive dance world (many girls start dancing at two or three). I had no clue what I

LIFE IN DANCE Burnaby native Rebecca Gilhooley is pursuing a career as a professional contemporary dancer, currently based in New York City. She took time out to share her thoughts about her successes and challenges so far. PHOTO EM WATSON

was doing but yet somehow ignorance was total bliss – I just loved it, and it felt natural to me, like it was always there waiting for me.

under her wing despite my lack of experience and understanding, the older girls taught me how to do so much, it was a real community -- how to do my hair, sew my ballet shoes. Rachel saw my strengths and weaknesses and was the first to tell me the importance of classical ballet technique. I promptly started halfday; as I was about halfway through Grade 8 at Pacific Dance Arts (Boundary Road and Lougheed), that’s when I started to get serious about dance. LiYaming (or Mr. Li as we call him) has been an incredible teacher and mentor to me. He provided me with so many opportunities, taught me how to focus and be intelligent when approaching movement.

How did your early dance experiences in Burnaby influence your future success? Massively. Rachel Porier (of Danzmode) took me

The Netherlands has played a big part in your dance success – you attended Codarts University of the Arts and were a contestant on the Neth-

There is certainly dance culture shock.

ter certainly helping on SYTYCD. I think being able to draw on both backgrounds has broadened my movement vocabulary, allowing me to make more interesting decisions around my dancing – hopefully making me interesting to watch.

Taking flight: Rebecca Gilhooley is pursuing a career as a contemporary dancer. PHOTO EM WATSON

erlands/Belgium version of SoYou ThinkYou Can Dance. How do you think those European experiences have helped to shape you as a dancer? There is certainly dance culture shock that happened for me when I entered the European dance world.

European contemporary dance really favours movement that is very grounded, clean in transitions, a lot of flow and release, whereas in North America, we tend to learn how to execute a lot of technical tricks with ease. I believe both have their place in the dance world, the lat-

Being on SYTYCD must have been an amazing experience, but I imagine it was also pretty stressful.Tell us a bit about what dancing in that competitive, televised environment was like? Doing SoYouThinkYou Can Dance was a childhood dream come true; one I didn’t even know I had until it all started happening. During the first live show when the famous SYTYCD theme song came on and the the girls were introduced, I was shaking, I couldn’t believe it was happening! The whole situation is designed to push you to Continued on page 12

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Was it tough to return to the “real world” after being part of SYTYCD? The morning I woke up in my own bed instead of the contestant housing was very strange and terribly quiet. I missed the other contestants and crew I had grown so close with. It’s incredible how quickly a person can get used to being in a pressure cooker.When it’s gone, it certainly took me

some time to adjust.

Another huge opportunity for you was being chosen to be part of the Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival.Tell us a bit about that. Attending Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival was a game changer for me. It’s such a unique place being in the middle of the Berkshires, where everyone is brought together by a shared love of dance. It was the first time I was so entrenched with likeminded people who valued the arts unapologetically. Being selected as one of 12 women to attend was abso-

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Is there any particular style of dance that appeals most to you? I do enjoy a level of variety in my dancing, though

my heart will always go out the most to athletic contemporary dance or neo-classical pieces. What are you up to right now? I am currently freelancing, auditioning and teaching. I have been offered a contract for a international tour with a contemporary company but am wait-

ing for details before I can say more. It’s a very exciting time, it is a pretty high stakes game in NewYork. Everyday demands you to be your best and to be able to juggle multiple things at all times. I try to take a daily class at either Peridance, Steps on Broadway and Gibney Dance to stay in shape. I am also currently collaborating on a dance on

film product with some fellow Jacobs Pillow alumni!

Do you still consider Burnaby home? What do you miss most about being here? For me, home can be found in the ones you love. Many of my closest friends are back in Burnaby, so I think in many ways it will always feel like home.

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Here’s an excellent one for anyone with a teen reader in the house. The Burnaby Public Library’s McGill branch is hosting Librarians’ Choice: Beyond the Hunger Games on Thursday, May 14 at 7 p.m. Librarians will offer up their top 20 choices for the best teen books that adults will enjoy, as well as adult books with teen appeal. It’s recommended for ages 14 and up, and both adults and teens are welcome. The night will include refreshments. It’s free, but space is limited. Register at www.bpl. bc.ca/events, call 604-2998955 or drop in to the library at 4595 Albert St. in North Burnaby to sign up. MYSTERIES ABOUND Love mystery novels? Get some ideas from librarians at an upcoming Burnaby Public Library evening.

Librarians’ Choice: A Touch of Mystery is set for Tuesday, May 19 at 7 p.m. at the library’s Bob Prittie (Metrotown) branch at 6100 Willingdon Ave. Librarians will offer up fast-paced reviews of recommended books for mystery and thriller readers, including both traditional mysteries and general fiction that includes some suspense. It’s free, but register ahead because space is limited – check out www.bpl. bc.ca/events to sign up, call the library at 604-436-5410 or drop in to register in person at the first-floor information desk. Refreshments will be included. ART EXCHANGE WAS A CULTURAL WIN A recent artist exchange in Burnaby is going down in the books as a big success. The Burnaby Artists Guild hosted a recent Art Across the Pacific exchange with 10 artists from Guiyang, China – the second half of an exchange that

had seen 10 artists from Burnaby make the trek to southwestern China the year before. The Chinese artists were here from March 31 to April 6, and the two groups held joint exhibitions at the Burnaby Art Gallery and Deer Lake Gallery, as well as painting “en plein air” in some special sessions. An email from the Burnaby Artists Guild’s Roxsane Tiernan notes that the exchange was a great success. “Our two distinct cultures mean the give and take has to be mutual,” she writes. “We are learning all the time.This time we shared in the creation of two mosaic murals to be presented to the Burnaby Hospital at a ceremony involving Burnaby city officials and the Chinese consulate. Crosscultural events such as this strengthen the bond between our two cities and between artists on either side of the Pacific.” Tiernan offered her thanks to a host of groups and people who made the

Hands across the Pacific: Artists from Guiyang, China worked with members of the Burnaby Artists Guild during a recent art exchange. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

exchange happen, including the cities of Burnaby and Guiyang, the Burnaby Artists Guild, Burnaby Arts Council, Burnaby Art Gallery, Deer Lake Gallery and the Dr. SunYat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. Businesses including Opus Framing and Art Supplies and Lions Gate Road

Publishing also lent assistance, as did Tourism Vancouver, Guizhou Canadian Fellowship Association and the Consulate General of China in Vancouver. Tiernan also offered thanks to Jimmy Shiluck, Qilun Liu (Maoyuan Real Estate Company), Greta Ho, Jack Yang,Yusheng

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Congrats to Paul Steeves, a Burnaby photographer who won first place in the 2015 National Volunteer Photo Contest.You may recognize his name, as he takes photos for the Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C., and some of his shots have appeared in our paper. In fact, Steeves’ winning entry featured association staff and volunteers

cleaning oiled gulls. Steeves beat 190 other entries for first place. He’s been volunteering with the group for 24 years, taking pictures and working a weekly shift in the care centre.

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BLRC men win a thrilling final over UVic with a last-minute try Tom Berridge tberridge@burnabynow.com Linc Bowman scored a last-minute try to give Burnaby Lake Rugby Club a second straight Division 1 championship. Bowman’s short, 10-metre run into the end zone gave the defending and threetime Div. 1 champions a 25-20 victory over the University of Victoria and put an end to a thrilling final match after a try-less first half of action at Klahanie Park in West Vancouver on Saturday. “It hasn’t been this way this year,” said Bowman after the game. “We’ve been lucky really and dominated most teams (this season). But the past two weeks, two young teams (UVic

and University of British Columbia) really wanted it and really stretched us.” Burnaby Lake took the lead on a well-taken penalty goal by Geoff Ryan, who garnered all of the club’s first-half points off kicks, including a pair of timely drop goals, before UVic booted a penalty of its own to make the score 12-3 on the final play of the half. Bowman booted an easy penalty from 25 metres out to start the second half for Burnaby, but then things got interesting. UVic closed the gap to 15-10 when lock forward Liam Chisholm bowled his way over the line from five metres out with the game’s first converted try. The Lakers responded, pinning the students in

their own end and working the ball well in the forwards off driving mauls and second-phase play before finally bulling one in to double the score at 20-10. But in an unsuspected response, UVic found an uncharacteristic gap in the Burnaby Lake backfield and raced 60 metres downfield for a lightning-quick try by Sam Jones in the corner. UVic’s Gavin Rowell made a difficult kick from the sidelines for the extras and then minutes later tied the contest at 20-20, with scant time remaining, on a penalty from inside the Burnaby Lake 20-m line. However, Burnaby Lake, which had earlier won the Library Square regular season championship with a record of 13-1-0 was not

about to see that hard work all season go for naught, said Bowman. “In the back of my head, I saw they were coming back on us and I didn’t want to lose that game,” he said. So, when Bowman saw the gap on the short side of the field, he went for it, stepping out of the grasp of one UVic tackle and then launching his body into the end zone for the game-winning score. “It was just an awesome game,” Bowman added. The victory was the second Div. 1 title in a row for Burnaby Lake and third since 2011. BLRC lost an opportunity for a second title following a 34-12 to Velox in the premier women’s final at Klahanie on Saturday.

EDC FC Burnaby won its first-ever Provincial Cup, in just its third season in the premier division. EDC scored twice in extra time to wrestle away a 3-1 victory over Inter FC in the cup final at Willoughby Turf in Langley on Sunday. Habib Mohammed, who scored two goals, including the game-winning penalty kick at the three-minute mark in the opening period of OT, was named the game MVP. “I’m thankful to the guys for the effort they put in yesterday,” said EDC head coach Claudio Ramirez, “we relied on the counterattack and that just seemed to work.” Mohammed, who was a pickup from the Division 1 FC Tigers, scored first in the 24th minute. Inter eventually tied the match late in the second half off a PK from Joseph Marrello of Burnaby. EDC iced the match late in the second OT on a counter by Eric Ray, who took the ball into the 18-yard-box and found a wide open Rizal Ganief for the insurance marker. Winning the B.C. Soccer men’s A cup is a crowning achievement for the club, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary,

said Ramirez. “They were focused,” said Ramirez. “You could just see they knew they were going to win the game, but they expected it to be tough. But there was a confidence in the air.” EDC keeper Hugo Vasquez came up big on a couple of early occasions to keep the match scoreless. Ylya Malek was involved in a number of first-half chances, including a near header by Mohammed that went over the bar late in the first half. Ganief had a great chance to score to start off the second half, eluding two Inter players before having his shot on goal stopped by former Burnaby Royals goalie Andrew Fink. Malek also had a shot on goal stopped in the 73rd minute. Mohammed helped his team’s cause in the 26th minute of extra time, clearing a Marrello corner kick off the line to preserve a 2-1 lead. With the win, EDC earned a spot at the club nationals this fall. After a poor start to the season, EDC got a boost, picking up Michael North, Parker Ellis and Christian Zimmerman from Simon Fraser University. “They gave us a breath of fresh air which carried us for the remainder of the season and led us to this,” said Ramirez.

SFU claim six titles at Great Northwest meet Tom Berridge tberridge@burnabynow.com

The Simon Fraser University men’s 400-metre relay team played the role of champion and spoiler at the Great Northwest conference track and field championships last week. The Clan relay team of senior Stuart Ellenwood, junior Cameron Proceviat and sophomores Joel Webster and Daniel Kelloway edged pre-meet favourite Alaska

Anchorage in the championship final, nipping the runner-up school by just .08 seconds with a meet record time of 3:13.84 in the final race of the conference meet in Monmouth, Oregon on Saturday. SFU’s record run denied Anchorage the overall team aggregate and Western Washington, which placed fourth in the race, picked up at least a tie atop the men’s standings. WWU edged Anchorage by two points to

win the team championship in what turned out to be the closest overall finish in conference history. Kelloway also won an individual title in the men’s 400m, taking first place by a mere 13/100ths of a second, beating out runners-up Adam Commandeur of UAA and Webster, the top-ranked sprinter, by just fractions of a second. Kelloway clocked 47.62 seconds in the metric quarter-mile, while Webster was third at 48.41. Proceviat

finished in second place in the men’s 800m. Lindsey Butterworth, the NCAA Division II national leader in the 800m, repeated as women’s champion for a second straight season in a winning time of 2:06.67. She also helped the Clan relay team of Alana Mossatto, Monique Lisek and Chantel Desch to victory in the 4x400m race in a time of 3:45.64. In the individual women’s 400m, Desch placed a close

second to Seattle Pacific’s Jahzelle Ambus in a time of 56 seconds flat. SFU’s Oliver Jorgensen also defended his conference title in the men’s steeplechase with a season-best winning time of 9:08.42 in the 3,000m event on opening day of the two-day competition. Jennifer Johnson led the women’s 5,000m from start to finish, winning by three seconds over Central Washingon’s Dani Eggleston in a time of 17:04.46.

In the men’s 1,500m, Marc-Antoine Rouleau was second and Clan teammate Travis Vugteveen was fourth. Peter Behnecke also placed runner-up in the men’s hammer following a personal-best throw of 52.33 metres. Vladislav Tsygankov was also second in the men’s long jump with a leap of 7.29m. Western Washington’s Brett Watson broke a 49-year-old school record to win the event with a jump of 7.36m.

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Burnaby Lake was denied an eighth Gordon Harris trophy following a 34-12 loss to the Velox Valkyries in the premier women’s rugby final at Klahanie Park on Saturday. The two-time defending women’s champs surrendered five first-half tries to the unbeaten regular season winners, including four unanswered five-pointers late in the frame, to end the period trailing 29-5. But despite the double-digit deficit, the Laker women were far from finished. National team veteran and scrum half Julia Sugawara took the blue and

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