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PICNIC TIME FOR TEDDY BEARS: At left, Shea Patara and his stuffed
companion check out the Teddy Bears’ Picnic at the Burnaby Farmers’ Market on Saturday. Above, Claire Wilshire and her bear at the kids’ activity table. The farmers’ market runs on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the north parking lot at Burnaby City Hall (at Canada Way and Deer Lake Parkway). Along with a selection of local produce and prepared foods, visitors to the market can also enjoy craft vendors, a book exchange, entertainment, a reading area, a kids’ area and more. The B.C. Day weekend edition of the market is set for this Saturday, and the market’s annual Great Zucchini Races are coming up on Aug. 15. You can get all the details at www.artisanmarkets. ca. For more photos of the picnic, check out our website at www.burnabynow.com. PHOTOS JENNIFER GAUTHIER
Metrotown library set for upgrade Federal and municipal funding will help update the 30-year-old space for 21st-century use Cornelia Naylor
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The second floor of Burnaby Public Library’s Metrotown branch will soon enter the 21st century, thanks to $400,000 in federal and municipal funding. A $200,000 national grant under the Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program was announced last week, and that
money will be matched by the city, according to chief librarian Edel Toner-Rogala. She said the $400,000 will be used to revamp the library’s second floor, with the creation of more small meeting spaces, upgrades to furniture and shelving, and the addition of a lot more electrical outlets for charging personal digital devices. “The building is 30 years old,”Toner-Rogala said, “so the way in which people used
the public library 30 years ago was a little different from how it’s being used today.” More small meeting spaces are especially needed, she said. “One of the things we’re asked for most frequently on the second floor is, ‘Is there a place that I can sit with a couple of my friends and work on a project?’” Renovations will begin late next spring and be complete by May 2017. Library officials hope to avoid a full closure of the second floor during the renovations, but Toner-Rogala said that will depend on construction plans that are now
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being finalized. “We may be doing work in one side of the space and leave the other side open,” she said. “It all depends on how much noise we, in the end, figure out we’re going to have to contend with.” The Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program, part of the federal government’s activities to honour the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017, will deliver $150 million over two years to regional development agencies across the country. Continued on page 4
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