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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
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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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THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE: Grammy-nominated Texas blues musician Ruthie Foster is coming to the stage at Deer Lake Park for the annual Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival. Foster is one of 12 acts lined up to perform on three separate stages for this year’s festival, which runs Saturday, Aug. 8 from 1 to 10 p.m. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED
Foster brings blues to Burnaby Ethan Reyes
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On Aug. 8, Grammynominated blues singer Ruthie Foster returns to Burnaby to help headline the city’s annual blues festival. Foster, along with 11 other acts, is part of the 2015 lineup for the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival at Deer Lake Park. While August will mark the first time she has performed in Burnaby, Foster has visited many times while staying with friends, and said that she is very grateful for the forgiving summers here. “I love Canada, it’s a lot
cooler thanTexas.” Born in Gauss,Texas, Foster was introduced to music at a young age, playing piano and singing for her church’s gospel choir, something that continues to influence her music today. Foster mainly plays the guitar and is entirely selftaught, something she credits with making her own style more fluid and dynamic. “It opened my ear up to a lot of different styles when they come my way,” said Foster. There are regional differences regarding the ways in which blues musicians play,
according to Foster. A Mississippi blues player might employ a picking style, where individual strings are plucked, adding emphasis to each note, whereas a musician hailing from the plateau of the Carolinas might have a more ragtime sound. The three-time Austin Music Awards recipient admits she is very much a student of the game and has incorporated something from every sub-genre of blues into her own music. “You never stop growing,” said Foster about music and life in general. The industry veteran of 18 years plans on continuing to improve both as a musician and as a person and is currently devoting herself to learning French.
Despite all of her travels and the critical acclaim, Foster promises that she is never satisfied.
We’ve got people looking at each other as different when we’re really all the same.
Even for a professional of her calibre, Foster admits that her creative process isn’t always the smooth operation she would hope for. “Sometimes the music’s
with you, and sometimes she’s on vacation. …You got to know when it’s time to put the pen down and take a walk,” Foster said. With racial tensions running high in the Southern United States, Foster believes that music still has the ability to bring people together so they can hash out their issues. Foster touched on her earlier comments about regional differences in music and how the same can be said for people. “We’ve got people looking at each other as different when we’re really all the same. … Music is a universal language and I think it has a way of bringing these talks to the table, yeah.”
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The Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival is coming to Deer Lake Park on Saturday. Aug. 8. Gates open at noon, and the show is set to run from 1 to 10 p.m. on three stages. Mainstage headliners include the Sheepdogs and Lee Fields & the Expressions. On the Garden Stage, audiences can enjoy acts including Devin Cuddy and Jesse Roper, while Jim Byrnes and the Sojourners headline on the Westwood Stage. Single tickets are $60, if bought by Aug. 7, with fourpacks available for $200. For more information, including a map of the festival grounds and transportation information, see www. burnabybluesfestival.com.
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City now Grants help with trail upgrades Continued from page 1 Last week’s announcement also included $1 million for upgrades to two Burnaby trails: the Burnaby Central Park multi-use trail and the Burnaby Willingdon urban trail. “There is no better way to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confeder-
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Water restrictions still in force despite rainfall This weekend’s rains brought a tiny measure of relief to Metro Vancouver’s strained water supplies, but that doesn’t mean the lawn sprinklers will be coming out of storage any time soon. The long-awaited precipitation that fell on Friday and Sunday helped reduce daily water consumption somewhat but did little to replenish Metro’s reservoirs, according to Metro Vancouver utilities committee chair Darrell Mussatto. Stage 3 water restrictions banning lawn watering and car washing remain in effect. “It’s a welcome sight, but it’s nowhere near the amount of rain we need to go back to Stage 2 again,” said Mussatto. “We need a couple good weeks of rain like this to get back into
Stage 2.” More than 16 millimetres of rain fell in downtown Vancouver on Sunday, and the North Shore mountains – which play host to two reservoirs – received 37.5 mm, according to Environment Canada.
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A sure cure for the summertime blues Sure, sure, some may say summer is half over. We’d rather look at the beautiful month of August ahead of us and realize how much time we still have left to enjoy everything the season of sunshine has to offer. And if you’re sitting out there wondering just how you’re going to fill those remaining days of the season, then we’d like to offer up this suggestion: Get out and discover your own backyard. Yes, it’s a suggestion
we’ve made before – but we’re not afraid to make it again and again. This beautiful Burnaby of ours has so much to offer that anyone who claims boredom just can’t be trying very hard. Don’t believe us? Just flip through this paper and find some of the fine examples of things to do. On the front you’ll see the Burnaby Farmers’ Market (that’s Saturdays at the city hall parking lot, if you
haven’t been yet). On page 3, there’s a feature about the Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival, coming your way on Saturday, Aug. 8. Inside (pages 10, 11 and 12), you’ll find more details about the B.C. Day festivities at Burnaby Village Museum. And those are just a few of the gems you can find in our city. Into art? Pay a call on the Burnaby Art Gallery or Deer Lake Gallery.
It’s all just waiting for you to get moving. Into the outdoors? Check out some of the amazing array of hiking and walking trails in the city, from Burnaby Fraser Foreshore Park to Burnaby Mountain – and all points in between. Into nature? Explore
the wildlife and bird life at Burnaby Lake. Into sunbathing? Catch some rays on the shores of Deer Lake or Barnet Marine Park or any one of the dozens of parks this city boasts in all its corners. Into new adventures with kids? Discover the Burnaby Central Railway, or the heritage carousel at Burnaby Village Museum. Into food? Check out any one of the amazing dining establishments in the city,
from quick nibbles to fine dining. And on and on it goes. Burnaby is chock full of things to do, places to explore and natural beauty to discover – and it’s all just waiting for you to get moving. All too soon, this summer weather will pass and we’ll be back to the chilly grey days of fall. So don’t delay. Make it your mission to discover something new in your own backyard today.
MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY
Expect more unrest in B.C. Brace yourselves for a series of political protests that will undoubtedly include a massive amount of civil disobedience but which may also in some cases drift to the extremes of sabotage and violence. A number of major resource projects are getting closer to becoming actual work sites instead of conceptual ideas. And when that work begins, expect the protests to start in earnest. One of the major protest locations will undoubtedly be at the Site C dam construction sites in the Peace River Valley.There is widespread opposition to the project (although there is also strong support for it), and various opponents have vowed to do whatever it takes to stop construction from actually occurring. The rhetoric flowing from various Site C dam opponents suggests this is not going to be a case of a bunch of people waving placards and booing construction workers. No, something more serious is likely to occur.We’ve already seen the disquieting development of “Anonymous” (the shadowy group of computer hackers) vowing revenge over the fatal police shooting in Dawson Creek of someone who may or may not have been connected with a Site C protest group. Add the Kinder Morgan pipeline to that list, as well as any LNG facility or pipeline, open pit mine, or expanded port facilities.
The protests against the Kinder Morgan pipeline that occurred earlier this year on Burnaby Mountain will look like a pale imitation of what will happen should the project gain approval and construction actually begins. An alliance of environmental groups and various First Nations is emerging in B.C. to take on all these various projects. It’s a perfect storm in many ways, and it is also a potentially golden fundraising opportunity for environmentalists, who will surely turn the fight against these projects into one that gets the spotlight on the world stage. I’ve noted before that a Big Divide is cleaving British Columbians in to two distinct and opposite camps: those who support the development of natural resources, and those who do not. That Big Divide is becoming more entrenched and more noticeable. It will be permanently etched into our political and geographical landscape in the coming years, and it will not be an easy gulf to bridge. It may well becoming the ballot box question in the 2017 election, as the B.C. Liberals and the NDP seem to be on opposite sides of the dividing line. But before we get to that particular fight, there will be plenty more confrontations between the opposing sides. Keith Baldrey is Global B.C.’s chief political reporter.
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Election means voters hold sway on housing
C’mon Burnaby, make the first move
Dear Editor The articles posted in the July 24 edition of the Burnaby NOW both make very good points. (Re: Survey probes health of Burnaby’s homeless youth and OUR VIEW: C’mon Burnaby, make the first move.) ACORN is right that we have to start doing more to work on the homelessness problem, and in particular the problem of reduced lowincome housing stock. The city is also correct that we need as many units as they’re predicting, and that there isn’t as much that they can do about it right now. The city also makes a good point that federal and provincial support is needed to really make an impact on the problem. With both sides refusing to make the first move, it seems like it is going to be left to the average citizen to force the issue, and thankfully this year we, the people, have all the leverage. Over the next few months, political candidates and their volunteers will be phoning you and they’ll be knocking on your doors at all hours of the day looking for your support and your vote. Force them to commit to a national housing policy. Tell them with your votes that all the major parties need to make this an issue this election, and make it easy for them. Don’t vote for a party that won’t commit to a housing policy that ensures that cities have the flexibility and support to actually take on the homelessness problem. Trevor Ritchie, via email
Govts need to work together on housing Dear Editor Only homeowners pay a property tax to the municipality, which is budgeted to be spent on public schools, the fire department, the police, the libraries and community centres, etc. Every citizen pays GST and PST, and most Canadians pay income tax. The federal and provincial governments have a mandate to tackle the housing issues, and they do have the budget for it from the tax they collected from all of us. I find the city is more than cooperative to work with the other levels of government, but I don’t understand why ACORN blames the city. South of Metrotown has many old, lowstorey apartment buildings. I knew they should go one day, one by one, because older buildings need upgrading for the safety of the residents and fulfilling the needs of the city dwellers, say plumbing, electricity, new roof, more soundproof walls, updated kitchen, etc. Do you remember the fire on an old building on Dow Street? Metro Vancouver must have a big gap between the rich and the poor mainly due to the real estate market. People on the street are visible. My friend from Ottawa said Ottawa had no street people who can survive the winter there outside? People outside the province come to a warmer place. Many new immigrants, including refugees, come disproportionately to B.C. Housing all these people is a big burden for Metro Vancouver, as much as we want to welcome newcomers. I hope the provincial and the federal governments can work together to provide affordable housing for the people who need it. Chiyo Buston, Burnaby
Kisai It’s rather amazing how Burnaby is a “NDP Stronghold” yet it acts like a Conservative stronghold on this issue. Yet more abdication of responsibilities by our elected representatives. Pushing all the social services onto the Province was how the cities all got out of debt a nearly a century ago. If that is still their responsibility, then the provincial representatives are at fault. Keith As long as developers remain major contributors to Mayor Corrigan’s election campaign, our Mayor will continue to bend in their favour. We continually see our mayor and councillors change bylaws to the benefit of developers and then claim they cannot change bylaws to help protect low income rentals. Corrigan will continue to push out low income people until there are few left to oppose him in the next election. He will also continue to blame every other level of government for not helping the poor, all the while bragging about great Burnaby’s finances are. Burnaby has more than enough money and authority to make a strong impact on affordable housing in our city but there is simply no political will to do so. And given that the next election won’t be till 2018, Burnaby’s affordability is only going to get worse. Bill Smith This is a well written piece.. kudos to the Burnaby Now. But, there is one fatal flaw. This article mentions the Fraser Institute. This was meant to be a message to Corrigan, but at the mere mention of the Fraser Institute, it’s game over.. done, finished. He will not listen or take any notice what so ever. I witnessed, in person, during an all-candidates debate during the last local election, someone cited real figures from the statistics bureau; however, the real and factual statistics were assembled by the Fraser Institute. Corrigan and his entire posse jumped right out of their chairs and ranted that the facts are not valid because they were assembled by the Fraser Institute...
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Burnaby care homes get ticket to freedom Ethan Reyes
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Donors who contributed to the purchase of a care home’s private shuttle were invited to its maiden voyage
this past Wednesday. Since fundraising began in 2010, the Normanna care home and its sister facility, the Dania home, were both able to raise the $130,000 needed to pur-
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Nicole Marcia Occupation CERTIFIEDYOGA THERAPIST Why is she in the news?
When it comes to teaching yoga, Nicole Marcia is a rare find. The Vancouver resident holds a master’s degree in yoga therapy studies, and she specializes in helping traumatized people struggling with mental illnesses and addiction. Marcia found her path to yoga after a brutal attack that changed the course of her life. A neighbour sexually assaulted and beat her in 1994, when she was just 21 years old. The trauma left her feeling vulnerable, as if the only meaning to life was survival in a dangerous world. In 2002, she began her yoga practice and found it helped as a healthy coping strategy. By 2003, she took her first training course for yoga teachers, and she’s been helping others ever since. Marcia now runs a yoga therapy program at the Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addictions. She also teaches at Langara College, Yoga Outreach and Onsite, a detox centre
You suffered a very brutal physical and sexual assault in 1994. Can you tell us a bit about that and how it impacted your life? I experienced a very violent sexual assault; the person who assaulted me also tried to kill me. I spent several days in the hospital afterwards and then came out and went through a recovery process that included going through a court process in which he was convicted to 14 years in a prison. I came out of that about four years later pretty involved with substance abuse. Although I didn’t get it at the time, what I realized in retrospect was that I had been using drugs and alcohol and food in order to manage a dis-regulated nervous system, which manifested primarily as anxiety. What made you change all of that? I started getting curi-
upstairs from Insite, Vancouver’s safe injection centre. Marcia will be giving a talk in Burnaby on Tuesday, Aug. 4, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Bob Prittie Metrotown library branch. Her event, which is part of the Bridge for Health series, focuses on the benefits of yoga for mental health and addictions. To register, call 604-436-5400. For more information on Marcia’s work, go to www. finebalanceyoga.ca. Bridge for Health is a Vancouver-based non-profit organization that promotes health and well-being. Since January, Bridge for Health has been partnering with the Bob Prittie Metrotown library branch to present a series of free health-related presentations. The talks run until November. For more information on future events, go to ww.bpl. bc.ca/events. For more information on Bridge for Health, go to www. bridgeforhealth.org.
ous about yoga, and I started doing some classes, and really, I got engaged in a pretty regular practice, but it wasn’t until about two years into that practice that I started noticing a lot of the psychological and emotional experiences I was having seemed to be lessening.With that lessening, my need to be using also seemed to lessen. So the anxiety, the an-
Yoga was doing the work of the self-regulating.
ger, the hyperarousal, all of that started to quiet down. It started to become clear to me that what was happening was the yoga was doing the work of the self-regulating, instead of bringing in substances in order to regulate. How does yoga lessen the intensity of that emotional experience or how does it help “self-regulate,” as you say?
FINDING BALANCE Certified yoga therapist Nicole Marcia will be at the Bob Prittie Metrotown library branch on Tuesday, Aug. 4, talking about how yoga can help people dealing with trauma, mental health and addictions. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED There are a lot of things, primarily the breath.The types of breathing techniques that one uses in yoga are really helpful for activating the parasympathetic nervous system. Breath is also the primary way to control the brain stem, which is the core of all of our arousal systems. So the breath is a really big one, but there are a lot of other things happening. Yoga classes are in and of themselves a way for trauma survivors to break isolation. Isolation is a big component of post-traumatic stress. … One of the first steps towards recovery, when we’re talking about recovery from trauma, is the re-establishment of safety, both bodily and social, and we can’t do that alone. We can only do that in groups, so yoga is an opportunity for trauma survivors to re-establish bodily and social safety.The other thing that’s really powerful about yoga as a complementary therapy for trauma survivors is it’s an opportunity to take effective action. If you consider the aftermath of trauma lives in one’s body, and that inher-
ent in a traumatic event is the experience of not being able to take effective action with one’s body, being stopped somehow, then yoga provides a safe setting for people to choose what to do with their body. … The other reason why yoga is helpful for trauma survivors is that there’s an area of the brain called the Broca’s area that’s responsible for translating experiences to language. For a lot of trauma survivors that part of the brain has gone offline, so the ability to engage in talk therapy becomes very restricted. What’s great about yoga, is people can process the story both on an internal psychological level and through their bodies, without any pressure to verbalize.Yoga becomes this very powerful adjunct treatment to talk therapy. It’s like yoga works from the bottom up, and psychotherapy works from the top down to the bottom. So it’s really part of a holistic treatment. It’s not a curative in and of itself. How do you find your classes in the Burnaby
Centre for Mental Health and Addictions? What kind of changes do you notice in them? I have people tell me they’ve never felt safe or comfortable in their bodies till having practiced. A lot of our people are here because of complex trauma. They’ve been repeatedly traumatized since childhood
It’s like yoga works from the bottom up, and psychotherapy works from the top down to the bottom.
in a lot of different ways. It’s a big deal for them to have permission to be with their own bodily experience. ...There’s this sense of being part of a community that’s committed to health and well-being that feels really good. It’s good for their self-esteem; it helps to build
group confidence, physically. You’ve talked about how this can help people with complex trauma; what about addictions? They’re linked. Under pretty much any addiction, you’re going to find a trauma story. … When I see addicts, mostly what I see is a trauma survivor. I know that from my own experience. I came out of my experience, not only psychologically – with sort of like a story about myself and my own self-worth and who I was in the world – but I also came out with some sociological dis-regulation. Substances made a lot of sense to me.They’re very easy to titrate, they’re very powerful and they’re very easy to access. The problem, of course, is that ultimately they become maladaptive. So they make sense in the moment, but they’re not ultimately healthy, and they don’t really get to the root cause.That’s how yoga and addiction and trauma are connected.
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A Burnaby artist is treading bold new ground with his latest piece, which he hopes will provide a more forceful and socially engaging message than past works have. Environmental artist Todd Polich said his mural on the Collingwood Bottle Exchange in Burnaby, the 40th he has done, is a product of the outrage he has felt because of people and their treatment of the environment. “I’ve been feeling frustrated … that I’m not quite doing enough,” explained Polich about the forced evolution of his style. In the past, Polich’s murals have been serene portrayals of wildlife and their habitats, meant to capture the beauty of nature, but in his latest piece, the East Vancouver artist has depicted natural environments being infiltrated by robotic imitations of their denizens. The mechanical invaders are meant to stress the importance of sustainability to the viewer, who, according to Polich, said that species of gecko and fish, like those in his mural, are impossible to replace once extinct, even with technology. Much of the Collingwood Bottle Exchange is stuccoed, making painting difficult. But where some would
New edge: Todd Polich poses against his latest mural at the Collingwood Bottle Exchange on Kingsway. PHOTO ETHAN REYES
see adversity, Polich recognizes a challenge. The 43-year-old makes a point to utilize every inch of the building that acts as his canvas. From drainpipes to schoolyard bells, Polich finds use for it all. If not for the paint smears on his jeans, one wouldn’t immediately mistake Polich for an artist. Stockily built, his easygoing attitude belies an intensity resting just below the surface. Growing up in the rough areas of East Vancouver, Polich found the harsh realities of his neighbourhood inescapable. Polich found as much solace in the wrestling room as he did in art, saying that, “I’m generally an intense guy, and I use art to channel that.” “I am especially frustrated with our country and how we are not pushing enough to become leaders in con-
servation,” said Polich, who spoke specifically about the Northern Gateway and the Kinder Morgan pipelines as a source of frustrations. Polich comes from a family of longshoremen but decided to make a change in careers in 1995 after biking across Australia. He enrolled at the Vancouver Film School for animation and worked in the burgeoning film and video-games industry for the next 12 years, eventually leaving to pursue his passion: art that made a difference. Having worked extensively in B.C., Polich hopes to expand internationally in the future. But regardless of where he goes, the East Vancouver native promises to bring this new facet to his style with him. “I plan on making a lot more art like this,” he said.
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eggy Thomson turned a passion for dance into a lifelong career teaching seniors. Over the decades, she’s taught hundreds of them around the Lower Mainland. The NOW spoke with Thomson as she winds down her career, preparing for her own retirement.
In the early years
Peggy Thomson was teaching a dance class at Bonsor Seniors Centre in Burnaby, when someone called out from the crowd: “I think I used to change your diapers!” It was one of Thomson’s childhood neighbours, and the woman had, in fact, babysat the instructor when she was known as “Little Peggy Stock.” It was a moment that underscored Thomson’s intergenerational relationship to her students. Thomson es-
timates she’s taught thousands of seniors how to dance. “I always say they raised me,” she says. “They helped me grow up.”
was teaching at Cameron, dancing, meaning the stube an opportunity to work According to Thomson, Edmonds and Confederadents are facing the instrucduring the day. It’s the perdancing is a form of physition centor, not each other. fect pastime for seniors,” cal fitness that can benefit tres in BurnThomson says. seniors by lowering blood aby. She And the seniors loved Thompressure and helping with The inter-generaalso spread son, too. Her classes were balance. It’s also a great !onal connec!on out to Cowildly popular, with regischance to socialize with a Teaching seniors was the quitlam tration lineups and anxiety group of people who all love perfect job for Thomson, and Maple about being wait-listed. doing the same thing, she who always felt comfortable Ridge. “I think everybody wants explains. Thomson also orgaWhere it with older folks, after having At first, the to be loved, and they want nized dance parties, where all began grown up around an elderly lessons were to have fun, and you get that seniors from other centres Thomson great aunt. country from my class. That’s what would all converge. started teach- Dance teacher Peggy “As I grew up, I had a lot and westpeople tell me,” she says. “It’s “I would make sure every ing line dancing Thomson is retiring from of older people around me, ern style, but the truth.” centre I went to would learn Bonsor Seniors Centre. and ballroom and I just loved them. And then came the same things, so when we for seniors at I saw this thing called line cha cha and Dance bene7ts for came together, it was a big New Westmindancing, and I knew seniors rumba. Now she teaches Continued on page 15 ster’s Century House and would love it, and it would seniors multiple styles, but all line Centennial Community Centre in the late 1970s. Word spread of her classes, and soon she was in demand. Medical Supplies “Then the phone just startO R D E R O N L I N E AT W W W. R E G E N C Y M E D. C O M ed really ringing,” she says. 4437 Canada Way, Burnaby, BC • Physician/Nursing Supplies • Lift Chairs • Sports Athletic Products At the time, Bonsor was • Incontinence • Lifts & Transfer Devices • Aids to Daily Living still being built, and Thom• Bathroom Safety • Compression Stockings • Nutrition & Wellness Fax: 604 435-8150 • First Aid & Wound Care • Orthopedic & Supports son’s job interview took Hours of Operation: SENIORS DAY • Ostomy Supplies • Therapeutic Footware on first Tuesday Mon.-Wed. & Fri. 8:30am to 5:30pm place in a construction trail• Mobility/Seating & Rehab every month 50 Free Parking Spaces Thurs. 8:30am to 7:00pm • Sat. 9:00am to 4:00pm er. Next thing she knew, she
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Westcoast Seniors Instructor sad to go Continued from page 14
Winding down her career
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One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. That’s often the case for Burnaby artist Ron Simmer, who’s known for his colourful garden structures made out of recycled materials. Whether it’s expired fire extinguishers or old shovels, the local sculptor said he finds most of his scraps at garage sales, auctions and even by the river’s shore. “Big art is really very expensive, you know,” he told the NOW. “If you use recycled materials, it’s all good. It helps the environment and things don’t go in the landfills.” Simmer, who will have
his work on display starting tomorrow at Vancouver’s VanDusen Botanical Garden, calls his style “pop art.” Upon first glance, the sculptures are colourful and larger than life (some are around seven feet high). The Roadrunner, for example, is made up of a bright red water tank, a rake and a sprocket, while Board Rest (a bench) was built using old snowboards and skis. Putting the pieces together, meanwhile, takes at least a few days in what 74-yearold Simmer calls a “multistep process.” After designing what it’ll look like, the local resident said he welds it all together and then takes it in to be coated for anticorrosion.
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B.C. girls showed where the best box lacrosse is played in Canada. The junior and midget provincial girls’ teams both won gold medals, while the B.C. bantam girls claimed a silver medal at the Female National Championships in Calgary last week. The junior girls, including New Westminster’s Christel Blesch, Mary McQueen, Gabrielle Jones and Amber Haley and Burnaby’s Amanda Jackson, were a perfect 7-0 at the championship tournament, following a 6-4 victory over Ontario in the gold-medal final on Saturday. Ellie Delich garnered eight goals and five assists over seven games at the nationals, including two goals and two assists in the championship final. Jones, who had a total of eight points at the championships, helped out with one of her seven assists on the gold-medal-winning goal by Kathryn Harvey of Port Moody. Blesch tallied a pair of goals in a three-point outing in B.C.’s 6-2 semifinal win over Alberta on Friday. McQueen chipped in with a single goal and a helper. Both Salmonbellie runners finished the sevengame tournament with identical six-goal, 10-point performances. “We just wanted to come out and do it for the bantams.We just knew it was going to be hard fought, so we just fought hard till the end,” McQueen said. The junior girls knocked off Ontario twice in the four-team tourney – 9-3 and 10-5. Delich led B.C. with a pair of goals in the opening five-goal win over Ontario, while Jones and McQueen both had three-point games. Blesch contributed a goal and an assist. Jackson also registered a point. The midget girls also finished with a golden 7-0 record at the nationals. B.C. edged Alberta in the
midget championship final 4-3 on a late third-period goal by Nicole Pahnke of Ridge Meadows on July 25. A day earlier, Port Coquitlam’s Haley Mcrae got the game winner over Alberta in the final period in a 5-4 nailbiter to end the round robin. Keeley O’Neill of New Westminster finished the national tournament with four goals and four assists. New West’s Graceyn Dean had five tournament points, including a pair of goals, for B.C. The B.C. girls also defeated Ontario in both meetings at the nationals, winning 5-3 and 6-2, in the team’s opening game on July 21. In the bantam division, the B.C. girls’ team of New Westminster’s Hannah-Lise Bernoe, Meagan Black, Jen Hannay, Erica Malcom, Sophie Morris and goalie Jenna Phillips shared the silver medal with Nicole Kuhn of Burnaby following a 4-3 double-overtime loss to Ontario. Malcom had a goal and two assists in the championship final, while Hannay chipped in with one tally and a helper. Bernoe also potted a goal for B.C. The girls split their preliminary games with Ontario, losing 3-1 on July 23 after opening the nationals with a 4-1 victory over the eventual champions. B.C. also eked out an earlier 4-3 win over Alberta on July 22. Morris set up PoCo’s Danielle Stroup for the game winner in double OT. Kuhn also scored a goal in the contest, while B.C. point leaders Malcom and Bernoe assisted on two and one tally, respectively. Bernoe topped B.C. in team scoring with three goals and 10 points, while Malcom finished the competition tied with 10 points, including a pair of markers. Kuhn registered two goals and three assists for Team B.C. Phillips finished the nationals with a 1.75 goals against average through four games.
Making waves: Burnaby Mountain Mantas swimmer Jordan Pin shows off his best breaststroke form in a 100-metre race at the Coquitlam Sharks summer swim meet at Spani Pool in Coquitlam on Sunday. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
Final push for WLA placement Sr.A Lakers could finish second with wins in final two league games Tom Berridge
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The Burnaby Lakers have the Langley Thunder in their rear-view mirror as the Western Lacrosse Association season winds down this week. The senior A Lakers picked up just two points from last weekend’s road swing through Vancouver Island – losing 14-4 in Victoria on Friday before picking up a 9-6 win in Nanaimo the following night. With two games left on the schedule, Burnaby can still be caught by the Thunder and Maple Ridge if the Lakers slip up in their final two regular season games. Langley plays Coquitlam and Victoria in its final two games. Burnaby played host to Maple Ridge on Tuesday (after NOW dead-
lines) before finishing off the schedule against the New Westminster Salmonbellies at Queen’s Park Arena on Thursday. “You are always in everybody’s cross-hairs,” said Burnaby head coach Rory McDade. The Lakers snuck by Maple Ridge by a singlegoal margin in both their previous two meetings. As well, half of Burnaby’s games to date have been decided by as few as two goals or less this season. But the Lakers are 7-3 in their last 10 games, despite two disappointing efforts to Victoria during that stretch, said McDade. “I really like our game over the last 10 games, if you cancel out the two Victoria games – there’s something we have to do there – but we’ve come out pretty
clutch in tight games,” McDade said. Burnaby was left at the starting line in Victoria, trailing 7-0 after the first period and by as much as 9-0 midway through the middle frame before Jason Jones got one back with four minutes left to play in the second period. Seconds later, Ilija Gajic, with an unassisted tally, and Robert Church, a minute after on a power play, finished off a short threegoal-scoring spree for the visitors. Victoria responded with five straight goals to start the third period, before Church got his second of the game later in the period. In Nanaimo, things went a little better for the Burnaby club. The Lakers held period
leads of 4-3 and 7-4 before handing the T-Men their 14th loss of the season. First star Jason Jones posted a five-point night, including a pair of goals. Scott Jones added four points, including his first of two goals on the short-man to end the first period. Dane Stevens swept the game stars for Burnaby following a six-point outing that included the first and last goals of the game for the visitors. Jamie Lincoln got the eventual game winner midway through the middle period that gave Burnaby a 7-3 advantage. Burnaby is at Queen’s Park Arena on Thursday for a date with the secondplace Salmonbellies, who have won their last five starts. Game time is 7:45 p.m.
B.C. boys win silver at bantam nats British Columbia reaped a silver medal at the Bantam Nationals boys’ lacrosse championships in Saskatoon on Saturday. The B.C. boys, including New Westminster runners Noah Armitage, Andrew Bishop, Nikhal Dhandwar, Kip Guthrie, Evan Pattison, Ben Stewart and goalie Keegan Melenychuk, dropped a 7-2 decision to Ontario in the gold-medal final.
Earlier in the day, Mitchell Sandberg of Delta scored the 8-7 gamewinning goal in overtime against Alberta to advance B.C. into the championship final. Armitage, who led New West in goals scored, with three at the nationals, had a single assist in the semifinal win over Alberta. Guthrie also contributed a helper in the OT win. Bishop led all New West runners in
overall scoring with six points, including a goal and two assists in B.C.’s 13-1 win over Nova Scotia on July 23. Pattison also scored a goal in the win over the Maritimes province. B.C. also won preliminary matchups against Albert and Saskatchewan, while losing to Ontario and First Nations, 6-4 in overtime, in the round robin.
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Gabriel Ho-Garcia helped Canada earn its place at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio. The Canadian men’s field hockey team earned a spot at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro following a shootout win over Brazil in its semifinal matchup at the Pan Am Games in Toronto on July 23. Canada went on to claim the silver medal at the Pan Ams following a 3-0 defeat to Argentina on Saturday. Argentina had already claimed an Olympic berth with an earlier top-three finish at the 2015 World League semifinal in Buenos Aires. No. 15-ranked Canada placed fourth in that competition, upsetting two higher-ranked nations – Spain and New Zealand – during the World League semifinal. Canada last qualified for the Olympics in 2008 in Beijing, where they finished in 10th place. In 2012, the
Brazil bound : Burnaby’s Gabriel Ho-Garcia, in red, helped Canada to a silver medal at the Pan Am Games in Toronto. PHOTO COURTESY FIH/HELMI DAWI
Canadian men missed an Olympic berth following a loss to Argentina in Guadalajara, Mexico. “The Olympics has been a goal for our team from (the end) of Guadalajara four years ago,” said Adam Froese in a Canada field
hockey press release. Froese scored Canada’s shootout-winning goal against Brazil at the Pan Am Games, where Canada won its earlier pool, beating Brazil, Chile and Mexico. Ho-Garcia led Canada with four goals in an
8-1 win over Mexico, while New Westminster’s Brenden Bissett and Ho-Garcia both tallied a single goal in an earlier 9-1 victory over Brazil. In the quarter-finals, Canada topped Trinidad and Tobago 3-0 on July 21.
New Westminster sprinter Raquel Tjernagel placed seventh in her semifinal heat at the Pan Am Games in Toronto last Thursday. Tjernagel qualified for the women’s 200 metres earlier in the day, following a fifth-place finish in her opening heat in a time of 23.63. The top-four finishers in each heat and the next four fastest times moved on to the semifinals. The 17-year-old New Westminster Secondary senior qualified for the semis along with Nercely Soto of Venezuela, Sheniqua Ferguson of Bahamas and Kanika Beckles of Grenada, who all posted faster times in the heats. Tjernagel, who ran a personal-best 23.34 in the 200m at the Brian Clay International meet in California in April, outpaced Sharolyn Josephs for the final berth in the semifinals despite a personal-best time of 23.70 by the Costa Rican runner. Kimberly Hyacinthe of Canada qualified for the women’s final in the other semifinal heat with a time of 22.81. In the women’s 200m final, Kaylin Whitney of the U.S. edged American teammate Kyra Jefferson for the gold in a winning time of 22.65. Hyacinthe placed sixth with a time of 23.28. Evelyn Ashford of the United States holds the Pan Am Games record with a time of 22.45 recorded in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1979. The world and Olympic record for the women’s 200m is held by American Florence Griffith-Joyner with a time of 21.34 recorded at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea.
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