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HATS OFF ON A SUMMER DAY

Mother Nature smiled, and so did participants and attendees at the annual Hats Off Day festival in the Heights on Saturday. The annual event – which includes a parade and entertainment along Hastings Street – attracted an estimated 65,000 people on a hot and sunny day in North Burnaby. For more photos, see page 3, and check out a photo gallery on our website at www. burnabynow.com. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

SCHOOL DISTRICT SALARIES

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The Burnaby school district’s top-paid executive last year stopped working for the district seven months in. Former superintendent Kevin Kaardal was paid $187,941.62 in 2014/15 and incurred $6,112.10 in expenses, according to the district’s statement of finan-

cial information posted on the district’s website. This despite the former CEO’s abrupt departure in February 2015. For the remaining five months of the 2014/15 school year, Burnaby got one superintendent for the price of two. Gina Niccoli-Moen stepped into the post on Feb. 1, 2015 and took home

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and $6,692.34 in expenses ! Greg Frank, secretarytreasurer, $153,358.26 and $3,907.08 in expenses ! Heather Hart, assistant superintendent, $146,285.88 and $4,606.11 in expenses ! Roberto Bombelli, assistant superintendent, $146,404.88 and $5,010.67 in expenses Continued on page 8

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WASN’T THAT A PARTY?

Hastings Street was jampacked with people on Saturday for the 32nd annual Hats Off Day parade and street party. Attendees at Burnaby’s favourite street festival were treated to a parade featuring an array of floats and costumed characters, as well as entertainers who performed all along the street throughout the day. As the mercury soared on one of the hottest weekends of the year, so too did attendance numbers – an estimated 65,000 people turned out for this year’s festival. For more photos from the Hats Off Day fun, check out www.burnabynow. com. PHOTOS JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Fun under the summer sun

About 65,000 people turned out to enjoy Hats Off Day on Saturday People from near and far got a chance to experience first-hand the Heights’ charm this Saturday as Burnaby’s favourite street festival continued its reign. An estimated 65,000 people came out to the Heights Merchants Association’s annual Hats Off Day parade and street party on Saturday.That’s about 5,000 more people than last year, according to Isabel Kolic,

the association’s executive director. “Things were still rocking at three o’clock, where usually it starts to slow down at that point, and it was still really busy,” Kolic told the NOW. “It just felt busier; it felt livelier. It was a good time.” This year’s jungle theme was a big success, too, Kolic added. Merchants and parade

walkers really threw themselves into the whole thing, she said, adding that Indiana Jones and the giant boulder, played by two actors, were among the crowd favourites in the parade. “The boulder was chasing Indiana Jones all the way through the parade, it was pretty funny, and then Tarzan and Jane had a skit with Jane’s dad.They were just performing the skit in repeat

all the way down the street,” Kolic said. Overall the event was a huge success, she added. “Hats Off Day has a really sweet local spirit that’s the undertone for everything,” Kolic said. “They can’t help but feel that, ‘Wow, I’m in a community.This is a neighbourhood.’” – Cayley Dobie

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ing to a press release. “I saw I had all six numbers but it didn’t even register,” O’Brien said in the release. “I was a bit shaken at first and then I yelled, ‘yippee!’” O’Brien, who is a Burnaby resident, plans to do two

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Cookie fundraiser prompts a sweet donation Tanya Commisso

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It’s a case of “the little cookie that could.” When Mary Cardle set out to raise funds for the Down Syndrome Research Foundation at the Burnaby Farmers’ Market a couple Saturdays ago, she expected to make a couple hundred bucks, if that. “Of all the days, it was also raining,” said Cardle, adding she’d never had a table at the market before. Cardle was selling homemade cookies by donation, with proceeds going towards sponsoring her team for the upcoming Run Up for Down Syndrome race. “Miss A’s Cookies,” named after Cardle’s daughter Ainsley, who has Down syndrome, ended up drawing in a very generous individual. A Burnaby resident stopped by her table and handed her $100 for about 20 cookies.That alone, surprised Cardle. “I said, ‘Are you serious?’ It’s just some cookies!’” she said.

After a short conversation, Cardle said the woman expressed to her how touched she was by what Cardle was doing. But her appreciation didn’t end there. When Cardle dropped by the foundation the following Monday, she discovered the woman had made a $5,000 donation in Cardle’s name. “I just burst into tears,” she said. “You always hear about these stories, but it’s never you.” The woman who made the donation wishes to remain anonymous. Cardle isn’t sure whether she has a personal connection to Down syndrome that would have prompted the donation. “Something just really resonated with her,” she said. Dawn McKenna, executive director of the Down Syndrome Research Foundation, said donations like this don’t happen very often, especially not from someone who has no connection to the foundation. “This is the first time

Sweet cause: Mary Cardle and boyfriend Dennis Bortolussi at Burnaby Farmers’ Market. Cardle was holding a cookie sale at the market to help raise funds for the Down Syndrome Research Foundation. The fundraiser prompted an anonymous donor to give $5,000 to the foundation. PHOTO

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I’ve seen something like this, and I’ve been here 16 years,” McKenna told the NOW. She said the money will

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“It’s just really nice to see, especially with all the bad news that’s out there,” she said.

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He’s no joke for the U.S. or Canada After months of being dismissed first as a joke, then as a source of worry, Donald Trump has secured the Republican nomination in the battle for the White House and continues to entertain us all in the worst possible ways. Early attempts to derail the Trump train by the conservative establishment were easily plowed aside. Doubters turned about face and jumped aboard the winning juggernaut.

Previously unimagined by the political elites,Trump as candidate now embodies their worst nightmare. Those who are waiting for Trump to now become “more presidential” shouldn’t expect it any time soon.That’s not his shtick. This past week “the Donald” decided to attack a judge who is involved in a class action suit against Trump’s former “university.”Trump flatly said the judge was a “hater” of him

because of his Mexican heritage and went on a tirade against the judge.Trump says because he wants a wall between the U.S. and Mexico the judge is biased. He also said he could say the same if a Muslim judge was ruling on his case. Following Trump’s logic the only fair judicial system for Trump would be one where billionaire old white guys held the gavel. In many scary ways, Trump defines where

America’s “infotainment” culture of political discourse has taken the nation.Trump was the second-most covered story by major networks in 2015. (The first was the weather.) And when we say “covered” we use that term lightly. Trump has gotten where he is by telling people what they want to hear and appealing to the reptile brains of folks unconcerned by how any of his ideas would work in reality, having lost

the ability to distinguish reality from reality TV. He’s the ultimate cartoon version of a politician. One Internet meme described Trump as what would result if all the online commenting sections were embodied in human form. Make no mistake, what Trump has accomplished is both remarkable and incredible – the purest sense of those terms. America created Trump. And it will be up to voters there to decide

what happens next. But, unfortunately, we, like Mexico, will feel the tremors from a Trump presidency. He’s always looking for a scapegoat and it’s just a matter of time before Canadians incur his wrath. We’d like to believe that Trump’s chances of winning the top job are slim, but then we thought he wouldn’t take the Republican nomination either.

MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Campaigning has begun Pretty well everything the provincial government (and, to a lesser degree, the Official Opposition) does these days has to be framed against the backdrop of the looming election campaign. Recent case in point: the bolt-from-the-blue announcement by Education Minister Mike Bernier that school districts would be able to keep $25 million in administration “savings” they had taken out of their budgets.The money could now be spent on what the districts wanted, whether it was directly in the classroom or on administration duties. What was telling about the minister’s announcement was where he made it and where two other B.C. Liberal MLAs made the same announcement simultaneously. Bernier was in Surrey, a pivotal battleground in the election campaign.The burgeoning municipality is having one riding added within its boundaries come the next vote, giving it nine seats. Education is a hot-button issue in Surrey, and the situation there is unlike anywhere else in the province. While other districts wrestle with the sensitive issue of closing schools because of declining enrolment, Surrey is in precisely the opposite situation. The population growth in Surrey is escalating, and with that comes more development, which creates more residences, which attract

more people, and the result is tremendously overcrowded schools. Bernier has recently met with a delegation of Surrey parents, and seems to have secured approval for more capital spending to build more schools at a more rapid rate than first envisioned. The B.C. Liberals currently hold five of Surrey’s eight seats, and one of them was won by the tiniest of margins. Based on the 2013 voting results, the new riding should be in the B.C. Liberal win column, but intensely local issues – such as education funding – can be a voting determinant and catch wildfire with the electors. Hence Bernier’s sudden and intense interest in talking about education in Surrey and handing some money over at the same time. As we get ever nearer to the beginning of the official election campaign, keep in mind we are in the unofficial one right now and the intensity of it will begin to ramp up. So expect more off-thecuff government spending announcements, probably focused on the geographical areas the NDP need to score a breakthrough to have any chance at forming government in 2017. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C. COMMENT ON THIS STORY

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Dear Editor Re: One-dog rule has Burnaby woman in a bind, Burnaby NOW, June 1. First of all I hope things work out for Ms. Cardinal and her beautiful dog. On the same topic, I do have a similar longstanding complaint re: bylaws with apartments and stratas. But my complaint is also that places that actually do allow dogs, most of them advertise “dogs allowed with restrictions.” Well, the restrictions are most often regarding the size of dogs, whereas they only allow dogs up to a certain size. In other words, medium and large dogs are not allowed. To me, this is discrimination, albeit of animals and their owners. Most people with larger dogs are very responsible, because they are larger dogs, and cannot just be picked up and put in your bag, so they are trained to behave. Larger dogs, in my years of experience, are generally quieter and gentler than many little dogs. I have owned a yellow Lab myself for many years (unfortunately he recently passed after a long happy life), and he was the most lovable dog I have ever known. He actually shied away from little dogs. He never growled, bit or chased another dog or human. He never barked, other than in fun while playing. I complained to apartment managers about this rule when looking for a place to live with my dog, and they often said that other tenants would be afraid of my dog – ridiculous! No one was ever afraid of my dog. So it is time to change the rules for once and for all, to allow any size of dog, or to allow dogs on individual situations. Rose Quinlan, by email

Where has Burnaby council’s social conscience gone? Dear Editor The mayor of Burnaby says that he can not do anything about the string of demovictions that have occurred and continue to occur in Burnaby. He is supposedly an NDP-aligned mayor who should be focused on the needs of all his citizens. He should work for the current Burnaby residents and not those that may come in the future. What he could do is freeze further demolition permits. He could freeze rezoning applications and he could freeze development permits. He recently said in an interview that many of those buildings have reached the end of their life, so to speak. Some of those buildings coming down are better built than the ones that are hastily being thrown up in their place. In addition, the plan to make Metrotown the city centre of Burnaby does not need to happen over night but can evolve gradually and at a slower pace. This demoviction process is creating vast numbers of potentially homeless elderly and low-income people. Where is your social mindedness, Burnaby council? Perhaps it is time for a change. Norma Vachet, Burnaby JOIN THE CONVERSATION ON TWITTER

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Wayne McQueen I have to disagree regarding changing the laws to match those of Ontario on forcing landlords into accepting tenants with pets to be acceptable. What you pet nuts fail to acknowledge, is that many people, including myself have allergies to pet dander, and just the fact of having pets in the building means that, even apartments without pets are subjected to those allergens. In the case of this lady, she should find a nice home for her pet, if she cares at all about this gentleman. The fact that shelters are overpopulated with pets is not society’s problem, it is the BCSPCA’s. If there are too many pets in shelters, then why are we as a society allowing pet rescuers the bring more unwanted pets in from other countries?

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Reader responds to concerns over ‘transphobic’ message Andrew Chobaniuk Do you have trouble reading what’s in front of you in black and white (literally)? It’s poking fun at the parents who are up in arms about transgender washrooms and saying if they are so concerned that perhaps they are the ones that should have separate facilities in which they can helicopter over their children’s potty time and ensure their “safety”.

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More than 700 city staff top $75,000 mark Burnaby’s statement of financial information reveals six staffers who earned more than $200,000 in 2015 Tanya Commisso

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City staff raked in a combined total of $153.83 million last year, with 724 city employees making more than $75,000, according to the city’s newly released statement of financial information. The numbers mark a steady growth from previous years, with 82 more employees hitting the $75,000plus threshold in 2015 than the year before. In 2014, 642 city staff brought in more than

$75,000 with a ! Leon Gous, dicombined total of rector of engineer$142.51 million. ing, $216,269 The list of City ! Chad Turpin, of Burnaby staff deputy city managwho took home er, $215,526 the highest sala! Denise Jorgenries in 2015 feason, director of fitures many of the nance, $213,145 same top-earning ! Lou Pelletier, positions of recent director of planBob Moncur years. retired city manager ning and building, Bob Moncur, $205,401 city manager (now retired), ! Dave Ellenwood, direcbrought in $269,853, maktor of parks, recreation and ing him once again the most cultural services, $202,946 highly paid city staffer. ! Doug McDonald, fire Following Moncur in the chief, $194,446 top 10 salaries are: ! Shari Wallace, chief in-

School district reveals its top earners for 2015 Continued from page 11 ! Wanda Mitchell, assistant superintendent, $133,165.49 and $9,967.84 in expenses ! Russell Sales, director of facilities, $130,692.90 and $570 in expenses ! Peter Dubinsky, director of instruction, $126,647.42 and $8,394.09 in expenses ! Deborah Simak, director of instruction, $126,647.42 and $6,851.02

in expenses ! Ron Hall, director of instruction, $126,487.92 and $9,038.38 Burnaby’s top-paid principal was Gordon Li, who earned $123,653.93. Burnaby’s top-paid teacher was Burnaby Central science department head Dieter Mehling, who took home $103,702.18. To see the complete report, visit sd41.bc.ca.

formation officer, egory, followed $190,167; closely by Coun. ! Bruce Rose, James Wang, who city solicitor, received $3,571. $179,811 All the council! Chris Bowlors were also paid cock, deputy fire a $5,999 retiring chief, $177,835 allowance, with Over in council Corrigan receiving chambers, Maynearly double at or Derek Corri$12,547.The mayDerek Corrigan gan took home or and council remayor $127,915, just over ceive a retiring al$1,000 more than lowance every year the previous year. Corrias they are unable to pargan also received $3,840 ticipate in the city’s pension to cover telephone and inplan. ternet costs, the highest exCouncillors each took pense benefit for this cathome a salary of $57,561,

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A Burnaby man is presumed dead after he disappeared while swimming in the Fraser River early Saturday morning. Surrey RCMP were called to Brownsville Bar Park at 11931 OldYale Rd. around 2:50 a.m. on June 4. A group of men told police they had gathered at the park for a bonfire and were drinking alcohol when they decided “to jump into the cold, swift-moving waters of the Fraser River,” noted a press release from Surrey RCMP. The intention was to

swim around the SkyTrain bridge’s pillar and back to shore, but one of the men, a 32-year-old Burnaby resident, did not resurface after he was seen in the water, the release added. The others tried to find their friend but were unsuccessful, so they called police.The RCMP along with Search and Rescue and the Coast Guard searched the waters, but after several hours, “the tough decision was made to call off the search,” according to the release. The man’s body was still

missing on Monday, said Surrey RCMP Cpl. Scotty Schumann, spokesperson for the department. Schumann could not reveal the name of the Burnaby swimmer, noting it’s now up to the B.C. Coroners Service to release information, including identity. Foul play is not suspected. Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact Surrey RCMP at 604-5990502. Calls to the B.C. Coroners Service have not been returned. – Cayley Dobie

New car share biz in town Car share company Evo has expanded its service to three prominent locations in Burnaby. The company has added cars at BCIT, Metrotown and SFU Burnaby, according to a press release. “Burnaby was a natural choice for us,” said Tai

Silvey, director of Evo Car Share. “We’ve received a lot of requests from members, saying, ‘When are you coming to Burnaby?’Well, here we are.” Expansion plans have accelerated due to the company’s rapid rise in popularity, Silvey believes.The compa-

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Urban settings explored in collage art Everyday snapshots of life in cities form the basis of the newest exhibition at Deer Lake Gallery Tanya Commisso

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Artist Jessie McNeil’s approach to collage art has earned her an upcoming solo exhibit at Deer Lake Gallery. McNeil’s exhibition, Urban Subjects, aims to capture everyday snapshots of urban life, reinterpreted through the process of cutting, pasting, smudging and assembling paper.The Burnaby Arts Council is presenting the showcase. “In Urban Subjects, Jessie McNeil uses assemblage to slow down and capture the moment even more poignantly than photography can,” says the council’s write-up for the event. McNeil examines pedestrian life in cities such as Vancouver, Helsinki and Tartu, Estonia. She describes her figurative collage work as “dealing with place and memory with an emphasis on cultural history.” “I don’t know if my work

captures a moment better or McNeil’s favourite piece more poignantly than phofrom the exhibit, Helsintography can - that’s really kiYouth, depicts a group of up to someone else to defriends walking through the cide,” she said. “For me, in city square.The collage featerms of my process, I don’t tures a simple background, believe my study of the urplacing the focus on the figban landscape ends with a ures. In explaining the piece, photograph. I use my phoMcNeil said she’s remindtos as sketches, or ed of how she felt studies to base my when she creatcollages off of.” ed it. McNeil said her “Sometimes a approach to collage piece reminds me differs from what is of a podcast or a typically expected certain album I from the art form. was listening to at Rather than usthe time of its creing images to creation, and I must ate the collage, she have been listenlooks for coloured Jessie McNeil ing to something paper in magazines artist inspiring, because to build her own this piece just figures. In this way, Mcmakes me happy.” Neil’s work can be likened Urban Subjects opens to painting. Saturday, June 11 and runs “It’s like I’m looking at a until July 2 at Deer Lake painter’s palette with all the Gallery, 6584 Deer Lake colours,” she said. “In the Ave. An opening reception final pieces, there’s usually is set for Saturday, June 11 no reference or recognizable from 2 to 4 p.m. feature of the original printed matter I cut up.”

Contemporary scenes: Helsinki Youth, by Jessie McNeil, is part of the new Urban Subjects exhibition opening this weekend at the Deer Lake Gallery. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

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The Burnaby Potters’ Guild is inviting everyone to turn out for its biannual show and sale this weekend. The guild’s Enchanted Forest show is set for Saturday and Sunday, June 11 and 12, running 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days at the Capitol Hill Communi-

ty Hall at 361 South Howard Ave. The Burnaby Potters’ Guild, if you haven’t encountered it before, is a longstanding group of ceramic artists that works to promote the appreciation of clay arts in all its forms. Check out burnabypotters guild.yolasite.com for more about the group – or just pop in to Capitol Hill to check out their work and chat to artists.

Admission to the show is free. FILMMAKERS WANTED Calling all filmmakers. The Burnaby Arts Council has an open call to artists to take part in the third annual Burnaby Film Forum at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. It’s set to take place on Sept. 30, during Culture Days, and the call for submissions is open until June 30.

The forum welcomes films and videos of all genres, including narrative, documentary, short, animation, experimental and more, of up to three minutes in length. Cash prizes will be awarded. Check out www.burnaby artscouncil.org for all the details. CALENDAR GIRLS A Burnaby director is at the helm of the Vagabond

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Players’ season-ending production. Calendar Girls, the popular British comedy that began life as a hit film, is onstage at the Bernie Legge Theatre at Queen’s Park, New West, until June 26. Nancy von Euw directs, with fellow Burnaby residents Natalie Schreiber in the cast as Brenda/Elaine and Gavin LeClaire as John.The production stars Carol L. Mann and Nan-

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Onstage: Jared Arthur, Burnaby’s Gavin LeClaire and Chris Coulter appear in the Vagabond Players production of Calendar Girls, opening June 2. PHOTO CRAIG PREMACK, CONTRIBUTED

Calendar Girls onstage now Continued from page 11 worldwide sensations. The cast also includes Joan Koebel, Emma Greenhalgh, Beverley Field and Elaine Francis as the other “calendar girls,” with Kathleen Driscoll, Sue Sparlin, Chris Coul-

ter and Jared Arthur rounding out the cast. Calendar Girls runs Thursdays to Saturdays at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.Tickets are $15 regular, or $13 for seniors and youth, with $10 previews on June 2 and 3.

Buy tickets at www.vaga bondplayers.ca/tickets or call 604-521-0412. Do you have an item for Lively City? Send arts and entertainment ideas to Julie, jmaclellan@burnabynow.com or find her on Twitter @juliemaclellan.

What’s the buzz? Have you had a chance to check out the infinity room at Deer Lake Gallery yet? Ron Simmer’s infinity room, titled A Night Walk in Falling Snow, was first installed for the Luminescence exhibition that ran at the gal-

lery in March and April. It was so popular that it was extended until June, and now it’s been extended again – it’s on until Sept. 3. Check it out at www. burnabyartscouncil. org or drop in to 6584 Deer Lake Ave.

Love curling up with a good mystery? Then this one is most definitely for you. The McGill branch of Burnaby Public Library is presenting Crime Time Trio on Monday, June 13 from 7 to 8 p.m. Authors Cathy Ace, Don Hauka and Allan Emerson will be on hand for an evening of readings and discussion. Ace is the author of the Cait Morgan Mystery series. Hauka’s latest novel Pizza 911:A Mister Jinnah Mystery, is the third featuring his larger-thanlife crime-reporter-turnedsleuth. Emerson is the author of Death of a Bride and Groom, described as a “small-town mystery with humour.” Signed copies of their books will be available for sale (cash only), and light refreshments will be served. It’s free, but sign up online at www.bpl.bc.ca/events or call 604-299-8955.

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Broadway style: Moving Mirror began last year with an intro to musical theatre program culminating in a performance at the Inlet Theatre in Port Moody. This year, the non-profit musical theatre society has opened registrations for an Aladdin Jr. production. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

Broadway comes to Burnaby Kids develop musical theatre skills in new North Burnaby program Tanya Commisso

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A North Burnaby elementary school teacher is bringing Broadway to the Heights with his youth musical theatre society, Moving Mirror Productions. Ryan Phelps, a music teacher at Gilmore Community School, launched Moving Mirror in early 2015 after noticing a lack of after-school drama and music opportunities for youth in the area. “The kids in this neighbourhood have extraordinary talent and want to be involved in programs such as these,” he said

Phelps has been passionate about performing arts since he was a child, leading him to pursue music and education degrees at UBC. He has since directed two musicals at Rosser Elementary. Phelps decided to leap into starting his own production society after attending the iTheatrics Junior Musical Theatre Festival in Atlanta, Ga. last year. “It really gave me the energy to look at creating something of my own,” he said. Phelps has now opened registration for the society’s first full-fledged, Broadway-style production, Aladdin Jr., following the success

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I confess that whenever I came across a green bag labelled for donation after my children had cleaned their rooms, I would rummage through it. There I might find books and collectible items I thought they would treasure forever. After all, I had spent many hours finding just the right birthday or Christmas gifts at each stage of their lives. Over time, I realized that such material things (though inspired by love) are not made to last forever nor should any of us cling to them. Kids grow up and outgrow them all. The best gifts we can give our children are those they will keep forever. A priceless gift my parents gave me continues to enrich my life, and I’ve done my best to pass it on to my children.Their gift was to always see (and expect) the best in me. Though my parents were very thoughtful and deliberate in the decisions they made, I suspect that the ability to see the best in brother, sister and myself was a natural byproduct of their love for us. We were each unique and as flawed as any other kids. They would give us feedback and correction when we could do better, but they always gave encouragement and praise when we did our best. Much more than looking for what’s wrong in us, they were always looking for what was good. That simple but profound view – to the see the best in others – is a game changer in everyday life. More often, we live on the surface of society and when looking at others, stop only on the outer surface.We judge – and then behave – based on appearances, gender, dress or disability, race and roles.We make sweeping judgments, and we forget that we see only glimpses of whole people. We forget that every person that we pass on the street, sit beside on the bus, and interact with in the course of our daily lives is a complete and complex individual. Every one of us has hopes and dreams, pain and disappointment. Everyone is someone’s friend or cousin, sibling or parent.When we remember this, we are more

open to compassion and it becomes more natural to treat others with kindness and understanding. Consider this when you disregard or ignore another human being or when you immediately dislike someone you don’t even know. We all have good and bad

days, but we can always make someone else’s day better. With those we live and work with, we can get caught up in our quirky habits and differences.We can take one another for granted and keep a running tally of what we don’t like

about each other. One of the secrets of a happy marriage is to deliberately make more positive than negative comments about your partner. It reminds us to look for and express the best in the other, who in turn feels more appreciated. The teachers who see the

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in their own lives will guide them towards their potential for well-being. Today, take a good deep look into the mirror and in every face you meet. See the best in everyone. DavidicusWong is a family physician. For more, see www. davidicuswong.wordpress.com.

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who is a certified organic master gardener – oversaw the creation of the first edible school garden in the city at Forest Grove Elementary. For four years, she taught Continued on page 17

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School gardens help raise food awareness Continued from page 16 staff and students how to plant, harvest, prepare, cook and eat the food they had grown. Sprouting Chefs naturally evolved out of it and was established in 2015. For McMahon, her model goes beyond just teaching youth the basics. “We’ll talk about worms and the importance of composting, the PH level of soil,” she told the NOW. “It’s not just about planting a seed and walking away. It’s the why behind it – what is food security and why is it important.” McMahon offers a K to Grade 7 science, math, social studies and language arts curriculum, as well as presentations to daycare providers on fun ways to engage children to eat well. Schools that collaborate with Sprouting Chefs also have an after-school garden club, which allows students and their parents to tend to

the garden after hours. Since the 20-foot-by-20foot garden at Forest Grove Elementary sprouted, McMahon has had a hand in getting 21 more school gardens off the ground in the Burnaby school district.

If we want to change the eating habits of children, … you need to do more than just teach them how to cook it.

“If we want to change the eating habits of children and increase their environmental awareness, you need to do more than just teach them how to cook it.You need

to come in with a full program that happens all year through, so you can really develop that appreciation of food and the environment at the same time.” McMahon added school gardens are needed all over the Lower Mainland, especially in dense municipalities like Burnaby. The June 11 fundraiser at the Burnaby Lake Rowing Pavilion will feature keynote speaker David Suzuki. Students will also be demonstrating what they’ve learned in McMahon’s cooking classes and in their garden clubs. Attendees can shop the vendor tables and bid in the silent auction. Light refreshments and appetizers will be provided. Tickets are $65 each and can be purchased at www. tinyurl.com/SproutingChefs. For more information about Sprouting Chefs, visit sproutingchefs.com.

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