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City temple part of new outreach plan Burnaby volunteers pitch in to help the homeless living inVancouver’s Downtown Eastside By Tereza Verenca
tverenca@burnabynow.com
A Chinese temple in Burnaby has partnered with a handful of other businesses across the Lower Mainland to help residents living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The Tian-Jin Temple, located at 3426 Smith Ave., is part of a new project called the Vancouver Outreach Program, which seeks to feed the homeless population in that area on a biweekly basis. The “umbrella initiative,” which had its official launch the weekend of Oct. 8, is not a registered non-profit, but a group of companies banding together. Prizm Media provides the financial support, FOCUS offers its marketing services, the Adai Nerdy Network Foundation uses volunteer connections and Refood Canada repurposes food that is 24 hours Continued on page 8
COMING TOGETHER Jeffrey Yu, operations manager of the Tian-Jin Temple in Burnaby, and Jacquoline Martin of New Westminster have teamed up for a new initiative benefiting Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
BURNABY PRODUCTIONS
TV shows net biggest WorkSafe fines
By Jeremy Deutsch
jdeutsch@burnabynow.com
The production company behind popular television shows like The Flash and Arrow has been given the biggest fines for safety viola-
tions in Burnaby this year. Hannah-Rachel Production Services Limited was handed $75,000 in fines for three separate incidents in 2015 where three workers were seriously injured, according to WorkSafeBC.
WorkSafeBC’s penalties database noted in the first incident, a worker was troubleshooting electrical cables laid along a concrete floor bordered by a false floor. The worker fell through the false floor and landed on a
concrete floor about four metres below.WorkSafeBC said the firm failed to ensure that guardrails or a fallrestraint system was used for work where a fall could occur. The second incident saw
a worker exit the work platform of a boom lift to step onto a ladder, which gave out, causing the worker to fall 2.5 metres to a deck below and another one metre farther to a concrete surface.WorkSafeBC said the
firm failed to ensure that workers wore a personal fall arrest system while on an elevated work platform, and failed to ensure adequate supervision of the work activity.The agency noted Continued on page 10
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