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From Bosnia to Burnaby
City councillor says city can only enforce seismic standards on new construction Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
If a major earthquake hit Burnaby’s Chevron refinery, several buildings would not hold up, according to a leaked report from the company. A 2009 seismic evaluation looked at 10 buildings at the refinery, and all but one would not withstand a major earthquake. Six would likely suffer extensive structural damage and may be near collapse, while the remaining three were considered hazardous to occupants and likely to suffer a complete or partial collapse. That’s not surprising to Coun. Dan Johnston, chair of the city’s environment committee. “If you search around Greater Vancouver, you would probably find more than just Chevron. Seeing that Chevron is a special case, it’s not a building with five or six people in it that can be injured, it’s a situation that could impact several neighbourhoods and the environment for many years after that,” he said. Johnston said he hopes Chevron will do something substantial about the buildings. Municipal governments are responsible for enforcing
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Reconnected: A local musician is helping the Lemays, a Chilliwack family whose daughter was born with a rare heart defect. From left, Iona deFresnes-Lemay, Andre Lemay and their daughter Briana.
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t was 1994, the Bosnian War was in its second year, and Ady Golic was about 19 years old when he was thrown in what he describes as a concentration camp.
With hardly any food, the 6-3, normally 250-pound man had wasted away, while imprisoned for 14 months. “I was probably nine pounds heavy. I was slim. My kidneys didn’t work properly. I was very sick,” he says. Golic was rescued by a Canadian battalion and escorted to another city.
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He recalls a Canadian soldier who helped. His name was Andre Lemay, and he was a mechanic with the Canadian peacekeeping forces. “My English was really broken at the time. He took me to the side and he pulled out stuff from the truck,” Golic recalls. “He gave me two shirts, a little money and some mental support and some food.” In 1995, Golic came to Canada and eventually settled down in Burnaby. He got a job fixing vending machines and formed a rock band called Skard around 2001. He’s
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been playing guitar for the band ever since. About three years ago, Golic attended a Thanksgiving dinner with friends in Langley. He was chatting with a guest, a French man, who eyed him curiously. “He kind of looked at me weird, and said, ‘Where’s your accent from?’” Golic recalls. Then the French man asked: “Do you remember me?” but Golic couldn’t recall the face until he looked into the man’s eyes.
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