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New Westminster trustees are joining the chorus of those asking Port Metro Vancouver for a comprehensive health impact assessment for the proposed $15-million Fraser Surrey Docks transfer coal facility, but they might not have to sign off on their letter.

Port Metro Vancouver is requiring more information about potential health risks, including an update on the air-quality assessment, the analysis of the coal composition and an assessment of the risk to human health, Port Metro Vancouver’s director of planning Jim Crandles told a daily newspaper.

The move will likely please local school trustees, who voted unanimously Tuesday to instruct staff to begin drafting a letter calling for more scrutiny.

One of the major concerns for board of education chair Jonina Campbell is the facility’s proximity to local schools.

“What’s frightening is when you look at where the tracks are, there’s about 100 schools … that will be close to where the trains would be going. And, in particular, we have our schools in Queensborough that would be just across the water from where the coal is going to end up,” Campbell said.

The district will be one of about five Lower Mainland school districts to voice concern about the facility. A number of municipalities and local residents have come out against the proposed coal facility, which they fear will impact air quality and contribute to global warming.

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Home invasion: Truck noise has invaded Lori Pappajohn’s home on East Eighth Avenue. The longtime New Westminster

resident has spent $10,000 on soundproofing initiatives, including the recent installation of new windowpanes.

Make the noise go away New Westminster resident spends thousands trying to mute truck noise

BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

Instead of the sweet sounds of her harp, musician Lori Pappajohn is being drowned out by the sounds of trucks blasting by her home.

The longtime New Westminster resident said a “traffic nightmare” occurs outside the front window of her home on East Eighth Avenue every afternoon, when trucks and traffic make life miserable. In the past seven years, she’s spent $10,000 to install eight panes of glass

and soundproofing insulation in her home to make it livable, but it hasn’t muted the sound of trucks.

“When that toll increased, it was absolutely unlivable,” she said. “The cars and trucks were parked outside of my house every night.”

Pappajohn isn’t the only resident who has made sound-reduction measures to her home to make it livable, noting residents living near Royal Avenue have done the same. Trucks have long been an issue for residents on East Eighth Avenue, but she said it’s only gotten worse since tolls were introduced on the Port Mann Bridge.

“We here on East Eighth are taking a huge hit of trucks going over Pattullo Bridge,” she said. “There has to be a dif-

ferent option for them.”

Pappajohn said she drives a lot and knows of no other residential street that is subjected to this volume of truck traffic within 40 feet of their homes.

Pappajohn’s plight comes at a time when the city, TransLink and the province are releasing numbers about traffic volumes on the Pattullo Bridge and the Port Mann Bridge.

Blair Fryer, the city’s manager of economic development and communications, said the city’s traffic counts on Royal Avenue showed truck traffic increased by 70 per cent, when compared to November 2012 to November 2013. Counts comparing December 2012 to December 2013 showed a 30 per cent ◗Noise Page 10

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RECRUIT SET SIGHTS ON CITY’S SMALL, FAMILY-LIKE DEPAR TMENT

Signing up for the thin blue line

BY CAYLEY DOBIE REPORTER cdobie@royalcityrecord.com

Shannon McLeod always knew she wanted to be a police officer.

Growing up, the 26-year-old was taught to respect the law and to serve her community in any capacity.

“Both my parents are lawyers,” she told The Record. “Respect for the law and serving your community, public service, that’s always been number one with my family.

It’s something they’ve instilled in me since I was very young.”

McLeod is one the New Westminster Police Department’s newest recruits. After an intense five-month hiring process, she was officially sworn in on Sept. 9.

The hiring process can be overwhelming, but if policing is something you’ve always dreamed of doing you’ll make it through, McLeod said.

“You have to be able to commit long-term because it’s not something that’s going to happen overnight. There’s multiple interviews and applications, forms you have to fill out, tests you have to take, so you have to be willing to commit,” she added.

There are 14 steps involved in the application process for prospective recruits. It begins with a formal application followed by a lifestyle and integrity questionnaire, written exam, sergeant interview, Justice Institute assessment, language proficiency test, typing test, ride-along, panel interview, psychologist interview, background investigation, polygraph test, medical exam, and ends with an interview with the chief of the department.

For McLeod, the biggest challenge was the background interview, which is uncomfortable because it opens you up to so much scrutiny, she said.

“Everyone makes mistakes in their lives, but also everyone has great things that they’ve done and great learning experiences, and it’s just owning up to everything you’ve done,” she added. “You go through a huge personal insight into everything you’ve accomplished and how much you’ve grown and it can be kind of challenging.”

Once McLeod was hired she began the nine-month recruitment process, starting with three months of academic studies and training at the Justice Institute of British Columbia followed

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New hire: Const. Shannon McLeod always knew she wanted to be a police officer and in September

that dream came true when she was sworn in as the newest recruit for the New Westminster Police Department.

by three months of field train- way it does its policing. It’s also ing at the department and a final just the perfect size. Vancouver is three months back at the Justice a very large department, you can kind of get lost in the numbers, Institute.

McLeod is currently finishing but New Westminster is able to up her three-month field training provide you all the opportunities with the department. During field that you need, or that you want, all those specialties training she is treatand secondments.” ed as a full-fledged What specialty constable, which she ◗WANT TO BE A COP? technically is, but ◆ Do your homework. What McLeod will pursue, she isn’t sure yet. partnered with an department would be your She is concentratexperienced officer. best match? ing on finishing her Together, McLeod training, graduating and her partner ◆ RCMP or city police? from the recruitrespond to general ◆ Think long-term: This is ment program, and calls and patrol the a decison that will shape finding her place at city. the next 25 to 30 years of the department, she On March 17 said. she will return to your life. “(New the Justice Institute Westminster has) for her remaining three months of education before everything that you’d want to she graduates and is officially do in policing, but it’s still that assigned a watch at the New atmosphere – that small, personWestminster Police Department al atmosphere where everyone – something she’s been anticipat- knows your name. It’s a family here,” she added. ing for a long time.

Choosing New Westminster, “(Policing has) always been a career I’ve wanted to pursue, and while an easy decision for specifically in New Westminster,” McLeod, wasn’t one she made she said. “It’s really forward lightly. She recommends anyone thinking and progressive in the considering a career in policing to

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“It’s an important thing to do because this is where you’re going to spend the next 25 to 30 years.

You want to make sure it’s the right department and you’re making the decision for the right reasons and you’re going somewhere you know you can last,” she said.

The New Westminster Police Department hires new recruits on an ongoing basis depending on how many positions it has to fill each year. Currently, it is hiring for the upcoming May recruitment session at the Justice Institute.

According to New West Sgt. Diana McDaniel, who was hired in 1997, the department is looking for recruits with good character and a well-rounded background – similar to McLeod.

McLeod has a bachelor’s degree and a community mental health certificate from Camosun College. She also has experience working with homeless people struggling with mental health issues and addiction.

“Certainly that helped with my application process here in New West,” she added.

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Warren “Whitey” Bernard is overwhelmed by the prospect of being immortalized in bronze.

Bernard is one of the central characters in the famous Wait For Me, Daddy photo taken on Oct. 1, 1940 by Province newspaper photographer Claude P Dettloff. As soldiers marched down Eighth Street toward Columbia Street, the five-year-old boy with white hair broke free from his mother to reach out to his father who was marching past.

The City of New has commissioned artists Veronica and Edwin Dam de Nogales to create the public art installation that will immortalize the iconic photo, one of the most famous images from the Second World War. While details of the sculptures are under wraps, Bernard has been given a peek at the drawings.

“My impression is it’s absolutely magnificent,” he told The Record Wednesday, while standing in the spot where the art will be unveiled later this year. “It’s very impressive.”

Coun. Lorrie Williams said the sculptures destined for Hyack Square will be situated on a podium.

“It’s very tall,” she said. “It’s a combination of two-dimensional and three-dimensional. That’s all I am going to tell you. We want everybody to go ‘Aww’ when they see it.”

While Williams originally had her heart set on three bronze sculptures of the mother, father and little boy shown in Wait for Me, Daddy, she’s pleased with the design that’s been approved

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“The vote for this particular model was unanimous,” she said. “I took one look at it and said, ‘Wow.’” Dettloff snapped the photo of the boy dashing out to his father, one of the soldiers marching down Eighth Street to board a boat that would take them to army camp in Nanaimo.

Bernard visited New Westminster this week to attend one of the task force’s meetings. He’ll be back in town in October, playing a special role at the unveiling of the artwork.

“Evidently I am going to pull the string,” he said.

The sculpture will be unveiled on Oct. 1, 2014, at an event that will

include a mini-march of soldiers.

Canada Post will issue a stamp of the Wait for Me, Daddy image later this year.

“This is a pretty big effort and a lot of commitment by the city to do this, to enshrine it for time memorial,” Bernard said. “As a family, we really appreciated it. Not everybody gets cast in bronze.”

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One thing the feds got right in the budget by those who genuinely planned to While the federal budget offered build their lives in Canada. thin gruel for most last week, the deciAccording to the government itself, sion to ditch the immigrant investor once the cash was handed over, there program (or the buy-your-way-intowas little evidence immigrant Canada program, as it was investors maintained ties alternatively known) is a welhere. come move.

THE RECORD The program was also no The issue obviously isn’t great shakes in the investwith either immigrants or ment department, with many immiinvestment, both of which are needed grant investors moving their families to and desired by Canada.

Canada but continuing to conduct busiBut the program, as it previously ness elsewhere. existed, did little to foster immigration

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Most paid less money in taxes over the long term than their own hired help.

There have been rumblings about the effect this move might have on luxury home sales.

But last time we checked, the intent of such programs was not to bolster commissions on high-end real estate deals.

It could even be argued that putting a damper on stratospheric house prices is a positive development.

The major flaw in the decision is whom it does not affect – immigrant investors headed to Quebec, which is continuing its own program. That, of course, is part of a much larger conversation.

In the meantime, we wish the government luck with programs like the startup visa that will hopefully do better to lure immigrants who will become the innovators of the future.

Those are values this country was built on.

Festivals: Fun until money is divvied out EDITOR’S LETTER

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love a festival. Almost unconditionally. Because they’re so, well, festive. And in a small city like New West, celebrations offer rare opportunities to kick up one’s heels with your neighbours and celebrate all that’s good about our fair city.

But when taxpayer funds get doled out, I become a bit more discriminating.

I have questioned Hyack Festival Association’s expenditures in the past (and how much the city was doling out for that organization) – $140,000 cash for 2013 – and I now seriously question city council’s actions on another city festival.

Monday city council voted to give the Uptown Live festival $48,000 ($28,000 in cash, $20,000 in kind) for a one-day shebang.

Last year’s event was great.

Lots of bands and dancing created a true “street party” feel.

It ran under Hyack’s umbrella and was part of the day’s festivities which included the Hyack parade. The new plan is to have the Uptown Live festival be a stand-alone event.

In any case, should taxpayers fork out $28,000 for a one-day event in a single commercial area?

Council has approved funding for the following festivals this year: the Arts Council of New Westminster ($3,000 cash), Fraser River Discovery Centre for RiverFest (two-day festival – $12,500 cash), Royal City Pride Society ($5,000 cash), Sapperton Business Association (Sapperton Days – $1,500 cash) and the West End Business Association (12th Street Music Festival – $1,500 cash). Other festivals – including the Downtown New West BIAKey West Ford Show and Shine and the Columbia StrEAT Food Truck Fest – receive in-kind city services, but no cash. The total amount of cash being given to all those groups equals $23,500 – yes, that’s right, all of them together will receive less than the Uptown Business Association’s one-day Uptown Live event. I will leave the in-kind services for another column, as it is a tangled mess that I don’t even think city staff have a complete handle on.

Meanwhile, of course, the Hyack Festival grant decision sits somewhere in city hall and awaits council’s pleasure. I expect Hyack will receive a very small portion of its request – if anything. While that may not be completely fair to all the innocent hard-working volunteers and past members of Hyack, it’s also completely understandable given the public debacle and mismanagement displayed by the society.

Hyack asked for $185,000 cash to put on its festivals in 2014.

Those include Canada Day,

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Re: Truck traffic a key issue, Letters to the editor, A relatively simple fix, in my opinion, to the increase of traffic on Pattullo Bridge as a result of The Record, Feb. 14.

Regarding Mr. Dolmat’s letter on truck traffic, vehicle traffic avoiding the toll on the new Port his closing comment “move the traffic Mann is to toll all of the bridges in the safely and smoothly through or around GVRD. our city.”

Lower the fee to something that drivYou can comment How about under? Tunnel the bridge ers are not averse to paying, like $1.50, on these letters at and the Brunette-Columbia-Frontthen people will use the new bridge www.royalcityrecord.com Stewardson traffic corridor. because they have no other option to We are a go-through, not a go-to, avoid paying. city.

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Festivals: Time to rethink approach ◗ continued from page 6

Hyack Week, summer concerts, the Ambassador program, Hyack float, the Christmas parade, and staff and administration costs to manage it all. It’s probably a moot point now.

Again, city hall shouldn’t be funnelling money to any organization in that kind of a mess – period.

Many in the city will see a pattern in council’s decision regarding the Uptown Live festival. The city took over Hyack’s Santa parade last year, and the city could be using the uptown festival as a jumping off point to further decrease Hyack’s profile.

(There’s even a new ambassador program started by a former Hyack director, Lynn Radbourne, which bears a striking similarity to the current Miss New Westminster Ambassador program put on by Hyack.

Yes, there are differences – but, really, two such programs in one small city?)

Competing festivals in the city just doesn’t seem like a great idea to me. And

now the city appears to be manipulating the situation by throwing more money at the anti-Hyack side.

While this may seem like a good idea in the short term, nothing good comes out of building up one part of the city in an attempt to extinguish another group or part of the city.

Greg Magirescu, the former manager of arts and cultural development in New Westminster, parted with city hall late last year, and that job has yet to be filled. At the time, it was reported that the job would be filled, but with a slightly different title. Could the city be restructuring the position to include some or all festival supervision?

Not an entirely bad idea – but again, at what cost to the taxpayer? And who would benefit?

Frankly, I don’t have any dogs in this fight, and I’ve been criticized by pretty much everybody during the Hyack debacle. But it seems to me that when a one-day festival gets an amount more than all of

the other festivals in the city get – there should be, at the very least, a lot more explaining going on by the folks who were elected to make fair and reasonable decisions with taxpayermoney.

If the city believes that the Hyack society is incapable of being trusted, or that it has damaged itself irreparably, and should not be in charge of any festivals in the city (which is is understandable given its behaviour) then don’t give it any grant money. Have the city run those events for one year while the city does an open and fair review of all public celebrations and events in the city.

But don’t fuel a civil war in the city by giving one festival or group an unfair amount.

This will only increase tensions and, worse, make the city look like a co-conspirator instead of offering much-needed honest and transparent leadership.

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THE RECORD STORY: “Sobeys sells Sapperton Thrifty’s”– Feb. 13

Facebook I Catherine Wilkins Sawle: Horrible! I can’t stand Overwaitea and will miss Thrifty’s.

Facebook I Dawn Black: Very sorry to lose Thrifty’s in New West Facebook I Louise Taylor: Such a disappointment! Won’t be shopping there anymore.

Facebook I Dave Lundy: hopefully it’s a Save-On Foods and not PriceSmart. Probably best bit to replace Thrifty’s in terms of store similarities, etc., and of course, unionized too.

Facebook I Heather Bird Corbett: I’d be happy if it turns out to be an Urban Fare, but it likely won’t be …

Facebook I Roxy Roller: Boo! Thrifty’s is my store and being open 24/7 was awesome for shift work and late night rush.

Facebook I Andy Goyan: What a bunch of moaners … Thrifty’s has been owned by Sobeys ever since it opened in New Westminster. Although I liked the store, it was always dead anytime I ever went there. Maybe if you are all lucky, the two remaining Safeways will become more like Thrifty stores. If you look online, Thrifty’s and Sobeys share all the same promotions and Club points. I welcome Save-On to New Westminster. At least the majority of our grocery stores are now Canadian-owned.

Facebook I Barb Wilkins: This makes absolutely no sense. So now Overwaitea will have the monopoly in the city? That’s the exact reason Sobey’s was forced to sell.

Facebook I Julie Duncan: I for one am very happy that a B.C. company that started in New Westminster in 1915 will now be an active part of our community. Their continued support of B.C. Children’s Hospital should be commended.

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Darcy is also worried about post-secondary institutions.

“It is not just flatlined, it is being New Westminster MLA Judy Darcy reduced overall by $108 million,” she said. fears the provincial government is balanc- “That means more pressure on Douglas ing its budget on the backs of B.C. families College. It means more pressure on our universities. At the end of the day it proband municipalities.

On Tuesday, the provincial government ably means higher tuition fees, which will tabled its 2014 budget, which forecasts probably continue to go up. The government says over and over again, a balanced budget through conlike a broken record, that they are trolled spending and anticipates a balancing the budget, but they’re surplus of $175 million at the end doing it at the expense of things of the current fiscal year. Finance that really matter, like access to Minister Mike de Jong said the education.” “boring” budget is balanced and Darcy was pleased to see that is the right plan for B.C. an expansion of Royal Columbian “We say this is the greatest Hospital continues to appear in place on earth to live. Well, it the government’s service plan. ought to be the greatest place on The government is proceeding earth to learn, and to have equal with the service case for the first opportunities for the future. That Judy Darcy starts with education,” Darcy told New West MLA phase in the redevelopment of the hospital, but the final scope The Record. “My single biggest disappointment in this budget is in the will be determined as part of business case planning. area of education.”

“No details. A broad commitment.

According to Darcy, education has been underfunded in British Columbia for That’s a good thing,” she said. “I am going about 12 years, and education has been to certainly keep pressing that this move as quickly as it can.” “flatlined” in the budget.

B.C.’s Chartered Professional “We have already got serious problems in our school district – and there’s Accountants applauded the overall fiscal no relief,” she said. “In fact, I think it can management of the provincial governeasily get worse as a result of this budget. ment, but expressed concern that it didn’t That’s really, really worrisome. It’s worri- take steps to make B.C.’s sales tax more competitive. some for New Westminster.”

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“So that the report be completed and made public before Port Metro Vancouver makes its decision,” Campbell said.

Port Metro Vancouver is reviewing a permit application by Fraser Surrey Docks for the development of a facility to handle up to four million metric tones of coal at its Surrey facility. Though Fraser Surrey Docks submitted an environmental impact assessment in November 2013, Port Metro Vancouver has identified areas that “require further information, particularly around the assessment of the potential effects on

human health,” the article states.

This is something that the many concerned citizens and schools districts, including New Westminster, were calling for.

“The assessment that was done previously didn’t look at the impacts on people,”

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“It is certainly showing a significant increase on the Pattullo Bridge, including weekends,” said Coun.

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TransLink recently released figures showing the number of vehicles crossing the Pattullo Bridge from January 2013 to January 2014 increased by 6,095 vehicles or 8.3 per cent.

Puchmayr said it is “mind-boggling” to hear B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone attribute the increase in traffic on the Pattullo Bridge to the increase in B.C.’s economy, rather than the Port Mann tolls.

“I am troubled by that spin,” he said. “What that

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Puchmayr said the statistics also show that heavy truck traffic is up on McBride Boulevard, which shows they are using New Westminster to bypass the tolls.

Pappajohn said one only needs to stand at the corner of Eighth Avenue and McBride Boulevard during the afternoon rush hour to see the impact truck traffic has on livability.

“It’s visceral,” she said.

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BY CAYLEY DOBIE REPORTER cdobie@royalcityrecord.com

Chagai Lual knows what it’s like to be a refugee – to have to flee from your home and live in a camp where medical aid, food and clean water are scarce.

Lual was only 14 years old when his village of Nyongrial in South Sudan (formerly part of Sudan) was destroyed by civil war. He and a group of young people, the oldest only 16 years old, fled to nearby Ethiopia, where he spent five years living in a refugee camp. Lual was eventually forced to return to Sudan, but shortly after his family immigrated to Egypt and then Canada, settling in New Westminster in 2003.

Today, Lual is the executive director of the Padang Lutheran Relief Society, a New Westminster-based charity that provides aid to people living in South Sudan, which declared independence of Sudan in 2011, specifically his home village of Nyongrial.

South Sudan had been a peaceful country since its inception, but a conflict between the military and government has led to a Chagai Lual civil war that has comraising money pletely destroyed the village of Nyongrial and all the progress made by Lual and the society.

“During the fighting, when (the rebels) captured that area, they destroyed the facilities,” he said.

Those facilities included the elementary school the society fundraised to build in 2010 and has been overseeing, at a cost of $1,500 per month, since then.

“That school has been destroyed now,” Lual said. “There’s destruction all over the place.”

The war broke out nearly one month after Lual returned from Nyongrial, on Dec. 15, and hasn’t stopped yet.

“The conflict is caused by power struggle within the leadership,” he said. “The military divided and the (politicians) divided, and they all fought.”

The people living in Nyongrial fled the war zone and are now either living in a refugee camp set up by the United Nations or are hiding along the northern border of

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Peace: Students from the village of Nyongrial in South Sudan stand in front of the school built for them by the Padang Lutheran Relief Society in 2010. The school has since been destroyed in a civil war between the government of South Sudan and rebel and military forces.

South Sudan, Lual said.

“The UN is still there trying to set up the camp, but the (people) are now living and staying under the trees,” he added.

According to the United Nations, about 10,000 people have been killed during this power struggle and more than 600,000 people have been forced to relocate, either to other parts of the country or to neighbouring countries like Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda.

Lual said he was shocked and disheartened when he learned that a war had erupted in South Sudan, especially after he

and his organization had worked so hard to help people in Nyongrial.

“I just came (back) in November. I was (in Nyongrial) for eight months running the school and doing other activities. It was peaceful at that time,” he said.

Lual intends to return to Nyongrial at the end of February with a group of volunteers to assess the damage and provide some much-needed medical aid, as well as food and clean drinking water.

The society is also doing its part to help those affected by the conflict by raising money to send overseas.

Lual said they want to raise about $50,000 by the end of May for emergency response assistance.

“Our focus was to raise money to go and help people in the refugee camp and then later, when we see that peace comes, we can think about rebuilding the school,” he said.

To donate to the Padang Lutheran Relief Society, visit www.plcr.org/donate. html or contact the society by phone at 604-528-3888.

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Farmers’ market welcomes new president AROUND TOWN

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McConnell, who has lived in New Westminster for the past three years

with his wife, Kathleen and daughter, Audrey, was recently elected as Royal City Farmers Market’s new president.

One of his priorities after getting settled into city life was getting involved with the market and connecting with local businesses.

McConnell, who has been on the market’s board for three years, has a passion for local food, craft beer, supporting small business and a desire to help grow the already

awesome community in New Westminster. He’s grateful that Andrew Murray is staying on as the board’s past president and is eager to help grow and guide the already successful market.

“Kevin has the skills and passion to lead Royal City Farmers Market as we enter a new phase of our development,” Murray said in a press release.

McConnell is excited about the year ahead and hopes to see even more faces out at this year’s

markets, which are held at River Market in the winter and Tipperary Park in the summer. With a dedicated core of volunteers, fantastic vendors and a market manager who is truly a champion for local food, he anticipates 2014 will be a banner year for the Royal City Farmers Market.

Joining McConnell on the board are: Hennisea Hoy (secretary); Marcy Koopmans (treasurer); Murray (past president); Jen Arbo; Maureen Kruk; and Daniel McCash.

Food survey

While we’re on the topic of food, the New Westminster Community Food Action Committee is encouraging community members to take a few moments to look at Food for Every Body and answer a brief survey.

The committee is developing a food charter, which is a document that helps provide guidance on advocacy and education for a sustainable food system. With funding

from the United Way, the group has been gathering feedback from service providers and groups in the community and has developed a draft food charter – Food For Every Body: A Food Sovereign New Westminster.

“A food charter is a cohesive, shared vision that can guide and direct work in the community as it relates to food issues, whether that is at a grassroots level, or at a policymaking level,” said Betina

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Ali, chair of the committee. “We think we have done a good job on the draft because we’ve really done our homework, and now we need to check in with residents to be sure it resonates with them. It’s not enough for us to just say ‘these are the issues in the community’ – we need to be sure that our food charter really reflects New West.”

The food charter and the feedback survey are available at http://bit. ly/FoodCharterSurvey.

The survey is open until Feb. 28.

Valentine’s story

John Ashdown enjoyed sitting down and having a little heart-to-heart with a woman who has a long history of volunteering in the Royal City.

While attending this year’s Festival of Volunteers, Ashdown, vice-president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie No. 20 New

Westminster, first met and chatted with Valentine Drayton.

“Valentine joined the Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie No. 20 at the young age of 18,” Ashdown wrote in a submission to The Record. “As a child, and at a time when the New Westminster Eagles were located above the now-known Heritage Grill, she recalls going to the Columbia Theatre for a movie while her mother attended regular meetings.”

Drayton was born Feb. 14, 1928, to Katina and Sam Daniels – and was appropriately named Valentine.

“She recalls huge family picnics in Queen’s Park, and when the downtown was vibrant and full of activity, a time when the Fraternal Order of Eagles were the predominate service club,” Ashdown writes. “She attributes the decrease in downtown activity to shopping malls and a trend to business

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Drayton, who turned 86 on Valentine’s Day, continues to volunteer in the community decades after those early efforts with the Eagles. She’s a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Royal Canadian Legion No. 2 Ladies Auxiliary (where she received her 50-year award), and has volunteered at George Derby Hospital since it opened.

She’s also a volunteer at the Royal Columbian Hospital Auxiliary’s New to You thrift store in Sapperton.

“Valentine is an extreme example of volunteerism in New Westminster, and we all wish her a Happy Valentine’s Day and a very Happy Birthday,” Ashdown wrote. “We are sure there will be many more to come.”

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You’ve heard of aerobics, but have you heard of neurobics? Neurobics are mental exercises that, some experts say, can improve your brain’s performance, as well as slow its aging.

Reading, learning a new language and learning to play a musical instrument are great ways to stimulate the brain. Puzzles, and even bingo, will also do the trick.

In Neurobics, David Owen creates a workout program, incorporating diet, exercise and more than 100 puzzles that will build up your mental abilities, improve your memory, and boost creativity.

The New Westminster Public Library has other books that will also exercise your brain.

Cynthia Green, a memory expert, teamed with Prevention magazine, to produce Brainpower Game Plan. This fun, activity-based book provides a four-week program of menu suggestions, exercises and brain fitness activities. She promises they will help your memory and concentration, and age-proof your mind.

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Putting families first in New Westminster FAMILY TIES

JULIE MACLELLAN

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reetings! Welcome to the first of what’s planned to become a regular column for The Record, Family Ties.

I’ll be keeping an eye on all things family-related in New West – whether it’s fun events for the family, programs for kids, workshops for parents or just issues of general interest.

This will be my chance to share information with you – and, hopefully, vice versa. I look forward to hearing from anyone out there with information, resources, programs and events that would interest families in our fair city.

Please feel free to email me with all your ideas and suggestions, jmaclellan@ royalcityrecord.com. You can also track me down on Twitter, @juliemaclellan.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Seeking online resources

Do you have – or do you run – a favourite website, blog or social media connection that helps parents? I’m open to suggestions about good folks to follow on Twitter, pages to “Like” on Facebook or websites and blogs I should keep an eye on.

Of course, I’ve already discovered the terrific www.kidsnewwest.ca, which, as it says itself, “connects families in New Westminster with other families, community service providers, information, resources and events.” (And, I might add, does a fine job doing so!)

From that site, I bring you a heads-up about two upcoming free Parents Night Out events, presented by School District 40 community school coordinators.

On Feb. 26, it’s Raising Teens: A Youth Perspective, featuring a youth panel with special guests. Parents will have a chance to ask anonymous questions of a panel of youth and experts, and there will also be a tour of the New Westminster Youth Centre. That runs from 7 to 9 p.m. at Century House.

On March 12, there’s a workshop with Saleema Noon on sex education, which helps equip parents with concepts and answers to the questions kids of all ages ask. It runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the gym at Queen Elizabeth School.

Register for the nights at www.ecommunity school.ca or contact Dan Kalivoda at 778-875-9367.

To market …

If you’re looking for family fun in the Royal City, it’s always a pretty safe bet you can start your search at River Market.

The market has a seemingly endless supply of family fun on hand.

Here are just a few upcoming event ideas from their website: ◗ ArtStarts presents Ruploops, a free workshop for kids and families, on Saturday, Feb. 22, with sessions at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

“Explore vocal percussion and the art of live looping to co-create original music. Rup will teach and basics of beat boxing, as well as Indian vocal percussion, to give participants an understanding of what he likes to call the ‘tungue drum,’” the website explains. ◗ Mini-Music Drop-in: Music Box (upstairs at River Market) offers this

drop-in fun music class for kids aged nine months to three years, with parent or caregiver. It runs Saturdays from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. (And I’ll vouch for this one personally, having been a participant with my own tot – it’s a fun class for wee ones!) ◗ Circus drop-in: Also for the tiny tots, Vancouver Circus School offers a parent and tot drop-in on Tuesdays from 2 to 3:30 p.m. It’s for kids aged six months and up. The sessions are supervised, and parents can help their wee ones try out various circus apparatuses and toys in the school’s bright, airy space up stairs at the market. It’s $10 per child and $5 for additional child.

Check out www.vancou vercircusschool.ca for more details on this and other programs offered by the school.

Want to know what’s up at River Market? Check out the website at www. rivermarket.ca.

Perogy feast

This one’s a favourite amongst the families I know, so I figured I’d pass it on for those who may not yet have discovered New Westminster’s favourite Friday night outing.

Holy Eucharist Church holds Ukrainian perogy supper nights on Friday evenings from 5 to 8 p.m., on the last Fridays of the month.

The next one’s Friday, Feb. 28. Be sure to stop in to the church hall (501 Fourth Ave.) for a feast to make Baba proud.

You can also pop in between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. to buy perogies and other Ukrainian delights. Call 604-526-0988 or 604-5227711 for more details.

Send family and parenting-related ideas to Julie, jmaclellan@royalcityrecord. com. You can also find her on Twitter, @juliemaclellan.

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A history of food OUR PAST

ARCHIE & DALE MILLER

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ne of the dominant stories of late 2013 and early 2014 has been the saga of changing grocery stores and the loss of Thrifty Foods. There have been many inquiries directed our way about this type of store in New Westminster’s history.

Remember that early stores providing foodstuffs were nothing like the large supermarkets of today. Some did supply “groceries” and others “provisions,” but shoppers usually sought out a shop that dealt exclusively with meats, fish, baked goods, vegetables, fruits and so on. In most cases, you did not pick out your own items – they were gathered for you, you paid and took your goods home.

Stores like Model Grocery, C.A. Welsh and George Adams, were well known and well patronized. In time, into the 1900s, a totally new shopping experience appeared in North America and eventually in the Lower

finally closed in the early 1990s, it was a great loss and many people solemnly noted its departure. To this day in 2014, there are people for whom shopping uptown is still referred to occasionally as “going to Woodward’s.”

As grocery shopping moved from smaller more familiar locations to large, more impersonal shopping experiences, more and more names entered the trade. An incomplete list from the past 50 or so years would include, in addition to the previously mentioned stores, Shop Easy, Ray’s Market, SuperValu, Dominion Stores, IGA, Donald’s, Walmart and a myriad of smaller venues around the town.

Personally, we will miss Thrifty Foods, having frequented its stores on Vancouver Island since it first opened in 1977 and having appreciated, for a short time anyway, having one within walking distance of our home here in Sapperton.

Some folks still miss Woodward’s Food Floor, while one person said she missed SuperValu at the old Westminster Mall.

There have been other nostalgic comments and memories – changes will do that.

Mainland. This was the self-serve establishment, and the store credited with starting it all was the curiously named Piggly Wiggly. Along with selfservice, this chain introduced checkouts, shopping carts, refrigerated displays and a lot more.

New Westminster had a couple of Piggly Wiggly stores in the 1920s and 1930s. Then Safeway, another new group, took over the chain, and others, including David Spencer’s, arrived. Finally the one that brought the greatest influence and change appeared on the scene – Woodward’s Department Store, with its marketdominating Woodward’s Food Floor.

We should also note that Kidd Market on Columbia Street was the home of what would become a major player in the current changes, SaveOn-Foods, with the start of the Overwaitea Food Group in 1915 … but back to Woodward’s.

For many people, Woodward’s was the place to shop for groceries, and it rapidly developed a very dedicated and extremely loyal clientele. The store, situated in the city block that now houses the Royal City Centre, had its food floor mid-block. When it

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More) Things to Do This Weekend and offer the following suggestions for Feb. 21 Dive into some good times at the $1 to 23. family swim at Canada Games Pool.

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◗ IN THE GAME

Morneau signs two-year deal with Rockies ◗P20 Giants melt Ice, stay in first place ◗P20

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Hyacks boys go back door at 4A Mainlands

gets the last run,” said New Westminster head coach Brian Sommfeldt.

The New Westminster “We were down by seven a Hyacks suffered a first- couple of times and didn’t round defeat at the AAAA give up.”

With the loss, New West Lower Mainland boys’ will face No. 7 seed David basketball championships.

The No. 8 seeded Thompson in the back-door Hyacks dropped a nar- draw at Winston Churchill row 83-80 outcome to No. today (Friday). Game time 9 Windermere Warriors at is 3 p.m.

In other Tuesday 4A the East Vancouver school action, Burnaby Mountain on Tuesday.

The Warriors rode the fell 56-38 toNo.5 Richmond, while Moscrop hot hand of wasedged75-70 wing Ravi

by Thompson.

Basra, who Both put up a game- “Sometimes it’s Mountain and high 32 points, Moscrop will including 18 in who gets the play later games a pivotal final last run. … We at Churchill quarter. today.

Basra nailed were down by On back-to-back seven a couple of Wednesday, threes to start the fourth quar- times and didn’t Burnaby South advanced to ter, erasing give up.” the semifinals New West’s 60following a 58 third-quarter BRIAN SOMMERFELDT 112-51 victory advantage.

Hyacks head coach over David “I just tried Thompson. to step it up for Jermaine Haley my team,” said Basra after the game. “It led the Rebels with 19 points in little over two quarters, was a big game.”

In a back-and-forth while Tyus Batiste also netmatchup, New West ted 19 off the bench.

Burnaby South’s bench opened with a 20-17 firstplayed Thompson even in quarter lead.

Windermere respond- the fourth quarter (18-18) ed with a strong second in a strong display of team stanza, outscoring the vis- depth.

Martin Bogajev also itors 24-13 to lead by seven scored 17 points for the No. points at halftime.

But New West was not 10-ranked Rebels, includdone by any stretch, boun- ing four three-pointers.

South will take on cing back into the game on big third-quarter numbers Vancouver College in a

by Peter Szinku and point quad A semifinal at the Richmond Olympic Oval guard Darwin Colita.

Both Szinku and Colita on Wednesday, Feb. 26 at finished the game with a 7:30 p.m.

In AAA play, Byrne team-high 20 points.

In the third quarter, Creek advanced to the Szinku potted nine points, quarter-finals following a while Colita led the rally 79-49 win over Gladstone. with a dozen more, and Burnaby Central fell to the scoring six more to start backside of the draw after the fourth quarter before losing 72-61 to Lord Byng.

Later, Byrne Creek was fouling out early.

Without Colita at the relegated to the consolahelm, New West appeared tion bracket after falling 72to lose some its steam, 51 to No. 3 seed McMath. allowing Windermere to Byrne will take on Magee lead by as much as six today (Friday) at Winston points with just two min- Churchill. Tipoff for that one is 4:45 p.m. utes left on the clock.

On Wednesday, St. Drake Traverse nailed an arching three-pointer to Thomas More advanced to close the deficit to three the semifinals with a 57-38 points with a half a min- win over Hugh Boyd.

The Knights will play ute remaining, but he was unable to find the range on No. 4 seed McNair in the two further attempts in the AAA semifinals also to be played at the Richmond dying seconds.

“Sometimes it’s who Oval on Feb. 26.

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

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Ready to rock: Douglas College middle blocker Avneet Shokar will be a big presence for the Royals at the PacWest collegiate provincial volleyball championships hosted by Capilano University this weekend.

Douglas Royals to start volleyball provincials at the back of the pack Douglas College volleyball teams will need a strong three-day effort at the PacWest provincial volleyball championships this weekend.

Both men’s and women’s teams began championship play in the quarter-finals (after Record deadlines) at Capilano University on Thursday.

A match win by either team would put the Royals into the semifinals today (Friday). Medal finals will be played on Saturday, beginning at 1 p.m. with the women’s bronze-medal match.

The Royals men’s team stands the best chance, finishing third overall with a regular-season record of 13-11 and ranked ninth nationally.

The Douglas men are led by PacWest first team all-star Andrew McWilliam, who led the team in total offence, finishing second overall in the conference. McWilliam, a fourth-year outside hitter, registered 361 kills and 44 service aces in league play, placing him third overall in both disciplines, respectively.

Junior outside hitter Drew Ruby was named to the PacWest second team. Ruby finished seventh in average kills per game and 10th in aces.

First-year setter Kaleb Conrad was named the conference rookie of the year, while Royals coach Brad Hudson was voted coach of the year for the second time.

Haq Ahmad Mustafa and Andrew Robson will have to be at their best at the net, having finished fourth and sixth in overall league blocks this season.

“Looking at the standings you can tell that there has been great parity throughout. The challenge is to continue to build on that,” said Hudson. “We’re no difference than anyone else, it will come down to who plays the best three days.”

The Royal women, sixth-place finishers during the regular season, are in tough at the provincials, having to get past host and third-placefinishing Capilano in the quarters.

All-rookie team pick Maddy Burt will be a player to watch.

The first-year Port Moody product figured in the top 15 in three separate categories this season.

Burt led the team in total offence, including runner-up in the PacWest in service aces with 61 winners. She also recorded a team-best 175 kills in her collegiate debut at Douglas. Toni Vandenbrink, averaging just under two kills per set, is coming off a recent player of the week outing.

PacWest second team all-star Ilaina Hecimovic finished second in the league in overal digs with 436 saves, while Avneet Shokar led the conference in total blocks with 89 stops.

Five-year veteran middle blocker Kaleena Connors finished seventh in blocks and 13th in aces this season.

In Canada West conference men’s volleyball, former three-year Douglas libero Jordan Or was named libero of the year for men’s Mount Royal volleyball team.

“We’re really excited about that,” added Hudson, Or’s former coach.

“It’s huge for us and huge for him.”

A20 • Friday, February 21, 2014 • The Record

◗ HOCKEY

New West sports briefs

Giants melt Ice, remain in first in midget league Owen Stout had a big weekend in points to help keep the Northwest Giants in a share of first place in the B.C. major midget hockey league.

Stout scored a goal and two assists in the Giants’ 5-1 win over the Kootenay Ice in the opening game of a weekend series matchup in Castlegar last Friday.

Stout followed that up with a hat trick in a 102 victory over the Ice on Saturday.

The wins kept the Giants tied with the Okanagan Rockets, both with similar 29-5-2 records.

League-leading defenceman Dante Fabbro chipped in with two goals, including his 20th of the year, and two assists in the Saturday

win. Quinn Thompson also scored twice in a four-point outing.

New Westminster’s Ty Schultz and Justin Szeto both added a goal and three helpers.

In the series opener, Colton Kerfoot, who named the major midget league player of the month for January, tallied his 31st and 32nd goals of the year.

This weekend, Giants play host to the Thompson Blazers at Hollyburn Country Club Saturday and Sunday.

The Giants finish up their regular season the following weekend in Prince George against the Cougars.

– Tom Berridge

Steelers post victory heading into playoffs The Grandview Steelers sharpened up for the Pacific Junior Hockey League playoffs with a 4-2 victory over the Ridge Meadows Flames on Sunday.

The junior B Steelers chalked up their 18th victory of the season, jumping out to a 3-0 third-period lead, before Joel Gaudet salted away the win with an empty net goal in the final minute.

First star Timothy Chow opened scoring with his 12th goal of the season. The Grandview rookie also earned his 33rd point, assisting on Austin Anselmo’s 2-0 goal in the middle period.

Roshen Jaswal scored the game-winning goal, notching his fourth of the year early in the third frame.

Team scoring leader Christopher Seto recorded his 39th point, drawing the lone assist on Gaudet’s emptynetter.

Grandview opened its best-of-seven playoff against the league-leading Richmond Sockeyes on Thursday (after Record deadlines).

The two teams play again in Richmond on Saturday at 5:45 p.m. before the Steelers open a two-game home stand at the Burnaby Winter Club on Sunday at 4 p.m.

The fourth game of the series will be played on Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 7:15 p.m.

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Burnaby Central grad Amar Dhesi will ride a six-match winning streak into the NCAA Division I national dual wrestling championships this week. Dhesi, an Oregon State University freshman heavyweight and currently ranked 14th, has a 17-5 record in his first year of collegiate wrestling.

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Crease play: Burnaby Minor’s Josh Ho scores on New Westminster goalie Ryan Baron, while Mark Aboud, right, and Katherine Haberl look on in a 7-3 loss to the Bulldogs in a peewee house playoff game on Sunday.

Final road trip could decide first place in college hockey A four-point first period helped the Simon Fraser University men’s hockey club eke out a 5-4 win over the University of Victoria in B.C. Intercollegiate league play.

League scoring leader Nick Sandor tallied the game-winning goal late in the second period after assisting on three of SFU’s first-period markers at the Bill Copeland Sports Centre on Saturday.

Jared Eng opened the scoring on a power play, but Victoria’s Chris Manhas quickly tied it up.

Jono Ceci, co-leader in B.C. Intercollegiate scoring with Sandor, both with 44 points, got the lead back with his 12th power-play tally of the

season.

Kale Wild and Jesse Mysiorek also added goals less than 15 seconds apart late in the frame.

Andrew Parent registered 24 saves to chalk up his 11th win of the season.

The victory kept the Clan just two points ahead of defending playoff champion Selkirk College in league standings.

The Clan are on the road for two games this weekend, including an all-important meeting with Selkirk in Castlegar on Saturday.

SFU finishes up its season schedule the following week in Victoria on Feb. 28.

Morneau signs two-year deal with Rockies Free agent Justin Morneau signed a twoyear deal worth $12.5 million to play first base with the Colorado Rockies next season.

The former American

League MVP and fourtime all-star was also given the OK to wear Larry Walker’s number 33.

The 32-year-old Morneau will replace

Rockies veteran Todd Helton, who spent his entire career in Denver, and is the franchise leader with 2,519 hits, 369 home runs and 1,046 runs batted in.

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Aliya Dall’Antonia of Burnaby received her level one certification in synchronized swimming earlier this month. The 16year-old adapted Caprice club swimmer is believed to be the first special needs swimmer to be star tested in B.C.

Lucky 13

Byrne Creek Secondary grad Stephanie Gill of New Westminster scored 13 points and added seven assists to help the Manitoba Bisons upset the University of Winnipeg 69-66 in overtime in CIS women’s basketball.

20 and counting

Burnaby South grad Adam Helewka scored his 20th goal of the season for the Spokane Chiefs in a 7-0 victory over the TriCity Americans in Western Hockey League play last Saturday. The second-year forward has registered 39 points this season.

Lucky Valentine

Marcus Vela of Burnaby tallied his 11th goal of the year to help the Langley Rivermen of the B.C. Hockey League jump out to an early 3-0 advantage over the Prince George Spruce Kings on Valentine’s Day. Langley hung on for a 4-3 win over the Spruce Kings. tberridge@royalcityrecord. com

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