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◗ AFTER THE FIRE

Victims not forgotten

BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

As cleanup of a Brow of the Hill apartment gutted by fire continues, the community continues to rally around the victims.

The three-storey apartment at 404 Ash St. was destroyed by fire on the morning of Jan. 31. While no one was injured in the fire, all of the tenants in the 31-suite building were left without homes.

“I am told they have all been housed,” said Coun. Chuck Puchmayr, who helped coordinate a trust fund set up to assist the victims.

“Salvation Army furnished all their furniture needs.”

Before the flames had even been extinguished, community members were offering financial support and donations to help those whose homes and possessions were destroyed in the fire. In addition to donations of furniture, clothing and household items to help the displaced tenants get set up in their new homes, individuals and groups donated more than $18,000 in cash, with most of the money being used for dental services (some tenants fled ◗Fire Page 10

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Helping hands: George Sciberras, manager of the Save-On-Foods at Westminster Centre, and Rev. Emilie Smith of St. Barnabas

Church display some of the gift cards that will be dispersed to victims of the apartment fire at 404 Ash St. Save-On has donated $3,000 in gift cards to help fire victims. Smith has been helping to administer a trust fund that’s been established to help victims whose homes and belongings were destroyed in the fire.

District calls for input on $2.6M shortfall

BY NIKI HOPE REPORTER

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The New Westminster school district is looking at more than $2.69 million in unfunded cost pressures next year and wants the public to weigh in on where it should cut to offset the hefty shortfall.

Senior staff and trustees Casey Cook and Jonina Campbell met with local reporters to talk about the budget dilemma for next year, including increased costs for utilities, CUPE raises, pay hikes for teachers, as well as a goal to boost technology spending and to “replenish” spending on supplies, which have been continually cut over the years as a way for the district to deal with ongoing

budget troubles.

“We see this as a restorative budget,” Campbell said, summing up the district’s bid to get spending on track for next year.

The district is holding a series of public consultations to hear from stakeholders on where they think the cuts should – or shouldn’t – take place. The public consultation process will be “organic,” Cook said, adding that the district will discuss how to become “more effective, more efficient.”

“Where we are today is not going to be the same place as we are at the end of the consultation,” Cook said. “This budget isn’t just about cuts, it’s about putting the money where it needs to be.”

Recently hired superintendent John

Gaiptman said the district is looking into every program and even staffing when it comes to trimming $2.69 million from the district’s approximately $61-million budget.

“Everything is on the table, and everything is going to have to be discussed,” he warned.

Last year, the district cut about eight per cent of its workforce to offset a shortfall in this year’s budget, and it still owes $5 million to the province for previous budget shortfalls.

Gaiptman has encouraged public engagement since he joined the district earlier this year. He expects that once the public weighs in at two meetings planned

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for budget talks – the first was held April 1 at city hall; the second is set for Wednesday, April 9 at the NWSS library at 7 p.m. – the district will share staff’s proposed changes to the budget for next year with the public on Wednesday, April 16 at 7 p.m. at the NWSS library. There will be two more public budget meetings afterward as well.

The board will “have a good debate in front of the public,” Gaiptman said.

Gaiptman hopes there is a good turnout for the upcoming public budget meetings.

Listening to public input is a “really important aspect of what elected officials do before they make these decisions,” he said.

To see the timeline for the public meetings, visit district.sd40.bc.ca.

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CITY’S TOP COPS TALK ABOUT CRIME FIGHTING IN NEW WEST

Job 1 in ’90s – clean up streets The Record’s crime reporter Cayley Dobie recently sat down with the New Westminster Police Department’s two previous chief constables and its current leader to hear how policing in the Royal City has changed since the mid ‘90s.

In this first installment, the chiefs discuss how they came to be in New West and the challenges they faced in the 1990s. ◆

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t can be intimidating walking into a room of police officers whose total experience amounts to nearly one century of fighting crime.

But Peter Young, Lorne Zapotichny and Dave Jones don’t come off as the time-hardened cops you’d imagine after decades of Dave Jones Peter Young Lorne Zapotichny policing. Instead they seem like the type of Chief from 1996 to 2000 Chief from 2000 to 2011 men you’d see sitting in the local Tim Hortons Current chief (photo taken in the ‘90s) gabbing about the good ol’ days.

Young was in his 25th year as a police offianswer to the long-awaited succession plan.

“The way the community is in New cer for the Peel Regional Police Service when “Peter (Young) set a tone for me and what Westminster, you felt an obligation to do your he applied for the chief constable position in was good was that we were on the same set of job for the people, it wasn’t just a word, it was New Westminster. tracks,” Zapotichny says. “That was how we a commitment to the city,” Young says.

At the time, the department was without brought Dave along.”

This passion would prove an important a chief following the early retirement of Jack From 1998 to 2000 the three men worked tool during Young’s four years as chief.

Fordham, the department’s previous chief. together on many projects in an attempt to During that time, the city experienced a spike Fordham’s time as chief was plagued clean up the city. By this time, panhandling in crime. Street crime, panhandling and gang by rumours regarding his perforand street crime was exploding downtown; violence were problems – but mance as head of the department. add an increase in drug trafficking, gang viothe former police chief says the Complaints concerning Fordham’s lence and several witnesses under the protecdepartment took it in stride. management of the department, In the midst of the street crime tion of the department, and the challenges brought forward by officers within seem endless. problem, Young put a plan in his own department, surfaced in But with added challenges came some fresh motion not only to clean up the early 1994. An outside consultant ideas from the new top cops in the departstreets, but to ensure his work was eventually hired by the New ment. would continue after he was Westminster Police Board to look into “We were just working forward with new gone, and the first step in that the management of the department plans,” Young remembers. plan was to bring in Zapotichny. after reports indicated there was In order to address the street crime probZapotichny had 30 years expelow morale among officers. lem, Young cut the corporal rank, took a handrience working in various RCMP In January 1995, the police board ful of officers out of supervisor roles and put detachments across the province. announced Fordham had accepted them back out on the streets.

In 1998, he was the officer in a settlement for early retirement “We were starting to do well and then we charge of the Coquitlam detachand would officially end his term got inundated with the Hondurans and we ment when Young approached as chief at the end of the month. had the witness protection things,” he says. him about a deputy position Fordham’s early retirement left with the New Westminster Police “And everyone chipped in.” the department scrambling to find a Jones remembers the late ‘90s as a hectic Department. replacement. Without anyone from A special series time for the department. He was the lead offi“It was timing, in terms within the department ready to step

by Cayley Dobie cer for the street crime unit and worked on the of coming over to the city,” into the top position, longtime New front lines downtown dealing with panhanZapotichny says. “In terms of West police officer Jim Thomson took dlers and Honduran drug traffickers. size and moving from RCMP to on the role of acting chief until a The department also handled two high proan independent municipal police search committee was formed to look at candi- force was a great transition from my perspecfile gang slayings while Young was chief. dates from outside the department.

In September 1998, the body of Derek tive.”

The search committee received 83 appliShankar, a known gang associate of Bindy With 30 years of policing under his belt, cations from across the country but it was Johal, was found under the Queensborough Zapotichny says he intended to stay only five Young who, in 1996, was chosen as the new Bridge. Two months later another associate of years in New West and retire after 35 years of chief constable of the New Westminster Police Johal, Roman (Danny) Mann was found murwork, but that didn’t happen.

Department. dered in New Westminster.

Together Young and Zapotichny began “I came here for an interview in early But looking back now, Jones says Young creating a succession plan for the municipal March for my first time in the city ever and department, something they say hadn’t existed made the decisions that were necessary and there was something about it right away that promoting Zapotichny to chief after Young left in a very long time.

I said, ‘I think I really want this job,’” Young was a natural progression that benefited the Enter Dave Jones. recalls. department and ultimately, the city.

The Coquitlam native joined the New Young says he and his wife fell in love with Westminster Police Department as a reserve in “He (Young) had to make the right decithe Royal City. The pride residents have for sions to set the organization on track and then 1982 and was officially hired as a constable in the city and the way they cherish the past is a 1986. remarkable thing, he says. ◗Chiefs Page 5 For Young and Zapotichny, Jones was the

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Chamber wants brakes put on recycling changes Hike in rates and change in how the system will operate raise concerns

BY CAYLEY DOBIE REPORTER cdobie@royalcityrecord.com

With fewer than 50 days until new recycling regulations kick in, the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce is hoping the province will step up and make some changes before it’s too late.

Chamber chair Christine Conway told The Record her members are worried the fees being pushed on to businesses in B.C. are significantly higher than what businesses are paying in other provinces, despite being administered by the same organization – the Canadian Stewardship Services Alliance.

“Obviously, we’re concerned when there’s a disparity between what the regulation is designed to do and the actual impact it has on the businesses,” she said.

Conway said member businesses with the chamber are concerned B.C. companies are being asked to pay more in fees because the province and municipalities won’t be covering any of the costs, unlike other provinces such as Ontario.

Stewardship Ontario requires businesses to pay printed and packaging fees that range from 0.42 cents to 23.27 cents per kilogram of recyclable materials. Under the new Multi Material B.C. (MMBC) program, businesses will be asked to pay anywhere from 20 cents to 70 cents per kilogram of recyclable materials.

Conway said there should be consistency to fees across the country to allow for an even playing field for businesses.

“We’d like to see a little more benchmarking to other provinces because right now there doesn’t seem to be a lot

of equality between this province and the next province, and it hasn’t been communicated to us as to why there’s a difference,” she said.

Conway said everyone agrees that reducing the amount of packaging used by businesses is a good idea, but the chamber is worried the province is rushing what should be a big decision, ultimately compromising the entire program.

“The timeline on this, as well as the lack of transparency as to where the fees are actually going to be going, are some of the concerns,” she said.

Most of the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce members are small to medium-sized businesses and were given an exemption by the province from the new regulations. The decision to exempt smaller businesses from the new program gives Conway hope that the province might delay the launch of the new regulations.

“The deadline is in May, so there isn’t really a whole lot of time. That being said, things can be stopped if there’s proper motivation to do so,” she said. “We just want to see this implemented properly.”

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chair, Christine Conway, is concerned fees businesses will have to pay as part of B.C.’s new recycling regulations are too high compared to other provinces.

Shooting victims drop in New West police got a surprise when two injured men showed up at the department’s back door shortly after midnight last Friday.

The unusual incident started after police were called to Royal Avenue and First Street following reports of shots fired. As the officers were leaving the department office, a vehicle pulled up to the rear of the building, off Sixth Street.

According to a media release, the driver and passenger of the vehicle were suffering from minor injuries sustained during the shooting, but only one victim has a gunshot wound. The second victim sustained only minor injuries. Both were taken to hospital.

– By Cayley Dobie, staff reporter

Chiefs: A look back in the city ◗ continued from page 3

Lorne (Zapotichny) coming in was a continuation of that,” Jones adds. “Also making sure there was, after the tough decisions, there is a softer side to it.”

In 2000, Young retired and returned to Ontario when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Zapotichny took over the chief’s post and, despite what he had planned, ended up staying in the

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position for 11 years.

“I was going to do five years because 35 (years) was sort of my goal in terms of policing and retirement. I couldn’t do it at 35, couldn’t do it at 40. They couldn’t kick me out the door!” Zapotichny laughs.

Despite this, Zapotichny eventually handed the reins over to Jones in 2011.

“The jury is still out on whether that was a good choice or not,” Jones jokes.

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Recycling isn’t broken – quit trying to fix it

the industries that produced the material.

The B.C. government is trying to fix The theory is that the companies that something that isn’t broken – and it’s profit from products that produce waste making a mess in the process. should have to pay the cost of recycling Cities and towns in B.C. have successthat material. ful recycling systems in place, but the B.C. picked MMBC as the province has thrown everyorganization to manage the thing into confusion by mannew program, beginning May dating the creation of a monster THE RECORD 19. It will be funded by fees called Multi-Material B.C. collected from companies that MMBC was created after the government changed the provincial recyc- use packaging or create printed paper, instead of by municipalities. ling regulations in 2011 so that responThe province has already responded sibility for recycling packaging and printto the horrified outcry from small busied paper moved from municipalities to

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nesses and exempted them from paying fees to MMBC if their revenues are below $1 million a year, if they produce less than a tonne of packaging each year or if they are single outlets. That excludes the majority of businesses but means the remaining ones – and their customers – will have to foot the bill for everyone’s recycling.

Newspapers are among the industries most worried about the new system. Peter Kvarnstrom, chairman of the Canadian Newspaper Association, warned that the added costs are so significant to an indus-

try that is already fragile that they will force layoffs in newsrooms across the province.

B.C.-based magazines will be penalized because they will have to pay for recycling, while international publications that are printed elsewhere and shipped to the province, pay nothing.

Everyone, including the critics of MMBC, can get behind the idea of reducing waste. But the province needs to listen to these very serious concerns.

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Is it time to drop the ‘Royal City’ tag?

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hat does the Royal City name conjure up?

Stuffy, old-fashioned British colonialism? Or a proud nod to the city’s rich history?

It’s a conversation we recently had in the newsroom, when a few of us mulled over how much the Royal City moniker really means to residents, if anything.

It certainly meant something in 2004, when a plan to drop the Royal City tag was buried in the back pages of a city document.

Residents were aghast when The Record revealed the suggestion that the city drop the historic nickname.

The story caused such a flap at city hall that, after it ran, city staff jokingly anointed Record reporter Theresa McManus with her very own Royal City paper crown at a public meeting.

(She still has it after all of these years.)

The story ran on the front page of the paper with the headline “City to look at ditching ‘royal’ name.”

McManus had discovered the name change recommendation while flipping through a synopsis of an economic development workshop held by the

city. Buried on one of the last pages of the document, she read a paragraph that said the city needed to get away from the crown logo and Royal City line.

“It only has a small audience, which is resident and aging.

Younger people don’t know or care about a Royal City. Don’t want to lose the historical component but need to incorporate it in a new way,” the document said.

The city never made a move toward dropping the name, and the furor subsided.

But flash forward almost 10 years, when “Condo King” Bob Rennie came to town as the keynote speaker for an economic development forum, where he suggested the city develop a hip “brand” and ditch the Royal City nickname in order to attract hip 30-somethings to town.

Rennie thought the city should adopt the acronym “NW” as a way to attract young homebuyers. His comments fired up Vancouver Sun columnist Shelley Fralic enough for her to pen a biting – and characteristically witty – column on Rennie’s calls for a rebrand.

Fralic, a longtime New Westminster resident, slammed the “Renniefication,” in the Sun. “You’d like us to replace our Royal City insignia with NW, which you note can also stand for Northwest, … by the way, we’re northwest of nothing except Surrey,” she wrote.

There’s no doubt where Fralic

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Re: Time to take a hard look at health care, Our view, The Record, March 26.

Your article states “It’s time we looked beyond our immediate neighbour and took a serious look at what some of our more distant relatives are apparently doing better (at health care) than we are.”

In fact, we don’t need to look to other countries for ways to improve wait times and our health-care system. There are many excellent solutions that have been successful right here in Canada, they are just not being widely implemented.

We know there are better ways of managing wait lists to make sure ORs are not sitting idle and to make sure the sickest people get treated first. We ◗Royal City Page 7 could be setting up more “one-stop shopping” pub-

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There is considerable evidence that a national Pharmacare program would do a lot to make our system more affordable and effective. And we could really make a difference by improving community health services (prevention, primary care, home and community care, rehabilitation, mental health services) to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency room visits, particularly among higher users of health services like the frail elderly and people living with a mental illness. The Wait Time Alliance of Canada 2011 Report identified increasing access to community health services as the most

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important intervention needed to reduce wait times in emergency rooms and for elective surgeries.

We also need the federal government to come to its senses and agree to negotiate a new Health Accord with the provinces and territories.

This would provide the provinces with stable health care funding, and could set national standards for the improvements that need to be made for people all across Canada. The current Health Accord expired March 31, on which there was a National Day of Action in 40 communities across Canada.

Our governments could make it a priority to implement the positive public solutions that have already proven successful at reducing wait times. This is how we can make our health-care system, and our health, better.

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Questioning United Way Dear Editor:

United Way cuts will impact city seniors, The Record, April 2.

Would it be rude of me to ask just why it is that “seniors” would be the victim

of proposed cutbacks from United Way because of a drop in funding? We are told that the United Way gets both government funding, along with private funds.

Full disclosure here: I do not donate to the United Way and do not approve of the government, any government, assisting in their so-called charities.

The reason I do not is because the United Way donates funds to Planned Parenthood, which mostly concerns itself with building and supporting abortion clinics, in mostly downtown urban areas.

Given that abortion is a matter of personal choice, it is my contention that those making the choice, a choice that seldom arises from dire medical consequences (pregnancy is not an illness) that they pay for these non-necessary surgical intrusions themselves?

Odd, isn’t it, that the United Way does not tell us how much they give to Planned Parenthood?

It is true that you may donate to the United Way, while making preferences to which causes your monies are directed, but – well, I don’t trust them in this.

Perhaps if more people knew of this diversion of funds, more people would suggest they make cuts to Planned Parenthood’s funding, and less to seniors’ causes?

stands on the name.

But what do others think about a tag that embraces English cultural traditions that have little to do with the city’s modernday multicultural tapestry?

The city was named New Westminster by Queen Victoria herself – from that comes the Royal City moniker.

Now, more than 150 years later, is it time to cultivate a new nickname for the modern era?

And, if so, should it simply be New West?

Twitter seems to think so.

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Fire Chief Tim Armstrong said the city’s fire crews have responded to a number of small fires in the past week, including a fire in an unattended suite on the 14th floor of a building on Jamieson Court on March 30 and a second-floor fire in a three-storey building on Griffiths Place on March 29. He said firefighters quickly extinguished the fires, which both started in the kitchen.

“We have been doing our ongoing training program with our crews,” he told council March 31. “That has really paid off.”

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Coun. Chuck Puchmayr supports the fire department’s attempt to concentrate fire prevention efforts on vulnerable, multifamily, non-sprinklered buildings in the city. He said the city and the fire department have taken steps to address concerns about aging lowrise apartments.

“The dividends are being paid,” he said. “The citizens of New Westminster are the victors in all of this.”

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without their dentures) and food.

“People always buy food,” Puchmayr said.

“They can save money they were going to be buying food with and use it for other needs.”

One of the latest contributions comes from Save-OnFoods, which is donating $3,000 in gift cards. Thrifty Foods contributed $500 in gift cards, the St. Vincent de Paul Society at St. Peter’s File photo/THE RECORD Church purchased $4,000 Destroyed: The apartment block on Ash Street was in gift cards and Reliance destroyed in the fire on the morning of Jan. 31.

Insurance Agencies Ltd. donated $5,000 to the trust affected – a lot of them are accurate (tenant) list. We fund. on fixed incomes or pen- are waiting for them to find “McBride Elementary sions. There is always a us.” raised $528, which is pret- need. Anything will help,” Smith said the 23 people ty noteworthy. There are a Puchmayr said. “Getting who have been in touch lot of anonymous contri- more assistance down the with the churches have butions,” Puchmayr said. road will help. It’s all going been “gracious” and appre“It is really heartwarming to help.” ciative of the community to know so many people response.

Meanwhile, care.”

Joan Drabyk, the city’s the city’s emerRev. gency advisory permit coordinator, said the Emilie Smith “There is always committee is site is slowly being cleared of St. Barnabas reviewing poli- but has been hampered by Church has been a need. Anything cies that pro- the lack of bins available for working with will help.” hibit the Victims the process.

Puchmayr to “They are specialized Assistance and coordinate the bins, which are then trucked Emergency CHUCK PUCHMAYR trust fund.

Support Services to Alberta for disposal,” she city councillor The Salvation from providing wrote in an email to The Army coordinatagencies with Record. “There are a limited ed the dispercontact informa- number of bins, which it sal of the items that were tion about victims of emer- seems are currently being donated to St. Barnabas gencies. Because that infor- shared by our two sites and Church, Shiloh-Sixth mation isn’t permitted to be possibly others in the Lower Avenue United Church, shared, the coordinators of Mainland. They ship out to the Sally Ann and other the trust fund haven’t been Alberta and then wait for groups. Some of the excess able to contact all of the for- their return.” donations were shared with mer tenants of 404 Ash St. In addition to the Ash other non-profits and faith“If there are any fire vic- Street fire, the bins are also based organizations in the tims that haven’t communi- needed for the site of the community that help those cated with St. Barnabas or Columbia Street fire. Fire in need. the Salvation Army, we are destroyed two buildings on St. Barnabas Church hoping they will do that,” Columbia Street in October. later held a rummage sale Smith said. “The hardest tmcmanus@royalcity to raise additional funds for thing has been getting an record.com the fund and disperse of the surplus donations. The sale raised $929 for the fire victims.

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Lively City: Poetry night, arty kids and more ◗P12 Family Ties: Movie Tots arrives in New West ◗P24

Get ready for Royal City’s Annie

Musical onstage at the Massey Theatre, April 10 to 26

BY JULIE MACLELLAN REPORTER jmaclellan@royalcityrecord.com

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alk to Avril Brigden and Aubrey Maddock for awhile, and you’ll quickly find out that they’re enthusiastic about just about everything to do with Royal City Musical Theatre’s Annie.

Everything, that is, except the bloomers that the orphans have to wear.

Those are tight and itchy and make the girls really glad that in their real lives, they get to wear jeans.

The two girls are onstage as orphans in Annie, which opens at New Westminster’s Massey Theatre on April 10.

They met up with The Record during their March break to talk about their experiences in the musical.

“It’s going really well!” said an enthusiastic Aubrey, a 12year-old Grade 6 student at Montecito Elementary School in Burnaby.

“I really like the experience, it’s really fun,” agreed Avril, who’s 10 years old and in Grade 5 at Burnaby’s Sperling Elementary. “I like that I’m doing what I love.”

That love, of course, would be performing.

Neither girl is a stranger to the world of singing, dancing and acting in front of crowds.

Aubrey – who appears as Kate – started her acting career at the age of eight, when she played Matilda in her school production of Willy Wonka and then appeared as Marta in Footlight Theatre’s The Sound of Music. A year later, she was cast as a featured munchkin in Footlight’s The Wizard of Oz, and at age 11 played Mabel in her school’s production of I Need a Christmas Vacation.

She also plays the violin and sings with a Coastal Sound Music Academy choir, as well as taking creative dance with ArtSpace.

Avril – who plays Pepper as well as understudying Annie – studies musical theatre and dance at Lindbjerg Academy of Performing Arts. She’s been in four shows with Lindbjerg

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It’s a hard-knock life: The cast of the Royal City Musical Theatre production of Annie, including New West’s own Cassady Ranford (front, in blue suit) as Grace, Julia MacLean as Annie and Steve Maddock as Daddy Warbucks.

Academy and recently appeared in Align Entertainment’s Shrek The Musical. At last year’s Kiwanis Fraser Valley Music Festival, she won the Best Broadway Performance award.

They’re both thrilled to be part of the cast for Annie.

“I love the music, I’ve always loved the music,” Avril says, noting that she got the CD when she was little and listened to it over and over and over again.

They both love the choreography created by director Valerie Easton for the Royal City production, and they’re excited to perform with the full orchestra.

And they also like the chance to get onstage and get dressed up – or is that down? – in their ragged orphan clothes, with messy hair and dark blush to give them dirty faces. Except, that is, for those itchy bloomers – which they were horrified to learn children did, indeed, used to have to wear for real.

“I feel bad for the people back then,” Avril says, her lively face expressing her disgust at the

Daddy Warbucks’ secretary, idea.

Grace.

Bloomers, aside, however, Ranford’s first appearance the two are delighted with the in Annie was as the tough little chance to play children who orphan in a New Westminster aren’t much like their real-life Secondary School production of selves.

Annie.

“I love my character,” says Ranford, a graduate of the Aubrey. “I love how no one in musical theatre program at the orphanage is like peaches Capilano University, is thrilled to and cream, they’re all tough.” be working on the show again as Avril agrees. an adult, and to explore “Mine is superFor pix and another side of the protough,” she says. “She’s tickets, duction that inspired kind of given up hope scan with her to pursue a path in that her parents are Layar musical theatre in the coming for her, and she first place. makes herself feel better The show is no small underby picking on everybody else.” taking for any of the cast mem(Which is, mom Tara McBean says, the absolute opposite of the bers.

The orphans are on hand for real-life Avril, who she describes three to four rehearsals a week as a collaborator and a mediator.

– including some full days on She says with a laugh that she’s weekends. Avril has to devote just hoping Avril doesn’t start liking Pepper’s personality just a even more time than the other orphans because she’s at most little too much.) rehearsals to the bitter end, Pepper, incidentally, is a learning the Annie part should role that’s near and dear to the she have to step in for Julia heart of Cassady Ranford, the MacLean.

New Westminster resident who There’s the occasional mornappears in this production as

ing where their parents have kept them home from school till morning recess just to give them a chance to sleep in and recover from the night before, but they both embrace the challenge.

For McBean, seeing her daughter come alive with enthusiasm has made the investment of time and energy worthwhile.

“What I really love is that she comes home and talks about what a great time she’s had with everybody. The fondness for the group, that to me is value for all our time and effort,” she says.

“She’s just really excited about being a part of it.”

The two girls say they’re enjoying working with the Royal City Musical Theatre company, which has given them a chance to reconnect with some performing friends and make some new ones – including each other.

And they both enjoy working with the adult members of the cast, too.

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with the adults,” Avril says.

For Aubrey, there’s an extra-special reason to enjoy working with the adults – Daddy Warbucks is being played by none other than her own real-life dad, wellknown local performer Steve Maddock.

“To be involved in a show with my kid is a delight,” he says with a smile. “Who knows when this will happen again?”

Maddock adds he’s thrilled to be taking part in this show – the company’s 25th anniversary performance – because the group has done so much for his life as a performer.

Royal City Musical Theatre Company gave him his first performing opportunity, in the 1997 production of Guys and Dolls, when he moved West from Ontario.

He’s since appeared in the company’s productions of The Sound of Music and Carousel.

“I was delighted to get cast in this role,” he said. “Royal City, they’ve done a lot for me and my career. To be able to participate in their 25th anniversary is pretty special.”

Several New Westminster residents have key behind-the-scenes roles in the production: Chelsea Carlson as production manager, Omanie Elias as set designer, Chris Sinosich as costume designer, Suzanne Ouelette as assistant choreographer and Jessica Hildebrand as assistant stage manager.

Annie is onstage April 10 through 26 at the Massey Theatre, 735 Eighth Ave., New Westminster.

See www.royalcitymusicaltheatre.com for all the details.

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Celebrate National Poetry Month THE LIVELY CITY

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JULIE MACLELLAN

he New Westminster Public Library is marking National Poetry Month with a celebration of poetry April 8.

The Tuesday evening event features Candice James and Renée Sarojini Saklikar, followed by an open mike.

Candice, for those who haven’t already encountered her, is the city’s poet laureate and is also active with a host of poetry and writing organizations – including the Royal City Literary Arts Society, the League of Canadian Poets, Poetic Justice, Poetry in the Park and the Federation of B.C. Writers.

A library press release notes that her poetry, articles, short stories and reviews have been published internationally, and she has also published five poetry books – including the latest, Ekphrasticism: Painted Words, with painter Don Portelance.

Renée was recently seen on these pages, thanks to her nomination for a B.C.

Book Prize – she’s up for the honour for her first book of poetry, children of air India, about the bombing of Air India Flight 182.

The New West native also writes thecanadaproject, a lifelong poem chronicle that covers life from India to Canada – by way of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Northern Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and B.C. Check it out at thecanadaproject. wordpress.com.

The Tuesday, April 8 event is sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets. It gets underway at 7 p.m.

To register, call 604-5274667 or email listener@nwpl. ca.

The library is at 716 Sixth Ave., uptown.

Arty in the ’Boro

Children in Queensborough are being invited to get arty.

The Artists in the Boro group is sponsoring an art invitational for local children aged five to 12. (Thanks to Saniki Creations for sharing this one on Facebook – which is where I spotted it.)

The theme is “What I like about Queensborough,” and children are invited to create art in any form – drawing, painting, colouring, collage – on an eight-by-10-inch paper

(plus a plain one-inch border for matting).

The art should reflect what the young artist most enjoys about where s/he lives.

Art should be submitted to the front desk at the Queensborough Community Centre, 920 Ewen Ave., no later than Wednesday, April 30.

On the back of the work, artists should print their name, the title of their picture, phone number and, if possible, an email address of a parent or guardian.

Kids’ art programs

While we’re on the subject of young artists, I thought I’d shine a spotlight on a few of the offerings from the city’s spring Leisure Guide.

Since it’s 84 pages long, I won’t try to mention everything, but rest assured there’s something for everyone!

Here are a few highlights for the artistically inclined youngsters in your household: ◗ Kaleidoscope of the Arts: This program for five- to 10year-olds covers art in many forms: printmaking, clay, craft projects and cartooning. It runs from April 9 to June 4 on Wednesdays at Centennial Community Centre. ◗ Art Studio Paint, Shine and Show: Five- to 10-year-

olds can discover painting, drawing and collage, while preparing an art exhibit and show for the final class. It runs Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m., April 22 to May 20, at Queensborough Community Centre. ◗ Youth Eco-Art Adventures: Nine- to 14-year-olds can explore art on environmental themes in mixed media painting, drawing and collage. It runs Thursdays from April 24 to May 22 at Queensborough Community Centre. ◗ Creative Cartooning: Nineto 16-year-olds learn the basics of drawing such as colour, composition, depth and perspective. They’ll learn to draw classic cartoon characters and how to develop their own character. All skill levels are welcome, and the course runs Mondays from April 7 to May 12 at Queensborough Community Centre.

These and a host of other programs are getting up and running now for the new spring sessions, so don’t delay – you can pick up a Leisure Guide at a city facility or check it out online at newwestpcr.ca.

Do you have an item for Lively City? Send arts and entertainment suggestions to Julie, jmac lellan@burnabynow.com, or find her on Twitter, @juliemaclellan.

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each stop along the way, Gogos groups raised funds and awareness in their communities about the grandmothers’ campaign.

The Royal City Gogos is among the groups across the country raising funds to support a variety of projects in Africa, including grief counselling, school fees and uniforms, seedlings and house construction, micro-credit loans and HIV education and testing. Stephen Lewis, who served as Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa for the United Nations from 2001 until 2006, founded the Stephen Lewis Foundation and launched the Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign in 2006.

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local minister is focusing on a number of important dates during a presentation about 2,500 years of Christianity.

Last fall, The Rev. Graham Brownmiller of Queens Avenue United Church was invited to guest lecture at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in a Sociology Class entitled: Gods in a Global Village: A Sociological Perspective of World Religions. During that presentation, he spent 80 minutes with students talking about Christianity – and now he’s doing the same closer to home.

The community is invited to attend Brownmiller’s presentation on Saturday, April 5, at 10 a.m. at Queens Avenue United Church, 529 Queens Ave.

The Royal City Gogos’ recent art auction raised thousands of dollars for the Grandmothers Campaign in Africa.

The group sold more than 190 tickets for its art auction, which was held at the Inn at the Quay on March 7.

“The guests were generous and the auction was a huge success,” Royal City Gogos founder Janine Reid wrote in an email to The Record. “We entered the auction with +$9,500 in online bids and were able to double that. Our member, Arlene Lacroix, was a superb auctioneer and the bidding was lively and fun.”

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A14 • Friday, April 4, 2014 • The Record

Around: Pets can pose with bunnies ◗ continued from page 13

Easter bunny.

While kids get a chance to meet the Easter bunny at Easter in the Park, the city is inviting residents to bring their pets to the community centre on Saturday, April 12 from 1 to 3 p.m. to have their photo taken with the Easter bunny.

The city is suggesting a donation of $10, with all proceeds going to New Westminster Emergency Pet Services.

The event also includes free treats for pets and their humans. For more information, call 604-5257399.

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A history of cars OUR PAST

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t seems that we hear daily about motor vehicles and their role in our local bridges, transportation systems, traffic patterns and pollution. Whether discussing TransLink, SkyTrain or the Pattullo Bridge, the history of the motor vehicle is an integral part of the story.

As we follow the story from the early 1900s, we are able to watch cars and trucks as they appear on the local scene and lead, sometimes quickly, to other innovations and inventions. Last year we touched on this story through a walking tour, a couple of presentations and a series of Our Past columns. It is a part of our local history that people really enjoy.

Today, women hold a prominent position in the world of motor vehicles from design to sales. Seventy years ago,

an article accompanying a multi-page promotional piece about a car show in New Westminster, singled out the female role – a newer approach to the automobile.

This was all part of the first auto show in New Westminster which was held in Queen’s Park with great fanfare. The article, “Fair sex have the last word in car design,” sets out the story with some interesting comments.

“A few years ago the workings of the motor car were a mystery to the average woman. When she first learned to drive she would have been told to ‘pull this lever’ and ‘shift that one.’ Today she is asking questions and she wants to know why and what for … she wants to find out for herself what it’s all about … she asks about gas mileage. She wants a car that is economical.”

The article further concludes: “The modern woman has not only become a potent factor in the buying of motor cars, she has become a very strong influence in their making.” One line emphasizes that this was more

than just good looks: “not only from a style, but from a mechanical standpoint too.”

The aspect of targeting the female opinion and approach is clearly stated: “If the lady of the house looks over the prospective car with her husband and she doesn’t like it, you can bet your life that her husband dare not bring that new car home unless he is a very brave man.”

It is a part of history that is a great creator of memories. We think of a first car, a particularly attractive colour of vehicle, and sometimes a car that was “part of the family” and was genuinely “mourned” when traded in for a new model.

Last June, Gary Miller was at the New Westminster Historical Society to talk about auto history. Gary is an expert in all things automotive – facts and figures, trivia, and more.

He will be back on Wednesday, April 16, starting at 7:30 p.m. in the New Westminster Public Library auditorium. Mixed with some Royal City car stories, this will be another great presentation.

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◗ IN THE LIBRARY

Using the library? There’s an app for that

BY ALINA GHERMAN CONTRIBUTOR editorial@royalcityrecord.com

Spring arrived this year at the New Westminster Public Library with something green – our new mobile app!

The NWPL app allows users to easily access, through a mobile-friendly interface, all the features of the library catalogue, including checking their library accounts.

Launched on March 14, the app is available for both iOS and Android markets and can be downloaded for free from the app stores by using “NWPL” as a

keyword.

It’s never been easier to access the NWPL’s collection, browse The Globe and Mail bestsellers list or see what has been ordered recently.

Check out recently reviewed titles by tapping on the book covers under Explore.

Use the Search feature to either locate items by using keywords or scan publishers’ barcodes to check whether the items are available at the library.

My NWPL has all the information about your library account.

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It is very convenient to see when the borrowed items are due, place and manage holds, rate titles, create lists and share reviews.

Both of the library branches, including their addresses and phone numbers, are listed under Locations.

With a simple tap you can get directions to the closest branch and call or email the library. Library hours and the holiday closures are literally at your

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Another advantage to using the app is that it stores your library barcode. This means that you don’t have to carry your card with you when visiting the library, as long as you have your phone or tablet with you.

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Century House’s popular Artisans will be bringing out thrift sale, which features all sorts of recycled treasures, their best to celebrate new including clothing and linens, beginnings and all things small appliances, jewelry, spring. While you’re there, check out the Royal City kitchenware, knick-knacks, Farmers Market, which runs books, DVDs and CDs, plants from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and toys. The sale takes place on Saturday, April 5 from 10:30 Take the My Health My a.m. to 2 p.m. at 620 Eighth St. Community survey online and enter to win prizes. The Get your game on at the survey is gathering input Vancouver Retro Gaming (or more) about issues such as transporExpo that’s taking place on Things to do tation, community services, Saturday, April 5 from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. at the Columbia this weekend green spaces and sense of community.

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bers of your family to the Queensborough Community Centre on Saturday, April 12 between 1 and 3 p.m. The photo sessions include free tasty treats for pets and their humans, and it’s all available for a suggested $10 JULIE MACLELLAN donation. Call the compring is springing all munity centre at 604-525around us – and that 7388 for details. means it’s time for a ◗ Easter in Queen’s Park: whole new season of famFamily fun returns to the ily fun. park again Easter Sunday, A whole host of new April 20, aimed at the activities are getting three- to 10-year-old set. underway, as listed in the Kids can enjoy entercity’s Leisure Guide for tainment, crafts, face spring. Check it out online painting, photos with Mr. at www.nwpcr.ca or pick and Mrs. Bunny, the petup a guide at any city ting farm and a variety of facility for all the For the activities. The condetails.

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Guide, In the meanCall Queen’s Park scan time, you may Rainbow Playland with want to highat 604-777-5121 for Layar light a couple of details. Admission is approaching events: free – it runs from 11 a.m. ◗ Parents’ Night Out: Yes, to 2 p.m. that’s right, parents, the ◗ Queensweep Earth Day city is making this one all Cleanup: Queensborough about you. You can bring residents are invited to your five- to 12-year-old pitch in to help keep the kids to the Centennial waterways, parks and Community Centre for an streets clean. The special evening of games, sports, event will include educacrafts, pizza and a movie tional displays and comwhile you take time for munity resources. The yourself. Upcoming night fun runs Sunday, April out sessions are planned 27 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for Saturdays, April 12, Call the Queensborough May 10 and June 7, from Community Centre at 6045:30 to 9:30 p.m. each time. 525-7388 for details.

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like to send up a big cheer to New West’s Landmark Cinemas for introducing Movie Tots.

Yes – much like its counterparts Movies for Mommies, or Stars and Strollers at Cineplex – the screenings give parents a chance to bring their babes along to see a brand-new first-run movie in the comfortable surroundings of Landmark Cinemas.

Lights are up, volume is down, and there’s room to park your strollers and settle in to enjoy a film – without worrying about getting a sitter.

I haven’t had the opportunity to check out the Landmark version of the movies for moms, but as a former attendee of Stars and Strollers, I have to say I give the concept two thumbs-up. It’s a great way to get out and socialize and enjoy a grown-up pastime while still spending time with your babe.

Movie Tots’ next screening is Tuesday, April 8.

The movie choice was just announced this week – it’ll be a 12:55 p.m. screening of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, starring Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Redford and Scarlett Johansson.

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Easter fun: Nine-month-old Olive May Thomas gets her photo taken with Mr. and Mrs. Bunny at last year’s Easter in the Park celebrations. ence!

Keep an eye on www. landmarkcinemas.com/ new-westminster for new announcements or updates.

Child-care survey

Parents, don’t miss your chance to help the city shape the future of child care.

The City of New Westminster is developing a new child-care needs assessment to help the city plan for and work with other groups to develop new child-care spaces for kids up to age 12.

“This survey is an opportunity for YOU to share your child care needs and issues,” an intro to the survey says. “This

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The survey must be filled out by April 11, so don’t delay.

Yes, I’ve filled it out already – and don’t worry, it’s straightforward and doesn’t take long at all.

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Soap-making fun Here’s one for parents and kids that gives you a chance to learn together

– and take home a nice treat at the same time.

In response to a recent call for family-friendly event ideas, reader Carine McEwen offered up a great suggestion: soapmaking sessions with Jolene at the Artisan Shop at River Market.

Carine recently went with her six-year-old daughter.

“That was very nice,” she wrote. “We are given a pound of glycerin soap each, and we pick fragrances, dried flowers and glitter and colours. It takes an hour-and-a-half, the children and the mom have a wonderful time and go home with beautiful soaps. It costs $10/person and is totally worth it.”

Drop-in soap making sessions run Thursdays through Mondays between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Check out the River Market website, www.rivermarket.ca, or email jolene_des@ hotmail.com for more details. (Please note: It’s not for the tiniest tots – the sessions are designed for participants aged six and up.)

Do you have an item of interest to local families? Do you run a group that parents should know about? Send Family Ties ideas to Julie, jmaclellan@royalcityrecord. com, or find her on Twitter, @juliemaclellan.

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WEEKEND WARRIORS: SCOTTSDALE EDITION

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Family fun: James Hughes (Obi-Wan Kenobi) and Liam Hughes (Harry Potter) take time during Mickey’s Halloween Party at Disneyland to read The Record with Phineas and Ferb.

From celebrity sushi to Frank Lloyd Wright, we know how to pack it in. We toured the architect’s famous winter home and architecture school Taliesin West, which takes you into all the buildings of this monument to Early Modernism. Read the full Arizona itinerary (which includes where to stay, dine, spa and hike) at www.vitamindaily.com and check back next week for Day 2.

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Vancouver’s become the “It Girl” of spring fashion, with trends like Tom Ford’s SS ‘14, which glamorously confronts an distinctly localized vision of danger via mirror-y, shard-smattered dresses. Don this dress and you won’t be able to sit down—but you will look like False Creek at sunset, which is amazing. Find more Vancouverinspired fashion trends at www.vitamindaily.com.

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◗ IN THE GAME

Douglas hoop coach gets women’s team top job ◗P28 Goalie named to B.C. ringette under-19 team ◗P28

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beat a couple of defenders before slotting the ball into the back of the net with a Inter FC completed hard low shot to the corner an unlikely ride to the from the top of the penalty Imperial Cup following a 1- area.

0 overtime victory over the Fong and co-defender highly favoured Columbus Jordan Michael were both FC at Trillium Park last solid on the Inter back Saturday. end, limiting chances for The win the Columbus gave Inter just strikers. its second-ever F o r Imperial Cup Columbus, and a seed into “We really put Luca Bellisomo the upcoming together a good one-timed a Provincial Cup. Steve DeBlasio Inter won its run and deserved corner kick just first cup in 2001 the final. I think over the crossbut went to bar in the 70th three consecu- we had the edge.” minute, while a tive but unsucBlair Robertson cessful final JOE MARRELLO cross was headgames between Inter FC coach ed just wide 2005 and ‘07. of the goal by “We knew Graham Smith we had the ability. We had in the first overtime. to get everyone healthy and Man-of-the-match, on the same page,” said Inter’s 17-year-old keeper Inter coach Joe Marrello. Manny Mangu was stellar “We really put together in goal, stopping a firsta good run and deserved half rocket of a shot on goal the final. I think we had by Kazunori Kikuchi. the edge. We played better Inter’s Alex Marrello over the 120 minutes.” was also dominant for The difference in the the Italians in the midcup final came down to field along with a healthy two late-season pickups Joseph Marrello and Marco from the 13-time Canadian Visentin.

Interuniversity Sports Inter finished the seachampion University of son near the bottom of the British Columbia varsity table, staving off possible team. relegation with a strong The game-winner came restart in the season, winlate in the second over- ning nine and losing just time period when third- one in its last 12 league year UBC midfielder Milad and cup matches since Mehrabi, a CIS tournament Christmas. all-star, took a brilliant In the division cup playthrough ball from sopho- downs, Inter was pushed more Thunderbird school◗Soccer Page 28 mate Bryan Fong and

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Pressing forward: Liz Porter, centre with ball, scored both goals in the New West Cougars’ 2-1 victory over the Westside Red Devils in Metro Women’s Soccer League Classic bronze championship final at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West on Sunday. Deniece Kazuta, left, goes on the attack.

Cougars win cup in league debut

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

The New West Cougars are Metro Women’s Soccer League success story.

The first-year over-30 club side won the Classics bronze division championship with a 2-1 victory over the Westside Red Devils at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West on March 30.

Liz Porter scored both goals for the Cougars, who were the brainchild of player/mananger Courtenay Edwardes.

“I just wanted to play

soccer and play in New West,” said Edwardes, who enticed as many friends as she could to come out and play in order to put together the 20-player side.

With nearly half the team new to the game of soccer, and few others with much post-secondary experience at all, the firstyear side stumbled out of the blocks, losing four of its first five games while tying the other, before finding a coach approximately two months into the season.

“We literally went from a team of mismatched

moms to winning the cup,” said Edwardes, who gave up playing club soccer as a teen in the 1990s.

“But more importantly it was a good experience, especially for those who hadn’t played before.”

Porter scored the eventual game-winning goal in the first half on a shot to the top corner of the net from near the 18-yard box.

Christy Beattie registered the win in goal after some stellar goalkeeping.

New West took a 2-0 lead in the second half on Porter’s second of the game before Westside

managed a late counter.

The win has made believers out of the team of friends, the vast majority of whom grew up in the Royal City and still live in the area.

“All the girls are hooked,” remarked Edwardes, who has already signed up the nucleus of the Cougars team for spring soccer.

“We just want to get better and improve our skills.”

The Cougars completed their first full season of club socccer in second place with a record of 75-1.

Second-year EDC Burnaby club wins u-21 cup

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

Parker Ellis finally got the silverware he was after.

The talented EDC Burnaby striker scored the game-winning goal in overtime and was later named cup tournament MVP following the team’s 2-0 victory over Guildford FC in the Vancouver Metro Soccer League under-21 division cup final at Trillium Park last Saturday.

But it was hoisting the team trophy that meant the most to the 17year-old Burnaby talent.

“It feels good to win the cup. It feels good to be recognized as well, but it felt really good to win,” said Ellis earlier this week.

Earlier this season, Ellis was a

key component in Burnaby Central Secondary’s silver-medal run that disappointedly ended with a 2-1 overtime loss to Sutherland at the B.C. high school soccer championships, where the senior forward garnered both MVP and Golden Boot awards.

“They’re different,” Ellis said of the two championships. “I was a part of a team as opposed to being a leader of the high school team.”

Ellis joined the former Chilean club midway through the season following the end of High Performance League play with Mountain FC. With a signed commitment to play at Simon Fraser University in September, Ellis made a seamless jump to the men’s division league under former youth coach John

Penman. “(Ellis) is always welcome on my team. He was a great addition, and he’s a great finisher,” said Penman, the u-21 club head coach.

Ellis scored the eventual gamewinner with six minutes remaining in the second OT period, collecting a clever chip over the Guildford back line from Suki Shergill and taking a touch before blasting the ball from the edge of the 18-yard box to the bottom corner of the goal.

Three minutes later, Kuroush Faritous sealed the win for EDC Burnaby off a series of rebounds coming off a counter attack.

With the win, EDC Burnaby will be seeded into the upcoming u-21 Provincial Cup against Gorge FC from the Vancouver Island league.

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MVP: Parker Ellis, right, was named the championship MVP in the under-21 men’s division.

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Sports in New West

New West lax briefs

Three graduating youth soccer players from New Westminster youth soccer’s NW Barca all earned commitments to post secondary varsity teams next season.

Kiersten Sawchuk was recruited to CIS national champion Trinity Western University, while Angela Lalonde and Emma Berwick will play at the University of Regina and first-time PacWest women’s champion Quest University, respectively.

Regina bound

New Westminster goalie Tara Stevens was named to B.C.’s under-19 ringette team for the Canadian ringette championships in Regina next week.

On the long list

Burnaby Lake Rugby Club’s Julia Sugawara and forward Kim Donaldson were among 41 players long listed for selection to Canada’s women’s rugby team for the upcoming women’s World Cup. The players will attend a two-week training camp on Vancouver Island, where the team will play two Can-Am series games against the United States on April 15 and 19.

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No contest: Simon Fraser University’s Lyndon Knuttila, in white, helped the Clan field lacrosse club to a resounding 30-2 victory over visiting Washington State in a Men’s Collegiate Division 1 matchup at Terry Fox Field last weekend. Second-year transfer Tyler Kirkby currently leads the team and is 10th overall in the league with 44 goals and 60 total points for the 10-2 Clan.

Women’s hoop coach gets top job Interim women’s basketball coach Courtney Gerwing got the stamp of approval from Douglas College. The former Simon Fraser University forward was named head coach of the women’s team following a playoff run to a silver medal at the PacWest provincial championships earlier this season.

“It’s such a great opportunity to do what I love and have an impact on the future of the program and, even more importantly, the amazing student

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athletes involved,” said Gerwing in a Douglas online release. “We have a great foundation on which to build a prominent PacWest program, and I can’t wait to get started.”

Gerwing took over the program in January and coached the fifth-placefinishing Royals to second place at the provincial championships, the program’s highest playoff finish since 1997.

Last year, the Douglas women finished with the bronze medal.

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Ross Bowman recorded 11 saves and scored the program’s first-ever goal by a goalkeeper to lead the University of Mount Olive to a 16-5 win over Florida Tech in NCAA Division II field lacrosse.

The win stretched the Trojans school record winning streak to seven games without a loss. The win also showcased Bowman’s first career goal.

With less than three minutes left to play in the opening quarter, Bowman made a save and then ran up the middle of the field with the ball before taking a shot from 12 yards out for the program’s milestone marker.

On the ground

Reagan Harding led the Lake Erie Storm to a 12-8 win over Belmont Abbey to

post the program’s fourth consecutive win in East Coast conference Div. II field lacrosse.

Storm teammate Justin Goodwin helped out on the back end with seven ground balls, while leading the defence with a pair of forced turnovers.

Six in a row

Matt MacGrotty helped No. 12 Bryant University to its sixth straight victory, a 9-6 win over Richmond in NCAA Div. I field lacrosse last week. MacGrotty, a long pole, has 28 ground balls and five forced turnovers in his first 10 games this season.

Bryant junior Kevin Massa was perfect in the faceoff circle, winning all 19 restarts for the Bulldogs. tberridge@royalcityrecord. com

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to overtime before getting by second-round Division I opposition Vancouver Olympics 4-1.

Inter then edged Surrey United Firefighters 2-1 in the quarter-finals before going on to upset league champion West Van in the semifinals on penalty kicks.

Inter’s only loss in the new year was a 1-0 defeat to Columbus in March.

Ironically, the two clubs will meet again next week in the first round of Provincial Cup play in a rematch of the Imperial Cup final.

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