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Kicking kids out of school should be a last resort to deal with misbehaving students, according to New Westminster’s recently hired superintendent, who is calling for an overhaul of the way the district manages suspensions. John Gaiptman has presented a draft policy that tightens the reins on suspensions in order to address his concerns about how they were being dealt with in the district. “I can tell you that suspensions should be a last resort, and if we are suspending students, then I think there are too many suspensions. Our goal is to keep students in school,” Gaiptman said. Lengthy suspensions should only be used to tackle serious issues, such as weapons and excessive violence, Gaiptman said, noting that suspensions hurt students’ relationships with their teachers and impact their ability to be successful in school. The draft suspension policy, which the board of education has sent out for public input, includes recommendations that suspensions in excess of five days not be considered for students identified with special needs or for students in Kindergarten through Grade 7. Suspensions in excess of five days may be considered for students in Grade 8 through 12, though homework and learning materials must be arranged for the student during their time away from school, according to the policy. “I want to make sure that there is a plan for sending work home during suspensions,” Gaitpman said.

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Easter treats: Victor He makes cotton candy at the Easter Artisan’s Fair at the River Market. The Easter weekend fun at the market also included the last indoor Royal City Farmers Market of the season – the market moves to its outdoor home in Tipperary Park starting June 5. See www.royalcityrecord.com for more photos of Easter weekend at River Market.

Homelessness decreasing BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

The number of homeless people in New Westminster is dropping, but the need for outreach services is a growing concern. The 2014 Metro Vancouver Homeless count showed there were 104 homeless people in New Westminster in 2014, compared to 132 in 2011. “Most of our population is sheltered. That’s really important,” said John Stark, the city’s senior social planner. “In New West when you look at it overall, our numbers went down from 2011 to 2014, which is

positive. That is both sheltered and unsheltered.” About 40 volunteers took the streets, shelters and social agencies on March 12 for the homeless count. Of the 104 people counted in New Westminster, 32 had no shelter, 70 were in emergency facilities or shelters and two had no fixed address. “While the 21 per cent decrease in overall homelessness (unsheltered and sheltered) is positive, I believe the important number is the 22 per cent decrease in unsheltered homelessness,” Stark said. “In New Westminster, 68.6 per cent of the homeless population is sheltered, which means they

are accessing support services, including addictions and mental health counseling, housing support, life skills, etc.” The count, considered a 24-hour snapshot of people who are homeless in Metro Vancouver, found there was a total of 2,770 people living in shelters, transition houses, living outside or staying temporarily with others, five per cent more than the 2011 count. “Regionally speaking, homeless numbers remain stable from previous years,” said Deb Bryant, chair of the Greater Vancouver Regional Steering Committee ◗Homelessness Page 9

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Up to the task: New Westminster Fire and Rescue Services aims to speed up inspections of the estimated 500 lowrise, woodframe buildings in the city by forming a task force that will inspect and rank the buildings, with the goal of improving their overall safety.

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A devastating apartment fire has sparked a push on enforcement of lowrise apartment buildings in the city. New Westminster Fire and Rescue Services is forming a prevention task force that will target lowrise apartment buildings in the city. The move comes in the aftermath of a Jan. 31 fire on Ash Street that levelled the building and left more than 30 people without homes. “It’s really to upgrade buildings that are noncompliant and help work with them,” said Fire Chief Tim Armstrong. “It’s to better educate the tenants and work with the building owners to help provide a safe environment for their tenants.” A total of four firefighters will be assigned to the two task forces that will allow the department to do more inspections of apartment buildings in the city. “We are already active,” Armstrong said about building inspections. “We have already upped our inspections – it’s just that we don’t have the staffing levels to keep on it. This will give us that extra help.” Fire inspectors in the fire prevention division and crews working on the trucks also do inspections when time allows. “The crews will still do inspections,” Armstrong said. “It is a way of accelerating it.” The fire department regularly inspects buildings in the city to ensure they meet fire regulations, but the Ash Street fire was a strong

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reminder of the need for buildings to be prop- system.” As firefighters inspect buildings, they will erly maintained. “Without having fires, we have had other plot false alarms and fire calls on a map of the buildings in the city that have been problem- city, and rank them based on their need for seratic as far as code enforcement and maintain- vice and history. “We will triage all these buildings – rank ing proper building conditions and life safety them, based on going in and going requirements within the buildover whether they have multiple ing,” Armstrong said. calls, a bad history. They will be The task force will focus its ranked as a high risk ahead of those efforts on inspecting the nearly that may be spotless and well main500 lowrise, wood-frame build- “We will triage ings in New Westminster. all these build- tained and have no history of problems. Then we are going to put those “Those buildings were built in a time when probably there ings – rank them, on a map. We are hoping to see by looking at the map where our probwas a push on local government based on going lem areas are,” Armstrong said. “It to create affordable housing and might be in one grid of the city we rental housing accommodation. A in and going have a lot of false alarms or our ranklot of them are rental buildings,” over whether ings system for the building shows Armstrong said. “In their day, the we have high-risk buildings in there. building code wasn’t as stringent they have mulNow we can go in with the buildas it is today. There’s no real legtiple calls, a bad ing department, bylaws and us, and islation to make them upgrade to says we are going to concentrate on the current building code.” history.” this area and see if we can reduce Armstrong stressed that he our calls to these areas, improve fire doesn’t want to create hysteria TIM ARMSTRONG safety in the buildings and hit it that it’s unsafe to live in these Fire chief from more of a strategic approach, as kinds of buildings. He said they’re opposed to not really looking at the generally safe if they are properly trends or patterns.” maintained. While apartments are required to have their “The idea of this prevention task force is to take suppression crews and focus primarily on fires alarms and extinguishers tested annually, these buildings,” he said. “So what we want to firefighters will be able to catch it if that hasn’t do is get all our inspections up to date and then been done. For an extended version of this story, go to www. take a more in-depth look at these buildings and come up with a ranking system, a triage royalcityrecord.com.

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F.W. Howay School placed under lockdown BY CAYLEY DOBIE REPORTER cdobie@royalcityrecord.com

F.W. Howay Elementary was locked down for part of the day on Wednesday as police executed a search warrant and arrested a suspect in a nearby residence. According to Sgt. Diana McDaniel, spokesperson for the police department, the school, which is located east of McBride Boulevard at 91 Courtney Cres. off of Cumberland Street, was on a “soft” lockdown as a precautionary measure while investigators were at the suspect’s home on 10th Avenue. The suspect, whose name hasn’t been released because he has yet to be formally charged, is alleged to have to committed

a break and enter in New Westminster, McDaniel told The Record. Officers, with the assistance of the Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team, arrested the suspect at his home around 2:40 p.m. without incident. Throughout the lockdown at Howay, the school liaison officer was in full communication with investigators, McDaniel said. “As soon as it was done, they (investigators) communicated with our school liaison officer and then they (students) were released from the school no problem,” she added. The suspect was expected to make his first court appearance on Thursday, after Record deadlines.

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The driver who struck and killed 25year-old Gemma Snowball last year pled guilty to charges stemming from the fatal crash in court last week. Kelowna resident Ryan Follack, 29, was in court last week where he pled guilty to charges of driving without due care and driving without reasonable consideration, according to a press release from the New Westminster police. Snowball was walking home from work at about 10:30 p.m. on March 11, 2013, when she was hit by a car while crossing

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data that says the whales have increased Yes, it’s merely coincidental. It just in number, so that justifies the downhappens that when the government is grading of their threatened status. going to make a decision on the approvSigh. al of the Northern Gateway pipeline The problem with that logic is that – which feeds oil onto a tanker shipping the whales have had a fightroute that intersects Pacific ing chance to recover precisely humpback whale habitat – that because their habitats were the whale’s protection status is THE RECORD protected due to their threatdowngraded. ened status. Do we believe it is entirely It’s a bit like opening up the passencoincidental? Not on one whale’s life do we think that it is coincidental or a boon ger pigeon hunting season again – perhaps that’s a bad example, but you get for the whales. the picture. Proponents of the decision point to

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Biologists are certainly heartened by the whale population’s slow increase – estimated at four per cent a year. But they also note that they can’t predict what impact using the whale’s habitat as a tanker freeway will have on their continued recovery. The simple fact is that huge oil tankers cutting through whale breeding grounds is not a marriage made in the natural world. And, of course, if there is a massive oil spill along the lines of the Exxon Valdez, it will all be a moot point.

We realize that the federal government has staked out a position that puts the economy above the environment and considers scientists to be an overrated source of intelligence – but surely someone in those vaunted halls of government has grandchildren. Surely someone hopes that those grandkids can stand on a rocky shore in the far future and point to breaching whales in the ocean instead of oil tankers the size of football fields churning through the water? Perhaps not.

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Commission reported that firms o why did the B.C. Liberal government set up its recyc- were winning contracts based on donations to federal Liberals ling stewardship program with little or no work being and Multi Material B.C. outside done. the jurisdiction of the office of According to a recent CBC the auditor general and the provreport, the RCMP said Jacques ince’s Financial Administration Corriveau, a longtime federal Act? Liberal organizer and ad agent Back in the ’80s and ’90s, the receiving sponsorship monies, game of choice for a dishonest alleged he could exert federal or provincial influence over the government was to federal government set up a governmentKELVIN MCCULLOCH to obtain contracts in funded program with exchange for millions broad motherhood of dollars of kickbacks for himobjectives, then flow massive self and others. amounts of taxpayer dollars to The sponsorship program ran one or more key advertising between 1996 and 2004. agencies that were supposed to The Gomery Commission cost produce the necessary informataxpayers $14 million. Untold tion, marketing materials and ad amounts of additional taxpayer campaigns. But the real game was corrup- dollars went into the ensuing court cases. tion involving misdirection and The investigation into the misuse of taxpayer dollars. activities of Corriveau continued In the case of the federal govuntil 2013. Finally, Corriveau’s ernment’s sponsorship program trial date has been set for next in Quebec, the federal auditor month. general figured it out with the You think something like help of Ernst & Young and a this couldn’t happen in British whistleblower. Columbia? The AG reported on the Well, it already did. “appalling and unacceptable” In 1983, British Columbia’s situation, then called in the auditor general Erma Morrison RCMP. The AG reported in 2004 uncovered inappropriate paythat as much as $100 million out ments and missing expendiof $250 million in contracts was ture controls in the Ministry of awarded to Liberal-friendly ad Tourism in British Columbia. agencies with little or no work McKim Advertising had been done. appointed the “agency of record” There was a lot of fallout. The presidents of the Business for the Ministry of Tourism. All ad monies of the ministry were Development Bank, Via Rail funnelled through that agency. and Canada Post were all canned. The ensuing Gomery ◗Recycling Page 7

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Re: Time to help vulnerable families, Opinion, by Keith Baldrey, The Record, April 16. So the government won’t let single parents keep their children’s maintenance money, and they won’t hike welfare rates – yet millions go out to help other countries, which has nothing to do with our children. Their future and their lives depend on us. Christy Clark has abused every single parent for years, and no one seems to care enough to stop her. This is the lowest form of persecution and mental abuse directed to the ones who should be getting the money, and that is the children. Pretty bad when you rob a child of its birthright by an adult who constantly rejects them and humiliates the parent, whose only crime was to have

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Artists upset over Timber Wharf Dear Editor:

Greg Magirescu and Sloan Elphinstone approached New West Artists last year asking that we make a presentation for painting Timber Wharf. New West Artists presented them with a detailed plan for painting the surface of Timber Wharf with a huge variety of ideas. I spent many hours and research designing a labyrinth; others designed interesting paths and chalk colouring areas for adults and children. Please give us credit for all of our ideas, which the city seems to be using. We were going to paint

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Artists had the ideas first ◗ continued from page 6

it, but it was suggested that engineering would be responsible. Then nothing happened. Now we read that our ideas indeed are accepted, but not acknowledged and especially not paid for.

Artists are expected to do too much for free – and having our ideas basically stolen is an insult. Greg assured us that we would be paid if our ideas were used. Some kind of response from the city would be appreciated. Valerie McRae, New Westminster

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Ultimately, Morrison reported in a special report to the legislative assembly that weaknesses in internal control and poorly documented payments to McKim Advertising were so numerous as to suggest dishonesty on the part of the ministry. The commercial crime section was called in. Dennis Cocke, MLA for New Westminster, brought the matter to the legislative assembly citing secret bank accounts, double billing and a million-dollar cost overrun. The deputy minister of tourism took the fall. Once again it was the province’s auditor general who saved the day back in 1984. That’s long enough ago that people don’t remember. But I do, I might have been on the team of external auditors hired by the Ministry of Tourism to assist with the mop up after the auditor general and the commercial crime squad finished their investigations. Now back to my original question: Why did the B.C. Liberal government set up Multi Material B.C. outside the jurisdiction of the office of the auditor general and the province’s financial administration act? Why is the evershrinking list of targeted companies being forced to pay fees in the millions of dollars directly to an organization taking the

form of a not-for-profit society instead of paying taxes into the province’s Consolidated Revenue Fund? Why did the B.C. Liberal government set everything up this way? I have more questions. Why did Multi Material B.C. file a notice of intention to borrow $1.5 million from the Ontario-based Canadian Stewardship Services Alliance exactly one week after the last election? Why aren’t the audited financial statements of Multi Material B.C. from inception available for scrutiny? How is Multi Material B.C. going to repay the other moneys it intended to borrow from various industry associations in Ontario? The answer to everything is hiding in plain sight, in a YouTube video by MC Hammer – U Can’t Touch This. What a great video, I watched it again last weekend. I can just imagine the provincial Liberals jumping around to the beat, U Can’t Touch This, U Can’t Touch This, referring to the oversight responsibilities of the current auditor general, the legislature, and therefore you and I. Think I’m kidding? My friends, in my opinion you are about to see the entire recycling industry in British Columbia fall under the control of Multi Material B.C. and Canadian Stewardship

Services Alliance with the B.C. Liberals controlling the situation from behind closed doors through its stewardship regulations. It is your B.C. businesses that are being forced by the Liberal government to pay outside the public accounts of the province to make this possible. And under the Multi Material B.C. arrangements, no one has the authority to prevent or detect financial misdealings on behalf of the paying companies, the taxpayers, or you and I the voters. Not the federal auditor general, not the provincial auditor general, not anyone. Do we know why the government has structured things to place the financial affairs of Multi Material B.C. outside the scrutiny of the auditor general? No. Should we be concerned? You bet. In five years, the magnitude of funds that will have flowed through Multi Material B.C. – say $400 million – will rival the total amount of all funds that flowed through the federal sponsorship program. But unlike that program, U Can’t Touch This. Wake up people, it’s Hammer Time. Kelvin McCulloch is the CEO of Vancouver Islandbased Buckerfield’s Ltd., which has eight locations serving home and garden and farm needs across the province.

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Assault suspect now missing BY CAYLEY DOBIE REPORTER cdobie@royalcityrecord.com

A New West man, who police allege sexually assaulted a woman, is now missing and believed to be suicidal. According to the New Westminster Police Department, 52-year-old Fred William Bilawey hasn’t been heard from since April 16, when he chatted with a friend over a Yahoo messaging board. During the conversation, Bilawey “expressed suicidal thoughts and stated he was near a body of water,” a press release stated. Police believe Bilawey is somewhere in the Toronto area and does not have access to a vehicle. “Major crime received some type of

information that he hadn’t been heard from and that wasn’t a common occurrence,” New West Sgt. Diana McDaniel told The Record. “We started looking into it and then we determined he was actually missing. … They (investigators) still haven’t located him.” New West police announced last week that Bilawey was under investigation for an alleged sexual assault stemming from a Craigslist ad looking for waitresses and bartenders. The initial release stated that police were releasing Bilawey’s photo to the public because investigators believed there were victims who hadn’t come forward yet. “That was the whole reason for the release, it was to further the investigation with respect to locating more

victims and protecting the safety of women who might be responding to these ads,” McDaniel said. When asked if police were concerned that releasing the photo had driven Bilawey to disappear, McDaniel said they weren’t concerned at all. “All of that was weighed carefully, and it was considered and there was a lot of discussion about it. It was for public safety reasons and in the public interest that we did get the information out there,” she added. Bilawey is Caucasian, 5-11, weighing 190 pounds with short brown hair and hazel eyes. He has a scar under his right eye. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact their local police department or the New West police at 604-525-5411.

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A formal letter must also be issued, citing the reason for a suspension, a reference to the School Act, preventative measures related to the incident and a notice that the superintendent will contact the parents to set the date and location for the district’s review committee meeting. The draft policy also notes that the superintendent’s office will be notified of all suspensions, and the board will be informed about suspensions in excess of five days. The district can use that data to hone in and focus on what is causing

the bulk of suspensions and where it needs to focus resources to help struggling students, Gaiptman said. “We need to know what the issues are in our school,” he said. “You should be able to turn to me and say over the past three years, what is the predominate reason for suspensions? And I should be able to answer that clearly, and right now, I cannot.” The district review committee evaluates written documentation from the school regarding the incident or other related matters that led to the suspension, and to hear from staff, parents and the student.

The new policy calls for the district parent advisory council to no longer have a representative on the review committee. “I am asking for consultation regarding whether or not a parent, a member of DPAC, be on that committee and this is not to say that they weren’t productive on the committee, but I would really like to see them in their role as advocates for parents and for students rather than as disciplinarians,” Gaiptman said. To see the district’s policy on suspensions, visit the district’s website at district.sd40.bc.ca.

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Artist opens doors for ﬁrst solo show A self-described “blue-collar artist” from New Westminster is throwing open his studio doors this weekend for a show. Nolan Drew is welcoming people to stop in to his Brow of the Hill studio to see three rooms full of art – including ceramics, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos and prints. Drew just graduated with his bachelor of fine arts from Emily Carr University, and this marks his first solo show. His major was in For photos ceramics, and he recentof his art, scan ly served as the artistin-residence at Medalta with Layar Studios, a ceramic institution in Medicine Hat, Alta. He has been exhibiting his work in galleries across Western Canada since 2007. “I am irresistibly drawn to ceramics because, in production, it demands knowledge from almost all areas of fine arts,” he says in an artist’s statement. The statement notes he enjoys the processes involved in material recycling, and he incorporates them into his paintings and ceramics. “The timelines involved in destruction and decomposition processes intrigue me, and I take inspiration from the gritty, dirty and the eroding materiality of objects in urban spaces and integrate those tactile experiences on the surfaces of my art work,” he says. Drew describes his artistic process as “a struggle of controlled chaos.” “It is developed through discovery, chance and unconscious thought while competing with control and movementimage,” he says.

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Controlled chaos: Artist Nolan Drew is opening his doors this weekend for his ﬁrst solo show. To view Drew’s work, stop by his studio this weekend. Opening night is tonight (Friday, April 25), with festivities running from 6 p.m.

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It’s a celebration of all things wordrelated – and it’s all happening in New Westminster this weekend. The Arts Council of New Westminster is presenting LitFest New West 2014. The fun kicks off tonight (Friday, April 25) at 6:30 p.m. at the New Westminster Public Library, with the opening reception and launch. Bob Robertson and Linda Cullen of Double Exposure will be on hand to entertain with a comedy retrospective. Space is limited, so call the library at 604-527-4667 to register. Saturday features a day full of workshops at Douglas College, as well as a marketplace outside the college library where publishers and writers will be on

hand with their offerings. The marketplace runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and three full series of workshops run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The workshops cover a wide range of topics of interest to writers. Among the offerings are the Business Side of Writing, Both Sides Now: Essential Elements of Adaptation, Navigating the Publishing World, What a Character! Humour Writing Workshop, Writing For Children, and Sense, Rhythm and Rhyme. Cullen and Robertson will lead an Introduction to Comedy Writing session at 2 p.m. on Saturday, and there will be a publisher’s panel featuring Richard Olafson, Kitty Lewis and Manolis

Aligizakis at 3:15 p.m. From 5 to 7 p.m., you can meet and mingle with 20 authors at a special Volumes of Authors reception and book-signing, and there will also be an open mike poetry reading at the Amelia Douglas Gallery from 5 to 7 p.m. The event culminates in the LitFest showcase at the Laura C. Muir Theatre, which will feature a variety of performances including poetry, readings, theatre, music and an awards presentation from the Royal City Literary Arts Society’s Write On! contest. Gary Geddes is the festival’s writerin-residence. See www.artscouncilnewwest.org/ litfest for all the details and registration.

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Three New Westminster residents are part of the fun as a quirky romantic comedy takes to the stage in Coquitlam. Actors Sue Sparlin and Rob Stover and director Jacqollyne Keath are all involved in the Stage 43 production of Seduced by Moonlight, running until May 3 at the Evergreen Cultural Centre. The Tri-Cities community theatre group is staging the work by Canadian playwrights Claire Harrison and Clive Doucet. It tells the story of Peggy and Richard Cresswell, a middle-aged couple who spent their entire marriage penning dimestore romance novels and who now find themselves at a crossroads.

“What else can they do but sequester themselves away in a rustic cabin in the woods owned by ardent fan Frieda Biddles and try to rekindle their pens and their passion?” a press release asks. “Sparks fly and ink is spilled, and just as it appears that their paths are leading them in different directions, their own stock Hero and Heroine, renamed in novel after novel, now present themselves, secretly unplotting the plot. Who is real? Who is writing who?” Sparlin appears as Frieda Biddles, while Stover is onstage as the Hero. The play opened April 24 and continues with shows tonight and tomorrow (April 25 and 26), then April 30 to May 3. Evening performances are at 8 p.m., and there’s also a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. on April 27. Call the box office at 604-927-6555 or see www.stage43.org for info and tickets.

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Comedy capers: From left, on couch: Gerald Williams as Richard Cresswell, Sue Sparlin as Frieda Biddles and Lynne Karey-McKenna as Peggy Cresswell in Seduced by Moonlight, playing at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam. They’re joined by Sian Sladen as the Heroine and Rob Stover as the Hero.

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hether you’re looking to make your heritage home energy-efficient, get entertained or take part in some great community events, you won’t have to travel far this weekend. We are continuing with our popular feature, The Record’s Top Five (or More) Things to Do This Weekend and offer the following suggestions for April 25 to 27. Learn how to make your heritage home more energy-efficient at the City of New Westminster’s 2014 Heritage Home Workshop, which will feature presentations and information booths. This interactive workshop includes presentations on maintaining and enhancing the heritage and character elements of older homes while improving their energy use through home upgrades. The free workshop takes place on Saturday, April 26 from 1 to 4 p.m. at city hall. To register, contact project coordinator Ryan Coleman at 604-515-3818 or rcoleman@newwestcity.ca. Help kick off LitFest New West with Double Exposure’s Bob Robertson and Linda Cullen. The comedy duo will be launching LitFest with a comedy retrospective and reception at the New Westminster Public Library on Friday, April 25 at 6:30 p.m. The library is located at 716 Sixth Ave. To reserve a seat, call 604-527-4667. Get some writing inspiration at LitFest New West, which takes place Saturday, April 26

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National secondhand store Value Village opens the doors to a new location in Queensborough on Thursday, May 15, bringing unexpected treasures and incredible deals to the community. This will be the 10th Value Village store in the greater Vancouver area. Through its unique business model of purchasing, reselling and recycling donated items, Value Village provides sustainable funding to nonprofit organizations, offers communities a smart way to shop, and saves more than 600 million pounds of goods from landfills each year – making Value Village one of the largest recyclers of used goods in the world. “We’re thrilled to bring our good deeds and great deals to local residents,” said Todd Pols, Value Village store manager. “We take great pride in working with our nonprofit partners and in looking after the environment, while at the same time providing our customers with the best selection and shopping experience of any secondhand store. Everyone likes to find a great deal, and people really love to support their local communities. We make it easy to do both.” The new store opens in conjunction with a rising thrift shopping trend, which is one of the fastest growing retail segments. Lifestyle, economy and social trends have contributed to the growth, including the popularity of do-it-yourself projects, a renewed interest in vintage clothing, and importantly, environment and budget-conscious consumers. Value Village stores have been rapidly growing in popularity among all types of shoppers – ranging from families on a budget to six-figure professionals. Carrying everything from clothing and accessories, to housewares, electronics and more, Value Village is no ordinary secondhand store and has more than 100,000 high quality items on its sales floor at any given time. Customers will find a fresh stream of value-priced goods including authentic vintage finds and name brand fashions, with 10,000 new items stocked to the floor daily.

Despite this large volume of merchandise, shoppers won’t spend hours shuffling through stacks of items. Value Village is clean, bright and well-organized with racks of men’s, women’s and children’s clothing sorted by category and size, and shelves of housewares, books and even electronics neatly labeled for an enjoyable shopping experience. Average prices include $3.99 - $7.99 for most men’s shirts; women’s dresses from $7.99 - $14.99; shoes and handbags for $7.99 on average; and books from $0.69. And where does Value Village get this impressive inventory? Each store partners with local nonprofits, paying the organizations for used merchandise collected at Community Donation Centres located on-site at Value Village stores or donated directly to the nonprofits. The new Queensborough store’s Community Donation Centre, which is now open, provides an easy, convenient way for residents to donate gently used clothing and household items. In the Queensborough community, Value Village has teamed up with Clothesline® in support of the Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA). This partnership turns otherwise unused goods into sustainable funding that supports the CDA’s vital mission to promote the health of Canadians through diabetes research education advocacy and services. Last year alone, Value Village paid $180 million to its collective nonprofit partners, and over the course of the past 10 years has paid more than $1.5 billion to help fund their local community programs and services. Located at 1135 Tanaka Court Suite 110, grand opening festivities begin Thursday, May 15, starting at 8:45 a.m. with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The new location will be open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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New West cadets take to the water AROUND TOWN

THERESA MCMANUS

ocal cadets recently honed their seamanship skills aboard the MV Curve of Time. Ten cadets of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Fraser spent four days at sea, where they learned the fundamentals of seamanship during regular training nights. From April 10 to 13, the cadets rotated through different stations, which saw them acting as lookout, helmsman, cook and navigator, as well as participating in a range of other training such as damage control to engine room rounds. “It’s exciting to bring the classroom skills to life,” said Lt. Bryan Watson, commanding officer of the corps. “It’s great to see the look of accomplishment on the

cadets’ faces as they plot their location and look out the windows to confirm that lighthouses and other features are where they would expect them to be based on the chart. You just can’t do that inside.” Fraser Sea Cadets and its sponsor, the Navy League of Canada, are grateful for the support that the New Westminster business community has shown in delivering its training program. “This sea time would not have been made possible without a $2,000 donation made by Amix Marine Services through its CEO, Willie Jackson,” stated a press release from Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Fraser. “It is wonderful to see the investment of local business in the development of future professional mariners, and we look forward to future partnerships as we deliver practical skills to youth in our community.” Fraser Sea Cadets welcomes youth aged 12 to 18 to join. The corps trains every

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Real estate is booming MOVERS & SHAKERS

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he real estate market in Metro Vancouver is blooming this spring. The Multiple Listing Service recorded a total of 6,661 residential sales in March, up 16.8 per cent from the same time last year, according to a British Columbia Real Estate Association report. Total sales dollar volume was $3.7 billion, an increase of 21.5 per cent compared to a year ago. The average MLS residential price in the province rose to $562,316, up four per cent from the same period last year. “While home sales are up from a year ago, consumer demand in the province has largely been treading water over the first quarter,” said Cameron Muir, the association’s chief economist in a media release. “However, fewer homes for sale means that most B.C. markets are moving

into balanced conditions, which signals no particular advantage to either home buyers or sellers.” “Low mortgage interest rates are a key driver in the market, this spring,” added Muir. “It’s unlikely that mortgage rates will be at their current low level a year from now.” During the first quarter, B.C. residential sales dollar volume was up 32.4 per cent to $9.5 billion, compared to the same period last year. Residential unit sales were up 21.1 per cent to 16,435 units, while the average MLS residential price was up 9.3 per cent at $579,775.

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New Westminster-based Fraserside Community Services Society has gone through a rigorous process to create its new five-year strategic plan. Fraserside’s vision is “to create communities of belonging where the diversity of all people is welcome.” The agency engaged in a process to define the future it wanted to create. Fraserside’s first three directions are rooted in the communities it serves, according to a media

release. They are: ! People belong when they find and maintain a home; ! Our sense of well-being is significantly determined by the contributions we make; and ! People thrive when they belong in relationships to individuals, groups and communities. Fraserside’s mission is to “support people needing housing, seeking work, with low-income/or having developmental disabilities, mental health or substance use issues.” Fraserside also created two strategic directions for the agency: A social-profit organization achieves its vision first, when it is sustainable and second, when it fosters the development of its most valuable asset – the employees and volunteers. Lynda Edmonds, chief executive officer of Fraserside, is excited about the way the plan was developed. “We had heartfelt conversations throughout the agency. It was inspiring to hear how the work of Fraserside is meaningful both to the people we serve and to the employees and volunteers,” she said in a media release.

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recently wrote of the many benefits of regular physical activity. These include improvements in cardiovascular fitness, sleep quality, mood and anxiety levels, and reductions in the risks for heart disease, stroke, diabetes and osteoporosis. In fact, doctors across B.C. have been writing their patients prescriptions for exercise. Of course, every treatment has potential side effects. Fortunately, these risks are by far outweighed by the benefits of exercise. Musculoskeletal injuries – strains, sprains and fractures – are the most common risks of exercise. The risks depend on your chosen activity, where you exercise and your individual risks. To reduce your risk for injuries, begin at a lower intensity (i.e. walk before you run, hop before you leap), use proper equipment (i.e. appropriate footwear, helmets and other protective equipment), a safe environment (i.e. a designated bike path) and expert assistance (i.e. coaching, training and supervision). The less common but serious risks of exercise include irregular heart rhythms, heart attacks and respiratory distress in those with asthma or chronic lung disease. Another rare risk is muscle injury so severe that it results in the rhabdomyolysis, the breakdown of muscle cells and kidney failure. To avoid these more serious complications, understand the risks of extreme exercise, including marathons and vigorous exercise in extreme weather conditions – and if you could be at increased risk by personal or family history, consult with your doctor. There is appropriate exercise for everyone but it has to be individualized according to your interests, physical condition and personal medical history. Like all prescriptions, the dose is important. You can overdose on exercise. Yes, regular aerobic activity with its release of feel-good endorphins

can be addictive. You’ll know you’ve been overexercising if you are getting more frequent colds, feel achy all over all the time, feel exhausted every day and suffer frequent injuries. Often the side effects of exercise are positive and unexpected. Almost 20 years ago, Dr. Don McKenzie of the McGavin Sport Medicine Centre at UBC put together a study group to dispel the myth that strenuous upper body exercise may cause lymphedema in women who have had breast cancer. After one year, no one in the study group developed lymphedema. As a positive side effect, the women discovered that they loved paddling together so much that they founded the Abreast in a Boat Society, the world’s first dragon boat team comprised of breast cancer survivors. The mission of the now approximately 165 members who paddle on five crews throughout the Lower Mainland is to raise awareness of breast cancer and to demonstrate that women diagnosed with breast cancer can enjoy full and active lives. For more information about these inspired women who serve as living symbols of hope, visit their website at www. abreastinaboat.com. The safest way to begin a more active lifestyle is to join the Doctors of B.C. on Saturday, May 3 at 9:30 a.m. for a free and fun two-kilometre walk at Vancouver’s Kitsilano Beach Park. I’ll be there with many of my colleagues, along with our patients. There won’t be a safer place to walk anywhere in town. All members of the public are invited, but come early to get your free pedometer. For more infor-

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t’s a Big Band Big Bang, and it’s happening right here this weekend. Two big bands are joining forces for a special fundraising concert this Sunday evening at the Columbia Theatre. The two bands, Impressions and Urbana, are run as part of the Arokis Centre of Music Society – a non-profit organization that’s dedicated to preserving and promoting big band music in Vancouver. The society was started up by the late Ray Sikora, a renowned musician from New Westminster. The bands continue to have connections to our fair city – the lead alto sax player from Impressions, Rob Fee, and the lead tenor sax player, Tim Kelly, are both from right here in New West. Check out www.arokis music.org for details.

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With gratitude Royal City Youth Ballet has paid tribute to one of the leading lights in the city’s arts community. The ballet company held a special celebration on Sunday, April 13 at the NAPA Dance Studio to mark Dolores Kirkwood’s 25 years as artistic director. “It is her vision, commitment and strength that has helped make us the organization that we are,” wrote Donna Fishwick in an email to The Record. Camilla Fishwick was also welcomed on board as the new artistic director, with Trisha Sinosich-

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