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WAYNE WRIGHT SAYS HE’S SHOOTING FOR A FIFTH TERM AS CITY’S MAYOR

It’s a two-way race – so far

BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

A trip Down Under helped Wayne Wright decide he’s not quite ready to sail into the sunset just yet.

Wright, who was first elected mayor in 2002, has announced he’ll seek a fifth term as New Westminster’s mayor. He made the decision after discovering he was antsy after week two of a five-week summer vacation in Australia “In five weeks, a guy like me finds out that he can’t sit still too long, and he still has things he wants to do,” he said. “You start looking at it and thinking, ‘what’s my future and do I want to retire?’ The fact of the matter is, I don’t want to retire.”

In 2011, Wright swept to a fourth term as mayor of New Westminster with 62 per cent of support from voters, topping challenges by local residents James Crosty, Vance McFadyen and Francois Nantel.

“I have got some things I want to do. I still have the energy, I still have the ability and the knowledge,” Wright said. “I am at the top of my game right now.”

Incumbent Coun. Jonathan Cote announced earlier this summer that he would be running for mayor.

“I would say this to Jonathan himself, if he wins this election, then he deserves it,” Wright said. “There’s a big job ahead for everybody to do it; you just have to be prepared. I know what’s needed and I can do it. I have the abilities. There is no question.”

Wright: ‘Don’t change the wheel if it’s not broken,’ says incumbent mayor

Cote: A ‘fresh perspective and some new energy,’ says challenger

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While many prominent local New Democrats have indicated they’ll be supporting Cote in his bid for mayor - many who supported Wright in the past - Wright doesn’t think all

residents will be casting votes based on party lines.

“I have always tried to be fair for everybody - it didn’t matter what the politics are,” he said. “I think I have done a fairly decent job with that.”

Wright believes his experience at city hall, as well as his roles with Metro Vancouver, TransLink and the Mayors Council on regional transportation, are assets to being mayor.

“I am so pleased with what’s been going on, and we have been so successful. I think we are on the right track and should keep on the same way,” he said. “With the experience I have and the knowledge I have now, I really feel like I want to contribute more.”

While there are development projects to continue working on, Wright believes his experience will help make the Queensborough to Quay pedestrian crossing a reality. He cites developments to address homeless people and seniors as some of his proudest achievements as mayor.

“There’s no use changing anything that is going right.

Don’t change the wheel if it’s not broken, is the old adage,” he said. “The most important thing is I have the ability to show the leadership needed here.”

Wright cites the Anvil Centre, the business office tower complex at Anvil Centre, the Wait for Me Daddy war memorial statute and Honour House as some of the notable accomplishments in his most recent term as mayor.

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Cleo survives 17-storey fall of his beloved feline, whom he’d brought home only six months earlier. He searched the SkyTrain platform and overhang below, in case she’d landed or fallen A New West man’s worst nightmare came true as there, but Cleo was nowhere to be found so Isfeld he watched his cat Cleo leap off the balcony of his continued his search.

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“I figured maybe she somehow recovered from the Cleo, Joel Isfeld’s eight-month-old savannah cat, fall and got onto one of the neighbours’ balconies, or managed to sneak on to the balcony of one of the ledges of the building below,” To see a video his Plaza 88 apartment on Sunday night. he said. of Cleo, scan with Layar, or In a matter of minutes, Cleo was on the The building’s security guard let Isfeld go to www. railing, and before Isfeld could react, he on every floor of the building to ask other royalcityrecord. watched his cat jump right off. residents if they’d seen his cat. com “It was very traumatic,” he told The “I got them all to search their balconies, Record Tuesday afternoon. “I was frantito no avail,” he said. cally searching and looking below to see if the cat was On Monday, when Cleo still hadn’t turned up, splattered all over the bottom.”

Isfeld, who had stayed home from work to continue Isfeld didn’t see Cleo below, so he set out in search ◗Cleo Page 8

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Safe and sound: Cleo the cat is unscathed following a harrowing adventure that began Sunday night when the eight-month-old feline leapt from her owner’s 17th floor balcony at Plaza 88.

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THE MAN WHO NEARLY DIED AND THE WOMAN WHO HELPED SAVE HIM MEET AGAIN

‘I just thought, ‘This is it ...’

BY CORNELIA NAYLOR REPORTER editorial@royalcityrecord.com

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year ago this spring, a New Westminster woman and a Burnaby man met under unusual circumstances in the Kootenays – on the undercarriage of a 2007 Toyota Matrix flipped upside down in an icy, swift-flowing creek.

Frank Barbosa was unconscious, his lungs filled with water; Lisa Collyer was scooping water and mucus out of his mouth and nose, and yelling for him to stay with her.

The pair met again this week under happier circumstances in downtown New West, with Collyer accepting a St. John Ambulance life-saving award for her actions that day, and Barbosa – a husband and father of two – alive, conscious, and there to show his gratitude.

Their first meeting was April 20, 2013.

Collyer, a Douglas College hotel management student, was on her way from New West to Rossland on a sunny spring day to work at a hotel for the summer.

Twenty minutes outside Christina Lake, she drove around a bend on Highway 3B and saw a group of people clustered by the side of the road, looking down a steep embankment.

She stopped and saw a vehicle flipped upside down in the creek below, one man lying lifeless on its undercarriage with another man trying to provide first aid while yet another man splashed around in the icy water, trying to see if anyone else was trapped inside.

Minutes before, Barbosa had been driving his Matrix in the opposite direction, back to Burnaby, when he hit a patch of gravel coming around a sharp curve.

The Matrix had skidded out of control and tumbled down the 20foot embankment.

“Then all I remember was hearing a lot of noise, a lot of brush in front of me,” he said.

He blacked out briefly, he said, and when he came to he was trapped upside down in his seatbelt, his squashed vehicle filling with water.

“I could feel the water in my lungs,” he said. “My head was fully immersed.”

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Saved: Above, Christina Lake Fire and Rescue personnel prepare to extract Burnaby’s Frank Barbosa from an icy Kootenay stream in April 2013.

Left, Barbosa poses with New Westminster’s Lisa Collyer, who received an award Monday for helping to save him.

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him crash into the creek, and even if someone had, he didn’t think he stood much of a chance of being rescued.

“I just thought, ‘This is it,’” he said. “I didn’t really panic much. I just made my peace with God and accepted it. And the next thing I remember was being on top of the highway.” onths after the crash, other vague memories would come back to him as well: a woman’s voice asking about his family, a woman holding his hand.

Someone had seen him tumble off the embankment.

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two separate cars – stopped, slid down the steep bank and jumped into the frigid, chest-high water.

Unable to open any of the doors, they smashed a window, and Vandervelden dove in, cut Barbosa loose and pulled him out.

But neither man knew CPR, according to Collyer.

By the time she arrived, they had turned the unconscious Barbosa on his side on the undercarriage of the Matrix after giving him a few “chest thumps” (the phrase used by one of the men in police reports) with help from an off-duty nurse shouting instructions from the top of the embankment.

Collyer soon slid down the bank and stepped into the fastflowing creek to help.

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“I had to climb down quite a steep embankment to get to him – and as I was stepping my first foot into the river, my brain kind of said, ‘Should I really be doing this?’ Then you just think, ‘Forget it; there’s someone here who needs my help.’”

Soon she was on the undercarriage of the Matrix with Barbosa, while Henderson and Vandervelden searched the submerged car for passengers.

“He was blue; he had lots of water in his lungs,” Collyer said of Barbosa. “He had a lot of bile and sludge coming out, so what I really did was clear his airways.

I could, at that point, feel a very slight pulse.”

She stayed with him for more

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ONLY TWO NEW WESTMINSTER TRUSTEES CONFIRM THEY’LL RUN AGAIN

Trustees say they’re undecided about running ELECTION ’14

BY NIKI HOPE REPORTER

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There are a lot of undecided school trustees in New Westminster.

Only two incumbent trustees out of seven have confirmed to The Record they will seek re-election in this fall’s civic race for a seat on the board of education.

Local residents will vote on Nov. 15 for who they believe will best represent the interests of students in the Royal City.

Trustees James Janzen and Jonina Campbell say their names will be on the ballot, while trustees Michael Ewen, Casey Cook, David Phelan and Lisa Graham said they haven’t made up their minds yet.

Trustee MaryAnn Mortensen could not be reached at press time to say whether she will seek re-election.

Trustees earn an annual stipend of between approximately $21,500 to $23,800 and will serve a four-year term – a bump up from the previous three years.

Ewen, the longest serving sitting trustee in the province (35 years), wouldn’t confirm his candidacy, but said, “It’s unlikely that I won’t run, put it that way.

“There are things I want to finish off still, such as obviously the secondary school and finances,” he said.

He wants to wait to see who all of the candidates are before he makes his decision, Ewen added.

“I don’t feel the need to run forever, I just want to see who’s running. I want to make sure that we have a good, progressive group of people that are going to run,” he said.

Janzen confirmed he would seek re-election with a goal to make sure that even in tough times vulnerable students are protected with such offerings as lunch programs and alternate schools.

Graham was on the fence about her candidacy, saying, “I haven’t made up my mind entirely.

“I’m just staring to think about it,” she said.

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Phelan is also undecided.

“The big thing is all of the different commitments - my job, my wife’s job,” he said.

Phelan is a faculty associate in the teacher education program at SFU and his wife is a vice-principal in the Surrey school district. They also have two boys, ages seven and nine, who are busy with sports.

Phelan noted that the school district is in better shape since superintendent John Gaiptman took the reigns

earlier this year.

Meanwhile, Campbell confirmed her run for re-election to the board last month when she also announced that she would co-chair – along with Coun. Bill Harper – Coun. Jonathan Cote’s bid for the mayor’s seat.

“These have been a few challenging years, but I really feel 2014 is a year when we have begun to turn things around,” she said, citing the building of two new schools, a new board office and the efforts of board and the superintendent to work with the Ministry of Education on the district’s finances.

“But I really feel like there is still a lot to do,” Campbell added.

Cook couldn’t yet say if he would run again, and likely won’t make the decision until the Oct. 10 nomination deadline.

It’s been a “very, very trying three years,” he said, though he added that the district has benefited greatly from Gaiptman’s guidance.

“What John Gaiptman has done in eight months is absolutely extraordinary,” he said, noting that procedures are being followed and decision-making is much more principled since the new superintendent came on.

“It’s encouraging,” he said.

Cook is currently the commissioner of the Western Lacrosse Association – a role that he said is also very demanding.

“I need to make decisions on both of those fronts,” he said, referring to the school board role and the lacrosse job. ◆ Voters will also have to make some decisions at the polls in November. There will likely be a new crop of trustee hopefuls announcing their candidacy in the coming weeks.

To follow The Record’s coverage on social media, use the hashtag #elxnNW. And for breaking election news and special election coverage go to our website: www.royalcity record.com

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Seems hard to keep Clark in the legislature premier, she’s scheduled to arrive in For a woman who campaigned hard New Delhi just two days after the start (twice) for a seat in the B.C. legisof the fall session. lature, Premier Christy Clark sure MLAs will tell you they’re hard at doesn’t seem to like the place very work when they’re not in much.

Victoria, and a quick look at With only 24 days schedtheir social media feeds will uled for MLAs to sit in their THE RECORD confirm there are a lot of barhard-earned Victoria seats becues and wine tastings and for the rest of this year, Clark ribbon cuttings to get through. has scheduled herself a trade mission There’s not a single MLA who camto India for 10 of them. paigned to represent us on the barHer sixth India trip since becoming

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becue circuit. Each and every one of them was elected to represent us in the legislature, and they already spend far too little time there.

Now, we don’t fault the premier for trying to advance our business interests abroad, and maybe while she’s there she can get some pointers on why their middle class is rising as ours is shrinking away.

But we have to ask why the trade trip couldn’t have been scheduled for

any of the 294 days this year that the legislature was reduced to a tourist attraction?

A cynic might suggest it’s the best way to avoid scrutiny and needling from the opposition while there’s an ongoing crisis in public education.

Or it could be that some of her old friends and supporters are now up on charges under the Elections Act. Whatever the case, we’d much rather she be front and centre.

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cle, I have learned of many other e: Soccer plan would save residents in the neighbourhood the stadium, The Record, Sept. 5. Mr. Brett’s analogy who would have voted had they known to do so. about Queen’s Park Stadium Since this article ran, Mr. Brett going the way of the buffalo has outlined the machinations of was quite apt – indeed if the this vote in an email he sent to Whitecaps proposal does not another concerned resident. He proceed, the historic stadium advises “50 votes were counted, will continue to survive within of which 58 per cent of them a beautiful park environment, were yes votes.” By just as the bison does my math, that breaks today. down to 21 against What isn’t apt is his purported representaELIZABETH STAFFORD the proposal and 29 in favour. It is perplextion of the residents ing to me that Mr. of the Queen’s Park Brett would stand in solidarity neighbourhood. I was shocked with the Whitecaps when so few to read your article in which Mr. residents actually supported Brett advises that the Queen’s their proposal.

Park residents support the proI question why he did not posal. He indicates that his association put it to a vote and 58 per disclose at this press conference the small number of people cent voted in favour of it. who voted. Or, if he did disI live within 100 metres of close it, why it wasn’t reported. the baseball stadium, and I had (Kudos to Mr. Woods of the no idea this vote took place. I New Westminster Chamber of received nothing in the mail Commerce who was more forthor at my door. There were no coming with the numbers in the notices on the neighbourhood’s chamber’s poll.) telephone poles. I did not read Insinuating at this press conabout it in the papers (given that ference the neighbourhood resiMr. Brett has the clout to call a press conference to announce the dents are in favour of this proposal when only 29 people voted result of this vote, he no doubt could have issued a press release for it is extremely misleading. I urge the city and city council to to announce the commencement place little weight on the results of it). At no time did the associaof this vote. tion hold a residents’ meeting to Despite being named the discuss and debate the proposal.

Queen’s Park Residents’ As I have a vested interest in the outcome, I am extremely dis- Association, it does not represent all the residents in the neighappointed the association made bourhood. In this case, it no effort to alert me about this represents 50 members who vote.

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Keep Queen’s Park for the public

Dear Editor:

Re: Soccer plan would save the stadium, The Record, Sept. 5.

I am concerned with sudden declarations that the Queen’s Park Stadium is going the way of the buffalo and that the soccer plan would save it. I do not remember any discussion about losing the stadium. When was the decision made that it was in jeopardy?

First of all, I don’t like the sudden hype and deadlines being set to put pressure on the city and its residents. And I do not like amateur sports, whether soccer, baseball or whatever, put at the back of the bus in what has been a public park for years.

Secondly, this stadium is not the property of the Queen’s Park residents, regardless of the 58 per cent vote in favour on a 27 per cent response rate of 375 ◗Stadium Page 7 residents. It belongs to all of us. It is a public facil-

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ity and since New Westminster has the lowest, if not one of the lowest, park space per capita in the Lower Mainland, it should remain public.

What we are being asked to do is basically give our park facility, in whole or in part, to a private professional soccer club for a good part of the year. I understand the chamber of commerce is excited about the city entering an acceptable financial arrangement with these private entrepreneurs.

What is this financial arrangement? Are the taxpayers across this city going to have to pony up and for how much?

I do not recall the details, but the cities of Surrey and Abbotsford were both left to pick up large debts left behind when sports franchises went under.

Let me say again, we have few enough public park facilities, and I do not agree with handing any of them over to private, for-profit sports enterprises.

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Dear Editor:

It’s disturbing to hear our city officials refer to the “deteriorated” condition of the Queen’s Park Stadium. It’s disturbing because it matches what I would expect to hear from private contractors seeking another taxpayer-financed project.

I’m a structural engineer licensed in Canada and half a dozen states in the U.S. I’ve been to the Queen’s Park Stadium a number of times and observed no problems beyond the superficial and cosmetic. I saw nothing worse than minor areas of spalled concrete that can be easily repaired. Steelreinforced concrete structures require little maintenance and, in the absence of cataclysmic events like earthquakes, sinkholes, etc., they can last almost indefinitely.

I have heard no reports of specific hidden damage or seen anything to suggest that the fundamental stadium structure is less sound than when it was built.

Homeowners don’t tear down their houses when it’s time to paint. This exceptional asset is already bought and paid for. It should not be undervalued.

We should look to Europe as an example for building and preserving public facilities. Big Ben and the Tower Bridge are not on the chopping block; and they’re much older than the stadium, the Front Street parkade and the Pattullo Bridge combined.

Instead, we seem to embrace a “build it and tear it down” mentality. The Front Street parkade structure is the most fitfor-purpose structure I can imagine for its location. The top floor is a great candidate for a public park where visitors can be above the train and truck traffic with exceptional views of the Fraser.

As a bonus, keeping the parkade would preserve hundreds of covered public parking places. It’s the perfect structure for that spot, it’s already there, and it’s already paid for.

Sadly, I understand that much of it will be torn down next month to accommodate a “mews” at ground level. Just how nice

can a mews be if it is next to a freight train track and essentially on the shoulder of a truck route? I don’t get it.

We pay our city officials well to screen out dumb ideas and to work above inappropriate influences. It’s getting difficult to maintain the faith.

Jerry Johnson, New Westminster

One act of kindness shows quality of city’s teachers

Dear Editor:

Recently, I had an experience that I think needs to be shared with your readers. I witnessed one of our teachers from our POWER Program buying breakfast for a student who seemed to be in need of a proper meal.

It was a stark reminder that too many of our students live in conditions that don’t meet their basic needs.

A teacher buying a student breakfast is an impressive story on its own.

What makes this story even more remarkable is that this student, knowledgeable that schools were not in session, still went to her school to seek out her teacher.

For so many of our students, it will always be the adult in the classroom that students turn to when they are in need of help.

The other reason that this story is so compelling is that the teacher, in the midst of a prolonged strike, still bought the student breakfast and offered the student a compassionate ear.

My reason for writing this letter is not to add one more voice to what seems like an overcrowded debate regarding the current labour impasse.

I think I wrote this letter to remind everybody how fortunate we are in New Westminster to have the quality of teachers that will always put the needs of students first and to remind myself that I am very fortunate to be able to work with such amazing teacher colleagues.

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participated in the association’s vote. Further, no effort appears to have been made to expand the vote beyond the members of the association.

Of course, without a feasibility study being disclosed by the city, any opinion regarding this proposal is being made in a vacuum. I find it peculiar the city is soliciting the opinions of its citizens when it has failed to disclose the true cost of this

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without this full disclosure and the ensuing community debate it would generate.

If the city had allowed its citizens more information and time to digest this proposal, perhaps the Queen’s Park Residents’ Association could have taken the time to reach out to the whole of the community it purports to represent.

Elizabeth Stafford is a resident of the Queen’s Park neighbourhood.

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his search, grabbed a pair of binoculars and headed across the street to the Inn at the Quay to see if he could spot her from there – no dice, the cat was gone.

But Isfeld wouldn’t give up. He said he went “wild” trying to find Cleo, posting on Facebook, talking to his neighbours, calling the SPCA and even considering hiring a pet search company that uses blood hounds to find missing animals.

After exhausting nearly all avenues, Isfeld got a phone call from the building’s security guard around 10 p.m. on Monday night – Cleo had been found.

“She had somehow made her way over to the adjoining building’s courtyard area, and she was found on the ninth floor,” Isfeld said. “Somehow she had landed the fall and made it over to the adjoining courtyard garden area.”

Other than being a little shaken up with

a wee scratch on her nose, Cleo was completely unscathed, a “kitty miracle” if you ask Isfeld.

“Being in an apartment building you always think, ‘OK, the last thing I want is for my cat to fall off the balcony.’ It was my worst nightmare coming to fruition in front of my eyes,” he said. “It was really, really terrible and shocking.”

Two days after the traumatic event, Isfeld was still in shock. He has a second cat that has never attempted anything as adventurous as this and figures it must be Cleo’s age or breed that sparked the jump.

“I was in total shock and disbelief because I’ve always been very careful with her because, being a savannah cat, she’s a little bit more wild than most domestic cats. She’s very high energy, and she’s still a baby kitten as well,” he said.

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With veteran councillor Betty McIntosh retiring and Cote running for mayor, Wright believes the city would be best served by a mayor with experience in the role. Along with Cote, he’s heard rumblings there could be another one or two candidates vying to be New Westminster’s mayor.

“With new people coming in you want leadership there,” he said. “I am pretty certain I can work with anybody, whoever it is that comes forward. I don’t have any doubt I can work with the council of the day.”

Cote believes the race will ultimately come down to a choice between himself and Wright.

“The city is really going to have to make a decision: do we want to move forward in the future with a change and a new perspective or do we want to stay with the status quo?” he said. “I am hearing from a lot of people on the doorsteps that they are saying they voted for Wayne in the past but

they think it’s time for a change and a new perspective in the mayor’s office.”

Cote believes he can bring “a fresh perspective and some new energy” to the mayor’s chair.

“If we are going to look at the contrasts between me and Wayne, certainly when Wayne first arrived in the mayor’s office 12 years ago, the city really needed someone to sell the city. He’s been a good booster mayor. Having said that, I think I’d bring much more of a policy approach,” said Cote, who recently completed his master’s degree in urban studies at Simon Fraser University.

“Even though our city is going to be facing some really complex issues in the coming years, I think someone that can provide a more thoughtful approach and a more planned process is going to serve the city very well. I think both Wayne and myself have always had a vision for moving the city forward and looking at ways to improve the city, but to me I think we need someone with the background to address some of the challenging issues we are going to face. That really does involve proper planning.”

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Collyer and the two men, and all three have since been recommended by than 40 minutes before emergency crews Harrison for a Commanding Officer’s arrived, she said.

Commendation for Bravery from the “The undercarriage was maybe three RCMP. inches above the water line. I pretty much “It was just a team effort by a bunch of had to lie on top of the guy to hold him people that, out of the goodness of their down once he started to regain consciousheart, stopped to save him,” ness. He started freaking out.”

Harrison said. “It a was a very They talked of God and selfless act on the part of all his family, Collyer said, but three. We’re talking spring Barbosa remembers little of “It was just a runoff. It was an extremely those 40 minutes. team effort by a fast and deep creek running “I remember being really through there and very, very cold and shaking,” he said. bunch of people cold.”

When emergency crews that, out of the Back in New Westminster, arrived, the three who had meanwhile, Collyer was prehelped to save Barbosa’s life, goodness of their sented Monday evening with were told brusquely to stay out heart, stopped to a life-saving certificate and of the way – an action Grand commended for her “selfless Forks RCMP Staff Sgt. Jim save him.” actions, teamwork and for her Harrison called an “unfortuknowledge and use of first aid nate miscommunication.”

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First conference set for new Anvil Centre ◗P14 Lively City: Ring a bell, write a story, share some art ◗P22

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The big reveal: Anvil Centre

Fresh face: The new Anvil Centre, at far left, has become part of the downtown streetscape.

Below, Mayor Wayne Wright on a tour of the new centre.

It cost more than $40 million, took three years to build and will change the very nature of downtown New Westminster. Reporter Theresa McManus takes us on a tour before the centre’s grand opening on Sunday

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he City of New Westminster is putting out the welcome mat at the long-awaited opening of Anvil Centre.

Community members are invited to attend the grand opening of the new conference and cultural facility at 777 Columbia St. on Sunday. Prior to the grand opening, Anvil Centre was set to host its first conference on Thursday, a gala dinner on Friday and another conference on Saturday.

“I think this one is going to blow their socks off,” Mayor Wayne Wright told local media during a preview tour of the centre.

Anvil Centre includes conference space, a theatre seating up to 364 people, the city’s museum, a new media gallery, cultural studio space and the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

The first floor of Anvil Centre is home to a conference centre, the Tourism New Westminster visitor information centre and a boardroom that can serve as a bridal room.

“The bride and bridesmaids can come in here after the ceremony,” said Vali Marling, executive director of Anvil Centre. “They can refresh, they can have a glass of wine.”

Weddings are just one of the

events scheduled to be held in Anvil Centre.

Heidi Hughes, director of sales and marketing for Anvil Centre, said more than 100 events are confirmed or in the works, ranging in size from 60 to 400 guests. Local community groups, major financial institutions, environmental companies, unions and crown corporations have booked space in the conference facility in the years ahead.

The glass windows facing Columbia Street have been designed so they’re able to open on to the street.

“One of the really cool things about the building that the clients love is that the entire front of the building opens up,” Marling said.

“People can move in and out off of the sidewalk.”

That feature will come in handy in the future, when a BMW is wheeled into the building as part of one of the upcoming conferences.

Level 2 is home to a reading room, where people will be able to peruse some of the city’s archival materials such as maps, newspaper clippings and books – some dating back to the 1850s. A gift shop will also be located on the second floor in the future.

For more photos, scan with Layar, and for a photo gallery of the tour go to www. royalcityrecord. com

The third floor of Anvil gallery, it gets younger as you get Centre will be an action-packed toward the back. The idea is by place, as that’s where the state- the time you get to the end of the of-the-art theatre, new media galleries, you’ve come to the end gallery, a community art space, of the most recent history of New New Westminster Museum and Westminster.”

Archives, and Canadian Lacrosse While content in the final galHall of Fame are locatlery ends in about MORE ANVIL NEWS 1985, the city’s ongoed.

Rob McCullough, ing history will play Opening day: the city’s manager out in an area known The day’s schedule. of cultural services, as Gallery 7. It will See page 12 is excited to let the feature exhibits that New media gallery: public in to the city’s are relevant to today’s The folks behind it. new museum space in community and seek See page 17 Anvil Centre. to engage discussion.

“We go back 10,000 “In today’s world, years with our collection, there- we don’t just display things on fore we are taking our story back a pedestal, we don’t just look at 10,000 years and connecting with things in a case,” McCullough some of the local First Nations said. “We want people to engage in the content, and also bringing with the content, to engage with it forward to the early explorers the stories.”

A literary event will be the – Simon Fraser, and then moving on to the Royal Engineers,” first cultural event in the theatre, he said. “As you start with each which is equipped with seats that

can be reconfigured in a number of ways depending on the need.

Level 4 houses a variety of studios (where course will be offered starting this month), music practice rooms, a dance studio and a new media studio space where people can work on projects. A “community living room” provides a space where people can interact with other community members, wait for children while they’re taking classes or take advantage of a WiFi connection.

After touring the building for the first time in a few months, Wright said it’s “perfect.” While there’s an excitement that comes with opening a new facility, he said the important part is what comes later.

“It’s not how you start, but it’s how you finish,” he said. “We have to keep going and keep at it.”

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Anvil: Tour ◗ continued from page 11

Lisa Spitale, the city’s chief administrative officer, said the planning process considered how to make Anvil Centre a hub of energy and contribute to the downtown revitalization. With many of the spaces in the building designed to be flexible, she said it will be interesting to watch it unfold in the years ahead.

“I think this is going to be a really awesome place in about a year or two, when it starts gelling,” she said. “It will be really cool watching the evolution.”

Coun. Jonathan Cote, a member of the Anvil Centre task force, believes the civic centre and the office tower will have a huge impact on the downtown.

“That activity is going to spill out into the whole downtown neighbourhood and really transform the neighbourhood. It is going to be one piece of the puzzle of the changes we have seen in our downtown. I think New Westminster having a strong revitalized downtown is important. This centre and the building above it is one piece of the puzzle.”

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festive atmosphere is expected as the city opens the doors to Anvil Centre on Sunday.

The grand opening of the city’s first conference and cultural facility is taking place on Sunday, Sept. 14 from noon to 6 p.m. at 777 Columbia St. A photo booth with fun costumes to “picture yourself at Anvil Centre,” roving performers, a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1:30 p.m., and a visit from hitchBOT (a robot that’s been travelling across Canada) are among the festivities place outside, where the streets will be closed off for the party.

For folks who have been anxious to get inside the new civic facility, there will be no shortage of activities to enjoy.

Along with entertainment and

music in a world transformed by technology” in the third floor gallery. ◆ Hall of Famers will welcome visitors to the new home of the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame. ◆ Local artists will help unveil the first exhibit in the community art space on the third floor. ◆ Todd de Vries will demonstrate traditional First Nations weaving techniques, in anticipation of the museum’s upcoming temporary exhibition, Baskets for Barter. ◆ Music will fill the city’s newest theatre, where programming will highlight the room’s acoustic and give folks a chance to hear some of New Westminster’s musical talent. ◆ The media room will feature a construction display

showing a video time lapse of Anvil Centre pre-construction to post construction. ◆ Dance companies will be putting on performances in the dance room on the fourth floor.

In the coming weeks, the City of New Westminster is planning “sampler weeks” where people can sign up for one day of programs to get a taste of what classes being offered in Anvil Centre.

Programs getting underway this month include music, art, theatre, puppet and printmaking programs for kids and arts courses for adults.

Plans are also in the works to invite the community in to check out the facility’s offerings at a “Night at the Anvil” event every six weeks or so.

–Theresa McManus

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First conference set for Anvil Centre

New West Chamber of Commerce hosts B.C. gathering

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The New Westminster Chamber of Commerce is putting out the welcome mat for chamber members from around British Columbia.

The B.C. Chamber Executive

Association is presenting its annual general meeting and conference in New Westminster, starting at the Inn at the Quay and then moving to the Anvil Centre as the facility’s second conference. The conference, which began yesterday and runs until Sept. 13, features a variety of speakers and topics designed to support chamber executives in their work supporting business within their B.C. communities.

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We are the heartbeat of Metro Vancouver.”

The theme of the conference is Made in B.C., as the association believes British Columbia has an abundance of talent, knowledge and experience that make chambers of commerce better at supporting business in B.C. The conference features pre-

executive director of the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce, is excited to show off the city’s assets to the 100 or so chamber leaders who will be coming to town from across British Columbia.

“This is the first time New Westminster has ever hosted it,” she said. “I think there’s a lot of perception out there of the New Westminster of yesteryear. What we want to do is bring those folks to New Westminster and

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The New Westminster Chamber of Commerce is looking forward to hosting its conference in Anvil Centre and demonstrating that New Westminster is a destination for people from across the province.

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Gallery directors have global reach

BY NIKI HOPE REPORTER

nhope@royalcityrecord.com

They have held highlevel positions in the iconic modern art galleries of London and are now bringing their global expertise to the New Media Gallery at New Westminster’s Anvil Centre.

Husband-and-wife team Sarah Joyce and Gordon Duggan are the curators and directors at the local gallery that will show new media art – a medium that uses technology and unconventional materials to convey ideas.

“New media art is contemporary art, first of all, which is a very important distinction,” Joyce says.

“It’s not different than other types of art. It is art, but artists who use new media use unconventional materials.

Since the beginning of art, artists have used the latest technology. … What new media artists are doing is they are actually using the materials of today – so they are using video, robotics, interactive technology, light, sound,” explains Duggan.

If their impressive resumés are any indication, the couple knows their stuff when it comes to new media

art. Joyce previously worked as a conservator at London’s famed Tate Modern Gallery, and Duggan was the electronic media manager for the Lisson Gallery, one of the oldest contemporary commercial galleries in the United Kingdom.

The glamorous jobs took them all over the world, but it was family that brought them to British Columbia, where they stayed to care for aging family members.

The couple left the high-art world of London, settling for the slow pace of life on Denman Island.

A move to New Westminster came after they landed their new jobs with the New Media Gallery in March. They’ve spent the last few months pouring all of their combined experience and connections into building an art gallery they expect will be a magnet for art lovers in the city and beyond.

“The gallery will focus on international, national and regional, so the gallery will bring in some of the top artists,” Joyce says. “It’s really, really exciting for us, because we have worked around the world with international-level artists, this is really attractive. Our

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Art scene: Sarah Joyce and Gordon Duggan , curators/directors at the new Media Gallery at Anvil Centre, which is slated to open Sept. 14, bring their international expertise to the city gallery. Behind them is a video installation piece by Marco Brambilla, called Civilization, which “kind of hit the world by storm,” Joyce says. focus is always quality in everything we do.”

The plan is to hold five to six exhibits a year – the first is called MUSICIRCUS and focuses on music and technology.

“You must be fresh in people’s mind,” Duggan.

“You want people to come back. I think if you wait too long they kind of drift off.”

The New Media Gallery was established by the City

of New Westminster in March and officially opens on Sunday, along with the rest of the Anvil Centre (see story page 11). The gallery is located at the top of Anvil Centre’s grand staircase.

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Life as an introvert in an extroverted world HEALTHWISE

DR. DAVIDICUS WONG

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hough the current stress for many parents is arranging daycare and keeping kids productively occupied until our schools reopen, September is a month of anticipation, relief and anxiety. It depends on who you are (student, parent or teacher) and where you fall in the spectrum of introversion and extroversion.

An introverted child may find new teachers, group activities and speaking out in class incredibly uncomfortable and daunting. In fact, some parents choose to homeschool because of this.

Our place along the continuum of introversion and extroversion seems to be a hardwired aspect of personality and physiology. Although many are somewhere between the extremes of introversion and extroversion, at least a third of the people you

know are introverted.

If you’re introverted, you may prefer reading a book at home to going out to a party. You need to reflect before you speak, and you may find social interactions with multiple people emotionally draining. You need time alone to recharge your batteries.

Extroverts, on the other hand, thrive on social interaction and in fact are energized by people. They may need to express themselves in order to figure out what they’re thinking.

In her bestseller, Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain outlines the neuroscience, psychology and sociology that explains the differences and relative strengths and gifts of introverts and extroverts.

She describes how our western society is biased towards an extrovert ideal.

We favour charismatic leaders, people who speak out and control meetings, and the gregarious and outgoing.

Our classrooms and workplaces often favour extroverts who feel more comfortable working in groups and shouting out the answers to the teach-

Chor Leoni announces New West concert Local choral fans, here’s a date you may want to save.

Chor Leoni has announced its new season, and the acclaimed men’s choir will be performing in New West for Remembrance Day. The choir is bringing its special concert, A Great Service, to Queens Avenue United Church on Saturday, Nov. 8.

Christopher Gaze of Bard on the Beach fame will be joining the choir as a guest reader, reading prose by Robert Service.

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Beautifully written and researched, Cain’s book is a must read for teachers, employers, parents and partners of introverts. It will change the way you see and value introverts, and if you’re an introvert, it will change how you see yourself.

In workplaces with an open office design without privacy, more introverted employees will be more uncomfortable and less productive.

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meetings, they may not hear the creative insights of the more introverted who do some of their best work alone.

In the classroom, group activities do not bring the best out of more introverted students. The brightest are not always the first to press the buzzer.

Susan Cain’s book offers practical advice for introverts on self-acceptance and appreciation, understanding extroverts with whom they live and work, when to act more extroverted, and

the importance of finding restorative niches to recharge themselves.

The marriage of an introvert and extrovert can be both challenging and rewarding. Extroverts may say things they don’t mean and thrive on conflict; introverts can be more sensitive to their words.

Each partner needs to understand how the other needs solitude or social engagement. Cain offers insights to improve mutual understanding and honouring one another’s

natures.

Our society is enriched by a variety of cultures, temperaments and personalities. Introverts have great ideas, feelings and insights to share, and with better understanding, we can nurture their strengths at school, at work and at home.

Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician. His Healthwise column appears regularly in this paper. You can read more about achieving your positive potential in health at davidicuswong. wordpress.com.

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Ring a bell, write a story, share some art Members wanted

THE LIVELY CITY JULIE MACLELLAN

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indeed: “What do Japanese monks, Australian Aborigines, Indian classical musicians, African shamans and mad scientists have in common?”

Absolutely nothing, you say? True – except for the fact that they’re all apparently musical inspirations behind the band Dumpsta Dragons.

Dumpsta Dragons is a musical trio who perform on instruments that range from thousands of years old to recently invented, and they’re offering up their unique musical style as part of an ArtStarts presentation at River Market.

The presentation is part of Culture Days celebrations, and it’s taking place on Sunday, Sept. 28 at 11 a.m. and again at 1 p.m.

It’s geared at kids but will undoubtedly be enjoyed by all.

Check out www.river market.ca for more details about the workshop and other happenings at the market.

Want to get involved with the Royal City Literary Arts Society?

Curious what it’s all about?

The group is holding a membership drive on Saturday, Sept. 20 from 1 to 4 p.m.

The special event is being held at the Heritage Grill, 447 Columbia St., and will feature readings

by Margaret Thompson, Carol Sokoloff and Richard Olafson. It’s hosted by Candice James and will also include an open mike session.

New members will be able to join for only $10 at the event. Check out www. rclas.com for more.

Ring a bell

Want to try ringing handbells?

Queens Avenue United Church is welcoming new members for its handbell ensemble, meeting

Thursdays starting Sept.

18 at 6:15 p.m.

The church is at 529 Queens Ave. Call 604-5973894 for more information.

Art at the library

Art lovers will want to make a point of stopping by the New Westminster Public Library before the end of the month.

The library is hosting two art shows until Sept.

30.

On the main floor, on the ramp gallery, Minser Kim is displaying Minser’s Dream Quilt.

“Minser, who was born and worked as a math teacher in South Korea,

uses quilting to express her dreams and what’s in her heart,” a press release explains. “These large, colourful and detailed quilts dominate the space and are done using panel, paper piecing and blocks by machine and hand.”

Upstairs in the reference department there’s a group show by the Plein Air Painters, Nature is the Teacher of Art. Gillian Wright, Dale Costanzo, Terry Rammell, Joan Heringer and Christine Munro paint outdoors – in local parks and on the waterfronts of the Fraser River and the Pacific Ocean – and the

works in this show stem from the inspiration they get from those endeavours.

The shows can be seen at any time during library hours at the library’s main branch, 716 Sixth Ave. Check out www.nwpl. ca or call 604-527-4660 for more information.

Writers gather

Here’s another one for the writers out there.

The long-established New West Writers is inviting new writers to join them. The group meets on the third Saturday of most months, and its next ◗Lively City Page 23

Workshops set

Well, speaking of the Royal City Literary Arts Society, the group has a couple of workshops coming up that may be of interest to local writers.

First up, it’s Senses and Creativity, with David Blinkhorn, on Monday, Sept. 15 from 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. The workshop, which is open to writers of all kinds, looks at ways to use your five senses to unlock new opportunities for your work.

It’s taking place at 737 Sixth St. The workshop costs $15 for members or $30 for non-members.

On Tuesday, Sept. 23, Bernice Lever will lead a

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That’s happening from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the New Westminster Public Library, 716 Sixth Ave. Registration is required in advance for both workshops – email secretary@ rclas.com to sign up, or see www.rclas.com for more.

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meeting is Saturday, Sept.

20.

They meet from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – yes, they go for lunch – and offer up a supportive environment in which to have your work critiqued in a friendly, constructive fashion.

Guests are welcome, and anyone interested is invited to check out the club. The group meets in the Plaskett Room at the New Westminster Public Library, 716 Sixth Ave. Contact julian.worker@ usa.net for more details.

Church concert

Listen to some great music, enjoy some food

and support a couple of good causes.

St. Mary the Virgin Church in Sapperton is hosting a concert and tea on Saturday, Sept. 20, featuring the Hazeltones.

The Hazeltones are a gospel-folk band that encourages audience singalongs.

Tea – including sweets and fruit – will be served from 1 to 2 p.m., with the concert from 2 to 4 p.m.

Tickets are $15.

Proceeds from the concert will support the church and the Seniors Services Society.

You can reserve tickets by calling Fay at 604-9363354, leave a message at

the church office at 604521-2314 or email Judy at pjlbarteluk@telus.net.

St. Mary’s is at 121 East Columbia St. Parking is in the rear, and accessible parking is on the side, off Debeck Street.

Write it, sing it

Are you a songwriter looking for a place to share your work?

Get out of the basement and onto the stage at the next Songwriters Open Mike night at Renaissance Books.

Enrico Renz and Lawren Nemeth host the gatherings every Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the bookstore at 43 Sixth St.

The nights are aimed at new and emerging songwriters, but seasoned performers are also welcome.

For more details, check out the Facebook group “RCLAS New Westminster Songwriter Open Mic” or see www.rclas.com.

Kids’ writers

Do you write for kids?

The man who’s been described as the “Dr. Seuss of B.C.” has some inspiration to share with you.

Max Tell is leading a Writing for Kidz group, meeting on Monday, Sept.

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sored by the Royal City Literary Arts Society, is open to people who write for kids in all genres.

Its focus will be decided by members – a press release notes that it may look at playing creatively with writing, the do’s and don’ts of writing for various age groups, pointers on how to submit to agents or publishers, or more.

The fee is $5, which includes coffee/tea and goodies, and pre-payment is required. Check out www.rclas.com for more details.

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Artisans’ fair

Celebrate the last days of summer by enjoying the work of local artisans and crafters.

River Market is hosting another artisans’ fair on Saturday, Sept. 20 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the food hall.

Jewellers, knitters and crafters will be among the artisans having work on display, and everyone’s welcome to drop by and support the local arts community. Check out www. rivermarket.ca.

Send Lively City ideas to Julie, jmaclellan@royalcity record.com, or find her on Twitter, @juliemaclellan.

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Top picks for fun in END OF SUMMER SALE the city this weekend I 4

be captured in a monument in Hyack t’s an exciting weekend as the City of Square.

New Westminster welcomes the community into the long-awaited Anvil Support cancer research at the annual Centre. It’s just one of our recommendaTerry Fox Run in New Westminster. It’s taking place on Sunday, Sept. 14 starting tions for the Top Five (or More) Things at 10 a.m. at River Market. Registration to Do in New Westminster this weekend. begins at 9:15 a.m. in the market. People Here are our suggestions for Sept. 12 to are invited to run, walk, wheel or bike the 14. one-, two-, five- or 10-kilometre routes Head over to Moody Park for the along the riverfront.

Sundown Festival for youth aged 13 to 18 years. The festival, Help plant 150 trees in which takes place on Saturday, lower Hume Park as part Sept. 13 from 3 to 7 pm., of TD Tree Days 2014. The planting is taking place on includes live performances, Sunday, Sept. 14, starting at on-stage demonstrations, a 10 a.m. – rain or shine. It’s barbecue, silk screening, games one of more than 140 events and more. Admission is $5 in taking place across Canada advance or $10 at the entrance. where volunteers will help For more information, call 604plant 50,000 tress in celebra834-0320 or 604-515-3081. tion of the TD Tree Days’ fifth Celebrate the grand openanniversary. To register for TD ing of Anvil Centre on Tree Days or to get more inforSunday, Sept. 14 from noon (or more) mation, visit www.tdtreedays. to 6 p.m. at 777 Columbia St. Things to do com.

Facility tours, performances, activities and entertainment Audition for the Seniors this weekend will be part of the city’s big Have Talent show that day. The official ribbon cutting takes place will take place Oct. 19 at the Sapperton at 1:30 p.m. For more information, visit Pensioners Hall. If you’re 55 or older, www.anvil and you sing, dance, tell stories or joke centre.com. or do any other type of entertainment (in less than four-and-a-half minutes), this is Check out local artists’ reflections on your chance to compete for cash prizes.

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Hyacks throw a showdown hoedown From Friday Night Lights to a showdown with a hoedown, this year’s Hyacks’ football homecoming game is all about How the West is Won! The 10th edition of this community classic has a western theme – the Hyacks varsity team has a showdown with Western conference rival West Vancouver Highlanders at Mercer Stadium Sept. 19.

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Firefighters pitch in for health workers

Good cause: Ryan Bailey, 11, and firefighter Ryan Blatter man the grill during a recent barbecue in honour of HEU Support Workers Day at Royal Columbian Hospital.

Members of the Hospital Employees’ Union recently took a grilling at Royal Columbian Hospital.

Members of the New Westminster Firefighters’ Charitable Society staffed the grill at a barbecue at Royal Columbian Hospital in honour of HEU Support Workers Day, which was Aug. 26.

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“HEU pays for everything,” said firefighter Glen Bailey.

“They also give us a very generous donation for our time.”

About eight off-duty firefighters attended the event. In addition to barbecuing, they collected donations for the New Westminster Firefighters’ Charitable Society, which raises funds that it disperses to a range of community groups.

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Seniors invited to strut their stuff on stage Sapperton Old Age Pensioners and New West Lions hold Seniors Have Talent 2

BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

An eclectic mix of performers are expected to audition for this year’s Seniors Have Talent show.

The Sapperton Old Age Pensioners Association and the New Westminster Lions are holding auditions for Seniors Have Talent 2, which is taking place on

Sunday, Sept. 14 at the Sapperton Pensioners Hall. The Seniors Have Talent show will take place on Sunday, Oct. 19.

“We have already had a few people request auditions, including a ukulele group with about eight to 10 members, three Chinese dancers that were in last year and a poet,” said event publicist Vic Leach. “We are looking for any of the performing arts, and know that there is a lot of talented seniors out there.”

Performers must be 55 years of age or older and must have acts no longer than four-and-a-half minutes in length.

Soloists and ensembles of up to 10 people are invited to audition on Sunday, Sept. 14 from 1 to 3 p.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. Like the event, auditions will take place at the Sapperton Pensioners Hall at 318 Keary St. Singers, dancers, storytellers, comics, magicians, jugglers, musicians and entertainers of all stripes are invited to light up the audition stage, with 12 acts to be selected by adjudicators as competition finalists. Thirty four acts, with performers ranging in age from 56 to 90, auditioned for last year’s inaugural event.

“Of these, 14 performances

were selected to compete in the finals,” stated a press release from the Sapperton Old Age Pensioners Association. “The calibre of variety entertainment skills was astoundingly high and the audience rewarded artists with a number of standing ovations.”

This year’s Seniors Have Talent variety show will take place on Sunday, Oct. 19 at 1:30 p.m. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three finalists and the recipient of the Audience Choice award will receive a trip for two on the Fraser Riverboat Paddlewheeler, MV Native.

New Westminster resident Sue

Sparlin (who shared her prize with pianist David Hamilton) took top spot in the 2013 show for her comedic take on “Memory” from Cats, and also sang “Till There Was You.” Dan Minor, accompanied by pianist Alice McAuley, placed second for singing “Old Man River,” and then tap dancing and singing “Smile.” Sapperton resident Bryan Pickering’s guitar performance garnered him third place, while the Audience Choice award went to 88-year-old Elvis impersonator Chuck Johnston.

For more info or to reserve an audition time, call 604-522-0280.

AN OPEN LETTER FROM WHITECAPS FC DEAR CITIZENS OF NEW WESTMINSTER, On July 8, 2014, Vancouver Whitecaps FC and the City of New Westminster announced our intent to launch a United Soccer Leagues (USL) PRO franchise in this community. It’s an exciting initiative for our club, for the future of Canadian soccer, and most importantly for the community of New Westminster.

Under this proposal, a refurbished Queen’s Park Stadium would become the home pitch for Whitecaps FC’s USL PRO team while remaining accessible for various community sports and events. Our club has always prided itself on being a significant asset to the local community, and it’s a responsibility that we take very seriously. As long-term committed tenants, Whitecaps FC will be exclusively responsible for all operating expenses associated with the team, including stadium rent.

More than ever, a beautiful refurbished Queen’s Park Stadium would become a multi-use facility to be enjoyed and used by the community year-round, as managed by the City of New Westminster. The venue has a long history, which would be celebrated by preserving and upgrading the main structure of the existing stadium. Upon refurbishment, the stadium would not only house professional soccer, but also a variety of festivals, community events like May Day and Movie Night in the Park, and local arts, all of which our club would be keen to participate in as members of the community.

We are committed to working with the city and its residents to make sure this is a crown jewel for the Royal City. With that in mind, we want to take this opportunity to provide some facts about our proposal.

OUR VISION: • Build a successful franchise the community can be proud of for years to come • Grow the sport of soccer in New Westminster, the Lower Mainland, B.C., and ultimately Canada • Create a professional team that provides a bridge to the club’s Major League Soccer team • Develop a long-term platform to develop young players for the Canadian national team

WHAT IS USL PRO? • USL PRO is the strongest North American men’s professional soccer league below Major League Soccer • The league has 20 teams in North America and is growing rapidly • USL PRO teams play 28 matches from March through September - 14 of those matches are at home • It is anticipated that most games will be held on weekend afternoons and early evenings • If approved by the September 15 USL PRO franchise deadline, this team would start play in March 2015 We know there’s a long tradition of baseball in New Westminster. That’s why they were one of the first groups our club and the City of New Westminster reached out to as part of this process.

Through our conversations with the city, we are confident in their commitment to accommodate baseball’s needs. There is room in New Westminster for all sports to thrive.

We believe bringing a USL PRO team to the city would benefit all residents. Not only would the team bring top young players to your doorstep and play a massive part in our efforts to grow the sport, it would also create jobs, attract significant business, and offer affordable, familyfriendly entertainment for the entire community to enjoy.

Whether you support this venture or have some questions, we want you to get in touch.

Please send your feedback to explore_whitecaps@newwestcity.ca with cc to communications@whitecapsfc.com.

We want your voice to be heard. Let’s work together to make sure this is a team and a community venue in a vibrant park that we can all be proud of for years to come.

Sincerely,

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS? • Socio-economic: jobs, services, and more business for local establishments • Refurbished stadium at Queen’s Park that’s accessible to community events and other sports • Affordable, family-friendly entertainment for the community, Whitecaps FC camps, soccer clinics, and other community initiatives for New Westminster youth • North America-wide recognition for the city • Great opportunity to see local talent

Bob Lenarduzzi President, Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Rachel Lewis Chief Operating Officer Vancouver Whitecaps FC

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◗ Calendar of Events !TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

Bring Your Baby Book Club, because new moms and dads need brain stimulation, too.

The club offers adult books and adult conversation in a baby-friendly environment.

Suggested ages for babies are zero to 24 months. The club meets the third Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m. Register for the book club at 604-527-4667 or listener@nwpl.ca. At the first meetings, you are invited to share a book you read and pick up the reading list.

!THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 New Westminster Public Library adult book club, held the third Thursday evening of the month at 7 p.m. from September to June, starting today. At the first meetings, you are invited to share a book you read and pick up the reading list.

!SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Lawn bowling fundraiser, 3 to 8 p.m., benefiting Queen’s Park Healthcare Foundation.

Includes barbecue, cash bar, raffles. No experience necessary – lessons included. $40 per person. Team or single entries welcome. Tickets available at Queen’s Park Care Centre gift shop, Brick & Mortar Living, Champagne Taste and Royal City Colours.

New West Writers meeting, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., New Westminster Public Library’s Plaskett Room. If you would like to join a group of support-

ive writers and have your work critiqued in a friendly, constructive manner, this could be the group for you. We also go for lunch. Check out our club and have fun – guests are welcomed. Contact julian.worker@ usa.net for more information.

St. Mary’s Church in Sapperton concert, featuring The Hazeltones, a sing-along gospel/folk band. Tea with delicious sweets and fruit will be served from 1 to 2 p.m. and the concert runs from 2 to 4 p.m., 121 East Columbia. St. Tickets are $15. A portion of the proceeds from the concert will go to the Seniors Services Society. To reserve tickets, call Fay at 604-936-3354, leave a message at the church office at 604-521-2314 or email Judy at pjbaretluk@telus.net.

!TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 The business of being a writer, 6:30 p.m. Bernice Lever will cover various business aspects of writing, including budgeting, public and private resources for writers, contracts, files to create and keep, scheduling, the media and networking. Presented by the Royal City Literary Arts Society and co-sponsored by the New Westminster Public Library.

Pre-register at 604-527-4667 or secretary@rclas.com.

The New Westminster Public Library is at 716 Sixth Ave., www.nwpl.ca, or 604-5274660.

Glenbrook North Residents’ Association, meetings at New

Westminster Public Library, upstairs in the Plaskett room.

Doors open at 6:45 p.m., meeting starts promptly at 7 p.m.

Guest speaker is city councillor Jonathan X. Cote, who will speak on his vision for New Westminster. A question and answer period will follow. The meeting will also include a discussion about the need for pedestrian controlled crosswalks along Eighth Avenue between Sixth Street and First Street.

!SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Thrift sale and coffee break, 9 a.m. to 12 noon, Knox Presbyterian Church, 403 East Columbia St.

!TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Fun, Learning and You is offered by the Lower Mainland Purpose Society. This program is for children aged 18 months to five years and their parents or caregivers. FLY runs every Tuesday from 10 a.m. to noon, starting today, until Dec. 9.

Free to New Westminster residents. Join us for circle times, preschool readiness and play in a rich thematic program.

Parent information sessions include speech and language, early literary and more. For more information or to register, contact Elizabeth or Stella at 604-526-2522. The Lower Mainland Purpose Society is at 40 Begbie St.

!SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Non-profit art charity auction, Eclipps Hair Café, 755 Sixth St., 6 to 9 p.m. Features live

music, artists, guests, and more. The event is raising funds for Pottery Works, a group of special needs artists who create art, pottery and jewelry that have been displayed in the salon. Info: www. eclipps.com or on the Eclipps page on Facebook.

!ONGOING Kids who like to talk about books can join the Young Readers’ Book Club, which begins the third week in September. There are clubs at both the main library and the Queensborough branch.

Call the children’s room at 604-527-4677 for information and to register. The New Westminster Public Library is at 716 Sixth Ave. and 920 Ewen Ave. Burnaby and New Westminster Newcomers Friendship Club, welcoming women who are new to the area, as well as longtime residents. Meet women of all ages and cultures to make new friends.

Dinner meetings on the second Wednesday of each month, plus various events, including book club, craft group, social Saturdays, etc. For info, contact Doris at dorisfriend@gmail. com or call 604-492-4638 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Visit www. burnabynewwestminsternewcomers.com.

Just Pros Toastmasters, meets first and third Saturdays of month, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., Justice Institute, 715 McBride Blvd. For advanced

Toastmasters. Info: www. toastmasters.org.

The New Westminster Public Library, wants to know what you want from your library. To help guide the library board’s strategic planning process, the library is conducting an online survey. It can be done in less than 10 minutes and all New Westminster residents who complete the survey are eligible to win an iPad Mini.

Visit www.nwpl.ca to take the survey. If you don’t have Internet access, drop by the library and use one of the computers. The New Westminster Public Library is at 716 Sixth Ave. and at 920 Ewen Ave. in Queensborough. Info: www. nwpl.ca or 604-527-4660.

For sale from the library, stop by the New Westminster Public Library to check out the bargains at the library’s ongoing book sale. Discarded books and gift books that aren’t needed in the library are sold for bargain prices ranging from 25 cents to $2. Runs to Sept.

14. All proceeds go toward special projects for the benefit of library users. The New Westminster Public Library is at 716 Sixth Ave. Royal City Concert Band, welcomes new members to join us in making great music and performing throughout Metro Vancouver. Rehearsals are Thursday evenings from 7:45 to 9:45 in the band room at New Westminster Secondary.

We are especially seeking percussionists and clarinetists.

Contact Bill Walters at 778866-9908 for more information.

St. Barnabas thrift store, open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. A few more volunteers also sought.

Call Sandy, 604-526-3033.

New Westminster Tinnitus Support Group, meets on the third Tuesday of the month, 7 p.m., Century House, 620 Eighth St., ABC Room. Tinnitus is a ringing, humming, buzzing or other sound in our head or ears that doesn’t have an outside source. The group discusses the latest treatment information and coping and stress reduction techniques, and offers encouraged and camaraderie to help combat this debilitating condition.

For more information, contact group leader Gerald Blackwell at 604-600-9142 or email nwtinn@inbox.com.

Naranon Support Group, a 12 Step program for relatives and friends of those affected by drug abuse and addiction problems. Meets every Monday evening from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., 323 Eighth St. (group room), New Westminster. All welcome. Call 604-878-8844 for more info.

Sapperton Pensioners, meet on the third Wednesday of the month at 318 Keary St. New members welcome. Info: 604724-9722.

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Seniors Volunteering for Seniors

By Kelina Kwan

We are constantly reminded of the fact that there will be an increased aging population in the not-so-distant future in this region. How are we going to cope? It turns out some seniors have already got this figured out - with the help of Seniors Services Society of New Westminster.

Seniors Services Society is a non-profit dedicated to helping seniors cope with day-to-day issues and live independently.

They offer services in three areas: support services for seniors living in New Westminster; housing services for seniors province-wide; and information for seniors and service providers throughout the Lower Mainland. Annually, the society serves over 3,000 vulnerable and isolated seniors across the province, 1,000 of those reside in New Westminster.

Thanks to seniors volunteering, the Seniors Services Society is able to serve a large number of seniors in need. “So many of our volunteers are going through changes with the aging process themselves; declining health, changing family structures, retirement, and they are helping other people go through the same thing. A lot of clients just need that extra support for whatever reasons, whether it is language barriers, illiteracy or maybe their health is declining. So it is really neat to see that they

are helping others in their own peer group” said Mhairi Campbell, Volunteer Coordinator of Seniors Services Society.

The society runs a number of programs including a 100% volunteer-run tax clinic where retired accountants and people with financial backgrounds help low income seniors fill out their tax forms. They also run a transportation program where seniors drive other seniors to medical and nonmedical related appointments and events. In their social program, volunteers drive seniors in their 16-seater passenger bus to lunch and dinner clubs in restaurants, and to different cultural and music events and festivals. Another essential program is Assistant Information and Referrals for Seniors (AIRS). “Seniors volunteer to help other seniors with applications, fill out forms, make phone calls, such as calling Services Canada to get their Canada Pension Plan in order and things like that” said Mhairi Campbell.

The society also runs a MealsOn-Wheels program to assist people unable to prepare their own meals.

said that many seniors feel good about helping their peers, and many also strike up close friendships volunteering with other seniors, improving their social life enormously as well as keeping them active.

The organization is really grateful to all the senior volunteers because their programs run during office hours and it is difficult to find students or working adults to volunteer. “Without these valuable volunteers and their first hand experience of the aging process, hundreds of seniors would be going without the necessary requirements to be able to live independently” said Campbell.

Seniors Services Society programs have proved that the power of many may be part of the answer to coping with the aging population boom.

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◗ IN THE GAME

Royal named PacWest women’s athlete of the week ◗P32 STM sprinter fourth in 400m at Youth Olympic Games ◗P32

SECTION COORDINATOR Tom Berridge, 604-444-3022 • tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

Major midget Giants looking for more Junior

skaters shine on at Jr. GP

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

For the Northwest Giants hockey team it’s all about getting better. And that’s unwelcome news for the remaining 10 teams in the B.C. Hockey major midget league.

The seven-time regular season champion, eight if you add the results of the 2006/07 season when the Giants finished in a tie with the Cariboo Cougars for top spot, both with 61 points, is preparing for another strong season this year.

“In my view, we’re ahead from where I wanted us to be (at this point in the pre-season),” said Giants head coach Clint Thornton. “It’s nice we’re already starting to work into systems. It’s a great start for us.”

The Giants are coming off a successful two-game set hosted at Centre Ice in Abbotsford last week, where they came away with a big win over the Northeast Chiefs and a shutout victory over league rival Greater Vancouver Canadians.

Under Thornton’s direction, the Giants have gradually moved toward a more balanced approach to the lineup.

“Each year we evaluate the skill set we have,” Thornton said, adding that this season the Giants have a number of players with the ability to advance the puck up the ice as well as win those all-important wall battles.

The Burnaby Winter Club-based team is also going bigger on the blue

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

Gord Goble/THE RECORD

Getting started: The Northwest Giants open their B.C. Hockey major midget hockey season next weekend in Nanaimo. line than in past seasons, said Thornton.

Seventeen-year-old Keegan Jones, who had 11 goals and 27 points last year, will be called upon to play a more important role this year, said Thornton.

Second-year defenseman Callahan Brebner, 16, will also be expected to step in and help fill the skates of departed backliners Dante Fabbro and Ty Schultz, who carried much of the offence from the back end last season.

They’ll be helped out by last year’s affiliates Carter Stephenson on defence and forward Desi Burgard this season.

With the signing of Burnaby goalie Tavin Grant with the Prince George Cougars of the Western Hockey League, the Giants are plugging the hole with a pair of 15year-olds.

David Tendeck from the North Shore Winter Club and Burnaby Winter Club’s Beck Warm will

share the duties in the Giants’ cage this season.

In fact, Thornton has the luxury of welcoming a number of top affilates into the squad who are already familiar with the practice routine and systems.

“They’ve been with us, they’ve practised with us and played with us,” Thornton added.

But while players come and go, one thing never changes when it comes to the Giants.

“Our focus each and

every weekend is not getting ahead of ourselves,” said Thornton. “No team is taken lightly. We prepare the same every time we step on the ice. We want to send a message.

(And that message is) that we dictate games.”

Selecting kids with a positive attitude is just as important as the skill they bring to the team when you’re seeking an eighth straight title, said Thornton. ◗Giants Page 32

Dragon Boat paddlers the world’s best

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

A local Dragon Boat club with a strong Burnaby connection is gold-rich following a big medal haul at the ninth International Dragon Boat Federation club crew world championships in Ravenna, Italy last weekend.

The Dragon Zone One West boat, including Burnaby/New Westminster paddlers Andrew Sugianto, Anthony Cao, Benson Nguyen, Carmen Tam, Carol Leung, Cherry Chen, Derek Tam, Joe Ku, Paige Misfeldt, Shane Beaton and honorary member J.Z. Lee, who was unable to attend due to visa restrictions, won four medals at the worlds, including a

pair of gold medals in mixed and women’s race finals at the 200metre distance.

One West placed first in the premier 10-women small boat grand final, edging out runnerup All Sports from Hannover, Germany by half a second with a winning time of 55.001.

Dragon Zone’s premier mixed team also won the 20-person standard boat grand final over Hannover in a time of 44.041 in a tight two-boat race to the wire that was settled by less than onetenth of a second.

At the longer 500m distance, the One West women’s and mixed teams finished runners-up to the German All Sports team in the premier women’s small boat and

mixed standard boat grand finals.

Both 500m finals were equally close with Hannover winning both race finals by approximatley one second or less. In the premier mixed division, a New Dragons Racing Club team from Toronto placed third behind Dragon Zone by almost two seconds.

“Going into the club crew world championships in Ravenna we had no idea what to expect, especially for women’s small dragon boat, an event we entered into halfway during the season and had never even competed in locally,” Misfeldt said in an email from Europe.

“I have to give props to our coach, Rob Magus, for the amount

of work he put into designing a training program tailored specifically for (the worlds).”

The purpose of all the rigorous two-hour gym workouts To and rainy outrigger canoe stream sessions done in praca video, tice became clear to the scan Dragon Zone crew as they with worked their way through Layar the heats.

“I am so proud of my teammates for pushing themselves through the gruelling process and constantly supporting each other along the way,” Misfeldt said.

“When you dragon boat, you don’t just join a team, you join a family, and to have all our hard work pay off on an international level just means the world to me.”

Canada picked up its third consecutive medal at international junior Grand Prix ice dance events, following a gold medal by Ontario’s Mackenzie Bent and Garrett MacKeen.

Bent and MacKeen, the reigning Canadian junior icedancechampions,skated an international best 138.17 to top the International Skating Union event at Ostrava, Czech Republic last Friday.

Canadian skaters won three of four events in Ostrava – including former Burnaby resident Nam Nguyen who won the junior worlds last year – an all-time best for our national skaters in the 18 years the junior Grand Prix has operated.

Last month, Madeline Edwards and Zhaokai Pang of Burnaby earned a silver medal at the opening Jr. GP event of the season in France, while Brianna Delmaestro and Timothy Lum matched their B.C. Centre of Excellence teammates with a runner-up medal in Slovenia last week.

A third Megan Wing and Aaron Lowe-coached B.C. team, Danielle Wu and Spencer Soo of Burnaby placed sixth in the Cezch competition.

Wu and Soo’s score of 117.77 was 10 points behind their personalbest that was achieved at last season’s junior Grand Prix event also held in the Czech Republic.

Edwards and Pang are up again at the fourth stop of the GP circuit in Aichi, Japan this week.

The current Canadian novice women’s champion, 13-year-old Sarah Tamura of Burnaby will also compete in Japan.

Delmaestro and Lum will compete again in Dresden, Germany in October.

The junior Grand Prix final will be held in midDecember in Barcelona, Spain.

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Royal named PacWest athlete of the week

◗ HOCKEY

Clan shut out in opener Simon Fraser University’s hockey club team opened the preseason with a 6-0 loss to crosstown rival University of British Columbia on Tuesday.

SFU head coach Mark Coletta will dress 10 new players for the official kickoff to the upcoming B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League season.

Tonight, (Friday) SFU will continue its preseason exhibition schedule against Trinity Western University at the Langley Events Centre at 7 p.m.

The following weekend, the Clan will travel to Alberta for a two-stop visit againsttheSouthernAlberta Institute of Technology and Red Deer College. SFU will also go on the road to take on NCAA Division I programs Bowling Green State and Miami universities, Oct. 4 and 5, respectively.

Simon Fraser opens the regular season on Sept.

26 at Eastern Washington University.

The team’s home opener will be against Selkirk College at the Bill Copeland Sports Centre on Oct. 10.

Jennifer Gauthier/THE RECORD

Good start: Cliff Avenue’s Kristen Naidu, in orange, challenges for a ball in a 2-1 win over Surrey Guildford United in under-15 Metro girls’ soccer.

STM sprinter fourth in China St. Thomas More Collegiate student Zion Corrales-Nelson competed for the Philippines at the recent Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, finishing fourth in the B final of the women’s 400 metres.

Nelson clocked a personal-best time of 55.32 seconds in the final, won by Yana Kachur of the Ukraine in a time of 54.48.

Jessica Thornton of Australia won the women’s 400m A final in a time of

52.50, beating runner-up Salwa Naser of Brunei to the wire by two-tenths of a second.

In the A final, all top-five finishers ran personal bests, including Canada’s Kyra Constantine, who placed fifth in a time of 53.70.

The Youth Olympic Games is a multi-sport competition organized by the International Olympic Committee for athletes 14 to 18 years of age. tberridge@royalcityrecord

Douglas College Royals Danae Harding was named the PacWest women’s athlete of the week.

The Langara College transfer led the Royals to a 3-0 start in PacWest women’s soccer last week, scoring three goals, including a couple of game-winners over Kwantlen and Quest university teams.

Harding currently leads all PacWest scorers, while teammateRebeccaMainardi shares the lead among goalkeepers with Vancouver Island University’s Shelby Walker with a 0.67 goals against average and one shutout.

Royals Spencer Deboice and Nicholas Pineda Graham are tied for the scoring lead in men’s soccer with three other players, all with two tallies apiece, while teammate Marc Minicieli tops the

Danae Harding Two game-winners men’s goalkeeping list with a 0.67 goals against average and two shutouts after the first week of play.

At the Kwantlen invitational golf tournament last weekend, Steven Hayes of Douglas finished 10 shots back of the leader with a two-round 145 total.

Giants: At home Oct. 12 ◗ continued from page 31

“We have 20 kids who really want to be here for the Giants,” he said.

The Northwest Giants open their regular season in Nanaimo against the North Island Silvertips on Sept. 20 and 21.

The team’s first game at home is not until Oct. 12, when the Giants host the Fraser Valley T-Birds.

QUEENS’ PARK STADIUM PROPOSAL: WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE DON’T KNOW WE KNOW THAT…

WE STILL DON’T KNOW…

• New Westminster Baseball was informed of the Whitecaps’ proposal 10 minutes prior to a news release on July 8, 2014.

• The full cost of this proposal including: Stadium refurbishment, the new turf field and relocation of baseball diamond(s).

• The Queens’ Park Master Plan does not include the building of a new soccer stadium.

• The financial benefits to the City: amount of rent to be received has not been disclosed.

• The Whitecaps’ proposal will not “save” the Stadium from demolition, as has been suggested, since it was never in jeopardy of being torn down because of its heritage value.

• The Queens’ Park Residents’ Association stated that 58% of their members voted in favour of the proposal; in fact 29 of 50 respondents supported the proposal—far short of a majority of the Queen’s Park residents.

• The Chamber of Commerce reported that 80.3% of its members supported the proposal. However, the Chamber of Commerce Director confirmed he was unsure if all members were polled, and that only approximately 105 businesses responded.

• Relocating the lost diamond to the south field of Queen’s Park, as suggested by the Parks Board, would entail the removal of 37-40 trees.

• The Whitecaps had yet to provide a cost projection to the Council, with less than one week from their imposed deadline for a decision.

• The length of the Whitecaps’ tenancy commitment.

• If a business plan exists for the proposed USL franchise.

• If an impact study has been completed.

• Whether the project can be completed in time for the 2015 season, nor what financial penalties the City could face if it is not ready.

• How this proposal could affect the budget that has already been passed by City Council.

• What other Parks, Culture and Recreation projects would be delayed if the City were to embark on this endeavour?

• How parking, traffic and transit issues will be handled and who will pay for these.

• How often the community will be “allowed” to use the Stadium for special events or under what conditions.

• Whether teams other than the USL franchise will also play at the Stadium and what impact this would have on the community’s access.

New West Baseball has been in the Stadium for 15 years and has invested $60- $70,000 through our fundraising efforts into the playing surface, scoreboard, batting cages, etc.

We consider the Stadium our Home. We thank all our supporters and hope to see you at City Council on September 15 for the vote.

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