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ROCKS FOR BABIES: Insiyah Dharsee started painting rocks last summer to support various causes and ease her anxiety about the COVID-19 pandemic. Now she’s putting proceeds from her creative efforts towards the NICU at Royal Columbian Hospital. Read the story on page 9. PHOTO MARIO BARTEL

School district moves ahead on anti-racism strategy Julie MacLellan jmaclellan@newwestrecord.ca

The NewWestminster school district is forging ahead with its plans to create an anti-racism framework and strategy.

The district is looking to

engage Bakau Consulting to implement the anti-racism work it committed to last spring.

Consultants Koshiki Tanaka andWill Shelling appeared in front of the school board on Feb. 23 to outline their plans.

“Anti-oppression is the driving force of our work,” Tanaka said. “As a Blackled organization, we name, deconstruct, reimagine and recreate more just, equitable, accessible and inclusive systems.”

Their plan is set out in

three stages.The first stage would involve assessing the current climate of the school district through surveys, focus groups, reviews of district policies and procedures, and an examination of its social media and communications.

“We get to know what’s going on right now within the school district, and we identify areas of opportunity and where we can identify areas of growth as well,”Tanaka said.

Information would then be taken to the district’s

anti-racism committee.

That would then lead into the second stage, where an anti-racism action plan would be implemented and where curriculum would be delivered for all levels of the school district.

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City supplies hot showers, comfort kits

Theresa McManus tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

A new program at Canada Games Pool will give people who are homeless a place to shower three times a week.

In a recent report to council, staff noted many faith-based and non-profit organizations are offering limited access to their facilities because of COVID-19. As a result, people who are homeless have been having difficulty accessing toilet and shower facilities in New Westminster.

“Given the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly difficult for atrisk and vulnerable populations to meet their varied needs, including related to hygiene,” said Claudia Freire, the city’s housing and social planner. “The objective of the Access to Shower Program is to provide individuals who are experiencing homelessness access to showers in a safe space at a civic facility.”

The Access to Shower Program, which started on Monday at the Canada Games Pool, is a partnership between the city and the New Westminster Homelessness Coalition Society. It’s funded by the federal government’s Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy.

Open access: Canada Games Pool is where people who are homeless can get access to such services as a hot shower. PHOTO RECORD FILES

In addition to enjoying a hot shower in a private stall, folks will receive a comfort kit that includes a variety of items.

“The program will be accessible to women on Mondays from 2 to 4 p.m. and to men on Wednesdays and Fridays from 2 to 4 p.m.; non-gender-identifying individuals can access the program on all three days,” Freire said in an email to the Record.

“Individuals will be provided with a transit ticket and a courtesy bag, which includes a towel, socks, underwear, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, comb, feminine hygiene products, granola bar, drinking box,

mask and a $15 gift card to Tim Hortons.”

Steve Kellock, the city’s senior manager of recreation, said the concept arose when the city began reopening facilities in the fall and staff recognized the safety protocols that were in place to meet health orders were potentially creating barriers to access for some members of the community. He noted, as an example, pre-registration to access city recreation facilities meant the street-entrenched population would not have the same flexibility to access the facility for the purpose of showering as they would have had pre-COVID.

Recreation staff brought the issue to one of the city’s COVID-19 task forces and canvassed the community for other shower options, such as those being provided by faith and non-profit service providers.They found there was a lack of shower access at due to COVID. Kellock said city staff and staff from the New Westminster Homelessness Coalition Society worked on the issue and developed a plan to offer walk-in free shower access three times a week at Canada Games Pool.

He said the city is working with the non-profit and faith community to share the message, so people

who would benefit from access to this service are made aware of the opportunity.

“The reason for offering different shower times for males and females is that a high percentage of women who are homeless or precariously housed have experienced physical and/ or sexual abuse by a male partner or stranger, thus there is an enhanced level of safety and security in limiting shower access to females only,” he said.

“With regard to having two shower times for men per week and only one for women, males represent 73% of those who are homeless while females represent 25% and nonbinary persons represent 2%.”

A variety of COVID-19 protocols will be in place, including the requirement to wear masks, be screened for COVID-19 and provide information about how the individual can be reached if contact tracing is required.

Lookout Housing and Health Society, the Lower Mainland Purpose Society, the Union Gospel Mission, the Elizabeth Fry Society and Holy Trinity Church are among the local organizations that will be sharing information about the service with people who may benefit from the program.

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Report on renaming McBride school coming soon Julie MacLellan jmaclellan@newwestrecord.ca

The committee that’s leading the renaming process for Richard McBride Elementary School will likely have a report for the New Westminster school board in May. That was the word from trustee Mark Gifford, who’s part of the committee, in an update to the school board at its Feb. 23 meeting.

Gifford said associate superintendent Maryam Naser has been leading the committee through “some great conversations and some difficult ones” as it works to come up with ideas for a new name for the Sapperton school.

Construction of a replacement for the existing, seismically unsound, 1929 school building is currently underway. Once the new school is ready, the district intends to open it under its

new name.

The school’s parent advisory council approached the school district in June 2020 with the idea of renaming the school.They shared their concerns that the values espoused by McBride during his term as premier of B.C., from 1903 to 1915, don’t reflect the current values of the district and its schools.

McBride publicly expressed anti-Asian and anti-Indigenous sentiments

and was also opposed to women’s suffrage.

The renaming committee opened up a public input window in January to accept ideas from the community; that process closed on Feb. 18.

Now, Gifford said, the committee will be doing some “external engagement,” including work with Indigenous partners, before its next meeting on March 11.

That meeting will likely

end with what Gifford termed a “medium list” of ideas. After that, the committee will consult with groups and individuals as necessary to get more input on name suggestions.

It will return to the school board with a final report, likely at the school board’s operations committee meeting on May 11.

The final decision on a new name for the school remains in the hands of the school board.

Training offered in ‘JEDI’ ways Continued from page 1 Shelling noted this stage would include three tiers of training for teachers and staff, covering the fundamentals of anti-oppression, disrupting unconscious bias and an introduction to racial justice.

The consultants would also help to create a “train the trainer” model so the district would have in-house staff who could train others in what Shelling dubs “JEDI” ways (that’s justice, equity, diversity and inclusion).

“We want to be able to give you folks the tools to run your own training,” Shelling said.

The third stage would include ongoing support from the consultants to help the district develop and implement its anti-racism framework in whatever way it needs.

This stage,Tanaka noted, would be flexible; the anti-racism committee would help to determine the district’s needs.

It could include such steps as holding additional focus groups, reviewing any policy documents that have already been edited or providing guidance on hiring practices.

“We’re going to be working on building your capacity,” Shelling said, “because, at the end of the day, this work will hopefully be able to stand on its own and also to create a sustainable sort of change within the school district.”

The consultants’ proposal is expected to be finalized in March, with an initial audit survey in April.

Tanaka said the board’s openness to the process is key to its success, and Shelling agreed.

“We really like to push top-down and also bottom-up change, especially within organizations,” Shelling said.

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By virtue of the Warehouseman’s Lien Act., the City of New Westminster Towing and Storage Service will dispose of the following vehicles, by public auction, to recover the towing, storage, legal and other costs associated with the disposal of each vehicle.

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COVID-19 COMMUNITY RESOURCES We know that the challenges posed by the pandemic are changing daily.

To help resident access reliable information and support resources, we are continuing to regularly update our COVID-19 Community Resources webpage, which can be found at newwestcity.ca /covid-community.

Information and resource documents that can be found on the Community Resources webpage include information for tenants, summary of available financial supports, a survival resource guide, food resource guide, and trusted links and resources related to COVID-19.

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Flushing of the water mains is required to remove sediments and to maintain water quality. This may result in your water supply appearing cloudy due to the sediments. Since some staining of laundry may result and some industrial processes may be affected we recommend the following: • Run your cold water tap until the water clears up • Check the water supply before doing laundry If in doubt, please check the City’s website for daily updates on the streets being flushed or call the Water Department at 604-526-4691 between 7:00 am and 4:00 pm.

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MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Site C shows BC Hydro is in charge

The BC NDP government’s decision to complete the construction of the controversial and expensive Site C dam should not be a surprise to anyone familiar with the historical relationship between BC Hydro and various provincial governments over the years.

More often than not, what BC Hydro wants BC Hydro tends to get. In this case, the Crown corporation has always wanted to build the dam no matter the costs and risks associated with the venture.

BC Hydro created a situation that made it virtually impossible for the B.C. government to kill the project at this point.

Even though the NDP created a project oversight board soon after taking office, an independent report by a former senior civil servant painted a picture of BC Hydro either dominating or ignoring the board even while serious problems arose at various stages of construction.

As far back as 2017, problems with the foundations on both banks of the Peace River started emerging, yet construction continued merrily along while the oversight board was kept in the dark about a number of issues.

Even after Premier John Horgan appointed former-deputy finance minister Peter Milburn to assess the situation, the project’s construction continued at a pace that, while not as breakneck as it was pre-pandemic, was nevertheless impressive.

And remember, this all happened on the NDP’s watch, not the BC Liberal party’s watch.The NDP appointed the BC Hydro board members and the oversight board members.

By the time the government got around to announcing the decision last week to give Site C another green light, the project was half-finished

- creating at least a psychological hurdle to killing it.

Moreover, the financial consequences of walking away from the project are disastrous.

Not only would there be a $10-billion hole covering sunk costs, contract terminations and site remediation costs, but it is entirely possible bond-rating agencies would shift about $25 billion in “self-supported debt” to “taxpayer -supported debt” which, in turn, would cost the provincial government hundreds of millions of dollars in higher debt-serving costs every year.

On top of all that, B.C.’s credit rating would likely be downgraded, which again would cost taxpayers enormous amounts of money.

No one really knows how much this whole affair is going to cost or whether it will even turn out to be a success of failure.

For now, the budget is pegged at a whopping $16 billion, almost double the $8.7-billion estimate back in 2014.

For now, engineering experts are confident the geo-technical problems on both banks of the river can be solved and dealt with in a safe manner.

I have written previously that, all things considered, the Site C dam was a worthwhile project because it will generate clean energy that will be in demand years from now.

But this whole drama reminds me of a piece of advice I was given by an old political hand when I first started covering B.C. politics long ago.

“Just remember one thing,” he told me. “The government doesn’t run BC Hydro as much as BC Hydro runs the government.”

I think I see what he means.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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Editor: Re: Pile driving set to begin at Bosa property on New Westminster’s waterfront, Record News Bosa has proven once again that it cares nothing about the community in which they build. Please, please don’t put us through that misery again. During this COVID-19 pandemic, so many of us are either confined to our homes or, like myself, are now working from home.

Is Bosa really going to put us through this when we can’t even leave our homes to escape the noise?

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We need a fire boat Editor: I fail to understand why our mayor wants to have all the fun stuff in New Westminster when we as taxpayers are paying for it and, more importantly, we need to protect the City of New Westminster.

As adults of our city, we can figure out what ways to have fun and enjoy our time without spending our money on useless expenditures.

We spend (money each year) on a ferry that is not needed because he is advocating for our transportation.

The ferry is only for fun. It does not fit in with protecting our city.

The money would be better spent … on a fire boat. This ferry is not used to take your children to school or work from home with COVID-19, and we cannot use it as a fireboat.

J. Hawes, New Westminster

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Just be happy that you won’t be meeting me in the emergency room tonight, where I’ll be working.

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City Teen’s art project helps the tiniest newborns Insiyah Dharsee is raising money from her painted rocks to help neonatal intensive care unit at RCH Mario Bartel Glacier Media

A student who has been painting rocks since last summer to help her cope with the anxiety of the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing to bring comfort to others much younger and more fragile.

Insiyah Dharsee is using the funds she’s raised from selling the colourful nuggets to purchase several pairs of surrogate hands parents can use at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at New Westminster’s Royal Columbian Hospital while separated from their premature babies.

Known as Zaky HUGs, the soft, artificial hands cradle premature babies to reassure them of their parents’ touch, weight, scent and warmth – even when they’re in an incubator.

They were developed by a Texas mom and engineer who learned about the importance of human touch to NICU babies when a tropical storm knocked out power at her Houston hospital and her preemie son, Zachary, had to be kept alive by touch and artificial respiration until he could be transferred to another hospital with power.

It’s a story not unlike Insiyah’s own — minus

the hurricane and power blackout, of course.

She was born four months premature, and weighed only one pound, six ounces.

She spent the first three months of her life at RCH’s NICU under 24hour care by doctors and nurses as well as her worried parents.

Insiyah’s mom, Rubina, said it was “a very tough” time.

“For the three months that we were there, you can’t process it,” she said.

I feel like it is my home at the NICU, and I can give back to it.

“You go see her, you take a break for lunch and then go back.”

It was while scrubbing down for a visit to her daughter in the NICU that Rubina saw another mom carrying the soft hands to an incubator to place with her baby.

“It was so nice, it was comforting her baby,” Rubina said.

But when she inquired

she discovered there was only two sets at RCH. Now 13 years old and studying her Grade 7 subjects at Summit Middle School in Port Coquitlam from home, Insiyah decided it’s time to address that shortage.

A frequent visitor to RCH for followups with her doctor, who would inevitably parade her around the NICU to show anxious parents a success story, Insiyah had been painting rocks and accepting donations for various little causes since last summer.

But when her visit to the hospital couldn’t happen because of the COVID-19 pandemic, talking over the implications with her mom and then an online chat with the woman who developed the Zaky HUG gave her art a renewed focus.

Insiyah said she’s painted about 1,000 rocks so far, setting aside time at lunch, after she’s finished her schoolwork or in the evening.

“It helps me feel that I’m doing something for the community,” she said.

“I feel really passionate about it.”

So far, Insiyah’s collected more than $2,000 (her goal also got a boost from Rogers Wireless,

THE ART OF CARING: Insiyah Dharsee started painting rocks last summer to support various causes and to ease her anxiety about the COVID-19 pandemic. Now she’s putting proceeds from her creative efforts towards the NICU at Royal Columbian Hospital PHOTO MARIO BARTEL where her father works).

Because of public health restrictions on getting together with other people, she sets aside painted rocks for many of the donations to be collected at a later time.

Others just give a few dollars with no expectation of a rock in return.

She also dropped off a

box of painted rocks at the NICU, to be distributed to parents of preemies.

Insiyah said her goal is to raise $3,125 so she can purchase enough of the Zaky HUGs at $125 a pair for each baby at the NICU. “I feel like it is my home at the NICU, and I can give back to it,” she said.

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To learn more about Insiyah’s fundraising effort, as well as the Zaky HUG, go to insiyah-thezaky.ca.

You can also donate directly to the project at the Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation website, rchfoundation.com/ insiyahs-zaky-hugs-fund raiser.

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City will rename docks, walkway to commemorate Komagata Maru Theresa McManus

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New Westminster is embarking on efforts to reconcile “a dark chapter” in its history.

On Monday, city council agreed to rename the Q to Q ferry docks in Queensborough and downtown in commemoration of the Komagata Maru.The riverfront walkway in Queensborough will also be renamed.

The city has also committed to drafting a formal apology to the community, families and descendants of those who were negatively impacted by the actions and words of New Westminster city council during the Komagata Maru incident.

Raj Singh Toor, spokes-

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person for the Descendants of the Komagata Maru Society, approached city council in 2019 with a request to name a street, park or city asset after the Komagata Maru. In May 1914, 376 passengers from Punjab, British India arrived on the ship in Vancouver, where they were denied permission to dock.

Only 20 returning residents and the ship’s doctor and his family were allowed entry into Canada, and the ship was forced to return to India in July – with 19 passengers being shot and others imprisoned upon their arrival in India.

“It is a dark chapter in our history,” Coun. Chinu Das said Monday.

Staff research into connections between the Ko-

magata Maru and New Westminster uncovered records showing the city council of 1914 was vehemently opposed to immigration and urged provincial and federal officials to “use every effort to prevent admission of these people” into Canada. New Westminster’s mayor presided over a community meeting that had been called to organize against South Asian and Asian immigration.

Das suggested adding the riverfront walkway in Queensborough to the city’s proposal to rename the docks – an idea that garnered wholehearted support from council.

“It is an extremely symbolic gesture for us to recognize the dock and the trail – the one thing that

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was denied to them because they were considered such undesirable folks that they were not allowed to dock on our lands or walk on our lands,” Das said.

Coun. Patrick Johnstone said the facts uncovered by staff about the city’s active role in the situation warranted a formal apology, and councillors agreed.

Toor, whose grandfather was on the Komagata Maru, believes actions like these go a long way in helping to heal scars of racism that are felt through the generations and through the centuries.

“We are extremely happy and thankful to be part of this very important change,” he said in a news release.

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More than 1,000 residents from across New Westminster oppose the construction of a six-storey apartment on Sixth Street.

On Monday, residents presented city council with a petition signed by 1,004 residents, adding to a previously submitted petition signed by 108 residents.

The residents who signed the petitions are opposed to a proposed official community plan amendment for the site at 823 to 841 Sixth St. The Aboriginal Land Trust Society has applied for an amendment to the official community plan, a rezoning and a development permit as part of its plan to build a 96-unit, sixstorey apartment building

on six lots across the street from the new high school.

The project would provide affordable, multigenerational and multicultural homes for members of the urban Indigenous and Swahili communities.

Lana Bordignon, who lives across the lane from the site, said a six-storey building in the middle of this residential block isn’t consistent with what was envisioned in the city’s official community plan.

“The campaign is not about opposing growth or development. It is asking that growth follow urban planning best policies, comply with the OCP and its guidelines and not be allowed to take place in a haphazard manner,” she told council. “I urge you to please listen to the voices of concerned New West-

minster residents … and stick to the official community plan.”

Glenbrooke North resident James Ogilvie also expressed concern the proposal is inconsistent with the OCP. “A lot of taxpayer money and time, as well as community engagement effort, went into developing the OCP just a few years ago, as a tool to guide future development in the city,” he said. “A lot of people have bought or built houses in New Westminster with an understanding of future development plans in their neighbourhoods as outlined in the OCP.” Ogilvie said a six-storey building doesn’t provide an appropriate transition from adjacent single-family homes.

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“You will never see sixstorey buildings directly across the lane from single-family homes,” he said.

“It is not standard practice in urban development planning or anywhere else.”

Lynn Roxburgh, a senior policy planner with the city, said the project has been going through a development review process including a preliminary report to council in December and an applicant-led consultation. She said the applicant is now reviewing the feedback from the community, the city’s design panel and city staff.The next step is to go to the advisory planning commission on March 16.

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25-323 Governors Ct.

$719,000

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• 2300 sq ft, 3 level townhouse • 2 bedrooms + loft, 3 bathrooms • Double garage • 2 balconies & patio • Beautiful river views • Plenty of storage throughout

• Skylight in dining room • 15 ft ceilings on main floor • 4 pc ensuite in the main bedroom • Loft makes as a perfect home office • Insuite laundry • 3 pets allowed • 19+ restriction

1407-1135 Quayside Dr.

$579,900

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• 1 parking, 1 locker • Excellent building, well maintained • Gym, sauna, library, amenity room

211-10533 University Dr.

• 2 bedrooms, 853 sq ft • 2 balconies, corner unit • Insuite laundry • Renovated kitchen • Huge main bedroom w/ balcony • 2 dogs / cats allowed • Great, well maintained building

$385,000

• Rainscreened 2001, re-piped 2016 • Gym, sauna, amenity room • 1 parking, 1 locker • Very convenient location • Near Skytrain, shopping, parks, mall

306-5 Renaissance SQ. NEW LISTING

• 2 bedrooms + den, 1505 sq ft • 2 bathrooms • Covered balcony • Nice river & lagoon views • Popular Lido building • Huge main bedroom

• Kitchen has an eating area • Lots of storage throughout • Plenty of natural light • 2 side by side parking stalls • Storage locker • Pets are welcome

$675,000

103-711 Breslay St.

• Corner unit, 2 bed, 2 bath • Private entrance townhouse style • Concrete building built in 2017 • Great layout, no wasted space • Both bedrooms have ensuite bathrooms • Doesn’t share walls with any of the neighbours

• Stunning kitchen • 2 parking stalls side by side • Large storage locker, 15 visitor parking spots • 2 dogs/cats allowed & rentals allowed • Very quiet street, super convenient location • 8 minute walk to the Skytrain

306-588 Twelfth St.

• Top floor, corner suite in the Regency • 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 921 sq. ft.

• Sliders off living room to a nice sized deck • Living room has vaulted ceiling • 9 foot ceilings throughout the rest of the home

$499,000

• Updated stylish guest bathroom • Spacious master bedroom w/ 4 pc ensuite • Nice open floor plan • Newer front loading washer & dryer • Parking & locker • Pets are welcome, limited rentals

$373,900

403-385 Ginger Dr.

sold

• Large 1 bedroom, 778 sq ft • Top floor • Updated kitchen • Two balconies - one off bedroom & one off living room • Spacious living and dining areas

$799,000

• Insuite storage room plus locker • Cork floor in foyer, hallway, kitchen & dining area • One parking & visitor parking • 2 pets & rentals allowed • Convenient location - close to Canada Games, Queens Park, Curling Club, shopping & transit

907-320 Royal Ave.

$494,500

NEW LISTING

• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 920 sq ft • SE facing - river, mountain & city views • Gorgeous engineered floors • Classy soft close kitchen cabinetry, quartz counters • Built-in wall oven, cooktop, undermount sink • Bathroom has heated floors & double shower

• Closet organizers in both bedrooms • New doors & hardware • Ideal location - walk to all amenities • Recently featured in the Vancouver Sun and Westcoast Homes and Designs

$599,900

1104-98 Tenth St.

sold

• Elegant & unique condo • 2 bed, 2 bath, 1245 sq.ft.

• Tons of high quality, beautiful upgrades done • Wall to wall windows showing SW city & river views • Wide plank flooring • 11 ft custom wall unit in living room

• Solar shields, blinds on all windows • Custom drapes • Stunning kitchen w/ breakfast bar • Large laundry room and/or pantry • Great deck off living room • 2 pets allowed • Gym, indoor pool, hot tub, amenity room, pool table

205-812 Milton St.

$448,000

• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 799 sq ft • Nicely renovated 2 bedroom • Popular Hawthorn Place in Brow of the Hill • Updated GE washer & dryer • Modern open white kitchen w/ large island & quartz counters • Gas fireplace in living room • Main bedroom has walk in closet

802-550 Eighth St.

• Sub-penthouse at Parkridge • 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 997 sq. ft.

• Corner unit - plenty of natural light • Concrete building, very convenient location • You don’t need a vehicle living here

• Updates include lighting, laminate / tile floors, closet doors, front door, blinds • Fully reno’ed bathroom • Strata fee includes heat, gas & hot water • 1 parking stall, 1 locker plus street parking • Within walking distance to many amenities • 2 pets & 100% rentals allowed

1606-1065 Quayside Dr.

• 2 bedroom + den, 1324 sq ft at The Quay • Spectacular sunset & river views • Kitchen: stylish dark cabinets, granite counters, massive island • Pull out pantry & wine fridge • Blomberg washer & dryer • Both bathrooms are updated

• Heated towel bar in ensuite bathroom • Murphy bed in second bedroom • Balcony off main bedroom & second bedroom • Great balcony off living room • Excellent building - indoor pool, hot tub & exercise centre • Parking & locker, visitor parking

207-25 Richmond St.

• 2 levels, 1346 sq. ft.

• 2 bedrooms + loft, 2 bathrooms • Homes like this are rarely for sale • Huge balcony with river views • High ceilings, gas fireplace • Very bright, lots of windows

$749,900

$589,000

• One parking stall & storage locker • 2 dogs/cats allowed • Visitor & street parking • Quick walk to Canada Games Pool • Near all of Sapperton’s amenities

601-680 Clarkson St.

$415,900

sold

• 1 bedroom downtown New West • 100% rentals allowed • Great for investor or first time buyer • Concrete building • Fully renovated • Laminate floors • White soft close kitchen cabinetry

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Community New West Craft at Queen’s Park gallery in March NewWest Craft’s February exhibition at the Gallery at Queen’s Park was such a success that it’s holding another one in March.

Four new artisans will be taking over the Arts Council of NewWestminster’s gallery until March 31.

“The first (NewWest Craft) exhibition was a true success,” said Laura Grady, program manager for the arts council, in an email. “The community came out ready to support and were excited to participate in a fun and intimate event.We have never seen so many people visiting our space (safely, of course).Visitors came to buy, so the artisans had a profitable experience.”

In celebration of InternationalWomen’s Day and Women’s History Month, the exhibition will feature four new female artists and artisans: Clarissa Banos,

On now: Work by Clarissa Banos is part of the New West Craft exhibition in March.

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Last fall, the city removed playground equipment – including a climbing and sliding structure and swings – at Riverside Adventure Park after determining they had reached the end of life.

The playground equipment had been slated for removal and redevelopment in 2021.

The city held a virtual open house on March 3 to get feedback on two themed design options for the replacement play

equipment and improvements to the park, based on what it heard at the first open house, said Erika Mashig, the city’s manager of parks and open space planning, design and construction.

According to Mashig, the budget for the project is $250,000.

The March 3 open house was recorded, so people who were unable to attend can still watch it online.

To get more information about the project and to complete an online survey, go to beheardnewwest.ca.

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B.C.’s vaccination plan leaves little ‘room for error’ NELSON BENNETT, CHUCK CHIANG, GLEN KORSTROM AND TYLER ORTON

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If it’s best practice to under-promise and over-deliver during a vaccination campaign, B.C. and Canada may already be heading down the wrong path.

With Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. contracted to deliver as many as 120 million combined COVID-19 vaccine doses this year, federal and provincial officials have repeatedly declared all Canadians who wish to be vaccinated will get their jabs by the end of September.

“While it is certainly possible that the stated goal could be hit, it doesn’t appear to leave much room for error or contingency,” said Steve Waters, CEO and founder of Contrace Public Health Corps in Washington, D.C. He pointed to real-time data from COVID19tracker.ca, which is administered by the University of Saskatchewan, that reveals Canada has administered 76 per cent of doses that have been delivered as of late February.

B.C. is doing slightly better at 79 per cent. “[It] doesn’t lead to confidence that a large increase in delivery of doses will mean a massive increase in the rate of administration. In fact, a large delivery of doses at one time could potentially create logistical issues that could even reduce the administration rate,” Waters said. “Considering there is a global shortage of vaccines, existing production and delivery delays, and increasing geopolitical pressures around the most complex logistical challenge in modern history, Canada is certainly at a disadvantage having to depend on other countries for vaccines.”

Mahesh Nagarajan, a professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business whose focus area is supply chains, said effectively vaccinating a population involves a two-step process: sourcing the vaccine and distributing it.

He commended Canada for quickly acquiring options to buy hundreds of millions of doses of a range of drug makers’ vaccines, and said that had a different drug developer than the Pfizer-BioNTech partnership been able to

Vancouver’s Precision Nanosystems Inc. will help boost Canada’s domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity. CHUNG CHOW first get its drug approved for use in Canada, it is “quite likely” Canada’s vaccine rollout would have been faster.

“The Canadian government has not opened up its books, and shown us the exact nature of these contracts,” he said.

What the Canadian government should have done, he said, was revise its strategy over time.

“You cannot say in June of 2020, ‘We have option agreements for 400 million vaccine doses,’ and then you do nothing after that,” Nagarajan said.

Had the Canadian government swapped its options to buy vaccine doses for concrete commitments to buy those vaccines, backed with top-dollar prices, Nagarajan said, Canada would likely have been a world leader in getting its residents vaccinated.

He pointed to Israel, which has long been the No. 1 country for per-capita vaccinations.

“We know that Israel paid more money,” he said.

Nagarajan added that the federal government, knowing that Canada has little drug-manufacturing capacity, should have done more to ensure sufficient vaccine supply.

Some critics have suggested that were Canada equipped with a robust drug-manufacturing sector, similar to the U.K.’s, its manufacturing companies could have reached agreements with the Pfizer-BioNTech partnership or the second fastest vaccine producer, Moderna, to produce vaccines in Canada.

But Nagarajan said Canadian drug manufacturers would have had to pay the drug developers a significant sum for the right to produce the vaccines and that any such partnership would be feasible for the drug developers only if the prospective manufacturers could produce huge volumes of the vaccines – not merely enough for 38 million Canadians.

Another challenge is that Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines are more complicated to manufacture than AstraZeneca’s, which is based on double-stranded DNA. As such, established drug manufacturers may have had difficulty producing the vaccine.

“That said, having a large manufacturing capacity can definitely help a country,” Nagarajan said.

With Canada facing sharp vaccine shortages in January and February, Ottawa revealed last

month it’s tapping Vancouver-based Precision Nanosystems Inc. to boost domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity in the coming years.

Plans for PNI’s new $50-million biomanufacturing facility in Metro Vancouver are now underway after the federal government revealed last month it was earmarking $25 million for the endeavour.

“The government support … has been a great catalyst to be able to bring that to fruition,” he said.

PNI is a provider of technology for the development and manufacture of genetics medicines that deliver RNA or DNA directly into cells to treat disease at its molecular root cause.

Last fall, Ottawa earmarked $18 million for the company to pursue its own COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to enter Phase 1 of clinical trials this coming summer.

PNI specializes in a class of vaccines known as self-amplifying RNA vaccines.

These have the potential to create more potent vaccines as they amplify the signal, allowing PNI to manufacture more doses for less volume.

The new 40,000-square-foot facility, expected to be completed in March 2023, would be able to produce up to 240 million of those self-amplifying RNA vaccine doses.

Moderna and Pfizer, meanwhile, have been manufacturing conventional messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines.

Taylor said PNI’s facility would be able to manufacture two million to 24 million mRNA doses – a significant difference compared with the manufacturing capacity for a self-amplifying RNA vaccine.

With PNI’s facility slated to open in 2023, the Vancouver company’s expanded manufacturing capacity does not fit into the federal government’s timeline for vaccinating all Canadians by September 2021.

Instead, it’s poised to play a part in future responses to health crises.

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“If [PNI’s COVID-19 vaccine] came earlier than [when] the facility was ready for us, our company already partners and provides our technology to contract manufacturing organizations all over the world.”

Upon announcing the $25 million earmarked for PNI’s facility, Trudeau said the arrangement will offer the country more domestic manufacturing certainty for years to come.

“We don’t know what the future looks like a year from now, two years from now, three years from now,” he said.

“What we’re very clear on is Canada will be developing domestic manufacturing, so regardless of what could happen in the future, we will have domestic production.”

In the short term, one potential bottleneck could be scheduling.

Once people have registered online – likely through the BC Centre for Disease Control website or health authority websites – they will need to be notified when and where they can get their first shot. Once they’ve had their first shot, they will need to be scheduled for a second shot a few weeks later.

“There is a very strong likelihood we will not get it done by September,” said Nagarajan.

“Actually, I think the chances are very, very high we won’t get it done by September.”

He’s not convinced the province will be able to secure all the vaccines it will need on schedule. Even if the province is able to secure all the vaccines it will need on schedule, he fears there could be problems getting the provincial Panorama health-care data system synced with the IT systems of five health authorities.

“One of the issues is that each health-care authority has its own IT system,” Nagarajan said. “What is needed is a way to get these systems communicating with each other. This needs to be pretty seamless. You do not want citizens showing up to a vaccination centre where the bottleneck is the IT system trying to record the citizens’ information and then cross-checking it.

“You need to have a very smooth process where all of these transactions get recorded so

UBC professor Mahesh Nagarajan, whose focus area is on supply chains, says vaccinating a population involves a two-step process. CHUNG CHOW fast and so seamlessly that the focus is unrelentingly on getting the vaccine in somebody’s arm and getting them out.”

The federal government awarded Deloitte Inc. a $16-million contract late last year to provide a national vaccine management IT platform meant to assist provinces with vaccine rollout, administration and reporting.

The NVMIP isn’t meant to replace B.C.’s existing system, but the province confirmed it would be used to record all immunizations electronically and track vaccine inventory.

“I know that there’s going to be glitches, there’s going to be bumps,” B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry told reporters in late February. “We will not let people be left behind.”

Bill Tam, chief operating officer for the B.C. Digital Technology Supercluster, said he thinks a new purpose-built scheduling system, called Project ABC, can be in place by the time Phase 3 starts in April.

With the help of the Digital Supercluster, Cambian, a B.C. software company specializing in health care, developed the Project ABC software, which stands for “authorization, booking and confirmation.”

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Project ABC was originally designed to manage COVID-19 serology testing, but has since pivoted to scheduling vaccinations on a large scale.

“Think of it as a bit of a rules engine that will ensure the right population demographics have the access they need to go ahead and book their vaccinations,” Tam said.

The Project ABC software, which will likely be embedded as a widget in the BC Centre for Disease Control or health authority websites, will confirm a person is eligible for a vaccine according to age, occupation and other criteria.

“You get an email, or text, if you’ve chosen text,” Forde explains. “It brings you to a website – same place where you registered – then you choose a site that is convenient for you. So if you’re within a certain area, maybe you have like three or four or five options to choose from, you can look at a time, pick the location, and when you’re finished you get a QR code.”

Using their smartphones, people can simply flash their QR code when they arrive at the clinic at the designated time, which will allow them to move quickly through the queue without having to fill anything out.

“We don’t know where the bottlenecks will be until we actually run through the system,” said Nagarajan.

Another integral facet in the vaccine rollout

will be a public awareness campaign never seen before in B.C. and Canada.

Valorie Crooks, professor of geography at Simon Fraser University and the current Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geography, noted that – at least in northern, remote communities where vaccination clinics are likely limited – the opportunity is there for the province to deploy targeted marketing to achieve a better result.

The rise of anti-vaxxer sentiment in North America and throughout the world in the last few years has raised concerns among many experts that a COVID vaccination drive may be impeded by misinformation.

That is why, Crooks said, the key will be avoiding a one-size-fits-all public awareness campaign. The priority should be to identify trusted message-carriers – whether that be local newspapers, community leaders, online platforms or other individuals – whose delivery of vaccination information would be more easily accepted at the micro-local level, she noted.

“We need public health communication strategies that make sense in the places where people live,” Crooks said. “People who are health authority liaisons or on-site providers need to be involved in leadership in how information is shared. It may involve turning over the messaging to people who are members of the community who are reliable relaters of key information.”

Rhea Dubois-Phillips, Vancouver general manager of public relations firm Edelman, agreed.

She said relying on daily news conferences will not by itself lead to a successful public awareness rollout.

Dubois-Phillips noted examples during the early days of COVID-19 where provincial news conferences were aimed at urging people to stay home and flatten the curve; some of these efforts, she said, were unsuccessful because the information wasn’t readily available in the languages of certain ethnic and religious communities – meaning the messaging did not reach all of its intended target.

“You have to figure out what barriers are there that would prevent certain stakeholders from getting the vaccine,” Dubois-Phillips said.

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LAWN & GARDEN

Interior / Exterior Specialist.

Many Years Experience.

Fully Insured.

Top Quality • Quick Work.

Free estimate.

HandymanConnection.com

RENOS & HOME IMPROVEMENT

778-984-0666 D&M PAINTING

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Licensed Home Builder RENOVATIONS Tub to Walk-in Showers BATHROOM SPECIALIST 25+ years experience.

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Prime Time Venture Inc Santo 778-235-1772

604-724-3832

24 years Experience.

Fully y Ins’d. Lic’d & WCB • Spring Clean-up • Lawn Maintenance • Power Rake • New Sod & Seeding • Tree Topping & Trimming • Power Wash • Gutters • Patio’s • Decks • Fences • Concrete • Retaining Walls ys & Sidewalks • Driveway & Much MORE All work guaranteed Free Estimates .

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604-240-2881

FAIRWAY PAINTING Fully Insured 20 yrs. exp. • Free Est.

INTERIOR & EXTERIOR SPECIALS 10% OFF

Call 604-

7291234

PAINTSPECIAL.COM

3 rooms for $375, 2 coats any colour (Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls Cloverdale Premium quality paint.

NO PAYMENT until Job is completed.

Ask us about our Laminate Flooring & Maid Services.

HOME REPAIRS RENOVATIONS INSTALLATIONS CARPENTRY • ELECTRICAL PLUMBING • PAINTING FLOORING • TO-DO LIST

Done Quick. Licensed.

Done Right. Bonded.

Guaranteed. Insured.

Winter Specials • Clean-up BOBCAT SERVICES Tree Pruning & Hedges Blackberry Removal • Retaining Walls • Concrete • Driveways •Paths •Patios’ • DECKS & FENCING & more

PLUMBING

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Donny 604-600-6049

WINTER CLEAN-UP • Stucco Repair • Decks & Fencing & more • Retaining Walls • Paths • Lawn; Seed, Install, Repair •Tree Prune & Hedg ge Trim

Bob • 778-968-7843

PROJECTS

• Hot Water Tanks • Plumbing • Heating • Furnaces • Boilers • Drainage • Res. & Comm.

• 24/7 /77 Service

604-437-7272

ALL RENOVATIONS: •Kitchen •Baths •Additions •Patio •Stairs •Deck •Fences •P Painting •D Drywall & MORE

778-892-1530

a1kahlonconstruction.ca BATHROOM & KITCHEN SPECIALIST 20 Years Experience.

Free Estimate.

Mike: 604−841−7773

RUBBISH REMOVAL

BRADS JUNK REMOVAL.com

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Incl. Landscaping, Stone Structures, Patios, Pools 20 years exp. - No job too small Will- 604.805.1582 www.northlandmasonry.com

POWER WASHING

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Gutter Cleaning, Power Washing, Window Cleaning, Roof Cleaning

2 Guys With A Truck Moving & Storage 604-628-7136

ROOFING

Jag • 778-892-1530

MASONRY

ROCK • SLATE BRICK • GRANITE • PAVERS

Kitchen & Bathrooms, all Tile, all Flooring, Drywall, Paint. ALL REPAIRS +More!

INT & EXT • 778-836-0436

FIND HELP FOR YOUR

25+ yrs exp. WCB. Insured

WEST BEST HOME RENOVATION Siding, Deck, Patio, Installs, Doors, Windows, Roof, Chimney, Gutter, Repair, Flashing, Upgrade Bathroom, Kitchen, Basement, Drywall, Laminate Tile, Lino and much more! 20 years of experience. Free estimate. Call Mike: 604−841−7773

604-878-5232

778 -895-3503

Rubbish Removal $30/hr per Person.24/7 • 604-999-6020

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Free Estimate

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604-878-5232

ABE MOVING & Delivery &

BONDED & INSURED EXPERIENCED EMPLOYEES PROFESSIONAL, SAFE AND RELIABLE

Aluminum & Glass Patio Covers, Sunrooms & Railings

35%OFF

Licensed. Res/Com. Small job expert. Renos, Panel changes.

LIC. ELECTRICIAN

PATIOS

Residential & Commercial

FLOORING

ELECTRICAL

YOUR ELECTRICIAN Lic#89402. Insured. Guar’d.

Fast same day service.

We love BIG & small jobs!

604-568-1899 goldenleafelectrical.com

VILLA MARGARETA

Drainage; Video Inspection, Landscaping, Stump/Rock/Cement/Oil Tank & Demos, Paving, Pool/Dirt Removal, Paver Stones, Jackhammer, Water/Sewer, Line/Sumps, Slinger Avail, Concrete Cutting, Hand Excavating.

Basements Made Dry Claudio’s Backhoe Service

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Drainage & Excavation SERVICES • We make Basements Dry • 604-341-4446

Boarding & Taping, Good Rates! Reliable, Free Est. Reno’s & Small Jobs Welcome! Call Gurprit 604-710-7769

PAINTING/ WALLPAPER

INTERIOR & EXTERIOR

HOME REPAIRS RENOVATIONS INSTALLATIONS

GUTTERS

DRYWALL

SKYLINE TOWERS

#1 Backhoes & Excavators Trenchless Waterlines Bobcats & Dump Truck & All Material Deliveries

AGGRECON SPECIALTIES

• Polished Concrete Floors • Pumping • Placing • Sealing • Acid Staining • Decorative Concrete • Forming • Demolition • Foundation Pouring

HANDYPERSON

SPECIAL WINTER PAINTING DISCOUNT

604-341-4446

778-919-7707

GARDEN VILLA

EXCAVATING

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604-767-2667

Re-Roofing & Repairs Specialists

20 Year Labour Warranty Available

604-591-3500

Call Simon for prompt & professional service 30 yrs exp.

604-230-0627

PATIOS

YARD & HOME Cleanup DISPOSAL Construction Reno’s & Drywall / Demo’s 7 Day ys/Week • Free Est’s

Isaac • 604-727-5232 www.lowcostrubbish.com

Bros. Roofing Ltd. Over 40 Years in Business SPECIALIZING IN CEDAR, FIBERGLASS LAMINATES AND TORCH ON.

Liability Insurance, WCB, BBB, Free Estimates

604-946-4333 New Roofing & Repairs.

Gutter Cleaning • $80 Free Est. • GLRoofing.ca

604-240-5362

TREE SERVICES TREE SERVICES

Pruning, Hedge Trimming Tree & Stump Removal 75 ft Bucket Trucks Covid-19 Safety Guidelines strictly followed.

604 - 787-5915

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BC AWNING & RAILING

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Home Improvement?

Refer to the Service Directory for all of your home improvement, decorating and gardening needs.

22 THURSDAY, March 4, 2021 • New West Record

LANGLEY FARM MARKET PRODUCE SOLO PAPAYA

2

99

89

¢

lb.

¢

lb.

Product of U.S.A. $2.18/kg

Product of Mexico $3.70/kg

99

$ 68

1

¢

lb.

GROCERY

CABANA

Selected varieties / 591m ml

ea.

CAMP PBELL’S SIMPLY

NO SALT ADDED CHICKEN BROTH

Rolled / Quick / 1kg

2

AA A / $14.28/kg

DUNG SUNG

EAT WHOLES SOME ORGANIC

EA AT WHOLESOME ORGANIC

SAMYANG

398ml

39 98mll

CHICK PEAS

1

5 $ 49 6 $ 49 5 $ 29 3 $ 39 6 $ 49

CHIC CKEN THIGHS CLA LAM AM MEAT

Ocean Mama / Frozen / 340g

RAW W WHITE PRAWN NS 26-3 30

Aquasstar / Frozen / 340g g

1

DELI

BAVA ARIAN MEAT LO OAF SMO OKED GOUDA

lb.

2 $ 29 1 $ 89 1

LANGLEY FARM MARKET

For fresh and quality foods

5

BAKERY

ea.

99¢ $ 25 2 $ 25 5

CUPC CAKES

/100g

100g

/100g

450g

ea.

RAIS SIN BUNS S

ea.

SWIS SS ROLLL

/100g

600g

ea.

ea.

ea.

For freshness and quality you can count on!

LFM

R A M EN

$ 49

ea.

$ 69

ea.

Selected varieties / 5 x 140g / 5 x 130g

$ 89

ea.

SEAS SONED ROAST BEEF

ea.

SW WEET PEAS

$ 39

ea.

lb.

Boneless & Skinless / $1 12.08/kg

3

$ 69

ea.

lb.

OUTS SIDE ROUND STTEAK

180g

$ 29

ea.

MEAT & SEAFOOD AA A / $12.08/kg

GINGER LEMON HONEY Y CRYSTALS

$ 69

2

OUTS SIDE ROUND RO OAST

3

PRINCE OF PEACE

$ 99

$ 49

ea.

GA ARLIC DILL PICKLES 75 50ml

270g

$ 99

lb.

EA AT WHOLESOME ORGANIC

47g

SEAWEED BISCUITS

946m ml

1

$ 49

lb.

CHOCO HEIIM

OATS

2

$ 79

Product of Mexico $3.28/kg

CROWN

DAN-D-PAK ORGANIC

LEMONADE

lb.

RED PEPPERS

AS SPARAG GUS S TIPS S ASPARAGUS

CAULIFLOWER

1

Product of U.S.A. $1.96

Product of U.S.A. $2.18/kg

$ 99

1

D’ANJOU PEARS

RED NAVEL ORANGES ORAN NGES (CARA CARA)

Product of Hawaii $6.58/kg

7815 KINGSWAY, BURNABY 604.521.2883

This sale is only for Kingsway Location.

Your Choice. Our Honour.

Our Effort. Our Award.

Thank you to all our valued customers for your ongoing support

GIFT CARDS AVAILABLE IN STORE VALID THURSDAY MAR. 4 – SUNDAY, MAR. 7, 2021 • WHILE QUANTITIES LAST.

STORE HOURS: MONDAY TO SUNDAY 8:30AM TO 9:00PM • HOLIDAYS: 9:00AM TO 6:00PM