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City SERVICES

Date set for opening of new recycling centre Theresa McManus tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

The long-awaited recycling facility that will replace services once offered at the NewWestminster recycling depot is set to open next week.

Metro Vancouver has announced the new $77.6-million United Boulevard Recycling and Waste Centre will open on March 14. Located at 995 United Blvd. in Coquitlam, this one-stop drop-off facility will accept a wide range of recyclables, including: glass; yard trimmings and food waste; plastic containers and bags; batteries, electronics and light fixtures; used automotive oil, antifreeze, and oil containers; clothing and textiles; books, magazines and other paper; and yard trimmings and food waste.

“We are already a North American leader in waste reduction and recycling with a 64% diversion rate,” Jack Froese, chair of Metro Vancouver’s Zero Waste committee, said in a news release. “This new

Opening soon: Metro Vancouver board members Jack Froese (left) and Sav Dhaliwal at the new facility. PHOTO JANIS CLEUGH

facility, serving approximately 200,000 customers per year, will make it easier and more accessible to recycle all kinds of items, and will help us reach our regional goal of an 80% recycling rate.”

The facility will replace

the nearby Coquitlam Recycling and Waste Centre, which will close at the end of the day on March 12.

The United Boulevard Recycling and Waste Centre will be three times larger than the existing facility.

In 2019, New West-

minster city council, at a closed meeting, decided to close the recycling depot at Sixth and McBride and partner with the Tri-Cities on a regional facility on United Boulevard.

Some residents supported the city’s plan, say-

ing recycling isn’t a priority compared to other initiatives related to fighting climate change and noting that many of the items that were collected at the recycling depot can be collected curbside, eliminated or taken to other lo-

cations in the city.

Many residents, however, opposed the city’s plan, with more than 1,400 people signing a petition opposing the closure of the local recycling depot. Opponents expressed concern about having to go to Coquitlam to access the depot.

When the city decided to partner with Metro Vancouver on the new facility, it was intended to open at the end of 2020. Since the New Westminster recycling depot closed in March 2020, the city has held a series of pop-up recycling events where residents could recycle items not accepted in recycling bins, like glass.

In October 2021, the city announced it would launch a curbside glass collection program as part of the city’s recycling services.The collection of glass packaging, such as jam and sauce jars, is intended to reduce contamination in recycling streams and fill a gap left by the closure of the recycling depot.

UTILITIES

Cold snap, tax increase felt on city electrical bills Theresa McManus tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

Many New West residents got a shock when they opened up their first electrical bills of 2022.

Since mid-January, dozens of local residents have taken to Facebook pages related to New Westminster to question and comment on increases to their electrical bills. Many stated they’d be taking concerns about their electrical utility bills to city hall.

Rod Carle, general manager of the city’s electric utility, said he hadn’t personally heard from any residents about their bills, but suggested a few fac-

tors may have contributed to increases on residents’ most recent electrical bills.

“Our residential billing is every two months.

We had the rate increase on the first of January so they may just be seeing for the first time the bill at the new rates,” he said.

“That might be one of the items.”

Carle noted temperatures plummeted to nearrecord lows between Christmas and NewYear’s, prompting some people to turn up the heat.

In response to the unseasonally cold temperatures forecast at the end of 2021 and in the first days of 2022, the city took to social media to advise resi-

dents to turn off lights that aren’t needed, to turn off outdoor Christmas lights before going to bed, to lower the temperature of their thermostats before leaving home and to avoid unnecessary electrical consumption during peak times of the day (6 to 8 a.m. and 5 to 7 p.m.).The notice stated that extreme cold weather places an additional load on the city’s electrical grids, so customers were asked to consider conserving energy during this period.

As part of the 2022 budget, council approved a 2.8% increase to this year’s electrical utility rates.The city is also forecasting 2.8% increases

in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 as a way of avoiding fluctuations in electrical bills to residents and businesses, helping the city manage through uncertainty around commodities prices and climate risk, maintaining healthy reserves for routine renewal and replacement of existing assets and addressing long-range infrastructure planning.

In addition to the 2.8% increase, Carle said the utility bills also include a 3.5% climate action levy and a 2.5% raterider.

“We have got quite a bit of capital work going on right now.We have got the Queensborough substation at $25 million

in the budget.We have got automated meters at about $10 million. So there is $35 million, and then there are some other smaller amounts within our capital program,” he said. “I know finance (the city’s finance department) has really been watching the reserves and wanting to keep that level fairly consistent.There is some debt financing that we are trying to cover off with these projects.”

In late 2019, the city approved a new climate action levy to help fund the city’s climate emergency response.The levy was implemented on Jan. 1, 2020 – but was eliminated just a few months later as a way

of minimizing the financial impact of COVID-19 on taxpayers.

“It was in for about three or four months and then we cancelled it,” Carle said.

The city reinstated the levy in 2021.

Carle said the 2.8% tax increase and the increased usage during the cold snap would likely explain why some folks were surprised by the amount due on their most recent bills. He noted that if people still have their bills from last winter, they would be able to compare their energy consumption from winter 2020 to winter 2021.

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REZONING APPLICATION FOR 817 ST. ANDREWS ST. (REZ00209) WHAT IS THE REZONING (REZ00209) ABOUT?

Rezoning and Development Permit applications have been received to allow the construction of a triplex (three storey building) at 817 St. Andrews Street. This pilot project is proceeding under the Duplex, Triplex, and Quadruplex: Interim Review Policy. The project has been designed to a higher building energy efficiency standard and would be seeking Passive House certification. The three storey building would have an overall Floor Space Ratio (FSR) of 0.785. The proposed development would be stratified, with two units in the front and one unit at the rear. Off-street parking for three vehicles would be provided at the rear of the property. The applicants have updated the triplex design based on feedback received during applicant-led consultation, held between January 11 to February 1, 2022.

Images of the revised design are available on Be Heard New West. This is the last opportunity for public comment on the updated proposal prior to the application being forwarded to Council for consideration.

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WATER MAIN FLUSHING As part of the City of New Westminster’s maintenance program, the flushing of the water mains will take place from March 14 to May 1, 2022 in the following areas: • McBride Boulevard to Lower Hume Park • Queensborough 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 of New Westminster 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.

ELECTRONICS RECYCLING The New Westminster Police Department is partnering with the Electronic Recycling Association to offer free electronics recycling on March 19th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm in the parking lot at City Hall, located at 511 Royal Avenue. Your items will be cleaned of data and then recycled or refurbished. Items for recycling may include cell phones, computers, laptops, and printers. More information and a full list of items accepted for recycling can be found at www.nwpolice.org

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City Metro Vancouver under fire for sewer project delays Theresa McManus

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A Metro Vancouver engineer was in the hot seat in council chambers Monday night as frustration mounts about the length of time it’s taking to complete sewer repairs on Columbia Street.

Local businesses, area residents and city officials are concerned about construction-related impacts, such as reduced parking and stacks of massive pipes on the roadway.

Metro Vancouver is aiming to complete the work by the May long weekend.

WHAT IS THE NEW WESTMINSTER INTERCEPTOR? The New Westminster Interceptor is a large pipe that carries sewage from Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, most of

Burnaby and parts of New Westminster to the Annacis Island wastewater treatment plant in Delta.

Metro Vancouver officials appeared before city council in December 2020 to outline plans to rehabilitate about 1.6 kilometres of a major sewer line on Columbia Street between McBride Boulevard and Front/Columbia streets, at which time city council – concerned about impacts on a downtown business district already suffering from COVID-19 impacts – directed engineering staff to work with Metro Vancouver on different timeline options for the project.

In March 2021, council reluctantly agreed to allow Metro Vancouver to proceed with the project after being told delaying the repairs could have disastrous consequences, such as a

discharge of raw sewage or a sink hole on Columbia Street.

WHAT’S THE LATEST? On March 7, council granted an exemption to the construction noise bylaw that will allow work to be done for 12 nights between 8 a.m. to 7 a.m., between Friday, March 11 and Thursday, April 14.

This will allow sliplining – a major component of the project – to be done.

(Sliplining involves putting a new pipe inside an old pipe.)

Phase 1 of the project has been delayed by a gamut of challenges, including weather, supply chain issues, COVID-19 impacts and underground obstructions.

Colin Meldrum, director of engineering, design and construction in the liquid waste services de-

partment at Metro Vancouver, said the contractor began installing the pipe into the existing pipe about three weeks ago, but it “ran into a snag” in the form of an underground obstruction. In response, he said the contractor has changed the way it would proceed with the sliplining process.

The new plan means that most of the pipes stored on the road in the 700 block of Columbia Street, directly across from Anvil Centre, will be moved further up Columbia Street, past Blackwood Street.

“There should still be eight or 10, maybe 12 sticks of pipe left to complete the part downstream of Eighth, but the majority of that pipe is being moved away from the downtown core and up towards the Transit Po-

lice works yard,” Meldrum told council Monday.

“That will start tomorrow.”

According to Meldrum, the contractor has completed 30% of the sliplining work that’s to be done in Phase 1 of the sewer project.

“The timeline for everything hinges on the sliplining of this work.This is the core of the entire project,” he said. “We need all of the new pipe in first.”

Once the pipe is installed, Meldrum said work needs to be done on the city connections to the pipes, to replace some manholes and to fill the space between the old and new pipes.

“We are trying our hardest to get it done by the May 24 weekend,” he said. “We understand that is the start of patio season and potentially summer

events.”

HOW HAS IT AFFECTED BUSINESSES? A “nightmare” – that’s how Downtown New Westminster BIA president Karima Jivraj describes the project that she says has been plagued with delays and poor communication since it started.

“Since I can’t use the words I want to, in polite terms, this whole thing is a huge disaster,” she said.

Jivraj cited concerns such as road closures with little or no notice, excessive noise, smells, a lack of parking and a “terrible” pedestrian experience.

“No matter what our merchants have tried to do, they still lose business every single day that this continues,” she said.

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Opinion MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

B.C. debt keeps going up and up

Once upon a time, the size of the provincial debt used to be a big deal in B.C. politics.

Those days, however, are long gone and the fiscal plan released last week is another reminder of why debt politics have gone by the wayside.

In one key respect, the BC NDP government, since coming to power, has continued down a path that previous governments have walked. It is spending a gargantuan amount of money on public infrastructure over the next three years and the total provincial debt will balloon (it will have almost doubled in 10 years by the end of the three-year fiscal plan).

The money (more than $27 billion over three years) is being spent on popular things – hospitals, schools, highways etc.

– so the capital spending plan is not something that any political party wants to take issue with.There is a reason U.S. President Joe Biden has worked so hard to craft his own massive infrastructure plan: the voters love seeing things it can use being built.

Not only are public infrastructure projects popular (for the most part, unless they go way over budget or are delayed in terms of completion), but the clock is ticking on the lifespan of existing infrastructure built in the 1950s and ‘60s.

Things like the aging Massey Tunnel (its replacement will shed the Massey name) and the Pattullo Bridge need replacing. So do aging schools and health facilities (the Cowichan District Hospital, for example, is 54 years old and is being replaced).

The overall dollar numbers are staggering and likely somewhat meaningless for many. More than $8.6 billion will be spent on health-care facilities

alone.The new St. Paul’s Hospital will cost $2.2 billion, while Surrey, Richmond and Burnaby are all getting either new hospitals or major expansions of existing ones.

In terms of overall spending, the transportation sector - $8 billion in spending – is nipping at the health sector’s heels when it comes to big spending.The biggie there is the new Fraser River tunnel crossing at more than $4 billion and the Broadway Subway line, at almost $3 billion.

More than $3 billion will be spent in the K-12 education system (much of it for seismic upgrading) and a further $4.3 billion is allocated for post-secondary institutions.

Then there is BC Hydro, whose debt is classified differently. It is considered to be “self-supported debt” as opposed to “taxpayer-supported debt” (the kind that funds all those education and health projects).

The biggest infrastructure in B.C. history is the Site C Dam, currently estimated to cost $16 billion to complete. B.C. Hydro, with its aging grid and dam system, plans to spend another $2.4 billion upgrading and replacing its facilities.

A combination of capital spending and forecasted deficits in the range of billions of dollars has the government forecasting the total provincial debt to exceed more than $100 billion by the end of the next fiscal year and to reach more than $125 billion by the end of 202425. It was about $63 billion in 2014-15.

I doubt the public regards the growing size of the debt to be much of a concern. Of a more pressing matter is ensuring that things get built quickly.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

Topic: The lasting impact of the ‘convoy’.

“The government has set a new precedent.

Next time they abuse their powers, it could be against any political or social movement in the future.

With runaway inflation we could see labour unrest in the near future.”

“The ‘freedom’ convoys were not about real freedom and not completely the fault of government.”

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City salaries are revealed

The salaries of senior City of New Westminster officials ranged from a high of just over $80,000 to about $38,500 in 1988, according to that year’s annual report on municipal spending.The biggest earner, city administrator Doug Manning, made $81,033.35. City engineer Pat Connolly made $71,401.10. City treasurer John Wahn took in $71,401.10. Parks and recreation administrator Donald K.Winslade earned $60,821.82. And Police Chief Ken Brown brought home $75,276.95.

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Letters Realtors eye changes Editor: An open letter to Finance Minister Selina Robinson: As one of B.C.’s 24,000 Realtors, I would like to provide you with recommendations to help ensure British Columbians buying and selling real estate are well protected.

I am concerned by your statement that the real estate sector has a “vested interest” in keeping housing prices high and B.C.’s market overheated. Realtors do not have a vested interest in high housing prices; rather, we have a vested interest in consumer protection and providing value for our clients. This means we are concerned about prospective homebuyers facing multiple-offer situations and we are concerned about home prices escalating out of the reach of many British Columbian families.

To ensure effective policy, I expect the B.C. Government to engage in broad, fulsome consultation with real estate professionals and the public prior to announcing new policies. As such, I am disappointed that a consultation did not take place prior to the Ministry of Finance’s November 2021 announcement to introduce legislation requiring a “cooling-off period.”

I believe consumer protection should be looked at holistically and the “cooling-off period,” which is untested in any jurisdiction in Canada, was announced without a problem

statement, supporting rationale, evidence of its anticipated efficacy or consideration for its impact on sellers and the many real estate sub-markets or its ability to withstand changing market conditions.

That is why I believe BC Real Estate Association’s recommendation of a “pre-offer period” is a better way to provide consumer protection.

I support thoughtfully designed, properly vetted and evidence-based policy that protects British Columbians and enhances professionalism and transparency in the real estate sector. For the “cooling-off” period, as well as other policy interventions being considered to improve consumer protection, I recommend that the B.C. Government: • Commit to undertaking fulsome consultation with real estate professionals and the public prior to announcements of any intention to implement policy.

• Ensure each proposed policy has a corresponding problem statement, objectives, goals and metrics to evaluate its effectiveness, making those available to the public.

• Provide public timeframes for monitoring and evaluating new policies.

• Ensure that any new rules are harmonized with existing Rules and other regulatory requirements.

Phil Moore is past-president of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver

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A stop-work order has delayed efforts to get the Centennial Community Centre gymnasium into ship-shape for fitness classes, but the city is confident it will be good to go by the end of the month.

As part of city council’s decision to decommission the Canada Games Pool, the city announced that equipment from the pool’s fitness area would be relocated to the gymnasium at Centennial Community Centre.

“The only advertised date that we had was March 28, so we are still hoping to have the new fitness centre open by that date,” said Corrinne Garrett, the city’s senior manager of recreation facilities

and services. “We did hire some contractors for the site to reinforce the gymnasium floor.”

With hundreds of thousands of pounds of weight room equipment going into the space, Garrett said a structural engineer recommended the city put in some extra supports under the floor.

Garrett said the city hired a contractor to do that work, but it couldn’t begin until the city found suitable locations for the fitness programs that had been offered in the gymnasium. She said those programs all moved to their new locations on the weekend of Feb. 12 and 13, and the contractor came to the site on Feb. 14.

According to Garrett, a WorkSafeBC officer visited the site on Feb 15 and

dealt with the contractor.

Because they have “prime contractor status,” she said the contractor has total control over the site and city staff don’t have access to the site.

“The contractor is in control of the health and safety for that site,” she said. “So, theWorkSafe officer who came in dealt specifically with the contractor that we had hired to talk about mitigating some concerns that they had. Because the work was being done subsurface, in a crawl space basically, they were concerned about confined space. So the stop-work order was to the contractor in regards to mitigating factors regarding the confined space and doing work safely in that space. So, there was a procedural stoppage,

and we are just waiting for some paperwork to be filed.”

Garrett told the Record March 7 that the contractor has been gathering all the paperwork and assessments needed byWorkSafeBC, and construction at the site is anticipated to occur within the next day.

“It’s a four-day project.

It’s not that long. …We are hoping for the work stoppage and the paperwork to be approved today or tomorrow, and then we are hoping the work will take about four days after that,” she said.

While work to reinforce the gymnasium floor has been on hold, other aspects of the project have been taking place. Last week, a contractor relocated all of the weight room equipment from the

second level of Canada Games Pool to ground level.

“So now we just have to transfer basically from front door to front door, so the equipment has all been moved down. It was a large job, but that was all done last week,” she said. “We have contractors on standby, so as soon as the floor supports are put in – we are still planning to meet our deadline of March 28 for the fitness centre reopening.”

FITNESS CLASSES RELOCATED As part of its decision to relocate equipment from Canada Games Pool’s fitness area to the gym in Centennial Community Centre, the city had to find new homes for the Fitness NewWest and pickleball

programs that had been offered in that space.

Effective Feb. 14, all evening group fitness classes and all weekend fitness classes were moved to Century House. Morning classes (Monday,Wednesday and Friday) are being offered at Centennial Lodge in Queen’s Park, while Tuesday and Thursday morning classes are taking place in the River Room at Centennial Community Centre.

Pickleball programs have relocated to the gym at Herbert Spencer Elementary School.

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Community Choir reaches out to queer community, allies Odney said, “and while the United Church of Canada has done some significant work in studying human sexuality, peoFor Rev. Blair Odney, there is a particular power in choral mu- ple are still in trauma over the way the church writ large – the sic. small-c church – has rejected It lies in the relationships of them. the singers to each other and to “The community is in trauma the music. It lies in the human about it.” struggle to learn the notes as inThe new choir is born out of dividuals and meld them in a that recognition. It grew out of collective musical whole that’s greater than the sum of its parts. a focus group Odney conducted before Christmas with members “Music, for me, is a replication of what it means to connect of the queer community.

The Rainbow Chorus isn’t a to the holy other, particularly “religious” choir, in choral muand its repertoire sic,” Odney said. won’t be based in “When individspecifically sacred ual singers conmusic. nect to something Want to know more or sign “This isn’t golarger, there is a up? ing to be a church moment when it For more about the choir, choir, but nothing check out its Facebook page happens; when – search for Rainbow Chorus I do, ever, is outwe touch someof New Westminster. side the realm of thing that is holy, Singers who’d like to join what my faith is sacred, beautiful.” can fill out an application about, and I beHe’s lived form online at www.tinyurl. lieve that all muthat experience com/RainbowChorusNW. sic is sacred,” Odthroughout his You can email blair. ney said. life as a chorister, queensavenue@gmail.com “I’ve developed as a musician, as if you have questions. this choir to say, a conductor. what would it be Now he’s inlike to gather the viting people to queer community to make mucome share the experience with him – in particular, the people of sic together? Will I proselytize?

No.” the LGBTQ+ community.

Odney is working alongOdney, the minister at Queens side accompanist Amy SteAvenue United Church, is launching a new choir: the Rain- phen, a teacher, choral director and multi-instrumentalist who’s bow Chorus of New Westminskilled on Celtic harp, piano, acster. It’s open to singers of all cordion and penny whistle. ages and backgrounds who Together, they’ll lead singidentify as part of the queer ers in an array of choral arrangecommunity, plus allies. ments of familiar and popular “The church has done a lot songs. For the inaugural term, of damage in the LGBTQ2S+ Odney has chosen a selection community over a lot of years,” Julie MacLellan

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Sing out

Building community: Rev. Blair Odney is the director of the new Rainbow Chorus of New Westminster, for LGBTQ+ singers and allies. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

of music that includes This Is Me from The Greatest Showman, Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, Abba’s Dancing Queen, Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors, and Sting’s Fields of Gold, among others.

At least 38 singers have signed up, all of whom have found the choir through social media and word of mouth.Their backgrounds are varied – there’s a lifelong classical musician; there’s a musicologist from Russia; there are a handful of singers who can’t read music at all.

Most excitingly for a choral director, there’s a balanced mix of sopranos, altos, tenors and basses to achieve the right fourpart blend.

“I’m blown away at the response,” Odney said.

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Odney welcomes singers of all skill and experience levels, and no audition is required.

He had originally planned to start rehearsals in January, but the changing COVID-19 pandemic pushed that back – now the first rehearsal is set for this coming Monday, March 14.

Odney doesn’t want the choir to be onerous for singers or place heavy demands on their time between Monday night rehearsals.

“I want people to come and have a two-hour experience of fun,” he said. “We learn some music; we get better at it. …

We’re going to sing lovely songs, and we’ll hopefully have fun doing it.”

Ultimately, Odney would like

the choir to perform in public.

He’s hoping to take a set of 10 pieces to the stage this year, perhaps in a Sunday concert connected to Pride celebrations.

“I just hope it’s a really rich experience. I hope it sets something in motion that outlives me, that it becomes an absolute community endeavour, that the queer community coalesces around music in a celebration of all that’s beautiful and holy and good and begins to be claimed by that.You can call it God if you want to,” he said.

“It’s a wonderful and easy and beautiful entry point into being part of something that’s bigger than yourself.”

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Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson will be onstage at the Massey Theatre on Monday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m.

The two-part show features Dickinson first telling stories from his world, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

A press release points out that Dickinson has plenty of life experiences to draw from, even aside from his larger-than-life persona in Iron Maiden.

“A true polymath, his accomplishments include: pilot and airline captain, aviation entrepreneur,

beer brewer, motivational speaker, podcaster, film scriptwriter, twice-published novelist and New York Times Top 10 bestselling author, radio presenter,TV actor, sports commentator and international fencer ... to name but a few,” the release notes.

Audience members should come prepared with their own questions.

“As Bruce’s answers will all be completely improvised – the more leftfield and quirky the question, the more interesting and compelling the response is likely to be,” the release notes.

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New Westminster police want to make sure your unwanted electronics aren’t used for fraudulent purposes – and will get them into the hands of folks who need them.

The New Westminster Police Department is partnering with the Electronic Recycling Association to offer free electronics recycling on Saturday, March 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the New Westminster City Hall parking lot at 511 Royal Avenue.

The NWPD notes that March is Fraud Prevention Month – and that’s an ideal time to get rid of unwanted electronics, while also protecting your electronic data and personal information.

“Some families may have electronics that are simply taking up space and gathering dust, but they haven’t disposed of them because they’re aware they contain personal information,” Amrit Hundal, the NWPD’s crime prevention coordinator, said in a news release. “By taking these old

electronics to this recycling event, you can have peace of mind your data is wiped clean and you’re protected.”

The Electronic Recycling Association will data clean donated items, and then recycle or refurbish the equipment.The refurbished electronics will be donated to a variety of local organizations, including the Children’s Foundation, Dress for Success Vancouver, Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver and Delta Stroke Recovery Society.

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Arts & Entertainment Hey Viola! tells story of civil rights trailblazer A musical exploration of the life of Canadian civil rights hero Viola Desmond is coming back to the stage in New Westminster.

HeyViola! is onstage at the Anvil Centre Theatre from March 16 to 27.

The cabaret-style production stars songstress and performer Krystle Dos Santos, backed by local musicians Chris Davis, Steve Charles and Jen Lewin.They bring Desmond’s life to the stage using the dynamic and inspirational music that filled the home of this civil rights trailblazer.

Audiences can enjoy a journey through hits of the era and songs that influenced history: think of such powerful works as Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, A Change Is Gonna Come, Sinnerman and Mississippi Goddam.

Desmond – now known to many Canadians as the face of the $10 bill – is best known for her courage in refusing to leave the whites-only section of Nova Scotia’s Roseland cinema in 1946. She was

also a feminist and successful businesswoman who ran her own beauty school and salon – catering to Black clientele and providing training and employment for young Black women.

“I feel so honoured to be able to continue to share Viola’s story, now more than ever, as perspective and togetherness are so important,” Dos Santos said in a press release. “Viola was such an incredibly driven, intelligent and strong woman.

Her story is an important message to share and relevant in today’s world.”

HeyViola! previously played at the Anvil Centre in October 2020, but, being in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, it played to small audiences.

The theatre is hoping it can bring larger audiences in to see the show this time out.

“I have seen how audiences really open up to her experiences and feel a connection to her as a person through this production,” Dos Santos said.

HeyViola! is onstage

Senior artists featured in new show at Anvil Bold, powerful and full of energy.

That’s how a group of senior artists describe the work viewers will see in an exhibition at the Anvil Centre’s Community Art Gallery.

Convergent/Intersections is on at the gallery from March 11 to April 22. An opening reception is set for Thursday, March 17 from 5 to 7 p.m.

The exhibition features the work of the bolder gallery artist collective, who describe themselves as a “loose association of likeminded people, 65 years and plus.”

It includes artists Axel Breutigam, Melenie Fleis-

cher, Annette Nieukerk, Joyce Ozier and Richard Wilson.

“We are bound together by the passion, the spark that we each have for our work and the creation of it that has not diminished with the passing of time,” the artists say in a statement. “Indeed, for most of us, that desire to express our individual voice, to speak through our art, has never been stronger despite our advancing years.”

The gallery is on the third floor at Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia St. For information, see www.anvilcentre.com/ community-art-gallery.

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