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Anvil runs $1.9 million over budget

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That’s me: Whitey Bernard, above, helped unveil the Wait For Me Daddy war memorial in Hyack Square that was based on the image of him as a youngster and his parents.

A monumental undertaking

BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

Crowds filled downtown New Westminster Saturday to watch the unveiling of the Wait for Me Daddy war memorial.

About 2,000 people crowded into the area around Hyack Square for the unveiling of a monument based on the photograph taken by Province newspaper photographer Claude Dettloff on Oct. 1, 1940.

Many of those attending the ceremony wiped tears from their eyes as the war memorial by Edwin and Veronica Dam de Nogales was unveiled.

“It is fantastic. It really is an amazing

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moment in time – the boy was doing the right thing, the father and the mother were doing the right thing, the photographer was doing the right thing. It speaks to generations,” said New Westminster resident Cathy Magee who attended the event with her mother Elsie Fleming.

“What it said to me when I was thinking about it was Wait for Me Daddy could have been my dad in that lineup. It’s sort of like Wait for Me Daddy is for everybody.”

Fleming said the image is relevant today, noting there is a threat of a new war. While she was happy to attend the unveiling, Fleming said she’d return to the monument again in the future.

Saturday’s ceremony was filled with pomp and circumstance, including a pro-

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cession of the British Columbia Regiment and the Royal Westminster Regiment and an inspection of the guard by Gov.-Gen. Judith Guichon and other dignitaries.

Guichon said it’s appropriate that the unveiling of the iconic war memorial is taking place 100 years after the start of the First World War and called it a tribute to those British Columbians who marched off so bravely to fight in the Second World War. She said the monument transforms the historic Hyack Square into a vital living museum.

“It is a permanent part of our history,” she said.

The City of New Westminster’s new civic facility and office tower is projected to be nearly $1.9 million over budget.

On Monday, council received a staff report about the Anvil Centre and office tower budget, which is forecasting the project will cost $88.3 million, exceeding the $86.4 million budget.

“The council wanted to be clear and upfront with citizens going into this election, so here are the figures as we see them,” said Coun. Bill Harper. “The projection is quite clear. It says we are $1.862 million over budget.”

Harper said the figure is “quite livable” given the scope of the project. He said it represents a number of things, including a $600,000 increase due to the change from the HST to the GST/PST and the inclusion of a full kitchen in Anvil Centre rather than the warming kitchen originally proposed. Instead of importing food from an outside source for conferences and events and keeping it warm at Anvil Centre, staff said a full kitchen would provide a better quality product.

“That figure, I believe, was in the neighbourhood of $450,000. So right off the hop you can see there is some serious change,” Harper said of the kitchen costs. “There was a number of other changes that took place as well. I think $1.8 million over is quite small when it’s a per cent.”

The figures aren’t final, Harper said, because the building is about 99 per cent complete.

“I think everyone at this table would have wanted this project to come in under budget, but I think we need to recognize this is probably one of the most significant and complicated construction projects the city has probably undertaken in a generation,” said

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Blessed are the pets

t got a bit wild at St. Barnabas Church this weekend – and that’s a good thing.

St. Barnabas Church had its annual pet blessing in honour of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi on Saturday, Oct. 4.

“It was marvellous,” said Rev. Emilie Smith. “It was so much fun. The church turned into a zoo for the afternoon.”

Smith blessed nine dogs, one cat and 14 people at the event.

She also said a blessing for animals who have already passed away.

“The dogs were so well behaved right till the end,” she said. “One dog couldn’t bear the fact there was a cat there.”

While he was blessed, the pup wasn’t able to stay and be part of the group photo.

“All animals are already blessed – it’s not that they need to be blessed, it’s more that we share this time of blessing just to bring to our minds that we share this planet with these beautiful creatures,” Smith said.

“We are all in this together; they

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Blessed: Rev. Emilie Smith blesses Ruby, a Pomeranian, during a pet blessing service at St. Barnabas Church. The church held the service Oct. 4 in honour of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. help us, we help them.”

While dogs dominated at Saturday’s animal blessing, Smith has blessed some different creatures in the past.

“I had a duck and a fish.

How do you bless a fish that’s in water? We sprinkled it with water,” she said. “It was really fun. The duck was in a gym bag.

I didn’t know what it was until they opened up the gym bag. It was really hilarious.”

– By Theresa McManus, staff reporter

THIRD CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR AND HUSBAND-AND-WIFE TEAM IN THE RACE

Campaign heats up in New West

BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com

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ladimir Kras is hoping voters will look under K when decided who to vote to be New Westminster’s next mayor.

Kras, who ran for council in 2011 under the name Krasnogor, is running for mayor in this year’s civic election. He’ll be going up against incumbent mayor Wayne Wright and three-term councillor Jonathan Cote.

“I often hear from voters who claim to be having difficulty deciding between the two front running candidates, and I understand their dilemma, which means they are not really comfortable with either choice,” he said in a press release.

“Mr. Cote is a technocrat. Highly educated, analytical, but his experience comes primarily from the inside of city hall. He will make an excellent city manager, a capable director of planning. Mayor? Not exactly.’”

Kras also thinks he’s a better option than the current mayor.

“Mr. Wright is a natural entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs aim at rapid growth, do not hesitate to assume large debt,” he said.

“Thanks to Mr. Wright, the city has experienced a construction boom downtown. Should the boom continue for another four years?

Again, not exactly.”

papers nears, the city’s election office is busy accepting paperwork from mayor, councillor and school trustee candidates. If you’re planning to run in the Nov. 15 civic election, you have to file your paperwork by 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 10.

Here’s who had filed nomination papers by The Record’s deadline on Tuesday: ! Mayor: Jonathan Cote, Vladimir Kras and Wayne Wright. ! Councillor: David Brett, Bill Harper, Patrick Johnstone, Gerry Liu, Mary Trentadue and Lorrie Williams.

N E W W E S T G O E S T O T H E P O L L S ! School trustee: Glen Armstrong, Cort Caldwell, Mark Gifford, James If elected mayor, Kras hopes to address Janzen and Kelly Slade-Kerr. traffic, improve transparency at city hall and protect Queen’s Park.

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Eight-year sentence in killing of sex-trade worker

The man who killed a New Westminster woman more than two years ago was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday.

Charles Neel was sentenced to eight years in prison minus time served for killing January Marie Lapuz on Sept. 29, 2012.

Neel stabbed Lapuz, a transgender woman who worked in the sex trade, during an altercation over the price of a sexual encounter, according to an agreed statement of facts presented in court last week. Lapuz, 26, died in hospital the following day.

Police arrested Neel on Dec. 5, 2012 and

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charged him with second-degree murder.

In June of this year, prior to the start of his trial, Neel pled guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.

At Thursday’s sentencing hearing, Crown prosecutor Rusty Antonuk stressed, in his submission, that Lapuz was not killed because she was transgender and that her death was the result of an argument.

A sentence of eight years in prison minus time served means Neel will remain behind bars for a remaining five years and three months.

– Cayley Dobie, with files from the Province

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Election: New face in the council race ◗ continued from page 3

Nov. 15, as both John and Marge have declared their intentions to run for councillor. John has run for council in the past, while this is Marge’s first time on the ballot.

John said he wasn’t planning on running for city council in November’s civic election, but felt compelled to after seeing the number of labourendorsed candidates. As a former member of the IWA and Teamsters, he said he appreciates working union members, but believes

the city will become more polarized and fears the city won’t “survive another term” under a labour monopoly.

Cartwright runs

First-time candidate Catherine Cartwright is hoping to bring some balance and a fresh voice to New Westminster City Council.

Cartwight, president of the McBride Sapperton Residents’ Association, believes she can be a new voice for everyone, whether they are union or not,

left-wing or right-wing, an “ordinary Joe” or a businessperson.

If elected, she’d like to help manage the growth that’s coming to New Westminster in the coming years, to ensure amenities are in place that keep pace with development, and to deal with traffic through an integrated regional plan that works for everybody.

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Gas negotiations could backfire on Clark

review exercise, the current project ecoYou pretty much know the governnomics appeared marginal.” ment is in trouble with its liquefied natPetronas also said it could delay ural gas plan when the prime player in the plan starts negotiating through press development for a decade unless it gets releases – and those press releases mince a better deal.

Premier Christy Clark, no words. when asked about the release, This week Malaysian told media that she viewed energy giant Petronas chose THE RECORD the company’s statement as a the opening of the fall legislanegotiating tactic. ture to send out a press release No kidding. that said, in part: “tax and high-cost The problem is the province has environment will negatively impact the painted itself in a very tight corner. project’s economic viability and comClark has been touting the LNG project petitiveness. In fact, in our last portfolio

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near Prince Rupert as a one-stop miracle fix for the budget, and jobs for the next decade.

The province has almost no room to move. It can lose face with taxpayers or lose taxpayer money in an effort to keep Petronas in the project.

It’s not exactly a win-win scenario.

Now, some folks might find that this is karma for Clark considering that she had painted the B.C. Teachers’ Federation in a similar corner and used similar tactics.

The “we-can’t-afford-it” tactic worked

for Clark, and, we predict, it will also work for Petronas.

Clark can’t play hardball without losing Petronas as a player.

And if she loses the LNG plant, it will be embarrassing for her and her government.

If a bunch of NDP socialists lost the LNG plant, the Liberals would be the first to point out that they just don’t know how to do business – but when the supposed experts in trade and business fumble the ball, you really have to wonder what they’re good at.

Government needs to provide answers IN THE HOUSE

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s cases involving government misconduct go, the one concerning the firing of seven B.C. Health Ministry employees is a particularly shabby one.

Reputations were besmirched, careers were ruined and in a particularly tragic part of this tale, one employee committed suicide after his lifelong’s work was destroyed.

And yet, not a shred of evidence has ever surfaced to support what the B.C. government did to these people. Vague allegations of improper sharing of health-care data and conflict of interest were made, but never proven.

Indeed, the government has essentially acknowledged it made a colossal error in this matter by the fact that two of the employees they excoriated were invited back to work, while a third received an out-of-court settlement and a de facto apology.

And last Friday (otherwise known as “take out the trash day” around the legislature) the government finally issued an apology to the family of Rod MacIsaac, who took his own life

a few months after being terminated.

When the firings were first announced in September 2012, then-health minister Margaret MacDiarmid said she was “shocked” and “deeply troubled and disturbed” by what had apparently been discovered, but since then the government has been backpedalling from its initial actions.

However for all that retreating, the government went months without answering questions about its actions. An investigation by privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham found that improper breaches of information had indeed occurred, but not for nefarious reasons or personal gain and in fact resulted more from unclear guidelines.

To his credit, Health Minister Terry Lake (who inherited this mess from his predecessor) has now launched an internal review of the whole affair and has promised to make its findings public.

A side issue in this messy affair is that valuable drug research was lost or derailed, at a time when that kind of elitelevel research is needed more than ever before. University of Victoria researchers are still waiting to receive data from the Health Ministry that was suspended two years ago.

This case saw the government, yet again, take a bludgeon to the renowned UBC-based

Dear Editor:

Re: Downtown needs more trees, Letters to the editor, The Record, Oct. 1.

Like the writer, I too have concerns about downtown New Westminster’s air quality and would like to see more tree plantings, building setbacks and green space associated with new development, rather than the sea of concrete that exists in the downtown core between Fourth and 10th streets, and north from Front Street to Royal Avenue.

The writer’s ideas might be taken more seriously by city hall if his statements were based on fact, rather than imaginings. To quote, “There are probably fewer trees,” “construction has probably doubled the number of residents,” “Downtown is probably 97 per cent residential,” ”probably increased the value of the project by $10 million or more.” ◗Health Page 7

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Trees not the whole answer ◗ continued from page 6

have letters from those complaining that their views are blocked by trees? Planting more trees is not the simplistic solution to the problem of diminishing air quality in our city. We need a multi-faceted approach, including better planning and development requirements, traffic control measures and the inclusion of green space where higher density exists.

Prior to printing letters from concerned citizens, perhaps the editorial staff should do some fact checking, so as to not mislead your readers with one disgruntled citizen’s perceived “statistics.”

Marli Wakeling, New Westminster

Wait For Me, Daddy statue sends the wrong message Dear Editor:

I have a confession to make. I really don’t like Wait For Me, Daddy.

I’m not saying it’s a bad photograph.

It certainly captures a dramatic moment.

I just don’t understand why the City of New Westminster is pushing it so hard. It’s completely inappropriate.

Think about other iconic (wow, have we heard that word a lot lately) Second World War photographs. The raising of the flag on Iwo Jima, the sailor kissing his girl in Times Square – what did they have in common? They celebrated the end of war.

Why is it only Canada that chooses to honour a photo that celebrates the war’s beginning?

Worse, Wait For Me Daddy takes going off to war and makes it cutesy and mawkish. There’s a reason why this photo was used for recruitment purposes; but today, it just leaves a bad taste.

I’d never heard of or seen Wait For Me Daddy 10 years ago. Only recently does it seem that people have been trying to turn it into a Canadian icon. I suspect that it was dusted off a few years ago when someone at the Province found it in their archives and thought it could be used to polish up their journalistic apple a bit.

Every story I’ve seen about this photo seems to be the Province trying to create a legend they can sell. It has the air of warprofiteering, and it’s ugly to see.

I think the city blew it on this one. I’m going to wince every time I see the statue downtown.

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Health: Questions remain after apology ◗ continued from page 6

Therapeutics Initiative, an independent watchdog when it comes to approval of pharmaceutical drugs for coverage under Pharmacare.

But the human tragedy aspect of this affair outweighs the negative impact it had on drug research.

MacIsaac was a doctoral student who was doing research on smoking cessation drugs, and at the time of his firing he was excitedly working towards his PhD. Instead, he was effectively bullied out of employment and stripped of the materials he was using to complete his doctorate.

According to his sister, Lynda Kayfish, he was confronted by three government investigators in such a belligerent fashion that he suffered severe physical distress in that job-ending “interview.”

A few months after losing his contract and perhaps realizing his bid for that PhD was now over, he ended his own life through carbon monoxide poisoning in his Saanich apartment.

MacIsaac’s sister paid a tearful visit to the legislature last week, asking that the government simply show some human decency and apologize, and explain itself.

The apology has now been issued, but there are still many unanswered questions.

A number of key individuals who were involved in this affair – notably MacDiarmid and former deputy health minister Graham Whitmarsh – have left government, but they should be compelled to provide some answers.

The internal inquiry is being handled by topnotch labour lawyer Marcia McNeil, so there is reason to be confident

that most, if not all, outstanding questions will be answered. Her report will no doubt prevent any further abuses of process from occurring.

Nevertheless, it appears it took Kayfish’s dramatic news conference to force the government’s hand here.

The only contact the government had made with her since her brother’s death was sending her a cheque for $483, to cover the last three days of MacIsaac’s contract.

Without her holding that news conference (and kudos to the NDP Opposition for arranging it) it seems likely the shroud of secrecy would have continued indefinitely, and MacIsaac’s family would continue to be ignored.

All in all, a shabby affair, and one that needs a lot of explaining.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C.

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Coun. Jonathan Cote. “The big cost drivers, number one, there was a tax change that put some significant pressure on the budget.

And also this project did take longer to complete than was originally anticipated. Those two drivers certainly had an impact, but although the project has gone roughly two per cent over budget, there is still a strong business case for the project as a whole.”

Cote said the majority of the project has been funded by both casino revenue and the sale of the office tower.

Even though the city will be taking on some of portion of debt to fund construction of the project, he said the debt financing will be fully covered by taxes from the office tower and the parking structure.

“Despite the costs we are looking at for this facility, there won’t be any impact on the residential property taxpayer,” Cote said. “The

city has an incredible new facility for residents to enjoy, whether it be the museum, the new theatre or the conference centre, plus we have a Class A office building in our downtown that will bring jobs and vibrancy into our downtown neighbourhood. Certainly not the type of report we like to see, but in the grand scheme I think two per cent, compared to what we often see in other government projects is very respectable.”

According to the staff report, when the city began construction of the project the harmonized sales tax was in place. The reinstatement of the provincial sales tax resulted in about $600,000 in additional costs to the project.

The report stated that the city had a base budget of $12.5 million for the parkade, which the city owns. The city is forecasting the parkade will come in slightly over budget.

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the project was funded by casino revenues, Coun.

Chuck Puchmayr said it’s “absolutely phenomenal” for the city to get a building of this stature for $1.8 million. While he wished it had come in on budget, Puchmayr said it was a “difficult build” because of its cutting-edge design.

Council wanted the report released prior to November’s civic election.

“I don’t anticipate from what our consultants are telling us that it should be much greater than that, but I do agree we needed to come out with these figures now rather than in January,” Puchmayr said.

“I think it’s important the public knows.”

Anvil Centre, which opened in September, includes a conference facility, the city’s museum, a theatre, a number of cultural spaces where classes will be offered, a dance studio and more.

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Pricey: The Anvil Centre’s cutting-edge design added to the building costs, according to city council. to allow a destination casino to locate in New Westminster, it negotiated funding for a number of projects in the downtown and Queensborough neighbourhoods – including a civic centre.

Lisa Spitale, the city’s chief administrative officer, recently said the city’s goal

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When UPG withdrew from the project, the city decided to build the tower on its own.

In March 2014, the city announced it had sold the officer tower for $35.5 million to 777 Columbia Street, a partnership jointly owned

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Where everybody knows her name It’s 25 years and counting for this Paddlewheeler server

BY NIKI HOPE REPORTER

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Mega-developer Nat Bosa owned the Paddlewheeler Pub when Gail Saunders started working there during the heyday of the Westminster Quay in the late ’80s.

He had a tradition of taking employees to lunch in his limo on their five-year anniversary with the pub.

Saunders was just a few months short of the benchmark when Bosa sold the bar, she says, laughing.

She never got that limo ride, or lunch.

But there were some unexpected perks – besides the stunning river view from her “office” – through the years.

Around Christmas one year a customer talked to Saunders about his estranged kids.

Saunders, a single mother of four boys told him, “Life’s too short for that. I think you should keep in touch with them. What if something happens to them and you didn’t get a chance to say goodbye or have some time together?”

The customer looked like Santa with his salt-white beard.

He handed her a tip before he left.

“I thought it was a $5 bill. …

I looked in my hand, and it was $100, so I went running after him and he was gone,” Saunders remembers.

Another intriguing stranger came into her life through the Paddlewheeler: she met her current partner, Art Quinn, at the bar 13 years ago.

Saunders was sitting down after her shift when Quinn came in for a drink. He asked the darkhaired stranger if she came there often.

“I said, ‘Why, yes I do,” Saunders laughs.

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No slowing down: Gail Sanders has worked at the Paddlewheeler Pub for 25 years – and she plans to keep on going. for a serving job with daytime hours.

She wanted to eat dinner with her kids, kiss and tuck them in at night.

The Paddlewheeler Pub offered her that schedule a quarter of a century ago, and she has worked there ever since.

Saunders, a Prairie girl born in Saskatchewan, made ends meet with almost no help from her children’s fathers. In addition to her three biological children, Saunders took in a family member’s son after the woman passed away.

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They all shared a hefty paper route – delivering as many as 500 newspapers in a single night.

She found help through a Canucks charity that paid for hockey for the boys. Somehow she managed to pay the mortgage on her Port Coquitlam home.

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There have been some health issues over the years. Saunders had a kidney transplant about eight years ago and opted to cut her hours down to four days a week.

What she wants most now is to be a grandma.

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Canadian film on screen THE LIVELY CITY JULIE MACLELLAN

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That’s the next screening in the Last Mondays at the Movies series – and it’s one I’m looking forward to.

That’s our chance to catch Don McKellar’s The Grand Seduction.

The film – a remake of the French-Canadian Seducing Dr. Lewis – tells the tale of a Newfoundland fishing village that’s struggling to survive and that, in order to attract new industry to the town, must secure the services of a doctor.

It stars Brendan Gleeson, Gordon Pinsent, Liane Balaban and Taylor Kitsch. I don’t know about you, bit I figure any movie with Brendan Gleeson and Gordon Pinsent is pretty much a must-see.

So let’s all go, shall we?

The movie starts at 7:30 p.m.

Last Mondays at the Movies is presented by the Arts Council of New Westminster and the Massey Theatre, bringing off-the-beaten-Hollywoodtrack films to the theatre on the last Monday of each month. All movies cost $9, and you can pay at the door. The Massey Theatre is at 735 Eighth Ave. Check out www.artscouncilnew west.org.

Workshops set

Take heed, all you literary types – there are a couple of interesting workshops coming up, thanks to the Royal City Literary Arts Society.

On Thursday, Oct. 16, you can explore Translation

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as an Art. The free workshop is led by New West poet Manolis, who will use the poets Yannis Ritsos and Odysseus Elytis as a study.

He’ll look at the challenges of translation and how it communicates meaning between two languages.

It’s presented in partnership with the New West Public Library, and it takes place at the library’s main branch at 716 Sixth Ave. On Saturday, Oct. 25, Manolis Bonnie Nish leads poet a workshop called Awakening the Creative Force.

The two-hour workshop will explore ways of accessing “all that drives us,” according to a press release – the things that are important, funny, sad and poignant.

It’s for people of all levels, and no experience is necessary. That workshop takes place at 737 Sixth St. (enter from the rear). It costs $15 for members or $25 for non-members.

Pre-register for either workshop at secretary@ rclas.com or find details at www.rclas.com.

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by UNIBUG (the User Network for Biology in the Urban Garden).

The exhibition opened in September and is continuing until Oct. 17.

The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday to Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, closed Sundays.

Check out www.douglas college.ca and search for Amelia Douglas Gallery for more information.

tion for all you crafters out there.

In my last column I brought you info about the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 20 looking for crafters to take part in their upcoming craft fair.

I got the date wrong – it’s Saturday, Nov. 8 (not Nov. 3 as erroneously stated in my column).

The fair is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 707 12th St., and it costs $35 per table.

For more details or to take part, call Marge at 604-5218567.

My apologies for the mistake.

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Study poetry

Want to delve into the world of Canadian poetry?

Carol Shillibeer is continuing with her Poetry Wars study group, and the next session is on Saturday, Oct. 18 from 4 to 6 p.m.

The study group – one of many local literary projects spearheaded by the Royal City Literary Arts Society – gives members a chance to meet monthly to study the Canadian poetry scene.

Members take time to read poems, reviews, texts and commentary and then discuss it all at the monthly meetings. Interested? Email shillibeer@tailfeather.ca or see www.rclas.com for more details.

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

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The gallery, for those who haven’t already visited, is on the fourth floor north at Douglas College’s downtown New West campus, at 700 Royal Ave. The gallery and the Douglas College Institute of Urban Ecology are currently presenting GreenLinks 2014: Urban Oases.

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Tyler was active with the Westies through his entire life and served with

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the Royal Westminster Regiment in the Second World War. He continued to volunteer at the museum, where he shared memories of many of the people featured in the memorabilia.

In 2013, Tyler received a Canadian Forces Decoration – five decades after serving overseas.

When the president of the Royal Westminster Regiment Association learned that Tyler hadn’t received the medal back in 1957, as he should have, he worked to ensure that Tyler was able to receive the medal that’s awarded to members or the Canadian Forces who have completed 12 years of military service and meet certain conditions related to good service.

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Citizen of the Year nominees announced

! Ron Boorman, Boorman Archery ! Katie Marshall, Medical Esthetics by Katie Business of the Year – Medium Business ! Marise Kwasnicky, Royal City Jewellers & Loans Ltd. ! Raj Mulijiani, Galloway’s Specialty Foods ! Gordon Hobbis, Cap’s Bicycle Shop ! Debbie Clarke, Thornebridge Gardens Business of the Year – Large Business ! Debra Douglas, West Coast College of Massage Therapy ! Chuck Stewart, Kruger Products Ltd ! Kathy MacKerricher, Inn At The Quay ! Stan Weismiller, Winvan Paving Ltd. To see the entire list, visit newwestchamber. com. The winners will be announced at the Platinum Awards Nov. 13 at La Perla Ballroom.

time community volunteer, Remembrance Day ceremonies chair and a founding member of the group of five.

Wardle is involved with Hyack Football and helping youth. Wilson, who was nominated in 2012, brought the 12th Street mosaics to the city.

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◗ IN THE GAME

SECTION COORDINATOR Cayley Dobie, 604-444-3059 • cdobie@royalcityrecord.com

Salmonbellie women continue tradition ◗P20

New West ‘Bellie is one ‘tough girl’

BY JENNIFER THUNCHER REPORTER editorial@royalcityrecord.com

In many ways Bianca Ballarin is like most New West teens. She likes walking her dog, hanging out with her friends, and lacrosse.

Unlike most girls her age, she manages to excel at athletics while dealing daily with an often-debilitating disease.

Last season Ballarin, 16, played in goal on the girls’ midget Salmonbellies box lacrosse team.

“I am so proud to be a Salmonbellie,” Ballarin said.

Her team won silver at the 2014 provincials and then Ballarin made Team B.C. and went to Nationals in August where her team came in first.

Winning is nothing new for Ballarin. This summer marked her fourth time at nationals.

“There is a joke among the coaches … that whoever gets her, pretty much has a direct line to the gold medal game in provincials,” said Rich Catton, a lacrosse coach, and former National Lacrosse League player.

“She’s got a super great attitude. She really cares about the game and development, so any time you get to spend time with Bianca you know that she is a competitor – like all the time,” he said.

In addition to box lacrosse, Ballarin also plays field lacrosse, hikes and plays hockey (defence) dur-

ing the winter months.

“She is fantastic,” Catton added.

Ballarin, in Grade 11 at New Westminster Secondary, said she does “pretty well” at school, too, though her socializing sometimes gets in the way.

“I am quite the chatterbox,” she said with a laugh.

Judging by her accomplishments, schedule and attitude, it is impossible to tell Ballarin suffers from Crohn’s disease, a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes painful abdominal cramping, fever, diarrhea and can lead to dramatic weight loss. Symptoms are often most severe in the morning when the bowels are most active.

There is no cure.

Ballarin was diagnosed in Grade 8 – three years and several national championships ago.

She tried taking the medications prescribed for the condition but said the pills made the stomach cramps stronger and overall made her feel worse.

“It makes you really tired,” she said. Managing the disease on a daily basis is sometimes difficult. She has to miss school some mornings, for example, but finds being so physically active helps fend off flareups.

“It kind of goes away when I play sports,” she said. She suspects the adrenaline rush of activity keeps her body focused on competing, at least for

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Rising star: New West native Bianca Ballarin, who was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease three years ago, has competed at the national box lacrosse tournament four times and won countless provincial titles with the ‘Bellies. short periods.

But the pain always returns.

And while Crohn’s sometimes goes into remission, Ballarin knows the disease won’t ease up over time.

“They say that actually when I get older, it will probably get worse,” she said.

Ballarin isn’t letting the

negative prognosis keep her from making big plans.

In lacrosse, Ballarin said she is looking forward to being a junior next season, which starts in the spring of 2015, and making the provincials – again.

Long-term she wants to go to university to become a sports medical trainer.

Ballarin credits the support she gets from many in

her life, including teachers, coaches, family and friends, with her ability to stay positive.

“They are always there for me,” she said.

And her older brother, Marco, has been an inspiration.

He is a Junior A hockey player and is hearing impaired.

“Marco knows the chal-

lenges very well. He’s probably Bianca’s role model for strength and perseverance,” said Ballarin’s mom, Michelle, by email.

Ballarin said when it comes right down to it though, dealing with her health concerns and still being a star athlete comes down to character.

“I like to think I am a tough girl,” she said.

Hyacks fall to B.C. champs Mount Douglas

BY JENNIFER THUNCHER REPORTER editorial@royalcityrecord.com

It was a game where the momentum shifted back and forth between the AAA varsity Hyacks and No. 2-ranked Mount Douglas Rams. In the end Victoria’s Rams won the battle, taking the Hyacks 35-23 at Mercer Stadium on Oct. 3.

The Hyacks seem to come out a little timid against the powerhouse three-time Subway Bowl B.C.-winning Rams, giving the visitors the momentum in the first quarter. Mt. Doug got on the board first with a touchdown and extra point early in the first quarter. The Hyacks put on pressure, but the Rams’ defence was a wall the Hyacks couldn’t crack. The Rams scored again. It was 14-0 for Mt. Doug by the end of the first.

The momentum shifted to

the No. 4-ranked Hyacks in the second quarter thanks to quarter back Jamie Shiho’s 16-yard scramble. The move didn’t result in a touchdown but seemed to give the Hyacks the lift they needed for the second quarter.

With 11 minutes left to go in the second, Matt Seymour received a short pass from Shiho to complete a 47-yard touchdown. The everconsistent punter Wayne Palmer got the extra point to make it 14-7.

“Matt Seymour continues to be a game changer week after week,” said Hyacks coach Farhan Lalji. “We needed a big play to get back into the game and he had two, again.”

By the end of the game Seymour had racked up 201 allpurpose yards.

While the Hyacks then ran into some penalty trouble, but so did

the Rams.

Seymour ran a 61-yard touchdown and with the extra point the game was tied up.

Showing defensive prowess, Hyack Rochon Bhattacharya intercepted and ran the ball for 30-yards to return it the Rams’ 25yardline. This accumulated with a Julian Ramirez six-yard touchdown run to make it 20-14 for the Hyacks at halftime.

In the third, Palmer made a 41-yard field goal to make it 23-14 for the Hyacks.

But that was the last time the Hyacks would see the scoreboard change in the home team’s favour.

Scoring momentum shifted to the Rams for the fourth. The Rams made two touchdowns, both of which were made on Hyack fumbles.

The Rams left the field with a

perfect 5-0 winning record on the season.

“The fourth quarter was very disappointing. We had a lead and were in good shape and shot ourselves in the foot a couple (of times),” said Lalji.

The Hyacks are now 4-2 on the season (if you count the team’s non-conference loss in Texas in August).

Thanks to the Hyacks’ defence, the score wasn’t more tilted in the Rams’ favour. On the night Jeff Lugtu had 10 tackles, Jorge Yardwood had six tackles and a sack and Bhattacharya had five tackles (along with his interception).

“Hats off to them. They’re the provincial champs for a reason, and when the game gets into critical moments they believe they can make the key play. We need to get over that hump. But I believe

in our group,” Lalji said.

The Hyacks are on the road next week for further western conference play.

The Hyacks face North Vancouver’s Handsworth Secondary on Friday Oct. 10.

Kickoff is at 3:45 p.m. For more information, go to Hyacksfootball. com.

Winning streak continues for juniors

The junior varsity Hyacks defeated Chilliwack’s G.W. Graham Secondary School 34-21.

Hyacks improve to 5-0 against B.C. competition (4-0 in conference play).

The New Westminster team next takes on Rick Hansen Secondary in Abbotsford on Wednesday, Oct. 8 at 3:30 p.m. ◗STM Page 20

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BY JENNIFER THUNCHER REPORTER editorial@royalcityrecord.com

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Stopped: Visiting Rams try and break through Hyacks’ defensive lineman Khalid Nassra, in orange. The Hyacks lost 35-23 to No. 2-ranked Mount Douglas on Friday.

STM: Knights win third in a row ◗ continued from page 19

In other AAA play, the St. Thomas More Collegiate Knights (STM) continued their eastern conference winning-streak with a 41-0 shutout against Kelowna’s Mt.

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Boucherie Secondary.

The Knights are 3-0 on the season.

STM next meets Abbotsford’s Terry Fox Secondary Oct. 10 at Burnaby Lake. Kickoff is at 5 p.m.

In the story “Lacrosse stars replay career highlights,” published in The Record on Oct. 1, Paul Parnell was described as the team’s all-time points leader.

Former Salmonbellie Wayne Goss has the most league, playoff and Mann Cup-total-lifetime points.

Parnell’s total is on a national scale.

By any marker, girls’ lacrosse is a big success in New West. There are currently about 250 girls in the city who play box lacrosse and about 80 who play field lacrosse within the New Westminster Salmonbellies minor lacrosse association.

Many of the teams, at all levels, have won championships or come close. The 2014 female box lacrosse provincial championship results are an example of the prowess of the girls of the Royal City.

The junior Salmonbellies earned bronze, the midget teams won both silver and bronze. In bantam, the ‘Bellies won two silver and one bronze. The peewees earned two bronze.

“There are a lot of dads, who are Hall of Famers with the Western Lacrosse Association and the National Lacrosse League and pros, who are coaching their daughters, and these guys bring an unbelievable coaching skill level,” said Shawn House, British Columbia Lacrosse Association’s (BCLA) past chair of girls’ box lacrosse.

Playing field lacrosse, in particular, can be lucrative for female Salmonbellies.

‘Bellie Emily Manville, 16, is likely headed to Columbia University next fall thanks to a field lacrosse scholarship.

Manville, a New Westminster Secondary senior, has a verbal commitment to attend the New York school and play for the Columbia Lions.

“I am definitely proud of New West because we always have more than one women’s team when we play in box, and no other association can put forward that many girls,” she said. “I really like that girls’ lacrosse in general has developed as much as it has and that I could be a part of that.”

Judging by the success of the girls of New West, it is hard to imagine that a mere 10 or so years ago, there were no girls’ lacrosse teams in the Royal City.

What female players there were, played on mixed teams.

(Historically, there were all-girls’ lacrosse teams in New Westminster, but they petered out in the late 1980s

when lacrosse in general saw numbers decline.)

House is credited by many with developing the girls’ teams in New West and the sport for girls in British Columbia.

When House was coaching his son and daughter’s mixed mini-tyke team, in about 1996, there were around seven girls on his team. This eventually led to a single all-girls New West team.

Currently there are about 12 girls’ Salmonbellie teams in box lacrosse and about 60 in the province.

There was no provincial competition for the girls’ box teams for the first five or six years. House wanted to allow the girls the highest level of competition, so he took the idea to the BCLA in about 2004.

It took five years for the provincial competition to be established, and then Team B.C evolved – an allstar team made up of girls from across the province that represents B.C. at the Canadian national championships.

For an extended version of this story, visit www.royal cityrecord.com/sports.

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