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Festive fun Jolly holidays:

It was a festive atmosphere in downtown New Westminster when Santa Claus arrived.

A variety of activities – including cookie decorating, crafts and photos with Santa – took place at different venues. Choirs and performers, including the Qayqayt Elementary School choir, seen warming up at right, added to the festivities with some impressive performances at Anvil Centre.

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Parents worried about issues around new school

BY NIKI HOPE REPORTER

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Roughly one hundred concerned Lord Tweedsmuir Elementary parents took time out of this busy month to attend a meeting last week on the district’s new middle school.

Parents are worried about a number of issues for École Fraser River Middle School, slated to open next fall, including the lack of a direct bus route from their neighbourhood to the school, as well as traffic around the new school.

“There were a lot of questions and concerns about how our Grade 6 and 7s are going to transition to the middle school,” said trustee MaryAnn Mortensen, who noted she attended the Tweedsmuir meet-

ing as a parent, not a trustee. “People are concerned about their kids having to take two buses to get to the school.”

Parents also questioned if there would be sufficient drop-off space at the new school.

“I think there are genuine concerns, but I also think there is a bit of grieving (regarding moving) going from the kindergarten to Grade 7 school,” Mortensen said. École Glenbrook Middle school viceprincipal Stacy Burke and the district’s acting assistant superintendent Janet Grant spoke with parents at the meeting.

Grant told The Record she is going to look into the bus routes from the west end to the new middle school.

“That’s what I am going to do because I don’t even know what the (existing) routes

are,” she said.

If necessary, Grant said she will talk with TransLink about a direct bus route that wouldn’t require west end students to transfer.

The district’s east side currently has a middle school model in effect, where students attend elementary school until Grade 5 and then transition to Glenbrook middle school for grades 6 to 8 and then move onto New Westminster Secondary School for the final grades.

Tweedsmuir parent Don Ellam also attended the meeting, saying for many parents the main concern was how their children were going to get across town.

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“They were concerned about the unsavoury element around the New West line,” Ellam said, adding, “parents seemed really grumpy about what appears to be lack of planning.”

In 2008, the school district and the City of New Westminster were considering building a new school at Grimston Park, but outraged neighbours, including Mortensen, pushed back against the plan to build in the park. After an extensive public consultation, the district opted to buy the former St. Mary’s Hospital site for QayQayt Elementary.

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Step by step: Susan Hogarth, left, and Sarah Franklen of Westminster House. They are having a Make Your Shoes Count holiday challenge, where participants donate $1 for every pair of shoes they own to Westminster House.

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Today, we continue with the second instalment of The Record’s annual Guide to Giving. While many of these groups could use a helping hand at Christmas, they work hard to better the lives of the community year-round and could use your assistance at other times of the year as well.

Part 1 of the 18th annual Guide to Giving appeared in the Dec. 12 issue of The Record.

If you missed it, you can find it online at www.royalcityrecord.com.

Westminster House

Westminster House invites community to make their shoes count during its holiday shoe challenge.

Westminster House, which offers a homelike setting for adult women who are recovering from addictions, is holding Make Your Shoes Count holiday shoe challenge until Dec. 31.

“We are challenging people to count the shoes in their closet and donate $1 per pair,” said Susan Hogarth, development assistant.

“That’s one way to help Westminster House.”

After counting their shoes and making a donation to Westminster House, people are

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encouraged to nominate a friend.

Westminster House is also hoping Santa may outfit the women for West Coast weather.

“This year for our women, we are outfitting them with rain gear – hoodies, rain jackets, rain boots that we got from Army & Navy, boot socks that we got made special for them, socks, umbrellas, toques,” Hogarth said. “It’s all about staying warm and dry.”

The women in the recovery program will get their goodies on Christmas morning, so there’s still time to help out on that front. Westminster House has ordered 30 pairs of boots and has purchased the socks, but welcomes donations to help prepare for the winter weather.

“Remember, they go for two meetings a day and then they do their community meetings and to volunteering. Everything they do is walking. They walk probably five or six kilometres a day and their feet get wet,” Hogarth said. “We decided it’s about being cozy and warm – and pink. We love pink. We’re like the pink ladies.”

To donate to Westminster House, call Susan Hogarth at 604-524-5633 or send donations to Westminster House, 228 Seventh St., New Westminster, V3M 3K3. People can also donate online via www.westminsterhouse.ca/donate THE RECORD’S

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Royal City Humane Society The Royal City Humane Society has been helping some of the city’s forgotten for two decades.

Since 1994, the society’s volunteers have been dealing with feral, abandoned and surrendered animals. The society runs foster and spay/neuter programs, provides shelter and adoption operations and advocates for the welfare of animals.

While the society always appreciates financial donations, the item at the top of its wish list is foster families who’ll offer a “forever home” to a senior or special needs cat living in the society’s shelter.

Stash, a friendly senior found wandering the streets, is one of those cats. He’s classified as special needs because he needs medication to control hyperthyroidism.

Anyone wanting to foster a cat can contact the shelter at 604-524-6447 and make an appointment to view the cats. Tax-deductible donations can also be made to Royal City Humane Society, Box 102, 667 Columbia St., New Westminster, V3M 1A8.

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Saint Barnabas Church

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St. Barnabas Church greatly appreciates support for its community outreach programs.

The church offers a community lunch every Thursday and an emergency food cupboard each Friday. Every year, the church holds a dinner on Christmas Day. “We can always use money,” said associate warden Roxee Forrest.

“We use it to put on a Christmas meal.”

While the to turkeys are often donated to the dinner, the church has to buy the rest of the fixings (such as 100 pounds of potatoes) that are needed to feed 140 or more people on Christmas Day. Donations of toques, mitts, socks and scarves – for men and women – are also appreciated, as they can be given out in Christmas gift bags.

In addition to donations, St. Barnabas Church relies on its thrift store to raise funds to keep its community programs running.

The thrift store is open Wednesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and donations of clothing and small household items are always welcome.

Turkeys are appreciated year round, as volunteers use them to make soup and sandwiches for the community lunch. Donations of nonperishable food and frozen meats in original packaging can be distributed through the emergency food cupboard.

“We are such a little church. Without donations ... I would hate to think.

It really wouldn’t be the same. They are so appreciated,” Forrest said. “Every year, it seems to be the same thing – there seems to be more and more people coming. We are so dependent on people.”

To help St. Barnabas Church, call 604-526-6646 or drop off donations at the thrift store at 1010 Fifth Ave.

Salvation Army You don’t have to go far to help out The Salvation Army at Christmas.

The Salvation Army’s annual kettle campaign is in full swing, with volunteers stationed at locations around town until Christmas Eve. In addition to the Christmas kettles, the Salvation Army welcomes donations throughout the year to help with its programs, which include food and meal programs for the needy.

In addition to meal programs, the Salvation Army runs the local toy bureau every Christmas and operates shelters year-round.

Donations of socks, underwear and T-shirts for men in its shelters are always appreciated. To help the Salvation Army, call 604-521-0363.

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Seniors Services Society The Seniors Services Society helps people play Santa to seniors at Christmas but it works to better the lives of older folks throughout the year.

The society provides a wide range of services including Meals on Wheels, grocery shopping, support calls and tax clinics to hundreds of seniors annually.

“It’s very cliché for nonprofits to always say that the need is growing, but it is for us. It’s no surprise that the aging population is aging and growing. The homeless population is aging and the aging population is becoming homeless,” said Anna Truong, the society’s assistant director. “Our numbers over the last few years definitely show a sharp incline

of people calling us. It’s very much in line with the homeless count, the homeless numbers region wide.”

Each Christmas, the society coordinates the Be a Santa to a Senior program.

Trees set up at four locations are decorated with ornaments that contain the names of people who are in need and some gift suggestions.

“The community has been really generous this year,” Truong said. “We can’t keep the trees stocked with ornaments fast enough. They can always drop off generic gift cards, blankets, scarves, goodies, candies, diabetic treats, pet supplies – we will find someone who would need it.’

Locally, trees have been set up at London Drugs (555 Sixth St.), Save-OnFoods (270 East Columbia St.), Your Dollar Store With More (811 Carnarvon St.) and London Drugs (7280 Market Crossing in Burnaby).

The society’s volunteers and staff deliver the gifts to seniors a few days before Christmas.

“The seniors are completely filled with joy,” Truong said of the gift recipients. “A lot of the clients we serve don’t have anyone. They are alone on Christmas Day so it is nice to know that they are not forgotten. Even if it’s just a quick visit from a volunteer to drop off a gift, it brings tears to a lot of our clients.”

The program wraps up on Dec. 19, but community members can help our local seniors year round.

“We do accept donations year round. We are the only agency that works specifically with homeless seniors,” Truong said.

“There are always things we need to help our seniors get housed.”

The society appreciates donations of good-quality used furniture and household items such as pots and pans, blankets and bedding, as well, gift cards for grocery stores, Wal-Mart

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Cote leading the charge for a referendum ‘yes’

tax, which would be charged on fossil fuel purchases within Metro Vancouver; an increase to the existing provincial sales tax, New Westminster residents shouldn’t which would be charged on PST-eligible be surprised if Mayor Jonathan Cote comes purchases in the region; and an annual knocking at their door in the months vehicle registration fee, or a combination of ahead. these tools.

On Dec. 11, 18 of 21 members of the “Today was Day 1 of the campaign as Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation far as I am concerned,” Cote said. “I am voted in favour of seeking a 0.5 per cent strongly in support of seeing this referenincrease to the provincial sales tax to gener- dum be successful and the region being able ate funding to expand the regional transit to invest in transportation infrastructure. I and transportation system. If approved by think the next question is: how do we get the province, about one million residents of the information out to the public and what Metro Vancouver would be able to role do mayors and councils play cast votes through a mail-in ballot in advocating for a positive result from mid-March to April 2015. to this referendum?”

“There was strong support Cote is pleased to see a number among the mayors council to of groups coming together with move forward with the referena goal of supporting the referendum question that included a 0.5 dum and promoting a positive per cent increase in the provincial response. He noted there were sales tax,” Cote told The Record business, union and environmenfollowing the meeting. “When tal groups at the meeting who are it came down to it, that revenue joining together to support the source seemed the most equitable Jonathan Cote referendum. and most easily and efficiently pro- mayor “I think that’s a great start,” he vided the revenue that our transsaid. “I think we need to continue portation system needed.” to build these coalitions and partnerships Cote said the PST was also one of the because that is how we are going to be able forms of taxation that garnered strong sup- to win this referendum.” port when the mayors’ council was doing Cote is more than willing to do his part polling on the topic. in ensuring the referendum is successful.

“People resonated with that, felt it was During the recent civic election campaign, more fair,” he said. “There was also poll- Cote knocked on thousands of doors in his ing done on a combination of different tax quest to become mayor. sources, say a smaller sales tax combined “You may find me back out on the with a vehicle levy. We found whenever doors doing some door-knocking for this different taxes were combined, people gen- campaign as well,” he said. “I really think erally were not supportive and felt it was when it comes to the region’s transportamore confusing. The sales tax had greater tion system, we are just going to stagnate appeal with the public we are serving.” for the next four years unless we are able Cote said the mayors didn’t ask for the to be successful with this referendum. To referendum, but recognize that the provin- me, I am going to be a strong advocate for cial government won a recent provincial making sure that we get a positive result so election and one of it platforms was to hold we can spend the next four years investing a referendum. in our transportation system and starting to “I am confident this is a very winnable resolve what I think is the region’s biggest referendum,” he said. “I know at times issue. people are not comfortable or excited about “I think this is about connecting with new taxes in the region, but I think there is people. It’s going to be a mail-in ballot so a growing recognition that transportation is often those types of elections can get lost a huge issue, not only in New Westminster in people’s mail and back of mind,” he but in Metro Vancouver, and that if we added. “I think it’s up to individual mayors don’t properly invest in our transportation and councils to really connect with their system and our public transit, we are going residents, just like we did in the municipal to pay far more down the line by seeing a campaign, because it’s that important of an decrease in livability in our region and a issue.” real negative impact to our local economy.”

The province has ordered the mayors’ The mayors’ council had considered council to hold a referendum before June three potential sources of funding, includ- 30 next year. ing: an increase to the existing B.C. carbon See more at www.royalcityrecord.com.

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The ‘beast that eats money’ needs our vote

a proverbial SeaBus and a SkyTrain.

Last week, the Mayors’ Council on TransLink is not beloved by vottransportation found itself in the awkward position of voting to ask the public ers. Criticisms of it as wasteful and unaccountable have merit. It’s underto approve a tax hike. standably hard to rationalize Ian Jarvis’s It certainly wasn’t the first choice of remuneration of $468,015 in municipal leaders, who’ve 2013. The TransLink CEO spent much of the last three makes more than the transit years lobbying the province THE RECORD bosses in Portland, Seattle, for a new funding source for Toronto and Montreal. We transportation improvements. suspect taxpayers would be more supNo dice, said the province – recognizing portive if the system worked like a a politically unpopular move – unless Swiss clock – but it works more like a voters agree, which is how we arrived with municipal leaders wedged between cuckoo clock. The mechanical issues

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and Compass mess do not inspire confidence. As Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan says, it’s “a beast that eats money.”

But transit capital projects are expensive and require a lot of cash.

The decision of the Mayors’ Council to ask for a small increase to the Provincial Sales Tax is a savvy one under the circumstances. It spreads the pain out over a wide group, ensuring no disproportionate hit for any particular constituency.

Is it a perfect solution? No. But that’s

no reason to reject it out of hand. The presence of heavyhitter business groups joining forces with labour and environmentalists to promote a yes vote shows how important reasonably funded transit is to both the livability of the region and the economy.

Life is sure to get a whole lot tougher if we relegate transportation improvements to bridges to the suburbs and schedule public transit upgrades based on when we feel like it.

Let’s not blow it.

– Guest editorial from the North Shore News

Who’s going to vote yes to a tax hike?

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f a majority of Metro Vancouver voters endorse TransLink’s proposed halfpoint increase in the sales tax to fund transportation projects, the ramifications could go well beyond the region and the specific issue being voted on.

A successful Yes vote will have meant people actually voted for a tax increase, which has been an unheard of proposition for a decade now.

Governments of all stripes have tried to outpace each other in cutting taxes, not raising them, the theory being give the people what they want.

But if people actually support a tax increase because they equate it with clearly outlined service improvements, it may embolden governments to at least revisit some tax policies.

Revenue streams of various sorts have been drying up for years, and money has to come from somewhere if government services are to be maintained or expanded.

Of course, getting that majority Yes vote to materialize is going to take some doing.

Even though it can be argued that Metro Vancouver mayors opted for the cheapest, if not

most timid, option to raise money for projects, the idea of even a tiny tax increase is going to rankle many.

Voters have long seemed cranky when it comes to tax hikes. They feel they already pay enough in taxes (and user fees) and don’t get enough of a return on what they pay right now.

When taxes are imposed on people in the way property taxes or income taxes are, voters can take out their resentment in an election and penalize the politicians who imposed those taxes, should they choose to do so.

But in this case people are being asked beforehand to accept a tax hike, and that is a considerably different situation.

The reasons to vote yes will no doubt strike many as sound and sensible, but that can matter little in a referendum. And it has been clear for some time that while many, many people want more and better transportation options, they see no inconsistency in their view that someone other than themselves should pay for them.

Potentially even more problematic for the Yes side is that this referendum may actually become, for many people, a referendum on TransLink itself.

The organization is every transit user or stuck-in-traffic motorist’s favourite whipping boy, and even the mayors who run it aren’t exactly keen fans of the company either.

Leading the No side will be

Dear Editor:

Is there no end to the self-serving, self-interest and greed of our politicians? Notwithstanding an over-the-top pension plan, this new to me $3.6 million budget for MLAs who are defeated or don’t run again to receive up to $127,323 (15 months of an MLA’s annual salary) in a severance package.

This, based on a base salary of $101,859, along with other perks such as a $9,000 career counselling or re-education when leaving the job is, in my opinion, an over-the-top entitlement and an outrage.

The fact that this is contained and discussed by an all-party parliament committee leaves no-one out of the loop.

It will be interesting to see whether any of our ◗Referendum Page 7 representatives speak out against this golden hand-

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With recent cuts to our New Westminster Seniors’ Services Society budget, 100 out of 175 homeless seniors in October without a roof over their heads were turned away and left out in the cold.

This is unconscionable.

And it is just one example of the government’s callous disregard in cutbacks to people in dire need.

The reason given? There’s not enough money in the so-called budget.

Really!

Is it possible that our government might, like Ebenezer Scrooge, recant, or as the Grinch that stole Christmas, rethink what they have done and show some respect and empathy for those less fortunate in our society?

Merry Christmas to all.

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the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which tends to paint almost all public spending and taxation as questionable and don’t really provide alternatives to what they are criticizing (other than simplistically saying stop spending or stop taxing).

Nevertheless, the organization is good at getting its message out through effective media campaigns, and already it has dubbed its referendum campaign the “No TransLink Tax Campaign.”

Funding transit through referendums is fairly common in many cities in the United States, but it’s a new concept here. The successful referendums in the U.S. (which have resulted in funding hikes) usually occur after lengthy

campaigns – sometimes lasting more than a year – to shape public opinion accordingly.

But in TransLink’s case, the Yes side will only have several months to make their sales pitch.

A broad-based coalition is forming to support the Yes side, and it includes politicians of all stripes as well as business leaders and several key unions.

But it’s unclear whether they can convince the people they purport to represent to actually mail in a ballot marked Yes. More than 20 years ago, we saw another broad coalition of strange political bedfellows band together to ensure the Yes side won in a referendum. That would be the Charlottetown Accord, a proposed change to

the Canadian constitution, which went down to defeat despite the fact the “establishment” insisted it was a worthy endeavour.

We may be about to witness the same thing again, with a situation where the “leaders” insist they know best, while a suspicious public feels otherwise. But if the Yes side beats the odds and actually pulls off a victory, perhaps the days of tax revolts may finally be nearing an end and governments will stop being leery about even talking about tax hikes.

It’s a long shot, I know, but a majority vote for a tax increase – no matter how small – may well prove to be groundbreaking.

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

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THE RECORD STORY: New West Mayor Jonathan Cote to campaign for transporation referendum success – Dec. 11

Facebook I Dave Lundy: In reality, TransLink should be a separate entity all together.

Electable and accountable. And not currently serving municipal councillors and mayors either. The current model does not work. The previous model in ways didn’t work either, as the people on the board were indirectly accountable.

Establishing a transportation authority, separate and distinct in its governance, electable and accountable, (as the TTC is in Toronto) puts the proper perspective I think on the entire body. Nothing’s absolutely perfect, but establishing an elected accountable transit authority is the next logical step in this process.

THE RECORD STORY: New apartment proposed for New West fire site – Dec. 9

Facebook I Betina Wheeler Ali: Such good news. So nice to know this rental building will be rebuilt as a rental building not condos and that 9 units will be added to the original ones that were lost as a result of the tragic fire

THE RECORD STORY: Once-divided school board elects Cook vicechair – Dec. 10

Facebook I Dave Lundy: It’s good to have some balance or semblance of balance at the school board level. While “the machine” has the chair, giving a non-endorsed wily vet like Cook the vice chair shows that the trustees take managing the education system seriously and can put aside politics for the greater good.

Facebook I Maureen Parks: I just read the article in the paper tonight Casey – well done, I am SO proud of you! Congratulations!

Twitter I @CaseyCook_NW: kudos also to board chair @joninacampbell for providing leadership that has resulted in a sea change in the culture of #SD40 Twitter I @EdjoSadowski: @CaseyCook_NW @TheRecord @joninacampbell congratulations to you both and to the whole board. It’s going to be an eventful 4 years

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Previous political opponents set to serve side-by-side as chair and vice-chair

It’s a significant turning point for the once-fractured board, Cook told The Record.

He praised the influence of superintendent John Gaiptman, who joined the district in February.

BY NIKI HOPE REPORTER “In the last year, this is a very differnhope@royalcityrecord.com ent board,” Cook said. “To be really clear, John’s been a huge, huge influence ... in Political divisions on the New terms of opening up views that weren’t Westminster school board seemed to really there before. crumble last week when trustee Casey “Before it was always about hoardCook was acclaimed vice-chair of ing information and hoarding the board. power,” he added. “When I was It was a significant move in Vancouver, as a staff, we always for the once-politically divided said to each other we have to get board, which also acclaimed the best information to council so trustee Jonina Campbell chair for they can make the best decisions, the second year in a row.

I like to think we are moving in “We are different in experience, that direction.” ideas and skills and background, Electing a non-labour endorsed and we will not always agree, but vice-chair sends an important we share a commitment to workmessage, Cook said. “At least ing respectfully and collabora- Jonina Campbell that there is openness and rectively and to moving forward,” ognition that we need to operate chair Campbell told the roughly 30 differently, we need to operate in people who turned up to city hall, a collaborative fashion and not including city councillors, friends just talk about it,” he said. and family members, to watch Campbell agreed that the school trustees be sworn in at the board has worked collaboratively over the last year. board’s inaugural meeting.

“I think there was an acknowlLast year, Cook was also nomiedgment that we wanted a team nated for vice-chair but lost out to together that represented the trustee Michael Ewen. The board whole board,” she said. “Casey then, as it does now, had a labourand I worked very well together, endorsed majority, while Cook so I’m very happy to see him as and his Voice New Westminster our vice-chair.” counterparts, who don’t have Casey Cook The board chair has a numunion support, were in the minor- vice-chair ber of issues she wants to tackle ity.

This is the first time since a Voice New this year, including securing funding for Westminster candidate has been elected the replacement high school, tracking and vice-chair of the board. (The Voice political establishing educational benchmarks and group did not run candidates in this year’s enhancing technology in the school district. election.)

Moody Park facelift set

Water features, slides and areas for infant and toddler play are the most popular features of visitors to the playground in Moody Park.

That was one of the things the city learned from residents during the community consultation about plans to redevelop the playground and spray park at Moody Park. On Monday, council endorsed a design for the park that includes water features that allow children to manipulate the flow of water through channels, switch gates and weirs, as well as slides, swings and climbing features.

A concept plan shows the use of natural wood materials will connect the play features to the trees that surround the playground.

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Make plans for the holidays It’s easy to isolate when we are feeling lonely and sad.The holiday season brings with it crowds, noise, and traffic and for those in the midst of grieving this stimulation can be too much. However, make plans to get out into the world anyway. Set dates with family and friends so you have something to look forward to. Don’t overwhelm yourself with too many appointments but do try to make time to connect with others.

Live in the moment If you are feeling overwhelmed by negative thoughts and emotions you may find it helpful to stop, take a deep breath and just be in “the now”.

It is easy to begin to over-analyze the past and get trapped in memories that you cannot change.You can release yourself from these mind traps by simply observing what is right in front of you. Look closely at the details.

Listen to the sounds around you. Concentrate on the colours you see. It may sound like a simple technique but it does work.

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Guide: Buy some needy folks coffee, dinner or hot soup lot better,” Wong said. “We are looking to find new ways to be able to help. You take it for granted people read, and they don’t always read well or read at all.”

People who are making financial donations to the UGM can ask that the money be designated to specific purchases, such as the coffee or supplies for the art therapy program.

Anyone wanting to help the Union Gospel Mission can call 604525-8989 or drop by the mission at 658 Clarkson St.

and London Drugs where items such as mops, brooms, vacuums and cleaning supplies can be purchased.

“We get a lot of seniors who don’t qualify for the annual bus pass,” Truong added. “We have a lot of seniors who are stuck having to buy the monthly fare card or the transit ticket, so that’s always a hot commodity around here.”

To help the Seniors Services Society, call 604-520-6621, visit www.seniors servicessociety.ca (click on Donate Now) or drop by one of the Be a Santa to a Senior locations.

Union Gospel Mission The Union Gospel Mission in New Westminster served up 250 meals at its recent Christmas dinner – but that’s just one of the many services provided by the mission.

Each weekday, the mission offers a full breakfast from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., followed by soup and other food later in the morning. The mission serves 700 to 800 cups of coffee daily.

“We are always looking for the pot of gold, which is coffee,” said manager Bill Wong. “Socks are always a hot commodity. They allow people to get from one place to another.”

Cash donations are always helpful because the mission can purchase items that may be needed at any given time.

“We are starting to look at new ways to help our folks, recognizing that there are some unique needs,” Wong said. “For example, we recognize that some of our folks can’t read. If you help them with a program or something, that may not help

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The giving spirit: The Union Gospel Mission serves up goodwill and food. them if there is a lot of material to read.”

The Union Gospel Mission is going to begin piloting an art therapy project in January.

“We think it’s going to be a very nonthreatening way of building bridges to our folks. It allows us to understand their needs a lot better,” Wong said. “We are tying to find ways to reach out to people that will get them to be safe with us, and we will go from there.”

The mission is also looking to expand its facility on Carnarvon Street by building some classrooms in its lower level.

“We are making a shift. We are hoping it’s going to help the community a whole

willing to foster, usually for no more than two months. Most fosters are cats and dogs, but VEATA does get requests for small animals or exotics and will try to find foster homes for any species.

Along with fostering, VEATA’s mandate also includes educating the public about the humane treatment of animals and disaster planning for animals. The group needs volunteers to develop and deliver educational programs for schools and other public forums.

Doggy Fun Day, held every August in Queen’s Park, is VEATA VEATA’s main fundraising Foster parents for dogs and event. cats are at the top of VEATA’s “In 2015, Doggy Fun Day Christmas wish list. will be held on Aug. 30,” to Volunteer Education and Rogers said. “We’re always Assistance Team for Animals, looking for more volunteers a New Westminster animal and sponsors in order to conwelfare group, focuses its tinue improving this special efforts on providing emergenevent. The money raised allows cy, short-term pet fostering for individuus to continue our work, but the event als and families in crisis situations, such also shows that New Westminster is a as transition houses, detox centres/drug dog-friendly community.” treatment or an emergency hospital stay.

Cash donations are always welcome, “Having a pet can be a barrier to as they help with veterinary costs, nutriaccessing help. We receive calls every tional food and other pet-related needs year from people looking for a safe place for low-income pet owners. for their pets to stay while they get the If you’re interested in volunteering for help they need. They cannot afford to pay the society, providing an emergency fosboarding fees and are afraid if they leave ter home for a pet or making a financial their animals that they will lose them,” donation, contact veatasociety@gmail. said VEATA president Cheryl Rogers. com or Box 31, 667 Columbia St., New “They love their pets; they’re family. It’s Westminster, B.C. V3M 1A8. You can also very important to reassure them they like VEATA on Facebook at www. will be reunited with their pets after they facebook.com/VEATAsociety. receive the help they need to recover and get back on their feet again.”

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he executive director of Fraser River Discovery Centre will be lending her expertise to the B.C. Museums Association Council.

Catherine OuelettMartin has been elected to a two-year term on the council, which has represented the institutions, trustees, professional staff and volunteers of the B.C.

museum and gallery community and related communities in the heritage sector since 1957.

“I am very enthusiastic about joining the BMCA council and playing a more active role,” said Ouelett-Martin in a press release.

“The organization plays a central role in the rich cultural sector in B.C. and has provided invaluable professional support to the organizations I have worked in over the years, including the Fraser River Discovery Centre.”

At its annual general meeting in October, members voted unanimously to change the bylaws of the

organization and increase the number of councillors to 13. Directors come from programs and facilities across B.C. “I am happy to serve, and my first year on council promises to be very busy and exciting with the presentation of the association’s annual conference in New Westminster next year,” said Ouelett-Martin.

Chevron helps students gas up

Chevron Canada is donating $5,000 in gas cards to support students in financial need at Douglas College.

The gift will help to

reduce the costs to travel to practicum placements for students enrolled in the faculty of child, family and community studies. Each year, hundreds of students in the faculty participate in practicum placements at schools, group homes, community centres and other sites across Metro Vancouver and beyond.

“We are very grateful for this generous contribution from Chevron Canada,” David Magnuson-Ford, director of development with the Douglas College Foundation, said in a press release.

“Many of these students already struggle to

pay for their education, and this gift will help to ease their financial burden.”

Adrien Byrne, who works in policy, government and public affairs with Chevron Canada, said the company is proud to invest in educational institutions, community organizations and local charities because it’s learned that its success is deeply linked to the community’s success in places where it operates.

“Chevron welcomes the opportunity to support Douglas College students, particularly as they engage with critical health and social services in various

communities throughout the Lower Mainland,” Byrne said.

The child, family and community studies programs include behaviour intervention, child and youth care, classroom and community support, disability and applied behaviour analysis, early childhood education, sign language interpretation, therapeutic recreation and youth justice.

Do you have an idea for Around Town? Do you know someone who deserves recognition? Send items of community interest to Theresa, tmcmanus@royalcityrecord. com, or find her on Twitter, @TheresaMcManus.

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Returning the favour: Amanda Wohlford now volunteers with Burnaby Family Life’s pregnancy outreach program, the very program that helped her get through difficult

times during her pregnancy. Burnaby Family Life is now fundraising to make sure vulnerable moms aren’t turned away due to lack of funding.

Can you help vulnerable moms?

BY JENNIFER MOREAU REPORTER jmoreau@royalcityrecord.com

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ive years ago, Amanda Wohlford found herself pregnant, homeless and on her own. She was 24 years old, couch-surfing and in and out of a relationship with the father.

“I was so emotional I didn’t want to be pregnant,” she told The Record. “I was always depressed, I was always upset.”

She heard about Burnaby Family Life’s pregnancy outreach program through a friend and joined the group in New Westminster.

Wohlford attended the weekly sessions, learned about proper nutrition and what to expect after giving birth.

When her son was born, Wohlford cried a lot and didn’t sleep much because he had trouble latching while breastfeeding. Through the pregnancy outreach program, a public health nurse would sit by her side and tell her to breathe, relax and try again – everything was going to be OK. “They just listened. When I cried, they comforted and listened, and that helps a lot when you don’t have anyone,” she says.

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The pregnancy outreach program is program, when her son was six months for the most vulnerable women who old, Burnaby Family Life still helped. Her are pregnant or have new babies. The child was banging his head and suffering moms may be struggling with English or from nightmares. Wohlford would show literacy, they are most often poor or isoup at the group in tears, not knowing lated, suffering from depression, abuse or what to do. even homelessness.

It turned out her son has The program runs weekly autism, and Wohlford is consupport groups in Burnaby at vinced she was able to get the Edmonds Resource Centre him diagnosed early because “They just lisand New Westminster at the of what she learned through tened. When I Olivet Baptist Church. Women the group about childhood development. Again, Burnaby cried, they com- who attend get a nutritious lunch, an hour-long educaFamily Life helped with the forted and listion session on things like paperwork, since she struggles tened, and that nutrition, the importance of with reading and writing. breast feeding, infant care They also helped her get into helps a lot when and the effects of substance B.C. Housing’s rental assistyou don’t have abuse on babies, both pre and ance program, and she now post natal. There’s also onelives in Burnaby. anyone.” on-one counselling from an “They never shut the door outreach worker, dietician or on me. I would go in there AMANDA WOHLFORD public health nurse. They also crying and upset, and they mother receive bus tickets, gift cards would sit me down and tell for groceries, vitamins and me what to do,” she says. “All organic produce. The babies are weighed, that information they gave me, I don’t and there’s child care available for older know where I would be without it.” siblings. Everything is free for the women A couple of years ago, Wohlford who attend. started volunteering with the New West The program cost $313,000 to run last group and now helps other women with year. The women stay in the program similar experiences.

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Here’s how you can help: Go to www.fundaid.ca/burnabyfamilies and click on the Contribute button. $25: Provides food coupons for healthy milk and food supplements. $50: Provides a healthy lunch for all the women in one of the programs. $75: Provides five women in the program with essential vitamins to maintain the health of their babies. $100: Provides the services of a dietitian to help the women in a program learn about and maintain healthy eating habits throughout their pregnancy. $1,600: Covers the cost for one woman to attend the entire program.

till their babies are six months old. It’s funded through the Public Health Agency of Canada, Fraser Health and the CKNW Orphans’ Fund. The Burnaby Food First Committee also contributed some money.

But the funding is still not enough to meet demand. Last year, Burnaby Family Life turned away 58 women because there ◗Pregnancy Page 12

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t’s an inevitable fact that most kids’ Christmas wish-lists – and, as a consequence, parents’ Christmas gift-buying – will lean heavily towards toys.

But, much as I’m as fond of the latest toy craze as the next person (yes, I confess, I bought my wee bean an Anna doll from Frozen), I also think it’s important to offer our kids some gifts that aren’t made by Fisher Price or Disney. Which is to say: non-toy gifts.

Yes, they exist. I put out a call on Twitter for nontoy gift ideas, and I got a bunch of great suggestions from New West parents.

Here, thanks to that chat and my own brainstorming, are a few ideas – with an emphasis on things that are available right here in our own backyard. (This is the first part of two – watch Friday’s Record for the rest of the suggestions.) ! Take them to the theatre: Why give a “thing” when you can give an experience? I’m sure there’s not a kid out there who wouldn’t value an afternoon or an evening out with mom or dad (or grandma, grandpa, aunt or uncle, as the case may be). And you don’t have to look far afield to find some good ideas: Royal City Musical Theatre (www.royalcitymusical theatre.com) is already selling tickets for its spring production of My Fair Lady at Massey Theatre, and Align Entertainment (www.alignentertainment. ca) is selling tickets for its February production of The Addams Family musical at

offers a host of sports and activities, with programs, lessons and drop-in sessions for fitness, swimming, skating and much more. Why not buy a course or pay for the cost of a series of drop-in sessions?

Check out www.newwest pcr.ca for all the details on what’s available near you. ! Get them involved: Whatever your child’s interest, there’s sure to be a school or a program of interest to them. So why not sign them up for a course of dance lessons, music classes, soccer, swim lessons, or whatever interests them? Or try out something they may not have thought of before – like Vancouver Circus School (www.vancouver circusschool.ca), which has a home at River Market. ! Get them cooking and baking: Anyone who’s watched too many episodes of Master Chef Junior (guilty as charged) knows that

Michael J. Fox Theatre in Burnaby. Or, if your child’s a little younger, Carousel Theatre on Granville Island (www.carouseltheatre.ca) has a whole season full of theatre appropriate for the young set – some of their productions are even geared for kids as young as three. ! Get musical: The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (www.vancou versymphony.ca) offers a Tiny Tots concert series for the wee ones and a Kids’ Koncerts series for the four- to 11-year-old crowd.

A subscription to one offers a great way to expose them to classical music right from the get-go.

Closer to home, the New Westminster Symphony Orchestra (www.newwest symphony.net) has a regular concert series, by donation, at the Massey Theatre. ! Keep them active: New Westminster’s parks and recreation departments

Pregnancy: Program that helps vulnerable moms needs funding wasn’t enough money to help them.

“Essentially, (they) didn’t get the intense support that all the other women got in the pregnancy outreach program,” said Michel Pouliot executive director with Burnaby Family Life.

Burnaby Family Life had $3.7 million in revenue last year, and only $57,581 left after total operating expenses.

“We’re always having to subsidize the program,” Pouliot said. “As a whole, we’re not able to continue to subsidize programs all the time, and our budgets are getting tighter every year.”

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Burnaby Family Life is hoping to raise $20,000 to help the program. On Day 10, they had raised $2,500 online, with another $1,500 in offline donations – but there’s still $16,000 to go.

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thinking foodie, why not introduce your kids to the joy of local at its best?

Royal City Farmers Market (www.rcfm.ca) has winter markets on the first and third Saturday of the month at River Market, and it offers gift certificates.

Give your junior foodie a gift certificate and let them spend it as they see fit – and make an outing of it by enjoying River Market and the Westminster Pier Park/waterfront stroll while you’re there. ! Give them the gift of adventure: Buy them some new gear to take part in an outdoor adventure – from hiking boots and camping gear to fishing equipment to skis and snowshoes, the possibilities are endless.

Then, follow through by taking them out to enjoy the equipment – and the time with you while you’re at it.

Watch for the rest of the list in Friday’s Record.

young kids can cook up a storm if given a chance.

So why not let yours try?

Invest in some cooking or baking equipment for them, or sign them up for a cooking class. Check out local city parks and rec offerings (www.newwest pcr.ca), or see what’s on offer at some of your favourite local businesses.

At River Market, for instance, there are drop-in River Critters baking classes on a regular basis that offer a fun and low-cost option for the tiny ones (www.rivermarket.ca). ! Get eating: Restaurants of all kinds offer gift certificates and gift cards, so why not tuck one into your child’s stocking? Let them have “date night” with mom or dad (or a favourite aunt or grandparent) and be in charge of the cheque. As a bonus, it gets you spending more time together. ! Get fresh: While you’re

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We asked some of the city’s best chefs for the dishes they like to put out when entertaining.

We also include a couple of our own favourites to serve up when friends and family come by during the holidays.

This edition we include Longtail Kitchen’s stir-fried winter squash and mushroom with shrimp paste, Wild Rice’s chef Todd Bright with his duck recipes, along with reporter Niki Hope’s favour-

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Coming together over a table of delicious food is one of the best parts of the holidays.

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This easy and delicious Bruschetta has become a staple in my arsenal of recipes, especially when it comes to entertaining. It’s from the blog of Oh She Glows author Angela Lidd, who specializes in vegan recipes.

It’s one of those great crossovers that the meat eaters I know seem to love as much as the vegans.

Anyway, it is a yummy dish with red and green ingredients that give it a

little holiday colour. Enjoy!

Ingredients: 2-3 cups grape tomatoes (other types would work too), chopped 1.25 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil 1/4-1/2 tsp. Fleur de sel sea salt, adjust to taste Freshly ground black pepper, to taste 1 handful basil leaves, chopped finely 2 cloves very fresh and juicy garlic 1 tbsp. balsamic vinegar 3/4 of a baguette (we used Ciabatta bread), sliced on diagonal (about 25 pieces)

4-5 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil, placed in small bowl Directions: Preheat oven to 400F. In a medium-sized bowl combine 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, chopped tomatoes, black pepper, finely chopped basil, one clove finely chopped garlic, and balsamic vinegar. Mix well and set aside.

Take your baguette and slice one-inch pieces. Take your other clove of garlic and carefully slice in half lengthwise, exposing the ◗Bruschetta Page 19

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Get elegant with duck

Duck Prosciutto with roasted mushroom risotto

By Todd Bright, chef at Wild Rice Ingredients: 1 large or 2 smaller whole duck breasts, skin on 1 to 3 cups of kosher salt, or as needed 1 teaspoon cracked black pepper 50g blueberry rooibos tea 2 cloves of smashed garlic

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Instructions: 1. Line the bottom of a non-reactive container (glass, plastic, etc.) with about half of your kosher salt and tea. You will want about a quarter to a halfinch of salt, so depending on the size of the dish, you will have to adjust.

2. Crush the garlic and pepper (reserving enough pepper to dust the breast after rinsing the salt off) and rub them into the duck breast and place into the dish on top of the salt.

3. Cover the duck with the remaining salt and tea, and make sure it is completely covered. Wrap with plastic and refrigerate 24

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4. Rinse off the cure with cold water and pat dry with paper towels.

(The flesh of the duck should feel firm from the

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At this point, weigh the duck breast and start a log of weight to determine doneness when drying.) ◗Duck Page 16

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Duck: Pair your prosciutto with a roasted mushroom risotto ◗ continued from page 15

5. Wrap in cheesecloth and hang with butcher’s twine (about 60 per cent humidity and 50-60 F).

6. Dry from one to two weeks until the meat has lost 30 per cent of its weight or when the meat feels quite firm, but not hard throughout.

You should be able to slice into the breast with a knife. If you can’t, the breast has dried out too much and might not be too pleasant to eat. The color of the duck should be a deep red, and the meat should smell almost sweet like a cured ham. If the meat still feels quite soft in the middle after a week or so, let it hang for a few more days.

Serves four.

Risotto 1-1/2 cups sushi rice 1 quart vegetable stock 1/2 cup white wine 1 medium shallot or 1/2 small onion, chopped (about 1/2 cup) 3 Tbsp. unsalted butter 1 Tbsp. vegetable oil 1 Tbsp. chopped Italian parsley

2 cups shiitake mushrooms, cooked golden brown Kosher salt, to taste Preparation: Heat the stock to a simmer in a medium saucepan, then lower the heat so that the stock just stays hot.

In a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan, heat the oil and 1 Tbsp. of the butter over medium heat. When the butter has melted, add the chopped shallot or onion.

Sauté for two to three minutes or until it is slightly translucent.

Add the rice to the pot and stir it briskly with a wooden spoon so that the grains are coated with the oil and melted butter.

Sauté for another minute or so, until there is a slightly nutty aroma.

But don’t let the rice turn brown. Add the wine and cook while stirring, until the liquid is fully absorbed.

Add a ladle of hot vegetable stock to the rice and stir until the liquid is fully absorbed.

When the rice appears almost dry, add another ladle of stock and repeat

the process.

Note: It’s important to stir constantly, especially while the hot stock gets absorbed, to prevent scorching, and add the next ladle as soon as the rice is almost dry.

Continue adding ladles of hot stock and stirring the rice while the liquid is absorbed. As it cooks, you’ll see that the rice will take on a creamy consistency as it begins to release its natural starches.

Continue adding stock, a ladle at a time, for 20 to 30 minutes or until the grains are tender but still firm to the bite, without being crunchy. If you run out of stock and the risotto still isn’t done, you can finish the cooking using hot water. Just add the water as you did with the stock, a ladle at a time, stirring while it’s absorbed.

Add the mushrooms.

Stir in the remaining 2 Tbsp. butter, and the parsley, and season to taste with kosher salt.

Serve immediately with thin slices of the duck prosciutto and a handful of sliced chives.

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Stir-fry taste temptation Stir-fried Winter Squash & Mushrooms with Shrimp Paste Chef Justin Cheung (Longtail Kitchen) Ingredients: 2 tablespoons rice bran oil 300 grams Kabocha squash, sliced 1/4’’ 200 grams yellow chanterelles, cleaned 2 bird’s eye chili 2 cloves garlic 1 teaspoon oyster sauce 1 teaspoon shrimp paste 1 teaspoon sugar 1 pinch white pepper, ground Fish sauce, to taste handful of Thai basil

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Bruschetta: A classic goes vegan ◗ continued from page 14

garlic juices. Take a piece of the cut garlic and rub one side of each slice of bread to spread the garlic juices and flavour on the bread. Now place 4-5 tbsp of olive oil in a small bowl and dip bread into the bowl (garlic side down) coating one side of the bread.

On a baking sheet, line up bread oil side down and bake for 5-6 minutes watching very carefully. Bread will be crisp like toast, but not too hard. I checked mine every 2 minutes.

While the bread is cooking, take that

sliced garlic clove and chop finely and add to the bruschetta mixture. Taste and adjust seasonings if necessary.

When bread is ready, flip so the oil side is up and scoop on the bruschetta mixture carefully onto each piece. Take remaining juices and drizzle over top. Serve immediately.

Makes about 25 pieces and serves six comfortably. We ate every last piece!

Everyone raved about this bruschetta. It was so good! I think it was gone in about five minutes.

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Give a gift that keeps on growing ANNE MARRISON

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Cyclamen also like cool climates, humidity and moist soil in the growing season but don’t show distress as quickly as azaleas and Christmas cactus.

But in warm atmospheres, leaves start yellowing and buds drying out. It helps if you put them in a cool place at night.

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sphere that most of us live in. Some show this more quickly than others: the fastest to have a leafdropping flower-falling tantrum are the gorgeous Christmas azaleas.

My first Christmas azalea did this, and though I misted it daily and kept the soil moist, it got more and more sickly. By February I’d had enough and tossed it into the compost – where in gentle spring rains and humid air, the leaves grew back and it started to root.

For an outside porch, a greenhouse or a gardener with a cool, airy home and time for frequent misting, these azaleas are mag-

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◗ IN THE GAME SECTION COORDINATOR Tom Berridge, 604-444-3022 • tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

N.W. Giants take a tumble in major midget standings ◗P23 High school girls get ready for Bob Gair Classic ◗P23

BSHOF names class of 2014 SPECIAL TO THE RECORD

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Burnaby lacrosse icon Russ Heard will be inducted into the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame in February along with six other individuals and a pioneering women’s lacrosse team.

The New Westminster product was a scoring machine for the Burnaby Lakers. He was the Western Lacrosse Association scoring champion in 1992, 1997 and 1999 and a first-team league all-star five times. Heard racked up 1,201 points, including 447 goals, in the 399 games he played, placing him ninth all-time in the WLA. Heard also played in the pro National Lacrosse League for the now-defunct Charlotte Cobras for one season and the Toronto Rock for three.

Heard’s No. 9 was the first jersey retired by the Lakers in 2013.

He coached the senior Lakers for seven seasons, making the playoffs each time.

He’ll be joined for induction in the athlete category by Brian Cowie (paracycling, triathlon) and Anna Schnell (rugby). Builders to be inducted are Roy Nosella (soccer) and Dan Taylor (baseball), while Kyna Fletcher (gymnastics) and Mimmo Morello (soccer, wrestling) will enter as coaches. The pioneer 1934 Burnaby Cougars provincial champion women’s lacrosse squad will be inducted into the team category.

The hall’s induction banquet will take place at the Firefighers’ Banquet Hall at Metrotown on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015.

ATHLETE

RCCC skips back to B.C.s

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

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Trailblazers: Visually impaired parathlete Brian Cowie, right, will be inducted into the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame in February. helping Burnaby Lake win three provincial championships. She also led B.C. to its first Canadian championship in eight years in 2005. Schnell earned more than 30 representative caps for Canada’s national team, including the 2006 and 2010 World Cups. In fact, she was the second highest scorer in the 2010 tournament in England with 46 points, losing out on the overall scoring title by only two points.

Brian Cowie Cowie is a visually impaired athlete who has participated in nine paracycling world championships as a road and track tandem cyclist. He won 14 national championships and was a silver medallist at the 1998 world championships in the individual time trial.

Cowie was also ranked Roy Nosella No. 1 in the world on the After a highly successtrack in 2009 and won ful playing careers on the a bronze medal at the soccer pitch and baseball world championships in Anna Schnell diamond, Nosella turned Manchester, England in More than 30 his attention to giving that year.

In addition to cycling, caps for Canada back to sport.

The longtime Burnaby Cowie has competed in 15 Ironman triathlons, includ- school counsellor was a B.C. ing three world championships. Soccer director and vice-chair for And he’s done more than 100 seven years, and a director of the short-course Olympic distance Vancouver Metro Soccer League triathlons, winning silver at two for seven years.

Nosella refereed in the Metro international championships. He now competes in triathlon with an Women’s Soccer League, where single-leg amputee – another first he developed and implemented a mentorship program. His efforts for Cowie. were recognized with an A.C. !

Sanford Award for more than 20 Anna Schnell Schnell was an elite player on years of exceptional service to the Burnaby Lake Rugby Club B.C. soccer. In addition, Nosella premier division women’s squad. served on the Vancouver Athletic In her six seasons (2004-2010), Commission for 43 years, includSchnell was a dominating force, ing a stint as its chair.

BUILDER

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Dan Taylor Taylor has been commissioner of the Lower Mainland Baseball Association ever since starting the adult recreational baseball league, which was formed in 1994. Under his leadership, the association has evolved into the largest adult baseball league in Canada with 32 teams in 14 municipalities.

Today, the league has players ranging in age from 19 to over 70.

Taylor also managed the B.C. Capitals, which won the Canadian 50-plus title at the Canadian National Oldtimers Baseball Federation championships in 2008 and 2010. He was the tournament chair of the 2010 championship held in Burnaby and New Westminster, which attracted 24 teams from across Canada.

COACH

Kyna Fletcher Fletcher began coaching gymnastics 30 years ago. Her passion for the sport resulted in her being named the national stream coach of the year in 2006, which goes to the coach who has had the most success with its national level gymnasts.

Fletcher received Gymnastics

B.C.’s Member of Distinction award in 2010 and the organization also presented her with a life member award in 2013. She was also team director for Canada’s national women’s gymnastic team that achieved a best-ever fifthplace finish at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. !

Emilio (Mimmo) Marrello Marrello’s Burnaby Selects Metro league boys’ soccer squads won six provincial titles and went to the national championships four times, winning two Canadian club titles. His 2006 under-17 Burnaby Royals were inducted into the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.

Marrello was named B.C. youth coach of the year in 2002. Several of Marrello’s charges have made national youth teams with five of them going on to play professional soccer.

His Burnaby Girls Titans squad, which he coached for three years, also won two provincial titles and went to two national finals where they took the silver medal.

Marrello’s coaching exploits aren’t limited to the soccer pitch but the wrestling mat as well, ◗BSHOF Page 23

Former B.C. men’s curling champion Sean Geall is back for a stab at a second provincial title.

The Royal City Curling Club skip, including 2012 champions Andrew Bilesky at third and Steve Kopf at second, and lead Mark Olson, rocked the house at the men’s Lower Mainland playdowns last weekend, taking the A event berth with a 9-3 win over clubmate Ken McArdle.

Geall won all three of his A event draws at the Cloverdale Curling Club, defeating RCCC skip Dean Joanisse 6-4 in the semifinal on the strength of three in the fifth and a double in the pivotal eighth.

In the seven-end A final, Geall opened with a triple in the first end and scored four more in the sixth after an attempted McArdle double.

McArdle, who finished the bonspiel with a 4-1 record, eked out a pair of onerock wins over eventual C event winner Grant Dezura of Golden Ears and Royal City’s Sebastien Robillard in the A event leading up to the final.

The McArdle rink of third Chase Martyn, second Cody Johnston and lead Will Sutton, then defeated Joanisse 8-6 with a deuce in the 11th extra end to win the B event.

Joannisse, a former two-time B.C. champion from Victoria, was unlucky at the Mainland qualifier, losing in a second consecutive final to Dezura 8-5 in nine ends in the C event.

Stephen Schnieder of Vancouver Curling Club won the other C event berth, 8-3 over clubmate Richard Brower.

Robillard finished with a record of 3-3 at the Mainlands, while Royal City skips Don Smith was 2-3 and John Molendyk finished 0-3.

An open region event will also be held to round out the qualifying field at the Peace Arch Curling Club in South Surrey from Jan. 9 to 11.

The men’s B.C. championships will take place in Vernon from Feb. 3 to 8.

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◗ MAJOR MIDGET HOCKEY

N.W. Giants drop in the standings

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com

The Northwest Giants took a double whammy at the hands of the Fraser Valley Thunderbirds.

The Giants were swept in their weekend series 4-1 and 5-2 last week by the eighth-place Thunderbirds.

The loss was also the Giants’ third defeat to Fraser Valley this season.

The losses, coupled with a recent forfeited game to the Greater Vancouver Canadians, tumbled the Giants into a tie for fourth place with the Valley West Hawks in the 11-team loop.

“We just can’t buy a break right now,” said Giants head coach Clint Thornton. “We’re one depleted roster right now.”

With injuries and illness piling up, the Giants dressed just 13 skaters in the 5-2 loss in Abbotsford on Sunday.

Justin Wilson scored the Giants’ only goal on a power play in Saturday’s 4-1 loss in Squamish.

Nic Ponak tallied a pair

of goals for the T-Birds, who took a 2-0 lead with a two-goal middle period and never gave up the lead.

In Abbotsford, the Giants jumped out to an early 2-0 lead on goals by Wilson and Will Warm, but Fraser Valley played shutout hockey for the remaining 50 minutes to post just its eighth goal of the season.

Brett Clayton led the Thunderbirds with three points, including a pair of back-to-back goals in the final frame.

Next up for the ailing Giants are the second-place Okanagan Rockets.

“We’re going to follow the process and continue to grow,” said Thornton.

“We’re going to drop a bit in the standings, but we have to look ahead and try and stay healthy. Our plan is to be ready for the playoffs.”

This weekend, the Giants host the Rockets at the Burnaby Winter Club on Saturday at 7:45 p.m. and Sunday morning, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

BSHOF: Pioneer women’s team to hall ◗ continued from page 21

coaching many provincial and national champions, including Tom Petryshen, who wrestled in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, and John Tenta, a world junior champion in 1985.

TEAM

1934 Burnaby Cougars The Burnaby Cougars women’s lacrosse team was formed in 1930 and considered a disgrace in some conservative circles, when the women shed long stockings and bloomers for form-fitting short pants and ankle socks. A Burnaby South high school principal went as far as banning them from playing, but the women defended their right to play and eventually won.

The Cougars brought fame to Burnaby in 1934, when they defeated one of the original women’s teams – the Richmond Milkmaids – 4-1 in the B.C. women’s lacrosse championship title game, winning the Grauer Cup at the old Cambie Street grounds.

Burnaby also defeated

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A Laker great: Russ Heard is the first Burnaby Laker player to have his number retired.

Vancouver’s Pirates 82 in a much publicized matchup that included a stick-swinging brawl that went on for a full 10 minutes.

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on the hall or to purchase induction dinner tickets, go to www.burnaby sportshalloffame.ca, or call hall of fame committee chair Grant Granger at 604-803-9571.

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Girls are ready for Gair

The junior and senior New Westminster Hyacks warmed up for this week’s Bob Gair Classic basketball tournament.

The senior girls defeated Crofton House 74-49 with five players shooting in double digits. Lauren Denusik and Rhiannon Leidl both scored 12 points, while Hannah DeVos, Celia Palmer and Justice Steer also hit in double figures.

The junior Hyacks improved their record to 10-2 following a secondplace finish at a tournament in Maple Ridge.

New West lost 39-25 to host Maple Ridge before placing runner-up with a 60-26 win over Walnut Grove. Mia Obrovac led the way with 14 points, while Keja Davis had 12.

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