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A plea from city teen VoteYes NewWest launches campaign for transit referendum

By Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

Sadie DeCoste is too young to vote in the upcoming transportation referendum, so she’s counting on her elders to think of her generation.

DeCoste, a member of the environmental club at New Westminster Secondary School, joined a cross-section of local organizations at city hall Monday morning to launch the Vote Yes New West Coalition, which is urging citizens to voteYes in the upcoming transit referendum. DeCoste said youth use public transit daily, taking buses to and from school and riding the SkyTrain to part-time jobs and friends’ houses.

“Public transit is the most feasible means of getting from one place to another,” she said. “We are the generation that will face the impacts of climate change, the human rights issue of our time.”

In order to combat climate change, continued on page 5

JUST VOTE YES New Westminster Secondary School student Sadie DeCoste is part of a Vote Yes New West coalition that’s encouraging citizens to support a .05 per cent hike in the provincial sales tax in the upcoming transit referendum. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

City shoots for 2.36 per cent tax hike “I’m happy that it’s able to move the city forward with our strategic objectives and address the cost of Anvil Centre...” – Cote

By Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

New Westminster has pruned the proposed 2015 tax rate increase to 2.36 per cent.

Following the Feb. 2 meeting when council considered a financial plan that included a tax hike of between 2.75 and 3.45 per cent, staff did some further refinements on the budget. On Monday, council approved a provisional budget incorporating a 2.36 tax increase that will go out to the community for consultation.

“I think given the cost pressures, the regular inflationary cost pressures and the fact

we have a major facility like Anvil Centre coming on-stream and affecting the budget this year, I am pleased with that,” said Mayor Jonathan Cote. “This budget still has an opportunity to deal with some of the staff enhancements but also was putting more funding toward the replacement of the Canada Games Pool. I’m happy that it’s able to move the city forward with our strategic objective and address the cost of Anvil Centre but keep the number down to a more reasonable number.We have been in that range for the past four years. It is pretty consistent with what other municipalities in Metro Vancouver are also considering.”

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Council’s approval in principle for this year’s budget came after an $188,798 request for four labourer positions in the parks horticulture division was halved.

Dean Gibson, the city’s director of parks, culture and recreation, said the city has created many new parks and green spaces, including landscaped areas near new residential developments and traffic calmed areas.

All of the existing and new areas need to be maintained.

Claude LeDoux, the city’s horticulture manager, said his department has “pushed this to the brink” and needs additional staff to ensure the parks and open spaces meet the city’s standards of maintenance.Without more staff, he said citizens will see more

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Coun. Mary Trentadue questioned at what point the city “stops making the city so beautiful” because of the costs involved.

In response to budget pressures, Gibson said the city reduced the number of hanging baskets in the city a number of years ago. A further cost-cutting measure could see landscaped areas returned to grass or replaced with natural turf or rocks, as that would be less costly to maintain.

“People appreciate beauty,” said Coun.

Lorrie Williams. “I, for one, will support this request.”

Coun. Bill Harper said it’s incumbent on the city to maintain the quality of green spaces in a way that residents have come to continued on page 9

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Still no trial date in Meskine death

By Cayley Dobie

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There is still no trial date for a New Westminster teen accused of killing a 20-yearold Surrey man more than one year ago.

The 16-year-old (whose name cannot be released because he is a young offender) is facing one count of second-degree murder after he allegedly beat Karim Meskine to death near the 22nd Street SkyTrain station on Dec. 17, 2013.

The teen appeared in New Westminster Supreme Court via videoconference from the BurnabyYouth Detention Centre on Thursday afternoon.

The accused has been in court several times in the past six months to set a date, and each time the decision has been postponed to a later date.

During the Feb. 12 appearance, the teen’s defence

attorney, Gloria Ng, asked the judge to postpone fixing a date until March 26, citing she and Crown counsel were working towards a resolution.The additional time would allow the discussions to continue, Ng added.

In an emailed statement to the Record, Crown counsel spokesperson Neil MacKenzie said “recent adjournments have been at the request of defence, who wishes to pursue additional discussion with Crown counsel. Such discussions are not unusual in any prosecution, however are treated by the Branch as confidential. Crown remains prepared to have a trial date fixed in the case.”

The presiding judge approved Ng’s request to fix a date a later time.

The New Westminster teen will return to Supreme Court via videoconference on March 26 to fix a date for his trial.

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Two NewWestminster men cash in big with lottery wins

By Niki Hope

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Two New Westminster men are set for life after winning the lottery of the same name last year.

Mark Prior and Daniel Flett both opted to take the $675,000 payout versus the $1,000 a week for 25 years after winning big in the scratch-and-win game.

Prior bought his ticket in Vancouver after an outing with his elderly father, who has since passed away.They had gone to Jericho Beach.

On the drive home, Prior’s dad asked to him to pick up some strawberries.

The stop proved to be a sweet one.

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the door when the clerk called to him and said he had found a ticket, which proved to be the winner.

After he won, Prior’s dad said to him, “You always had your mother’s bloody luck.”

Prior, who is in his 60s, chose the payout versus the $1,000 for a week for 25

years.The Moody Park resident works as a set designer in the film business.

When Prior returned home after the win, he “kind of faked it a little bit,” but when he finally told the family about the big win they were, not surprisingly, ecstatic.

“My son jumped up and

he was screaming and hooting around the yard,” Prior says, laughing.

Meanwhile, winner Daniel Flett, 76, a New West resident for 14 years, also bought his ticket in Vancouver. He picked it up at a pharmacy and brought it home.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Flett says, describing his surprised reaction after he scratched and saw he had a winning ticket. “I had to sit down and walk away and look again.”

Flett went for the payout because he would be 101 by the time he got the $1,000 a week for 25 years.

The retiree has just one family member – an 86tear-old sister in Kamloops – to share the money with.

“I’ve given more money out than I have spent on myself,” he says.

His one splurge, Flett says, was to buy a $1,000 mattress set.

Who gave how much to runners?

By Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

Folks who have been waiting to see who spent what and who donated to local election campaign are going to have to wait a while longer.

While the City of New Westminster’s election office has traditionally accepted the statements from candidates for mayor, councillor and school trustee, Elections B.C. is now collecting the information.

“They receive them and post them through their system,” said Philip Lo, the deputy chief election officer in New Westminster. “We are required by the new legislation to provide a link on the city’s website.”

Don Main, communications manager with Elec-

tions B.C., said candidates, elector organizations and third-party sponsors are required to file financial disclosure statements for the 2014 General Local Elections with Elections B.C. by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb 13.

“We are expecting over 3,600 statements,” Main wrote in an email to the Record. “Under the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, Elections B.C. is required to post the statements as soon as possible after the filing deadline.

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Elections B.C. hopes the statements will be available before the end of February.

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City to spend $20,000 to sell Yes campaign

By Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

New Westminster will spend up to $20,000 to sell aYes votes to citizens in the upcoming transportation referendum.

Council recently approved a transportation and transit referendum action plan that promotes voter

registration and encourages residents to voteYes in the referendum on the TransLink Mayors’ Council vision and investment plan.

“We think it’s in our city’s best interest to promote the yes campaign.

The budget that’s been set is $20,000.We think that is a good investment because transportation is so impor-

tant to New Westminster,” said Mayor Jonathan Cote.

“There are over 400,000 vehicles driving through our city. Wee see every single one of our neighbourhoods is impacted.”

As part of the action plan, the city created a VoteYes New West coalition that will campaign in support of a Yes vote in the referendum.

“We are utilizing our existing resources, whether that be through the City Page, our website, the digital readerboards, our readerboard at Sixth and McBride to communicate the benefits of aYes vote,” said Blair Fryer, the city’s manager of communications. “In addition to that, council has approved up to $20,000, if re-

quired, to supplement our existing resources.”

Fryer said the city is really focusing on its existing resources, such as the utility bill.The next bill going out to citizens will include information on the benefits of a Yes vote and how to register.

“Council has made it a city priority.We haven’t seconded or brought any new

staff in, but we are able to accommodate it within our existing workloads,” he said.

“This has become a priority and city council wants to make sure residents know the benefits to a yes vote and are fully informed before they cast a vote.”

Part of the city’s plan is to encourage people to vote in the referendum.

Pushing the Yes ref vote Continued from page 1 DeCoste said society needs to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and the region needs to provide viable alternatives to driving. Although youth will be inheriting today’s transportation infrastructure, she noted the majority of them are not able to vote in the mail-in referendum.

“That is why we are asking you, the adults, to keep our future in mind as you go to vote on the transit referendum,” she told a crowd gathered at Monday’s press conference. “We value a region that is livable and connected.We value a future in which we are less reliant on fossil fuels.We believe that an improvement in public transportation is essential for our sustainable future, and as such, we urge you to voteYes.” Beginning March 16, Metro Vancouver residents will be receiving mail-in ballots and will have until May 29 to vote on the Mayors’ Council’s plan.The Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation is seeking for a 0.5 per cent increase to the provincial sales tax to generate funding to expand the reD SOLject sub obate r P to

gional transit and transportation system.

Members of city council, the board of education, the local MLA, and local labour, business, cycling, environmental and health officials attended the launch of the VoteYes New West coalition, which is committed to supporting aYes vote in Metro Vancouver’s upcoming transit referendum and promoting in the benefits of better transit and transportation for New Westminster.

Nathan Woods, president of Unifor Local 111, spoke on behalf of B.C. Federation of Labour and New Westminster and District Labour Council – which support aYes vote.Woods said bus drivers witness people waiting at stops and being left behind because the buses are full, as well as the traffic congestion on roads throughout the region.

The proposed increase in the provincial sales tax would be used to fund a wide range of transportation and transit initiatives, including a new Pattullo Bridge, upgrades to the major road network, increased capacity of Expo and Millennium SkyTrain lines, increased bus service, addi-

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Lisa Mu, a medical health officer with the Fraser Health Authority, said transportation is a key determinant of health, as it provides people with ability to access services, connects families and friends and impacts air quality.With many deaths being attributed to air pollution each year, she hopes people will choose a transportation future that improves the health and wellbeing of people in the region and voteYes. “With aYes vote, we can create communities of belonging, where the diversity of all people is welcome.

People on the margins of our communities - those living with disabilities, with mental illness, with substance use issues, those looking for work or living without a home – will never be contributing members of our communities without a fulsome public transportation system, “ said Lynda Edmonds, executive director of Fraserside Community Services Society.

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Opinion OUR VIEW

Campaign needs real folks, fewer suits As debate on the TransLink tax vote heats up, the Yes side threw CEO Ian Jarvis under the bus.

By tossing Jarvis – whose salary had become a symbol of TransLink waste – to the curb, theYes side hopes to up their chances of success at the ballot box.

The move is presumably meant to signal a new era, where the new tax theYes side craves won’t go to a fat cat’s bloated paycheque.

Except of course that it

will – two salaries, in fact, instead of one.

Jarvis will continue to be paid more than $420,000 in an “advisory” capacity while a new interim CEO gets $35,000 a month.

Just how those optics will convince anyone that sound financial decisions are around the next corner remains a mystery. In fact, given the timing, it almost looks like an attempt to sabotage the referendum.

While Jarvis was a high-

ly paid executive who presided over a number of bungled projects at TransLink, his departure doesn’t change some basic problems.

TransLink is still run by an unelected board that spends public money with little accountability. But the ability to change anything about that board is not on the ballot.

B.C.’s Transportation Minister has said TransLink needs new leadership. He’s

right – just not in the way he’s pitching it.

TransLink is a creation of the province.

To fix it, the province needs to step back and return the board to locally elected officials whose political fortunes could be tied to its performance.

Until then, the need for more transit and the bloated bureaucracy of TransLink will continue to be linked in the public mind.

New Westminster

launched its VoteYes New West campaign on Monday and wisely had some young people step up and say why it’s vital that the referendum passes.

If theYes campaign could hide all the elected suits somewhere and just put regular folks who depend on transit up front, the whole campaign might have a better chance of succeeding.

Truck drivers, students, delivery drivers, retail work-

ers – those who really depend on a working transit system.

As teenager Sadie DeCoste said at the launch in New Westminster Monday, “Public transit is the most feasible means of getting from one place to another. ...We are the generation that will face the impacts of climate change, the human rights issue of our time.”

She’s right. But can voters see beyond TransLink’s incompetence to voteYes?

MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

How long can Clark cruise?

Last week’s throne speech and this week’s provincial budget make it clear the provincial government is very much on cruise control, and I suspect that’s just the way Premier Christy Clark wants it.

The throne speech was described by many as “threadbare” and an indication the B.C. Liberals are out of gas, to which Clark retorted that the speech wasn’t about generating news headlines but was instead a reiteration of her government’s ongoing plan.

The budget was another steady-as-she goes economic document, which achieves the B.C. Liberals’ number 1 priority of all: balancing the books. But the budget continues to be balanced on the proverbial razor’s edge, which means there are few dollars available for many new spending initiatives.

Things weren’t always like this, of course. In the run-up to the last provincial election, the Clark government was running around, announcing all kinds of things.

The premier herself tried to dominate news coverage and her critics derisively labeled her “Premier Photoop.”

But the premier is nowhere near as active in the media these days, and her government is not feverishly trying to change the world.

The coming legislature session will see only a modest amount of legislation – less than 30 bills in all likelihood – and I suspect little of it will

be controversial.

In conversations with B.C. Liberals, I get the distinct impression they see no reason to do anything particularly dramatic.They sense their voter base seems content with the state of the province, and so a laissezfaire approach has been adopted by the government.

Clark herself seems particularly confident, if not content in how things are going. No one pays attention to polls anymore (not that there have been any), so there is no evidence that if an election were held today that her party would be in trouble with the electorate.

And the premier continues to toy with the NDP Opposition, which is by no means as comfortable in its collective skin as the B.C. Liberals. Clark uses the NDP as the butt of a number of jokes in speeches she makes to party faithful, and in the legislature (which she attends only a couple of days a week) she appears to relish any question period encounter.

Still, even when a government is content to travel along on cruise-control, something can come out of nowhere to force it to make a sudden, sharp turn along the way.There’s nothing in sight right now, but the year is young.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C. See an extended version of this column online at www.new westrecord.ca.

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Tax hike math just doesn’t add up

Are ’Boro residents on the yes side?

Dear Editor When I started in the news industry at CKNW in the mid-’60s my boss (and the station’s news editor), the late Warren Barker, drilled it into my head to never accept at face value financial figures provided by any government entity. In reading the Feb. 4 Theresa McManus story, “There’ll be a tax hike. … City looks at range between 2.75 to 3.45 per cent,” his advice has proved correct again.

The article states: “The 2015 draft budget is proposing about $110.1 million to provide ongoing municipal services, an increase from $105.9 million in 2014.” The story says that’s a $4.2-million increase in expenses. The math on the increase is correct. The $4.2-million increase, however, represents a 3.9665 per cent hike on the basic budget amount ($105.9 million X 3.9665 per cent = $110,100,520), which is substantially higher than the 2.75 to 3.45 per cent quoted in the headline and the body of the story.

The article goes on to say that “In addition to the base budget, council is considering additional funding requests from departments.

If approved, the funds needed would increase the tax rate from 2.75 to 3.45 per cent in 2015.”

The difference between these tax rates is 0.7 per cent. Add the actual base budget increase of 3.9665 per cent plus the 0.7 per cent difference in the stated increases and you have a 4.6665 per cent tax increase. (I have checked these figures several times and get the same results each time.)

These yearly tax increases already exceed the cost-of-living index and show the City of New Westminster, the council and their bureaucrats have little regard for the taxpayer’s money.

I also hope that Ms. McManus will scrutinize such government-provided figures more closely in the future.

Dennis Ryan, New Westminster Editor’s note: The Feb. 4 story was based on preliminary budget discussions. See pg. 1 for city council’s latest budget actions.

It’s time to just ditch the Pattullo Bridge Dear Editor Let’s revisit the idea of removing the Pattullo Bridge permanently. Take the money allocated for the reno and use it for a removal instead.

There are two other bridges drivers can now use. New Westminster is just not set up or ready for more bridge traffic; as well, the Port Mann crossing needs the business.

Closing the Pattullo permanently would save a huge amount of money and solve so many problems. It just seems like a no-brainer.

We can do better. Motorists and truckers would adjust and alter their routes and travelling times accordingly, and life goes on.

As our transportation system evolves over the next decade, we should then revisit the idea of an additional crossing.

The Pattullo is not only old and ready to go, but so is its location.

Ready for a rethink?

Let’s not waste any more time or money on the Pattullo.

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TransLink referendum keeps debate going Kisai I think abolishing TransLink and then “electing” more buffoons/politicians to run the transit system would be a historical mistake that would be worse than the situation we have. If it isn’t broken, fix it, don’t junk it.

Cherry-picking by the No side hasn’t revealed a lot of reasons to axe TransLink. The transit system works well, meets our needs (no matter how hard South-of-Fraser or West Vancouver complain.) Surrey wants the most inappropriate rapid transit technology so they can somehow tout urban design and capital costs prevailing over logic and operational costs.… What isn’t being said is who is going to pay to operate any of it. Sure raise the PST 0.5% now … what does that get us? Paying down the capital costs, subsidizing the light rail and bus drivers, and Major Road Network. No operational costs are even being discussed. Phase 2 of the Surrey LRT and UBC Subway isn’t even being discussed. Neither project make any sense to build without building all of it, and the 0.5% only goes into capital costs for the first phase of both projects. In 10 years will we vote to raise the PST again? No, I don’t think we will, the political capital to do it now doesn’t exist.

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News New West Pride looks to expand for this summer By 2014, the Pride Festival had grown into a nineday event that included 23 events at venues around the city.

“We had many, many sold-out events,” Perry said.

Perry recently appeared before city council to elaborate on the group’s grant application.

“We definitely got a lot of feedback from different businesses about the economic impact,” he later told the Record. “It was very positive.”

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NewWest Pride is seeking to expand its territory so it’s not bursting at the seams.

The group is applying to city hall for a festival grant to help with some of the costs of organizing the growing NewWest Pride Festival.

“This will be our sixth year,” said president Jeremy Perry. “We started as a small community event in Tipperary Park.”

Events exceeded out for their event, organizers’ – and they were overlocal businesses – whelmed by the reexpectations. sponse.

According to “It never ocPerry, an event at curred to them it Steel & Oak Brewwas going to be a ing Company atpopular event,” he tracted the brewsaid about the orery’s biggest crowd ganizers. “Every in its tasting room, Jeremy Perry single spot on evand the Met had ery single lane was Pride president its highest day of full. People were sales ever.While organizers being turned away.” of a bowling event at Lucky NewWest Pride Society Strike Bowling Lanes antici- is hoping to expand the area pated a few folks would turn available for its street par-

ty on Columbia Street this summer.The hope is the city will allow the party to stretch from Fourth Street to Eighth Street this year, instead of having it between Fourth and Sixth streets.

While the event has never caused problem, organizers want to ensure conflicts don’t occur by making sure the street doesn’t become overcrowded.

“We are bringing in a good crowd, looking to spend money in our city and having fun in a good way,”

Perry said.

The festival has attracted such a buzz that organizers have heard from people who are booking flights, hotels and vacation time to attend the 2015 event.

Council hasn’t made any decision on the festival grants at this time.

“You did a really good job of bringing people to town and showcasing NewWestminster, at the same time putting on a great event,” said Coun. Patrick Johnstone.

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Task force costs raise debate

Continued from page 1 expect. He said the requested money is a “fairly small amount” in the $110 million budget.

Ultimately, council decided to halve the $188,798 request – a decision resulting in a four-to-three vote.

Mayor Jonathan Cote and councillors Jaimie McEvoy, Chuck Puchmayr, Mary Trentadue supported the lesser amount, while councillors Harper, Patrick Johnstone and Williams preferred approving the full amount requested.

Trentadue said the decision to halve the request was a “reasonable halfway point” and isn’t a reflection on staff or the work they do.

“We have to really try and rein in the expenses wherever we can,”Trentadue said.

A $200,000 budget for the four mayors task forces also generated some debate in council chambers.

One of Cote’s first actions after being elected mayor was to establish task forces to address key civic

Mary Trentadue councillor

Bill Harper councillor

issues – public engagement, transportation, housing affordability, and the development of an economic

taxation because they’re coming out of the community development reserve.

She said the city would not draw on the funds in the reserve if the task forces do not require them.

Harper said he expected the health-care cluster task force would need to hire consultants to do some “key analysis” related to its work within a year.

McEvoy said projects could get hung up if money is not available to implement those initiatives.

He said the city needs to be more “nimble” and be able implement initiatives.

Puchmayr expressed concern task forces are doing work the city has deemed to be priorities, so staff would be doing that work regardless of whether task forces had been established.

Jaimie McEvoy councillor

city with funds to implement actions that are recommended by those task forces.

“Those recommendations will likely have some costs,” he said. “We don’t know what that is yet. …

It is funding that would be available to the task forces to accomplish the goals.”

Trentadue said council needs “to be more realistic” about the ripple effect it has when asking staff to work on specific projects as it impacts the budget and staffing levels.

Colleen Ponzini, the city’s manager of financial services, said the funds don’t have any impact on

We have to really try and rein in the expenses wherever we can.

health-care cluster around Royal Columbian Hospital.

Cote said the money isn’t specified for any purpose, but will provides the

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NWSS kicks off the Sunday shoes Students bring Footloose to the stage at Massey Theatre Feb. 25 to 28 Julie MacLellan

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Don’t be misled by the dark confines of this small lower-level room at New Westminster Secondary School.

Dreams are born here.

Born and nurtured and grown into reality thanks to the passion, energy and enthusiasm of a group of teachers and students with a mission.

That mission? To offer up musical theatre at the highest level on the Massey Theatre stage.

They’re just days away now from the opening night of Footloose, which runs Feb. 25 to 28 and draws upon the talents of some 100 students as cast, crew and band members.

There’s so much energy between everyone.

Enthusiasm is spilling out all over from the small group of students who’ve gathered to chat to the Record about this year’s production.

“It’s been crazy! There’s so much energy between everyone,” says Noah Wright.

The Grade 10 student is parlaying his choral singing background into the lead role of Ren, the Chicago boy who moves with his mother (played by Sophie Labrosse) to a small farming community where they discover strict rules – including a ban on dancing.

(Yes, if that plot sounds

familiar, it’s pretty similar to the 1984 movie upon which it’s based – and, for the record, Noah promises he’ll do Kevin Bacon justice.)

The affable teen admits to being a newbie to the world of musical theatre – the closest he’s come thus far is performing with Los Castores Mariachi Band (where, incidentally, he performs alongside Jolene Bernardino, who is in Footloose as Vi Moore, the mother of Ren’s love interest).

“This is really my first experience with the stage production and acting and singing,” Noah says. “It’s so different from just standing on a stage in front of people, singing.”

What’s made it work for him, he says, is the talent that surrounds him onstage.

It helps, he notes, that his onstage best friend,Willard, is played by his reallife friend Isaac McAndlessDavis.

“We feed off each other,” he says. “It’s a give and take.”

Noah also has Grade 12 student Howard Dai next to him as Rev. Shaw Moore, the father of the rebellious girl who catches Ren’s eye.

Noah credits Howard for helping him “go through the process of changing from Noah to this Chicago boy.”

For Howard, the musical has come with the special challenge of playing someone entirely unlike himself – an uptight, middle-aged preacher.

“Physically, it’s the complete opposite of who I am,” he says with a laugh. “I have to ground myself, to constantly be aware of my physicality. I am not Howard, ev-

Everybody cut footloose: Noah Wright is Ren and Sarah Labrosse is Ariel in the New Westminster Secondary School production of Footloose, onstage at the Massey Theatre Feb. 25 to 28. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

ery part of my body is not Howard.”

His onstage daughter, Ariel, is played by Grade 9 student Sarah Labrosse – who, despite her youth, has already amassed a lengthy resumé that includes dance lessons with the Northwest Academy of Performing Arts, classical voice studies, piano and trumpet playing, and performances with Royal City Musical Theatre, Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! and ShowStoppers.

“I’ve had such an amazing time working with Sarah,” Noah says.

Sarah – who, in person,

comes across as sweeter and softer-spoken than the hardedged rebel Ariel – says musical theatre has always been on her radar.

“I just liked singing when I was little,” she says, noting her elder sister – yes, that’s Sophie, who plays Ren’s mother – got her interested in it, and they did Royal City Musical Theatre’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat together.

She admits to being shocked to having been cast in a lead role, given her youth.

“It’s really awesome,” she says, her dark eyes wid-

ening. “I’ve gotta live up to other people’s expectations.”

Keira Jang, a Grade 10 student, plays Ariel’s sidekick Rusty.

Keira, like Sarah, already has a lengthy resumé in the performing arts.

She’s been dancing and singing since she was three and acting since the age of five, and she started getting serious about theatre at the age of seven.

She’s been in multiple pantomimes with the Fraser Valley Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and she’s also appeared in productions with

both Theatre Under the Stars and Royal City Musical Theatre.

Keira says the casting of the production has been excellent and that the quality of the show is going to be just as high as anything she’s been in in the past.

“Everyone is so committed to the production. Everyone is exceptional with everything,” she says. “The production itself is so professional.”

And she notes that quality isn’t just on the performing side but the technical side as well.

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Students set to dazzle Continued from page 11 Which is where Andie Lloyd comes in.The Grade 12 student is serving as assistant stage manager and production assistant, which means she’s overseeing just about all aspects of the behind-the-scenes and organizing work.

“I angry-text them when they don’t show up to things,” Andie jokes, adding that the job has entailed a whole lot of stress and a whole lot of work – but it’s worth it in the end.

“The production side of it is really, really polished and great,” she says.

For every one of the students involved, the musical is an enormous time investment – there are rehearsals every day at lunch and after school, plus one full-day rehearsal each weekend.

All of the students are quick to point out that if it’s a lot of work for them, it’s even more so for the team of teachers leading them – the same production team that has brought previous NWSS musicals Annie, Bye Bye Birdie and Grease to the stage.

Director Frances Monteleone works alongside vocal coach Kelly Proznick, orchestra conductor Steve Clements, choreographers Lindsay Waldner and Peter Ha, stage manager Juliet Brown and acting coaches Traci Cave and Gower Roberts – all NWSS teachers, with the exception of Roberts, an NWSS alumnus who’s returned to assist.

“These teachers are the best,” Noah says. “They are just amazing.”

“They still have to teach classes,” Howard points out.

“I can’t imagine how they do it.”

The teachers have nine young children between them, all of whom have become familiar faces around rehearsals – Monteleone jokes that her five-year-old daughter has I Need a Hero down pat.

Monteleone says the teachers have become a tight-knit group over the years and rely on each other to get through the long road to opening night.

For her, it’s easy to explain why she’s willing to put in all the extra effort.

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“I love this aspect of my job. Every single one of these students is here because they love performing,” she says.

She knows, too, that the experience of being part of this musical will be a defining high school moment for many of the others – for the 49 cast members, the band members, the crew.

“I think a lot of them will look back on this, after high school is over, and it will be a highlight,” she says with a smile.

There’s no doubt about that in the minds of her youthful cast members – all of whom are ready to wow the city on opening night.

“You put in all this time and effort, you just know it’s going to be great,” says Keira.

Footloose is onstage from Feb. 25 to 28, with nightly shows at 7 p.m.There’s also a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, Feb. 28.

For more information, see www.nwssmusic.com. For tickets, see www.ticketsnw.ca or call the Massey Theatre box office at 604-521-5050.

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Thrift stores can be messy businesses.There are the challenges of sorting and dealing with a huge diversity of items in various conditions.

And in the Tri-Cities, the thrift store market is competitive, including commercial operations.

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Crossroads aims to provide compassionate support for patients and their families who are affected by the end-of-life experience. One of the many hard parts about losing someone you love is how to manage what they’ve left behind.The thrift store helps make these decisions a little easier.

We provide a destination for clothing and other small items.We treat both the items and the people bringing them in with care and respect.

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Money generated by Crossroads thrift store sales goes directly to our 10-bed hospice at Inlet Centre in Port Moody. The revenue supports grieving families, provides comfort measures in the hospice and trains our visiting volunteers.We use it to educate our community about hospice care and its benefits.

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South African story onstage NewWest actor has a personal attachment to his starring role inValley Song Jacob Zinn

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Many plays have powerful themes and symbolism, but it takes an actor like David Adams to convey those messages onstage.

The NewWestminster resident stars in the Gateway Theatre production of Valley Song, the 1995 Athol Fugard play set in postapartheid South Africa.

The story delivers a powerful message about racial inequality, and it also holds a lot of meaning for Adams, who is a native of Cape Town.

“I was born there in the ’50s, and of course, that was the height of the system of apartheid – that was sort of institutionalized racism,” he told the Record. “In 1960, when I was five years old, my father decided to move away, even though he was a

It feels like we’re paying a little homage to him. real dyed-in-the-wool South African.”

Adams’ family left after the Sharpeville massacre, in which police opened fire on a group of black protesters who were demonstrating against newly penned racially oppressive laws, killing 69 people.

“My dad was so disgusted by that that he said, ‘I can’t bring my family up in a country like that, as much as I love this country.’”

Additionally, Adams noted that because of his mixed ethnic background – English on his dad’s side, South Asian and Dutch on his mom’s side – he wouldn’t have had the same opportunities to excel in life in South Africa, including the ability to own land.

“When we lived there, my family is designated under apartheid as ‘coloured’ or of mixed race,” he said.

“I wouldn’t have had the same kind of open opportunities for education, for where I wanted to live, and so I’m grateful to my dad for making that very difficult choice.”

Now, more than 50 years later, Adams is in the lead role of Valley Song, playing Abraam “Buks” Jonkers, an elderly farmer of mixed race who represents the old South Africa. Despite the abolishment of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela as president, Buks wants to maintain the status quo.

“He’s been so dyed-inthe-wool in terms of being a second-class citizen that he is still fearful of the white people coming in and buying up the land,” said Adams. “He was sort of given his land as a birthright, and he doesn’t know if he’ll be able to stay there.”

In contrast, Buks’s vocally gifted granddaughter – played by Sereana Malani – is more optimistic and ambitious, full of hope for a racially equal South Africa.

“She wants to move to the big city and become a famous singer, and she sees the end of apartheid as the beginning of what could ostensibly be a brilliant, new career,” said Adams.

While only two characters appear onstage, Adams pulls double duty – much like Fugard did – voicing the white, middle-aged narrator who interacts with Buks and Veronica, bringing his own point of view to the story.

“It’s interesting, even though the play is not overtly political, you can draw those parallels because everyone is wanting to figure out how they fit into the new South Africa,” said Adams.

The play’s symbolism has

made Valley Song one of Fugard’s most timeless works, and Adams is thrilled to perform in a play so close to his heart.

“I’ve always admired his work, and getting a chance to do this play as a kind of tribute to my ancestry, my background, was also a great opportunity,” he said.

“It also felt like, by doing the show, I could say a little

something about how I felt about Nelson Mandela, who has always been an idol of mine. It feels like we’re paying a little homage to him.”

The 90-minute play runs until Feb. 21 at the Gateway Theatre, 6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond. For the performance schedule, tickets and more information, check gate waytheatre.com or call 604270-1812.

Drama: Sereana Malani and New West’s David Adams in Valley Song, on until Feb. 21 at the Gateway Theatre. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

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The 2015 New WestminsterYouth Firefighter program includes first aid/CPR certification, a live fire, ladder carrying, searches, hose handling, an interactive auto extrication demonstration, high-angle rescue and a fitness challenge. Applications, which are available at the fire hall at Sixth Street and McBride Boulevard, must be dropped off at any of the city’s recreation facilities this

ed to attend the screening of a documentary film about the persecution of Bahá’ís of Iran.

The persecution of the Bahá’ís and the denial of education to Bahá’ís is the subject of To Light a Candle, a new documentary by Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari.The documentary is being screened on Friday, Feb. 27 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the lecture theatre (Room 2203) at Douglas College, 700 Royal Ave. and will be followed by a panel discussion.

“Maziar Bahari was imprisoned in Iran, following the 2009 Iranian presiden-

week.

The youth fire academy is open to students in Grade 10 to 12 who are interested in the fire service as a possible future career. It’s being held July 7 to 11 at the Queensborough fire hall (final day is at the Justice Institute campus in Maple Ridge).

Anyone with questions about the youth firefighter program can contact Capt.

Dan Wilson at danwilson@ newwestcity.ca or 604-5191014.

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tial elections, and is featured in the major motion picture, Rosewater, which was produced by AmericanTV personality Jon Stewart,” said organizer Eman Elmasri. “The film documents the persecution of the Bahá’ís in Iran and focuses on the denial of their higher education.”

According to a press release bout the event, Iran’s government forbids members of the Bahá’í faith, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, from studying at universities. In response, Iranian Bahá’í professors who were fired from their university posts developed an informal, dis-

tance-learning program to try and provide some training in subjects ranging from accounting to biology.

“Though degrees are not recognized by the Iranian regime, some Canadian universities have accepted Bahá’í students into graduate programs,” states the press release. “The Iranian government has attacked that program providing informal university courses, arresting those involved in trying to provide some university education to Bahá’ís. Included among those arrested have been a few with graduate degrees from Canadian universities

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Clan senior breaks record

Erin Chambers sets all-time conference scoring mark with career-high game Tom Berridge

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Erin Chambers did not waste any time becoming the new Great Northwest conference all-time career scoring champion.

The Simon Fraser University senior scored a career-high 41 points to lead the Clan women’s basketball team to an 82-75 win over Saint Martin’s and smash former Montana State Billings Bobbi Knudson’s 2014 career record by 11 points in Saturday’s conference win.

Chambers, the current NCAA Division II scoring leader, went into the game needing just 30 points to tie the conference career mark, following a 19-point effort earlier in the week in SFU’s 68-45 loss to Western Oregon on Feb. 12.

“The Western Oregon game was terrible, no excuses. But I don’t think about the numbers, I just like to play the game,” Chambers said.

The Clan forward now holds the Great Northwest career record with 1,842 points and counting.With three regular season games still to play, Chambers has a real possibility of surpassing 1,900 points in her NCAA career.

Chambers’ 41 points was also the third-highest single-game point total in program history.

Canadian Olympian and Clan Hall of Fame member Teresa Gabriele holds the school record of 45 points set in 2002 against Trinity Western University.

Another Olympian and Clan hall of famer Michelle Hendry of New Westminster scored 42 points

against Central Washington in 1990 in NAIA play.

“Getting the record was amazing, but to me to be held up with Teresa and Michelle, who were such great players, is amazing,” Chambers added.

Chambers hit 13 of 23 field goals in the game and 13-for-16 free throws.

Senior guard Katie Lowen chipped in with 15 points and Meg Wilson added a double-double, with 12 points and 10 rebounds.

“Erin shot the ball extremely well with tight defence on her all night. It was nice to see her get the record and win the game,” said SFU head coach Bruce Langford in a Clan press release.

With the win, SFU improved its conference record to 9-6 and clinched a berth in the Great Northwest playoffs.

Earlier, the Clan scored a season-low 45 points in a 13-point loss against lastplace Western Oregon.

SFU made good on just five of 24 shots from the floor in the first half and finished with under 30 per cent shooting.

Only Chambers shot in double figures for the Clan.

SFU will play its final home game of the season this Saturday against Alaska Fairbanks.

Conference leader Alaska Anchorage will be in town on Thursday to take on the Clan.

“It’s going to be weird. It feels like I just started, but it’s over now,” said Chambers, who plans to continue playing basketball in Europe and hopefully with the Canadian women’s national program after gradu-

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Record setter: Simon Fraser University senior forward Erin Chambers scored a career-high 41 points to break the Great Northwest conference career scoring record last weekend. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

ation.

“Basketball is not over for me. I want to keep involved in the game.”

But Chambers still has

plenty of work to do, helping the Clan prepare for the NCAA post season and a shot at making it to the Div. II national championships.

“Every single night my goal is to do my best,” Chambers said. “I’m a big competitor. I don’t like to take days off.”

District schools qualify well on mats Tom Berridge

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New Westminster and Burnaby schools had some strong showings at the B.C. high school zone 4 wrestling championships.

Defending provincial girls’ champion St.Thomas More won five weight classes and was a finalist in two others to win the zone aggregate with 69 points over runners-up Centennial and

host Port Moody.

Burnaby Central, which has won seven high school provincial banners since 2000, placed second behind Pinetree in aggregate boys’ standings. New Westminster finished right behind Central in third.

STM’s Natalie Nelson won at 64 kilograms, Nicole Depa took top spot at 57kg and Taylor McIntosh placed first at 60kg.

Caileen Corbett, at 40kg,

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and Amanda Silveri, at plus-90kg, were both unopposed.

Ciara Corbett was a runner-up at 51kg, while Meagan Chow and Gabriela Chow were second and third, respectively, at 43kg.

Juliana Casas, Gabriella Bellini and Dominika Maludzinski also placed in their respective weight classes. Livleen Sidhu was petitioned in at 69kg.

Central’s Mele Viklani

topped the girls’ 75kg division, while Sanna Bhayanna was third at 47kg.

Vanna Oropilla and Sara Brinkac also qualified for Central. Burnaby North’s Chelsea Coombes was petitioned in at 51kg.

On the boys’ mats, Central’s Sanan Parshakoori was first at 60kg and Alec Shaw won at 63kg, while Nazeeb Omar and Ansel Hait were winners at 74 and 84kg, respectively.

Aidan Labreche was petitioned in at 41kg, while Faraz Faziahizadeh and Billy Trengrove also qualified.

“All these kids, if they wrestle well, they could place,” said Central coach Gianni Buono. “We’re a better team than last year, but this year these guys are a blue-collar team and could get into the top six with a good tournament.

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New Westminster will have to take the long way home at the Crehan Cup girls’ basketball championships.

The Hyacks left too many points under the ring and were sadly outrebounded by the smaller Vancouver city champion Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs following a 64-50 loss at Argyle Secondary on Day 2 of the Lower Mainland AAA girls’ qualifier.

The two teams traded point for point throughout the opening half, but it became evident as the game went on that New West’s missed shots in close and few second-chance opportunities might well become the eventual storyline.

That scenerio played out in the second half as Churchill took advantage in the third quarter, outscoring the No. 4 seeds 19-10 in the quarter, while holding the Hyacks to just nine points in the final frame.

“Usually we’re better. Maybe we had some nerves,” said Madisen Obrovac, who posted a team-high 16 points and led the Hyacks on the boards.

With starting point guard Justice Steer and senior post Hannah DeVos both out with injury, New West will have its hands full on the back side of the draw.

Burnaby Mountain had the best showing among BurWest teams at the Mainlands.

The No. 9 seed threw a scare at its second-seeded hosts before falling 74-71 to Argyle on Monday.

Guard Jacey Bailey scored a game-high 33 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lead the Mountain Lions.

Teammate Alix Gabriel knocked down 25 points, including 15 in the fourth quarter, to keep the Lions within a bucket up to the final ticks of the clock.

“Our coach said, ‘It’s not the dog in the fight, but the fight in the dog,’ and that’s what we did,” said Bailey.

Burnaby South also lost, falling 56-49 to No. 3 seed Handsworth. Ana Lukic had 20 points for South, 16 coming in the second half.

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The Douglas College Royals held on to their No. 1 national men’s volleyball ranking with a five-set win over Columbia Bible College last weekend.

The Royals blanked the No. 5-ranked Bearcats 3-0 on Feb. 13 but were stretched to a five-set tiebreaker on Valentine’s Day in PacWest regular season play.

Douglas dropped the opening set 29-27, but rallied in the second and third sets before the Abbotsford visitors forced the tiebreak with a 25-23 win.The Royals outlasted CBC 17-15 in the final set.

The wins improved the Royals’ first-place record to 19-3.

The Douglas women also won both matches against the winless Bearcats.

Douglas finishes up the PacWest season with a home-and-home against Capilano this weekend.

In PacWest basketball, the Douglas women got 20 points from Chloe Kennedy in a 75-56 win over Langara College on Feb. 13.

The Royals got the jump on Langara, outscoring the last-place Falcons 19-5 in the opening quarter.

Simran Bir and Garaline Tom came off the bench to score 13 and 12 points, respectively, for the Royals. Rachel Beauchamp also netted a dozen and had nine rebounds for Douglas.

The Royals outscored Langara 37-14 off the bench.

The win improved the Royals’ record to 11-6, keeping them in third place, four points up on Capilano University.

Douglas takes on unbeaten Quest University in Squamish this Friday.The Royals are back in town Saturday for a match on the North Shore against Cap. The Douglas men’s basketball team lost its game to No. 2 Langara 60-58 to remain in fourth spot.

New West boys third Continued from page 15 We could crack the top 10,” Buono added.

New Westminster did well to finish just five points behind Central in third place.

TJ Cordoviz took first at 45kg and Sammy Sidhu won at 66kg, while Justice Champagn was unopposed at 90kg.

David Penalver and Connor Pattison were runners-up at 51 and 84kg, respectively. Hossein Shidfar placed third at 78kg, as didYanni Angelopoulus at 110kg.

Isaiah James and Logan Charron also qualified for New West.

STM had success at the lighter weight classes with Joel Calica taking first at 48kg and Daniel Alphonso winning at 51kg. Aidan Field and Cristian Costa were second and third, respectively, at 45kg. Stefano Pozzolo was also petitioned in at 51kg. Daniel Sulentic qualified at 60kg.

Burnaby South’s Jim Sidhu is a favourite in the boys’ heavyweight division, while David Awayo, Marcus Awayo and Erik Twinn were all qualifiers at 70-plus kg.

The B.C. high school wrestling championships will be held in Abbotsford from Feb. 26 to 28.

Throws coach named Former Canadian javelin champion Krista Woodward is the new throws coach for the New West Spartans Track and Field Club.

Woodward will lead the throws program for the Spartans and Vancouver Olympic clubs for junior development and midget athletes, and also prepare multi-event athletes for the world youth championships in Cali, Columbia in July.

The six-time national champion was the first Canadian in her age group to throw over 50 meters.Woodward went to the University of Georgia on a scholarship, where she won four Southeastern Conference titles and was a four-time All-American.

Passing fancy: Ekaterina Della Vedova helped the New Westminster Hyacks upset No. 2 Burnaby South 32-21 in BNW juvenile high school girls’ playoffs last week. The Grade 9 girls are in Richmond this week for the V&D’s. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

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