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Leaning to the No side

Daniel Fontaine says gas tax makes more sense than hiking the provincial sales tax

By Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

Daniel Fontaine isn’t keen about the idea of taxing toothpaste to pay for transit.

As a transit user for the better part of two decades, Fontaine said he’s a “huge fan” of the SkyTrain and bus system. He has concerns, however, about TransLink’s proposal to generate money for transportation and transit improvements through a 0.5 per cent increase to the provincial sales tax in Metro Vancouver.

“My concern relates to the type of tax. I am not sure that taxing toothpaste to pay for transit is the right way to go,” he said. “When you tax toothpaste, yes, you are generating revenue and you will get income to pay for transit; I fully acknowledge that.What you are not doing is you are not linking it to

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New West resident Daniel Fontaine is a huge fan of transit but isn’t fond of the plan to hike the property tax to raise funds for the region’s transit and transportation services. He’s leaning toward voting No in the upcoming transit referendum. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

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Who spent the most to win your vote?

Financial disclosures: NewWestminster mayoral candidates get big bucks – from different sources

By Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

Former Mayor Wayne Wright topped all spenders in election spending in the 2014 civic election, but newly elected Mayor Jonathan Cote had a little help on the funding front from his friends.

Wright was once again the top spender in the New Westminster civic election with $72,102 in expenditures, topping the $61,263 he spent in 2011. Cote, the threeterm councillor who dethroned the sitting mayor, spent $63,572 on his campaign.

Along with an $8,500 gap in spending, the top two mayoral campaigns also differed in terms of supporters.

Wright’s campaign included $14,850 in

donations from individuals, $6,100 from business or commercial groups, $500 from the Ambulance Paramedics of B.C. (his lone labour union donation) – and a whopping $50,650 from corporations.Wright’s biggest contributions came from:Weigung Real Estate – $7,000; Master Piece Properties Ltd – $5,250; and Gondola Holdings Ltd., Plaza 88 Developments Ltd., Blue Sky Properties, Aragon Developments, Gateway Casinos and Entertainment – each with $5,000.

Cote, who was endorsed by the New Westminster and District Labour Council, received $16,733 in contributions from trade unions – more than many council candidates spent on their entire campaigns.

His $63,568 in contributions also includ-

ed $36,570 from individuals; $8,700 from corporations (including top donations from Wesgroup Properties – $2,500, Bosa Properties – $2,000 and Hyack Interactive – $1,250), and $1,565 from unincorporated business/commercial organizations.

Cote also partnered with city council and school board candidates who were endorsed by the New Westminster and District Labour Council on some expenses.

The group shared election expenses for a number of things including telephone canvassing ($4,562 for the group), a large poster, a leaflet, poll card brochures and a mailout, a group photo, a newspaper wrap and a poll card in the Punjabi language.

Cote’s portion of these expenses ranged from $9 for the poster to $1,943 for a news-

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Wright and Cote also had expenses for office space and salaries for campaign staff.

The two other candidates running to be mayor of New Westminster didn’t come close to Wright and Cote’s donations or expenses, with James Crosty spending $5,640 on his second mayoral bid and Vladimir Krasnogor spending $231.

On the council front, first-time candidate Patrick Johnstone topped all spenders, with $23,352. Johnstone, who was elected to council, received contributions from a range of donors including CUPE B.C. (donations of $1,500 and $1,250) and Wesgroup Properties ($1,000).

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Arrest made in West End assault A New Westminster man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a business owner on 12th Street last fall.

On Sept. 10, 2014, local police officers were called to the 600 block of 12th Street on reports a fight was underway. By the time officers arrived, the suspect was gone.The victim sustained serious but non-life threatening injuries.

Because of the severity of the alleged attack, investigators with the department’s major crime unit took over the case.

Thursday, police arrested a 29-year-old New West-

A NEW BEGINNING: Joey Le, owner of Joey’s Video Stop on 12th Street, says he’s looking forward to new endeavours after his shop was robbed in January. Police recovered some of the thousands of DVDs stolen, but it wasn’t enough to reopen the store. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

Taking time to grieve

Thieves stole store’s contents, but didn’t steal its owner’s spirit

By Theresa McManus

tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

Joey Le is grieving the loss of his longtime business in New West – but looking forward to new endeavours.

Le is the owner of Joey’s Video Stop on 12th Street, a business that was hard hit by thieves at the beginning of January. Police recovered some of the stolen DVDs, but not enough to allow the business to carry on.

“We lost 8,000 DVDS and the police have got 70,” Le says. “I had hoped they would have the computers and at least 1,000 or so of my DVDs.” The movie distributor who supplied merchandise to Joey’s Video Stop indicated it could take up to $40,000 to replace the stolen DVDs, but the store’s two computers are irreplaceable; they have data dating back to 1982 and showing all the movies customers have rented.

“People come in and say, ‘Hey, did I see this movie before?’ I just go in and I can tell them,” Le says.

“I have every single detail there about customers. For that loss, I have no idea how to serve. I don’t know what the people need.

I have no information left.

They stripped me to the bone because I have no means of helping others.

It’s not about the DVDs – it’s about the service.”

As much as he loved connecting with the community through the video store, Le has decided to close shop. He’s renting the space at 936 12th Street until the end of February and will be in the store daily to say goodbye to any customers who drop by.

“It’s a time for me to grieve as well as say goodbye,” he says. “For others, something important is gone.”

Le has been touched by the outpouring of support from community members, some of whom have offered to donate hundreds – or even thousands – of DVDs to help him rebuild.

“People want to give the shop a chance,” Le says.

“Without the computers, I can’t do anything.”

Once the initial shock of the theft wore off, Le had to do some soul searching about whether to carry on or move on.

“If you came into the store before and talked to some of the customers, they were my family,” says the New Westminster resi-

dent. “The shop is so wonderful. I laugh from the beginning of the day. I never have a minute to be upset.

Some days, at the end of the night, I’m driving home thinking of all the jokes people say.You rarely see customers walk out of the store with an angry face. I make them laugh.We laugh with each other.”

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... it’s a blessing when you find a job that you love to do.

may not offer a huge income or carry enormous privilege in society, says Le, but he loved every minute of his job.

“I found my purpose. I tell people it’s a blessing when you find a job that you love to do,” he says.

“At the end of the day, I had done something for my community, for the people around it. I have children after school nearby that ran up to give me a hug before they go home.What kind of job gives you that?”

Last summer, a young

girl who attends a nearby school told Le she would be walking home from school on her own when her mother returned to work.

“I said, ‘look, don’t you worry. I’m in the middle of your school and your home – if anything happens to you, just walk back to my door and I will take care of you. I know your mom’s work number, and I will contact her,’” he says.

A week after school started in September, a teacher from the girl’s school visited Joey’s Video Stop.

“She said, ‘I want to meet you Joey.’ I said, ‘why?’

She said a student of hers had an assignment to write about the safest place on earth. One of the students wrote about the store, and she wanted to know why,” Le says. “I stood there and tears were rolling out of my eyes.”

Although Le has been quick to offer a smile or a joke to customers, he once suffered from severe depression and has shared his story with customers who are facing similar mentalhealth issues.

“When you are at the bottom, you can only go up.

I was there,” he says. “We Continued on page 8

minster man in connection with this incident, stated a media release from the police department.

David Faucher is now facing several charges, including one count of robbery, one count of aggravated assault, one count of possession of counterfeit money and one count of uttering counterfeit money (meaning the accused either offered to or used counterfeit money as if it were genuine currency).

Faucher was released from custody with conditions. He is scheduled to appear in court on March 4.

– By Cayley Dobie

City stands by its towing operation The City of New Westminster’s towing service may not be a huge moneymaker, but it offsets the need to spend money in other ways.

Along with providing general towing duties, the city’s towing operators are trained to deal with a variety of after-hours services requests and emergencies including water, sewer, streets, sidewalk, parks and other emergency calls, as well as to respond to poor weather conditions, such as snow and floods, that may need to be tackled by the engineering operations division.

“By having the ability to respond quickly to all of the above emergency events, the operation is able to minimize potential costs/ damages to both the city and residents,” stated a staff report. “The need to have staff on for standby coverage has also been eliminated with the implementation of the towing service, a savings of over $85,000 in the past five years.”

According to a staff report, the towing services operation has generated more than $3.1 million in the last five-year period and performs an average of 3,000 tows each year. Of these tows, 50 per cent relate to ICBC and the ICBC Counter Attack program, 14 per cent are impounds, 19 per cent relate to the New Westminster Police Department

and City of New Westminster bylaws, eight per cent are private tows and nine per cent are tow to vehicles in the city’s fleet.

The towing operation’s annual revenue is $618,175 for the past five years, while its annual expenses are $627,063. Its best financial year was 2014, when the towing operation had net revenues of $12,121.

Staff reviewing the towing service believes the after-hours service and ability to respond quickly to a wide range of emergency situations justifies the need for the service for the city and citizens.

“While towing services currently operates as a marginal business proposition, it provides added benefits and services to many,” concludes the report.

Coun. Chuck Puchmayr said the towing service has generated $3.1 million in revenues in the past five years, but it has also saved the city from $400,000 in callout and overtime wages and benefits. Overall, he said the service has provide the city with a net savings of $440,136, as the city has not had to hire additional staff for maintaining parking meters and other positions.

“I think this has been a really exciting project,” he said. “You could call it contracting in.”

– By Theresa McManus

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News Fontaine: ‘Taxes rarely stay stable. They do go up.’

Continued from page 1 behaviour.What you’re doing is essentially punishing the purchase of a consumer product – you are not linking it back to transit.”

Fontaine supports an increase to the gas tax to fund transit improvements in MetroVancouver.

“The gas tax has successfully raised a lot of money for TransLink for the better part of a decade,” he said.

“Those dollars go directly into transit.There’s a link

between the amount of fuel you consume and the distance driven, and how much you pay.There’s a direct link: drive more, pay more; drive less, pay less.”

If the Mayors’ Council on regional transportation had looked at the gas tax as an option for raising funds for its transportation plan, Fontaine would have been more open-minded about its decision to go to the provincial sales tax.

“My concern is it starts at

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0.5 and there’s nothing saying that in five years or 10 years it’s not going to be one or two per cent,” he said.

“I have lived on this planet long enough to know that taxes rarely stay stable.They do move.They do go up.

There will be an increasing pressure to generate more revenue. It will be easier for them to tax the toothpaste than to increase bus fares or put the gas tax up.”

With gas prices having dropped in the past year,

Fontaine believes the Mayors’ Council missed an opportunity to increase the gas tax as a means of generating revenue for transit and transportation improvements.

“I remember when the carbon tax was put onto fuel, people raised their hands and were upset. Now people don’t even remember the carbon tax is in the fuel price. It is just paid,” he said. “I think we could have explored that a bit further.”

Beginning March 16, MetroVancouver residents will be receiving mail-in ballots in the mail and will have until May 29 to vote on the Mayors’ Council’s plan.

The proposed 0.5 per cent increase to the provincial sales tax would be used to generate funding to expand the regional transit and transportation system for services such as more buses, Pattullo Bridge replacement, rapid transit along the Broadway corri-

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“There is a lot of stuff in there,” he said. “I think, perhaps, there should have been better priority setting and not so many mega projects.”

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Jaimie McEvoy still a top campaign spender Newly elected Coun.

Mary Trentadue spent $8,015 on her first campaign for New Westminster city council.

Her campaign included nearly $7,000 in union donations, as well as some individual donations and corporate contributions from Wesgroup Properties – $1,000 – and Bosa Properties – $750.

Not far behind in election spending was incumbent Coun. Chuck Puchmayr at $7,557. His campaign included $3,764 in contributions from unions, $2,058 from individuals and $2,000 from corporations.

Sapperton resident Catherine Cartwright spent $7,033 and former councillor Calvin Donnelly spent $6,001 in a bid to reclaim a seat on council.

Queensborough resident Gavin Palmer spent $5,197 on his councillor campaign.

Scott McIntosh, the son of longtime city Coun. Betty McIntosh, spent $4,792 on his election campaign.

Although he wasn’t endorsed by the New Westminster and District Labour Council, McIntosh did get a $1,500 donation from CUPE B.C. Downtown businessman Harm Woldring spent $2,070 on his campaign and longtime resident Jim Bell doled out $2,039.

Trailing behind in election spending were: John

Continued from page 1 Incumbent Coun. Jaimie McEvoy – who has topped councillor spending in the past two municipal elections – was close behind Johnstone with a $23,172 campaign.That’s less than the $28,776 he spent in 2011.

Mary Trentadue spent $8,015 on her first campaign in New West

McEvoy received $16,735 in campaign contributions from individuals – including his own contribution of $15,735, $2,250 from corporations and $4,187 from trade unions.

Council incumbent Bill Harper spent $19,046 in his successful bid for re-election. His contributions came from individuals – $5,275; corporations – $6,575 (including $1,500 from Wesgroup Properties and $1,500 from Port Royal Village Development) and trade unions – $7,212.

First-time candidate Tej Kainth, who placed eighth in the race for six seats on city council, spent $15,437 on her campaign.

Veteran Coun. Lorrie Williams spent $13,181 on her campaign. She received $6,000 in donations from individuals (including her own contribution of $5,000), $1,250 from corporations (including $750 from Bosa Properties) and $5,637 from trade unions.

David Brett spent $9,423 in his attempt to get a seat on city council. He placed 10th in the race.

Not cheap: Pamphlets, signs and advertising are among the top expenses for candidates seeking seats on New Westminster city council.

Elections B.C. has released financial disclosure statements from candidates in the 2014 civic election. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

Ashdown – $1,714; Mike Folka – $1,661; Marge Ashdown – $1,280;Tracey Block – $719; Raj Gupta – $554; and Gerry Liu – $469.

Matt Kadioglu ran the most frugal campaign – he didn’t spend a cent.

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Opinion OUR VIEW

More transparency needed in process We are astounded at the revelation this week that the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner is investigating alleged misconduct by 16 Abbotsford Police Department members.

The case centres around one officer who is now charged with breach of trust and obstruction of justice, as well as 16 other officers in the force.

At issue is the “integrity

of statements” officers used when applying to judges for search warrants in drug-related cases.

Convictions of criminals related to the investigations are already being reviewed, raising the prospect that some of them may be tossed out.

Even worse is the prospect that some of those behind bars today were wrongfully convicted. Either way, it brings the justice sys-

tem into serious disrepute.

By now, police agencies ought to know judges can and will throw a case out on a technicality if charter rights are abused.

We say the antidote to this problem is more transparency and accountability.

Already, B.C.’s police watchdog legislation is weaker than most other provinces.The police complaint commissioner doesn’t have the power to compel

testimony and each step of the complaints process is carried out behind closed doors with scant public scrutiny.

The RCMP’s process for dealing with complaints and officer misconduct is even more opaque with matters going down a black hole in Ottawa and rarely heard about again.

Officers are suspended, usually with pay, for years when they are under inves-

tigation for everything from criminal misconduct to harassment.

Not only does this erode the public’s confidence in the police system and the justice system, but it also must irk a lot of good, hardworking officers who have to keep their mouths shut and toe the line.

When you’re working in a system that is tasked with holding others accountable to the rule of law, it seems

to make sense that that system is held up to a higher standard. At this point, the public, rightfully, may think it’s a lower standard.

We hope our minister of justice is paying very close attention to this and remembering a fundamental principle of policing in a free society is that authority for officers is supposed to be matched by commensurate accountability to the public they police.

MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

De Jong steers Liberal ship A prominent B.C. businessman phoned me the other day, wanting to know who, exactly, “ran” the B.C. government.

He knew enough of politics to know the answer wasn’t necessarily Premier Christy Clark.While her predecessor, Gordon Campbell, very much “ran” his government in that he had his hands on all kinds of levers, she has opted for a more hands-off approach.

Clark delegates a lot of authority and control to key cabinet ministers, deputies and senior staff.

But there appears to be one key figure who Clark allows to steer the B.C. Liberal ship more than anyone else, and he was on full public display last week.

I’m talking about Finance Minister Mike de Jong.

He controls the government’s purse strings and, as government house leader, its legislative agenda as well. His cautious approach to budget-making means he keeps a tight rein on government spending, which means fellow cabinet ministers must answer to him for their budgets.

While there is no question that Clark is very much in control of her government, de Jong has emerged as a particularly influential member of her inner circle (which includes LNG Minister Rich Coleman, Jobs Minister Shirley Bond, and staffers Dan Doyle, Michelle Cardario, Chris Gardener, Neil Sweeney and Ben Chin).

De Jong is in charge of delivering what is the B.C. Liberal government’s number one priority every spring: a balanced budget.

Everything else takes a back seat to that accomplishment, and as a result all government programs (i.e. the size and funding of them) flow from that balanced budget.

The veteran politician has become a sort of “Dr. No” in government, as he insists on a frugal approach to managing government finances.That means a lot of spending requests don’t get far with him.

“Bending down the health care spending curve” was Job 1 when de Jong took over the finance portfolio a few years ago. He was well aware that if the health-care budget continued to enjoy lofty increases such as five or six or seven per cent that any hopes of balancing the budget would be dashed.

So he has insisted that annual increases to the health budget had to come in at less than three per cent (which translates to roughly $500 million a year).There were widespread doubts this could be accomplished, but it has happened for several years now – and that’s a huge reason why the budget can be balanced at the end of the fiscal year.

And it’s another reason why de Jong, more than anyone other than the premier herself, has the most noticeable personal stamp on this government.

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Why I’m voting ‘No’ in the referendum

Readers not sold on referendum spending

Dear Editor Why is it the mayors/TransLink want more, more, more? Every year “they” need more tax revenue, more employees, more wages/benefits, etc., etc., etc.

But we, the taxpayer, get less, less, less! Less money in our take-home pay/pension, less in the way of services, less in the way of benefits!

The mayors need to take lessons on how to maintain services – both at TransLink and in their own community – with less money!

Here are a few ideas for you: 1. Quit wasting money on non-binding referenda.

2. Take no more of a wage increase for yourself than what a retiree gets.

3. Negotiate wage increases for city employees that match what a retiree gets, and freeze hiring, instead re-deploying employees into more efficient configurations; eliminate empirebuilding. How much did that fancy little pickup with all that fancy equipment cost me, Mr. Mayor, for two NEW police officers to police truck safety (and, by the way, isn’t that a provincial responsibility on a provincial roadway, which is what Royal Avenue is deemed to be, I believe).

4. Reduce the number of TransLink CEOs to ONE – paid at the same rate as those in comparable positions!

5. Recover ALL the money wasted on Compass (that alone would probably have built a New West/Surrey crossing, (or created) the trains to UBC and Langley).

6. Plug the loopholes in the fare collection system – no pay, no ride!

7. Insist employees spend time productively – 15-minute coffee breaks only twice a day, no extended lunch hours, no personal emails, texts, printing personal stuff on supplies (the hardware, the software, the consumables like paper, ink and power) I’ve paid for. I’m tired of watching public employees take long coffee breaks and standing around chatting in little groups (e.g., the $100,000 transit cops all gathered in little cliques at practically every train station).

8. Turn the heat down a few degrees in all city/ TransLink facilities – your employees are all well-enough paid to afford a sweater or a bit of exercise to get the fat-cat chubbiness in check.

9. Work towards money-optimizing goals – how about one municipality instead of how many separate municipalities we currently have in the GVA (we’d only be paying for one mayor, one police force, one fire department, etc)?

10. Make TransLink accountable to the people who pay them – not some overpaid non-elected board (which I’m holding my tongue not to re-name).

I could go on, but I think you get the idea.

Now go out and earn the pay cheque we’ve elected you to be collecting! Quit passing the buck on to us – we elected you to manage, manage being the operative word here, the vast resources in your various municipalities and TransLink. Go and manage them – you have enough money – we have no more to give you (and I bet you’re double dipping by accepting pay from TransLink too, aren’t you).

AND, oh ya, do your jobs and QUIT WASTING MONEY ON NON-BINDING REFERENDA – not to mention $20,000 bills (in New West, that is) to push this stupidity!

Mary Gagnon, New Westminster

Nina Halina People don’t want this extra tax, no matter how hard the City of New West and others campaign for it. This is just another example of taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars being used to promote an unpopular idea.

People aren’t stupid – they’ve had enough! Sadly, the government will just likely ram a tax increase to pay for this latest TransLink money grab down our throats anyway.

R.Dot There seems to be a fair amount of controversy and skepticism about how well TransLink is being managed.

Would it now be prudent to see these issues addressed (or discredited) before handing them more cash? The intended improvements are no doubt worthwhile, but what’s the point of throwing good money after bad? @PJNewWest If a YES vote means safer streets and reduces even a single fatal accident, #NewWest taxpayers come out ahead. @604Kev @PJNewWest @TheRecord #NewWest needs a YES vote, I’m worried! @_gumba maybe #NewWest should spend the money on monthly transit passes for those in need.

Would you like to see lacrosse at NWSS? Emma Scott I’d love a soccer academy at NWSS by 2016 (when my son will be there) or sooner! Canada desperately needs to improve their standings in soccer on the big stage and it needs to start now.

Trimmed tax hike still a no go for residents Trish Webster Tax increase regardless of the ‘yes or no’ vote???

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People Future includes helping Continued from page 3 can take the journey together – call me, talk to me, laugh with me.”

Le, who currently lectures in communications for small businesses at Simon Fraser University, has a medical degree and a master’s degree. His varied work background includes working in Victims Services for the Vancouver Police Department and as a medical doctor – jobs that ended when he suffered depression.

“That was also a blessing,” he says of his fiveyear battle with depression.

“Now, people come to me and say, ‘I feel so bad right now, I can’t handle it.’ One of the guys came to me and said, ‘Joey, tonight I come to say goodbye to you because you won’t see me tomorrow.’”

Le closed the store and took the man out for a cup of coffee, which ultimately thwarted his plan to commit suicide at midnight.

“We just laughed. I told him what had happened to

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I told him what happened, how it happened.We talked about things,” he recalls.

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athon, Le wasn’t sure what the man had decided to do.

“I didn’t hear from him for two weeks. I was keeping my eye on the news for two weeks, everyday,” he says of the fear the man may have followed through with his plan. “Two weeks later, guess who showed up at the door? He walked in – he was so tanned and happy.”

With connections like

that, the theft may have made it easier for Le to move on to new challenges and close the shop. For the past few years, he’s been putting some of his savings into the city’s last remaining video store to keep it afloat.

“Sometimes you love something so much, but you start to realize it’s holding you down,” he says. “It’s a weight.”

While he’s made the decision to move on from the store, Le knows in his heart that his future will include helping people and volunteering in the community.

After enjoying a month’s vacation in March – his first in 13 years – Le will spend the rest of the year completing his PhD in international relations and then embark on a new adventure.

“I’ll walk away with my head held high.When one chapter closes, a new one will open up,” he says. “In 2016, the city will see a new Joey come back – bigger and better. I don’t know yet what I am going to do.

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Arts & Entertainment

City resident to lead gospel music seminar Hallelujah Praise: Motown Meets Gospel promises fun and inspiration Julie MacLellan LIVELY CITY

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When the Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir presents its highly anticipated annual gospel music workshop and concert at the end of the month, a New Westminster resident will be at the helm.

Gail Suderman is the artistic director of the choir, which is offering up Hallelujah Praise: Motown Meets Gospel at Ryerson United Church in Vancouver Feb. 28 and March 1.

The event includes a daylong workshop on Saturday, Feb. 28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., in which gospel enthusiasts can join the 90-voice Good Noise choir and renowned Victoria-based singer-conductor Louise Rose.

On Sunday, March 1 at 3:30 p.m., the workshop culminates in a public concert featuring some 140 voices joining together in song.

“This year’s musical theme for Hallelujah Praise connects the smooth R&B sounds of Motown with gospel music by focusing on songs from artists who successfully integrated the two styles,” Suderman said in a press release. “Since many Motown artists of the 1960s sang in churches prior to launching successful pop careers, there is plenty of natural crossover to be

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The event features hits such as Stevie Wonder’s Have a TalkWith God, Michael Jackson’s Heal the World, Diana Ross’s Reach Out and Touch Somebody’s Hand, and Jackie DeShannon and David Ruffin’s Put a Little Love inYour Heart.

Music provides a fun-filled energy for participants Along with Rose – who’s renowned as a jazz pianist, vocalist and conductor-coach – the workshop participants will be joined by instrumentalists Michael Kalanj, Laurence Mollerup, Elliot Polsky, Ingrid Stitt and Suderman herself on piano.

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A battle to the death

City actor stars in dark send-up of corporate world

By Julie MacLellan

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It’s a cutthroat world out there for ITSAZOO Productions.

The Vancouver theatre company is presenting The Competition is Fierce, a new play by Sebastien Archibald, from March 3 to 22 in the Shop Theatre at Renegade Studios.

Appearing in the show is New Westminster’s own Marilyn Norry, a wellknown face on the Vancouver stage.

She’s one of the stars of the work set in a dystopian corporate future where “climbing the company ladder” entails gladiatorial combat to the death.

Norry appears as the psychopathic CEO Madeline in the play, which follows the story of two white-collar workers – a timid lackey and a handsome loner – as they battle to the death for a high-profile job.

The play also stars Rachel Cairns, Chris Cochrane, Carlo Marks and Andrew Wheeler, and it’s directed by Chelsea Haberlin.

Archibald, who’s also the co-artistic producer of ITSAZOO, said his inspiration for the piece was a “volatile” telemarketing job he worked in university.

“The job was highly competitive, with huge turnover, a contemptuous attitude toward employees, and clichéridden corporate rhetoric that was taken far too seriously,” he said in a press release. “More recently, I’ve become deeply interested in psychological studies showing the statistic success and prevalence of psychopaths in the corporate environment. The Competition is Fierce is the filtered product of this new fascination and

decade-old experience.”

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Fierce: New West actor Marilyn Norry stars in The Competition is Fierce. PHOTO GAELEN BEATTY

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Community

It’s back: Lois Peterson speaks about Story: Process and Product at last year’s LitFest PHOTO RECORD FILES

LitFest calls for workshop ideas LitFest New West has issued a call for workshop proposals for the 2015 festival, which is set to run on Saturday, April 25 at Douglas College.Twelve workshops will be selected to run in one-hour slots between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. that day.

Proposals can run the gamut of writing-related topics, centring on writing and/or reading as they relate to a host of subjects: the business of writing, children’s literature, current events, editing, food, genre writing, memoir and history, minority perspectives, poetry, reading, songwriting, spirituality, storytelling or travel. Panel discussions

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eniors Services Society went above and beyond its fundraising goal to help the region’s elderly homeless population.

The New Westminster nonprofit joined a national fundraiser,called the Coldest Night of the Year,and held a local walk

on Saturday.The event raised $26,585,surpassing the $25,000 target.

“We are definitely ahead of our goal,and we are just waiting for the final tally,”said Brian Dodd,the society’s interim executive director.“This is the first time we’ve done this event.

We’ve laid a solid base for moving ahead with the event next year.”

The Saturday event started and ended at Westminster Quay.

There were 125 walkers forming 20 teams,and more than 400 people donated to the cause.

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“We had donations from across the Lower Mainland,and we had walkers from as far away as Mission and Squamish that wanted to come in and support our cause,”Dodd said.“It was a resounding success.”

Seniors Services Society has been struggling with a funding shortage to help Lower Mainland seniors who are either

already homeless or at risk of living on the streets.The organization lost funding from United Way,which cut back on grants for seniors’programs following a dearth of donations.Then, thanks to changes in the federal funding model for homelessness programs,the society had to let go of a full-time outreach worker helping homeless seniors.

Money raised on the Coldest

Night of the Year will be used to help seniors in their new homes and could cover moving costs, damage deposits,first month’s rent or even kitchen supplies.

“In many cases,the seniors we are working with have lost everything,”Dodd said.“We need some dollars to be able to make that work,so that’s where this is going.”

For more information,go to www.seniorsservicessociety.ca.

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Seniors’ planning tables losing paid coordinator

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he seniors’planning tables for Burnaby and New Westminster will have to continue without their lead coordinator,now that United Way funding for the post is coming to an end this April.

Mariam Larson,a gerontologist and the part-time paid coordinator for both planning tables,will be unemployed when the United Way contract ends on April 15.

“I’m troubled by it,”Larson said.“I will greatly miss the people I’ve been working with really deeply.The seniors we have in our community are vibrant and diverse,determined and creative.I’ve learned so much from them.”

Larson has been working with both planning tables for more than five years.She started with the New West table – Seniors Planning and Action Network (SPAN) – in 2008 and Voices of Burnaby Seniors in 2009.She coordinated the groups’meetings and activities,managed communication,took minutes and applied for grants for programs and initiatives

they wanted to pursue.The United Way was providing $25,000 per year for each planning table,which covered Larson’s position.

Volunteers sit on both planning tables and work with local organizations and civic governments to improve their respective communities for seniors.For example,the New Westminster and Burnaby planning tables both spearheaded campaigns to make their cityscapes more accessible to everyone,especially seniors, by changing sidewalks and ramps to help people in walkers and wheelchairs.

The planning table work will continue but on volunteer labour,Larson said.

“It will go on,but it will be different,”Larson said.“They will really have to decide on their priorities and the best way to tackle them as volunteers.

“The one thing I’ve observed is that we rely on a particular core group of seniors’leaders,and others need to take up the gauntlet because some of the seniors have done more than

their share,and it’s their turn to do a volunteer retirement of some kind,”Larson said.“I look forward to others taking on these roles and continuing the good work.”

That may be difficult in New Westminster,according to SPAN chair Bill Zander, who’s worked with Larson for years.

“Mariam is a wonderful person,as a gerontologist, but also as our coordinator and our mentor,she does the organizing,”Zander said.

“SPAN is not going to operate like it did,that’s for sure – if we continue to operate – and some people think it may not,but we’ll have to look at that in March,which

will be the last meeting with Mariam.”

Zander said Larson’s absence will leave a huge hole that can’t be filled by volunteers.

“We’re going to certainly miss her,”he said.“Her heart is in this community.”

Elsie Dean,with Voices of Burnaby Seniors,said Larson’s departure is a huge loss.

“It means people have to step in and do what she was doing,and of course,she was doing so much,”Dean said.

To get involved in either planning table,call Larson at 604-515-1718.

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STM win AA girls’ hoop title No. 1-ranked hosts easy winners in Lower Mainland basketball final

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The St.Thomas More Knights marched into the B.C. high school AA girls’ basketball championships after a banner-winning effort at the Lower Mainland championships.

Leilani Carney was named the MVP and STM teammates Zion Corrales-Nelson and Nikko Sahagun were both named all-stars following a 56-33 victory over Little Flower Academy in the Mainland championship final at STM on Saturday.

“As a team we really wanted this.

It’s something we wanted from the beginning of the season,” said Sahagun, who had 11 points for the Knights in the final game.

From the opening tip-off, STM came out with jump, building a 15-4 first-quarter lead before giving some of that momentum back to the Angels, who made some ground with a strong second-quarter rally.

But in the second half, STM showed little quarter, holding the No. 5-ranked Vancouver independent to single-digits in both quarters, while also dominating at the offensive end.

“I know my team has a powerful defence, and we used it today. I’m really proud of my team,” said Sahagun.

Corrales-Nelson led all scorers with 14 points, six rebounds and five steals, while Carney chipped in with 11 points and four of the team’s 23 total thefts.

Jessica Hanson had a team-best 11 points for Little Flower.

STM also controlled the backboards in the final, hauling down 41 rebounds, including 19 off the offensive glass.

Nadine Stewart had a game-high eight boards for the Knights.

Xenia Dumont came out in the third quarter with three quick buckets, while Carney and Sahagun nailed back-to-back threes to double the score to 38-19 late in the frame.

The Knights then opened the final quarter with a comeback-killing

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Good Knight: Leilani Carney was named the Lower Mainland AA MVP for the St. Thomas More girls’ basketball champions. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

11-2 start.

In the semifinal, STM survived a scare from Vancouver rival Notre Dame, coming back from six points down in the final four minutes of play with a game-changing 14-4 run to advance to the championship final with a 63-59 victory.

Corrales-Nelson led the Knights with 13 points, 11 of them coming in the second half.

The Knights also got past North Shore No. 4 Bodwell College 6951 in the quarter-finals on Carney’s 22-point contribution. Sahagun added 14 points, including four treys in the win.

“This is a year I really want to count,” said Sahagun, a Grade 11 guard/forward. “It’s the last year with our seniors and it’s special to me to make it a good year and a

big blessing.”

The Knights will enter the B.C. high school AA provincial championships as the No. 1 Lower Mainland seed. Seycove and Notre Dame earned the No. 3 and 4 seeds, respectively, at the Mainland championships.

The AA provincials will be held at the Langley Events Centre from March 4 to 7.

New Westminster won a silver medal at the B.C. under-12 Tier 1 youth field lacrosse championships.

Kai George laid a huge open-field hit in New West’s opening game against Victoria that set the tone for the rest of the tournament,” said u-12 coach Daniel Pattison.

“Everyone hopped on board after that. It was the story of our tournament,” Pattison said.

Kirk Bothwell went on to post a shutout in the 6-0 win over Victoria.

The u-12s won their group following a 6-2 win over Pacific Coast runnerup Ridge Meadows thanks to what Pattison said was the “team’s best second half of the season.”

They then advanced to the gold-medal final with a 5-4 semifinal victory over Surrey, the league’s thirdplace-finishing club.

Ezrah Glanville led the u-12s with a hat trick in every tournament game, including an 8-6 loss to regular season champion Adanacs in the provincial final.

Big stick Kieran Isbister was named the winner of New West’s Fair Play award.

“It was the best coaching experience I have had, watching the kids battle and see how far they could go,” said Pattison.

Pac Coast u-16 league runner-up New Westminster took home a bronze medal at the B.C.s, following a 10-3 victory over Ridge Meadows in the Tier Continued on page 15

Lady Lions roar at LM AAAs Tom Berridge

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The Lion queens roared at the Lower Mainland AAA high school girls’ basketball championships.

Unheralded and unranked, Burnaby Mountain did what many would have considered the impossible, earning the school’s first-ever appearance at the B.C. high school AAA championship following an upset

92-85 overtime victory over the provincial honourable mention Argyle Pipers on Saturday.

Trailing by as many as a dozen points in the second quarter to the North Shore champs, Mountain senior guard Alix Gabriel posted back-to-back three-pointers to bring the No. 9 seed to within five points.

Twin sister Brooke Gabriel canned a long three to start the third quarter, and

Alix drained the fourth of her game-high five treys to put the Lions back on even terms with seven minutes left to play in the period. It was a dogfight the rest of the way.

After a rather unexceptional first half by Mountain, few would have expected what was to come, despite the Lions’ near-upset over the same Argyle team in the quarter-final earlier in the tournament.

“We worked so hard, but this is earned,” said Alix, who scored 22 points and added six rebounds and four steals in the history-making final. “Winning some big games gave us some confidence.We won it big with heart. ... I’m so excited, I can’t wait.”

Neither, it appeared, could Grade 11 guard Jacey Bailey.

Continued on page 15

Tourney turner: Jacey Bailey was named MVP. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

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U-16s pick up field bronze

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Continued from page 14

The Lower Mainland tournament MVP was nothing short of sensational in the consolation final, taking charge in the second half and leading the Lions to victory with a game-topping 38 points and 19 rebounds.

Bailey scored 29 points in the second half, including 19 in the final quarter and a backbreaking three in overtime that gave the Lions a 10-point lead with less than two minutes left in the added fifth period.

“I’m really happy. I don’t think it’s actually set in that we’re going to the provincials,” Bailey said after the game.

Argyle star Sophie Swant, who left the game in the third quarter, with what appeared to be a turned ankle, returned midway through the fourth quarter and helped the Pipers regain the lead.

With 53 seconds to go, Alix replied with a timely three and Bailey gave Mountain a two-point lead with less than 20 seconds left on an end-to-end bucket. But Swant sent the game into OT, calmly draining a pair of free throws. Swant led the Pipers with 29 points.

However, the extra time belonged to Bailey and the Mountain Lions.

Bailey scored 10 of the team’s 15 points in extra time, stealing the third and final Mainland berth into the provincials.

“I actually don’t know where it comes from,” said Bailey after the game. “It just happens.”

The B.C. AAA girls’ championships will take place at the Langley Events Centre from March 4 to 7.

1 consolation final.

New West’s Parker Johnson was named the u-16 tournament MVP. Harry Shirley also had what co-coach Mark Negrin described as his “best game of the year,” scoring a goal in the final, while also counting a wrong-handed tally in a 6-4 win over Port Coquitlam in the opening game.

The u-16s also finished pool play with an unbeaten 3-0 record, but lost their semifinal matchup 9-4 with eventual champion and regular season winner Adanacs.

“We played hard,” Negrin added. “They still wanted to win something and they came through at the end.”

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New West’s u-14 Tier 1 team, league winners with an 11-2-0 season record, failed to make it to the playoff round, finishing pool play with a 1-1-1 record.

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