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WAITING FOR NEWS: Rev. Mykhailo Ozorovych is pastor at Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, a gathering place for New Westminster’s Ukrainian community. Each day is an agonizing wait for news about how their families are doing after Russia invaded their homeland. Read more on page 3. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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Ukrainian families left waiting for news to help.

“The situation is changing so fast.You don’t know what it’s going to be tonight, what kind of call and plea the people of Ukraine will have,” he said.

Holy Eucharist has now started a fundraising campaign targeted towards purchasing and delivering medical supplies.The church’s Facebook page notes two young men from the parish were scheduled to fly to Europe to deliver the supplies, which can’t currently be found in Ukraine or Poland.

The money will also be used to help find and cover the costs of housing and child care for women and children who have fled Ukraine and are able to get to Vancouver. As of this week, two families had already reached out to the church for help.

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For most of the people in Rev. Mykhailo Ozorovych’s congregation, the Russian invasion of Ukraine isn’t a headline involving a far-off conflict.

It’s an immediate, ever-present danger to their families, their friends, their homes.

Ozorovych is the pastor at Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, the uptown church that’s a gathering place for New Westminster’s Ukrainian community.

The church has about 100 families, Ozorovych says, and more than 70 of those are relatively recent or brand-new arrivals to Canada, direct from Ukraine.

Ozorovych himself has been here for 10 years. He was born and raised in Ukraine, and his parents are still there.They live on the country’s western side, far from the Russian border, so Ozorovych had hoped they would be safe.

Then bombs hit IvanoFrankivsk Airport, just five minutes away from their home.

“I call them a couple of times a day to make sure they’re OK,” Ozorovych said.

His father is under 60, so he’s likely to end up being conscripted into military service.

But the couple has decided to stay put – which leaves Ozorovych thousands of kilometres away, watching and waiting.

Most of his parishioners have similar stories.

Ozorovych speaks of one young man in his congregation whose wife and one-year-old daughter were in Ukraine when the bombs began to fall.

Flights out of Ukraine were cancelled, but they were able to flee to Poland and find a flight to Canada

Famous dinners: Sister Angelica packs borscht for the dinners served at the Holy Eucharist Cathedral. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

from there.

The horror of it all leaves the local community feeling helpless.

“Not being able to really help in a meaningful way leaves us powerless here,” Ozorovych said. “We are getting together to pray, to support each other, for emotional support.The strain that people experience here is awful.”

PRAY FOR UKRAINE The church has started evening prayer services, scheduled for 6 p.m. each night, to bring people together for prayer and support.

About 100 people turned out for the first service, half of whom weren’t members of the congregation.The services are open to all who would like to show their solidarity or who are seeking comfort of their own.

“They can come, pray with us, be with us, smile, support and comfort us, or just keep to themselves,” Ozorovych said. “It definitely goes beyond ethnic levels or cultural levels or whatever passport you hold.”

(The services are currently scheduled for each evening up to and including Sunday, March 6; you can follow the church on Facebook at www.face book.com/holyeucharist cathedral to get up-to-date details.)

The church is also working to provide both practical and emotional help for those who need it.

Holy Eucharist runs a Saturday morning Ukrainian school for children, which currently has 60 children enrolled. Ozorovych said all those children are from families newly arrived in Canada

School lesson: Teacher Natalia Buddy explains a math and language activity at the Ukrainian school for children at the Holy Eucharist Cathedral. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

over the past few years, so they all still have deep ties to Ukraine.

As the school’s director, Ozorovych said, he’s working to see how he can help those young families with the stress of the current situation.

“You still have to feed your children, take them to daycare,” he pointed out.

FUNDRAISING SET Ozorovych noted the situation in Ukraine is so volatile that it’s challenging for the local community

HOW TO HELP The church is encouraging people to continue to give through organizations such as the Red Cross (www.redcross. ca) and Catholic Near East Welfare Association (cnewa.org).

It’s also accepting donations directly.

If you want to donate to the church’s Help Us Help Ukraine fund, you have three options: ! Send an e-transfer to cathedral.nwe@gmail. com ! Donate online by using a credit card through www.tinyurl.com/ HolyEucharistFund ! Mail a cheque payable to Holy Eucharist Cathedral to 408 Fifth St., New Westminster, B.C. V3L 2X6

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A local cycling advocate and a New West school were among the winners in HUB Cycling’s 2022 Bike Awards.

For the past nine years, HUB Cycling has been celebrating the people who are making cycling more accessible across the region.This year’s awards recognized municipalities, organizations, schools and community volunteers for their contributions to making people of all ages and abilities feel more comfortable and safer on two wheels.

Fulton Tom of HUB Cycling NewWest received a Volunteer Appreciation Award for his efforts in local committee advocacy.

The New Westminster School District received Bike-Friendly Building Certification – Gold for its cycling efforts at the new New Westminster Secondary School.

“It’s only with our entire community coming together that cycling is becoming safer and more accessible to everyone.

Whether you’re a young student biking to school or a senior biking to the grocery store for milk, cycling is an option for you,” Kate Shen, HUB Cycling’s event manager, said in a press release. “We’re so thankful for the work of individuals and organizations in building a safe and connected active transportation network.”

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In 2021, HUB Cycling presented the City of New Westminster with its Biggest Leap Award in recognition of its efforts to introduce initiatives that improve local cycling.

Mayor Jonathan Cote was one of 12 elected officials from across the region who presented this year’s Bike Awards in February.

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Opinion MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Fiscal outlook not as bleak as it seems

At first glance, B.C. Finance Minister Selina Robinson’s latest threeyear fiscal plan looks fairly bleak, as it projects massive budget deficits for the life of it.

Almost $5.5 billion in the coming year and more than $7.6 billion over the following two years.

A closer look at the numbers and projections, however, shows things may not be quite as bad as the government is predicting.

For one thing, government revenue projections are incredibly pessimistic and do not reflect at all how well the economy has performed in the current fiscal year.The budget predicts overall revenues will actually shrink by almost $1.7 billion in the next fiscal year.

However, in the fiscal year ending March 31, the provincial economy exceeded all expectations and allowed Robinson to push the deficit down to $483 million from the original estimate of $9.7 billion.

The amount of economic activity swelled government coffers by almost $10 billion more than had been forecast.Taxation revenue was up more than $6 billion and natural resource revenue was up almost $2 billion, to name just two areas.

While some of those revenues were one-shot occurrences (such as ICBC’s $1.9 billion contribution to the bottom line, most of it a one-time windfall in its investment portfolio), there seems to be little reason to think other revenue streams will contract quite as much as forecast.

For example, the budget forecasts personal income taxes to decline almost $800 million at a time when the employment rate keeps rising. It projects a drop of $750 million in property transfer tax revenue, at a time when the housing market remains

red-hot with no sign of it cooling off any time soon (indeed, that tax came in a whopping $1.275 billion higher than forecast this current year).

If revenue growth in the coming year is even less than half of what we have seen in the current year, Robinson could come much closer to balancing next year’s budget.

Then there is the spending side. Another huge ($1 billion) forecast allowance is embedded in the budget which, if not needed, could further push the budget closer to the balanced level.

The forecast allowance in the current year (also $1 billion) appears not to have been needed at this point, which could eventually push the current $483 million deficit into a slight surplus when all the bills are paid.

Having pointed out some areas of potential optimism, there remains some uncertainty that could undo any effort of moving more quickly to a balanced budget.

A really bad year of extreme weather, plus the expected higher-than-usual compensation requests from public sector unions (most of whose contracts expire March 31) could combine to exceed the nearly $5 billion set aside for contingency spending.

Finally, inflation is starting to become a significant area of concern once again.That, plus the expectation that interest rates will start to rise, could have adverse effects on B.C. government finances.

It is almost always smart for a finance minister to build more pessimism than optimism in a budget and fiscal plan.

Still, there are ample reasons to think things are not quite as bleak on the fiscal front as they appear.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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A man who sped away from police in a stolen car in might have eluded police if he’d kept his shoes on. He stole a car from the Telus parking lot on Sixth Street but was caught shortly after in a police speed trap. Instead of stopping, though, he sped off. He ditched the car on Marine Way, but his sandals slipped off as he ran away. A bus driver wouldn’t let him board, so he jumped on a train. After getting a call from the bus driver, police asked SkyTrain officials to slow the train so they could meet the suspect at the next station.

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Editor: I am writing to express my dismay at your inclusion of recent letters complaining about the violence in New Westminster, with one writer comically blaming the federal Liberals.

After reading the letters, neither of which reflect local realities (I’ve never been attacked, and no one I know has ever been the recipient attacks from “thugs” during my years in this lovely, peaceful city). They both seem to be written in the same voice as if from a script, one used by BC Liberals, the federal Conservatives and especially of New West Progressives, which in reality is the antithesis of anything remotely progressive.

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Social media has opened the door to bad actors and, as we are seeing with some of the white supremacy on display with the trucking convoy, shifting too far to the right in our truly progressive city, one in which I spend walking and exploring for two hours without fear or anger every day, is to destroy its uniqueness.

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They are written by local residents responding to recent stories about the New Westminster Business Improvement Association appearing before the local police board to detail numerous crime issues it says have had an impact on downtown merchants and residents. The letters are also in response to several stabbings that have taken place in the downtown area in the past year.

They were also in response to the local police department saying that downtown is a safe place to be. If the writer thinks their concerns are excessive or that his experience downtown is much different, then fair comment, but to say that the Record should not print the letters because he personally disagrees with them goes against our letters policy.

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New Westminster is keeping an eye on snowpack levels in B.C. – but it’s too soon to tell how they could impact the Fraser River this spring.

In a Feb. 28 report to council, staff provided an update on the snowpack conditions as of Feb. 1 and the city’s preparations for the 2022 freshet.

“Staff will continue to monitor the river basin conditions, assess the developing risk, and initiate minor preparations and inventory review,” said the report.

According to the report, the overall snow basin index for the entire Fraser River basin is 108%, which is near average for this time of the year. But the report notes that only 66% of the annual B.C snowpack has typically accumulated by early February, so it’s still too early in the season to determine the flood risk as there is still a few months for snow to accumulate.

“With a few months left

for snow accumulation, seasonal snow packs can still change significantly,” said the report. “The critical weather factors that result in increased risk of flooding are extended periods of hot weather, or a significant frontal rainstorm near the peak time of snowmelt. In general, snowpack factor produces about 20% to 40% of the flood risk, while weather factors produce about 60% to 80%.”

According to the report, seasonal weather forecasts from Environment and Climate Change Canada in late January indicate an increased likelihood of colder than normal temperatures from February through April for the entire province. It’s also believed there is an increased likelihood of greater than normal precipitation in some areas of B.C. “The waterfront portions of the New Westminster mainland as well as all of Queensborough are located within the floodplain of the Fraser River. Only Queensborough has an existing permanent dyke sys-

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Community

Bosa set to pour foundation for new tower Theresa McManus tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

A second “monolithic

concrete pour” is set to take place on New Westminster’s waterfront in March.

City council has approved an exemption to the construction noise bylaw so Bosa Development

can do a monolithic concrete pour for the foundation for the east tower of the Pier West development.

The exemption would allow Bosa Development to do a one-night overnight concrete pour at 660 Quayside Dr. “Bosa Development has confirmed that the monolithic pour of 4,500 cubic metres for the east tower core needs to occur as one single continuous event estimated to take approximately 24 hours,” said a report to council. “Bosa’s engineers report that the core footing needs to be a monolithic slab as it will be located below the water table due to its close proximity to the south Fraser River.”

According to a report to council, splitting the pour over two days isn’t recommended because it would result in a seam within the slab and introduce concerns regarding future water seepage issues due to hydrostatic pressures.

“The seam also would introduce a risk of water migrating into the elevator shaft,” said the report.

“Those risks are eliminated by conducting one continuous pour.”

Bosa is hoping to begin the pour on Friday, March 11 at 6 a.m., which is one hour earlier than what’s allowed under the city’s construction bylaws.The pour would continue until 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 12, which is 13 hours after the end of permitted hours.

The exemption to the city’s construction noise bylaw allows the work to be done from 6 a.m. on March 11 until 9 a.m. on March 12.

If weather prevents the work from being done at that time, the exemption allows the work to be done during those same hours on one of the following two weekends (March 18/19 or March 25/26).

“During the pour, there will be four concrete pump trucks located around the foundation of the area of the work site,” said the report.

“Concrete will be supplied by approximately 19 concrete supply trucks per hour for a total load of 429 trucks during the duration of the entire concrete pour.”

Pier West, which will be one of the tallest waterfront residential properties in the Lower Mainland, will include 43- and 53-storey highrises.

It will also include a three-storey commercial building that includes child-care and retail spaces, about two acres of park and open space, an extension to Westminster Pier Park, and a public plaza and esplanade space.

In October 2021, a monolithic concrete pour took place for west tower, which is the taller Pier West building.

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Traffic will be disrupted

Continued from page 10 A staff report outlined some of the transportation impacts impacting the area during the upcoming concrete pour.

These include: ! Temporary closure of the 600 and 700 blocks of Quayside Drive to motor vehicles so concrete trucks can get to and from the site. ! Because of the increased truck traffic on Quayside Drive, a traffic control person will direct pedestrian traffic and ask cyclists to dismount in this area. ! The #103 bus route won’t have any bus stop closures, but it could experience some minor delays because of additional congestion on Quayside Drive and the McInnis Street overpass. ! Begbie Street, south of Front Street, will be closed

to motor vehicle traffic for the duration of the pour, as this is where concrete trucks will enter the site. ! In the event that trains are travelling through the area near the Begbie Street crossing, concrete trucks will detour and access the site via Stewardson Way, the Third Avenue overpass and Quayside Drive. (This is because it is “critical” that the monolithic concrete pour is continuous.) ! A traffic control person will be stationed at the intersection of K de K Court and Quayside Drive to direct customers and deliveries going to River Market.

In addition to sending out notifications to nearby residents and businesses, Bosa Development will be posting updates at 660quaysidedr.com.

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