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The Terry Fox Run is a huge event in the Tri-Cities and it will be an even bigger happening this year to mark the 35th anniversary of Fox’s Marathon of Hope.

Read the first installment of The Tri-City News’ four-part series on page A3.

RIGHT: JANIS WARREN/THE TRI-CITY NEWS; LEFT: COURTESY OF CANADIAN MUSEUM OF HISTORY, ARTEFACTS

Fred Fox, manager of supporter relations for the Terry Fox Foundation and the organization’s executive director Britt Andersen, a Belcarra resident, show off the foundation’s national office atop Burnaby Mountain at SFU. The foundation works on fundraising for cancer research and works with the provincial organizations that coordinate hundreds of Terry Fox Runs. Left: A photo of Terry Fox’s prosthetic leg.

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‘High-risk’ designation sought for Schoenborn Child killer’s day passes, previously, approved, could be revoked JANIS WARREN

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The man incarcerated in Coquitlam for killing his three

children could be deemed a high-risk offender under new federal legislation.

Tomorrow (Thursday), the criminal justice branch of B.C.’s justice ministry will seek to have the designation apply to Allan Schoenborn.

The move under section 672.64 (2) of the Criminal Code of Canada, if approved by a judge, would mean that

Schoenborn’s escorted day passes would be revoked.

He would be allowed to leave the institution for medical reasons or for any purpose that’s necessary for his treatment.

Last July, the Criminal Code was changed through Bill C-14 to allow the designation of “high-risk accused” for adults who have been found not

criminally responsible (NCR).

In its application tomorrow, the Crown must prove there is a substantial likelihood the accused will endanger the life or safety of someone else or that his offences were so brutal that there’s a risk of grave physical or psychological harm to others.

see CROWN, page A6

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Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope captured the attention of a nation in 1980.

Ever since, millions of Canadians have carried on the campaign of Port Coquitlam’s most famous son by taking part in the annual Terry Fox Run...

New Fox HQ a nod to Terry’s past with an eye to foundation’s future With this article, The Tri-City News launches a four-part series leading up to the 35th anniversary of the Terry Fox Run.

THIS SERIES • Friday, Sept. 11: The Tri-City News visits the Terry Fox Research Institute to talk to the two B.C. researchers who recently won Terry Fox New Investigator Awards.

• Wednesday, Sept.

16: A childhood cancer survivor — who had the same cancer that took Terry Fox’s leg — shares her story.

• Friday, Sept. 18: Tri-City Terry Fox Run details and the Mayors’ Challenge.

JANIS WARREN The Tri-CiTy News

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top Burnaby Mountain, the ever-expanding UniverCity neighbourhood is home to the national office of a cancer-fighting organization whose name needs no explanation to Canadians.

The Terry Fox Foundation relocated its headquarters from Chilliwack in mid-June, a move deemed necessary by the foundation’s board of directors to be closer to Vancouver in order to attract bigger donors.

Being part of the Simon Fraser University campus was a natural fit for the charity given the Port Coquitlam hero’s connection to the institution, his brother Fred Fox said.

In 1977, Terry Fox was an 18-year-old kinesiology student and a member of the SFU junior varsity basketball team when he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer that resulted in the amputation of his right knee.

Since his death in 1981, SFU has continued to honour Fox’s legacy by supporting the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award (previously administered by Fox’s former coach and friend, the late Lorne Davies); the annual designation of the Terry Fox Gold Medal; and Terry’s Cause on Campus, a fundraiser held at its Burnaby, Surrey and Vancouver campuses.

SFU is also close to the Fox family as it recognized its matriarch, Betty, with an honorary degree for her commitment to cancer research.

Indeed, the foundation’s sunny new digs on University High Street are a step up from its former HQ in Chilliwack.

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Fred Fox (left), manager of supporter relations, and executive director Britt Andersen in the new Terry Fox Foundation national office in the UniverCity neighbourhood at SFU. The foundation moved from Chilliwack to Burnaby Mountain in June.

The office is on the ground floor and is the first unit to greet visitors to the awardwinning Cornerstone Building.

Inside the double-glass doors is a variety of Terry Fox memorabilia: a replica of the blue Adidas shoe he wore on his historic Marathon of Hope in 1980; commemorative stamps; an original painting of the MV Terry Fox; and a copy of Toronto Star reporter Leslie Scrivener’s book on Fox. Best of all, Fred Fox chuckled, “We have windows,” adding, “I think it’s been a good move for us.”

Although it has raised nearly $700 million in the past 35

years, the Terry Fox Foundation is known for operating on a shoestring. Compared to other Canadian charities, it is considered an industry leader in fundraising accountability, with 16 cents from every dollar raised going to administration and collection donations. That means 84 cents from every buck collected is spent on cancer research — most of it on the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) that was set up seven years ago. In the last fiscal year, $27 million came into the foundation in Canadian funds, of which 86% went directly to TFRI (Terry’s younger brother, Darrell, is on the institute’s

board of directors).

Still, despite its efficiencies, Britt Andersen said the administration costs are too high and he wants to cut them further.

Last November, the Belcarra resident and UBC commerce grad was hired as the foundation’s new executive director to oversee the operations of the seven employees at HQ plus liaise with the nine provincial directors (who are in charge of 850 run sites across Canada — all of which are led by volunteers — and some 8,500 school runs) plus the international division led by Terry’s sister, Judith Fox-Alder, and her daughter, Jessie Alder.

Andersen said his first goal as executive director was to give the organization more clarity and direction. He also wanted to increase the number of online giving opportunities.

Now, 70% of the foundation’s contributions come in through the click of a computer mouse, he said.

Andersen is no stranger to bringing in big cash for healthrelated causes. Previously, he worked as the CEO of the Coast Mental Health Foundation, a group established to raise money for the Coast Foundation Society. He was also the regional manager at Canadian Blood Services.

A Métis link – and an honour – for Fox family Order of the sash awarded due to Betty Fox’s mom JANIS WARREN

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Terry Fox may be known as a Canadian icon but did you know he’s also celebrated by the Métis for his outstanding contributions?

The Port Coquitlam hero’s grandmother — Betty Fox’s

mother, Mary Ann Wark — was an aboriginal from North Dakota, said Terry Fox’s brother Fred Fox, who has visited her American birthplace.

This past spring, the president of the Métis Nation of B.C. bestowed the Order of the Sash to Darrell Fox, who took part in the Marathon of Hope with Terry Fox in 1980 and helped raise millions of dollars for cancer research.

The posthumous award from Bruce Dumond honours people who have served the

Métis Nation and/or Canada.

At a ceremony in Abbotsford, Darrell Fox also received his own sash after he formally established his Métis citizenship.

Fred Fox told The Tri-City News last week the family is proud of its heritage and both he and his sister Judith, who oversees the international division of the Terry Fox Foundation, are now applying for their Métis citizenship.

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“‘When I heard about the opportunity to work with the Terry Fox Foundation, I had to jump on it,” Andersen said. “I remember being 13 years old in Golden and the picture of this young man running across Canada captivated me. I will never forget when he had to stop. The image of it still burns in my mind.”

With the 35th annual Terry Fox Run landing in his inaugural year, Andersen said he’s heading to Prince Edward Island with Darrell Fox to run the 13-km Confederation Bridge — a fundraiser that, for the 25th anniversary, saw 14,000 people and raised $375,000.

Fred Fox will be in Gatineau, Que., where the Canadian Museum of History is currently hosting a Terry Fox exhibit, while dad Rolly will be in Terry’s birthplace of Winnipeg and Judith — the youngest of the Fox clan — will be at Stanley Park in Vancouver, where the Marathon of Hope was supposed to end.

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Darrell Fox accepts the Order of the Sash from the Métis Nation of BC on his late brother’s behalf.

The Tri-Cities hosts four Terry Fox runs on Sept. 20 — including in the hero’s hometown of Port Coquitlam: • Port Coquitlam: Hyde Creek recreation centre, 10 a.m. start; • Port Moody: Rocky Point Park, 10 a.m. start; • Coquitlam: Blue Mountain Park, 10 a.m. start; • Anmore: Spirit Park, 11 a.m. start.

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BACK TO SCHOOL 2015

Some back-to-school reading – for parents JUSTIN BEDDALL GLACIER MEDIA

It’s usually students who get a reading list their first week back at school. But here’s some suggested reading for parents: Insider’s Guide to K-12 Education in BC: What every parent and educator needs to know.

The book was written by three B.C. principals, David Mushens, vice-principal at Burnaby’s Cariboo Hill secondary; David Starr, principal at Byrne Creek secondary, also in Burnaby; and Faizel Rawji of Sunnyside elementary in Surrey.

Published by Pacific

Education Press, it provides parents — and educators — answers to all sorts of important questions about B.C. schools, everything from what makes a good school good to how parents can choose the right programs for their kids to dealing with issues like bullying and life online for students.

Mushens says as principals, they field a steady stream of questions from parents — and many parents have the same types of concerns.

“We answer these questions so much we thought clearly we’re lacking a guide, a place for people to look,” he said.

The trio of educators met around 15 years ago when

they were all teaching in the Coquitlam school district and have remained in contact.

Whenever they got together, inevitably they would talk shop.

And often, they would discuss the questions parents routinely asked.

“It just really came from there — there really isn’t really anything that talks to parents, primarily, about how systems work,” Mushens said.

“So when parents come into our office when they are upset or they are confused, a lot of it just comes from they don’t have the information that they need. And like any system, whether it’s medical or school

or whatever, we all sort of have our own jargon because we live in it so we know.

“What we set out to do was ‘OK, let us try and demystify some of the things that you’re thinking about as you head into school.’”

Along with teaching parents to navigate the school system, it also teaches them how to access resources and support.

It’s also an invaluable tool for educators to help parents.

• Insider’s Guide to K-12 Education in B.C. is available at Kids Books, or online at www.pacificedpress.educ.ubc. ca and theinsidersguide.ca.

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Back to school is going to the dogs Canines help kids deal with anxiety

SUGGESTIONS FOR REDUCING ANXIETY • Turn off devices an hour before bedtime to promote sleep. Encourage reading in bed to calm the mind.

• Promote good nutrition and exercise to help the body deal with stress.

• Practise calming breathing techniques — breathing out can slow down the central nervous system. Practise this when your child is calm.

• Model calm and present behaviour — put the cell phone down or away when you are engaged with your children.

• When they are worried and upset, acknowledge their concerns, don’t dismiss them, and encourage them to focus on things that are going well, such as times when they successfully dealt with challenges in the past.

• Know when to seek professional help — when a child’s anxieties are keeping them from their normal life and activities.

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Leah Pells is learning alongside her students this first week of school as she moves from being a teacher and part-time counsellor to her new job as a full-time counsellor working at two Tri-City middle schools.

Pells, a former Olympic runner, is used to challenging situations but she admits the transition is both nerve-wracking and exciting. To help her make the adjustment is Smokey, a five-year-old black lab who has been trained as a canine assist intervention dog.

Smokey is such a draw, he quickly has a crowd of fans surrounding him. One teacher even bends to greet him face to face and is greeted with a lick.

“He’s so calm, he just relaxes everyone,” says Pells as she takes Smokey on her first official stroll through Como Lake middle school in Coquitlam.

This is the school’s second dog trained by the Pacific Assistance Dog Society, which prepares dogs for various rolls, including canine assist intervention dogs (CAI) for professionals, such as teachers, nurses, police officers and others who work with people in

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Leah Pells, a School District 43 counsellor, brings Smokey, a canine assist intervention dog, trained through the Pacific Assistance Dog Society, to Como Lake and Citadel middle schools, where she works. challenging situations.

He should be a big help this week as students adjust to new routines, Pells says, noting that students who wouldn’t normally seek help will connect with Smokey.

And if they come to her office, they’ll get the Smokey treatment, which is to be squished into the corner of the couch and

licked before Smokey drops his large, heavy head on their lap for the duration of the visit.

“He seems to know what kids need an extra bit of loving,” Pells said.

Relaxed, the students are ready to face their day.

Technology may be the culprit behind the increasing rates of stress and anxiety among

students, and Pells says students are virtually leashed to their devices, constantly connected to their peers, which causes worry.

On top of that, they stay up late using social networks and playing games, then struggle through their days with less than optimum amounts of sleep.

“Kids are not as rested as they once were.”

• www.mindcheck.ca: Provides information about stress and anxiety, and ways to deal with them.

• teencrisisconnection.com: Includes phone numbers, websites and resources for dealing with issues and crises.

• www.heretohelp.bc.ca: Self-screening tests, information sheets, links for help with back-to-school anxiety.

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September is the perfect time to practice mindful techniques for dealing with stress, and Pells’ top tips are in the blue box above.

Add to this homework and the constant scheduling of sports and other events, and students, especially those who aren’t as resilient as others, may struggle.

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A month-long enforcement blitz is underway across B.C. to reduce deaths and crashes from distracted driving.

The new campaign launched last Thursday by police forces and ICBC came ahead of an expected move by the provincial government this fall to stiffen the penalties for repeat offenders.

“B.C. drivers know it’s against the law but far too many still make excuses for their behaviour, then continue to put themselves and others at risk,” said Staff Sgt. Dale Somerville of B.C. RCMP Traffic Services.

“That’s why we’re cracking

down on those who cannot police themselves.”

According to ICBC, an estimated one in four deaths on B.C. roads involves distracted driving, which is the leading cause of crashes with pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.

Nearly 90 people die in distracted driving-related crashes each year in B.C., about a third of them in the Lower Mainland.

Cell Watch volunteers will be roadside across the province reminding drivers to leave their phones alone.

Somerville noted cellphone use is against the law even when a vehicle is stopped at a red light or in slow-moving traffic.

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Justice Minister Suzanne Anton said the province’s recent review of the distracted driving penalties made it clear the public agrees the fines are too low.

“The cost of a distracted driving ticket in B.C. is only $167 — the second lowest in Canada — yet the cost of a distracted driving crash can be a person’s life,” she said.

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Over the coming months, we will make our roads safer with tough, fair, and effective sanctions to curtail this alarming but preventable problem.”

Motorists are considered four times as likely to crash if they use their phone while driving. jnagel@blackpress.ca @jeffnagel

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Crown ‘high-risk’ bid to court tomorrow

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Crown Counsel’s bid comes three months after the B.C. Review Board controversially granted Schoenborn escorted day passes into the community despite pleas from his former wife, Darcie Clark, who also lives in the Tri-Cities.

Schoenborn, 47, murdered their three children — Kaitlynne, 10, Max, eight, and Cordon, five — in Merritt in 2008; he was found NCR two years later because of a mental illness.

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Anton did not appeal the board’s decision as she said the government had no legal basis to do so.

In a statement issued last Friday, Anton offered her sympathy to Clarke and her family, saying, “I hope they’re able to find some comfort resulting from this decision by Crown Counsel.

I can’t imagine what an ordeal this has been for them over the past number of years.”

Family spokesperson Dave Teixeira told The TriCity News Clarke and her relatives are “ecstatic” about

the application to keep Schoenborn behind bars.

Thursday’s appearance at the B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster is expected to be short, with a formal hearing date set within six weeks, he said.

Schoenborn is due to reappear before the B.C. Review Board in May 2016 at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam.

A “high-risk accused” status would also extend Schoenborn’s review period to once every three years. jwarren@tricitynews.com @jwarrenTC

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t was a shockingly simple image that captured the world’s attention this week and propelled the desperation of the Syrian refugee crisis into our collective psyche.

A small boy lay face down in the sand, as though he were sleeping.

But he was not sleeping. He had drowned.

In a second photo, a police officer carried the child’s body, his feet dangling, up the beach. What parent who has carried their own sleeping child did not feel a stab of recognition and imagine for a few seconds their own worst nightmares?

That image brought the Syrian crisis home in a personal, emotional way that repeated United Nations reports could not.

For a moment, the world was a witness, in the way it was decades earlier when the photo of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack in Vietnam

was seared into our consciousness.

Of course, the humanitarian crisis in Syria is not new. For years, a desperate population has been attempting to flee the country’s civil war.

Reports of atrocities in that country on the part of all combatants have been horrific. Children have been imprisoned, tortured, killed and gassed.

That families would take a desperate gamble in trying to flee is a sad and unsurprising result.

So far, the response of the West to those people caught in the crossfire has been entirely inadequate.

There is no simple answer for what to do about the wider, complex war that spawned this horror.

But we hope a more immediate response will be for nations like ours to open their arms a little wider.

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TRI-CITIES DEVELOPMENT

Construction is having an effect on water in Tri-Cities The Editor, Re. “Trees fall, habitat ruined as larger homes are built” (Letters, The Tri-City News, Aug. 19).

A letter to Coquitlam city council: I would like to follow up on Brenda Gable’s letter. I have seen mega-home construction in the vicinity of my house, and it is really disturbing.

Next door to me, a new house foundation has covered most of the small lot and the new wall is not 10 feet from my property line, as Ms. Gable mentioned in her letter, but just six feet. This mega-home is built on a 550 sq. m lot and is taking up a significant portion of the lot surface with a foundation trench more than 10 feet deep. Instead of the two neighbours my property had some 20 years ago, today there are four, including two recently built large homes and one megastructure under construction.

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New houses are taking up more and more space on established lots, affecting drainage, says the letter writer. served water there for most of the year before the new development began. The grass in my yard stayed green without any need for watering all year round and several large trees were also growing well.

With subdivision development and deep drainage to accommodate large basements for two-storey buildings, water in my drainage well has become less and less frequent and

the grass has required watering more and more often. It has become obvious to me that year after year, the water table has been lower and lower with all of the consequences. There is less rain water getting into the soil because more and more rain water lands on the roofs that are more densely packed.

Also, larger houses are being built where the water becomes diverted as waste into the city

drainage system. This rain water has not been given the opportunity to help the local environment and vegetation or support a sustainable underground water resource.

To make the situation worse, with limited feeding of the aquifer by rain, the water table has been further lowered by drainage, which today is deeper and deeper to allow larger and larger homes to be built.

Furthermore, global weather changes and warmer and dryer summers like this year’s should be expected to be more frequent. The same water resource that has been in abundance in the past will become more and more scarce.

By building these megahomes, we are creating an environmental problem with a growing water deficiency. This problem will be impossible to solve in the future unless we change our construction habits today or accept desert as the standard around our homes.

Marek Gnatowski, Coquitlam

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REFUGEE CRISIS

Why don’t the Saudis help?

The Editor, Re. “Refugee crisis hits home in Coq.” (The Tri-City News, Sept. 4).

It’s interesting how Saudi Arabia is quiet when it comes to refugees. One of the richest countries just watches the suffering.

Its main focus is on power, money and oil. Saudi Arabia has, for decades, been buddies with the U.S. but has duped the Americans more than once in this unholy alliance and now the crunch is coming.

Brian Robinson, Coquitlam

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‘We can move mountains’ for refugees JEFF NAGEL BLACK PRESS

B.C. ANNOUNCES $1 MILLION TO HELP

B.C. took in just 72 government-assisted refugees from Syria over the past two and a half years and advocates say there’s room for many more.

They compare Canada’s response to the current refugee crisis, in which Ottawa has pledged to take 10,000 Syrians spread out over three years, to how the country stepped up to accept fleeing Vietnamese boat people.

In 1980, Canada welcomed more than 19,200 southeast Asian refugees and nearly 60,000 more were sponsored over two years by churches and other groups.

“If there is political will, we can move mountains,” said Chris Friesen, chair of the Canadian Immigrant Settlement Sector Alliance. “So far, we haven’t seen that under the Harper government. We have been far more generous in the past than we have in recent times.”

The current trickle of arriving government-assisted Syrians, perhaps a dozen a year into Surrey alone, is a drop in the bucket of the city’s rapidly growing population, which climbs by about 1,000 new residents a month.

The number of additional church-sponsored Syrian refugees is uncertain but is likely tiny, according to Friesen, who is also director of settlement services for the Immigrant Services Society of B.C. Most of the 72 Syrians have come to B.C. from Lebanon but others have arrived via Turkey and Malaysia, he said, and they come from a range of ethnic backgrounds from Kurds to Sunni Muslims.

“Surrey, Burnaby and New West are the primary destinations at the moment, largely due to the ability to find affordable housing,” Friesen said.

Friesen said he and other immigrant advocates want Ottawa to enact an emergency refugee plan that was drawn up as a contingency in 2002 following the Kosovo refugee crisis to swiftly bring in a significant number of additional refugees, in consultation with the UN. In addition, he says the gov-

The provincial government has pledged $1 million for programs to help settlement agencies and private sponsors support Syrian refugees coming to B.C. Funds announced Tuesday by Premier Christy Clark will complement existing provincial and federal support programs, and will go toward trauma counselling for Syrian refugees, programs to help B.C.-based professional agencies review and approve foreign credentials, matching funds for businesses wiling to train and commit to hiring a Syrian refugee, support for local government welcome programs, and funds to assist private sponsors work through the refugeesponsorship process.

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WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP

A groundswell of public demand to aid refugees has followed the tragic drowning of two young Syrian boys and their mother, whose sister in Coquitlam wanted to bring them all to B.C. “People want to do something,” said Chris Friesen of the Immigrant Services Society of B.C. “Many are looking into how to sponsor a refugee.”

He suggests Lower Mainland residents consider volunteering with one of the agencies that assist refugees.

“We are always looking for longer term families to be matched with refugee families to provide them with additional support services.”

Other avenues for making a difference include donating to charities assisting refugees overseas or the UN Refugee Agency. ernment can and should issue minister’s permits to immediately reunify extended family members of Syrians already in Canada.

That provision allows those family members who are in danger to come here in as little as 72 hours, leaving some aspects of refugee application processing, such as medical exams and clearances, to be conducted in Canada.

“The minister has a number of tools at his discretion which currently have not been used and given the current crisis should immediately be initiated.”

As for the slow pace of meeting Canada’s commitment to take in Syrians, Friesen said that’s due to the government’s insistence most be sponsored by the faith community, rather than being government-assisted. “They should have committed to 10,000 governmentassisted refugees and then allow church communities to undertake additional sponsorship,” Friesen said.

Immigration lawyer Richard Kurland believes there are plenty of churches and other groups and individuals eligible and willing to sponsor more refugees, but Ottawa has arbitrarily imposed a quota that creates a slow bottleneck for processing sponsored applications.

“The problem is the immigration minister is processing about seven or eight cases a day,” Kurland said, arguing that could be changed at the stroke of a pen as there’s no lack of staff or resources. “If the minister says instead of processing about eight cases a day, process 20 or 25, it’s an immediate solution.”

As it sits, he said, a flawlessly completed new refugee application filed now faces a 42-month processing wait.

“The only thing blocking the entry to Canada is the minister’s decision on the quota.”

He said accelerating approval of sponsored refugees would come at no cost to the government because sponsor groups are volunteering to pay.

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Tima Kurdi speaks to reporters last Thursday outside her Coquitlam home about the death of her nephews and sister-in-law, Syrian refugees who were trying to leave Turkey when they drowned.

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Want a healthy kid?

Make healthy lunches BC Children’s takes bite out of healthy lunch-making With the new school year beginning in full today (Wednesday), nutrition experts at BC Children’s Hospital shared some fresh ideas to help parents prep lunch boxes.

“Lunches are important for growing, learning bodies. By finding nutritious foods and fun ways to share those foods, B.C. children will be better equipped to concentrate on school and all other facets of their lives,” Lorrie Chow, a registered dietitian, said in a BC Children’s press release.

Added Dr. Jean-Pierre Chanoine, the head of the hospital’s Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes: “With a little time and attention, food can be made healthy and fun for kids of all ages.

Make small changes to start, and add more ideas in when you can. The start of a new school year is a great time for everyone to renew their approaches to food.”

Here are some tips from the experts at BC Children’s Hospital: • Involve your kids: Take your kids to the grocery store and have them help choose the menu.

When children have invested time and energy in their lunches they’re more likely to eat them.

Make grocery shopping fun by involving kids in picking themes or colours to guide lunch choices.

• It takes two: When prepping morning snacks for recess, choose two foods from two different food groups for a balanced diet. For example, cheese and crackers or yogurt and fruit.

• Eat the rainbow: Colourful fruits and vegetables are great ways to add nutrition. You can chop up some green, red, yellow and orange peppers, carrots, green beans, and celery for crunchy snacks and add a healthy dip like hummus. Strawberries, kiwis, and oranges are also great sources of Vitamin C. • Infuse your water: Add extra flavour to your water bottle with strawberries, oranges, watermelon, cucumbers or mint, for a fun and healthy alternative to pop.

• Think outside the average lunch box: Look for attractive reusable lunch packaging that can keep food cool or warm depending on the dish.

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• Work together: Work with your children and family to make healthy eating a priority. Set an example and remember that it takes time to develop good habits. Encourage each other along the way.

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Drug use, abuse is covered in forum Drug education series will start tonight in Port Moody

Share Alcohol and Drug Program invites you to attend any or all of its upcoming education series.

The program is open to everyone in the TriCities and will offer important information for those who have an alcohol or drug problem, or for those concerned about their use. It will help those people affected by others’ use to understand addicts and addictive behaviour.

There is no cost for this group. The format consists of a video, a brief presentation and open discussion, and topics will vary from week to week, as outlined below: • TONIGHT, Sept. 9: Use, misuse, abuse — gain a better understanding of substances.

• Sept. 16: Medical aspects and effects of alcohol and drug abuse. What happens to the body and mind under the influence?

• Sept. 23: Alcohol — how dependence develops; controlled using; effects on pregnant women. Also, you will learn briefly about drinking, drugs and driving.

• Sept. 30: Cocaine and crystal meth — the struggle to recover, and what long-term recovery looks like.

• Oct. 7: Marijuana — a second-class addiction?

• Nov. 18: Heroin and other common depressants/opiates — addiction, struggle and recovery.

• Nov. 25: Trauma and substance use — the possible effects of the influence of trauma on substance use.

• Dec. 2: Anger — understanding your anger and learning how to manage it more effectively.

• Dec. 9: Stress — learning how to cope with little and big problems without using.

• Dec. 16: Mental Illness, depression and addiction — understanding the links between the mental illness and addiction will be the goal.

• Dec. 23: Relapse prevention — discussion on the psychological, emotional and physical aspects of relapsing and what can be done.

• Dec. 30: Substance-affected — how others’ misuse of alcohol and drugs affects us, and how to help others.

• Jan. 6: Stage 2 recovery — life in the future.

• Jan. 13: Problem gambling — gaining a better understanding about gambling addiction and recovery.

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• Al-Anon Adult Children meets at 8 p.m.

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• Fibromyalgia support group meets, 1-3 p.m., on the fourth Thursday of each month (except December) at Coquitlam Public Library, Poirier branch, 575 Poirier St. Education and support for adults who are living with this chronic illness.

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Following are listings from the Support Groups section of The Tri-City News’ Community Calendar: • GriefShare is a support group for people who have lost a spouse, child, family member or friend through death. This 11-week, Christ-centred, biblically based support group meets every Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon, Northside Church, 1460 Lansdowne Dr., Coquitlam. Each session has a video presentation followed by small group discussion and you can attend at anytime. Info: 604-472-9988.

• Al-Anon, a fellowship of friends and family of alcoholics who come together to share their experience, strength and hope, meets on Mondays, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Women’s Resource Centre, 2420 Mary Hill Rd., PoCo. Info: Elaine with Al-Anon Central Services Society, 604-688-1716.

• Alateen meetings, 8-9 p.m. on Wednesdays, St. Andrews United Church, 2318 St. Johns St., Port Moody, for teenagers whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking; meetings are anonymous and confidential, and closed to the general public. Info: 604-688-1716 or www. bcyukon-al-anon.org.

• TOPS chapters meet weekly at numerous Tri-City locations. For information on group near you: Gail, 604-941-2907.

• Al-Anon Family Group meets at 1 p.m.

Mondays, 8 p.m. Wednesdays and noon Saturdays at Como Lake United church, 535

You can add your non-profit community event to The Tri-City News’ online calendar — for free, no registration required. At www.tricitynews.com/community/submit-an-event, you can add your event.

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• Irritable bowel syndrome support group meets monthly in PoMo to exchange information, to offer one another support, and to share experiences and coping strategies. Info: 604-875-4875 or www.badgut.org.

• Crossroads Hospice Society hosts a free walking group for the bereaved, Fridays, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Group meets at Crossroads Labyrinth Healing Garden in Pioneer Memorial Park at Ioco Rd. and Heritage Mountain Blvd. Hospice volunteers will be present on the free walk through Rocky Point Park or Orchard Park.

Newcomers can register by calling Castine at 604-949-2274.

• Christian 12-step group for people with alcohol, drug, and gambling addictions meets at 7:15 p.m. every Monday Coquitlam Presbyterian Church, 948 Como Lake Ave., Coquitlam. Info: 604939-6136 or www.hiscpc.org.

• Coquitlam Support Group: Change, Crisis to Creativity meets Thursday evenings. Group meets twice a month to support one another through major changes, including unemployment, family crisis, death, illness, separation/divorce, empty nest, retirement, etc., and working towards positive, creative lifestyle. Info: Mara, 604-931-7070.

• Fibromyalgia support group meets every fourth Thursday of each month at Dogwood Pavilion, 1 to 3 p.m., except December.

Info: Joan, 604-944-2506.

• Dogwood White Cane Club meets every Thursday from September to June, 12:30-2:30 p.m., Dogwood Pavilion. Those who are legally blind (registered with the CNIB) are welcome.

• CancerConnection peer volunteers offer one-to-one information and emotional support to people living with cancer. Info: 1-888-939-3333.

• Tri-Cities Caregiver Network gives caregivers a safe place to express and deal with their emotions and concerns. Group discussions, speakers and films are part of the program. Meet every 2nd and 4th Friday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon.

• DivorceCare is a special weekly seminar and support group for people who are separated or divorced, Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Coquitlam Alliance church, corner of Mariner and Spuraway,

Coquitlam. Seminar sessions include “Facing my Anger,” “Facing my Loneliness,” “Depression,” “Forgiveness” and “New Relationships.” Info: 604-464-6744.

• TRICEPS, Tri-Cities Early Psychosis Support meets the second Wednesday of each month, 7-9 p.m., at Eagle Ridge Hospital (Parklane Room), PoMo. TRICEPS is a non-profit support group providing education and support to parents, spouses and siblings whose family member has recently been diagnosed with psychosis.

• Women in Mid-life Self-help Group meets first and third Wednesdays of each month, Mountain View elementary school, Coquitlam. Info: Lynne, 604-937-3946.

• Coquitlam Prostate Cancer Support and Awareness Group meets the first Tuesday of every month, 7 p.m., Pinetree community centre. Info: 604-936-2632.

• PoCo Stroke Recovery Branch would like to welcome new members; meetings are held Mondays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at Wilson Centre, PoCo. There is opportunity for speech maintenance, meeting others that have gone through the similar situation and light exercises or bocce. Info: Deanna, 604-942-2334.

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• Food Addicts Anonymous meets Mondays, 7:30 p.m., Room 338, Columbia Tower, Royal Columbia Hospital, New Westminster. Info: Michael, 604-930-8338 or www.foodaddictsanonymous.org.

• B.C. Schizophrenia Society meets the second Monday of each month, 7:30 p.m., McGee Room, Poirier rec centre, 630 Poirier St., Coquitlam. Info: 604-523-1072.

• Coquitlam Women’s Transition House is an emergency shelter for physically and/or emotionally abused women and their children. Info: 604-464-2020.

• 12-Step meetings for individuals struggling with relationships, dysfunctional behaviours or substance abuse. 12 Steps are used in a Christian context, Wednesday or Thursday nights at 7:30 p.m.

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TRI-CITY LITERACY

Madness and science make book bedfellows A GOOD READ MICHAEL DEKOVEN

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here is a long history of crazy scientists in books and movies, but sometimes it’s the science itself that is mad, unexpected or just plain strange.

You could start with Randall Munroe’s book What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.

Munroe provides scientifically valid — though highly speculative — answers to such pressing topics as “Can you build a functional jet pack from downward firing machine guns?” and “What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning but the atmosphere retained its velocity?” The author is well known for his web comic xkcd. com and the few questions that have been recycled from his website feature expanded answers.

Mark Miodownik, a professor of material science at University College London, introduces us to the wondrous inner life of materials such as glass, steel, plastic, and concrete through some everyday objects most of us take for granted. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape our ManMade World is based around a photo of Mark in his London

rooftop garden. The concrete of a nearby skyscraper, the porcelain of his tea cup, the paper in a book lead him to muse on the history, physics and chemistry of the material involved as well as the psychology of how we interact with these materials. The strangeness enters when he presents some less commonly encountered modern materials such as graphene and silica aerogels.

Any evil genius should have a variety of appropriate science trivia at hand and Mad Science: Einstein’s Fridge, Dewar’s Flask, Mach’s Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries that Made Our World, edited by Randy Alfred, provides a convenient list of 365 random scientific breakthroughs or inventions — one for each day of the year.

From the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar on Jan. 1, 1583 to the first use of an early version of the breathalyzer on New Year’s Eve 1938 and everything in between, Wired magazine’s “This Day in Tech” team give a breezy and often punfilled page on a wide range of subjects, including space science, computers, medicine, food and war.

Science journalist Sam Kean takes us on a fun and painless tour of what he considers “one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind” in The Disappearing Spoon and Other Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Kean outlines the properties of each of the elements and how they interact with each other (enabling the creation of chemical compounds) in a readable and engaging style. He keeps the tone lively, with lots of anecdotes about the scientists involved in the discovery of the elements as well as the related commercial, scientific, and political shenanigans resulting from some of those discoveries.

Moving from general works to the reminiscences of a particular scientist, one of the best books ever written by a scientist has to be Richard Feynman’s Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman:

Adventures of a Curious Character. Feynman was a member of the Manhattan Project team that built the first atomic bomb, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work in quantum

electrodynamics; he had an intense, wide-ranging curiosity about life and was more than a bit of a prankster. The book is a rambling series of funny stories about his life and obsessions in rough chronological order.

You can find these and other popular science titles at your local library.

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PHOTOS NEEDED

Pictures of scenic views, parks, festivals, active living and landmarks in Port Coquitlam continue to be sought for the city’s 2016 calendar.

A dozen photos will be picked for the city’s 9” by 12” glossy calendar as well as for other civic publications and the online gallery; photo credit will be given.

To upload photos, send horizontal photos in a jpeg or tiff format (at least 300 dpi, 13 wide by 10 deep, or at least 2 MB) to portcoquitlam.ca/photos.

ARTIST CALL

Visual artists have a bit more time to apply to be part of the city of Port Moody’s inaugural Day of Arts celebration.

Last week, the municipality extended the deadline to Sunday, Sept. 13 to allow more visual artists to sign up for the event, which will happen Sept. 26 at PoMo city hall from noon to 5 p.m. The festivities coincide with Culture Days, an annual focus on the fine arts nationwide. Among the Tri-City artists registered for the Day of Arts include sculptor Ati Ahkami, drawer Tracey Costescu and the Caufield School of Dance.

Food and beverage vendors will also offer tasty treats.

Go to portmoody.ca.

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Pupils in kindergarten to Grade 3 looking for a bit more help with their reading can join Port Coquitlam’s Reading Buddies.

Young students are paired with a teen volunteer to help them practise their literacy skills. The free program starts Sept. 22 at the Terry Fox Library and runs each Tuesday from 3:45 to 4:30 p.m. until Oct. 27. To apply, pick up a form at the library (2470 Mary Hill Rd., PoCo) .

Meanwhile, Tri-City residents whose English is not their first language can join a free conversation group at the library on Thursdays.

The meeting is co-sponsored by Share and runs from 10:30 a.m. to noon. jwarren@tricitynews.com

Gold Creek trees and DeBoville Slough grasses in Coquitlam, an area Joseph Therrien explored while growing up in the Tri-Cities in the 1950s and ‘60s.

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Nature, in black and white JANIS WARREN The Tri-CiTy News

His days growing up hiking and camping around the northeastern part of the Tri-Cities set the stage for his career in the arts.

Back then, Joseph Therrien explored DeBoville Slough and Minnekhada regional park with his friends and fellow Cubs and Scouts.

The area had not seen much development and the semirural charm piqued Thierren’s love for nature.

As a teen, he discovered the pictures of Ansel Adams, the renowned photographer and environmentalist who captured black and white landscapes of the American west.

Thierren was immediately entranced. “I saw in his work some of the things I was experiencing myself,” he said. “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s amazing.

I would love to do that.’”

And so, at the age of 17, Thierren bought a cheap, Russian-made Zenit-E camera and set up a darkroom studio at home.

By then, Thierren was also falling in love with other creative forms and was taken under the wing of his Centennial secondary teacher, Don Portelance.

After graduation, Thierren studied at the Vancouver School of Art — later renamed Emily Carr University of Art + Design — but dropped out after two years.

He enrolled in the faculty of education at UBC, majoring in fine arts, and took classes with some of the best art instructors at the time such as Bob Steele,

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Left: Fraser Canyon. Above: Minnekhada Marsh, at the regional park in Coquitlam.

who guided him in printmaking.

Soon, the Port Coquitlam resident gained work as a visual arts teacher in the Surrey school district, helping his students through drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture and, of course, film photography.

When the industry moved to digital, Thierren was resistant at first. Digital photography was still in its infancy and the cost of a digital camera was prohibitive.

But he could see the tech-

nology moving quickly and Thierren eventually decided to jump on the bandwagon. A decade ago, he took a course and bought his first digital camera.

However, he continued to teach the basics of film photography to his students as well. “They learned how to use aperture and shutter speeds so when they went to digital, they had some tools. Digital isn’t just point and shoot.”

Two years ago, around the same time he retired, Thierren could see the digital advances

had taken a significant leap so he picked up a new camera: a Nikon D800. He also purchased an Epsom printer and “I’m getting results that, in my opinion, look like silver gelatin prints from a dark room. It’s remarkable.”

Now, Thierren travels to places near and far to compose ideal landscape photos.

On Friday, he’ll open an exhibit at Coquitlam’s Place des Arts — ironically, the same facility where Portelance teaches gifted art students — and will show 24 pieces documented over the past two years. There are images of his beloved DeBoville Slough, Golden Ears Park, Pitt Meadows and the Fraser Canyon. He also added scenes from a trip to Yellowstone Park.

None are in colour. “I think in black and white,” he said.

Thierren is pleased with the results of his show. “It reflects

a lot of how I feel about nature.

They are interpreted through my inspiration of Ansel Adams and other black-and-white landscape photographers like John Sexton.”

He added, “It’s hard to describe the love of nature as expressed through photography. It’s hard to capture it.

Sometimes, you feel the place but the light is wrong or the time of day isn’t right. But you try to use your skills to express that feeling you see before you, which can be breathtaking.”

• The opening reception for Joseph Thierren’s exhibit is Friday, Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. at Place des Arts (1120 Brunette Ave., Coquitlam). Also opening that night are displays from Jeanette Sirois and Place des Arts’ teachers and staff.

Admission is free. Call 604-6641636 or visit placedesarts.ca.

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VISUAL ARTS

Teens can learn to draw like the masters JANIS WARREN

Recently, I have opened my program to young individuals who have a real earnest desire to unravel the mysteries of expressing realism. I am amazed to see their level of enthusiasm and focus despite our modern “just-press-this-button” automated digital world.

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For the past two years, Mark Anthony has guided students at the Port Moody Arts Centre with their drawing techniques.

And this week, he starts a new series that helps teens learn the traditional and classical styles of the European masters. Today (Wednesday), Anthony launches Great Masters - Louvre Museum while tomorrow he kicks off Great Illustrators - Norman Rockwell.

The fall workshops will be followed in late October with Great Illustrators - JC Leyendecker and Great Masters - Metropolitan Museum. The Tri-City News caught up with Anthony last week to find out why he’s offering the classical drawing series and who would best suit it.

Tri-City News: What is your arts background?

Mark Anthony: I was born into a traditional European family and culture and, as far back as I can remember, I had a romantic fascination with old Europe with all of its elegance and poetic charm. At 12 years of age I fell into an inspiring experience that defined the rest of my working life. Within a few minutes, while watching a live portrait session for the first time, I made a decision

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Mark Anthony will lead a classical drawing series at the Port Moody Arts Centre this fall, for teens aged 12 to 15. His first two workshops — Great Masters - Louvre Museum and Great Illustrators Norman Rockwell — start this week. The next two begin in late October. and said to myself, “This is what I want to be, a portraitist.”

So began my lifelong passionate study to understand how the Great European Masters executed such dramatic and poetic expressions of life using the simplest of tools. It wasn’t the medium they used but their deep visual understand-

ing and genius that allowed them to draw with simple handmade tools like charcoal and ink with the power of a well-executed oil painting.

TCN: How long have you taught at PMAC? MA: In 2013, I had the privilege of meeting Ruth Hoyem

who at the time worked as the director at the centre. Since then, I have enjoyed working along with other qualified instructors at the centre.

My programs are generally adult based and I place heavy emphasis on learning fundamental lessons from great masterworks and collections.

TCN: Why do you teach teens about classical drawing?

MA: Classical drawing stems from the Greek classical period. The great sculptures from this period profiled an ideal approach to understanding and expressing beauty especially in terms of the human form. This is what lit the European world on fire during the Italian Renaissance and the leaps-and-bounds advancement of realistic, gestural and poetic expression especially in painting and drawing. We live in a very photography-bound society. Artists today rarely push themselves to work hard enough to express realism the way our human mind understands visual stimulation and selective focus. It is easy to see that much representational artwork today is generated through a camera lens, which sees differently than our mind sees. The old masters were not burdened with photo technology. This makes them excellent models to learn from.

TCN: Why did you choose

Louvre, Norman Rockwell, Leyendecker and the Metropolitan as your topics?

MA: I regret that our exposure to great masterworks is so limited in Canada. Especially, with a large population base in the Lower Mainland, it would be nice to have some corporate and government sponsorship to build a real landmark this side of the country. New York did it with the Met. France did it with the Louvre. Russia did it with the Hermitage. I would love to see small centres like PMAC hosting a small, world-class Great Masterworks exhibit once in a while…. It is also great for young people to see the unbroken thread of traditional fundamentals as they also provide the foundations for modern illustrating.

TCN: Can a beginner register for your class?

MA: Yes, absolutely.

Drawing is a natural human activity. Any toddler responds to the desire to draw just as they do to the desire to walk, sing, dance, etc. Drawing is the most direct connection between what we see and what we express artistically. All that is required is that someone helps them to understand what they see in definable terms.

• To register for one of Mark Anthony’s classical drawing workshops, call at 604-9312008 or visit pomoarts.ca.

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Place des Arts’ annual open house on Saturday is organized by fine and performing arts programmer Oliver McTavish-Wisden (above, holding an arts passport).

OPEN HOUSE

A pAssporT To The ArTs AT pdA Take a trip to Coquitlam’s Place des Arts this Saturday and get your “passport” stamped.

On Sept. 12, the arts and music centre invites participants to take a tour of the facility, join an activity station and earn a sticker in their Passport to the Arts for a chance to win prizes.

Kids and teens can create selfies, comic jam, practise tap steps, pound the drums and make masks, among other things. Youth must go to at least six stations and complete the crafts to get a sticker while adults will be required to attend at least four stations and talk to teachers to get answers to questions in the passport.

The aim of the annual open house is to entice residents to learn more about Place des Arts’ programs. The event runs from 2 to 4 p.m. at 1120 Brunette Ave. Admission is free but registration is appreciated by calling 604-664-1636 or visiting brownpapertickets.com. jwarren@tricitynews.com

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The Lou Sekora amphitheatre, south of Place des Arts in Maillardville, has been closed for at least two years now. The area is under review as part of the city of Coquitlam’s new strategic arts plan.

ARTS CULTURAL PLANS

Ready for the visions The long-awaited arts and culture visions for the cities of Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam are expected to go before their respective city councils next month.

And it’s anticipated the blueprints will provide clarity for how the municipalities can benefit from having more arts programs and services to satisfy the growing population over the next 15 to 20 years.

This summer, Coquitlam staff presented its key findings from a consulting firm that gauged public feedback on current needs and wants.

But of the 601 people randomly picked to be interviewed by phone, only half were residents of Coquitlam.

Of those who lived in Coquitlam, 88% said they ranked arts, culture and heritage as “very important” or “somewhat important.”

They said they want events to take their families to and/ or have some outdoor and multicultural component. A large proportion also said they want more investment in the Coquitlam Public Library, which has a renovated branch

on Poirier Street and a new branch in City Centre.

Michelle Hunt, Coquitlam’s director of planning businesses services, told The Tri-City News the consulting firm also identified more than 200 cultural resources in Coquitlam. “It was a bit of a surprise,” she said.

“Everybody thinks about our five big arts centres but what gets lost are how the private companies and non-profit groups also contribute.”

The call for an arts strategic plan came up during council’s 2013 budget discussions. The following year, it earmarked $100,000 to take a deeper look at how the city could expand the industry. When complete, the document will dovetail into the city’s final parks and recreation master plan.

Coquitlam has plenty of gaps and redundancies to address, Hunt acknowledged.

The Innovation Centre — next to the Evergreen Cultural Centre — is under-utilized and several capital and operating projects have been sidelined until the new arts strategy is adopted. Among them, the seating area for the

Lou Sekora Amphitheatre in Carré Heritage Square. Two years ago, the city closed the Maillardville venue for safety reasons. Since the facility was installed in 1999, the stones have become loose and the pavers uneven. “It’s no longer just a maintenance issue. It needs something more of a permanent solution,” said Joan McCauley, executive director of Place des Arts.

Still, Hunt said the city has already made headway in a number of areas including moving forward with a new amphitheatre at Town Centre Park. She said the consulting firm found 81% of respondents in favour of the proposed site.

“We’ve been getting some bad press about this but the general population clearly wants it for outdoor festivals.”

Meanwhile, in Port Coquitlam, city council is set to hear from its consultant in late October or early November.

The consultant’s presentation was delayed in July to gather more information, a city spokesperson said.

Port Moody is set to revise its arts strategy next year.

FILM

COQ. FLICK IN SAN FRAN DANCE FEST A Coquitlam dancer and filmmaker will see her latest work shown at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival.

Linda Arkelian and her film partner David Cooper — the acclaimed Canadian dance and theatre photographer — produced Eclipse, a 2013 piece focusing on Thibaut Eiferman and Darren Devaney, two former Ballet BC dancers.

The film will run Oct. 10 at the Brava Theatre and both Arkelian and Cooper will attend. “It’s an honour to be there,” she said.

It’s not the first time the two have paired up. She collaborated with Cooper on the 2012 flick Hands, also dance film.

Arkelian, who teaches advanced ballet/pointe class

Get your dancing shoes on this Saturday night and support an emergency relief effort.

The Hot Salsa Dance Zone will donate all proceeds from its party at the Evergreen Cultural Centre to the United Nations Refugee Agency (unhcr.ca) in Canada to assist the Syrians escaping their war-torn country and flooding into Europe.

The fundraiser will happen in the Evergreen rehearsal hall (at the back of the building) from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

Tickets at $10/$8 are at

the door and parking is free.

Visit hotsalsadancezone. com or call 604-725-4654.

FRINGE

A Port Coquitlam native is seeing her company remount its first production during the Vancouver Fringe Festival .

Maryanne Renzetti of Staircase Theatre is starring in Oh the Humanity (and other good intentions) by Will Eno at the Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova St., Vancouver) until Sept. 16.

The show is directed by Brian Cochrane, a Jessie

award winner, and also includes actors Brad Duffy and Tom Pickett.

“We couldn’t have been happier with the results,” Renzetti said in a news release. “This was our first time producing and back in 2010 we learned a lot of things by trial and error. We had a lot of help from our more experienced friends and we somehow pulled it off.”

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POZZOLO PERFECT AS KAOS WIN CUP

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The Port Coquitlam Euro-Rite club took on Penticton during under-15 girls soccer action at Town Centre Park as part of the 29th Annual Labour Day weekend tournament in partnership with the SX Cup.

The Coquitlam Metro-Ford Kaos are SX Cup champions after taking down the Prince George Timberwolves 1-0 in the finals of the under-17 Labour Day Tournament.

Goalie Josie Pozzolo only allowed one goal all weekend, earning three shutouts including a 4-0 in over Port Moody and a 1-0 win over the Delta Coastal Sting. The team’s other win was a 2-1 decision against North Shore and with the 3-0 record in round-robin play the club quickly advanced to the finals.

A strong defence from players like Maggy Spency and Kara Plican was also a factor in the club’s success, as well as strong work at the midfield from Mady Weir.

The Kaos also got some timely goals, with Catrina Olstrom, Renee Baker and Amanda Kristiansen all chipping in with markers over the course of the weekend.

The team finished up the tournament with four wins, eight goals for and one goal against. sports@tricitynews.com

AT THE RINK

Jr. hockey clubs get down to business GARY MCKENNA The Tri-CiTy News

The Coquitlam Express may be 0-5 in exhibition play, but none of that will matter when the team starts playing for keeps this weekend.

The British Columbia Hockey League club starts their 58-game schedule on Saturday against the Chilliwack Chiefs, a team the Express lost to last weekend in a pre-season matchup.

While roster spots are still

being firmed up, Coquitlam coach Barry Wolff will get a chance to see how his team performs when there are two points on the line, wins the team will desperately need if it hopes to be on the right side of the playoff bar come March.

The Express had a tough showing last week as the team slogged its way through a fivegame exhibition schedule.

On Saturday, in the final preseason match, Coquitlam fell 4-2 to the Surrey Eagles at the South Surrey Arena. The team

also had a difficult time in last Thursday’s matchup against Wenatchee — the BCHL’s newest franchise.

The American squad put up six goals while Coquitlam was not able to garner any offence.

While the regular season will be under way starting this weekend, it will be a while before any local fans get a taste of the action.

The Express are not scheduled to play at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex until October 3, when the

club is expected to take on the Cowichan Valley Capitals.

PANTHERS

The Coquitlam Express are not the only junior hockey team gearing up for the season.

The Pacific Junior Hockey League’s Port Moody Panthers are also set to launch their 44-game junior B season this Saturday when the Ridge Meadows Flames come to the Port Moody Arena.

The Cats have won a game

and lost a game to the Flames during exhibition play, a fourgame series that saw the club go 1-2-1. Aside from the loss to the Flames last week, the club also dropped a 3-0 decision to the Grandview Steelers on Friday.

Saturday’s Port Moody Panthers home opener will start at 7:45 p.m. at the Port Moody Arena. For more information go to www.portmoodypanthers.com. sports@tricitynews.com @gmckennaTC

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UNIVERSITY SPORTS

PoMo’s Jones notches first of season for SFU Port Moody soccer player Kyle Jones scored the lone goal for the Simon Fraser University Clan during a 1-1 game against the California Baptist Lancers in a match that was eventually called early because of a lightning storm.

SFU outshot their opponents 20-3 and were dominant for most of the match, which ended 17 minutes early because of the weather.

The Clan started off the match with back-to-back shots on net but the Lancers were able to turn the play around and make it 1-0.

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In the second half, the Clan had a 7-1 advantage on the shot clock but could not find a way to score the go-ahead marker.

The tie was particularly disappointing for new head coach Clint Schneider, who is still looking for his first career win with the a record of 0-1-1 so far this season.

“The boys are disappointed they haven’t been rewarded for their efforts but we are not discouraged,” he said. “We proved today that we have a special squad and now it’s a matter of finishing our chances and eliminating mistakes.”

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