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NEWS SHOOTING SUSPECTS ARRESTED SARAH PAYNE

The Tri-CiTy News

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Port Coquitlam firefighters work to put out a fire that destroyed several buildings on McAllister Street in downtown PoCo Monday morning. A second fire at a home on Lincoln Avenue occurred early Tuesday morning.

PORT COQUITLAM FIRE

Busy Thanksgiving for firefighters Fire strikes in downtown PoCo, Lincoln Avenue DIANE STRANDBERG Tri-CiTy News

Thanksgiving weekend ended on a sour note for several Port Coquitlam property owners and local busi-

nesses as two dangerous fires burned buildings and forced smoke eaters to work overtime to deal with the blazes.

Around 4:30 a.m. Monday the Port Coquitlam fire department was called to a fouralarm fire in the 2200 block of McAllister Street, where a gas line was feeding the fire that damaged a number of businesses.

It took several hours for

the firefighters to put out the inferno, said PoCo Fire Chief Nick Delmonico, adding the fire started in Martha’s Bakery and Cafe and spread to the other businesses via a cavity under the roof.

“A fire of that magnitude with that many structures is always a concern,” said Delmonico, noting that the challenges included overhead wires and the need to

have firefighters on the roof to douse the blaze.

Among the businesses affected were the bakery, a wellness centre and Curves Fitness. Nearby Me-n-Eds’ Pizza Parlor was closed Monday as workers mopped up water and tried to fix computers.

Some of the walls of the businesses had to be torn down to allow fire investiga-

tors into the building to find out what caused the blaze.

Hours later on the other side of town, a house at 1653 Lincoln Ave. started burning and by the time firefighters arrived around 2 a.m. the blaze was fully involved, igniting live rounds of ammunition that added to the fire’s danger. see LIVE AMMO, page 8

Two suspects are in custody after a targeted shooting in Coquitlam Monday night.

Shortly before 10:20 p.m. several shots were fired at an unoccupied vehicle in front of a home in the 1200block of Thomas Avenue in Maillardville, after which the suspects fled. A person living in the home said the suspect vehicle was an older black SUV; the description was distributed to all Lower Mainland police agencies and shortly after 11 p.m. the same evening Surrey RCMP located a vehicle matching that description.

“Officers conducted a stop and took the two occupants into custody,” said Coquitlam RCMP Const. Jamie Phillipson.

They also noted a visible firearm in the SUV. The two parties involved know each other, Phillipson said, “which played into us being able to locate that specific vehicle.”

Surrey RCMP transported the suspects back to Coquitlam, where they remain in custody.

Police have also seized the SUV and the investigation continues.

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DEVELOPMENT

City of Lougheed rises next door Massive development plans unfold on Coq.’s border

downtown [Vancouver] core will be very difficult,” he said, later adding that he believes “over the long run, [the offices] will be occupied.”

Kwiatkowski is more optimistic.

As Vancouver’s downtown core becomes increasingly expensive, he said commercial office space in the outlining suburbs will become more highly sought after. Lougheed is particularly attractive to companies, he added, because of its connections to rapid transit.

Kwiatkowski said he believes changing attitudes about living closer to where they work will also help bring employers to the Lougheed area.

“Traffic heading to downtown Vancouver hasn’t increased despite the growth [in the region],” he said. “They credit that to transit components but also the mixed-use concept.”

The new development will also feature a variety of housing options, including purpose-built rental residential buildings.

GARY MCKENNA

The Tri-CiTy News

While Tri-City residents have been focused on construction activity in their own community over the last few years, plans are afoot for a massive residential development right on Coquitlam’s doorstep.

When it is completed, the City of Lougheed on the Burnaby side of North Road is expected to boast 23 highrise towers that will house 10,000 people. It will also feature 1.4 million sq. ft. of retail space as well as another million square feet of office space — which is about five times the amount that currently exists in all of Coquitlam, according to the city’s most recent semi-annual economic report.

It is a development that will dramatically change the face of the neighbourhood over the next 15 to 20 years, according to Darren Kwiatkowski, the executive vice-president of development and design at Shape Properties, which owns the 40-acre site.

“There hasn’t been a lot of developable land in the [Lougheed] area over the last decade,” he said. “We think there is pent-up demand.”

A promotional video for the project depicts a grand promenade with street-level shops and restaurants while towers appear across the skyline at the point where the Evergreen Extension joins the rest of the Millennium Line.

While some indoor shopping will be maintained, Kwiatkowski said that over the next 15 years, large portions of the existing mall will be demolished to make way for an outdoor network of streets and plazas. The first tower of the project went on sale this week and there is already interest in the street-level retail the development will offer, he said.

“It will evolve over time,” he said. “We will integrate the new phases with the existing mall.”

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But with larger developments and more residents come increased pressures on the road system, a concern raised by a number of Tri-City News’ letter writers in recent weeks.

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Renderings show various aspects of the new City of Lougheed development. When it is completed in 15 to 20 years, the project is expected to include 23 highrise towers for 10,000 new residents, 1.4 million sq. ft. of retail and one million sq. ft. of office space.

While the City of Lougheed is close to SkyTrain, Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan acknowledges there will be some criticism about the traffic levels associated with the project.

“It is impossible to avoid the criticism because there will be more traffic and all of us know that,” Corrigan told The Tri-City News. “Increased traffic and increased congestion is going to affect livability in these communities.”

But he said some of the pressures on the road system will be mitigated by access to SkyTrain and the fact that employment, shopping and residential units will all be located on one walkable site. He added that most people who live in the new neighbourhood will require no more than one car.

The alternative to high-density developments like what is being proposed at Lougheed is sprawl, Corrigan said, which means more people having to drive longer distances to work and shop.

“When we are growing in a constrained area, there really isn’t an easy way out,” he said.

“You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”

The fact that the project sits on the municipal boundary doesn’t change Burnaby’s approach, he added. There are numerous mixed-use proposals occurring on city borders, Corrigan said, including largescale projects on Coquitlam’s side of the Burquitlam area that he said will affect Burnaby residents.

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manager of community planning, said city staff have been aware of the plans at Lougheed Mall for years, noting the area is a designated town centre in Metro Vancouver’s regional growth strategy.

Planners on both sides of the border are frequently in communication during their neighbourhood planning processes and he noted that Coquitlam’s roads are built to sustain the kinds of traffic that could be generated on the Burnaby side of the boundary.

Despite the fact the Lougheed area encompasses two municipalities, Johannsen said movement between the two communities should be seamless.

“We do keep that in mind,” he said. “When we are plan-

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Jobs are a key component of the City of Lougheed.

Shape Properties said the site will include a million square feet of office space, which is about five times the amount that currently exists in all of Coquitlam, according to the city’s most recent semiannual economic report.

Bringing in the business to fill those commercial spaces will not be easy, Corrigan said, but doing so is necessary in order to create job opportunities for local residents.

“Moving business out of the

While the thought of 23 new towers and millions of square feet of commercial and retail space may seem daunting to current residents of the area, Burnaby’s Corrigan noted that the project will be phased in over time.

The first tower of the first four-tower phase is only just beginning to work its way through the municipal planning process and the neighbourhood plan was developed for a 20- to 30-year timeframe, he said.

“People get intimidated by seeing long-range plans and don’t understand that it is not going to happen all tomorrow,” he said. “I think in some ways, the community can overreact to these things because it seems like it is overwhelming.”

The plans are ambitious, Corrigan said, and the process is necessary to create expectations for residents of how their community will develop in the future.

In Coquitlam, Johannsen said the phased nature of the project means the cities will be able to react to issues as they come up over the two-decade course of development.

“It is something that will grow over time,” he said. “It is not going to drop out of the sky all at once.” gmckenna@tricitynews.com @gmckennaTC

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‘Creepy clown’ threats could lead to charges could face criminal charges.

Students who see this kind of behaviour online are also urged to contact school officials or police.

The letter comes after Prince George schools were in lockdown after creepy clown style threats.

No schools in SD43 have been affected, according to a school district spokesperson. dstrandberg@tricitynews.com @dstrandbergTC

UBCM CONFERENCE

Stamping out the man calling it a bad precedent.

And Powell River Regional District director Colin Palmer said such “silly” resolutions “abuse” the English language.

Palmer argued “man” in many words such as manhole and alderman reflect not exclusive gender but the latin root word “manus” that refers to hand and in some cases the act of voting with the hand.

“Nowadays, some of you are chairs,” he told delegates.

“You used to be a chairman because you voted — you con-

trolled the votes. You used to be an alderman because you were an elder who voted.”

Other delegates on the pro side expressed disbelief that there was any debate whatsoever.

The provincial government replaced the title alderman with councillor years ago after a 1990 request by UBCM. UBCM delegates also passed a resolution urging local governments to develop and implement transgender inclusion policies.

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UBCM will ask the province to force all local governments to use gender-neutral language to be more inclusive of all citizens.

Many cities already choose to do so, but some delegates said holdouts don’t deserve a choice.

A resolution making the request passed, but there were opponents.

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Secure browsing? PoMo teen has an app for that Shoa says his new web browser is private & secure SARAH PAYNE

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Nirvon Shoa has always been a curious kid.

At a little more than two years old he would crawl into his dad’s lap to watch what he was doing on the computer and, by the time he was four, he was already playing video games. By the time he was 10 Shoa had taught himself to create special effects using a green screen, computer programming and game development, 3-D animation and built his own virtual reality headset.

Now a 16-year-old at Heritage Woods secondary, Shoa has a provisional patent

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Nirvon Shoa, a 16-year-old Heritage Woods secondary student, is patenting an app for secure browsing. for a new web browser application he’s been tinkering with for the past couple of years.

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surf the web in privacy mode while maintaining their bookmarks, history and notes.

“It solves a major problem,” Shoa said, by giving users a way to browse in “incognito mode” with the convenience of having their search history and bookmarks at hand with the security of leaving no online footprints behind them.

He started tinkering with the idea a couple of years ago while on a family vacation in Iran. It was too hot to be outside, his mom said, so Shoa stayed indoors with his laptop figuring out how to make an

want to add a layer of security to their mobile banking or keep online shopping hush hush.

Additional features include the ability to swipe left to see bookmarks and swipe right to see notes, instead of having to switch to a different app, as well as a voice command function. There’s a “night mode” that changes the template colours to prevent eye strain, and the Pro version includes an ad blocker and syncs information with a user’s tablet.

The app itself is particularly light on memory, using up

app (Shoa developed the app for android devices because he’d left his Macbook Air at home in Port Moody).

He put it on the back burner during a busy year of International Baccalaureate studies at Port Moody secondary (he switched back to Heritage Woods this year) but kept coming back to it during his holidays.

Shoa said Mint appeals to a range of users, including professionals who may need to keep their search history private in case their phone is misplaced or those who simply

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And the $1.43-billion price tag for that gift will remain so, Fassbender confirmed, despite months of delays in 2015 due to tunnelling issues.

“It’s a fixed-price contract,” he said. “There will be no cost overages to the taxpayers.”

What is known — and what is clearly visible from the vantage point of being on the Evergreen Line — is the amount of change that its construction has ushered in throughout the Tri-Cities.

From the ongoing overhaul of Burquitlam to the potential of Moody Centre, the northward curve at Coquitlam Central Station — with a tiny portion of eastbound track waiting to extend to Port Coquitlam and Ridge Meadows — and the towers of Town Centre, the Evergreen Line will continue to serve as a catalyst for growth and development for decades to come.

“To actually travel along something that we’ve watched come out of the ground and see the development was amazing,” Fassbender said.

“This is the beginning of, I think, a huge growth opportunity for these communities and for the entire region.”

And in an echo of

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From Burquitlam to Lafarge, the views of the TriCities were “spectacular” as a hushed Mark II SkyTrain car loaded with transportation VIPs whizzed along the Evergreen Line Tuesday morning.

And while everyone from Minister of Transportation Peter Fassbender to TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond, SkyTrain boss Vivienne King and Evergreen project head Amanda Farrell were on board, none were able to cough up an official opening date for the long-awaited rapid transit line.

Port Moody-Coquitlam MLA Linda Reimer hinted that it will be another month before officials would be able to close in on a specific date, while Fassbender opted for “it’s coming soon, it’s going to be before Christmas. It’s our Christmas present to the people of the region.”

September’s U.S. presidential election debate, Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart said he’d been waiting for Evergreen “for all of my adult life,” adding he was “ecstatic” to see the trains being tested.

Ridership along the 11-km line (with its curves, hills and steep descent into a two-minute-long tunnel, the Evergreen can feel a bit like a roller coaster) between Coquitlam and Burnaby is expected to reach 70,000 riders daily by 2020, but with only 650 parking spots among the six stations TransLink’s Desmond said transit improvements are needed to get people to those stations without their vehicles. spayne@tricitynews.com @spayneTC

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Firefighters and police were still on the scene of a blaze at 1653 Lincoln Ave. Tuesday morning, after a fire gutted the home and set ablaze some live ammunition.

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“The ammunition started going off and the fire was extremely dangerous,� said Delmonico.

Coquitlam RCMP were on site Tuesday morning to determine if the firearms were improperly stored when the fire started.

Meanwhile, it could be some time before investigators determine the cause of both blazes. Officials were expected to be on the scene of both fires Tuesday with the goal of having a determination by Wednesday. However, Delmonico said the McAllister buildings may just be too damaged to get an exact cause.

Last year, a large fire on Shaughnessy Street that gutted four businesses was deemed to be caused by a towel warmer in a barbershop that short circuited.

Delmonico said he didn’t think extra inspections for older city buildings would have prevented the fires because the causes, at least for the 2015 fire, were random and wouldn’t have been caught by a fire inspection.

He also said the city already has a rigorous fire inspection program in place. “We have a very committed program here,� Delmonico said.

Meanwhile, Coquitlam RCMP were still determining

whether firearms and ammunition were responsible for making the Lincoln Avenue fire more dangerous.

Const. Jamie Phillipson said police have recovered the firearms and will be determining if they were improperly stored. “When it comes to the ammunition, we’re not sure where it was when the fire occurred,� Phillipson said.

If it was not properly stored, the firearms could be seized to make sure they have been properly registered. As well, the gun owners could take advantage of a current gun amnesty and turn the firearms over to police. dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

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UBCM

Stiffer bylaw fines sought JEFF NAGEL

as illegal tree cutting, riparian area damage and dangerous dog violations.

She said the current $1,000 is not worth the time and expense for municipalities to mount a prosecution.

to raise the maximum fine to as much as $5,000 — up from the current $1,000 limit, which hasn’t changed since 2003.

West Vancouver Coun. Nora Gambioli said the a higher limit is needed to punish more serious bylaw offences such

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Cities want the province to allow them to levy stiffer tickets for bylaw violations.

UBCM delegates passed a resolution asking the province

CITY OF COQUITLAM TOWN HALL #coqthm2016

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City of Coquitlam

Notice of Public Consultation The City has received an application to amend the Citywide Official Community Plan (CWOCP) relating to the property located at 1226 Johnson Street. The application proposes a change in the land use designation for the east portion of the property from Townhousing to Medium Density Apartment Residential. If approved, the application would facilitate the development of a townhouse project west of Hudson Street, a four-storey seniors apartment building east of Hudson Street, and the extension of Hudson Street through the site.

You are now being invited to provide input to Council with respect to the above-noted application.

The City of Coquitlam will be receiving the input requested herein up to Friday, October 21, 2016. Written correspondence can be provided in one of the following ways: By email to clerks@coquitlam.ca Fax: 604-927-3015 Mail: City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7N2 In person at City Hall, 3000 Guildford Way at the City Clerk’s Office during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from Wednesday, October 12, 2016 to Friday, October 21, 2016 excluding statutory holidays To obtain more information on this application you may: • Visit the Planning and Development Department at 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday excluding statutory holidays • Call Amber Nicol, Development Planner, Planning and Development Department, at 604-927-3431 or email ANicol@coquitlam.ca All written submissions provided in response to this consultation will become part of the public record which includes the submissions being made available for public inspection at Coquitlam City Hall (at the Planning and Development counter) and potentially on our website as part of a future agenda package at www.coquitlam.ca/agendas Should Council grant first reading to the proposed CWOCP amendment, a Public Hearing will be held with notification to be provided in accordance with the Local Government Act.

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YOUR VIEWS ARE IMPORTANT Coquitlam is a prosperous, growing city. This year, we’re celebrating our 125th anniversary with year-long celebrations that honour our rich history and set the stage for a dynamic future. It’s the perfect time to hear from the members of our community.

City Council invites Coquitlam residents and businesses to share your ideas and views at our Fall 2016 Town Hall meeting — it’s an informal event with no set agenda. You have the floor!

DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2016 TIME: 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.

LOCATION: Council Chambers, Coquitlam City Hall, 3000 Guildford Way

HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN PERSON All are welcome to attend the Town Hall Meeting in person. Participants attending the meeting at City Hall will be invited to the microphone to ask their question.

ONLINE The meeting will be broadcast live at coquitlam.ca/webcasts.

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Twitter users can participate by tweeting questions to @cityofcoquitlam #coqthm2016 More information on the Town Hall Meeting, including details on how to submit questions as well as our guidelines for creating a respectful conversation, is available at coquitlam.ca/townhall or by contacting the Clerk’s Office at 604-927-3010 or emailing clerks@coquitlam.ca.

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Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given that the City of Coquitlam will be holding a Public Hearing to receive representations from all persons who deem it in their interest to address Council regarding the following proposed bylaws. This meeting will be held on:

Date: Time: Location:

Monday, October 24, 2016 7:00 p.m.

City Hall Council Chambers, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC V3B 7N2

Immediately following the adjournment of the Public Hearing, Council will convene a Regular Council Meeting during which it will give consideration to the items on the Public Hearing agenda.

Item 1

Addresses: 960 and 964 Walls Avenue

The intent of Bylaw 4700, 2016 is to amend City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 to rezone the subject properties outlined in black on the map marked Schedule ‘A’ to Bylaw 4700, 2016 from RS-1 OneFamily Residential to RT-1 Two-Family Residential.

If approved, the RT-1 zone would facilitate the subdivision of the two existing properties into four lots, each with a new single-family dwelling and the potential for a secondary suite.

How do I find out more information?

Additional information, copies of the bylaws, supporting staff reports, and any relevant background documentation may be inspected from October 12 to 24, 2016 in person at the Planning and Development Department, Coquitlam City Hall, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday excluding statutory holidays.

You may also obtain further information with regard to the bylaws mentioned above on the City’s website at www.coquitlam.ca/publichearing and by phone at 604-927-3430.

How do I provide input?

Verbal submissions may only be made in person at the Public Hearing. The City Clerk’s Office will compile a Speakers List for each item. To have your name added to the Speakers List please call 604-927-3010. Everyone will be permitted to speak at the Public Hearing but those who have registered in advance will be given first opportunity.

Please also be advised that video recordings of Public Hearings are streamed live and archived on the City’s website at www.coquitlam.ca/webcasts.

Item 2

Addresses: 961 Walls Avenue and a Portion of 374 Lebleu Street

The intent of Bylaw 4716, 2016 is to amend City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 to rezone the subject properties outlined in black on the map marked Schedule ‘A’ to Bylaw 4716, 2016 from RS-1 OneFamily Residential to RT-1 Two-Family Residential. The proposed Bylaw amendment would change the zoning at 961 Walls Avenue and a 29.9m2 portion of 374 Lebleu Street.

If approved, the RT-1 zone would facilitate the subdivision of the property into two lots, each with a new single family dwelling and the potential for a secondary suite.

Prior to the Public Hearing written comments may be submitted to the City Clerk’s Office in one of the following ways: Email: clerks@coquitlam.ca; Regular mail: 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7N2; In person: City Clerk’s Office, 2nd Floor, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7N2; Fax: to the City Clerk’s Office at 604-927-3015.

To afford Council an opportunity to review your submission, please ensure that you forward it to the City Clerk’s Office prior to noon on the day of the hearing.

Written submissions provided in response to this consultation will become part of the public record which includes the submissions being made available for public inspection at Coquitlam City Hall and on our website at www.coquitlam. ca/agendas. If you require more information regarding this process please call the City Clerk’s Office at 604-927-3010.

Please note that Council may not receive further submissions from the public or interested parties concerning any of the bylaws described above after the conclusion of the Public Hearing.

Jay Gilbert City Clerk

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OUR OPINION

Fines may be reduced but residents must be vigilant Speak up!

B ears know no boundaries so it might make sense if the three cities cooperate on education, enforcement and fines when it comes to keeping bruins out of neighbourhoods.

Coquitlam has been taking the hardest stance on the matter, as evidenced by the $500 fine for leaving garbage out overnight. But the push back by the residents who claim the fine is a cashgrab and a hardship has resulted in a recommendation to lower the fine to $250 if it’s paid early.

On the face of it, this seems like a step-down from a rigorous enforcement program that is so sorely needed in the city.

But residents have a point because just next door in Port Coquitlam and Port Moody the fines for the same infraction are

so much lower.

We agree that the cities must work harder to ensure that residents — and businesses — don’t leave garbage or other attractants out for bears to get at. We’ve seen the real consequences of a laissezfaire attitude: the attack of a 10-year-old girl this summer.

Indeed, the cities need to have proper bear aware policies for two reasons.

First, they are approving development in the forest where bears live and are requiring green belts for park and to protect creeks. These green belts are ideal corridors for hungry bruins seeking high-calorie food.

Second, the cities are ultimately responsible for safety in their community.

Not only do they fund emergency services but it would look bad if bear assaults happened more frequently because nothing was done to discourage bears from hanging around homes and businesses.

But residents, including people living in town homes and condominiums, and business owners obviously need to take some personal responsibility for the situation.

There comes a time when ignorance is not a defence and now might be the time. Folks, if you see bears in your area — wise

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up and lock up your trash and green waste.

Still, there is something to be said for also ensuring that fines for non-compliance are fair and consistent and this is currently not the case.

With fines ranging from $50 for a first offence in Port Moody to $150 in Port Coquitlam to $500 for Coquitlam, it seems the crime is less important in some cities than others.

Let’s make the fines consistent, with higher penalties for multiple offences, so that everyone can get on the same page in the safety and security of their neighbourhoods.

YOU SAY “Boo hoo hoo.

The consequences of not complying can be far more serious, like bears getting put down or people getting mauled and killed.”

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When it comes to density, Paris is a good example The Editor, Vancouver and Burnaby preach the virtues of high density as gigantic towers as if it was the only solution.

This shows the ignorance of local politicians and the greed of promoters.

The city of Paris is nearly as big as Metro Vancouver. Most of the apartment buildings in Paris (the old city surrounded by a circular freeway that replaced the last fortified wall) are five storeys (with ceilings around 12 feet) plus a livable attic.

They were built in the last half of the 19th century and are very popular.

A few high rises were built in the 20th century but they aren’t that high. By and large, they are around 12 to 15 floors, with nine-foot ceilings.

While the oldest part of Paris (the east end) has narrow streets, the whole city has numerous wide boulevards, wider than anything

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While many people call Paris home, a Tri-City News letter writer says the city builds mostly five-storey apartments, and when high rises are built, they are seldom over 12 to 15 floors. in Vancouver. Each district (arrondissement) is a selfcontained town with a city hall

and city council, schools, police precincts, street markets and all the basic stores.

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Creek should stay where it is The Editor, I am appalled to think that the Fisheries and Oceans Canada has approved moving a stream to make way for another monster house.

What is more important?

Preserving nature and the environment or allowing one family to destroy the area?

If Mother Nature had thought the new location was a better one, I’m sure that’s where the stream would have

been. If these people want a monster home, I am sure there are numerous other places available in the Lower Mainland where they won’t be interfering with nature.

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Each district has small parks and all the Parisians have easy access to two big parks — one on the east and one on the west — that are in the suburbs but have a foot in Paris so to speak, and are each more than twice the size of Stanley Park.

Paris’ density is 21,000 people per sq. km.

Osaka, Japan, has a density of 11,965 sq. km. and most of the housing is made of single family homes, with low rises here and there and a few high rises by main railway stations (hotels, offices, department stores, etc.)

The town of Bordeaux, my birth place, is a bit smaller than half the size of the city of Vancouver. Most of the housing is low, row houses with a backyard. Its density is 4,900 per sq. km — not that much lower a density than Vancouver.

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Two Port Coquitlam restaurant industry veterans are hoping to convince time-strapped Tri-City families to try their farm-to-table cooking instead of relying on frozen food, fast food and deli counter staples.

“More and more people are concerned about what they eat and we want to make it easy for them,” said Laura WoodsCronsilver, co-owner of Grass Roots Meal Planning and Prep Ltd., which opened recently in a commercial kitchen in Port Coquitlam.

Although home-cooked meals delivered to your door

is not a new idea, Grass Roots (grassrootsmealplans.com) is trying to carve out a niche among those who want to avoid consuming hormones, genetically modified organisms or chemical food preservatives.

“We do all the research for them,” said Woods-Cronsilver, who does the marketing and makes the deliveries while Alaia Fayad, a local chef, plans the menu and does the cooking.

Fayad also grows some of the produce in her own garden plot.

“I’m getting used to my green thumb,” she acknowledges, showing off several jars of canned preserves she produced with her own vegetables.

The two say they grew up eating homegrown produce and want to pass those values

and high standards on to other families. They deal with local farms and butchers or businesses that source local products, such as organic, grass-fed poultry from Chilliwack.

Such attention to keeping food local gives them a lot of control over what they buy.

Woods-Cronsilver says they read labels and ask questions to make sure what they buy is, indeed, local.

The result is a wide range of seasonal menu items, such as blackberry feta salad and root vegetable ribbons, quinoa tabouleh, wild mushroom ravioli, thai coconut curry and sweet potato shepherd’s pie.

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Millennials trying to buy their first homes face a dramatic hit to the amount they can borrow as a result of the federal government’s move to tighten mortgage qualification rules later this month.

That’s the warning from B.C. Real Estate Association chief economist Cameron Muir, who says the federal finance minister’s announcement Monday flies in the face of government efforts to improve housing affordability at the low end of the market.

“It’s going to have a dramatic

“That’s going to fall to about $400,000,” he said. “That’s a $100,000 reduction in their purchasing power. That’s a substantial hit to affordability.”

It’s the sharpest government-imposed cut to what new home buyers can afford in years, he said, predicting millennials will bear the brunt.

“Unlike previous generations, their purchasing power has now been reduced through government policy.”

Finance Minister Bill Morneau unveiled the change as one of a series of measures to reduce risk in overheated housing markets.

Muir argued the mortgage qualification rule could have been phased in gradually.

“The shock over a number of years wouldn’t be the same shock we’re now going to see in the markets.”

impact on affordability for millennials,” Muir said. “As much as 20% of their purchasing power has been eliminated.

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Effective Oct. 17, buyers with less than a 20% down payment — most first time buyers — will need enough income to qualify at a higher benchmark interest rate posted by the Bank of Canada, even though their actual payments are based on the lower rate retail banks offer them. Right now the gap between the two rates is around 2% so the rule is equivalent to a sudden interest rate spike of that amount for many buyers.

Muir said a couple with acombined annual income of $80,000 and a 5% down payment can currently buy a home priced at about $500,000.

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Pastrick is in the process of scaling down Central 1’s forecasts for real estate market and B.C. economic growth for 2017 as a result of the mortgage rule change.

He said the change threatens to have broader impacts, potentially triggering a drop in home construction activity, associated jobs and economic growth.

Helmut Pastrick, chief economist for Central 1 Credit Union, said he expects some drop in sales to first time home buyers as a result.

First time buyers account for a larger proportion of sales in more affordable regions like the Fraser Valley and Okanagan — up to 35% — compared to around 25% near Vancouver.

Unlike the foreign buyer tax B.C. has imposed only in Metro Vancouver, Pastrick said the federal mortgage qualification change is “indiscriminate” and applies everywhere, even where overheated real estate has not been a problem.

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Shatner lends voice to effort banning open-net fish farms Star Trek star speaks in favour of local MP's bill DIANE STRANDBERG Tri-CiTy News

Port Moody-Coquitlam MP Fin Donnelly is reaching for the stars in a bid to get his wild salmon bill passed through parliament.

Tuesday, at a press conference at Mossom Creek Hatchery, Donnelly launched a video campaign featuring William Shatner of Star Trek fame promoting Donnelly's Bill C-228 that would ban open-net fish farming and promote land-based closed containment systems for raising salmon for food.

"I need your help to save West Coast salmon," intones Shatner, best known for his role as Capt. James Kirk in the popular science fiction series.

It wasn't just about bringing a celebrity to his cause. Donnelly said Canada has an opportunity to be a world leader in aquaculture with closed-containment systems that are safe for the environment and good for providing jobs.

At his side was Ruth Foster, founder of the Mossom Creek Hatchery, who said it was scientific evidence against opennet fish farming and problems

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Port Moody-Coquitlam MP Fin Donnelly holds a press conference at the Mossom Creek Hatchery in Port Moody Tuesday to promote his Bill C-228 that would would ban open net fish farming and promote land-based closed containment systems for raising salmon for food. with lice and diseases that could affect the wild salmon population that prompted the volunteer group to support Donnelly's Bill C-228.

She said the bill was "essential" in protecting Pacific salmon stocks because hatcheries alone can't prevent a decline.

Also at the press conference was Chief Bob Chamberlin of the Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis First Nation; he lives on Gilford Island near the Broughton Archipelago, where Japanese salmon farmers have been given eviction notices by

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Mossom Creek is no Niagara Falls.

For the most part, you can’t get close to it because of the thick forest and underbrush that surounds it and the fact that it cuts through a steep ravine in Port Moody.

Its lower reaches trickle through private property and you need special permission to get close.

So why has Mossom Creek become one of the most highly valued waterways in the TriCities?

The answer to that lies in 40 years of hard work that founders Rod MacVicar and Ruth Foster put into educating young people about the importance of salmon and the environment, using Mossom Creek and its underwater denizens as touch stones.

Through the efforts of these retired biology teachers supported by volunteers including school children, thousands of chum and coho salmon have been raised in a hatchery next to the creek, re-establishing its vitality.

As well, an education centre has been built and hundreds of school kids, teachers and community members have learned about the importance of salmon to a healthy environment.

The evidence of their success is in the annual return of salmon in the once-depleted creek and the construction of a new education centre and hatchery with $1.2 million in donated cash, materials and services after the original building burned down in 2013.

But Cleone Todgham, program coordinator for the Mossom Creek Hatchery

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This year, the Mossom Creek hatchery and education centre in Port Moody is celebrating 40 years with environmental education programs for all ages, including for Pleasantside elementary school students and Grade 11 Heritage Woods science co-op students. and Education Centre, says MacVicar and Foster should also be acknowledged as pioneers in outdoor experience education that today’s teachers are trying to provide to meet the goals of B.C.’s revised school curriculum.

“When they started they wanted to take the kids out of the classroom and do handson teaching and they wanted the kids to help with the hatchery,” said Todgham, who was hired last spring with funds from a BC Hydro grant to provide education programs.

Todgham said Mossom school programs are continuing to evolve, and can be tweaked to meet a wide range of education needs from excit-

able preschoolers to seasoned administrators, but the curriculum still follows MacVicar and Foster’s mantra that “you only care about what you know.”

For example, on a recent field trip to the hatchery, Pleasantside elementary students met with an experienced forester and tramped through the woods to identify plants and trees and made artistic leaf rubbings.

The students also talked about the importance of looking after the woods and why people need to care about trees.

“It’s very interesting because it’s all nature,” said Paige Whitworth, a Grade 4 student.

“You have to protect it, like no

littering.”

She was among the 30 Pleasantside Grade 4/5 students who will visit Mossom seven times for a wide-ranging curriculum that include science and language arts and topics as varied as insects, salmon and wildlife.

Teacher Stephanie Perko said her students enjoy the experience of getting out of the classroom and learning how to be scientists, which means coming up with interesting questions, being observant and making good notes.

“They get to do what real scientists do,” said Perko.

Mike Baldus, whose Heritage Woods Science 11 co-op students hiked to

Mossom last spring for an overnight field trip that included activities such as dissecting a salmon and counting insects, says having an outdoor classroom close at hand is like winning the lottery for a teacher.

“It’s a 45-minute hike and we get to go through forests to get there. At the end, we have this beautiful creek with this great facility,” said Baldus, whose students will be collecting salmon eggs during an egg take to support the hatchery.

A lot of water has trickled down the creek since 1976, when Foster and MacVicar started a hatchery program and a salmon club at Centennial secondary in Coquitlam. In the intervening years, they de-

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veloped courses that students could take for high school credit and inspired generations of young people, including several who are current School District 43 teachers.

When the program began, Foster recalls, it was viewed by herself and MacVicar, and later fellow teacher Jim Mattson, as a practical way to teach students about the environment and bring salmon back to the creek.

“We never had much of a vision, we were just too busy,” Foster recalled.

But she’s pleased that B.C.’s education system has finally caught up with the need to provide hands-on opportunities for young people to learn about and interpret their world. “We find the questions are much richer when they [the students] are in the environment,” Foster said, recalling how the school hatchery program started out as a simple incubator box in the creek beside Ioco Road. see HATCHERY, page 24

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TC CALENDAR THURSDAY, OCT. 6 • Ecole Mary Hill elementary (1890 Humber Cres., Port Coquitlam) will be presenting art work at the school mural unveiling between 6:45 and 8 a.m. The “Learn to Live. Live to Learn” mural was created last year and installed at the start of the school year.

TUESDAY, OCT. 11 • Burke Mountain Naturalists’ monthly meeting, 7:30 p.m., in the hall of Como Lake United Church, Coquitlam. Feature: SFU professor Ron Ydenberg will give a slide presentation on “Shorebirds and Biofilm and Deltaport.” Admission is free, all are welcome. Info: 604461-3864 or www.bmn.bc.ca.

• Have you considered becoming a foster family?

There are children and youth in the Tri-Cities who require skilled, caring, foster parents.

To learn more, the Ministry of Children and Family Development invites you to attend an information session, 10 a.m.-noon, at 200-906 Roderick Ave., Coquitlam. For info or another session date: 604-764-8098.

• Parent and Caregivers’ Circle, free education program hosted by Share Family and Community Services, begins, running for eight Tuesday sessions until Nov. 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Share, 2615 Clarke St. (2nd floor), Port Moody.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12 • The Pacific Digital Photo Club is holding a meeting between 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. in Room 301 at Port Moody secondary (300 Albert St., Port Moody). This week’s presentation will feature speaker Kerri-Jo Stewart, who will be discussing “visualization” and art history. See her images at www.kerri-jo.com.

THURSDAY, OCT. 13 • Coquitlam Needlearts Guild meets, 7-9:30 p.m., Como Lake United Church, 535 Marmont St., Coquitlam. Info: 604-937-0836.

FRIDAY, OCT. 14 • Crossroads Hospice Coffeehouse presents Brighter Lights Thicker Glasses – a trio of vocalists and musicians: Michael Dunn (5 stringed instruments), Brian Samuels (cello) and John Palmer (guitar and percussion), The Gathering Place, 1100-2253 Leigh Sq., PoCo; doors open at 7 p.m. Admission: $5. Info: 604945-0606 or info@crossroadshospicesociety.com or www. crossroadshospicesociety.com/ coffee.

• Reseau femmes Coquitlam meet, 6:15 p.m., the Gallery Bistro, 2411 Clarke St., Port

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• Terry Fox secondary school class of 1996 20-year reunion, 7 p.m., Rocky Point Taphouse, 2524 St. Johns St., Port Moody (doors open at 6 p.m.). Tickets: $45, includes appetizers, one drink, door prizes. Info & RSVP: TF1996reunion@gmail.com or fox96 on Facebook.

• Free bike maintenance workshop hosted by HUB Cycling, a cycling charity that helps get more people cycling, 1:303:30pm, Poirier community centre, Coquitlam. Info: bikehub.ca.

SUNDAY, OCT. 16 • The Shoreline Writers’ Society meets, 1p.m., Port Moody Arts Centre, 2425 St. Johns St. New writers welcome.

Info: Helmi, 604-462-8942.

MONDAY, OCT. 17 • Tri-City Singles Social Club, which offers opportunities for 50+ singles to get together and enjoy a variety of fun activities such as dining, dancing, theatre, travel, movies and more, meets, 7 p.m. at Legion Manor, 2909 Hope St., Port Moody (street parking only). New members are welcome. Directions & info: Darline, 604-466-0017.

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• Dogwood Garden Club monthly meeting, 7-9 p.m., Centennial Room, Dogwood Pavilion.

Speaker: Sharon Myskiw, who will talk about extending the growing season. Club will also be accepting nominations for its 2017 executive. The

November meeting will be club Christmas party (members only), when election will be held for new executive.

Membership is $10 for the year but joining now will cost only $5. Info: dogwoodgardenclub. weebly.com.

• Coquitlam Needlearts Guild meets, noon-3 p.m., Como Lake United Church, 535 Marmont St., Coquitlam.

Info: 604-937-0836.

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But have you ever thought of how much of what’s produced in other countries (and languages) that never reaches our bookshops or libraries?

According to the University of Rochester, only 3% of books published in America are translations. I found similar numbers for the UK publishing industry (4.5%) and the numbers for Canada are also likely

HATCHERY CREATES ‘KINSHIP’ continued from page 22

The long-time educator said the Centennial students who got involved in the salmon club also need to be acknowledged for their dedication.

In the early days, there were no automatic feeders for the fish, and students had to organize five feedings a day and arrange for transportation to the PoMo hatchery from Coquitlam.

In those days a program like the one at Mossom was a novelty, much to be praised, but still different from the traditional stand-and-deliver model of teaching that was so entrenched for generations.

But Foster is grateful for the opportunity to be able to pass on her own enthusiasm for protecting salmon so the important species still has a place to come back to each fall.

“Because one of our great long-term objectives is developing a sense of place for students and young people so they feel a kinship and caring for a place, our watershed. It has a carry over effect other parts of their life — not only caring for Mossom but understanding through this particular watershed the need for stewardship and caring for all these coastal streams.”

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The recommendations below are an invitation for you to explore writers from around the world (including Canada) whose works were originally published in languages other than English.

Translated from Spanish by Lucia Graves, The Shadow of the Wind, by the Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón, is a book for book lovers. After the death of his mother, the young Daniel Sempere is taken by his father to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. His task is to choose a book that he needs to take care of until he dies.

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appears in his life and changes it forever. The story takes place in Barcelona after the Spanish Civil War. It’s a tale of mystery, adventure and doomed love, written so beautifully you will want to print out some of its quotes and hang them on your wall.

In Confession of the Lioness the reader embarks on an anthropological and mystical journey to a small village in Mozambique. A lion kills Mariamar’s sister in Kulumani.

Soon, a hunter comes from the city to hunt the beasts that are causing trouble in the village.

The story, told in alternating points of view by Mariamar and the hunter Bullseye, reflects the dichotomy between

tradition and modernity, beliefs and myths, violence and love. Written by Mia Couto and translated from Portuguese by David Brookshaw, Confession of the Lioness was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015.

Luo and his childhood friend, the unnamed narrator, are sent to a remote mountain village in China to be re-educated during the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 70s. This is the backdrop to Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie (a Chinese author who moved to France in his 30s) and translated from French by Ina Rilke. The two teenagers find a

suitcase full of banned Western books translated into Chinese, and embark on a self-discovery journey that will also impact the village.

Fredrik Backman’s debut novel A Man Called Ove, translated from Swedish by Henning Koch, tells the story of a very grumpy man. Ove’s life is very pragmatic and he has little tolerance for the stupidity around him. His crankiness slowly dissipates as his relationship with the new chatty neighbours develops. A heartwarming and funny story that will put a smile on your face.

And the Birds Rained Down, one of the Canada Reads 2015 nominees, and the first

Canadian novel to win France’s Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, was originally published in French by Quebec-based writer Jocelyne Saucier and translated by Rhonda Mullins.

The story is about many things: Three old men secluded in the woods in Northern Ontario; a 40-year old photographer who is curious about the great fires in the turn of the century; love when and where you least expect it.

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Let the bidding begin JANIS WARREN The Tri-CiTy News

Unwind for two days at a waterfront resort on a private island near Ucluelet. Sip cocktails and dine with three friends at a chef’s table in Coquitlam. Or kick off your shoes with your family on a new trampoline set up in the backyard.

These are some of the options available at your fingertips when you bid in an online auction that opens Saturday.

Coquitlam’s Place des Arts is ready to launch its biggest fundraiser of the year, with a goal to bring in $5,000 for youth arts programs.

Replacing the Impromptuthemed gala, which ran for the past five years, the two-week silent auction mirrors the Ballet BC online program held in the spring that uses a software called 32auctions.com.

“We were very happy with the results of Impromptu,” Joan McCauley, Place des Arts’ executive director, told The TriCity News last week, “but we wanted to try something new.

We wanted to make it easy for people to donate to our centre while also benefitting with a great prize.”

About 50 items will be up for grabs ranging from a roundtrip VIA Rail getaway to Jasper — one of the big items at Impromptu, a package valued at $1,328 — to a one-pound gift box from Charlie’s Chocolate Factory in Port Coquitlam, worth about $32.

This is how it will work: From 9 a.m. on Oct. 15 to 9 p.m. on Oct. 28, you can log into 32auctions.com/placedesarts and submit your entry.

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Steve Kim, a Place des Arts’ board member, with executive director Joan McCauley and board president Barb Hobson. The trio is surrounded by items available via an online auction, starting Saturday. The fundraiser runs until Oct. 28 and benefits arts programs for youth. you receive a notification email. That then prompts you to reconsider to go higher before the deadline, said Casey McCarthy, Place des Arts’ resource development and volunteer co-ordinator.

The silent bidding creates competition and excitement, thereby raising the stakes (not to mention the fundraising tally for the Maillardville arts hub) for bidders, she said.

McCarthy said the centre didn’t want to extend the online auction past two weeks as staff wanted to keep the interest fresh.

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“Everyone is intrigued with the concept,” McCauley said.

“We are hoping for a high engagement because it’s so easy to participate.”

McCauley said the need to boost external funding matches the demand for more programs at Place des Arts: Registration continues to climb for all programs — visual arts, music, dance, etc. — and especially for youth.

Over the past three years, Impromptu proceeds have aided hundreds of children through such subsidized programs as the city’s Get

Connected, Get Active as well as Art a la Carte and ArtReach, a summer outreach camp for at-risk kids.

According to its 2014 annual report — its latest document available — Place des Arts saw 94,000 visits by students and the public in that year for classes and special events.

Of its revenues, 62% are selfearned (i.e., through programs, facility rentals and sales) while the rest comes in the form of grants from the city (36%), sponsorships and donations.

McCauley said she and board members are looking

forward to the finalization of the city’s arts and culture strategy, a component of the municipality’s new parks and recreation master plan.

“The need for arts programs in Coquitlam is very strong,” she said, “and all children should have the right to an arts education.”

Go to 32auctions.com/placedesarts to create an account before the online auction opens Saturday. Call 604-664-1636 (ext. 36) or email cmcarthy@ placedesarts.ca for details. jwarren@tricitynews.com @jwarrenTC

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Port Moody actor, singer, model and presenter Frankie Cena will appear as one of the five NSYNC musicians for Lifetime’s upcoming biopic about Britney Spears.

Cena will portray Chris Kirkpatrick in the TV movie along with Nathan Keyes (Justin Timberlake), Zac Vran (JC Chasez), Matt Visser (Joey Fatone) and Connor Paton (Lance Bass).

Spears, who is not involved in the making of the two-hour show about her rise to stardom and relationship with former NSYNC frontman Timberlake, will be played by Natasha Barrett.

Production started in Vancouver last month; the show premieres next year.

Last month, Cena also headlined a concert at the Michael J. Fox Theatre to benefit the B.C. Boys Choir, the group he sang with while growing up in Burnaby.

In the Tri-Cities, Cena is best known for capturing the Port Moody and TriCity Idol competitions. He was also named Mr. World Canada in 2012 and, earlier this year, was a presenter for the Mr. World contest in Southport, England.

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Children’s entertainer Norman Foote was back at Port Moody’s Mountain Meadows elementary last week to teach students about songwriting and performance.

Last October, the Junoaward winning musician worked with the school choir for his Halloween Howl show at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam, which also featured the Heritage Mountain elementary en-

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This year, parents and music teacher Carla Read asked Foote to return for a three-day residency. “I was really happy to come here and be with Carla and the kids again,” he told The Tri-City News last Thursday before the students sang the school song they had penned with him, at an assembly.

On a large piece of paper in her music room, Read jotted down themes from Foote’s choral and songwriting instruction. And among the key messages was the importance

of melody and rhyming; Foote also compared composing a song to painting a picture, using colour and texture.

Principal Kate McMeiken said the students benefitted from Foote’s presence.

“He has been such a joy to have around,” she said.

“They’ve had quite a spring to their step this week.”

• Norman Foote will appear at The Act in Maple Ridge on Oct. 30. His Halloween Howl will include choirs from Webster’s Corner and David Jones elementary schools.

Kids and their parents can join Beth Agosti at the Port Moody Arts Centre tomorrow (Thursday) for a new puppet show.

The Burnaby-based artist, writer and puppeteer will present A Play on Words, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., as part of Art 4 Life Family Night. See what happens to Escape Goat, Donkey Odie and Sissy-Fuss on their adventures. And, in the second act, join violinist Adam Bissionette, 9, as he plays themes from Stars Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean.

His brother, Daniel, 11, will conclude with the bedtime story he authored, called The Giving Child.

Tickets for the show are $5, or $4 each for groups of six or more. Call 604-941-2008.

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A Metro Vancouver group of sacred artists that includes seven Tri-City residents — three of whom work out of Port Moody’s Esplanade studios — will open a new show on Friday.

The sixth biennial juried exhibit by the Epiphany Sacred Arts Guild will run until Oct. 23 at St. Jude’s Roman Catholic Church (3078 Renfrew St., Vancouver).

FRANK BOND & ANNE STRIDE The display, titled The Way of Beauty, will have the work of Christine LimLabossiere of Port Moody, Coquitlam residents Patricia Ballard, Ana Maria Silva and Mary Catherine Breslin as well as Port Coquitlam’s John Suter, Nerrisa Ng and Frank C. Turner.

As well, there will be a showcase of about 30 historical vestments on loan from a private collection of the Palace of the Popes in Avignon, France. Visit epiphanysacredarts.com.

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Anne Stride and Frank Bond have each taught at Coquitlam’s Place des Arts for at least two decades.

Stride, a Portland State University-trained violinist who is with the Vancouver

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And Bond, an experienced live performer who has produced recordings, arranged and supplied instrumental parts, has instructed students at the Maillardville hub for the past 20 years.

But despite their lengthy tenure, they’ve never played together in public.

So when the opportunity came up to launch the centre’s faculty concert series for the new season, “we grabbed it,” Stride said.

On Saturday, the pair will perform a wide range of music from J.S. Bach to the Beatles. In between, they’ll throw in compositions by Fritz Kreisler, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Chick Corea as well as some originals penned by Bond.

“It’s very eclectic,” Stride said, noting they picked their favourite tunes and, over the course of a couple of months, “we weeded out the repertoire. It’s stuff that we worked our way through.”

Tickets for Guitar and Violin — A Concert for Autumn on Oct. 15 are $21/$16 by calling Place des Arts (1120 Brunette Ave., Coquitlam) at 604-664-1636 or visiting brownpapertickets. com.

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Gallery manager Janice Cotter (left) and Lois Sharpe, operations manager, ready for the Port Moody Arts Centre’s biggest fundraiser of the year. Girls Night Out is at Port Moody city hall on Oct. 21.

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It hasn’t been an easy ride for the Port Moody Arts Centre (PMAC) over the past year.

Last fall, the board booted out the Suite E Life Drawing Group over concerns with its rental fee. Its program manager left unexpectedly as did its communications manager.

And last month, citing financial pressures, it also got rid of its executive director and cut back the salary and hours of its three full-time staff.

Its latest loss was program manager Stefani Klaric, who moved over to Coquitlam’s Mackin House Museum.

Still, despite the shakeups, PMAC’s two remaining fulltime employees say they’ve received overwhelming support from the city and the community to carry on.

Besides the daily contact from outsiders and the recent attendance at Art 4 Life — its Culture Days bash on Oct. 1 — the proof, they say, is in the ticket sales for Girls Night Out, PMAC’s biggest fundraiser of the year that happens next Friday at the Inlet Galleria and Theatre at Port Moody city hall.

“We’ve been blown away by the response,” gallery manager Janice Cotter said during an interview with operations manager Lois Sharpe last week at the St. Johns Street facility. “We’re having groups of friends order six or eight tickets at a time. We even have a woman organizing her birthday around it.”

About 85% of the tickets are now gone for the 12th annual event, Cotter said.

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Oduwole — Girls Night Out features pampering by local retailers as well as laughs from four female comedians.

Emceed again by Erica Sigurdson, who was named the funniest female comic at last year’s Winnipeg comedy festival and is a regular on CBC Radio’s The Debaters, Girls Night Out will also include performances by Katie Burrell and Sophie Buddle.

But the headliner is KatieEllen Humphries, a featured performer at the Just For Laughs Northwest Festival, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival and, most recently, at the Pemberton Music Fest.

Cotter and Sharpe said they hope to raise $10,000 from Girls Night Out — half from

ticket sales and raffles with funding to be matched by its signature sponsor, Scotiabank.

Proceeds will go toward visual art, ceramics and music programs for students at PMAC, a change from last year when the money went into the Making It Work capital campaign.

Like last year, the event is divided in half: The first part will be pampering, appetizers and psychic readings plus some comedy; the intermission will involve pie tasting from Gabi & Jules while the second half of the show, from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m., will be Humphries’ act.

But unlike last year, which had a Bollywood feel, there will be no theme. “We just want girls to come out and have lots of fun,” Sharpe said. “It’s really an event to relax and enjoy.”

“It’s that breather in between when school starts and Christmas,” Cotter added.

Tickets to Girls Night Out on Oct. 21 are $45, or $40 each for groups of six or more. Call PMAC at 604-931-2008 or visit pomoarts.ca/girlsnightout. jwarren@tricitynews.com

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Mitch Newsome couldn’t have picked a better time to score his first goal of the season.

The Coquitlam Express forward potted the game winner in overtime Friday night to help his team take down the Langley Rivermen in the first home game of the season for the club.

The game was scoreless after 20 minutes, but Langley jumped out to a two-goal lead in the second period and made it 3-0 early in the third.

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got the home team on the board, while Cameron Bertsch scored his third of the season and Hayden Knight tied things up midway through the third.

Langley made it 4-3 with three minutes left but Luca Leone managed a gametying goal with 20 seconds left in the final frame.

That set things up for Newsome to finish off the Rivermen and give Coquitlam it’s fourth win of the season.

Things did not go as well for the Express the next night, when the Rivermen shut them out 5-0. sports@tricitynews.com

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United stands with 8-0 win over NsGsC Delanea Clark scored a hat trick as Port Moody United pounded NSGSC in Metro Women’s Soccer League Div. 2 action last week.

Goalkeeper Elyse Mervin earned her second shutout of the season in the bout, which helped the squad extend its undefeated streak to four games.

The first place team also saw two goals from Kristina Conibear-Mulej, while Chloe Haner, Shyan Cultess and Katie Groenke each picked up singles.

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THANK YOU to the two angels that assisted me after my fall at Austin and Marmont St. I don’t think I could have got up

COMING EVENTS Record Vinyl Show

Sun, October 16

East side Entrance Vancouver Flea Market

703 Terminal Ave Over 40 Tables of Vinyl Records,CDs, poster & memorabilia Adm $3.00 Tables only $35

Starts 11am to 5pm

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Casual HandyDART Drivers wanted for our Vancouver, North Road, & North Vancouver locations. Applicants must possess a Class 4 unrestricted Driver’s License and an acceptable driving record. Previous professional driving experience and/or experience working with persons with disabilities and/or senior citizen groups preferred, but not required.

JYS INVESTMENT INC. dba Dae-Ji Restaurant in Coquitlam seeks Perm.

F/T Cook.

Comp. of Secondary school. 3 yrs or more exp. in cooking required. Basic English $14.00~16.00/hr, 37.5hrs/wk hyshjm82@gmail.com 128-1153 THE HIGH ST COQUITLAM B.C. V3B 0G2

Fully paid training provided at $18.02 per hour for the first 2 weeks. Pay upon completion of training increases to $25.29 per hour.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS

Detailed instructions on how to apply can be found on our website at: www.mvtcanada.com/careers

Delivery Drivers

With industrial type vehicles only.

Vehicle must hold 5000 newspapers.

NO MINI-VANS. • 2 times a week: Wed & Fri mornings • Pick-up newspapers from our warehouse • Deliver newspapers to our carriers

Call: 604-398-3481 Or email: distribution@burnabynow.com

LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICES WAREHOUSE LIEN ACT Michael Stewart Greenlaw is indebted to Coquitlam Towing and Storage for towing and storage charges on 2002 Dodge Ram VIN# 1G7HU18242J231969 totaling $3,315.06.

Jared Nicholas Curwin is indebted to Coquitlam Towing and Storage for towing and storage costs on a 2004 Mazda RX8 VIN# JM1FE173740131174 totaling $8,039.48. Both vehicles going up for sale October 24, 2016 at Coquitlam Towing and Storage 604−939−6474.

604−939−6474 opsmgr@coquitlamtowing.com

Now Hiring FLAG PERSONS & LANE CLOSURE TECHS .

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• Must have reliable vehicle • Must be certified • Union Wages from $18.44 per hr & Benefits .

VALLEY TRAFFIC SYSTEMS Apply in person 9770-199A St, Langley Fax or Email resume: 604-513-3661 jobapplication@valleytraffic.ca

HOME CARE HOME SUPPORT WANTED P/T. Stretching, Lifting, Clean.

Call John • 604-944-0926

PRODUCTION STAFF K-BRO LINEN SYSTEMS ENTERPRISE STREET • Full-time: 4 days @ 10 hrs • Part-Time: 5 hrs starting at 6PM • Starting pay rate: • $11.22 - $13.25 / hour plus extended Health Insurance • Ability to work weekends is required K-Bro Linen operates a large modern commercial laundry facility located within a short walk from Lake City Sky train in Burnaby.

Apply in person: 8035 Enterprise St., Bby Oct 14, 2016 between 9:30am & 4:00pm

( 604 ) 657-9422

Located in Burnaby near Lougheed Town Centre Accepting applications for

Bachelor/Studio Suites

Tri-Cities

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Adult oriented high rise. Pool, exercise room & workshop.

Participation mandatory, $3000 share purchase.

Enquiries to Membership Committee

Call • 604-421-1222

Please call: 604-313-2709 Email: kayadist@shaw.ca

BBY 2 BR condo, reno with 5 new appls, quiet, bright, nr schools & Lougheed Mall. $1350. Nov 1. 778-240-7023

GARDEN VILLA

ANTIQUES

• RETRO DESIGN & •

ANTIQUES FAIR

175 tables & booths of fun, fabulous finds for you & your eclectic abode!

Sunday Oct 16 10am-3pm Sunday •• JUN 28••10am-3pm Croatian Cultural Centre 3250 Commercial Drive, Van. 604-980-3159 • Adm. $5

Condos & Pretty Homes too! www.webuyhomesbc.com

115 PLACE CO-OP

Reliable Carriers with own vehicle. Good P/T income.

Working 2am-5:30am.

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Yes, We Pay Cash!

Damaged or Older Houses!!

APARTMENTS/ CONDOS FOR RENT

GENERAL EMPLOYMENT

Now Hiring!

* WE BUY HOMES *

RENTALS

MARKETPLACE

LEGAL

Warehousemans Lien Act .

Whereas, Mark Halver Walters is indebted to Benjamin Towing Corp. for storage and towing on a 2002 Ford F150 (Brown) VIN: 2FTRX18L42CA33070 A lien is claimed under the Act. There is presently an amount due and owing of $4,500.00 plus any additional costs of storage, seizure and sale. .

Notice is hereby given that on the 1st day of November, 2016 or thereafter, the said Ford F150 will be sold. .

The vehicle is currently stored at Benjamin Towing, 2968 Christmas Way, Coquitlam, BC V3C 4R6.

The vehicle was impounded on March 2, 2016.

Req’d for weeding, planting, harvesting & grading vegetables. This job involves hard work; bending, lifting, standing & crouching. $10.85/hr, 45+ hr/wk, 6 days/wk, Aug 01 to Dec 15, 2016.

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1010 6th Ave. New West.

Suites Available.

Beautiful atrium with fountain. By shops, college & transit.

Pets negotiable. Ref req.

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RENTALS

APARTMENTS/ CONDOS FOR RENT PORT COQUITLAM 2 bdrm corner suite $1,050 - Includes heat/hot water - 1.5 blks to bus stops - 2 blks to Safeway/medical - City park across street - Gated parking & elevator - Adult oriented building - References required * SORRY NO DOGS * Call for appointment 604-464-3550

SKYLINE TOWERS 102-120 Agnes St, New West .

Hi-Rise Apartment with River View & Indoor Pool.

1 BR & 2 BR Available.

Rent includes heat & hot water. Remodeled Building and Common area. Gated underground parking available.

References required.

CALL 604 525-2122

BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

VILLA MARGARETA

320-9th St, New West Suites Available.

All suites have balconies, Undergrd. parking avail.

Refs. req. Small Pet OK. CALL 604-715-7764

BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

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APPLIANCES POCO APPLIANCE MART 604-942-4999 • Rebuilt Washer•Dryer•Fridge•Stove Up to 1 Yr warranty • Trade-ins

FURNITURE

2BR/ $1,400 Port Coquitlam Fantastic basement suite with spacious layout, fully renovat− ed and shows like new. Stainless steel appliances, feature slate gas fireplace, in suite laundry, large covered patio backing onto Citadel Park. Off street parking too!

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(COQ/BBY border)

Full Charge Cloud (Online) Bookkeeping Services by Certi− fied Professional Bookkeeper and Certified QuickBooks and Xero ProAdvisor with over 23 years of experience.

631 Lougheed Hwy, COQUITLAM

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PETS

ALL SMALL BREED PUPS Local, Non-Shedding and Vet Checked.

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FINANCIAL SERVICES Tax Returns - Bookkeeping Personal - Small Business Current - Delinquent 20 yrs exp. 604-671-1000 Lady Lorraine Bookkeeping and Administrative Services www.ladylorraine.ca 778-233-1110

GET BACK ON TRACK Bad credit? Bills?

Unemployed?

Need Money? We lend!

If you own your own home you qualify!

Pioneer AcceptanceCorp.

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RENTALS

HouSES FoR RENT

FENCING

KITCHEN/BATHS CORAZZA CONTRACTING

www.affordablemoversbc.com

3BR+DEN, 3 Bath, Pitt Meadows (Somerset) 2,500 sq ft, newly renovated, close to Golden Ears Bridge, Lougheed Highway, West Coast Express. $2,600/mth+util.

No pets, smoking and no drugs. bonsonrental@gmail.com

• Chain Link Fencing and Gates • Farm Fencing • Immediate Response • Detailed Quotes

25 yrs l cal experience Call Carlo 604-818-5919

LANDSCAPING

Looking for reliable, clean tenants.

604−928−2933 fatima_emami@yhoo.ca

Clean 6+BR/2BA $2,680+utilities, Coquitlam Quiet location, 3−5 min walk to bus, rec centre, Poirier li− brary. N/P, N/S. 1 year, no sublease. Ref req. 778.838.7653

SuITES FoR RENT BBY S, 3 BR upper dup, 1.5 ba. NS/NP. $1690 +60% utls.

604-539-1959, 604-612-1960

SHARED ACCOMMODATION COQ FEMALE roommate wanted. Furnished, beautiful condo, blks from Douglas College, own bathroom, share kitchen and living room. No smoking, drinking or pets. Incl cable. Refs. Nov 1st. $700 + 1/2 utils. 604944-0075 or 1-360-813-8110

AUTOMOTIVE

SPORTS & IMPORTS

COMMERCIAL Port Coquitlam: 775 - 3,000 sq ft, ground floor commercial area. Facing onto city park. 2 blocks from Lougheed/ Shaughnessy intersection. Call 604.464.3550

HOME SERVICES CONCRETE NO JOB TOO small!

Serving Lower Mainland 26 Yrs! •Prepare •F rm •Place •Finish •Granite/Interl ck Bl ck Walls & Bricks •Driveways •Stairs •Exp sed Aggregate •Stamped C ncrete •S d Placement Excellent Refs•WCB Insured 604-657-2375/604-462-8620

DRAIN Tiles, Sewer, Water,

Video Inspection, Jack Hammering, Hand Excavating, Concrete Cutting, Rootering, WET BSMT MADE DRY

604.782.4322

DRYWALL

SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

THE SCRAPPER

Boarding & Taping, Good Rates! Reliable, Free Est. Ren ’s & Small J bs Welcome! Call Gurprit 604-710-7769

SCRAP CAR & TRUCK REMOVAL

CASH FOR ALL VEHICLES

604-790-3900 OUR SERVIC 2H

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HOME SERVICES

ALARM SERVICES

Repairs. misc service jobs drywall rep. etc. Big r Small, If I can’t do it, It can’t be done. Robert 604-454-4515

DALL’ANTONIA CONCRETE Seniors discount. Friendly, family business, 40+ yrs. 604-240-3408

30 yrs experience For Prompt Service Call

Simon 604-230-0627

HANDYPERSON

HOME REPAIRS RENOVATIONS INSTALLATIONS Done Quick. Licenced.

Done Right. Bonded.

Guaranteed. Insured.

Residential~Commercial~Pianos LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE

RELIABLE MOVING LTD.

Household Offices Pianos Licensed Bonded Insured Friendly Professional Reliable 3/5 Ton Trucks Well Equipped Senior/New Customer Discount

778.986.2758

Greenworx Redevelopment Inc.

MIRACLE MOVING Licensed - Insured - Fully Equip.

Starts from $45/hr Local & Long Distance Moves Mid-month & Seniors Discount miraclemoving.ca

Paver stones, Hedges driveways/patios, ponds & walls, returfing, demos, yard/perimeter drainage, jack hammering. Old pools filled in, concrete cutting.

604.782.4322 LAWN & GARDEN

Fall Services

SAME DAY SERVICE

604-720-2009 1PRO MOVING & SHIPPING Across the street, across the world Real Professionals. Reas. Rates.

Best in every way! 604-721-4555 ABE MOVING & Delivery & Rubbish Removal $30/HR per Pers n• 24/7. 604-999-6020 EAST WEST MOVERS Very careful movers. Sr disc.

Jimb b • 604-786-7977

“More than just mowing!”

Yard Clean-ups Hedges Clean-ups •• Hedges Pruning • Gutters Mowing••Aeration Aeration Lime Fertilizing Lawn •Mowing Rubbish ChristmasRemoval Lights Leaf Clean-up Rubbish Removal Free Estimates

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(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls Cloverdale Premium quality paint.

NO PAYMENT until Job is completed.

Ask us about our Laminate Flooring & Maid Services.

604 -230 -3539 778-322-2378 604-339-1989

PRO*ACC PAINTING LTD Est 1985

ABSOLUTE BOBCAT & EXCAVATING LTD

Window Cleaning & Roof Cleaning WorkSafeBC insured

Gutters

Cleaned &

Lawn Removal & Chafer Beetle Solutions!

• C ncrete & Asphalt RYAN • 604-329-7792

Repaired

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• Residential Specialists • WCB, Ins’d, Lic’d • Free Estimates

604-942-4383

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BC GARDENING 25 Years Exp.

• Lawn & Garden Maint.

• Power Raking, Trimming • Tree Topping, Planting • Cleanup & more!

YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 Service Call. Lic#89402.

Fast same day service.

Insured. Guar’d. We love small jobs. 604-568-1899

EXCAVATING

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#1 Backhoes & Excavators Trenchless Waterlines Bobcats & Dump Truck & All Material Deliveries

Drainage, Video Inspection, Landscaping, Stump/Rock/Cement/Oil Tank & Demos, Paving, Pool/Dirt Removal, Paver St nes, Jackhammer, Water/Sewer, Line/Sumps, Slinger Avail, Concrete C tting, Hand Excavating, Basements Made Dry Claudio’s Backhoe Service

604-341-4446

HANDYMAN $45 per hour. 604-401-8794 www.differenthandyman.ca HANDYMAN. Renos. in Tri City area Free est.

Mike 604-710-1871

HEATING

FALL CLEAN UP •Hedge Trim •Tree Pr ne Lawn & Yard Maintenance Insured. Guaranteed.

John • 778-867-8785 coquitlamlandscaping.ca

Lawn Care, Shrub-Hedge Trim Installations, Fall Clean-up.

Seni r Disc • 604-783-3142

MICHAEL

GAS FURNACE, HVAC ELECTRICAL SERVICE

Sale-Install-Repair

604-836-4431 BC Licensed, Insured.

Since 1999

Gardening & Landscaping • Lawn C ts as l w as $15 • Tree T pping • Trimming • New S d & Seed •Planting • Clean p & m re • G ar’d F lly Ins’d/Lic’d & WCB .

604-240-2881

TOTAL RENOVATION

Repair, Replace, Remodel, Kitchen, Bath, Basement Suites, Drywall, Paint, Texture, Patches, Flooring, Moulding’s & more.

778-837-0771 Dan

GLOBAL EXTERIORS MAKEOVERS LTD. • Roofing • Soffit Siding • Hardy Board • Facia Boards • Rot Repair • Doors & Windows • Great Rates • Quality Pays • Waterproofing Experts

info@jkbconstruction.com www.jkbconstruction.com

ROOFING

Bros. Roofing Ltd. Over 40 Years in Business SPECIALIZING IN CEDAR, FIBERGLASS LAMINATES AND TORCH ON.

Liability Insurance, WCB, BBB, Free Estimates

604-946-4333

ScholtensRoofing.com

LEAK REPAIRS • BBB A+ Rating • Free Est’s • Senior’s Disc • Liability Insured since 1990

604-835-ROOF (7663)

A-1 Contracting & Roofing NEW & RE-ROOFING All Types • C ncrete Tile Paint & Seal •Asphalt • Flat All Maintenance & Repairs WCB. 25% Discount.

• Emergency Repairs • .

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Call Jag at:

778-892-1530

HOME REPAIRS RENOVATIONS INSTALLATIONS Done Quick. Licenced.

Done Right. Bonded.

Guaranteed. Insured.

604-878-5232

INTERIOR & EXTERIOR SPECIALS 10% OFF

GUTTER & WINDOW

20 yrs. exp. • Free Est.

Call 604-

7291234

PAY-LESS Pro Painting FALL Ext/Int SPECIALS LOOK for our YARD SIGNS Free estimates. Licensed Pressure Washing. Insured Serving Tri City 36 Years.

Call 24Hrs/7 Days Scott 604-891-9967 paylesspropainting.com

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Roofing Expert 778-230-5717 Repairs/re-roof/new roofs.

All work guaranteed. Frank

RUBBISH REMOVAL

handymanconnection.com

CLEANING

Prices starting from…

3 Level Home: 130/gutters, $130/windows 2 Level Home: $ 90/gutters, $90/windows Excellent Service Since 1976 $

778.839.7114

PATIOS

All Work Guar. Free Est. Donny 604-600-6049

604-520-9922

35Years of Experience

604-728-3009

RENOS & HOME IMPROVEMENT

FAIRWAY PAINTING Fully Insured

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A Gardener & A Gentleman Lawn, Garden, Trees. Prune.

Clean- p. J nk.604-319-5302

“Award Winning Renovations”

3 rooms for $299, 2 coats any colour

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• All Bobcat / Mini-X Service • Small Ha ls ~ Pickup / Delivery

Residential & Commercial

PRESTANCIA PLUMBING & HEATING. Drain Tile, Hot Water Tanks, Gas +. 778-898-8235

PAINTSPECIAL.COM

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604-878-5232

Drainage • Heating • Gas Renos • Maintenance • Installs DJPl mbing.ca 778-227-1119

604-358-7597

PAINTING/ WALLPAPER

$25 OFF JUNK REMOVAL Senior Discount Better Rate Free Estimate 604−500−2003

Bath, Kitchen, Basement & More Grade A+, Licensed & Insured RenoRite.com, 604-365-7271

www.nrgelectric.ca

CLEANING

CONCRETE

GUTTER CLEANING ROOF CLEANING WINDOW CLEANING POWER WASHING

Free Estimate/Senior Discount

Ren s & Repairs. BBB Member.

APPLIANCE REPAIRS

Schedule at supercleaningvancouver.com

604-936-2808

Electrical Installations

Systems Ltd.

MESSY HOUSE OR OFFICE? The most thorough cleaning or its FREE! Single Parent & Senior’s disc. (604) 945-0004

HOME MAINTENANCE • R f & G tter Cleaning • G tter Repairs • Strata & Residential • WCB Ins red.

All Electrical, Low Cost.

Licensed. Res/Com. Small j b expert. Ren s Panel changes. (604)374-0062

604-463-7919

POCO APPLIANCE MART 604 942-4999 • Servicing ALL Makes of Appliances & Refrigeration. Work Guar’teed

GRANT’S

ELECTRICAL

ALARM

Retaining Walls *Interlocking * Fencing *Drainage *Decking * Lawns *Hedges *Small Renos

*

Loyal To Tri-Cities For Over 19 Years!

Cel: 604-836-6519, 778-285-6510

GUTTERS

HERFORT CONCRETE

DRAINAGE

2013 Mini Cooper Cherry Red Convertible, Standard New tires, all maintenance & service records. Lady Driven.

Great condition. $25,000obo or Finance Take Over.

Suzanne • 604-721-7172

Please check out our website www.safeguardcontractingltd.ca

$45/Hr

1, 2, 3, 5 & 7 Ton Trucks Licensed ~ Reliable ~ Since 2001

604-537-4140

604-462-9558

5BR/2.5BA $2,850 Chinside

From

Renos & Tiling Done Right!

One call does it all

RENOS & HOME IMPROVEMENT

AFFORDABLE MOVING

F ll Service Bathr m

Established in 1985

PLUMBING

MOVING

• Aluminum Patio Covers • Sunrooms and Windows • Aluminum Railings, Vinyl Decking Free Est. 604-521-2688

www.PatioCoverVancouver.com

PAVING/SEAL COATING METRO Blacktop Co. Ltd. New & Old Driveways.

Repairs • 604-657-9936

RENOVATIONS & REPAIR lam/wood flrs/tiling,finishing carpentry, drywall, sundecks, windows/doors new roof & siding repairs.

Quality work, Free Est.

778-893-7277

loofaconstruction.ca .

PLUMBING

778 PLUMBING AND HEATING

Comm, res, repairs and installs, gas fitting, renos. drain cleaning. Fully ins’d and ticketed. Reas rates.

Prompt. 778-834-6966

FERREIRA HOME IMPROVEMENTS All interi r and Exteri r Renovations and Additons Renovation Contractor Licensed and Insured Free Estimates “Satisfaction Guaranteed”

NORM 604-841-1855

604-RUBBISH 782-2474 On Time, Fast. Lowest Rates

• We remove any kind of junk & recycling • Resident, Commercial, Industrial • Basement, Garage, Yard Clean-up • Old Furniture, Appliances 15 & 30 Yard Dumptrucks

RICK’S RUBBISH REMOVAL • • • • •

Residential Commercial Construction Yard Waste Free Estimates

Rick 604-329-2783

TREE SERVICES GREEN TREE

ARBORIST SERVICE • Tree Rem val • Pr ning • Hedge Trimming + m re 15yrs exp. WCB. Full Ins’d.

Call T m f r Free Est.

778-899-TREE (8733) greentreeservice.ca

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