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Tri-City a haven for bears in 2017, says COs DIANE STRANDBERG The Tri-CiTy News

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Kiyoshi Takahashi and John Saremba demonstrate how they “watch” bats using special audio sensors that can detect the sonic frequencies used by bats to find their way around and hunt bugs in the dark. They’re sharing their bat knowledge tonight with Batty for Bats at Old Orchard hall in Port Moody. For more, see story on page 9.

The 2017 bear season in the Tri-Cities was one of the busiest yet, reports the BC Conservation Officer Service, with more than 2,000 complaints handled since April.

And while some of those complaints were due to repeat offenders — bruins that couldn’t stay away from people’s homes and garages — the numbers paint a picture of a region that is attractive to bears that come down from the mountains in summer or spend winters in nearby ravines.

“There are probably hundreds of bears in that geographic area of the Tri-Cities,” said Insp. Murray Smith.

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ILLICIT DRUGS

ODs on rise here along with rest of Metro Van 18 people have died in Tri-Cities already this year DIANE STRANDBERG

Teens exercising at a Port Moody school are helping feed children far away in somalia: see page 22

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The number of illicit drug overdoses in Coquitlam continues to climb, prompting one recovery house administrator to call the situation a “crisis.”

Rob Thiessen said no one has died of a drug overdose in the houses he manages for the Hope for Freedom Society (HFFS). But he said he has heard from emergency responders that fentanyl has entered the local drug supply, causing “hundreds” of overdoses.

Many OD victims survive only because they were given naloxone, which blocks or reverses the effects of an opi-

oid. But many have died according to the latest numbers compiled by the BC Coroners Service.

In a report published last week, the coroner’s office stated that by the end of August this year, 18 people had died in Coquitlam of an illicit drug overdose — compared to 13 in all of 2016 and just two 10 years ago, in 2007.

Numbers started escalating in 2014, when 10 people died

of illicit drug overdoses.

“That statistic is horrifying to me and that’s the tip of the iceberg,” Thiessen. Not only are the deaths tragic, he said, but some people survive an overdose only to end up on life support or “brain dead.”

“That is going to be a significant economic hit,” he said, referring to the costs of a patient being kept in hospital. see MORE THAN, page 7

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Storm and bear plague local public transit Rain water floods some Evergreen Extension track DIANE STRANDBERG The Tri-CiTy News

Weather and wildlife made for a busy start to the Tuesday morning commute for local

SkyTrain and West Coast Express riders.

First there was flooding, then a bear showed up, giving TransLink staff a lot to deal with and inconveniencing a few hundred commuters.

Staff had to deal with the wild weather overnight when a plugged drain between Burquitlam Station and the tunnel on the Evergreen

Extension resulted in about a foot of water on the tracks.

Crews spotted the issue in an early morning sweep before the first train at 5:05 a.m. and immediately cleaned up the area, which is in a dip between the station and the tunnel.

“It was almost a foot of water, our trains simply couldn’t run through until we completely cleaned the drain,”

said TransLink spokesperson Chris Bryan, noting, “We do routinely check those things.

We’re definitely keeping an eye on that spot there.”

The cleanup delayed the first morning train by about 40 minutes, Bryan said.

Then, at 8:10 a.m., the West Coast Express platform at Coquitlam Central Station had to be evacuated until a small

black bear left the area.

Bryan said that with safety the top priority, the Vancouverbound train couldn’t stop while the bear was on the platform, leaving about 250 commuters stranded.

That meant passengers who would normally hop on the commuter rail train were told to choose the Evergreen Extension of the Millennium

Line instead.

Eventually, the bear left the area by climbing over the railing and meandering into the trees.

“Anyone who lives in the Tri-Cities know wildlife is part of life around there. It’s not too surprising to see that kind of thing,” Bryan said.

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A photo (left) from the city of Coquitlam shows what the crosswalk at Burlington Drive along Pinetree Way looks like now and a photo illustration (right) shows what it will look like with a rainbow crosswalk.

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Coquitlam council approves rainbow crosswalk – right next to city hall GARY MCKENNA

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Coquitlam will have a rainbow crosswalk.

The “symbol… of the city’s commitment to diversity and inclusiveness” will be located at Burlington Drive and Pinetree Way next to city hall and steps away from Spirit Square, according to a staff report.

Council voted in favour of the initiative during Monday’s meeting, coming at the end of what had become a contentious debate in the community and on social media.

“I did find the way in which this was approached in a couple of instances was not con-

ducive to bringing everyone together,” Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart said during the meeting.

“I am saddened it did get as divisive as it did, especially since this is about inclusivity,” added Coun. Teri Towner.

The city has budgeted $10,000 for the crosswalk but engineering general manager Jozsef Dioszeghy said it will likely cost much less.

The amount is higher because at the time the estimate was made, staff had not settled on a location. Given that Burlington is much smaller than some of the other intersections that were considered, Dioszeghy said he expects the price to be lower than the estimate.

“It is not going to be as cheap as buying a roller and a gallon of paint but it won’t be $10,000,” he said.

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with a special kind of epoxy paint that seals and is easy to maintain but is not slippery when wet, Dioszeghy added, noting it will have to be painted during dry weather.

Staff considered a number of high-profile intersections for the installation, including Poirier Street between the rec centre and Dogwood Pavilion; Brunette Avenue at Marmont and King Edward streets; Lansdowne Drive or David Avenue at one of the Coquitlam Crunch trail crossings; Pinetree Way at Lougheed or Barnet highways; and Trevor Wingrove Way in Town Centre Park.

Burlington at Pinetree was chosen because it is highly visible and universally accessible, according to the staff report.

The document noted that the location has a lot of pedestrian activity and is adjacent to city hall and Spirit Square, which

holds a number of community events throughout the year.

“The installation of a rainbow crosswalk is a symbol and statement of the city’s commitment to diversity and inclusiveness,” said the staff report. “The rainbow crosswalk, while closely aligned with the LGBTQ community, is also a recognized symbol of inclusiveness of a broad range of individuals, communities and social movements.”

While council voted in favour of installing the crosswalk, the decision was not unanimous.

Coun. Terry O’Neill spoke against the proposal, saying that if council allowed the installation of a rainbow crosswalk, it would set a precedent that would force the city to adopt other symbols, possibly from religious groups or other organizations.

“I think we are opening

the door in an unfair way by adopting symbols that the vast majority associate with one particular group,” he said, later adding: “It is unfair and it is not good city policy.”

Towner first brought up the subject of a rainbow crosswalk during a committee meeting last year but the issue received another push when Nicola Spurling and Ian Soutar of the Tri-Cities Pride Society presented to council last month.

They called for rainbow and trans crosswalks to be installed at several prominent intersections.

“One is a universal symbol of acceptance and one is showing support for a very marginalized group in the community,” Spurling told The Tri-City News at the time.

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A few weeks ago, local business owner Katrina Shelast and Access Youth Outreach Service executive director Jerome Bouvier put together an online FundRazr campaign with the goal of funding the crosswalk.

Dioszeghy said the crosswalk will be funded with money from the city’s infrastructure reserve fund but he noted that council is discussing the idea of putting up signage explaining the significance of the rainbow. If that initiative moves forward, he said staff would revisit the idea of using money raised by Shelast and Bouvier.

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BEARS

Mama and cubs trapped and relocated DIANE STRANDBERG

in the trap, tranquilized and moved to an undisclosed location away from the city.

But the 500 lb. male that was the original target is still on the loose, although the trap has been removed until COs get another report.

This is the season when bears head down to the creeks and streams in search of returning salmon to eat and bulk up on fruit remaining on trees.

Smith urged people to stay away from creeks at this time and to remove fruit and other attractants from their yards.

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A large male black bear managed to evade a trap set by conservation officers but a sow and two cubs were not so lucky.

The bear family has been given a second chance, however, in the wilderness after being trapped off Patullo Crescent in Coquitlam.

“There is no conflict history for them,” said Insp. Murray Smith of the BC Conservation Officer Service, who explained that the bear family was caught

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scofflaws because his team is busy dealing with bears as well as poaching, polluting and a number of other files.

Still, despite the fines and improved cooperation among homeowners, some 15 bruins had to be destroyed, on par with 2016; as well, several bears were relocated, including three last week, and two cubs were sent to Critter Care to be looked after until next spring.

Although the deaths are unfortunate, Smith said they represent a small number of the actual complaints and are handled in a way to prevent future conflicts between humans and bears.

Murray cited one example, recently, when a bear was breaking into sheds and causing multiple complaints. A trap was set but he never took the bait.

“It’s really important we deal with the attractant. That’s the long-term solution: changing behaviour and habits. The bears won’t change.”

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He noted they’ve been seen on Westwood Plateau, in urban areas of Coquitlam, and on Burke Mountain, through Port Coquitlam, the Coquitlam River watershed, along the Pitt River, all the way to Port Moody, Anmore and Belcarra.

Many of them are attracted by the smell of garbage, prompting the cities to get tougher on people setting their carts out early, leaving green bins unlocked or being careless with other attractants.

In Coquitlam this year, more than 400 fines were handed out, costing residents up to $500 each, while Port Moody issued 630 tickets with penalties ranging from $50 to $150, and Port Coquitlam delivered 48 tickets costing $150 under the solid waste bylaw.

Coquitlam also gave out 4,840 warnings this year.

“Thank goodness for the support we get from our municipal partners,” said Smith, who said the CO service relies on the cities to deal with

the woods, they should make noise to signal their approach or wear bear bells to indicate their arrival, Smith said.

Hibernation is still several weeks away, with sows and cubs heading to dens first, followed by three-year-old adolescent bears and finally, older male bears, which don’t usually hibernate until late November or December. Smith said it takes about five straight days of frost to convince bears to head to their dens for the winter. dstrandberg@tricitynews.com @dstrandbergTC

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The city of Coquitlam is reminding residents to properly sort their various forms of garbage.

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Get garbage sorted GARY MCKENNA The Tri-CiTy News

The city of Coquitlam is using Waste Reduction Week to remind residents to ensure their garbage, green waste and recycling are properly separated — or they could face a fine.

About 465 warnings have already been issued this year as well as a handful of $150 tickets to residents with contaminated waste left at the curb.

“This is important for ensuring we are minimizing the amount of waste going to the landfill, which in addition to the environmental benefits also has cost savings,” said Steffanie Warriner, the city’s manager of environmental services.

She noted that tipping fees for garbage is $100 per tonne while green waste only costs the city $78 per tonne and recycling is free.

Warriner added that keeping garbage separated is also important from a bear and wildlife management perspective.

“Recyclables and food waste are picked up weekly while regular garbage, which should contain no food or recyclable waste, is picked up every two weeks,” she said, meaning bears will have less time to sniff out the organics they are attracted to.

Residents who are unsure about what waste goes in which bin can download the city’s ReCollect App or go to www.co-

quitlam.ca/curbsidecollection to see the Waste Wizard online tool, which allows people to type in the name of an item to determine which bin it belongs in.

Green carts are used for all kitchen scraps, food-soiled paper and yard trimmings while the blue recycling box and yellow bag are for mixed containers, cardboard and paper. The garbage cart should be used for anything that is non-hazardous and cannot be composted or recycled.

• For more information, go to www.coquitlam.ca/recycling or www.coquitlam.ca/yardtrimmings. gmckenna@tricitynews.com @gmckennaTC

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PORT MOODY

Expensive lessons from last winter More equipment, more trained staff are needed: PoMo MARIO BARTEL

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Port Moody needs larger trucks, standardized front plows and more small equipment capable of clearing pedestrian areas if it’s to cope with another winter like the last one.

Those are among a series of high-priority recommendations in a report presented to city council’s committee of the whole last week.

The report, prepared by the city’s operations superintendent, Jeff Little, also recommends more staff be trained to operate PoMo’s current fleet of plows and assurances of appropriate budgeting to meet the demands for winter road maintenance.

“Staff have begun taking action to acquire resources and establish procedures that apply the lessons learned during the winter of 2016-2017,” said the report, which also noted the city faced “significant challenges” trying to keep up with winter road maintenance, providing essential services like

garbage, recycling and green waste pickup, water distribution and wastewater collection all at the same time.

The report said the two oneton trucks fitted with plows that are dispatched to clear the city’s priority 3 routes during sustained winter weather are prone to breakdowns “as they do not offer the capacity or power to effectively plow and salt these routes. The problems only get worse when they’re deployed to higher-priority routes to spell off trucks responsible for clearing those routes when they have broken down.”

Ordering replacement trucks with standardized front plows and connections as well as sanders would improve efficiency as it would be easier to swap equipment between trucks.

The report also recommends the city accelerate its plan to acquire a front-end loader to help load trucks with salt and other materials. The city’s current small skid steer loader can’t load all the trucks in the city’s fleet, which means its two backhoes have to be called into service away from helping clear snow and ice.

The report says the city also doesn’t have enough suitable equipment to keep pedestrian routes clear. Renting a small

skid steer loader, as the city has done in the past, isn’t always possible when the snow is flying and small snowblowers and shovels only go so far.

“Pedestrian accessibility, particularly during snow events when conditions may discourage people from using cars, is an especially important requirement in Port Moody,” said the report, noting residents then often opt to walk to their nearest transit stop instead.

Staffing challenges and the high demand for workers available to help keep city streets

and sidewalks clear also made it difficult for it to keep up with all the snow over a prolonged period, said the report, so more staff must be trained to use more of the equipment.

The report also recommends better, more simplified communication within city operations as well as establishing a more formal conduit for communication between operations staff and police in case of traffic safety issues like road closures or accidents.

The constant barrage of snow and ice also emptied

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other municipalities and the school district. The report recommends the city look at enlarging its capacity to store salt beyond the 240 tons it can currently manage as part of the planning for a new works yard.

In total, Port Moody spent almost twice as much on winter road maintenance in 2016 — $401,644 — than it did the year before when clearing streets cost $209,230. The costs for 2017 have yet to be determined. mbartel@tricitynews.com @mbartelTC

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Fraser Health said it does not keep statistics on the number of people on life support after being resuscitated from a drug overdose but Thiessen said people surviving a drug overdose only to be incapacitated is an untold story and that needs to be addressed.

“That’s anecdotal from first responders,” Thiessen said.

“They brought the same guy back nine times in a two-day period, the ninth time back, he’s toast.”

Thiessen said politics are keeping authorities from tracking non-lethal OD numbers.

“We don’t know what happened to them after. We don’t have the ability to track that, we haven’t been tracking it. It’s such a crisis out there.”

A spokesperson for the BC Coroner’s Office said the illicit drug overdose stats were broken down by city because the agency wanted to put a human face to the numbers.

“This is affecting people from all walks of life,” Andy Watson said.

The numbers from Port Moody and Port Coquitlam were not broken out but were among the 242 included in the “other township” grouping.

The report doesn’t break down the specifics of drug, location of death or ages for each city, but generalizes for the entire province. The information can be extrapolated for

THE NUMBERS Illicit drug overdose deaths in Coquitlam

2007 — 2 2008 — 2 2009 — 5 2010 — 2 2011 — 3 2012 — 6 2013 — 1 2014 — 10 2015 — 11 2016 — 13 2017 — 18 Coquitlam; some of the details are as follows: • Over 80% (823) of the suspected illicit drug deaths to date in 2017 had fentanyl detected, representing an increase of 151% over the same period in 2016. In most cases, fentanyl was combined with other illicit drugs, most often cocaine, heroin or methamphetamines.

• Almost three out of every four deaths involved people between the ages of 30 and 59.

• Four out of five who died were male.

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• Nine out of every 10 deaths occurred indoors, including more than half in private residences.

• And no deaths occurred at any supervised consumption site or at any of the drug overdose prevention sites.

“It’s heartbreaking to see the continued high numbers of deaths throughout the province despite the numerous initiatives and harm-reduction measures in place,” chief coroner Lisa Lapointe said in a press release. “This highlights the complexities of drug dependency and illicit drug use, and the importance of a coordinated, health-focused approach to this medical issue.

“We also need people to know that no illicit substance in this province can be considered safe, whether you know your dealer or not. Anyone using an illicit substance must be prepared for an adverse effect and must have someone else present who is willing and able to help.” dstrandberg@tricitynews.com @dstrandbergTC

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New tennis courts are expected in Burquitlam and northeast Coquitlam in the next five years as part of a facilities strategy city council approved Monday.

The document outlines short-term projects, which include three new courts at Cottonwood Park and two at either the middle or high school site slated for Burke Mountain. The five courts are expected to cost $700,000.

But due to a maintenance backlog at a handful of existing courts, staff said they will need an additional $1.56 million to renew and extend the life of that infrastructure over the next five years. For example, it is estimated that work at Eagle Ridge will cost $675,000 while Poirier will be $315,000 and Blue Mountain will cost $300,000. Outstanding maintenance at Hickey is expected to cost $120,000 while Bramble requires $150,000 in work.

Coun. Craig Hodge said the city may have to consider a one-time funding boost in the upcoming budget to deal with the maintenance backlog.

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Maintaining existing tennis courts and building new ones are priorities for the city of Coquitlam as part of a facilities strategy. facilities strategy also has several long term goals to increase capacity in Coquitlam.

Between 2023 and 2037, the plan calls for spending $4.8 million for work that includes redeveloping the courts at Town Centre ($1.5 million), building additional courts in northeast Coquitlam ($300,000) and renovating existing courts that are at the end of their lifecycles ($2 million).

Several councillors also expressed interest in potentially building another covered tennis court facility that could be used year-round.

nance, which he noted was not enough to do the outstanding work while keeping up with the usual repairs and upkeep that is required throughout the year.

Parks and recreation general manager Raul Allueva echoed Hodge’s comments, noting that the annual maintenance budget is helpful but “there is a gap that is identified.”

“When I hear that we don’t have enough courts, I think what we are seeing is that… [players] are picking favourite courts over others,” Hodge said. “By bringing others up to standard, we can delay the need to build new courts.”

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Tonight (Wednesday), they’ll be sharing some of their fascinating finds, along with bat researcher Erin Rutherford, at a free information session about bat conservation in Port Moody.

And make no mistake about it, bats are worth conserving, Saremba said.

A single bat can consume 600 to 1,000 flying insects in an hour, making them one of the most voracious predators of agricultural pests. Some species are prolific pollinators — fruit bats propagate seeds far and wide.

In fact, Saremba said, bats may be the most important non-commercial animal species on the planet.

It’s a shame they have such a lousy public relations department.

Saremba said bats’ nocturnal lifestyle and creepy reputation forged from centuries of lore and legend have also made them one of the least understood creatures.

“There’s not much known about bats,” Saremba said.

“They’re hard to band and detect.”

Takahashi, who’s 85 years old, has been working his whole life to correct misunderstandings about bats. He used to catch and play with them when he was a boy growing up in rural Japan because “there were lots of them in the countryside,” he said. “But we wouldn’t touch them because we were so afraid.”

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Two years ago, Saremba and Takahashi started formalizing their interest in bats by forging alliances with the various communities in the Tri-Cities to monitor bat populations, build a database and even place bat boxes where colonies can roost safely from predators.

“It’s one thing to say, ‘Let’s do bat awareness,’ but we need data to make it believable,” Saremba said.

Of the 1,200 species of bats worldwide, about six or seven live in Port Moody, including the big brown bat and the hoary bat. Many of them roost around the inlet, where they can skim low across the water and mud flats to catch dinner like mosquitoes.

In the winter, some species migrate to warmer climes, like Mexico and Arizona, while others retreat to secret caves where they can slow their heart rate from 200 beats per minute to 10, and they can survive for six months without eating.

Saremba said some bats can live up to 30 years, they’re good

mothers and they communicate with each other.

“You come to love them,” he said.

But development of their habitats and disease such as white nose syndrome are putting local bat populations at risk, Saremba said.

That’s why educating people about bats and the importance of bat conservation efforts like building bat boxes is so important, Saremba said.

The city of Port Moody is planning to install two bat boxes on either side of the inlet, at Rocky Point Park and at Old Orchard Park, to support new colonies, said Lesley Douglas, the city’s general manager of environment and parks.

“These specially constructed boxes provide important habitat for bats, giving them a safe place to roost during the day,” Douglas said.

In total, the Burke Mountain Naturalists’ bat team is hoping to have 10 bat boxes throughout the Tri-Cities, including a bat “mini-condo” that can hold 1,500 bats that it plans to install at Colony Farm.

“I see a growing recognition of bats,” Saremba said. “But we’re only just at the start.”

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RACHEL LEAH ON THE CLOSING OF SEARS STORES

“Sadly, Sears should’ve made more of an effort to change with the times and attract a younger... market.”

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“I’m really sad to see Sears go. The Christmas Sears Wishbook has been a tradition passed down three generations in my family and it’s sad to see that disappear into the world of digital. I feel so sorry for the 12,000 employees... losing their jobs.”

ERYN SIMS

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ears Canada died last week. It might have survived greed or incompetence but the 65-year-old Canadian institution was in no shape to cope with both.

The company’s woes began when hedge fund giant and controlling Sears Canada shareholder Edward Lampert divided the parent company into warring fiefdoms. A devotee of Ayn Rand, Lampert fuelled his company with pure self-interest.

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The end result is 12,000 people out of work and a 151,455sq. ft. hole in Coquitlam Centre.

But while Sears Canada may have hastened its own demise, it would be a mistake to examine its failure in a vacuum.

With Target and HMV faltering, Canada lost more than 30,000 jobs in electronics, appliance, and general merchandise stores between 2012

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and 2016.

A few years ago, community activists and small businesses fought the incursion of big-box stores. Some communities repelled brick-and-mortar behemoths but there was no

successful campaign against online retailers. Even shoppers who frequent farmers’ markets tend to be seduced by merchandise delivered to their door.

The big-box stores are invisible but they’re here, just one click away.

It doesn’t profit a customer to redeem a discount if it costs a community. As the holidays approach, consider the small operators who work here, pay taxes here and keep our economy afloat. And know that when you online shop, they drop.

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No ‘equal footing’ ‘Selfish’ people don’t in pension changes pick up after pooches The Editor, Re. “Union says benefits change ‘punitive’,” (The TriCity News, Sept. 29).

The Tri-City News’ recent coverage of a $13-million surplus for the current school year and the reduction of health retirement benefits for those retiring after December of this year contains a quote by School District 43 secretary treasurer Chris Nicholls saying, “We’re putting our employees on equal footing.”

This just isn’t true. In fact, reducing these benefits does not put SD43 support workers on equal footing with other employees in the district nor with other school district employees across the province.

Teachers and administrators belong to the BC Teachers Pension Plan while CUPE employees and management staff belong to the Non-Teaching Pension

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Plan (NTPP). The teachers’ plan provides a voluntary extended health and dental plan for members. This plan has more than 80,000 retired members and includes members of the College and Public Service Plans.

Retirees who belong to the NTPP are currently enrolled in a post-retirement benefits plan. The retirees contribute 60% of the premiums and the district contributes 40%.

SD43 has given notice that the entire plan will be eliminated for employees who retire after Dec. 31, 2017.

In fact, support staff in every other B.C. school district belong to the Municipal Pension Plan (MPP). Retirees from the MPP have a post-retirement benefit plan. But changes that SD43 have made will deny all future Coquitlam school district support staff workers retiring after the end of this year access to a postretirement benefit plan.

There is still time for the district to reverse this proposed change. Education support workers deserve more than broken promises. Children in Coquitlam schools can count on their support workers and those workers should be able to count on fair treatment from their employer. I urge the SD43 board of education to reverse the health benefits cut to future retirees.

Dave Ginter, President, CUPE Local 561 (School District 43 support staff)

The Editor, Lately, I’ve read lots about irresponsible dog owners. I’m writing from the south side of Port Coquitlam and it disgusting to know that I live among people who want dogs as pets but do not care to clean up after them.

Our yard, our green bin, the boulevard and the ditch behind our residence have dog poop all over.

Perhaps some dog owners are not aware of others’ frustrations. Then again, common sense tells you to clean up after your dog. It’s pure ignorance and selfish people who leave unsightly poop at other people’s property and allow dogs off leash and chasing passersby.

First, there aren’t enough signs to remind people to be aware there’s a fine involved for not picking up after their dogs. Why provide more and more bins if people are ignorant? How much do signs cost verses the cost of bins?

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Don’t blame the pooch, blame the people, argues the letter writer, who says many dog owners don’t clean up after their pets and some may not be aware of the rules.

The city should slap a hefty fine for such bylaw offences or the dog owners should have to go to court to explain why they can’t pick up after their pooches.

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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 23, 2017 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.

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 11 to October 23 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 1

Address: 3407 Victoria Drive

The intent of Bylaw 4791, 2017 is to amend City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 to rezone the subject property outlined in black on the map marked Schedule ‘A’ to Bylaw 4791, 2017 from RS-2 One-Family Suburban Residential to RS-7 Small Village Single Family Residential.

If approved, the RS-7 zone would facilitate the subdivision of the subject property into two one-family residential lots.

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

Item 2

Address: 3411 Victoria Drive

SCHEDULE A

The intent of Bylaw 4792, 2017 is to amend City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 to rezone the subject property outlined in black on the map marked Schedule ‘A’ to Bylaw 4792, 2017 from RS-2 OneFamily Suburban Residential to RS-7 Small Village Single Family Residential.

SCHEDULE A

If approved, the RS-7 zone would facilitate the subdivision of the subject property into two one-family residential lots.

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City Hall Council Chambers, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7N2 Address: 970 Rochester Avenue

The intent of Bylaw 4796, 2017 is to amend City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 to rezone the subject property outlined in black on the map marked Schedule ‘A’ to Bylaw 4796, 2017 from RS-1 One-Family Residential to RT-1 TwoFamily Residential.

If approved, the RT-1 zone would facilitate the construction of a duplex.

Item 4

Addresses 603, 605 and 607 Regan Avenue

The intent of Bylaw 4795, 2017 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 4795, 2017 from RT-1 Two-Family Residential to RM-3 MultiStorey Medium Density Apartment Residential.

If approved, the RM-3 zone would facilitate the development of a six storey apartment building with approximately 75 dwelling units.

Item 5

Address: 3409 Harper Road

The intent of Bylaw 4787, 2017 is to amend City of Coquitlam Citywide Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 3479, 2001 to revise the land use designation of the subject property outlined in black on the map marked Schedule “A” to Bylaw No. 4787, 2017 from Large Single-Family and Environmentally Sensitive Area to Conventional Townhomes and Environmentally Sensitive Area.

The intent of Bylaw 4788, 2017 is to amend City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 to rezone the subject property outlined in black on the map marked Schedule ‘A’ to Bylaw 4788, 2017 from RS-2 One-Family Suburban Residential to RT-2 Townhouse Residential and P-5 Special Park.

SCHEDULE A

If approved, the RT-2 zone would facilitate an 18-unit townhouse development. The P-5 zone would facilitate the restoration and dedication of an environmentally sensitive area and completion of a trail connection.

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Date: Monday, October 23, 2017 Time: 7:00 p.m.

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

Supply of homes is up, affordability is down FRANK O’BRIEN

Item 6

Address: 207 Allard Street

The intent of Bylaw 4798, 2017 is to authorize the City to enter into a Heritage Revitalization Agreement with the owner of the property located at 207 Allard Street.

The intent of Bylaw 4799, 2017 is to authorize the City to designate the land and building(s) located at 207 Allard Street as a protected heritage property.

If approved, the application would facilitate the re-siting, restoration and heritage designation of the Boileau House, a historic Maillardville building, as a single-family home. The application would also facilitate the subdivision of the subject property into two residential lots, with a single-family home to be constructed on the newly created lot.

Item 7

Addresses: Portions of 3561 Gislason Avenue and 3510 Burke Village Promenade

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Supply is said to be one solution to affordable housing in Metro Vancouver, with a developer group urging mass rezoning of single-family neighbourhoods to accommodate higher-density residential.

“What’s causing the supply shortage is the restrictive singlefamily home neighbourhood zoning on 85% of our residential land base. That keeps out young families, middle income earners and renters, who can’t afford single-family homes,” said Anne McMullin, president and CEO of the Urban Development Institute, Pacific Region. “We clearly need a regional housing strategy with more homes for more people.”

But recent studies show the reverse is true: Fewer people can afford to buy condominiums in the Metro suburbs that have seen the greatest increase in supply over the past two years.

Spurred by the extension of rapid transit, Coquitlam, Burnaby, New Westminster and Surrey have seen explosive growth in strata projects but they all share something else in common: As residential towers ascend, housing affordability has eroded.

After record-breaking construction in 2016, Surrey had more multi-family housing starts — 2,390 and mostly condo apartments — in the first half of this year than in any other Metro Vancouver municipality, but condo affordability has fallen by 7.8% compared to a year earlier, according to a survey by credit union Vancity.

The 2017 Vancity study compares the change in percentage of median household income required to cover the cost of buying a condominium apartment based on current prices.

Burnaby, which had the second-highest strata starts, has seen condominium affordability plunge nearly 10% . In the Brentwood area, where the most new condos are being built, the benchmark price of a resale condo is the highest — and least affordable — in Burnaby, at $747,400.

Coquitlam’s condo affordability has plunged 20.8% this year, despite posting the thirdhighest number of multi-family starts in the region, up 35% from 2016, to 941 units.

Port Coquitlam saw multifamily starts rocket up 741% in the first half of 2017 compared to a year earlier but condo affordability fell by 15.5% , based on the Vancity data.

Meanwhile, developers are

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*Please Note: an earlier version of Bylaw 4775, 2017 was given second and third readings following the Public Hearing held on September 18, 2017.

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The intent of Bylaw 4775, 2017 is to amend City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 to rezone a portion of the subject properties outlined in black on the map marked Schedule ‘A’ to Bylaw 4775, 2017 from A-3 Agricultural and Resource to RT-2 Townhouse Residential and P-5 Special Park.

If approved, the RT-2 zone would facilitate the creation of a townhouse site for future development. The P-5 zone would allow for the protection of an environmentally sensitive area.

driving local residential land prices much higher According to Colliers International, a “well-connected transit system” is spurring new condos, particularly in areas adjacent to existing town centre malls such as Brentwood and Lougheed, both of which are zoned for ultra-high-density housing.

In Port Moody, where the arrival of SkyTrain has boosted home construction, the typical condo apartment price is up 25.2% from a year ago to more than $600,000, according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. Once inexpensive, PoMo is now the fifth-least affordable place to buy a condo in Metro Vancouver, according to Vancity.

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A pack of papillon pooches posing for a picture for owner Ada Grier didn’t say “cheese” because they were distracted by the cries of a crow flying overhead. Nevertheless, Grier snapped this autumn-themed photo of the canine family with mother Maggie perched in the middle.

Cleanup & brekkie The Baha’i Community of Port Moody will be holding a Rocky Point cleanup and pancake breakfast this weekend.

The event takes place Saturday between 9 a.m. and noon, with free breakfast being offered to cleanup participants at the Old Mill Boathouse starting at 10 a.m. Registration is at 9 a.m.

According to the group organizing the event, the cleanup is a means to give back to the community

and has been launched in conjunction with the bicentennial of the birth of Baha’u’llah, the founder of the Baha’i Faith.

Another local event will be held at the Inlet Theatre in Port Moody at 7 p.m., where the public is invited to attend and participate in the celebrations.

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• 2988 Forestridge Pl.: Marlene Bilesky now has her Halloween lights on from 6:30 to 10 p.m. nightly. The display includes scary animatronics — plus monsters on Oct. 31. Donations are being collected to support Variety - The Children’s Charity.

• 3412 Don Moore Dr.: Chris Baker has made dozens of props— including flying ghosts and a horse-drawn

hearse — for his annual Halloween display, open starting Oct. 21.

• 3108 Starlight Way: Jay Shaw has 10 actors in his haunt, which is open on Halloween from 6 to 9 p.m.

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Longtime Coq. councillor remembered A memorial will be held later this month for a longtime Coquitlam city councillor who died suddenly on Oct. 4. Bill LeClair was 64.

LeClair was a member of council from 1983 to 2005 as well as a fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Coquitlam Foundation.

At the time of his death, LeClair was living in Sorrento, in the B.C. Interior, and was a director of several companies as well as an advisory member of the Silver Star Mountain Resort.

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residing in England, Africa and the Philippines.

Coun. Mae Reid, who was elected to council with LeClair in November ’83, said: “Bill worked hard and he was a very accomplished businessman with high integrity. He brought a level of expertise to the city as an accountant. He was also a true gentleman.”

A Centennial secondary and UBC graduate, LeClair was familiar with civic affairs as his father, Ray, was a Coquitlam city manager.

Retired city manager Norm

Cook, who knew LeClair from when he was hired in 1990, said the two became friends outside of the council chambers.

“He was great. He was a listener and level-headed,” Cook told The Tri-City News on Monday. “He didn’t get caught up in the emotion of situations.

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A former parks department head, Don Cunnings, said he recruited LeClair to work as a

people when he didn’t.

LeClair leaves behind his wife and high school sweetheart, Sharon; two daughters, Lindsey and Rebecca; and four grandchildren. He is predeceased by his youngest daughter Carleigh, a Type 1 diabetic who died in 2008.

• A celebration of life will be held at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in Vancouver on Oct. 29 at 1 p.m. Donations to the Bill Clair Community Fund — via the Coquitlam Foundation — are accepted in his memory.

lifeguard when he was in high school and at university.

As a city councillor, “he was outstanding,” Cunnings remembered. “I saw a lot of council members come and go over the years and he stands at the top of the pile. He gave so freely of himself and he equipped himself so well, including academically. To have someone with a bachelor of commerce on council was quite a gift to the community.”

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On Monday, the Port Moody school’s 1,400 students embarked on a 30-day Move4MANA challenge to be physically active with the goal of sending a package of ready-touse therapeutic food, Mother Administered Nutritive Aid (MANA), to Africa for every 500 calories burned.

“You have the opportunity to save lives, why wouldn’t you?” asked student Adrienne Clayton, who is helping to organize the project with 12 of her peers.

Move4MANA is a partnership between MANA Nutrition, which produces the peanutbutter-based substance; Langley-based Food for Famine Society which is donating the MANA packages; and World Vision Canada, which will be distributing them to families in war-torn Somalia.

It’s a project that came out of a youth philanthropy initiative, called YIP, that students in the school participated in last spring.

One of the judges, Maria Martini from Food For Famine, was so impressed with HWSS’ students charitable efforts that she proposed the idea and the students took it from there, said sponsor teacher Marilyn Nunn.

“I’ve been teaching for over 30 years and I’ve never seen such an impactful project,” Nunn told The Tri-City News.

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Heritage Woods secondary school’s Move4MANA team, including Katie Sew and Adrienne Clayton, are gearing up for a month of physical fitness in a project that will see the school’s 1,400 students burn calories so that thousands of packages of ready-to-use therapeutic food, called Mother Administered Nutritive Aid (MANA), are donated to feed African children suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Sew and Clayton recently visited the factory where MANA is made and hope the project will spread to other schools in the province and North America.

Over the summer, the students produced a video on the project and on Monday, the entire school did exercises and heard from representatives from the Move4MANA partners.

Clayton, who is in Grade 11, and Katie Sew, a Grade 12 student, even got to visit the U.S. state of Georgia, a

peanut-growing region where the MANA is produced. They flew there on a private jet with a group of food writers, toured the factory and a peanut farm, and participated in an American Peanut Council dinner.

But the highlight of their two-day trip was meeting

former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn, who were gracious and enthusiastic about their project.

“H was very nice,” said Sew, who recalls chatting with the former first family’s governess, who regaled them with stories about the Carter family.

Over the short period of

time the girls learned a lot about peanuts — which are actually a plant of the pea family and grow underground.

They also saw the fortified nutritional supplement being made; it looks like a paste and is shipped in a plastic packet.

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severe acute malnutrition is what has the girls excited.

“Together we can save so many lives,” said Clayton.

Her friend noted that the hope is that other schools across Canada and the U.S. join in the challenge so that the lives of children in developing countries are saved while students in North America get more physically fit.

MANA Nutrition co-founder Mark Moore said as much in a Huffington Post article about the Port Moody school’s Move4MANA project.

“So they are asking, what if we took our abundance and actually used it to balance the scarcity in another part of the globe? We’ve always known that was a way to motivate people to give dollars. But what about giving something else?

What about giving of our energy by getting active?” he wrote.

Noting that HWSS kicked off its challenge on World Food Day, Moore said it’s time North Americans learned to understand that prosperity on one side of the globe is equally matched by poverty on the other.

The students agree and are ready to jump into the Move4MANA campaign, using the Active For Good app to measure their activity.

“I’m hoping to get our school motivated with global community work and get more active,” Sew said.

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hile British mysteries may be dominated by eccentric geniuses who solve crimes with their wits and denounce the murderer amidst a group of suspects in the drawing room of a stately old house, the American flavour of the genre brought us the professional private investigator just trying to make a living in a tough racket and who solves his cases mostly by getting knocked down and getting back up again. These are usually flawed men in an unethical world working for morally ambiguous ends.

These are the classic hardboiled detectives.

Sam Spade in Dashiell Hammett’s Maltese Falcon might be one of the names that springs to mind when you hear the term “hard-boiled detective” but the employee of the Continental Detective Agency, known only as the Continental Op in Hammett’s earlier 1929 novel Red Harvest, has a stronger claim to helping create the genre. In this actionpacked story, the Op comes to Personville to meet with the reform-minded publisher of the local newspaper only to find his client has been murdered. The corrupt father of the murdered newspaper man hires the Op to clean up the gangs that are threatening his control of the town and murders mount as the detective plays the bad guys against one another. Although the Op realizes that “He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a

monster,” he finds it satisfying to manipulate the gangsters into killing one another and ends by arranging to have the governor declare a state of martial law, sacking the crooked local cops.

Humphrey Bogart brought Raymond Chandler’s private investigator Philip Marlowe to the screen in The Big Sleep but the cinematic version can’t pack in all the twists, turns, double-crosses and convoluted puzzles featured in the novel.

Marlowe is hired to meet with a man blackmailing the wild youngest daughter of a wealthy invalid. In the course of his first meeting with the rich General Sternwood, Marlowe learns in passing that Regan, the bootlegger husband of Sternwood’s other daughter, is missing and has been presumed to have run off with a gangster’s wife. He is annoyed that in the course of the blackmail investigation, everyone assumes he has been hired by the General to find Regan. Several murders and fist-fights later, the blackmail case is resolved and Marlowe decides to do what everyone thought he was doing in the first place, which leads to more

fights, murders, and some truly great dialogue.

Ross MacDonald’s detective Lew Archer continues in Marlowe’s footsteps. In The Drowning Pool, Archer is hired to track down a the writer of a poison pen letter but is soon in the middle of a murder investigation when a rich woman is found drowned in the family’s suburban L.A. swimming pool. The multiple suspects include members of the drowned woman’s family, a local oil magnate looking to drill on the family’s lands and Archer himself. As in other Archer novels, MacDonald explores the changing dynamics of American life, dysfunctional families and the widening gap between the haves and havenots. These themes are handled in a well-plotted story with a satisfying twist of an ending.

Private detective Mike Hammer, introduced in Mickey Spillane’s I, the Jury, is perhaps the ultimate hard-boiled tough guy. There is nothing that will stop Hammer’s quest for vigilante vengeance when the war buddy who saved his life is brutally murdered. The beatings and the murders keep coming as Hammer determines which of the many suspects killed his friend. The Hammer novels have been called sexist, racist, misogynist, violent and lurid but critics have also noted that Spillane has a “flair for fastaction writing.” If you have the stomach, Mike Hammer makes for an exciting read.

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• Rocky Point clean-up and pancake breakfast for participants hosted by Baha’i community of Port Moody, 9 a.m.-noon, Old Mill Boathouse at Rocky Point Park.

• University Women’s Club of Coquitlam hosts Rudy Reimer of SFU, 1-2 p.m., Coquitlam Public Library City Centre branch.

Reimer, associate professor of Archaeology and First Nations Studies, will speak about how the study of ancient rock art can provide us with a understanding of the past. The public is invited to attend. Info: Allison, 604-939 -9146 or Roxanne, 604-9312894.

SUNDAY, OCT. 22 • Salmon Come Home festival, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Hoy Creek Hatchery, Coquitlam. Watch spawning chum salmon in stream, learn about the hatchery, view live salmon demonstrations and enjoy musical entertainment, interactive children’s activities, food and educational exhibits. Info: hoyscottcreeks. org/salmon-come-home.

• Tri-City Photography Club meets, 7:30 p.m., in drama room at Port Moody secondary school, 300 Albert St. – guests welcome. Presentation: Cindy Hughes from Muddy Love Pet Photography will bring her therapy dog along and teach attendees how to take great pet photos. Info: www.tricityphotoclub.ca.

OCT. 21 & 22: CARNEY GARAGE SALE • Archbishop Carney regional secondary school garage sale, 1335 Dominion Ave., PoCo, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.. All proceeds will go to support the school with new projects and improvements.

TUESDAY, OCT. 24 • Job’s Daughters info night, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 2660 Shaughnessy St., PoCo. Looking for an organization for your daughter, niece or granddaughter? Learn more about our group for girls aged 10-20. Adults and children welcome!

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TC CALENDAR continued from page 24 • Tri-City Centennial Stamp Club hosts small-stamp auction; viewing starts at 7 p.m., auction after 8 p.m., Burke Mountain fire hall meeting room, 3501 David Ave., Coquitlam. Info: www. stampclub.ca or 604-941-9306.

THURSDAY, OCT. 26

• An Evening at the Museum, 7 p.m., PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives. Speaker to be announced. Info: pocoheritage.org.

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

• Coquitlam Closet Used Clothing Sale and Food for Families Fresh Food Bank, 3-5 p.m., 1932 Cameron Ave., PoCo. Fill a bag of used clothing from our selection of men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing for only $3 per bag. Food for Families, which provides fresh produce and dairy monthly.

SUNDAY, OCT. 29

• Join Friends of DeBoville Slough for a relaxed nature walk along the north side of DeBoville Slough, 1-4 p.m., to the Pitt River and possibly further. Along the way, participants will look for birds, look at plants and discuss the natural habitat of DeBoville Slough. Event will go rain or shine unless it is pouring; dress for the weather and wear sturdy footwear, bring binoculars if you have them. Meet at the kiosk on the north side of DeBoville Slough. Info: info@fodbs.org.

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COMMUNITY LIVING SUPPORT GROUP • Simon Fraser Society for Community Living hosts Family Support, Education and Networking Group for families with children with developmental or physical disabilities throughout the school year. For more information, please contact the Family and Individual Support Program at 604-525-9494.

7:30-9:30 p.m., the church will be open as a sacred space to remember those who have died.

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PARENTS, KIDS • Parents and tots gather to play and learn in a Jewishthemed environment, Burquest Jewish Community Centre, 2680 Dewdney Trunk Rd., Coquitlam.

Info: 604-552-7221 or info@ burquest.org.

• Step By Step Child Development Society Family Resource Rooms open for dropin at the following locations: Old Orchard Hall in Ioco Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30-11 a.m., Harbour View elementary school Monday and Wednesday from 9:30-11 a.m. and at the Blue Mountain Park Scouts’ Hall on Wed from 10-11:30. Call 604-931-1977 for more information or visit the website at www. step-by-step.ca • Millside Family Resource Centre is open Fridays, 9-11 a.m. for parents and caregivers with kids up to 6 years; staff co-ordinate play, circle time and crafts. Millside elementary is at 1432 Brunette Ave., Coquitlam.

Info: Arshia, 604-540-9161.

• Mountain View Family Resource Centre is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9-11:30 a.m. for parents and caregivers with kids

up to 6 years; staff co-ordinate play, circle time and crafts.

Mountain View elementary is at 740 Smith Ave., Coquitlam. Info: Arshia, 604-540-9161.

• Drop-in for parents/ caregivers and children 5 and younger, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Wednesdays, Birchland School Family Place, 1331 Fraser St., PoCo. Info: Westcoast Family Resources Society, 604-9417828.

• Como Lake United church children’s choir for kids ages 6 to 10 meets Mondays, 6:30 p.m., 535 Marmont St., Coquitlam.

Info: Elena, 604-468-2733.

• Christian Service Brigade and Senior Girls Alive at Westwood Community Church, 1294 Johnson St., Coquitlam, invite youth 11-18 to join them on Wednesday nights 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. for Battalion program.

Info: Ronnie Tan, 604-9081847.

• Autism Tri-Cities information and support group for adults with relatives with autism spectrum disorder. Info: Clair, 604939-5157.

• PoCoMo Mothers of Multiples club meets the third Thursday of the month. Info: Brenda, 604-937-5534.

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PoMo playwright up for a Governor General’s Award JANIS CLEUGH The Tri-CiTy News

When Stephen Drover asked Hiro Kanagawa to write an adaptation of Ibsen’s Little Eyolf — one of Drover’s favourite plays — the Port Moody playwright didn’t know what to think.

Drover, the artistic director of Rumble Theatre in Vancouver, had previously worked with Kanagawa to direct his show, The Patron Saint of Stanley Park, for the Arts Club Theatre.

But three years on, Drover wanted something from Kanagawa for his own company to produce.

Kanagawa spent the next two years crafting a script based on Little Eyolf; however, instead of setting it in 19th century Norway, he used his backyard to unfold the scenes.

And rather than creating tension between a couple grieving over the loss of their disabled son, Kanagawa positioned his narrative around land ownership on First Nations territory.

The play, titled Indian Arm, was well-received when Rumble Theatre mounted it in April 2015.

And, this month, it was named a Governor General’s Literary Award finalist in the drama category (after it was published last year), competing against Michael Healey’s 1979, Robert Chafe’s The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Kate Hennig’s The Virgin Trial and Anna Chatterton’s Within the Glass. The winner will be named on Nov. 1 and receive $25,000 (non-winning finalists get $1,000).

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Port Moody playwright Hiro Kanagawa was named a finalist for a Governor General Literary Award this month.

“I’m thrilled by the Governor General’s nomination,” Kanagawa told The TriCity News last Friday from his home. “It’s a terrific honour to be recognized by the community of my peers.”

The nod for his playwriting skills comes after nearly 30 years in the performing and visual arts field.

A native of Sapporo, Japan, Kanagawa was three when his family moved to Canada. At the time, his father was studying post-doctoral research in veterinarian medicine at the University of Guelph. Eleven years later, the family was back in Japan but Kanagawa returned to North America to pursue his undergraduate degree in sculpture at the pres-

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He withdrew after becoming “disenchanted” with the direction of visual arts at the time and enrolled in a new master’s program at SFU. It was during his interdisciplinary studies at SFU that he penned his first full-length play, focusing on racism on campus, and the nexus between politics and private life became a theme for his future plays (The Patron Saint of Stanley Park earned him a 2011 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding New Script and

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was later remounted by the Arts Club Theatre).

Soon, Kanagawa was gaining more work in Vancouver’s film and television industry and he landed roles in Highlander, The X-Files, Smallville and, most recently, iZombie (as Lt. Suzuki).

He also dipped his hand into screenwriting for such programs as the Da Vinci Inquest series. Now, he’s working on programs for Netflix and TNT, and writing TV pilots.

Asked if he will turn Indian Arm into a screenplay one day, Kanagawa is hesitant: The stage is a different medium than television and film, he explains, and may be difficult to interpret.

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from the Governor General’s award nomination, he’s eager to see the play remounted.

Indian Arm has the blessing from Leonard George, an elder with the Tsleil-Waututh Nation who is the youngest son of the late Chief Dan and Amy George, and Kanagawa would like to see his story — and the discussion about reconciliation — continue.

“If we are going to reconcile the two cultures,” he said of Western and First Nations society, “how do we do that? In Western culture, everything is owned but Indigenous people consider the land and nature shared. There has to be understanding before we move forward.” jcleugh@tricitynews.com

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An online auction aimed to raise money for arts educaMCCAULEY tion at Place des Arts generated more than two-thirds of the Coquitlam facility’s goal on opening day.

As of yesterday (Tuesday) at 9 a.m., the total stood at 75% of the $8,500 target. “We are off to a great start with at least one bid on every item in the auction,” said Joan McCauley, Place des Arts’ executive director. “We are so pleased with the response so far and we are well on our way to reaching our goal.”

Prizes donated for the virtual block include trips and accommodation in Jasper, Seattle and on Vancouver Island. As well, there are chances to bid on a Harbour Air Seaplanes flight, theatre tickets, food gift certificates and museum passes.

To bid, guests — aged 18 and up — are prompted to create an account through 32auctions.com. Once they earmark their wishes, the software program will automatically send an email if they are outbid on a prize.

The second annual online auction closes at 9 p.m. on Oct. 27. Visit placedesarts.ca.

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Get into the Halloween spirit early • Place Maillardville (1200 Cartier Ave.) has games, crafts and face painting for the family from 2 to 4 p.m. on Oct. 29.

Visit placemaillardville.ca.

• Pinetree community centre (1260 Pinetree Way) presents a morning and an afternoon of freaky craft making and gym games — including a bouncy castle — plus a costume parade on Oct. 29. The $5 cost of registration includes snacks. Visit coquitlam.ca (bar code 599623 or 599624).

Or, on Oct. 30, bring the little ones — aged one to 5 – to a Jumpstart Halloween Music and Storytime. Sign up at coquitlam.ca/prc.

• Lace up your skates for a costume contest on ice at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex (633 Poirier St.) for a spooky afternoon skate from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. on Oct. 29.

Visit coquitlam.ca/pslc.

Tri-City kids wanting to show off their Halloween costumes before Oct. 31 can dress up before the trick-or-treating starts, at several events happening around the region.

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• Join Mr. I at Place des Arts (1120 Brunette Ave.) for his annual Halloween concert, held in conjunction with the Maillardville venue’s Family Day. His 3 p.m. show is $10 per person while the Family Day, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., is no cost. Visit brownpapertickets. com for a concert ticket.

• The city’s Inspiration Garden (corner of Pipeline Road and Guildford Way) has a pumpkin carving workshop on Oct. 25 and Oct. 28 as well as a “ghoulish” planter session on Oct. 26. To register, visit coquitlam.ca/garden.

• Coquitlam Heritage (1116 Brunette Ave.) hosts a historical party and marionette show on Oct. 28 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. No registration is required. Visit coquitlamheritage.ca.

• Coquitlam Farmers Market (parking lot of Dogwood Pavilion) gets into the spirit on Oct. 29 with Halloween games and craft making; the costume parade is at noon. Visit makebakegrow. com.

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Cash and food donations for Share Family and Community Services will be accepted as entry into Anmore Manor, a haunted house created — for the fourth year in a row — by Sasamat volunteer firefighter Ken Honigman and his partner Lilija Berngards. Last year, some 1,500 guests helped to collect $1,300 and 470 pounds of non-perishable goods for the charity. And more visitors are expected for this year’s creep house, which took the couple about three months to set up at 1151 Robin Way. Anmore Manor is open on Oct. 27, 28 and 29 from 7 to 10 p.m.; Oct. 30 from 7 to 9:30 p.m.; and Oct. 31 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Visit their Facebook page “Anmore Manor - Haunted House” for details.

skate on Oct. 29 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Port Moody recreation complex (300 Ioco Rd.).

Admission is $3.50 per person.

Strollers are welcome. Visit portmoody.ca.

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• Passes are now available for the city’s annual Halloween Howl, happening at Hyde Creek recreation complex (1379 Laurier St.) on Oct. 21 from 1 to 8 p.m. Enjoy the day-long swim; carnival (3 to 5 p.m.); and haunted house (3 to 6 p.m.). The cost for an all-inclusive family rate is $25, or $8 per person. Call 604-927PLAY.

ANMORE

• Port Moody students in grades 6 to 12 can dress up for a costume contest and haunted house at the Westhill youth centre (203 Westhill Pl.) from 6 to 10 p.m. on Oct. 28. The “Franken-fest” also includes a movie, pizza, pumpkin carving and prizes. No cost.

Visit portmoody.ca.

• Grab your helmet and skates for a Halloween-themed

• The village will light up the sky over Spirit Park (2697 Sunnyside Rd.) on Oct. 31.

The event, from 7 to 9 p.m., includes hot drinks and snacks.

Donations will be accepted at village hall. Visit anmore.com.

BELCARRA

• Kids can dress up for a Halloween costume party at Belcarra village hall (4084 Bedwell Bay Rd.) on Oct. 29 from 3 to 5 p.m. while fireworks will shoot from Belcarra Bay on Oct. 31 at around 8 p.m., thanks to CRAB. Visit belcarra. ca. jcleugh@tricitynews.com

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Paint a Coquitlam tile for Canada 150 mosaic Save a spot to make your mark on a Canada 150 mosaic.

The Coquitlam Public Library is now taking reservations for residents (schoolaged children in Grade 4 and up) wanting to paint a tile on Friday and Saturday.

The 500 aluminum tiles — measuring 4” by 4” each — will be assembled into a large mural that will depict the city’s history.

Participants will have a short training session at the start of their chosen hour at the City Centre branch (1169 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam). The event is free to the public; funding for the legacy project came from the city via a Spirit Grant.

To sign up, call the library at 604-937-4141 or go online at coqlibrary.ca.

NEW MAZE EP

Port Coquitlam’s Cassandra Maze is out with a new EP. The Port Moody native released Velocity at the Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver on Oct. 7; the first single is titled Wait.

Maze is currently on a fivedate tour of B.C. to promote her album. She performs at The Riverfront in Grindrod on Friday.

PORTELANCE ART

Don Portelance’s display called Jouneys—Time/Space is based on his travels around the world. It can be seen at the Fort Gallery (9048 Glover Rd., Fort Langley) until Oct. 29 along with Alex Burton’s art work.

Portelance will be at the gallery from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday and on Oct. 29.

PLAYHOUSE

Port Coquitlam actor Mary Ellen Shimell appears in the new fall play for the Langley Players.

Shimell portrays the char-

acter Mary in The Memory of Water, which opens tomorrow (Thursday) at the Langley Playhouse (4307 200th St.).

Directed by Shane Rochon, the play was adapted by Shelagh Stephenson for the 2002 film Before You Go and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2000.

The show also includes Alaina Holland, TJ MacPherson, Virginia Cooke, Reginald Pillay and Andy Wood, and is produced by Laurie Hohlbein.

Tickets at $15 can be reserved by visiting langleyplayers.com.

WILLKOMMEN

Four Tri-City high school grads are part of Cabaret that opened in Vancouver last week.

Max Hall (Gleneagle secondary), Max Smith (Dr. Charles Best secondary) and Maddison Simms (Heritage Woods secondary) portray Bobby, Cliff Bradshaw and Rosie, respectively, in the production, of which the choreog-

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raphy was created by Lyndsay Britten (Gleneagle).

Marking its 50th year since it opened on Broadway, Cabaret is playing at Club XY (1216 Bute St.) until Sunday.

Fort Langley, Kelowna and Mexico. Visit myartclub.com.

ART DEMO

A Port Coquitlam art group hosts its second public demo of the season next week.

Art Focus Artists Association will bring in award-winning West Coast landscape painter Janice Robertson to show her skill on Wednesday, Oct. 25 in The Outlet (behind PoCo city hall) in Leigh Square Community Arts Village. The free meeting starts at 7 p.m.

Robertson has won the bronze medal three times in the signature members’ annual exhibition for the Federation of Canadian Artists.

She is represented by galleries in Vancouver, Whistler, Sidney,

NO LIV W E!

A retired art teacher from Centennial secondary is now showing his paintings in a new exhibition.

EMILY COOPER

A new chapter in the Mom’s the Word series opens next week with eight shows in Coquitlam.

Produced by the Arts Club Theatre Company On Tour — and written by and starring Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard and Deborah Williams — Mom’s the Word 3: Nest 1/2 Empty runs at the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way) from Oct. 24 to 29. A pre-show chat will be held next Tuesday while a talk-back performance is scheduled for Oct. 26. For tickets at $42/$34/$15, call the box office at 604-927-6555 or visit evergreenculturalcentre.ca.

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Michael Bridge (accordions and piano) will join Kornel Wolak (clarinet and piano) on the Evergreen Cultural Centre stage to perform their classical, jazz and folk compositions.

Originally from Alberta, Bridge is a graduate student in accordion performance at the University of Toronto while Dr. Wolak, a Polish native, is researching speech language pathology at U of T. Their gig at Evergreen is the first concert in the TD Music Series at the Coquitlam facilty.

For tickets, call the box office at 604-927-6555 or visit evergreenculturalcentre.ca.

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ROUGH RIDE

Joshua Wildauer of the Coquitlam Express collides with Langley Rivermen defenceman Tyson Slater in their BC Hockey League game Friday at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex. The Express won the game 2-1 after Lucas Wong scored the winning goal in overtime. It was his first goal in the BCHL. Eric Linell scored the other Express goal, and goalie Clay Stephenson stopped 35 of the 36 shots he faced.

But the result wasn’t as encouraging the next night as the Express lost 7-1 to the Chilliwack Chiefs in Chilliwack.

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POCO MINOR HOCKEY

New scholarship aiming to retain refs Fund to be named after PoCo’s Bradbury family MARIO BARTEL

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When you’re a referee, it can feel like you just can’t win.

The pay can be minimal and the pressure to be on

your game at all times can be tremendous. Nobody will give you a standing ovation for a good call.

“It’s a thankless job, to a certain extent,” said Tyler Goudal, the referee in chief for Port Coquitlam Minor Hockey.

But keeping referees engaged and in the game is key to providing everyone involved in a sport with a good experience.

That’s why PoCo Minor

Hockey is raising $10,000 to establish a yearly scholarship of at least $500 to provide its young referees, and even office officials, with more training, equipment or counselling.

“This may be a referee that shows dedication and perseverance, someone that helps others on or off ice, or even a dedicated off-ice official that runs the clock at every game,” said Leif Sogaard of PoCo

Minor Hockey.

It’s all about keeping them motivated, Goudal said.

The scholarship will be named after the Bradbury family, pillars of the local hockey community with seven brothers who all played, coached or refereed in PoCo Minor. One of them, Neil, passed away in June 2016, as a consequence of a brain injury he had sustained while coaching.

Goudal said siblings following in the footsteps of their brothers or sisters is often the entry point into the refereeing ranks.

“It’s a way to get out on the ice.”

Once there, a young referee will earn $15 for working a novice game while an experienced official gets paid $55 at the juvenile level.

Some of them manage to

schedule two or three games in a row to earn a decent parttime wage, Goudal said. “But when you break it down, it isn’t a lot.”

And, of course, the older the kids and the higher the level of hockey, the more pressure officials can face from coaches, players and parents.

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Quest keeper Rikki Loan has to battle through Douglas forwards Martina Pettenon, Sneha Sandhu, and Michelle Wessa to make a save in their Pacific Western Athletic Association women’s soccer match, Saturday at Coquitlam’s Town Centre Park. Douglas won the match, 3-1.

On Sunday they tied Vancouver Island University, 2-2. The men beat Quest 2-0, but lost to VIU 3-0. They host Langara tonight (Wednesday) at Town Centre Park. Bot the women’s and men’s teams wrap up their regular season schedules on Saturday at Town Centre against Capilano University. The women play at 1 p.m. while the men’s match is at 3:30 p.m.

intense, everyone gets more emotionally involved in the game,” Goudal said.

That can be discouraging to a young referee who may also be coping with schoolwork or other life pressures.

Get them through those challenges, and the association likely has a referee for life, Goudal said. “Once you get past the hurdle when kids graduate high school, they stay involved for a long time.”

While the gig won’t make a referee rich, or get them a table at the most exclusive restaurant in town, it does have rewards.

“There’s so many life skills when you’re officiating,” Goudal said. “They learn how to write reports, be accountable. They learn communication skills, how to talk to other players and adults. They learn how to write a test and studying rules.

Goudal said every referee in the association must pass an annual certification that is comprised of a fourhour clinic followed by a test. They’re also required to attend monthly on-ice and classroom training

sessions that focus on elements of the game like stick infractions, boarding versus checking from behind and how to deal with abusive coaches and parents.

The latter can be especially difficult for new or younger referees.

“The biggest thing I say to them is don’t shut down lines of communication immediately,” Goudal said.

“You can diffuse most situations by just listening. But that’s hard to teach to a 12 year old.”

Most importantly, the regular training sessions help build a fraternity amongst the referees so they too feel part of a team, Goudal said.

“Officiating is kind of a brotherhood,” Goudal said.

“They’re aware of each other and that there’s a support network. We’re all cooking in the same pot.”

And having a scholarship program, he hopes, will help keep that pot full.

• Donations to the Bradbury Memorial Scholarship Bursary Fund can be made at any VanCity savings branch to account #53027240 or online at a https://www.gofundme. com/Bradburymemorial.

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Two-Thirds of Condos Selling Above Asking Price Demand for condo-apartment units in the Burnaby/Tri-Cities region continues unabated in the fall housing market, according to an analysis of MLS® sold data for the week October 2-8 reveals.

Exactly two-thirds of the 69 condo units to sell in the region that week (registered by October 16) went for above their list price.

Only 26% – or 18 units – were sold for under asking and just five homes went for exactly the sticker price.

There were slightly fewer attached home sales than the previous week, at 88 units in total when including townhomes, duplexes and row homes. The median selling price for an attached home in the region was also slightly lower, at $540K. However, that figure varies between neighbourhoods considerably, ranging from a high of $629,900 in Burnaby South to the least expensive attached homes in Port Coquitlam, with a median sale price of $435K.

The most expensive attached home sale of the same week was a brand-new half-duplex in Burnaby North’s Sperling neighbourhood, which sold for nearly 7% over asking at $1,601,000. But a more jaw-dropping home was the region’s priciest condo sale – a Burnaby Mountain penthouse at SFU with unbelievable views and ultra-modern interiors.

This cool pad was bought for $1.1 million, $50K under asking, after 41 days on the market.

The region’s detached home market, having sped up somewhat towards the end of September, slowed very slightly again October 2-8. The median sale price held relatively steady at $1,395,000, but the median days on market rose again, to 41, after having declined for several weeks in a row.

The priciest detached home sale in the region was the relatively modest $1,925,000 deal for a dated, 1960-built house on a desirable corner lot near Deer Lake. The property sold to an apparently motivated buyer for more than 10% over its asking price, after just eight days on market.

SALES STATS HOME SALES* Attached Detached

ACTIVE LISTINGS† 88 22

MEDIAN SALE PRICE** Attached Detached

793 1,136

DAYS ON MARKET†† $540,000 $1,395,000

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$1,601,000 $1,925,000

*Total units registered sold Oct 2-8. **Median sale price of units registered sold Oct 2-8. ***Highest price of all units registered sold Oct 2-8. †Listings as of Oct 6. ††Median days of active listings as of Oct 16.

All sold and listings information as of Oct 16.

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COCHRAN, Ronald W. April 11, 1935 − October 8, 2017 Ron passed away suddenly in Coquitlam, BC on October 8, 2017, having just returned from a beautiful cruise. Ron is survived by his loving wife and best friend Barbara, 4 children: Pamela (Brent) Reidlinger; Lonny (Claude) Saltel; Corey (Perry) Ulmer; and Darren (Vera) Cochran, two step sons Edward (Debbie) Shapter and Mike (Kathleen) Shapter, 10 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren, one sister Gwen Hunt, and a number of nieces and nephews and friends. Ron retired from BC Tel in 1985 after 32 years, and spent his retirement traveling with Barbara. He was an avid reader and enjoyed many hobbies including wood carving and painting. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Kidney Foundation would be greatly appreciated www.firstmemorialportcoquitlam.com

We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our eldest son at the tender age of 22.

SO, Dr. Yan P. July 6, 1932 - September 22, 2017 Family doctor in the Tri-Cities for 53 years, lover of Canada’s open spaces, family man, loyal Lions and Canucks fan, expert BBQ salmon cook, amateur photographer, generous host, Vancouver Opera patron, hopeless romantic (he wept at every performance of Madama Butterfly), Yan P So died, in Coquitlam, from dementia-related disease. He was 85 years old.

Bereaved are children Robyn (Ted), Stephen (Jasmine), Julie (Steven) and Christopher; grandchildren Courtney, Hannah, Jeremy, Samuel, Stephen and Veronica; great-grandchild Felix; sisters Yan Ho Hui (Steven) and So Yan Kok. Predeceased by wife of 53 years, Jean Patricia (née Chapman). Yan’s dedication to his medical practice meant missed family dinners and vacations.

In spite of this, Jean worked hard to contribute to Yan’s success and longevity as a family physician until her death, in 2014.

LECLAIR (FCA), Bill It is with sadness and pain that his family announces the unexpected death of Bill LeClair, FCA (William Raymond) in Sorrento, BC, on October 4, 2017. Bill was the beloved husband of his high school sweetheart Sharon (née Crawford); devoted father of Lindsey (Andrew Lindsay), Rebecca (Sean Scott) and Carleigh Ray (deceased); and adoring Papa of Brady, Shea, Keenen and Isla. Bill is also survived by his sisters Caroline Darts (Dan) and Susan LeClair and by numerous uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces from the Fenton, LeClair and Crawford clans and many friends.

Born on March 7, 1953, to Carrie (née Fenton) and Ray LeClair, Bill graduated from Centennial High School and became a Chartered Accountant after completing his studies at UBC. Extraordinarily successful in business, he worked in various parts of Canada and in England, Africa and the Philippines.

His philanthropic work, both privately and in relation to his business interests, was renowned. He was a long-time fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Coquitlam Foundation. He also sat as an elected Councillor for the City of Coquitlam from 1983 to 2005.

Throughout his life, Bill remained grounded in family and community. He was a musical entertainer, taking centre stage at family gatherings, a nature lover and a fishing enthusiast. He loved to laugh and to sing with family and friends, and his energy knew no bounds.

Bill’s life dream was to live on the beach surrounded by his family, boating and fishing to his heart’s content. He and Sharon culminated that dream on the shores of the Shuswap Lake. Then, suddenly, he was gone.

Friends and family are invited to celebrate Bill’s life at a memorial to be held at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in Vancouver on October 29th at 1:00 P.M. Bill’s work and dedication to helping others will be continued through the Bill LeClair Community Fund.

Contributions will be gratefully accepted at the Coquitlam Foundation, c/o PO BOX 2, 1207 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7Y3.

In lieu of flowers, Bill’s family asks that you spend time with your loved ones, take a walk on the beach, and make a toast to friendships, lifelong and beyond.

Born in Hong Kong, second of 8 children, to So Yin Moo (father) and Lam Mo Yin (mother). Attended school in Hong Kong and at Lingnan University, Guangzhou. Immigrated to Canada in 1952. He relished telling of the three-week ocean journey in ship’s steerage. Despite terrible loneliness in the first years, he never looked back as he made a new life in Canada.

Yan graduated from UBC’s Faculty of Medicine in 1958, interned at VGH and established a solo family practice in Coquitlam in 1962. Active at Royal Columbian and Eagle Ridge Hospitals, he also served as medical staff president at St. Mary’s and Queen’s Park Hospitals, medical coordinator at Como Lake Hospital and medical director at Foyer Maillard.

Retired age 82. Yan said his greatest reward was caring for multiple generations of families. He valued knowing his patients and their knowing him. Patient and methodical, Yan quietly went about his ways.

He gave every last drop of himself to the community, even making a house call on his last day in practice.

Gaven passed away suddenly but peacefully on October 10, 2017.

He is survived by his loving parents (Camille & James), younger brother (Isaac), grandparents (Milo & Zdena) and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, extended family and friends that loved him dearly.

Gaven has left a huge void in the family that can never be filled. His smile could light up a room and his humour could make anyone laugh, especially when it was needed. He cared for others more than himself and even if he didn’t have much he would offer what he could to those that had less.

He always had kind words or compliments for others.

Whenever lightning strikes, we will know it’s you reaching down to hug us and we will break out the melba toast and cocoa on the porch.

A Celebration of Gaven’s Life will be held at the family home on October 21st, from 1:00pm to 5:00pm.

Contact family at james.mayville@shaw.ca for further details.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to, (ICY) Inner City Youth Program in Gaven’s name.

They were instrumental in assisting him and other youths through difficult times. http://www.innercityyouth.ca/donate/ 1260 Granville Street Vancouver, B.C. 604-806-9415 Burkeview Chapel 604-944-4128 firstmemorialportcoquitlam.com

GENERAL EMPLOYMENT

A celebration of life will be held on Sunday, October 29, at the Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia Street, New Westminster. Near SkyTrain. Parkade entrance off 8th St. Doors open at 1 pm, memorial at 1:30 pm.

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In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the Yan P. So Award in Family Medicine, established by the family at University of British Columbia. Donations can be made online at memorial.support.ubc.ca/yan-so, by mail at 500-5950 University Blvd., Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, or by calling 604-827-4111.

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