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ONLY THE HIGHRISES PEEK OUT OF THE FOG

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Fog shrouds highrises in Coquitlam’s Town Centre in this view from Panorama Park. The fog is created by a temperature inversion when warm air up high traps moist, cooler air closer to the ground.

MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION

Cities expect ‘crash course’ in dealing with legal weed Cities across the country working on issue at once GARY MCKENNA

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While the federal government is forging ahead with plans to legalize marijuana for recreational use by next summer and the province is soliciting input on how it should regulate this new industry, city

governments are still grappling with how the rule changes will affect them.

Municipal staff in Coquitlam will begin looking into the issue after council decided last week to move the creation of a regulatory framework for cannabis sales to a B priority in its 2018 business plan.

But a lot of the city’s work will depend on what is happening at the provincial and federal level.

“It is a bit of an unknown at this point,” said John Dumont,

Coquitlam’s deputy city manager, during the Dec. 4 council meeting. “It is something we will have to address when we see the details of what they are planning to roll out.”

Jim McIntyre, Coquitlam’s general manager of planning and development, said a working group made up of staff from planning, bylaws and legal services is being put together to research and analyze the issue. He expects to have a report outlining the various steps forward before council

early in the New Year.

“I guess we are all under the gun,” McIntyre said. “The federal government is setting that pretty ambitious startup [date].”

There are many unknowns to be worked out, he added, and given that all Canadian municipalities will be tackling the rule changes at the same time, it will be harder for cities to learn what works best from one another. see CITIES LOOKING, page 4

The annual CP Rail Holiday Train is coming back to the Tri-Cities, with stops planned sunday in Port Coquitlam and Port Moody, and performances by musician Alan Doyle and others: details, page 23

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Above left: Operation Red Nose organizer Chris Wilson (left) talks to volunteers at the group’s dispatch centre, based at the ICBC claims centre, last Friday night. Above right: The first pickup of the night for reporter Janis Cleugh and volunteer colleagues Haley and Joseph at Browns Socialhouse in New Westminster. Below: (from left) Cleugh, Haley and Joseph as they prepare to give another ride.

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On the road with Red Nose volunteers A Tri-City News reporter takes an Operation Red Nose night shift

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Volunteers with Operation Red Nose are on the roads this Friday and Saturday. Call 778-866-6673 for a safe ride home from your holiday party.

Can you volunteer on New Year’s Eve? Operation Red Nose is looking for drivers, navigators and escort drivers for Dec. 31. To apply, download a form at operationrednosetricities.com and visit Coquitlam RCMP or Port Moody Police to fill out a criminal record check.

JANIS CLEUGH

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og. That was the night’s challenge.

Last year, it was snow, which isn’t fun when you’re driving up and down hills to chauffeur people home from their holiday parties.

But, given the cause, it was worth heading out into the foggy darkness.

About two dozen of us signed up for a six-hour shift with Operation Red Nose, which offers safe rides home for holiday party-goers in exchange for donations that support KidSport Tri-Cities.

Here’s how it works: A team of three volunteers responds to a call for a ride. A driver and navigator go with the client, driving him or her in their own car. An escort driver — that was my job — follows, then picks them up at the client’s destination and drives them to their next call.

In between pick-ups, my team’s assigned driver, Joseph, and navigator, Haley, chatted

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about the KidSport donations the clients had given for their ride, shared personal stories and commented on the Christmas light displays. It was a great way to spend an evening and meet new people.

Here’s how our night unfolded: n 9 p.m.: After loading up for our midnight meals — courtesy of The Boathouse in Port Moody and Starbucks — and saying hello to New West Record reporter Cayley Dobie (who was documenting the volunteer efforts with Royal City Mayor Jonathan Cote), Joseph, Haley and I make quick introductions before heading out to our first call. We shoot over to Browns Socialhouse in New Westminster, where we greeted

a woman in a black Hyundai Elantra who took us deep into Burnaby’s Edmonds neighbourhood and offered a $40 donation. Not a bad start, we think. n 10 p.m.: As we had left the ICBC claims centre that serves as ORN’s headquarters and dispatch centre for the evening, early — before ORN organizer Chris Wilson gave his pep talk — we return to find out our designated territory. As Team 1, we are assigned Area 23/24, the Maillardville pubs and restaurants. Wearing our red ORN vests, we make our presence known at the Town Hall Public House and leave business cards with a server. In the car, there’s lots of chatter as Haley, Joseph and I get to know

each other: Haley is a Douglas College criminology undergrad who has volunteered before with ORN while Joseph moved to Port Moody six years ago and is starting to support Tri-City charities. He talks about his franchise, Shelf Genie, and how it builds adaptable units around B.C. Joseph is especially tired as he’d recently returned from a trip to Texas. n 10:30 p.m.: It’s back to Burnaby for another pick-up — this time, a couple at the Grand Villa Casino Hotel and Conference Centre that needs to get to Abbotsford. As that territory is covered by another ORN crew, we arrange a drop off — in the clients’ black VW Jetta — at the McDonald’s at the 264th Street exit in

Aldergrove. The Port Mann Bridge is clogged in fog but, by the time we make it out to the Fraser Valley, the mist has lifted. The couple donates $50 and makes another contribution to the Abbotsford-Mission ORN team, which is sponsored

by Magnuson Ford and run by Pacific Sport Fraser Valley. n 11:30 p.m.: We return to the ICBC claims centre to fuel up on coffee and receive our next call. We have two vehicles waiting at The Boathouse in Port Moody. Haley drives the lead car, a white Kia Optima, while Joseph takes the Mazda passenger. On the drive to Port Coquitlam — and to stay awake — I crank the tunes; however, the Kia owner wants to grab a bite. Haley hits a

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drive-through and orders him a Combo #9. After he’s safely returned home, we boot out to the Haney Bypass to deliver the Mazda owner home. We are rewarded with total donations of $90. n 1:15 a.m.: While on the Mary Hill Bypass, we get a text to meet a moms’ fundraising group at Mickey’s Pub. They also have two vehicles and need a ride to three residences in Port Moody and on Westwood Plateau. They greet us with hugs and, in the minivan, one passenger falls asleep.

No matter, they are grateful for our service and offer us a total $90. n 2:30 a.m.: By now, we are exhausted and drive back to the ICBC claims centre with $270 from our seven rides.

There, other teams are also calculating their results with Wilson (last Friday night’s ride raised $1348.20). Later that day, I get a friendly message from Joseph; Haley also connects via social media. Despite being labour-intensive, we agree to volunteer again to help patrons get home safely during the Christmas season and to support kids becoming more active via KidSport.

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MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION

Cities looking south for marijuana policies continued from front page

“It is going to be a crash course,� he said.

That could have planners looking at jurisdictions south of the border, McIntyre said, like Washington State, which legalized in 2013. “There are maybe some things we can learn from there,� he added, before cautioning that there are significant differences between the structure of local government in the U.S. compared to Canada.

Meanwhile, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody are still waiting to begin the process of creating a regulatory framework for cannabis sales. Last spring, PoCo amended its zoning bylaw to ban the sale and distribution of recreational marijuana and marijuana products ahead of the federal government’s decision to legalize next year.

Jennifer Little, PoCo’s manager of planning, said once the new federal and provincial legislation is in place, the council may “revisit these restrictions to determine the appropriate regulations, policies and processes.�

And in a statement, Port Moody said it has yet to consider the marijuana issue and no direction from council has been provided at this time.

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Do you have questions about the changes coming to Canada’s federal marijuana laws?

Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam Liberal MP Ron McKinnon will host MP Bill Blair, the parliamentary secretary to both the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Justice at a town hall in Coquitlam next week.

The event will take place in Room A1470 at the Douglas College David Lam campus (1250 Pinetree Way) on Monday, Dec. 18. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the town hall will begin at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 604-927-1080 or go to www.ronmckinnon.org.

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Beedie Living, said the changes will make the development “more economically viable.”

Currently, new highrise condominiums in Coquitlam are selling for north of $750 per square foot.

Beedie Living itself has experienced Coquitlam’s white-hot industrial demand. It has two speculative industrial buildings underway for lease at Fraser Mills and a third being custombuilt for AG Hair, a Burnaby cosmetic maker that ships its products around the world.

There has been a “ton of interest” for leasing the remaining 120,000 square feet, said leasing agent Greg Lane of Colliers International.

Beedie is considering only tenant applications that match a specific profile.

“We are taking our time,” Lane said. “We want to have job creation, such as clean manufacturing.”

The limited industrial space in Coquitlam has also spurred strata speculation.

Teck Construction LLP sold out all 27 units of its spec play at Coquitlam’s Nicola Avenue Business Park this year before the shovels even hit the ground.

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Industrial tenants had looked to the development of 800,000 sq. ft. at the former Fraser Mills sawmill, which would represent 10% of the city’s total industrial inventory.

But, as previously reported

by The Tri-City News, developer Beedie Development has submitted a revised proposal to Coquitlam council that cuts 30% of industrial on the waterfront site. The company’s plans, which have yet to receive all of the required council approvals, are substantially different from 2008 when it first gained approval for the redevelopment.

The developer wants to add 1,000 more residential units to the 3,400 to 3,700 units currently approved, which would mean increasing the number of towers from 10 to 15. At least one would be 41 storeys, compared with a maximum of 12 floors under the original plan.

Beedie also apparently plans to speed development by cutting the construction phases from 16 to nine. And Fraser Mills industrial space would be reduced by 252,000 sq. ft.

If approved next year, it would be built out over the next decade, according to Beedie.

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That’s worrisome, said Michael Hind, CEO of the TriCities Chamber of Commerce, noting, “We’ve exhausted all industrial land in Coquitlam.”

Hind said other than a 120-acre parcel of land in Port Coquitlam being developed by the Kwikwetlem First Nation, there’s not much industrial land to be had anywhere in the Tri-Cities.

David Munro, the city of Coquitlam’s economic development officer, agreed there’s a lack of industrial space but he said the city is also creating opportunities for businesses fleeing even higher rental rates or property prices closer to Vancouver.

“Yes, we are losing businesses, but there’s other businesses that are coming in and taking up those spaces,” Munro said.

The Fraser Mills changes require adjustments to Coquitlam’s official community plan and zoning bylaws, and public consultation, which would likely not finish until at least mid-2018, said Jim McIntyre, the city’s general manager for planning and development.

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The good news: Coquitlam has successfully tested a cartlocking system that may be able to keep bears from breaking into residential garbage cans and green waste bins.

The bad news: Retrofitting every cart in the city is extremely expensive and may not solve the city’s wildlife issues, according to Steffanie Warriner, the city’s manager of environmental services.

Experiments on the bins, conducted at a wildlife testing facility in Kamloops, found that wildlife clips and gravity locks by themselves were not enough to keep bears out of garbage cans. But when a combination of the two locking mechanisms was used, bears were unable to get into the cart during the onehour time frame.

“It is promising,” Warriner said before cautioning that the testing is done in a controlled environment. “It is absolutely another barrier for certain but we can’t guarantee that these would be bear proof and this is the solution.”

A staff report reiterated some of the limitations of the testing, noting that outcomes can be affected by everything from a “bear’s interest, energy level and hunger at the time of testing.”

Bears in “real-world conditions” may be more motivated and prepared to expend the time and energy required to open the carts, added the report.

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“That is what we are seeing with clips on the green carts,” she said. “We need to be careful about the false sense of security.”

Another issue with the locking mechanisms is cost.

According to city staff, there are approximately 50,000 carts in Coquitlam and adding locks and wildlife clips to each unit would cost an estimated $5 million.

“I do not want to bring the community into a position where we would force them collectively to spend $5 million for a solution that we don’t believe is 100% foolproof,” said Jozsef Dioszeghy, Coquitlam’s general manager of engineering and public works, during a council meeting last week.

Still, several council members said they were not convinced that abandoning the locking mechanisms is a good idea.

Councillors Craig Hodge and Dennis Marsden said staff should continue to analyze the issue while Mayor Richard Stewart said that such double locks could be useful in parts of the city where wildlife calls are rampant.

“I still believe the gravity locks are better than what we have now, which is a completely unlocked cart,” Stewart said. “The gravity lock is part of the solution for really bearprone areas.”

Last week, the city announced proposed changes to the garbage collection schedule that would see some neighbourhoods have their waste picked up in the morning while other areas would be picked up in the afternoon. gmckenna@tricitynews.com @gmckennaTC

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YULETIDE HAPPENINGS

Visit the trees and vote for the best PoCo Heritage fundraiser is on through Dec. 31

Dozens of pallets of your good used tools give new hope overseas every year!

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Downtown Port Coquitlam has a burst of holiday sparkle this month with the recent launch of the fifth annual Christmas Tree Festival.

A fundraiser for PoCo Heritage (sponsored in part by The Tri-City News) — the 2017 festival includes 64 trees decorated by businesses and groups, and located in storefronts as well as city hall, Leigh Square Community Arts Village, Terry Fox Library and (new for this year) the Hyde Creek recreation complex.

PoCo Heritage’s space on McAllister Avenue has five trees on display from the Crossroads Hospice Society, PoCo Garden Club, Forrest Marine, 1st PoCo Scouts and PoCo Heritage — all adorned with handmade crafts and unique toppers.

Volunteers with the garden club, which has entered the tree fest every year since it started, hung seed envelopes while the Scouts created a racing car scene. Forrest Marine provided ornaments made by members of PoCo Coun. Mike Forrest’s family and features a lighthouse instead of a star at its tip.

Online public voting runs until Dec. 31 via pocochristmasfestival.ca while PoCo Heritage judges — Laura Thomas, Bob Lee and Coun. Brad West — will also award prizes for the best in show; the winners will be named on Jan. 6.

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Linda Sliworsky is the chair of the fifth annual Christmas Tree Festival for PoCo Heritage, and the group’s vice-president. She was photographed with the 1st PoCo Scouts tree.

As well, residents can take part in a scavenger hunt for a chance to win prizes (download a form at pocoheritage.org).

Festival chair and PoCo Heritage vice-president Linda Sliworsky said last year’s campaign brought in about $4,800 for group operations but she expects this year’s total to drop

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“The numbers are a little disappointing,” she said. “There is a lot of volunteer burnout at this time of year.”

Still, the festival drew eight new first-time participants, she said.

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SCHOOL DISTRICT 43

Pleasantside parent catchment petition DIANE STRANDBERG The Tri-CiTy News

School District 43’s plans to adjust catchment boundaries is getting a rough ride from another group of parents in Port Moody.

Families of children attending Pleasantside elementary are raising concerns about district plans to require some children to attend Moody middle school instead of having the choice of Moody or Eagle Mountain.

One parent says the change will split up friendship groups of Grade 5 students and will make transitioning into middle school more difficult for these kids.

“We just don’t want our school cut in half,” said Shannon McCluskie, who has

an online petition (available on change.org) against the changes with 138 signatures.

The proposed boundary changes to be discussed at a board of education meeting next Wednesday is the district’s solution to addressing class size and composition issues related to a Supreme Court of Canada decision restoring the teachers’ collective agreement.

But McCluskie said she thinks the board is being overzealous in trying to adhere to a provincial memorandum of agreement because the consequence for non-compliance is that the “teachers get extra prep time. It’s not the school shutting down.”

In addition to separating friendship groups, McCluskie said the boundary changes

would split families, with some kids going to Moody middle and their older siblings attending Heritage Woods secondary, which will present a challenge for some families.

“If there are steps in place and we think this is only a threeyear problem, why are we doing such a huge permanent decision for something that doesn’t necessary have to be solved?”

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“The [Confucius Institute] is a propaganda arm of the Communist Party of China made to control criticism and negative views of China. No other ‘cultural organization’ is actually in Canadian/international classrooms like the CI — not Alliance Française, the Goethe Institute, etc. What SD43 is doing is naive in the worst way.”

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“Thanks for your dedication... The government really should fund these programs. At the very least, the equipment and the training.”

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hristy Clark may have disappeared from photo ops and headlines but her legacy lives on in the continued construction of the $10.7-billion Site C dam project.

Clearly, the previous BC Liberal government set the province on the course of building Site C and the current government has had no choice but to follow through, gambling that the benefits will outweigh the costs in the long term.

For the current NDP government, as was expected, whether to proceed came down to an issue of affordability. Ultimately, continuing will cost ratepayers less in the short-term than cancelling the NEWSROOM 604-472-3030 DELIVERY 604-472-3040 DISPLAY ADS 604-472-3020 CLASSIFIED ADS 604-444-3056 n

project, given that mothballing the project would have cost $4 billion in debt, necessitating a 12.1% BC Hydro rate hike over a 10-year period.

Some of the big winners coming out of the NDP government’s decision will be farmers who will benefit from the establishment of a $20-million compensation fund, apprentices who will get jobs and experience, and First Nations groups that will get some say in mitigating the environmental and archeological damage and opportunities for procurement.

But the environmentalists who were the most vocal in opposition are certainly the biggest losers in this decision and will have to console themselves

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with the idea that as the province moves toward electrification to eliminate reliance on fossil fuels, the power from Site C., as costly as it is, will come in handy.

It is unclear, however, whether the average British Columbian taxpayer will benefit from the completion of this project. In the short term, they will not have to pay such power high rates. But will reliance on hydro electric power slow the development of other sources of energy that have less impact on the planet? And will this dam render useless any meaningful efforts to cut electricity in the future?

Only time will tell.

As well, BC Hydro is hardly out of the woods. According

to a B.C. government backgrounder, the public utility has $5.597 billion in liabilities that will have to be recovered eventually and is still locked in contracts with independent power producers whose power is three times more expensive than that produced by BC Hydro’s heritage assets — $100 per megawatt hour compared to $32/MWh. So the cancellation of Site C is a good news/bad news story with the true outcome not to be known for years, probably decades. By then, the photo ops of Ms. Clark in hard hat and high-viz vest may be forgotten but not her megaproject legacy.

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Thanks for donations China conflict should – but not for garbage be apparent to SD43 The Editor, For many years, Trinity United Church in Port Coquitlam has operated a thrift shop to support various community activities in PoCo and beyond. On behalf of our thrift shop, we are sending this letter to inform the local community of its challenges with other people’s garbage.

The thrift shop has numerous signs stating that it does NOT accept mattresses, furniture or electronics as there is no storage capacity for such items. Frequently — i.e., daily — these signs are ignored.

Over the past 10 years, people have dropped off furniture (couches and chairs), mattresses, electronics and

— can you believe? — even kitty litter and dirty diapers.

We wonder whether one of the main reasons for these “unwanted donations” is a result of the tighter controls over household garbage removal. If so, Trinity (and likely other charitable organizations) is left to deal with the garbage dumped on our doorsteps.

And we have to pay for the removal of all of it. Recently Trinity had to pay $350 to remove half a household of furniture dumped in our parking lot. Our cost for the disposal of these items has increased our expenses.

This means that we have less money to support such things as breakfast clubs and child support in

local schools, help for the homeless, donations to the Downtown Eastside community church and maintaining the facility where the food bank and soup kitchen are held. Trinity United Church is also used for the Extreme Weather Shelter program.

We urge those who are dumping garbage and unwanted furniture on our doorstep to think about the impact their actions are having on the charitable work Trinity offers to the community. You are taking away food, warmth and comfort from those in need.

Betty McLean, Jo-Ann Dahms, Co-chairs of Council, Trinity United Church, Port Coquitlam

Letters submissions must contain name, address and daytime phone number. The editor reserves the right to edit for clarity, brevity, libel and taste. Please email: newsroom@tricitynews.com.

The Editor: Re. “Such a thing as a free trip?” (front page, The Tri-City News, Dec. 8).

While I agree with UBC ethics specialist Michael McDonald that School District 43’s trustees’ junkets to China are not “free,” I disagree that “Conflict of interest isn’t always apparent to the person who is in the position.”

According to B.C.’s Community Charter (Section 105), the restriction on accepting gifts is very clear: “A [municipal] council member must not, directly or indirectly, accept a fee, gift or personal benefit that is connected with the member’s performance of the duties of office.”

If our elected council members are not allowed to accept gifts, why are local school trustees considered exempt?

The Community Charter also states the following in Section 106: “A person who contravenes this section is disqualified from holding office unless the con-

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travention was done inadvertently or because of an error in judgement made in good faith.”

Is an $8,000 travel gift to China an “error in judgement made in good faith”?

The only poor excuse I can see for our school trustees is that almost everyone else higher up the elected representative food chain is doing it. A recent report in The Globe and Mail indicates that our members of Parliament and distinguished senators are busy travelling with frequent paid trips to China, so, as we can see, our local trustees have joined their club.

But there’s still another caveat. SD43 and the trustees are beholden to the Confucius Institute (which pays the travel bills on behalf of the government of China). Without the Confucius Institute, SD43 would not have nearly as many students from China studying in our local schools. Without the Confucius Institute, the Chinese share of SD43’s budget here in Canada, would be less than the whopping figure of 10%, or $34 million, more than any school district in the province.

No wonder our trustees are the highest paid in all of the province. Without the Confucius Institute, our trustees’ pay might likely be more comparable to those of Vancouver or Surrey school trustees.

In 2014, SD43’s Confucius Institute was ranked by China as number one in the world. We must be doing something right, in China’s eyes. A dubious honour, indeed.

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THE LIGHT LIST

See some lights, help some charities As we have in previous years, The Tri-City News is publishing a list of large light displays in the Tri-Cities for Christmas.

To add your home to the light list, send your name and address along with details of your display (how many lights, special displays, hours and days of operation plus any charities for which you’re collecting money or food), even a photo, to newsroom@tricitynews.com.

As well, the online version of this story includes a map of display locations.

You can get alerts about the list by following us on Twitter @ TriCityNews and look for more information on our Facebook page.

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• 2988 Forestridge Pl.: The Bilesky home is once again decorated and ready for visitors. The display features Santa’s sleigh and Rudolph on the rooftop. You can see Santa waving from the chimney as he disappears down it. There is a festive snowman display as well as many other lighted decorations. There is even a beautiful decorated tent where you can take your photo with a lifesize animated Santa while festive carols play. Lights are on nightly from 6 to 10 p.m. through Jan. 7. Donations are greatly appreciated for Variety — The Children’s Charity.

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You can check out the Christmas lights and decorations at 1642 Greenmount Ave. in Port Coquitlam (above) and the display of miniatures at 2638 Brewster Dr. in Coquitlam. More details below.

• 1417 Garibaldi Pl.: John and Trudy invite you to enjoy their homemade Christmas — for the 36th year. There are more than 120 hand-painted display pieces on the house and in the yard. Two themes: traditional Christmas with manger scene, shepherds, wise men and angels; and contemporary Christmas with Santa, reindeer, toy trains, nutcrackers and singing snowmen. And it’s all lit up with more than 5,000 lights, which are on from 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. daily.

• 2638 Brewster Dr.:

Welcome to Dangville, the Christmas Village. Dangville (named for creator Joe Dang), is an intricate miniature Christmas village diorama — a collection that has grown so large it now takes up a two-car garage. A large frame hanging from the ceiling holds three levels of the North Pole and Candy Land. The elves are busy working away and taking care of Santa’s reindeer.

The Gingerbread and Candy houses are ready for Christmas displays. The lower frame cascades into the Christmas

fantasy village with dozens of homes, businesses and a variety of sports activities. There are skiers, skaters and snowboards riding the gondola and zipping up and down the mountains, The Play Land Carnival, is alive with rides and lots of popcorn and cotton candy for sale. The mountain resorts are ready for winter vacationers. Downtown contains a busy Chinatown and a bustling downtown area.

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• 927 Lillian St.: The Romas family’s house and yard sparkles with Christmas cheer.

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• 145 King Edward St.: There’s an 85-foot tree full of lights plus yard displays throughout Mill Creek Village.

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• 1228 Oriole Pl.: The Pauli family has the lights on from 5:30 to 10 p.m. nightly — thousands of lights set to music, including a new 20-foot-tall mega tree this year. Donations will be accepted for the Royal Columbian Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

• 752 Capital Crt.: This Christmas light display in Citadel Heights is titled Lights of Elegance, and lots of people are stopping to take photos and selfies.

• 3313 Rae St.: Enjoy the magical experience of more than 200,000 lights plus ground displays synchronized to music as well as a decorated 70-foot tree at the “Miracle on Rae Street.” Lights will be on Sunday to Thursday, 5 to 10 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, 5 to 11 p.m. Contributions to the food bank will be gratefully accepted. (The homeowners request that, as a courtesy to their neighbours, visitors don’t block or turn around in driveways — you can park on Prairie Avenue, which is just a few steps away.)

• 1642 Greenmount Ave.: Once again, the Wilsons have a large Christmas display and, once again, they’re collecting for the Share food bank.

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The group representing parents in School District 43 hopes the new year brings a change of heart on a proposed parent code of conduct.

The District Parent Advisory Council says policy 22 isn’t needed because there are already policies and laws in place to prevent conflict in schools, and it is calling on SD43 to scrap the initiative. And DPAC wants the district to do more to engage parents on issues of concern.

Introduced in early November, policy 22 lays out goals that parents should aspire to, admonishments not to “threaten, harass, bully, intimidate or assault, in any way, any person within the school community,” and penalties for breaches including a notrespass order.

“It’s more about engagement over enforcement,” said Craig Woods, president of DPAC, who said parents met several times to draft a response to a notice of motion made at a recent board of education meeting.

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proud of to seeing the potential unintended consequences and will put into effect the progressive efforts they are trying to work toward,” Woods said.

For example, DPAC would like the district to reach out to parents at the beginning of the year for helpful suggestions on the best ways for approaching teachers, administrators, the board and the district office rather than a policy that lays out procedures for when issues get out of hand.

Woods said it’s not just parents who might create trouble at a school; it could be disgruntled former students or other people and, yet, the policy singles out parents.

“We hope at the very least at [an upcoming] meeting it’s on

the agenda. At the very least, it allows us to speak to the work we’ve done,” Woods said.

Reno Ciolfi, an assistant superintendent with SD43, responded to a Tri-City News query with an email stating the policy would be discussed at a meeting in the New Year.

“I will present information collected through the consultation process at that time. I will continue the consultation process until the board meeting.

There are three possible outcomes: The policy is approved by the board, not approved or sent back to staff for revisions.”

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Thurs. last day to send us your seasonal snaps

Gail Allan of Coquitlam has volunteered for four Christmas seasons at the bydonation gift wrap run by Share Family and Community Services Society at Coquitlam Centre to raise funds for programs and to collect toys for the children in vulnerable families. It is located on the upper level of the mall between Aritzia and the Gap, and will be open during mall hours until Dec. 24.

The Tri-City News is looking for outstanding holiday/winter photos — one of which will be the front page of our final edition before Christmas. If you would like your photo to be considered for publication, email it to newsroom@tricitynews.com no later than Thursday, Dec. 14 with “holiday photos” in the subject line. A couple of notes: • We’re looking for photos taken in the Tri-Cities and preferably by Tri-Cities residents.

• A vertical photo will be chosen for the front (other photos may be used elsewhere).

• Although you may send low-resolution photos for review, the photo chosen for print will need to be highresolution (for the front: 10 inches wide at 150 dpi).

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Friendship by snail mail: PoCo woman, pen pal maintain 30-year relationship PoCo’s Gable and Aussie pal Forbes email as well MARIO BARTEL

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heree Gable met Melissa Forbes because she ticked a box.

Thirty years later, they’re still a part of each other’s lives.

As pen pals.

And even in this age of email, Facebook and Snapchat, their relationship endures largely in light blue airmail envelopes containing handwritten or typed letters.

It all started in 1987, when Gable, who lived in Burnaby, was assigned to correspond with someone in French as part of a school assignment. Her entire class signed up for a pen pal service out of Finland that connected wannabe letter-writers with others around the world.

As part of the questionnaire to determine her interests and find a suitable correspondent, Gable ticked a box at the bottom of the form that she would sign on as a prospective pen pal herself. She forgot all about it until, out of the blue, an envelope arrived in her mailbox from Sydney, Australia.

Forbes introduced herself as a 16-year-old girl with freckles and red hair who listened to INXS, Crowded House and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and was curious to learn more about Canada.

“I guess I was just intrigued,” said Gable, who penned a reply that eventually blossomed to an annual exchange of two or three letters, plus cards and little gifts for special occasions like Christmas and birthdays.

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Sheree Gable (above) has kept some of the letters and mementoes of her 30-year pen pal relationship with Melissa Forbes (left) of Sydney, Australia, including the first letter she ever received, old newspapers and Christmas and birthday gifts.

The two women have met in person three times, first in 1994, when Gable travelled to Australia for a three-month backpacking wander around that country and southeast Asia.

In 1999, Forbes came to Canada for her wedding.

And two years ago, the Aussie launched her own exploration across Canada starting at

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In accordance with the School Act, and Ministerial Order M193/08 Disposal of Land or Improvements, the school district will be proceeding with a new two (2) year plus three (1) year options, lease agreement with M.L.E. Training and Research Society (Incorporation Number S-0028384), carrying on business as Variety Learning Centre.

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Gable’s Port Coquitlam home.

While the two now touch base by email or Facebook, their main method of communication remains snail mail when they’re able to catch up on what’s transpired in their lives in the previous months.

Forbes writes her letters longhand, usually while she’s commuting to and from work.

Gable said her handwriting is too messy, so she composes her correspondence on her computer, then prints it out.

She said the slow-motion nature of their decades-long conversation gives them a chance to reflect on the events and circumstances that shape their lives.

“You sort of have to look back and put that entertaining spin on it,” Gable said. “You’ve got to keep coming up with material.”

It also gives her a reason to look forward to the mail’s arrival, aside from the daily barrage of bills and bulk advertising.

“It’s really meant just for you,” Gable said. “It’s for each other’s eyes only.”

Over the years, Gable has saved some of the correspondence she’s received from Forbes in a cardboard box she decorated with stamps back when she was 16 years old.

They include the first letter, another composed on cassette tape in 1994, and old newspapers and trinkets from Australia like drink coasters.

“Having a pen pal is pretty unique in this day and age,” Gable said.

Then she picked up her phone to send her Australian friend a message that she’d just been interviewed by the local newspaper.

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International Baccalaureate Programme INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS For grade 8 School District 43 parents and students interested in applying for the 2018-2019 intake at Port Moody Secondary School.

Tuesday, January 9th or Thursday, January 11th from 7:00 to 8:30 pm Port Moody Secondary, 300 Albert St., Port Moody, BC For more information contact Mr. Sean Lenihan, IB Coordinator 604-939-6656 or slenihan@sd43.bc.ca

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TRI-CITY LIBRARIES

A river of great books runs through your local library SHIRLEY CHAN

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ivers have changed the course of human history, facilitating travel and attracting settlement since time immemorial. Without them, the greatest and the humblest stories of humankind could never have been told.

The following books help readers understand some of the world’s most fascinating rivers.

Since ancient times, the 4,225-mile-long Nile River has turned desert lands into oases.

Thousands of years ago, the Egypt became a rich agricultural society, then a powerful empire, by controlling the waters of what its people simply called The River. Two hundred years after Napoleon invaded Egypt, opening the Nile Valley to eager adventurers, English writer,

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decades. Reading like a thriller, Wood’s chronicle is a mix of travel narrative and reportage, packed with flights into the frightful and absurd. Describing everything from a poor fishing village on Lake Victoria to the Cairo’s Christian ghetto and the Garbage City, Wood is a sharp observer and authoritative writer. Tracking the commonalities and conflicts that bleed across the Nile Valley, Wood brings this region to life.

Asia’s longest river, the Yangtze, flows from the Tibetan Plateau to the East China Sea, supplying water to more than 700 tributaries along the way.

The Yangtze has seen human activity along its banks for millennia, at times acting as a border between warring kingdoms as well as a transportation and commercial thoroughfare so ubiquitous that it became, in essence, China’s east-west highway. Imperial palaces, canal

cities and intricate temples dot its banks. Its most famous sites include the incredible Three Gorges region as well as a manmade feature in its midst: the gigantic Three Gorges Dam. In the book Exploring the Yangtze: China’s Longest River by renowned explorer and photojournalist How Man Wong, the reader follows the author as he traces the river from its foot to its ultimate source in Tibet, which he was the first to discover. Though well-written, the book is worthwhile for the photos alone, which show areas that have since been flooded by the dam as well as breathtaking shots of the river near its source.

Adopting a spiritual bent, Wong waxes lyrical as he approaches the river’s place of origin, high on the Tibetan plateau.

The longest river in South America, the Amazon winds its way through six countries, over three time zones and across

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an incredible 4,980 miles.

Nourished by its waters, the Amazon rain forest covers 2.7 million square miles, accounting for more than 20% of the world’s tropical forest. Among its plants and trees are many valuable resources, including spices, rare hardwood and extracts used to make medicine for treating cancer and heart disease. Unfortunately, human activities such as logging, mining and clearing land for crops and grazing have put the forest at great risk.

Richard Evans Schultes knew the Amazon forests well. Over decades of research, mainly in the northwestern Amazon, the Harvard scientist documented the use of more than 2,000 medicinal plants among natives from a dozen tribes, many of whom had never seen a white person before. In the book The Lost Amazon, Schultes’ student Wade Davis, a well-known

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anthropologist and explorer, selected some of Schultes’ photographs to illustrate his life in the Amazon, providing a visual context to the man called “the father of ethnobotany.” “The last of the great plant explorers in the Victorian tradition,” according to Davis, Schultes lived among native peoples for many years in Colombia’s Amazon regions. In addition to identifying plants useful for medicine and pharmacy, Schultes was a pioneering conservationist who raised alarms about the loss of rainforest habitat and native cultures to modern industry and farming. This was in the 1960s, long before the topics became a worldwide environmental concern.

All of these books are available from your local libraries.

A Good Read is a column by TriCity librarians that is published on Wednesdays. Shirley Chan works at Coquitlam Public Library.

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PETS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION THE BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS 104 - 3278 Westwood St., Port Coquitlam 604-468-4044 www.spca.bc.ca/poco Hours of Operation: 12:00pm - 5:30pm Thursday - Tuesday (closed Wed. & stat. holidays)

Jilly & Peppa Female, Guinea Pigs, Adult • Best friends, must be adopted together • Can be shy, adult home best • Need spacious cage

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WILLY

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He may look a little grumpy, but don’t be fooled - he is super affectionate and he loves to snuggle! He is a curious boy and enjoys watching out the window to see what’s going on in the world. He is also getting used to the harness and leash. We believe he will likely do best in a home without any other cats.

BUDDY AND SNOWBALL

Buddy and Snowball came to the shelter when their owner was moving and could not take them. They are friendly and outgoing guinea pigs who enjoys being pet, but do not always enjoy being picked up. Snowball is shyer, and Buddy is his protector. They are bonded and will need to go to the same home together.

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Leander and Horatio are two very handsome bonded boys looking for a new home together.

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• PoCo Heritage writers’ group, PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Start capturing your life story for family and posterity. No preparation required; just bring a pen and paper, or your laptop computer.

SENIORS • Dogwood Drama Club meets Mondays and Thursdays, 1-3:30 p.m., Dogwood Pavilion,

Margaret, 604-927-6093 or mhansen@coquitlam.ca.

• Dogwood Songsters meet every Monday, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Dogwood Pavilion; group also visits and entertains at seniors’ facilities weekly. If you love to sing, you can join. Info: 778285-4873 or 604-464-2252.

• Seniors meet every Friday, 12:30-2:30 p.m., to do fun group activities including physical fitness exercises, games, storytelling, local tours and recipe sharing. All women and men 50 or older are welcome at Share Family and Community Services’ Mountain View Family Resource Centre, 699 Robinson St., Coquitlam (corner of Smith Avenue and Robinson Street).

Info: Gina, 604-937-6970.

DEC. 14: NEEDLEARTS GUILD MEETING

• Breakfast toy drive at the Pint 405 Pub, 405 North Rd., Coquitlam; anyone who brings a new, unwrapped toy will be offered free breakfast, coffee, hot chocolate, muffins, etc.

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• Coquitlam Needlearts Guild meets, 7-9:30 p.m., Como Lake United Church, 535 Marmont St., Coquitlam. Info: 604937-0836. per pair/8 weeks. Register in person or call 604-927-6098.

• Stroke Recovery Association of BC, Coquitlam branch at Dogwood Pavilion invites people recovering from stroke and their caregivers most Fridays, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. for speech therapy, exercise, indoor bocce, music, dance, games, speakers, outings, fun and friendship, 624 Poirier St. (enter off Winslow Avenue). Info:

624 Poirier St., Coquitlam (entrance and parking off Winslow Avenue). New members are always welcome for acting roles or backstage crew. Info: Darlene, 604-937-3536.

• Minds in Motion, a fitness and social program for people with early-stage Alzheimer’s and a care partner hosted, by Alzheimer Society of B.C., runs Wednesdays, 1-3 p.m., Dogwood Pavilion, 624 Poirier St., Coquitlam. Cost: $38

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Doyle wraps up cross-country train trip in PoMo, PoCo on Sunday night JANIS CLEUGH The Tri-CiTy News

Alan Doyle looks forward to headlining this year’s CP Rail Holiday Train, which ends its cross-Canada journey in Port Moody and Port Coquitlam on Sunday night.

As a child growing up in Newfoundland, the frontman for the now-defunct band Great Big Sea was fascinated with trains but never got a chance to ride them.

It wasn’t until he travelled around Europe — or hopped on a commuter train from Ottawa to Montreal — that he got to experience what the ride felt like, as an adult.

Last Saturday in Calgary, Doyle and his ensemble, The Beautiful Band, climbed aboard the annual train — a fundraiser for food banks across the country — to take over from travelling musician Colin James for the last leg of the adventure. In total, they’ll make 32 stops, wrapping it up in Port Coquitlam at 6:15 p.m.

And he’s is already savouring his final lick.

“The last strum of my guitar in British Columbia is really the end of my work year,” Doyle told The Tri-City News from his hometown of St. John’s. “It’s been quite a busy one so I’m looking forward to coming home as much as I’m looking

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Alan Doyle, frontman for the now-defunct band Great Big Sea, performs on the CP Rail Holiday Train on Sunday night in Port Moody and Port Coquitlam. Donations for the Share food bank are accepted.

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Port Moody teen singer Ty Waters — aka Tyson Venegas, the 2013 winner of the PNE Star Showdown — will entertain on the CP Rail Holiday Train in Port Moody and PoCo to perform his holiday single, Everything I Want For Christmas, with proceeds to the charity Music Heals (buy it on iTunes, Spotify or tywaters.com).

forward to doing it.”

Doyle’s 2017 was indeed hectic. In October, the 48-yearold dropped his third solo album, titled A Week at The Warehouse (recorded in Gastown); his second book, A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home, came out five days later.

As well, he guest starred in

a Murdoch Mysteries episode (A Murdog Mystery), released a music video and two singles and was named a Member of the Order of Canada.

Last month, he also appeared with Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo, Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies, Sarah McLachlan, Colin James and Barney Bentall, among other Canadian musicians, at The

Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver for Spirit of Canada: A Benefit for John Mann of Spirit of the West.

In the new year, Doyle vows he’ll be back on the West Coast to promote his album at a March 10 concert, at The Centre in Vancouver, as well as play some summer gigs.

But, until Sunday night, the holiday train will be his main focus.

He and his band — “a won-

derful gang,” he said — promise a mix of Christmas carols and a couple of songs from the Great Big Sea catalogue, for their 30-minute set per stop.

“Whatever the day looks the most, that’s what we’ll play then,” he quipped.

• Port Moody: The city has an afternoon rolled out in and around the PoMo recreation complex from 1 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 17. Enjoy a skate from 1 to 2:30 p.m.; stop by the Wellness

Room for family fun from 2 to 4:30 p.m.; or warm up by the bonfire behind the facility. The train arrives at 4:20 p.m. with entertainment scheduled from 4:45 to 5:15 p.m. Be sure to bring a non-perishable food donation for the Share food bank, which last year saw more than 960 pounds and $1,732 hauled in for the cause.

• Port Coquitlam: Like in PoMo, the city has its CP Rail Holiday Train festivities starting early in the day. Skate with Santa is at the PoCo recreation complex from 1:15 to 3:45 p.m. The train enters the West Coast Express station (across Kingsway Avenue) at 6 p.m., with entertainment from 6:15 to 6:45 p.m. As well, donations for the Share food bank will be accepted at the event.

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Two young Tri-City actors — who are known for their starring roles in Theatre Under the Stars and Royal City Musical Theatre productions — will be on the same stage after Christmas for a musical.

Gleneagle secondary grad Jennifer Gillis, who last year appeared as Maria in TUTS’ West Side Story, and Julia MacLean, who portrayed Annie for RCMT’s 25th anniversary show in 2014, are playing two of the four March sisters in Bring On Tomorrow Co.’s Little Women, from Dec. 27 to 30 at the Kay Meek Centre.

Gillis, 21, was invited to take on the role of kind-hearted Beth March while MacLean, 15, a Grade 10 student at Heritage Woods secondary,

was also asked to play the youngest sibling, the headstrong Amy March.

“It’s a beautiful role,” said Gillis, a recent graduate of the Capilano University musical theatre diploma program.

“She’s the angel of the house, is kind and caring and a good role model. She’s shy and quiet.”

But Amy, MacLean contended, “is the baby of the family. She’s the character that wants to be part of society.”

Based on the 1869 semi-autobiographical novel by Louisa may Alcott, Little Women centres on Jo March in New England in 1866, whose writing is again rejected by a publisher as it’s considered too dramatic.

Her revised work “is really an incredible experience,” MacLean said. “It’s not this fantasy. It’s someone’s actual life and the bond between the

sisters is amazing. The book is written so beautifully but the musical has that extra special feeling, too.”

Both former students of Coquitlam’s Lindbjerg Academy of the Performing Arts, Gillis and MacLean said they read the novel and researched the period before rehearsals started under the direction of Port Coquitlam talent Lalainia Lindbjerg Strelau (who also directed both actors in Footlight Theatre musicals).

Also filling out the cast are: Michelle Creber as Jo, Ranae Miller as Meg and Monique Creber as the mom.

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Arts, culture leaders respond to budget JANIS CLEUGH The Tri-CiTy News

Coquitlam city council passed its 2018 budget on Monday, translating into a 2.41% bump for homeowners’ property taxes.

And while arts and culture leaders say they’re grateful for the 1.7% Consumer Price Index (CPI) increase to their bottom lines, many officials are questioning why their onetime requests fell on deaf ears at last month’s department presentations.

Joan McCauley, executive director for Place des Arts, said her team was hoping to hire a new marketing assistant to help with branding and website programs “as it is challenging for non-profits to find funding opportunities to increase human resources capacities,” she told The Tri-City News in an email last week.

Place des Arts’ CPI jump amounted to $15,940, bringing its total city grant to $953,580, said Coquitlam treasurer Michelle Hunt.

Across town, at the Evergreen Cultural Centre, executive director Jon-Paul Walden said he’s also disappointed his wish for a new technical operations assistant — or capital for banquet chairs or leg draperies — didn’t go through. “Considering that they are fairly small asks for the

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Executive director Joan McCauley (centre) with Steve Kim and Barb Hobson with the Place des Arts board of directors. arts and culture sector, it would be helpful to know why such requests are not granted,” he noted.

Evergreen received a $816,339 grant for 2018, which includes a 1.7% CPI jump of $13,646, Hunt said.

Meanwhile, Candrina Bailey, executive director of the Coquitlam Heritage Society, said her community exhibits program is in jeopardy after city council failed to fund its request for new displays; it received a grant of $240,149, which includes a $4,014 CPI boost of 1.7%.

Bailey told The Tri-City News that Coquitlam residents “want to see themselves within our exhibits, programming and collections.”

But “as people downsize their homes and move to other

cities, we are sadly losing this history. It needs to be captured and collected as soon as possible. What I think most people don’t realize is that our exhibits take an amazing amount of time to prepare. A large portion of our funding request for 2018 was for staffing support. We needed this support for researching, developing the visual presentations, and preparing artifacts for display.

It means that many cultural groups will continue to not see themselves in our exhibits and programs.”

Still, Todd Gnissios, executive director of the Coquitlam Public Library, said most of his team’s priorities were met by city council, which granted $5.2 million to run the two branches that includes: • $151,000 for furniture;

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• $47,282 to extend the facility’s hours; • $25,000 for collections (half of what the organization requested); • and $84,277 for a 1.7% CPI jump.

Gnissios said the library’s five-year-old furniture at both branches “is failing rapidly.

The furniture is not keeping up with the heavy use and we have been waging a losing and expensive battle trying to repair the furniture.”

As for the extended hours, he said the restrictions to opening on statutory holidays and Sundays (adjacent to stats) were removed in the recently negotiated contract with unionized staff.

The move means library users will be able to access the facilities on all but five of the stat holidays annually, and opening all Sundays with longer hours, he said.

In addition, Societe Place Maillardville will finally see some cash flow its way, with a $509,035 grant in the new year that includes: • $21,863 to extend weekend staff hours; • 9,218 for staff benefit increase for new programs; • $6,940 for records backup and storage; • $5,500 for building interior painting; • $4,000 for legal costs during the BC Society Act transition; • $3,580 for a special event; • $2,450 increase for training; • and $7,614 for 1.7% CPI increase.

“The board and staff at Place Maillardville Community Centre continue to appreciate the on-going support from the city of Coquitlam for our initiatives,” said executive director Gord Peterson.

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Her deconstructive display, which opened Nov. 18 and uses collage techniques, is influenced by her reading of the latest translation of The Second Sex by author Simone de Beauvoir.

CORRECTION

In our story last Wednesday A new bookstore for PoCo (Dec. 6, page A24), the incorrect title was printed for Port Moody author Yvonne Harris’ new publication.

It is called Redemption: The Story of the Oregon Trail and the Fraser River Goldrush — not Peace River, as reported.

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Believe it or not, there was a time when the Toronto Maple Leafs were not the lead story on every nightly sportscast.

Analytics didn’t exist, shiny, beautiful people were not the order of the day and game recaps were found almost exclusively in the morning papers.

Enter, Sports Page.

North America’s first evening telecast devoted entirely to sports gets the celebratory treatment with its own exhibit that opened Dec. 9 at the BC Sports Hall of Fame.

“When they said a half hour of nothing but sports highlights every night, people thought it wouldn’t last,” said Hall of Fame curator Jason Beck.

“Within weeks it was so popular that it was the only show on CKVU that sold out all of its advertising time.”

The first edition of “the Page” hit the airwaves Sept. 5, 1977, on CKVU. John Good, brother of Bill, was the host and there was no lead story in the traditional sense. Instead, Good offered a roughly fourminute introduction to viewers to spell out the show’s reason for being: game recaps, highlights and stories with a distinctly northwest focus on Vancouver, B.C., and Seattle.

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Don Taylor, who lives in the Tri-Cities, was one of the longest-serving broadcasters on the late-night sports show Sports Page, which has a new exhibit at the BC Sports Hall of Fame. in the early ’70s. Hassan was hired as CKVU’s head sports honcho and began assembling a team of local talent prior to the launch in 1977.

The show’s first iteration jumped between 30- and 60-minute formats. The hourlong version included an instudio audience and taking live callers. This was long before the seven-second delay that’s used today.

“They’d get people calling in and swearing occasionally and they’d tell off the coach of the Lions,” Beck said. “They’d

often just be pulling people off of the street on West Second to fill out the audience. A lot of people didn’t even know what the show was about but they were in the audience watching.”

Sports Page was briefly cancelled from 1982 to 1984 and returned in the 30-minute format it maintained until its demise in 2005.

That rebirth also brought with it the arrival of one of North Burnaby’s favourite sons. Fresh off tours of duty in Red Deer and Dawson Creek,

Don Taylor first appeared on Sports Page in April 1984. It would be his home for the next 17 years and launched the careers of some of Canada’s biggest names in sports: Dave Randorf, John Shorthouse, Barry Macdonald, Scott Rintoul, Blake Price and countless others.

“I was nervous but I just didn’t think it was that big of a deal,” said Taylor, now a Tri-Cities’ resident. “I just felt really comfortable the first time I was ever on a set. It might not have looked like it but I always

felt right at home.”

That level of comfort and confidence has set Taylor apart from the pack to the point that he’s now in his fourth decade of broadcasting: after the Page, it was Sportsnet and now TSN 1040 radio.

His signature “Don-isms” are the stuff of legend: Marv Albert impersonations, inside jokes with co-workers — “Gary, you dropped your chocolate milk” — and his uncanny ability to recall jersey numbers.

“Andrew Brunette scores

with the assists going to blonde and redhead.”

“And he stops it with his right Khabi. Or was it his left Bulin.”

“Top shelf where mom keeps the peanut butter.”

Part of those quips were preplanned, others were off the cuff, and others came from his dad. Taylor also credits David Letterman and Johnny Carson for his quirks and candour.

“I always noticed that those guys were at their best when things were just going off the rails,” he said.

Sport Page’s demise in 2005 was the culmination of a few factors: media mergers, Sportsnet and the Score’s emergence, and of course, the internet. Taylor suspected at the time that he and his coworkers were onto something, but it was only after the fact that he’s able to realize the show’s impact.

“I may not have known it, but I had the best job in the world — I felt like I loved my job,” Taylor said. “I love what I’m doing now but not like that.

That was real passion. I think we kind of knew that we were kicking ass.”

The 40th anniversary celebration is a culmination of five months of legwork on Beck’s part: interviews with former cast and crew members, digging up memorabilia and scrolling over old tapes. The exhibit features looping editions of the show, pieces from the old set and back stories from the program’s roughly 75 alumni. A man cave with a distinctly ’90s feel has ’Yulin with the Page — the show’s annual Christmas special — playing on repeat. sports@tricitynews.com

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Express bounce back with big win in Langley Another unlikely victory for a team with only six of them this season MARIO BARTEL

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First they took Vernon, then they took the Rivermen.

The Coquitlam Express became only the second team to defeat the Langley Rivermen at home Saturday when they beat the leaders of the BC Hockey League’s Mainland division 3-1 at George Preston Arena. It was the team’s third win in four games, a run that includes a victory over the league-leading Vernon Vipers last Wednesday.

Their only blemish was a 4-2 loss to the Chilliwack Chiefs, Friday at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Complex.

Coquitlam’s win in Langley, who lead the last-place Express by 26 points in the standings, came on the strength of two third-period goals and a strong performance by goaltender Brock Hamm. He stopped 32 of the 33 shots he faced.

Joshua Bruce gave the visitors a 1-0 lead 5:38 into the first period when he forced a turnover at his own blueline, then beat Langley keeper Braedon Fleming on the subsequent breakaway with a shot over his

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The Coquitlam Express have posted three wins, two losses and a tie since new head coach Jason Fortier took over behind the bench. Two of those wins were against top opponents, including handing Langley Rivermen only its second home-ice defeat of the season. shoulder.

Coquitlam’s advantage held until 15:15 of the second period as the Express’ penalty killers weren’t able to weather a four-minute disadvantage after defenseman Landon

Fuller was assessed a double minor for roughing and a game misconduct for a scuffle with Langley’s Ethan Leyh. Colin Bernard’s one-timer sizzled over Hamm’s shoulder three minutes into the power play.

The Rivermen outshot the Express in the frame 14-6 and the home team continued to pour on the pressure in the third period. But Hamm was up to the task, steering away a deflection by Leyh early and

then benefitting from a goal post after a shot by Trevor St. John eluded him.

Alex Ambrosio scored the winner with just a little over five minutes to play in regulation when he converted a pass

from Joshua Wildauer. Colby Pederson’s fifth goal of the season into an empty net provided the insurance for the Express’ sixth win of the season, and third under new head coach Jason Fortier since he took over behind the bench on Nov. 27.

The win was a big bounceback for the Express after their disappointing setback to the Chiefs in front of one of their one of their biggest home crowds of the season — 1,257.

Neither team scored in the first period. Joshua Wildauer staked Coquitlam to a 1-0 lead 5:42 into the second shortly after Chilliwack’s Bryan Allbee returned to the ice from serving a two-minute penalty for hooking.

The advantage on the scoreboard lasted less than two minutes. Ryan Miotto scored the first of four straight Chiefs’ goals until Doug Scott was able to beat Chilliwack keeper Daniel Chenard with 30 seconds left to play in the game. It was too little too late.

The Express will host Prince George on Friday and Powell River on Saturday. Both games start at 7 p.m.

The league then takes a break for Christmas. After the holiday, Coquitlam’s season resumes Dec. 29 with a game in Merritt against the Centennials. mbartel@tricitynews.com @mbartelTC

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ACTIVE LISTINGS† those with household incomes below $100,000.

Brad

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The median “living inheritance” given by those with household incomes under $100,000 is approximately $25,000, with 72% of living inheritances falling under $50,000. But for boomers earning more than $100K a year, only 53% of their “living inheritances” were under $50,000; 25% were $50,000$100,000, 10% were $100,000$200,000, 10% $200,000-$500,000, and the remainder over $500,000.

Canada, said, “Baby boomers affect

Overall, 44% of “living inheritance” givers believe that their recipient(s) would not have been or will not be able to make their home purchase without their gift.

‘Bank of Mom and Dad’ have been

the Canadian real estate market on multiple levels: as direct consumers who

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