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Nicki Forster, one of the organizers of the annual Penguin Plunge at Port Moody’s Rocky Point Park on New Year’s Day, tries to stay warm with the encouragement of Dave Stuart, of the Pleasantside Community Association that puts on the event, and Karen Gray, the lifeguard supervisor who’s charged with keeping participants and spectators safe. For more information, see story on page 15.

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A tale of two rainbow crosswalks MARIO BARTEL The Tri-CiTy News

Last year may have been a tale of two rainbows in the Tri-Cities. Rainbow crosswalks, that is.

While a proposal by members of the Tri-Cities Pride Society to paint a rainbow crosswalk in Coquitlam divided council and sparked a debate on social media, a similar crosswalk was readily accepted by Port Moody council after a pitch by Amy Lubik of the group Creating LGBT+ Community in Port Moody.

The only issue to be resolved was where to put it.

That decision came down in December, when Port Moody council elected to paint the crosswalk in Newport Village because of safety concerns over the site requested by Lubik’s group and recommended by a staff report, on Murray Street between Rocky Point Park and Brewer’s Row. “Maybe we don’t need another distraction there,” Port Moody Mayor Mike Clay said.

Meanwhile, some Coquitlam councillors worried painting a rainbow crosswalk would open the floodgates to other interest groups requesting other crosswalks be painted to support their cause or community.

“We don’t have to wear badges or pins or put billboards up or paint crosswalks,” Coun. Terry O’Neill said. “We do it, not with symbols, but with actual action.”

But symbols can be a powerful tool to convey the kind of

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Left to right: Nicola Spurling, Ian Soutar, Alex Toews and Amy Lubik of Creating LGBT+ Community in Port Moody are looking forward to the city’s first rainbow crosswalk, which will be installed in Newport Village. community residents desire and value, Port Moody’s Clay said. Especially when a city promotes itself as a home for the arts.

“I would love to have a

rainbow crosswalk as much as I would love to have a salamandar crosswalk,” Clay said.

“We’re a city of the arts and we should do that sort of stuff.”

So much so, in fact, in

November Port Moody council forwarded to its arts and culture committee a pitch by local resident Brad Marsh for a variety of crosswalks celebrating other interests and causes be

painted all around the city.

“We are a community that likes to have fun and celebrate art,” Clay said. “Life doesn’t always have to be life or death, doom and gloom serious deci-

sion making.”

In Coquitlam, the Evergreen Cultural Centre installed a rainbow on a set of large garage doors facing Guildford Way as a symbol of support for a rainbow crosswalk in that city.

“We want to be active in the community because, as an arts centre, we are all about inclusiveness, expression and identity,” Evergreen’s executive director Jon-Paul Walden said.

A pair of community activists, Katrina Shelast and Jerome Bouvier, also started a fundraising drive in September to help pay for the installation of a rainbow crosswalk in Coquitlam.

“We wanted to take the money issue off the table,” Bouvier said of the estimated cost of $7,500 to $8,000 for the symbol to be painted onto pavement. So far the effort has raised a little more than $1,000.

But that money won’t be needed for a crosswalk.

Instead, it will go to support a local organization or community group after Coquitlam council decided in October to allocate $10,000 of the city’s money to paint a rainbow crosswalk right next to city hall on Burlington Drive at Pinetree Way. Clay said the $11,000 Port Moody is budgeting to paint and maintain its crosswalk is money well spent.

“It’s all of us symbolizing in our community what we want to be known for,” Clay said.

“In some ways it says we’re dynamic and progressive enough to do that as a symbol of our diversity, and also that we’re fun.”

DRUG CRISIS

Deaths prompt changes to dealing with opioids Two Tri-City young people who died of an opioid overdose and whose deaths were ruled accidental in 2017 brought home concerns about what has become a provincial health care crisis.

This year, New Westminster MLA Judy Darcy was appointed minister of mental health and addictions to deal with the crisis, Riverview in Coquitlam was cited as a place for mental health and addictions care, a Port Coquitlam MP had his private member’s bill passed making it easier for people to call 911 for an overdose, and the overdose reversal drug naloxone is being made available at pharmacies to get it to people taking drugs indoors and in their homes.

But for many Tri-City residents concerned about the opioid overdose crisis, it was the faces of two young people who died taking fentanyl who made the issue personal.

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The overdose deaths of Brandon Jansen and Gwynevere KennyStaddon were ruled accidental in 2017 and generated a number of recommendations to deal with the opioid overdose problem.

Brandon Jansen and Gwynevere Kenny-Staddon were local youths who experimented with drugs and eventually died of them.

In 2017, their deaths were ruled accidental, but the issue continues to be a concern with 21 recorded illicit drug deaths in Coquitlam as of September

of this year.

Last January, a jury deliberated for more than a week to conclude that Brandon Jansen’s death of an opioid overdose at the Sunshine Coast Health Centre in March 2016 was accidental. The young man was a former Heritage Woods secondary student who

fell in with a group who was experimenting with drugs.

He became addicted to fentanyl that had been pressed into a pill labelled as oxycontin and the local man cycled in and out of treatment centres.

On March 7, 2016, two days before his 21st birthday, Brandon collapsed on the floor of his room, the inquest was told.

Without the opioid antidote naloxone on hand, efforts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.

His Coquitlam mom, Michelle, has started a foundation and is trying to set up a treatment centre. This month the province announced that naloxone would be available in pharmacies.

It was in March, 2017, that Coroner Adele Lambert ruled the death of Grade 12 Gleneagle student Gwynevere Kenny-Staddon was also accidental and the result of taking heroin that contained fentanyl.

She died in a Port Moody Starbucks in 2016.

Although the number of overdoses in Coquitlam is far lower than in Surrey and Vancouver, hot spots for fentanyl related deaths, the problem is acute enough that in September, the BC Coroner released information stating that 21 people had died of an illicit drug overdose in the city.

However, numbers for Port Coquitlam and Port Moody weren’t released because they are too low to be included in overall stats.

Still, the fact that the drug supply has been tainted with fentanyl has generated much concern, prompting Fraser Health to mount a campaign this year encouraging people to discuss substance use.

Naloxone reverses lifethreatening respiratory depression due to an overdose from opioids, such as heroin, methadone, fentanyl and morphine.

When administered along with rescue breaths, naloxone can restore breathing within a few minutes.

Riverview has also been cited as a place to provide health care for people struggling with mental health and addictions, and in November ground-breaking took place for a $101-million Centre for Mental Health and Addictions, the first step in making the former hospital grounds a campus of care, according to Premier John Horgan.

Also this year, a private members bill by CoquitlamPort Coquitlam Liberal MP Ron McKinnon was passed that will provide immunity to people who report a drug overdose (i.e. they can’t be charged for drug possession in connection with the incident). The immunity doesn’t apply to offences such as drug trafficking and driving while impaired, however.

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Highlights of Canada 150: A BioBlitz (left) was conducted in Port Moody, while Port Coquitlam created a Canada 150 mural.

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CANADA 150

Celebrating with art, food and festivals With the year closing out, many Tri-City residents will remember 2017 as the year of festivals, projects and programs celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday.

For example, a Canada 150 mural was created in Port Coquitlam and a mosaic celebrating the year was created in Coquitlam. A history lesson was taught by youth in Mandy Tulloch’s Canada 150: The Show, hometown hero Terry Fox was commemorated in a tour that came to Port Coquitlam thanks to PoCo Heritage and a stamp was created by Canada Post to honour the one-legged runner who inspired the Terry Fox Run. The international act Delhi 2 Dublin headlined the city of Port Coquitlam’s Canada 150 festival at Leigh Square Community Arts Village, Port Moody’s Burrard Inlet Marine Enhancement Society conducted a BioBlitz with Canada 150 funds and more than

80,000 people turned out to Coquitlam’s Canada 150 Party at Town Centre Park.

Coquitlam also showed off its red and white for Canada 150 at the Inspiration Garden and the Art Focus Artists’ Association in PoCo created a Canada Day flag of nationalistic symbols.

Port Moody got into the swing of things with its Golden Spike Days, a visit by the CP Canada 150 train and the annual Rotary Club of Port Moody Rib Fest was a big hit.

Other notable events included the BC Highland Games and Scottish Festival at Town Centre Park, Harry Jerome Track Classic at Town Centre Park, the Coquitlam Kinsmen Craft Beer Festival and the Kaleidoscope Art Festival all at Coquitlam’s Town Centre Park, which is currently host to the Lights at Lafarge, the largest free outdoor light display in the Lower Mainland on now to Jan. 21.

January 6 is Port Moody’s Centralized Recycling Day! Drop off festive boxes, paper gift wrap, Styrofoam, packaging, and plastic film at our Centralized Recycling Day! This is a free pop-up recycling event for Port Moody residents. Please note that garbage will not be accepted.

SETTING IT STRAIGHT Re. “Xmas present for would-be SD43 retirees” (The TriCity News, Dec. 22).

The referenced article contained inaccurate information on the future of the Post Retirement Benefit Plan for CUPE Local 561 workers at School District 43. The Tri-City News will have more information on the plan and the Municipal Pension Plan deal when it becomes available.

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PUBLIC HEARING 7 pm on Tuesday, January 9, 2018 Council Chambers Port Coquitlam City Hall

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Inspection of Documents Prior to the public hearing, the public is welcome to inspect the proposed bylaw and any related bylaws, reports and plans at:

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Coquitlam Search and Rescue volunteers, aided by Talon Helicopters, conducted a long-line rescue to ferry Annette Poitras and three dogs out of the bushes around the Coquitlam watershed in November.

The group had been missing for two nights.

SAR RESCUE

Missing for two nights, Poitras & dogs rescued Cold, bruised and tired, but otherwise alright, Annette Poitras and her three canine companions emerged from the backcountry thanks to the efforts of Coquitlam Search and Rescue after spending two nights lost in the woods in November.

The 56-year-old had been walking three dogs —Roxy, Chloe and Bubba — on Westwood Plateau before she slipped and fell, losing her cellphone and knocking herself unconscious. When she awoke, one of the pets was gone, so she went searching for the animal, getting even more turned around in the process.

More than 48-hours later,

search crews came upon Poitras in the watershed area between Cypress and Burke Mountain. Search and rescue launched a long-line rescue to extract her and the three dogs and she was immediately taken to Royal Columbian Hospital upon landing, where she spent four nights recovering.

“If I had to spend one more night, I didn’t think I was going to make it,” she told reporters after being discharged from the hospital a week after the incident began.

She added that she did not want to leave the mountain without the animals, who kept her company — and warm — for the two rainy nights she

spent outside.

Her husband, Marcel, said he was going to get her a GPS tracker for his wife, who routinely walks dogs on Eagle and Burke mountains, and said “he would lock it to [her] ankle if I have to.”

Poitras said she was grateful to the rescuers and said she was looking forward to spending a lot of time with family and friends over the holidays.

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Coquitlam Mounties launched an investigation last spring of a Port Coquitlam city employee who stole approximately $175,000 of taxypayer dollars.

The Tri-City News exclusively learned that the person, who has not been identified, purchased tools with cityissued credit cards through the city’s purchasing system over a three-year period. The items were then resold for personal gain. All of the money was eventually returned to the city and the employee resigned their position.

John Leeburn, PoCo’s chief administrative officer, said he had learned of the incident in February when another employee informed him that the thefts were taking place.

However, police were not immediately notified and an RCMP investigation was only launched after council voted to inform police about the matter in May, a month after the inci-

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A PoCo city employee resigned last spring after managers discovered the person stole $175,000 of taxpayer funds. dent was uncovered. Leeburn said the city was informed by labour lawyers that they would have an easier time recovering the funds if the police were not immediately involved.

Asked about the incident at the time, Mayor Greg Moore said the decision to involve the RCMP was a struggle for council members.

“There’s definitely pros and cons to it,” he said. “Council doesn’t know who the person is but you get to know a little bit more about this person based on the information that’s provided and you realize, at the end of the day, there is a person on

the other end of this decision.”

Since the incident, new rules have been implemented at the city to ensure that a similar situation does not occur again.

In a statement, the city said a review of the current approval process for staff with purchasing authority was being conducted and the ability for staff at any level to approve their own purchases has been eliminated. The city has also added more training for staff responsible for approving purchases and have initiated a whistleblower policy to encourage workers to report fraud or purchasing concerns.

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Many details are sketchy about how marijuana will be distributed once it is approved by the federal government for recreational use this summer.

But one thing is certain — changing pot laws will dominate the political agendas of all levels of government.

Last week, Liberal MP Bill Blair was in Port Coquitlam making assurances that municipal governments would get 25% of the federal government’s 50% share of revenue to deal with policing and other costs. The provinces meanwhile will get 50% of every $1 of excise tax and Blair also said

new screening devices will be available to deal with impaired driving.

While many of the pot plans are still being worked out, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth, who is also a Port Coquitlam MLA, said the minimum legal age to possess purchase and consume cannabis will be 19 years old.

As well, he stated that recreational marijuana will be distributed through the BC Liquor Distribution Branch but the retail model will include both public and private retail opportunities.

Farnworth said more details of how this would work would

be shared in the new year.

Meanwhile, Tri-City municipalities are taking a closer look at how the legalization of marijuana will affect them.

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

PoCo, meanwhile sent a letter to Farnworth detailing concerns about public consumption, personal and commercial cultivation and production, among other things.

More details about how legal pot will roll out are expected in the coming months.

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319 teachers hired after court decision School District 43 has hired 319 teachers since January of 2017 to meet collective agreement requirements that were killed by the BC Liberals in 2002 and restored by the Supreme Court of Canada last year.

Now the board of education is dealing with the ramifications of adding additional classes to schools, including lobbying for money to build additions, closing or relocating

daycares and implementing boundary changes to deal with a space squeeze at some schools.

However, catchment changes to address enrolment pressures at Eagle Mountain middle were quashed after parents from both Pleasantside and Aspenwood elementary schools in Port Moody complained they would be hard on their chil-

dren and the community.

Instead, two or three portables will likely be installed at Eagle Mountain, according to information on the district’s website. However, the solution doesn’t mean catchment changes won’t be used to manage enrolment pressure in the future, the statement notes.

Parents will get more information on the changes in the New Year.

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Sometimes it takes fresh eyes to witness a Christmas miracle.

When Corrie Archer took over sponsorship of the Me to We club at Kwayhquitlum middle school in Port Coquitlam, she wasn’t sure what to expect.

Now, a few months later, she told The Tri-City News that she is so proud of the 30 students, she’s almost speechless.

“My heart has exploded,” says Archer, a youth worker.

Over the past few months, the students have exceeded expectations with their fundraising, collecting $800 for Christmas hampers plus toys and other gifts to give out struggling families in the school’s community.

Now, about a dozen families will be receiving boxes with presents, a gift card, groceries and even a turkey to celebrate the holidays.

“They were so terrific,” said Archer of the students, who helped out as she took a break from delivering hampers Wednesday.

Like many schools, Kwayhquitlum has its share of vulnerable students who

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Grade 7 students Madison Hoegler and Lindsey Webster helped pack hampers at Kwayhiquitlum middle school this week. come to school hungry and the school manages to feed breakfast and lunch to about 30 of them each day, thanks to donations from Pomme Natural Market, Cobbs Bread, Safeway, the Port Coquitlam Rotary Club and Walmart.

“It’s thanks to the community that we can help our families,” Archer said.

Meanwhile, Rochester elementary school in Coquitlam is also excited about its fundraising program that helped the food bank run by Share Family and Community Services.

Helen Boulanger’s Grade

4/5 class was inspired by students who attended a Me to We concert and made stretchy bead bracelets to raise funds for two goats, a water kiosk for an African family and food for the food bank.

As well, Monica Anderson’s Grade 4/5 class helped collect 178 bags of food, toiletries, toys and $400 in cash for the food bank.

“Both classes were a good example of our school’s values of service to others,” Boulanger said in an email to The Tri-City News. dstrandberg@tricitynews.com @dstrandbergTC

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Free naloxone is a necessary step in fighting opioid battle T

he overdose reversal drug naloxone is now being made available in pharmacies in a new provincial initiative to reduce opioid deaths. And judging by comments on our online story about this, the policy has drawn mixed reviews.

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It’s understandable that many are concerned that this new policy does nothing to get people off drugs, which is what puts them at risk of overdosing.

But while more detox and long-term beds for people in recovery are necessary, making naloxone more widely accessible is still a sensible policy.

It addresses the immediate problem of drug overdoses, which are on the rise, thanks to the introduction of fentanyl into the drug stream.

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overdose deaths now involve fentanyl and the number of deaths has been skyrocketing since the introduction of this powerful synthetic opioid developed for managing pain.

So why do we even have this problem, and why now?

Researchers say it’s a perfect storm resulting from overprescription of addictive prescription painkillers and the ease with which fentanyl has crossed borders into the drug supply. There has always been opioid addiction, what’s new is the overdose crisis.

There is no easy way to close the Pandora’s Box now that it

has been opened but making naloxone more available should make it easier to revive those who use drugs indoors or at home.

The next step would be to find ways to convince those who do overdose that dealing with their addiction, as challenging as that might be to do so, is the next best step for them while also ensuring that treatment is available.

This final step, we have been assured, is a number one priority for the new minister of mental health and addictions, and for that we await more details in the New Year.

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Better lights & lines on roads The Editor, Re. “Proposal for big bucks for overpasses to solve some Tri-Cities traffic tie-ups” (The Tri-City News, Dec. 15).

The Tri-City News last week highlighted several big-cost proposals for traffic flow improvement. There are three other items that need priority attention and that would significantly improve road safety and which would be a lot less expensive.

The improvements you list and the ones in this letter are long overdue. It is high time that the respective councils did something to improve the quality of road safety and traffic flow. Every year, taxes are increased and all we get in return are higher council and employee salaries.

The specific improvements are: • White lane markers need to be properly maintained.

Far too many are nearly oblit-

SPEAK Have an opinion on a Tri-City News story? Leave a comment on our Facebook page. erated and have been this way for years which makes driving during the day, let alone at night, hazardous.

• Maintain uniform and sufficient lighting levels and safety barriers, particularly in the case of Lougheed Highway between Pitt Meadows and Westwood Street in Coquitlam, and between Westwood and United Boulevard. Long stretches are either poorly lit or not lit at all.

The lighting quality of those stretches that are lit is variable and generally poor. This al-

ternation of light levels makes it difficult for drivers’ eyes to adjust. The lack of safety barriers invites death or serious injury in the event of a driver mistake.

• Too many cars have lights that are far too bright.

I’m not sure whether this is because drivers have high beams on, lights are poorly aimed or there is no uniform standard for car light levels.

Discussion needs to be begun with Transport Canada or the appropriate authority to eliminate this hazard.

We are packing more and more people into the Tri-Cities and doing less and less to develop and maintain appropriate infrastructure. Maybe we can get some replacement mayors and councils in 2018 that will spend some time they now use approving new apartment blocks to get us better infrastructure.

Brian Cole, Coquitlam

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Another drop in the river of books on rivers The Editor, Re: “A river of great books runs through your local library” (A Good Read, The Tri-City News, Dec. 13).

A recent A Good Read column covering books about rivers reminded me of a recently published book on a great rivers theme.

On Dec. 2, the CBC Radio Vancouver weekend morning program, North by Northwest, interviewed Globe and Mail columnist and author Roy MacGregor about his latest book, Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada.

During the interview, Mr.

MacGregor remarked that he devoted three years to paddling, sailing and hiking parts of the 16 rivers described in his book, including the Fraser River. With eight pages of photographs and maps, this book is available at local public libraries and book stores.

D.B. Wilson, Port Moody

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A lifelong relationship started with pen, paper The Editor, Re. “Friendship by snail mail: PoCo woman, pen pal maintain 30-year relationship” (Community, The Tri-City News, Dec. 13).

I read with interest the article about a Port Coquitlam woman and her 30-year re-

lationship with a pen pal in Australia.

Well, I can beat that. Since 1945, I have kept in touch with a pen pal in Scotland. An RAF service man visited our home during the war and mentioned that a young friend would like a Canadian pen pal. She lived

in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Since then, Diane came to work as a nurse for a year in Manitoba, where I lived, and I have been to Scotland to visit her twice.

We have been pen pals and friends for 72 years!

Lavina Shaw, Port Coquitlam

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The annual Penguin Plunge on New Year’s Day at Port Moody’s Rocky Point Park may be all about frozen, often costumed frivolity but safety is never far from the minds of the event’s organizers.

After all, loping down a slippery boat ramp into icy water in varying levels of sobriety can be fraught with danger.

Yet Karen Gray, the city of Port Moody’s lifeguard supervisor, who’s charged with keeping participants safe, can’t remember as much as a bandage being deployed in the years she has worked the event.

Gray said her team of lifeguards has perfected a triangulated system of watching over the boat ramp from the piers on either side of the ramp and communicating with one another over the din of excited swimmers.

“It’s chaotic,” she said of the rush of brave bathers looking to test their New Year’s resolve or wash away challenges of the year just passed.

For Gray and crew, planning for the plunge begins days before, when the lifeguard team has a meeting to detail duties and procedures, which include a systematic scan of the water by three lifeguards every five seconds. They’re on the lookout for body language or signs of panic from a swimmer that might indicate they’re in trouble. They’re also vigilant for hypothermia, especially amongst the hardy few who try

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Port Moody lifeguards have a plan to keep safe those who brave the frigid waters at Rocky Point for the Jan. 1 Penguin Plunge. to endure the frigid water for minutes rather than seconds.

“There’s always someone trying to set a personal record or something,” said Dave Stuart, the president of the Pleasantside Community Association, which has been organizing the annual event since it began in the 1970s.

A bonfire that was first built in the parking lot by firefighters for the 2013 plunge has helped warm frosty swimmers. But Nicki Forster, who leads the group of 10 or so volunteers who work on the event, said a recent innovation has been the advent of coolers filled with hot water that swimmers have brought to immerse themselves immediately after exiting the icy inlet.

“They’re like miniature hot tubs,” she said.

Forster said after last year’s snow and ice kept the numbers down at the Plunge, she is already keeping a close eye on

the long-range weather forecast for Jan. 1. She said ideal conditions are a cool day with no snow or rain.

Stuart said some years, the water temperature is actually warmer than the air temperature. But lest anyone think they’ll be running into the winter’s equivalent of a warming bath, the tradition of dipping a block of ice into the inlet before the Plunge endures.

Once that happens, though, the charge down the boat ramp is on “Our biggest challenge is holding people back,” he said.

• The 2018 Penguin Plunge begins at 1 p.m. on New Year’s Day at the boat launch at Rocky Point Park. Registration is $5 per person or $10 for a family of four. All money goes to support programs at Old Orchard Hall, Play Pals, Can Can dancers and seniors’ badminton.

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THE TRI-CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS WORKING FOR YOU As I look back at 2017, I am delighted to see that the Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce has been tirelessly working for you, your business and our community. Early in the year, the Tri-Cities Chamber moved to a new, larger office in central Coquitlam to accommodate the organizational growth. We welcomed 215 new members and hosted over 80 events throughout the year to engage our membership. All the while, the Chamber provided strong advocacy for our members, particularly for the proposed business tax changes. These are just a few of the things that have taken place this past year.

As your incoming Chair for 2018, I am very proud to be involved with such a dynamic and thriving organization and look forward to building upon the successes of 2017. In 2018, we will continue to see our membership grow and it is my goal to reach over 1000 members before my term is up. Throughout the year, our mandate to facilitate and drive growth and seek opportunity will be evident.

Catherine Ackerman 2018 Chair

I have a strong commitment to our vision - to shape the future of business and our community, and look forward to utilizing the strategic plan established last year to ensure the Chamber’s success. We will concentrate on our three strategic objectives for 2018: to maximize value, to strengthen and clarify our brand, and to promote the Tri-Cities as the best place to live, work and play.

Continuously seeking new ways to provide greater value to our membership, you will see an expansion of programs offered, such as the Tri-Cities Young Professionals and Women in Business. Strong advocacy work will be a key pillar of how we’ll provide additional value. Our policy committee is highly engaged and committed to being proactive on challenges that the business community faces and seeks opportunities to provide solutions for growth.

We will continue to provide new and exciting opportunities for our members to connect with like-minded businesses and build meaningful connections. With more than 80 events, from education to networking to celebrating business excellence, there is something for everyone. Our variety of events makes us the connector of choice for our membership.

I would like to thank our 2017 Chair, Carlo Zarrillo. He was instrumental in bringing our strategic plan to life, leading us to new heights this year. I’d also like to recognize CEO, Michael Hind and the team for their dedication to moving the Chamber forward this year. I am also extremely grateful to work alongside so many amazing individuals on our Board who continuously give their time and energy to ensure we meet our common goals.

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Happy New Year - wishing you all a fantastic 2018. It’s going to be a great year!

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Lay 2017 to rest with a swinging... funeral?

MARIO BARTEL The Tri-CiTy News

What better way to celebrate the new year than… attending a funeral?

Morbid? Perhaps. But saying goodbye to the year just passed can be just the ticket to a rollicking time in New Orleans, where burying the dead is another excuse to throw a party, said Kevin Yeates of the Creole Jazz Band.

His quartet will be bringing its Dixieland dirge to Coquitlam’s King of Life Lutheran Church on Jan. 1.

Yeates said it’s an appropriate way to clear the deck for the year ahead by washing away the troubles and regrets of the old year with music, noting: “2017 is dead, it’s behind us.”

This will be the third New Year’s New Orleans jazz funeral for the quartet — they’re actually a quintet in search of a new banjo player — that has been together for more than 15 years.

Yeates discovered the ceremony through a jazz message board on the internet when he had a discussion with another musician who’d led such a concert in Germantown, Penn., for 15 years. He sent along an outline as well as videos, and from there the group just had to find a host.

Enter pastors Kathy Martin, Eric Krushel and Marlys Moen of King of Life and Good Shepherd Lutheran churches in Coquitlam, and Mount Zion Lutheran Church in New Westminster; they saw an opportunity to bring their congregations together for reflection

on the year passed and anticipation for the year ahead.

“It’s a way for us to come together as a community, sing some great music to help us mark the end of the old year and the beginning of the new one,” Martin said.

The concert is patterned just as a real live New Orleans’ death march; when mourners walk the casket from the church to the cemetery, an accompanying jazz band plays traditional hymns like “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” at a slow, solemn tempo. But once the deceased is laid to rest, the music livens and the celebration of life begins. Sometimes, it will even veer into a bar or two.

Yeates said instead of burying an unfortunate parishioner, “mourners” at King of Life on Monday will be able to write their laments and regrets on a slip of paper which they can place in a box. At the concert’s midpoint, the symbolic coffin is marched outside and the messages burned. And that’s when the party hits full swing.

“It’s amazing how taking this one-hour event can be so cathartic,” Yeates said. “You get your new year started in the right direction.”

Pastor Krushel said the event becomes a celebration of “hope, freedom and promise.”

• The New Orleans Jazz Funeral will be held 2 to 3 p.m. at King of Life Lutheran Church, 1198 Falcon Dr., Coquitlam. It will be followed by a light “funeral” tea. Admission is free. mbartel@tricitynews.com @mbartelTC

Join us at the Winter Lights Display!

Enhance your experience at Lafarge Lake. All activities take place at the Welcome Tent near Town Centre Park Plaza, rain or shine.

Drop in Wednesdays to Sundays from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 27 – Saturday, Dec. 30 Take part in special light-making workshops each evening, organized by Coquitlam’s Park Spark team. Your lights will be added to the display!

Participants are encouraged to bring their own (cleaned) 500 mL or 2L plastic pop bottles of any colour. Bottle donations are also gladly accepted; please hand them to staff at the Welcome Tent Wednesdays to Sundays, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 31 No activities at the Welcome Tent. Ring in the new year at the lights!

The diplay remains on until after midnight on New Year’s Eve.

Take the SkyTrain! The Winter Lights Display is easily accessed from Lafarge Lake-Douglas station. Limited free parking available throughout Town Centre Park off Trevor Wingrove Way. (No Lights Display parking at Evergreen Cultural Centre.) Concession is available on site beside the Welcome Tent, Wednesdays to Sundays from 4:30 – 9 p.m. Cash, debit and credit accepted.

For more event info including a parking map, visit coquitlam.ca/parkspark

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New Year’s Eve, Penguin Plunge Friday, Dec. 29

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Slip into your dance shoes for the Hot Salsa Dance Zone’s annual Salsa and Latin New Year’s Eve party, held in the rehearsal hall at the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam). Get into the groove with a lesson at 8 p.m., courtesy of hosts Alberto and Teresa, with the bash ramping up at 9 p.m. with music provided by three DJs. No partner or experience are needed. Tickets are $25 at the door. Visit hotsalsadancezone.com.

The city of Port Coquitlam has public skating today and tomorrow from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Visit portcoquitlam.ca/publicskate.

SALUTING GORD

The Four Pistols — a Tragically Hip tribute band — honour the late frontman Gord Downie with a rock show at the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam), with partial proceeds donated to the Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research. Call 604-927-6555 or visit evergreenculturalcentre.ca.

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SCAVENGER HUNT

There’s one day to go until the fifth annual Christmas Tree Festival closes in downtown Port Coquitlam. Go to pocoheritage. org to download a scavenger hunt map for a chance to win prizes.

p.m. until Jan. 21. Visit coquitlam.ca.

NYE SKATE

LIGHTS AT LAFARGE

CLASSICAL DECADE

Cheer on the Coquitlam Express as the hockey team battles the Chilliwack Chiefs at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex (633 Poirier St., Coquitlam) at 7 p.m. Visit coquitlamexpress.ca.

If you haven’t had a chance this month, be sure to circle Lafarge Lake at Coquitlam Town Centre Park (1299 Pinetree Way) where the city has installed thousands of festive lights. Park your vehicle along Trevor Wingrove Way or hop off the Evergreen Extension at Lafarge Lake-Douglas. The show is on nightly from dusk to 11

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Lace up your blades and sport a helmet for a year-end skate the Port Moody recreation complex (300 Ioco Rd.), from noon to 3 p.m. The cost is $3.50 per person. Visit portmoody.ca.

Coquitlam musicians Reg Quiring and his wife Rosemary O’Connor mark 10 years of their annual QuiRing in the New Year, with a special show at the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam) featuring violinist Ian Swensen and Rebecca Wenham on cello. The concert is at 8 p.m. Call the box

I want to hear everything!

Wash away 2017 with a quick dip in the Pacific Ocean, thanks to the Pleasantside Community Association. The annual Penguin Plunge starts at 1 p.m. at the boat launch at Port Moody’s Rocky Point Park (2800-block of Murray Street). Registration, which opens at 11:30 a.m., is $5 per person or $10 for a family of four.

CREOLE JAZZ

Say goodbye to 2017 at a New Orleans jazz funeral concert organized by Kevin Yeates and his band of merry men. The event, held at the King of Life Lutheran Church (1198 Falcon Dr., Coquitlam) from 2 to 3 p.m., is free. Call the church at 604- 941-0552.

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The Harry Jerome Track Classic captured lightning in a bottle. It’s name was Andre De Grasse.

But just like the speed of the Canadian Olympic sprinter whose star power attracted more than 3,000 athletics’ fans to Percy Perry Stadium on a warm June night, the event’s stop in Coquitlam was fleeting.

Doug Clement, the chair of the Achilles Track and Field Society that organizes the annual meet of Canadian and international athletes, said his organization is committed to returning the Jerome meet to Swangard Stadium in Burnaby next year. Not that he wouldn’t want to recapture the excitement and electricity the event generated in Coquitlam.

“The reception we got in Coquitlam was beyond our wildest dreams,” Clement said of the competition that was sold out three weeks in advance — a first for the Jerome. “It was maybe the best Jerome ever in terms of crowd involvement.”

But Percy Perry’s 1,400 seats just aren’t enough.

The interest generated by De Grasse and other top athletes on their way to London for the World Track and Field Championships shows there’s a market for top-level track and field in the Lower Mainland that’s too big for the little grandstand at Percy Perry Stadium, Clement said.

Combined with the financial investment the Achilles Society has made in building a new world-class running track at Swangard fates the Jerome’s return to Swangard.

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Coquitlam’s James Linde shares a moment with Canadian Olympian Andre De Grasse at last June’s Jerome Classic.

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A full grandstand and community buzz at last June’s Harry Jerome Classic track and field meet won’t be enough to bring the event back to Coquitlam’s Percy Perry Stadium in 2018.

But, Clement said, last summer’s experience in Coquitlam has showed him the core of support for track and field events may have moved east from Vancouver where vibrant clubs like the Coquitlam Cheetahs are building a base of young athletes who are also fans eager to see their track heroes in action.

“Their members, their kids and parents, were a huge part of this,” Clement said of the Cheetahs, who provided many of the volunteers that helped stage the Jerome and tend to the athletes, as well as crowded

the track to get close to De Grasse after his event. “We have to be flexible and recognize the center of the Lower Mainland is now closer to the Coquitlam and lower Fraser Valley area and not in the center of Vancouver, that’s for sure.”

That realization, and lessons learned from a successful marketing campaign that highlighted easy access from SkyTrain to Percy Perry Stadium, could lead to changes the way the Jerome is pitched in the future.

Clement said Swangard’s proximity to the Patterson

SkyTrain station in Burnaby has never been highlighted, and the walking distance is about the same as the stroll from the Lafarge Lake-Douglas station on the Evergreen Extension to Percy Perry.

And if the crowds turn out to Swangard again in force, Clement isn’t ruling out the possibility there could be room in the market for a second event sometime in the future.

“If we were to have a second event, then we’d have to look at Coquitlam,” he said. mbartel@tricitynews.com @mbartelTC

Thousands of track and field fans descended upon Coquitlam’s Percy Perry Stadium on June 28 for the Harry Jerome Classic, lured by the star power of Canadian Olympic sprinter Andre De Grasse.

But the enduring story from that meet may have hit a little closer to home.

It’s likely few in the packed grandstand or along the rails around the running track that night were there to see Coquitlam’s own James Linde. But when the 23-year-old sprinter leaned over the finish line of the Jerome’s feature 100 m event in second place, right behind De Grasse, his smile pierced the glow of the lights around the stadium.

Linde had just graduated from Trinity Western University, where he’d helped the school’s track and field team achieve success at meets like the Canada West indoor championships. But with his academic career at an end, and student debt beckoning for repayment, he was at a bit of a crossroads whether to put

his athletic aspirations aside and get on with life.

Linde’s result at the Jerome meet changed that.

Less than two months later, Linde won a silver medal in the 200 m at the World University Games in Taipei, Taiwan.

That finish, he said, has fueled his hunger for more.

“I feel it really gave me a taste for the international scene,” Linde said. “I reflect now and feel there is quite a bit more I can do to push a bit further and improve as an athlete.”

Liberated from the books and now receiving funding from Athletics Canada, Linde is dedicating himself to training full time with his coach at the Coquitlam Cheetahs track club, former Canadian Olympian Tara Self.

Linde said he’s looking ahead to the next year to build off his results from 2017.

“I do feel a definite increase in enthusiasm going forward,” he said. “I am no longer thinking in limits like I used to.”

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That figure is higher within the City of Vancouver proper, at 7.6%, according to the data, which is a combination of land registry records, tax filings, research from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and other sources.

Burnaby’s share of non-resident homeowners was also slightly higher than the CMA’s average, at 5%. However, the Tri-Cities saw a lower share of overseas owners, with Port Moody at 3.3%, Port Coquitlam at 2.7% and Coquitlam at 4.7%. The statistics agency also identified Belcarra homes as having 4.9% overseas owners, and Anmore a little lower at 4.2%.

Statistics Canada’s definition of a non-resident owner is any owner of a Canadian home who doesn’t live in Canada – so the above figures include any Canadian citizens living overseas who hold property in Canada.

HOME TYPES AND VALUES Overseas ownership is higher in condos compared with townhouses and detached homes, with 7.9% of Vancouver CMA condos belonging to nonresidents, versus 3.2% of the region’s detached houses, and 3.4% of row houses or townhomes.

Homes in the region owned by non-residents tended to be valued higher, on average, than those owned by locals, found the agency. The average assessed value of detached houses owned by non-residents was about $2.3 million in the Vancouver CMA, compared with $1.6mmillion for those owned by locals. The average value of non-residents’ condos was 30.4% higher than those owned by local residents, at $692,000 compared with $531,000.

However, this was not true for Burnaby, where the average value of a home (all property types combined) owned by a local was $1,127,500, compared with $920,200 for non-residents. Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody’s average home values of non-resident owners were also lower than that of local owners. Of the Tri-Cities area, only Belcarra and Anmore homes were valued higher among overseas owners than those of local residents.

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ACROSS 1. Sharp pain 5. Military hats 11. Software app on a network (abbr.)

14. Genus of freshwater mussels 15. Continent 16. Afghani monetary unit 17. Recovered 19. Ribonucleic acid 20. Refers to end of small intestine 21. Ethiopia’s largest lake 22. Hostelry 23. Defunct American automaker

25. Denotes origin by birth or descent 27. Part of a watch 31. Stare with mouth open wide 34. Found in granite 35. Competing 38. Stone film “__ Given Sunday” 39. Junction between two nerve cells 41. Greek goddess of the dawn 42. Fight 44. Thin, narrow piece of wood or metal 45. Ribosomal ribonucleic acid

46. Type of kitchenware 49. Specialty of The Onion 51. Major Mexican river 55. Kilometers per hour 56. Species of mackerel 60. Bones 61. Interest rate 62. New York Mets legend 64. 19th letter of Greek alphabet 65. Shawl 66. Gracefully thin 67. Type of deciduous tree 68. Not classy 69. Taro corm or plant

24. Covered with frost 26. Hengyang Nanyue Airport 28. Wash 29. Disorder of the scalp 30. North American tree 31. Helps cars run 32. Mandela’s party 33. Aromatic plant of the daisy family 36. Negative 37. College student educator (abbr.)

39. Most rare 40. Harm with a knife 43. Folk singer DiFranco

45. Return to 47. One who repairs 48. Eastern England river 49. Hockey players need two 50. Dismay 52. Rebuke 53. Plant of the arum family 54. Fish genus 57. Plant of the mallow family 58. Amounts of time 59. 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet 63. One of Napoleon’s generals

DOWN 1. Jewish festival 2. Anoint 3. More pleasant 4. Type pf painting 5. Witness 6. Harm 7. Builder of Arantea (Greek myth.)

8. City in India 9. Used to unlock cans 10. Induces sleep 11. More bouncy 12. A branch of Islam 13. White (French) 18. Legal term

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