Tri-City News April 15 2021

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KEEPING AN EYE ON THE OPIOID CRISIS

AMANDA TODD

Cyberbullying case to get trial by jury Accused extradited from Netherlands last December JANIS CLEUGH jcleugh@tricitynews.com

Chloe Goodison, an SFU student from Port Moody, is helping local high school students keep an eye on the opioid crisis by teaching them how to recongize signs of an overdose. See story, pg. 22. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

The case against a Dutch man accused in connection with the cyberbullying of Port Coquitlam’s Amanda Todd will see his case return to the B.C. Supreme Court.

Monday, Madam Justice Martha Devlin adjourned the case against Aydin Coban to May 25 at 9 a.m. in New Westminster.

Coban, who is charged with extortion, two counts of possession of child pornography, communication with a young person to commit a

sexual offence, and criminal harassment, did not appear by video for the hearing.

The 43-year-old man was extradited from The Netherlands to Canada last December; he has denied any wrongdoing.

Coban is being represented by lawyer Joseph Saulnier while the Crown case is being led by Louise Kenworthy, Marcel Daigle and Heather Guinn.

Kenworthy was the co-prosecutor involved in the Surrey Six murder trial.

Details of the Amanda Todd case cannot be printed under a publication ban.

A jury trial is set to start Oct. 12.

Todd was 15 years old when she took her life on Oct. 10, 2012.

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Woman questions timing of tree felling She says loss of 34 trees for condo project disturbed nesting birds STEFAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com

A Coquitlam woman is mourning the loss of 34 roughly 100-foot trees a developer is cutting down to make room for a 29-storey residential tower.

With the high-density development at 520 Cottonwood Ave. in the early stages of pre-construction, crews have spent the last few days downing several old coniferous trees. But when and how the trees are being removed has neighbour Christine Coles worried.

“There was a flicker nest in the last one they cut down. My boyfriend and I heard the male chirping above us, and when the chainsaw hit the tree a mama bird flew out horizontally onto the side of the building beside it,” said Coles in an email to the TriCity News.

“She was protecting something, she sat there until the chainsaw hit her tree.”

Cole said after years of feeding the birds, she’s sure that ‘something’ was a nest, noting that the Northern Flicker nests in hollowed out tree cavities that might not

A tree is felled to make way for a high-density condo project at 520 Cottonwood Ave. in Coquitlam SUBMITTED PHOTO

be visible from the ground.

The whole incident, she said, left her “sobbing.”

According to the city of Coquitlam’s website, the bird nesting window runs from March 1 to Aug. 31, and to remain in compliance with section 34 of the B.C.’s Wildlife Act, “tree removal during this period must ensure no nests or nesting birds are disturbed.”

“If tree removal is required during this time period, the site should be

reviewed by a Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP) registered as a Professional Biologist and any reports submitted to the City to ensure no nesting birds are disturbed,” states the city.

Andrew Merrill, Coquitlam’s director of development services, said the developer hired a registered biologist to survey the trees slated for removal. Contrary to Cole, the report indicated there were no nests or nest-

ing birds in the trees and permission was given to remove the old conifers between April 4 and 12.

“We trust that the registered professional biologist did the work as per the legislation that governs them,” said Merrill, adding residents who believe they’ve witnessed a breach of the Wildlife Act or Migratory Birds Convention Act should contact the appropriate provincial and federal authorities.

City bylaws require developers to assess the impacts to neighbouring trees and mitigate any removal.

According to Ledingham McAllister’s development application, the new tower at 520 Cottonwood Ave. will include 55 on-site replacement trees, all deciduous.

(Cole, however, described some of the replacement trees already planted as “piddly” and questioned, “How is this like fir-like?”).

With much of Coquitlam’s future high-density development concentrated around SkyTrain stations, the nature of the city’s urban canopy is changing in neighbourhoods like Burquitlam.

“At a big scale, Coquitlam is obviously a very fast-growing municipality,” said Merrill. “We’re limiting urban sprawl and protecting forests outside the contained urban areas.”

Merrill added that the city works year-round to replant and add trees alongside roads and in green spaces.

City staff are also currently drafting a report to revamp the city’s Environmental Sustainability Plan, something Merrill describes as the next step to “evolve the city’s urban forest management practices.”

Cole, meanwhile, said she’s reported what she witnessed to the province’s Report All Poachers and Polluters (RAPP) line but has yet to hear back.

‘Swatting’ hoax evacuates school Students and staff at a Port Moody middle school were evacuated last Thursday morning after police received a call from a man saying he’d placed three pipe bombs at the school and was waiting outside with weapons.

A spokesperson for the Port Moody Police Department said Moody middle school was immediately placed on lockdown as officers from the PMPD, Lower Mainland RCMP K9 units and Metro Vancouver Transit Police searched the area.

By 9:58 a.m., the call was determined to be a hoax and students and staff returned to class.

“At this point, it is believed that this was the latest in a series of so-called ‘swatting’ calls that has been occurring throughout the Tri-Cities over the past week or so,” said PMPD Sgt. Ian Morrison in a press release.

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OBITUARY

She was ‘a dynamo of energy and conviviality’ Isabelle Chisholm was Canada’s first female electronics salesperson MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

The matriarch of a family that put Port Moody on the leading edge of electronics manufacturing for a decade in the 1950s and 60s has died.

Isabelle Chisholm passed away January 30, at the age of 98. She was the widow of Edward Chisholm, who built a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant for radios and televisions sets in Port Moody in 1954. She was also the keeper of some of the company’s secrets.

As the chief purchasing agent for Vancouver Radio Laboratories Ltd., Isabelle Chisholm’s tasks included travelling to Ottawa to clear secret components for

The old Chisholm Industries factory on Murray Street. It was demolished in 2010. CANADIAN VINTAGE RADIO PHOTO

radio receiver sets used by the Canadian armed forces during WWII that were invented by Edward, and manufactured in his first plant, on Vancouver’s Main Street.

When the war ended, the company’s name was changed to Chisholm Industries Ltd., and it shifted production to table-top radios and phonographs as well as a fancy new technology: black-and-white televisions.

Edward Chisholm’s factory was the only such man-

ufacturer west of Toronto, and Isabelle became the first female electronics salesperson.

“She was a dynamo of energy and conviviality who knew how to make a sale,” said Isabelle Chisholm’s obituary. “She was widely known for her ability to successfully connect with the public through telephone calls.”

In 1947, the 12,000 sq. ft. plant in Vancouver was damaged by fire, and the Chisholm’s began casting

about for space to build a larger facility. They found it in Port Moody, purchasing 23 acres along Murray Street, and construction began in 1954 on a new 56,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art factory that also contained offices, a warehouse as well as sheet metal and tool and die shops.

The new home for Chisholm Industries Ltd. opened the next year.

The sprawling main plant was 100 ft. wide and 14 ft. high. The assembly line for radios and TVs was 400 ft. long. There was a large baking oven to fuse paint to the metal surfaces and a cabinetry section to manufacture and finish the high-quality wood boxes that held the radios and TVs. All the engineering and design for products was done in-house.

At peak capacity, the plant could produce 200 units a day.

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They were sold at furniture stores like Wosks and department stores like Eatons, Woodwards, Sears and Hudson’s Bay. But the advent of colour television changed the industry. The cost of retooling the plant for the new technology was too high, and more and more electronic goods were being engineered and constructed offshore, in countries like Japan.

By 1963, the factory floor at Chisholm Industries was mostly manufacturing wooden cabinets for other electronics companies like Bell and Packard. The following year, Edward Chisholm closed the plant, with much of its machinery going to his son, James, so he could start Glenayre Electronics in Burnaby.

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PoMo condo proposal needs to bring more jobs: council Ground floor would be mix of commercial and light industrial spaces MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

The proponent for a new mixed-used development on Port Moody’s Murray Street will have to provide more space to create jobs, especially for light industry, as well as more affordable housing options and more consideration to some of its design choices.

April 6, council gave first reading to amendments to zoning bylaws for the 215unit complex by Mosaic Homes that includes 50 market rental apartments, five below-market rental units as well as spaces along the ground floor for commercial and light industrial use along with offices in mezzanines on the second floor.

A rendering of a new mixed-use project being proposed for Murray Street. MICHAEL GREEN ARCHITECTS

But it refused to give second reading that would have sent the proposal on to a public hearing.

“We should be continuing to engage,” Mayor Rob Vagramov said of the decision to pump the brakes on

the proposal by Vancouverbased developer Mosaic Homes that would occupy a vacant industrial property across from Inlet Field.

“A little more work probably should be done here,” he added.

SEASONAL UNLIMITED YARD TRIMMINGS COLLECTION Tuesday, April 6 to Thursday, May 13 As spring yard clean up gets underway, the City is offering additional, unlimited curbside collection* for extra green waste and other yard trimmings as part of the Seasonal Unlimited Yard Trimmings Collection program. In addition to your Green Cart, place any extra yard trimmings at your curbside on your regular collection day at the regular time. > Place yard trimmings

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In a report, Port Moody’s senior development planner, Kevin Jones, said the project, that’s comprised of three sixstory buildings, had already evolved since it was first presented to council’s committee of the whole last May. Some of the changes include the addition of the rental units, larger commercial spaces along the ground floor to accommodate the needs of light industrial tenants as well as enhancements to the residential component that would make 40% of them adaptable and the remaining 60% ready for the installation of wider doorways, power door openers and grab bars so senior residents can age in place.

Michael Green, the project’s architect, told council, “We do think it has a very healthy mix of housing and a creative approach to commercial and industrial opportunities.”

Adrien Herberts, the vice-president of land and

development for Mosaic Homes, estimated the latter would bring up to 159 jobs.

But some councillors said that’s not enough.

“What we’re really short on is jobs density,” said Coun. Hunter Madsen, adding he’s like to see the proposal get closer to the city’s recently adopted goal of providing 42 jobs for every 100 residents.

“We’re losing ground as opposed to gaining ground for the economic viability of the city.”

Coun. Steve Milani suggested the developer could afford to give up some of the project’s 355 parking spots because of its proximity to the nearby Moody Centre SkyTrain station and instead allot more space for offices.

But Coun. Zoë Royer said the size and design of some of the industrial spaces on the ground floor, several with lofts, would make them ideal for local artists and artisans.

“It’s something that’s sorely missing,” she said.

“The more help we have to live into our moniker, ‘The City of the Arts,’ the better.”

Port Moody city planner André Boel cautioned that while more spaces for light industrial occupants might be desirable to council, “it’s challenging to mandate light industrial. We don’t know who might be interested in going in there.”

Boel added the developer is proposing a marketing program to attract local light industries to the spaces, which are open and large enough they can be adapted to several possible uses.

Herbert agreed. “We don’t want a situation where the zone prescription results in spaces that can’t be filled.”

Still, Coun. Meghan Lahti warned, Port Moody has to stay conscious of its diminishing industrial tax base.

“I think we need to be very purposeful in how we assign uses of these spaces.”

Learn about the Cedar Drive Upgrade Project Attend an online information session to learn about the Cedar Drive and Partington Creek Upgrade Project:

When: Wednesday, April 21 7 – 8 p.m.

Where: Zoom Sign up by emailing cedardrive@coquitlam.ca and a link to participate will be emailed to you.

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APRIL 15 – 21 CALENDAR Monday, April 19 Council-in-Committee 2 p.m.

Regular Council 7 p.m. coquitlam.ca/council

Tuesday, April 20 Sustainability and Environmental Advisory Committee Meeting 7 p.m. coquitlam.ca/seac

Wednesday, April 21 Multiculturalism Advisory Committee Meeting 7 p.m. coquitlam.ca/mac

VIRTUAL TOWN HALL MEETING DETAILS See page 15

COUNCIL MEETING DETAILS See page 32

coquitlam.ca/calendar

Celebrating Our Volunteers

While many things are different during the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing that hasn’t changed is the positive impact volunteers have on our community and our quality of life. In this special edition of Coquitlam’s City Page, we’re celebrating our dedicated volunteers – and all those who serve the community – as part of National Volunteer Week April 18 to 24.

Join us in applauding the people whose commitment and hard work make Coquitlam a better and safer place to live, learn, work and play.

Thank You, Coquitlam Volunteers!

As we head into National Volunteer Week, Coquitlam City Council and staff would like to acknowledge the many volunteers who support important programs and services throughout our community.

Volunteers play a critical role supporting and enhancing our community. They help keep Coquitlam safe and clean, help protect our environment, support our seniors and those in need and are integral to the success of many community programs and civic events. These are just a few of many examples.

To all of Coquitlam’s volunteers – whether you are active right now or not, and whether you volunteer in a formal program or not – never doubt that you are making a difference.

Volunteer Drivers Deliver over 20,000 Seniors’ Meals

Launched in spring 2020, Coquitlam’s Meals for Seniors staff and volunteer drivers have helped to provide more than 20,000 meals to isolated older residents who need to stay home to protect their health and who have lost the ability to enjoy meals at the City’s 50+ Pavilions due to the pandemic. Each week, the program prepares about 400 healthy frozen meals in the kitchens of the Dogwood and Glen Pine Pavilions, the hubs for the City’s 50+ services.

Volunteer drivers then take care of getting the meals delivered to program participants. To find out more visit coquitlam.ca/meals.

Letters of Kindness

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Looking for an easy way to make a volunteer contribution? Brighten a local senior’s day with a letter, poem, drawing or anything bearing a positive message. Submissions received are distributed to seniors who have signed up for the City’s Meals for Seniors delivery program. To participate, simply email us a letter or scanned image to volunteers@coquitlam.ca.

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The Community Volunteer Support Hub: Supporting our Community Not-for-Profits

Coquitlam’s Community Volunteer Support Hub is a new program providing workshops and resources for local not-for-profit organizations impacted by the pandemic, enabling them to continue providing value and services to the community.

Are you a not-for-profit looking for support?

Here’s how you can connect with the Community Volunteer Support Hub program: Y Visit coquitlam.ca/supporthub to find resources on funding and volunteer recruitment and management, and learn about upcoming workshops Y Subscribe for program updates at coquitlam.ca/notifyme Y Email supporthub@coquitlam.ca The Community Volunteer Support Hub program is provided through the City of Coquitlam’s COVID-19 Community Support and Recovery Plan (CSRP). Visit coquitlam.ca/csrp to learn more.

COVID-19 Grants Available to Community Organizations

Coquitlam’s Community Support and Recovery Plan (CSRP) Grant program recognizes that many volunteer-operated organizations have struggled with reduced revenue and resources as a result of the pandemic. The program offers up to $10,000 to support pandemic-response programs in Coquitlam, and up to $5,000 to replace lost revenue for registered not-for-profits operating primarily in Coquitlam.

To date, we have distributed $160,000 in grants to 23 organizations and not-forprofits to help address issues including homelessness, food security and safe sport and art activities for youth. In addition, CSRP grants have helped organizations that serve marginalized populations, support arts and culture, or provide many other muchneeded services for Coquitlam residents.

Grant applications are currently being accepted and are considered on a first-come, first-served basis and assessed against the eligibility criteria listed in the CSRP Grant Application and Support Guide posted at coquitlam.ca/csrpgrant.

City Volunteer Opportunities

If you have a bit more spare time on your hands right now, this may be your chance to experience the joy and fulfilment of giving back to others. Check out coquitlam.ca/volunteer to learn more about the volunteer programs below and other opportunities Y Adopt-a-Park –Through this umbrella program, individuals, families, groups or businesses can become stewards for park features such as trails, pollinator hotels, sports dugouts, benches, little libraries and sports equipment libraries.

Y Adopt-a-Street – Similar to Adopt-a-Park, groups, families or individuals adopt a stretch of road and, in addition to regular clean up, serve as the City’s eyes and ears to report problems, hazards or vandalism.

Y Community Policing – Volunteers may work with the public at the Community Police Station, help write reports, patrol neighbourhoods and champion new initiatives.

Y Park Spark – Volunteer opportunities include drop-in activities, group park projects and adding park amenities.

Y Parks, Recreation and Culture – Volunteers may work in a wide variety of areas, including swimming, skating, fitness, aquatics, outdoor recreation, children and seniors’ programs, and special events.

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Making plans for visitors again City wants biz to

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Strategy for next five years will come to council in fall

Applications for permit can be fast-tracked

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How do you market a city during a pandemic? Plan, plan, plan.

With the provincial health orders restricting gatherings and travel, the city of Coquitlam’s tourism manager is laying the groundwork for the swell of tourists to come.

“There’s going to be pent-up demand, and fierce competition in the tourism industry,” Eric Kalnins told the Tri-City News. “We need to be prepared for that.”

Kalnins has been picking the brains of city staff, business owners and stakeholders about how to capitalize on the next five years.

Last Thursday, he spoke before the city’s cultural services advisory committee to discuss future opportunities to promote festivals and other arts-related events; Kalnins is also keeping a close eye on other municipalities to guide his research.

That revised strategy, for 2022-’26, is expected to

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Coquitlam tourism manager Eric Kalnins says the pandemic is changing the way the city operates as it prepares to welcome visitors. CITY OF COQUITLAM PHOTO

come before council this fall.

For now, though, his tourism push is for local residents and day-trippers who want to get out of their homes. “We have to be so careful with our messaging because we don’t want to go against any health orders,” he said. “We have to be very fluid.”

During the lockdown, the city’s campaign is to continue to support Coquitlam groups and businesses — some of which have lost most of their income, staff

and volunteers; other organizations have lost momentum and it’s unclear if they’ll revive, he lamented.

For eateries, which currently can’t have patrons dining inside their restaurants, Kalnins is encouraging the owners to expand outdoors. And he’s recommending “cultural tourism packages” to lure customers — for example, pairing a virtual event such as Festival du Bois (which opens Friday via festivaldubois.ca) with a French-Canadian meal —

for live patio entertainment.

For visitors seeking physical activity, Kalnins is building “experience packages” to entice visitors to exercise and tour the area afterward.

An example would be to hop on the Evergreen Extension to Lafarge Lake-Douglas, walk around Town Centre Park, go into the Evergreen art gallery and then catch a bite to eat along Glen Drive — “one of the best places for ethnic food…. These are things within five minutes of the SkyTrain station.”

If you smell freshly cut lumber outside of eateries and pubs in the Tri-Cities, it’s likely for new patios built during the pandemic.

Now, the city of Coquitlam is encouraging more businesses to make use of their outdoor spaces as the weather warms up — and to take advantage of the municipality’s fast-track application service.

Last fall, city council voted to extend the temporary patio program in a bid to boost the local economy. The move coincides with the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch’s policy to allow temporary patios until Oct. 31, 2021, for foodand liquor-primary es-

tablishments.

Under Coquitlam’s program, which was introduced last summer, businesses don’t have to meet a number of usual municipal requirements such as building permits, site reviews or business licence amendments.

Rather, owners can apply and, typically within two days, can push out into their own property, or to a public right-of-way (sidewalk or curbside parking stalls) nearby. There, staff can serve food and drink, sell merchandise and have a kiosk as well as a checkout desk.

And business owners who were issued a patio permit by the city last year don’t have to reapply; no additional insurance requirements are needed for outdoor spaces that are privately held.

To find out where the patios are this year, go to visitcoquitlam.ca/eatdrink.

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Notice of Public Input Opportunity Development Variance Permit Application for 1725 Coast Meridian Road

GIVE YOUR INPUT Written comments must be received by 2:00 pm on April 27, 2021

Development Variance Permit DVP00075 The intent of this application is to vary parking requirements for a multi-tenant industrial building at 1725 Coast Meridian Road.

Notice of Public Input Opportunity

Development Variance Permit and Licensed Establishment Applications for 1170 - 573 Sherling Place

GIVE YOUR INPUT Written comments must be received by 2:00 pm on April 27, 2021

Email: publichearings@portcoquitlam.ca

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Notice of Public Hearing

Zoning Bylaw Amendment for 3265 Finley Street

Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 4227 The intent of this bylaw is to amend the current CD (Comprehensive Development) zone in order to permit a set of specific retail uses.

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The intent of these applications is to vary parking requirements and to provide a lounge with a maximum of 33 patrons at 1170-573 Sherling Place.

Council cannot receive new or additional information on any application after the Public Input Opportunity.

Council cannot receive new or additional information on any application after the Public Input Opportunity.

Written Comments must be received by 2:00 pm on April 27, 2021

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Development Variance Permit DVP00077 and Licensed Establishment LE000014

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Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 4228 The intent of this bylaw is to rezone 3265 Finley Street from RS1 (Residential Single Dwelling 1) to RS2 (Residential Single Dwelling 2) to facilitate a subdivision.

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Judy Stead, right, and Joanne Pesusich tie ribbons to a large fir tree at the corner of Citadel and Colonial drives in Port Coquitlam. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

of our corner,” said Pesusich.

When the decorations came down, though, the tree looked a little bare so Pesusich set about adding several colourful ribbons in support of frontline workers who may be struggling at

this time.

“It was actually my mom’s idea,” said Pesusich, who said a lot of her friends and neighbours are frontline workers who “don’t complain” even though they “work long hours and are

treated poorly.”

So far, people have appreciated the effort to cheer up the neighbourhood, Pesusich said.

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Joanne Pesusich has begun tying colourful ribbons on to a giant fir tree outside her home in Citadel Heights.

Now, she wants others to join in the effort in support of frontline workers.

“I feel like frontline workers are exhausted and overwhelmed; it would be nice to boost their spirits,” said Pesusich, who is a dance teacher and choreographer.

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New bridge part of plan On any given day McAllister Bridge across the Coquitlam River in Port Coquitlam is busy with walkers and cyclists.

But ongoing maintenance, which included painting last year, may not be enough and the popular thoroughfare is now being considered for replacement as part of the city’s $24-million capital spending program for next year.

According to the draft 2022 capital program, the project is one of several considered for design this year and construction next year.

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'We can't undo the past, we can move forward' Rejected immigrants were just seeking better life in Canada MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

Port Moody’s heritage commission will consider possible ways and locations in the city to acknowledge the tragic story of the Komagata Maru, a Japanese vessel loaded with immigrants from Southeast Asia that was refused entry by Canadian authorities in 1914.

Raj Sing Toor’s grandfather, Puran Singh Janetpura was among the 376 Sikh, Muslim and Hindu passengers who set sail across the Pacific in search of a better life.

As fellow British subjects sharing a common Queen, they thought they’d be welcome in Canada with open arms.

Instead, Canadian authorities refused to allow the vessel to dock.

For two months it sat anchored in the harbour, with food and water diminishing because supply runs were

Raj Singh Toor looks out to the Burrard Inlet near the old Flavelle sawmill where many workers from the South Asian community toiled. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

also forbidden.

Toor said the passengers drank rain water while the ship’s Japanese crew was allowed to head to shore to get their own groceries. Even efforts by local South Asian and First Nations communities to transport provisions were rebuffed by the

Canadian government.

The passengers were starving. Several got sick.

“They had a very painful, hard time,” Toor said.

When the Komagata Maru was finally ordered to return to India under the escort of a Canadian naval vessel, Toor said his

grandfather told him years later some passengers were so distraught and fearful of what might await them upon their arrival, they hoped their escort would turn its guns their way.

The fears proved warranted: British troops killed 20 of the passengers, several

more were wounded, and many, like Toor’s grandfather, were sent to jail.

Toor said his grandfather’s experience aboard the ship — and in prison for five years — radicalized him.

He got involved in India’s fight for independence from Britain’s colonial rule, a battle that was ultimately successful in 1947.

Toor said while the story of the Komagata Maru proved pivotal to India’s history, it remains a stain on Canada’s reputation as a tolerant, welcoming land.

It’s also a story with tendrils curling deep into communities across the Lower Mainland, where ancestors and descendants of the ship’s passengers toiled in local lumber mills like Flavelle Cedar in Port Moody and Fraser Mills in Coquitlam.

For more than 15 years, the Descendants of Komagata Maru Society — of which Toor is the vice-president — has been working to gain apologies for the wrongs inflicted upon the ship’s passengers.

They’re not interested in financial reparations, Toor said.

Rather, the acknowledgement can serve as a teaching

tool for future generations.

“There’s still systemic racism. We can still see it,” he said. “We have to educate the communities that this can’t happen again.”

In 2008, the BC government apologized. Eight years later, a mea culpa came from the Canadian government, and last June another was issued by the city of Vancouver for its role.

The society’s efforts have also borne tangible results: a street in Surrey was renamed Komagata Maru Way, as well as a storyboard erected in a park it adjoins; another storyboard has been placed in North Delta; and in March, the city of New Westminster agreed to name a dock in Queensborough after the rejected vessel.

At Tuesday's council meeting, Toor said he’d like to secure a similar commitment in Port Moody, where some members of the local Sikh community had contributed food, water and medicine to the stranded passengers as well as donated money in an effort to lease the ship so it couldn’t be sent away.

“There’s a direct connection,” he said. “We can’t undo the past, but we can move forward.”

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The BC Liberals have focused on what they say is a lack of transparency and accurate reporting when it comes to providing clear data associated with the province’s COVID-19 situation. They want better and more information regarding cases, vaccines and testing. They want the release of extensive demographic and geographic information.

The B.C. Greens want that too (who doesn’t?) but that party appears to have completely broken with provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry. They

issued a blistering news release last week, accusing the government of falling down on all kinds of fronts when it comes to fighting the virus.

Although they did not name her specifically, given the fact Henry is setting the policies and the rules, it is clear the Greens’ attack was aimed specifically at her performance.

The Greens want an all-encompassing threeweek lockdown, including the closure of schools and stronger enforcement of public health orders and a non-essential travel ban (and one that is strongly enforced).

It seems clear the Greens are trying to tap into what appears to be rising public frustration, anger and bewilderment in the face of rapidly escalating daily case counts of COVID-19

and a steady rise in hospitalizations.

The BC Liberals obviously sense that public mood as well, but they have not called for an extensive lockdown or a travel ban or really anything that goes much beyond what is being done right now. Rather, they have mostly said what is currently being done can simply be done better.

I have pointed out before that opposition parties are walking a tricky political tightrope when it comes to questioning public health measures.

Challenging governments is one thing, but taking on science comes with a risk.

But I don’t see much evidence that our society wants to shut down the economy for three weeks in the elusive hope that

such a move would stop the spread of the virus.

Advocates of this “COVIDzero” approach point to success stories in distant places like New Zealand, Taiwan and Vietnam, yet fail to explain why various lockdown measures in much of Europe have not succeeded in stopping the spread there.

As well, it has never been made clear how lockdowns and “stay-at-home” orders can be enforced. It seems that only mass vaccinations are going to get us out of this worsening situation and we will not be at that stage for many weeks yet.

The next few weeks will see some ugly COVID-19 numbers in this province, and the political debate will reflect that.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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City ‘lacks all the ingredients of true leadership’ resent the constituents and are not in place to drive their own agendas.

Therefore, it is a dereliction of duty not to adhere to the code of conduct required as an elected official .

Most municipalities are not facing these challenges because they have strong leadership with respectful, candid communication.

Leadership requires courage.

It requires honesty and integrity.

The discourse we are currently experiencing at all levels in the city of Port

Robinson’s letter.

It strikes a chord with me in that in any governing body — whether its federal , provincial , municipal, corporate or family for that matter — one has to lead in accordance with a set of guiding principles, values if you will, or code of conduct.

The code states honesty and integrity are the cornerstones of responsible conduct.

It seems that the Mayor of Port Moody and certain council members have lost sight that they are elected officials, and as such, rep-

Editor: Re: “Division sets Port Moody back at critical time” (Tri-City News, April 8) and “Letter: It’s time to change Port Moody’s toxic public discussion (tricitynews.com, April 6) I would like to applaud both Ms. Lurbiecki and Mr. Robinson for identifying a dire situation where our democracy in Port Moody is threatened.

I agree with what both authors have written in principle, although I would like to draw attention to one particular point in Mr.

Moody begins at the top and it currently lacks all the ingredients of true leadership.

It might very well be time for some mandatory education for local government officials, or even stricter yet with a spectrum of penalties if there is a dereliction of duty as an elected official.

Let’s begin first to follow a set of mutually agreed guiding principles that will develop trust which will allow open and honest dialogue.

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ing conditions that would make them vulnerable to the most severe cases of COVID19.

Last summer, Al-Jaboubi said his friend, a doctor, worked through Ramadan only to catch the virus and slip into a coma. He died two months later, never waking up.

Caught between the risks of catching COVID-19 outside and the threat of airstrikes overhead, “People are scared,” he said.

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Asaad Al-Jaboubi left Yemen for love.

That was more than 15 years ago, not long after he’d met his soon-to-be Canadian wife, whose father had moved to the country to run a local university.

Landing in Toronto near the end of 2006, the young couple was soon headed west, drawn to British Columbia by its dramatic landscape and eventually settling in Port Moody.

“The mountains reminded me a lot of Yemen,” he said.

Over the years, he’d try to return home during the end of Ramadan to see his mother, father and siblings as they broke their fast and came together in celebration.

“It was beautiful how the country was developing,” he said of his early visits back to Yemen. “They had built better connections, better roads.”

ARAB SPRING

The 2011 Arab Spring uprising brought a renewed sense of hope.

But protests against government corruption and unemployment led to a violent police backlash as the government and Houthi rebel group vied for power.

When in 2015, the rebels seized the capital, Sana’a, declaring a “glorious revolution,” everything changed.

Six years ago, Saudi Arabia launched Operation Decisive Storm, triggering what Al-Jaboubi says has felt like an endless war.

An accountant who had once started a newspaper in a bid to promote his homeland’s fledgling democracy, Al-Jaboubi found himself on the outside looking into what the United Nations describes as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.

Soon, he’d learn Canada, his new adopted country,

EXPORTS INCREASE

Port Moody’s Asaad AlJaboubi, a former accountant in Yemen who once started a newspaper, leads monthly rallies and protest caravans calling upon the Canadian government to stop selling military weapons to Saudi Arabia, which has waged a bloody war against his homeland for six years. Al-Jaboubi has also worked to send medical and food aid to the conflict’s victims.

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was supplying weapons to the same military dropping bombs on his hometown.

From the beginning, the Saudi air campaign has blazed an indiscriminate path of civilian casualties.

COUSIN KILLED

In October 2015, one of Al-Jaboubi’s cousins was among upwards of 150 people killed in a horrific airstrike on a funeral that left more than 500 wounded.

“He was burned alive,” said the Port Moody man.

“We couldn’t even recognize his body.”

Schools, hospitals and average peoples’ homes would soon fall in the line of fire as a sustained blockade on shipping led to widespread malnourishment.

In December 2020, the United Nations estimated the conflict had led to 233,000 war dead, including 131,000 from indirect causes

such as lack of food, health services and infrastructure.

Still, Al-Jaboubi would return at least once a year, bringing needed supplies and cash to his family as his Port Moody neighbours supported his wife while he was away.

“It’s very risky for her,” he said, pointing to the arduous four days it would take transiting through Egypt into Oman and the long road to his parents’ home in Sana’a.

“This road is still an active war. There’s bombings all the time. Sometimes you can wait for 10 hours, 20 hours, two days,” he said.

Passing from town to city, Al-Jaboubi says he still can’t shake the sense of resignation he saw in people with nowhere to go and nothing to eat.

“It’s like a ghost city. Basic food has become a luxury for people… I see my friends, I see my neighbours in the

street begging,” he said.

“Imagine you’re in the TriCities and the bomb lands in North Van. They keep going.”

During the six-year war, the community at the AlHidayah Mosque in Port Coquitlam and the Al-Ihsan Mosque in Port Moody have raised enough money to occasionally buy a few cows and feed up to 400 families at the end of Ramadan.

NEED ONLY GROWS

But as the war rages on the need has only grown, said Al-Jaboubi.

A lack of clean water has sparked deadly cholera outbreaks, which combined with rampant malnutrition, has hit children the hardest.

When the COVID-19 outbreak arrived in the country, 80% of Yemen’s 30 million people were relying on food aid, many of whom already suffered from the pre-exist-

As Saudi Arabia continued its bombing campaign in Yemen, Canada has ramped up military exports to the country.

In 2019, Canada exported $4-billion worth of weapons overseas, the largest sum in its recent history.

Of those exports, $2.8 million in arms — 76% of the total — went to Saudi Arabia, unseating the U.S. as the number one recipient of Canadian weapons, according to the organization Project Ploughshares, which among other things, tracks weapon exports around the world.

Most of those weapons are part of a $14-billion contract supplying Canadianbuilt light armoured vehicles (LAVs) to the Saudi regime.

In 2019, Canada also sold 635 rifles and carbines, 31 large-calibre artillery systems, and 152 heavy machine guns, according to Ploughshares.

Several reports have placed those weapons at the front of the Saudi-led war effort.

After the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, the Canadian government announced a freeze on exports to Saudi Arabia, but that did not apply to previously approved exports, and the ban was lifted in April 2020.

At the time, Canada’s then Minister of Foreign Affairs François-Philippe Champagne and Finance Minister Bill Morneau put out a statement saying that, as a party to the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, Canadian goods can’t be

exported where there is a “substantial risk” they would be used violate international law or human rights.

After reviewing the $14-billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia, the ministers added, “we have now begun reviewing permit applications on a case-by-case basis.”

Five months later, a September 2020 United Nations report into the war in Yemen found Canadian weapons were fuelling the conflict in contravention of international law.

Last month, Canada said it would commit $69.9 million to help humanitarian efforts in Yemen, its biggest promise of aid to the country since the war began, though a fraction of the billions of dollars in weapons the country has exported to Saudi Arabia in recent years.

LEADING RALLIES

While groups like Ploughshares have been quick to call out the government’s “moral deficit,” Al-Jaboubi says local representatives have also done little to heed a call to speak up: A letter to Port MoodyCoquitlam Conservative MP Nelly Shin three months ago went unanswered, he said.

Still, Al-Jaboubi refuses to keep quiet. Every month, he leads rallies, debates and protest caravans throughout Metro Vancouver calling on Canada to stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia.

“I’m contacting all the Imams in the mosques, contacting every Yemeni community in Canada,” he told the Tri-City News.

Al-Jaboubi has recently teamed up with Islamic Relief Canada to launch a fundraising campaign to raise $100,000 to back front line medical workers with equipment and supplies, distribute food aid and provide civilians with clean water, soap and education on how to stay safe during the pandemic.

“If Canadians knew what was happening in Yemen, they would be very angry,” said Al-Jaboubi.

“Why do we have to gamble these people?”

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Port Moody residents may be tiring of the city’s branding as “The City of the Arts.”

But a veteran councillor who’s also an artist suggests it may just be a case of out of sight during the current COVID-19 pandemic, out of mind.

The results of a recent community survey conducted by the city of Port Moody found significant support — more than 25% — from its 365 respondents for removing or changing the “City of the Arts” slogan from Port Moody’s vision statement. The survey was designed by the Vancouverbased consulting firm Urban Systems and conducted in January and February.

Catherine Berris, a community planner and landscape architect for Urban Systems, said respondents seemed to indicate they don’t really understand the label’s relationship to the

A detail from Knots, a public sculpture by Nathan Lee and Matthew Thomson, in Port Moody’s Rocky Point Park. A recent survey indicates some residents don’t understand the city’s relationship to the arts. TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTO

city they live in.

“It’s almost like the city wasn’t doing enough with the arts, so why should we be using that term.”

But Coun. Zoe Royer countered with so many of the city’s arts events and festivals having been cancelled through the past year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, residents may not be feeling as strong a

connection to the arts.

“It’s very difficult when the arts have been so significantly impacted,” she said, adding feelings could change once public health restrictions have been lifted and arts and culture events return to life.

Mayor Rob Vagramov suggested it may be time to revisit the slogan, that was coined 20 years ago by

local arts advocates, the late Ann Kitching and Elizabeth Keurvorst, as a way to boost the arts and tourism in the city.

He said while the slogan seems to aspire Port Moody compare itself to London or Paris, its cooling acceptance “may be signalling a bit of a shift.”

Victoria Petriw, who started a line of Port Moodybranded casual clothing, Port Moody & Co., with her friend Sydney Van Alstyne, said “The City of the Arts” slogan is a “great concept, but it is unseen… in the everyday lives of 25 to 40-yearolds.

“It doesn’t feel alive in the actual lifestyle of our demographic,” she said, adding people are more inclined to identify with things they can actually see, smell, hear and touch in everyday experiences, like going to Brewers’ Row or shopping at Newport Village.

Petriw said for the city to truly be a celebration of the arts, it needs to be filled with public art, murals, creative installations, events and a vibrant food scene that in turn allow creative people to thrive.

“There is a social aspect that is lacking to make the art and programs here common knowledge,” she said.

But a cross-Canada survey conducted by MacLean’s Magazine in 2019 suggested Port Moody has lived up to its branding.

The poll, that ranked 415 communities against each other based on indicators like crime, affordability rates, taxes, amenities and health, placed Port Moody 17th overall in ‘culture and community,’ that includes arts, culture, recreation and community involvement.

Meanwhile, city staff are working with Urban Systems to put together a second survey that will further explore some of the key topics and themes about Port Moody’s future direction that were identified by the results from the initial poll. They include: • the revitalization of the Moody Centre neighbourhood • how residents feel about high rises • identifying where and how the city should grow • how to preserve Port Moody’s sense of community and character • economic development

• recreation amenities • access to parks and green space • equity, diversity, inclusion and reconciliation The second survey will be ready to be sent out, and posted to the city’s online engagement platform, by May, said Port Moody’s manager of policy planning, Mary De Paoli, in a report.

Some councillors at the March 30 meeting of the committee of the whole expressed a desire for another survey that would explore more issues in greater detail be prepared for the summer, but Kate Zanon, the city’s general manager of community development, advised such an initiative would cost additional money and likely produce little uptake as people will be distracted by other, more leisurely, pursuits of the season. She added it would also delay the process of revising the OCP by at least another three months.

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SFU undergrad wants to train teens to save lives DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

Chloe Goodison was 16 when she saw her first overdose.

She was aboard a SkyTrain travelling from Coquitlam to Port Moody when she spotted a young woman looking ill and confused.

Suddenly, the woman collapsed onto her lap.

In shock, Goodison called 911. It was only later when she learned the woman had suffered an overdose.

“I had zero idea of what was going on. For all I knew she had fainted — that bothered me,” she said. “I had no idea that [overdosing from illicit drugs] was so prevalent in B.C. and I didn’t know how to help or what was

Left: Chloe Goodison, an SFU student from Port Moody, examines a bottle of Naloxone. She’s prepared a program together with School District 43 to teach high school students to recognize the signs of an overdose and administer the antidote. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

happening.”

The trauma of that moment, and the helplessness she remembers feeling, spurred the woman to understand what led to that near-deadly encounter and how she might be able to cope if it ever happen again.

While at high school, Goodison said she never learned about B.C.’s overdose crisis — even though 106 people have died of

an overdose in Coquitlam since drug deaths started to spike in 2016, nor did she learn about the lifesaving Naloxone, which is available to people who do online training.

After her experience on SkyTrain, Goodison trained in the use of Naloxone and carries a kit with her where ever she goes. Now a health sciences student at Simon Fraser University, Goodison is looking to share what

she has learned with other people.

“Considering B.C. has been in a declared overdose crisis for five years, it’s problematic to think young people entering the world aren’t learning about overdoses and how to keep people safe,” said Goodison.

Many are likely to come across an overdose at one time or another — be it a loved one, a work colleague or a friend at a party and Naloxone training could help them save a life, she said. She’d like to see more youth get training so they can identify an overdose and deal with it if one happens in front of them.

To make that happen Goodison has created a Fraser Health-approved

training module she will use to instruct volunteer trainers so they can educate high school students in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody schools.

In addition to Fraser Health’s approval, Goodison has received support and interest from teachers and administrators in School District 43, and with a $3,000 grant she won for the 2020 SFU Student Community Engagement Competition, she hopes to start that training soon.

Goodison is looking to recruit a NaloxHome team of 18- to 25-year-olds from across the Tri-Cities.

The training team members will receive includes: • information on B.C. overdose statistics;

• an overview of the Good Samaritan Law, which stipulates how someone who calls 911 to report a drug overdose can’t be charged for drug possession in connection with the incident; • how to recognize the signs and symptoms of an overdose and how they differ from other medical emergencies; • information about the toxic drug supply; • how to treat an overdose with Naloxone, including training on what it is, how it is injected, where and how to get it and how to refill it once used.

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Urgent call to save long-running music fest Dozens of volunteers are needed to run the annual CDMF Performing Arts Festival in Port Coquitlam.

And, if there aren’t enough hands to help out by the end of June, the fest will have to be nixed for next year, the president warns.

Michael Wright, a former city councillor, said he’s now heading a committee to make sure the festival keeps going into 2021 and beyond.

Started in 1953 by music teacher Beryl MacLeod, the event sees hundreds of piano, speech arts, classical voice and musical theatre students from around the Lower Mainland compete for a spot at the provincials.

Wright said his committee recently sent out 150 emails to parents of students who participated in CDMF last year, and nearly 180 more to teachers of students who have taken part in CDMF over the years.

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This year would have been the festival’s 68th year had it not been cancelled due to COVID-19.

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“core” volunteers — administration, board of directors and disciplines co-ordinators (especially for speech and vocal) — and “members-at-large” (volunteer co-ordinator and board secretary, for example).

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FEDERAL POLITICS

Port Coquitlam councillor looks toward Ottawa Top city vote-getter gets NDP nod DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

Port Coquitlam’s top municipal vote-getter and only censured councillor is casting her eyes toward national politics to run for the federal NDP in the riding of Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam.

Coun. Laura Dupont, who notched more than 6,500 votes in the 2018 municipal election, is hoping to galvanize her municipal base into winning a seat in a riding currently held by Liberal MLA Ron McKinnon.

She said the CoquitlamPort Coquitlam voters might be looking for an alternative because the pandemic has focused their attention on some federal issues, such as the need for a national Pharmacare plan, paid sick leave, rent subsidies and other financial supports.

“I think the NDP contrasts the Liberals in a few ways.

[The federal NDP] have certainly done some good work to take good care of Canadians and they made the Liberals ‘up their game,’” she said.

While no election has

been set, Dupont said one might be called after the April 19 federal budget.

“Often federal budgets are pivotal points for governments — if the Liberals put out a budget the opposition isn’t happy with, that can trigger an election or the Liberals might call an election,” she told the Tri-City News.

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Dupont said she will seek permission from her council colleagues for an unpaid leave of absence once the writ is dropped and doesn’t anticipate trouble juggling

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“The time commitment really increases when the writ is dropped and I would hope council will indulge me,” said Dupont, who was first elected to Port Coquitlam council in 2014.

This federal election will be different because

door-knocking and in-person visits are discouraged; campaigning will be via phone and email, she said, while her current council duties will be an important focus.

Still, there is the spectre of a costly by-election: In Coquitlam, a larger city with more voters, costs have run as high as $250,000 to

replace councillors who resigned in 2013 to seek higher office.

For Dupont, however, a possible by-election is a long way off and unavoidable because “no federal, provincial, municipal elections ever line up.’”

Dupont’s candidacy could be considered to be under a cloud because she

was censured last year for what an independent body found to be disclosures of confidential information; a decision on her petition to have the censure and sanctions quashed has yet to be made public.

The Port MoodyCoquitlam NDP riding association expects to nominate a candidate on April 17.

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CADET CONCERT

Volunteers pulled trash from the Ioco townsite during a group clean-up by TROPICA. Among the trash removed was drywall, sofas, tires, a car bumper, roofing material and a bag of women’s clothing.

FILLS 3 TRUCKS WITH TRASH FROM IOCO

MR. LUBE Mr. Lube in Coquitlam recently scooped a top collector award from the non-profit BC Used Oil Management Association, for its performance in collecting used oil and antifreeze materials last year.

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Soroptomists in the Tri-Cities named Jessa Turner as the winner of their Live Your Dream award. Turner, a Douglas College student in the healthcare support worker program, took the accolade that aims to help women who are the primary financial caregivers for their families. The funding helps with their education, skills and job prospects.

Predators’ players with the TriCities Female Ice Hockey organization skated in $3,000 from Scotiabank last month. The giant cheque was presented at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex in Coquitlam.

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POMO The Port Moody Fire Fighters Charitable Society recently put down their final installment of $15,000 toward its $150,000 pledge to help pay for the new emergency department at Eagle Ridge Hospital.

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PLEA GETS CIVIC CASH PLEA Community Services’ Children of the Street program, which was founded by a former Coquitlam school trustee, recently took in $23,200 from the cities of Langley, Richmond, Surrey and Vancouver. The funds will be used to deliver prevention workshops to help young people in their communities learn how to keep safe from sexual exploitation. “Since the pandemic, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of police-reported cases of child/ youth sexual exploitation,” said Maura Fitzpatrick, PLEA’s fund development specialist, in a news release.

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Three air cadets from the Tri-Cities performed at an international concert last month to mark Commonwealth Day. The virtual show on March 8 included Warrant Officer First Class Alvin Tsang and Warrant Officer Second Class Kayla Fong from 808 Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron in Coquitlam, both playing the alto saxophone.

The pair was joined by Warrant Officer Second Class Han Sol Jin from 777 Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron in Port Coquitlam, playing the clarinet, and 11 other cadets from Canada, as well as cadets from the United Kingdom and Australia to perform three pieces of music.

Their show, which featured the hymn The Crown that Fadeth Not as well as Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass and March of the Cobblers

by Bob Barratt, can be seen on the British Columbia Cadets Facebook page.

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Port Coquitlam scribe Rae Knightly won a silver medal in the teen category from the Wishing Shelf Book Awards, for her publication “Ben Archer and the Alien Skill.” She also won silver for her first book.

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An Archbishop Carney secondary student won a full-ride scholarship in a CIBC contest.

Zander Santos, a Grade 12 student, clinched $35,000 for his tuition, in the nationwide Student Life Network “Full Ride” competition, which he entered last year; he was selected randomly in the fourth annual contest.

“I thought it was a joke at first. Now I won’t have to apply for more student loans. That’s really nice. It should be a lot easier financial-wise,” Santos said in a press release.

Meanwhile, four Tri-City students who are also graduating took $5,000 each for their post-secondary education from the Horatio Alger Association of Canada.

They are Grace Kim and Annie Yin (Gleneagle secondary); Julia Pitsiaeli (Traditional Learning Academy); and Kamilla Nyazullah (Pinetree secondary).

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Phone registration opens today for May, June recreation Phone-in registration for May and June programs offered by the city of Coquitlam opened today (April 15).

And the municipality has a series of new classes and workshops available for residents including: • Explore the World for young children: Join your child each week as they explore the world through hands-on activities and engaging stories. Topics include Bugs and Creepy Crawlies, Nature, Plants and How They Grow, Science Experiments, Space and the Five Senses and Under the Sea • outdoor sports for kids such as soccer and tennis

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To register 24/7 online, visit coquitlam.ca/registration. To sign up by phone (weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and weekends 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.), call 604-9274386.

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Chamber hits the links for tour and Classic ‘People want to get out’ says Tri-Cities Chamber CEO DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

Amidst restrictions to church gatherings, indoor fitness and restaurant dining one pastime remains popular and it’s also Dr. Bonnie Henry approved: golf.

For Port Coquitlam and Coquitlam golf courses, which re-opened with COVID-19 protocols last spring, there hasn’t been much down time on the greens as duffers and handicappers have been flocking to driving ranges, putting greens and fairways for fresh air and exercise.

And that’s good news for the Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce 2021 Golf Classic, set for Thursday, July 15 at the Westwood Plateau Golf and Country Club.

Michael Hind, chamber CEO, believes he’ll have no trouble filling the 150 spots for the annual fundraising event for the local business advocacy group.

“People want to get out, they want to golf,” said Hind, “and we’ll take our cue from Dr. Bonnie Henry.”

Typically, the golf classic is a time to network, but

opportunities for mingling will be limited and will depend on what’s allowed in mid-July.

Most people should have at least one dose of their vaccine by then, but Hind doesn’t plan a huge indoor banquet after golf games are over.

Instead, players will enjoy an outdoor meal on the patio when they finish their game.

Registration includes an 18-hole scramble, a golf cart, food on the course, and a post-event lunch or dinner with physical distancing enforced.

Masks will be required indoors, there will be a maximum of one to two people per golf cart, and tournament winners and prizes will be announced the following day.

Still, with all those restrictions, Hind expects people to join in the fun because it’s nice to get out and it seems people just can’t get enough of chasing a little ball around with a stick.

“Golf is a sport that people can do safely,” he said, noting that a separate event called the Golf Tour 2021 has been popular for chamber members.

In this event, participants play a different course each month from March to October, including the Chamber Golf Classic on

July 15 at Westwood Plateau, and Hind said about 25 people have joined in so far.

Tour stops include Ledgeview, Sandpiper, Chateau Whistler,

Redwoods, Swan-e-set and more.

For more information

about both golf events, and to register, visit www.tricitieschamber.com

Coquitlam Recreation

May and June Programming and Pre-Registered Drop-ins You can pre-register for drop-in length and leisure swimming; public skating and stick, ring and puck; court sports and weight room access at the fitness centre.

Here’s just a sample of our course offerings:

Early Years (2 – 5 yrs)

• Basketball, multi-ball and soccer • Ballet, creative dance and little performers • Explore the World series of programs

Children (6 – 12 yrs)

• Badminton, gymnastics, soccer and tennis • Creative cooks and simple snacks • Junior architects, guitar lessons and science wonders

Youth (13 – 18 yrs)

• Archery, badminton, basketball, volleyball and tennis • Drama and acting, drumming beat production and hip hop • Drawing and mixed media, and hands-on art

Fitness (13 yrs +)

• Outdoor cycle, HIIT and Zumba • Virtual Latin dance, low impact and Pilates

Outdoor Recreation

• Baby and me hiking • Little nature explorers • Virtual hiking workshops

Adult (19 yrs +) – Virtual

• Creative dance and line dancing • Guitar and ukulele lessons, English and Spanish lessons • Beginner drawing, watercolour and other art classes

Coquitlam Recreation continually adapts to meet the requirements of updated Public Health Orders.

We appreciate your patience as we may need to make last minute changes.

Register online at coquitlam.ca/registration 24 hours a day seven days a week and by phone at 604-927-4386 weekdays 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. (except statutory holidays) and weekend 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Stay Informed on Coquitlam Parks, Recreation, Culture and Facilities To stay up to date on the latest news: • Subscribe to the PRC E-News at • Check out the weekly City Page at coquitlam.ca/connect coquitlam.ca/enews to receive bi-weekly • Follow @cityofcoquitlam on Facebook, Twitter, parks, recreation, culture and facilities updates Instagram, and YouTube

The Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce golf classic swings into Westwood Plateau Golf and Country Club, in Coquitlam, on July 15. GETTY PHOTO

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Residents to discuss Cedar Drive plans JANIS CLEUGH jcleugh@tricitynews.com

A Zoom meeting is planned for April 21 from 7 to 8 p.m. to discuss the $16.5-million proposal to lift Cedar Drive — a road north of the blueberry farms, on the way to Minnekhada regional park — and improve the infrastructure and environment around it.

The work, which will roll out over three years, is in response to the development in the Partington Creek neighbourhood on Burke; the area will become the commercial and recreational centre for the mountain, where the city expects 50,000 people will eventually call home.

Among the utility and environmental upgrades for Cedar Drive are a 1.5-metre lift to the road, to protect it from flooding, and widening it to include a multi-use pathway and street lighting; a new drainage channel off Partington Creek, and environmental improvements to the watercourse and riparian areas; and a new sewer line along Cedar Drive, extending to Upper Victoria Drive.

Funding for the capital project will largely come from development cost charges (DCC).

To register for the online meeting, email cedardrive@ coquitlam.ca; visit coquitlam.ca/cedardrive to learn more about the work.

ARTS GRANTS

Arts and culture groups in the Tri-Cities have until May 10 to apply for money from Metro Vancouver.

A total of $150,000 is available to create, research, produce and disseminate a project that will serve the region.

Grants will be awarded for up to $10,000 per project.

“As demonstrated by last year’s grant submissions and awards, our region’s arts community is resilient and endlessly creative,” said Sav Dhaliwal, chair of the Metro Vancouver board of directors, in a press release.

“We are pleased to support arts organizations in

finding new ways to reach and enrich the lives of residents while also staying within ongoing public health orders.”

Among the 2020 recipients were DreamRider Productions Society, which is based in Port Moody; the Vancouver International Children’s Festival Society; the Vancouver Bach Choir; the Capture Photography Festival Society; and the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre.

To apply and learn about project grant eligibility, visit metrovancouver.org/ cultural-grants. For more details, email culturalgrants@ metrovancouver.org or call 604-456-8828.

YOUTH ON MOVE

With the mass vaccinations now at the Poirier Forum, the city of Coquitlam has moved one of its teen hubs away from the traffic — temporarily.

Last week, the city relocated the Getaway Youth Centre from the Centennial Pavilion, next to the Forum and Dogwood Pavilion, to the Poirier administrative building at 644 Poirier St. All the services and programs are the same, as is the size of the space and the hours.

Open weekdays from 3:15 to 8 p.m. (ages 14 to 18), and Saturdays from 10:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. (ages 11 to 14), the Getaway is free for Coquitlam teens to hang out, socialize, play games and do homework. Social distancing protocols and face masks remain in effect.

Meanwhile, Coquitlam’s other youth digs in City Centre is also open: The Landing, located in Pinetree community centre (1260 Pinetree Way), runs Tuesday to Thursday from 3 to 7:30 p.m. on weekdays, and 3:30 to 9:15 p.m. on the weekends.

The Landing is for youth ages 13 to 18.

However, kids ages 11 to 13 can drop by on Fridays from 5:30 to 7 p.m., and Saturdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m., by pre-registering through coquitlam.ca/registration.

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Teachers lining up, hoping to get leftover doses Locals being turned away in Surrey DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

With schools back in session and COVID-19 cases climbing to record high numbers, some Metro Vancouver teachers are seeking out ways to get vaccinated to protect themselves during the pandemic.

Rather than waiting weeks for a shot in the age-based campaign or the renewal of a paused campaign to vaccinate priority frontline workers, some teachers are lining up in the hopes of receiving leftover doses at Surrey clinics.

In a Tweet April 6, a New Westminster teacher posted a photo of teachers, including Coquitlam district educators, lining up at a Surrey clinic in the hopes of getting

a leftover shot.

“They have vaccines here.

We’d like some protection please,” Sheelagh Brothers wrote in her Twitter post.

It’s not known how many Coquitlam district teachers have received shots this way, if any, but Surrey teachers where COVID-19 cases are high are being vaccinated to tamp down the virus.

In a follow-up Tweet, Brothers said teachers other than those from Surrey were turned away and told to go to their own districts.

A Maple Ridge teacher said they, too, were turned away after lining up for leftover vaccines. The teacher said via Twitter that he was turned away over concerns about supply.

The strategy of seeking out leftover doses in other cities isn’t one supported

by Coquitlam Teachers Association president Ken Christensen, however, he understands the desperation

of teachers worried about getting sick with COVID-19.

He said he heard some out of district teachers tried to get shots in Surrey but noted “I don’t think it’s happening anymore.”

“My number one job right now is to push ‘April shot one’ vaccination for all my teachers,” Christensen said.

Earlier the province announced plans to inoculate teachers along with other priority frontline workers with the AstraZeneca vaccine.

But the campaign was put on hold over concerns of blood clots in younger people; the AstraZeneca vaccine is now only being administered to British Columbians between 55 and 65 years old.

Christensen said he’s urging older teachers in the 55 to 65 age group to get AstraZeneca shots at local pharmacies “as there is supply and they are going through waitlists.”

In this photo from Twitter, teachers line up in the hopes of getting left over COVID-19 shots in Surrey clinics. Teachers say they were turned away. TWITTER

VILLAGE OF ANMORE NOTICE OF PARCEL TAX ROLL AUTHENTICATION Public Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the requirements of the Community Charter, that a Parcel Tax Roll Review Panel “Panel” will sit in the Village of Anmore at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 20, 2021, virtually via Zoom. If you wish to attend the Panel meeting or make an appointment prior to the meeting to review the Parcel Tax Roll during regular business hours 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Monday – Friday please email village.hall@anmore.com The Panel will review the Parcel Tax Roll prepared for the following bylaws: Bylaw 644-2021 – Anmore Green Estates Local Area Service Bylaw 645-2021 – Anmore Green Estates and School District 43 Local Area Service The Panel shall hear complaints and may review and/or amend the Parcel Tax Assessment roll as to the following: a) An error or omission respecting a name or address on the parcel tax roll; b) An error or omission respecting inclusion of a parcel; c) An error or omission respecting the taxable area or a parcel; d) An exemption having been improperly allowed or disallowed.

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Local groups receive $35k to combat racism, discrimination STEFAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com

Five groups across Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam have received a combined $35,000 in grants from the province to tackle racism in their communities.

The money is part of a pot of funds known as the Multiculturalism Grant Program handed out to more than 190 organizations across the province Thursday.

“Racism is pervasive and it reaches into every corner of our province. The COVID19 pandemic has only made the situation worse,” said Parliamentary Secretary for Anti-Racism Initiatives Rachna Singh in a written statement.

“That’s why these grants prioritize projects addressing anti-Indigenous, anti-Asian and anti-Black racism.”

The grants, added, Singh, are meant to help groups address systemic racism and encourage intercultural conversations.

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The grants will fund: • $5,000 mentorship program at the Coquitlam Heritage Society, so BIPOC and queer youth can learn how to create an exhibit titled ‘Your Heritage.’

• $5,000 three-part theatre project at the Coquitlam Place des Arts Society to reimagine the Grimm Fairy Tales so BIPOC/LGBT2SQ+ youth can make it their own.

• $5,000 speaker series hosted at the Coquitlam Public Library titled ‘BC 150+ inquiry Race Relations, Past and Present: Conversations about Race in BC.’ • $10,000 series of public events run by re:Naissance Opera to “lift up the voices of East Asian artists” and creatively start conversations on race, gender and sexuality as well as their impacts.

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Pot warning for PoMo pooches Posters go up in Westhill Park DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com

A popular off-leash dog area in Port Moody is being flagged as a possible danger zone for pets after a retriever was sickened from eating marijuana laced with barbiturates.

Recently, Holly Gracey noticed her dog, Bijou, shaking, weaving and urinating a few hours after returning from a walk along one of the forested trails in the popular west-side park.

Gracey rushed the eight year old retriever mix to the Central Animal Emergency Clinic in Coquitlam where a blood test confirmed that Bijou had consumed both marijuana and barbiturates.

“Bijou had to undergo a night of terror as these drugs cause extreme agitation in dogs in amongst the acute

and potentially chronic impact it has on a canine’s kidneys and liver and potential for long term neurological issues,” said Gracey in an email to the Tri-City News.

This isn’t the first time Bijou has consumed marijuana dropped on the ground; it’s happened at Ioco Townsite and on Buntzen Lake trails, and both times she required veterinary care.

But the addition of barbiturates has Gracey concerned of a new potential threat to pets. She’s also worried that people may be using marijuana laced with barbiturates to boost the effect of the drug without knowing it.

“If I was a kid and I was into smoking pot, I would want to know what I was smoking too. I want them to be careful not only for our dogs’ sake but for their own sake,” she said in an interview.

Pets eating pot and getting sick is becoming more

common and in recent years B.C. veterinarians have been warning about dogs ingesting toxic amounts of marijuana.

A spokesperson from the Central Animal Emergency Clinic said it’s not unusual to see other drugs, such as barbiturates, along with cannabis THC, revealed in a blood test.

However, she said the dog usually recovers after an overnight visit where the toxic chemicals are “flushed out” of their system.

While Bijou recovered, Gracey said she wants to warn others about the problem at Westhill Park.

In posters she’s placing at the park, Gracey advises dog owners what symptoms to watch out for.

She’s also warning people who use drugs at the park to carefully dispose of their litter.

“Just PLEASE be careful, for the sake of our fourlegged friends,” her poster states.

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Development Variance Permit and Licensed Establishment Applications for 2155 - 575 Seaborne Avenue

GIVE YOUR INPUT Written comments must be received by 2:00 pm on April 27, 2021 Email: publichearings@portcoquitlam.ca

Development Variance Permit DVP00076 and Licensed Establishment Application The intent of these applications is to vary parking requirements and to provide a lounge with a maximum of 50 patrons at 2155-575 Seaborne Avenue.

Mail: Public Hearings Attn: Corporate Office 2580 Shaughnessy Street, Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 2A8

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Participate Live (Zoom Link): Please check portcoquitlam.ca/ publichearing on the afternoon of the meeting for a link to participate.

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COVID-19 cases surging in Tri-Cities, Metro Van STEFAN LABBÉ slabbe@tricitynews.com

COVID-19 cases across the Tri-Cities hit another record high last week, surging over 17% and pushing the region into the highest average daily rate assigned by the BC Centre for Disease Control.

Between March 28 and April 3, the three cities recorded 381 new cases, up from 325 cases the previous week.

The new data comes as cases surge across Metro Vancouver: the North Shore, Vancouver, Burnaby, Delta, Surrey and Maple Ridge all joined the Tri-Cities with average daily care rates of over 20 per 100,000 people.

Other corners of the province hit especially hard by COVID-19 last week include the Howe Sound local health area, the Peace River region, Revelstoke, Windermere, as well as a stretch of the North

Coast from the Bella Coola Valley north past Prince Rupert.

On Monday, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said roughly half of the new cases across the province stem from one of the new variants of COVID19, with the B.1.1.7, or U.K. variant, making up the largest share of new infections.

“This is, I don’t need to say, our third wave,” Henry said at a briefing Monday, adding some rural communities will be subject to targeted vaccination campaigns.

With more than 3,000 new cases reported over the weekend, the provincial death toll surpassed 1,500 for the first time.

At a local level, the return from spring break has sparked a rise in school exposures, with nine Tri-Cities schools flagged by April 13.

The coronavirus has also once again reared its head in a Coquitlam long-term care

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home, as of Monday, placing it among six long-term care or assisted living facilities across the province battling an active outbreak. Fraser Health confirmed Tuesday Dufferin Care Centre was back under outbreak protocols after being free of the virus for nearly 11 months.

A single resident has tested positive for the coronavirus

and is being kept in isolation.

Dufferin was among the first wave of long-term care homes racked by a COVID19 outbreak last spring. The initial outbreak was declared over last May, but not before four residents had died and 22 residents and staff members had tested positive for the virus.

It’s not yet clear how COVID-19 found its way into the home as such facilities were among the initial targets of the province-wide vaccination campaign.

Meanwhile, the province’s age-based vaccination campaign marches on, with more than one million British Columbians having received at least the first

dose of a vaccine by the start of the week.

As of Tuesday, the Ministry of Health was booking vaccination appointments for everyone aged 65 or older, Indigenous people over 18 years old and anyone who received a letter confirming their status as “clinically extremely vulnerable.”

VILLAGE OF BELCARRA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Via Zoom Monday, April 26, 2021 5:00 pm

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Proposed: Zoning Bylaw No. 510, 2018, Amendment Bylaw No. 580, 2021 NOTICE is hereby given that the Council of the Village of Belcarra will hold a Public Hearing via Zoom Webinar on Monday, April 26, 2021 at 5:00 pm in accordance with the Local Government Act. As a result of the Public Health Emergency and resulting restrictions on public gatherings, public attendance at the Village Hall for Public Hearings and Council meetings is not permitted at this time. However, persons who deem that their interest in the property is affected by the proposed changes to the Zoning Bylaw shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard.

Bylaw:

Purpose:

Zoning Bylaw No. 510, 2018, Amendment Bylaw No. 580, 2021

To amend the Zoning Bylaw to introduce definitions related to Short Term Rental Accommodations (STRA) and Bed & Breakfast (B&B) and to update regulations related to Home-Based Business Uses to accommodate STRA and B&B.

A copy of the proposed Bylaws and the associated reports may be inspected online at www.belcarra.ca after Thursday, April 22, 2021. Further details may be obtained from the Village of Belcarra by contacting 604-937-4100 or ldysart@belcarra.ca.

Should you have any comments or concerns you wish to convey to Council and you cannot attend the Zoom Public Hearing, please submit them in writing to Lorna Dysart, Chief Administrative Officer, Village of Belcarra, no later than noon, Monday, April 26, 2021.

You may participate live through the Zoom Webinar; see details and instructions on the Village website at www.belcarra.ca. Be prepared to provide your full name and address. You will be permitted to present once and will be given up to 5 minutes to give your presentation.

You may forward your submissions by: • Mailing or delivering to: Village Hall, 4084 Bedwell Bay Road, Belcarra BC, V3H 4P8 • Faxing to 604-939-5034 • Emailing the Village at ldysart@belcarra.ca with “Bylaw No. 510, 2018, Amendment Bylaw No. 580, 2021” typed in the subject line.

Please Note: Correspondence that is the subject of a Public Hearing, Public Meeting or other public procedures will be included, in its entirely, in the public information package and will form part of the public record. Council shall not receive further submissions from the public or interested persons concerning the amendment after the Public Hearing has concluded.

Lorna Dysart, Chief Administrative Officer Date: April 14, 2021

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Breathe in those distant lands Centennial secondary graduate and veteran photographer Garrett Andrew Chong takes the viewer on a ride through unknown places and experiences, in his exhibit “Seeing Anew: Earthly Presence,” that is now up at PoMoArts; this image is called Forms of Life. GARRETT ANDREW CHONG

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Wandering close to home has its rewards Four artists explore the open spaces of Metro Vancouver JANIS CLEUGH jcleugh@tricitynews.com

When Grp4Art applied to do a show at Coquitlam’s Place des Arts in 2019, the four artists never thought their theme would be so meaningful.

Open Spaces is the title of their new display — a subject matter that has been in the forefront since the pandemic lockdown last March.

“It was just fortunate that the topic was so relevant when we were able to show,” said Grp4Art spokesperson Roxsane Tiernan. “After being cooped up for a year, you really want to get out of the house, and explore the outdoors.”

The 32 paintings, collages and mixed media images that Burnaby residents Tiernan, Virginia Chin and Marjorie Wong,

My Neighbourhood is a painting in the Grp4Art show at Coquitlam’s Place des Arts, which runs until May 27. MARJORIE WONG

and Kathleen Susan Young, of Vancouver, present include scenes of recreational places such as parks, walk-

ing and bike paths, playgrounds and community gardens as well as backyards and urban settings.

Tiernan, 81, who produced a picture of the Coquitlam River after a photo walk, said the group

was given free rein to interpret the motif.

Still, they all wanted to convey that “being outside, in the fresh air, gives a boost to your well-being.

There are so many places to go: Mine are more off the beaten track because I like to be around nature but there are very nice places inside cities, too.”

Formed in 2001, Grp4Art regularly shows its work around the Lower Mainland at juried events, art galleries and businesses. It first displayed at Place des Arts in 2006, in an exhibit titled Yesterday and Today; Open Spaces, which launched April 1, can be seen in the Leonore Peyton Salon at the Maillardville arts hub until May 27.

Meanwhile, also on show until May 27 are Hamideh Abol’s Where is Home?, and Threads of Hope by the Fibre Art Network.

To book a viewing time as an individual or with a core bubble, call Place des Arts in Coquitlam at 604664-1636 (ext. 0).

The light of places far away — and the peace they create within us — are themes in Garrett Andrew Chong’s new exhibit at PoMoArts.

A Centennial secondary graduate, Chong presents a series of photographic collages in Seeing Anew: Earthly Presence, a show that he’ll discuss April 15 during a Facebook Live opening at the Port Moody hub at 7:15 p.m.

Seeing Anew is one of five collections Chong produced during the pandemic, all of them touching on a deeper meaning about the world. Chong searches for different auras that can take the viewer on a spiritual journey; his images of sacred places are from his travels between 2016 and ’18, and he pairs them with local scenes for contrast. “I want to convey a feeling,” Chong told the Tri-City News. “When you travel, you get an appreciation for life and it’s captured in different shades of lights. If you let it in, you’re changed forever.”

Though his travels these days are closer to home, Chong said the light in B.C. provincial parks also provides a beauty with “forests upon forests that are just 20 minutes away.”

Seeing Anew is part of the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society’s 2021 explorASIAN Festival.

Meanwhile, also opening solo displays this week are Burnaby resident Taize Powell (Melancholy) and Valerie Pugh (Sur/veil: Who’s Looking, Whose Watching), of Coquitlam.

Their shows end May 12.

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Amanda Todd doc screens at Reel 2 Real fest The Telus Originals documentary features the PoCo teen JANIS CLEUGH jcleugh@tricitynews.com

If there’s one message that activist filmmaker Mathew Embry wants to get across to parents, it’s this: watch how your kids use social media.

The father-of-two recently shut off the digital channels for his own tweens after an incident that came to light about a year after he dropped a documentary about Port Coquitlam’s Amanda Todd, who took her life by suicide, after being cyberbullied.

In his 49-minute production titled Dark Cloud, A Telus Originals documentary that is part of the 23rd annual Reel 2 Real Film Festival that runs April 14 to 23 from Vancouver, Embry interviews Todd’s mother, Carol,

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A still of Amanda Todd from the documentary “Dark Cloud.” TELUS ORIGINALS

about her ongoing campaign to make people aware about the mental and physical toll that cyber-stalkers create, around the world.

In Amanda Todd’s case, her alleged abuser is from The Netherlands, and faces

criminal charges in Canada.

He is currently in custody; a jury trial is set for October.

Talking with Carol Todd “really opened my eyes,” Embry told the Tri-City News. “As a parent, you have to be vigilant. You have to

be checking their phones.

We’ve stopped social media for our kids now. We’ve seen how hard it is to control, and we’ve experienced who quickly it can grow. There are strangers all over the world who could be contact-

ing your kids. Who are these people?”

Embry, a Calgarian who produced the doc with Holly Dupej, said he learned about Amanda Todd’s death from news reports, and was interested in delving into a local story that made national and international headlines.

He was able to spend time with Carol Todd in her PoCo home as well as at public events.

But while the subject matter is upsetting, Embry

said he and Dupej wanted to make a film that was hopeful and offered solutions — just as Carol Todd does with her Amanda Todd Legacy Society in honour of her late daughter.

Meanwhile, the virtual Reel 2 Real Festival also includes five short films by TriCity high school students, in the Youth Filmmakers Showcase. They are: • Fluffie by Tsai-Ni Lin of Gleneagle secondary • Entropy by Theo Turner and Evan Turner of Riverside secondary • Problems by Sydney Ilaender, Radek Koci, Shaun Ganzeveld, Annabelle Hunter and Phoenix London of Riverside secondary • Journey of Dance by Jessica Quian of Gleneagle secondary • And I Yearn: An Experimental Film about 2020 by Yunmin Lee of Gleneagle secondary To view the movies in the Reel to Real Film Festival, visit r2rfestival.org.

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What’s for dinner? Eat Tri-Cities has some ideas Gleneagle grad shares her love for Tri-City cuisine

And what she’s learning about the Tri-Cities is that it is full of hidden gems. “I grew up in Port Coquitlam and I think, ‘How did I not know about this place?’ They

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Tina Gohar had been following and contributing to a social media channel devoted to food in New Westminster when her friend suggested she launch a similar venture for the TriCities.

That was last summer when the Gleneagle secondary grad took her friend’s advice and launched Eat TriCities on Facebook, a public site showcasing good eats at local restaurants.

Today, her Facebook group boosts 7,800 members who share their love for grub with photos, provide reviews, announce openings and ask for recommendations from fellow foodies.

Last month, Gohar added an Instagram page (@eat. tricities) and, soon, she plans to have a YouTube channel to take videos of TriCity eateries and to interview business owners.

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“It’s growing really fast,” Gohar said, noting she now has six volunteers to moderate her digital sites.

Gohar, who grew up in Port Coquitlam and moved to New Westminster in January for work, said she pays for the meals herself and currently snaps food images using her iPhone.

Her aim is not to monetize the sites; rather, the goal

is to support “as many as restaurants as I can, especially during the pandemic when many business owners are struggling.”

She posts twice per week; however, the sites are also populated daily with members’ suggestions.

For Gohar, who works as a kinesiologist, her focus is more on healthy eating and nutrition.

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Mentorship program fuels her hockey dreams Jordan Baxter one of 21 young women selected from across Canada MARIO BARTEL mbartel@tricitynews.com

A unique mentorship program is adding fuel to a Coquitlam hockey player’s fire to take her game to the next level.

Jordan Baxter is one of 21 young women from across Canada chosen to participate in the first Scotia Rising Teammates initiative that pairs them with top female professional and national team players to learn and take inspiration from their journeys.

“I know how powerful it was for me to meet female hockey players and role models when I was younger,” said Canadian national team player, Natalie Spooner, one of the mentors.

The four-week program includes weekly virtual meet-ups with speakers like players and coaches, as well

Coquitlam hockey player Jordan Baxter is one of 21 young women from across Canada to receive a Scotia Rising Teammates award. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

as one-on-one Zoom calls with their mentor.

Baxter is paired with Sarah Nurse, who won a silver medal with Canada’s women’s team at the 2018 Winter Olympics and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Badgers’ hockey

program. She said their chats have been invaluable in showing her a path forward in the game.

“It’s just super helpful in every aspect of my hockey career,” said Baxter, who started playing in the TriCity Predators association 11

years ago and currently attends an academy program at North Delta secondary school where she plays U18 Prep.

Baxter said while she participated in other sports growing up, like soccer as well as field and box la-

crosse, hockey quickly came to the fore because of its tight-knit sense of community, especially in the female associations. She said because of the comparatively small numbers of young women who play competitively, everybody knows everybody and friendships are quickly formed, even with rivals.

“Everybody is connected,” she said. “They’re all as one in the hockey community.”

Baxter, a centre, said as she rose through the hockey ranks, she started to take her lead from other players she knows who compete at a high level, like Port Moody’s Jenna Buglioni, who’s played for Canada’s national junior team and just finished her freshman season at Ohio State University.

But connecting with some of female hockey’s stars has been inspirational.

Baxter said there was a lot of conversation with the mentors about leadership and the important role being a good person can have in becoming a better hockey player.

“It’s not your ability on

the ice that will get you to your goal,” she said. “You never know who could be watching.”

The mentorship program, which also includes a $1,000 donation to each participant’s team, is as much about keeping young women engaged in hockey as cultivating its next generation of stars. According to a study by the Aspen Institute, by the age of 14, girls drop out of sports at twice the rate of boys. The U.S.-based Sports and Society program cites factors like limited opportunities for scholarships, too few role models, as well as scheduling and equipment that favours boys as some of the factors responsible for the drop-off.

Baxter said she’s already eyeing college programs south of the border and she someday hopes to compete for Canada. She said her discussions with the mentors, as well as the connections she’s making with some of the program’s other participants, have shown her those goals are within reach.

“This is a big possibility,” she said.

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BECK - Carl Verner In loving memory of a dear father and grandfather who passed away April 15, 1985.

There’s a special kind of feeling when I think about you, Dad. It’s that place within my heart that only you can own.

Lovingly remembered by daughter Darlene and grandson Christopher.

In Loving Memory of Colin Lee Sabourin, November 21, 1971 April 18, 1988 Memory drifts to scenes long past, time rolls on but memories last.

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PROCTOR (NEE Rigby−Jones), Betty October 21, 1922 − April 7, 2021 It is with sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved mother, grandmother and great− grandmother, Betty Proctor. She will be missed by all of us and remembered with love for her kindness, grace, and wonderful sense of humour.

Betty was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on October 21, 1922, the youngest of three children. She moved to Vancouver in 1925 with her parents and older brothers, Art and Roy. She lived in the Dunbar area until marrying Bill (Ev) Proctor in 1953. They had three daughters and many happy years until Bill passed away in 2014. After Bill’s passing, Betty moved into the Astoria Retirement Residence in Port Coquitlam. She thoroughly enjoyed her time there, especially the knitting club, the book club, and Wii bowling.

Her family wishes to give their heartfelt thanks to the amazing staff and residents of Astoria. We would especially like to recognize the Manager of Wellness Gurgit Dhaliwal for his kindness and support.

Betty is survived by her daughters, Colleen (Dave), Brenda (Dan), and Barbara; grandchildren, Jenny (Josh), Brent (Sam), Colin, and Darren; great− grandchildren, Jaden and Rylan; as well as many nieces, nephews, other relatives, and numerous friends.

In Loving Memory of Kianna Maunder-Moreau

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There will be no service at Betty’s request, and flowers are gratefully declined. Donations in Betty’s name would be appreciated to the Eagle Ridge Hospital Foundation.

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