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They’re outin the cold

Betweenhomes:KateWatsonand heradoptivemother aresearchingfor a newhouse afterleavingtheirformerresidence,shownhere,in mid-Decemberdue toconcernsabouthealth andsafety.

TENANCY ISSUES

After having issues with their rentalhome in Burnaby, a mother and daugh-ter found themselves homeless during theholidays.

Kate Watson, 59, and her adoptive moth-er, Alexi Rainier, 76, first moved to NorthBurnaby in September, but after countlessissues with the house, the landlord and thepair mutually agreed the women wouldmove out on Dec. 16.

However, Watson, Rainier and their twopekingese dogs are having a tough timefinding a reasonable deal for a safe andclean house in an “overpriced market.”

“We could be much, much better forsure,” Watson told the NOW. “We’re ina real crisis right now. It has been, andcontinues to be, a devastating situation forus.”

The two women moved to the city fromWest Vancouver so Watson could start herown business, but with constant renova-tions happening to their rented house andhealth concerns – she was unable to do so.

“It’s a community issue, but really it goesbeyond that,” she said about her situation.“It raises a lot of stuff about tenancy andpeople with varying views on who’s fairlyrepresented and not fairly represented inthe way the Tenancy Act and the residentialtenancy board are put together.”

Watson said she never felt comfortableenough to unpack in the home because ofthe renovations.

She started to notice things going wrongwhen her mother’s already spotty health– she has mobility and asthmatic issues– began to deteriorate.

“Everybody wasn’t feeling well in thatplace,” she said, “myself and the animals.”

Watson said there were two bad experi-ences in particular during the nearly threemonths they lived there. One time, Watsonsaid she found black mould in her room

and reported it to the landlord.“We know the dangers of black mould,

as you’re breathing that in,” she said. “(Mymom’s) a Second World War survivor,originally from Holland, she suffered there.It just makes things worse.”

The landlord put bleach on the areaswhere the mould was when they weren’thome but did not ventilate the area, Watsonnoted, and when they returned home, the76-year-old lost consciousness and endedup in an emergency room.

The other time there was a problem, was

when the landlord turned on their heat andthe walls in the kitchen heated up, meltingfood in their cupboards. Watson said theyalways had the heat turned off, even dur-ing the coldest months of the year, becausewhenever it was on, there would be a burn-ing rubber smell.

“It’s been an ongoing saga,” she said.“We view it as a very sick house. It should’vebeen a tear-down.”

She also said the home had “suspect”wiring issues, as well.

Stefania Secciastaff reporter

Former KGB agent offered ticket to RussiaThe Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties

Association offered former Burnaby resi-dent Mikhail Lennikov a Christmas gift thisyear – a one-way ticket back Vladivostok,Russia.

The civil liberties organization does notwant Lennikov, a former KGB officer, inCanada.

Lennikov was ordered deported on June3, 2009, but on June 2, he took sanctuary inVancouver’s First Lutheran Church, wherehe has been living ever since.

“We don’t want KGB men in Canada,”

said Roman Zakaluzny, the association’schairman. “We don’t understand why theCBSA (Canadian Border Services Agency)has failed to do what it was ordered to domore than four years ago.”

The Ukrainian Canadian Civil LibertiesAssociation takes issue with the conceptof sanctuary, which is often used as a

last resort for asylum seekers who haveexhausted all legal options.

While sanctuary is not a legally enshrinedright, Canadian authorities have not goneinto the church to remove Lennikov andenforce his deportation order.

“There is no right of sanctuary. This man

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As we look upon the newyear with the same energyand ferocity as any, we

can’t help but reflect on whatmade 2013 exciting, inspirationaland downright newsworthy.

From the pipelines to plannedredevelopments, protests to treebylaw amendments, and sec-

ondary suites to a fake dentist– there’s no question that thenews in Burnaby during 2013kept us busy and on the edge ofour seats.

Last January, the year startedoff with a bang with announce-ments about the federal ridingssplitting up. The ethnic vote

scandal grounded in Burnabypoliticos led us to a surprisingB.C. election that dumbfoundedmany political analysts and ques-tioned our reliance on polls.

It felt as though not a monthwould go by without anothermajor redevelopment beingannounced, including a huge

facelift to come over the nextseveral years at the Brentwood,Lougheed and Metrotown malls.

At the heart of MetroVancouver, the city didn’t shyaway from national headlinesor getting to the bottom of thefrankenfish phenomenon.

Happy New Year, Burnaby.

JANUARYBurnaby resident Maurizio

Facchin voiced his concernsabout what he believed was alack of cleanliness at BurnabyHospital and Royal ColumbianHospital after his mother alleg-edly contracted more than oneinfection from those facilities,including pneumonia, a fungalinfection and edema.

The B.C. Electoral BoundariesCommission proposed split-ting Burnaby into three fed-eral ridings, meaning the NewDemocrats lose a seat to theConservatives.

The B.C. electoral boundar-ies commission was taskedwith re-drawing the ridingmaps and decided to split theminto the Burnaby South, NewWestminster-Burnaby andBurnaby North-Seymour. Despitewidespread opposition, the com-mission went ahead with thesplit.

FEBRUARYMore than 100 people were

left homeless immediately afteran early morning fire ravaged anapartment complex at 3526 SmithAve. It took firefighters two daysto put out fire hotspots.

A few weeks later, all thepeople who lost their homesfound either temporary or per-manent shelter through variouscity groups.

City council decided shark finsoup should stay on the menu,despite a presentation and dem-onstration outside city hall theprevious summer calling for ashark fin soup ban.

Staffers claimed a shark finban would be unenforceable dueto limited municipal powers onthe issue.

MARCHThe ethnic vote hit Burnaby

politics right in the eye. TheNDP started to raise ques-tions about formerBurnaby-LougheedMLA Harry Bloy’sinvolvement in aleaked strategy totarget the ethnicvote, a plan thatleft the Liberalsmired in contro-versy as the electionapproached. It waslater discovered that Burnabyresident Brian Bonney was alsonamed multiple times in a review

into the controversy that plaguedthe Liberals until the election.

Burnaby-Edmonds MLARaj Chouhan was upset

over an empty B.C.Housing lot that he

said the provincialgovernment is sell-ing as part of theplan to balance thebudget. The lot wasnearly 19,000 squarefeet, and at the cor-

ner of 18th Avenueand Sixth Street. Mayor

Derek Corrigan took the issueto the then housing ministerRich Coleman after the city had

rezoned the lot to allow for socialhousing, but the province wastrying to sell the property $2 mil-lion.

APRILRoughly 100 people blocked

the gates of Chevron’s Burnabyrefinery in early April, protest-ing the Pacific Trail Pipeline, anatural gas pipeline that Chevronand the Apache Corporationwere planning to build in north-ern B.C. The protest had a circustheme, but Chevron did not findthe protest entertaining.

Looking back at the year that was

Politics, health care in headlines

In the spotlight: Jim Dobbs, director of operations at the Michael J. Fox Theatre, spoke with the NOWin January as the theatre got ready to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The 613-seat venue first openedin 1993 as part of the newly constructed Burnaby South Secondary School. Its 20th anniversary seasonincluded many special performances, including a Cantonese opera series.

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“The costs are just horrific and escalat-ing. We don’t know how we’ll handle allof this,” she said. “The financial conflictis extreme.”

Watson said they have found onepotential place in another city but saidshe has issues with its state, as well.

“We reached a point wherewe said, ‘We have to get outof here,’” she added. “I don’tknow how we ended up inthis situation. Our trucks areon the street; two five-ton andone smaller truck. The cost iscreeping up to $2,500.”

Watson’s former landlordsays he did all that he couldto make his tenants happy.

Bill Steemson said anyproblem his tenants broughtup to him since September,he fixed. He says he has takena financial loss too becausetwo out of the three monthsthey lived in his home helet them pay only half of the$2,600 monthly rent.

“I have sympathy for them and theirproblems,” he said. “I did as much as Icould with any issues they raised, but Ican only do so much.”

For the last 35 years, Steemson hasowned property and rented it out, buthe’s never had two tenants cause him somuch trouble, he told the NOW.

He lives next door to the Burnabyrental property and has owned it for thelast five months. He also owns a rentalhome in Vancouver.

“We had a brand new gas furnace putin,” he said. “After they said that theyhad seen a mouse come from under thefront door, we replaced the front door,and put quarter inch mesh screeningover top all the vents.”

He said Watson and her mother sealedthe vents over with filters, which is whythe walls heated up because the hot airhad nowhere to go.

The black mould that Watson claimed

was there, he said didn’t look like mouldbut black soot. He said the chlorinebleach he poured over it would fix anymould that was there, but it was unfor-tunate that it sent the 76-year-old to thehospital.

Steemson noted when the fire depart-ment checked the electric wiring they said

the electric breakers were ingood enough condition, butan electrician should checkthem over. When his electri-cian did look over the wiringin the house, there wasn’ta problem, according toSteemson.

“I hope they find a homethat’s better for their health,and does suit their needs,”he said. “Wherever theygo, they’ll hopefully be alot happier than they werehere.”

Tom Durning, spokes-person for the advocacygroup Tenant Resource andAdvisory Centre, said youshould never move into a

place in haste.“The landlord has to do an inspection

report with you. They have to initiate itand both parties sign it under the resi-dential tenancy law,” he told the NOW.“Look at a place before you take it,” hesaid. “Say, ‘Look, it’s (the landlord’s)duty to do an inspection report with metogether, do a checklist and go over thecondition of the house.’ If they balk atthat, you know something is afoot.”

Durning noted if a deal seems toogood to be true, it probably is.

He also said there are many resourcesonline for renters to learn more abouttheir rights and the best practices whenfinding an affordable place to live.

For more information, go to www.ten-ants.bc.ca or www.rto.gov.bc.ca.

The City of Burnaby’s inspection officedid not comment in time for the BurnabyNOW’s press deadline.

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had no right to enter Canada. He has noright to be here. He is not a refugee. He wastold so by the Immigration and RefugeeBoard of Canada,” Zakaluzny added. “Hehas shown no remorse for having beenan agent of Soviet repression. There arehundreds of thousands of genuine refu-gees whom this country could be helpingso why would we want to let him stay?UCCLA will pay for him to leave. He canbe back in his home country by Christmasand even catch the Sochi Games.”

Neither Lennikov nor the church’s newpastor, Lori-Anne Boutin-Crawford, wereavailable for comment, but in the past,Lennikov has told the NOW that the situa-tion has been hard on him and his family.His wife and son have been allowed tostay in the country on humanitarian andcompassionate grounds, and the two havestayed with Lennikov in the church overthe years. The family’s plight has garneredmedia attention from across Canada.

While Lennikov has many supporterswho are arguing for him to stay, includingBurnaby MP Peter Julian, the UkrainianCanadian Civil Liberties Association hascontinually called for his removal.

Lennikov came to Canada on a studentvisa in 1997. Under Canadian immigra-tion law, anyone who was a member of anorganization that spied on a democraticgovernment is not allowed to stay in thecountry, unless the public safety ministerdeems they are not detrimental to nationalsecurity.

Lennikov was a KGB officer in the 1980sand has said he is no threat to Canadian

security. Lennikov mostly worked as atranslator and was a lieutenant in a sec-tion of an office responsible for monitoringJapanese businessmen visiting Russia. Hehas described himself as a reluctant recruit.

“I was dragged into this organization, Iwas looking for a way out, and I found itin five years,” Lennikov told the NOW in2009.

Campaign: A postcard from theUkrainian Canadian Civil LibertiesAssociation, which wants to sendMikhail Lennikov back to Russia.

Lennikov: Still living inchurch to avoid deportation

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Tenants: Landlord says hedealt with the complaints


“I hope they finda home that’sbetter for theirhealth, and doessuit their needsWherever they go,they’ll hopefullybe a lot happierthan they werehere..”BILL STEEMSONlandlord

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A well-known figure from oneof Burnaby’s pioneer familiespassed away recently.

William Alastair Moore, morecommonly known as “Dinty,”died on Dec. 16 at age 92.

Moore was the second-young-est child of Montague Moore andHarriet Hutchings, who lived inthe Hart House mansion at DeerLake with their seven children.

Moore was a widely knowncharacter at Deer Lake anda founding member of theDogwood Canoe and KayakClub.

As previously reported in

the Burnaby NOW, Moore had ahome on the south side of DeerLake, which was sold to the cityin the 1990s, when the park wasexpanding.

Harry Pride, a local historianand former parks board mem-ber, authored a book about theMoore family in 2002.

“He was a great outdoors-man (and) a great salesman, whobuilt these very fine canoes,”Pride told the NOW. “He was anextrovert, very modest, alwayshad a smile on his face (and)wasn’t afraid to try things out.”

According to Pride, Mooretaught others about canoeingand safety on the water and wasalways on the watch to protect

the environment.“He was really well-known

and well-liked,” Pride said.The family was also known

for holding social events, headded.

“During the war, they enter-tained soldiers. Lots of soldierswere away from home. TheMoores had parties for them andwould welcome them, and Dintywas part of that,” Pride said.

Moore was the longest livingof his six siblings. He is survivedby his four daughters – Anne,Kathy, Tish and Lin – and heleaves behind many grandchil-dren and great-grandchildren.His wife, Joan Sievenpiper,passed away in 2012. Moore

used to paddle across the lake toJoan’s home, while he was court-ing her.

In the new year, the familywill host a private celebration inMoore’s memory.

Dinty Moore, son of Deer Lake pioneers, diesGone:William“Dinty”Moorein anarchivalBurnabyNOWphoto-graphfrom 1995.


Burnaby firefighters investigating Christmas blazeFirefighters continued

to comb through evidencedays after a fire causedmajor smoke damage to aseniors’ home in Burnabyon Christmas morning.

Residents of a 24-unitapartment building in the6000-block of Pandora

Street were awoken shortlyafter 8 a.m. on Dec. 25 byfirefighters responding to atwo-alarm blaze in one ofthe units.

AccordingtotheBurnabyFire Department, the firewas contained to one unitbut there was considerablesmoke damage to the rest ofthe building.

The building, operated

by B.C. Housing, is hometo seniors and people withdisabilities. All the residentswere evacuated on Dec. 25and were expected to stayin a hotel for at least 72hours as fire investigatorssearched for the cause ofthe blaze.

“They won’t be goingback any time in the nearfuture,” assistant fire chief

Scott Wren told The Province.“With the amount of smokein the suites, health-wise,we just can’t let them backin now.”

Despite the damage tothe building, only three peo-ple suffered smoke inhala-tion, and of them, only twowere taken to hospital as aprecaution, according to fireofficials.

Wren said it was toughseeing people evacu-ated from their homes onChristmas morning, eventhough no one was serious-ly injured.

“It’s always horrible, butit’stenfoldwhenit’sthistimeof year,” he added. “The factthat it was Christmas morn-ing was crummy.”

Investigators were

expected to have moreinformation on the causeof the fire after NOW pressdeadlines.

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2013: The Year in Cartoons

Rice says:Clockwisefrom top left,Ingrid Ricetook aim atthe federalsciencecontroversyin February,the B.C.election inApril, RobFord inMay, B.C.Conservativeleader JohnCumminsin July andStephenHarper inAugust.

From the local to thenational, there aren’t manyheadlines that elude the eagleeye of cartoonist Ingrid Rice.

Rice (shown in a self-por-trait at right) is responsiblefor the cartoons that grace oureditorial pages throughoutthe year. She began her careerin 1992, freelancing to TheVancouver Sun, and startedto syndicate her work across

Canada in 1994.In celebration of the year

past, we’ve chosen a few ofour favourite images from2013 to pay tribute to herwork.

Some are pointed. Someare poignant. Some are down-right funny. All of them willmake you think – and that’sexactly what they’re meantto do.

Through Ingrid’s eyes

As she sawit:

Ingrid Ricetook aim at

the B.C. NDPin September

(above) andadded her

voice to thegrowing

controversyover coal inOctober, at

right.

Formorecartoons,scan withLayar

Showing herheart:Ingrid Rice tooka turn for thepoignant forRemembranceDay in November(above) and thedeath of NelsonMandela inDecember.


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The city’s secondary suiteprogram plans were unveiledand open for public consulta-tion. Burnaby is one of the lastin the Lower Mainland to enactsuch a program. A city reportshowed that 5,878 unauthorizedsecondary suites were operatingin Burnaby. In the end, councilapproved staff to go ahead andmake administrative changes tothe city’s permit, licence and feesystems around the program. Itsimplementation will span over afew phases but will likely be fullthrottle in early 2014.

MAYThe 2013 provin-

cial election washotly contested inBurnaby. In a virtualreplay of the 2009provincial election,the city’s four rid-ings were among thelast in B.C. to be called,with the NDP and Liberalcandidates in Burnaby-Lougheedand Burnaby-North swappinglead position by just fractions ofa percentage point throughoutthe vote tally. Despite her resumebrouhaha and racial remark,NDP candidate Jane Shin tookthe Burnaby-Lougheed riding.Otherwise not much changedfrom the previous election in theother ridings. Although Burnabywent to the NDP, the rest of theprovince took a surprising shiftand put the Liberals back inpower.

The Burnaby school districtsent out layoff notices to teach-ers in the district despite publiclyapproving a budget that didn’tinclude any actual staffing lay-offs. The Burnaby Teachers’Association rang the alarm, andits president James Sanyshyn said75 full-time teachers were givenlayoff notices.

JUNEBurnaby announced changes

to the city’s tree bylaw that wereup for public input. The amend-ments aimed to give the bylawmore bark by strengthening feesand sizes, which is what treeadvocates in Burnaby had calledfor through previous presenta-tions to council two years prior.By the end of the year, councilhad passed the amendmentsdespite local criticism calling thechanges draconian. The bylawchanges will come into effect inthe new year, which also wor-ried advocates that a tree cull willoccur for those trying to avoidthe steep fees when the bylawchanges come into effect in 2014.

The Metropolis atMetrotown Sears

revealed majorlong-term plansfor its 8.9-acre sitethrough a rezon-ing application tocity hall. It aimsfor a dramatic

transformation withfive mixed-use, high

density residential towers ona podium of commercial-retailspace and two office towers inthe proposal. The preliminaryconceptual master plan consistsof a new flagship departmentstore for Sears and public realmimprovements, as well as internalplazas.

JULYThe much-awaited $40-mil-

lion, 90,000-square-foot EdmondsCommunity Centre openedon Canada Day. Mayor DerekCorrigan heralded the new centreas an economic and social genera-tor. Council said the centre cre-ated the equivalent of 53 full-timeemployment positions, whichequated to jobs for about 140people.

A group of Burnaby seniorsexpressed their concerns aboutthe provincial government’s planto charge user fees for wheel-chairs in residential care homes.Voices of Burnaby Seniors wrote

to the Fraser Health Authorityand Health Minister Terry Lake,asking to scrap the fees and ade-quately fund the health-care sys-tem. In response to public outcry,almost all of the health authori-ties in the province decided topostpone charging the fee untilthe province underwent a review.However, Fraser Health is theonly authority that did not waitto start charging the fee, despitea province review most likely notculminating until some time in2014.

AUGUSTTransLink was caught spend-

ing an extra $1.2 million a yearon leases it wasn’t utilizing. In aneffort to consolidate three headoffices into one to save money,TransLink moved former officesin New Westminster, Burnabyand Surrey to its new location inSapperton earlier in the summer.However, it was spending moneyon leases it could not get out offor several more years.

Burnaby’s renegade dentisthad a Canada-wide search war-rant issued for him as he did notshow up to any legal proceed-ings regarding him breachinga 2003 order prohibiting himfrom practising dentistry. TungSheng (David) Wu’s former 1,400patients were told to get testedfor several serious diseases. Themanhunt was cut short whenWu turned himself in to Torontopolice. He returned to carry outhis three-month jail sentence.

SEPTEMBERThe first half of the animal

control bylaw came forward fromthe City of Burnaby, looking tostrengthen breed-specific legisla-

tion in regards to keeping pitbulls muzzled. Animal advocatesrooting for pit bulls came out indroves, calling the staff reportuninformed and biased againstthe breed. In the end, councilagreed with staff and passed thefirst half of amendments.

Brentwood Town Centre’sconceptual master plan got thefinal stamp of approval fromcouncil. City council adoptedthe Shape Properties proposalto develop a multi-phased,mixed-use, highrise apartmentand office redevelopment, with

ground-oriented townhousesand street-fronting commercialuses at the Brentwood mall site.The first phase of the mall’sredevelopment concerning thearea between the SkyTrain andthe mall is currently making therounds at city hall.

OCTOBERWhen 16 Greenpeace activ-

ists made it onto Kinder Morganproperty at the Westridge MarineTerminal to protest the

Year in Review: Trees, animals hit the headlinescontinued from page 3

Burnaby’s favourite festival: Falun Dafa members greet revelersalong the Hats Off Day parade route in the Heights in June.

Faces of 2013: Animal issues dominated the headlines in Burnaby all year long. In July, Burnabyresident Kat Chapman led the charge against Pet Habitat, a Metrotown pet store that sells puppiesand kittens. There was a Facebook group and petition, calling on the store to stop selling animals.Below, Sarah McPherson, aged 20 months, became the NOW’s cover girl in October. Sarah wasintroduced to readers during a special feature, Baby Steps, looking at what early exposure to musicand dance do for babies and toddlers.


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An animal rights grouphas a simple solution forB.C. Hydro’s beaver prob-lem: wire mesh.

Burnaby had three poweroutages in the Burnaby Lakearea in November, and bea-vers appear to be the cul-prit. The most recent outagelasted about eight hours butonly affected 30 B.C. Hydrocustomers, mostly busi-nesses.

“Obviously, beaversare doing what beaversdo, chopping down trees,and they are falling on thepower lines,” said AdrianNelson, communicationsdirector for the Associationfor the Protection of FurBearing Animals.

Nelson said there is a“very large” beaver popu-lation at Burnaby Lake,and his solution is to wrapthe base of trees close tothe power lines with wiremesh.

“That’s enough to stopthem from chewing throughit,” Nelson said. “It’s quitesimple: If you don’t wantbeavers chewing downtrees, you don’t let themaround the tree.”

Nelson is not suggestingthat every tree in the forestbe wrapped – just the onesthat are close to the powerlines, and he said his asso-ciation is willing to do it.

“The Fur Bearers aremore than happy to wrapthe trees. We help a lot ofmunicipalities with beaverissues,” he said. “We canbring out a crew of volun-teers and wrap up sometrees.”

While some cities trapand kill nuisance beavers,Nelson said Burnaby hasdone a good job of usingalternatives.

“Burnaby has been veryproactive, and I do have togive them credit for that.They don’t trap and kill,”he said.

The area where the bea-vers are bringing downtrees and knocking outpower is to the west of thelake, close to the BurnabyLake Sports Complex. TheCity of Burnaby is responsi-ble for overseeing the greenspace west of Burnaby LakePark, but no one from thecity was available for com-ment.

Alan Taylor, a Metro

Vancouver supervi-sor who’s responsible forBurnaby Lake park, wasn’taware of the recent beaverand power line problem,

but he said his staff alreadywrap trees.

“We will wrap trees totry to keep them out ofthe area, and it’s basically

monitoring, because whenthey can’t get into an area,they’ll try to move to anoth-er area,” he said.

Taylor welcomed

Nelson’s offer to help wraptrees.

“Sure,” he said, with alaugh. “Generally you don’thunt and trap beavers, if

you take a pair of beaverout of the area, you’re goingto have another set movein,” he said, adding they areterritorial.

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Burnaby’s Wildlife RescueAssociation is caring for a loon thatwas flown by plane to the LowerMainland after a dramatic rescue inthe Interior of B.C.

“It has been making loon sounds inthe care center, which is really weird,but it’s nice to hear,” said YolandaBrooks, spokesperson for the associa-tion, which rehabilitates injured andorphaned wildlife.

The common loon arrived onWednesday, Dec. 18, via PacificCoastal Airlines, which flies injuredwildlife for free.

According to the Williams LakeTribune, rescuers were brought in tosave two young loons trapped by icespreading on the surface of the lake.Brooks said the ice was encroachingon the centre of the lake, and thebirds, which spend most of their liveson water, didn’t have any space totake off for flight.

“They kind of got left behind as theflocks took off for warmer waters,”she said.

Only one loon was brought to theassociation, and it’s not clear whathappened to the second. Brooks saidthe rescued bird had a puncturewound on its neck, and staff surgi-cally removed a mass of “necrotic” ordead tissue.

The loon is now recovering andappears to be in good shape.

“We have very good facilities for

water birds,” Brooks said. “Theyrequire specific treatment. Loonsspend all their time on water; theycan’t walk on land. Their feet can bedamaged if they are out of water fortoo long.”

In fact, the association had to putlittle “booties” on the bird, to makesure its feet were protected whileinside the centre.

“They can walk on land, but itdamages their feet. They spend theirlives in water,” Brooks said.

The association first put the loonin an indoor pool, but it wasn’t doing

very well.“Then we put it outside and it was

much happier,” Brooks said. “Whileit’s still very stressed out, it’s swim-ming and diving, and that’s a verygood sign.”

If the loon survives and recovers,the association will release the birdon the coast.

The association, which has special-ized quarters for recovering wildlife,receives animals from all over theprovince when local facilities are notcapable of caring for them.

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The Burnaby school district had to step in and quellrumours swirling at Burnaby North Secondary aftersome death threat graffiti was found on a bathroomstall in December.

The graffiti was discovered on Dec. 3, and RCMPwere notified the following day, according to schooldistrict superintendent Kevin Kaardal.

Kaardal could not say exactly what the graffiti said,as it’s now a police matter, but the person who wrote itwas found and is receiving help.

But that didn’t stop the rumours from circulating,and on Friday, Dec. 13, the district sent a letter home toparents, explaining what had happened. According toKaardal, the rumours were inaccurate, and the districtletter indicated that steps were taken to ensure stu-dents’ safety and that the person who wrote the threatswas found and receiving help.

The following Monday, some kids chose not tocome to school, likely accounting for a dip in overallattendance.

“It was a non-specific threat, and it was more aboutself-harm than anything else. To make a long storyshort, those rumours took on a life of their own, wefelt we needed to issue a letter to allay fears,” Kaardalsaid. “And on Monday, of course some kids chose notto come.

“Generally when you have non-specific threats, it’snot an issue, it’s really just a cry for help from a stu-dent,” Kaardal added.

Const. Yvonne Javorovic, the school liaison officerfor Burnaby North, was only able to offer limited infor-mation as the matter is still ongoing.

“The individual was identified, and he is receivingthe help he needs from our partners and agencies in thecommunity,” she said, adding that she couldn’t specifywhat the graffiti said. “We take all threats seriously.Our main priority is the students are safe at school.”

Javorovic couldn’t say whether police would recom-mend charges.

– By Jennifer Moreau, staff reporter

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In recovery: This common loon was trapped by ice on a lake surfacein the Interior of B.C. and then flown to the Lower Mainland, by PacificCoastal Airlines, which transports injured wildlife for free.

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proposed twinning of the TransMountain pipeline, the oil com-pany’s reaction was to launchan investigation into its security.Mayor Derek Corrigan said heexpects more pipeline-relatedprotests to happen as peoplefeel the result of not having theirvoices heard. He also said thelack of sufficient on-site securityhas always troubled council.

The second half of the animalcontrol bylaw caught the ire ofanimal advocates once again.City staff recommended a ban onturtle sales, but continue the saleof puppies, kittens and sterilizedrabbits. The debate ended withboth sides, animal and pet store

advocates, protesting the other– but council supported the staffrecommendations in the end.

NOVEMBERA spill in a salmon

spawning creek raisedthe ire of environmen-tal activists and the cityafter a local residentraised concerns aboutdumping waste downdrainpipes. Still Creekruns from East Vancouver toBurnaby Lake and was once oneof the most polluted waterwaysin the Lower Mainland. Salmonstarted to return in recent yearsafter a lot of hard work doneby locals to clean the waterway.

The city launched an investiga-tion after a mysterious whitesubstance was found murkingup the water where salmon werespawning.

Scientists revealed newdetails on the notorious

Burnaby “frankenfish.”The autopsy results camein, and biologists hadnew information on thesnakehead fish that was

captured in a Burnabypond in 2012. It turns out

the snakehead had been in theCentral Park pond between 33to 93 days and had eaten othernon-native species such as carp,goldfish, minnows, catfish andcrayfish.

DECEMBERAfter talking about it for what

seemed like forever, oil and gasgiant Kinder Morgan finally filedan application with the NationalEnergy Board for a $5.4 billionplan to nearly triple pipelinecapacity, expand the BurnabyMountain tank storage facil-ity and increase the number ofberths at the Westridge MarineTerminal.

The board has 15 monthsto decide if the project is inCanada’s best interest and moveforward. Local MP KennedyStewart said now’s the time forthe public to get involved andhave their two cents heard.

Flying right under the radar

for the year, two major redevel-opments came forward. Moreredevelopment plans werereleased for the proposed changesto the Value Village site inEdmonds, including three high-rise residential towers, an officebuilding, a two-storey retail podi-um and underground parking.

As well, a preliminary con-cept plan came forward in a staffreport, which would seek tocompletely transform LougheedTown Centre into the “publicheart” of the community.

The proposed concept wouldsee the Lougheed mall areabecome a multi-purpose, multi-phased, mixed-use redevelop-ment that is cyclist friendly witha transit- and pedestrian-friendlyfocus.

12 Heard’s retirement 13 Canada Games gold

SECTION COORDINATOR Jennifer Moreau, 604-444-3021 [email protected]

12 2013 review in sports

Once upon a verylong time ago, ifyou’d asked the

18-year-old me why I washeading off to journalismschool, I’d undoubtedlyhave told you that I wantedto make a difference.

I entered the careerbelieving that journalismwas one of those profes-sions that allow you to dothat, in however small away: to make a differenceand to help effect change inpeople’s lives.

I still believe that.But what I spend more

time thinking about, the

older I get, is not howmuch of a difference I havemade as a journalist – buthow much of a differencebeing a journalist has madeto me.

Every year around thistime, I find myself lookingback on the year that hasbeen and on the number ofpeople who have allowedme into their lives. Everyyear, I continue to marvelat the way in which peopleopen up their homes, theirhearts and their souls to telltheir stories to a stranger inthe hopes that those storieswill make a difference tosomeone else.

What I don’t take thetime to do, as often as Ishould, is to let those peo-ple know that their storiesdid make a difference – tothe readers out there and,in a very personal way, tome.

Every time I meet with

someone brimming overwith enthusiasm about anew artistic venture, I’mreminded of the value ofcreativity in my life.

Every time I talk to ayoung person who’s set-ting off down a path as adancer, a singer, an artist,I’m reminded of the impor-tance of pursuing my per-sonal passions.

Every time I interviewsomeone who’s done it,who’s making a livingdoing what they love, I’mreminded of the ways inwhich what we do for a liv-ing shapes who we are ashuman beings.

And I’m reminded, overand over again, of howincredibly important it isfor the world to be full ofthe people I meet in mycapacity as arts reporter– the creative, the deter-mined, the passionate, theoriginal, the talented, the

sometimes just-a-little-out-there people who infuse theworld with art and soul.

This year, I want toextend my personal thanksto some of those peoplewhose paths have crossedmine this year.

There were the fam-ily acts: Angela Louieand India Eliot Oates,the mother-daughterteam who wrote andillustrated The PossibilityTree; and Amanda andLucas Testini, the siblingduo in Carousel Theatre’sSeussical.

There were the talentedteens from DanzModewho made a splash at WestCoast Dance Explosionnational finals in Las Vegas– Kristina Akester, RachaelWithers and NicholasVentura.

There were the youngsinger-songwriters work-ing to break into the musicbusiness, adding positiveattitudes and amazingenergy to their alreadyabundant natural talent– Luca Fogale and MeganTwist.

There was KevinTakahide Lee, whom I metfor coffee in the expecta-tion of a simple interviewabout a new, multigenera-tional choir starting up inBurnaby – and with whomI had a most fascinatingconversation about culture,reconciliation and how onefamily’s past influences itsfuture.

There were the delight-ful women I spoke to in thecourse of a special reportabout babies, toddlers andthe arts – Marcia Jones,Kera Doherty, VashtiFairbairn, Jessica Hanson

– who are all helping toinstill a love of dance andmusic in the very youngestmembers of our commu-nity.

Each and every oneof you, in various ways,shared something thattouched me, that enter-tained me, that made mestop and think and smile.Each and every one of youreminded me just howmuch difference one pas-sionate person can makein the world – and howimportant it is to keep thearts alive.

On behalf of the read-ers of this newspaper, andfrom the very bottom of myown heart, I have a simplemessage: Thank you.

Thank you for daring tobe the kind of people whomake a difference in theworld – and who make mydesk here in the newsrooma place I love to come.

Happy holidays andthe warmest of new year’sblessings to all of you.

Julie MacLellan is the artsreporter and assistant editorfor the Burnaby NOW news-paper.

Looking back at the year in the arts

LIVELY CITYJulie MacLellan

Rising stars: Siblings Amanda and Lucas Testini areonstage together in Seussical.


On the rise:Singer-

songwriterLuca

Fogale waschosen forthe PEAK

PerformanceProject in

2013. Fogalegrew upin NorthBurnaby,where he

still lives .


Year End: Major Burnaby redevelopments make headlines in Decembercontinued from page 8



13 Pool record at nationals 13 Two NCAA 800m titles 13 Golfing sibs win B.C.s

SECTION COORDINATOR Tom Berridge, 604-444-3022 • [email protected]

The natural: Riley Loewen went from being a box lacrosse player to one of Limestone College’s all-timefield greats in his four-year university career.


NOW 2013 inspired story of yearA goal-scorer will find a way to

score regardless of the sport.Nothing proved more true than

Riley Loewen’s four-year fieldlacrosse career at Limestone Collegein South Carolina.

Loewen, who had played justone season at the field game beforeaccepting a scholarship to theNCAA Division program, becamethe school’s all-time leading scorerand finished just four points shortof Devon Spilker’s career 273 total

points.The crafty lefthander shattered

Nick Carlson’s career goal-scoringrecord of 159 markers.

He ended his tenure at Limestonewith 184 goals and 85 assists.

His total goals at Limestone rankhim fifth best all-time in the countryin NCAA Div. II lacrosse, while histotal points are also top-10 careernumbers.

Loewen currently holds or shares11 other career, single season orsingle game records at Limestone,including all-time shots on goal,man-up goals and games played.

Loewen was twice named play-er of the year in the ConferenceCarolinas.

In his final season at Limestone,Loewen scored three goals andadded one assist in an 18-17 over-time loss to unbeaten No. 1-rankedMercyhurst in the semifinal of theNCAA championships.

“I wanted to bring a nationalchampionship to the program. Thatwas my goal,” said Loewen after thegame.

“All the seniors, we left every-thing out there. We’re proud of thefour years we had.”

Tom Berridgesports editor

Summertimeand the winningwas easy in Bby.June:

Burnaby South’s AhmadNazamani won the goldmedal in long jump at theB.C. high school track andfield championships inLangley.

STM grad KeynanParker was signed with theB.C. Lions as a defensiveback.

Alex Francois won thetwo-day Gold Cupinterclub cham-pionship atShaughnessyGolf andC o u n t r yClub.

B u r n a b yK a r a t eAcademy won12 divisional titlesat the Karate B.C. provin-cial championships.

Burnaby Lake’s JimDixon was named headcoach of the B.C. seniormen’s provincial rugbyteam.

Michael Valiante drovethe 8Star Motorsports’Corvette to its first-everpodium finish in Rolexsports car series with asecond-place finish at Mid-Ohio.

Columbus FC wasinducted into the CanadianSoccer Hall of Fame.

Curtis Moss placed sec-ond in the javelin at theCanadian track and fieldchampionships.

The junior A BurnabyLakers let go head coachMike O’Reilly.

Alex Calbick led theWest Coast summer base-ball league in hitting with a.384 batting average.

Mountain FC’s under-13girls soccer team won itsfirst Premier Cup provin-cial championship.

July:Sabrina Porreca led

Simon Fraser Aquatics withthree gold medals and sixpodium appearances at theB.C. AA long course swim

championships in Victoria.

Curtis Moss won themen’s javelin with a throwof 76.86 metres at the HarryJerome Track Classic atSwangard Stadium.

Coquitlam defeated thetwo-time defending Tier1 novice all-star lacrossechampion Oakville Hawks10-5 at the 28th annual JackCrosby Memorial.

The u-14 and u-16Burnaby Selects

both won goldmedals at theB.C. Soccer Ap r o v i n c i a l sin Langley.The u-16 teamearned a rareq u a d r u p l e ,

taking the fair-play award, as

well as earlier leagueand Coast Cup titles.

Ron Crosato was nomi-nated to the CanadianLacrosse Hall of Fame as abuilder.

Marco Sherwood scoredthe game-winning goal forWestminster United in theu-15 provincial B Cup inPrince George.

Top seed Nick Couttswon the men’s BurnabyOpen tennis title. UnseededTrudie Du Toit won thefemale singles title.

STM’s Kevin Vigna lostin a three-way playoff at theB.C. junior boys’ golf cham-pionships in Revelstoke.

Overall Superweekomnium champion FlorenzKnauer of Germany wonthe Giro di Burnaby. DeniseRamsden of Vancouverwon the women’s crite-rium.

SFU’s Stacie Anaka wona silver medal in wres-tling at the World StudentGames in Russia.

Sidney Roy was namedthe MVP at the B.C. pro-vincial girls’ box lacrossechampionships.

Adam Turrin, MatteoTriggiano and DemariusHenderson helped a B.C.under-16 team to the Red

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July

Heard’s 9 retiredFormer longtime Burnaby Lakers great Russ Heard

had his No. 9 jersey retired in a formal ceremony beforea Western Lacrosse Association league game at the BillCopeland Sports Centre on July 5.

Heard led the Lakers to a WLA championship final thatended in a Game 7 overtime loss to the Coquitlam Adanacsin 1993.

Along the way, the 6-4 righthander set a playoff record,scoring the fourth-, fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-fastest goalsever in a seven-game semifinal win over New Westminster.In the game, he also rewrote the record book with six goalsin one playoff period.

Heard ended his 13-year senior A career 10th in all-timeassists in regular season play, while his 1,021 career points isamong the top-20 best players.

He was named the WLA’s league MVP on two occasionsand led the league in scoring in three separate seasons.Heard was also a seven-time all-star.

“It’s a great honour. When you play, you don’t thinkabout those things, but when it happens it’s great. It’s nice of(Burnaby) to do that,” said Heard.

[email protected] Great One: Burnaby Lakers Russ Heardhad his No. 9 jersey retired in July.


July: SFU runner ends storied career on the trackRiver Cup in WesternCanadian football.

Cariboo Hill’s StefanMilosevic set a new pro-vincial 15/17 boys’ recordin the 100-metre freestyleat the Canadian summernationals. He also won goldin the men’s 200m free.

The A2 Burnaby Lakerswon a bronze medal at the

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provin-cials.

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and Alex Marello wereboth named to the PacificCoast Soccer League’s pre-mier men’s team.

B.C. won both themidget and junior girls’box lacrosse gold medalsat the national champion-ships in Halifax.

Vancouver Cannonscatcher Nick Favaro wasnamed to the PremierBaseball League second all-star team.

Amar Dhesi was namedthe Burnaby NOW highschool athlete of the year.

The Burnaby Oakeyswon the Softball B.C. midg-et B provincial champion-ship in Victoria.

Michael Valiante signedwith 8Star Motorsports forthe remainder of the RolexGrand-Am Series DaytonaProtype sports car season.

B.C. placed secondat the Canadian SoccerAssociation national all-starchampionships in Quebec.

Burnaby Striders ZionCorrales-Nelson won goldin the 100-, 200- and 300-metre sprints at the B.C.Athletics championships inKamloops.

Grand Rapid Griffinsforward Landon Ferarrobrought the Calder Cup tothe Burnaby Winter Club.

Tyler McNeely signed apro hockey contract withDiv. II Starbulls Rosenheimof Germany.

August:Kamila Wojceichowski

was named the BurnabyNOW high school femaleathlete of the year.

Burnaby Minor Baseballwon both the 11-and-undermosquito division and theu-13 AA peewee age group

at the provincial champi-onships.

Four Burnaby baseballplayers helped the NorthShore Twins win a first-ever B.C. junior premierprovincial title.

Anthony Cusati andNick Favaro shared a gold

medal on B.C.’s men’s base-ball team at the CanadaSummer Games.

Seina Kashima scoredthe game-winning goldin B.C.’s women’s soccergold medal at the CanadaSummer Games.

Kimberly Newell was

chosen to the nationalwomen’s hockey programthree-game series.

Rory McDade wasnamed the WLA coach ofthe year. Justin Salt wonthe unsung hero award.

Keegan Fedorko scoredthe gold-medal-winninggoal for Team B.C. at theu-17 Canadian ball hockeychampionships.

The Burnaby MountainMantas placed fifth at theB.C. Summer Swimmingchampionships.

Alex and Sumie Francoiswon their respective titlesat the B.C. juvenile golfchampionships.

Burnaby Lake RugbyClub won the men’s andwomen’s B.C. Seven Seriesfor a third straight season.

Gary Leung won fourgold medals at the B.C.Senior Games.

The Burnaby MinorBraves won a first-ever AApeewee Western Canadianbaseball title.

September:NicoleOrfordofBurnaby

and Thomas Williams wona bronze medal in ice danceat the U.S. InternationalFigure Skating Classic.

Madeline Edwards andZhao Kai Pang of Burnabyplaced second in ice danceat a ISU junior Grand Prixevent in Mexico.

SFU played UBC in theannual University HockeyClassic.

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Creme of the Croft: Helen Crofts ended heruniversity career with a second NCAA Division IInational title at 800 metres. The indoor and outdoorchampion also won Great Northwest conference titlesin the 400m and 1,500m, while also earning theconference co-athlete and scholar athlete of the year.


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