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Stalemate in teachers’ dispute keeps doors shutPrivateschool:MaribethAcostadrops herdaughtersChelseaandCharyz offfor theirfirst day ofschool atOur Ladyof Mercy.

Sun shines on Matsuri festAn estimated 11,000 people came out to Burnaby’s NikkeiCentre to celebrate Matsuri on Saturday and Sunday. Theannual festival showcased Japanese culture, children’s games,dancing and food.At left, people perform the bon-odori, a traditional Japanesedance, while Kazushi Terakawa, below, cooks up Japanesehotcakes.

Nearly 3,000 Burnaby private schoolstudents strapped on backpacks for thefirst day of school Tuesday while theirpublic school counterparts headed off todaycares and other non-school activities.

Public school teachers were back on thepicket lines this week after talks betweenthe B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the B.C.Public School Employers’ Associationbroke down over the weekend.

Burnaby school district officials held off

until Monday morning before announc-ing schools wouldn’t be open for thescheduled first day of school.

“We share in your disappointmentthat our school start-up is not able to pro-ceed at this time,” stated a letter postedon the district’s website. “At this time,we encourage parents to make alternatearrangements this coming week for theirchildren and we are sorry for the hard-ship this may cause.”

A glimmer of hope for an 11th-hourresolution brokered by veteran mediatorVince Ready was extinguished Saturdaywhen Ready walked away from the bar-gaining table saying the two sides werestill too far apart.

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A Burnaby teen was among the five topphysics students in Canada testing their met-tle on the international stage this summer.

Burnaby Central grad Pasindu Muthukudatravelled to Astana, Kazakhstan in July for the45th International Physics Olympiad.

What was it like taking on the world’s bestphysics students in daylong theoretical andexperimental exams?

“I guess the best term would be humbling,”Muthukuda told the NOW.

Muthukuda is no physics slouch, earninghis spot on the Canadian team with one of thetop five scores in the country on the CanadianAssociation of Physicists exam earlier thisyear.

He earned an honourable mention at theOlympiad, meaning his score was within thetop 67 per cent.

The rest of the Canadian team – all fromCentral and eastern Canada – also did rea-sonably well, picking up a silver, a bronzeand two more honourable mentions besidesMuthukuda’s.

But the Canadians could have done betterif they had had the same level of funding andtraining as other teams at the competition,according to team leader and UBC physicsprofessor Andrzej Kotlicki.

“Because the Canadian Physics Olympiadprogram lost all of its funding, no nationalcamp or team training was organized – thisis in stark contrast to teams from other coun-tries, who went through training for anythingfrom two weeks to two years,” Kotlicki wrote

in a report to the Canadian Association ofPhysicists.

He said, as far as he is aware, Canada wasthe only country whose competitors had topay their own way to the contest.

Muthukuda scraped together donationsfrom his school, his mom’s lab (SillikerLaboratories) and his Burnaby ShotokanKarate dojo.

He considers himself lucky to have hada week’s worth of one-on-one training inexperimentation from Kotlicki at UBC andsome help from retired SFU physics professorLeigh Palmer, who volunteered to help himwith theory work before the Olympiad.

“I had no real idea of experimentationbefore I started working with Dr. Kotlicki,”

Husking and hoppingFamilies came out to the Burnaby Village Museumto celebrate Labour Day on Monday, markingthe end of summer. The museum hosted a dayof heritage games with roving entertainers forfamilies and market vendors. At left, OxfordAndondy, 5 (on right), shucks corn, while LilianShi, below, pulls ahead in the potato sack race.

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Muthukuda said.A lack of training in experimentation

put the Canadians at a disadvantage atthe Olympiad, he said, and an experimen-tal camp like the one usually featured inthe cancelled Canadian Physics Olympiadwould have helped them compete withother teams.

“Compared to them, we’re kind oftotally untrained,” Muthukuda said. “Imean, we have the passion for it. We couldexecute in theoretical, but the experimen-tal actually requires you to train for it. You

can’t train for something like that on yourown. You need the resources.”

Despite the funding challenges, how-ever, the Burnaby physics whiz, whoplans to study engineering physics at UBCstarting this fall, has no regrets about hisOlympiad experience.

“More than anything, even beyond theconnections you make, it gives you a boostof motivation and confidence to continu-ing pursuing your passion and being ableto develop yourself to make a difference,”Muthukuda said.

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International smarts: Pasindu Muthukuda (fourth from left) joins his Canadianteammates at the closing ceremonies of the International Physics Olympiad inAstana, Kazakhstan this summer.

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Whatever the outcome ofthe messy fight betweenteachers and the B.C.

government (and as I writethis, the two sides are negotiat-ing, but no end is in sight) it’slikely the provincial educationsystem won’t see any significantimprovement in the near future.

And for this, we can blameboth the government and the B.C.Teachers’ Federation. The twosides have been locked in a warfor more than a decade, and evena negotiated contract will not endthe acrimony and bitterness thatcharacterizes their relationship.

When we strip away the rhet-oric, it all comes down to this:control. As in, who controls theclassroom and the system itself– the teachers’ union, or the gov-ernment?

This struggle for control isnot a unique one in education.Ontario is experiencing a similarfight, and most states in the U.S.are also mired in wars betweenelected governments and variousteacher union organizations.

Pushed to the sidelines in thiswidespread fight are studentsand parents. Forget the rubbish

talk from both the union and thegovernment that “this is all aboutthe kids” and forget the boastsfrom both sides that they feel for“kids caught in the middle.”

It is not about the kids andnever has been. It is about con-trol. And it is perfectly under-standable why both sides arefighting for control.

From the government’s per-spective, the education system isa spending priority, but it is alsoa huge consumer of tax dollars.Of course, there are lame voices(particularly from BCTF mem-bers) who claim the governmentis hell-bent on “destroying” theeducation system and is secretlyconspiring to drive everyone tothe private school system.

The fact that $4.7 billion of taxdollars are poured into the publiceducation system every year (sec-ond only to health-care spending)demolishes this hysterical notion,yet the mantra from the ideo-logues keeps being chanted overand over again.

Nevertheless, the B.C.Liberals can be faulted for notkeeping pace with the need foreven more funding. While notdestroying the system, the argu-ment can be made that the gov-ernment has allowed consider-able fraying around the edges.

Class composition remains anurgent issue in some (though cer-tainly not all) classes, and schooltrustees find that balancing their

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A B.C. court case challenging the very foun-dations of public health care could underminethe comprehensiveness and fairness of Canadianmedicare and erode the competitive advantage itprovides to B.C. businesses.

Dr. Brian Day, owner of two for-profit clinics inVancouver, was scheduled to start the next phaseof his controversial case on Sept. 8 in B.C. SupremeCourt but was recently granted a six-month delayuntil next March.

The case has been called the most significant con-stitutional challenge in Canadian history, as it seeksto introduce two-tier health care into this country.

It’s likely to go as far as the Supreme Court ofCanada, but what happens in B.C. will be crucial.

Canada’s system of public health care – anchoredby single-payer, universal health insurance – ensuresthat access to care is comprehensive and based onneed, rather than ability to pay.

Because we all share the risks and the costs,it’s both efficient and fair. Everybody is covered.Everybody benefits.

But Day has spent years testing the rules thatprotect universal health coverage. A 2012 B.C.government audit revealed that Day’s clinics havebeen unlawfully extra-billing patients for medicalservices covered by the provincial Medical ServicesPlan.

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In this legal case, Day is challenging thelaws that prohibit doctors from chargingpatients extra for services already coveredunder provincial insurance plans. He’salso taking aim at B.C.’s ban on dupli-cate private health insurance, claiming thatthese rules violate the Canadian Charter ofRights and Freedoms.

If Day has his way, those who can affordto pay privately will jump the queue,and private health insurers will expandinto a lucrative new Canadian market.Health-care advocates are concerned thatthis would lengthen wait times and waitlists as private clinics compete to attractsurgeons and other health professionalsfrom the public system.

Private clinics ensure their profits byperforming only a limited range of high-volume, low-cost procedures on healthypatients. There’s also the potential of high-er costs for B.C. businesses. As it stands,our current system of single-payer healthinsurance provides these businesses a com-petitive advantage when compared to U.S.-based firms who are required to provideexpensive (and often less comprehensive)private health insurance for their employ-ees. That’s an advantage worth protecting.

That’s not to say that our current publichealth-care system is perfect. There’s lots ofroom for improvement, especially in areaslike seniors’ care and prescription drugcoverage.

But Canada’s universal public healthcare system is widely supported by the

public, and for good reason.This ongoing legal case being pros-

ecuted against public health care is a starkreminder that no one should take it forgranted.

Bonnie Pearson,secretary-business manager, Hospital Employees’ Union

Wait for implosionDear Editor:

Re: Green Party distances itself fromBFC, Burnaby NOW, Aug. 27.

Yes, Carrie McLaren, it is a big deal.How can these former Green candidates

find anything in common with a grouplike the Parents’ Voice, with their religiousright-wing homophobic rhetoric. It is likesaying you would politically align yourselfwith former Alabama Governor GeorgeWallace, even though his views on racialequality were misguided, but he had somesound ideas regarding the economy. AsAdriane Carr put it, these views on equal-ity are “make-or-break issues.”

In past municipal elections I wouldalways vote for a couple of the Green can-didates, however, I would not touch theParents’ Voice with a 10-foot pole. Needlessto say, I will not be using any of my voteson the Burnaby First Coalition candidatesfor council, school board or mayor.

I also have a question for CarrieMcLaren: who is she referring to as the“one bad apple” in the barrel of BurnabyFirst Coalition candidates? Let’s all standback and watch this coalition implode.

Larry E. Melnyk, Burnaby


Health system in jeopardy

budgets becomes moredifficult every year as costpressures exceed any fund-ing increase.

As for the BCTF, it looksout for the interests of itsmembers as any unionshould, but it doesn’t havea good track record on thatfront.

Every other publicsector union has receivedhigher wage increases thanthe BCTF has won overthe past dozen or so years.The union has also foughta never-ending public rela-tions war against the B.C.Liberal government (whichhas gobbled up millionsof dollars of union dues)without any evidence ofsuccess (the governmenthas won four consecutiveelections).

While it’s true the

BCTF has won two import-ant court challengesagainst the government,the final ruling on thatissue has yet to be made,so any celebrations of vic-tory there are premature.The union is locked intoa fight for smaller classsizes, which among otherthings, translates into hir-ing more teachers whichin turn inflates the union’streasury.

The BCTF also zeal-ously guards its members’job security, even if inso doing it protects poorteachers at the expenseof better ones. The actualinterests of students arenot held as high a priority,in the BCTF’s view, as ateacher’s job security.

Again, the BCTF isnot unique in this aspectcompared to other teach-ers’ unions. Its American

counterparts are notoriousfor resisting any threat totheir control of the system.

The struggle over whocontrols a school and whocontrols a classroom willnot end anytime soon,even after the current con-tract battle ends.

Because governmentsof all stripes and philoso-phies are loath to raisetaxes in any significantway, revenues becomemore and more precious,which will inevitably putenough more pressure onthe education system.

I suspect the publicincreasingly takes the viewof “a pox on both yourhouses,” which reflects thefrustration and impatienceof watching this soapopera go on for so manyyears.

Keith Baldrey is chief polit-ical reporter for Global B.C.


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this is a day that everyteacher looks forward to,”said Burnaby Teachers’Association president RaeFigursky, who told theNOW she had held out hopefor a resolution as late asSunday night.

“I’m so dis-appointed gov-ernment won’tmove, butwithout classsize and com-position, we’renot signinganything,” shesaid.

The localunion will continue picket-ing this week and hold arally Friday, said Figursky,adding she has no idea howmuch longer the strike willlast.

“I really don’t know,”she said. “I didn’t expect itto last to the end of June. Ididn’t expect it to last overthe summer.”

No new meetingsbetween the provincial bar-gaining teams were sched-uled as of Tuesday.

On Sunday, parentsbegan registering to receivethe $40 a day promised bythe province for each child12 years old and under for

daycare and other activitieswhile the strike lasts.

At independent schools,it was business as usualTuesday, with students lin-ing up for class.

But public school educa-tors weren’t completely for-

gotten by theirprivate-schoolcounterparts,according toCatholic schoolssuperintendentDoug Lauson,whose archdio-cese includesmore than1,900 BurnabyCatholic school

students.Staff in his office offered

up a prayer for publicschools Tuesday morning,he said.

“We just prayed thatthey’d be able to resolvetheir differences and be backin the classroom as soon aspossible.”

Early reports from theFederation of IndependentSchool Associations (FISA),an umbrella organizationfor about 300 B.C. privateschools, show a 4.5 per centjump in independent enrol-ment since last year.

Enrolment increased byfour per cent after the last

teachers’ labour dispute in2012.

A typical annual increaseis between one and two percent, according to FISAexecutive director PeterFroese.

“At this point it’s trackingeven higher than after 2012,”Froese told the NOW.

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Back to school:Clarita Deleon anddaughters Christine, 8,and Charisse, 6, maketheir way to Our Ladyof Mercy ElementarySchool in Burnaby forthe first day of school.Students at Catholic andprivate schools aroundB.C. started their schoolyear on Tuesday, butpublic school studentsare still without classesas the labour disputebetween the provinceand the B.C. Teachers’Federation drags on.

“Without classsize andcomposition,we’re not signinganything.”RAE FIGURSKYBurnaby Teachers’ Association

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Calling all pet parentsPet love: Staff at Hastings Animal Hospital are organizing the fourth annual pet parent education seminar. This year, the event takes place on Oct. 4 at the ConfederationCommunity Centre and the topic of discussion is “Healing is a team effort.” The seminar will educate pet owners on the importance of preventative care for animals.

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Family-owned Hastings VeterinaryHospital in the Heights is invit-ing all pet parents and prospectivepet parents interested in learningmore about animal health to a freeeducation seminar in October.The veterinary hospital, ownedand operated by brothers Jangiand Amardeep Bajwa, has been apart of the Heights for more thana decade. Four years ago, the staffcame up with an idea to offer petparents a free seminar where theycould learn more about pet care aswell as ways to keep pets healthylonger.“We’ve always believed in educat-ing our clients and pet parents interms of preventative health careas opposed to just trying to treatillness because that goes a longway to maintaining good health,”Bajwa said.The event coincides with theCanadian Veterinary MedicalAssociation’s Animal Health Week,which runs from Sept. 28 to Oct.4, and each year Bajwa and histeam choose a different topic forthe seminar depending on what theassociation is doing nationwide.

“It’s a time to raise awarenessabout pet care in general andnormally the (Canadian VeterinaryMedical Association) will come upwith a topic they want to educatepeople about,” he said.This year, the association is draw-ing attention to antimicrobial use,including incorrect and overuse ofantibiotics, in pet health care. Withthat mandate in mind, staff at Hast-ings Veterinary Hospital came upwith the topic “Healing is a teameffort” for its October seminar.The free lunchtime event featuresfour guest speakers who will speakon a variety of topics related toanimal health care.In the past, Bajwa said the hospitalhas brought in representatives fromthe pet food industry to speak withpet owners, but this year staff de-cided to go in a different direction,bringing in experts from a varietyof pet-related celds, including Dr.Rebecca Ledger, an animal behav-ior and welfare counsellor.“(Dr. Ledger has) done a PhD inanimal behaviour and she works inVancouver and she works with

Free seminar aims to educate, inform

Pet love: Dr. Janji Bajwa with Shih Tzu Asia. Bajwa, co-owner and one of the vets at the Hastings VeterinaryHospital, is hosting a free pet parent education seminar on Oct. 4. The lunchtime event features four guestspeakers, including Bajwa and other pet experts.

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From one end of the Heights to the other, passers-by aretreated to an outdoor art gallery, thanks to the installation ofmurals along different blocks of Burnaby Heights.On Aug. 26, the Heights officially unveiled its ninth

mural located along Alpha Avenue on the side wall ofupcoming business, Bon Bon Bakery, at 4622 Hastings St.The mural, which illustrates purple, pink, and light bluegems glistening around the walls of a cave, was designedand painted by artist Rosi Hunter.Growing up on the Sunshine Coast, Rosi’s passion for

art came alive. She became involved with her art commu-nity when she was in high school and gained experience indesigning and managing murals throughout her neighbour-hood, such as the anti-graffiti mural for the Sechelt Rotary

Club Park. Rosi later made her way to Vancouver and isnow currently studying fine arts at Langara College.She was ecstatic when she learned she would bring her

talent to the Heights. She is no stranger to the neighbour-hood, as she’s been visiting since she was a child. Her mem-ories of exploring the shops with her family and playing inConfederation Park helped her in creating the new mural.What Rosi saw in the Heights was continuous growth

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veterinarians,” Bajwa said. “I’ve had a couple of patients where we werehaving some behaviour issues (and) she did visit and she advise as well.”Dr. Carmen Lake, a Richmond veterinarian with special interest in publichealth, will also be speaking at the event. She will talk about general petcare, while Dr. Amit Ranjan, a veterinarian at Hastings Veterinary Hos-pital and a member of the American Association of Feline Practitioners,will talk about geriatric care for pets.Bajwa is also set to speak at the event and says his specialties - allergiesand skin care – go hand in hand with the Canadian vet association’s focuson antimicrobial use.“My niche is allergies and skin care,” he said. “So I’m going to talk aboutallergies and how preventing allergies can prevent infections, and if thereare infections, how best to treat them.”Bajwa said one of the things he’ll discuss with pet parents is bringing petsin early for an exam to prevent chronic infections.“We (will) educate people about when and how to use antibiotics, whichgoes really well into my niche area where we’re treating a lot of skininfections and ear infections,” he added.Hastings Veterinary Hospital’s fourth annual pet parent education semi-nar, “Healing is a team effort,” starts at 11 a.m. and runs until 3 p.m. onOct. 4 at Confederation Community Centre at Confederation Park. It is anindoor event, so pet owners are asked not bring their pets. The free eventis open to all pet owners, not just Hastings Veterinary Hospital clients.In addition to the four guest speakers, there will also be a complimentarylunch provided, contests to enter and other information related to pethealth care.To register, call the hospital at 604-291-6666 or email [email protected]. For more information on the event as well as pet care, follow@petparentedu and @HastingsVet on Twitter.

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Meow: Resident cat “Midnight” with Hastings Veterinary Hospital staff Veronika Sanchez. Sanchez and herfellow staff members are volunteering their time to host the fourth annual pet parent education seminar onOct. 4 at Confederation Community Centre.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5Bonsor Singin’ Seniors choir,starts fall practices, 1 to 3p.m., at Bonsor RecreationComplex, 6550 Bonsor Ave.The group is a four-part har-mony choir open to seniorsover the age of 55. Group isalso seeking a new conduc-tor. Info: 604-516-0277.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6South Burnaby Garden Club,annual Fall Fair, 1 to 5 p.m.at Bonsor Community Centre,6550 Bonsor Ave., featur-ing hundreds of amazingexhibits. Baking, canning,flowers, fruits, vegetables,wine, crafts, hanging baskets,children’s contests, potato-in-a-pot contest, great drawprizes, tea room, bake andproduce sale. Free admission.Info: Dan, 604-526-4647.

Farmers’ market, 9 a.m.to 2 p.m. in city hall park-ing lot, 4949 Canada Way.Locally grown conventionaland organic produce, pre-pared foods and crafts everySaturday until Oct. 25.

Community day, at BurnabyAlliance Church, 8611Armstrong Ave., from 11 a.m.to 3 p.m. Food, inflatableslide, community info booths,balloon twisting, crafts,performances and more.Admission is free.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7South Burnaby Garden Club,annual Fall Fair, 11 a.m. to4 p.m. at Bonsor CommunityCentre, 6550 Bonsor Ave.,featuring hundreds of amaz-ing exhibits. Baking, canning,flowers, fruits, vegetables,wine, crafts, hanging baskets,children’s contests, potatoin a pot contest, great drawprizes, tea room, bake andproduce sale. Free admission.

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ONGOINGBurnaby Cactus andSucculent Society, meetsonce a month at Bonsor. Newmembers welcome. For moreinformation, call Pat at 604-921-7042.

Learn how to use a com-puter. Access the Internet,send email and upload yourphotos from your camerato the computer. No experi-ence necessary. Part of theConfederation Computer Clubat the Confederation SeniorsCentre. For information, callEric Kitson at 604-299-3335.

Drop-in English conversa-tion class, at the BurnabyMulticultural Society. Anyonewelcome for socializingwhile practising English.Class accommodates alllevels. Every Tuesdays andThursdays from 10 a.m. tonoon, and Wednesdays,Thursdays and Fridaysfrom 2:15 to 4:15 p.m. atthe Burnaby MulticulturalSociety, 6255 Nelson Ave. Formore information, call 604431-4131 ext.27 or ext. 29.

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Buyers’ seminar, buyersbeware – everything youneed to know about buyingyour first home, every secondThursday at 7 p.m. at KellerWilliams Black Diamond at252-5489 Byrne Rd. Seating islimited, Please RSVP to 778-861-6859.

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Free drop-in ESLConversation Circle, BobPrittie Metrotown librarybranch, 6100 Willingdon Ave.Mondays, July 14 to Aug. 25(no session on Aug. 4), 1:30-2:30 p.m. Come and practiseyour English and meet peo-ple in a friendly environment.A librarian will guide weeklydiscussions on everydaytopics. Some knowledge ofEnglish is required to par-ticipate in the program. Dropin and enjoy a little summerrelaxation with English con-versation. No registration isrequired. Info: 604-436-5400.

Health alert, Mondays, drop-in 9 to 11 a.m., presentationat 10:30 a.m. at Bonsor 55+Centre, 6533 Nelson Ave.

New members’ tour, lastMonday of the month, 10 to11:30 a.m., Bonsor RecreationComplex, 6550 Bonsor Ave.

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Free leadership training pro-gram for immigrant, refugeeand visible minority womenwho have experiencedabuse or want to help otherwomen in their communi-ties, Mondays, from Sept. 15to Oct. 20, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.in Metrotown area. Child-

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Burnaby Scottish CountryDance Club, meets at theScandinavian CommunityCentre, 6540 Thomas St. onMondays from 7 to 10 p.m.until April. New membersare welcome, experienceand partners not required.For information, call Gerry at604-451-1161 or Rosemary at604-298-6552, or visit www.rscdsvancouver.org/burnaby.html.

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Brianna Delmaestro andTimothy Lum of Burnabywon their first internation-al junior Grand Prix icedance medal.

The B.C. Centre ofExcellence pair, who havebeen together for justover a year, placed sec-ond by a mere fraction atthe International SkatingUnion junior Grand Prixskating circuit in Jjubljana,Slovenia last Saturday.

Delmaestro and Lumposted a personal-bestfinal score of 131.30 in theice dance to finish runner-up to champions DariaMorozova and MikhailZhirmov of Russia, whoposted 131.54 total pointsfollowing a first-place shortprogram.

“It was the presenta-tion that really got us themedal,” said the 19-year-old Lum in a Skate Canadapress release. “We showedstrong technical skills, butit was the performancethat made the difference.It feels great, and now wecan start thinking aboutpotentially going to thejunior Grand Prix final andworld juniors.”

The pair’s free dancescore of 82.16 was also apersonal best.

Last year, Delmaestroand Lum placed fifth intwo previous junior GPassignments in Poland andEstonia.

The Megan Wing andAaron Lowe-coached icedance team placed thirdat the 2014 CanadianTire National SkatingChampionships.

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The OnondagaRedhawks defeated theSix Nations Rivermen 9-7in an all-Iroquois final atthe 2014 Presidents’ Cupsenior B lacrosse champi-onships in Coquitlam.

Trailing 4-3 after twoperiods and 6-4 four min-utes into the final frame,Onondaga went on a five-goal scoring spree to winits second-ever nationalsenior B title.

“It’s gruelling. It’s atough tournament,” said39-year-old Redhawksrunner Neal Powless afterthe championship game.

Powless, who wonMann Cups with the seniorA Six Nations Chiefs, aworld title with the proRochester Knighthawksand an NCAA Division IIInational title at NazarethCollege, said winning hissecond Presidents’ Cupwas special.

“The guys have beenrunning for five and sixdays a week (at practice)just because you got tobe able to run every dayhere,” added Powless,who scored the Redhawks’ninth goal late in the gamewith his sixth of the tour-nament.

O n o n d a g aopened thescoring fromP r e s i d e n t s ’Cup MVP LyleThompson, whofinished the game with sixpoints, including his hat-trick goal that sparked the

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Miles Thompson, whohad two goals and twoassists for Onondaga, wasnamed the Redhawks’player of the game.

Wayne VanEvery wasthe player of the game forthe Ontario league cham-pion Rivermen. He scoredan early unassisted pair off

turnovers. VanEvery fin-ished the game with a hattrick and a team-high 15tournament goals.

“We just knew at somepoint in the game someone was going to do it,”said Powless. “We’ve beendoing it all year.”

Onondaga finished tiedwith the Quebec leaguechampion KahnawakeMohawks with identi-

cal 5-1 records followingthe five-day, round-robinmatchups.

The Redhawksadvanced to the gold-medal final on seven goalsby Lyle Thompson in a10-8 win over the RockyMountain league champi-on St. Albert Miners fromAlberta.

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Top Hawk: Lyle Thompson, in white against Tri-City, was named the tournament MVP following Onondaga’s9-7 victory over Six Nations at the Presidents’ Cup senior B lacrosse championships in Coquitlam.

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Burnaby Lakers’ Robert Churchwas named the Western LacrosseAssociation’s MVP.

Church, who was also selectedto the WLA’s first all-star team,scored 25 goals in 14 regular sea-son games for the second-placeLakers.

Joining Church on the firstteam were high-scoring Victoriaforward Corey Small and MapleRidge Burrards’ lefthander RileyLoewen of Burnaby.

Rhys Duch, who shared theWLA scoring title with Small with76 points, including a league-high

40 goals and three game-winners,was left off the all-first team.

New WestminsterSalmonbellies Jeff Cornwall andLangley’s Brett Mydske werenamed all-star defenders. Goalieof the year Frankie Scigliano wasalso named to the first team.

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Six Nations got past Kahnawake 8-4 inthe other semifinal crossover matchup.

The host Tri-City Bandits finished witha record of 1-5, including a 20-4 pummel-ling of Akwesasne on Aug. 28.

Jesse Guerin led the Bandits withfour goals in a nine-point outing. Ryan

McNabb also scored four times for thehosts. Veteran Darren McEwen also had agoal and seven assists for the Bandits.

Lyle Thompson led all scorers in thecompetition with 17 goals and 40 points.Teammates Jerome and Miles Thompsontallied 16 and 14 goals apiece, respec-tively.


Lacrosse: Hosts Bandits finish 1-5

Soccer starts: Cliff Avenue Thunder’s Matthew Conder, left, and WesburnGalaxy’s Sebastien Poivevin battle for a ball in u-13 gold play at the 33rd annualWesburn youth soccer tournament at Burnaby Lake-West last Saturday.


Burnaby golfers finish amongleaders at juvenile provincials

AlexFrancoisofBurnabyplaced ninth in a strongfield at the B.C. juvenileboys’ golf championshipslast week.

Francois finished tiedwith Mac Gourdine ofColdstream, following athree-round, two-over-par218 at the Royalwood GolfCourse in Chilliwack onAug. 28.

The Moscrop Secondaryteen shot rounds of 72, 72,74 to finish eight shots backof Shaughnessy clubmateDiego San Pedro, who wona one-hole playoff overJaewook Lee of Langley towin the juvenile boys’ title.

San Pedro, who shot afour-under-par 68 in thefinal round of the 54-holeprovincial tournament,

and Lee both finished withidentical six-under 210scores.

First-round leader A.J.Ewart of Coquitlam, whofired a six-under 66 onopening day, ballooned toa 77 in the second roundbefore finishing at 211 fol-lowing a 68 on the final 18holes. Roy Kang of NorthVancouver was fourth at212.

Kang, San Pedro,Francois and Surrey’s SyLovan shared in the winfor the zone team competi-tion with a combined 428score, edging zone 5 bythree strokes.

Francois and Kangplaced sixth in the best ballevent, shooting a combined15-under-par to finish six

shots shy of eventual win-ners Lee and Gavin Ciullaof Surrey.

Edward Chen ofBurnaby finished threerounds at 228.

In the juvenile girls’ com-petition, Sumie Francoisfinished in sixth place witha three-round 228 score, 21shots back of Nanaimo’sShirin Anjarwalla, whoheld off a late third-roundcharge from last year’sjunior girls’ championNaomi Ko to win by a sin-gle stroke over the Victoriagolfer.

Anjarwalla, 14, led thefield from the opening daywith a five-under 68 andwas sitting at 11 under parheading into the final 18holes.

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