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Roots, rock, reggae, blues and soul areall on offer as the Burnaby Blues and RootsFestival returns to Deer Lake Park for its15th year this summer.

The festival, which is coming onSaturday, Aug. 9, has just announced itsperformance lineup – with some returningnames and some first-timers, and youngperformers alongside veterans of the musicworld.

Headlining this year is Big Sugar, who’llchurn out their unique blend of roots-rock-reggae, soul and dub with double-neckguitars and flying dreadlocks.

“Gordie Johnson and his Rasta brethrenare well-known for their thundering liveperformances spiced with epic dub excur-sions that keep crowds grooving,” prom-ises a press release.

AlsogettingtopbillingisNewBrunswickblues-folk guitarist Matt Andersen, who’lltake to the stage with the MelloTones.

Bettye LaVette, a.k.a. “The Great Ladyof Soul,” is joining the bill in celebration

of her 50-plus-year career in show busi-ness – which dates back to her first singleMy Man – He’s a Loving Man in the fall of1962. It charted No. 7 on the R&B chartsand put her on her first national tour withBen E. King and another newcomer, OtisRedding.

Another powerful female singer is onboard in the person of Imelda May, whosestar has been rising since the release of her2010 album Mayhem – and, with the antici-pated release of Tribal this June, will onlyget higher.

From the tradition of raw and primal

blues comes The Harpoonist & The AxeMurderer, a.k.a. Shawn “The Harpoonist”Hall and Matthew “The Axe Murderer”Rogers, with their sack of harmonicas andmess of foot percussion and their sound

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Singin’ the blues: Big Sugar bring their roots-rock-reggae-soul sounds to the stage as the headliners for this year’s BurnabyBlues and Roots Festival. The festival takes to the stage at Deer Lake Park on Saturday, Aug. 9.

Julie MacLellanstaff reporter

City MLA says gov’t is destroying emailsBurnaby MLA Kathy Corrigan is raising

concerns that the provincial government isusing a loophole to delete documents andhide them from the public.

Last Wednesday in the legislature,Corrigan, the NDP MLA for Burnaby-DeerLake, pointed to an email connected to the

Burnaby Hospital controversy that cameup missing after a non-profit associationfiled a freedom of information request look-ing for it.

“This organization requested a seriesof damning emails exposing a B.C. Liberalstrategy to manipulate the community con-sultation report on Burnaby Hospital forthe political benefit of the B.C. Liberals,”Corrigan said in the legislature. “The asso-

ciation was told the records had been delet-ed because they were ‘transitory.’”

According to the provincial government,transitory is a term that applies to somedrafts and working materials, mainly onesthat are temporarily useful and may beused to prepare a “more ongoing record.”

However, drafts and working materialsrelated to program delivery or operations,decision-making or government activity are

not transitory, and should not be deleted.In fact, the government is required by

law to retain those records and releasethem, where applicable, in accordance withthe Freedom of Information and Protectionof Privacy Act.

The problem, according to Corrigan, isthe government is using the “transitory”

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One-year-old La Luna isbecoming a fixture at BurnabyHospital and that seems to makethe patients and staff very happy.

La Luna is a bunny – a rare10-pound English Angora bunnyto be exact.

Leela Densa, La Luna’s owner,brings her pet to the hospital oncea week for patients to cuddle,stroke or just watch.

“There are certain things thatyou can get from animals that youcan’t from human beings,” saidDensa.

“Person to person you can’texpress too much, there are cer-tain things we hold in, but withpets, people seem to let it go.”

Some patients aren’t animallovers, so not everyone wants tohold La Luna, but according toDensa, overall the response hasbeen overwhelmingly positive.

Densa recalled one seniorpatient who was sitting quietlywith his family. No one was talk-ing to each other, but once LaLuna was brought in, everyonestarted connecting.

“They started talking, theystarted sharing and there weresmiles,” she said.

Densa, who works full timeas a recruiter for an employmentagency, got involved last yearwith B.C.’s Pets and Friends pro-gram, a not-for-profit organizationthat matches pets with patientsin medical centres, after noticinghow passionately people in hersouth Burnaby neighbourhoodreacted when they saw La Luna,then just a bunny, out and about.

“One day we were walking onthe street and I saw this gentlemanin a wheelchair and I didn’t knowhim, but when he saw La Luna, hegave a big smile and asked to pether,” Densa said.

Other passersby crowded

around and asked to hold or takepictures of the bunny. Kids camerunning to see the furry whitecreature.

La Luna seemed to respondwell to the attention so the inci-dent made Densa wonder if hercherished La Luna could be use-ful in health care somehow. Aftera lengthy screening process,which La Luna “passed with fly-ing colours” Densa and La Lunastarted visiting several wards atBurnaby Hospital every Sunday.

La Luna is a favourite on theseniors’ acute care and psychiatricwards.

“What it adds for these patientsis a distraction or a comfort,” saidClare O’Kelly, manager of volun-teer resources at the hospital.

“It takes their mind away fromwhat is happening that may notbe pleasant, and takes them awayto a different place,” she said.

O’Kelly said for some patientsthe bunny brings backmemories of happiertimes, perhaps when theywere younger and had apet of their own, and thattoo gives them a breakfrom the routine and stressof a hospital stay.

But La Luna isn’t just popularwith patients. The hospital stafftoo has really taken to having LaLuna visit.

“Working in the hospital is areally crisis driven job, and thenhere comes this rabbit for a visit.It allows them to step back for a

moment,” said O’Kelly.Not all bunnies are cut out for

a job in health care, though. Densahas three other rabbits, but theytry to crawl away after a short

time being held or theybecome jumpy.

La Luna has an espe-cially calm and gentletemperament.

“People sit there withher for two hours and

pet her and take her picture, shedoesn’t mind,” Densa said.

Densa is one of 400 volunteersat Burnaby Hospital. She said forher the reward of seeing peopleperk up when they see La Lunameans everything.

“I like helping people,” shesaid.

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Fuzzy friend: Leela Densa holds La Luna, an English Angora rabbit who has forged a career as ahospital visitor. Densa and La Luna visit Burnaby Hospital once a week – they’re particular favouriteson the seniors’ acute care and psychiatric wards.

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“Hello. According to ourrecords, you’re eligible for anincrease to your credit limit.”

It’s a familiar line. Someoneis calling, offering to lower yourcredit card’s interest rate, but the

person on the other line isn’t abank official or a representativefrom any credit card company.They’re scammers looking to cashin on desperate individuals.

Dan Williams, a senior supervi-sor at the Canadian Anti-FraudCentre, says this type of scam isincredibly common and likely

won’t end anytime soon.“That’s a massive problem, it’s

been going on for years. Manydifferent outfits are involved,and they usually end up askingthe consumer for about $695 forthe service, and what the serviceactually entails is just providingthe consumer with some generic

information on how to speak withbanks,” he says.

One Burnaby woman, whodid not want to give her name,received one of these scam callslast month. But before they couldoffer her an attractive new interestrate on her Visa card, she hung up

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the phone and immediately reportedit to police.

While the scam didn’t work in hercase, Williams says that’s not oftenthe outcome. According to Williams,this scam is successful because of twomain factors. Firstly, the average per-son isn’t very informed about creditcards and the regulations that govern

them, and secondly, many Canadianshave thousands of dollars of creditcard debt, making the scam extremelyappealing.

Many of these types of scams claimto be representatives from either majorbanks or credit card companies, whichis an illegal act.

“The only people that could actu-ally lower your specific interest ratewould be the bank that issued it or the

company that issued it,” he says.Williams says the best thing to do is

to hang up and call the bank or creditcard company that was quoted in thecall and ask if they’ve been contact-ing customers. If they say no, call thepolice or anti-fraud centre right away,he adds.

The anti-fraud centre websiteis www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca.

Kinder Morgan is pondering yetanother route change for the TransMountain pipeline expansion, one thatinvolves drilling through BurnabyMountain and avoiding the Westridgeneighbourhood altogether.

Kinder Morgan is now looking ata beeline tunnel from the BurnabyMountain tank farm to the WestridgeMarine Terminal, a route that wouldcut across the southwest corner of themountain, instead of going around, asoriginally planned.

“We’re required and obligatedto optimize the study corridor, andwhat that really means is ensuring asmuch as possible we can minimizethe impact as much as possible topeople and the environment,” saidAli Hounsell, spokesperson for theTrans Mountain expansion. “Based onwhat we heard, in order to minimizethe impact in that area, particularlyto the neighbours, we’re looking ata selected study corridor that runsdirectly from the terminal throughBurnaby Mountain.”

The study corridor is a path of landthe company is considering for thepipeline route. (The line’s exact routewill be determined at a later date butwill be placed somewhere within thatcorridor.)

According to Hounsell, TransMountain is considering drillingthrough the mountain, a practice formore sensitive areas, instead of using

a cut-and-cover method.“They lay down the pipe in the

terminal facilities, and they sort of pullit through using a drill technology,”Hounsell said.

Kinder Morgan floated the newrouting information at an open houseon Thursday, April 3, to collect feed-back from the public.

The company also announced itwould prefer the alter-native route alongthe railway tracks inthe south of the city,something the NOWreported on in earlyFebruary, althoughKinder Morgan wouldnot confirm or denyit.

“At the time we didn’t have any-thing to present,” Hounsell said. “Weknew we wanted to go out with itpublicly at one time and provide aproper format for people to give feed-back, that’s why we are doing it in thisprocess (with the open house).”

Some people are not happy nomatter what route Kinder Morgansuggests.

Burnaby resident Pat Howard anddozens of people in her housing com-plex were accepted as intervenorsfor the upcoming hearing, and sheattended the recent open house onlyto sing protest songs outside.

“There is nothing that they coulddo with the route that would satisfyme. I have to tell you that most of usare opposed to any pipeline com-

ing anywhere through Burnaby,” shesaid. “We think it’s outrageous tohave it come to the Burrard Inlet.”

Originally, Kinder Morgan putforward two Westridge area rout-ing options in the application to theNational Energy Board: a preferredroute along Cliff Avenue, and an alter-nate route to the east, behind Pandoraand Ridgeview drives. Now, the

eastern option is con-sidered the preferredroute, although it haschanged with the newplan to cut through themountain.

Howard charac-terized the route as a“moving target” withall the changes.

According to the National EnergyBoard, it’s normal for a pipeline com-pany to refine the route after the appli-cation has been filed and the publichas already applied to participate inthe hearing.

“My understanding is it’s normalfor a company to apply for certifi-cate for a corridor instead of a spe-cific route, so that they can hear fromthe public,” said NEB spokespersonTara O’Donovan, adding that KinderMorgan would have to change itsapplication if the study corridor hasmoved, which it has.

While the NEB has alreadyannounced who can participate in thehearing, O’ Donovan said the boardwould consider late applications on acase-by-case basis.

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Have we finally wrestledthat voracious gobbler oftax dollars – the public

health-care system – to a stand-off, if not to the ground?

By that I mean the days of thesystem automatically devouringincreasingly large amounts ofmoney every year to feed itselfmay be drawing to a close, atleast in British Columbia. Ofcourse, I don’t mean the health-care system will stop being thebiggest area of governmentspending by far (the health-carebudget this year is pegged at$16.9 billion, out of a budget of$44.4 billion).

But the rate of growth inspending is slowing down sig-nificantly. The annual hike isdown to 2.6 per cent this year,compared to just several yearsago when it was above five percent. Now, there are those whothink this is bad news. After all,shouldn’t we be plowing evenmore money into the systemrather than less? If we don’t,won’t health-care standards suf-fer?

The answers are: a) not neces-sarily and b) no.

The ideological defendersof the public health-care sys-tem (who think the answer toeverything is to blindly spendgargantuan amounts of moremoney) think the only measur-ing stick worth anything is percapita spending. In other words,B.C. should spend more dol-lars per person than anywhereelse, and things will take care ofthemselves.

But those with experience inthe system, who study it andcome up with good ideas forchange, point to another, andfar better, measurement: healthoutcomes.

And in that regard, B.C. ranksthe highest in the country. Whilewe sit second-to-last in per-capita spending (only Quebecranks lower) we beat most otherprovinces in all kinds of areas:best cancer survival rates, low-est heart attack rate, longest lifeexpectancy, lowest smoking rate,lowest infant mortality rate, etc.

When it comes to wait timesfor certain surgeries (an admit-tedly frustrating situation formany people on those waitlists), they’ve been mostly goingdown and not up. The medianwait time for a hip joint replace-ment has declined to 13 weeksfrom 19 weeks over the last 10years, while a knee joint replace-ment has gone from 25 weeksto 18 weeks over the same timeperiod.

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The sun comes out, and so do tax collectorsBlossoms may be bursting out on

cherry trees and daffodils bloomingon boulevards, but April is still thecruellest month when it comes to rateincreases on a whole slew ofcosts borne by average citi-zens. And those are just thelatest increases – piled on topof others that already tookeffect.

Among some examples, Hydro rateswent up nine per cent this week – the

beginning of a planned 28 per centincrease over the next several years.Unless you have access to taxpayer-funded vacations to warmer climes – as

some members of the legisla-ture evidently do – avoidingHydro bills isn’t an option formost people, who will feel theincrease acutely next winter.

We’d also better hope the hit to thethermostat won’t result in people get-ting sick. Medical premiums also went

up again this year.Of course, Hydro and MSP increases

also have direct effects on the bottomlines of other institutions – like schools,also funded by, guess who? Taxpayers!

B.C. Ferries fares also went up again,co-ordinating with decreases to serviceexpected to continue for several years.But ferries apparently aren’t part of thehighway system, like they used to be.Upgrades to highways are now reservedfor getting wealthy people to their sec-

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ondary tuition, ICBC rates and eventhe cost to mail a letter – which nowcosts $1. That’s an amazing number ofincreases for a government that pridesitself on balancing the budget withoutadding “taxes.”

Unfortunately, the increases are stillcoming from the same place – your wal-let.

And that’s no April Fool’s joke.

Health system ismaking progress

Garden store doing the right thingDear Editor:

The recent article South Burnaby garden centreinfested with fire ants (Burnaby NOW, April 2) high-lights why it’s so important for gardeners and thehorticultural industry to be aware of the dangers ofinvasive species to our province. Through province-wide cooperation and coordination, the InvasiveSpecies Council of B.C. (ISCBC) is working to mini-mize the negative ecological, social, and economicimpacts caused by the introduction, establishment,and spread of invasive species, including Europeanfire ants.

At the request of provincial government, we areworking with a team of government and researchers

to develop an action plan to minimize the impacts ofthese invasive ants.

We commend GardenWorks for their strongleadership and early action to address European fireants at their South Burnaby location, and for theirwillingness to advise the public of the issue. We alsoapplaud GardenWorks for their proactive efforts tovoluntarily remove species of invasive plants fromtheir shelves several years ago. They were an earlyadopter of the Grow Me Instead program and a keypartner in our B.C.-wide PlantWise program, whichis launching this month for another season.

This situation shows that no one person or busi-ness can do this on their own. Business can make adifference by being informed and reaching out for

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support and advice where needed, asGardenWorks has done.

The Invasive Species Council has awealth of resources available for the pub-lic, industry, governments and educatorsthrough the PlantWise program and on itswebsite at bcinvasives.ca.

Gail Wallin, executive director, Invasive SpeciesCouncil of B.C.

Building a good decisionDear Editor:

I would like to address your articleTransLink spends $1M renting space(Burnaby NOW, April 2).

The building in question is a soundfinancial decision.

In 2012, thanks to the federal gas tax, thebudget to refurbish 114 Mark I SkyTrainvehicles was approved, keeping the sys-tem in a state of good repair. The refur-bishment will prevent increased life cyclecosts, as well as deter degradation in cus-tomer service – maintaining service levelsand promoting system reliability.

Part of the refurbish project budgetincludes leasing another maintenancefacility as the current facility within B.C.Rapid Transit Company (BCRTC) is at

capacity and does not have extra spaceto undertake this project. After reviewingour options, the Southridge Drive facil-ity was the most financially sound deci-sion, especially due to its close proxim-ity from the maintenance yard at BCRTC.Otherwise, refurbishing the trains at anyother location would require cutting thepermanently connected two-car trains andfinding additional transportation means tomove the trains – resulting in substantialincreased costs, risks and time.

TransLink began leasing the SouthridgeDrive facility to prepare for the refurbishwork. One year’s worth of preparationwork was accounted for in the projectscope. This included installing trackageinto the facility (which is now complete)and construction of a train-painting booth(which is now in its final stage of procure-ment). The building is now 75 per centequipped to begin refurbishing the trains,much of this was pending the City ofBurnaby’s permit approval processes. Thatbeing said, the project is still on budget,scope and time.

We are committed to maintaining thisnetwork in a state of good repair and tomeet the needs of our growing region. Theinvestment to refurbish 114 Mark 1 trainsand thus lease the Southridge Drive facil-ity is again, a financially sound decision.

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Help for invasive species

None of this is to sug-gest the health-care systemdoes not need constantupkeeping and reform(crowded emergencyrooms, for example, seemto be a chronic problem,and we could always usemore nurses). But it isencouraging that blindyearly spending hikes arebeing replaced by newer,innovative ways of spend-ing that are both efficientand lead to healthier out-comes for the users of thesystem.

Not being able to counton big increases in fund-ing every year has broughtsome much-needed dis-cipline to the system, andemploying some differentmodels has also helped.

One of the most signifi-cant changes that is payingoff is the government’srelationship with doctors.

In the past, physicianswere viewed as costly, self-interested cogs in the sys-tem. Now, however, they

are viewed as equal part-ners who have real respon-sibilities when it comes torunning the health-caresystem.

For example, severaljoint committees havebeen established with theDoctors of B.C. (formerlycalled the B.C. MedicalAssociation) where doctorsand the government shapepolicies that are aimed atimproving patient health,rather than protecting thefinancial interest of eitherparty.

One committee is forgeneral practitioner ser-vices (overseeing improve-ments to the primary caresystem), another is forspecialist services (aimedat improving access tospecialist care) and a thirdis for shared care (focusedon better integration of alllevels of care).

As well, somethingcalled the Divisions ofFamily Practice has beencreated. It links familydoctor practices and is

designed to improve com-mon health-care goalsin a particular region(improved maternity cov-erage, for example).

Committees such asthese were unheard of adecade ago. They appearto be improving patientcare by focusing on smart,evidence-based decisionsrather than on simplydemanding more money,either for doctors’ paypackets or a health authori-ty’s budget.

The Canada HealthAccord between the prov-inces and the federal gov-ernment died last week.It means Ottawa will becutting in half its annualtransfer of money to payfor health care.

The fact the B.C. gov-ernment hardly said a peepabout the accord’s demiseis evidence of how muchthe system has changed inthe past few years.

Keith Baldrey is chiefpolitical reporter for GlobalB.C.

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The Invasive SpeciesCouncil of B.C. is com-mending Burnaby’sGardenWorks for deal-ing with its infestationof European fire ants, aninvasive species known toswarm and sting peopleand pets.

The council – a non-profit, non-governmentorganization – praisedGardenWorks for “goingpublic” about an infes-tation of fire ants at theMandeville location in thesouth of the city.

“Basically, if you getan invasive species, thereare some people keep-ing it quiet, because theydon’t want other peopleto know they’ve got (fireants),” said Gail Wallin,executive director of thecouncil. “GardenWorkssaid they’ve got it, andthey are taking aggressiveaction.”

The NOW first reportedon European fire ants atthe Mandeville location onMarch 31, after a tip froma reader.

Ant expert RobertHiggins confirmed thatthe centre had fire ants,but only after checkingwith GardenWorks to see

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The email in question was sent to then-health minister Margaret MacDiarmid’spersonal email account, and according toCorrigan, MacDiarmid admitted it waswrong and said she would put it back inthe government system. (That email wasalso leaked to the NDP in fall of 2012,which originally blew open the controversyaround the hospital consultationcommittee.)

It was the B.C. Freedomof Information and PrivacyAssociation that made the free-dom-of-information request,expecting to find MacDiarmid’semail but was told it had beendeleted as it was considered tran-sitory. Executive director VincentGogolek characterized the termtransitory as a magic word tomake documents disappear.

“Click your Guccis three timesand say ‘transitory,’ and we’re going to beback in Kansas,” he told the NOW. “It’sridiculous.”

MacDiarmid wasn’t supposed to beusing her personal email account for gov-ernment business, Gogolek said.

“It should all happen on governmentemail, on government servers, and be pre-served as records, as required by law,”Gogolek said.

Government accountability sufferswhen documents are mischaracterized as“transitory” and deleted or aren’t search-able because politicians and bureaucrats arecommunicating below the radar with their

personal email accounts, he explained.“Freedom of information is one of the

pillars of democracy,” Gogolek said. “It’show we hold government accountable forhow they are running things and how theyare spending our money.”

Gogolek also pointed to an unrelatedfreedom-of-information release, where doc-uments showed that a senior governmentbureaucrat instructed other staff, using redfont, to “delete all drafts of the materials

and email correspondence shouldbe treated as transitory.”

“That’s just draw dropping,”Gogolek said. “This is a seniorofficial saying let’s treat this astransitory.

“We have other problems ofrecords disappearing,” he added.“There’s no sanction on somebodydoing this.”

MacDiarmid has since left poli-tics, but the NOW tried contactingher through her personal emailaccount, the same one used by

the Liberals’ hospital committee, but wedid not receive a reply, nor was AndrewWilkinson, minister of citizens’ services,available for an interview.

However, Wilkinson replied to Corriganin the legislature on Wednesday and statedthat Corrigan was “fully aware” that gov-ernment has some of the most effectiveand wide-reaching freedom-of-informationlegislation in the country.

“We have a statutory framework forboth transitory and recordkeeping rules. Itis respected throughout government, and itis managed by professional staff in the civilservice,” he said.


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An author’s memoir will befeatured at the BurnabyWriters’ Society’s next

Spoken Ink night.Bertha Washington Walker

will be on hand for the readingevening on Tuesday, April 15to present from her new mem-oir Love at First Sight: A 1950sInterracial Story.

A press release notes thatBertha knew at age 10 that shewanted to be a writer, but loveand life took her in differentdirections. She began her work-ing days in 1950 as a clerk-typist,took accounting courses at UBCand then worked as a financialcontroller at a micrographicscompany for 15 years.

She started her own publish-ing business – which is nowowned and operated by her son– and raised six children.

She’s now retired and livingin New Westminster.

You can hear Bertha readfrom her work at 8 p.m. Therewill also be an open mike – sign-up for that starts at 7:30 p.m.

The Spoken Ink event is hap-pening at La Fontana Caffe,101-3701 Hastings St. in NorthBurnaby.

The reading series runs regu-larly on the third Tuesday ofeach month. For more, checkout www.burnabywritersnews.blogspot.com or [email protected].

Poet reads at libraryA New Westminster poet is

being featured in a reading atthe Burnaby Public Library’sMcGill branch.

Renee Saklikar will beon hand for the reading onTuesday, April 22 from 7 to 8:45p.m. Saklikar will read fromher work children of air india:un/authorized exhibits and interjec-tions. Saklikar was 23 years oldwhen her aunt and uncle wereamong the 329 passengers whodied in the bombing of Air IndiaFlight 182.

Joining Saklikar will beCapilano University facultymembers Melanie Fahlman andEd Lavalle.

No registration is needed, butshow up early as space is limit-ed. The McGill library is at 4595Albert St. in North Burnaby.

Send Lively City ideas [email protected].

It was a somewhat accidental beginningfor the Gamma Garage Art Group of NorthBurnaby.

A press release from the group notes thatSheila Chowdhury’s daughter, Maia, lefther UBC architecture school clutter behindwhen she moved to New York about 14years ago.

“You paid for it, Mom,” she said. “Maybeyou can use it.”

The only place to house it all was on therough shelves of a back-lane garage that hada large skylight but neither doors nor heat.Slowly, that space acquired all these andmore features. Chowdhury moved in herown art clutter too.

Having trained, in England, to be an artteacher, but having followed other teachingdirections, Sheila had continued to producefabric art and had co-ordinated many schooland Brownie group art projects.

“My art junk had reached critical mass,”she says. “By the time it was all housed, Irealized I had an art studio.”

Within the next few years, she was shar-ing the studio space with two neighbours:Pat Sexsmith, a Burnaby school principalwho had retired to study art at CapilanoCollege, and Dianne Yard, a nurse withlong-standing ties to the B.C. artscommunity.

They thought their neighbourswould like to see what they weredoing, so they put on an art show –with no intention of selling anything.Offers to purchase soon changed theirfocus, and the Gamma Garage Art Groupwas born.

Now, more than a dozen years later, thegroup includes Wilma Cook, a friend fromRoberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast. Lastyear, Cook brought a challenge to the group:Sechelt artists had produced a quilt-likepainting and suggested that other art groupsmight do their own version.

The Gamma Garage took up the chal-

lenge, and the results can be seen at thisyear’s show.

The garage space “cleans up well,”Chowdhury says.

“We can hang about 60 or more pieces,and the light is great.”

There is room to include work from aguest artist, and this year Robin Timms from

North Vancouver will also showpaintings. The styles and materialsare already varied, so Chowdhurynotes that including one more justups the interest.

“We’re a close-knit neighbour-hood,” she said, “and we never

expected our work to travel beyond that.However, we now have a loyal following,and we can certainly say our work is inmany countries around the world. But noneof us has yet had time to create an art web-site. We’re too busy painting.”

You can see this year’s Gamma GarageArt Show at 232 North Gamma Ave. onCapitol Hill in Burnaby, on April 12 and 13.It runs from noon to 5 p.m. both days.

Art in the neighbourhood: From left, Pat Sexsmith, Dianne Yard and Sheila Chowdhury with their work in the Gamma Garagestudio. They’re holding an art show April 12 and 13.

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Burnaby residents have beenonstage with the UBC SymphonyOrchestra this week as it toursWestern Canada.

The orchestra has performedin Salmon Arm, followed by threeAlberta dates – in Lethbridge,Edmonton and Okotoks – beforecoming back home to BritishColumbia play in Kamloops and

Chilliwack.It caps off the tour with a per-

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Some highlights:◆ City and Colour: On Friday,May 23, Live Nation presents Cityand Colour – a.k.a. the popularsinger-songwriter Dallas Green,who’s taking to the stage as partof tour in support of his newestalbum, The Hurry and the Harm.Appearing as special guests willbe Half Moon Run.◆ CBCmusic.ca Festival:On Saturday, June 14, it’s theCBCmusic.ca Festival, featur-ing talent from Vancouver andbeyond, including headlinersTegan and Sara, alongside Spoon,Arkells, Hannah Georgas, ChadVan Gaalen, Wake Owl, BelleGame and Crystal Shawanda.Check out cbcmusic.ca/festivalfor more.◆ Jack Johnson: It’s folk-rocker

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Severin Morin, a cityhero and a key figure inBurnaby, passed away onMarch 28, at age 86.

Morin had a long recordof helping the communityand was well connected tomany local figures.

“Everything he didwas all about Burnaby,”said Gloria Staudt, a localRotarian. “He did somuch.”

Staudt knew Morinthrough the Burnaby Boardof Trade, where Morin wasa liaison officer, and he wasalso an honorary member ofRotary for many years.

“Even though he was anhonorary member, he wasmore active. He was alwaysvery generous,” she said,adding that he helped outwith Rotary’s annual winefestival.

Staudt said Morin was inthe hospitality industry fora long time and ran a res-taurant on Kingsway.

“It was the place to gofor dances and dinners. Itwas the who’s-who’s thatwent to that restaurant onKingsway, the Gai Paree,”she said. “He knew all thepoliticians, he was just avery kind and generousman. He knew everyone inthe community.”

Morin wasnamed a localhero by the Cityof Burnaby, andhe received aQueen’s DiamondJubilee award. Hewas vice-chair ofthe B.C. GamingCommission andserved as a senatemember with SFU.

“He will alwaysbe treasured andmissed by many people, I

was just honouredto know him,”Staudt said.

Morin’s fam-ily is organizing acelebration of lifeon Saturday, April12, from 10:30 a.m.to 1:30 p.m., at thecafé at WillingdonChurch inBurnaby. They areasking for dona-tions to charity in

lieu of flowers.

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Resident politico watchers who like totake in Burnaby city council meetings fromthe comfort of their living rooms may havenoticed there was not the usual live councilcoverage Monday night.

Council coverage was rescheduled infavour of Game 3 of the Western HockeyLeague playoff finals between Victoria andPortland.

Shaw TV sent an email to the city clerk’soffice on April 1 advising that the April7 council meeting would not air live, andinstead WHL playoffs games would beshown. Monday night’s council will bebroadcast on Saturday, April 12 instead,according to the email.

If a Game 7 is necessary, the MondayApril 14 meeting will also not air live butwill be broadcast Saturday April 19. Theemail states this move is “due to Shaw’scommitment to live coverage of WHL play-offs for the 2014 season.”

Coun. Nick Volkow said he sees thisas just another step in Shaw’s movementtoward a more commercial model andaway from its Canadian Radio-televisionand Telecommunications mandate to servelocal communities.

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ested in what goes on, and they want tosee the council meeting as it is happeningand not delayed four or five days,” Volkowsaid.

The city streams the meetings on itswebsite, Burnaby.ca, but Volkow said thatmethod leaves out a significant group of thepopulation.

“Not everyone has a computer,” he said.“But everyone has a TV.”

Volkow said many seniors in particulardon’t own computers and yet they are veryinterested and invested in what goes on atcouncil.

“On average Shaw TV airs 308 hoursof city council meetings per month acrossthe country alongside local celebrations,parades, festivals and education and a vari-ety of sports including the WHL,” Shawvice president of public relations ChethanLaksham told the NOW in an emailed state-ment. “Shaw TV chooses to air city councilmeetings because of our commitment to thecommunity programming and to our view-ers. We can assure our viewers that we doeverything possible to provide them accessto relevant local content.”

Volkow and the Burnaby council tookShaw to task in 2012 when the companycancelled live broadcast of the meetings forthe same reason, to cover hockey.

At the time council passed a resolutionto send a letter to the CRTC regardingthe cancellation. The company reversed itsdecision a few days later.

Meeting coveragepre-empted by hockey

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Burnaby’s RosangelaGiacobetti won aPrime Minister’s

Award for excellence inearly childhood education.

Giacobetti learned shewon the award in late2013, but local MP PeterJulian presented the cer-tificate at a special eventon March 19.

Giacobetti has runMunchkin Land FamilyDaycare in Burnaby for20 years. It’s for kids upto age 12, and she uses alot of open-ended activi-ties where children canexplore, investigate andfind answers on their own.

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Contest winnersCongrats to Alpha

Secondary students whowon the 2014 Go GreenChallenge, put on byBanner Bags at SFU.Banner Bags is a student-run program that collectsbanners (the kind you seein cities, hanging fromlampposts) and takes theminto high school sewingclasses where they areturned into bags. For thecontest, Alpha Secondarytextile students took fabricsamples and turned theminto three-dimensional fea-tures for baby books.

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toddlers,” said KristinaDucklow, a home econom-ics teacher at Alpha. “Theyare interactive and stylish.I call them the haute cou-ture of baby books.”

The contest prize is apizza party and plaque,and the books will bedonated to the students’friends, family and com-munity members withbabies.

ScholarshipsKudos to two Burnaby

students who were singledout for their integrity andperseverance in overcom-ing adversity.

Byrne CreekSecondary’s Dunya Azizand Burnaby North’sJialiang Li were both win-ners of a $5,000 scholar-ship through the HoratioAlger Association ofCanada. Aziz and Li wereamong 20 B.C. studentswho received the schol-arship, which goes toexceptionally motivatedstudents who overcomedifficult circumstances.

Reborn techComputers for Schools

B.C. has changed its name.The Burnaby non-profitis now known as BritishColumbia Technology forLearning.

The society fixes oldcomputers and sellsthem to schools at lowprices. B.C. Technology for

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ReuseTechBC.ca.Do you have something

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Local daycare nets Prime Minister’s Award

Munchkin land: Rosangela Giacobetti, seated at centre, with some of the childrenshe’s cared for at Munchkin Land Family Daycare in Burnaby. Giacobetti recentlyreceived a Prime Minister’s award for excellence in early childhood education.

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Monday, April 14:Open for Prayer 9-5 pm • Evening Prayer 5:30Tuesday &Wednesday, April 15 & 16:

5:30 Evening PrayerMaundyThursday, April 17: 5:30 Potluck

Good Friday, April 18:10:00 Stations of the Cross

Easter Vigil, April 19: 7:00 pmEaster Sunday, April 20: 10:00 am

Brass after each of the Easter Services on Saturday & Sunday

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Young dandelion shootscan be used in salads. Socan sorrel and cut-smallchickweed.

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Gardeners with lawnsfind the cheapest and mosteasy to get mulch is grassclippings. It’s best to holdthe clippings back slightlyfrom tiny vegetable seed-lings. You can move itcloser as they grow.

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Other useful mulchesfor vegetables includestraw – though some strawis quite seedy. Weed-freecompost makes anothergood mulch.

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When weeds get quiteout of hand, a great jobof smothering weedsand their seeds can be

done by black plastic.Unfortunately it tendsto tear and fragment ifleft in one place for morethan a year. Clear plasticbreaks up even faster thanblack plastic. Cardboardor newspaper makes agood base for a gardenbed of mounded soil andcompost. Ultimately, bothbarriers rot so that deep-rooted plants can establishthemselves well.

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Anne Marrison is happyto answer garden problems.Send them to her [email protected]. It’shelpful if you can add thename of your city or region.

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Former Burnaby Oakeybantam pitcher EmmaTuson is putting all hersoftballs in one basket.

The 18-year-old MapleRidge resident recentlycommitted to the Universityof British Columbia wom-en’s softball program alongwith Delta’s Zoe Gillisdespite the sport beingdropped from varsitystatus following a recentreview of athletics at thePoint Grey campus.

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That reality began lastFriday (April 4), when thedeadline for the appealprocess passed, followingthe late February assess-ment of varsity sportsat UBC that reduced themen’s and women’s alpineand Nordic skiing teams, aswell as women’s softball, tocompetitive club status.

These five club teamswill receive support forhonorariums for coachesand skill development andaccess to training facilitieswhen the upcoming 2015varsity season has ended.

“While keeping 24 (of29) teams, our approachwill concentrate resourceswhere teams are demon-strating success in achiev-ing our vision,” said LouiseCowin, UBC vice-presidentof students in a Feb. 28school media release.

That vision appearedto be those programs thathistorically achieve athlet-ic excellence, have a solidinfrastructure and a privatefunding model already inplace.

Under the proposedreview, UBC would give

men’s and women’s bas-ketball, swimming andvolleyball and the foot-ball program enhancedstatus, which wouldinclude a greater share ofthe increased $6.4-millionannual athletics budget.

Thirteenotherprograms,including cross-country,golf, rowing, soccer, trackand field, women’s ice andfield hockey and men’srugby, would continue toreceive at or near their cur-rent levels of support, whilebaseball, men’s field andice hockey, and women’s

rugby wereable to retaintheir varsitystatus, whilegiven furthertime to pursueother areas ofpar tnersh ipsand funding.

UBC soft-ball head coachGord Collingssaid his pro-gram wasdropped pri-

marily because it lacked aplaying field on campusand currently is not part ofan established conference.UBC softball plays in theAssociation of IndependentAssociations in the NAIA.

Collings blames the uni-versity for both programshortcomings, suggest-ing proposals for a homefield were never followedthrough with, while anopportunity to enter theNAIA’s Cascade conferencewas missed years ago whenthe school was looking intowhether or not to make ajump to the NCAA.

With the cost of runninga softball program makingup less than two per cent ofthe university’s annual ath-letic budget, Collings saidthe girls just need a chanceto prove themselves.

“I just don’t see why theycan’t commit to us,” saidCollings, who maintainsthe program has a five-yearplan in place towards sus-tainability. “The girls needan opportunity to demon-strate they can do it. I’mhonoured they decided toit even though there mightonly be one year – they’re

Hold on: Burnaby Lake’s Philip Seong, in dark blue to right of ball carrier, moves to help out a teammatewho has a Chuckanuk, Washington ball carrier all wrapped up in a mini rugby match at Burnaby Lake-Easton Sunday.

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“I just don’t seewhy they can’tcommit to us.The girls need anopportunity todemonstrate theycan do it.”GORD COLLINGSUBC women’s softball coach

Tom Berridgesports editor

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Former Cable to lead juniorLakers out of the wilderness

Brad Parker calls it a homecom-ing, but home for the former 1977Burnaby Cablevision was never likethis.

Parker helped the famed Cables totheir first of three consecutive MintoCup national junior A lacrosse titlesin the late 1970s. Now, as the newhead coach of the Burnaby juniors,the retired police chief has perhapshis biggest sporting challenge aheadof him.

The once storied five-time MintoCup champion junior Lakers arecoming off their worst season onrecord.

Burnaby’s only win last yearcame via an 11-10 victory over visit-ing Nanaimo in early May.

The Laker juniors ended the sea-son on a 17-game losing slide, whilecontinuing their recent practice ofselling off assets at the league’s tradedeadline.

“It’s a complete culture change,”said Parker, who head coached inNew Westminster’s successful inter-

mediate and junior programs forfive seasons. “I think the kids justneed a good grounding and get backto basics. This particular situationwas quite dire.”

Getting players to recommit tothe Burnaby club goes deeper thanjust simple recruitment,said Parker.

Improving the com-munication lines withjunior B and intermedi-ate team partners willalso make for a betteron-floor product whenplayers are called uponto play up, he added.

Parker also has plans to build abetter working relationship with thesenior A Laker club.

“I’m not going to dwell in thepast, I’m going to move forward,”Parker said. “A lot of these goodyoung players haven’t had thechance to develop.”

Burnaby took a good first stepin the new year, picking up runnerCorey Wong from Port Coquitlamin January.

The Lakers also added Ryan

Vogrig, David Mathers, Randy Jonesand Nick Kapusty in an earlier tradewith Delta.

At the midget entry draft,Burnaby picked up intermediate Ascoring champion Tyler Vogrig fromRichmond with the No. 1 overall

pick. Vogrig led the Aleague with 69 goals and119 points last season.

Parker will be joinedbehind the bench withassistants Jason Dalla-Valle running the offenceand son Gordie Parkerhandling the defensive

door.Former Toronto Beaches coach

Julian Kolb, who is currently try-ing out with the senior Lakers, hassigned on as the new head coach ofthe intermediate A Laker team.

The team has been in training forthe past two months, and Parkersays it has taken a commitment fromboth sides.

“We’ll get you where you want togo (in lacrosse), but you have to buyin. This is a good news story. We’removing forward,” he said.



“It’s a completeculture change.”BRAD PARKERJunior A Lakers head coach



taking a chance – but atUBC they’ll get a great edu-cation.”

As a team player, Tusonadds, it’s just not in hermakeup to back out now.

“Playing in a team sport,you can’t really think I’mgoing to do what is best forme. When you commit to ateam, I don’t think you cancommit that way.”

The 13-13 Thunderbirdscurrently boast a five-gamewinning streak. UBC alsohas a doubleheader ontap today at Simon FraserUniversity’s Beedie Field,beginning at 5 p.m.

Following that, the T-Birds will take part in theAII regional tournament inLawrenceville, Georgia inMay.

– Tom Berridge

Getting ahead: Nicholas Carusi, in white, goes up for a header in CliffAvenue United’s 1-0 win over the Central City Breakers in under-17 boys’Coastal B Cup quarter-final play at Burnaby Lake-West last weekend. KyleWhitehead scored the game-winner for Cliff.

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Review:continued from page 23

RUGBY

Lake XV stretcheswin streak to nine

Burnaby Lake increasedits lead atop the B.C. RugbyUnion men’s premier divi-sion to double figures witha shutout win over theVancouver Rowing Club.

Burnaby currently leadssecond-place 9-4 JamesBay by a dozen points fol-lowing a 29-0 victory overthe Rowers at home onSaturday.

With first place alllocked up and a homefieldadvantage heading intothe playoffs, Burnaby builtup a 10-0 lead before scor-ing three more tries in thesecond half over the 5-8Oarsmen.

“We weren’t able to playthe expansive style we liketo play, but I think we’veshown throughout the yearthat we can play in pret-ty much anything,” saidBurnaby captain AnthonyLuca in a B.C. Rugby pressrelease.

Centre James Reekiescored the only try of thefirst half, darting throughan opening in the backlinelate in the period. Leaguetop scorer Geoff Ryan

added the conversion anda game-opening penaltykick.

In the second half,Burnaby Lake ran in threemore five-pointers fromfullback Cole McQueen,winger Matt Alexanderand back row forwardGurvinder Kalar, whorumbled into the end zoneoff a quick lineout for forthe bonus-point score.

With the win, BurnabyLake improved its seasonrecord to 12-1.

Next up for the doubleblue is Capilano, the onlyteam to put a flaw in theclub’s near-perfect recordthis season.

“No one is thinkingabout the playoffs, yet,”added Luca in the release.“We’ve still got a big battleagainst Capilano, and it’san important game to usbecause they’re the onlyguys who beat us this year.They beat us in a bit of adog fight and we’re look-ing forward to headingover there.”

Burnaby Lake and Capswill meet in the league’sregular season finale atKlahanie Park on Saturday.Game time is 2:45 p.m.


STM wins four medals at mat natsSt. Thomas More student

wrestlers won four medals at theCanadian cadet/juvenile wrestlingchampionships.

Caileen Corbett was unscored onprior to dropping the girls’ 40-kilo-gram final to Karah Isabelle Bulaquiof Capilano.

Cadet Natalie Nelson lost heropening match at 56kg and then wonfour straight bouts, including an 8-1

win to take the bronze-medal.Nicole Depa also placed third

in the juvenile girls’ 56kg division,following a decision loss to even-tual champion Taylor Cartwright ofMariposa.

Ciara Corbett just missed out ona medal at 52kg, losing her semifinalbout to eventual champion HannahTaylor of PEI. She also dropped thebronze-medal match by a 7-2 score.

Darthe Capellan was a bronze-medal winner at 58 kg on the juve-nile boys’ side.

Capellan was pinned in his semi-final match, but rebounded withthree straight technical decision vic-tories on the consolation side of thedraw, including an 11-0 win overJordan Wagner of Aberni for thebronze.

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