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The Burnaby school dis-trict’s top-paid executive lastyear stopped working forthe district seven months in.

Former superintendentKevin Kaardal was paid$187,941.62 in 2014/15and incurred $6,112.10 inexpenses, according to thedistrict’s statement of finan-

cial information posted onthe district’s website.

This despite the formerCEO’s abrupt departure inFebruary 2015.

For the remaining fivemonths of the 2014/15school year, Burnaby gotone superintendent for theprice of two.

Gina Niccoli-Moenstepped into the post onFeb. 1, 2015 and took home

the second highest pay inthe district last year:$164, 980.20, plus$6,692.34 in expenses.

Employees who mademore than $75,000 ac-counted for nearly $59 mil-lion in pay and $435,563in expenses in the dis-trict’s budget in 2014/15,while employees who made$75,000 or less account-ed for about $111 million

and $462, 879 in expens-es, according to the district’sstatement of financial infor-

mation, which annually dis-closes the salaries of all em-ployees who earn more than$75,000 a year.

SCHOOLDISTRICTNO. 41’S10TOP-PAID EXECUTIVESIN 2014/15:! Kevin Kaardal, former su-perintendent, $187,941.62and $6,112.10 in expenses! Gina Niccoli-Moen, su-perintendent, $164,980.20

and $6,692.34 in expenses! Greg Frank, secretary-treasurer, $153,358.26 and$3,907.08 in expenses! Heather Hart, as-sistant superintendent,$146,285.88 and $4,606.11in expenses! Roberto Bombelli, as-sistant superintendent,$146,404.88 and $5,010.67in expenses

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WASN’T THATA PARTY?HastingsStreetwas jam-packedwith peopleonSaturday for the32ndannualHatsOffDayparadeandstreetparty.AttendeesatBurnaby’sfavourite street festivalwere treated toaparadefeaturinganarrayoffloats andcostumedcharacters, aswellas entertainerswhoperformedall alongthe street throughouttheday. As themercurysoaredononeof thehottestweekendsoftheyear, so toodidattendancenumbers –anestimated65,000peopleturnedout for this year’sfestival.Formorephotos fromtheHatsOffDay fun, checkoutwww.burnabynow.com.PHOTOSJENNIFERGAUTHIER

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People from near andfar got a chance to experi-ence first-hand the Heights’charm this Saturday asBurnaby’s favourite streetfestival continued its reign.

An estimated 65,000 peo-ple came out to the HeightsMerchants Association’s an-nual Hats Off Day paradeand street party on Sat-urday.That’s about 5,000more people than last year,according to Isabel Kolic,

the association’s executivedirector.

“Things were still rockingat three o’clock, where usu-ally it starts to slow downat that point, and it was stillreally busy,” Kolic told theNOW. “It just felt busier;it felt livelier. It was a goodtime.”

This year’s jungle themewas a big success, too, Kolicadded.

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walkers really threw them-selves into the whole thing,she said, adding that In-diana Jones and the giantboulder, played by two ac-tors, were among the crowdfavourites in the parade.

“The boulder was chas-ing Indiana Jones all the waythrough the parade, it waspretty funny, and thenTar-zan and Jane had a skit withJane’s dad.They were justperforming the skit in repeat

all the way down the street,”Kolic said.

Overall the event was ahuge success, she added.

“Hats Off Day has a real-ly sweet local spirit that’s theundertone for everything,”Kolic said. “They can’t helpbut feel that, ‘Wow, I’m in acommunity.This is a neigh-bourhood.’”

– Cayley Dobie

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It’s a case of “the littlecookie that could.”

When Mary Cardle setout to raise funds for theDown Syndrome ResearchFoundation at the BurnabyFarmers’ Market a coupleSaturdays ago, she expectedto make a couple hundredbucks, if that.

“Of all the days, it wasalso raining,” said Cardle,adding she’d never had a ta-ble at the market before.

Cardle was selling home-made cookies by donation,with proceeds going to-wards sponsoring her teamfor the upcoming Run Upfor Down Syndrome race.“Miss A’s Cookies,” namedafter Cardle’s daughter Ain-sley, who has Down syn-drome, ended up drawing ina very generous individual.

A Burnaby residentstopped by her table andhanded her $100 for about20 cookies.That alone, sur-prised Cardle.

“I said, ‘Are you serious?’It’s just some cookies!’” shesaid.

After a short conversa-tion, Cardle said the wom-an expressed to her howtouched she was by whatCardle was doing. But herappreciation didn’t endthere.

When Cardle dropped bythe foundation the followingMonday, she discovered thewoman had made a $5,000donation in Cardle’s name.

“I just burst into tears,”she said. “You always hearabout these stories, but it’snever you.”

The woman who madethe donation wishes to re-main anonymous. Cardleisn’t sure whether she hasa personal connection toDown syndrome that wouldhave prompted the dona-tion.

“Something just real-ly resonated with her,” shesaid.

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dismissed first as a joke,then as a source of worry,DonaldTrump has securedthe Republican nominationin the battle for theWhiteHouse and continues to en-tertain us all in the worstpossible ways.

Early attempts to derailtheTrump train by the con-servative establishment wereeasily plowed aside. Doubt-ers turned about face andjumped aboard the winningjuggernaut.

Previously unimagined bythe political elites,Trumpas candidate now embodiestheir worst nightmare.

Those who are wait-ing forTrump to now be-come “more presidential”shouldn’t expect it any timesoon.That’s not his shtick.

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because of his Mexican her-itage and went on a tiradeagainst the judge.Trumpsays because he wants a wallbetween the U.S. and Mex-ico the judge is biased. Healso said he could say thesame if a Muslim judge wasruling on his case.

FollowingTrump’s logicthe only fair judicial systemforTrump would be onewhere billionaire old whiteguys held the gavel.

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America’s “infotainment”culture of political discoursehas taken the nation.Trumpwas the second-most cov-ered story by major net-works in 2015. (The firstwas the weather.) And whenwe say “covered” we usethat term lightly.

Trump has gotten wherehe is by telling people whatthey want to hear and ap-pealing to the reptile brainsof folks unconcerned byhow any of his ideas wouldwork in reality, having lost

the ability to distinguish re-ality from realityTV.

He’s the ultimate cartoonversion of a politician. OneInternet meme describedTrump as what would resultif all the online commentingsections were embodied inhuman form.

Make no mistake, whatTrump has accomplishedis both remarkable and in-credible – the purest senseof those terms. America cre-atedTrump. And it will beup to voters there to decide

what happens next.But, unfortunately, we,

like Mexico, will feel thetremors from aTrump pres-idency.

He’s always looking fora scapegoat and it’s just amatter of time before Cana-dians incur his wrath.

We’d like to believe thatTrump’s chances of win-ning the top job are slim,but then we thought hewouldn’t take the Republi-can nomination either.

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Pretty well everythingthe provincial government(and, to a lesser degree, theOfficial Opposition) doesthese days has to be framedagainst the backdrop of thelooming election campaign.

Recent case in point:the bolt-from-the-blue an-nouncement by Educa-tion Minister Mike Bernierthat school districts wouldbe able to keep $25 millionin administration “savings”they had taken out of theirbudgets.The money couldnow be spent on what thedistricts wanted, whetherit was directly in the class-room or on administrationduties.

What was telling aboutthe minister’s announce-ment was where he made itand where two other B.C.Liberal MLAs made thesame announcement simul-taneously.

Bernier was in Surrey, apivotal battleground in theelection campaign.The bur-geoning municipality is hav-ing one riding added with-in its boundaries come thenext vote, giving it nineseats.

Education is a hot-but-ton issue in Surrey, and thesituation there is unlike any-where else in the province.While other districts wres-tle with the sensitive issue ofclosing schools because ofdeclining enrolment, Surreyis in precisely the oppositesituation.

The population growthin Surrey is escalating, andwith that comes more devel-opment, which creates moreresidences, which attract

more people, and the resultis tremendously overcrowd-ed schools.

Bernier has recently metwith a delegation of Surreyparents, and seems to havesecured approval for morecapital spending to buildmore schools at a more rap-id rate than first envisioned.

The B.C. Liberals cur-rently hold five of Surrey’seight seats, and one of themwas won by the tiniest ofmargins.

Based on the 2013 vot-ing results, the new ridingshould be in the B.C. Liber-al win column, but intenselylocal issues – such as educa-tion funding – can be a vot-ing determinant and catchwildfire with the electors.

Hence Bernier’s suddenand intense interest in talk-ing about education in Sur-rey and handing some mon-ey over at the same time.

As we get ever nearer tothe beginning of the officialelection campaign, keep inmind we are in the unoffi-cial one right now and theintensity of it will begin toramp up.

So expect more off-the-cuff government spendingannouncements, probablyfocused on the geograph-ical areas the NDP needto score a breakthrough tohave any chance at forminggovernment in 2017.Keith Baldrey is chief politi-

cal reporter for Global B.C.

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The Burnaby school board launched a review of its for-eign-student admission policy after criticism from a localresident who had come from Hong Kong 18 years earlier.ArthurYuen argued giving international students free tu-ition was a burden to taxpayers and that foreign studentswere taking advantage of Burnaby’s lax admission crite-ria to get free tuition while neighbouring NewWestmin-ster andVancouver had begun charging thousands of dol-lars in tuition.

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Dog discrimination isunfair to rentersDear EditorRe: One-dog rule has Burnabywoman in a bind,BurnabyNOW, June 1.

First of all I hope things work out for Ms. Car-dinal and her beautiful dog. On the same topic,I do have a similar longstanding complaintre: bylaws with apartments and stratas. Butmy complaint is also that places that actuallydo allow dogs, most of them advertise “dogsallowed with restrictions.” Well, the restric-tions are most often regarding the size of dogs,whereas they only allow dogs up to a certainsize. In other words, medium and large dogsare not allowed.

To me, this is discrimination, albeit of ani-mals and their owners. Most people with largerdogs are very responsible, because they arelarger dogs, and cannot just be picked up andput in your bag, so they are trained to behave.Larger dogs, in my years of experience, aregenerally quieter and gentler than many littledogs. I have owned a yellow Lab myself formany years (unfortunately he recently passedafter a long happy life), and he was the mostlovable dog I have ever known. He actuallyshied away from little dogs. He never growled,bit or chased another dog or human. He neverbarked, other than in fun while playing.

I complained to apartment managers aboutthis rule when looking for a place to live withmy dog, and they often said that other tenantswould be afraid of my dog – ridiculous! Noone was ever afraid of my dog. So it is time tochange the rules for once and for all, to allowany size of dog, or to allow dogs on individualsituations.RoseQuinlan, byemail

Where has Burnabycouncil’s socialconscience gone?Dear EditorThe mayor of Burnaby says thathe can not do anything about the string ofdemovictions that have occurred and continueto occur in Burnaby.

He is supposedly an NDP-aligned mayorwho should be focused on the needs of allhis citizens. He should work for the currentBurnaby residents and not those that maycome in the future.

What he could do is freeze further de-molition permits. He could freeze rezoningapplications and he could freeze developmentpermits. He recently said in an interview thatmany of those buildings have reached the endof their life, so to speak. Some of those build-ings coming down are better built than theones that are hastily being thrown up in theirplace. In addition, the plan to make Metrotownthe city centre of Burnaby does not need tohappen over night but can evolve graduallyand at a slower pace.

This demoviction process is creating vastnumbers of potentially homeless elderly andlow-income people. Where is your social mind-edness, Burnaby council? Perhaps it is time fora change.NormaVachet, Burnaby

Forcing landlords toaccept pets? No way

WayneMcQueen I have to disagreeregarding changing the laws to matchthose of Ontario on forcing landlordsinto accepting tenants with pets to beacceptable. What you pet nuts fail toacknowledge, is that many people,including myself have allergies to petdander, and just the fact of having petsin the building means that, even apart-ments without pets are subjected tothose allergens. In the case of this lady,she should find a nice home for her pet,if she cares at all about this gentleman.The fact that shelters are overpopulat-ed with pets is not society’s problem, itis the BCSPCA’s. If there are too manypets in shelters, then why are we as asociety allowing pet rescuers the bringmore unwanted pets in from othercountries?

More city employeeshit the $75,000 mark

Had itPrivate sector do not get thesetype of wages it has to stop.

bill smith “82 more employees hittingthe $75,000-plus threshold” Wow, atthis rate we’ll need another huge prop-erty tax increase that Corrigabn’s BCA/NDP can blame on someone else.

AndrewChobaniukDo you havetrouble reading what’s in front of you inblack and white (literally)? It’s pokingfun at the parents who are up in armsabout transgender washrooms andsaying if they are so concerned thatperhaps they are the ones that shouldhave separate facilities in which theycan helicopter over their children’spotty time and ensure their “safety”.

Petition calls on Libsto halt pipeline

RayComeau Like the decision tocontinue with the horse and carriage,the Kinder Morgan plans for a pipe lineshould die on the examination table.There will always be speculators readyand eager to make a fast buck regard-less to the risk to themselves and tothe environment . This present LiberalGovernment MUST stop Kinder Morganand ,as well , also the proposed East-ern Pipeline and instead focus on newjobs and action plans for green energy.Oil , especially the bitumen tar sandsvariety should have a stake driventhrough its heart and remain in theground forever.

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City staff raked in a com-bined total of $153.83 mil-lion last year, with 724 cityemployees making morethan $75,000, accordingto the city’s newly releasedstatement of financial infor-mation.

The numbers mark asteady growth from previ-ous years, with 82 more em-ployees hitting the $75,000-plus threshold in 2015 thanthe year before.

In 2014, 642 city staffbrought in more than

$75,000 with acombined total of$142.51 million.

The list of Cityof Burnaby staffwho took homethe highest sala-ries in 2015 fea-tures many of thesame top-earningpositions of recentyears.

Bob Moncur,city manager (now retired),brought in $269,853, mak-ing him once again the mosthighly paid city staffer.

Following Moncur in thetop 10 salaries are:

! Leon Gous, di-rector of engineer-ing, $216,269! ChadTurpin,deputy city manag-er, $215,526! Denise Jorgen-son, director of fi-nance, $213,145! Lou Pelletier,director of plan-ning and building,$205,401

! Dave Ellenwood, direc-tor of parks, recreation andcultural services, $202,946! Doug McDonald, firechief, $194,446! ShariWallace, chief in-

formation officer,$190,167;! Bruce Rose,city solicitor,$179,811! Chris Bow-cock, deputy firechief, $177,835

Over in councilchambers, May-or Derek Corri-gan took home$127,915, just over$1,000 more thanthe previous year. Corri-gan also received $3,840to cover telephone and in-ternet costs, the highest ex-pense benefit for this cat-

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Coun. Dan Johnston hadthe highest travel and ex-penses claim at $20,350,with the majority of costsgoing towards two of thecity’s international appear-ances: the 50th anniversaryKushiro-Burnaby sister cityvisit in Korea and Japan,and the FSB trade show inCologne, Germany.

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! Wanda Mitchell, as-sistant superintendent,$133,165.49 and $9,967.84in expenses! Russell Sales, director offacilities, $130,692.90 and$570 in expenses! Peter Dubinsky, directorof instruction, $126,647.42and $8,394.09 in expenses! Deborah Simak, di-rector of instruction,$126,647.42 and $6,851.02

in expenses! Ron Hall, director of in-struction, $126,487.92 and$9,038.38

Burnaby’s top-paid prin-cipal was Gordon Li, whoearned $123,653.93.

Burnaby’s top-paid teach-er was Burnaby Central sci-ence department head Diet-er Mehling, who took home$103,702.18.

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A Burnaby man is pre-sumed dead after he disap-peared while swimming inthe Fraser River early Satur-day morning.

Surrey RCMP werecalled to Brownsville BarPark at 11931 OldYale Rd.around 2:50 a.m. on June4. A group of men told po-lice they had gathered at thepark for a bonfire and weredrinking alcohol when theydecided “to jump into thecold, swift-moving watersof the Fraser River,” noteda press release from SurreyRCMP.

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swim around the SkyTrainbridge’s pillar and back toshore, but one of the men,a 32-year-old Burnaby resi-dent, did not resurface afterhe was seen in the water, therelease added.

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Artist Jessie McNeil’s ap-proach to collage art hasearned her an upcomingsolo exhibit at Deer LakeGallery.

McNeil’s exhibition, Ur-ban Subjects, aims to cap-ture everyday snapshotsof urban life, reinterpret-ed through the process ofcutting, pasting, smudgingand assembling paper.TheBurnaby Arts Council ispresenting the showcase.

“In Urban Subjects, Jes-sie McNeil uses assemblageto slow down and capturethe moment even morepoignantly than photogra-phy can,” says the council’swrite-up for the event.

McNeil examines pedes-trian life in cities such asVancouver, Helsinki andTartu, Estonia. She de-scribes her figurative collagework as “dealing with placeand memory with an em-phasis on cultural history.”

“I don’t know if my work

captures a moment better ormore poignantly than pho-tography can - that’s reallyup to someone else to de-cide,” she said. “For me, interms of my process, I don’tbelieve my study of the ur-ban landscape ends with aphotograph. I use my pho-tos as sketches, orstudies to base mycollages off of.”

McNeil said herapproach to collagediffers from what istypically expectedfrom the art form.Rather than us-ing images to cre-ate the collage, shelooks for colouredpaper in magazinesto build her ownfigures. In this way, Mc-Neil’s work can be likenedto painting.

“It’s like I’m looking at apainter’s palette with all thecolours,” she said. “In thefinal pieces, there’s usuallyno reference or recognizablefeature of the original print-ed matter I cut up.”

McNeil’s favourite piecefrom the exhibit, Helsin-kiYouth, depicts a group offriends walking through thecity square.The collage fea-tures a simple background,placing the focus on the fig-ures. In explaining the piece,McNeil said she’s remind-

ed of how she feltwhen she creat-ed it.

“Sometimes apiece reminds meof a podcast or acertain album Iwas listening to atthe time of its cre-ation, and I musthave been listen-ing to somethinginspiring, becausethis piece just

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Saturday, June 11 and runsuntil July 2 at Deer LakeGallery, 6584 Deer LakeAve. An opening receptionis set for Saturday, June 11from 2 to 4 p.m.

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A priceless gift my par-ents gave me continues toenrich my life, and I’ve donemy best to pass it on to mychildren.Their gift was toalways see (and expect) thebest in me.

Though my parents werevery thoughtful and delib-erate in the decisions theymade, I suspect that theability to see the best inbrother, sister and myselfwas a natural byproduct oftheir love for us.

We were each unique andas flawed as any other kids.They would give us feed-back and correction whenwe could do better, but theyalways gave encouragementand praise when we did ourbest. Much more than look-ing for what’s wrong in us,they were always looking forwhat was good.

That simple but profoundview – to the see the best inothers – is a game changerin everyday life.

More often, we live on thesurface of society and whenlooking at others, stop onlyon the outer surface.Wejudge – and then behave –based on appearances, gen-der, dress or disability, raceand roles.We make sweep-ing judgments, and we for-get that we see only glimps-es of whole people.

We forget that every per-son that we pass on thestreet, sit beside on the bus,and interact with in thecourse of our daily lives is acomplete and complex in-dividual.

Every one of us has hopesand dreams, pain and dis-appointment. Everyone issomeone’s friend or cousin,sibling or parent.When weremember this, we are more

open to compassion and itbecomes more natural totreat others with kindnessand understanding.

Consider this when youdisregard or ignore anotherhuman being or when youimmediately dislike some-one you don’t even know.We all have good and bad

days, but we can alwaysmake someone else’s daybetter.

With those we live andwork with, we can getcaught up in our quirkyhabits and differences.Wecan take one another forgranted and keep a runningtally of what we don’t like

about each other. One of thesecrets of a happy marriageis to deliberately make morepositive than negative com-ments about your partner. Itreminds us to look for andexpress the best in the other,who in turn feels more ap-preciated.

The teachers who see the

best in their students can in-spire them to work harderand achieve their best.Themanager who sees the qual-ities of each team memberwill lead a productive andpositive team.

The doctors who can helptheir patients see themselvesas agents of positive change

in their own lives will guidethem towards their potentialfor well-being.

Today, take a good deeplook into the mirror and inevery face you meet. See thebest in everyone.DavidicusWong is a family

physician.For more, see www.davidicuswong.wordpress.com.

Seeingthebest inotherscanchange livesDavidicusWongHEALTHWISE

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Barb McMahon, founderof Sprouting Chefs, is host-ing her first fundraiser atthe Burnaby Lake Rowing

Pavilion on June 11. Pro-ceeds from the event will gotowards her organization,which strives to develop andcultivate school garden pro-grams.

In 2011, McMahon –

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staff and students how toplant, harvest, prepare, cookand eat the food they hadgrown. Sprouting Chefsnaturally evolved out ofit and was established in2015.

For McMahon, her mod-el goes beyond just teachingyouth the basics.

“We’ll talk about wormsand the importance of com-posting, the PH level ofsoil,” she told the NOW.“It’s not just about plantinga seed and walking away. It’sthe why behind it – what isfood security and why is itimportant.”

McMahon offers a K toGrade 7 science, math, so-cial studies and languagearts curriculum, as well aspresentations to daycareproviders on fun ways to en-gage children to eat well.Schools that collaboratewith Sprouting Chefs alsohave an after-school gardenclub, which allows studentsand their parents to tend to

the garden after hours.Since the 20-foot-by-20-

foot garden at Forest GroveElementary sprouted, Mc-Mahon has had a hand ingetting 21 more school gar-dens off the ground in theBurnaby school district.

“If we want to change theeating habits of children andincrease their environmentalawareness, you need to domore than just teach themhow to cook it.You need

to come in with a full pro-gram that happens all yearthrough, so you can reallydevelop that appreciation offood and the environmentat the same time.”

McMahon added schoolgardens are needed all overthe Lower Mainland, espe-cially in dense municipali-ties like Burnaby.

The June 11 fundraiserat the Burnaby Lake Row-ing Pavilion will feature key-note speaker David Su-zuki. Students will also bedemonstrating what they’velearned in McMahon’scooking classes and in theirgarden clubs.

Attendees can shop thevendor tables and bid in thesilent auction. Light refresh-ments and appetizers will beprovided.

Tickets are $65 each andcan be purchased at www.tinyurl.com/SproutingChefs.For more informationabout Sprouting Chefs, visitsproutingchefs.com.

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As a final foray in high school, St.Thom-as More track star Zion Corrales Nelsondidn’t delay in going out in style.

The Grade 12 speedster sprinted to threegold medals at the B.C. High School trackand field championships, duplicating a featlast accomplished in 1983.

By capturing the senior girls 100-, 200-and 400-metre events, the Cal-Berkeley re-cruit can say “Mission: Accomplished” inregards to leaving high school athletics on achampionship note.

“It definitely was satisfying to cross thefinish line, that’s for sure,” Corrales Nelsontold the NOW. “I came in wanting the three(gold) and although not every race went theway I had hoped, to win them all in my se-nior year is something special.”

The 17-year-old spun a pair of firsts onFriday, taking the 100m in a time of 11.85seconds, ahead ofWest Point’s KatherineLucas at 12.13.The St.Thomas More se-nior’s time was a new personal best, erasinga year-old 11.94 mark.

“That’s what I wanted. Coming off thepreliminary (heat) I just wanted to have funwith it, and to get the PB was something Iwas very happy with.”

With barely time to catch her breath,Corrales Nelson strode to the front of thepack in the 400m in a time of 54.90, aheadof Reynolds’ Lauren D’Agnolo at 56.22.

That it came quickly after she had wonthe 100m race Friday made it all the moreeye-popping.

“It definitely makes it tough having themso close, (because) they are different rac-es to prepare for mentally,” she noted. “Ihave to run basically from the blocks (inthe 100m), then between races it was aboutmentally preparing, getting a quick massageand then run again.”

Her result the next day in the 200m fellshort of expectations but was enough tocap a tremendous high school career andearn her co-Top Female Athlete of the meetaward, shared with R.A. McMath’s Cam-ryn Rogers.

Corrales Nelson is the first female sprint-er, and only second-ever, to claim the threedistances at the provincial meet in 33 years.

The Burnaby native now turns her focusto qualifying for theWorld junior champion-ships as part of a busy summer.

Burnaby Central’s Nathan Mah col-lected a silver in senior boys 200m, finish-ing in 22.97 to St. George’s Quinn Lith-ersland’s 22.51.The senior boys 4x100mrelay scooped up bronze. Read more resultsin Friday’s NOW.

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Burnabyboxersreflectonmeeting ‘TheGreatest’Muhammad Ali’s influence played a big role in inspiring a pair of local fighters to pursue their [email protected]

Muhammad Ali’s punchdominated the boxing ringfor an incredible 27 years.

His influence echoed ex-ponentially around theworld and is still stinginglike a bee, including here inBurnaby.

The boxing legend diedlast Friday at the age of 74after years of battling Par-kinson’s disease.

Burnaby’s Manny So-bral says his own career inthe sport was immensely in-fluenced by the one-timeworld boxing champion andcivil rights icon.

“When I started box-ing I’d watch so many of hisvideos, of Ali in his prime,to study his style,” Sobraltold the NOW. “He was justan amazing fighter, so faston his feet.What I learned

was you couldn’t hit whatyou couldn’t see.”

After having the worldheavyweight title and hisboxing licence strippedaway in 1967 because of hisrefusal to fight inVietnam,Ali’s career was stalled dur-ing three prime years. So-bral reflected how the Ken-tucky-born boxer returnedwith a new fighting strategythat would see him recap-ture the world title in 1974.

In preparing (to fightGeorge Foreman in 1974)he would lay on the ropesand plan it out, and that waswhere he showed his pa-tience and smarts,” said So-bral. “He adjusted his style,he let the fight come to himand used his speed, and itwas like he was playing withhis opponents.

“From watching himI kind of got some of mystyle. I tried to keep my

hands up, and I think myfootwork owes a lot to whathe had shown.”

Throughout his life, Aliproved more than a trueshowman, standing upagainst oppression and in-tolerance with flair.

“He was the epitome ofa man who did what wasright, no matter the cost,”said Sobral, who coaches atthe North Burnaby BoxingClub. “He essentially gaveup the prime years of his ca-

reer standing for what hebelieved in, no matter whatpublic opinion said.Therewas no guarantee he’d getanother chance. How manyathletes would walk awayfrom that, from the millionsand fame, today?”

Another Burnaby boxer,DaleWalters, was touchedby Ali’s presence at an ear-ly age.

In 1972 as Ali began theclimb back to the top of theboxing world, he came toVancouver to fight Canadi-an champion George Chu-valo. On the undercard wasWalters, at the age of 10 al-ready a veteran of 20 fights.

In an interview with thePrince George Citizen’sTed Clarke on Saturday,Walters reflected on meet-ing “The Greatest.”

“(Ali) said, ‘What’s yourname boy?’ and I said ‘It’sDale.’

“Then he says, ‘Are yougoing to be the next cham-pion of the world?’ I waskind of scared and said,‘Yeah, I’m going to try.’And then he says to me,‘Well you might be the nextchampion of the world,but you’ll never be as pret-ty as me.’ And everybodylaughed.”

Walters would go on towin a bronze medal forCanada at the 1984 Olym-pics. His meeting Ali re-mains a favourite moment.

“My whole life I’ve beentelling that story,” saidWalters.

On two occasions, Sobralmet “The Greatest.” Both

TheGreatest:Burnaby’sMannySobral satbesideMuhammadAli in2009as the twoattendeda filmonAli. PHOTOSUBMITTED

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Quickoff theblocks:St. ThomasMore’s ZionCorralesNelsonbecame the first female in33years towin the three sprintingevents at theB.C.High School trackandfield championships inNanaimo. PHOTOWILSONWONG/UBCATHLETICS

CorralesNelsoncruisestoB.C. triplegoldRare high school track feat a big springboard to a busy summer for St.Thomas More sprinter

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Takinghis cut:BurnabyBraves’ AidanTomalty swingshardat apitchSaturdayduringGame1of adoubleheaderwithNorth Island. ThemidgetAAAbaseball Braves ralliedwith six runs towin10-8, giving coachKyleWilliamshis 500th careercoachingvictory. PHOTOJENNIFERGAUTHIER

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It’s been a rough two weeks for theBurnaby junior Lakers.

After launching a new B.C. JuniorA Lacrosse League season with prom-ise, the squad has suffered its shareof slings and arrows to the tune of sixstraight losses.

The skid’s latest knock came Sun-day when Langley visited the Cope-land Sports Arena and exited with a10-6 decision, one day after the Lakerswere trounced 24-3 in Delta.

Against Langley, Burnaby fought anuphill battle much of the way but over-came a 6-4 deficit to stand tied afterKyle Heiling’s 11th goal of the season.

But in the final nine minutes, thevisitingThunder struck with four un-

answered tallies, led by Alek Gibbs’pair, to walk away with the win.

Missing from the lineup were cap-tain Danny Spagnuolo, who leads theclub with 25 goals in 11 games, andAidan Milburn.

Also scoring for the Lakers wereMason Pomeroy, with two, JesseGastaldo,Wyatt Pinder and DamonPrince.

In Ladner the previous day, the hostIslanders rattled off 10 unansweredgoals in the first and led 16-0 beforeSpagnuolo put Burnaby on the board.Netminder Graham Husick faced 68shots in the one-sided affair.

Burnaby, which sits tied for lastplace in the eight-team circuit, willhave a shot at redemption on Sunday,7 p.m. when the Islanders pay a visit tothe Copeland Sports Centre.

times he came away wowed.“I was training in Nevada in 1996 with (Ali’s) former trainer Angelo Dundee

and he came to visit a couple of times,” recalled Sobral. “(Ali) was still mobileand on his feet, still had that spark, talking and joking…

“In 2009 we met again this time inVancouver. I attended the premiere of (thefilm) Facing Ali and I got to shake his hand and eat popcorn beside him. (Parkin-son’s disease) had definitely affected him, but he was still a powerful person.

“It was one of the greatest moments of my life, really.”

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