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A Burnaby school district budget break-down presented to parents last week left outthe fact that local schools will be startingnext year about $4 million in the black.

Last Monday, secretary-treasurer GregFrank provided parents with a budget over-view for the 2014/15 and 2015/16 schoolyears at a monthly district parent advisorycouncil (DPAC) meeting.

A handout distributed at the meeting andnow posted on the DPAC website project-ed the district facing a $4.5-million shortfallnext year with no anticipated reserve fundsto cover it.The amended 2014/15 budget

passed by the board the following day, how-ever, indicates the district will go into nextyear with a $4 million unrestricted surplus.

The discrepancy did not concern DPACchair Jen Mezei.

She told the NOW the district had toldparents the figures at the meeting were pre-liminary and that the shortfall would likelybe smaller in reality because the district hadended up with a surplus – though the size ofthe surplus was not specified.

She said she expected DPAC to be updat-ed on current budget figures in upcomingdiscussions with the district.

At Monday’s meeting, however, parentspassed a motion to “take a position againstthe education funding cuts” announced in

the provincial budget last month.“How are we going to cut an already

stressed budget?” Mezei stated in a press re-lease after the meeting. “The level of fund-ing provincially has not been able to provideB.C. students with the level of resources andsupport that parents want.”

The DPAC chair said themotion was sparked by theprovincial budget announce-ment Feb. 17, not by the direbudget picture presented toparents by the district lastweek. Of particular concernto DPAC was a plan by theprovince to cut school districtadministrative costs across the province by$54 million over the next two years.

Frank told the NOW the district gave par-ents as much information about next year’sbudget as early as possible at last week’s

meeting, but the presentation wasn’t meantto be a full explanation of all the details.

That kind of explanation won’t be avail-able until after the province announces nextyear’s funding in mid-March, he said.

“DPAC’s objective was to start a discus-sion amongst their members to

start looking at budget priori-ties and budget adjustmentdiscussions,” Frank said.

He added that even afterthis year’s surplus is appliedto next year’s budget, the dis-trict still expects to face sig-nificant shortfalls.The school district’s prelimi-

nary 2015/16 budget is scheduled to go be-fore the school board for approval April 28.

A public budget forum is scheduled forApril 9 at Burnaby Central Secondary at 7p.m.

School district budget presentation to parents didn’tdetail $4-million surplus to start next school year

ONTHESCENE MountieswereonsceneSundayatRosewoodStreet andCanadaWay followinganalleged robberywhereoneof the suspectswasallegedly shotbyaBurnabyRCMPofficer. The Independent InvestigationsOfficeofB.C. is investigating. PHOTOJENNIFERGAUTHIER

Witnessessought [email protected]

Anyone who may have witnessed a po-lice-involved shooting near CanadaWayand Rosewood Street early Sunday morn-ing is asked to contact the IndependentInvestigations Office of B.C.

Members of the provincial policewatchdog were dispatched to Burnabyat 3:18 a.m. on March 1 after BurnabyRCMP reported a suspect had been shotduring an altercation with police.

Officers with the Burnaby RCMP wereon patrol at about 2:45 a.m. when theycame across an alleged robbery in prog-ress at the 7-Eleven at CanadaWay andEdmonds Street, according to a media re-lease from Burnaby RCMP.

The officers attempted to arrest thetwo male suspects, but they fled the scenein a vehicle.

“A police vehicle was rammed. Shotswere fired, and both suspects fled in the

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MAKINGACASE From left, SchoolDistrictNo. 41music teachersRegLaPlante, RyanPhelpsandJanetNordstrandurged the schoolboardat lastweek’smeetingnot tomakecuts to the schoolmusicprogramnext year. PHOTOCORNELIANAYLOR

MusicteachersonalertMaking the case to protect music programs if budget cuts are [email protected]

Burnaby music teachersare circling the wagons ear-ly to protect the school dis-trict’s music program.

The school district won’tfind out how much moneyit’s getting from the prov-ince for next year untilmid-March, but a delega-tion of music educators hasalready appealedto the board topreserve the dis-trict’s music pro-grams and staffinglevels.

“We all hopein this time of fis-cal constraint, thatthe board choos-es to continue tosupport and main-tain music staff-ing at its current levels,to continue to have certi-fied music educators in ev-ery school and to allow ourlearners to have as muchtime in the music class asthey do currently,” Burna-by Music Educators Asso-ciation chair and GilmoreElementary music teacherRyan Phelps told trusteesat a school board meetingTuesday.

During early budgetplanning last year, the dis-

trict proposed coveringpart of a projected $3.1million shortfall by cut-ting almost nine non-en-rolling teaching positions,which include music teach-ers, librarians and resourceteachers.

Teachers and parents ral-lied around the music pro-gram, however, and the dis-trict eventually made cutselsewhere.

Now, as the dis-trict gets ready tohammer out nextyear’s budget, stafffrom the board of-fice have alreadybeen in touch withthe music edu-cators associa-tion, Phelps toldthe NOW, andthe group is wor-ried the district is

once again looking for plac-es to cut.

“That’s sort of what pre-cipitated a bit of our pre-sentation to the board on(last week),” Phelps said.“We’ve been so lucky inBurnaby that the board hasbeen able to continue tosupport us for so long, andthe worry that we do haveis that things might start tochange and go another di-rection.”

Burnaby is among only

a few districts in the prov-ince to have a certified mu-sic teacher and dedicatedmusic room in every schooland to provide all kinder-garten-to-Grade 7 studentsbetween 90 to 100 minutesof music instruction everyweek.

The district also sup-ports a number of honourensembles and festivals.

That’s all as it should be,according to Phelps.

His appeal to the boardthis week emphasized mu-sic’s unique ability to en-gage all students, includingEnglish language learnersand students with excep-tional needs.

“I really think that it en-gages students right fromthe very beginning, and itencompasses everybody inthe school,” Phelps said.

Board members weresympathetic.

Trustee Katrina Chensaid music was her first av-enue to friendship whenshe came to Canada as a17-year-old.

“I spoke very limitedEnglish,” she said at themeeting, “but I was able tomake friends through myband classes and also mychoir classes. I was able touse music to communicatewith my fellow classmates,

so we all know the impor-tance of music.”

Chair Ron Burton alsoreferenced personal mu-sic experiences at schooland said the board would“keep the music programin mind” as it deliberatedover the budget in comingmonths.

Burton told the NOWthe board is proud of theprogram and has tried tokeep it intact in the past byfinding administrative sav-ings, but there’s no guar-antee deeper cuts won’t beneeded for next year.

“We can’t say definitivelywe won’t touch it,” he said.

Highrisecutto42storeys

A highrise proposed forGilmore Avenue and Doug-las Road is going back topublic hearing, albeit with abit of a trim.

In 2013, the Aviara II de-veloper put forward a planfor a 52-storey highrise eastof the Aviara I project atGilmore and Halifax Street.

After the project went topublic hearing, the appli-cant, LM Aviara Commu-nities Ltd., realized the pro-posed support structure wasinefficient and uneconom-ical, according to a report

from Burnaby’s director ofplanning and building, LouPelletier.

The design has beentweaked and the applicanthas submitted a proposal fora 42-storey highrise instead.

Two low-rise apartmentbuildings, four and six sto-reys respectively, are stillpart of the proposed project.

The development pro-posal will go to public hear-ing on March 31 at 7 p.m.in the council chamber atcity hall.

– Janaya Fuller-Evans

Burnaby commercialbanker and three-time fed-eral Liberal candidate forBurnaby-Douglas, Bill Cun-ningham, is Simon FraserUniversity’s new boardchair.

Cunningham, who servedas deputy chair last year andhas been on the SFU boardsince 2011, beganhis three-year termwith the gavel onJan. 30.

He is current-ly the manager ofcommercial creditwithTD Commer-cial Banking basedin Richmond, B.C.and has worked forTD Bank Groupoffices in both Cal-gary and Burnaby.

He was the executive di-rector and senior advisor forthe Government of Cana-da’s Minister’s regional of-fice inVancouver from 2004to 2006. He is also on theboard of directors of theDown Syndrome ResearchFoundation.

Other boards he hasserved on include the SFUAlumni Association, theVancouver Society of Chil-dren’s Centres,TD Friendsof the Environment Foun-dation and the InnerChange

Foundation.Cunningham holds a

master of business admin-istration from SFU and abachelor of commerce fromUniversity of Alberta.

Cunningham ran unsuc-cessfully as a Liberal candi-date in the riding of Burna-by-Douglas in three straight

federal electionsin 2005, 2006 and2008. He was de-feated by NDP in-cumbent Bill Sik-say each time.

Cunningham,45, is also a formerpresident of theLiberal Party ofCanada in B.C.

He told theNOW on Fridaythat his communi-

ty activism and role as a par-ent of two young boys haveprecluded further active po-litical involvement.

“I have no intention ofrunning again,” he said.“I’m not involved activelyin provincial or federal poli-tics.”

Other new appointmentsto the SFU board includeJulia Kim as deputy chairand Christopher Lewis andElio Luongo as order-in-council members.

– Cornelia Naylor

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vehicle,” stated the release.Officers found the sus-

pects’ minivan a short dis-tance away. Investigatorsbelieve one of the suspectshad crashed the vehicle intoa fence at CanadaWay andRosewood Street. He wasfound near the vehicle suf-fering from a serious injuryallegedly caused by a gun-shot, according to the Inde-pendent Investigations Of-fice of B.C.

The suspect was taken tohospital for treatment whileofficers located and arrest-ed the second suspect. He

remains in custody at thistime.

No officers or bystanderswere injured.

Members of the Indepen-dent Investigations Office ofB.C. were on scene in Burn-aby Sunday morning lay-ing down yellow markersalong CanadaWay betweenEdmonds and Rosewoodstreets, combing nearby sur-veillance footage and can-vassing the area for witness-es.

According to the investi-gations office, its membersare conducting a “standardinvestigation” into the inci-

dent and believe there werepeople in the area of Can-adaWay and RosewoodStreet prior to the crash. In-vestigators are asking any-one who may have been inthat area between 2:30 and3 a.m. to contact the officeat 1-855-446-8477.

No other information isavailable as it is still early inthe investigation, accordingto the Independent Investi-gations Office of B.C.

The Burnaby RCMP iscontinuing to investigate therobbery. No information isavailable at this time.

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The cities of Burnaby andVancouver are saying near-ly half of their questions forKinder Morgan have goneunanswered.

The responses, whichKinder Morgan filed onFeb. 18, are part of the on-going National EnergyBoard hearing to review thecompany’s plan to expandtheTrans Mountain pipe-line, which runs throughBurnaby.

“In May of last year, wesubmitted 1,679 questions,62 per cent of which Kind-er Morgan chose not to an-swer and for which they

gave only partial answersto 14 per cent,” said Burn-aby Mayor Derek Corri-gan in a joint press releasewithVancouver. “Becausethe city has very significantquestions that focus on thehundreds of ways in whichKinder Morgan’s proposedpipeline and tank farmwould threaten our city andregion’s safety, security andlivability, we again askedKinder Morgan to provideanswers. Unfortunately –but not surprisingly – Kind-er Morgan has again failedto show respect for our cit-izens’ questions by refus-ing to answer almost half ofthem.”

Vancouver Mayor Gregor

Robertson also bemoanedthe city’s unanswered ques-tions.

“The continued lack ofinformation fromKinder Morganand their inabil-ity to adequate-ly answer ques-tions about theiremergency man-agement plans is ahuge concern forresidents and busi-nesses inVancou-ver and across theregion,” Robert-son said. “The citycontinues to find very sig-nificant gaps in the infor-mation that Kinder Morganhas provided for a project

that puts our environmentand economy at risk.”

The cities asked ques-tions on a variety of topics,

mostly on the envi-ronmental, healthand safety risks ofthe project.The in-formation requestprocedure is theNEB’s way of let-ting intervenors inthe pipeline hear-ing ask the compa-ny questions, nowthat oral cross-ex-aminations are nolonger done.

Following the first roundof information requests lastspring, Burnaby,Vancou-ver and the provincial gov-

ernment all lamented thelack of answers from KinderMorgan.

Kinder Morgan Canadapresident Ian Anderson re-cently told the NOW thatsome of the questions in thesecond round were not rel-evant or outside the scopeof issues, as defined by theNEB.

“Having said that, we’redoing, I think, a more ful-some job of respondingto as much as we possi-bly can within that scope,and I think intervenors willfind that as they see the an-swers,” Anderson said. “TheNEB process is not the onlyway they are going to getanswers from us.We’re deal-

ing directly with commu-nities on their local issues,their local concerns thatmay not be relevant to theNEB filing, but may still berelevant to our relationshipwith the community.”

Trans Mountain spokes-person Ali Hounsell alsopointed out that intervenorsare free to file motions withthe NEB if they want moreanswers.

“Ultimately, last time, wewent back and provided in-formation for a whole lot,”she said.

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Two men are facingcharges for their allegedroles in the killing of a 27-year-old man at EdmondsSkyTrain station two weeksago.

Homicide investigatorsarrested two men – a 22-year-old and an 18-year-old– in connection with JamesEnright’s death in Burna-by on Feb. 15.The 22-year-old has been charged withsecond-degree murder,while the 18-year-old is fac-ing charges of manslaughterand assault causing bodily

harm, according to a mediarelease.

Burnaby RCMP arrivedat Edmonds station on Feb.15 shortly before 1 a.m. En-right was found in need ofmedical attention and wastaken to hospital but died ashort while later.

Investigators allege En-right was stabbed during analtercation at the EdmondsSkyTrain station bus loopwith the two accused.

“This has been a gruel-ling investigation with manywitnesses,” Sgt. Stephanie

Ashton, spokesperson forthe homicide team, said ina media release. “It is withthe help of the public andthe media this matter is nowbefore the courts. IHIT isthankful for the support ofthe public in assisting withthis investigation.”

The names of the accusedare protected under a publi-cation ban and won’t be re-leased.

The ban also prevents anyother details from being re-leased.

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Snakesalive inBurnabyConstruction in Delta disturbs hundreds of hibernating gartersnakes – and now they’re sleeping it off at wildlife [email protected]

There’s a low hissing sound inthe halls of theWildlife RescueAssociation of B.C.The Burna-by-based rehabilitation centre hasbeen flooded with hundreds ofsnakes from Delta.

“It’s kind of a low-level hiss be-cause they are writhing,” said as-sociation spokespersonYolandaBrooks. “We’ve never had anythinglike this at all.We get the odd twoor three snakes a year.This is acompletely different incident.”

Brooks said about 12 snakeswere brought in lastThursday, butwhen she came to work the nextday, there were hundreds.Thereare more than 400 snakes in theassociation’s care.

“I’m snake-wrangling. Some ofthem keep trying to get out of thebucket, so I have to put them backin,” Brooks said.

Brooks said the snakes are froma worksite in Delta, where crewsare upgrading a dike.

Brooks said they are three spe-cies of garter snakes, which tend tooverwinter in large groups.

“Obviously, they just disturbedthe snakes from the hibernation,”she said.

Brooks said the association willkeep the snakes in an outdoor en-closure until April, and then gov-ernment biologists will releasethem back where they were found.The snakes are in plastic bins filledwith sawdust, with 20 snakes to a

bin.TheWildlife Rescue Association

helps more than 4,000 injured ororphaned animals every year andruns a rehabilitation centre closeto Burnaby Lake.The associationis hoping the public will donatemoney to buy more plastic tubs ifneed be.

For more information on the as-sociation, go to wildliferescue.ca.

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ThechequeredroadtocivicpowerIs it time for the provin-

cial government to crackdown on municipal electionspending?

It’s a question that’s be-ing asked around the prov-ince since election spend-ing reports were releasedlast week.

In some cases, candidatesvying for seats on municipalcouncils and school boardsforked over some very bigbucks in order to secure theseats they now hold.

Compounding that is-

sue is the fact that thosevery same bucks come inmany cases from two fund-ing sources that always raisecontroversy: labour andbusiness.

Case in point: the Burn-aby Citizens Associationwent into the 2014 electionwith a whopping $484,649in contributions, up bymore than $200,000 fromthe previous election. Ofthat money, a full $161,325came from trade unions –the largest single donor be-

ing the city workers’ union,CUPE Local 23. Add tothat $144,100 from corpo-rations, and you can’t denythat the BCA is benefitinggreatly from both sources offunding.

Now, we’ll be the first toacknowledge that simply ac-cepting a campaign dona-tion does not create an au-tomatic conflict of interest.It’s perfectly possible forcandidates, regardless oftheir political stripe, to ac-cept money from a union or

a corporation and still makesound, balanced judge-ments about civic issues.

But the fact of the matteris, seeing large amounts ofmoney flowing in to candi-dates’ campaigns from busi-ness and labour raises vot-ers’ suspicions about justhow fair the process is.

And in politics, as theysay, perception is reality.

Runaway spending andlavish donations in civicelection campaigns sully thediscourse at the council ta-

ble and erode public faith inthe system.

Other areas of the coun-try are already taking actionto address these concerns.

Toronto outlaws busi-ness and union donationsfor municipal candidates.Quebec and Manitoba capspending in city electionsbased on the size of thepopulation.

We would welcome acombination of either. Localgovernment should not be ahobby for the independent-

ly wealthy or a business ex-pense for developers.

Of course, any new rulesshould come with watch-dog power that providesElections B.C. teeth to en-force them and to investi-gate complaints. Ultimate-ly, we feel a community isbest served by a council thatreflects a diversity of ideas,values, expertise and back-grounds – and the best wayto get that is to level theplaying field for all.

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Eighteen-year veteranNewDemocratMPSvendRobinsonwas lucky tobealive at thebeginningof 1998 after a fall froma50-foot cliff during theholidays.

TheMPhadbeenhikingnear his cabin in a remote sectionofGaliano Island twodaysbefore theNewYearwhenhe fell half-waydown theprecipice, breakinghis jawandankle. Robinsonlay unconscious for nearly twohours at thebaseof the cliffbe-fore crawling to anearbyhomewhere a resident called for helpfrom rescue volunteers.

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Two issues have sprungto the fore in the openingweeks of the legislature thatput the stingy (some wouldsay miserly) ways of theB.C. Liberal government onfull public display.

One of them is public ed-ucation, while the other isanother seemingly endlesstale: how much funding theB.C. Ferries system shouldreceive from taxpayers.

Let’s tackle the complexeducation system first.

In a classic case of givingwith one hand, while takingwith the other, the govern-ment has topped up a spe-cial learning fund by $23million while at the sametime cutting school boardbudgets by $29 million (fol-lowed by a further $25 mil-lion chop the followingyear). But while the pub-lic education system is be-ing squeezed (yet again), thegovernment has topped upthe budget for independentschools by $30 million.

There have been howlsof outrage from B.C. schooltrustees about these pend-ing cuts, but Premier Chris-ty Clark has characterizedthe cost-cutting exercise asmerely going after “low-hanging fruit.”

That dismissive commentwas like throwing oil on along-simmering fire.

School districts have beengrappling with rising, un-funded costs in the systemfor years.Things like infla-tion, pension improvements,rising MSP premiums andB.C. Hydro rates haven’tbeen covered by additional

funding for quite a while.Nevertheless, the pro-

vincial government is con-vinced legitimate savingscan be found, either througha greater emphasis onshared “services” betweensome school districts or sim-ply eliminating spendingwaste. Still, one can’t helpbut wonder whether thereis a hidden agenda at workhere: a not-so-subtle push toget some school districts toamalgamate.

It’s a different case whenit comes to forcing “savings”on the B.C. Ferries system.

B.C. Ferries has alreadygone through a significantround of cost-cutting andconsolidation, as sailings onmany routes have been elim-inated.There’s not muchmore there to cut and B.C.Ferries does not have con-trol over certain cost items.

For example, the size ofcrews on ships is mandatedbyTransport Canada, notby B.C. Ferries, and labouris a huge cost item.

B.C. taxpayers alreadygenerously fund B.C. Fer-ries, to the tune of about$190 million a year in sub-sidies. But without any in-crease to that subsidy, fareswill undoubtedly continueto climb, as B.C. Ferries haslimited power to deal withtwo big cost items: labourand fuel costs.

And so far, the penny-pinching B.C. Liberals showno sign of even entertainingthe idea of boosting that an-nual subsidy.

Keith Baldrey is chief politi-cal reporter for Global B.C.

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Stewart could findbetter championsDear EditorCouldMayor Corriganbeconsidereda terrorist, asks the rather prolixmember fromBurnaby-Douglas, becauseofhis participation in ademonstration againstKinderMorganonBurnabyMountain this sum-mer? Heasks this, presumably, out of fear oftheproposed security legislationput forwardby the federal Conservatives – the controver-sial Bill C-51. Now Iwouldn’t care toproffercomment on thatmatter, but it does seemtome that hemight havebeen chargedwithcriminal trespass, or, at the very least – aidingandabetting same.That said,weare emboldened to askhow

MaryWagner, of Toronto, presently a prisonerof conscience there (her facenowappearingonPolish postage stamps) for thehideouscrimeof distributing roses outside of anabortion clinic there. Or, if youwish, closer tohome, howandwhy LindaGibbons, has spentmore timebehindbars thanmostmurderersand child-molesters in this country, for theheinous crimeof protesting inside a so-calledbubble zone! IfMr. KennedyStewart seeks apaladin of virtue re: freedomof expression, hemightwant to startwith those already silencedbehindbars.LarryBennett, Burnaby

Is a balanced budgetreally a great feat?Dear Editor So, theB.C. Liberals producedabalancedbudget. Accordingly to thepremier,it’s a feat thatmight not be equalledby anyother province this year.Makes youproud,does it not? Imean,whowouldhave thoughtthey could achieve something that youand Idoas amatter of course every yearwith ourhouseholdbudgets? It’s a simple equation re-ally: don’t spendmore than you canafford.How’s theprovincial debt, youask?Well,

sorry to saynot so good. It isn’t goingdown.In fact, it hasincreasedto a stag-gering $61billion andclimbing. Thegoodnewsis they’regoing tousethe current

$879-millionbudget surplus topay someof itoff. Thebadnews is they’re planning toborrowanother $14.2 billionover thenext three years.Whyborrowmoremoney?Well, partly to

build transportation infrastructure,which, ac-cording to government andbusiness leaders,helps grow the economy. I don’t knowaboutyou, but I don’t recall seeingmucheconomicgrowthas a result of past bridge twinningorperimeter roadbuilding, so I have towonderabout that. Couldn’twe just saveup surplusesin a capital expenditure fund insteadof bor-rowing? Isn’t thatwhat theCity of Burnabydoes?But thebottom line isweelected these

guys in thebelief they couldmanageourfinances better than theother guys. So, if ithasn’t turnedout thatway,wehavenoone toblamebut ourselves. It’s our own fault. And, asyouknow–not toput too fine apoint on it –weall have topay for ourmistakes.Oh,my, howwewill pay.

Bill BrassingtonSr., Burnaby

What does electionspending reveal?

Keith Just further proof thatmoneybuys elections, especially at the locallevel. It’s really kindof sad that theBCAhad to spendnearly half amilliondollars to get re-elected, especiallyconsidering their opponents only spentjust under $30,000. IfMayor Corriganandhisminions are really doing suchagreat job,whywas it necessary tospendover 10 times the competition?Anyone else happen tonotice that theBurnaby Firefighterswere oneof thelowest contributors to theBCAandnow find themselves at a contractimpassewithBurnaby?

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Not even a third-partymediator could get the twosides to agree to a new con-tract when firefighters andcity staff met for mediationon Feb. 5 and 6.

This wasn’t much ofa surprise for Rob Lam-oureux, president of theInternational Associationof Firefighters Local 323,which represents 281 fire-fighters in Burnaby.

“We were hoping for athird party to come in andbe able to bridge the gap,but that was unsuccessful,”Lamoureux said. “We bothparted ways there to go tothe next step, which wouldbe arbitration.”

Across the province,15 fire departments havesigned new collective agree-ments, 13 of which weresigned freely without the as-sistance of a third-party ar-bitrator. In neighbouringNewWestminster, the firedepartment’s union and cityagreed to a seven-year con-tract in December, whichincluded a 2.5 per centwage increase retroactive toJan. 2012. Delta firefight-ers, who were the first in theLower Mainland to sign anew deal, also agreed to along-term agreement, opt-ing for eight years.

Of the 15 departmentsthat have inked new con-tracts, two (Vancouver

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As the Burnaby firefight-ers’ union and city pre-pare to go to arbitration,union members can’t helpbut think they’re going toget the same dealVancou-ver and Prince George got,leaving Lamoureux wonder-ing if it’s worth even hiringan arbitrator.

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“Those are the issues thatneed to be worked out. It’snot just settled on the termof the contract duration andalso the wage increase,” headded.

Chu couldn’t say howmuch going to arbitrationwould cost the city until anagreed-upon arbitrator ishired.

“It all hinges on whois available, what’s theircharge-out rate and howlong the arbitration will be,”Chu said. “Definitely, we’llbe looking at that cost tothe city. So, at this point intime, once we get the arbi-trator appointed and also aschedule set up, we’ll prob-ably have a better handle ofthe costs.”

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Neither Chunor Lamoureuxwould say whathas the two partiesat odds, but in anearlier interviewwith the NOW,Chu said he hopesthe city and thefirefighters’ union can cometo an agreement through ar-

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March 4, 2015

Meet the Karamessinis: From left, Eva, Niki and Bia, Ari, Maximo and Thanasi with Pam and Tom, and Denny with his niece Anika. Pam and Tom Karamessinis opened SfinakiGreek Taverna in the Heights in December 1995 with their four children Eva, Niki, Bia and Denny. This year marks the restaurant’s 20th anniversary.

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It’s no surprise that spring has sprung

on the Heights. The late winter sun-

shine showed us a springtime teaser;

and as I walk down Hastings Street,

I already see gowers in full bloom. It

is a great reminder that spring break

is approaching. Two weeks off means

lots of fun for the kids, especially when

there is plenty of fun things to do on

the Heights.

Start the break off right by enjoying the

outdoors. With incredible views and

parks, Burnaby Heights has the perfect

spots to host a family picnic. Take the

family to Confederation Park to kick

the ball around and burn off some

energy. Confederation Park has playing

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off-leash dog areas for you to explore.

Bring some cold cuts from one of our

delis and fresh bread from a Heights

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Fresh air paired with fresh food sounds

like the perfect day to me!

Let your child express their creativ-

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class at 4Cats Art Studio or Artspace

Children’s Art Centre. There is nothing

more hands-on and rewarding for a kid

than creating a sculpture with clay or

painting a canvas all by themselves.

Let them explore their creativity with

the dynamic teachers the Heights has to

offer. They can take home their art and

have something special to remember

this spring break by.

While they are in class, you can get

your errands done around the Heights.

Scope out the after-class treats all over

the Heights, such as Chez Christophe,

Bon Bon Bakery, Glenburn Soda Foun-

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No matter how you choose to celebrate

this spring, enjoy all the family fun the

Heights has to offer.

For a list of our merchants, please visit

www.burnabyheights.com.

Sydney Van Alstyne is the market-

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Heights Merchants Association.

Spring break fun in the Heights Sfinaki turns 20By Cayley Dobie

Back when a loaf of bread

and a dozen eggs would

cost you about $2, Toy Storywas the hrst (and only) fully

computer generated feature

hlm and Bill Copeland was

mayor of Burnaby – the

Karamessinis family was

girting with the idea of

opening a Greek restaurant

in the Heights.

In 1995, Tom Karames-

sinis and a business partner

owned and operated a Greek

restaurant in NewWest-

minster that also served

pastas, pizza and more, but

Karamessinis and his wife

Pam were looking for a

change.

According to their kids Eva,

Denny and Bia, the couple

pitched the idea to their

children, most of whom

had graduated high school

by then and were working

odd jobs here and there. It

was Karamessinis, who had

owned a few restaurants

in the Heights in the ’60s

and ’70s, who suggested

they open shop on Hastings

Street.

“We didn’t really know too

much about this

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Heights contributor

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‘There was nothing to really manage, it was just us’neighbourhood,” Denny said. He

was in Grade 9 when his fam-

ily hnally opened Shnaki Greek

Taverna at 4061 East Hastings St.

in Burnaby.

Before the Heights became what

Eva calls the Commercial Drive of

Burnaby, it was a quiet neighbour-

hood with a few family-owned res-

taurants and delis here and there.

When Shnaki hrst opened on Dec.

1, 1995, business was slow and it

was just the Karamessinis fam-

ily working in the restaurant. Eva

and her sisters would come in to

waitress after work while Pam and

her sister worked in the kitchen.

Denny, who now manages the

restaurant with his father, would

help out after school, and Tom

would do pretty much everything

and anything to keep it all running

smoothly.

“When we hrst opened, it was just

us. There was nothing to really

manage, it was just us. Yes, we

had to manage the customers and

all that other stuff, but it wasn’t

like we had an overhead of people

working here at that time,” Eva

said.

Denny and his sisters joke that

their parents were lucky to have a

family big enough to run the res-

taurant. Even today, Eva, Bia, Niki

and Denny still work regularly at

Shnaki, either serving customers

or cooking in the back with their

mother (yes, she and her husband

still work there, too).

As business eventually picked up

and word about the new Greek res-

taurant on Hastings Street spread

across the Lower Mainland, the

Karamessinis family hired some

extra bodies to come in on busy

nights – many of them are still

working in the restaurant.

“We started out small and not very

busy, and it took a few years for

things to pump up and for us to

get established and get our regular

clientele and just become part of

the neighbourhood,” Eva said.

Since then, Shnaki hasn’t had a

down year. The restaurant has

had a steady amount of success

throughout its 20 years and today,

customers come from all over the

Lower Mainland, including Burn-

aby, East Vancouver and the North

Shore to enjoy the Karamessinises’

authentic Greek cooking – similar

to what you’d hnd cooking at the

Karamessinises’ own backyard

barbecues.

For the Karamessinis kids, the

Heights has become a second

home and now a hrst home for

many – Denny, Niki and Bia all

live in and around the Heights

now. In fact, Karamessinis’s grand-

kids often mistake Shnaki as his

and Pam’s home, Bia laughed.

When asked what the future has in

store for Shnaki and the Karames-

sinis family, Denny said he hopes

to see it stay open for years to

come, and maybe even one day the

next generation of Karamessinises

will want to take it over.

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The Arts ClubTheatrehas taken its production ofLarry Shue’s farce The For-eigner on the road, and it’llbe stopping in Burnaby forshows on March 12 and 13.

It tells the tale of Char-lie (JohnVoth), who justwants a little peace and qui-et when he heads to a fish-ing lodge in Georgia – andso opts to masquerade as aforeigner who can’t speakEnglish. He soon discoversthat people will say the mostextraordinary things when

they think no one can un-derstand them.

“It’s a tale of tolerance,friendship, and the mag-ic of kindness,” said direc-tor Evan Frayne in a pressrelease. “Charlie’s plight is

one that we can all relate to:How does one acquire per-sonality?What must it belike to tell a funny story?Toarouse laughter; anger; re-

spect; to be thought wise? Icouldn’t be more excited toonce again be working onthis heartwarming play withthis amazing cast, who wonthree Jessie Awards for theiroutstanding performancesin 2014.”

Starring alongsideVothare Peter Carlone, Erla FayeForsyth, Mack Gordon, By-ron Noble, Ryan Scramstadand KaitlinWilliams.

The Foreigner is onstage atthe Shadbolt CentreThurs-day, March 12 and Friday,March 13 at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $42 regularor $38 for seniors and stu-dents. Buy through tickets.shadboltcentre.com or call604-205-3000.

You can find out moreabout the production atwww.artsclub.com.

Farce: Top, John Voth and, above, Erla Faye Forsyth and Ryan Scramstad in the Arts Club Theatre produc-tion of The Foreigner. The Arts Club on Tour production is coming to Shadbolt Centre for the Arts for showson March 12 and 13. PHOTOS COURTESY ARTS CLUB THEATRERON REED

Stranger in astrange land?John Voth starsin the Arts Clubproduction ofThe Foreigner,onstage at theShadbolt Cen-tre March 12and 13.PHOTOCOURTESYARTS CLUBTHEATREEMILY COOPER

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Girls leadKnightstothree-peatSTM wins B.C.wrestling [email protected]

St.Thomas More did itagain.

The small Burnaby inde-pendent high school toppedthe B.C. high school wres-tling championships for athird consecutive year fol-lowing last weekend’s pro-vincial championships inAbbotsford.

Individual champions ju-nior Caileen Corbett, fifth-year senior Nicole Depaand Livleen Sidhu, whostarted wrestling in Grade9, led the lady Knights to aresounding defence of theaggregate girls’ banner, gar-nering a ladder-topping 83total points, far outdistanc-ing runner-up Ucluelet bymore than 50 points.

The STM boys chippedin with 30 more team pointsto secure the program itsthird straight aggregate title.

“It’s a great feeling and agreat feeling for (the team),”said STM wrestling coachDoug Corbett. “I told them,‘Don’t let anyone take (thebanner) away from you. Allthe girls wanted to do betterthan they did last year, andthey did.

“It’s very difficult to do.We have a good coachingstaff and that makes a bigdifference. But we put in alot of extra time as a group.We’re lucky we got a lot ofgood support, but our kidsbuy into it.”

Caileen Corbett won at40 kilograms, while Depatopped the field at 57kg andSidhu earned gold at 69kg.

Ciara Corbett won a silver

medal at 51kg and AmandaSilveri was also a runner-upat 110kg for STM.TaylorMcIntosh earned a bronzemedal at 60kg.

Also making the podi-um were fifth-year MeaganChow and Gabriela Chavez,fourth and sixth, respective-ly, at 43kg; and Natalie Nel-son, who also placed fourthat 64kg.

The Knight boys alsowrestled well, with Stepha-no Pozzolo and Joel Calica,who came back from a ribinjury in December, placingsecond in their respective45 and 48kg weight classes.Daniel Alphonso was fourthat 51kg.

But the jewels in STM’scrown are the girls who, forthe past decade, continue toplace as a top-five team atthe provincials.

“The team we had thisyear was pretty solid,” Cor-bett said. “It is perhaps thesmallest team we’ve had,but the (wrestlers) we hadwere good.”

Notre Dame’s Sere-naWoldring won the girls’75kg gold, while teammateToni Medeiros was third at40kg.

Chelsea Coombes ofBurnaby North won abronze medal at 51kg andMeleViklani of BurnabyCentral was fifth at 75kg.

On the boys’ side, Jim-my Sidhu of South won at130kg, while brother Sam-my Sidhu, who wrestleswith NewWestminster Sec-ondary, was fourth at 66kg.

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Hands in thepie:EJMabonebattles for a looseballwithaSirWinstonChurchill playerduring theLowerMainland4Ahighschoolboys’ basketball championship final inRichmond last Friday. PHOTOJENNIFERGAUTHIER

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Burnaby South got takento school by the SirWin-ston Churchill Bulldogs atthe Lower Mainland highschool quad A boys’ bas-ketball championships.

The defending B.C. 4Achamps spotted South an8-0 start and then tookover at both ends of thecourt en route to a 94-86win in the title game at theRichmond Olympic Ovalon Friday.

Churchill finished thefirst quarter on a 25-7run and then dominatedthe second with 28 morepoints to go into halftimewith a big 19-point lead.

South managed to shavethe deficit down to singledigits by the final quar-

ter, but near-perfect 21-for-26 shooting from thefree-throw line allowedChurchill to hold on to itsadvantage.

“Athletically, we couldn’tcompete with them. Jer-maine (Haley) can jumpout of the roof.Tyus (Ba-tiste) can jump out of theroof.We had to do some-thing else,” said secondteam tournament all-starKarnVirk, who had 19points for the Bulldogs.

That something else wassolid fundamental basket-ball - finding good lookson offence, keeping Southlargely to the perimeterand getting to the back-boards at both ends of thefloor.

First-team all-stars Lam-bert Pajoyon and Har-ry Liu led the Bulldogs

with 26 and 20 points, re-spectively. Gary Minhaschipped in with 16, includ-ing nine-of-10 fourth quar-ter points from the charitystripe.

South’s Jermaine Ha-ley led all scorers with 39points, including 16 in thefinal 10 minutes in a last-ditch effort to claw theRebels back into the game.

Batiste was next with18 points, including fourthree-pointers.

Haley and Batsiste wereboth named first team all-stars. NicTrninic was asecond-team pick.

“They just worked hard-er than we did,” said Burn-aby South guard EJ Ma-bone, who had 13 points,one block and four stealsfor the Rebels. “They werebeating us at all aspects of

the game.”South managed just 10

rebounds in the first halfof play, and just two off theoffensive glass.

That stat and Churchill’sability to put up more than50 first-half points, sti-fled the Rebels’ transitiongame.

“That was probably(Churchill’s) best game,but it wasn’t anywhere nearour best game,” Mabonesaid. “We have to work onour team defence.”

Despite the loss, Southadvanced to the B.C. highschool championships inLangley with the secondMainland berth.

Honourable mentionDavidThompson will bemaking its first appearance

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AAA Knights qualify third for hoop [email protected]

St.Thomas More will en-ter the B.C. high schoolAAA boys’ basketball cham-pionships as the seventhseed following a third-placefinish at the Lower Main-land championships.

The Knights bouncedback from a double-digit

loss to McMath in the semi-finals to beat McNair 65-58 in the third and fourthplacement game at theRichmond Olympic Ovalon Friday.

STM led by as many as15 points in the first half,but trailed by a single pointwith four minutes left toplay against the Richmondschool.

“We go through thesespells of lackluster playand being half asleep, andwe’re still working on get-ting the kids to buy in to thehalf court,” said STM headcoach Aaron Mitchell.

“We needed to wake up,”said JJ DesLauriers, theKnights’ second team tour-nament all-star. “I think weput a lot of pressure on our-

selves and we want to playtoo much out of our com-fort zone.”

Grade 10 forward CamMorris, who led the Knightswith 18 points, was namedto the tournament first all-star team.

“At the end of the day,we just needed the win,”Mitchell added.

CharlesTupper won the

Mainland final for a sec-ond straight year, defeatingRichmond’s McMath.

The provincial AAAchampionships takes placeat the Langley Events Cen-tre from March 11 to 14.

JVKNIGHTS PLACE 6TH

STM’s junior varsity bas-ketball team wound up insixth place at the B.C. high

school boys’ championshipsin Langley.

The JV Knights wentinto the final quarter tied28 points apiece withTerryFox, but it was the Ravenswho emerged with a 49-42win at the LEC on Satur-day.

After a slow and mostly

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Final four:BurnabyWinterClub, inwhite, scoredon thisplayandwenton topost a5-2victoryover theVancouverThunderbirds inaPacificCoast AmateurHockeyAssociation repatomA1final-fourplayoff gameat thewinter clubonSunday.Withthewin,BWC improved itsplayoff record to2-0.PHOTOJENNIFERGAUTHIER

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placed third at 45kg, while Connor Pattison was fifth at84kg and David Penalver was sixth at 51kg.

Aidan Labreche of Central earned a silver medal at 41kg.Central teammate Ansel Hait was fourth at 84kg.

Notre Dame’s Sira Santiago and Flixzl Reyes both placedfifth in their respective weight divisions.

AbbotsfordTraditional topped the aggregate boys’ stand-ings with 81 points.WJ Mouat finished third overall with 76total points.

in 47 years following an upset 74-63 win over No. 3-rankedVancouver College for the Mainland’s third berth into theB.C.s.

Thompson’s Harry Brar, who averaged 38 points pergame, including 54 in a double-overtime win over St.George’s earlier in the Mainlands, was named the MVP.

The 4A boys’ provincial championships will take place atthe Langley Events Centre from March 11 to 14.

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B.C. 4A boys March 11

The Simon Fraser Uni-versity community lost itsfounding athletic directorLorne Davies on Saturdayafter battling health issues.

Davies, 84, is survivedby his wife of more than 60years, June, sons, Lorne Jr.and Glyn, and a large ex-tended family.

“Lorne meant everythingto SFU athletics – it was hislife’s work,” said senior di-rector of athletics and rec-reation, student services,Milton Richards in a Clanpress release. “We will for-ever carry his spirit in ourhearts every time our stu-dent athletes put on theClan uniform to enter com-petition. Our crest will al-ways be a tribute to Lorne,his values and his vision.”

Funeral arrangements

have not yet been made, butthe family has requestedthat in-lieu of flowers, do-nations may be made to theLorne Davies Endowment.

Davies became the firstathletic director and foot-ball coach at SFU in 1965,and almost immediately be-gan masterminding some ofthe most forward-thinkingmeasures in Canadian uni-versity sport. Davies hiredfull-time coaches, promotedfemale participation in uni-versity sport, awarded ath-letic scholarships to student-athletes, and took the Clanon a path to compete in theUnited States against Amer-ican competition in theNAIA – offering student-athletes access to the Ameri-can athletic experience witha Canadian education.

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unproductive first three quarters by both teams,Terry Foxstarted the final stanza with some added jump, racing offwith an 11-4 start and never looking back.

Fox was led by Xavion Fleary, who scored a team-high11 points in the second half.

“I knew the game was on the line, so I just played myhardest,” said Fleary, the player of the game.

STM’s Richard Galicia, a tournament second team all-star, led all scorers with 19 points.

Earlier, the Knights got by Fraser Heights and No. 9MEI before getting bounced from the quarter-finals by top-ranked Kitsilano 55-50.

STM then defeated Rick Hansen to set up the fifth-placeshowdown with Fox.

“We ran out of gas a little bit,” said STM coach Domi-nic Zimmermann. “Terry Fox is a very tough team. But I’mproud of these guys.We worked hard and surprised a lot ofpeople.”

Seventh-seeded Killarney pulled off an upset in the JV fi-nal, defeating Kits 64-55 in the championship final.


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