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BurnabysetssightsonmodelstreetdesignsThe word on the street is that Burnaby’s

roadways, boulevards, sidewalks and light-ing are getting a new look.

As major developments move forwardin the four city centres, it won’t be just theskyline that changes – each brings with itnew design elements at the street level, ac-

cording to Stu Ramsey, manager of trans-portation planning for the City of Burn-aby.

Ramsey spoke in detail at Mondaynight’s council meeting about what coun-cil, and residents, can expect to see.

“What we’ve tried to do here is take acomprehensive approach of advancing allof our goals, not just looking at it for mo-bility or the public realm, or the narrow

perspective,” he said. “We’re trying to bevery comprehensive about it.”

The city is focusing on town centres be-cause they are transit hubs with easy walk-ability and accessibility, and because de-velopers are covering much of the costs ofstreet-level improvements in those areasas they build their new highrises and com-mercial buildings, he said.

“As you know, we have a number of sig-

nificant developments coming through therezoning process in the town centres, andthat provided an excellent testing groundby bringing forward these ideas, havingthem reviewed by the development com-mittee, by the public, by this council,”Ramsey said of the new design elements.“And what we are doing is bringing inideas from around the globe.”

UNCERTAINTIMES Conservative leaderStephenHarperbroughthis economic rallying cry toBurnabyonMonday. A crowdof roughly 300 invitation-holding supporters gatheredat theGizehShrineCentre tohearHarper talk aboutprotecting theeconomy fromhigher taxesanddeficits. PHOTOCORNELIANAYLOR

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Canada is an “island of stability” in atroubled world, and the Conservativesplan to keep it that way, according to fed-eral leader Stephen Harper, who spoke inBurnaby Monday.

Harper visited Burnaby’s Gizeh ShrineCentre to bolster Grace Seear’s campaignin Burnaby South and to drive the Con-servative’s economic message home toroughly 300 invitation-holding support-ers.

Harper characterized the Conserva-tives as the only party that could protectCanada, while “the other guys” plan toraise taxes and drive up deficits.

“The world is a dangerous and unsta-ble place.The global economy is unique,it is in turmoil,” Harper said.

He painted a bleak global picture ofEurope’s debt crisis, which he blamed ongovernments’ out-of-control spendingand taxing, leaving younger generationswithout prospects.

“Friends, this is the world we live in: adifficult and dangerous uncertain placeand yet through it all, through it all overthese last few years, there are no bet-ter economic fundamentals, there are nobetter economic prospects, there has

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The new elements includebuilding setback zones, with seat-ing and public art at commercialbuildings, and landscaping andbeautification for residential build-ings, he explained.

The street itself is also different,with wider, smoother sidewalks setback from traffic, a cycling zoneseparated from cars and pedestri-ans, rain gardens to beautify thearea and filter and slow rainwater.

In the front boulevard areas,there is space for light fixtures,bus stops, parking meters andlighting, according to Ramsey, butthe designs for these are also be-ing updated.

One example is the new light-ing along Beresford Street in Me-trotown, he said.

“These light fixtures illustratewe’re not just lighting the street,we’re also lighting the pedestrianarea, and we’re doing it in a waythat is attractive and interesting,”he explained.

Other elements that are notstandard issue but are being add-ed on some areas are public artdisplays, near rain gardens or inbuilding setback zones, he said,and different styles of seating.

Ramsey showed council images

of the different options being con-sidered and incorporated into re-cent developments, including redbarstool-style seating being usedin one area.

“We’re working on creating bet-ter streets in support of betterneighbourhoods,” he said.

Coun. Pietro Calendino said heis temporarily living in an apart-ment near one of the newly de-veloped street areas discussed byRamsey.

“I have to say it is very beauti-ful, very pleasant, very inviting forpeople to actually use the side-walk,” he said, adding he thoughtthe separate cycling area was es-pecially beneficial to cyclists andpedestrians.

However, he pointed out thebroader design can’t work every-where in Burnaby.

“I think it’s a great advan-tage to have that kind of designfor streetscapes in our town cen-tres, and we could expand it toall the other neighbourhoods, butwe don’t have the space in thestreets,” Calendino said.

For more on the changes at thecity’s town centres in Brentwood,Lougheed, Metrotown and Ed-monds, go to www.burnaby.ca/town-centre-streets.

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been no better place to bein a troubled world thanthis island of stability, ourcountry, Canada,” he said.

Harper also highlightedthe Finance Department’sMonday announcementthat government had a $1.9billion budgetary surpluswhen the projected deficithad been for $2 billion.

“We had a small sur-plus last year, and we are ontrack for a second balancedbudget this year,” Harp-er said. “And let me tell,you, that budget didn’t bal-ance itself,” he said, makinga jab at Liberal leader Jus-tinTrudeau, which elicitedlaughter from the audience.

Harper also promised in-

frastructure spending andtalked about the importanceof providing humanitari-an refugee assistance whilekeeping Canada’s borderssecure and fighting terror-ism. He said it was impor-tant to support Canada’s al-lies, including Israel’s rightto exist as a Jewish state andthe Ukraine resisting ag-gression from Russian lead-erVladimir Putin. He said itwas important to not bringback the gun registry, but tocrack down on “real crimi-nals instead.”

“On Oct. 19, every sin-gle vote is going to matter.Every single vote to protectour economy will make adifference to your family, toyour business in your com-

munity, to your job,” Harp-er told the cheering crowd.“Lower taxes, balancedbudget, more jobs.We havea vision for our country, forthe next four years, for pro-tecting our economy, ourfuture, our Canada, proud,strong and free. Let’s work35 more days and see itthrough.”

Reporters were not al-lowed to ask Harper ques-tions, as is the case with allthe evening rallies on thecampaign trail. (The primeminister only takes a limitednumber of media questionsat morning events.)

Rallying the troops:Harper’s speechfocusedon the

uncertaintyof theglobal economyand theneed to

protectCanada introubled times.Hecharacterized the

Liberals and theNDPas those ‘other guys’whowill raise taxes

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Will fear-mongeringwinit forhim?Stephen Harper did a

whistlestop in BurnabyMonday.

Not surprisingly he triedstoking all sorts of fearsin one jam-packed stumpspeech.

If you don’t vote for theConservatives you justmight see the end of Cana-dian society as we know it.Well, we could argue thatwe are already seeing thatthanks to the Conservatives,but let’s just put aside thatstingy thought for a mo-

ment.Harper’s platform of

more security – and no, notthe social security kind thatkeeps more kids from go-ing to sleep at night hungry,or the kind that allows FirstNations people to have se-cure, safe, drinking water –no, he’s saying that only theConservatives can keep usall safe from terrorists run-ning amuck in Canada.That kind of security.

Really?The irony of his state-

ments is not lost on the Ca-nadian veterans who havebeen fighting for years withthe Conservatives to simplyget what they deserve foractually serving their coun-try.

Harper told the audiencein Burnaby, “Friends, this isthe world we live in: a diffi-cult and dangerous uncer-tain place and yet through itall, through it all over theselast few years, there are nobetter economic fundamen-tals, there are no better eco-

nomic prospects, there hasbeen no better place to bein a troubled world than thisisland of stability, our coun-try, Canada.”

For Harper to take cred-it for Canada’s place in theworld, given that our stand-ing in so many ways hasdropped, seems, well, auda-cious to say the least.

Of course, this is what theguy has to do to get votes.Get them thinking thatCanada would be in worseshape without him than

with him. Get them to for-get about Senate scandals,muzzling Canadian scien-tists, gutting environmentalstandards, ignoring climatechange, rolling back seniors’pensions, etc., etc.

Can he do it? Can fear-mongering overpower hope?

Sadly, it can.One only has to look

at our southern neigh-bours to see how people areclamouring for easy anti-immigration answers in theform of DonaldTrump.

Isolationism and a superi-ority complex will not solveany of the problems we faceas a planet. And any leaderwho promises security andeconomic stability in thisday and age is surely prom-ising something that he can-not guarantee.When Chinaslumps, we all slump, andno political leaders can pro-tect us from that global re-ality.

But we should expectmore than fear-mongering.That is not leadership.

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WillB.C.pickthewinner?

A number of observershave suggested the feder-al election’s outcome will be“decided” in British Colum-bia for the first time, as if theresults of the province’s 42ridings will determine whichparty forms government.

I’m not so sure about that– after all, Ontario has manymore ridings, and suburbanToronto itself is still groundzero for all three major par-ties – but it does look likeB.C. could have an unusu-ally high number of rid-ings that may change handscome Oct. 19.

In the past few elections,about three-quarters of ourprovince’s ridings could beconsidered fairly safe territo-ry for one of the three majorparties.This time around,however, the addition of sixnew ridings plus the appar-ent volatility of the elector-ate suggest almost half ofB.C.’s ridings may be genu-inely competitive races.

Unless there is some kindof political earthquake thelikes of which no one haspicked up on, the Con-servatives can be consid-ered a lock in regions suchas the FraserValley andparts of the Interior andNorth. Likewise, the NDPhas a stranglehold on partsofVancouver and areas ofstrength onVancouver Is-land and the North Coast.

The Liberals can’t consid-er any seat to be particular-ly “safe” for them, althoughthey do have two incum-bents and offer the longest-serving MP in B.C. (HedyFry inVancouver-Centre) asa candidate.

Of those roughly 20 B.C.seats that may be “in play,”about 15 of them may keepEasterners up late if it is in-deed a close election resultacross the country.

For starters, three rid-ings may be genuine three-way races, which is a rarityin this province. If we trans-pose the 2011 election re-sults over the new ridingboundaries (and the six newridings themselves) it showsthat in Surrey Newton,Van-couver Centre and the newriding ofVancouver Gran-ville the winning party re-ceived 35 per cent or less ofthe votes cast, with the othertwo parties close behind.

In another dozen or soridings, we can expect tighttwo-way races between theConservatives and the NDP(barring a so-far-unseen sig-nificant rise in Liberal popu-larity in B.C.).

Of course, it’s still earlydays yet and the campaignis only really just beginning.Polls will go up and downand continue to contradicteach other. But if there is in-deed a serious shift in vot-ing patterns, things will getmuch more interesting with-in the B.C. political land-scape.

We may or may not “de-cide” the election outcome,but in any event I have afeeling the rest of Canadawill pay a bit more attentionto what happens within ourprovincial boundaries onelection night than has beenthe case previously.Keith Baldrey is chief politi-

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A Burnaby Mountain Secondary grad faced 22 charg-es in connection with a pellet-gun attack outside of hisold school in May.Thomas Proniuk was taken into cus-tody after witnesses said a masked man had hidden insome bushes and fired on a group of people waiting at abus stop at the end of the school driveway. Up to six peo-ple were injured. A bus driver tried to intervene but waspepper-sprayed by the gunman, who then ran away.

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Greens are not a‘left-of-centre’ partyDear Editor I hear it timeand timeagain,“YouGreens are going to split the left-of-centrevote”. It’s simply not true. TheGreenParty ofCanada is not a “left-of-centre” party anymorethan it is a single-issueparty (another bit ofmisinformation).TheGreenParty doesn’t hold or harken

back to an ideologyof the leftor the right. Oursis a party of core principles that eachof ourpoliciesmust adhere to.Manyof our policiescouldbe either right-wingor left-wing.Take anational pharmacareplan, for

example.On the faceof it thiswould seem tobea left-wing concept. Consider, however,how for every four dollars governmentswithpharmacareplans spendon thoseplans ithas beenmeasured that they save $10 in theirhealth-care systems. People take themedica-tions that prevent theheart attacks, strokesandother costly events. It is preventativemedicine.Other savings frompharmacare? Consider

how inNewZealand the government pays $15for amedication that individuals in Canadapay $800 for. The last time I checked theexchange rate on the loonie to theKiwi dollarwasnot that great.TheGreenParty is not out to get the vote of

the leftof centre anymore than it is out to getthe vote of themiddle class. TheGreenParty ofCanadawants to earn the votes and representall Canadians. There are twoother partiesintent on “splitting the left-of-centre vote.”If youwant your Canadaback, youwant the

Greens tohold thebalanceof power.DavidMacdonald,Burnaby

Privatizing nevermakes life cheaper fortaxpayersDear EditorRe: Principals’ bookbound tobebiased, Letters to the editor,BurnabyNOW,Sept. 9 edition.I find it odd that Larry Bennettwould give

credence to the Fraser Institute’s constantattacks onevery service deliveredwithpublicfunds, and theyproduce so-calledunbiasedreports suggesting that theprivate sector cando it better, and cheaper.I knowof nogovernment service that has

beenprivatized that delivers any service thatis cheaper for the taxpayers. On topof that,fewer people are employed, at cheaperwages,so that theseprivately ownedentities canfurther pad their bottom lines,while the actualcosts to the taxpayer either stays the sameorincreases.That’s thewonderful things for governments

wanting toprivatize services: they aren’t ac-countable to thepublic, because the costs forcontracted services is hidden in thebudgetsfor thedepartment doing it, so there is nowayfor thepublic to determinehowmuch thatservice is actually costing the taxpayers.If you think aprivate contractor is going to

revealwhat they are charging, good luckwiththat.Rememberwho the Fraser Institute and

other right-wing think tankswork for, andit’s not for youand I, as they exist to promoteprivate entities, takingover publicly fundedservices, so any reports theyproduce arebiasedaswell.WayneMcQueen, Burnaby

Today we mourn:Responses to blog onNews Leader closure

JohnPreisslWell said Julia! Sad toseemorenewspapers shuttingdown.Keepup the amazingworkover thereandall the goodworkbreakingnewsstories on theproposedpipeline andmanyother community stories. Jenni-fer deserves aWebster onall of her out-standingwork and the editorial boardhas takenmany tough standson thedifficult issues and that is refreshing!

Leanor Vlug I love our communitynewspapers.Wegaveupon thedailies- Vancouver SunandProvince, becausesomuchwas repeatingof TVnews....but the local papers (Courierwhenwelived in Vancouver) and theBurnaby/NWpapers now thatwe live here ontheQuayside. Local newspapers tellOUR stories, promoteOUR local busi-nesses andgive tips onwhat’s goingonhere... thedailies don’t do that.

Heidi Bouillet Cogan Theonly papersI readare community papers. It is theonly source of news& information thatis unique to the community.

JammySmith I feel sad. I love ourcommunity newspapers too. It tiesme to the communitywhere I live. IgaveupVancouver SunandProvincebecause I am farmore interested inlocal newsandevents, andonly localnewspaper canoffer these informa-tion. BurnabyNOW,please stay open.

peakieAnd thepapers are theonlywritten record, in print,microfilm, or innewsdatabases, that records eventsandpeople of our district.Weneedthem, and theopenness theyprovidefor our lives, past and future.

AaronS.Davis I think thepart in thispiece that is themost important is this:“Across theboard,media outlets havethus far failed to “monetize” the vastpromise that the Internet brought tothenews industry, andpage viewshaven’t yet turned toprofit.”Theonly folks toblame for thedeathof local papers are the corporationsrunning them. It’s like cable companies“blaming”Netflix andApple TV for theirequally as abysmal of a failure evolvingwith thepeople in our communities.It feels like these entities expect thecommunity to stop changing and con-tinue tobehave in theways that sup-port the local paper; in otherwords, toserve thebusiness. A true communitypaperwouldbedoing everything intheir power to change, even indrasticandunexploredways, tomeet thecommunity -they- serve. But the com-munity isn’t going to stand still. It’s notgoing to stunt it’s growthanddevelop-ment so that abusiness that choosesnot to growwith themdoesn’t have to.Business is all about survival of the fit-test. Especially businesswho focus onmedia, suchas local papers.…Localpapers need to find abusiness-modelthatmakes them the theNetflix of jour-nalism. If theydon’t, the trendof theirdemisewill continueunabated.

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Curious where your localcandidates stand on pipe-lines?

BROKE, Burnaby Res-idents Opposing KinderMorgan Expansion, askedall of the Burnaby North-Seymour candidates nine-pipeline related questions,and the responses are var-ied.

Green candidate LynneQuarmby, who was ar-rested protesting the KinderMorgan expansion, not sur-prisingly is against the proj-ect and wants a more trans-parent NEB process withoral hearings reinstated.Carol Baird Ellan, a

former judge and NDPnewcomer, echoed par-ty leaderThomas Mulcair’sposition, which is focusingon the assessment processrather than picking sidesfor or against Kinder Mor-gan. According to Baird El-lan, the process is “so un-dermined” that the projectcan’t proceed, which is whythe NDP would bring ina new review process. Shealso said concerns over theassessment process wereone of the main reasons shegot involved in politics inthe first place.

Liberal candidate TerryBeech said he supports get-

ting resources to market butnot necessarily with KinderMorgan’sTrans Mountainpipeline “as it’s been pro-posed.”

Instead, he said the Lib-erals will revise the NEBprocess “to ensure it is fair,objective and based on sci-ence.”

Tory candidate MikeLittle did not reply tothe survey and he did notRSVP to attend BROKE’sall-candidates meetingscheduled forTuesday eve-ning, after NOW deadlines.

To see the full responses,go to http://brokepipelinewatch.ca.

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CONFIRMED FORMEETING

The B.C. Sustainable En-ergy Association and theDogwood Initiative areteaming up to host an all-candidates meeting at SFUon Monday, Sept. 28, start-ing at 6:30 p.m. for Burna-by North-Seymour hope-fuls. So far, three candidateshave confirmed: LiberalTerry Beech, New Dem-ocrat Carol Baird Ellanand Green Lynne Quarm-by. (Organizers are stillwaiting to hear fromToryMike Little.)

Academics Mark Jac-card, world renowned ex-pert on climate change,and UBC’s Sally Aitken

and George Hoberg willbe leading the discussions,which will cover a range oftopics, including the econ-omy and climate change.Members of the public willhave a chance to ask thecandidates questions at theevent and remotely via so-cial media.

To follow the conversa-

tion, check out the Dog-wood Initiative’sTwitterstream during the event.The meeting is in SFU’sSaywell Hall, room 10041,at 8888 University Dr.

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Last but not least, Burn-aby South NDP candi-

date Kennedy Stewart hasopened his campaign office.Stewart, the recent MP forthe now defunct riding ofBurnaby Douglas, has setup shop at 7643 Royal OakAve.Chloe Ellis, theTory

candidate for NewWest-minster-Burnaby is at 7850Edmonds St.

Do you have news from thecampaign trail? Be sure to stayin touch with the NOW.Emailreporter Jennifer Moreau [email protected],or find her onTwitter,@JenniferMoreau.

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The major windstormthat swept through the areaat the end of August mayhave caused havoc, butBurnaby streamkeepersare welcoming the rain andwhat it will do to help localsalmon.

Byrne Creek Streamkeep-ers took a tour of the water-way in early September with

the South Coast Conser-vation Program, and thingslooks good.

“There were a few treesdown on trails from thewind, but other than that,the portion of the creek thatwe covered looked fine,”said volunteer streamkeeperPaul Cipywnyk.

“We kind of went from

really dry to really wet over-night. I think the creek isfine. Byrne Creek is real-ly amazing; it ran all sum-mer long without any rain atall,” he said, adding the fishwere safe.

Streamkeepers oftendread the “first flush,” be-cause the first rainfall aftersummer washes chemicals,tiny bits of metal and debrisfrom roads and catch basinsinto delicate fish habitat.For four or five years overthe past decade, the stream-keepers have discovereddead fish after the first flush,but not this year.

“We were fortunate thatwhen it started to rain, itrained a lot. It started toflush stuff off the roads butit was very diluted,” Cipy-wnyk said.

Byrne Creek is home tocutthroat trout and coho.

Meanwhile, Nick Kven-ich from the Eagle CreekStreamkeepers was raisingconcerns that Eagle Creekwas drying up so much thatfresh water and oxygen lev-els were dropping to dan-gerous levels in a connected

Weatherchangewillmakelocalfishhappy

Happy fish:PaulCipywnyk, a longtimevolunteerwith theByrneCreekStreamkeepers, says the creek isdoing fineafter this summer’s firstrainfall. PHOTONOWFILES

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rearing pond for salmon.Kvenich welcomed the re-cent rain.

“It’s a plus for the creekto have the additional wa-ter,” he said. “It’s going tobe cooler in the creeks, andthat’s what the fish like,too.”

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“So far, the creek seemsto be handling it OK.Thewater is very dirty.There’sa lot of sediment, but we’renot in winter right now, sothere’s not a lot of salt,” hesaid.

Templeton also welcomedhigher water levels.

“When the water was aslow as it was, all the salm-on fry were trapped in smallpools. In other words, theycouldn’t move,” he said.“Now the water level hascome up and the fish will beable to move around, it will… sort of rejuvenate it.”

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Happy September! Seemslike a long time since I wassitting at my own desk,since I took the editor’schair for the summer andthen just returned from twoweeks’ vacation.

But I’m back at the artsand entertainment desknow and looking forward tohearing from you. Be sureto let me know what yourarts group is up to for thefall – you can email me [email protected], or find me onTwitter,@juliemaclellan.

In the meantime, here’swhat’s crossed my desk inthe last few days:

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Burnaby Art Gallery andthe SFU Art Gallery arejoining forces for a joint ex-hibition featuring the workof Canadian artist AlexMorrison.Alex Morrison:Phantoms

of a UtopianWill/Like MostFollies,MoreThan a Joke and

MoreThan aWhim runs un-til Nov. 8 at Burnaby ArtGallery and until Dec. 11at SFU.

The tandem exhibitionsinclude two newly commis-sioned projects, as well asworks selected by the artistsfrom the two institutions’collections.

“Morrison’s practice in-vestigates built environ-ments and their often coun-ter-cultural inhabitation,” awrite-up about the exhibi-tions explains.

“His analysis of architec-tural styles, the historicalcontext of their constructionand the evolution of theiruse over time informs hisresearch on the two sites ofSFU Gallery and the BAG.In doing so Morrison trou-bles not only historical andsocial narratives but also theaesthetics of cultural identi-fication.”

There will be a drop-intour at Burnaby Art Gallery,6344 Deer Lake Ave., onSaturday, Oct. 4 – tours areoffered from 2 to 4 p.m. onthe half-hour.

Check out more aboutthe exhibitions online atwww.burnabyartgallery.ca.

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EXHIBITIONS

Have you checked outthe latest art exhibitions atBurnaby Public Librarybranches yet?

The Burnaby Art Galleryhas two ongoing exhibitionsat library branches: Selec-tions from the Image BankPostcard Show at Bob Prit-tie branch, and Maps andMapping at McGill branch.

Selections from the ImageBank Postcard Show drawsfrom a selection of post-cards from the holdings of

the City of Burnaby’s per-manent art collection.Theydate back to 1971, when, atthe forefront of the mail artmovement in Canada,Mi-chael Morrison andVin-centTrasov invited artiststo send in postcards for theImage Bank Postcard Show,curated by Alvin Balkind atUBC’s Fine Arts Gallery.

“The Image Bank wasmade up of a network ofparticipating artists who ex-changed ideas and infor-mation by mail with theintention of creating a col-

laborative, process-basedproject that might foster ashared creative conscious-ness,” a press release ex-plains.

A boxed edition of 80original artist postcards wasprinted to accompany theshow.The Burnaby exhi-bition includes postcardsby Ray Johnson,Gener-al Idea,DanaAtchley,Gary Lee Nova and oth-ers. It’s at the Bob Prittie li-brary branch (6100Willing-don Ave.) until Oct. 4.

Meanwhile, at the McGill

branch (4595 Albert St.),visitors can check out Mapsand Mapping, ongoing un-til Oct. 5.

The exhibition includeswork by artists who are cur-rent or former residents ofthe Lower Mainland, all ofwhom have utilized maps inthe making of their works.It includes work by LesMcKinnon,AnnaWong,Daniel Laskarin,Mar-ianna Schmidt, JasonMcLean and more.

Check out www.burnabyartgallery.ca.

FILMSCREENING

Love film?You’ll want tostop by the Shadbolt Centrefor the Arts on Sunday, Sept27 for a Culture Days event.

Sharing Our Stories: Dig-ital Short Films by Burna-by Seniors runs from 1 to5 p.m.

The presentation includesshort digital films creat-ed by local seniors, manyof whom had never used acomputer nor written a sto-ry before this project.

Drop by the ShadboltCentre at 6450 Deer LakeAve. to check it all out.

Hands-onart:Valentina, ChristinaLeeandBettyKimworkon theirDwellingConstructions studioactivityduringan In theBAG familydrop-in sessiononSunday. The sessionsgiveartists of all agesa chance to checkout theongoinggallery exhibit andget their handsonsomeart in the studio. PHOTOJENNIFERGAUTHIER

Burnaby Art Galleryopened its doors Sunday af-ternoon for another In theBAG family studio session.

Kids and families had achance to drop in, check outthe ongoing gallery exhibi-tions and get their handson a studio activity on thetheme of Dwelling Con-structions.NOW photographer Jen-

nifer Gauthier dropped in tocheck out the fun. See www.burnabynow.com for moreof her photos.

More In the BAG pro-grams follow throughoutthe fall, with Drawing Spac-es on Oct. 11, Animal Printson Nov. 8 and Layering Co-lour on Dec. 13.

Check out www.burnabyartgallery.ca for all the de-tails about In the BAGand other kids’, family andadult activities at the gallerythroughout the fall and win-ter season.

– Julie MacLellan

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Artistic travels:DougBiden’s See theWorld is part of theMapsandMappingexhibition currentlyunderwayat theMcGill branchofBurnabyPublic Library. PHOTOCONTRIBUTED



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Burnaby writers are partof the literary fun asWordVancouver takes to thestreets and stage again nextweek.

The city’s annual liter-ary festival takes place fromSept. 23 to 27, with themain festival day on Sunday,Sept. 27 atVancouver Pub-lic Library’s central branch.

Among the 100 read-ings and 150 authors will besome local writers: Burnabyresidents Daniel Zomparelliand Eric Damer, along withCatherine Owen, who wasraised in Burnaby and nowlives in NewWest.

Zomparelli will be onhand with Dina Del Buc-chia at 1 p.m. to talk aboutRom Com – a book of po-ems that attempt to “de-

construct as well as engagein dialogue with roman-tic comedy films and thepop culture, celebrities andtropes that have come tobe associated with them,”says a write-up about thesession. “These irreverent,playful, weird and comedicpoems come in a variety offorms, fully engaging in popculture, without a judgmen-tal tone.”

Owen appears as part ofthe CanadaWrites series,with a session at 11 a.m. onSept. 27 calledThe Oth-er 23 & and Half Hours:Or EverythingYouWant-ed to KnowThatYour MFADidn’tTeachYou.

Owen, the author of 10collections of poetry, usesthe book to explore what

happens “before and af-ter writers sit down at theirdesk, what inspires theirwriting and what transpiresafter it’s finished,” accord-ing to a write-up about thesession.

Damer, who’s a freelanceeditor, writer and research-er, will appear as part of apanel discussion, Life as AnEditor: Exploring the ManyFaces of Editing, starting at1:20 p.m. on Sunday.

The festival, which wasformerly known asWord onthe Street, offers a variety ofpresentations, exhibitions,workshops and activities at10 venues.

Check out www.wordvancouver.ca to find out allabout what’s happening.

– Julie MacLellan

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Instead of buying a newcomputer or smart phonewhen your old one can’tkeep up with your needs,wouldn’t it be great if it hadthe limitless ability to up-grade its own hardware andsoftware to meet the de-mands of the moment?

Your own brain alreadyhas this ability.

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Associated with this as-sumption is the beliefthat we are less capable ofchange as we age.That’s theway the majority of adultsthink and behave.Withtime, we get stuck in habitsof behaviour and thought;it gets harder to change ourroutine and how we seeourselves.

Although the actual ofnumber of neurons (nervecells) does not increase withage, up to adulthood, thehuman brain can increaseto five times its size at birth.The increase in volumeis due to myelination (theouter insulation of nerve fi-bres) and the growth ofconnections (or synapses)between neurons.

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The same principle ap-plies to how we think aboutourselves, others and ourworld.

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If we think of ourselves asbeing stuck in our ways, ad-dicted to our attachmentsor incapable of positivechange, we will live this self-fulfilling prophecy.

Too often we limit ourcapacity for growth andhappiness by our prejudicesand unexamined assump-tions; we see only evidenceto reinforce our beliefs andare blind to evidence thatshow them to be false.

Certain patterns ofthought reinforce particu-lar emotional states, andonce in these states, thosepatterns are reinforced.Thoughts focused on nega-tivity, judgment, blame andhopelessness reinforce feel-ings of anger and sadness.Thoughts of appreciation,personal empowerment anda positive purpose begethappiness.

With a healthy brain thatcan literally change itself,each of us is capable of pos-itive change.

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At 7 p.m. onTuesday,Sept. 22, I’ll be speaking onemotional wellness at theBob Prittie Metrotown Li-brary in Burnaby.

I’ll talk about the keyemotional health skills weall need to cope with life’s

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Dr.DavidicusWong is afamily physician.His Health-wise column appears regular-ly in this paper.You can readmore about achieving yourpositive potential in health athis blog, davidicuswong.wordpress.com.

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Happiness is a ParadigmShift – Speaker GwenGnazdowsky, 7 to 8 p.m.McGill library branch, 4595Albert St. Free, but space islimited. Register online atonline at bpl.bc.ca/events,in person at the library,or phone 604-299-8955.Everyone is welcome.

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Guest speaker DavidicusWong, health columnistwith the Burnaby NOW,presenting a free talk onemotional wellness, BobPrittie Metrotown librarybranch, 7 to 8:30 p.m.Dr. Wong will discuss theimportance of emotionalhealth and how to recognizesymptoms of stress, anxiety,

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Free workshop, how toprobate your estate, BobPrittie Metrotown librarybranch, 6100 Willingdon Ave.1:30 to 3 p.m. Lawyer Mark-John O’Nions will cover thebasics of probating one’sestate. Register by callingthe library at 604-436-5400or sign up online at bpl.bc.ca/events.

Suncrest ElementarySchool, 3883 Rumble Ave., 3to 7 p.m. Tickets at the door$1 or $2 per game. Gamesinclude cake walk, bouncycastle, hockey shoot andmore. Concession servingsnacks and drinks. Fundsraised go to Suncrest’sparent advisory council fornew school equipment andsupplies.

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Knit2gether, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.at Tommy Douglas Library,7311 Kingsway. Registrationis not required. All ages andskill levels are welcome.

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Have you consideredbecoming a foster family?There are children andyouth in Burnaby whorequire skilled, caring, fosterparents. To learn more, theMinistry of Children andFamily Development invitesyou to attend an informationsession from 10 a.m. to noonat #200-906 Roderick Ave.in Coquitlam. For furtherinformation or anothersession date, please call our

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ONGOING

Thrift shop sale, everyThursday until Dec. 10 atSouth Burnaby UnitedChurch, 7591 Gray Ave., from10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Therewill be clothing, householditems, collectibles, books,toys, and more. Donationsare very welcome.

Burnaby InternationalFolk Dancers meets everyTuesday night, 7 to 9:30p.m., until Dec. 8, and thenfrom Jan. 5 to June, 2016.at Charles Rummel Centre,3630 Lozells Ave. Learnfolk dances from aroundthe world in a friendly clubenvironment. New dancestaught every night; alllevels welcome, no partnerneeded, drop-ins welcome.Info: 604-436-9475.

ESL Conversation Circledrop in sessions, 7 to8:30 p.m., Bob PrittieMetrotown library branch,6100 Willingdon Ave., runsWednesdays, Oct. 7 to Nov.25. Seven sessions in totalbut no session Nov. 11.

Practise your English andmeet people in a friendly,relaxed environment at the

Metrotown library. Eachweek a librarian will leada discussion on a varietyof everyday topics. Adultlearners must have someknowledge of Englishto participate in groupconversations. There is noregistration required for thisfree drop-in program.

Buyers’ seminar, buyersbeware – everything youneed to know about buyingyour first home, everysecond Thursday at 7 p.m.at Keller Williams BlackDiamond at 252-5489 ByrneRd. Seating is limited, RSVPto 778-861-6859.

Loudspeakers Toastmasters:Every Wednesdayat 6:30 p.m. at 3605Gilmore Way. Drop byor email [email protected]. Info: loudspeaker.toastmastersclubs.org.

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There’s more at Burnabynow.com

Firefighters’ talksstallonarbitrator

[email protected] could be 2016 before Burnaby fire-

fighters get a new contract, and that’s only

if the city and union can agree on an arbi-

trator.It’s been nearly four months since the

City of Burnaby and the International Asso-

ciation of Firefighters Local 323, which rep-

resents 281 firefighters in Burnaby, met for

mediation, and since then there has been

minimal movement towards a new contract.

In fact, both parties are still trying to

agree on an arbitrator.

“It’s kind of hard to decide when they

keep throwing back the same name to us.

We’ve offered four and they offered three,

and then we said no to the three and then

they offered one of the three back again to

us,” said Rob Lamoureux, president of Lo-

cal 323.Lamoureux said the union’s top choice is

well-known arbitratorVince Ready, who re-

cently negotiated a deal for firefighters in

Prince George, but because he’s so in-de-

mand, it’s unlikely he would be available be-

fore the new year.Lambert Chu, deputy city manager and

liaison for the Burnaby Fire Department, is

hoping, however, to get the process moving

as soon as possible.“We’re trying to find an arbitrator that

has a fairly open schedule to allow us to get

a quick appointment so that the case can be

heard,” Chu said.At this point, however, Lamoureux said

he and the firefighters are willing to wait for

the right arbitrator, especially since they’ve

been waiting more than three years for a

new contract.“We’ve waited so long we want to make

sure we get the right arbitrator,” Lamou-

reux said. “I don’t want to take our chances

and roll the dice with anybody. Another six

months, it’s no big deal now, we’re already

three years in.”The NOW asked Chu if anyone on coun-

cil or the mayor was trying to drag this pro-

cess out, considering how long it’s taken so

far, but he was adamant that council and

the mayor aren’t involved in the negotia-

tions.“This is done right at the staff level.This

contract negotiation is carried out through

the city manager’s office and a representa-

tive from the fire union, and we basically

keep our council informed of the progress,

but the council isn’t involved in any negoti-

ation,” Chu said.Lamoureux doesn’t buy that.

“I would disagree. I can’t believe that,”

he said. “I can’t believe that this is being …

controlled by the city manager’s office.

“You look at common sense and you look

at what’s gone on in the whole region.We’re

at 22 locals – two arbitrated and 20

Burnaby and firefighters’union are in mediation in

effort to get a new collective agreement

WILDWATER LiannaDall’Antonia, left, andMadisonMichielin get into characterwhileperformingaduet thatwon theBurnabyCapriceSynchronizedSwim

Clubpair a goldmedal at the recent JeanPetersprovincial championshipsat the club’s annualWater ShowatC.G.BrownPool onSaturday. PHOTOJENNIFERGAUTHIER

DrivetorecallLeeisscuttledByTerezaVerencaeditorial@burnabynow.comThe recall campaign to oust Burna-

by North MLA Richard Lee has end-

ed because organizers couldn’t get

enough signatures.Burnaby teacher Jennifer Heighton

told the NOW B.C. Citizens for Recall

was unable to meet the threshold by

the June 15 deadline - 40 per cent of

registered voters within a 60 day peri-

od (about 16,500 signatures).“That’s a huge number to get in 60

days, especially when you’re a grass-

roots group and there’s challenges like

you can’t go into apartment buildings

or condos,” she said. “A lot of times

people weren’t home.”Heighton added voter apathy was

another road block.“A lot of them said, ‘I don’t vote, so

I’m not going to sign,’” she said. “This

Organizers saythreshold too high

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