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The Irish Rovers will bring their 50th year tour to New Westminster’s Massey Theatre.

Fittingly enough, the concert will be on March 13, just a few days before St. Patrick’s Day.

The Rovers, who starred in their own national television show on CBC during the 1970s and later on private broadcasters, are touring the world to celebrate their 50 years of music.

Despite their longevity and being on their final world tour, band member George Millar, one of the band’s original members with Wilcil McDowell, doesn’t plan to stop performing.

“As you get older and you’re in a different bed every night, your poor old back is screaming at you. But God, no. I’m never retiring.

After the world tour is over we’ll still be recording and performing at festivals, special events and short trips here and there. Better to leave those big tours to the younger bands,” said Miller in a press release from the band.

Miller’s brother Will was the band’s leader from 1965 to 1993 when he left. Lead singer Jimmy Ferguson died in 1997. The band was known for hit songs like The Unicorn and Wasn’t That a Party.

The Massey Theatre will also be the site of an International Guitar Night tour on Jan. 22 featuring renowned guitarists Maneli Jamal, Brian Gore, Diego Figueiredo and Andrew York.

Tickets for both concerts are available at www.masseytheatre.com.

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The Irish Rovers final world tour will stop in New Westminster at the Massey Theatre on March 13.

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NEW WESTMINSTER FIRE FIGHTERS’ CHARITABLE SOCIETY TREE CHIPPINGSaturday, January 3, 2015 and Sunday, January 4, 2015 from 10:00 am - 3:00 pmat the Canada Games Pool Parking lot, 65 E Sixth Ave

Join us for a BBQ, popcorn, face painting, music, and extinguisher demos.

Trees will be chipped and recycled. All proceeds go to the New Westminster Fire Fighters’ Charitable Society. Make a donation and support local community charities!

The New Westminster Scouts will also be holding a bottle drive. Please bring your recyclable bottles and cans to help bring adventure, outdoor experience and friendship to New West youth.

CHANGES TO SMOKING CONTROL BYLAWOn January 1, 2015, the City of New Westminster will implement changes to the Smoking Control Bylaw No. 6263 which has been amended to reduce the impact of exposure to second-hand smoke in public spaces and to make our city a healthier community.

The bylaw changes include the following restrictions:

• Smoking is prohibited within 7.5 meters of doors, windows and air intakes for public and workplace buildings;

• Smoking is prohibited on all restaurants and pub patios; and

• Smoking is prohibited within 15 meters of outdoor sports facilities, playgrounds, off -leash dog parks and picnic areas within city parks.

Building owners must take reasonable measures to post bylaw compliant signage, removing ashtrays and taking steps to ensure that smoking does not take place on their premises. ‘No Smoking’ signs must be prominently displayed so they are clearly visible. A limited quantity of printed signs and decals will be available for pick up at New Westminster City facilities including City Hall, Queensborough Community Centre, Century House, Centennial Community Centre, and the Fraser Health Public Health Unit, 218 - 610 6th Street.

Signs are also available online and can be downloaded and printed at www.newwestcity.ca/hcp.

For more information on amendments to the Smoking Control Bylaw, the Healthier Community Partnership Committee and resources for smoking cessation, please visit www.newwestcity.ca/hcp.

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PUBLIC ART CALL FOR PROPOSALS - GATEWAY TO DOWNTOWNNEW WESTMINSTERThe City of New Westminster is seeking submissions from qualifi ed artists with public art experience to propose an installation on the median along Columbia Street in downtown New Westminster. The call for proposals seeks work that celebrates and acts as a visual gateway marker into downtown New Westminster.

The installation should be non-interactive and appreciated from a visual distance such as driving, transit, Skytrain and pedestrian traffi c from across the street. The call seeks work that is positive, celebrates downtown New Westminster and is refl ective of the heritage, growth and development of the City.

The successful artist or artist team will be responsible for the creation, fabrication and installation of the art and will work with the City of New Westminster’s Public Art Advisory Committee. This opportunity is funded in part by the former New Westminster Community Development Society and the City of New Westminster. The submission deadline is March 6, 2015.

For more information, please visit www.newwestcity.ca.

Happy HolidaysThe City of New Westminster would like to wish you a happyand safe holiday season with best wishes for the new year!

Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A3Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A3

This year the NewsLeader celebrated its 25th anniversary.

My byline has appeared under photos in this newspaper for all but two of those years.

When I came out of journalism school 30 years ago, I was determined to tell stories with a camera.

I’d gone into journalism school four years earlier because my high school teachers said I could write and working for a newspaper seemed a pretty good way to get paid regularly to write.

But during the course of my education I decided I wanted to make the camera my storytelling tool of choice.

Photographers seemed like the cool guys in the newsroom,

with their expensive cameras and lenses, the mysterious darkroom where they disappeared at the end of every shift, then reappeared hours later with stacks of fantastic images as if by magic.

Photographers can’t sit in the office and reconstruct events by making phone calls. They have to be there.

Photographers don’t get to hang out in the warmth of press boxes or work rooms. They have to be on the sidelines, lens pressed to the glass at the hockey arena, down in front at the political event.

Of course that also means photographers have to endure the rain and cold, have to jostle for space with other photographers and TV camera operators, have to

dodge careening football players.But at the end of those

sometimes harrowing days, you feel like you’ve been a part of the news; you’ve lived it in a small way, rather than just observed it. And hopefully the photos you took convey part of that experience to readers.

In the NewsLeader’s formative years, when it was called simply the News, its photos were produced out of a darkroom at our sister paper serving

Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody. That’s where the photographers for a few papers picked up their assignments at the beginning of the day and went to process film and make prints towards the end of our shift.

Needless to say traffic wasn’t as bad back then. Getting from Boundary Road to the Mary Hill Bypass wasn’t the half day-long excursion it can be now.

When the photographers from the various papers converged at the end of the day, we chewed over the events and people we covered, looked over each other’s negatives, pitched in if someone had a particularly voluminous load of film to process.

If a big event was happening, a photographer could get pulled

from their paper to pitch in, provide back up or relief.

It was a collegial, collaborative team that produced some pretty good community photojournalism and pushed each other to do even better.

Of course we had complaints. We wouldn’t be journalists if we didn’t grumble cynically about stuff.

A lot has changed since then.Digital technology has changed

the way we work and thinned the numbers who still get to do this work. It’s changed the perception of the work we do.

But one thing hasn’t changed. We still can’t take pictures from our desk, over the phone. We have to be there.

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I’ve said it before; parades are really just people walking. So working the staging area before the parade can be fertile ground for fun, unusual features. I walked past this cadet corps falling into place for the Hyack Parade in New Westminster and figured it would only be a matter of time before I got a funny face, grimace or smile. The yawn was a good surprise.

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The chippers will be whirring at full force this weekend at the city’s annual Christmas tree recycling put on by the New Westminster Firefighters Charitable Society.

It will be held at the Canada Games Pool parking lot Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with proceeds to the society. Trees will be chipped and recycled.

A barbecue, music, extinguisher demonstrations and other fun kids activities will also be held.

The New Westminster Scouts will also hold a bottle drive to help support their friendship, adventure and outdoor experiences for youth.

Steel & Oak best new B.C. brewery

New Westminster’s Steel & Oak has been labeled as the best new craft brewery in British Columbia in the Beer ME BC’s annual craft beer survey.

More than 1,500 respondents chose Steel & Oak, opened in June, to be the best new brewery opened in the past 12 months. It beat out Vancouver’s Bomber Brewing, Dageraad from Burnaby, Yellow Dog in Port Moody and Barkerville Brewery in Quesnel.

Tie auction raises $11,000

Royal City Jewellers and Loan’s 18th annual Tie Day auction raised $11,042 for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank this year.

Food bank CEO Aart Shuurman Hess said the money means it will be able to leverage the money into $33,000 worth of groceries.

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Two of the biggest events in New

Westminster’s year occurred within a few weeks of

each other, and on the same block of Columbia Street.

Right: Hundreds of people turned out

at Hyack Square for the unveiling

of the Wait For Me Daddy statue commemorating

a famous news photograph from

the Second World War. The subject

of that photo, Whitey Bernard,

then a young boy reaching out to his dad as he marched off to war, was the

special guest of the event headed

by Coun. Lorrie Williams. It took a bit of hustle to get behind the statue to get his reaction

to it as he saw the final product

for the first time. Below: Everyone in

New Westminster was excited about the opening of the

new Anvil Centre on Columbia

Street. Especially these dancers as

they gathered in a hallway to

perform at the new building’s public

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If you had told me last January that Casey Cook would be acclaimed vice chair of the New West school board, I’d have laughed in your face.

Not that Cook, named to the job this month, isn’t knowledgeable and experienced, or deserving of the role. But his political stripe—that being not labour-endorsed—blocked him from the role in the past.

To the average New West resident, the school board of the past appeared to be mired in acrimony and incompetence.

We have a different board today. And, in large part thanks to the leadership of superintendent/CEO John Gaiptman, we have a different school district.

That’s not to say SD40 has slayed all its dragons.

Years of accumulated deficits are still being paid off. But there’s a viable, credible plan, with an entirely new staff in the finance department charged with

ensuring it unfolds to plan.And in November, there was

the glimmer of good news as the district was hiring (15 teachers, nine educational assistants) instead of laying people off.

It doesn’t make up for the 90 or so laid off over the previous two rounds, but it’s progress.

“We’re not there yet, but I believe we’re heading in the right direction,” Gaiptman said at the time.

But what about the bloody high school, you say?

Yes—this is a biggie—there’s still no replacement. For many, this is the biggest, most painful thorn, a source for some of almost maddening frustration.

And they may not even be aware of the fact that a 1993 NewsLeader article refers to a possible groundbreaking for the new school in… 1995.

(OK, let’s all take a breath...)But past is past. The good

news is, there’s a timeline—agreed to by the province—for project approval.

There’s also the beginnings of a track record of success in school construction, with the opening of Qayqayt elementary in September, and the new Fraser River middle school under construction and slated to open this September.

There were glitches at Qayqayt, of course, with what appeared to be some poor coordination with the city about traffic management and safe pick-up/drop-off routines.

Yet since he was hired in February, Gaiptman has been quietly making repairs to SD40, and giving good information to the school trustees so they can

make wise decisions.And the trustees, who have

always been skilled, community-minded folks, are looking more professional by the day.

Scrapping political lines of division, putting a labour and non-labour trustee together in the key posts on the board, is a sign of a maturing board and a new atmosphere of professionalism.

My greatest hope is that this doesn’t just lead to stable, competent management of the big issues, like balancing budgets and building schools.

Ideally, it also results in better opportunities and support for students and teachers, and greater excellence in New Westminster’s school system.

Gaiptman came to New West to be a “fixer” of sorts. He’s not here for the long haul.

Let’s hope he stays long enough to ensure the foundations are solid, and the district so successful that top talent will clamour to carry on his work.

The year SD40 turned a corner

Justin Trudeau has come up with a campaign idea that may help him seal the deal with enough voters to win power in next October’s federal election.

He has taken direct aim at the prime minister’s secrecy, the muzzling of cabinet ministers, MPs and bureaucrats and what he calls “message control.”

Many people who otherwise have few issues with the Conservative government are not happy with the manufactured flow of information. Other than government ads which feature “the Harper government,” actual information from MPs and civil servants is often sparse.

While some MPs like Langley’s Mark Warawa are quite open and accessible with citizens and local media, many more are not.

Many cabinet ministers rarely hold press conferences. Harper himself is almost permanently unavailable to the media. He makes a few appearances, such as a recent year-end interview on CBC, but he never answers questions in an impromptu fashion.

When he appeared at a fundraiser in Langley in the summer, he did not say one word to any media person, national, regional or local. Supporters who wished to talk to him had to stand in a lengthy lineup.

Prime ministers don’t have to be your friends. But they do have to be accountable, and that includes saying something that isn’t scripted, at least once in a while.

Like Bard the bowman in The Hobbit, Trudeau has taken aim at this weak spot in the dragon’s scales, and it may score enough votes for him to at least win a minority government.

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B icycle Bill was a local legend in New Westminster for nearly

half a century. He was peculiar, eccentric, and a one-of–a-kind loner. But although people saw him collecting pop bottles from Columbia Street litter bins almost every day beginning in the 1930s, few knew his real name, or ever spoke with him.

He was nicknamed Bicycle Bill because he was never seen without the bicycle with only one pedal he used to transport the pop bottles he sold for two cents each on Front Street. He never sat on the bike, but pushed it, and had removed the one pedal so he could walk alongside the bike without getting his legs tangled. The remaining pedal allowed him to use the bike as a kind of scooter if he wished.

Some claimed Bill lived in a shack in Surrey under the Pattullo Bridge. Others said he lived in a cave or a tent somewhere in the Surrey bush lands. But wherever he lived, he walked his bicycle across the bridge to New Westminster early each morning for years, carrying his bag lunch, usually a tin of sardines, a container of milk and a banana.

Former Deputy Police Chief Rod Keary used to tell a story about his encounter with Bill and the one-pedal bike.

“We got a hot a tip that someone was planning to waylay Bill and steal the money

belt he was supposed to carry under his coat. We drove over the bridge to warn him and saw him approaching with his bicycle. I got out of the car and walked toward him, signaling him to stop. But he took off, riding his bicycle like a scooter. I chased him for about two blocks before I caught up with him.”

According to reports, Bill rarely spoke, and, on one occasion declined to speak to a newspaper reporter who stopped him in the street and asked him to agree to an interview. According to his step-niece, he stopped talking to his relatives and rejected all overtures from them beginning sometime in the 1940s.

When Bill died in 1973, a Columbia Street business owner came forward to tell Bill’s story. According to the man, a former co-worker, Bill’s real name was Eric Neumeier, and he had been born in Germany. The man said Bill was a skilled watchmaker who once worked at Philip Spurgeon’s Jewelry Shop on Columbia Street, and that he became upset and angry when watches became more and more made by machine rather than

by hand.In addition, the man said,

Bill believed Adolf Hitler was doing a commendable job of rebuilding Germany following the ravages of the First World War, and he became bitter when the Allies went to war against his homeland.

During his last few years, Bill lived reclusively at the rundown Alpine Apartments in New Westminster. He left behind several battered, stained and padlocked suitcases containing various items he had salvaged from Columbia Street litter bins over the years, and a set of delicate watchmaker’s tools, treasured remnants from earlier and better times.

When Bicycle Bill died at St. Mary’s Hospital in November 1973, his remains were unclaimed. He was cremated at the city’s expense, followed by a short funeral service at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church. The service was attended by a handful of women and six pallbearers were supplied by the church.

“He seems to have had more friends in death than when he was alive,” one woman commented after the service. “ I didn’t know him but from what I have read about him he seems to have been a lonely man.”

Don Benson is a local historian and a City of New Westminster

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COMMENTThis fractured cityRe: LOOKING BACK/LOOKING AHEAD: Reviving the waterfront

As the article above clearly describes there is development inequity in New Westminster. Most development has historically happened and continues to happen on the mainland side of New Westminster. At the close of 2014, Queensborough still has no sidewalks or a viable pedestrian connection to the mainland. The Quayside-Queensborough pedestrian bridge is a “hope,” although funding was allocated from the casino deal—which happens to be in Queensborough itself.

New Westminster is a fractured city and will remain so until the Queensborough pedestrian bridge is completed. The new mayor and his team should not continue looking at Queensbough from the same perspective as past mayors—top down—as an afterthought, a “nice to have.”

Rather, they should look at it as an important part of the city, in serious need of investment and a pedestrian connection to the city.

Just compare any area of Uptown, the waterfront, etc., and you will see where the city’s funding goes.

Alejandro Alcantaranewwestnewsleader.com

TOO MANY TROUBLED PEOPLERe: Police seek machete-wielding attacker

We need to stop attracting troubled people into our city with these halfway houses and treatment centres or soon we’ll become as dangerous as Surrey. I haven’t lived in New West long but was instrumental in the capture of a vandal who likes to smash windows of local businesses. He lived at the Lookout project on Carnarvon. The best way for our community to be safe is to report suspicious activity immediately to police.

From my experience New West police are awesome at responding, but they can’t do their job without your call.

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LOOKING BACK ON A YEAR OF SUCCESS _____________________________Many businesses are reviewing 2014 operations. Did we reach

our goals and complete the tasks that we set out to do? How have we changed as an organization? What can we do better next year?

At the Chamber of Commerce we ask the same questions.

There’s something quite powerful about seeing your whole year laid out month by month in a spreadsheet.

Weekly membership communications, the Doing Business in New Westminster magazine, elevated networking events, awards ceremonies and gala dinners. In addition we spent time participating in dialogues with key stakeholders to further business interest in the region. Meetings with TransLink, MMBC, Port Metro, and the Whitecaps to name a few. We were also engaged in dialogue about truck route changes, the

Fraser River, dredging, short sea shipping and land use. We provided a forum for a local mayoral all candidates meeting and encouraged New West to consider the business interest during the election. We reviewed policy at both the provincial and Federal level through the BC Chamber and Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

This past year has set the direction and created a � rm foundation for the years to come. As we begin to make our plans for next year, we encourage you to think of the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce as you’re making yours. We are a valuable place to meet people, make business connections, learn about local business issues and advocate for New Westminster as a strong place to do business.

We wish you a prosperous 2015!

NEW WESTMINSTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND SURREY BOARD OF TRADE CALL FOR SUSPENSION/REDUCTION OF TOLLS DURING PATTULLO BRIDGE MAINTENANCE WORK IN 2015 _____________________The New Westminster Chamber of Commerce and the Surrey

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“Even though we are in the middle of a Transit Referendum process, the Pattullo Bridge must still be maintained for the next ten years. Even if the Transit Referendum is successful, the Pattullo Bridge still needs ongoing maintenance. It is a major economic corridor connecting Surrey and New Westminster,” said Cori Lynn Germiquet, CEO, New Westminster Chamber of Commerce.

“With the Pattullo Bridge maintenance work, traf� c will need to be diverted at times. We know that the priority for the Province of BC is to ensure ef� cient and effective movement of goods and people. A short-term suspension or reduction in tolls

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Commercial Trailer Journeyman Mechanic

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Van-Kam Freightways Ltd. re-quires two (2) full-time Commer-cial Trailer Journeyman Mechan-ics to work out of our Surrey Terminal located at 10155 Grace Road.

Applicants should have an in-spectors ticket, a minimum of 2 years of related experience, a positive attitude and able to work in a team environment. Experi-ence in a freight fl eet environ-ment would be preferred as this is a busy facility providing service to a large fl eet of Company Owned Trucks and Trailers.

Seize this opportunity to work for one of Western Canada’s largest regional freight carriers.

For more information, call Derek,

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Interested candidates should at-tach an updated resume and cov-er letter to:

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Van-Kam thanks you for your interest, however only those be-ing considered will be contacted.

Van-Kam is committed toEmployment Equity and

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Applicants should have an in-spectors ticket, a minimum of 2 years of related experience, a positive attitude and able to work in a team environment. Experi-ence in a freight fl eet environ-ment would be preferred as this is a busy facility providing service to a large fl eet of Company Owned Trucks and Trailers.

Seize this opportunity to work for one of Western Canada’s largest regional freight carriers.

For more information, call Derek,

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Interested candidates should at-tach an updated resume and cov-er letter to:

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Van-Kam thanks you for your interest, however only those be-ing considered will be contacted.

Van-Kam is committed toEmployment Equity and

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260 ELECTRICALLow Cost. Same Day. Licensed. Res/Com. Small job expert. Renos Panel changes ~ 604-374-0062

329 PAINTING & DECORATING


263 EXCAVATING & DRAINAGE

DRAIN Tiles, Sewer, Water Video Inspection, Jack Hammering, Hand Excavating Call Tobias 604.782.4322

287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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329 PAINTING & DECORATING

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338 PLUMBING

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356 RUBBISH REMOVAL

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372 SUNDECKS

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477 PETS

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