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For Burnaby’s Julie Desroches, it’snot just a pirate-themed Halloweendisplay. It’s a symbol of resistance, ofhonour among thieves and living lifeas a better human being.

That’s because the Desroches fam-ily’s annual Halloween display wasinspired from a place close to death.

Six years ago, around Halloween,Julie Desroches, a child psychologistand mother of two, was struck with apregnancy-related abdominal infectionthat left her hospitalized and nearlydead.

“The whole pirate thing for mebecame very symbolic of what I wentthrough. I was facing my own stormysea,” she told the NOW.

She saw her supporters – friendsand family – as her “pirate crew,” asshe struggled with the medical and legalsystems.

She watched a lot of pirate moviesin the years it took to recover, and dur-

ing that time, she came up with the ideato create a pirate-themed Halloweendisplay. Last year, she was finally wellenough, and with the help of her friendsand family (her crew), made it a fund-

raiser to help children in Africa.Through donations collected online

and on Halloween night, the Desrochesraised $2,500 for the Saint StephenChildren’s Centre in Makondo, Uganda,

run by a man Desroches met 15 years agowhile volunteering in Africa.

The money went towards a roof for thecentre, and this year, Desroches wants to

Four more throw hats into city mayor’s raceBoy, that escalated quickly.As the deadline to file candidacy papers

came to a close, four independent may-oral candidates entered the political fray,announcing their interest in Mayor DerekCorrigan’s seat on council.

Political newcomer Raj Gupta, formerBurnaby Greens school trustee HelenChang and former mayoral hopefuls Sylvia

Gung and Allen Hutton have all steppedforward to run for Burnaby mayor inNovember, against Corrigan and BurnabyFirst mayoral candidate Daren Hancott.

Chang, who was elected to schoolboard in 2005, has lived in Burnaby for 30years and has a passion for multicultural-ism. Since 2011, she has organized mul-ticultural forums to raise awareness forsuch issues as hate crimes, immigration,medical fraud and bullying. She has alsolobbied the federal government to enact a

Hate Crime Statistics Act.On her second run for mayor, Gung has

promised to freeze taxes, halt pay hikesand remove the school board “to thwart itspolitical agenda.” She has also pledged toban behaviours exhibiting sexuality, how-ever minimal, including holding hands inpublic and kissing the bride at weddings.

With more than three decades of vol-unteer work ranging from transit to plan-ning, Hutton has an interest in ensuringthe wellness of Burnaby citizens. He wants

to continue preserving and maintainingnatural areas in the city and expand parksand public pathways for future genera-tions. He also is calling for openness,accountability and fiscal responsibilityfrom the local government.

Gupta, a realtor for 24 years who haslived in B.C. since 1974, ran provincially forthe B.C. Conservative Party in Vancouver-Kensington last year and is now venturinginto municipal politics. He has a laundry

Arrrr ...RodneyHalko, JulieDesroches,Emma, 6, andBenjamin,9, aredecoratingtheir Burnabyhome in apirate themeto help raisemoney fora centre inAfrica.

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Putting out fires a world awayBurnaby firefighters are mak-

ing a difference a world away.Last week, they got to meet withthe man who sees first-hand howmuch of a difference they trulymake.

Gerry Caceres, a deputynational fire chief for theFederation of Firefighters inNicaragua, was in Burnaby totour the city’s Fire Hall No. 1 andmeet with the firefighters whohelped get Burnaby involved inOperation Nicaragua, an initia-tive founded by a retired teacherin Kamloops and was quicklyadopted by its local fire depart-ment.

Fire departments acrossNicaragua were completelydestroyed during the country’srevolution more than 20 yearsago. Since then, volunteers likeCaceres have been rebuilding,from scratch, everything that waslost. Today, the country has 11fire stations, which serves only38 per cent of the country’s 147municipalities.Helping hands: Nicaraguan deputy fire chief Gerry Caceres, left, speaks with Burnaby fire recruits

during Caceres’ visit to Burnaby Fire Hall No. 1 last week. Caceres was in town to meet with city andfire department staff about Burnaby’s recent donation of a fire truck to Nicaragua.

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MDs get poor grades in handwashingHand washing among health

care providers at BurnabyHospital is way up since twoyears ago, but doctors continueto lag significantly behind theircolleagues, according to the latestreport by B.C.’s Provincial HandHygiene Working Group.

Health-care workers’ handsare the most common vehicle forthe spread of potentially deadlyinfections – like C difficile andMRSA (Methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus) – aroundhospitals, according the B.C.Ministry of Health’s best practicesfor hand hygiene.

Hand cleaning is consideredthe best way to combat them.

In 2011/12, when Fraser

Health first started reporting theresults of hand-hygiene audits atits hospitals, compliance amongBurnaby Hospital personnel wasshown to be as low as 46 per centduring one quarter.

In the latest audits, however– for the period between April 1and June 19 – that number is up to87 per cent – five per cent abovethe provincial average and fourper cent above the average forFraser Health.

Housekeeping, maintenanceand food services staff, along withhospital volunteers, performedthe best, with a compliance rateof 95 per cent.

Clinical staff, including medi-cal technicians, porters, therapistsand pharmacists, were next witha 92 per cent compliance rate.

They were followed by nurses,

who were observed using properhand hygiene 87 per cent of thetime.

Doctors came in a distant lastat 75 per cent.

Still, local doctors did betterthan their counterparts aroundthe province.

The provincial average forhand-hygiene compliance amongphysicians was 69 per cent, com-pared to 82 per cent for B.C.health-care workers overall.

Doctors have lagged morethan 10 per cent behind otherhealth-care providers for fouryears, according to annual reportsby the Hand Hygiene WorkingGroup.

“We talk to all our care provid-ers, including physicians, abouthow to improve hand hygienecompliance, and that work is

ongoing,” Fraser Health spokes-person Tasleem Juma told theNOW. “As for why doctors con-tinue to be the least compliant,that’s something the College cananswer.”

While doctors have privilegesat hospitals, they are not employedby the health authorities.

The B.C. College of Physicians,however, declined to commenton why hand-cleaning compli-ance among doctors is the lowestamong health-care workers in theprovince.

“The College doesn’t collectany data on hand hygiene compli-ance,” wrote the College’s direc-tor of communications, SusanPrins in an email. “These typesof studies are usually conductedin a health authority or a specifichospital.”

BURNABY DOCTORS WASH THEIR HANDS 75 PER CENT OF THE TIME

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“All the fire depart-ments that we had that wereindependent, volunteer firedepartments practically dis-appeared during the revolu-tion,” he said. “After the freeelections, (the government)gave us back our right toreorganize again.”

When Caceres and hisfellow firefighters first setto rebuild the departments,they had nothing – notrucks, no equipment, noth-ing. Operation Nicaraguahas been one way the coun-try has been slowly rebuild-ing its fire departments.

Since its inception,Operation Nicaragua hasdonated 14 fire trucks, oldhoses, equipment and gearfrom fire departments inBritish Columbia, Albertaand Ontario.

“We’ve done incrediblework together. The people ofCanada have really shownthey’re interested in helpingand their good, kind hearts,”Caceres said.

This is the first time theBurnaby Fire Departmenthas participated in OperationNicaragua on such a scale.

Spearheaded by Capt. ErikVogel, the departmentapproached the city earlierthis year about donatingone of its retired fire truckssouth to Nicaragua. The cityagreed and the truck wasplaced in storage, where itremains until it’s ready tobe shipped by freighter toNicaragua.

Other items donatedby Burnaby include oldgear, uniforms and 2,000feet of hose. Both Vogeland Caceres agree, ratherthan watching equipmentbe shipped to the landfillwhen it “expires,” OperationNicaragua gives it a secondlife.

“Even if it’s old or used,discharged equipment inCanada, it becomes ourbrand new, state-of-the-artequipment for us,” Caceressaid.

The new equipmentalso provides firefighters inNicaragua with somethingthey can be proud of, whichcan make a world of differ-ence, Caceres added.

“It provides a sense ofdignity to our firefighters tosay that they do have some

good equipment to workwith,” he said. “It’s hard andsad when you have to fightfires with buckets of wateror sand.”

Operation Nicaraguaalso facilitates a trainingexchange program whereCanadian firefighters spenda few weeks training the vol-unteer firefighters.

With an additional 55fire trucks still needed,Operation Nicaragua is in noway over.

About three to four ship-ments of equipment are sentto Nicaragua each year andmost of the goods are sharedbetween the 11 departments.Soon the federation willopen a 12th fire department,and Caceres was proud tosay there’s already a firetruck and equipment readyand waiting for the newteam of volunteers.

“Who would think thatan old uniform would makesomebody feel good,” hesaid. “When you’re able toprovide a … good lookinguniform to a volunteer fire-fighter that never had one, itgives him a sense of dignityin what he does, and pride.”

National Energy Board membersare now deciding whether to overrideBurnaby’s bylaw against tree-cuttingso Kinder Morgan can survey BurnabyMountain for a new pipeline route.

TheNEBhearingonKinderMorgan’s“constitutional question” took placeThursday, Oct. 9 in Calgary. The keyissue is whether the NEB has the con-stitutional power to trump Burnaby’sbylaws, which makes it a precedent-set-ting case that could have implicationsfor other cities facing pipelines.

According to the official transcript,Kinder Morgan’s lawyers openedwith arguments supporting the NEB’slegal authority on the issue, stating theboard can determine Burnaby’s bylaws“inoperative” in regards to BurnabyMountain but can’t deem them uncon-stitutional. Kinder Morgan’s counselalso took a stab at Burnaby’s pressreleases on the pipeline.

“They are inflammatory, to say theleast. They are political. It is absolutelyclear they are opposed to the pipeline.And it’s our submission that this is nota bona fide attempt to apply bylaws,”

said Maureen Killoran, one of threeKinder Morgan lawyers. “This is abouta grand purpose of attempting to stopthe pipeline and attempting to stop it atthis very early stage, when the propo-nent is attempting to do environmentalassessment work, and work to facilitatethe board process.”

Killoran said Burnaby’s actions are“a collateral attack on not just the pipe-line but on the board’s mandate aswell.”

Burnaby’s lawyer Greg McDadeargued the NEB did not have theauthority to quash Burnaby’s bylaws.

“There is no clear power within sec-tion 12 or 13 or anywhere else in theNEB Act to say that you can declare ordetermine that municipal bylaws areinvalid,” he said.

NEB spokesperson Sarah Kileywasn’t sure when the board’s decisionwould be announced but said it couldbe in the next couple of weeks.

The National Energy Board Actalready allows companies access toCrown land and private property with-out the landowners’ permission, butnever before has the act come in directconflict with city bylaws, as it has inBurnaby.

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was on full public display at thelegislature last week – and boththe Opposition and the govern-ment came away feeling prettygood about their respective per-formances.

I’m referring to the first ques-tion period in months that fea-tured the NDP trying to squareoff against Premier ChristyClark. The NDP still seems tohave some pent-up rage aboutunexpectedly losing the lastelection and can’t seem to cometo grips with the fact that Clark– whom they belittled, scornedand dismissed out of hand, andfor whom they continue to lackrespect – actually beat them withthe voters.

Given their first opportunityto fire questions at the premier,the NDP opted to focus on thevery issues that likely propelledClark to her win: LNG, mining,forestry and job creation.

NDP leader John Horganand top lieutenants BruceRalston, Carole James and ShaneSimpson all hammered away at

her government’s record in theseareas. They quoted – correctly– statistics and figures to backup their assertions that Clark hasnot delivered on her promises inany of these sectors.

Clark’s lofty promise to useLNG revenues to get rid of thesales tax and the provincial debtwere ridiculed by the NDP (andthe media, including this com-mentator) before the election,and that promise was hurledback at her last week.

So, too, was her government’ssorry job creation record. Andthey derided Clark for her“photo-op politics.” Again,pretty much everything that wassaid before the last election.

This may explain why Clark,as the questions kept coming,seemed to start relishing theencounter. She realized shecould use the NDP’s attacks asammunition to make the mainpoint of what will surely be herparty’s campaign theme in 2017:her side does indeed promiseeconomic miracles, and the otherside does not.

The NDP’s attacks allowedher, again, to frame that partyas “the party that says no” tonatural resource projects, whichher side vociferously support.Of course, her take on the NDP’sposition is a gross generaliza-tion, but that is beside the point.

When it comes to effectivelycommunicating a message, Clarkis starting to remind me of

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Tankers add to air pollutionDear Editor:

Re. Tanker safety is paramount, Letters to theeditor, Burnaby NOW, Oct. 10.

First of all, thank you to Jennifer Moreau andthe Burnaby NOW editorial team for your thoroughcoverage of the proposed Kinder Morgan pipelineexpansion, keeping it in the public eye.

On Saturday afternoon my mother and I tooka walk in Barnet Marine Park. Just offshore, an oiltanker waiting by Kinder Morgan’s Westridge ter-minal let out a huge belch of brown smog, whichdrifted down Burrard Inlet towards the park.

If the pipeline expansion is approved, there willbe seven times as many tankers sitting in the Inlet,belching smog, just between Barnet Marine and

Confederation Parks, and under the Capitol Hill,Burrard Inlet and Burnaby Mountain ConservationAreas.

Even if Kinder Morgan never has an oil spillagain, we’ll be affected by the tankers’ air pollution.For example, the ravine of Confederation Park is anatural funnel; already, odours from the refineryon Inlet waft right up to the top of the park, wherethere are hundreds of people of all ages every day,enjoying the senior centre, library, pool, track, ballfields, playground and elementary school.

Will our parks become the way I rememberPittsburgh in the 1960s, when everything youtouched outside was covered in black soot?

We the citizens of Burnaby voted for our parksand pay for them with our taxes. They are at direct

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risk from the proposed pipeline expan-sion, no matter how “safe” Kinder Morganclaims to be.

Thank you, Mayor Corrigan, for chal-lenging a private company’s assumptionthat it has the right to ruin our parks forits own profit. This certainly should be aconstitutional issue.

Lise Kreps, Burnaby

Raccoons not a city issueDear Editor:

Re: Raccoons feast on her grubby lawn,Burnaby NOW, Oct. 8.

The City of Burnaby, in my opinion,is not responsible for the grub-eating rac-coons, which a reader in my area believesshould be the case. Why should it be up tothe city to keep the raccoons from scaveng-ing on people’s lawns?

In my own neighborhood, I have wit-nessed people preventing raccoon dam-age by hanging CDs from trees, coveringpotentially affected areas with netting andtrying to distract the pests with gardenstatues. Personally speaking, I believe ourfamily dog is the best deterrent for savingour lawn from being ripped up.

Don’t we think that our tax moneycould be used elsewhere in our commu-nity such as, promoting more officers inthe police department to help track downlocal vandals from breaking into vehiclesin our neighborhood.

After researching eco-friendly ways todeter raccoons, I discovered that lightingup the affected area has been shown to beeffective, as well as using pure soap flakesand mothballs, all of which are low-cost,easy to use, and do not require city funds.

Although I understand the reader’ssituation and the annoyance that theseanimals cause, I do not believe that goingto the city is the appropriate response.

Alison Shewfelt, age 16, Burnaby

Thanks to emergency crewDear Editor:

This letter is to express kudos to theBurnaby Fire Department and ambulanceservice. On Oct. 5 my mother-in-law had afall in her apartment in South Burnaby andwas unable to get to a phone for severalhours. However, when she was able to getthe phone and called 911, the response wasquick and very professional.

The Burnaby Fire Department crewwas supportive and courteous, even tothe point of cleaning up the mess leftfrom the fall. The paramedics were ableto keep the situation light-hearted andprovide the assurance necessary during atime of shock and stress. These respondersturned what could have been an extremelytraumatic experience into one which wasmanageable.

Although we don’t often hear of the day-to-day benefit our emergency respondersprovide, it’s times like this that we reallyneed to express our gratitude.

M. Lovick, New Westminster

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Pipeline expansion a risk

another politician with apretty good track recordin this regard: former U.S.president Ronald Reagan.

A brilliant new book (bya left-leaning historian) onthe political ascendencyof Reagan (The InvisibleBridge, by Rick Perlstein)provides plenty of evidenceof how Reagan essentiallytalked “over” the heads ofthe media and his politicalopponents.

He was given to mak-ing wild exaggerations,simplistic solutions orjust plain error-studdedpronouncements. But healso continually delivereda hopeful message (nomatter how ridiculous itsometimes seemed) thatAmericans clung to.

There are huge differ-ences between Clark andsomeone like Reagan ofcourse, but their commu-nication techniques seemsimilar in certain ways.

For example, during therecent teachers’ dispute,Clark referred in a seem-

ingly off-hand remarkabout the teachers wanting“unlimited massages” aspart of their benefits pack-age. Her assertion wasflat-out wrong (which I andpretty much every othermedia commentator quick-ly noted), but I was amazedby how many people sub-sequently wanted to talkto me about why teachersthought they deservedunlimited massages.

The NDP left that ques-tion period last Wednesdayseemingly thinking theyhad just strafed Clark andleft her badly woundedfrom their criticism. But,if anything, Clark seemedquite pleased by the show-down and her advisers toldme they’d be quite happyto constantly argue aboutthe economy with theNDP.

Both sides think theirrespective “messaging”will win out with the vot-ers.

The last election resultshowed, of course, thatwhen it comes to the econ-

omy, Clark and the B.C.Liberals have more cred-ibility than their opponents.New Democrats will haveto establish their own cred-ibility, while at the sametime convincing enoughpeople that Clark’s prom-ises don’t add up.

But that may prove to bea difficult challenge. Theycan quote all the statisticsand studies they want, butthe vast majority of votersdon’t listen to them.

Instead, they appearto listen to lofty, hopefulrhetoric.

The NDP can dismissthat notion – as they didduring that revealing ques-tion period – but unlessthey can find a way toburst Clark’s bubble whenit comes to making prom-ises versus the reality ofthings (and they haven’tcome close to doing thatyet), the next election resultmay be a mirror of the lastone.

Keith Baldrey is chiefpolitical reporter for GlobalB.C.


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I’ve been ushered into anexamination room at FortiusSport & Health and have

grabbed a plastic model of whatlooks like a very gristly cut ofmeat.

“He likes to have the limbhe’s looking at in the room,” says

Jamie, the assistant who’s let mein.

I’m waiting for sports doctorJason Crookham, who’s goingto kick off my 14 week “FortiusChallenge” with an examinationof my right shoulder, which I’mhoping will be able to hold upthrough a game of tennis after allis said and done.

Like most of the practitionersI encounter at Fortius, Crookhamseems way overqualified to fix upa 47-year-old mother of three soshe can play recreational tennis.

A former professional andCanadian national team cyclist,Crookham is former team phy-

sician to the Abbotsford HeatAHL hockey team, the NCAABig Ten University of MichiganWolverines football, basketball,hockey and soccer teams, and theMaxxis Professional MountainBike Team.

He asks me a few questions,puts me through a series ofmovements and then reachesfor the plastic model – my newfriend, glenohumeral joint.

My issue is a “bread and but-ter” sports medicine problem, hesays, one that will fit perfectlyinto my Fortius Challenge.

The glenohumeral or shoulderjoint, he explains, is a mobile but

unstable one, like a golf ball rest-ing on a golf tee.

Unlike the true ball-and-sockethip joint, which has a lot of “bonystability,” the shoulder is held inplace mostly by four muscles thatmake up the rotator cuff.

My shoulder’s problem isbasically looseness, according toCrookham.

Since things are movingaround more than they should,stuff is getting “pinched,” andthat’s where the pain is comingfrom.

Little calcifications can alsogrow in the joint and cause simi-lar symptoms, so Crookham says

he’ll be looking at some X-rays Ihad done a couple of years agobefore our follow-up appoint-ment, just in case.

In the meantime, he’s prettysure a physical rehab programto strengthen the muscles of myrotator cuff (my new buddiessupraspinatus, infraspinatus,teres minor and subscapularis).

“I think you’re going to dogreat with rotator cuff strength-ening and stabilizing exercises.”

Next stop, physiotherapy.

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You know that bum knee or achyshoulder that’s stopping you frombeating your twerpy young friend at

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me.For the next 14 weeks, this reporter

has been assigned to undertake a “FortiusChallenge” – a chance to set some fit-ness and physical performance goals andexperience first-hand the different waysBurnaby’s Fortius Sport & Health can help.

Fortius, the sleek, world-class, $61-mil-lion sports medicine and performancefacility on Kensington Avenue, was builtto bring together the best and brightestin Canadian sport and exercise medicineunder one roof to “integrate, collaborateand innovate.”

It’s a one-stop shop for elite athletesand teams, like the Toronto Raptors who

recently spent a four-day training campthere and for the national women’s soccerteam who’s currently using it to preparefor next summer’s World Cup.

Whether it’s recovering from injury ormaximizing performance, Fortius has allthe trainers, sports doctors, physiothera-pists, chiropractors, massage therapists,kinesiologists, optometrists, biomechanists,physiologists, dieticians, pedorthists, podi-atrists and orthopedic surgeons any high-performance athlete could need.

But part of the Fortius vision, whenthe founders were planning their dreamfacility and picking their dream team, wasalways that the technology and know-howshould become community assets.

The Fortius Foundation, fuelled by

philanthropy like that of founder andchairman Scott Cousens who donated $23million to the project, built and equippedFortius with cutting-edge equipment andtechnologies that would attract Canada’stop athletes.

But it also made those amenities avail-able to a public that normally wouldn’thave access to them.

Fortius has been trying to get that mes-sage out – that the centre is for anyonemotivated by an exercise-related goal,whether it’s making an Olympic come-back, playing recreational tennis or walk-ing the dog.

But the idea that Fortius is a facility for

Shoulder disconnect: NOW health reporter Cornelia Naylor gets up close and personal with the glenohumeral or shoulder joint while waiting for the firstappointment in her 14-week “Fortius Challenge.” Over the coming months, Fortius Sport & Health has pledged to bring all its cutting-edge technology andsport-health know-how to bear to overcome her lingering college volleyball injury and help her play recreational tennis pain free.

My shoulder is a ‘bread and butter’ issue

Aging reporter puts her body in Fortius’s hands

ON MY BEATCornelia Naylor

Cornelia Naylorstaff reporter

Cornelia Naylor/burnaby now

Fortius Page 13



The second phase of Metrotown’s five-tower Station Square development willdouble the workforce of the first phase,according to business leaders at a pressconference for the project on Friday.

Standing at the site of the next twotowers, in front of hundreds of construc-tion workers, Anthem Properties CEOEric Carlson and Beedie DevelopmentGroup president Ryan Beedie announced

Phase 2 will create 650 construction jobsin Burnaby.

“When I think about what we do asa company, one of the things I love themost is the employment generation: creat-ing well-paid construction jobs,” Beediesaid, noting that roughly 3,000 people willbe employed during the duration of theStation Square development.

“We’re celebrating a milestone inthe development of this project,” addedCarlson. “Several years from now, right

New jobs:Mayor DerekCorriganwas on handFriday for theannouncementthat the secondphase of theStation Squaredevelopmentin Metrotownwill create650 jobsconstructionjobs inBurnaby.

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Station Square projectwill create 650 jobs

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elites only persists – helped, no doubt, bythe recent Raptors visit and news of otherelite clients since the centre’s May 2013opening.

Fortius biomechanist Dr. ChristopherMacLean told me he recently overheard ayoung soccer player walking past the cen-tre tell his mom he’d really love to trainand play at Fortius.

“Oh no, son,” she said, “that’s for pro-fessional athletes.”

MacLean shook his head.“The perception and the reality, there’s

a bit of a disconnect,” he said.My first visit to Fortius was for a meet-

ing with director of clinical operationsRandy Goodman to tour the centre andset goals.

Goodman has 25 years’ experience asan international sport physiotherapist.

At the Vancouver 2010 Olympic andParalympic Games, he was the supervisorof therapy in the Athletes Village.

He’s not alone; when Fortius wentinto its final planning phase in 2011,many of the practitioners on board hadbeen at the Games and been part of whatthe International Olympic Committeecalled the best sport medicine platform inOlympic Games history.

“I feel like an all-star manager,” saidGoodman of the Fortius staff.

After touring me around state-of-the-art amenities like hydrotherapy pools, aperformance vision clinic and a biome-chanics lab, he sat me down to set goals.

As a rehab project, we agreed to zeroin on an achy shoulder that’s been bother-ing me since college volleyball.

By the end of the challenge, the goalwas to be able to play a game of tennis

without it throbbing and stiffening up.I’d also get a chance to sample every-

thing else Fortius has to offer – massage,a consultation with a dietician, a barrageof tests for everything from my runninggait to my vision.

My first appointment was arranged forthe following week, and I left Fortius withthe intro from the old Six Million DollarMan into ringing in my head.

“We can rebuild (her). We have thetechnology. We can make (her) betterthan (she) was. Better…stronger…faster.”

Fortius: Not just for the proscontinued from page 11

Checking in: NOW health reporterCornelia Naylor waits for her firstappointment as part of her 14-weekFortius challenge.

Cornelia Naylor/burnaby now


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The overall project willcreate 1,800 homes acrossthe five towers, and is oneof many developments toaddress housing needs inthe city as the region pre-pares for a million new res-idents in the next 25 years,according to Mayor DerekCorrigan.

“I want to first of allbring greetings fromBurnaby city council, fromour staff, but particularlyon behalf of all of the citi-zens of our city, many ofwhom will be moving fromtheir single-family homesinto this development to besure that they stay in ourcity,” he said.

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Gratitude connects to health and happiness

The way you lookat your life at thismoment can deter-

mine your future healthand happiness.

How you habituallythink has great bearingon your performance atschool or work, your phys-ical health, your emotionsand your relationships.

If you see yourself asa powerless victim of life,you lose your confidenceand sense of control. Thisleads to anxiety.

If all you focus on iswhat is wrong in yourlife, you will no longer seewhat is good. This leads todepression.

An attitude more con-ducive to your well-beingis gratitude.

Contrary to popularopinion, thankfulness isnot a function of what youhave or a luxury when lifeis good.

Lasting and authentichappiness doesn’t comewhen everything is perfectbecause it never is or whenit seems to be, it doesn’tstay that way. In an imper-fect world, we can still behappy.

We say that pessimistssee the cup as half emptyand optimists see it halffull. With the perspectiveof wanting, we see whatwe don’t have and we getwhat we expect – more ofless and more wanting.Happiness is not in thecards with the half-emptyattitude.

Pessimists may thinkthat optimists are deluded.The cup is really not halffull, and in a sense theymay be right. Water is notstatic, just as neither ourselves nor anything in lifeis unchanging.

People come in and outof our lives, love comes in

many forms and the giftswe are given are gifts intrust; we holdthem for amoment andpass them on.Everything isfleeting, flow-ing and influx.

Gratitudeallows us toappreciatewhat we havebeen given inthe past – thegood that wehave experi-enced, the way we wereloved and the lessons wehave learned. It allowsus to see and appreciate

ourselves, others and ourworld just as they are at

this moment.It can allowus to see andcreate a posi-tive future, therealization ofpotential.

Whenmy childrenwere young, Iwould makeup a newstory eachbedtime. Inthe tale of the“Daily Fairy,”

a child is befriended bya beautiful fairy who hasnothing but love to give inher short life which lasts

just one day. Rather thangrieving her impendingloss, the child learns toappreciate the gift of herfairy’s one sparkling day.

We and everyonearound us are like thedaily fairy – flowers inbloom today.

Take stock of what youhave this day. There areseeds and flowers.

Be grateful for the flow-ers you see today andrecognize that in yourhands are the seeds for thefuture.

When you turn yourproblems into goals– reframing the negativeinto positive – you beginto create a more positive

future. You are no longera victim of chance. Youempower yourself. You seegolden opportunities andyou seize them. You plantseeds for future happiness.

Today, appreciate theflowers that now bloom inyour life and give thanksfor flowers past. Recognizethe seeds in your life, andask, “What can I do todayto create happiness tomor-row?”

Dr. Davidicus Wongis a family physician. HisHealthwise column appearsregularly in this paper. Youcan read more about achiev-ing your positive potentialin health at davidicuswong.wordpress.com.

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“Be grateful forthe flowers yousee today andrecognize that inyour hands arethe seeds for thefuture.”DAVIDICUS WONGfamily physician

Help local beesThe City of Burnaby

is teaming up with theEnvironmental YouthAlliance to host a specialworkshop to help bolsterlocal bee populations.

The free workshop ison Saturday, Oct. 18 from10:30 a.m. to noon.

“Bees are beneficialinspects which play a vitalrole in our ecosystem,” saidMelinda Yong, an environ-mental technician with theCity of Burnaby’s parks,recreation and cultural ser-vices. “The program is sopeople can play a role inincreasing their habitats inthe city. It’s great way toget involved in your localpark.”

The workshop is pri-marily for people who are

already involved in thecity’s bee condo program,where people volunteerto take care of mason beecondos. The “condos” aretrays for mason bees to laytheir cocoons. There willbe information on how tomaintain the bee condosover winter. Workshopattendees will also learnabout the life cycle of themason bee.

New participants arewelcome to attend.

Register by [email protected].

The workshop will beheld at the Burnaby parksadmin office, at 101-4946Canada Way (use the northdoors). Refreshments willbe provided.

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Gardeners who growchives, leeks andother kitchen onions

don’t always think abouttheir exotic flowering rela-tives – alliums, the onionsthat are grown for theirbeautiful flower headswhich in different varietiesmay be purple, pink, white,lavender and sometimesyellow or blue.

After their floweringseason, the easy-to-dryseedheads can be cut forwinter vases or left inthe garden, where theyadd interest until winterwinds make them keelover. Flower heads, if cutearly, tend to keep a fadedversion of their originalcolours.

Besides being hardy andunusually healthy, alliumshave a vertical growthhabit that fits very well intocontainers and small space.They reliably come backyear after year.

Though alliums willgrow in most soils thataren’t swampy, their favou-

rite conditions are the sameones that crocuses andtulips like – sun and well-drained soil. The foliagedies down immediatelyafter they flower (or even alittle before in some). Oncethey’re dormant, droughtdoesn’t bother them.

Most of their bulbs canbe planted below or withinthe roots of other plants,and when flowering, thetaller alliums rise wellabove compact annuals.Squirrels seem to ignorealliums as do other pests.

Breeders are working oncreating the deepest pos-sible purple alliums such asthe 1.2-metre Ambassador.But most of the tall, large-globed ones – includingGlobemaster, Lucille Ball orAllium giganteum – are ablend of pinkish purple orpurplish pink.

Virtually all alliums arekeepers that return yearafter year without hog-ging precious space. Butthe Sicilian honey garlic(Nectaroscordum siculum)gradually makes a thickand ever-increasing mat ofbulbs. The flowers produce90-centimetre stems ofbells in an unusual blendof white, pink, purple andgreen.

Another strange plantis Allium schubertii, which

displays a ragged head oflong, medium and shortfloret stems hosting pinkflowers. Fascinating shapefor winter vases.

One of the most beauti-ful is Allium christophii,which is only 30 cm tall buthas heads that can reach 25cm in diameter. It’s anotherlovely one for drying. Eachstarry floret is centeredwith a black seed.

It isn’t generally knownthat leeks, shallots and veg-etable onions can producevery pretty flowers, thoughwith leeks and onions thisdoesn’t happen till theirsecond year – and by thenthe root isn’t much use foreating.

Most flowers of vegeta-ble alliums are white, butred onions or purple-tingedleeks may produce flow-ers with a purple blush orpurple stamens or purpleseeds. Once you have aflower, you may obtainviable seeds for gardenplanting. Obtaining seeds isbest tried with one or twoplants that you’ve movedout of the vegetable garden.Old roots are susceptible todiseases and pests.

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Click and Clack: Mileage tests best as relative measureRAY: So if you took thesame exact car, with sameexact engine and sameamount of fuel, and ranthem through the two dif-ferent tests, the Europeanmileage number would be,on average, about 20 percent higher, just because

the test is different.TOM: So if you convert forimperial gallons, and thenconvert for the differencein testing methodology,your car would be ratedat about 45.6 mpg. That’spretty close to the 50.4advertised in the U.K.RAY: Of course, you can’t

count on getting any ofthese numbers in real life.While the U.S. test is morerealistic than the Europeantest, neither of the testsreally mimics your owndriving.TOM: So they’re alwaysbest used as relative mea-sures, to compare one car

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With winter quickly approaching, the Ministryof Transportation and Infrastructure is remindingmotorists that beginning this month, winter tiresare required on many highways throughout theprovince.

Signs are posted on each of the designated high-ways to advise motorists where winter tires arerequired.

These are generally located approaching highmountain passes and Interior highways where con-ditions can change from rain to snow very quickly.

Maps showing which roads require winter tirescan be found on the ministry’s web page at: www.th.gov.bc.ca.

As a result of the technical analysis completedduring the Rural Highway Safety and Speed Review,winter tires have been defined as those labelled witheither the winter mountain/snowflake symbol or themud and snow (M+S) designation. Winter tires mustalso be in good condition with a minimum treaddepth of 3.5 mm.

There is also a new timeframe that winter tiresare required on the high mountain passes. The newtimeframe is Oct. 1 to March 31 (it previously wasOct. 1 to April 30).

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The boys of the VancouverNorthwest Giants could spendThanksgiving Monday relaxingthankstoback-to-backwinsagainstthe Fraser Valley Thunderbirds inMajor Midget league play.

The Burnaby-Winter-Club-basedGiantsbeattheThunderbirds5-4 on Saturday at the AbbotsfordRecreation Centre (Oct. 11) andthen 3-1 on Sunday (Oct. 12) athome at the Winter Club.

The wins wouldn’t be news forthe unbeaten Giants (8-0) who are,after all, defending seven-timeregular season champs, except forthat five of their regular playerswere out of the lineup due toinjuries.

Sunday’s game – the team’sfirst at home – was a good show-

ing for the remaining Giants, butat times it was clear they werehurting.

The first period ended score-less despite four power plays andthe Giants outshooting the ‘Birds12-3.

“(The Thunderbirds) kept usto the perimeter and they dida good job of getting in lanesand getting us to the outside andeverything that we shot in the firstperiod, though we took a numberof shots, they were all from out-side and we weren’t able to getinto the goal-scoring area,” saidGiants head coach Clint Thorntonof the first period.

Despite the lopsided shots-on-goal tally, the Thunderbirds goton the board first with 13 minutesremaining in the second period.

The Giants’ Mateo Coltellaroanswered shortly after making it

1-1.The Giants held off a two-man

advantage late in the second tokeep the score tied into the third.

The Giants kept control of thegame in the third, finding the backof the net two more times.

Forward WilsonNorthey scored to makeit 2-1 and then got hissecond assist of the night,passing to teammate andBurnaby boy Brady Chin,who got his first goal ofthe season for Northwest in hisfirst game to make it 3-1 for theGiants, and game over.

To the Thunderbirds’ credit,they put pressure on Giants goalieDavid Tendeck, making most oftheir shots on goal in the last15 minutes of the game (T’birdsended with 21 shots on goal to theGiants’ 35, on the game).

But Tendeck was on alert andthe Giants, hobbled or not, pulledit together for the win.

On the game, Giants’ assistswent to defencemen CallahanBrebner, Shane Kime and CarterStephenson.

“That is the strengthof our team, our depth.When some guys aren’tputting the puck in thenet, we have a lot ofoptions that can accom-plish what we are trying

to do,” said Thornton. “In the endwe got the two points, and that’swhat counts and we just have tokeep improving on that.”

The Giants are off next week-end. They lace up their skatesagain on Oct. 25 against the ValleyWest Hawks at the Langley EventsCentre.

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Great plays made at All NationsOver the long weekend

there was great ball on thehardwood, drumming inthe stands and a sense ofcommunity that envelopedboth players and spectatorsas Simon Fraser Universityplayed host to the NECNative Education CollegeAll Nations BasketballClassic.

Twenty adult men’sand women’s teams tookpart in theinaugural tour-nament, whichwas held at theLorne DaviesComplex at theBurnaby SFUcampus.

There werethree teamsfrom theSiksika Nation(Alberta), two teams fromthe Hesquiaht Nation(Vancouver Island), twoteams from Kamloopsand area, and three teamsfrom local Musqueam andSquamish nations.

For many players it wasanother chance to playcompetitive basketballwhile connecting to cul-ture and family.

Captain of the WestCoast Spirit women’steam, Anna Atleo, 34, fromNanaimo, said the tourna-ment is important for play-ers on and off the court.

“It is good medicine forourselves, and it bringsus together, and we getto build connections with

other teams and othernations across B.C.,” shesaid.

Alteo’s team wasknocked into consolationplay early in the tourna-ment after a close lossagainst Alberta in the firstgame. The West CoastSpirit team is a two-timechamp at the prestigiousAll Native BasketballTournament held in PrinceRupert every year. (InFebruary, Spirit were onepoint away from winningthe top spot at the All

Nations for athird time buthad to settlefor secondafter losingto MetlakatlaB.C.)

Accordingto ClaireAskew, NECW e l l n e s sWarriors co-

ordinator, the entire tour-nament was a resoundingsuccess.

“We’ve had some awe-some competition. Somereally great teams havecome out,” she said. “Itis really a communityevent.”

Some of the off-courthighlights for Askewincluded the aboriginalyouth basketball tourna-ment held on Sunday (Oct.11), which was hosted bythe SFU men’s basketballteam.

“That was really neat.The kids were really excit-ed,” Askew said, addingthat about 50 kids attend-ed the camp.

Cultural highlightsincluded dance perfor-mances by the MusqueamNation’s Tsatsu Stalqayu(Coast Wolf Pack) at theopening ceremony andwords by elder Jim Whiteat the opening and closingceremonies.

“It is just really aboutbringing people togetherin a really healthy environ-ment,” Askew said.

Joleen Mitton, 31, cap-tain of All My Relations,which is made up of EastVancouver players fromvarious First Nations, said

it was great to reconnect atthe event.

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“We are going to decol-onize,” she said with alaugh. “We are going tonot have turkey, we aregoing to have fish andstuff like that. Everyoneshould decolonize.”

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Back-to-back wins for Northwest Giants

“We’ve had someawesome com-petition. Somereally great teamshave come out.”Claire Askewcoordinator, NEC WellnessWarriors

Twenty-four-year oldTrevor Milner is hangingup his hockey skates forgood.

Milner, a three-seasonforward on the SimonFraser University men’shockey team, announcedon Oct. 10 he is retiringfrom his sport due to con-cussion-like symptoms.

“I’m sad to leave a sportI love and have played forso long. Most of all I missthe camaraderie amongstthe guys on the team andgoing out every gamecompeting together,” saidMilner, in a press release.“It’s frustrating to stopplaying due to concussionsbecause they are some-what invisible injuries.However, I understandthat the implications offurther concussions couldbe drastic to my personalhealth ….”

Concussions causesymptoms such as head-aches, weakness, sensitiv-ity to light and nausea. Ifa person with concussionsymptoms receives a fur-ther hit to the head thensecond impact syndromecan occur, which can causeAlzheimer’s-like symp-toms, according to theBrain Injury Association ofCanada website.

“Dealing with concus-sion issues for a couple ofyears is a tough thing togo through. As an athleteat a high level, players arecompetitive by nature, andcoming to grips with retir-ing from playing is dif-ficult and emotional forTrevor,” said SFU men’shockey head coach MarkColetta, in the release.

Concussions are noth-ing new to hockey – at alllevels. And while Milner’sdecision to step away fromthe game was undoubted-ly difficult, clearer under-standing of what repeatedconcussions can cause sup-ports his decision.

The National HockeyLeague’s golden boySidney Crosby famouslytook two back-to-back hitsthat caused a concussionthat took him two years to

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recover from. For other NHL players theimpact of repeated concussions has beeneven more catastrophic.

Boston University research recentlyshowed that when former Canadian NHLplayer Derek Boogaard died in 2011, (of anaccidental drug overdose ) he was suffer-ing from chronic traumatic encephalopa-thy (CTE) – a degenerative brain diseasecaused by repeated head injuries.

Previous research at Boston showedNHLers Rick Martin, Bob Probert andReggie Fleming all suffered from CTEwhen they died.

The Hockey Canada website says con-cussions are preventable by not checkingto the head and not hitting from behind.

Milner played 55 games over three sea-sons (2011-14) playing for the Clan in theBritish Columbia Intercollegiate HockeyLeague (BCIHL). He boasts 25 goals and 20assists (45 points) over his SFU career.

“I learned a lot about myself whileplaying and going through the ups and

downs a player at this level does. I feel thatall of those experiences will help me in myfuture endeavours,” Milner said.

He plans to carry on with his schoolingat SFU and with his charity work for theJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

According to an SFU media spokesper-son, Milner is the only Clan hockey playerin at least the last seven or eight years toretire due to concussion-symptoms.

Meanwhile back on the ice, the SFUmen’s hockey team was in action in theteam’s home opener, Friday night (Oct. 10)when they faced two-time reigning cham-pions, Selkirk College at the Bill CopelandSports Centre. The Clan won 6-2 over theSaints. SFU is tied with the University ofVictoria at the top of the BCIHL stand-ings.

SFU next takes on Trinity WesternUniversity at the Langley Events Centre onOct. 17. The puck drops at 7 p.m. The nextday (Oct. 18) SFU is back at Bill Copelandto face Trinity Western at home. For moreinformation go to www.sfuhockey.com.

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