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NewWestminster police are investigat-ing a daytime stabbing that happened at Co-lumbia Square on Friday.

Shortly after 2 p.m., police received re-ports that a man had been stabbed at 1005Columbia St., Staff Sgt.Todd Matsumototold the Record. He was taken to hospitalwith non-life-threatening injuries.

“I can tell you our major crime unit hasbeen called in to continue with our investi-gation, as well as our forensic identificationsection,” said Matsumoto.

The stabbing occurred in ColumbiaSquare plaza, right outside of the NewWest-minster school district’s school board office.Superintendent John Gaiptman said wit-nesses brought the victim to the front of thebuilding and staff attended to him.

“911 was called immediately, they showedup and whisked him off to Royal Columbi-an,” said Gaiptman.

In regard to concerns with the stabbinghappening so close to the school districtheadquarters, Gaiptman said they are in

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Fraser Health is seeing an uptick in par-ents calling about vaccinations after a recentmeasles outbreak in Disneyland, but 42 percent of NewWestminster kids under the ageof two are still unvaccinated, according tohealth authority data.

“They’re concerning if they would con-tinue to go down,” Burnaby-NewWestmin-ster public health manager Corinna Orob-ko said of the immunization numbers. “Wedo need to see them increase.We like to seecloser to 80 per cent. Herd immunity is bet-ter if it’s higher.We are putting ourselves a

little bit at risk to have some outbreaks.”NewWest’s immunization rate for kids

under two has dropped from 68 per centin March 2013 and 65 per cent in March2014 to 58 percent October – well belowthe Fraser Health average of 69 per cent.

Orobko, however, said the number of lo-cal kids actually vaccinated is probablyhigher because NewWest parents often takethem to nearbyVancouver for shots, andFraser Health has no way of tracking thosenumbers.

NewWest’s high immigrant and refugeepopulation is also mobile, Orobko said, andthe health authority has no way of deter-mining whether people who originally land-

ed in NewWest are now living and vacci-nating their kids somewhere outside of thehealth region or still in NewWest not vacci-nating them.

As for newcomers being averse to vacci-nation on religious, cultur-al or other grounds, Orob-ko said she doesn’t think thatsignificantly affects the data.

“I don’t think that’s the is-sue,” she said. “(Immigrantsand refugees) are very appre-ciative of health care becausethey’ve seen some of thethings that happen when these diseases dooccur because there aren’t enough vaccina-tions where they’ve been.They’re apprecia-tive of health care, period, because they maynot have had the access.”

Orobko said local public health officialsare doing everything they can to boost im-munization numbers, offering evening clin-ics, concentrating on followup and cleaningup vaccination data.

Regrettable as the Dis-neyland measles outbreak is,Orobko said, health officialsare encouraged by the pub-lic’s response.

“It’s terrible that we haveoutbreaks of measles,” shesaid, “but at least people aresaying, ‘OK, this happened

there. It could happen to me. I have to goget my kids immunized.’”

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NewWestminster citycouncil has unanimous-ly approved a developmentpermit for the first residen-tial tower at the BreweryDistrict development.

Wesgroup Properties ap-plied for a developmentpermit that would allow itto build a 15-storey resi-dential building with 115units at 200 Nelsons Cres.A debate has raged in Sap-perton for months, withmany residents voicing con-cern that the tower beingproposed is taller than whatresidents were led to believewould be built at the site.

Sapperton resident JohnHislop said theWesgroup’sdecision to lower the build-ing height from 18 to 15storeys is a step in the rightdirection but doesn’t go farenough. He said it’s a de-parture from the nine-sto-rey building originally pro-posed on the site and laterincreased to 12 storeys.

Jim Hurst, a develop-ment planner with the city,said the consultation pro-cess lasted for about eightmonths in 2006 and 2007.He said the project changedfrom what was proposed atthe beginning of the pro-cess to what was approvedduring the rezoning, includ-ing the provision of com-mercial spaces, such as a

grocery store, in the earlystages of the development.

“We tied that commer-cial service to the densi-ty that was on the site,”he said. “Between the lastmeeting in 2006 and themeeting held in May 2007,the scope of the project in-creased in terms of densi-ty and heights of the build-ings.”

Although the a 300-foottall building proposed forthe site garnered the mostconcern, staff noted thatthe plan approved by thecity permitted three 180-foot-tall buildings.

Hurst said a May 2007document shows build-ings below 180 feet, but“a line on the page” alsoshows that buildings up to

180 feet tall would be per-mitted.

Sapperton resident Dan-ielle Connelly said she feelslet down that the impactof “the black line” wasn’tmade more clear to resi-dents. She said communitymembers feel let down bythe process and don’t havethe time or expertise to un-derstand documents likecity staff and developers.

“It’s not something Ihave the time to do and ifI did I probably wouldn’tunderstand what it meantanyways.This is where weturn to our city and hopethey will be looking out forour best interests,” she said.“I feel very disappointed.I hope you do not approvethis without addressing the

traffic concerns.”Connelly said traffic is a

big concern and questionedwhy all accesses from thesite come out into upperSapperton, rather than Bru-nette Avenue.

Jim Lowrie, the city’s di-rector of engineering, saidstaff is reassessing the trafficimpact study that was pro-vided at the time of the re-zoning and will report backto council.

While she supports theproject, Coun. MaryTren-tadue said she understandswhy there is some con-fusion in the communityabout what’s being built be-cause a number of drawingswere presented during theprocess.

“I think we need to do abetter job at making surepeople understand. It’sgreat to have transparency,but we need to have clarity.We need to make sure peo-ple really understand what’sgoing on. I think that’s apiece that’s missing,” shesaid. “There seems to be alot of confusion.That tellsme that somewhere alongthe line, we weren’t clearor we didn’t take the timethat was needed for peopleto understand.That’s a bigtake away.”

About 10 Sapperton res-idents attended Mondaynight’s council meeting to

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AnvilCentrehas‘deficiencies’

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It’s a first for the NewWestminster school district.

The board of educationvoted at last week’s meet-ing to align teachers’ profes-sional development days forthe 2015/16 year at schoolsacross the district, making iteasier for parents and care-takers to manage their chil-dren who are in differentschools.

“So parents don’t have tojuggle their kids,” superin-tendent John Gaiptman saidwhile explaining the signifi-cance of the move.

He also thanked theNewWestminsterTeach-ers’ Union president GrantOsborne and other unionmembers’ for their input on

the pro-d change.“I think the board owes

him a debt of gratitude forwhat he did,” Gaiptmansaid, looking toward Os-borne.

Board chair JoninaCampbell said the changewould be “exciting” for par-ents. She noted one fami-ly she knows of that had 18different pro-d days.

“It can be confusing,”trustee Casey Cook add-ed, saying having uniformdays throughout the districtbrings predictability for par-ents.

Next year’s schedule in-cludes six professional de-velopment days – whereteachers are involved intraining that enhances theirskills.

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The City of NewWest-minster is addressing anumber of “minor” defi-ciencies in Anvil Centre andits office tower.

Anvil Centre, the city’snew cultural and conferencecentre, opened in Septem-ber 2014. An office buildinghas been constructed atopthe civic centre.

Terry Atherton, the city’smanager of civic buildingsand properties, said the An-vil Centre office tower de-ficiencies related to itemssuch as the lobby directo-ry and intercom, landscap-ing and irrigation on roofdecks and ceiling in the lob-by and on the14th floor. Hecouldn’t put a price tag onthe deficiencies, but said itdidn’t amount to the $1.5million that had been heldback by the purchaser.

Some deficiencies havealso been found in the An-vil Centre civic facility, suchas issues with door locks,some mechanical and elec-trical matters and sidewalks,Atherton said.

“Some of them are crack-ing – just small cracks,” hesaid. “They sawcut lines inbetween them and some-times there has been crack-ing going across there.”

Atherton didn’t have anitemized list of the costs as-

sociated with repairs to thedeficiencies, but said they’renot significant.

“It’s normal,” he saidabout deficiencies. “Some-times deficiencies take threeor six months to finish.Thebigger the project, the lon-ger it takes.”

Last March, the city an-nounced it had sold the of-fice tower to 777 ColumbiaStreet, a company joint-ly owned by Joseph Segal’sKingswood Capital Corpo-ration and Suki Sekhon’sCRS Group of Companies.

Sekhon told the Recordthat he isn’t concernedabout the deficiencies.

“It’s typical with a newbuilding,” he said. “Theykind of rushed the civic cen-tre a bit and left the towerbecause they were wantingto get the civic centre open.I think it was just timing onthat part to get everythingdone.”

Sekhon said the contrac-tor is still working to ad-dress any remaining defi-ciencies, but much of thework has been completed.

“They were all minorthings, nothing major,” hesaid. “It’s like $200,000 or$300,000 on a $40-milliondeal. It’s nothing that’s wor-rying us at all.”

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NewWestminster resi-dents could be facing a 2.75to 3.45 per cent hike to theirtaxes in 2015.

On Feb. 2, council re-ceived a report about the2015 to 2019 financial plan.The report stated that a2.75 per cent tax increaseis needed to fund ongo-ing municipal services, buta 3.45 per cent increasewould provide funding forstaffing positions that wouldaddress workload issues.

According to the re-port, a 2.75 per cent in-crease would result in a $30hike for a strata assessedat $303,900, $71 on a sin-gle-family dwelling assessedat $708,300 and $99 on ahome assessed at $1 million.The 3.45 per cent increasewould result in respectivetax hikes of $38, $89 and$124.

The 2015 draft budgetis proposing about $110.1million to provide ongoing

municipal services, an in-crease from $105.9 millionin 2014.The $4.2 millionincrease in expenses reflectsan increase of $3.5 millionin salaries and benefits (in-cluding $1.9 million for an-nual wage increments and$0.2 million to address thenegotiated fire services set-tlement), as well as new po-sitions approved by councilin 2014 to address work-load issues at Anvil Centreoperations, increased policecosts, IT system mainte-nance and supplies and ma-terials for Anvil Centre.

Mayor Jonathan Cotesaid Anvil Centre, as well asa few items approved lastyear, is adding $1 million tothis year’s budget. He saidcouncil wanted more infor-mation about costs associat-ed with Anvil Centre, whichwasn’t fully budgeted lastyear because it didn’t openuntil September.

Council members askedfor more details about thecosts, staffing and revenuesassociated with the facili-

ty. Staff will report back tocouncil at the next budgetsession.

In addition to the basebudget, council is consider-ing additional funding re-quests from departments todeal with workload issues. Ifapproved, the funds neededwould increase the tax ratefrom 2.75 to 3.45 per centin 2015.

“I think it is probablysafe to say we will be in thatrange, but at this point a de-cision as to where we fallwill happen when we have adiscussion on those items,”Cote said.

The positions being pro-posed include a part-timepermits and licences clerk,a planning assistant, an ap-prentice electrician, auxil-iary staff in engineering op-erations to help providestaffing for city events andgeneral maintenance in thecity, a parks and open spaceplanner, a manager of thecommunity energy and

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How many plots andwhat type are details the

Canadian public will conve-niently never hear about.

But like other similarmeasures that have gone be-fore, the bill expands statepowers of surveillance anddetention of those securityforces deem to be potentialthreats.

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ing to “radicalized” beliefscould be enough to earn avisit from CSIS.

Those are measures aportion of the populationmight support, but they alsoborder on thought police.

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It’snoteasypeggingGreens

A recent dustup on so-cial media between an NDPMLA and B.C.’s lone GreenParty MLA provides a fewmore clues about the appar-ent shifting political land-scape in this province.

NDP MLA Doug Rout-ley let slip, viaTwitter, hisplan to use one of his cam-paign volunteers to mounta smear campaign againstWeaver through that samesocial media tool.

He was caught, the NDPwas embarrassed and every-one moved on. But the factthe NDP thinks thatWeav-er is such a threat to themis telling. It says the party isworried about the threat of aparty that seems to be grow-ing in force, not shrinking.

But lost in all this is thefact the B.C. Liberals shouldalso be concerned about thepotential rise of a third, via-ble party in this province.

One of the great gamesof political observers is tosolve this mystery: where doGreen voters come from? Ilooked at the results of thelast two provincial elections,to examine any shifts in vot-ing patterns that occurredwhen the Green vote in aparticular riding significantlyincreased or decreased fromone election to the next.

I was surprised to learnthat the absence of a GreenParty candidate in eight rid-ings in 2013 (where the par-ty had fielded one in 2009)actually saw the B.C. Lib-erals’ vote actually increase.Those one-time Green vot-ers had apparently switchedto the B.C. Liberals -- notthe NDP.

But it was the oppositecase in a bunch of other rid-ings, where the rise in Greenvoters did seem to hurt theNDP more than the B.C.Liberals.

What do these seeminglyconflicting scenarios tell us?

First of all, it’s hard to pi-geonhole the Green voter.I suspect that a significantnumber of Green voters arenot particularly left-wing.Instead, they may be smallbusiness owners, entrepre-neurs, younger people whohave a strong “green” streakto their outlook on life, andthose who reject establishedpolitical parties.

The next opportunity toexamine the impact of theemerging Green vote is inthe upcoming federal elec-tion in October.The key isnot to look at their vote froma national perspective, oreven a provincial one.

Rather, the party seems tobe establishing small pocketsof support in various plac-es, which could have a bigimpact on a handful of rid-ings.Take the federal rid-ing ofVictoria: the Greenscame very close to winning abyelection there a couple ofyears back, and the city re-cently elected a mayor withstrong Green credentials.

The NDP will be look-ing nervously over its shoul-der there.

The political landscapemay indeed be shifting – atleast in some places.

Keith Baldrey is chief po-litical reporter for Global B.C.Read an extended version ofthis column at www.newwestrecord.ca.

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Residents will fight toprotect their homesDear EditorRe: Shut up about traffic – ormove, Letters to the Editor, theRecord, Jan. 21.

When I moved to Royal Avenue 15-plusyears ago, there was a fire station at the cornerof Royal Avenue and Eighth Street, and St.Mary’s Hospital on Royal Avenue. I knew thatthere would be fire truck and ambulancesirens on Royal Avenue.

There were also some trucks because, atthat time, they could still use the Port MannBridge. I knew about these and was OK with it.By the way, I also lived by Lougheed Highwaywhere there was heavy traffic. I knew aboutthe noise from the traffic and did not com-plain.

My questions about fire trucks and ambu-lances: How many are there vs. big trucks thatpass on Royal Avenue? How often do they passon Royal Avenue vs. big trucks? Do they emitpollutants from diesel fuel used by big trucks?

After the tolling of the Port Mann Bridge,traffic and pollution increased tremendously.The noise from the sirens from the Glenbrookstation and noise from the bus stop do nothappen continuously every day Monday toSunday from morning to afternoon; truck traf-fic on Royal Avenue does.

So, T. Usher, why don’t you move on RoyalAvenue and experience first-hand the noiseand pollution that we are experiencing. Whydon’t you walk in our shoes? Experience is thebest teacher!

How would you like to be told to move outof your home? This is our home, and we willbe fighting for it. Wouldn’t you do the sameto protect your home for you and your lovedones?C. Trinidad,NewWestminster

Big trucks hoggingboth lanes on bridgeDear Editor I have noticed recently a trendthat seems to become much more frequent.

My observation from both walking alongthe river just north of the Pattullo by the Sap-perton Park as well as driving occasionallyover the bridge, more and more of the largetrucks turn on their four-way flashers and chugacross the bridge hogging both lanes.

Just the other day there were four of themin a row, with a long line of cars and othervehicles jockeying to get across this very busycrossing.

What is it with these truckers? Do they notknow how to drive in their specific right lane?

I have yet to see any police, either the NewWest Police or the new commercial agents thatrecently were announced in New West monitorthis route.

The same goes for the RCMP who serve theCity of Surrey.

If these truck cannot be driven in a singlelane, perhaps they should be banned from thePattullo and be directed to one of the othercrossings.

The traffic in New West continues to grow,and it is approaching the saturation point.

Just look at Columbia Street East fromMcBride along to and including Brunette, andit is bumper-to-bumper large trucks.

Some day there is going to be a very seriousaccident involving one or more of these verylarge and long behemoths.

At least that’s the way I see it!LarryWhite,NewWestminster

TRENDINGNewWest vaccinationrates raise eyebrows

EmmaScott frightening ...

DavidBlackOur three kids live in NewWest, but were vaccinated in Vancou-ver, so I counted the statistics.Even so it’s pretty scary!

EdSadowski It’s worse than theheadline figure reported. At 58%, NewWestminster’s vaccination rate is 16%lower than the region’s 69% average.

DaveLundyWTH. I thought thatthey conducted vaccination clinics atschool?

Christine Solosky an excellent choicemade by informed parents. now runalong and get your family vaccinated!

@JustifiedBagel Just read that only42% of #NewWest kids two and underare vaccinated. What the ever lovingf**k, people?!?!?!

Intensity vs.density?A development debate

@ChrisRHamiltonAn Exampleof Low-Rise Intensification http://fw.to/8umEf7Y We could use this insingle family areas next to our highdensity corridors.

@rickvug I like this! Something toconsider for my hood (@BrowHill_RA)in next OCP. Some similarities toStrathcona.

@BarbAdamski There are so manyways to increase density and keepthe character of the neighbourhood.#newwest

@stickers66 The bridge trolls shouldbe in place by then.

@lwrobins I didn’t see any job post-ings.

@stickers66 Typical! Trolls were hiredwithout a RFT. Nepotism wins again …

Bailey bridge shouldbe open in March

@smgab The flowers along the QuayBoardwalk are blooming in January,so let’s call it an early spring. #Quay#NewWest

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contact with the police de-partment and determiningwhat they can do to ensurethe safety of district staff in

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emissions plan and a part-time payroll clerk.

Joan Burgess, the city’s di-rector of human resources,said the city has brought ona “good number” of addi-tional employees in recentyears and that impacts pay-roll. She said the city haslost payroll employees as aresult of workload issues.

When considering new

staffing positions, councilmembers said they’d like toknow whether the city savesmoney by hiring someonerather than having to payconsultants, or if the posi-tion results in other savingsor generates revenues.

On the capital side of thebudget, 2015 includes fund-ing for completion of theAnvil Centre restaurant, up-grades to city hall, reloca-tion of the animal services

facility and the tow yard, re-placement of MasseyThe-atre, replacement of variouscity vehicles, expansion ofpay station parking systemsto replace current parkingmetres, reconstruction ofthe Moody Park spray pool,refurbishment of the Sap-perton Park playground andspray pool, and completionof the St. Mary’s parklanddevelopment project.

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kids vaccinated, Orob-ko is calling on those whohave taken them outside ofFraser Health to communi-cate that information to thehealth authority.

She’d also like to see par-ents call in to update theircontact information.

Routine childhood im-munizations are free,safe and recommendedat two, four, six, 12 and18 months, according toFraser Health.

A follow-up immuniza-tion or “booster” is given atfour years of age.

Health officials don’tconsider children fully pro-

tected against vaccine-pre-ventable diseases until theyhave completed the recom-mended immunizations.

For more information onvaccinations and where toget your child immunized,visit www.fraserhealth.ca/your_health/immunization.

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Former ConservativeMP Paul Forseth wants thepublic to know he’s safe andsound in NewWestminster,and there’s no need to sendany money.

Forseth had hisYahoo ac-count hacked onThursday,and messages were sent outto countless contacts, say-ing Forseth was stranded inTurkey and needed $2,000Euros.

“I’ve had 50 calls thismorning. It’s pretty serious,because I had all kinds ofgovernment and confiden-tial emails,” Forseth toldthe Record.

Forseth is not aware ofany friends or contacts thathave sent money toTurkey.

“The problem is somepeople do know I’m an in-ternational traveller. Peo-ple who haven’t been incontact with me for a whilemay think I am inTurkey,”he said.

Forseth said he lost morethan 1,200 email contacts,including his political net-work.

“I had private email con-tacts to the Prime Min-ister’s Office, lots of mysenator friends – Liberalsenators and Conservativesenators.”

Forseth changed hisemail password, but incom-ing emails don’t seem to bemaking it to his inbox.

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“I have talked to so manyresidents in Sapperton –they are beaten.They feeltotally let down by the pro-cess, by council of the day,by city planning, byWes-group, by everyone.At thelast residents’ associationmeeting where we voted itdown, people were saying,‘I give up.’ I want you to beaware of that,” Sappertonresident Barb Adamski toldcouncil. “The lack of atten-dance here is not because ofa lack of feeling.”

Coun. Chuck Puchmayrsaid he’d like projects to in-clude “multiple differentmodels” that convey themaximum heights of build-ings in the future, as thiswould help the public un-derstand what heights arepermissible.

“I don’t buy that peopleare tired and are not show-ing up. Believe me, I haveseen this gallery packed,and I have seen this out-door (foyer) packed. Peoplewere tired and fed up, butboy they come here whenthey have something to say,”he said. “I think that some-what reflects that there is anunderstanding that there isgoing to be density on thatsite.”

Beau Jarvis, senior vice-president of developmentforWesgroup, said all doc-umentation related to theproject indicated the high-rise could be up to 180 feettall. He saidWesgroup deliv-ered on it promises to pro-vide jobs at the site, a gro-cery store and retail spaceand recognition of the site’shistory.

“Huge delivery on prom-ises, huge,” he said. “It’s likea master planned commu-nity developed backwards.Normally, you see the resi-dential, and then the com-mercial follows. Here wehave all the jobs and thelong-term, well-paying jobsthat came and not a singleresidential unit.”

Because depictions ofshorter towers were present-ed in conceptual drawings,Jarvis understands some ofthe comments made by resi-dents.

“To say that we can’t betrusted or haven’t deliveredon promises, frankly, it is up-setting,” he said. “It couldn’tbe more of the opposite. Inrecognition of the concernsabout the 180-storey tower,we have listened to the resi-dents.We brought it downto 150 feet. … At 180 feet itwas a 117,000-square-foottower.That is a tiny towerto begin with, and we justlopped off 18,000 squarefeet that we’ll build later.”

PattullowillgetseismicupgradesthisyearTransLink is currently evaluating how to proceed with work which is expected to start in late [email protected]

Planning is underway tomake seismic improvementsto the aging Pattullo Bridge.

TransLink is proceedingwith plans for seismic im-provements to the Pattul-lo and rehabilitation of thebridge deck.The work willbegin in late summer, af-terTransLink has consulted

with municipalities and oth-er stakeholders on a trafficmanagement plan.

According toTransLink,several lane closure scenari-os are being evaluated, witha decision on the number oflanes to be closed and theduration of the closures ex-pected in the first quarter of2015.

TransLink plans to man-age any disruption to traf-

fic arising from the lane clo-sures by developing a trafficmanagement plan thatkeeps workers and bridgeusers safe, and also consid-ers the economic and com-munity impacts of the proj-ect.

TransLink states that thework is expected to take be-tween one and three years,depending on which scenar-io is selected.

Pattullo Bridge wasclosed to traffic for a cou-ple of weekends in the sum-mer of 2014, at which timeroutine, annual mainte-nance took place. ManyNewWestminster residentswelcomed the closure, asthere was less traffic on citystreets.

As part of the work con-ducted last summer, engi-neers inspected the bridge

and recommended compre-hensive deck rehabilitationwork be done soon to main-tain road safety and bridgefunctionality.

In the long-term, theMayors’ Council on Re-gionalTransportation’s vi-sion includes replacementof the Pattullo Bridge, oneof the oldest bridges in theregion. It hopes the exist-ing crossing would be re-

placed with a tolled, four-lane bridge, which could beexpanded to six lanes in thefuture, if needed.

The mayors’ council ishoping residents across theregion will support a 0.5per cent increase to the pro-vincial sales tax to generatefunding to expand the re-gional transit and transpor-tation systems.

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The conductor of theNewWestminster Sympho-ny Orchestra is featured inan upcoming concert by theaward-winning Orchid En-semble.

The Juno-nomi-nated group is per-forming on Sunday,Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. inVancouver’s PyattHall.

The Orchid En-semble is renownedfor transformingits Chinese rootsand breaking downboundaries betweenmusical genres.Theensemble is knownfor taking ingredients fromChinese, Indian, Jewish andCentral Asian music, recon-structing them within a con-temporary framework andadding improvisation.

It includes artistic direc-tor LanTung, who plays theerhu (or Chinese violin) andprovides vocals. JonathanBernard plays marimba andpercussion, whileYu-ChenWang plays the zheng, orChinese zither.

For their Pyatt Hall con-cert, they will be joinedby NWSO conductor JinZhang, who will conductthe HuaYi Choir with theensemble in a performance

of his piece Fire –which describes thegreat fire that de-stroyed Nanaimo’sChinatown in1960.

The ensemblewill also performZhang’s No Rush,which “explorescontrasts such astenderness andstrength, and force-fulness and tran-

quility,” according to a pressrelease.

Also on the program areDorothy Chang’s From aDream, depicting the fast-moving clouds over thepeaks of China’s famousYellow Mountain, and Far-shid Samandari’s Ghosts ofthe Living, which describescharacters who breathe, actand haunt others as ghosts,along with other contempo-rary and traditional works.

Tickets for the concert are$20 regular, or $15 for stu-dents, seniors and children.Buy through orchidensem

ble.brownpapertickets.comor at the door. Pyatt Hall isat theVancouver SymphonyOrchestra School of Music

at 843 Seymour St.Zhang will also give a

free talk about his music onThursday, Feb. 5 at 7:30

p.m. at the Canadian MusicCentre at 837 Davie St.

See www.orchidensemble.com for more information.

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Cultural fusion:From left: JonathanBernard, LanTungandYu-ChenWangare theOrchidEnsemble,whichperformsonSunday, Feb. 8. Theconcertwill also featureNewWestminster SymphonyOrchestra conductor JinZhang. PHOTONENADSTEVANOVIC,CONTRIBUTED

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NewWest Symphony conductor joinsOrchid Ensemble for Feb.8 event

Here’s a save-the-date forall musical theatre loversout there – especially if, likeme, you were a teenager inthe 1980s.

NewWestminster Sec-ondary School is offering upFootloose the Musical at theMasseyTheatre for five per-formances in February: Feb.25, 26, 27 and 28 at 7 p.m.,

and Feb. 28 at 2 p.m.It’s the fourth musical for

the production team thatwas responsible for Anniein 2008, Bye Bye Birdie in2009 and Grease in 2011 –and, knowing NWSS, it’sbound to be chock full ofamazing talent.

If you don’t know the sto-ry, then clearly you weren’ta fan of the 1984 film (star-ring Kevin Bacon) on whichit was based. In any case, it’san entertaining, teen-cen-

tred storyline that involvesa kid from the big city whowinds up in a small townand helps turn life a little bitupside-down for the inhab-itants thereof – with lots ofdancing en route.

Can’t wait to see whatNWSS makes of this one!

Tickets are $18 for adultsor $15 for seniors, studentsand kids. See www.ticketsnw.ca to buy.

Keep your eyes on@nwssmusic onTwitter or

see www.nwssmusic.com(and watch these pages formore as the date approach-es).

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ANVILCENTRE SHOW

A reminder to local artlovers of an event comingup at the Anvil Centre –don’t miss an artist’s talk inconnection with the ongo-ing Let Me Count theWaysexhibition.

Karen Justice from Art-

ists in the Boro will be onhand for the talk on Mon-day, Feb. 9 at 2 p.m.

The Artists in the Borohave an ongoing group ex-hibition at the centre look-ing at the countless facetsof love – with their inspira-tion point being the open-ing line of Elizabeth Bar-rett Browning’s famoussonnet.

The exhibition includespainting, drawing, photog-raphy and textiles, and it

features the work of 14 dif-ferent artists.

Check it out in the Com-munity Art Space at AnvilCentre, 777 Columbia St.

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St. Barnabas Church isinviting community mem-bers to help it turn up theheat.

The church is holding aLatino dance party of Sat-urday, Feb. 14 to raise fundsto help cover the costs ofreplacing furnaces at thechurch and hall.

Rev. Emilie Smith saidtwo furnaces in the churchand two in the hall werevery old and needed to bereplaced.

“We got them in the sum-mer.We need to pay backour loan,” she said. “It wasabout $20,000 to get thefour furnaces.”

Once rebates are factoredinto the mix, St. Barna-bas still has a loan of about$16,000 to cover the cost ofthe energy-efficient furnac-es. Along with raising mon-ey to pay down a chunk ofthe mortgage, the churchlooks at fundraisers as a wayof building community andhaving some fun.

Turn UpThe Heat fea-tures music by DJ La Sal-somana, dance lessons andperformances, raffles andprizes, and refreshmentsand food.

“It’s a Latino dance party.It’s winter – we might needa little more blood flow-ing,” Smith said. “We havea wonderful Colombian DJ.She is the best – La Salso-mana. She is a Colombian-Canadian. She is a great DJand blows the roof off.”

The church is trying toround up a dance instruc-tor who can provide guestswith a mini dance lesson,but Smith said people don’tneed to know how to do thesalsa or merengue to havefun.

“It’s just about comingand enjoying sharing time,and raising a little bit ofmoney,” she said.

The St. Barnabas Churchhall will be decorated for thenight. Coun. Chuck Puch-mayr will be MC’ing thenight’s festivities.

Tickets are $20 and avail-able at the church office,1010 Fifth Ave. For moreinformation, call 604-526-6646.

ONTHEWATERFRONT

If you have a photo ofthe dock demolition of Pa-cific CoastTerminals, thecity’s museum would loveto see it.

The NewWestminsterMuseum, in partnershipwith Simon Fraser Uni-versity, is hard at work onpreparations for its sum-mer exhibition, OurWork-ingWaterfront.The exhib-it will shed some light onthe dramatic changes to thewaterfront since the 1940sthrough the use of objects,images and stories related tothe history of work on thewaterfront.

The museum recent-ly issued a “call to contrib-ute” for a variety of itemssought for the exhibit. Itemsrequested include objectsfrom Royal City Cannery,PacificVeneer, Columbia

Street (such as items fromnotable businesses like theKing Edward Hotel, PacificCafé, Fraser Café,Windsor,The Russell, Eaton’s, Armyand Navy, etc., Copp’sShoes and ColumbiaThe-atre).

In addition, the museumis also trying to find a pho-tograph of the dock demoli-tion of Pacific CoastTermi-nals – the area now home toWestminster Quay condos –that took place in July 1983.

The museum is locatedin the Anvil Centre at 777

Columbia St. It’s open dai-ly from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.(with extended hours onThursdays till 8 p.m.). Ad-mission is by donation.

If you have any items tocontribute to the upcomingexhibit, contact museumcurator Oana Capota at604-515-3842 or [email protected].

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sources Society and theLookout Emergency AidSociety joined forces to or-ganize the localToqueTuesday campaign.Volun-teers hit the streets on Feb.3 to sell toques and socksfor $10 to raise awarenessabout homelessness andfunds for the two organiza-tions, as well as

Raising the Roof, a na-tional charity that aims toprovide long-term solutionsto homelessness.

People who were unableto buy a toque onToqueTuesday can purchase themonline at www.raisingtheroof.org.

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poetry-generating events,calledWordplay.

SaskiaWolsak will beguest hosting the next ses-sion onThursday, Feb. 5 at7 p.m. in the back room atthe Heritage Grill, 447 Co-lumbia St.

The sessions offer upwriting prompts, designedto help participants get go-ing on some first drafts. It’snot a critique group – justa chance to get the writinggoing. Bring your own writ-ing tools and paper.

For information, [email protected] or seewww.rclas.com for details.

Or, on Saturday, Feb. 7,you can check out CarolShillibeer’s workshop onTarot and Storytelling.

A write-up about theevent notes that tarot cardstell stories based on the ele-ments – earth, air, fire andwater – and based on “ar-chetypal pathways to hu-man purpose, deep mean-ing.”

“What we’ll discuss, andpractise, are the methods bywhich you can access thesestories, no matter your ex-perience,” it says.

The workshop runs from2 to 4 p.m. at 737 Sixth St.– park and enter from the

rear of the building.Seating is limited, and the

workshop is $20 for mem-bers or $35 for non-mem-bers.You can pre-register byemailing [email protected].

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minster film series at theMasseyTheatre.

My Old Lady tells the sto-ry of a NewYorker who dis-covers that the Paris apart-ment he inherited from hisestranged father is alreadyoccupied by a refined retireeand her protective daughter.

With Kevin Kline, Mag-gie Smith and Kris-tin ScottThomas in leadroles, the Israel Horovitzfilm seems destined to bewell worth a night out.

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If you’re a fan of The Add-ams Family, then you’ll beglad to hear about this one.

Align Entertainment isbringing the musical versionof the classic comedy tothe stage at Burnaby’s Mi-chael J. FoxTheatre startingFeb. 6.

It stars none other thanNewWestminster’s ownBrennan Cuff as GomezAddams. Brennan’s pastcredits include the ArtsClub’s White Christmas and

the Playhouse production ofDirty Rotten Scoundrels.

In The Addams Family,he’ll be playing the patri-arch facing an age-old fa-ther’s dilemma – what to dowhen your daughter is dat-ing someone unacceptable(in this case, a totally nor-mal human!).

It sounds fun, and I’ll bebringing you more soon.Meanwhile, check out www.alignentertainment.ca.

Do you have an item forLively City? Send arts andentertainment ideas to Julie,[email protected],or find her onTwitter,@juliemaclellan.

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YoungbloodgivingEDCsoccernewlifeTomBerridgetberridge@newwestrecord.ca

EDC BC Burnaby A ischarging hard for a playofffinish in theVancouver Met-ro Soccer League.

EDC moved up two with-in two points of third placefollowing a 4-2 victory oversecond-place ICST Pegasusat Burnaby Lake-West onFriday.

Rizal Ganief, with hiseighth goal of the season,and Simon Fraser Universi-ty freshman Michael Northscored first-half markers,whileYlya Malek and Park-er Ellis of Burnaby count-ed single markers in the fi-nal half for the Estrella deChile club.

Chile gave up the game’s

first goal in the openingminute but gained posses-sion and dominated playuntil goalkeeper ChristianZimmerman had to leavethe game with an injury.

Starting centre midfield-er Chris Kydd took over be-tween the sticks for EDC.

The win moved Chile

into a three-way tie for fifthplace in the 12-team pre-mier men’s division withLangley FC and CoquitlamMetro-Ford, all with identi-cal records of 7-8-4.

The three clubs sit justa point behind both Rich-mond and Inter FC forthird spot.

The win was Chile’sthird in the last four match-es since the January restart,which included a 4-1 loss tofirst-placeWestVan FC athome earlier in the month.

The difference in themonth of January has beena pickup of younger play-ers from Simon Fraser Uni-versity, said head coachand club president ClaudioRamirez.

“We are finally scoring at

a clip that correlates to theamount of opportunities wecreate more reasonably,”said Ramirez.

The pickups have alsoraised the competitive levelat training as players vie forstarting positions.

North, Ellis and Zimmer-man are three of the univer-sity players that are havinga “massive impact” on theteam and particularly on thescoresheet, Ramirez added.

“We have a lot of depthsuddenly coming from thebench, and it’s starting totranslate to wins,” Ramir-ez said.

Given this month’s most-ly positive results, Ramir-ez is hopeful Chile will con-tinue to push for a top-fourfinish in league play, go for

an extended run in Impe-rial Cup play and ultimate-ly achieve the team goal of aspot in the Provincial Cup.

EDC has two key match-ups still left on the regu-lar-season schedule withmatches against Inter FCand Croatia SC, whichhanded the Chileans a 5-1loss – their worst defeat ofthe season to date – still tobe played.

“We will need to be verystrategic and diligent in ourpreparation for these gamesas they will be the determin-ing points in finishing top 3or bottom 4,” Ramirez said.

Chile opens the ImperialCup this Saturday at Con-federation turf against sec-ond-place Division 1 Nor-van A at 1:30 p.m.

Wearefinallyscoringataclipthatcorrelatesto theamountofopportunitieswe

create.

Sports Sport to report? Contact Tom Berridge 604.444.3022 or [email protected]

Coachopts forUSLWhitecapsWinning SFU head coach to head ’Caps FC 2 in PRO soccer season [email protected]

Alan Koch resigned ashead coach for the SimonFraser University men’ssoccer program to take ona similar position with theVancouverWhitecaps.

Koch, an SFU gradu-ate, resigned last Friday tobecome the head coach oftheWhitecaps FC 2 squad,which will be making itsdebut in the United SoccerLeague PRO division thisseason.

The South African-born Koch had incredi-ble success over the pastseven seasons on Burna-by Mountain, leading theClan to back-to-back fi-nal four appearances at theNCAA Division II nationalchampionships in 2012 and2013, while fashioning acareer 126-21-7 record.

“This was not an easydecision, but I’ve alwayswanted to coach in the pro-fessional game, and to dothat without having to re-locate is an opportunity Icould not pass up,” saidKoch in a Clan press re-lease. “Burnaby Mountainis a magical place, and thepeople on the hill will al-ways have a special spot inmy heart.We had unprec-edented success over ourseven seasons together, andI know that the frameworkis in place for continuedsuccess.”

Koch coached in theNAIA for two seasons with

the Clan, before leadingSFU into the NCAA.

This season, he led theClan to its third consecu-tive appearance at the Div.II nationals.

SFU was knocked out inthe opening round at thenationals.

He leaves the Clan with acareer win/loss post-seasonrecord of 11-5-2.

Koch enjoyed an unbeat-en season in 2011, whenSFU was ranked No. 1 inthe nation but was ineligi-ble to take part in the postseason due to NCAA rules.

In 2009, Koch also ledSFU to the final four atthe NAIA national cham-pionships, where Colin St-reckmann became the pro-gram’s first-ever nationalplayer of the year.

Koch, who has won sixconsecutive conference

coach of the year honours,also earned the distinctionof reaching the 100-winmark faster than any othercoach in SFU history.

A search to replace Kochas head coach of the uni-versity men’s soccer pro-gram is underway.

Movngon:SimonFraserUniversityheadcoachAlanKochwill takeover theheadcoachingdutieswith theVancouverWhitecapsFC2professional soccer team. PHOTOCOURTESYOFSFUATHLETICS

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Douglas College varsityteams held onto their place-ments in PacWest sportsthis weekend.

The third-place women’sbasketball team kept Capi-lano University a spot belowthem following a 53-43 winat home on Friday.

The Royals then droppeda 74-58 decision to unbeat-en league-leading QuestUniversity on Saturday.

Rachel Beauchamp andEllen Fallis scored 15 and13 points, respectively, tolead the Royals past theCapilano Blues.

Douglas broke open atight game by outscoringthe visitors 14-6 in the finalquarter.

Against Quest, Douglasfell behind 38-23 at the halfand trailed by as many as 25points before mounting asecond-half rally.

Nanaya Miki scored ateam-high 10 points andgrabbed seven rebounds forthe Royals.

In men’s hoops, Doug-las remained in fourth placefollowing a 79-55 win overCapilano and a narrow 78-77 defeat to Quest in theSaturday main event.

Grant Campbell scored18 points and Kristian Hil-debrandt added 17 forDouglas.

But it was Quest’s playoff the bench that provedthe difference, with theSquamish subs outscoringthe Royals 40-27.

In the opener, MalcolmMensah netted 17 points forthe Royals against the Caps.

In PacWest volleyball, theNo. 1-ranked Douglas mensplit their weekend seriesagainst Camosun College.

The Royals won the Fri-day opener 3-1 and thenlost for just the third timethis season, dropping theSaturday rematch by a simi-lar 3-1 score.

The split kept Douglasin top spot on the PacWestladder with a 15-3 matchrecord, four points up onsecond-placeVancouver Is-land University and six bet-ter than Camosun.

The women’s team wasblanked in both matcheswith Camosun to remain insixth spot.



SPEEDSKATING

All-star:JusticeSteer, inblackagainst Yale, scoredagame-high21points againstByrneCreekandwasnamedplayerof thegameandasecond teamall-star for the fifth-place-finishingNewWestHyacksat theChancellor girls’ basketball tournament lastweekend. PHOTOLARRYWRIGHT

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Gabriel Ho-Garcia ofBurnaby and NewWest-minster’s Brenden Bissettwere both named as for-wards to Canada’s nation-al men’s team for Round2 ofWorld League field

hockey.Ho-Garcia and Bissett

were among the 18 play-ers, including 16 fromB.C., who will take partin the eight-team compe-tition to be held in SanDiego from Feb. 28 toMarch 8.

Canada’s opening

match will be against theUnited States on Feb. 28.

The top three qualifi-ying nations will move onto Round 3 in Buenos Ai-res, Argentina in June.

The top four finish-ers in Round 3 will earna berth into the 2016Olympic Games in Brazil.

AthletesnamedtoCanadaGames

Three Burnaby Haida Speedskating Club skaters willrepresent B.C. at the CanadaWinter Games in PrinceGeorge that take place from Feb. 12 to 28.

Chris Poljer-So, Anton Shekhter and Cormac Chui qual-ified for three of the five spots on B.C. men’s short-trackteam. Poljer-So and Chui placed first and second, respec-tively, at the CanadaWinter Games trials in November.

Three other Burnaby skaters, Kiersten Hagen, Shota In-oda andTeunisTakemori, were named alternates forTeamB.C.

In figure skating, novice ice dancers Ashlynne Stairsand Lee Royer of Champs International Skating Centrein Burnaby were among 12 skaters named to B.C.’s teamfor the upcoming Games. Benjamin Papp of Burnaby willcompete in the novice men’s event.

Hyacks eye playoffsNewWestminster Hyack girls’ basketball teams split final

regular season games with Burnaby North.The junior girls finished the BurWest high school season

at 5-0 following a 63-10 win over theVikings last week.Aly Fieber led the way with 15 points, while Celia Palm-

er and Sarah Forgie added 11 apiece for the winners. GraceFetherstonhaugh chipped in with 10 points for the Hyacks.

In juvenile girls’ hoops, NewWest dropped a 23-17 en-counter with North to finish in third place with a 3-2 re-cord.

The BNW playoffs begin Feb. 10 with NewWest hostingthe junior girls and Cariboo Hill hosting the juveniles.

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Tournament MVP Lei-lani Carney led the St.Thomas More Knights tothe Chancellor girls’ basket-ball crown.

Carney scored 17 pointsfor the Knights in STM’s67-57 win over McMath inthe championship final.

Offensive player of thetournament Nikko Sahagunchipped in with 16 points,while player of the gameXenia Dumont hauled in 11rebounds.

Zion Corrales-Nelson,StephanieVon Riedemannand defensive player of thetournament Nadine Stewartwere all named to the firstall-tournament team.

STM defeated Seycove64-51 behindVon Riede-mann’s 17-point, eight-re-bound, contribution to ad-vance to the Chancellorfinal.The Knights commit-ted 24 team steals in thesemifinal win.

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Queensborough Community Centre • 920 Even Avenue • 604.525.73889:00 - 11:00 am Enjoy an exciting morning of family friendly activities including

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for the price of a single admission

Centennial Community Centre • 65 East Sixth Avenue • 604.777.5100All classes and activities are FREE9:20 - 10:20 am Workout Fitness class10:30 - 11:30 am Core Fitness class1:00 - 1:30 pm Zumba, Games in the gym, Craft activities1:30 - 2:00 pm Yoga2:00 - 3:00 pm Norden the Magician (sponsored by Kids New West)

Queen’s Park Arenex • First Street & Third Avenue • 604.777.51219:30 - 11:30 am Gymnastics & Trampoline (all ages)6:00 - 7:30 pm Gymnastics & Trampoline (all ages)

Adult participation required as you Flip, Flop & Fly!

Samson V • 880 Quayside Drive • 778.773.149811:00 am - 3:00 pm Tour the last surviving wooden steam-powered sternwheeler.

Admission by donation

River Market • 810 Quayside Drive • 604.520.388111:00 am - 3:00 pm Food and Leisure - see inside cover for schedule

of events

Fraser River Discovery Centre • 788 Quayside Drive • 604.521.840111:00 am - 3:00 pm Explore and Educate – see inside cover for schedule of events

Anvil Centre • 777 Columbia Street • 604.527.464011:00 am - 3:00 pm Westminster Savings Family Fun Zone and the Arts

& Heritage Hub – see inside cover for schedule of events

Greenhouse in Queen’s Park • 604.777.512110:30 am – 12:30 pm Come for a tour of the greenhouse and make a little moss

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Moody Park Arena • 701 Eighth Avenue • 604.525.530112:30 am - 2:30 pm Family Day Loonie Skate (all ages)

6:30 - 8:00 pm Family Day Loonie Skate (all ages)Admission is $1.00 and skate rentals are $2.00

Canada Games Pool • 65 East Sixth Avenue • 604.526.428111:30 am - 1:00 pm Free Public Swim (all ages) Our Fun Supervisor will

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1:00 - 8:25 pm Regular drop-in admission. Green Thunder Waterslideopen from 1:00 - 3:00 pm and 6:30 - 7:30 pm

Youth Centre • 620 Eighth Street • 604.515.37752:00 pm - 5:00 pm Challenge your family to a fun game of pool, foosball,

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FAMILY DAY 2015 Monday, February 9, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Featuring three event sites indowntown New Westminster offering FREE family activities:

Westminster Savings Family Fun Zone at Anvil Centre777 Columbia Street

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Presented by:Westminster Skytrain Station or free Parking at the Front St. Parkade • For more information please contact Michelle Dean at 604.313.2765 www.newwestcity.ca

11:00am - Story Time with NW Public Library11:00am - Max Tell, Children’s Entertainer11:30am - Westminster Avenue Musical Entertainment12:00pm - Peter Rooke, Magician1:00pm - The Tigger Exhibit, Musical Entertainment1:00pm - Story Time with NW Public Library1:45pm - Max Tell, Children’s Entertainer2:00pm - Artist Talk with Karen Justice

“Let Me Count the Ways” presented byArtists in the Boro

2:15pm - Jake Burton – Card Tricks2:30pm - Peter Rooke, Magician

11:00am - Los Castores Mariachi –Musical Entertainment

11:30am - Enjoy Mad Science’s Entertaining andinteractive demonstration on air pressure-“Up, Up Away”

2:00pm - Enjoy Mad Science’s Entertaining andinteractive demonstration on air pressure-“Up, Up Away”

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• River Critters Menu will feature kids mealsfrom various vendors

• Arts & Crafts by Music Box Music• Arts & Crafts by Donald’s Market• Arts & Crafts by Royal City Farmers Market• Hopscotch with KidSport• New Westminster Animal Services• Explore A Green World

• Experience The Fraser- An interactive mini riverinetrail system

• Seafood For Thought- Explores contemporaryissues regarding sustainable fishing

• I Spy- An interactive exhibit on the working river• My River My Home- A global exchange ofchildren’s artwork, developed as part of acollaborative, scientific research project betweenWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution and theUniversity of the Fraser Valley.

• Our Bones are Made of Salmon- Designed aroundthe memories and experiences of Musqueam ElderLarry Grant and Stó:l Cultural Advisor Dr. SonnyMcHalsie.

• Pollution Model• Archaeology Dig• Altered Rivers Art/Water Slides

FIRST FLOOR• Westminster Savings tent for giveaways,prizes, table hockey, and a virtual graffiti

• Nintendo Interactive Games Rainbow Loom, orjust hang out in Youth Lounge

• Equita’s Play It Fair• Face Painting by The Stage New Westminster

SECOND FLOOR• Explore the City’s Archives

THIRD FLOOR• The Stage New Westminster’s Photo Booth• Explore the City’s Museum and visit theCanadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame

• Pop-Up Library hosted by NWPL. Sign up fora library card and check out an assortment ofbooks, dvds, cds, and magazines

• Discover Mystery Artefact BoxesFOURTH FLOOR• Board Games: Then and Now Family Drop-in• Build Your City – interactive arts activity

11:00am-1:00pm Sign up for a half hour introduction toAriel Silk, Trampoline, andJuggling at Vancouver Circus School.(Spaces are limited, first come firstserve, ages 4 and up, must beaccompanied by an adult).

11:00am Tony Kastellic, Fiddler12:00 Noon NWSS Clarinet Quartet1:00pm-2:00pm Join Tashu Karate for an intro class1:00pm Giselle Whittaker, Youth Singer2:00pm Heidi Braacx, Violinist

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