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Police closed parts of Ash Street totraffic on Wednesday morning
afteran overnight home invasion sent twopeople to hospital.
At about 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept.3, New Westminster police
officersresponded to a call in the 300-block ofAsh Street.
When they arrived, officers foundtwo victims.
One of the victims had serious headinjuries and remains in
critical condi-tion at Royal Columbian Hospital.
The second victim had minor inju-
ries and was released from hospitalearlier today, according to a
mediarelease.
Police believe six men whose iden-tities are still unknown at
this time forced their way into the residenceand assaulted the
victims.
New Westminster police are search-ing for six men. Police
describe the menas Indo-Canadian and said they wereseen fleeing the
scene in vehicles afterthe attack.
Anyone with information is askedto contact the New Westminster
Policeat 604-525-2435 or Crime Stoppers at1-800-222-8477.
www.twitter.com/cayleydobie
the situation for refugees. Its hor-rific, its horrible whats
happen-ing.
Black said Canada could bedoing a lot more in terms of help-ing
refugees and should not takeany unilateral action.
If there is action taken it has tobe a concerted effort through
theUnited Nations, through the inter-national community, she
said.Nothing must be done unlessits done through the
internationalcommunity.
The Syrian government, led
by president Bashar al-Assad, hascome under international
scrutinyfollowing a chemical weaponsattack on Aug. 21. The U.S.
esti-mates that more than 1,400 peoplewere killed, including
hundredsof children. Syrias president isblaming jihadists, while
the U.S.blames the Syrian government.
Meanwhile, U.N. weaponsinspectors, who were shot at bysnipers
during their investigation,have yet to complete their report.
Harper has indicated thatCanada has nomilitary plan in theworks
but that the government
would support our allies whomay be contemplating force.
OnWednesday, Obama gained sup-port for military intervention
inSyria from a Senate panel, but theresolution still needs to go
beforethe full Senate and the House ofRepresentatives.
Paul Forseth, formerConservative MP for NewWestminster, said
many peoplefeel the need to help given theimages on TV coming out
ofSyria.
Canadas on the sidelines fornow, but how many more thou-
sands will have to die beforetheres some outside
interventionfrom the West?
Forseth said it was irrespon-sible for the NDP to be
isolation-ist.
I think thats their approach,I think theres going to be manymore
stages to this world trag-edy in the future, he added. Inthe
meantime, we can continueto help the refugees that cross theborders
and support the inter-national institutions that are try-ing to
help. But at some point, Ipredict the balance of risk ver-
sus some meaningful help to stopall this killing is going to
weighinto the favour of some kind ofWestern intervention. Whenthat
finally happens, there will bethe question, Well, why didntyou do
it earlier?
Forseth said theres no easyanswer to a problem thats
beendeveloping for years.
It seems to be a struggle forpower and control and
religion,rather than what we would thinkis struggle for human
rights anddemocracy, he said.
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Syria: How many more thousands will have to die?, ex-MP asks
Victim still in hospitalafter home invasionBY CAYLEY DOBIE
[email protected]
Closed: Ash Street was closed at Fourth Avenue on Wednesday
morning as police con-tinued to investigate an overnight home
invasion that sent two people to hospital.
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Summer may soon be com-ing to an end, but there are stillplenty
of activities to keep usbusy in New Westminster. Werecontinuing
with our popularfeature, The Records Top Five(or More) Things to Do
ThisWeekend:
1Hit the beach andtest out your volleyballskills at the City of
NewWestminsters newest recre-ational amenity, when city staffwill
introduce the new courtsat Westminster Pier Park to thecommunity.
An introduction willbe offered on Saturday, Sept.7 from 9:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.
(rain or shine) at the outdoorsand courts that are locatedat the
eastern end of the park.Community members are invit-ed to play
volleyball with localbeach volleyball champion MikeSayers, who just
brought homea silver medal from the worldbeach volleyball
championshipsin Torino, Italy.
2Step back in time when OnThe Air a musical revue takesto the
stage at the ColumbiaTheatre. Red Robinson and RickCluff are the
special guests, join-ing performers including TheBrothers Arntzen,
Tom Arntzen,Jayleen Stoneyouse, Michael
Sicoly, Aaron Wong and TheHot Mammas, who will performsongs by
the AndrewSisters, George Burns,Chubby Checker, ElvisPresley, Roy
Orbison,Louis Armstrong, TheBeatles and more. Theshow takes place
onSaturday, Sept. 7 at 8p.m. at 530 Columbia St.For ticket
information,visit www.thecolumbia.ca or
www.ontheairamusicalrevue.com.
3Party on the street with thefolks at Olivet Baptist
Church,which is celebrating 135 years in
New Westminster at its annualBig Gig street party on Sunday,
Sept. 8 starting at 11 a.m.Everyone is welcome toattend the
event that fea-tures music, food, crafts,games and much more.The
Big Gig takes placein the 600 to 700 blocksof Queens Avenue.
4Check out the diverseentertainment lineupat the Heritage
Grill,which features the Mojo
Stars (blues) on Saturday, Sept. 7and Roger Potter (classic
rock/folk), a Celtic jam and amateurcomedy night on Sunday,
Sept.
7. The Heritage Grill is locatedat 447 Columbia St. For
moredetails visit www.heritagegrill.com/events.
5Get to know yourneighbours at the NewWestminster
DowntownResidents Associations annualpicnic. Downtown residents
aregathering at Westminster PierPark on Sunday, Sept. 8 from 1to 4
p.m. The gathering includesa bocce tournament, childrensgames and
prizes, picnic racesand prizes. For more informa-tion, visit
www.nwdra.org.
Send your Top 5 ideas [email protected].
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At a time when most high school gradswere studying for exams and
looking for-ward to the summer, Linette Ho had tubescoming out of
her, attached to machines herbest friend couldnt name.
Hannah Pae remembers the one-monthperiod last summer when her
friendscondition turned from pneumonia to herlungs collapsing, and
she went into cardiacarrest.
I just remember her missing schoolbecause she was sick, Pae
said, on thefirst floor of Royal Columbian Hospital,where her
friends life was saved. We justthought it was the flu, but she was
home formaybe two days before going to emergencyat Burnaby
Hospital. At first, they didntknow what it was when she was
admitted. And then she was transferred and whenthey found out her
lungs were collapsing,she had to get hooked up for nine days.
Pae didnt get to see Ho, her friend sinceelementary school, very
much in that time and when she did it was hard to take.
Thats when she was hooked up to allthe tubes and machines, and I
didnt evenknow what they were, Pae said, about oneof her visits
when Ho was still sedated. Iknew she was going to be good, but
thereis that possibility I have to consider. It wasjust really
overwhelming, and I remembercalling her mother every morning.
When Ho finally woke up, it was to abig scar on her chest, and
she didnt knowwhere she was but the first thing she wor-ried about
was her exams.
It was in the last two weeks of myGrade 12 year, after prom,
after commence-ment, everything, said Ho, who is now19 and taking
business at the Universityof British Columbia. I was just
studyingfor finals. I wasnt eating. I was exercisingexcessively,
and I was just really stressedout. So, I guess I put my body in a
state, andmy (immune) system was down.
Ho got pneumonia, and she ended up inICU at Burnaby General
Hospital. She wastransported to Royal Columbian Hospital,where she
barely survived emergencyopen-heart surgery.
From there, they saw my lungs wereeven getting worse, she said.
They col-lapsed, as well. They put me on an artifi-cial lung. A
complication happened andmy heart got punctured, so they had to
doopen-heart surgery at about 3 a.m. in themorning. My parents were
waiting in thehospital and they came out at 7 a.m. andtold my
parents that I was getting worseand I had a 30 per cent chance of
surviv-ing. During my surgery my heart stoppedtwice, as well.
After a few weeks, Ho woke up and hassince made a full
recovery.
But, her recovery didnt come easily.She had to be transferred
from Burnaby toRoyal Columbian with a makeshift extra-corporeal
life support stretcher, which sup-ports the lungs and heart of a
patient beingtransported from one hospital to another.
This is equipment thats needed,Ho said, adding that shes an
example ofhow necessary it is. If it wasnt around, Iwouldnt be
alive.
The machine was made in 2006 when a19-year-old woman had
critical heart fail-ure and had to be transported for a
possibleheart transplant. In 2010, Surrey MemorialHospital called
Royal Columbian about a14-year-old boy in critical condition.
Fortunately, we have a very dedicatedand talented perfusion
group who took upthe challenge and immediately managedto get all
the gear together, said DustinSpratt, chief of perfusion service.
It was agood story, we were actually able to save
this young man.It was the provinces first retrieval using
the extracorporeal device, and the team hadto use a wheelchair
taxi to get it to Surrey.
We needed to be able to be more effi-cient and be able to
respond quickly, hesaid.
The teamhas comea longway frommak-ing its first device to having
helped developa new extracorporeal life support stretcherthats the
first of its kind in Canada.
Some of the equipment is borrowed,theres equipment that is
adapted, therewas really nothing that was professionallycreated for
(extracorporeal) transports sowe had to adapt to build all of this,
Sprattsaid.
Eighteenmonths ago, the team,made upof a surgeon and two
perfusionists, teamedup with the worlds largest stretcher
manu-facturer, Ferno, and there are now fourstretchers being built
for sale but the catchis that Royal Columbian doesnt have themoney
for the $42,000 price tag.
It allows us to not only transport onground ambulance now, but
this gives usthe ability to transport in any emergencyaircraft, he
added.
As Royal Columbians team covers theentire Fraser Health region,
the FraserHealth Authority is hoping to buy the spe-cialized
stretcher through donations.
According to Dr. Derek Gunning, thecardiac surgeon whos been
part of theproject since the beginning, the equipmentis used as a
last ditch effort for a patient fac-ing almost certain death.
This is the only option for them,Gunning said. Because of the
complex-ity and invasiveness of the procedure as it stands now, its
for people failingconventional therapies who have no
otheroption.
For those who have failing heart andlungs, patients are
generally in their teensor early 20s, he added.
To make a donation, visit bit.ly/14pfON0.
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Past looks at history of appliances in New Westminster P20
Support: Hannah Pae, left, remembers last summer being
overwhelming because her bestfriend since elementary school,
Linette Ho, right, was in Royal Columbian HospitalsICU.
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If it wasnt around, I wouldnt be alive
BY STEFANIA SECCIA [email protected]
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If theres an aspiring bal-lerina in your house,then this ones
for you and act quickly, because itshappening this weekend.
Auditions for theupcoming season of theRoyal City Youth
BalletCompany are being heldthis Sunday, Sept. 8 at 511Columbia
St.
Students chosen as com-pany members will then beable to audition
for roles inthe companys ChristmasNutcracker production.
Anyone interested isasked to call 604-521-7290or email
[email protected].
For more about the bal-let company, check out itswebsite at
www.royalcityyouthballet.org.
Poetry readingsPoetry lovers, there are
plenty of chances for youto discover the poetic tal-ent thats
flourishing in theRoyal City.
Poetic Justice sessionsare running Sunday after-noons in the
back roomat the Heritage Grill, 447Columbia St.
Each session runs from3 to 5 p.m., with three fea-tured poets
and an openmike.
This Sunday, Sept. 8, ishosted by Franci Louannand will feature
LoreeGibson, Hlne Levasseurand Amabile Ranta.
On Sunday, Sept. 15, thesession will be hosted byCandice James
and featureFran Bourassa, Alan Hilland Carol Shillibeer.
Franci Louann will hostagain on Sunday, Sept. 22,when Ashok
Bhargava,Jennifer SuzanneGetsinger and Bonnie
Nish will be featured.For more, check out
www.poeticjustice.ca.
Telling storiesHeres another one for
the literarily inclined.The Royal City Literary
Arts Society is hostingits next short story openmike on
Wednesday, Sept.11 in the back room at theHeritage Grill.
Margo Prentice hoststhe event, which gives writ-ers of short
stories a chanceto share their work in afriendly setting.
Writers are also wel-come to read excerpts from
longer works but its onlyfiction, not poetry.
Margo, whos been fea-tured in these pages before,is the artistic
director ofGolden Age Theatre herein NewWest and readsregularly at
Poetic Justiceevents. Shes also a stand-up comic and fiction
writer,with more than 150 storiesto her credit.
For more details, seewww.rclas.com.
Heritage Grill is at 447Columbia St. in downtownNewWest.
Send Lively City ideas toJulie, [email protected],
or find her onTwitter, @juliemaclellan.
In the spotlight: The Royal City Youth Ballet is pictured in a
summer school dem-onstration at the Shadbolt Centre on Sept. 1,
where they performed excerpts fromSwan Lake. The youth ballet
company is holding auditions this weekend.
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Many appliances new to market in the 30s
New Westminstersfirst local auto-mobile showwas held in the
arena inQueens Park in 1934.
Along with the displaysof cars and accessories,there were
featured exhib-its of ladies fashions andhousehold appliances.
In reviewing the materi-
als from this event, wenoted two advertisementsof particular
interest fromdealers of electrical appli-ance items.
It is important toremember that in the 1930s,many of the
appliancesthat we take completely forgranted today were rela-tively
new on the market.They were often a curiousattraction to the
home-owner who was watchingthe changes that were tak-ing place.
Every so often in thenewspapers, we findarticles describing a
newappliance of some sort withan invitation to the public
to come downtown to astore to see it, learn how itworks, what it
does, try itout, and so on.
One of the 1934 adver-tisements was for PhillipsRadio and
Electric, acompany with a store onColumbia Street.
The ad was a contest tohelp the company comeup with a slogan not
overten words. The entry slipto be filled in and clippedfrom the
paper also askeda couple of questions andthis was the crux of
thecontest for a slogan.
They wanted to knowthe make of radio alreadyin the home and when
it
had been purchased.For many people in the
1930s, the answer to thiswould be that they didnthave one.
A second question askedabout the nature of appli-ances in the
home. Fortaking a few moments tofill out the form and drop itoff,
and, of course, havinga look at the appliances ondisplay, the
reader couldwin a coffee maker, iron orwaffle iron.
The second ad con-nected to the auto showexhibits was from
B.C.Electric, who wanted par-ticipants to drop by theirbooth at the
show and
fill in a coupon for whichthe company was offeringthree prizes:
First prize wasa Hotpoint sandwich toast-er with waffle grids;
sec-ond prize a Bersted coffeemaker, and the third prizea
Westinghouse Adjust-O-Matic iron.
The coupon was a listof eight items which B.C.Electric wanted
the visitorto put in order of prefer-ence: first, second,
third,etc. The ad states that theaim of the contest was togauge the
opinion of NewWestminster residents ontheir ideas of the value
andpopularity in the home ofvarious electrical appli-
ances.The contest participant
was to rank, from oneto eight, a radio, electricwasher, electric
cleaner,electric floor polisher, elec-tric or gas range,
electricmixer, electric cooker, orelectric refrigerator. Notethat
these are electric ver-sions of manual, non-elec-tric household
machinesthat were in use at thetime.
The world was chan-ging, and B.C. Electricwanted to know
whatpeople thought fascinat-ing stuff in our domesticevolution from
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Calendar of Events!SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7Parenting skills, a
presentationby REACH Multicultural FamilyCentre, at New
WestminsterPublic Library, 716 Sixth Ave.,will provide information
onparenting and family relation-ship issues for newcomers toCanada.
Differences betweeneastern and western styles ofparenting, which
may presentchallenges for parents andyouth facing a new
culture,will be discussed. Programruns from 1 to 3 p.m. and willbe
conducted in English, withtranslation available in French,Chichewa,
Nyanja, Lingala andSwahili. To register, call thelibrary at
604-527-4667 orSUCCESS at 604-430-1899,extension 110.
!MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9New Westminster Lions, meetat Boston Pizza,
ColumbiaSquare, 6:30 p.m. Visitors andnewcomers welcome, bring
afriend. Info: 604-525-4477.
!TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10Tenancy rights informationsession, learn
the rights andresponsibilities of landlordsand tenants, New
WestminsterPublic Library, 6 to 8 p.m. Co-sponsored by New
WestminsterPublic Library and MOSAICssettlement program. The
mainlibrary of the New WestminsterPublic Library is at 716
SixthAve. (Please note, the eleva-tor may be unavailable dueto
repairs.) Register with thelibrary at 604-527-4667 orwith MOSAIC at
604-522-3722, extension 155, or [email protected].
!THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12Glenbrooke North ResidentsAssociation
meeting, 7 to 9p.m. in the Plaskett Room,upstairs at New
WestminsterPublic Library, 716 Sixth Ave.
!MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16Codependents AnonymousFreedom Group, a
twelve-stepprogram for men and womenwho want healthier, more
func-tional relationships with them-selves and others. Meetingsare
every Monday at 7:30 p.m.in the Neil Russell room, thirdfloor,
Columbia Tower at the
Royal Columbian Hospital, 330East Columbia St. For
moreinformation call Sue at 604-580-8889 or the CoDA InfoLine at
604-515-5585.
!ONGOINGThe Canadian Club of NewWestminster and the
FraserValley, meets the fourthTuesday of each month atthe Justice
Institute, 715McBride Blvd. Meet and greetat 6 p.m.; dinner at 7
p.m. andguest speaker at 8 p.m.
Info:www.ourcanadian.blogspot.com.New Westminster PhotographyClub,
meets first and fourthTuesday of each month fromSeptember to May
(excep-tions May and December,first Tuesday only), 7:30
p.m.,Centennial Lodge in QueensPark. Info: nwphoto.org.Overeaters
Anonymous, Areyou out of control when itcomes to food? We can
help.Meetings on Wednesdaysfrom 7 to 8:15 p.m., FirstPresbyterian
Church, 335Seventh St. (enter off FourthAvenue). Info:
604-524-5244.Got stuff you dont want?Recycle it with
theDevelopmental DisabilitiesAssociation. Bins take clothitems and
non-breakablehousewares and pickup ofdishes, toys and books can
bearranged. Call 604-273-9778or visit www.develop.bc.ca.ESL
Conversation Circles atthe library, drop-ins for adultswho want to
meet people andpractise speaking English.Session for all adults
takeplace every Saturday from10:30 to 11:30 a.m.; sessionsfor women
only take placeevery Friday from 10 to 11a.m. (children are
welcome).The programs are co-sponsoredby Family Services of
GreaterVancouver and held at 716Sixth Ave. Info and registra-tion:
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