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WEDNESDAY
MAY 16 2012
www.burnabynewsleader.com
City’s $100K club shrinks
Wanda Chow
wchow @burnabynewsleader.com
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Charmaine Bayntun, left, and sister Rhonda Yanko say their goodbyes to their family home in North Burnaby where they grew up in the 1950s and ’60s with late parents John and Lillian Yanko. The house has been sold and is likely to be demolished.
Sisters bid farewell to father’s home Share stories, artifacts with Burnaby Village, which seeks Burnaby memories Wanda Chow wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
As Charmaine Bayntun and Rhonda Yanko sit in the kitchen of their late parents’ home in North Burnaby, the stories practically come pouring out. The rooms may be almost empty, but the house they called home for most of their lives is ¿lled with memories. Rhonda opens a kitchen drawer and pulls out 10 vegetable peelers, a symbol of the countless potatoes peeled for dinners and produce for canning.
There’s the tile mermaid mural their father, a tile setter, installed in the basement bathroom, that was sure to make grown men blush from its anatomical correctness. And outside there’s the towering walnut tree planted when Charmaine was born. For the most part, they’re typical stories of families living in Burnaby in the 1950s and ’60s, and they’re just the sort of memories the Burnaby Village Museum is always searching for, said museum curator Lisa Codd. Charmaine, 57, the principal at Confederation Park elementary, and Rhonda, 59, who lives in Calgary, contacted the museum about donating some of the objects they found while clearing out the family home—from an old Àoor polisher,
and a coal-wood stove, to handmade Barbie doll clothes—and ended up sharing their childhoods. TIGHT-KNIT COMMUNITY
John Yanko was one of 13 children from Kelliher, Sask. At age 20, he met his future wife Lillian while visiting relatives in Burnaby in the 1940s. Lillian was born in The Pas, Man. After her family moved to Nelson, B.C., her dad worked for Canadian Paci¿c Railway which enabled her to travel for free by train. Her ¿rst trip on her own was as a 14-year-old, visiting her godmother, also a Burnaby resident. John and Lillian were both of Ukrainian heritage and thus part of a fairly small and tight-knit community.
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For the Àrst time in years, the number of Burnaby city hall staff earning $100,000 or more dropped in 2011. Last year, 106 staff were part of the $100,000plus club. That’s compared to 110 in 2010, 73 in 2009 and 65 in 2008. Topping the list was city manager Bob Moncur, earning $234,381 and claiming $162 in expenses. In spots No. 2 to 5 were deputy city manager Chad Turpin who earned $200,963 and claimed no expenses; director of engineering Lambert Chu, $187,749 and $1,835 in expenses; director of Ànance Denise Jorgenson, $182,088 and $6,682 in expenses; and deputy city manager 2 Rick Earle, $178,630 and $1,221 in expenses. Next were director of planning and building Basil Luksun, who took home $178,267 and claimed $3,802 in expenses; parks and recreation director Dave Ellenwood, $169,685 and $2,180 in expenses.
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