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August 3 2012 www.burnabynewsleader.com
Burnaby lakers competed in last weekends B.C. bantam lacrosse championships. see Page A16
Edmonds project moves ahead grant granger
Value Village site to be re-envisioned grant granger
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nathalie Boudreau is a new westminster family physician by day and a rock star on weekends. she’s the lead vocalist for the Burnaby cover group arena that will be playing a concert to benefit Covenant House at the Burnaby Firefighters Club on Aug. 5.
Local practitioner is the rock doc Mario Bartel
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Dr. Nathalie Boudreau doesn’t practice “Bad Medicine.” But she does sing the Bon Jovi tune. Five days a week Boudreau is a family practitioner at the ForeMed Clinic on Columbia Street in New Westminster. On weekends though, she swaps out her black scrubs for black jeans and teases her hair up high as the lead singer and keyboardist
for Arena, a Burnaby classic rock band that covers iconic anthems by the likes of Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Foreigner, Ratt, Ozzy Osbourne, and, of course, KISS. “If it’s fun and it’s ever been played in an arena in the ’80’s, we play it,” says Boudreau. “It’s about having a good time.” It’s also about letting off a little steam and unwinding from the demands of the busy clinic, where she’s been for four years. Growing up in a French-
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Canadian family, surrounded by music, Boudreau busked her way through medical school, playing everything from traditional French songs, to folk to obscure covers. For a class project, she even wrote an album of songs based on her experiences at med school. It was a great relief, she says, “to take a break from studying to scream and sing in my room.” While serving her residency in Calgary, she joined a series of bands and played solo shows.
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She hooked up with Arena a year ago. The group plays at parties, weddings and casinos. On Sunday, Aug. 5, they’ll be playing a fundraiser at the Burnaby Firefighters Club for Covenant House. In the past, they’ve helped support the Royal Canadian Legion South Burnaby Branch No. 83 and Progressive Housing Society.
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A development “to create a new heart to Edmonds Town Centre” is being proposed for the Value Village property at Kingsway and Edmonds. Cressey Developments has applied to the City of Burnaby to have the large, triangular property rezoned so it can build a project that contains office, residential and commercial space. In a letter to the city, Martin Bruckner of IBI/HB Architects said the development will include an “architecturally significant iconic” five-storey office building, residential towers of 40, 30 and 25 storeys that will contain 817 homes, and streetfront retail store space totaling 214,000 square feet. “The concept is intended to be a development of significant scale and a variety of uses to create a new heart to Edmonds Town Centre which will be a catalyst for the revitalization of this important neighbourhood in South Burnaby,” wrote Bruckner. please see PROjEct, A3