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City council wants to find a way to honour one of its most illustrious athletes, Christine Sinclair, who led the Canadian women’s soccer team to a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. see page A3
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Burnaby man charged in drug bust
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Chris Peacock installs hundreds of maple floor slats in the new gym that is under construction at Burnaby Central secondary.
New Central gym delayed Among numerous capital projects in school district over summer Wanda Chow
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While the new Burnaby Central secondary building is a year old, students will have to wait another couple of months before they’ll have a new gymnasium to go with it. The delay is due to the wet weather this spring, explained Russ Sales, Burnaby school district’s director of facilities. “You need the moisture out of the concrete
before you can put the wood [floor] in.” Once that moisture is gone, the wood flooring needs to sit in the space for three to four weeks to acclimatize before crews can begin laying it down, Sales said. Crews started laying the floor on Aug. 27, which will be followed by finishing work and landscaping outside the new wing before the gym opens for use, likely in late October, he said. In the meantime, said Central principal Garth Errico, students will continue on with what they did last spring when the old gym was demolished,
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such as using facilities at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex nearby, the school’s student commons area and possibly its dance studio. Sales said students will also have the use of the lower rugby field and the asphalt running track, which won’t have the permanent rubber surface installed until next summer. Burnaby city hall will be installing the artificial turf field inside the track, which can’t be laid in rainy weather, meaning that likely won’t be done until late fall or spring. please see stuDeNts, A4
A Burnaby man is among six people charged in connection with a cocaine and ecstasy smuggling operation, says the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia (CFSEU-BC). The charges follow a CFSEU-BC investigation that spanned B.C., California, Mexico and Peru. The investigation began in 2008 after a tip from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that Canadian and American citizens were using a sophisticated system of encrypted smartphones to organize international drug transactions. Investigators learned that several of the accused travelled throughout North America and South America, buying cocaine and importing it into Canada, then exporting ecstasy to the U.S. Police made a number of drug seizures, with the first in 2008 when 23 kg (117,000 pills) of ecstasy were seized in Princeton. please see WArrANts, A4