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SEPTEMBER 7 2012 www.burnabynewsleader.com
Just back from a holiday, a Burnaby family stumbles on a welcome surprise. See page a5
Back to school a family affair Wanda Chow
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Diana Hall, right, president of the Heights Garden Society, and garden user Cheryl Conant show off some freshly picked figs from the Heights Community Garden, one of six stops on the harvesting on the heights edible garden tour, sunday, sept. 9.
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An edible garden tour being co-organized by the Burnaby Heights Neighbourhood Association aims to show what’s possible in people’s own backyards. Dubbed Harvesting on the Heights, the selfguided tour takes place Sunday, Sept. 9, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The tour will comprise six gardens, plus a backyard beekeeper, in the North Burnaby
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neighbourhood and the homeowners will be on our supermarkets, what would we do?” she said. hand to answer questions and offer gardening In addition to raising awareness of everyone’s tips. ability to grown their own produce, the gardens In one case, the owner successfully breaks on the tour will show “there’s no loss in the commonly-accepted rules of horticulture by aesthetic quality of gardens if you can actually growing vegetables in a north-facing yard, said grow stuff you can eat,” Hall said. Diana Hall, president of the Heights Garden Gardens also tend to invite people to talk to Society. each other, which leads to the neighbourhood The society runs the Heights Community association’s other objective, to build community. Garden, one of the tour stops, and is “I imagine [participants will] meet new people, co-organizing the event. probably connect with people they already Hall said it’s hoped the tour will promote the know, and probably learn a thing or two about idea of food security. gardening,” she said. 4x1.25_bottle_depot_ad_final.pdf 1 12-03-05 1:20 PM “If we suddenly couldn’t have food delivered to please see PRoCEEdS, a3
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Demonstrates what’s possible in gardens, promotes food security
When it comes to heading back to school, it’s all in the family for the Singhs of Burnaby. Yes, 11-year-old Varda is just starting Grade 6 at Maywood Community School, and Garima, 12, is entering Grade 8 at Burnaby South secondary. Then there’s dad Vijay, a pathologist who, because his medical degree from India isn’t recognized in Canada, is in the midst of studying for all his medical exams a second time, to be followed by a redo of his residency requirements. Now, for the first back-to-school season ever, mom Anshu, 40, is joining in. Having earned a bachelor of arts degree in India herself, she’s been mainly a stayat-home mom since marrying. She speaks English well (despite her protests) but after the family moved to Canada a year ago, following stints in Fiji and Malaysia, Anshu decided there was room for improvement. She’s enrolled in Burnaby school district’s Literacy Foundations Program, a series of courses to prepare her for please see EvERy, a3