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SFU Clan mauled by Wildcats in home opener. See Page A27
Multisport Centre on track for spring opening Now to be called Fortius Sport & Health Wanda Chow
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Dana Juba looks at a photo from Buckingham elementary school’s class of 1964-65. She attended the school in the late 1960s and her three children went there from 1994-2008. The school is celebrating its 50th anniversary on Sept. 29.
Buckingham school to mark 50th Open to former school families, teachers, staff Wanda Chow
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When Dana Juba was a student at Burnaby’s Buckingham elementary in the late 1960s and early ’70s, there was a farm with cows and horses off Burris Street and Canada Way. The site of the No. 1 fire hall at Sperling Avenue and Canada Way was home to a barn and horse trails where she took riding lessons. Moms were mostly of the stay-athome variety, and just about all her
classmates only spoke English. By the time her own three children finished attending Buckingham, the last in 2008, the neighbourhood was quite a different place. But through it all, she said, the school’s sense of community remained. On Saturday, Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., that community will be celebrated at Buckingham as it celebrates its 50th anniversary. Back in 1967, when Juba started Grade 3, the gym was only half the size it is now, and the changing
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rooms were under the stage. “It’s storage now but I can tell you it smells exactly the same,” said Juba, 53, one of the organizers of the anniversary event. In class, when she finished all her work, she would routinely help tutor classmates, a mentoring program that helped both tutors and students. On the playground in the spring, Grade 7 students would organize baseball games with students of all ages, which also helped create a more cohesive school community, she said. Intramural sports included games
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she rarely sees today, such as quoits, played like volleyball only with a hard rubber ring that was thrown over the net and caught. “If you weren’t going to catch it, you should duck,” she said with a laugh. As one of the smaller schools in Burnaby, it was a tight-knit group of students, with Juba still hanging out with friends from elementary school today. She knows of several other Buckingham alumni who, like her, had children who attended the same school. Please see MANY CHANGES, A3
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The Multisport Centre of Excellence has a new name, a new director of sport medicine and soon, a new building. Construction on the project next to Burnaby Lake Sports Complex in the Central Valley is expected to be complete by January and ready for opening in the spring of 2013, it was announced Wednesday. It will now be known as Fortius Sport & Health, Latin for “strong” or “stronger.” Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan said it was an apt name. “The name is absolutely perfect because when you’re developing something that is so strong, and you develop an organization like Fortius, it requires a struggle,” he said. “And that is what it’s really all about, it’s about the struggle, the development of the strength to form something that becomes incredibly important. And no one knows better about the importance of the struggle than athletes do.” see ‘ON THE CUSP’, A3