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The Christmas break is also hockey tournament time. New west Minor hosted its annual Herb House Midget tourney which wrapped up on Sunday. Page A10.
Queen’s Park up 10% in value BC Assessment Authority puts New West at 5% overall
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Catherine Ouellet-Martin takes in the view from the second floor exhibition area of the Fraser River Discovery Centre, which has been empty since the centre reopened. But she has big plans for the space next year, as she sets out to fulfil its potential.
Watershed year ahead for centre Fraser River Discovery Centre has ‘unrealized potential’ 12 years after its opening
birds and weather. The centre doesn’t even warrant a mention in the announcement for the New Westminster SkyTrain station, like Science World gets at Main Street. “It’s unrealized potential,” admits the centre’s director for the past three years, Catherine OuelletMartin. But that’s about to change. By next September, the second floor will be occupied by My River, My Home, an ambitious project spearheaded by the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanic Institute in Massachusetts that will cast the
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Almost 12 years after first opening as a preview centre the Fraser River Discovery Centre is still struggling to find its legs. The centre’s expansive exhibit space on the second floor is largely empty. The distinctive white sails along its roof are anything but, soiled by pollution,
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says Fin Donnelly, who became intimately familiar with the river when he swam its 1,375 kilometres twice. “I drew attention to the river by being in it,” says Donnelly, who now advocates for its health and viability as the Member of Parliament for New Westminster-Coquitlam and Port Moody and NDP fisheries critic. “We have to be aware of its problems and how to address them with solutions.” The discovery centre will be a key component of that conversation says Donnelly. please see fORgINg, A4
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Assessments in New Westminster rose by five per cent in a year according to figures released by the BC Assessment Authority on Wednesday. The total value of assessments in the city, as of July 1, 2012, was $13.761 billion, that’s a rise of nearly $700 million from the $13.07 billion on July 1, 2011. The Queen’s Park neighbourhood continues to lead the way in New West. A typical assessment for a century-old singlefamily dwelling was $1,118,000 in 2012 compared to $1,010,000 in 2011, a 10 per cent rise in value. A 1950s house in Glenbrooke went from $664,000 to $707,000, a six per cent rise, while a 1930s home in Sapperton increased from $523,000 to $550,000, and a 1960s Queensborough bungalow rose from $644,000 to $672,000.
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CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS Railway Community Panel
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The City is seeking applications for the three available resident positions on the new Railway Community Advisory Panel (RCAP). The panel, with representation from the City, the railways and the community, is intended to:
RECYCLE YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE Presented by New Westminster Fire Fighters January 5th & 6th, 2013, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Canada Games Pool parking lot Join us for a BBQ, popcorn, face painting, music, extinguisher demos (weather permitting). Trees will be chipped and recycled. All proceeds go to the New Westminster Fire Fighters’ Charitable Society. Make a donation and support local community charities! For more information, call 604-519-1000.
HEART 2 ART Intergenerational art based project at Century House and New West Youth Centre for youth 13 -18 years old and adults 50+ years. There will be five different workshop series: Variety, Theatre/Performance, Digital Photography, Mosaic and Spoken Word. At the conclusion of all the projects, celebrate your participation at the Public Gala in April 2013. THEATRE/PERFORMANCE Join us for 10 fun-filled sessions where you will get the chance to explore improv and theatre sports. Tuesdays: 5:00 - 8:00 pm January 22 – April 2 Cost: FREE Location: Century House SPOKEN WORD Shakespeare to Saul Williams: The Complete History of Spoken Word - Part 1 Youth Session - Douglas Room January 14: 4:30 pm Senior Session - Arbutus/Birch Room January 16: 4:30 pm Group Session - Arbutus/Birch January 19: 11:00 am Other dates include: February 4, 6, 9, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27 & March 2 Location: Century House Cost: FREE Please sign up at the Century House front office for any of these workshop series or call 604-519-1066.
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COUNCIL MEETINGS Monday, January 7 No Council Meeting Please note that council meetings are now video streamed online.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! The Mayor, Council and staff of the City of New Westminster would like to wish all residents a very safe and happy New Year!
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RCAP is intended to meet quarterly, or at the call of the panel’s Chair as issues arise. Committees are created by Mayor and Council to consider information concerning specific issues which would otherwise absorb the time and attention of Council. By fulfilling this role, committees enable Council to perform its legislative function more effectively and efficiently. A committee must therefore operate in accordance with the specific mandate and terms of reference or bylaw approved by Council. The Local Government Act provides that all proceedings of a committee are subject to the approval of Council (except if certain powers are delegated by bylaw). If you wish to be considered for appointment, please submit your application with a brief personal resume of your background (even if you have done so in the past). We encourage you to apply online or download an application form at www.newwestcity.ca. Applicants may submit their hard copy applications by: Drop-off or Mail: Committee Clerk Legislative Services Department, City Hall 511 Royal Avenue New Westminster BC V3L 1M9 Fax: 604-527-4594 Email: committees@newwestcity.ca For further information, please contact the Legislative Services Department at 604 527 4523 or by email at committees@newwestcity.ca. Applications must be received by the Legislative Services Department no later than 4:00 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013.
LIBRARY BOOK CLUB The New Westminster Public Library’s Read with Us Book Club is reading Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson and will discuss it on Thursday, January 24 at 7:00 pm. Winner of the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year, Behind the Scenes at the Museum is told from the point of view of Ruby from her conception in 1951 to 1992. Through her eyes we learn about the lives and secrets of several generations of the family. Copies of the book can be borrowed from the Library. Please pre-register at 604-527-4667. The New Westminster Public Library is at 716 6th Avenue.
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Rally for murder victim
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who knew her were wondering who the hell John Carlo was.” Grant Granger ggranger@newwestnewsleader.com A rally to support a transgendered activist “The biggest thing it brought up for me, is killed in New Westminster in September, and to it brought up fear. I’ve had my name legally Two wards at Royal Columbian Hospital bring awareness of lack of rights for that sector of changed, are my friends going to know I had in New Westminster were expected to be society, will be held in the city Saturday. been killed because they don’t know me by any reopened to admissions late this week after January Marie Lupaz, 26, was found in her other name. It smacks of a lack of education, or they were hit by a norovirus in the dwindling home in the 500 block of Third Avenue at around willingness to use the education they’ve been given days of December. 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29 suffering on the part of the police services … Fraser Health chief medical officer from stab wounds. She died several It was the biggest insult you could Paul Van Buynder said influenza and hours later in hospital. possibly imagine.” gastrointestinal diseases are common Transtastic Coalition for Equality Stray has found subsequent police occurrences in the winter. This season, is organizing a rally for this Saturday releases have used appropriate however, has been exacerbated by the Sydney that will start at 4 p.m. at New terminology. What she couldn’t find strain, named after the Australian city where Westminster city hall and then was an apology. it first surfaced, showing up in Canada in the proceed to the nearby provincial “It’s wonderful they were willing to last couple of months. courthouse. Organizer Leada Stray learn and build on their mistakes, but “We don’t have an outbreak of norovirus said the murder highlights a growing perhaps they might have wanted to at Royal Columbian, we have an outbreak of concern for the safety of those in the address, for the lack of a better word, norovirus throughout B.C. and Canada,” said LGBTTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, the mistake of a lifetime,” said Stray. Van Buynder. “It’s going to be worse this year transsexual, transgendered, queer In 2009, Lapuz became the JANUARY LAPUZ because it’s a change in the strain.” and/or intersex) community and puts first transgendered person on the When 12 patients and half a dozen staff a harsh light on the growing divide executive of Sher Vancouver which came down with the virus at RCH’s Six South between it and society at large. Stray pointed supports gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered and Six North wards, they were isolated and out that since transgendered isn’t specifically South Asians. Stray was also upset by many of the the units thoroughly cleaned. Van Buynder mentioned in the charter of rights, there is no comments left on various websites about Lapuz said that’s what’s done anytime it happens in protection for them if they are victims of a crime being involved in sex-trade work. Many in the Fraser Health, noting there are six to eight committed because of their orientation. transgendered community, she said, are involved long-term facilities in Fraser Health that have “It seems to have skipped over the in the profession because of the exorbitant surgery had influenza outbreaks. transgendered part of the LGBTTQI rainbow,” costs not covered by health care. “It’s surprising there’s a focus on Royal said Stray. “If someone is forced into doing [sex trade Columbian. In reality, those are happening She pointed out the initial police release did not work] to become something that they are inside, all the time. 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“It can be a hub of activity, awareness and information for the province and beyond,” says the MLA. The Fraser River Discovery Centre began as an idea in 1986 but didn’t evolve much beyond a society of dedicated volunteers and a display in the old Westminster Quay public market until the preview centre was built as part of the entry building to the riverboat casino in 2001. It was borne from a desire to reestablish New Westminster’s connection to the river, but soon evolved to integrate the Fraser’s economic, environmental and cultural importance along its entire length. “We realized it’s about a river thousands of kilometres long, not three miles of New Westminster’s waterfront.” says Allen Domaas, the former president of the Fraser River Port Authority and a member of the centre’s board of directors. “That made the scope of the project bigger, to educate the whole region about the Fraser. The board had to begin forging relationships with representatives all along the river.” Considering the hundreds of municipal and First Nations governments, industries, recreational and environmental groups with an interest in the river, that’s a monumental and ongoing task, says Ouellet-Martin. Plus there’s the constant demand for fundraising to keep the process going. “We do a lot of work fundraising and ‘friend raising,’ ” says Ouellet-Martin. “We have to be able to build relationships and give sponsors something in return.”
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The economic downturn in 2009 and the closure of the public market that coincided with the centre’s acquisition of the entire building after the riverboat casino was closed stalled a lot of those discussions. “This place was an island,” says OuelletMartin. “It wasn’t seen as desirable at the time.” New development in New Westminster’s Downtown, including the reopening of the River Market and the completion of the $25 million Westminster Pier Park, a short walk east of the discovery centre, have given new
impetus to take it to the next level. “New Westminster identifies with the river, and part of the city’s goal is to create family activities on the waterfront,” says Domaas. “The centre will be the magnet that draws people over Front Street and the railway tracks.” “It’s a huge opportunity to bring visitors from all over,” says Ouellet-Martin. “We want this place to be seen as a way to connect to the river.” A new partnership with Port Metro Vancouver to put on RiverFest, celebrating
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NWSS student second with gingerbread row housing A New Westminster culinary ACE-IT student’s spectacular row housing design came second in the secondary school category at the recent Hyatt Regency Vancouver’s annual Gingerbread Lane competition. With the help of Chef Stephen Schram, the program’s instructor, Charlotte Gurney spent much of her spare hours in November designing, baking and building the extremely detailed, supersize gingerbread housing row. After school, she would go home and create gingerbread people out of gum paste, fondant and icing. The row housing buildings were made out of edible ingredients including jelly beans for stone work and almonds to recreate shingles. Gurney’s masterpiece came second to an entry from Windermere secondary in Vancouver.
NWSS student Charlotte Gurney produced this spectacular gingerbread row housing that took second place in the Hyatt Regency Vancouver’s Gingerbread Lane competition in the secondary school category.
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The slaughter of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook elementary in Newtown, Conn. again has raised calls for tougher restrictions on firearms. It’s sad it takes such tragedies to get those in positions to enact change to speak up about their beliefs, such as U.S. President Barack Obama—who now, in his second term, claims to have long backed reinstating a ban on assault weapons. It’s even sadder still that such mass killings continue to occur, and unpalatable to listen, in their wake, to gun supporters in the U.S. spout about the right to bear arms. It is illogical, their line that guns don’t kill people—people kill people. Bullets kill people. More unsound is the suggestion by some that it would be a good idea to arm school administrators or teachers. Let the police serve and protect. Let our educators do what they do best—teach. In 2009, according to GunPolicy.org, there were more than 9,000 gun homicides in the U.S.—the highest rate in the world, in a country where almost nine out of 10 people own a gun. Canada had the third most gun homicides that year, behind Italy, with 176. Make no mistake, the issue is guns, not culture. Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein plans to introduce legislation early in the new year that would include a ban against new assault weapons, re-introducing one that was allowed to expire in 2004. Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg also wants to reintroduce legislation to ban the sale of large capacity ammunition magazines. There should be no debate about this. No one needs a semi-automatic rifle to kill a deer. Guns are not toys, something used to pass time, shooting at paper targets or tin cans. From Columbine to Sandy Hook, we’ve seen the damage guns do. It’s time to take them out of dangerous hands. – Black Press
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Is gas the enviro-villain of 2013? VICTORIA – They’re well on the way to stopping the expansion of oil exports to Asia. Now will B.C.’s American branch-plant environmental machine turn on natural gas? A couple of weeks ago I described the dispute between the Haisla Nation and the rest of the Coastal First Nations group over the pioneering of liquefied natural gas development on Haisla territory at Kitimat. Powerful chiefs of the Heiltsuk, Gitga’at, Haida and others in the so-called Great Bear Rainforest oppose the idea of kicking off a new LNG export industry without extending the hydro grid to support renewable power for the region. LNG is shaping up as B.C.’s largest-ever industrial project, if it gets built. And there are signs the American-directed environmental attack is swinging to our gas boom. Some in the Canadian media insist no such U.S. influence exists, or that it is trivial and benign. They mock federal
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Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s description of “foreign radicals,” pretending this applies to everyone opposed to oil pipelines. There weren’t many reporters with me when I covered the negotiations for the Great Bear Rainforest in 2006. To the Vancouver media it was just a big forest deal up in the middle of nowhere. Along with B.C. cabinet minister Pat Bell, Coastal First Nations and forest companies, the Sierra Club, ForestEthics and Greenpeace muscled their way to the table. How they did so became clear in early 2007. Behind these big three eco-propaganda groups was a $60 million war chest from an obscure outfit called Tides Canada.
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Another front group, as it turns out. The actual source of the money was the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the Wilberforce Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Most made their billions in computers and software in San Francisco or Seattle. They’ve funded scientifically suspect campaigns such as “Yellowstone to Yukon” and “boreal forest” aimed at turning more than a third of Canada into parks. Increasingly, they are partnering with aboriginal people in B.C. and across Canada. Some in B.C.’s major media have since grudgingly credited independent B.C. researcher Vivian Krause with filling in the blanks. She has shown that starting in 2002, these foundations began formally organizing against Canadian fossil fuel production. When the B.C. and Canadian governments matched the $60
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million Great Bear Rainforest fund for “ecosystem-based” forest management, they didn’t realize they were reinforcing a blockade against oil exports. Tides and its backers have continued to fund and create new protest groups, which are quoted as they pop up by credulous B.C. media. Their argument against oil exports centres on the sexy but false premise that Alberta’s “tar sands” somehow uniquely threaten the global climate. Lately, as the size of B.C.’s gas development has become clearer, the protests have started to refocus. Now we hear dire claims about the decades-old technique of “fracking” in gas development, and previously obscure groups are springing up to protest gas projects. Hollywood is about to gas us with an anti-fracking movie starring Matt Damon. Previews suggest that Promised Land works the usual evil-greedycapitalist themes, in the Avatar tradition. Please see TIME, A8
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Plan to re-deploy school staff flawed Re: Fat cut, now into bone: teachers union (Letters, NewsLeader, Dec. 21) I teach elementary music in Burnaby. I read last week’s NewsLeader article and found I could not be silent about this issue. I am concerned and frustrated with New Westminster school district’s suggested plan to use non-enrolling staff (music, library, ESL, counseling) to cover classrooms when no teacher is available instead of using a teacher-on-call (TOC). Yes, we are all trained teachers, qualified to teach in the general classroom— so qualifications are not my concern. However, when you “re-deploy” a non-enrolling teacher to a classroom, you have just cancelled specialized services for children. Those services are essential for our at-risk students—children needing learning supports, counseling, or a place to be successful. Pulling ESL or resource teachers closes programs helping children learn skills needed in the regular classrooms.
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Pulling school counsellors closes the service that may make a difference in a child’s life forever, if that is the day the child really needs to talk to a teacher specially trained to listen and help. Pulling teacher-librarians often closes the library and takes away amazing resources for the school. Literacy is a huge focus in education—is closing the library a sound plan? Pulling music teachers closes a program where children can express themselves in creative ways. I have several students who have trouble being successful in other subject areas. Is this the class you should cancel? Requiring teachers to cancel regular duties to cover a classroom is a huge disservice to a child’s education. Cancelled services to children are not replaceable—time is not made up. If no TOCs are sent, I would hope school (or school board) administration covers classroom duties, assuming they are not already
enrolling, before pulling a program away from students. Our principals and vice-principals are qualified teachers, and while they have their own duties to keep the school running properly, I believe this should be a first step if necessary before cutting a program for kids. I encourage the New Westminster school district to re-think this plan. Cutting work from our TOCs is not helpful—how will they get the necessary experience and employment skills to be successful teachers in future years? How will you cover an increase in staff absences? Teachers already come in on days they really are not healthy enough to be at work to avoid putting colleagues and students at risk. What is done when a huge number of staff can’t come to work because they are facing long-term illness? I encourage parents to speak to school boards and government about what is educationally sound for their child(ren). I encourage all B.C. school districts to meet
with government and tell them what is really happening in schools. I encourage government to finally listen to what districts and the BCTF are saying, and actually come into school districts to find out what needs of students are. Let’s work together to create educationally sound solutions for schools putting children first instead of dollars. Carrie Lee Burnaby
‘Yea’ for school district 40 Re: School District 40: Yea or Nay? (Letters, NewsLeader, Dec. 21) I disagree with John Unger. I think we should keep New Westminster School District 40. There have been numerous problems over the years with the district but that is not a reason to give up. Mr. Unger is clearly dissatisfied with the current state of affairs but the school board is made up of elected officials, chosen by the people of New Westminster and that must be respected.
There is always the opportunity to fight an election every three years. Just because your people were not all elected does not mean the board should be dissolved for good. I have two kids going to school in the district, and despite the current problems I feel they are still receiving a good education. I firmly believe the needs of New Westminster would be swallowed if our school district were combined with Burnaby, which is almost three times larger. Burnaby would dominate votes, elected officials, policy and the use of resources. I could see that New Westminster would be looked upon as nuisance if the school boards were merged. It is important for people in any community to have some control over their region, and if we gave this up I fear this would be the first step in yielding all sorts of rights and control to other communities in the Lower Mainland. School District 40, Yea! Geoff Pomper New Westminster
Port mann connection PoorlY Planned, at new west’s exPense The new Port Mann bridge is the largest and most expensive bridge in Canada. It was built in conjunction with the $1 billion (and rising) South Fraser Perimeter Road, a 37-km goods movement corridor along the south side of the Fraser river. The two do not connect where they intersect, causing a 14-km detour via 176 Street in order to reach the new Port Mann Bridge deck. The South Fraser Perimeter Road construction contract was awarded to a consortium of companies called the Fraser Transportation Group. It was a $659 million fixed price, public-privatepartnership, and it was to provide the design and build as well as maintenance for a period of 20 years. see TOll, a8
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combination truck would cost out like this: Toll In a 2010 press release, It was praised by the $9 and additional fuel needed (at 39 litres per provincial Transportation Minister, stating, “The 100km) $7, for a cost $16 per trip. This would agreement with Fraser Transportation Group also produce an additional 14 kg of greenhouse represents the major contract for implementing gas emissions. the project and it provides excellent value for In a 2010 press release, the B.C. Transportation taxpayer dollars.” Minister stated, “The South Fraser Perimeter News reports as early as October 2010 Road will remove trucks and regional had the project already over budget and traffic from community streets and put behind schedule. them back on the highway, where they An important land bridge at 176 Street belong.” and Highway 1 has now been identified as a Yet without a direct connection to the future add on, leaving a severe grade. new Port Mann, it appears to be doing puchmayr just the opposite. A controversial decision to delay the construction of two important Toll diversion is already evident, yet interchanges at Sunbury and Tilbury in Delta has only half of the SFPR is operational. prompted concerns from the trucking industry as The full route is projected to open in late 2013, well as from the Delta Chamber of Commerce. around the same time as the full Port Mann toll The latter’s transportation chair John Appleby comes into effect. stated recently, “a $1 billion parking lot comes to TransLink had stated previously that a direct mind.” connection at Port Mann was not possible. Yet a David Turbitt of the Delta Chamber of 2001 Ministry of Transportation study evaluated Commerce transportation committee recently a more direct connection at Port Mann as a viable projected that the cost of this delay will have a option. The report sited congestion at the Port societal cost of $10 million a year in additional Mann bridgehead as a negating factor for this fuel costs, lost productivity, and vehicular route. accidents. With the new Port Mann crossing not yet Up to 85 per cent of goods moving through announced in 2001, a fair re-evaluation of this New Westminster, from the southwest corridor, connection may have produced a different result. are destined for the northeast side of Highway 1. Considering that combination trucks produce TransLink’s modelling had predicted that truck 2.6 kg of Co2 per litre of diesel burned, real traffic from the southeast sector currently using considerations to greenhouse gas emissions the Pattullo Bridge will avoid the Pattullo and caused by the different connections and take the “lengthy detour” (my description) to the interchanges should have played a greater role in tolled Port Mann. the design of this infrastructure. The distance travelled from Surrey at the Building a goods movement highway with Pattullo Bridge and using the Pattullo Bridge into traffic lights and a 14 km roundabout detour will the northeast corridor is nine kilometres. From not serve any one well. Chuck Puchmayr the same starting point and using the new Port New Westminster city councillor Mann crossing, the distance is 23 km. Using the new Port Mann crossing by a
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ForestEthics, Sierra Club and Greenpeace, meanwhile, are campaigning against their original forest preservation deal on B.C.’s Central and North Coast. Sustainable development solutions aren’t good for their business model. If people think a problem is solved, they stop sending money. Meanwhile, the U.S. is surging ahead with its own shale oil and gas boom. Plans are underway for LNG exports from the U.S. to Asia. I think 2013 would be a good year for Canada to start making its own decisions on energy development.
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New hospital to be a boon to cancer-struck kids BC Children’s Hospital Foundation raising $200 million Jeff Nagel Black Press
Kids fighting cancer will be among the prime beneficiaries of plans to rebuild B.C. Children’s Hospital starting in 2014. The $683-million project will roughly double the amount of space in the hospital and it will also reconfigure the pediatric oncology department, now inconveniently spread out over three floors, onto one much more efficient level. “It will provide much greater continuity of care,” said Stephen Forgacs, spokesman for B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation. The foundation is helping support the new hospital – to open in 2018 – with a $200-million fundraising campaign and Forgacs said the new design is centred around the needs of families. “We’re building exclusively private rooms in the new hospital,” Forgacs said. “There will be no more open ward.” Those private rooms will have their own bathrooms, fold-out beds and wardrobes to accommodate parents who want to stay overnight with their sick, frightened kid. Also planned are kitchen facilities for families, office space for parents needing to keep up with work duties and wifi access everywhere. “In any hospital room you’ll be able to get online, which is great for parents who are away from work,” Forgacs said, adding it also helps kids beat boredom with video games and connect online with friends.
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Besides improving privacy and infection control, there are advantages to letting parents stay in a private room. They can comfort their child and they know so much about treatment protocols, they’re essentially experts who help back up staff. Medical technology has evolved by leaps and bounds since B.C. Children’s Hospital opened in 1982, when personal computers were a novelty. Diagnostic scanning is light years ahead and minimally invasive medical procedures allow much more use of day surgery rather than overnight stays. The new hospital will be much better designed with all technology needs in mind. Demand has also soared over the years and not just due to B.C.’s growing population. Kids whose conditions meant a death sentence in the 1980s are surviving in much greater numbers – the pediatric cancer survival rate is up to 80 per cent from 20 then. And others who once died young from chronic conditions like cystic fibrosis now routinely live into their 40s. It all means a hospital that was at capacity the day it opened 30 years ago is now bursting at the seams. Forgacs said myriad improvements will make the new hospital more welcoming and comforting to families enduring the worst and most terrifying moments of their lives. It’s critical to meet those emotional needs – not just the medical ones. “The stress families feel is intense,” he said, adding hospital staff feel it too.
“Not only are you dealing with a child who is ill, you are dealing with parents of that child who would literally give their lives if they could to save the child.” Forgacs said the B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation has raised $155 million over the past four years toward its $200-million target through tremendous grassroots support as well as support from major donors. High-profile donations have come from Vancouver Canucks Daniel and Henrik Sedin and singer Michael Bublé. The biggest contributions have been $25 million from Teck Resources and $20 million from the Overwaitea Food Group. Just as honourable, Forgacs said, is the support from parents whose kids have been through the hospital but who perhaps can afford only to volunteer or simply share their stories. “They look for ways to express their gratitude,” Forgacs said. “For many of them I think it’s almost thereapeutic to remain involved with the hospital.” Forgacs said the foundation is now hoping more donors will step forward to raise the remaining $45 million. “We’re appealing to British Columbians in every income bracket to help us complete the campaign.” BY THE NUMBERS
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After finishing second at their own tournament before Christmas, the New Westminster Hyacks senior girls high school basketball team had a tough loss postChristmas. The Notre Dame Jugglers, a Vancouver private Catholic school, downed the Hyacks 75-71 on Thursday. Meriam Ali had a big game in a losing cause scoring 28 points. Izabelle Datayan netted 15 while Amanda Zacharuk scored 13. The Salmon Arm Jewels won the Hyacks’ Bob Gair Memorial tournament by winning all three of their round-robin games. The Jewels, whose arrival was delayed by bad weather, opened the tourney by downing the host Hyacks 66-56 during a lunch hour game on Dec. 20. Ali scored 25 points while
Datayan had 15 and Camille Sangalang 11 against the Jewels. That evening Salmon Arm dispatched Pitt Meadows Marauders 74-45 and finished up by downing Surrey’s Elgin Park Orcas 60-30 the next day. The Hyacks went on to obliterate the Orcas 101-44 with Ali scoring 26. Halima Ali contributed 16 with Datayan and Hannah Devos getting 14 each. On Dec. 21, the Hyacks mauled the Marauders 85-55. The Hyacks also finished second in the juvenile tournament with their only loss coming in the final game, 47-34 to Port Coquitlam’s Riverside Rapids. The juveniles, however, did defeat Notre Dame 54-30 with Madisen Obrovac scoring 16 points and Katie Brunyneel eight points.
Hyacks declaw Lions in consolation final The New Westminster Hyacks defeated Surrey’s Princess Margaret Lions 112-81 Dec. 29 to take the consolation final of the Port Moody senior boys high school basketball Christmas tournament. New West began the tourney Dec. 27 with a 79-58 loss to the North Surrey Spartans before rebounding in their second game to defeat the Riverside Rapids of Port Coquitlam 96-64. The previous week, the Hyacks downed the
Georges P. Vanier Towhees of Courtney 79-55 Dec. 21 to finish third at their own Bob Gair Memorial senior boys high school basketball tournament. The Hyacks had opened the tournament by downing the West Vancouver Highlanders 82-62 Dec. 19, but then lost to Richmond’s McMath Wildcats 93-81 in the semifinals. The North Delta Huskies downed McMath 73-60 in the final.
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Loving the life in the Lower Mainland By Kerry Vital
Metro Vancouver is widely known as one of the best places in the world to live in. Leisure and recreation is right on our doorstep, our economy is thriving, we have a lively arts and cultural scene, and new residents move here in droves. But what exactly makes the Lower Mainland such a wonderful place to live? “I think people love living in the Lower Mainland because of the excellent work-life balance,” says Bob de Wit, CEO of the Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association. “There aren’t many places where someone can ski and golf in the same day in the same city!” Michael Hungerford, a partner at Hungerford Properties, agrees, saying that Metro Vancouver has it all. “There’s a tremendous quality of life here,” he says, adding “People recognize the stability that the Lower Mainland has. It’s a great city to work in and have fun.” Hungerford himself lived outside of the Lower Mainland for 10 years, but kept coming back to Vancouver. “There are studies that speak to the Lower Mainland as one of the best places to live in the world,” he says. “People want to raise their kids here. They recognize the stability that the Lower Mainland has.” Indeed, Vancouver was rated as the fifth best city in the world on the Mercer Quality of Living survey, the results of which were released in early December. A similar study by the
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