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January 25 2013 www.burnabynewsleader.com
searchers were out in force on Burnaby Mountain on Wednesday, seeking a missing senior. See Page a3
Two Taser shots, no result Wanda Chow
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Katie liu and Kevin yao, grade 3 students at brentwood Park elementary school, are enthusiastic disciples of the school’s food scraps collection program. the pilot program in nine schools diverted 12,000 kgs of organic waste from the landfill. The program will be fully implemented across the school district in March.
Food scraps program coming to schools Follows successful pilot at nine schools last year
2012 and increasing by the year, the district stands to save thousands of dollars in disposal fees annually Wanda Chow wchow@burnabynewsleader.com once all 41 elementary and eight secondary schools are on board, A food scraps collection program said Tim Millar, the district’s will be rolled out to all schools in manager of facilities services. Burnaby school district starting in It will also help Burnaby city hall late March. do its part to meet the regional goal The move follows a one-year pilot of diverting 70 per cent of garbage program at nine schools that saw by 2015. a total of 12 metric tonnes (12,000 During the pilot, collection bins kg) of food scraps diverted from the were placed in school hallways landfill and turned into compost. which custodians then emptied into With Metro Vancouver’s garbage the larger for pickup by city 4x1.25_small_appliances_ad_final.pdf 1 toters 12-03-05 1:20 PM tipping fees at $109 per tonne in crews.
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Full implementation will see high schools provided with four food scraps toters and elementary schools with two. The food scraps would be picked up at least once a week and the district is in discussions with city hall over whether the remaining garbage could be collected as seldom as once a month at elementaries and twice a month at secondary schools, further reducing the district’s costs, Millar said. The nine pilot schools—Byrne Creek, Burnaby Mountain and Burnaby South secondaries, and
Marlborough, Second Street, Clinton, Stride, Brentwood Park and Chaffey-Burke elementaries— took a little while to get up to speed, said Millar. At first, there was a lot of picking improper materials out of the bins by administrators, but not anymore. And for some students, the initiative has been continued at home as well. “The kids have done such a good job at school, they’re going home and telling their parents ‘we need to do this.’” Please see fOOD, a8
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An unwanted houseguest proved a handful, requiring six Burnaby RCMP officers to restrain him early Tuesday after a Taser had no effect. A woman had guests over, including the man who she didn’t know particularly well, for a night of drinking and taking drugs, said Burnaby RCMP Corp. Dave Reid. At the end of it all, she was left with the man unconscious on her couch. “He won’t leave and the next time she comes in the room he’s stark naked on the couch.” The woman called her boyfriend explaining the situation and telling him she was afraid to wake the man up because she didn’t know what he was going to do. The boyfriend called Burnaby RCMP at around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. When officers arrived at the apartment in the 6500-block of Elgin Avenue, the man was woken up but he was “extremely intoxicated and high and becomes immediately combative,” Reid said.
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