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FEBRUARY 8 2013 www.burnabynewsleader.com
Heights Merchants are pleased TransLink may alter its original plan to trim shuttle service in the neighbourhood. See Page A3
Childcare eyed for Edmonds project Part of total estimated $14M community amenity bonus Wanda Chow
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Volunteer makeup artists, hairdressers, estheticians and manicurists provide their services four nights a week at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. The Beauty Night program is set to come to Burnaby and New Westminster for one night a month, and is seeking help to make it happen.
Beauty Night coming to Burnaby Initiative aims to help change lives with makeovers Mario Bartel
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A new hairstyle or a relaxing foot massage might seem the furthest thing from the mind of a woman worrying about where her next meal might come from, or how to escape an abusive relationship. But they can be the first steps to restoring hope, says Catherine MacGillivray, the founder and executive director of the Beauty
Night Society. “And when they have hope, then they start to believe change is possible.” For 12 years, MacGillivray and her pool of hundreds of volunteers have been providing makeovers, hairdressing, manicures, pedicures, relaxing massages and an empathetic ear to women who are homeless, addicted, abused or just elderly and alone for four nights a week at Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. Now she’s hoping to recruit volunteers to help provide similar services once a month in Burnaby
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and New Westminster. MacGillivray was serving meals at a drop-in centre when she first saw the transformative powers of a bottle of nail polish, or a hair brush. A distressed woman came in, but she didn’t want food. She just wanted to feel clean. MacGillivray says she was able to direct her to a shower at the centre, and then to a cache of donated items. The woman picked out a curling iron, but her arms were so weakened she couldn’t lift them to use it. MacGillivray, an actress by 4x1.25_book_drive_ad_final.pdf profession, helped curl her hair.
“She gave me a huge hug,” says MacGillivray. “When she walked out of the centre she had an extra bounce in her step.” After that, every time the woman visited the centre, she asked MacGillivray to do her hair. So did others. A light bulb went off. MacGillivray used her connections in the theatre and film industry, as well as email, to get the word out for volunteer makeup artists, hairdressers, manicurists. Her first beauty night attracted 73 women. 1 12-03-05 1:20 PM Please see BEAUTY, A3
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The proposed redevelopment of the Burnaby Value Village site at the corner of Kingsway and Edmonds Street could yield a new childcare centre for the community. Cressey Developments purchased the threeacre property last May. In July it started the rezoning application process with a preliminary proposal for a mixed-use multifamily residential and commercial project with three high-rise apartment towers and a shorter office building on a twostorey retail podium, according to a city staff report. The developer wishes to use the city’s density bonus provisions which city hall estimates would yield about $14 million as a community benefit if the rezoning goes ahead. After assessing the community’s needs, city staff are recommending that roughly $5 million of that be used to build, furnish and equip a licensed group childcare centre on the site, the report said. see NEW CHILD, A3