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MARCH 27 2013 www.burnabynewsleader.com Jason Brezynskie won the 14th annual Healthy Chef Competition, put on by the B.C. Chefs Association. See Page 5
Mayor, MP to not speak for Chevron at NEB hearing Wanda Chow
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Dave Ellenwood, the city of Burnaby’s director of parks, Tony Arcari, the assistant project manager for the new Edmonds Community Centre, and Jim Morrice, the site superintendant for Smith Bros. and Wilson, review some construction details outside the building’s rear entrance.
The city’s new centre of attention Edmonds goes from no pool at all to the best one in Burnaby Wanda Chow
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In a sign that Edmonds Town Centre is in the midst of a major revitalization, the neighbourhood that never had a public swimming pool to begin with will soon have the swankiest one in Burnaby. “We feel it’s cutting edge,” said Burnaby parks and recreation director Dave Ellenwood during
a tour of the new $32-million Edmonds Community Centre and Pool last week. “It should be really cool for people to experience.” Expected to open in early June, the Fred Randall Pool, named after the late local city alderman and MLA, will be in the style of Eileen Dailly Pool with its hot tub and leisure component, but with some of the latest bells and whistles. Along with a six-lane, 25-metrelong pool, the facility boasts two waterslides, an extra-large hot tub, sauna and steam room. The leisure
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pool’s kid-friendly features include a “lazy river,” bubble bench, spray arches, a mini-playground structure and a large dumping bucket. A two-lane, 15-metre long pool will have a warmer water temperature to accommodate people using it for rehabilitation, aquafit and lessons for young children. And it’s all fully accessible for people with disabilities, including a water elevator into the swim tank, a ramp with handrail into the whirlpool and zero-depth entry into the leisure pool from deck level.
The pool will be larger than most other facilities in the Lower Mainland, said Ellenwood, who noted the leisure components are very popular. “We’ll get 1,500 to 2,000 visits a day by all ages.” It will also use the most up-todate water disinfection technology— liquid chlorine, filtering sand and an ultraviolet system. Most of the tile work was close to being completed during the tour and the pool is set to be filled and tested sometime this week. Please see STORY, A3
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Chevron Canada can no longer count on the support of Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan or Burnaby-Douglas NDP MP Kennedy Stewart at its National Energy Board (NEB) hearings this week. The hearings are for Chevron’s application for priority destination status on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline to ensure a steady supply of crude oil for its North Burnaby refinery. The company applied for the status last year in response to ongoing supply shortages due to it having to increasingly share capacity on the pipeline with other users. But while both the mayor and MP are the only politicians granted intervenor status at the hearings, and both planned to speak on Chevron’s behalf, neither now plan to attend. That’s because at recent NEB hearings for Kinder Morgan’s commercial tolling application for a proposed expansion of the same pipeline, which runs between Edmonton and Burnaby, a Chevron representative indicated that company supports the pipeline twinning. Please see HARDER, A13