Injured eagle released In park
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you don’t have to be scandinavian to enjoy the midsummer festival. See Page A19
Bears put school on alert
Sow and two cubs monitored by conservation officers Wanda Chow
wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
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Kevin Koehn checks out his predicament after becoming stuck while demonstrating the fine art of crushing cars with a 4X4 at a show and shine event at Willingdon Church saturday put on by the Ironmen men’s ministry. hIs truck was eventually stabilized with a winch and he was able to drive off the pile of smashed vehicles. See PHOTOS, Page A13
Full speed ahead for Sixth Street plan Majority of residents reponding say they support the city’s plans Wanda Chow
wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
The stage is set for the revitalization of the area around Edmonds and Sixth streets after council endorsed changes to the Sixth Street Community Plan on Monday. Of the 48 comment forms submitted by area residents and 4x1.25_book_drive_ad_final.pdf businesses, 41 were in support of the
proposal and seven were not, said a Edmonds, and Sixth between city staff report. Edmonds and Graham Avenue, The original plan was first as a village street with four-storey adopted in 1982 and covers buildings containing along Edmonds from Canada retail, restaurants and Way to Sixth Street, and along commercial space on the Sixth from Edmonds to Tenth ground level with housing Avenue. The amendments above. Currently, the zoning call for more housing (1,500 doesn’t permit general retail units instead of 288) and jOHnSTOn and instead encourages less commercial space automotive-oriented (620,000 square feet instead businesses, a situation that of 730,000 square feet) than in the will change under the new plan. earlier version. Neighbourhood hubs for 1 12-03-05 1:20 PM The new plan designates businesses would be created on
Sixth between 16th and 14th avenues, to serve the daily needs of area residents, and between 10th and 12th avenues, to serve a wider area with offices and commercial space. To provide residents to support the neighbourhood businesses, medium-density projects, such as rowhouses, stacked townhouses and low-rise apartments, are proposed over the long term for Sixth between 19th and 16th avenues and between 14th and 12th avenues. please see PLAn, A3
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Burnaby RCMP and conservation officers are on alert after three bears were seen hanging around Burnaby Mountain secondary this week. The trio, a mother bear and two cubs, are believed to be the same ones seen last week digging through garbage bins in the Cariboo Hill area. In that case, a police officer sent them back into the nearby forest by sounding his siren. “They’re not as frightened as they were by the siren,” said Burnaby RCMP Cpl. Dave Reid. That could be a problem. On Monday, the bears were seen near Burnaby Mountain high school, but as it was a professional day and school was out they weren’t considered a threat, Reid said. But on Tuesday, they were back, getting as close as the property line of the school where the principal kept students inside until the bears had moved on.
please see juST, A7