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This yo-yo whiz is one of the best in Canada. See him compete Saturday in Burnaby. See Page A8
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June 26 2013 www.burnabynewsleader.com
Cemetery plot rankles resident Council says there’s little they can do Wanda Chow
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guy black, an advocate for veterans of the korean war, presents a special ceremonial stone to Choi yeon ho, the consul general of the republic of korea, at a special remembrance service at Central Park on Saturday marking the 60th anniversary of the ceasefire that ended the conflict. Black had just concluded a two-day walk from Coquitlam to Seymour Mountain to Burnaby to bring attention to the contribution of Korean War vets. See Photos, Page A3
Are food scraps bins attracting bears? Resident believes might be, as stench grows as summer heats up Wanda Chow
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After a rash of bear sightings in recent weeks, a North Burnaby resident is questioning whether the city’s food scraps collection program might be helping attract the large mammals to her neighbourhood. Louise McElhill lives across the street from Burnaby Mountain
secondary where source, berries, a mother bear are back and and two cubs were people were spotted a few weeks heeding calls to back. keep their garbage Conservation inaccessible to officer Jack wildlife. Trudgian said in a After reading recent NewsLeader a resident near burnaby mountain the story, McElhill says she’s heard of more bears this contacted the story that the trio have since returned past year than the entire 17 years NewsLeader she’s lived in the area. to their regular pointing out the habitat on Burnaby Mountain, townhouse complex next door to partly because their natural food hers, on Mira Place, has two bins
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for food scraps kept easily accessible to residents and ostensibly to bears as well. They’re not enclosed in any way, nor do they have locking mechanisms. They’re the same toters that all single-family homes in Burnaby get from the city. “I remember last summer they smelt horrendous when it was hot,” said McElhill who tried expressing her concerns to Burnaby city hall last year but gave up after a round of telephone tag went nowhere. Please see CITy STAff, A17
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When Gordon Smith bought his house, he knew it was near Ocean View Cemetery. What he didn’t expect was that the cemetery’s owners would eventually develop the site by adding mausoleums, or what Smith described as “a wall of marble-cladded concrete warehouses.” He told council recently he objected to not being notified of the development despite living in close proximity to the site, and called on Burnaby council to help stop the owners’ plans to add three new mausoleums. The cemetery is owned by Dignity Memorial, a subsidiary of Texas-based Service Corporation International (SCI), and Smith recalled instances of less-thanneighbourly behaviour he and his neighbours have put up with over the years including crews with noisy trucks starting work before 7 a.m. He asked that council help them deal with the company “because they don’t care about us, we hope you do.” see CITy hALL, A4