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NOVEMBER 15 2013 www.burnabynewsleader.com
The Gunners battled it out with the Eagles at the Byrne Creek Oval. Page A25
A great year for coho in local creeks Mario Bartel
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Burnaby resident Alex West (left in inset) is constantly monitoring Facebook for any word on the fate of his father, Colin West (right), who is living in Tacloban, Philippines, one of the cities hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan last week. The location of his father’s house is circled in red.
Locals await news of family in Philippines Facebook key, but only if there is access to power, Internet Wanda Chow
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On Tuesday, North Burnaby resident Alex West had already been glued to Facebook for days awaiting word as to the fate of his father, Colin, in the Philippines. Colin, a businessman, lives just outside Tacloban, a city in one of the areas most devastated by Typhoon Haiyan on Nov. 8. “I’ve got him and a bunch of
other people on my Facebook and but his place was built on a rice Apart from the direct impact they’ve just, of course, dropped off paddy itself, he had to landfill a of the typhoon, Alex is most the air,” said Alex, 39. “Everybody rice paddy and whatnot, which says concerned about the “fallout is off the grid there, they have just something for how wet it can get.” after the fact.” He says during his disappeared. Alex wouldn’t be surprised travels in the region, he felt “really “I’m really just waiting for if the house sank but says unsafe,” and is aware that the any of these people I know to he thinks it would still be New People’s Army, a rebel group come online at some point.” standing, unlike many of the affiliated with the Communist Party Alex travelled to the area in typical homes around which of the Philippines, is active in that August 2012 and described probably were “leveled.” particular area. L. ICARANGAL it as “quite run down and He’s sure his dad was While news reports are describing backwards. It looks like one home at the time. “They challenges in getting aid to survivors of these typical coastal towns that knew it was coming. Before it hit I of the disaster, Alex is confident has sort of been lost in time.” saw all their messages saying, ‘pray that many people will ultimately be His dad’s house, “it’s arguably one to God, bunker down’ kind of looked 1after. 4x1.25_small_appliances_ad_final.pdf 12-03-05 1:20 PM of the nicest houses in Tacloban, thing.’” Please see ‘ENOUGH, LORD’, A3
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They’re a little late this season, but the salmon are returning to Burnaby’s creeks. And while local streamkeepers aren’t breaking out the fishing poles just yet, they’re encouraged the years of work they’ve been doing to create welcoming habitats for spawning coho and chum is making some headway. Byrne Creek streamkeepers counted more than 20 coho salmon heading upstream over the Remembrance Day weekend. “This is the best year for coho in ages,” said Paul Cipywnyk. But the numbers for returning chum aren’t so great. So far only three have caught the eye of streamkeepers monitoring the creek just before it passes into a culvert beneath Southridge Drive. But one of those showed signs it may have spawned before it died. Streamkeepers remove dead salmon from the creek to give them a quick assessment of their internal organs for signs of disease and to check whether females are carrying eggs or have dispatched them. Please see 8-LB. FISH, A4