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APRIL 18 2014 www.burnabynewsleader.com
Hockey dad charged with making threat Mario Bartel
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Longtime Brentlawn Drive resident Terry MacDonald says his neighbourhood is plagued with rat-running traffic. The source of the problem, he says, is that Burnaby city hall has not fulfilled its commitment, made in the 1970s, to separate the traffic of nearby apartment buildings from the single-family neighbourhood to the north. It’s taken on greater urgency with redevelopment of Brentwood mall on the horizon.
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Brentwood resident Terry MacDonald was at a meeting of Burnaby’s traffic safety committee listening to a neighbour speak about the traffic issues plaguing their area when he had a sudden realization. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. MacDonald spoke up, telling
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he has what he says is documented proof of his assertion to go along with his memory of what took place. The commitment was made on a number of occasions over three years in the mid to late 1970s, MacDonald said. On Monday, he told council of his findings which dated back to 1969. That’s when a community plan for the area around Brentwood mall was first started.
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the committee that Burnaby city lived on Brentlawn Drive since 1969. hall had once made a commitment He was one of three men involved to physically separate traffic from four decades ago with city hall in new high-density the traffic planning apartment buildings process for the from that of the area’s community single-family plan. But as of last Terry MacDonald neighbourhood to month, he is the Nothing less than that will convince me they’re off the the north. only one still with hook, so to speak. When city staff us. told him days later He spent hours that he’d have to show evidence of poring over documents on paper that, he set to work. and microfiche at Burnaby’s city The 73-year-old MacDonald has archives and libraries. And now
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A Burnaby Winter Club hockey dad appeared in North Vancouver court on Wednesday to face a charge of uttering death threats to another 10 year-old player on his son’s team. Cpl. Richard De Jong, of the North Vancouver RCMP, said the incident took place on Feb. 21 at Karen Magnussen Arena. The Winter Club’s Atom 3 team had just lost a playoff game to the North Vancouver Atom 1 team, 5-3. Police allege Terry Litt had a “threatening conversation” toward the young player in the team’s dressing room. An arrest warrant was issued and Litt turned himself into North Van RCMP Wednesday morning. BWC manager Len McNeely confirmed Litt was immediately suspended from the club after the incident, and subsequently quit. Domenic Palmieri, whose son played on the Atom 3 team, said the atmosphere around the squad had been difficult all season.
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