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WEDNESDAY
MARCH 5 2014 www.burnabynewsleader.com
Has Pink Shirt Day run its course? See Page A6
Bonsor renos take step forward To redesign space vacated by seniors centre Wanda Chow
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WANDA CHOW/NEWSLEADER
Burnaby resident Robert Edwards is heading off to Peru at the end of the month to meet one-year-old Kareli, one of the dozen children he sponsors through World Vision Canada. He says he’s as excited to meet her as if she were his own granddaughter.
Local man’s ‘family’ spans the globe Off soon to Peru to meet newest World Vision sponsored child Wanda Chow
to children in developing nations. books about his experiences on the He also sponsors 12 children (and road, which he sells online with counting). Edwards, 72, is off to proceeds going to World Vision. Peru at the end of It was on one the month to visit of his trips to his newest sponsor Cambodia more Robert Edwards child, a girl named than 20 years ago There were a lot of street Kareli who is just that he saw the need shy of two years old. children. I started feeding and wanted to make them in a restaurant. He’s got a a difference. daughter and “There were a lot grandson of his own who, with of street children, I started feeding wife Marietta, are supportive of his them in a restaurant,” he recalled. constant travel bug. “After three or four days, of Edwards has even written several course, there were a lot more
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During his working years, Robert Edwards travelled for business. When he retired, he backpacked to see the world. Now increasingly, he takes off to see his growing extended “family.” The Burnaby man is an active supporter of World Vision Canada and its efforts to give better lives
children. The word got out.” When he left, he tried to arrange for the restaurant to continue feeding the children at his expense. But a couple months later he saw it wasn’t going to happen. That’s when he realized he couldn’t achieve what he wanted to do all on his own. He soon learned that apart from local connections he could trust, he would need to deal with supplies getting hijacked or sold on the black market. Please see ‘I’M AS EXCITED,’ A3
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People using Bonsor Recreation Centre could soon get an expanded facility without shovels ever hitting the ground. The City of Burnaby will spend $1.3 million to renovate the busy Metrotown-area rec centre, if city council agrees. New space came available when the Bonsor 55-plus Society moved into its new seniors centre next door on Bennett Street. Polygon Development built that two-storey, 8,200-square-foot building as a community amenity next to its Chancellor at Metrotown highrise condo project at Nelson Avenue. The company gave the city the $2.7 million building in exchange for bonus density. It gave Polygon the ability to add more density than normally allowed under the site’s zoning. Please see MORE ROOM AT BONSOR, A4