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FEBRUARY 14 2014 www.burnabynewsleader.com
Sidewalk obstacles a major pain for daycare operator. See page A3
Hang glider pilot gets jail time Mario Bartel
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Christophe Bonzon and his wife Jess show off one of their chocolate creations for Valentineâs Day at his North Burnaby chocolate shop, Chez Christophe. But the chocolatier says getting his wife a gift for the holiday isnât as simple as just whipping up a similar concoction before heading home for the day. See Valentineâs column, page A6
Sears to âunlockâ land value in Burnaby Company in transition, seeking to redevelop key properties, including Metrotown location Wanda Chow
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Work is progressing on plans for a major redevelopment of land Sears Canada Inc. owns next to Metropolis at Metrotown mall, says the companyâs new president and CEO Doug Campbell. âThe fun partâs over, now the
work begins for them,â Campbell currently integrated into Metropolis, said of the projectâs architects the space where Toys R and planners. He was in the Us is located underneath Lower Mainland Tuesday in the basement, surface meeting with the companyâs and underground parking, general managers. loading facilities and the As reported in the public plaza at the corner NewsLeader, last spring of Kingsway and Nelson CAMPBELL Avenue. Burnaby city hall began considering a rezoning Sears wants to establish application to allow the a conceptual master plan for the redevelopment of 8.9 acres that site that would guide individual Sears owns at Metrotown. That phases and rezonings for the property includes its own store project. According to a city staff
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report, the retail giantâs vision for the property includes a new flagship Sears store, five mixed-use, highdensity residential towers and two office towers on top of podiums containing retail and commercial space. While the current Sears store is essentially the same building that opened in 1954, Campbell gave assurances a new store is being planned. âThat old Sears store will be gone.â
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A Burnaby man whose negligence while piloting a passenger on a hang gliding flight in Agassiz caused her to fall to her death has been sentenced to five months in jail. William Jon Orders, whoâs originally from New Zealand, had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal negligence causing death after Lenami Godinez-Avila, a 27-year-old from Mexico, plummeted 300 metres during a tandem flight from Mount Woodside just before noon April 28, 2012. Orders was also charged with obstruction of justice after he swallowed a memory card from a video camera that recorded the incident, but that charge was stayed. The card was eventually recovered and its contents were described during the court hearing Feb. 7 when Orders pleaded guilty. The flight was Godinez-Avilaâs first, a gift from her boyfriend who was watching from the ground. Shortly after taking off, Orders realized something had gone wrong and his passenger was slipping out of her harness. Please see PILOT MADE PUBLIC APOLOGY, A3