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SEPTEMBER 5 2014 www.burnabynewsleader.com
This dangerous intersection is poised to get a safety fix. See Page A3
City issues stop work order Crews were marking trees for removal on Burnaby Mountain Wanda Chow
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Ninna Snider was so inspired by a beekeeper she met during the first Heights Garden Tour that she and husband Winston Wong have since created a network of beehives in the backyards of Burnaby homes. Their garden, hives and honey will be on this year’s tour Sunday, Sept. 7.
Beekeepers inspired by Heights tour Veggies, hives to be featured at this year’s event Sunday
for the Kensington-area residents. pollination. A year later, Snider and her They set up their own honeybee husband, Winston Wong, attended hives and set about recruiting the first Heights people to allow Garden Tour them to install and where they met a maintain hives in Diana Hall beekeeper who was their backyards. A little effort made extracting honey. Today they’ve in connecting with the They stayed community has great rewards got 22 hives all over to help and were Burnaby and have for everyone. hooked. a waitlist for next The next thing they knew, Snider year. was researching permaculture and The couple does all the work, beekeeping, learning how honeybees shares some of the honey and sells are endangered yet crucial for the rest. They’ve harvested 125 lbs.
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It all started three years ago when the European chafer decimated their front lawn in North Burnaby. “Rather than pay money to put the lawn back in, we got free mulch and manure and built boxes to grow food in our front yard,” said Ninna Snider, 44. That was just the start
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of the sweet stuff already this year and are set to harvest another 75 lbs. On Sunday, Sept. 7 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the couple will come full circle—their front-yard garden, and the one they’ve planted in their neighbour’s backyard will be part of the third annual Heights Garden Tour dubbed Harvesting on the Heights. They’ll also have honey for sale and Snider’s pottery on display. Please see HEIGHTS GARDEN TOUR, A3
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The gloves are off as the City of Burnaby issued a stop work order Tuesday morning against Kinder Morgan during its surveying work in the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area. A city official ordered crews to stop work after the pipeline company arrived with chainsaws and other tree-cutting equipment and began marking trees for removal, said a Burnaby city hall press release. “I think it’s unfortunate that it has come to this,” said Mayor Derek Corrigan in the release, “but we can’t let Kinder Morgan cut down trees and do irreparable damage in a conservation area protected by our City’s bylaws.” The National Energy Board (NEB) recently confirmed that the NEB Act allows the company to carry out studies to help it determine a route for its proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline. Please see NO PLANS, A9