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SEPTEMBER 12 2014 www.burnabynewsleader.com
Former Burnaby mayoral candidate and BC Liberal staffer Brian Bonney has been charged under the Election Act. See Page A9
Woman warns of serial flasher RCMP investigating Wanda Chow
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Burnaby Coun. Paul McDonell is concerned by news that Rona is considering painting over a community mural on its Edmonds Street store. The project was funded by the community as a way to deter rampant graffiti.
Rona may scrap Edmonds Xmas mural Wants to ‘update’ the artwork Wanda Chow
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The South Burnaby Rona store is considering getting rid of the community mural on its building along Edmonds Street near Kingsway. Burnaby Coun. Paul McDonell is upset and doing what he can to save it. McDonell said he heard the news from a community member. When he spoke to the store manager, he
was told the hardware store wants Rona only providing the wall space, to repaint the building in company McDonell noted. The project was colours. one of several murals painted in “He said, ‘I had somebody the neighbourhood to help deter say why do we have a graffiti. Christmas mural up during “That wall was always the summer?’” McDonell being targeted for graffiti … recalled. It hasn’t been touched since The mural reflects a part of we had the mural up.” the Edmonds community’s He predicted that if the history, which includes six mural is covered over in a POLICH years when it hosted a Santa solid colour, it will only serve Claus parade, he explained. as a nice fresh background It cost about $8,400 funded with for graffiti vandals. contributions from Burnaby city Artist Todd Polich said the Rona hall and community members, with mural was one of his first and the
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experience taught him the power of the medium to engage communities. It was painted in 2009 and is largely a reproduction of images originally created by the late Vancouver artist Barb Wood for the City of Burnaby’s Christmas cards. Polich recalled that while he was working on the project, McDonell encouraged him to reflect the diversity of the local community in the work. As a result, he’d often incorporate people who would stop by and watch him paint.
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A New Westminster woman is raising the alarm about a serial flasher targeting women walking alone on the Central Valley Greenway near North Road. Heather, who asked that her last name not be used, said she was walking on “Joe’s Trail” on the greenway on Aug. 2 at about 11:30 a.m. when she heard someone call out “hey, hey.” When she looked, she saw a man standing naked and waving from a clearing on the cliff across the Brunette River, in the Cariboo Hill area. She rushed home and called Burnaby RCMP. She heard someone call out in the same way again on Aug. 20 at 5:30 p.m. but didn’t look, believing it was the same guy. Instead, she went to the Burnaby Cariboo RV Park nearby to warn them. The person at the front desk told her someone had reported a similar incident to police the previous evening. While Heather’s avoided the trail because of her experience, the SkyTrain shutdown Sept. 5 led her to use it again. Please see THEY NEED, A3