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More than just a stolen truck Recently diagnosed with needing a heart transplant Wanda chow
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dori Kaplun gets a close-up look at a sphere-gap metre that was used to measure X-ray exposure at a display of some vintage technology to celebrate bciT’s 50th anniversary on saturday. See more PHOtOS from the event on A3
Chevron to fund STEM projects in schools Burnaby First candidate and former teacher opposes corporate sponsorship Wanda chow
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Burnaby schools could receive up to $125,000 from Chevron Canada as part of a program to support projects in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). But it’s a gift that has at least one local school trustee candidate questioning the oil company’s
motives. This year, Burnaby is Baljinder Narang said the board— joining four other Lower Mainland whose trustees all belong to the school districts—Surrey, Coquitlam, Burnaby Citizens Association— North Vancouver and West shares those concerns but Vancouver—in Chevron’s received assurances from Fuel Your School Program Chevron that there will be no which will allocate up to recognition of the company $565,000 in total. required in schools. Earlier this year, media There’s also a third-party reports outlined how the involved, My Class Needs, a NArANg Vancouver school district registered charity that runs was also approached by a crowdfunding website to Chevron, but it turned down the fund projects in classrooms. opportunity due to concerns about “We were also reassured by corporate sponsorship in schools. Chevron that there won’t be any Burnaby school board chair marketing, per se, that would
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happen in our schools and our kids would not be around any of that.” Narang said the marketing will be mainly at the company’s service stations. “Chevron’s been a Burnaby business for many years and so we felt that local businesses that want to reach out to our students, if it looked reasonable … [added resources for our classrooms] is always a welcome situation so we looked upon it as an opportunity for our students.” please see ‘Let tHeM cONtrIbute’, A8
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At age 29, Kyle Sandness thought his shortness of breath must be the onset of asthma. Imagine the shock when he learned his heart is failing and he’ll need a transplant. That was a few months ago. Now to make matters worse, his souped-up pickup truck, his pride and joy, was stolen two weekends ago from the parking lot at Metropolis at Metrotown mall. Inside was medical equipment necessary to keep his temporary artificial heart operating. Sandness, who lives in Surrey, said he was only in the mall for about a half hour or so on Saturday, Sept. 27. When he returned to the parking lot outside Sears along Kingsway, the truck was gone. Burnaby RCMP Staff Sgt. Major John Buis confirmed police are investigating the theft, which happened sometime between 5 and 6 p.m. in “broad daylight.” see ‘I WAS kNOckINg’, A12