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OCTOBER 17 2014 www.burnabynewsleader.com
New musical ready to take you on a journey through time. See Page A9
ELECTION 2014
New party aims to topple BCA machine Wanda Chow
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Antonia Beck puts out the welcome sign at Burnaby Neighbourhood House’s new home on Beresford, which will be officially opened with a house warming party on Oct. 26.
New ‘House’ feels like a real home Burnaby Neighbourhood House moves into new facility near Metrotown: host open house Oct. 26 Mario Bartel
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“Sometimes I still have to pinch myself.” For Antonia Beck, executive director of Burnaby Neighbourhood House, it’s still sinking in how much space they have at their new space next to Metrotown. And how well equipped it is.
“Before, we were stifled,” said The space was made available by Beck of the old Neighbourhood the building’s developer, Intracorp, House, which was vacated at the as part of a deal with the City of beginning of September. Burnaby for increased density. After 15 years That’s all just crammed into a bureaucratic buzz warren of rooms to Beck. All she and offices in an knows is that her Antonia Beck old wedge-shaped We’ve built a lot of capacity. staff finally has building at Imperial Now we can make our ideas space to move and and Jubilee, the new happen. put on the kind of 8,500-square-foot programming that digs are part of the community doesn’t involve converting a daycare amenity space in the podium of in the morning to a computer a soaring new condo tower on classroom in theLugevening Balkan_ ad.pdf to1 storage 14-06-20 Beresford. overnight.
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It appears the new Burnaby First Coalition has one distinct difference when it’s compared with the longtime incumbents, the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). That’s simply that they’re not the BCA. The BCA, of course, is the party that has held the majority on city council and school board since the 1980s. It’s the party that swept all civic seats two elections in a row, giving it a monopoly in Burnaby municipal politics since 2008. Burnaby First will try to change that. Its candidates and supporters are a diverse lot. Several have ties to the Conservatives, Liberals, Greens, New Democrats, Team Burnaby and Burnaby Parents Voice while others have always been independent and never belonged to a party. The party’s mayoral candidate, Daren Hancott, had been seeking the federal Conservative nomination in Burnaby-Douglas before deciding to run for office at the municipal level. Please see ‘TRYING’, A3