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WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 11 2015 www.burnabynewsleader.com
A man’s home is his castle, says Jim McGregor—until, that is, it isn’t. See Page A6
Mom tried to separate same-sex couple Wanda Chow
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Keith Chong, Linda VanderHeide and Linda Ohashi of Burnaby school district’s Community and Continuing Education at the 1913 Schou Street School. Formerly a district resource centre, it is returning to its roots as classroom space as the new home of the adult education programs that used to be located in the Brentwood area.
Schou goes back to classroom roots
New adult education centre replaces Brentwood facility Wanda Chow
wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
Burnaby school district’s Schou Education Centre has gone back to its century-old roots as a school, this time for adults. The distinctive building on the north side of Canada Way, beside Broadview Park, started out as Schou Street School in 1914, named after Burnaby’s reeve from 1893 to 1903, Nicolai Schou.
Most recently, it was a district Keith Chong, district principal resource centre, home to resource for community and continuing teachers and meeting spaces. education, noted the move addresses But with the closure of the some shortcomings of its old district’s continuing location. education centre on Schou has Lougheed Highway more parking, is Linda Ohashi, Affiliation in Brentwood—a “relatively close” to It feels more family-like cost-cutting Gilmore SkyTrain here, we’re all in one cenmeasure as it was a tre. station, and unlike leased property— in Brentwood, the Schou is now a new Foundations and home for its Foundations program, high school completion programs which upgrades students to Grade are not physically separated. 10, and its high school completion Staff are now more likely to have program. lunch together and collaborate,
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Chong said, while students from the Foundations program will be able to interact with those in the other program, to find out more about it. “It feels more family-like here, we’re all in one centre,” said Linda Ohashi, district vice principal for continuing education. And while the other space had commercial tenants as neighbours, Schou “feels like a place of learning.” The resource teachers have been moved to offices at Burnaby North secondary, and meetings and workshops will be held elsewhere. Please see NEW SCHOU, A3
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A B.C. Supreme Court judge has overturned court orders that were an attempt by a mother to kibosh a same-sex relationship involving her teen daughter. On Dec. 18, a judge granted the mother, identified as J.Z. a without-notice protection order and a non-removal order against L.H.C., the respondent who then applied to have the orders set aside. The respondent is 22 years old and is in a same-sex relationship with J.Z.’s daughter, who is 18. For more than 18 months before December 2013, the daughter lived in Calgary attending school while her parents worked in China, She was left in the care of a school friend and her parents, according to the recent reasons for judgment by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Heather MacNaughton. The daughter says in her affidavit that she was in an 18-month samesex relationship while in that city. Then around December 2013, the daughter moved to Burnaby. Please see RELATIONSHIP NOT IN DAUGHTER’S, A3