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FEBRUARY 18 2015 www.burnabynewsleader.com
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RCMP directive could hurt city events Mario Bartel
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Elyse MacMillan, the manager of the Mountain Shadow Pub raises a pint to the North Burnaby institution which is closing for good on March 28.
Last call for Mountain Shadow Pub Mario Bartel
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It’s last call for the Mountain Shadow Pub on March 28. That’s when the bartender will draw pints for the last time and owner Mike Anastasi will swing shut the heavy wooden front doors and lock them forever. The venerable North Burnaby hangout that looks like a mountain ski chalet dropped into the middle of suburbia is making way for a new residential development. Anastasi, the Mountain Shadow’s owner for the past 11 years, says it’s
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time to move on. warren of private nooks and alcoves As neighbouring commercial around a soaring three-storey open properties were transformed into atrium. townhouses and condos, the pub The mouldings and brick were has become an salvaged from the uncomfortable fit in former residence the area. of the Lieutenant Mike Anastasi, owner It was originally Governor in It’s a great feeling when this built in 1980 as Victoria that was place is busy. It feels like a a throwback to damaged by fire in big house party. an old English 1957. neighbourhood pub A solid brass with a West Coast twist. chandelier once hung in the That twist comes from the brick Colonial Theatre on Granville and dark wood beams, panels, and Street. bannisters that define the pub’s “It’s a historically great pub,” said
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Anastasi. It’s also a pub that’s celebrated a lot of history. Countless sports championships were cheered and jeered by patrons on the pub’s televisions and big screens. Members of the Vancouver Canucks used to drop by when the team was based at the Pacific Coliseum in nearby East Vancouver. Burnaby entertainer Michael Bublé visits with his grandfather there when he’s in town.
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The City of Burnaby may have to rethink some of its festivals and community events if a directive from the RCMP National Crime Prevention Services that auxiliary constables must be directly supervised by regular officers is enacted. The directive was issued in October, after army reservist Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was killed as he guarded the National War Memorial in Ottawa. “Our reality changed after the events of Ottawa,” said the Lower Mainland District Commander for the RCMP Dan Malo. That reality now means unarmed volunteer auxiliary officers must perform their duties within the direct line-of-sight of an armed regular RCMP. Those duties include things like traffic and crowd control at community events and festivals, crime prevention and information gathering. “It’s a shift in our cultural thinking on how we deploy police officers or anybody that is identifiable with law enforcement,” said Malo. Please see ‘CHORUS’, A4