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Bumped by development – again Seniors forced to move when their apartment blocks were set to be replaced by highrises

By Janaya Fuller-Evans

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Just as his previous home in Metrotown was being torn down, Don Gorman received notice that he and his wife Eleanor would have to move. The couple had lived at 6579 Marlborough Ave. for 27 years when they were evicted just over a year ago.The rental apartment building was part of parcel of land being redeveloped for a highrise condo building. “My wife and I are seniors,” he told the NOW. “We’re sick and tired of moving around. I was born here.” The couple had to give up their pets when they moved into their new place, he added. Last month, Gorman received a notice stating the Metrotown apartment building they’d moved into had been sold and would also be redeveloped in the next year or two. “They said they wouldn’t be tearing it down and guess what? It’s going to be gone,” he said, adding they don’t know when they’ll have to move. Gorman, who is in his late 70s, works nights as a security guard and says he and his wife can afford to move again. But not everyone can, he pointed out. “I’m sure there’s lots of people that are getting kicked out of their places to make way for high, expensive condominiums,” he said. “I’m sure it’s happening to more than

ON THE MOVE Don and Eleanor Gorman were forced to move from this property at Marlborough and Dunblane avenues last year, as the owner is

redeveloping it for a highrise condo tower. Now they’ve received notice they’ll have to move from their current Metrotown apartment. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

just us.” Gorman has since joined the Burnaby chapter of Acorn (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) Canada, whose members are from low and moderate-income families. The Metrotown area is a particular problem, as many of the renters there currently

cannot afford the new condos being built, Murray Martin, another Acorn member, said. “At the meetings, a lot of the members are worried they’re not going to be living in Burnaby any longer,” he said. The City of Burnaby is not doing enough to protect rental stock, he added.

Recently, Coun. Colleen Jordan told the NOW the city’s hands are often tied when it comes to rental housing. “There is nothing the city has the authority to do that could stop an existing owner from redeveloping an existing building with Continued on page 4

‘None of us will ever be truly happy again’ Driver involved in fatal collision receives fine and a 20-month driving prohibition By Cayley Dobie

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A $1,000 fine and a 20-month driving prohibition – that’s the sentence a 47-yearold Burnaby man was given for his role in a fatal crash in 2011.

The Burnaby resident, who was in court Wednesday afternoon for his sentencing hearing, pled guilty to one count of driving without due care and attention, a charge under the Motor Vehicle Act. The charge stems from a collision that happened on April 19, 2011, when the cement truck Mohammad Abdolmalekpoor

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attended the sentencing hearing with her daughter Kim, Holmes’ sister-in-law. After it was announced, she told the NOW she wasn’t surprised. “The prosecutor dropped the ball,” she said. “It was like postponement after postponement, that’s why he’s pleaded out, it’s got nothing to do with him coming forward Continued on page 9

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Suspect wounded in police shooting By Cayley Dobie

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Five-year-old Yvonne Van Eck samples a spoonful of her mother Mary’s Boerenkool, a traditional Dutch dish with kale and mashed potatoes, during a multicultural dinner at Lochdale Community school in 1980. The pair, who donned rented costumes for the event, were featured in Burnaby TODAY, a forebear of the NOW. The Lochdale community potluck, now in its 35th year, is on May 26.

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35 years of community, culture and cuisine at Lochdale school By Cornelia Naylor

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Longtime north Burnaby resident Mary Van Eck is getting ready to whip up a Dutch treat for Lochdale Community School’s annual multicultural dinner – for the first time in 35 years. The last time she went to the longstanding community potluck, in 1980, she rented traditional Dutch costumes for herself and five-year-old daughter Yvonne, and the Burnaby Today (the NOW’s forebear) was there to snap their photo. “There’s just a Dutch background in the family,” Van Eck said, remembering the event, “and I thought it would be neat to do that.” Van Eck will be back this year, but now she’s a grandmother.

Her daughter Nicole Tomanek – who was performing at the dinner 35 years ago and couldn’t dress up in traditional garb – now has a daughter at the school. “It’s neat that she’s experiencing the same school that I got to go through and that some of the events are still the same, that tradition carries on,”Tomanek said of her daughter. The dinner was started more than three decades ago in an effort to celebrate cultural diversity at the school, which currently has 287 students who speak 40 different languages at home. Every year their families and other community members are invited to bring a dish representing their culture to the annual school dinner. “It is important because there’s lots of new families,”

Tomanek said, “and at least they know there’s an event where they can showcase what’s from their country and feel comfortable doing so.”

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This year’s event, on May 26 at 6 p.m., will also feature fun for kids, who will be issued passports for which they can earn stamps by answering questions from around the globe. The neighbourhood around Lochdale has always been an ethnically diverse place, according to Van Eck, but it’s become even more so since that first

school potluck, and that’s good for the grandkids, said the Burnaby grandmother. “They get a broader idea of what the world is all about,” she said. Van Eck won’t be dressing up for this year’s dinner, saying that’s “the newer generation’s thing now.” But she might reprise the dish she brought back in 1980: Boerenkool. “It’s just potatoes and kale mashed together and then served with an hot sausage,”Van Eck said, “very simple and very plain.” Asked if the dish was a hit 35 years ago, she said she couldn’t remember. “I think I brought an empty dish home, that’s for sure.” For more information about Lochdale’s multicultural dinner, call the school (6990 Aubrey St.) at 604664-8743.

Investigators with the province’s police watchdog were in Burnaby Wednesday after a suspect was shot by Burnaby RCMP. Officers with the local RCMP detachment were called to a home in the 500-block of Clare Avenue around 1:47 a.m. following reports of an “unwanted” visitor at the residence. The caller told police the man might be carrying a knife, according to a media release from police. When they arrived, officers were allegedly confronted by the suspect. When the suspect wouldn’t comply with the officers’ orders, they shot him, according to the release. The suspect was taken to hospital, Kellie Kilpatrick, spokesperson for the Independent Investigations Office, told the NOW. The Independent Investigations Office was deployed to the scene and has since confirmed that an “edged weapon” was found at the scene. At this time, the watchdog’s primary investigator and forensic specialist are in Burnaby collecting evidence from the scene and speaking with witnesses. No new information has been released and likely won’t be for some time as the investigation is in its preliminary stages, according to a media release from the office. This is the fourth time this year the investigations office has been deployed to Burnaby. About six weeks ago, on March 29, the office was called in by the Burnaby

RCMP when a suspect was shot during an altercation at a home on 14th Avenue near Willard Street.The suspect, who was allegedly involved in a fatal stabbing, died of his injuries in hospital. This was the third police-involved shooting in Burnaby in the month of March. Nine days earlier, on March 20, another man was shot by Burnaby RCMP outside of the Lougheed Village apartments on Salish Court, and on March 1, a suspect was shot by Burnaby Mounties following an alleged attempted robbery at the 7-Eleven at Canada Way and Edmonds Street. There are no new developments to report at this time in any of the investigations into the recent police-involved shootings, Kilpatrick told the NOW. “What happens in these is, we send the firearm analysis off to the lab in Ottawa and they’re really stacked up, so I don’t think that we’re going to have anything on these for a while,” she said. According to Kilpatrick, the investigations office only recently received, from Ottawa, the completed firearms analysis for a June 2014 incident in Burnaby. “The investigative report is complete on that, and it’s just been sent, as of yesterday, to the Chief Civilian Director for his review of the evidence,” she added. Burnaby RCMP would not comment on any of the recent police-involved shootings as the investigations are now in the hands of the independent police watchdog.

Investigation: Members of B.C.’s Independent Investigations Office were called into Burnaby after local RCMP shot a man. PHOTO LARRY

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New development forces tenants to move Continued from page 1 a similar building under the existing zoning,” Jordan stated in an email. “Where the city does have authority, is when the owner applies for increased density under an existing community plan. Then council does have the final say.” But Martin said the issue is with rezonings – lowrise rental apartment buildings that are wiped out when council approves developers’ plans to redevelop the sites. Gorman’s apartment building on Marlborough Avenue was part of a rezoning application put forward by Polygon Development last winter, which also included 6611 Marlborough Ave., and 6592 and 6650 Dunblane Ave. There were four low-rise apartment buildings on the site, all built in the early ’60s and in fair condition, according to a city staff report.

The land parcel is listed as sold on the London Pacific Property Agents Inc. website. Ben Williams of London Pacific and RE/MAX Bill Goold Realty were the listing agents, and the parcel sold for $21.32 million,

They said they wouldn’t be tearing it down and guess what? It’s going to be gone.

according to a brochure posted on Goold’s website. “After working with city planning and arranging the tentative approval from the City of Burnaby to extend a high-density RM-5 zoning

district to extend the length of this impressive site, Bill Goold and Ben Williams successfully assembled and sold our featured site with record-breaking results,” the brochure stated. Williams and Goold were recently interviewed by Frank O’Brien for his Business InVancouver article, Investors scoop old apartment blocks in land development rush. The interview was about land speculators, led by mainland Chinese buyers, buying Burnaby rental apartment buildings and replacing them with highrise condominiums. The listing agents did not reply to the NOW regarding the Marlborough and Dunblane property sale before press time.

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Report takes aim at safety of tank farm Jennifer Moreau

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The Burnaby Fire Department has published a damning report on Kinder Morgan’s tank farm, warning that the proposed expansion could put the public and the environment at serious risk. The report outlines a number of worst-case scenarios for the Burnaby Mountain facility, including earthquakes, flammable crude leaks, poisonous gases, fires burning for days and exploding tanks that spray molten crude, igniting other nearby tanks. But the biggest concern for the report’s author is a wildfire spreading on the mountain, close to homes and Simon Fraser University. “A tank fire occurring in that facility, because of the proposed density, could extend to multiple tanks to the forested area of the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area,” said Chris Bowcock, the department’s deputy fire chief. “The real risk is a fire occurring in the facility, extending to the tree tops of the forested area and through the tree tops across Burnaby Mountain.” People would be trapped at SFU while the forest burned, and the firefighters would have to battle the blaze from uphill, the most

dangerous vantage point, Bowcock explained. Kinder Morgan’s proposal to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline includes tripling the tank farm’s capacity by adding 14 new tanks and replacing one existing tank, bringing the new total to 26 tanks holding roughly 5.6 million barrels of crude. Many of the concerns outlined in Bowcock’s report aren’t new; he has been raising these issues publicly for the past year.

These risks need to be fully understood.

“I’m hoping this document identifies consequences of the expansion of the facility, both potential and real, and what is actually at stake running the facility in its proposed state on the mountain, so close to the conservation area, so close to the population. These risks need to be fully understood by the community, so they know what risks this project presents.” In a media release, Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan called the report “comprehensive and jarring.” “It is remarkable that Kinder Morgan is even ask-

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ing the citizens of Burnaby to assume such risks, but even more so that the National Energy Board is willing to consider expanding this storage site in this location – on a hillside near thousands of residents and a busy university, and adjacent to an urban conservation area,” Corrigan said. The NOW asked to speak to someone at Kinder Morgan, but no one was available for interviews, so the company forwarded an emailed statement instead. “The terminal in Burnaby has been operating safely for 60 years and through our maintenance, prevention and emergency preparedness programs, we are confident in our ability to prevent and respond to all kinds of incidents,” said Michael Davies, a senior director with the company. “Trans Mountain filed a preliminary risk assessment for Burnaby terminal as part of the National Energy Board review of our proposed expansion. It concludes that through design and good management practices the risk of a fire at the terminal is low. We encourage feedback on our proposed expansion and will be reviewing the report from the Burnaby Fire Department in more detail and would welcome a discussion with them to better understand and address their concerns and questions.”

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Prepare for a nasty summer campaign If it weren’t such a cherished part of our democracy, the responsibility of voting could be enough to drive many of us mad. Plebiscites, polls and continuous partisan sniping seem to turn what Canadians should relish into a bothersome march to the ballot box. With the TransLink plebiscite nearly done, Canadians are being reminded to turn their focus to the upcoming federal election — looming in mid-October. The constant bickering in the House of Commons, in what has

become now ridiculed as Nonanswer Period, will transition in the coming weeks into more muck throwing, name calling and innuendo spreading, which does democracy a great disservice. We’ve had a good glimpse into most parties’ political platforms and lists of promises, with Justin Trudeau finally showing a few of his cards. We’ve seen the parties bare their teeth in a variety of advertisements and appearances. The federal budget put the Harper Government’s priorities

... the Conservatives have raised the bar over the years in fear-mongering ... on full display, while Opposition leader Tom Mulcair has propped up some of the NDP’s newer and older policy planks over the past few months. What we can only hope is that

the contenders try an often forgotten shtick of keeping civility front and centre. While the Conservatives have raised the bar over the years in fear-mongering and plastering their rivals with dramatic hyperbole, they certainly weren’t the first government, nor party, to pull that trick. The Liberals under Jean Chretien knew a few tricks and took their shots en route to victory. Yes, the track record of dirty tricks and campaign storytelling has proven to be extremely suc-

cessful when it comes to election day, and that’s why it likely will be a central battle plan. We’d like to think, however, that ideas and intentions count. So as the summer approaches and the candidates rev up their engines, we hope — perhaps optimistically — that Harper, Mulcair, Trudeau and May do their best to give us their honest pitches, and not a reason to tune out. COMMENT ON THIS AT

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I commend city council for adopting a tenant assistance plan. Under the plan the city will require certain conditions be met before a rezoning application is granted. If the rezoning involves a demolition of an apartment with six or more suites, the developer will need to give tenants three months’ notice and three months’ rental compensation.This is better than the provincial legislation, which requires tenants receive two months’ notice, and the landlord must give the tenant the equivalent of one month’s rent. Sadly for renters, the bylaw will not apply to demo-

litions where a rezoning application is not required. For this, the provincial statute would apply. However, such replacement developments are rare as the profit margins are smaller.With city help, a replacement of a 50-year-old three-storey walk up with a modern four- or five-storey wood frame structure could be a more affordable option for renters and buyers than a suite in a 40-storey glass and steel construction. Unfortunately, this teneant assistance plan is only a partial victory for renters’ rights and does not address the neighbourhood’s concerns about the loss

of more affordable rental units. Another factor worth pondering is the population growth that has taken place in Metrotown, which the city seems to ignore. It is remarkable that “the neighbourhood’s population increased by 63 per cent between 1986 and 2006,” but perhaps more relevant today is that between 2006 and 2011 (prior to the new towers) that population increased by another 31.8 per cent. Services such as the library and Bonsor Rec Centre have not kept pace. The city’s policy of dumping density in Me-

trotown in exchange for cash is killing a culturally, socially and economically diverse community. Maywood is not a “ghetto.” It is not a “mistake” that needs to be fixed. It is a neighbourhood that has potential.The families that are forced out of their homes not only need to be respected and compensated, they also need housing alternatives that will allow them to stay in the community and continue to contribute. The city needs a plan for Metrotown now, and they need to consult meaningfully with the people currently living there.

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Dear Editor I was delighted with the idea of recycling food scraps, but not as much anymore. Maggots have overtaken the bins. Not only are they visible inside the bins, they are in the crevices, in the lids, and most disturbingly, on the surrounding floors around the bins. I cannot help but gag when I have to recycle my scraps. Our caretaker has spoken to other caretakers in our area, and they have the same concerns we have. I do not think much thought has been given to this problem before initiating this program. I phoned city hall and spoke with the individual in charge of food scraps recycling, and I got a cold, indifferent response. This individual stated that it is the caretaker’s responsibility. I was trying to be part of the solution and suggested that city hall provide environmentally friendly heavy-duty bags with closures at the top. I got no response. As with all governmental agencies, there is much financial waste everywhere. The initiators of the program should provide citizens with bags in which to dispose of the scraps safely. I understand that we are to wrap the scraps in newspaper, which few of us do. However, the majority of people do not take the care to do this. As a result, every time I have to recycle my scraps, I am disgusted by the maggots crawling everywhere. Haven’t your professionals examined the consequences of the majority of non-compliant people? In addition, the large bins become extremely heavy and are very difficult to manoeuvre uphill if necessary. I feel sorry for the caretakers. Unfortunately, this idea has many drawbacks. Not only is it unsightly, it is unsanitary and a health hazard. Krystyna Clarke, Burnaby

Why are Burnaby tax hikes so high? Dear Editor Why do Burnaby’s property taxes continue to be higher than Vancouver’s? Just look at the city average of $704,565, where the taxes would be $350 more than they would be in Vancouver. The main reason for this is Vancouver’s lower tax rate. But why is Burnaby’s rate so much higher? Is it because Burnaby has a long history of overtaxing its taxpayers? Vancouver also has assessment averaging which helps reduce taxes. Why doesn’t Burnaby also have this benefit? It was recently reported by a council member that our tax rate increase is in the middle of the Metro pack. However, because of the $100-million windfall from an accounting “goof,” Burnaby should be on the top of this pack. Incidentally, Vancouver, Coquitlam, PoCo, Richmond and even New West managed to have lower tax rate increases. This council seems to have a history of approving high tax increases in the years following an election, but in an election year, the increase drops significantly. Just look at 2014 when the increase was reduced to 1.98 per cent in comparison to 2015’s 2.98 per cent. The 2014 reason for such generosity was the new growth in the Brentwood and Metrotown areas resulting in significant revenue from the new property taxes. These areas appear to be still growing and similar new revenue would be expected, but the rate was still increased by one per cent more. The problem in Burnaby is one-party rule in city hall with no opposition to question any of the council’s actions. Wayne Lutz, Burnaby

J Firor She made a lifestyle choice to have children as did I. With it comes responsibilities and yes there is also interference with your life. There is no way that the public should pick up the tab for someone’s lifestyle choice. She mentions a husband that works long hours plus she has a job. Pay for a babysitter or pick a different time. I was able as single parent to figure out how to work my schedule while having kids. Keith As I read this article it is more about access to recreation than it is about childcare costs. What is being requested here is not free child-minding, but for Mrs. Padilla to be able to access recreational opportunities, which is something all Burnaby citizens should be entitled to. Mrs. Padilla is exactly the type of person that Burnaby should be gearing more recreational programs towards. She works full-time and has two young children and likely does not get a lot of time to herself. Recreational programs allow her to get out, socialize and learn new skills, as well as allow her to participate and be active in the community. By doing something as simple as increasing child-mind hours Burnaby can help more people access the benefits of recreation such as improving one’s mental and physical wellbeing and help foster a better community. And while there may not be a huge demand for child-minding at the moment, if it is offered and advertised, more people will likely take advantage of it. And surely Burnaby, with all the developer bonus money it collects, could easily expand child-minding services without any significant impact to budgets. The City continually tells us that the bonus money is to be used for community benefits, so lets see it being put to good use. Here is a simple, low cost benefit that can make great improvements in the lives of Burnaby citizens.

Are there tunnels under the sinkhole? Nick Cardaloni Is it one of the old tunnels under the hill caving in? … When I was a kid, a friend of mine lived on hythe and delta. His dad told us about these tunnels under the hill,and where the access point was. So, we went down to penzance drive, and sure enough, there were two large steel doors covering what resembled a mine shaft, the way the opening was blasted into the Rock.We could hear water running inside, but weren’t equipped to go in too far, so we never went in too deep.that was probably around 1986 or so. We never found any information from the city of Burnaby about the purpose of them, and we never went back to look again.

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several motor vehicle infractions, including failing to ensure his vehicle was in safe operating condition; operating a vehicle without effective service brakes; driving without due care and attention; and driving without reasonable consideration, as well as dangerous driving causing death, a charge under the Criminal Act. Earlier this year, however, Crown counsel announced an agreement had been reached with the defence moving the case from the Supreme Court to Provincial Court as long as Abdolmalekpoor pled guilty to the charge of driving without due care and attention. OnWednesday, Crown and defence counsel presented a joint submission at the sentencing hearing.The submission noted Abdolmalekpoor had about two years’ experience driving a cement truck and nearly a decade driving commercial vehicles. On the day of the crash, he was carrying wet cement from Burnaby to Coquitlam and was on his second trip when the truck collided with Holmes’ vehicle. Crown counsel noted that instead of turning right onto McBride Boulevard and 10th Avenue, Abdolmalek-

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When staff at the B.C. Provincial School for the Deaf (BCSD) got an invitation to theWestern States Basketball and Cheerleading Classic inWashington State last year, they were psyched. There was just one problem – they didn’t have a basketball team. Youth worker Jodi Birley wasn’t going to let that get in the way of a great opportunity, though. She knew there were some basketball players at the school who had kept playing despite being unable to break into the Burnaby South Rebels roster, so she cobbled a team together, and Burnaby’s newest high school basketball team was born – the B.C. Grizzlies. “I couldn’t bear the idea of letting such a great opportunity pass for our young athletes just because nobody is able to help them,” said Birley, who is deaf and spoke to the NOW via email and American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters. “I grew up an athlete myself, so I knew how important it is to be actively involved in sports if you want to gain a new world of experience, perspectives, and personal benefits …” That didn’t mean the Grizzlies’ beginnings were all smooth sailing. BCSD hadn’t had a team since before the school moved onto the Burnaby South Secondary campus fromVancouver in 1992. “We kind of had to do this from scratch,” said Birley, who took on coaching duties and coordinated the Washington trip in the team’s first year. “We had a real mixed team, and at first it was kind of a little bit iffy. Some kids didn’t even know some of the basic rules, so we had to do a lot of teaching and educating about the fundamentals of basketball.” Despite the shaky start, however, the Grizzlies managed to pull off a win at their first-ever tournament, an annual competition put on by deaf schools in Oregon, Arizona,Washington and Utah. But the win was only a small part of the bigger benefits the team took away from the trip, according to Birley. Coming from a small school and a smallish B.C. deaf community, the Grizzlies were suddenly sur-

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rounded by players from five other deaf teams and their fans. “Hands were flying in the air everywhere,” Birley said. “It was really inspiring to see the students; they were exchanging email addresses, getting each other’s Facebook and really socializing with all of the kids from all over the place.That gave me a new hope about the future and about networking. Maybe we can do some exchanges in the future with the American deaf schools, so it kind of opened up the world for us in that sense.” The Grizzlies wrapped up their second season this winter after another tournament in Montreal, and the team, which has grown from eight to 11, is making a big difference in the lives of the people involved and to the school, according to Birley. Volunteer coach Devin Aikin, a BCSD alumnus and former Burnaby South Rebels player, is one example. Through coaching the Grizzlies, Birley said, Aikin has discovered a new passion – passing on his love of basketball to kids. Toward that end, he re-

cently earned his National Coach Certification Program Level 2 at Langara College. Grizzlies players, meanwhile, have gained confidence and motivation playing on a team that communicates in ASL, according to Birley. “They get to encourage each other, share perspectives, develop a positive bond and even learn more technical vocabularies that they never knew before,” Birley said. “We’ve created an environment where they feel comfortable to make mistakes and to learn from them without feeling condescended or judged.” One player whose life has been transformed by the Grizzlies, is 17-year-old Benjamin Idemudia. Since last playing on a hearing team in Grade 8, the point guard had been unable to make it onto a Burnaby South Rebels team. Undaunted, he recruited friends to practice with him in the school gym at lunch and the brand-new Edmonds Community Centre gym after school and on the weekends.

But playing on a school team seemed out of reach – until last year. “Seriously, I was so excited,” Idemudia told the NOW through an interpreter. On a deaf team, he said, he faced none of the barriers he had encountered on hearing teams. “On the hearing teams it’s really challenging to communicate,” Idemudia said. “They talked, and I’m deaf, so I can’t hear them.They don’t gesture as much, and so, you know, they don’t re-

ally show. But on the deaf team, we sign, so I can understand everything that they’re saying, and I know what play we’re using.” Idemudia has made the most of the opportunity, and, in January, he was singled out by the coach of the deaf national team. He joined the squad for the USA deaf basketball national tournament in Oakland, Calif. last month, and he will play with them again in Boston next year and at the Pan American Games in a two years’ time.

The dream is to make it to the 2017 Samsun,Turkey Deaflympics. Asked about the difference the Grizzlies basketball team has made in his life, Idemudia – who came to Canada from Nigeria when he was seven – was a loss for words for a few moments. “I don’t know. It changed my life,” he said. “The first time I joined the team, I really felt like a Canadian. I felt like I was involved because, you know, before that I hadn’t had that kind of chance.”

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The city’s newest community centre is receiving accolades for its design. The B.C. Recreation and Parks Association presented a 2015 facility excellence award to the City of Burnaby for Edmonds Community Centre and Fred Randall Pool on May 8. Coun. Paul McDonell was on hand to accept the award, according to Burnaby’s director of parks, recreation and cultural services. The win was exciting, Dave Ellenwood said, but added he knew early on it would be an exceptional centre. “I thought even in the early design phase, it was going to be a unique and noteworthy facility,” he added. “I think the proof is in the pudding.” The centre opened nearly two years ago and has been immensely popular, Ellenwood said. “It’s more popular than

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It’s more popular than even we expected. ity,” a press release from the association stated. “With over 125 different languages spoken in the immediate neighbourhood, Edmonds Community Centre is like a mosaic, reflecting Canada’s diverse identity and successfully encourages and engages all to participate in the recreation and social activities at the centre,” Suzanne Allard Strutt, the association’s CEO, said in the release. The centre was recog-

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A Burnaby-based nonprofit will spend $9 million in provincial funding over the next three years to help people with disabilities use assistive technology in the workplace. The Neil Squire Society, headquartered on Boundary Road, will receive $3 million annually for three years to administer a new provincial program called Technology@Work. Aimed at supporting employment for people with disabilities, the program will provide things like mobility supports, alternative keyboards, voice-input equipment, hearing devices and workplace modifications. Neil Squire has done such work for three decades, but unlike some of its programs,Technology@ Work is focused on individuals who already have jobs or bona fide job offers – not people who are unemployed or looking for work. “We think it’ll fill a gap, for sure,” Neil Squire executive director Gary Birch told the NOW. “I think it leaves other gaps that still need to be filled.” WorkBC centres are in place to help people with disabilities who are looking for work, according to Birch, and that model will handle the assistive technology needs for those individ-

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A celebration of dance: Top, members of the Youth in Motion junior company from the Shadbolt Centre perform Discover during an Art on the Spot event in celebration of International Dance Day. Above, Naomi Brand and Adam Grant Warren perform see and be seen. They were among the performers at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts’ free event held on Saturday, April 25. The celebration of dance featured students from Shadbolt Centre’s programs, as well as other dance artists. It’s part of a regular series of Art on the Spot events designed to highlight the various programs and offerings at the Shadbolt Centre. See more photos at www.burnabynow.com. PHOTOS JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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Young singers from Burnaby Central Secondary will be raising their voices as part of an upcoming gospel choir event. The Burnaby Central chamber choir, under the direction of Carrie Taylor, will be part of Rise Up Singing! AYouth Choir Extravaganza, presented by the Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir on Saturday, May 30. They’ll be joined by North Surrey Polaris Chamber Choir and the VancouverYouth Choir in a concert to launch the Good Noise VIPYoung Artist Program – an initiative designed to foster music education and gospel music appreciation throughout the Lower Mainland. “As a former high school instructor, I’ve witnessed how the tremendous benefits of singing in choir – including improved self-confidence and discipline, coupled with greater focus and drive – can positively impact youth development,” said Gail Suderman, artistic director of Good Noise, in a press release. “The goal of the VIPYoung Artist program is to validate, promote and create opportunities for young people in the local community to share

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their talent and achieve new skills and abilities, while also learning about gospel music and its rich musical history.” The program will include performance opportunities for youth choirs, workshops for gospel music and solo voice, entrance scholarships for voice majors to college and university and, ultimately, the establishment of the first community youth gospel choir in Western Canada. Full details about the young artist program will be revealed at the concert. Rise up Singing! Takes place May 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Fraserview MB Church 11295 Mellis Dr. in Richmond.Tickets are $25 regular, $20 for students and seniors or $10 for kids 12 and under. Check out goodnoisevgc. com for all the details. A FOOD JOURNEY They journeyed around the world on an adventure in local food – and now they’re coming to the Bob Prittie branch of Burnaby Public Library to tell their story. Brothers Chris and Josh Hergesheimer, authors of The Flour Peddler:A Global Journey into Local Food from Canada to South Sudan, will be at the Metrotown library branch on Monday, May 25.Their presentation and slide show is set to run from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

A press release notes their book follows the tale of a handmade bicycle-powered mill that Chris created to challenge the idea that there was only one way – the big way – to grow, process and market grain and flour. He teamed up with his brother, Josh, on a journey that would take them from Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast to the bustling streets of Kampala, Uganda and finally to a village in South Sudan, where they set out to take their mill to a rural women’s cooperative – and where war breaks out and leaves them in a race to leave the country. “The Flour Peddler is a unique and gripping story that explores the trends and issues of local food systems as well as the challenges and power of alternative food movements,” the release notes. “For the Hergesheimer brothers, it is also a journey of surprising adventure, from broken-down market vans, fraudulent bus tickets and hungry bears to a Russian helicopter, an attempted coup and a heart-wrenching homecoming.” Their talk is free, but registration is required – register at www.bpl.bc.ca/events. Send arts and entertainment ideas to Julie by email, jmaclellan@burnabynow.com, or find her onTwitter, @juliemaclellan.

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Exceptional Training Napa has a fantastic staff of experienced, accredited teachers. These teachers provide a high level of training and inspire the students to work hard while offering a nurturing and supportive environment. All of our ballet teachers hold the Royal Academy of Dance teachers certification.

Beautiful Facility Napa opened it’s new doors in 2009 to a newly built state of the art facility. We have three dance studios with sprung floors and professional dance flooring as well as a built in sound system.

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Pre-School Program NAPA has an amazing pre-school program offering baby ballet classes for two and three year olds as well as ballet, tap, jazz and musical theatre for four year olds.

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While the Q3 is actually not new to Audi lineup – it’s been available in Europe for some time – it’s new for the North American segment and it’s already becoming a hot seller. Like its similar offering from its competitors, the BMW X1 and the Mercedes-Benz GLA, the Audi Q3 offers buyers an affordable option to bring home a 5-passenger luxury compact SUV. The Range Rover Evoque is another competitor that’s a bit more expensive but it’s also one of the most unique vehicles in this segment. Despite being the smallest and most economical SUV in Audi’s lineup, the Q3 is still worthy of the badge with quality ﬁt and ﬁnish, sporty road manners, and excellent performance overall.

Design

The all-new Q3 has a lot in common with a number of its stablemates in the VW family. It uses the same corporate architecture as the Volkswagen Tiguan, though the feel is quite different. Similar to its larger siblings such as the Q5 and Q7, the Q3 shows off rounded lines and an athletic stance. Parked side-by-side with a Q5, the family resemblance is exceptionally strong. The Q3 is just 10 inches shorter and the roof is a few inches lower. Distinctive features up front are the single-frame grille framed by xenon headlights with LED daytime running lights. Aluminum trim outlines the Q3’s side windows. The rear hatch gently slopes from the small spoiler, to standard LED Taillights, and ﬁnishes with sporty dual exhaust outlets.

Inside, the cabin is understated and sophisticated. Despite being roughly the same size as a Volkswagen Golf, the Q3 offers more interior space and feels more airy and comfortable.

12-way power front seats, making it very well equipped even in basic trim. Anyone familiar with modern Audi’s will feel at home in the Q3. The buttons that control the infotainment system and optional navigation have been moved to the centre of the dash for better ergonomics.

Performance

Driving the Q3, you don’t sit as high as you do in a fullsize SUV, but it still offers an excellent view over the trafﬁc. Also, its compact dimensions and light steering make it easier to maneuver around town. The Q3 is also a great highway vehicle - even at high speeds, the cabin is so well insulated that you don’t hear much wind, road or engine noise. This is what gives the Q3 a truly premium feel. All Q3’s are powered by Audi’s 2.0-litre inline-4 cylinder engine. It is direct injected and turbocharged allowing it to produce 200 hp and an impressive 207 lb-ft of torque. With those stats it can sprint to 100km/h in just 8.2 seconds and on to a top speed of 209 km/h. Managing gear changes in all models is a 6-speed automatic transmission. The tiptronic design with Dynamic Shift Program makes it possible for fast gear changes that do not affect power delivery, making the ride smoother. The Q3 is available in two drivetrains. Base models are front-wheel drive and Audi’s trademark quattro all-wheel drive system is of course available. The quattro permanent drive system provides superior traction in slippery conditions and also improves grip on dry roads, enhancing driving pleasure.

The Q3 also offers a surprising amount of practicality as well. The glove box is large and cooled by the air conditioning and the side door bins, both front and rear, are massive. Passengers in the rear are also afforded plenty of space. Legroom for adults is improved thanks to the sculpting of the front-seat backs, and also they are raised offering more room for their feet. As for cargo space, it’s also fairly decent. The square opening aids loading and the minimal lip and scuff plate ease unloading.

Features

The Q3 is available in two trim levels with the FWD Progressiv starting at $35,800 ranging up to the quattro Technik priced at $40,900. Standard equipment includes automatic selfadjusting headlights, rain-sensing wipers, panoramic glass roof, leather seating surfaces, heated front seats, heated exterior mirrors, and Bluetooth connectivity. Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include power exterior mirrors with auto dimming, power tailgate, Bose surround sound system, and parking aids with rearview camera.

Even with an AWD, the Q3 is not a true off-roader, though it can handle gravel and rough roads with some ease.

Fuel efﬁciency numbers (L/100km) in FWD models are 12.0 city, 7.7 highway, and 10.0 combined. Quattro models return 11.9 city, 8.4 highway for 10.3 combined.

Through corners, the Q3 doesn’t exhibit much body roll and remains fairly ﬂat. In fact, it’s one of the sportiest compact SUVs in this market and boats a great road feel.

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Environment

The Q3 features Audi’s new open design, which is attractive and brings a feeling of high quality. It also boasts many premium features as standard equipment, such as the contoured and heated

The Q3 may be considered an entry-level Audi, but it still offers an impressive array of luxury features and performance for the money.

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While the Q3 looks modern, it doesn’t turn heads like some of its rivals. Also, the ride is sporty but can be a bit harsh and bumpy.

The Bottom Line

If you are looking for a compact luxury SUV that does everything well with a ﬂair and elegance, the Q3 is the car to consider.

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Artsnow ARTS CALENDAR TO SUNDAY, MAY 17 Arts Alive 2015, featuring the artwork of students in the Burnaby School District, at Burnaby Art Gallery, 6344 Deer Lake Ave. Info: 604-297-4422, www. burnabyartgallery.ca. TO SATURDAY, MAY 30 Photographic Convergences, an exhibition featuring the photographs of Kelly Selden, Adam Gibbs and Chris MacKenzie, at the Burnaby Arts Council’s Deer Lake Gallery, 6584 Deer Lake Ave., with opening reception Saturday May 9, 2 to 4 p.m. Info: www. burnabyartscouncil.org or 604-298-7322. TO SUNDAY, JUNE 7 People With Cameras, a Burnaby Art Gallery off-site exhibition featuring photos from the City of Burnaby Archives, at the Bob Prittie (Metrotown) branch of Burnaby Public Library at 6100 Willingdon Ave. Info: www.burnabyartgallery.ca. REGISTERED, by Leslie Hossack, an exhibition that’s part of the Capture Photography Festival, at Nikkei National Museum, 6688 Southoaks Cres., examining places of power and persecution and the experiences of JapaneseCanadians living in B.C. during the Second World War. Info: centre.nikkeiplace. org/registered or 604-7777000. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. TO MONDAY, JUNE 8 Laura Widmer: Face to Face, a Burnaby Art Gallery off-site exhibition featuring the work of award-winning printmaker Laura Widmer, at the McGill branch of Burnaby Public Library, 4595 Albert St. Info: www. burnabyartgallery.ca. TO SUNDAY, JUNE 21 Scott Massey: Unstable Ground, presented as part of the Capture Photography Festival at Burnaby Art Gallery, 6344 Deer Lake Ave. Info: 604-297-4422 or www. burnabyartgallery.ca.

Damask Burlesk Troupe, performs its Spectacular Cabaret at the Columbia Theatre, 530 Columbia St., New West. Info: www.facebook.com/ Damask-Burlesk. Tickets: spectacularcabaret. brownpapertickets.com. SATURDAY, MAY 30 A Boy and a Girl, concert by VanDeca Choir at 7:30 p.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church, Sapperton, $20 at the door or $15 in advance. Kids are free. Reception included, catered by Greens and Beans. Info: www. vandecachoir.com. SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Message in a Bottle, a poetry workshop led by Fran Bourassa, offered by the Royal City Literary Arts Society, 2 to 5 p.m. at 737 Sixth St., New West. Info: www.rclas.com. ONGOING String instruments wanted, for the New Westminster Secondary School strings program. Program welcomes gently used instruments – most needed are violins, cellos, double basses and guitars. Cash donations also accepted. Contact Kelly Proznick, kproznick@sd40.bc.ca, if you can help out. Stand-up comedy shows, Wednesday nights at 7:30 at La Fontana Caffe, 3701 Hastings St., Burnaby, featuring amateur and professional comics, hosted by award-winning counselor/stand-up comic David Granirer and his colleague Al Hassam. Free, drop in. Love to knit? Want to learn to knit? Join Knit 1, Take 2, a community knitting group based in New West. Meets in the community room at 898 Carnarvon St. from 6 to 9 p.m. on Sundays. Info: knit1take2@gmail.com or www.facebook.com/ knit1take2. Poetic Justice, poetry reading sessions with two featured poets and an open mike, Sundays from 3 to 5 p.m. in the backroom at Heritage Grill. See www. poeticjustice.ca for the schedule and details.

TUESDAY, MAY 19 Librarians’ Choice: a Touch of Mystery, with librarians offering fast-paced reviews of mystery and thriller reads, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Metrotown branch of Burnaby Public Library, 6100 Willingdon Ave. Free, but sign up at www.bpl.bc.ca/ events.

Newcomers’ Choir, meets Saturdays from 3 to 4 p.m. at Edmonds Community Centre, 7433 Edmonds St., Burnaby, Room 212, 3 to 4 p.m. For all who want to improve their language or singing skills, or both. Info: www.MIUSc.ca.

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New dances taught every night; all levels, welcome, no partner needed, drop-ins welcome. Info: 604-4369475. Is your arts group looking for new members? Do you have an arts or entertainment event to list? Do you have a call for artist submissions to share? Send arts and entertainment listings to calendar@burnabynow.com or jmaclellan@burnabynow. com.

Celestial vision: Scott Massey’s work is on display in the Unstable Ground exhibition, underway at Burnaby Art Gallery

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Catch all the field hockey action

BIKE TO WORK WEEK is fast approaching, and you can prepare by taking a spin with HUB, the group that organizes free cycling trips in Burnaby. This Sunday, May 17, the ride will be along the Central Valley Greenway.To join, meet at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex, in the east parking lot on Sperling Avenue, at 11 a.m. All riders must come with a bike helmet and bell on their bikes. For more information on HUB, visit bikehub.ca.

LEARN HOW TO MAKE FRENCH PASTRIES at the Nikkei Centre on Saturday, May 16, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.The workshop costs $55 plus tax, but there’s a discount for centre members. Participants will learn how to create classic pastries, like eclairs and cream puffs.The centre is at 6688 Southoaks Cres. Register by calling 604-777-7000 or emailing info@nikkeiplace.org.

THE BURNABY FARMERS’ MARKET is open for the season, and this Saturday, May 16, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., you can also bring

your sensitive documents, and the Vancouver chapter of ARMA will shred them for you.There will also be information on privacy and protecting your personal information.The market is in the city hall parking lot, at 4949 Canada Way.While you’re there, don’t forget to pick up some of the fresh, organic produce.The market runs every Saturday until Oct. 24.

ARE YOU INTO ORPHAN BLACK OR GAME OF THRONES? La Fontana Caffe in the Heights is hosting a sitdown “Dinner and Death” event, where folks gather to have dinner and watch these two popular TV shows. On Sunday, May 17, the event is on from 5:15 to 9:15 p.m. Dinner is served around 6 p.m., and Orphan Black is on at 7 p.m., followed by Game ofThrones at 8 p.m.The event is free, but dinner costs $12.50 and drinks are extra. La Fontana Caffe is at 101-3701 Hastings St.You don’t have to stay for both shows, but mention which one you are interested in when you RSVP. Sign up through Meetup.com at http:// tinyurl.com/GroupTVnight.

CHECK OUT THE VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT for field hockey this weekend at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex. Men’s, women’s and mixed divisions are gathering over the full four-day tourney to compete.There will also be a beer garden and catering at the clubhouse. Games starts at 9 a.m. and run till 3 p.m.

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Communitynow Family fun: Far left: Kayden Iameo (left), 5, and his best friend Sebastian Persaud, 5, take part in the pump the balloon race. At left, the Shire Music Centre Recital Band, led by Craig Bosnick, entertains the crowd. PHOTOS CHUNG CHOW

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DON’T WAIT AROUND TO VIEW UPTOWN2 The UPTOWN towers have been a Lower Mainland success story—75% of the homes got snapped UP fast! Big things are happening in this neighbourhood—like the Evergreen Line coming in 2016—so we need to close our sales centre soon. This is your last chance to view UPTOWN2

Family Fun Day a big success aby Shire Music Centre performed.The association held the event to raise money for a new batting cage in Kensington Park.The volunteers need $150,000 to build it and equip it, and there’s still another $77,000 to go.The final count from last week’s community fair and hit-athon won’t be ready for another week. The Burnaby Minor Baseball Association runs a league for kids aged four to 18 and two teams for children with cognitive or physical disabilities. – Jennifer Moreau

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The Burnaby Minor Baseball Association hosted its Community Family Fun Day on Saturday, May 9. Hundreds of families came out for carnival games, face painting, live entertainment, a bouncy castle and a hit-athon. “It went really well, we had a lot of volunteers,” said Margaret Vaid, assistant volunteer coordinator with the association. “It’s really spirited, the kids are great, and the parents are great.” Students from Burnaby Mountain and Burnaby North helped out, and musicians from the Burn-

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Communitynow Gala affair: Firefighters and other supporters turned out in force for the Burnaby Firefighters’ Charitable Society’s annual fundraising gala at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown. The event is the group’s main fundraiser.

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Celebration: From left, firefigthters Scott Shiels, Jeff Cooper and Erik Vogel at the fundraising gala. PHOTO SHAUN MADIGAN, CONTRIBUTED

Fireﬁghters’ ball a success

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Guests sprang into action last month in support of the Burnaby Firefighters’ Charitable Society‘s annual fundraiser gala. About 325 people attended the April 18 event at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown.The event, which celebrated its 23rd year, is the main fundraiser for the local firefighters’ charitable society. This year, more than $70,000 was raised, and organizers couldn’t be happier, said Rob Lamoureux, president of the International Association of Firefighters Local 323, which represents firefighters in Burnaby and organizes the annual event. “We had a very supportive crowd who was there to spend some money. It was pretty obvious based on how our live auction number was up, that kind of thing,” he said. The live auction was a great success as well, Lamoureux added. To everyone’s surprise, ViaRail donated a second round-trip vacation package to Jasper after the first package sold in minutes for $5,000.The second pack-

age went for about the same amount, raising $10,000 for the charitable society. “The whole evening went very well.We all received a lot of compliments. Jill Krop, as an MC, just did a fabulous job for us,” he added. The money raised at the event is used throughout the year by the charitable society to support its ongoing programs, including the nutritional snack program and CPR course for high school students. Some of the money is also donated to various local organizations, including the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, St. Michael’s Hospice, Burnaby Family Life, Burnaby Seniors Outreach Society, South Burnaby Neighbourhood House, Burnaby Christmas Bureau, and dry grad celebrations at Burnaby secondary schools. “We’re just more than thrilled with everything we got through our sponsorship and everything like that. It kind of exceeded expectations in that way,” Lamoureux said. For more information on the Burnaby Firefighters’ Charitable Society, visit www.burnabyfirefighters. com.

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What it takes to win a bidding war By Lindsie Tomlinson Last month, my clients spo%ed a lis"ng for a house in their dream neighbourhood in North Burnaby, listed at only $799,000. The \rst thing they asked me was, “Is this for real?” Yes and no. Yes, the house really was for sale. It wasn’t a former grow-op and it wasn’t a teardown. It was a nicely renovated bungalow on a standard-sized lot that would make a great family home. Were they going to get it for $799,000? Of course not. The lis"ng realtors used a not-uncommon tac"c: price the house below market value to a%ract as many poten"al buyers – and bids – as possible. At the \rst open house, 300 people showed up. When buying a home, people normally expect a li%le give-and-take between the buyer and the seller. But in a mul"ple-offer situa"on, you are not nego"a"ng with the seller – you are cour"ng them. Your o#er needs to be the most a%rac"ve to beat out all the others. So how do you put together that winning o#er? There’s more to it than just going in with the highest price. Your offer needs the fewest possible number of subjects – or to be more accurate, no subjects. If that sounds risky, well, it certainly can be. A no-subject o#er means doing your homework before you o#er, rather than a$er.

Home inspec!on:

Get the home inspected. You need to know exactly what condi"on your poten"al future home is in, and to factor in expected costs associated with the \ndings. This helps you determine how much you will o#er, but more importantly, it lets you remove one major common subject from your o#er. A pre-o#er inspec"on will cost you, and if your o#er isn’t accepted you won’t get that money back – but it gives you a much more compe""ve o#er as well as peace of mind if yours is the winning bid.

Winners: If you want to land the home that your family has fallen for, it takes some doing. PHOTO THINKSTOCK

engineer’s report (if either or both are available); a copy of the registered strata plan and any amendments to it; and a copy of the "tle search. If you have any ques"ons or concerns, these need to be addressed and answered before you o#er.

Property Disclosure Statement:

In a multipleoffer situation, you are not negotiating with the seller – you are courting them

Documenta!on:

If it’s a strata property, receive and read all documenta"on. This includes, but is not limited to, the past two years of all mee"ng minutes; current bylaws and \nancial statements; Form B (informa"on cer"\cate from the property management company); deprecia"on report and

Obtain and approve a copy of this document. Oil scan: If it’s a house, have a reputable company scan the property for oil tanks.

Financing:

In a bidding war, you must go in without any subjects, including subject to \nancing. This means you absolutely must have your \nances in order. If there’s any chance you won’t be able to pay what you’re o#ering or get a mortgage, it’s "me to reconsider whether this is the right offer for you to be making. Don’t risk being in breach of contract.

Recent sales:

Now that you’ve done your homework, your Realtor should have done their

homework as well, \nding recent sales in the neighbourhood for similar proper"es to help you determine market value. Remember that market value is the price people are actually willing to pay, which does not always coincide with the listed (or asking) price.

Your Realtor should include a copy of your deposit cheque with the o#er. This demonstrates to the sellers that you’re serious enough to go to your \nancial ins"tu"on and get a bank dra$ for a handsome deposit. Now that you have done everything you can to put your best foot forward, it’s up to your ReYour best price: altor to present your ofHow much is this properIn a bidding fer. If it turns out that ty worth to you? What’s someone else was the price you’ll be hapwar you need willing to pay much py to pay for it? And to put your best more than you for at what price are you this property, take OK with le!ng somefoot forward comfort in the fact one else win it? Think and offer your that you tried your about how you’ll feel if best. But more likesomeone else gets it for highest price ly, you will be celebratless than what you’re willing your win and the puring to pay. chase of your new home. In a bidding war, you need to And my clients? I’m happy to reput your best foot forward and o#er your highest price. You may not get a sec- port that their o#er beat the other 34 – yes, 34 – o#ers. They move into their new ond chance. Some"mes a few o#ers are home in June. close and you get a chance to submit another one, but you should assume this won’t happen. Lindsie Tomlinson is a Vancouver-based Realtor with RE/MAX Crest Realty Westside, specializing in guiding Irst-!me Dates: home buyers through the purchase proGive the comple"on and possession cess and helping growing families Ind dates that are best for the sellers. This is another way to woo them and make your new homes in great neighbourhoods. A mother of two, Lindsie loves to travel, and o#er more a%rac"ve than the others. is also the author of the No-Nonsense Guide to Surviving Travel with Baby. Deposit:

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Path to happiness lined with options Dr. DavidicusWong HEALTHWISE

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There are periods in our lives when we can feel stuck in the middle.These are the in between times when we feel far from where we want to be in life. Unhappiness arises from the gap between what we have and what we want. When my patients need a reminder to appreciate the good things in their lives, I ask:What is it we don’t want? After a moment of surprise, they usually start listing bad things they would like to avoid. But the answer of course is that we don’t want what we already have. We want what we don’t have – something we want in the future or something we’ve lost in the past. We take what we have for granted. But sometimes what we want is something better for ourselves – communicating better with others, stronger personal relationships, feeling more engaged in our work and our studies, enjoying a healthier lifestyle. Maybe what we want is a better world – solutions to poverty, disease, injustice and other forms of suffering. So when we’re unhappy, we have three choices: 1. Do nothing and stay unhappy. 2. Learn to love what we

have. 3. But when we need to create a better life, we can take steps toward positive change. At a physician leadership conference last week, I saw an empowering aphorism on a colleague’s notebook: Accept what you cannot change; change what you cannot accept. Every day in my office, I treat patients who bring their lists of problems to be solved. Sometimes the problems are difficulties quitting smoking, losing weight and eating a healthier diet. Sometimes they are uncomfortable psychological states, such as anxiety, anger, depression or low self esteem. In the case of lifestyle changes, the greatest challenges are old habits.The man who wants to quit smoking repeatedly fights against the habitual pattern of smoking in response to old triggers.The one who is struggling with anger replays the thoughts that reinforce his sense of being right and feeling justified in his anger. With depression and anxiety, we can be preoccupied with those negative feelings, fighting them but replaying the very thoughts that reinforce them.Thinking that we’ll never be happy reinforces feelings of hopelessness.Thinking that something bad will happen reinforces anxiety.The first step to positive change is to

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set a clear goal. Ask:What do I really want? Once you’ve articulated your goal, you can break that big goal into the necessary but small, manageable steps, and when you successfully complete each successive step, your confidence grows and you move steadily in the direction of your dreams. The crucial ingredient is the power of visualization. Visualization allows you

to clearly see your goal. When done effectively – not only using visual images (seeing yourself having achieved your goal) but all of your senses and feelings – you create a blueprint for success.You engage your subconscious mind and consciously create new habits of thinking about yourself and your future. To get me through the in between times of medical school, I started using hyp-

nosis tapes from the Burnaby Public Library. Most useful was a recording on relieving stress and anxiety by well-known psychologist, Dr. Lee Pulos. By amazing coincidence (which some would call synchronicity), Dr. Lee Pulos will be teaching a workshop on The Power of Visualization from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, at the Vancouver Masonic Hall 1495 West Eighth Ave. in

Vancouver.This seminar is open to both the public as well as health professionals.The cost is $175/person. For more information, contact the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (B.C.) at 604-688-1714 or visit www. hypnosis.bc.ca. Dr. DavidicusWong is a family physician.You can read more about achieving your positive potential in health at davidicuswong.wordpress.com.

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Tough day for Burnaby teams St.Thomas More failed to reach the B.C. high school AA girls’ provincial soccer finals following a 2-1 loss to Seycove in a match for the final zone qualifying berth at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West on Wednesday. Sara Smyth got STM’s lone goal in the opening half. “We are a really good team but we weren’t our best today,” said STM coach Doug Corbett. VIKINGS DROP SHIELD Burnaby North played second fiddle to Argyle in the final for the Lower Mainland AAA boys’Tier 2 New Zealand Shield rugby banner. North lost 38-5 to the North Shore champs at Burnaby Lake-East on Wednesday. Chayanne Khodabandeh scored a try for the Burnaby side. WR PICKED IN DRAFT Simon Fraser University wide receiver Lemar Durant was selected in the second round, 18th overall, by the Calgary Stampeders in the CFL draft on Tuesday. Durant was a Great Northwest conference first team selection. In three seasons with the Clan, Durant caught 175 passes for 2,392 yard and 28 touchdowns. GRAD SIGNS CONTRACT SFU alumna Nayo Raincock-Ekunwe signed a oneyear pro women’s basketball contract with TSV 1880 Wasserburg in the German Bundesliga. Raincock-Ekunwe finished last season second in league scoring, averaging 19.5 points per game, and first in rebounding with 12.6 per outing. SILVER AT PAN AMS SFU’s Payten Smith won a silver medal at the junior Pan Am wrestling championships in Havana, Cuba last week. Smith lost to Cuban Mabelquis Perez in the 72-kilogram final.

Relay good: Burnaby Central boys qualified three separate relay teams for the upcoming provincial high school championships at the BNW/Richmond zone meet at Central on Tuesday. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

Athletes qualify at zone meet Tom Berridge tberridge@burnabynow.com Burnaby Central’s Nathan Mah led a strong complement of city athletes to the upcoming B.C. high school track and field championships in Langley in June. Mah won all three boys’ sprint events, including a sub-11-second 100 metres, at Central track on Tuesday. He also placed first in the 200m in a time of 22.31 and in the 400m in 53 seconds flat. Central also qualified Marco Sherwood in the long jump and Michael Fischer in the shot put. Racquel Milosavljevic made it through in the girls’ 100 and 200m for Central. Moscrop’sYousif Masoud also qualified in the boys’ 400m.West Burnaby teammate Jonathan Hanam will compete in

the 800m, while Fidel Hodge made it in the triple jump. Byrne Creek had two boys qualify – Abdul Bangura in the 200m and Werd Khader in the 1,500m. Kimberly Ma also qualified in the girls’ 100m hurdles for Byrne Creek. Burnaby Mountain have a pair of girls seeing double duty at the provincials. Robyn Lee qualified in both the 800 and 1,500m, while Lauren Watson will compete in the discus and javelin. Burnaby North twins Allyson and Christina Dickson both earned entries in the 400m. Christina will also compete at 800m. Jennifer Shannon will compete for Burnaby South in both the 1,500m and steeplechase. New Westminster will be a favourite to repeat as

the girls’ overall aggregate champion this year. RaquelTjernagel is raceready in the sprints, while defending multi-events champion Nina Schultz is poised again to compete for the most outstanding athlete. Tjernagel, who recently ran the fastest time of any North American high schooler to date, qualified in the 100m in 11.50 and the 200m in 23.78. Schultz will compete in the high jump and long and triple jumps, as well as the girls’ heptathlon. Schultz qualified in the high jump at 1.7m. She also leapt more than 11 metres in the triple jump. New West’s Shea Jobson-Stier will race the 3,000m and 2,000m boys’ steeplechase. Last year, NWSS won both the overall and girls’ aggregate banners for the first time ever at the pro-

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vincial high school championships. Junior provincial qualifiers also included: Emily Chilton, Grace Fetherstonhaugh, Devin Strome, Sarah Forgie and Briana Bates from New West; Lauren Gaffney and Ceceilla Petrelli from Mountain; and Moscrop’s Fiorella Ravelli in the girls’ division. Junior boys included: Ben Tjernagel and Joshua Filafilo from New West; Ephrem Belaineh and Deigo Medrano of South; Central’s Eric Zhang, Paul Perdido, Dmitri Williamson and Tomas Ward; and Victor Dinamarra of North. The B.C. )combined events championship will be run on May 22 and 23. The provincial track and field meet will take place two weeks later at McLeod Athletic Park in Langley from June 4 to 6.

Senior hockey defenceman Joey LaLeggia was voted Denver University’s male athlete of the year. Redshirt-junior women’s gymnast Nina McGee earned the female athlete of the year honors at Denver’s 80th annual student-athlete awards banquet on Monday night in Hamilton Gymnasium. The celebration, which was organized and hosted by the Denver Student-Athlete Advisory Council, honored each of Denver’s 17 NCAA Division I intercollegiate sports programs. LaLeggia, 22, was a Hobey Baker Award finalist and first team (West) All-American this season. The Burnaby resident also earned National Collegiate Hockey Conference player of the year, defenseman of the year and offensive defenseman of the year honors. The Burnaby Winter Club product is a member of the American Hockey League’s Oklahoma City Barons, which are currently embroiled in the Western conference playoffs with the Utica Comets.That series is tied at two games apiece in the best-of-seven semifinals. LaLeggia, a fifth-round pick of the Edmonton Oilers in the 2012 NHL draft, finished his university career ranked third all-time in program scoring by a defenseman with 132 career points, including 49 goals and 89 assists. He tallied a career-high 40 points, including 15 goals, as a senior this season. McGee, 21, was a first team All-American and runner-up at the NCAA championships on floor this season, while also capturing conference gymnast of the year honours. She finished first in the all-around (39.600), first on beam (9.900), first on floor (9.950), tied for second on bars (9.900) and tied for fourth on vault (9.850) at the championships.

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Burnaby public schools came out on top at a B.C. high school netball tournament held at Burnaby Mountain Secondary last Saturday. Burnaby North took top honours in the senior division, winning the tournament title over Collingwood. Burnaby South picked up third place in the senior age group. In the junior division, Moscrop bettered runner-up Alpha A in the tournament final. North A placed third. Individual senior team MVP winners included: Alpha’s Kiersten Hagen, Bunaby Central’s Cassie Tolentino, Emily Makilhara of Mountain, North’s Kathryn Dawson, South’s Emma Binstead and Kim Tran of Cariboo Hill. Junior MVPs went to Alpha’s Sarah Kuhn and Daisy Chung, Central’s Farbeen Hoq, Miljana Zmukic of Mountain, Manreet Bhullar and Ruth Wong of North, Catie Alvarez of South, Simmie Sidhu of Cariboo Hill and Nasseem Vazinkhoo of Moscrop.

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Going for goal: Moscrop and Gleneagle showcased the sport of netball at a B.C. high school tournament junior match at Burnaby Mountain last Saturday. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

Newcomers show promise in Lakers’ loss to Adanacs Tom Berridge tberridge@burnabynow.com The Burnaby Lakers tumbled to the bottom of the B.C. Junior Lacrosse League following an 11-6 loss to the Coquitlam Adanacs at home on Sunday. Burnaby got its first look at 18-year-old Mitch McDole from Maple Ridge, who was picked up in a Jan. 1 trade with Delta for a couple of players, including intermediate-aged Tavin Grant. McDole, the 2014 B.C. intermediate A scoring champion and league MVP, tallied a hat trick in his first game in a Laker uniform, including a pair of back-toback goals in the middle period that drew Burnaby to within a pair of goals after falling behind 5-2 after the opening period. But Coquitlam responded with four unanswered goals to end the frame leading 10-4. Another newcomer also

showed well for Burnaby. Matthew Hans, picked up from Langley for Evan Hunt in a May 1 trade, took over the goaltending duties from starting keeper Aiden Yorke in the third period, allowing just one goal the rest of the way and finishing the game with a .900 save percentage in his first outing this season. McDole tallied Burnaby’s final goal of the game, beating an Adanac defender to the outside with a nifty turn of speed. “We can handle them, we’re just younger,” said McDole, who finished second in team scoring for Young Harris College in his freshman season of NCAA Division II field lacrosse this year. “Our defence really stepped up in the third period. On offence, we got a lot of good looks, but it will come in time.” Aidan Milburn led all Lakers with a goal and three assists. Cam Hudspeth also chipped in with two goals and a single helper. Chase McIntyre led all

scorers with three goals in a seven-point effort for the A’s. Brett Kujala also contributed three markers for Coquitlam. A day earlier,Tyler Vogrig signalled his return to the Burnaby Lakers with a nine-point outing in Nanaimo. Last season’s rookie of the year scored four goals and added five assists in Burnaby’s 16-13 loss to the Timbermen in a junior league shootout in the Hub City on Saturday. Danny Spagnuolo contributed seven points, including a pair of goals, while Milburn registered his 13th goal of the season in a fivepoint outing. “We need a little chemistry for sure,” said McDole about his junior debut. “We need to get our sticks going and when we get them going and dialed in, we’ll be good.” Burnaby was in Langley on Thursday (after NOW deadlines), but return home Sunday against the firstplace Delta Islanders.

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