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Burnaby property values jump by double digits Michael Bublé’s home is once again city’s priciest residential real estate Cornelia Naylor
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Michael Bublé’s 12,000-square-foot home is once again Burnaby’s most expensive residential property, according to BC Assessment’s latest numbers. The internationally renowned crooner’s two-storey home, which sits atop more than two acres at 7868 Government Rd., was 39th on the assessment authority’s latest list of top-valued residential properties in the Lower Mainland. Continued on page 3
PAYING IT FORWARD: Former NHLer and Burnaby Express player Kyle Turris is now helping out at practices with his old Junior A team, now based in Coquitlam.
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Teammates share his upcoming honour, ex-NHLer Turris says Mario Bartel
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Pulling pucks from the net and tapping shin pads of junior hockey players might be a step down for a 13-season NHLer. But for Kyle Turris, it’s a chance
to stay connected to the sport and pass on some of the things he’s learned since he was one of them. Turris is back on the ice with his BC Hockey League (BCHL) alma mater — the Coquitlam Express — as a “helper”
after a pro career that took him to Phoenix, Ottawa, Nashville and Edmonton, with minor diversions to San Antonio and Sweden along the way. On Jan. 6,Turris’s old No. 19 Express jersey will be retired in honour of the
team’s most celebrated alumnus, who led it to a national championship in 2006 when it was temporarily displaced to Burnaby. The following season, he scored 121 points and was named the top junior
‘A’ player in Canada before being selected third overall in the 2007 NHL Draft. Turris, who’s originally from New Westminster, has returned to Metro Continued on page 5