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The Record has learned thatNewWestminster – the Royal City– has secured an exclusive con-tract with a British company toreplicate the London Eye on thecity’s waterfront adjacent to PierPark.

While Mayor Jonathan Coterefused to deny or confirm theplans, he did say: “I think sucha project would be an incrediblecoup for this city. It would certain-ly be the cherry on top of the sun-dae for the waterfront project andwould draw visitors from aroundthe world.”

The London Eye is a 443-foot-high ferris wheel on the Riv-erThames in England.The ferriswheel on NewWest’s pier wouldbe more than 300 feet high andfrom the top one could see as faras Mission upriver and down toBellingham – and across to theGulf Islands. Each small gondo-la would hold four to six people.The wheel would be skewed at an

angle so as to provide better views,and also allow for some privacyfor condo dwellers on the river.

A source close to the proj-ect told the Record that the ideacame up when the city was in itsinitial planning stages for a big cel-ebration planned to mark the 80thanniversary visit of King GeorgeVI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939.It is hoped that PrinceWilliamand Kate and their young sonGeorge (plus their soon to be bornchild) will be visiting NewWest-minster in 2019 to celebrate the80th anniversary of the royal visitand during the visit they will chris-ten the ferris wheel and take thefirst ride.

Part of the city’s promotion ofthe event will include a contest toname the wheel and join the royalcouple in one of the gondolas fora spin. It has also been rumouredthat Mayor Cote would receive aunique honour – perhaps a specialorder of the British Empire – dur-ing the ceremony.

Albert Rose, the executive di-rector of the London Eye, told theRecord onTuesday that the Eyecarries over 3.5 million visitors a

year and has exceeded all expec-tations for success. It was built in1999 and started off as the Brit-ish Airways London Eye, then wasrenamed Merlin EntertainmentsLondon Eye, then the EDF Ener-

gy London Eye and is now calledthe Coca-Cola London Eye. Herefused to say how much the ridegrosses per year, but did say, ‘It’s avery profitable venture.”

According to a city hall source,

initial meetings on the project in-volving an elite group of city coun-cilors have been positive. Althoughthe source did say some council-ors are concerned about privacy

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The Royal Lancers may have dancedtheir last dance as a tradition that datesback more than 100 years is being axedfrom the May Day banquet.

NewWestminster city council has decid-ed to cut the Royal Lancers’ dances at theannual dinner that is held on the evening ofMay Day.

“Each year, the May Queens describe theLancers’ dances at the banquet as being oneof the most memorable highlights of their

day,” Dave MacGrotty, chair of the RoyalLancers, said in a press release. “Spectatorscheer and clap to the music, especially dur-ing the ceremonial march around the hall.”

According to the Royal Lancers, citycouncil decided at a closed council meetingto quash “quadrille” dances, which are sim-ilar to square dances.The Royal Lancers aremen from the community, including formerschool trustees, principals, city councillorsand businessmen.

“I don’t believe council realizes the im-plications of their action,” MacGrotty said.“These dances connect us all to NewWest-minster’s past, foster strong communitylinks between participants and families, andhelp solidify the social and cultural fabric ofour city.We have never received one com-plaint – not one. Nor has the school district.The Royal Lancers are committed to con-tinue this aspect of May Day for many years

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Four women who callNewWestminster homehave been nominated foraYWCA MetroVancou-verWomen of DistinctionAward.

Catherine Ouellet-Mar-tin, executive director ofthe Fraser River Discov-ery Centre, was at the An-vil Centre when she got thephone call, notifying her ofher nomination in the non-profit or public service cat-egory.

“I’m very humbled andflattered,” she said. “But it’sreally only a reflection of thework the entire team herehas accomplished.We tooka centre that had come outof a big renovation, whenthere was nothing in it, andaccomplished a great deal inthe last seven years.”

Ouellet-Martin, whohas been at the helm since2008, said the list of volun-teers in 2014 topped 100.

“This is thousands ofhours dedicated to the cen-tre, from staff, to contrac-tors and the board. I’m just

honoured to lead it,” sheadded.

Board chair StephenBruyneel was the one whofilled out and submittedthe nomination form, a taskhe said was difficult whenit came to keeping thingsshort.

“They only give you somany words, so the hardthing was cutting it down.…She’s an unbelievable re-lationship person, being ableto develop and maintain re-lationships with the city,

with other groups in NewWestminster, and expandup and down the river,” hetold the Record. “Whetherit’s Richmond or even up asfar as Prince George, she’sbeen great at that.”

Bruyneel noted Ouellet-Martin is still a winner, evenif she doesn’t win the acco-lade.

“It’s just an honour tobe nominated. I think to berecognized in that group isreally, really important,” hesaid.

The Fraser River Discov-ery Centre is located at theQuay, and is a resource forresearch material, varyingexhibits and hands-on pro-gramming.

The other nominees fromNewWest include LawrieFerguson, the chief mar-keting and strategy officerfor Coast Capital Savings,nominated in the businessand the professions cat-egory. Meanwhile, LindaMcGowan from the Mul-tiple Sclerosis Society isalso competing in the samecategory as Ouellet-Mar-tin, while Laura Saimo-to, the board director at the

Vancouver Japanese Lan-guage School and JapaneseHall, has received the nodfor community champion.Also in the running is Jen-nifer Kirkey, the chair ofthe physics department atDouglas College.

This year marks the 32ndyear of theWomen of Dis-tinction Awards, which paytribute to individuals andorganizations whose out-standing activities andachievements contribute tothe well-being of the com-munity.

In addition to the 10nomination categories, in-dividual nominees are eligi-ble for the Connecting theCommunity Award. Nomi-nees have to select aYWCAprogram area they’re inter-ested in and use social me-dia from April 22 to May 15to promote votes.The nom-inee with the most voteswins the title and $10,000from Scotiabank, to be do-nated to the program of herchoice.

Winners will be an-nounced on May 26 at theVancouver ConventionCentre.

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The 25-year-old man ac-cused of killing an employeeat the Last Door RecoverySociety’s Nanaimo Streetfacility is scheduled to standtrial in August.

Steven Rogers, who isfacing one count of second-degree murder, appeared incourt on March 2 to set atrial date. Rogers is accusedof killing Jason Collet onSept. 16, 2014, at the recov-ery home in the 1100 blockof Nanaimo Street.

Rogers is expected to re-

turn to NewWestminsterprovincial court on May 14for a pre-trial conference.The two-week trial is sched-uled to begin on Aug. 4with the preliminary inquiryand run until Aug. 14.

It remains unknown atthis time what led to the fa-tal incident but investigatorsat the time confirmed thetwo men knew each other.Neither were known to po-lice. Further details won’tbe disclosed until the casegoes to trial.

Rogers remains in cus-tody.

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The Mayor of NewWesthas no plans to ban spitting,yelling and swearing in pub-lic anytime soon.

Jonathan Cote considersa new bylaw inTaber, Alta.,which prohibits all three, asa “heavy-handed” approach.

“To me, it seems a littleout of the ordinary. I don’tknow the details of what’shappening in the town thatwould instigate this discus-sion, but I don’t think it’sgoing to create better neigh-bourhoods,” Cote told theRecord.

On the recommendationof police,Taber city councilpassed the bylaw late Feb-ruary with a 6-1 vote.

The fine for being caughtcursing or screaming is$150 on first offence and$250 on second offence. Ifyou spit, the penalty is $75.

Under the new rules, kidsand teenagers also have toabide by a curfew, from 11p.m. to 6 a.m. daily.

Peace officers also havethe power to break upgroups of three or more“in a public place where apeace officer has reason-able grounds to believe theassembly will disturb thepeace.”

Meanwhile,Taber’s may-or was quoted in the TaberTimes, arguing “I’m not say-ing this thing is perfect, butI think we should give it a

chance and try it out, andlet the police work with it.After a period of time, wemight make some adjust-ments, but let’s see how itworks.”

But Cote said mandatingall these behaviours isn’t theright way to go.

“It’s certainly not an ap-proach I would take if I wastrying to build communityand bring people together.I’d point to our Neighbour-hood Small Grants programthat we have, which allowsgroups to get together anduse those grants so thatpeople actually meet theirneighbours,” he said.

The small grants pro-gram, which was establishedby theVancouver Founda-tion in 1999, is active in 17communities around theLower Mainland. Grants ofup to $1,000 are given tolocal residents for projectsthey believe strengthen thearea where they live.

“Even our youth centreinside the seniors’ location,where young people can in-teract with seniors.To me,these are better strategies tohelp break down those wallsand get to know each oth-er. I don’t think you can putthat kind of stuff in a by-law,” Cote added.

Taber has a population of8,100 people and is located250 kilometres southeast ofCalgary.

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to come and we will not justwalk away.”

The Royal Lancers arelaunching a campaign tochallenge council’s decisionand encouraging communi-ty members to write lettersof support and appear atcity council meetings in thecoming weeks to oppose thedecision to stop the dance.

Mayor Jonathan Cotesaid council has decid-ed to eliminate the Lanc-ers’ dance from the eveningbanquet that the City ofNewWestminster hosts onMay Day. He said councilhas decided the event willbe focused on the children,and any activities and danc-ing at the banquet will in-volve the children.

“I think the city has beentrying to modernize thebanquet for some time.Wehaven’t had a lot of progressover the years. I think thecity decided that we hostthe banquet in the eveningand we wanted to move itforward and focus the eventon the children,” he toldthe Record. “Certainly,

that wouldn’t preclude any-thing else during the day,which is not organized bythe city. Given that the eve-ning banquet is a city event,we wanted to refocus it andfocus it on the children,which we think May Day isabout.”

Cote said he is a “strongsupporter” of May Day.

“Quite often traditionsevolve over time, and I thinkthat is what this is about,”he said.

Since news of the changeto the lancers’ role at theMay Day banquet was an-nounced Monday, Cotesaid he’s been contacted bypeople who have thankedthe city for making thechange, as well as by sup-porters of the longtime tra-dition.

“There is going to be twosides in every issue, andI have a lot of respect forthose who have been in-volved,” he said. “We aretrying to handle this in themost respectful way wecan.”

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EarthHour:agreat ideathatfizzledWhat did you get up to

in the dark on Saturday?We’re referring of course

to Earth Hour, the 60 min-utes starting at 8:30 p.m.on Saturday night wheneveryone was supposed toturn their lights out in thename of energy conserva-tion and – by extension –saving the planet from cli-mate change.

Did you look down thestreet to check out whichof your neighbours had

managed to tear them-selves away from Netflixfor an hour of candlelightconversation?

Thought not.Chances are, if you’re

like most of the popula-tion, the event passed withlittle notice.

Earth Hour was once a“thing.” Cities competedfor the darkest skyline. Itwas socially shameful to bethe one house on the blockwith your lights on.

Earth Hour was a laud-able effort, reminding usof how much energy weuse, how dependent we areon it and how individu-al choices can make a dif-ference.

The problem is the larg-er changes needed fall notto individuals but to thecollective, and governmentpolicy has not followedsuit.While they may behappy to dim the lights foran hour, not only has our

federal government failedto take action with policiesthat would curb climatechange, they are either ig-

noring or actively disman-tling most of the past prog-ress in this area.

The feds have scaledback environmental regu-lations, ignored Canada’scommitment to interna-tional greenhouse gas re-duction targets and sent achill through groups advo-cating for more attentionto climate change by send-ing in the auditors – andspies.

And, to top it off, they

have continually alliedthemselves with big oilcompanies and refusedto support calls for moreopen public hearings onprojects such as pipelinesand a process that takesclimate change into con-sideration.

In Parliament, the lightsare on, but the trouble isnobody’s home.

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In late 2003, theprovince andFraserHealth Authority an-nounced itwas cutting funding to St.Mary’sHospital and thelocal hospitalwould close as ofMay 2004. In April 2004, citycouncil approvedamotion to ask surrounding communities topetition theprovincial government to keep the facility open.

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Anotherswipeat teachers?

The introduction lastweek of yet another educa-tion reform package is fur-ther evidence the B.C. Lib-erals remain on a collisioncourse with school trusteesand teachers.

The latest education re-form package takes a directshot at both teachers andelected school trustees.

Last week’s innocuous-ly entitled Education Stat-utes Amendment Act (Bill11) took an easy swipe atone vulnerability of B.C.’steachers: professional devel-opment days.The govern-ment wants teachers to be“accountable” for their ac-tivities on Pro D days. Fairenough, I suppose, but onehas to wonder why it takeslegislation in the newly in-troduced form to do this.

The new legislation sim-ply creates a two-year con-sultation process with theBCTF to come up withsome ground rules. But whynot establish the rules andguidelines first, and then putthem in legislation? Doing itthis way simply pokes teach-ers in the eye needlessly andimplies Pro D day privilegesare somehow being abused(which teachers vociferous-ly deny).

But the fuss over Pro Ddays is window dressingcompared to the real meatof Bill 11, which amends theSchool Act to give the ed-ucation minister far moreauthority over how schoolboards opt to spend money.

Bill 11 will allow the min-ister to effectively forceschool boards into “shared

service” funding arrange-ments with other schoolboards and other public en-tities, such as health author-ities and municipal govern-ments. Critics will no doubtview this potential powergrab in rather sinister termsand portray it is as a stepcloser to abolishing schoolboards altogether.

That seems a bit of astretch, although it is clearthe B.C. Liberals are throw-ing a lot of things at thepublic education systemright now – curriculumoverhauls, huge fundingcuts, the wielding of an in-creasing large stick at all theplayers etc. – that one hasto wonder what is really go-ing on.

With a growing list ofschool districts projectingbudget deficits of alarmingproportions, the stage is be-ing set for Education Min-ister Peter Fassbender to di-rectly step into the activitiesof school boards and wrestcontrol of their budget-mak-ing powers.

This will no doubt be de-nounced as anti-democrat-ic by many, although the gov-ernment may view schoolboards as public bodies thatare elected by a small por-tion of the electorate and arein many cases controlled bypublic sector union members.

In any event, there arelively times ahead for thepublic education sector.Last fall’s teachers’ strikeand eventual contract ap-pears to have settled little.

Keith Baldrey is chief politi-cal reporter for Global B.C.

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Give the parkade achance to thrive againDear EditorCertainly theparkade is aneyesore. But as amember of Canada’s agingpopulation I begMayor Cote and city council(fellowbabyboomers) look in themirror andask yourselves: Is demolition thebest cure forold age andugliness? Everymorning since theageof 50 Iwakeupandpray tobe repurposed.I have to learn todowithwhat I have (andmake it beautiful) insteadof continually pay-ing forwhat I can’t afford.Two senior professors of architecture and

urbandesign atUBC’s School of ArchitectureandLandscapeArchitecture thisweekofferedtomake theparkadea special project for theirstudents next year – andwewant to ignoresuch expertise anddemolish theparkadebefore they canadvise us? Sorry:webookedtheoperation twoyears in advance so it has togoahead!Frankly, I doubt a few trees and somegrass

beside a truck route and railroad tracks (sand-wichedbetweenheritagebuildings andnew45-storeywaterfront towers)will be anythingmore thanaplace for people topee. Thenoiseand the air pollution are causedby trucksand trains – twoproblems that are not goingaway; neither are they remediatedby the city’sproposed solutionof partial deconstruction.Howmuchpollutionwill be generatedby thedemolition? Let’s refurbish, recycle and reusetheoldparkade. Give theold girl a chance tobebeautiful again.CraigRuttle, AntiqueAlley

Removing the Lancersis an insult to historyDear EditorWeareproudof our history, localculture and traditions, being theRoyal City.Weare oneof the fewcommunities that still do acompleteMayDayweek, and itmeans a lot tothe childrenwhocomeup throughour systemof the local school board. (I did.)AsNewWestminster kids,we celebrated

by going to theAnvil Battery Salute onVictoriaDay, being inQueen’s Parkmid-week to crowntheMayQueen, anddance themaypole. Thenweattended the eveningbanquetwhere thereis a dinner, speeches, and thehighlightwiththe Lancer groupperforming for the crowd theold English parlour dance formswith theMayQueen suite before an enthusiastic audience.These very oldperformances havebeenkeptalive by the city fathers, passingona traditionfor over 100 years. Butmymy,wenowhaveanewcity council, and theyhave capriciouslydecided,without consultation, to summarilydismiss the Lancers group fromanypartici-pation. This volunteer groupof 16menhashad somevery distinguishedmembers downthrough the years,with former city councillors,formermayors school boardmembers andother prominent community leaders partici-pating. When I retired fromParliament, Iwashonoured tobeallowed to join the group tosupport our local culture and the 100-plus-year-oldperformance.The Lancers are appealing to formerMay

Queens, andall the families that havebeeninvolveddown through the years, to defendour city culture, andpressure city council to re-instate the traditionof the Lancer-MayQueensuite performance at theMayDaybanquet. Ihope residentswill feel the indignation that Ifeel, and contact the councillors to reverse thismistakebyNewWestminster city council.Paul Forseth,NewWestminster

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RickMcGowanI love transit. I wantmoreof it. I havewantedmore fortwenty years, and Iwish I could voteYes. Only yesterday, did I hear the firstmost compelling reason to give intotheMayors’ demands. It came fromthebusoperators that said itwillmaketheir job less stressful. Still, I think thereshouldbeaplanBwhich canaddresstheneedsof not just theoperators andpassengers, but theneedsof all of us.

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issues for condo dwellers.The project was given the

initial green light on the ba-sis that the private developerof the project does not ex-pect any city hall funds. Butthe city would be leasing theland the wheel is on in per-petuity to the wheel’s owner.

A city councillor whodid not want to be namedsaid, “It’s even a better dealthan our huge read-a-boardsigns on the bridge and onMcBride Boulevard – wewill get a percentage of prof-its and not have to worryabout upkeep or liabilities.”

The same city council-or would not confirm thatthere would also be adver-tising signage on the wheelor that it was going to havePepsi-Cola advertising on it.Unconfirmed sources havesaid that a major oil compa-ny is also interested in see-ing its name up on the ride.

Apparently the wheel willbe partially run on a uniqueenergy generating system

planted in the river.The sys-tem operates similar to awind turbine electric gen-erator, but uses the river’sown currents and tidal ac-tion to transfer energy.

Again, Mayor Cote wouldnot confirm or deny any ofwhat the source said, buthe did say, “I think an at-traction that not only earnsmoney for the city, butalso operates on river cur-rents in a very ecological-ly sound fashion would notonly draw tourists, but alsoput this city on the map in aglobal way.”

The Record contact-

ed aVancouver firm that isa leader in developing tid-al and current-driven en-ergy systems and was toldthat, in theory, the systemcould be built, but it wouldbe tricky.

“You have to essentiallyhave turbines that are foolproof – and there still has tobe a backup system.Thereis a lot of debris in the riverand you can’t afford to havea huge tree end up jammingor destroying the system,”John Lofoprila told the Re-cord.

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The media landscape ischanging in NewWestmin-ster.

On Dec. 17 Black Presssold the NewsLeader toGlacier Media – owner ofthe Record.The deal isnow closed and, as of April6, the Recordwill be publishedonce a week onWednesdays, andthe NewsLeaderwill publish oncea week onThurs-days.

Lara Graham,the Record’s as-sociate publisher,said, “We’re com-mitted at the Re-cord to continuingto provide award-winningeditorial coverage and thebest marketing and promo-tion partnerships in NewWestminster.”

Graham said communityengagement continues to betop of mind for the Record.

“Our strength as a com-munity newspaper resides

in the relationships we havebuilt for over three decadesin this city – and that wecontinue to build on.”

Graham saidWednesdayis a prime day for deliveringinformation and offers anextended shelf life for read-

ership and adver-tisers. “It gives ourclients and readersa jump on the weekto plan their pro-motions and activi-ties.”

“We’re posi-tioned to grow andexpand both ourreadership throughspecial promotionsand to continue todeliver more posi-

tive and powerful results forour advertisers and part-ners in the community,” sheadded.

Editor PatTracy said,“We’ve been first with thenews in the city both inprint and on our website forquite awhile, we’ll contin-ue to be the place to go for

credible information andlively opinions.”

“Community newspa-pers are the only mediawhich not only depend onthe community, but also un-derstand the importance ofcommunity – story by story,photo by photo. Our news-room is dedicated to pro-viding local news in all its

forms – politics, planning,arts, sports – it’s a unique,important role we play inNewWestminster. I be-lieve our readers appreciatethis relationship, and we’repleased and proud to con-tinue to earn the support ofour readers every single dayof the week, whether it’s inprint or on our website.”

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Taylor Atherley is look-ing forward to an excitingyear representing the city asMiss NewWestminster.

Atherley was crownedMiss NewWestminster2015 at Saturday night’spageant at Anvil Centre, anight after the speech andtalent presentations tookplace at Bernie LeggeThe-atre. Along with beingnamed Miss NewWestmin-ster, Atherley’s photogra-phy exhibit was deemed tobe one of the top three tal-ents as selected by judges.

Miss NewWestminsterand the Hyack Ambassa-dors will be accompanyingthe Hyack float in paradesand festivals in the LowerMainland, B.C. and the Pa-cific Northwest in the com-ing year.

The theme of this year’sfloat is “Laugh Out Loudin NewWest.”

Joining Atherley will be

Hyack Princess Jolene Ber-nardino and Miss Friend-ship Jasmine Miriguay, aswell as the other ambassa-dors: Bernie Legge Awardrecipient Sarah Stewart,TopTalent Award and Peo-ple’s Choice Award winnerSophie Candolfi, SydneyFitzsimonds, SkyeWright-Hinton and Simran Rattan.

Bernardino also took hometheTop Speaker Award.

Atherley took to Face-book to thank all of theother ambassadors, spon-sors, 2014 ambassadorsand 2015 contestants fortheir support of the pro-

gram.“Thanks to the Hyack

Festival Association forkeeping with the traditionof our NewWestminsterheritage and running theambassador program,” shewrote. “It has made a bigchange in the life of youthjust like me!”

The pageant attractedfolks from near and far, in-cluding youth ambassadorsfrom Summerland,WhiteRock, Osoyoos, Nanaimo,NorthThompson, OliverandVernon, who broughtgreetings from their com-munities and congratula-tions to the eight candi-dates who were installed asthe 2015 Hyack ambassa-dor leadership team.

The event also includeda 65 Red Roses display inhonour of Eva Markvoort,Miss NewWestminster2002, to support Cystic Fi-brosis Canada.

Beginning herreign:

Taylor Atherley,Miss NewWest-minster 2015, re-ceives the JamesDaniel CartwrightDiamond Award,

as Hyack Ambassa-dors SkyeWright-Hinton, left, and

JasmineMiriguay,right, look on. Ath-lerleywas crownedduring a pageanton Saturday nightat the Anvil Centre.

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Arts & Entertainment

Good news for the aspir-ing filmmakers out therewho’ve been hoping to getin on the fun of the MasseyTheatre’s ActionTake 65!Contest – the deadline hasbeen extended.

The MasseyTheatre ishosting the filmmakingcompetition in honour of its65th anniversary, open toworks inspired by or docu-menting the theatre.

The contest was original-ly set to close March 31, butI’ve just received an emailfrom the Massey’s Andrée

St. Martin letting us knowthat the deadline has beenextended due to popular de-mand.

Teams now have un-til May 31 to get their en-tries in.

The theatre is offeringfree instruction to anyonewho wants a hand with thefilm project – Josh Hite, aphotography and video in-structor at Emily Carr Uni-versity of Art + Design, willbe available to assist withboth technical and artistic/editorial skills.

Send an email to the the-atre, [email protected], to let them know ifyou’re interested in taking

part. Contestants will havea chance to win a MacBookPro, and there will be a fu-ture screening of some ofthe top films as well.

Check out www.masseytheatre.com for moreon what’s happening withthe theatre’s big anniversaryyear – and watch this spaceas the year goes on.

POETLAUNCHESBOOK

Here’s one for the poeti-cally inclined amongst us –a book launch on Sunday,April 12.

Local writer DeborahKelly will launch her debutpoetry book, Through MyEyes, in a special event in

the backroom at the Heri-tage Grill.

Starting at 2 p.m., Debo-rah will read selected poemsfrom her book and will offersigned books for sale.

“This poetry book is abeautiful offering of spiri-tual poetry and the humancondition,” a write-up says.“It is an amazing collec-tion of surrealistic musingsweaved throughout spiritualthoughts.”

The book is being re-leased by Silver Bow Pub-lishing.

The book launch will befollowed by the regular Po-etic Justice event from 3 to5 p.m. Check out www.

poeticjustice.ca for all thedetails.

FilmmakerscanhelptellMassey’sstories

Gettingarty:RiverMarketwaspackedwithaspiringartists onSundaymorningas local kids turnedout for a freeArtStartsworkshop. Theworkshop,MyLife asaSelf-Portrait Collage,was ledbyphotographerKyraKelpin, and it gavekids – including two-year-oldShea, above right,withSydelleMurphy–achance to tryout various formsof artistic expressionas they createdcollages to representthemselvesand their surroundings. Seewww.rivermarket.ca formoreon thehappeningsat themarket.PHOTOSJENNIFERGAUTHIER

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RISINGSTAR

Douglas College studentClaireTemple is the 2015winner of the RaymondBurr Performing Arts Soci-ety’s second-year Award ofDistinction.

The NorthVan residentis enrolled in the theatre di-ploma program at DouglasCollege. Alongside her stud-ies at Douglas, she has alsoparticipated in communitytheatre productions includ-ing Deep Cove’s festival en-try last year, EatYour HeartOut.

Ted Eddy, a former NewWest (now Coquitlam) resi-dent who’s the president ofthe Burr Society, presentedthe award to Claire at a re-ception following the open-ing night performance ofDouglas College’s TrojanWomen. He was joined bythe society’s vice-president,Michele Sereda, and trea-surer Maureen Albanese.

“This fifth annual awardcontinues the Burr Soci-

ety commitment to sup-port theatre arts at DouglasCollege in pursuit not onlywith the objectives of the so-ciety but also to commem-orate the life and legacy ofNewWestminster native, thelate RaymondW.S. Burr,”Eddy said in a press release.

Tracy Green, coordina-tor of the Douglas CollegeFoundation, said the collegeis happy to partner with theRaymond Burr Society.

“We are thrilled to cel-

ebrate our performing artsstudents,” said Green, add-ing that the award “recog-nizes the skill of our stu-dents and motivates them towork even harder.”

Kudos to all – and bestwishes to Claire in her fu-ture studies.

Do you have an item forLively City? Send arts andentertainment ideas to Julie,[email protected],or find her onTwitter,@juliemaclellan.

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Soccer players scoredthe top prizes at the annu-al Douglas College Royalsawards banquet.

All-Canadian SpencerDeBoice and CanadianColleges’ Association wom-en’s player of the year final-ist Marni McMillan werenamed this year’s athletes ofthe year winners at the AnvilCentre lastThursday.

DeBoice finished runner-up in league scoring and thetournament MVP for thePacWest provincial cham-pions. He was also named aPacWest first team all-star.

DeBoice beat out All-Canadian volleyball playerGeorgeThompson, a sec-ond-year player who wasthe only player to finish inthe top eight in all four ma-jor offensive categories inthe PacWest this season.

The PacWest player ofthe year was third in theleague in total offence,fourth in kills, fifth in blocksand sixth in service aces.

Also shortlisted was soc-cer goalkeeper Marc Min-cieli, who over the last threeseasons has crafted a stingy1.2 goals against average inthe PacWest.

Mincieli was named thetop goalkeeper at the pro-vincial championships.

McMillan earned thewomen’s athlete of the yearaward over softball’s HilaryStrelau and Nanaya Mikifrom women’s basketball.

McMillan earned thePacWest player of the yearaward and All-Canadi-an honours. She led theRoyals in scoring and wasnamed the player of thegame in both matches at thePacWest provincials, helpingDouglas win its first provin-cial medal in women’s soc-cer in 15 years.

Strelau was a big rea-son for Douglas winning itsfirst-ever Northwest region-al softball title last season.

Strelau was named the

North Region player of theyear and a Northwest con-ference All-American.

She led the conferencein stolen bases and hittingpercentage, while the teamplaced third in average runsper game.

Miki was a PacWest firstteam all-star, finishing theregular season 12th overallin league scoring and 11thin rebounding. At the pro-vincials, Miki was named tothe all-tournament team.

Men’s volleyball coachBrad Hudson, who was re-cently named the CanadianColleges’ coach of the year,was also named coach ofthe year at the Douglas Col-lege awards.

Hudson, who led themen’s volleyball team to a21-3 league record and No.1 in the nation, earned theaward over women’s bas-ketball coach CourtneyGerwing and men’s soccercoaches RobbyToor andPaul Bahia.

Gerwing led the basket-ball team to back-to-backsilver medals at the PacWestprovincials, whileToor andBahia upset No. 1 seedVan-couver Island University inthe PacWest provincial final.

Academic athlete of theyear awards went to men’svolleyball player Lucas De-Coste of NewWestminsterand soccer’s Ashley Melvin.

TEAMAWARDS:

Thompson earned themen’s volleyball team’s im-pact player award, while An-gus Ireland took the prideaward and Matt Santemareceived the set-the-baraward.

Julianna Penner wasnamed the MVP for wom-en’s volleyball.

Lynnea Carr was themost improved and GeorgiaHurry was the team’s rookieof the year.

In soccer, DeBoice wasthe men’s most outstandingplayer. Devin Phelan wasnamed the unsung player

Burnabyskateratworld’sdoorFourth-best free skate vaults Nam Nguyen into top five at [email protected]

Former Burnaby resi-dent Nam Nguyen postedpersonal best scores to fin-ish in fifth place at the In-ternational Skating UnionWorld Figure SkatingChampionships this week-end.

The gifted 16-year-oldlanded his quadruple jumpand recorded the fourth-best free skating program atthe worlds, leaping up fromninth place after the open-ing short program to fin-ish fifth in the men’s finalin Shanghai, China on Sat-urday.

Nguyen finished with apersonal-best 242.59 scorefollowing a 164.86 PBscore in the long program.

Javier Fernandez ofSpain won his country’sfirst-ever men’s gold med-al in figure skating, over-taking defending world andOlympic championYuzuruHanyu of Japan in the freeskate.

Both Fernandez andHanyu share the same Ca-nadian coach as Nguyen– two-time Olympic silvermedalist Brian Orser.

“In the long program,I needed to be more ag-gressive. I achieved that,and I’m really happy with

myself,” said Nguyen in aSkate Canada press release.

Nguyen won four na-tional figure skating titlesbefore the age of 13. He isthe youngest Canadian ath-lete to date to be crowneda national champion in allfive divisions he has com-peted in, including nationaljuvenile champion at eightyears of age.

After winning the juve-nile title, Nguyen achieveda rarely seen triple, winningthree national gold med-als in a row, taking top spotthe following year in men’spre-novice and the novicetitle in 2009.

Nguyen also became

the youngest-ever juniormen’s champion at age 12in 2011 and recently be-came the youngest seniormen’s champion this yearat 16 following a phenom-enal free skate, includinga perfect quad Salchowand eight triple jumps toscore 256.88 overall pointsthat vaulted him into theworld’s elite skaters.

Nguyen left the Low-er Mainland forToronto in2012 to train with Orser.

Nguyen won the worldjunior men’s championshiplast year.

Burnaby’s JeremyTenplaced 22nd overall in themen’s free skate program.

EDCFCBurnabyfalls inCupfinalsPremiers lose 1-0 toWestVan,u-21s beaten in extra [email protected]

It was an unpleasantSaturday on a number offronts.

Not only was the weath-er characteristically unco-operative, but the decisionsEDC FC Burnaby waslooking for in both Imperi-

al and under-21 Cup finalsalso failed to materialize.

The premier men lost1-0 toVancouver MetroSoccer League regular sea-son leaderWestVan FC inthe Imperial Cup final atTrillium Park East on Sat-urday, while the Burnaby-based club’s grad team alsofell toWestVan 3-2 in over-

time earlier in the day.“The men’s game …

could have gone eitherway, (WestVan) really onlyhad one clear chance andscored in the second half,”said EDC coach ClaudioRamirez.

EDC had two gloriouschances at goal, but theWestVan keeper was stellar

on both attempts, Ramir-ez added.

“We pressed the last 25minutes hard, but theywere solid in the back. Itwas a great run for ourclub,” Ramirez said.

In other results, Guild-ford FC clobberedTwinArrows 5-0 to take the Div.2 Cup final.Continuedonpage16



and Mincieli best defensive player.McMillan was the women’s soccer MVP,

while Nicole Fraser was named the best all-around player. Melvin was the Royals’ mostconsistent player.

Steven Hayes and Danielle Dewar wereselected as golf’s respective MVPs. Chris-tine Con was the most improved player.

Andrew Baron was the MVP on themen’s basketball team. Bradyn Norris wasnamed the most improved and DustinPopoff earned the coach’s award.

Chloe Kennedy was the women’s bas-ketball MVP. Ellen Fallis was the most im-proved and GaralineTom most inspiration-

al player.Strelau was the winner of the rising star

award in women’s softball. Jenna Holmtook home the purple heart award and Syd-ney Brown was the team’s golden glovewinner.

In baseball, Jeff Bouchard was the North-west league’s all-conference hitter.TaylorLawrence won the dedication and leader-ship award, while Cory Duggan was the topsophomore pitcher.

Julianna Hodanic was the top female onthe Douglas College running club.

Diego Arellano was named best juniorathlete and Chris Raeside top achieving se-nior athlete.

Continued frompage15

Sports

Noconsolation:BurnabyGirls SCRush lost 1-0 to

WickhamFC in thedyingminutesof

theMetroWomen’sDivision I consolation

soccer final atBurnabyLakeSports

Complex-WestonSunday.Rushleading scorer

BiancaBertelli, inred, scored10goalsthis season. PHOTOJENNIFERGAUTHIER

MoreteamhonouredRoyals

NewWestminster’s Jus-tin Goodwin and MitchellStokes helped No. 4-rankedLake Erie College upset No.1 Limestone 14-12 in a re-cent NCAA Division II fieldlacrosse match last month.

Lake Erie jumped out to

a seven-point lead at half-time following an eight-goalsecond quarter.

The Storm outscoredLimestone 3-1 in the finalquarter to hold off a sec-ond-half rally by the Saints.

Former NewWestmin-

ster junior A player ReganHarding led Lake Erie witha hat trick.

Goodwin had threeground balls and forcedthree turnovers for theStorm.

Field Storm upset nation’s best

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