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PoCo cries foul over cop shop costsTRI-CITY POLICING

Coq. has control under old dealJANIS WARRENThe Tri-CiTy News

Port Coquitlam is putting the brakes on the upkeep of

the cop shop it shares with Coquitlam.

This week, PoCo city council deferred a $44,200 budget re-quest from Coquitlam to help paint the first floor of the facil-ity that houses the Coquitlam RCMP.

PoCo council said it isn’t

happy with the way Coquitlam controls the procurement policy for the police station, lo-cated at Guildford and Pinetree ways, next to Coquitlam city hall.

Currently, under a 21-year-old agreement, the city of Coquitlam has all the say on

how goods and services are delivered to the detachment and is responsible for hiring all civilian staff (there are about 100 people on staff in addition to Mounties).

At Monday’s budget and in-frastructure committee meet-ing during a discussion about

this year’s capital projects, PoCo Mayor Greg Moore and committee chair Coun. Dean Washington sounded off on the deal.

“We co-own this facility and we have no say on the purchas-ing policy,” Moore told the committee.

“Until I see someone from Coquitlam who can explain why we have no input, then I will vote against everything,” Washington said. “We have had nothing but silence from Coquitlam.”

BEETLE BATTLE RAGES ON

SARAH PAYNE/THE TRI-CITY NEWSAt the City Centre Aquatic Complex in Coquitlam, city crews have recently planted ground cover that doesn’t require much irrigation and won’t have problems with chafer beetles the way grass does. “We wanted to demonstrate what it could look like if people were looking for an alternative for lawn in their own yard,” said Mike Por (above), the city’s landscape manager. For more, see article on page 3.

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SARAH PAYNE/THE TRI-CITY NEWSMike Por, Coquitlam’s landscape manager, at City Centre Aquatic Complex, where the city has put in drought-tolerant plants that also aren’t attractive to chafer beetles.

City takes on chafers with different plants

CHAFER BEETLES

SARAH PAYNEThe Tri-CiTy News

Sometimes, in the face of overwhelming odds, you have to landscape your way out of a problem.

Coquitlam is giving it a shot by testing a grass alternative in two areas that have seen sig-nificant chafer beetle damage.

The sedum, creeping thyme and pratia will spread in the boulevard at the entrance to the City Centre Aquatic Complex, creating a vibrant gold, red and blue covering that not only looks beautiful but is less susceptible to chafer infestations — and the pecking crows and raccoons that like to dig up chafer grubs.

“It’s a challenging strip there,” said Mike Por, the city of Coquitlam’s landscape manager. “It has no irrigation, it sees a lot of people’s feet and the grass had been attacked several years in a row by the chafer beetle. So we decided to plant something the chafer didn’t like.”

But Por didn’t want to plant just anything. With last year’s drought and ensuing watering restrictions still fresh in the minds of landscaping staff, Por selected plants that are far more drought-tolerant than grass and require little addi-tional watering. They require minimal maintenance apart from a quick mow once they’ve flowered and start to look a little “shaggy.”

“And we wanted to demon-strate what it could look like if people were looking for an al-ternative for lawn in their own yard,” Por added. “You can’t really play soccer on them but

they’ll take the occasional foot traffic.”

The selected perennials are easy to grow, spread quickly and will produce small flow-ers — and plenty of interesting colour — from spring through fall.

Similar plantings have also gone in across an area at the entrance to the Inspiration Garden at the southeast cor-ner of Town Centre Park, near Guildford Way and Pipeline Road.

Coquitlam staff inventoried the city’s chafer beetle-dam-aged areas last year and will soon be doing the same survey to compare the changes but Por suspects things are signifi-cantly worse this year.

“It’s apocalyptic” in some areas of the city, he said.

It’s a similar scene in Port Coquitlam, said Todd Gross, that city’s manager of parks and services.

In preparation for a budget request for various options to manage the chafer beetle

infestation, PoCo staff have completed an audit of damage on city parks, building land-scapes and street boulevards, and found the damage spread significantly from 2015 to ’16.

Most of the damage is to city turf in central and northern PoCo neighbourhoods, with much less in southern areas or Citadel Heights.

Staff have identified several options for chafer beetle man-agement, Gross said, including alternative plantings, micro clovers and mixes, alternative fertilizers and soil additives. But the request, for one-time funding of $117,000 to cover the cost of maintaining more resilient lawns, was defeated at the city’s finance meeting on Monday night in a tie vote.

Additionally, the three cities are working on a joint educa-tion and outreach campaign to inform residents on how to address chafer beetle damage on their lawns.

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FIGHTING THE BEETLE BATTLEIf your lawn hasn’t already been torn up by crows and rac-

coons going after chafer beetle larvae, count yourself lucky and follow these tips from Coquitlam’s landscape manager, Mike Por:

• Fertilize with a good quality, slow-release fertilizer three times per year (late March, June and early September).

• Aerate grass, especially if it gets a lot of water.• Top dress with a loamy soil mix.• Don’t be afraid to overseed in early spring or early fall, as

it likely offers the most benefit in protecting your grass.• Water carefully — about an inch per week and within

any applicable watering restrictions.• Trim grass to three inches to make it harder for female

chafers to get in the grass and lay eggs, and to maintain a greener lawn if a drought hits.

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Yesterday, on International Women’s Day, the YWCA Metro Vancouver announced its nominees for the 2016 Women of Distinction Awards, including four women from the Tri-Cities.

Nominees who hail from the Tri-Cities are:

• Carol Todd, nominated as Community Champion, is the founder of the Amanda Todd Legacy Society, which raises funds and awareness to pre-vent bullying, cyber abuse and promote internet safety.

• Gloria Cuccione, nomi-nated under Non-Profit, is the founder and executive direc-tor of the Michael Cuccione Foundation, which is named for her late son, the well-known cancer crusader, and raises funds for childhood

cancer research.• Diana Miles, nominated

under Public Service,is the president and CEO of WorkSafeBC, the province’s agency for workplace injury claims, which also has a goal of promoting workplace health and safety.

• Zoya Jiwa, nominated as a Young Woman of distinction, is the founder of As We Are, an online fashion platform for people living with disabilities, diseases and chronic pain.

The award ceremonies will be held June 8 at the Vancouver Convention Centre West.

In addition to the 12 nomination categories, the individual nominees are eli-gible for the Connecting the Community Award. Nominees will select a YWCA program area in which they are inter-ested and use social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook to promote votes.

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the public can cast votes and the nominee with the most votes will receive the Connecting the Community Award. Scotiabank will donate $10,000 to the YWCA program area of her choice.

For a full list of nominees, visit ywcavan.org/nominees. To purchase tickets for the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards dinner, visit ywcavan.org/tickets.

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More spots planned for City Centre

EVERGREEN PARKING

GARY MCKENNAThe Tri-CiTy News

More parking is on the way for Coquitlam’s City Centre neigh-bourhood ahead of the 2017 opening of the Evergreen Line.

The city is working with the province to develop 150 long-stay pay stalls near the future Lafarge Lake-Douglas Station — located in front of the Evergreen Cultural Centre at the corner of Pinetree and Guildford ways — allowing commuters to park before switching to rapid transit.

“As the city is the primary landowner in the area of this station, the province has asked the city to consider accom-modating park and ride on its lands,” said a staff report that council unanimously approved Monday night. “The opening of the Evergreen Line… will bring new demand for parking along this transit corridor.”

Staff said the 150 stalls could be made available through a combination of building a new lot, which would add approxi-mately 100 stalls, and enabling more on-street pay parking to be used for commuter parking, adding another 50 stalls.

While the location for the new parking spaces has yet to be chosen, the city’s engineer-ing department put forward several options in its report.

A parcel of land between Pinetree Way, Guildford Way, Westwood Street and Glen Drive has been identified as a possible off-street park-and-ride location while staff is also looking at repurposing an ex-isting parking lot located in the northwest corner of Lincoln Avenue and Westwood Street.

Potential on-street park and ride stalls have been identi-fied along Pinetree Way at Town Centre Park and along

Town Centre Boulevard (which loops from Pinetree to Guildford, between City Centre Aquatic Complex and Douglas College). More on-street stalls are also being con-sidered along Westwood Street near Glen Park and between Guildford Way and Glen Drive.

Prior to the beginning of Evergreen construction, the province committed to building 500 new park-and-ride stalls, with 100 going to Port Moody and 400 being included in the expansion of the Coquitlam Station transit exchange.

But public consultations have found more parking may be needed at the end of the line at the Lafarge Lake-Douglas Station, according to the staff report. The city will now begin consulting with the province and the public regarding the construction of the new stalls.

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PArKiNG MeeTiNG ThUrsDAy

Coquitlam’s engi-neering and public works department is holding an open house tomorrow (Thursday) at Coquitlam city hall be-tween 4 and 8 p.m.

The purpose of the meeting is to present the new park-and-ride plan and discuss the city’s overall City Centre park-ing management strat-egy with the public.

For more informa-tion, go to www.co-quitlam.ca.

An illustration of Lafarge Lake-Douglas Station, which is under construction at Pinetree and Guildford ways in Coquitlam.

PoMo to search for police chief

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Port Moody’s top cop is retiring.

Chief Chris Rattenbury announced Tuesday that he would be stepping down from Port Moody Police Department in 2017, nearly 30 years after he joined the force as a constable on April 1, 1990. In those years he rose through the ranks, serving as a sergeant, inspec-tor, deputy and chief, taking over from the former chief Brad Parker in 2013.

During Rattenbury’s tenure as chief he has overseen signifi-cant change within the depart-ment, including the current

transition of dispatch services to E-Comm, as well as recruit-ing new officers to fill vacancies created by retiring members, re-organizing the department to support a community polic-ing model and the introduc-tion of a mental health officer. Rattenbury has also established new collaborative working agreements with the Coquitlam RCMP as well as other Metro Vancouver policing agencies.

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The minister giveth and the minister taketh away.

In an interview Friday, Peter Fassbender, the minister re-sponsible for TransLink, said Metro Vancouver mayors can impose a vehicle levy to fund regional transit expansion without holding a new refer-endum.

His statements in the first in-terview — repeatedly insisting a vehicle levy would not trig-ger a referendum because it’s already enabled in TransLink’s legislation — surprised Metro Vancouver mayors, some of whom said they wouldn’t have forced a referendum on a re-gional sales tax had they been told that in 2014.

But later the same day, he said: “I misspoke when it came to the vehicle levy, and I do apologize for that,” adding that in addition to the need for the province to enable ICBC to collect an annual vehicle regis-

tration fee, “it is also a new tax, therefore it would be subject to a plebiscite or a referendum with the public.”

That’s back in line with the BC Liberals’ consistent posi-tion on the transit referendum requirements since it was im-posed by Premier Christy Clark as part of the party’s 2013 elec-tion platform.

Legislation subsequently passed by the provincial government spelled out not just new fees or taxes but any amendment to legislation to enable enforcement of sources — such as a vehicle levy col-lected by ICBC — as being within the definition of “addi-tional funding sources” trigger-ing a plebiscite.

“I made a mistake,” Fassbender said. “Mea culpa. My fault. I take full responsibil-ity.”

Prior to Fassbender’s re-traction, Metro politicians and other transit watchers cautiously celebrated the comments as a sign of BC Liberal softening that could break the stalemate on how to fund transit expansion in the region.

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Acupuncturist handed fines of $3,200 per countSARAH PAYNEThe Tri-CiTy News

A Coquitlam acupunctur-ist has been fined $22,400 for trafficking in bear parts and for other charges under the Wildlife Act.

Last November, Yunhee (Sarah) Kim pleaded guilty to three counts of trafficking in bear gall bladders, two counts of importing or exporting bear paws and two counts of traf-ficking in wildlife, and was sen-tenced in B.C. Provincial Court in Port Coquitlam last Friday.

Kim’s co-accused, Yon Kim (the women are not related) will be sentenced on similar charges on May 3.

The charges came after a six-month investigation by the BC Conservation Officer Service that was initiated in October 2014 when an undercover offi-cer met with the two women in Merritt to sell them bear parts. A few weeks later, the officer sold Yunhee Kim more meat and bear parts at her acupunc-ture clinic on North Road, and again in early December.

In March 2015, an un-dercover Vancouver Police Department officer visited Yunhee Kim’s clinic and re-quested a treatment with bear bile, which he received at a subsequent visit about two weeks later.

Yunhee Kim was arrested after the transaction.

In sentencing the 50-year-old Burnaby resident, the judge issued fines of $3,200 per criminal count, slightly more than the minimum $2,500 fine, noting that the sentence must deter others from similar crim-

inal activity against wildlife.Yunhee Kim is a registered

acupuncturist and traditional Chinese medicine herbalist; her website states she pro-vides patients with a 60-year “integrated clinical experi-ence passed down from my parents.”

The site also includes tes-timonials from patients who have been treated by Kim for allergies, sports injuries, in-somnia, skin care and side ef-fects from chemotherapy.


TRI-CITY NEWS FILE PHOTOA Coquitlam-based acupuncturist has been fined after pleading guilty to a number of charges under the Wildlife Act related to im-porting and trafficking in bear parts.

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‘We are not a true partner,’ says Moore

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PoCo’s frustration comes after PoCo submitted a bid last spring to Coquitlam to maintain RCMP vehicles. PoCo did not get the contract and it took eight months to find out why. When PoCo staff got their answer, it came with little in-formation.

Moore said no methodol-ogy was revealed as to how Coquitlam scored the request for proposal (RFP). And he said the lack of transparency be-tween the two municipalities has boiled over.

“When we are spending 16% of our budget on the RCMP, we need to have more knowledge that the process is working,” Moore said. “We are not a true partner in our procurement of goods.”

The topic is expected to be raised later this month at the next joint meeting of local city councils.

The 1995 Public Safety Building Operating Agreement — a copy of which Coquitlam forwarded to The Tri-City News Tuesday — states PoCo “will pay to the city [of Coquitlam] a share of the costs of main-tenance, administration and operation” of the police sta-tion. It also states Coquitlam

has administrative control for expenditures, budgets and ci-vilian staff hires.

It also makes clear the con-sequences to PoCo if it doesn’t pay up: termination of police services.

Kathleen Vincent, Coquitlam’s communications manager, told The Tri-City News the agreement “contin-ues to meet our operational needs for the administration of the public safety building.”

As for the lack of info given to PoCo over the vehicle fleet RFP, Vincent said PoCo was one of seven bidders and no prices, scores or totals are provided to proponents. “Bids contain proprietary information that if provided to competitors could create future competitive ad-vantage,” she said.

In addition, Vincent said the fleet contract was awarded based on the evaluation of Coquitlam and RCMP officials. “The procurement process was completed using best prac-tices,” she said.

Meanwhile, John Leeburn, PoCo’s chief administrative officer, said PoCo council also plans to discuss the cost-sharing formula at this month’s joint council meeting.

“The current agreement does not contain a provision to provide for a review of the agreement or even a forum to discuss issues either party may have regarding how the agree-ment is working,” he said.

Coquitlam RCMP declined to comment.

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Coquitlam home to 20% of gov’t.-assisted refugeesJEFF NAGELBLACK PRESS

Coquitlam is the second top destination, behind Surrey, where government-assisted Syrian refugees are finding per-manent homes in B.C.

Nearly 300, or close to half, of the just over 600 government-assisted Syrians that have found permanent accommodation are in Surrey, said Chris Friesen, settle-ment services director of the Immigrant Services Society of BC. Coquitlam accounted for about 20% of permanent refugee homes, followed by Burnaby, Vancouver and Delta.

But more than 900 govern-ment-assisted Syrians were still in hotels waiting to move into permanent homes, including more than 160 in Abbotsford, as of Feb. 29.

Friesen said some of them have begun to be transferred to cities outside the Lower Mainland, including Victoria and Nanaimo, with more des-tined for centres like Prince George, Kelowna, Vernon and Kamloops starting this week. The hope is permanent housing will be easier to find in those centres than the high-priced Metro Vancouver area.

“As we predicted, we’re dealing with larger size fami-lies — larger even than we thought,” Friesen said, add-ing that means large suites or homes are needed.

“The ongoing challenge for us remains permanent hous-ing,” he said, adding language training and jobs are the next top priorities.

The government assistance in place for one year provides a family of six with a maximum of $885 a month for accommo-dation — much less than the typical rent for a large home.

Families of three or more also get $649 a month for food and clothing under the fed-eral Resettlement Assistance Program and a one-time start-up allowance of $1,709. The food and clothing allowance is fixed whether it’s a family of three or 10.

“The Syrian men are very anxious to get into employ-ment but they don’t speak English. So we’ve got to work through that,” Friesen said.

“We’ve also got some men-tal health trauma beginning to surface in different ways. So that’s an ongoing concern.”

ISSBC has 14 volunteers working to identify housing and other assistance and the refugee wave is like nothing they’ve seen in recent years, particularly when it comes to big families.

The number of Syrian fami-lies arriving over the past 10 weeks with six or more family

members has now surpassed the number of assisted refugee families of that size of all na-tionalities that arrived over the previous six years since 2010.

A total of 1,541 Syrian government-assisted refugees in 343 families had arrived in B.C. as of the end of February. Those numbers don’t include additional privately sponsored refugees.

Canada declared it had met its interim target of resettling 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February.

But Friesen noted still more Syrian refugees are expected to come to B.C. in the months ahead.

He predicted another 1,600 government-assisted Syrian refugees were likely to enter the province by the end of the year, plus up to 900 non-Syrians.

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BLACK PRESS PHOTOSRefugees from Syria (shown above arriving in Nanaimo) are making their homes in a variety of B.C. communities. Surrey’s at the top of the list, followed by Coquitlam, with 20% of gov-ernment-assisted refugees. The major challenge is permanent housing, says Chris Friesen of the Immigrant Services Society of BC (top right).

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The coroner investigat-ing the death of Rosemarie Timer, a woman who died after hitting her head in a fall at Eagle Ridge Hospital in 2014, said she is satisfied that changes have been made to prevent future similar incidents.

B.C. Coroner Service’s Tara Louise Devine said in her report that no recom-mendations were neces-sary, noting that improve-ments to falls-management strategies have been imple-mented following a Fraser Health Authority review of the incident.

“As there have been implemented recommen-

dations to increase com-munications between staff members, patients and their families, and to reduce the risk of falls, I classify the death as accidental and make no recommenda-tions,” Devine wrote in her report.

Timer, a 70-year-old can-cer patient, was living in an assisted care facility in Port Coquitlam when she was admitted to ERH on April 4. It was found she was suf-fering from anemia, an ele-vated white blood cell count and a bacterial infection.

Doctors and her family decided that she would not be able to return to her prior living arrangements and she was expected to stay at the hospital until a long-term care bed came open.

But her condition wors-ened and, on May 19, 2014, she had her first fall, which was followed by a second, more serious fall on May 28,

in which she lacerated the back of her head.

“The laceration was sutured and she initially ap-peared to be stable,” Devine stated in her report. “CT scan of her head on May 30, 2014, diagnosed subdural hematoma. She was not a surgical candidate and was placed on comfort measures until her death on June 16.”

The cause of death was confirmed by the coroner to be subdural hematoma resulting from the fall.

Following Timer’s death, Devine noted that an in-ternal review was put in place by the Fraser Health Authority. She said that a falls audit was completed and that improved com-munication between staff members and the families of patients regarding falls management strategies has been effective.


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House prices & high taxesIt makes for an atten-

tion-grabbing head-line: Foreign buyers

snapping up houses and making owning property too expensive for all but those with deep pockets.

This is an easy and oft-quoted criticism but it is a simplification of a complex series of equa-tions. Yes, some realtors have been aggressively marketing homes in the Lower Mainland to Asian buyers and some offshore investors are buying these properties, even in Port Coquitlam. And, yes, we may be feeling the effects of money escaping China and finding a safe resting place in Metro Vancouver neighbourhoods.

But that’s not the only reason prices are high.

There’s also the issue that buildable land is finite in the Lower Mainland, which is bookended by rivers, oceans and moun-tains, and supply is low. At the same time, B.C. is being marketed around the world, so it should be

no surprise when investors show up wanting to buy something.

Yes, it’s easy to resent those who can afford to buy million-dollar homes with cash while everyone else is struggling to pay a mortgage.

It doesn’t take much for people’s prejudices to become inflamed, espe-cially where property is concerned.

A common criticism

today is that offshore in-vestors leave homes empty or rent them while they wait for their investment to mature, emptying out once vital neighbour-hoods. Forgetting the eventuality that one day, those neighbourhoods will be rebuilt and vital once again, this argument ignores the fact that land development is taking place all over the Lower Mainland and it’s not just

rich offshore investors behind it.

It’s how newer neigh-bourhoods get built out of older established ones, like along the Evergreen Line, where single-family homes and low-rise con-dos are being replaced by townhouses and apart-ments — and, for the most part, no one is complain-ing about them.

What is a concern is the impact of this unusual inflation on people’s civic taxes. Huge jumps in sales prices and assessed values shouldn’t be seen as a windfall for elected officials.

Meanwhile, it’s time to acknowledge that Vancouver is a global city and some will benefit from the change while others, sadly, will not. Whether someone hails from China or somewhere else in the Lower Mainland hardly matters.

In the end, money has no country but moves like a river, nudged by the shifting winds of economic forces.

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THE FUTURE OF RIVERVIEW

The Editor,Re. “Kwikwetlem claim

Riverview, Colony Farm & Gates Park” (The Tri-City News, Feb. 12).

Did you know that the pro-vincial government’s handling of the “open” Riverview review process has left the Tri-Cities in conflict where municipalities (in the plural) are now pitched against the Kwikwetlem First Nations?

Oddly — some may say cynically — BC Housing gave minimal voice to the Indigenous peoples while refusing to consider the city of Coquitlam’s wish for a restora-tion of a mental health admis-sions hospital, pushing instead for its own idea that any new development must break even.

It is difficult to walk a fine line between the interests of two much neglected and often misunderstood minorities: indigenous peoples and the mentally ill.

Both groups have been victims of condescension, prejudice and social evolution-

ism, considered the necessary corrective.

Both groups frequent our jails and are prone to very high rates of suicide. And It should be noted that there remains a very high proportion of in-digenous people (who are ill) languishing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Likely they would have fared better

— and we all as a society — if Riverview had not closed down in the first place. And it would have kept people from going in and out of jail.

The old prejudices of the past overturned by the currency of post-colonialism, the economic value of native land and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms give, I think, the in-

digenous peoples an edge over the mentally ill in terms of rep-resentation, at least in the Tri-Cities. And I would like to invite the Kwikwetlem minority, rising in influence, to consider the plight of another minority that is without the security of a special-ized hospital in this province.

The mentally ill are not the cultural oppressors of the First Nations, nor can they be. Nonetheless, they do expose of the ills of society (for example, the apparent excesses of capi-talism) while the First Nations have been perceived to stand in the way of a certain idea of Canadian nationhood.

To some, it may seem com-monplace but, given the pro-vincial government’s lack of understanding on the issue, maybe the Kwikwetlem First Nation also needs a certain reminding as it begins to assert its sovereignty: No one is im-mune from mental illness.

A restored Riverview Hospital would be in every-one’s best interest.Joerge Dyrkton, Anmore

FILE PHOTORon Giesbrecht, chief of Kwikwetlem First Nation, which recently filed claims against a number of properties, including Riverview.

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Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada says B.C. is the only remaining province that still allows tobacco products to be sold in pharmacies and in grocery stores with pharmacies.

I consider this to be an embarrassment. I see drug stores that sell cigarettes at their front door and are part of B.C.’s smoking cessation program, which is offered out of the store’s pharmacy in the back of the store. The hypocrisy of this is that they make money doing both.

Selling tobacco products makes them enablers to the nicotine addiction, which is not a quality we expect from a pharmacy. Tobacco products are directly re-

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A peek inside a person’s mouth can offer a lot of infor-mation about their health and a Douglas College instructor will explain the connection be-tween oral health and general well-being in a presentation March 21 in Coquitlam.

Debbie McCloy, the College Dental Assisting program co-ordinator, will share her more than three decades of experi-ence in an interactive “tour” of the mouth during a presen-tation for the Douglas College Health Science Speaker Series. McCloy will also explain the links between the mouth and health concerns such as dia-betes, heart disease, miscar-

riages and more.“The mouth is one of the

few places we can see into the body without surgery or inci-sion. The tissues of the mouth tell us a great deal about the body,” McCloy said in a press release.

During her presentation, McCloy will talk about how to detect and prevent oral diseases and will explain how a healthy smile contributes to overall health and well-being.

The talk starts at 10 a.m. at Douglas College’s David Lam Campus, 1250 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam, in room A1470. It is free to attend and open to the public.

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The Port Coquitlam Heritage and Cultural Society needs people to make the past part of their future.

The society is looking for volunteer directors for its board. Directors meet monthly and oversee the PoCo mu-seum’s operations and programs. In addition to needing general directors-at-large, PoCo Heritage is looking for people with experience for vice-president and treasurer positions.

If you are interested, email [email protected] or call 604-927-8403.

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Here are some good books for middle-schoolers.

• The Swap by Meghan Shull: Ellie and Jack are both having a terrible first day of school and it’s about to get worse. Seventh-grader Ellie has just been ditched by her best friend. When she overhears girls making fun of her in the gym change room, she can’t take it anymore. The principal finds her crying in the halls and takes her to calm down in the nurse’s office. Eighth-grader Jack has a fresh black eye from a cheap shot his brother took at him. A kid has been chirping

at him all day when Jack snaps. Jack and the kid get into a huge fight. Jack is worried about his nose (is it broken?) and the punishment he’s bound to get when his super-strict dad finds out he’s been fighting.

Jack looks at Ellie and thinks,

“It must be so easy to be a girl.” Ellie looks at Jack and thinks, “It must be so easy to be a boy.” Suddenly, the two wake up and find they are in each other’s bodies. Ellie has to figure out how to get through hockey practice and act normal around Jack’s brothers. Jack has to sur-vive an all-girls sleepover and avoid getting “the talk” from Ellie’s mom. Both have to find a way to get back into their real bodies. This is a hilarious take on the body switch premise.

• The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell: The night before the queen is going to get married, she learns of a curse on the kingdom in the next valley. The princess there is asleep and her subjects are catching her illness. Everyone is falling permanently asleep and the curse is moving closer and closer to the queen’s

kingdom. She decides she must stop the curse before it gets to her kingdom. With seven dwarfs by her side, she sets off on her quest. Subtly merging the tales of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, Neil Gaiman, supported by the intricate drawings of Chris Riddell, takes these two fairy tales into un-chartered territory.

• The Nest by Kenneth Oppel: This book is for readers who like being creeped out. Stephen’s new baby brother is sick. He was born with some-thing wrong with him and no one can figure out what it is. Stephen’s parents spend a lot of time taking the baby to dif-ferent doctors, leaving Stephen and his sister with a babysitter. Stephen is worried. Then he has a dream where a queen wasp offers to fix the baby and Stephen says yes. Maybe this

wasn’t the right answer. What exactly did he agree to? The wasps outside of the baby’s room keep visiting Stephen’s dreams. The dreams are getting more and more sinister. Can Stephen protect his brother be-fore something bad happens? Or is all of this strangeness coming from his anxious mind?

• No Such Person by Caroline B. Cooney: Miranda can’t wait for her relaxing summer at the cabin. Miranda loves sleeping in, lazing around on the dock and playing on her iPad. Miranda’s sister is the opposite. Lander plans to start medical school in the fall and she’s going to spend her summer waking up early and pouring over her text books. Miranda is shocked when Lander starts dating a mysteri-ous boy she meets boating on the river. Suddenly, Lander is arrested for murder. Miranda

knows her sister would never do that but how can she prove it?

• The Dumbest Idea Ever by Jimmy Gownley: Jimmy is popular and athletic but when pneumonia benches him, he turns his focus to drawing. He creates an epic comic book that features Star Lord, a superhero who can shoot fire bolts out of his wrists. Jimmy thinks his comic is amazing but when he shares it with his best friend Tony, Tony tells him it sucks. Tony tells him to “write about us.” Jimmy declares this to be the dumbest idea ever. Or is it the best idea ever?

For these and other recom-mendations for middle-school-ers and readers of any age, visit your local public library.

A Good Read is a column by Tri-City librarians that is published on

Wednesdays. Dana Ionson works at Port Coquitlam’s Terry Fox Library.

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Some spring break books for middle schoolersTRI-CITY LIBRARIES

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Action aplenty for kids on spring breakSPRING BREAK IN THE TRI-CITIES

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With spring break just days away, parents are likely racking their brains for ideas of afford-able things to keep their tikes, tweens and teens busy for two weeks. There are many creative and active opportunities avail-able and here’s a sample (for some of the camps, sign up quickly before they fill up):

ADVENTUREConsider Douglas College for

a week of adventure. The David Lam campus in Coquitlam has several camps for the nine- to 15-year-olds. Among the op-tions available are basketball camp, multi-sport, dance camp, badminton, student leadership, young writers, young entrepre-neurs and young artists. As well there is a web design/Photoshop camp for this age group. Costs range from $95 to $185 depend-ing on the camp. More informa-tion is available at [email protected]

LIBRARIESLibraries aren’t just about co-

zying up with a book, although that’s good for kids, too. Tri-

Cities’ libraries have several free programs over spring break, including kids’ movie matinees:

• Port Moody Public Library has drop-in programs, games, Code Camp and movies: March 15, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; March 22, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Both movies are rated PG, and recommended for ages seven and older. Visit library.portmoody.ca or call 604-469-4577 for details.

• Terry Fox Library in Port

Coquitlam has an interactive musical show featuring the Ta Daa Lady on Tuesday, March 15 for young families from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.; the comedy flick Ferris Bueller’s Day Off for teens, 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16; the kid-friendly ani-mated movie Home on Friday, March 18, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; and a puppet show featuring puppeteer Elspeth Bowers on Wednesday, March 23 from 3:45 to 4:15 p.m.

• Coquitlam Public Library

has action adventure for the older kids: Avengers: Age of Ultron at the Poirier branch at 1 p.m. on March 15; and Ant Man on March 16 at 1:30 p.m.; as well as the animated comedy Hotel Transylvania 2 on March 18 at 1:30 p.m.

FAMILY DROP-INPinetree Community Centre

(1260 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam) is offering a free family fun event on Saturday, March 12, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Families

can drop into the centre for a chance to play badminton, soc-cer, basketball, or tennis. The centre will also have brand new gymnastics equipment set up for kids to play on. The event is geared towards kids from three to 12 years of age.

SOCCERTwo local soccer clubs well

known for their success on the pitch are offering spring camps March 14 to 18. Coquitlam Metro Ford (www.cmfsc.ca/spring-break-camps) has Mini Madness for four- to seven-year -olds, a development camp for seven- to 12-year-olds and a goalkeeping camp. Port Coquitlam Euro-Rite FC is also offering camps March 14 18; more information is avail-able at www.pocosoccer.com/spring-break-camp-2016.

EASTER EVENTS• Coquitlam: Easter Bunny

Hop and Hunt for kids three to 10 years on March 19 at Spirit Square and Glen Pine Pavilion (1200 Glen Pine Court) from 10 a.m. to noon. The program costs $10 per child and pre-reg-istration is available at www.co-quitlam.ca/featuredprograms

or by calling 604-927-4386. Adult participation is required.

• Port Moody: Easter Eggstravaganza for children aged two to five years is planned, with lunch, games, crafts and an Easter egg hunt. The fun takes place Thursday, March 24 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the recre-ation complex and the cost is $14. Register online.

CAMPSThe three cities have a wide

variety of spring break camps for all ages and interests:

• Coquitlam: www.co-quitlam.ca/spring break.

• Port MoodY: www. port-moody.ca and check out the Spring Happening Guide.

• Port Coquitlam: www.portcoquitlam.ca/camps.

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host matinee screenings of Minions, Paddington, The Sponge Bob Movie: Sponge Out of Water and Shaun the Sheep Movie from March 14 to 18, for only $2.99 per screening. For showtimes, visit cineplex.com/promos/marchbreakmovies.

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This free program is open to everyone in the community and offers information for those who are struggling with

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The format consisting of a video, a brief presentation, and open discussion. Sessions run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Share, 2615 Clarke St., Port

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• Coquitlam Needlearts Guild meets, 7-9:30 p.m., Como Lake United Church, 535 Marmont St., Coquitlam. Info : 604-937-0836.

MONDAY, MARCH 14• Rhymes of Times, 10:30-

11:30 a.m., PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives, 2248 McAllister Ave., PoCo. Topic: “Baby chicks and Easter Bunnies – How did you celebrate Easter before and after children and grandchildren?” Info: poco-heritage.org.

TUESDAY, MARCH 15• PoCo Garden Club meet-

ing, 7:30 p.m., Trinity United Church, 2211 Prairie Ave., PoCo. Speaker: Alan Tracey on “Flowers of the Yukon.” Info: 604-945-0906.

• Coquitlam Needlearts Guild meets, noon–3 p.m., Como Lake United Church, 535 Marmont St., Coquitlam. Info : 604-937-0836.

THURSDAY, MARCH 17• NECRA, the North East

Coquitlam Ratepayers, meet, 7 p.m., Victoria Park Hall; Speaker: Roger Loubert, chair of Minnekhada Park Association, on programs and projects being undertaken at Minnekhada Lodge and to promote the park. Info: 604-970-2579.

• PoCo Heritage and Cultural Society general meeting, 1 p.m., PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives, 2248 McAllister Ave. Happy St. Patrick’s Day as monthly meeting has an Irish twist – wear green and bring a friend.

FRIDAY, MARCH 18• Tri-City Singles Social Club,

which offers opportunities for 50+ singles to get together and enjoy a variety of fun activities such as dining, dancing, theatre, travel, movies and more, meets at 7 p.m., Legion Manor, 2909 Hope St., Port Moody (street parking only). New members welcome. Info: Darline, 604-466-0017.

• Circle of Friends, a social group for 50+ fun singles who are looking to meet new friends and participate in social events such as walking, dancing, dining out, travel, theatre, etc., meets

at PoCo Legion, 133–2675 Shaughnessy St., 7 p.m., to plan events. Info: Nina, 604-941-9032.

MONDAY MARCH 21• Heritage Writers’ Group

meets, 10:30 a.m.-noon, PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives, 2248 McAllister Ave., PoCo. This is not a genealogy group but a writing group designed to teach you how to write the story of you. Each of us has a unique story, and this group will help you get started. Bring a pen, paper, and/or your laptop, and let’s get writing. Info: pocoher-itage.org.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23• Centennial Stamp Club

hosts a small stamp auction, everyone welcome; viewing starts at 7 p.m., auction after 8 p.m., McGee Room, Poirier community centre, 630 Poirier St., Coquitlam. Info: www.stamp-club.ca or 604-941-9306.

CLUBS• City of the Arts

Toastmasters, dedicated to improving leadership and public speaking skills, meets 5:30-7 p.m., Port Moody city hall, 100 Newport Dr. Info: Mike, [email protected] or cityoft-hearts.toastmastersclubs.org.

• Tri-City Singles Social Club offers an opportunity for 50+ singles to get together and enjoy fun activities such as dining, dancing, theatre, travel, movies and more. Meetings are normally held on the third Friday of each month, excluding December, 7:30 p.m., at the Legion Manor, 2909 Hope St., Port Moody (on-street parking only). New mem-bers are welcome. Info: Darline, 604-466-0017.

• Rotary Club of PoCo Centennial meets Thursdays, 4:15 p.m., Wilson Centre, 2150 Wilson Ave., PoCo; new members welcome. Info: Barrie, [email protected] or 604-945-6627.

• Fraser Pacific Rose Society meets last Tuesday of each month except August and December, 7 p.m. Dogwood Pavilion, 624 Poirier St.

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• PoCo Lions Club meets first and third Tuesdays of each month, 7 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion 133, 2675 Shaughnessy St., PoCo. New members wel-come. Info:: Gord, 604-941-5140 or [email protected].

• Circle of Friends is a social group for 50+ fun singles who are looking to meet new friends and participate in social events. Group meets to plan events at 7 p.m. on the third Friday of each month at the PoCo Royal Canadian Legion, 2675 Shaughnessy St. Info: Nina, 604-941-9032.

• Coquitlam Gogos (Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation) meet third Wednesday of each month, 1 p.m., Parkwood Manor, 1142 Dufferin St., Coquitlam. Info: Pam, 604-469-0265.

• Rotary Club of Coquitlam Sunrise meets Tuesdays, 7:15 a.m., City Centre Aquatic Complex, 1210 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam. New members wel-come. Info: 604-464-7706.

• PoMo Men’s 55-plus Curling League is looking for players who would like to curl regularly or as a spare; league runs Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-noon. Info: Tony, 604-461-5901 or Bill, 604-464-1051.

• Tri-City Photography Club meets on the second and fourth Mondays of each month (except holidays) at 7:30 p.m. at Port Moody secondary school, 300 Albert St., PoMo. The club is a great way to hone your skills and meet other photographers of all levels, and has photography outings throughout the Lower

Mainland. Info: tricityphoto.ca.• Coquitlam Lawn Bowling

Club is looking for new mem-bers. The bowling green and clubhouse are next door to Dogwood Pavilion and rose garden, located at 624 Poirier St. Membership is $90 per year and includes use of prac-tice bowls, exercise, clean air, sunshine and friendship. Info: Dennis or Flo, 604-945-2768.

• Euchre Club meets at 7 p.m. every Tuesday at Royal Canadian Legion, 2675 Shaughnessy St., PoCo. Info: Bev, 604-942-8911.

• Tri-City Speakers Toastmasters Club meets Mondays, 6:30-8 p.m., Douglas College, David Lam Campus, main building, Room B2050, 1250 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam; you can drop in for an evening to experience the effective communications and honing of leadership skills in a friendly en-vironment. Info: tricityspeakers.toastmastersclubs.org or Sean, 778-995-5230.

MARCH 16: FOSTER FAMILY INFO• Have you considered becoming a foster family? There

are children and youth in the Tri-Cities who require skilled, caring, foster parents. To learn more, the Ministry of Children and Family Development invites you to attend an infor-mation session, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at 200-906 Roderick Ave., Coquitlam. For info or another session date: 604-764-8098.

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Canadian flicks with a feminist flairPORT MOODY FILM SOCIETY

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A coming-of-age. A fallout from a father’s sui-

cide years ago.A struggle between cultural

values and the longing to es-cape a small town.

A controversial child soldier and a mother and son’s jour-ney to survive.

These are the basis of six motion pictures, all captured within the past year or so and told on Canadian soil.

They are also the six nar-ratives that will be presented at this year’s Port Moody Canadian Film Festival, a four-day event at the Inlet Theatre that is sponsored in part by The Tri-City News.

The six flicks were selected for the Toronto International Film Festival based on their compelling craftsmanship; since then, they have gone on to win numerous awards around the world, including an Oscar at last month’s ceremo-nies in Los Angeles.

Their tales have a universal

reach because of their uni-versal themes: loneliness and love, hardship and friendship, and the need for something greater in life.

Yet Josh Cabrita, the artistic director for the 16th annual

Port Moody festival, also found another thread to the six mov-ies he picked.

“There is definitely a femi-nist theme happening,” he said outside Inlet Theatre, where the festival begins tomorrow.

“I didn’t intend it that way but female strength definitely plays a starring role in this year’s movies.”

Take, for example, the opener (Thursday, 7:30 p.m.) of The Loved Ones, a film nominated for seven Canadian Screen Awards (CSA) this weekend. It follows the lives of David and his daughter Laurence, as they uncover the reason behind his father’s sui-cide years ago.

Friday night is a double bill starting at 7 p.m. with Felix and Meira, which is up for five CSA. It speaks of a forbidden love between an atheist and mar-

ried Hasidic Jewish mother, who is in search of a new adventure; it is nominated for five CSA.

At 9:30 p.m. is Bang Bang Baby, the feature debut by director Jeffrey St. Jules. A sci-fi musical, it’s set in the fictional Canadian town of Lonely Arms where a high-school girl who cares for her alcoholic father yearns to flee her misery with a heartthrob singer.

Saturday is also a double bill starting at 7 p.m. with Guantanamo’s Child, a docu-mentary about child soldier Omar Khadr that is based on Michelle Shephard’s book (she also directed and produced the film). It is followed by Sleeping Giant, a film that unravels the summer ramblings of three teenage boys — two of whom are competing for the attention of the same girl. It is nomi-nated for four CSA.

And finally, on Sunday at 7 p.m., there’s Room, the Academy Award-nominated blockbuster that won the star, Brie Larson, an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors

Guild Award and a Critics’ Choice Award this year for her portrayal of a mother trapped in an underground room with her five-year-old son. It is up for 11 CSA.

The Port Moody Canadian Film Festival wrap up party is at 9 p.m. in the Galleria, with the People’s Choice Award an-nounced and a prize handed out to a contest winner.

Still, it’s not just features that will be on show.

Cabrita, who is also the weekly film critic for CKPM-FM 98.7 and is on the screening committee for the Vancouver International Film Festival, has lined up a short film to precede each feature — some of which will include appearances by the cast and/or crew.

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JANIS WARREN/THE TRI-CITY NEWSJosh Cabrita, the artistic director of the Port Moody Canadian Film Festival, at Inlet Theatre.

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COURTESY OF PMFSStills from this year’s Port Moody Canadian Film Festival picks (clockwise from top left): Bang Bang Baby, Felix and Meira, Our Loved Ones, Sleeping Giant, Room and Guantanamo’s Child. The festival runs March 10 to 13 at the Inlet Theatre in Port Moody.

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Their name quickly got lost in translation.

When Strapless made its debut three years ago at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, the all-female comedy troupe wanted a moniker to reflect their fearless, boundless sketches.

For fun, they threw in a ris-qué piece called Riverdance, which involved the ladies jigging it up on stage in tube tops. They got the attention they wanted but they also got a reputation.

Founding member Jackie Blackmore remembered the public’s reaction. “At the Fringe, people started to look at us in a different way,” she said. “They said, ‘You’re a naked comedy troupe?’ We weren’t that at all. Who wants to see naked comedy?”

Still, it didn’t take long for the ladies to turn the tables.

They wanted to be cheeky and fun but they also wanted

to be tasteful and empowering. Most of all, they wanted to take the topic head on and show the world they had the chops — just like the guys.

Since then, Blackmore, Iva Kapsikova, Sidika Larbes and Lauren Martin have won over audiences across Canada and the U.S. In 2014, Strapless ap-peared at fringe festivals in Montreal and Toronto, and had a big response at the Gabriola Theatre Festival. Last year, they performed at about 20 gigs and, in January, they were back at the Vancouver Sketch Comedy Festival.

Their Coquitlam show on Friday night will be mostly new material, Blackmore said. “It’ll

be a raunchy good time,” she laughed, noting some classics — like their crazy Riverdance routine — will also be thrown in for good measure at the Evergreen Cultural Centre, a venue they’ll be playing for the first time.

Blackmore said men need not shy away from their show. “A large percentage of our au-dience is male,” she said. “That was something from the get-go that we wanted to make sure that our comedy was for every-one. For me, it’s about enter-tainment first and foremost. We happen to be women…. We tell stories that are universally funny. We are talented writers, actors and performers who want to showcase the human condition and say what we find funny about it.”

• Tickets to Strapless on Friday, March 11 are $35/$30/$15 by calling the Evergreen box office at 604-927-6555 or visiting evergreen-culturalcentre.ca.

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Large scale photos and a documentary film about Coquitlam are now part of a new exhibition by hometown art-ist Zebulon Zang. His No Name Creek display opened last Saturday and looks at “in-between” spaces in the city’s physical and cultural landscape. Zang, who last fall won a $24,360 grant from the BC Arts Council, will have his show at the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way) until April 24.

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COURTESY OF EVERGREEN CULTURAL CENTREVancouver TheatreSports, The Purple Pirate and Trent Arterberry will make their way to the Evergreen Cultural Centre stage in Coquitlam during spring break.

Lots of laughs for the little onesSPRING BREAK

Kids comedy and fun are on the spring break bill next week at Coquitlam’s Evergreen Cultural Centre.

Trent Arterberry will kick off the three-day festival next Tuesday with his high-octane performance that features a cast of characters.

In Think Bigg, the mime, puppeteer and storyteller transforms into a racing-car

driver, pilot, robot, digital dude and a puppet named Mr. Bigg.

The California native was last at Evergreen in 2014 with his show The Secret Life of Walter Manny, the story about an eight-year-old boy with an overactive imagination.

Next up is Dustin Anderson, better known as The Purple Pirate. His Magic and Mayhem

show, which runs Wednesday, aims to teach kids about cour-age, compassion and curios-ity.

Young participants are en-couraged to get on their pirate kit for the journey.

Anderson has promoted his message of staying positive and building self-confidence around the world, from back-yard birthday parties around

Metro Vancouver to Shanghai, China.

And on Thursday, the guys from Vancouver TheatreSports will make up their show — on the spot — with the help of little ones in the audience. Instant Improv will see the children’s ideas acted out by professional actors.

David Mann, Evergreen’s performing arts manager, said

the facility encourages families to see live entertainment.

There are performances by each act at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and tickets are affordable: $16 for adults and $12 for children (packages can also be pur-chased for all three shows). Call the box office at 604-927-6555 or visit evergreencultur-alcentre.ca.

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Performers from the Hafez Literature Club will celebrate women at the Port Moody Arts Centre on Friday night.

Learn about Persian dance, music, songs and poetry — presented in English and Farsi — as part of International Women’s Day March 8.

The event also coincides with the Simorgh, Between Sky and Earth exhibit, a display by female Persian artists running at PMAC until March 17. For tickets at $10/$5 to the March 11 show, visit pomoarts.ca.

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Kristi Charish (Owl & The Japanese Circus) and Sam Wiebe (Last of the Independents) will appear at the inaugural CUFFED fest on Granville Island in Vancouver.

Port Coquitlam’s Charish is on the panel examining new female voices in crime while Wiebe, a Coquitlam teacher and the winner of the 2012 Unhanged Arthur Award, is on the panel for Vancouver Noir.

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The series, which continues April 10, May 15 and June 12, is part of the city of Coquitlam’s 125th celebrations.

Artists Rendering Tales Collective Inc. is sharing its knowledge for the historical character workshops, which will allow thespians to take part in the anniversary events.

As well, the group will lead a literary workshop on April 17, where writers can explore story structure, research and inter-viewing; participants can then publish their words via blogs.

To register, visit co-quitlam125.ca/volunteer.

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Port Moody resi-dent Calvin Ng said he wants to start a quidditch team in the Tri-Cities, bring-ing to life the game made famous in the Harry Potter books and films. Ng told The Tri-City News that he hopes it will create an opportunity for young athletes to learn about the sport before going off to university, where teams are more common. Anyone hop-ing to signup for the Tri-City quidditch club can email Ng at [email protected]. There is also a Twitter (@3quidditch) and Facebook page (face-book.com/3quidditch). GARY MCKENNATHE TRI-CITY NEWS

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PoMo’s Ng hopes to bring Harry Potter game to life GARY MCKENNAThe Tri-CiTy News

If you know what a quaffle, bludger and golden snitch are, you may want to get in touch with Calvin Ng.

The Port Moody resident is looking to launch a quid-ditch team in the Tri-Cities, taking the game from between the covers of the Harry Potter books and bringing it to a field near you.

“The game… is translated to fit real-world, muggle con-straints,” Ng said. “It is a co-ed, full-contact sport that is a com-bination of handball, dodge-

ball, rugby and flag football.”In quidditch, two teams of

seven players take to an arena-size outdoor pitch, where they

attempt to throw a volleyball into one of three opposing hoops. The team with the most points by the time the golden

snitch is caught — the golden snitch in the muggle world being a tennis ball inside a sock — wins the match.

There’s just one catch: all of the players compete while mounted on a broomstick.

“It is an alternative for people who might not be the traditional athletic types,” Ng said. “One of the best things about quidditch is its open-ness. You don’t have to be the best athlete in your year to join — although it does help.”

The popularity of quidditch has grown rapidly in the last few years.

Ng is one of the founders of the Simon Fraser University team, where he played until re-cently graduating, and he said the sport is taking off at univer-sities across North America.

In 2014, the Quidditch

Global Games were held at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex, when an estimated 1,000 people came out to compete or watch the games.

Team Canada ended up going 4-2 during the round-robin portion of the tourna-ment, eventually finishing third after defeating Team UK 60-40 in the bronze medal game. Last spring, a national quidditch tournament was also held in Burnaby, with seven teams participating.

Ng is hoping to generate some interest among high school students in the Tri-Cities, who may be interested in taking part in the sport when they begin their post-second-ary careers.

Once the club is estab-lished, he said players will get an opportunity to learn the

fundamentals of the game while testing their skills against UBC and SFU’s clubs.

There is also a community team operating out of New Westminster.

Over time, Ng hopes that more club teams will pop up across the region.

“That is the dream,” he said. “It will build the foundation for people to get their feet wet before they go on to university. One of my goals is to use this as a development tool.”

Anyone that is hoping to signup for the Tri-City quidditch club can email Calvin Ng at [email protected]. There is also a Twitter (@3quidditch) and Facebook page (facebook.com/3quidditch).


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North Coquitlam club gears up for B.C. play downs

For the third year in a row the North Coquitlam USC Rebels have won the district championship.

The under-18 girls soccer club took down the Coquitlam Metro-Ford Inferno 1-0 on

Sunday to secure the title dur-ing a game at the Town Centre Park, punching their ticket to the provincial play downs.

“This group knows how to play as a team and both wins were a result of a full team ef-fort,” said Bryan Flood, coach of the squad. “It was a great way to extend their last year of youth soccer.”

North Coquitlam keeper Mikayla Biscoff was solid in net

and came up big for several crucial saves in a tightly-played defensive matchup.

The Rebels managed to score the game-winning goal with five minutes left in the first half, when Crystal Laughren made a pass across the top of the box to Adrianna Corrado, who directed the ball into the net.

Both teams struggled to gain the upper hand in the second

half, but strong midfield play kept the Inferno from tying up the game. The Rebels had several opportunities to score an insurance marker, but were unable to find the back of the net.

Sunday’s victory came a week after the team won the league championship, shutting out WVSC United 5-0.


TINA-LOUISE HARRIS PHOTOCoquitlam mixed-martial arts fighter Josh Kwiatkowski was bloodied but victorious following a championship bout against Casey O’Leary of Duncan during the February Fury event at Fraserview Hall last week. Kwiatkowski fights with Titan MMA and competed in the featherweight category.

CLASH OF THE TITANS ARCHERS MAKE THE PODIUM

Coquitlam archer Matteo Jang walked away from the B.C. Winter Games with a couple of medals last week.

The 16-year-old Terry Fox secondary student took gold in the two-day aggregate with a score of 1,127 out of 1,200 and a silver in the third day of shoot eliminations.

He was not the only local ar-cher to have a strong showing at the event.

Brennan Formanex, a 15-year-old Port Coquitlam ar-cher, won silver on the two-day aggregate with a score of 1,033. He also took a gold medal in the third day shoot-out elimi-nations.

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PAINTING/WALLPAPER

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PATIOS

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PLUMBING

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POWER WASHING

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GENERATORS

HOME SERVICES

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SUN DECKS

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