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Jared Bowles of the Shadbolt Centrefor the Arts said Saturday’s festival wasone of the best that the city has put on,with Deer Lake Park once again serv-ing as a beautiful setting for the all-dayevent.

“We were really, really pleased witheverything,” said Bowles, who estimatedattendance at 4,500 people, about thesame as last year. “We had a great turn-out, the weather was perfect, the bandswere awesome and everything wentaccording to schedule.

“Every year, we have different chal-lenges with anything happening outsidein the elements, but it was almost flaw-less this year. It was fantastic.”

Show stealers included Irish song-

stress Imelda May and Canadian alt-rock trio Wide Mouth Mason, whogathered quite the midday crowd at theWestwood Stage, while headliners Big

Sugar and New Brunswick folk artistMatt Andersen wowed the audience asthe sun set.

“It was just a great day,” said Bowles.

“What more can you ask for?”Check out our review of the show

and photos from the outstanding perfor-mances on page 12.

City launches legal challenge over accessThe City of Burnaby is launching a

constitutional challenge with the NationalEnergy Board in the legal battle overBurnaby Mountain, while Kinder Morganis arguing federal law gives it the right towork on the land.

The city’s lawyer, Gregory McDade, iscalling for a fair hearing on the issue.

“The idea that in the 21st century thatthe federal government can just bulldozethrough a community deserves somedebate,” he told the NOW.

Kinder Morgan wants to surveyBurnaby Mountain for a proposed routefor the Trans Mountain pipeline expan-sion, but the city, which is opposed to theproject, has not yet granted the companypermission to do so. Kinder Morgan hastwo outstanding applications filed with

the city, which is waiting on more infor-mation before making its decision.

Much of Burnaby Mountain is city-owned land and a designated conserva-tion area.

In late July, Kinder Morgan sent a let-ter to the NEB, arguing it had the right towork on Burnaby Mountain, according tothe National Energy Board Act.

The city’s main counter-argument, filedlast week, is the act should not override

local jurisdiction and bylaws.“The constitutional question is: Can the

company just pick any place they wantand get (access) automatically or do theyneed to comply with municipal rules andbylaws,” McDade said. “This isn’t justa property issue. Where they are tryingto build a helicopter pad and do drillingis in a conservation area – that wouldcontravene municipal bylaws. … This is

Seatyourself:Concert-goers atBurnabyBlues &RootsFestivalenjoy thesunshine.This year,organizersestimateabout4,500peopleturnedout for theevent.

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Vancouver actor Osric Chau visitedBurnaby’s Central Park Thursday tohelp out in an international scavengerhunt for charity.

The young actor is best known forhis role on the TV series Supernatural.He was volunteering to help with oneof the assigned tasks: make a papier-mâché head of an actor from the CWTelevision Network, and have thatactor post a picture of herself or himselfon social media.

Roughly 200 people came to thepark, many with papier-mâché facsimi-les of Chau’s head, which he happilyposed with for photos.

“The event went great! I kind of gotlost in the whole thing,” Chau said in anemail to the NOW.

The scavenger hunt is calledGISHWHES, short for the GreatestInternational Scavenger Hunt the WorldHas Ever Seen, and Chau himself isalso a participant. Chau’s co-star, MishaCollins, started the annual event, whichdraws tens of thousands of participantsfrom all over the world.

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“This event, the charity, encouragesand facilitates people to get out of theircomfort zones, try new things that theywould never consider doing in sup-port of a wonderful charity and in theprocess opens up a world that the par-ticipants never could have expected,”Chau said.

For more info on GISHWHES, go towww.gishwhes.com.

In the mix:Vancouveractor OsricChau inBurnaby’sCentral Parkhelps withGISHWHES,aninternationalscavengerhunt whereone of thetasks involvesmaking apapier-mâchéhead of anactor.

Man killed near Robert Burnaby ParkHomicide police have taken over the inves-

tigation into a shooting near Robert BurnabyPark on Sunday night.

According to a release from the IntegratedHomicide Investigation Team, BurnabyMounties were called to the area of SecondStreet and 19th Avenue around 10:30 p.m. onAug. 10 following reports of shots fired.

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man suffering from gunshot wounds. Thevictim was taken by ambulance to hospital,where he died a short while later. The casewas handed over to the Integrated HomicideInvestigation Team, which is now in the earlystages of the investigation, the release added.

“While this investigation is in the very earlystages, (the Integrated Homicide InvestigationTeam) can confirm that evidence gatheredthus far suggests this to be a targeted attack,”Staff Sgt. Jennifer Pound said in the release.

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from Alberta, is known to police.More information will be made public as

homicide investigators along with the foren-sic identification team and Burnaby RCMPcanvass the area for evidence and speak withwitnesses.

Anyone with information on this homicideis asked to contact the Integrated HomicideInvestigation Team by calling their tipline at1-877-551-4448 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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designated parkland; it needs to go to areferendum.”

Kinder Morgan’s response, issued onFriday, is that the city “mischaracter-ized or misunderstood” the company’srequest. Kinder Morgan did not applyto the NEB to force the city to allow thecompany’s survey work to begin; it sim-ply asked for an interpretation of existinglaw.

According to National Energy Boardspokesperson Sarah Kiley, there is noplan yet on how to deal with the city’s

challenge.“We haven’t made any kind of deci-

sion or announced how we are going toproceed with that challenge. It’s verymuch wait and see, and the board willmake its decision public,” she said. “Alloptions are on the table.”

McDade said he hopes the board takesthe issue seriously.

“The NEB hasn’t shown, so far, muchof an open mind to the public interest. Interms of confidence, we may have to lookto another court beyond them,” he said.

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Fraser Health shut downBurnaby’s Barnet MarinePark Beach to swimmingMonday after tests revealedhigh levels of E. coli bacte-ria in the water.

The latest samples con-tained twice the amount ofE. coli deemed acceptableunder national guidelines.

Those guidelines recom-mend the geometric meanfor the bacteria – whichcan increase the risk ofgastro-intestinal illness toswimmers – should be lessthan or equal to 200 E. colibacteria per 100 millilitresof water.

Two consecutivesamples at Barnet beachshowed more than 400 E.coli bacteria per 100 ml.

Old Orchard Park,another Burrard Inlet beachin Port Moody, recordedsimilar levels of the bac-teria in three consecutivesamples.

Recent high tempera-tures may be behind thehigh E. coli counts, eventhough the bacteria actu-ally survive better in coolertemperatures, according toFraser Health spokesper-son Tasleem Juma.

“The warm temperaturefactor is in relation to peo-ple actually being out andaccessing the water more,”

she told the NOW. “Youhave a lot more swimmersin the water; you have a lotmore people going out withtheir dogs; you have thegeese that are now startingtheir migration.”

She said Fraser Healthhealth protection officersdon’t think the high bac-teria count is the resultof marine discharge frommore boats on the water,because marine discharge,she said, is “sporadic andrare.”

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The recent disaster of thecollapse of the MountPolley mine tailings

pond may force the B.C. Liberalsto finally revisit a key policydecision made early on in itsfirst mandate: the cutting back ofenvironmental protection meas-ures.

Since 2001, environmentalcritics have denounced the gov-ernment for turning a blind eyeto environmental protection, andhave long warned a disaster wasjust around the corner.

Well, that disaster has nowoccurred.

As of this writing, it is stillnot clear why the tailings pondfailed and dumped 10 millioncubic metres of water and 4.5million cubic metres of mineslurry into Polley and QuesnelLakes.

Energy and Mines MinisterBill Bennett has denied that alack of inspections played anyrole in the pond collapse and hasinsisted the number of annualmine inspections is pretty wellthe same as five years ago.

He may well be proven rightthat inspections (or a lack of

them) played no role in thetailings pond collapse, but theMount Polley disaster has never-theless re-focused attention onthe B.C. Liberals’ controversialhistorical record when it comesto protecting the environment.

That controversy prettymuch started right after GordonCampbell and the B.C. Liberalswere swept into power in 2001.

At that time, the govern-ment proceeded to gut a num-ber of government programsand budgets, which includedreducing staff in areas itobviously considered to be oflow-priority status, such asenvironmental protection.

It was obvious early on theB.C. Liberals did not share thesame zeal for environmentalissues that characterized muchof what the previous govern-ment, formed by the NDP,seemed to be all about. Theenvironment ministry lost aquarter of its staff.

Not only did the B.C. Liberalscut resources for environmentalprotection, it implemented afundamental and philosophicalshift when it came to this issue.It essentially moved to a self-regulating and self-enforcementmodel for natural resource com-panies.

Penalties were increased forviolations of environmental pro-tection rules and regulations,but companies were essentially

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Pitting the have-nots against the have homesAn RBC study released this week

concludes people aged 35 to 45 are,thanks to their mortgages, carryingdangerously large debt levels thatcould put them in deep trouble if inter-est rates go up or the housing marketcomes down.

These grown-upGeneration Xers largelybought their homes from 1999onward. After two decades of an aver-age home appreciation of 0.3 per centper year, appreciation jumped to 4.6 per

cent per year since that time, the studynoted.

This news will come as cold comfortto Generation Y, which now finds itselfpriced out of home ownership entirely.

Whether you assign blame to foreignmillionaires or local ones,the effect is the same. Peoplemaking middle-class wagesare either overextending them-

selves or becoming resigned to the factthey will rent forever.

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deep now, they’ll fight ferociously anyeffort to bring housing values back intothe realm of sanity. And anything thatbrings the housing market back downin a hurry is likely going to crush morethan a few sectors of the economy withit.

There’s no one person or policy toblame for this conundrum. Althoughthere’s no doubt that our society’s lackof ample acceptable alternative optionsto the large single-family home with alawn and a two-car garage has helped

create the problem. Renting is consid-ered a temporary situation and co-ops,while excellent, are simply not beingbuilt anymore or supported by the fed-eral government.

The cost of housing is ever presenteither in the foreground or the back-ground of most any debate we havenow, whether it’s at the council table orthe dinner table.

It’s just sad that there’s no way tohave the debate without pitting onegeneration against another.

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Kinder Morgan needs oppositionDear Editor:

Re: Mayor a dictator on pipeline, Burnaby NOW,Aug. 1.

Gordon Foy’s contends in the Burnaby NOWthat Mayor Derek Corrigan does not have amandate to oppose Kinder Morgan’s pipelineproposal that poses a substantial risk to the Cityof Burnaby and the residents of the city, so whydoes he think our mayor has no mandate, or couldit be that in his opinion our mayor and councilshould just go along with a project that couldcause substantial damage to our environment andour coastal waters.

How about this, we include a referendum in

the upcoming municipal election as Kitimat hasdone, to determine the willingness of the residentsof Burnaby to take those kinds of risks, to makean American oil corporation Kinder Morgan, andtheir shareholders wealthier, with few benefits forCanadian workers.

Kinder Morgan does not even plan to guaranteea steady supply of crude to the Chevron oil refin-ery right here in Burnaby. The sole purpose of thisproject is to export the crude to Asian markets.Now tell me again how this benefits Burnaby?

It has been said before about the NorthernGateway, that British Columbia gets very fewbenefits, while the province of B.C. takes all of therisks.

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This brings up another question ofwho we should vote for in November,Derek Corrigan, who has proven to bea man to stick up for Burnaby time andtime again, including over the KinderMorgan proposal, against his declaredopponent, Daren Hancott, the former chairof the business lobby group, the BritishColumbia Chamber of Commerce, wholike the Fraser Institute, lobbies for publicinstitutions to be taken over by for-profitcorporations.

Be very careful when you vote that youdon’t elect a mayor and council that willbe willing to roll over for Big Oil and BigCorporations to do as they please.

We made a huge mistake in re-electingour faux-Liberals to another term, becausethe reality is, they are not Liberals, theyare right-wing Conservatives/Reformers,just like Harper and his team of “YesMen.”

Wayne McQueen, Burnaby

Don’t trust Kinder MorganDear Editor:

Burnaby residents should be appalledby the bully boy tactics adopted by KinderMorgan to force their unwanted dirty oilpipeline through the heart of our city.

Their flip-flops on preferred routes,evasiveness regarding questions from resi-dents and our city, and now going to theNational Energy Board to force access tocity property are not the actions of “goodneighbours.”

And Burnaby property owners are nexton their hit list. We can’t count on our cur-rent federal or provincial governments tokeep dirty tar sands oil out of Burnaby, orto prevent daily oil-laden super tankersfrom traversing Burrard inlet. It’s up to us,Burnaby residents, to stand up for Canada.If you have not applied to the NEB as anintervener or commenter, or were refusedbefore, you will have another chance nextmonth. For information go to letbcdecide.ca.

Peter Cech, Burnaby


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allowed to police them-selves. Critics predictedthis would translate intomore incidents that couldthreaten environmentalvalues.

Indeed, over theyears, there have been anumber of tailings pondfailures and breaches ofdams, including the col-lapse of an earthen damnear Oliver in 2010 thatdestroyed five homes.

Premier Christy Clarkhas made it clear hergovernment’s core philo-sophical value is to “growthe economy,” particu-larly through the naturalresource extraction indus-try. In particular, it haschampioned the miningindustry and the naturalgas sector.

However, as practicessuch as fracking becomemore controversial andas various infrastructurearound the province(such as dams, tailingponds and pipelines,for example) graduallyage, her government willundoubtedly feel more

pressure to ensure mor-evserious environmentaldisasters do not occur.

While the B.C. Liberalsrightly feel their surprisere-election in 2013 wasstrongly tied to its pro-industry platform and amuch weaker pro-indus-try platform put forth bythe NDP, they may risklosing support if there areany more major accidents.

As Finance MinisterMike de Jong puts togeth-er next year’s budget, hemay ponder whether itis politically prudent torevisit the resources hehas allocated to two min-istries given short shrift inhis three-year fiscal plan.

The environment min-istry is scheduled for atiny ($6 million) lift to itscurrent annual budgetof $134 million. Thatdoesn’t suggest any majorincrease for environment-al protection measures,such as inspections andenforcement.

And the energy andmines ministry, whichconducts those tailingponds inspections, hasits small annual budget

of $21 million frozen forthe next two years. Giveninflation and other costpressures, it’s hard to seehow that translates intomore inspections.

Clark has tried to dis-tance herself from herpredecessor, GordonCampbell, in a numberof areas since taking overfrom him. She’s increasedthe minimum wage,scrapped the HST andfolded the Pacific CarbonTrust.

Perhaps she will usethe Mount Polley dis-aster as an opportunityto distance herself fromCampbell even further,by implementing a moreaggressive approach toenvironmental protection.

The government willunderstandably neverabandon its support fornatural resource indus-tries, including mining.But there’s not much pol-itical downside to paint-ing itself with a greenerbrush.

Keith Baldrey is chiefpolitical reporter for GlobalB.C.


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The annual Ethiopian Summer Festival drew an esti-mated 400 to 500 people to Burnaby’s Wesburn ParkSaturday, Aug. 9.

“I think it was amazing,” said festival spokespersonBethlehem Duche. “A lot more people showed up than Ithought, … young people and older ones, as well.”

The annual festival, now in its fifth year, celebratesEthiopian heritage, and it’s open to the community atlarge. The event included music, food, Ethiopian clothingand jewelry, traditional coffee ceremonies, kids activitiesand a basketball tournament.

The Ethiopian Community Association of B.C. orga-nized the event.

For more info on the association, go to www.VancouverEthiopia.com.

For morephotos anda videoexplainingthe traditionalEthiopiancoffeeceremony,scan with Layaror go to www.burnabynow.com

Kids enjoythe bouncycastle at theEthiopianSummerFestival.

There was traditional Ethiopian fare served at thefestival and options for vegetarians.

Children play tug-of-war at the fifth annual EthiopianSummer Festival, held in Burnaby’s Wesburn Park onSaturday, Aug. 9.

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B.C. Confederation of Parent AdvisoryCouncils president Nicole Makohoniuktold the CBC she didn’t think classescould begin in September if teachers andthe provincial government couldn’t strikea deal in the next two weeks becauseclass lists wouldn’t be ready and teacherswouldn’t be prepared to teach.

Burnaby Teachers’ Association presi-dent Rae Figursky said that was “ridicu-lous.”

“Textbooks are going to be in a messfor secondary, timetables are in a mess,rooms won’t be set up quite the way we’dlike them to be, people who are movinginto buildings can’t, but if there was adeal Sept. 1, we could be at work Sept.2,” she told the NOW. “For kids it prob-ably wouldn’t look any different. We’d belooking even more tired than we normallyare on the first day back, but we can makeit work.”

Figursky said the first few days ofSeptember are usually full of adjustments

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“I’m sorry if administrators can’t dothe job they’re supposed to do,but they can be in there work-ing,” she said.

Board of education chairBaljinder Narang said she sym-pathizes with parents who feelthey need to make childcareplans for September in casestartup is delayed, but she saidit was “speculation” to concludeschools won’t open in time ifa deal isn’t reached in the nexttwo weeks.

“We are preparing as wewould,” she said. “If the teach-ers are able to ratify (an agree-ment), I think we would get theschools open and we would work withwhatever we have. It may not be all sys-tems go on the first day, but it would begetting the systems to work. I’m optimis-tic; it’s do-able.”

A lot of what happens next monthwill depend on when teachers and theprovince ratify an agreement and what

the terms of that agreement are, Narangsaid.

She said the agreement might includelanguage about startup dates or classsize and composition that would directlyimpact class lists and school openings.

“There are more questionsand hardly any answers,” shesaid. “And that’s the situationwe’ve been in all summer.”

The B.C. Teachers’ Federationand provincial negotiators areback at the bargaining tablethis week, resuming talks lastFriday after weeks of no meet-ings between the two sides.

The province enragedteachers earlier this month byannouncing parents would get$40 a day for each child underthe age of 13 for childcare ifthe contract dispute lasted intoSeptember.

BCTF president Jim Iker called themove, which would be funded by moneysaved by not paying teachers during thestrike, “divisive.”

The main issues in the labour battle,which began with limited work-to-ruleaction by teachers in April, include wages,class size and class composition.

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Burnaby firefighter Heather Wilsonknows it isn’t easy getting womeninterested in her line of work but

that doesn’t mean she won’t keep trying.Wilson and six other female firefight-

ers from departments across the LowerMainland run Camp Ignite, a four-daycamp for girls 16 to 18 years old, whichintroduces them to the world of firefight-ing.

On Sunday, the girls were in Burnabypractising their rescue training skills andcelebrating the final day of the camp.

Camp Ignite was founded four yearsago as a way to show young women thatfirefighting isn’t only for men.

“Part of the idea of showing themand having them do the actual firefight-ing skills is so that they learn that they’recapable of doing it,” Wilson told the NOW.“I think that’s the biggest thing. It’s such amale-dominated career that a lot of womendon’t believe that they can do it.”

This year, 20 girls from municipalitiesacross the Lower Mainland and beyondvisited five different departments,including Vancouver, North Vancouver,Coquitlam, Surrey and Burnaby, wherethey were shown the ropes. The girls were

put through various training exercises,similar to what an actual fire recruit wouldgo through.

“It’s just about helping build the confi-dence, having a lot of fun with it, doing allthe different skills so that they know thatit’s a career … that it’s definitely a possibil-ity,” Wilson said.

So far, only one of the graduates ofCamp Ignite has begun an applicationprocess with a fire department but Wilsonsaid many of her other students haveshown interest in firefighting as a careerand are enrolled in courses required toapply as a recruit.

“There are a handful of girls that areactively taking courses and starting thepath to a possible career in firefighting,”Wilson added.

Wilson, who’s been a firefighter inBurnaby for more than a decade, helpedfound Camp Ignite as a way to showyoung women firefighting isn’t just formen.

“We felt it was an awareness issue andthat there were just so many women outthere that didn’t even know that womencould be a firefighter,” she said.

Four years in, Wilson said there’s stilla ways to go before fire departments havea noticeable female presence. Currently,

Burnaby has about sevenfemale firefighters in adepartment with 200 mem-bers.

“It’s really just aboutraising awareness and show-ing the girls it’s possible,”Wilson added. “We’re justhoping the momentum fromit will create some excite-ment around it and someexposure.”

Participants in CampIgnite are sponsored byfire departments acrossthe Lower Mainland, oftenon the recommendationof their respective schools.Applications are due in May.

For more information onthe program, visit campignite.com.

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Hanging out: Marissa Barber from Langley rappels down the side of a buildingduring basic rescue training at Burnaby Fire Hall No. 1. The training was part ofCamp Ignite, a four-day camp introducing young women to firefighting.

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New skills: New West firefighter Kathy Ius teachesknot tying to Luisa Villa Gomez of Salt Spring Islandand Brittney Pastulovic of Port Moody.

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Blues Fest delivers a diverse mixAs far as music festivals go, Burnaby’s Blues

& Roots Festival is a gem and a polishedone at that.

At 15 years in the making, it’s no surprise thatthe day-long festival held at Burnaby’s picturesqueDeer Lake Park is a well-organized affair that goesoff without many hitches.

Unlike other prolific, local music festivals of2014, Saturday’s concert sported a refreshing lackof faux flower crowns and neon wayfarer sun-glasses – instead concertgoers at the event weremet with varying forms of blues music, all the wayfrom authentic back-porch blues to rockin’ rocka-billy to contemporary rock.

Steve Kozak kicked off the festival’s opening,his brand of blues providing an even-tempoedgallop as some set up chairs and blankets at themain stage and others perused the Blues market forlocally made soaps, threads and jewelry.

The beer garden didn’t lack for business in itsopening hours, either. Kozak’s contemporary, easy-listening tunes eased festival goers into their day.

Standing in stark contrast to Kozak and hisband, however, were Rich Hope and his Evil Doers.

If this year’s Blues & Roots Fest needed a wake-up call, Hope and his Evil Doers were it. The dirtyboogie blues duo – made up of singer-guitaristHope and drummer Adrian Mack – have enoughstage presence for a full ensemble, but the boysmanage to command the audience just fine as atwo-piece.

Within a few songs, the twosome drew muchof the crowd to the festival’s Westwood Stage for aboogie. Notable songs were the gritty “La Iguana”and the high-energy “Let’s Jump Around Some”, atribute to Mack’s record collection as Hope musedto the crowd.

Over at the festival’s Garden Stage, it was awhole different story. Just after 3 p.m., Americanblues musician Blind Boy Paxton started tinkeringon his acoustic guitar. Because the multi-instru-mentalist’s set was so quiet, many jammed in closeto the stage to hear Paxton rehearse his old-timeinspired ditties, ultimately making for an intimatemusical experience.

Paxton charmed the audience with his 1930s-style, back-porch blues, making the crowd giggleat tongue-in-cheek lyrics that flirted with misogynylike, “nothing makes you feel so low as when anugly woman tells you no.” The singer impressivelyswitched between playing the guitar, banjo, har-monica, fiddle and piano before saying goodbye tohis newfound fans.

The young, hip crowd – many of whom mighthave attended Pemberton Festival earlier this year– stayed at the stage for indie blues-rock musicianShakey Graves.

The Texas gent’s set was off to a rocky start witha few sound hiccups that interrupted his first song.

But after a few tunes, he had the crowd, whichmostly consisted of young women who gatheredat the side of the stage, dancing and swaying to hiselectrified vagabond folk.

The singer’s makeshift kick-drum suitcase, ofcourse, was a highlight of the performance.

After 5:30 p.m., all traffic was relocated to themain stage, where Bettye LaVette, Matt Andersenand the Mellotones and headliners Big Sugarcapped off the day’s activities.

With tunes strangely reminiscent of The Band,it came as no surprise that Andersen and crewdecided to “dig into the old Canadian songbook”to play a cover of “Ophelia” to the diverse crowd,which included mid-20s couples, young familiesand blues veterans.

Andersen showed off his vocal range beforeending his set on “With A Little Help From MyFriends” by The Beatles.

Big Sugar took the stage just after sunset, pump-ing out fan favourites from their ’90s hey-day like“Diggin’ A Hole,” “Better Get Used to It” and“Turn the Lights On.”

Few stayed until the festival’s end, as beer gar-dens closed just after 8 p.m., but with no overdosesor violence to report by end of day, it can be saidthat Burnaby’s Blues & Roots Festival was the best-run affair in this year’s festival circuit.

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Passionlives on:MattAndersenbelts out atune on theBlues Festmain stageSaturdayevening.He and hisband theMellotonesperformedafter 5:30p.m. beforemaking wayfor festivalheadlinersBig Sugar.

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May dazzlesaudiences at BluesFest at Deer LakePark on Saturday.

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Rock on: Wide Mouth Mason lead singer Shaun Verreault performson the Westwood Stage at Saturday’s Blues & Roots Festival inBurnaby.

Closing out the night: Big Sugar lead singer and guitarist Gordie Johnson rocks out withbandmate Kelly Hoppe during the headlining set at Blues Fest. Big Sugar took the stage aftersunset, pumping out fan-favourite after fan-favourite.

The volunteers atConnections CoffeeHouse spent time

this summer cleaning uptheir neighbourhood.

Sue From, one of thelongtime volunteers,secured a grant from theVancouver Foundation,through the BurnabyNeighbourhood House,to support the cleanup.She then amassed about20 people – moms, dads,kids, students and newCanadians – to pick uptrash in the area aroundthe café. This is the thirdyear Sue has organizeda community cleanuparound Connections.

For those who don’tknow, Connections is anon-profit coffee houserun entirely by volunteersand backed by a localchurch. The project is allabout building commun-ity, which the volunteersdo through the café.

Connections is at5063 Anola Dr. in theBrentwood area. The cof-fee is really good, and youcan’t beat their non-profitprices. They also host kara-oke once a month, as wellas a weekly mom-and-totgroup. For more informa-tion, visit connectionscoffee.ca.

Help for womenThere’s a new leader-

ship training program forimmigrant, refugee andvisible minority womenwho have experiencedabuse, and it’s completelyfree. The Vancouverand Lower MainlandMulticultural FamilySupport Services Societyis running the program,and it’s for women whowant to help other womenin their communities. Thetopics are self-esteem,anger management,employment searching,family law in Canada andparenting.

The course runs onMondays, from Sept. 15to Oct. 20, from 10 a.m.to 1 p.m. in the Burnaby-Metrotown area. You mustregister by calling AnnaFoschi at 604-436-1025 ext.129 or email [email protected].

Having volunteered ina transition house and asa rape crisis worker forseveral years, I’ve seenfirst hand the damage thatviolence can do to womenand children. Violenceagainst women (or anyone,for that matter) is neveracceptable, so kudos to the

society for offering thismuch needed course.

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Society has a new execu-tive director leading theboard. Bruce Kirk waschosen after an extensivesearch, and his post took

effect in late July. Kirk isresponsible for the day-to-day operations of the soci-ety, which provides com-passionate care to those at

the end of their lives. Kirkhas decades of experiencein the non-profit sector,working with groupsin the addictions field,

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Yes, you read that right.Cameron Chase is the

executive producer behindVixens of Wonderland, avivacious two-act spec-tacle that boasts 15 music-al numbers and opensthis Friday at GranvilleIsland’s PerformanceWorks. While he can’tgive too much away, hepromises it’s not yourgrandmother’s fable.

“We’re trying to dosomething really dif-ferent and turn Alice inWonderland on its head,”he said. “The nice thingabout Wonderland is it’sso bizarre that we reallycan do anything we wantonstage.”

Four years ago, Chasefounded Concrete VertigoProductions as his way ofgetting back into theatre.What started as a one-timeburlesque retelling of TheWizard of Oz led to rendi-tions of Peter Pan and acompilation of BrothersGrimm folklore. Now he’sputting on his biggest pro-duction, with some 30 castand crew members takingon the roles of the MadHatter, the White Rabbitand the evil Red King.

Burnaby burlesque dan-cer Jacqueline Breakwell isone of those cast members,and she arguably has thebest role, prowling acrossthe stage as the CheshireCat – but the kooky felinehas a slightly different pur-pose in this script.

“The Cheshire Cat ismore like a bounty hunterlike Boba Fett,” she saidwith a laugh. “It’s more

of a badass take on theCheshire Cat – still crazybut with a mission. She’s agun for hire, basically.”

Breakwell divulgedthat the cat appears atinopportune times to spoilthe chemistry between twocharacters, as ordered bythe king – but she doesn’talways do what she’s told.

This isn’t Breakwell’sfirst Concrete Vertigoshow. She’s worked withthe company on all of itsprevious productions, por-traying Dorothy, Tinkerbelland the Wicked Queenfrom Snow White in a neo-burlesque style.

“We’re taking these stor-ies that everybody knows,adding pop culture refer-ences and pop songs thateverybody loves, and we’restill having the classic ele-ments of burlesque andspicing that up,” she said.

“There’s a sense of fam-iliarity to people,” addedChase. “It’s fun to reinventstuff that you knew grow-ing up and take the audi-ence on that journey.

“It’s almost like anadult panto, just with a lotmore nudity.”

As Chase put it, theactors in Vixens are quad-ruple threats: “They sing,they act, they dance andthey can take their clothesoff really, really well.”

While the work-load is demanding, forBreakwell, who gradu-ated from CapilanoUniversity’s musicaltheatre program, it’s anopportunity to pair herlove of burlesque with herpassion for singing.

“If I couldn’t sing, Iwould die,” she said witha laugh. “I’ve gotten theopportunity to play thelead heroine girl, the kindof bitchy girl, the evil andhumorous queen, and thisyear with the Cheshire Cat,I get to be this inbetweencrazier character.

“It’s an amazing outletfor everything I love to doin life – it’s just a great timeto escape and entertain.”

As if comedy, stripteaseand live vocals weren’tenough, both hinted atinteractivity with theaudience in what Chasedescribed as “super sexy

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19-plus show runs atPerformance Works, locat-ed at 1218 Cartwright St. inVancouver, from Aug. 15to 17, 20 to 24 and 27 to 29at 8 p.m. nightly. Ticketsare $25 ($23 for students) atthe door or online at vixensofwonderland.brownpapertickets.com.

Jump down the rabbithole and see it for yourself.

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If you’re a frequent Safewayshopper, chances are you’ll be askedto donate two bucks in support ofMuscular Dystrophy Canada thenext time you’re at the till.

The Make Muscles Move cam-paign launched July 31 and runsuntil Aug. 15.

Burnaby resident and localambassador Micaela Evans, whohas spinal muscular atrophy,was the recipient of a MuscularDystrophy Canada grant last yearthat went towards a pair of roboticWrex arms.

The 19-year-old said the equip-ment has significantly changed herday-to-day routine.

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“Last year, the 4440 HastingsSt. Burnaby Safeway raised $9,695.Nine-thousand or more would befantastic.”

Across Western Canada, morethan $994,000 was collected duringthe 2013 campaign.

In return for their toonie, shop-pers receive five Air Miles RewardMiles.

The campaign ends on Friday.

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Bantams close; midgets win in a walkB.C.’s bantam boys’

representative lacrosseteam gave Ontario allit could handle at theCommissioners nationalchampionships.

Team B.C., includingNew West’s Cole Catton,Johnny Edin, captain JordyMahal and Finn Stark, ledfrom the opening goal butcould not quite hold onbefore surrendering a 5-4loss to Ontario late in thegame in the gold-medalfinal at Queen’s ParkArena on Saturday.

Carter McKenzie scoredthe game-winning goal forthe Ontario all-stars, unas-sisted off a rebound ongoal at 12:18 of the thirdperiod.

Earlier in the period,Brett Handsor knotted thegame at 4-4 for the even-tual champs.

Edin was B.C.’s gamestar, stopping 31 shotsin the B.C. goal. BrettUnderwood faced just 18shots in the Ontario cage.

“I just did my best,”said Edin, who posted a.856 save percentage inthe championship tourna-ment coming into the finalgame. “It was amazing. Itwas one of the best thingsI’ve ever been to. I’d justdo it again in a heartbeat.”

Hearts were certainlyin the throats of the siz-able crowd that took in thegold-medal game.

Jake Cantlon of Deltaopened the scoring withhis first of two goals.Connor Wilson of Juande Fuca gave B.C. a 2-0lead on a nice passing playfrom Mahal and Stark.

Stark closed out theperiod with his seventhgoal and 11th point at thenationals.

Burnaby’s SajjunShokar set up Cantlon fora shorthanded breakawaygoal midway through thesecond frame to help giveB.C. a 4-2 advantage.

But Ontario kept up theattack, winning a lot ofthe loose-ball battles in thelater periods.

“We didn’t get enoughquality shots,” said B.C.head coach Rich Catton.

Earlier in the week,Ontario beat B.C. 5-3 in the

round-robin. B.C. edgedAlberta 6-5 to advanceto the gold-medal match.Edin stopped 20shots in goal to getthe win.

The unbeatenB.C. midget boyswere runaway win-ners in their agegroup, defeating Alberta14-2 to win the gold.

B.C. went a perfect 7-0 and compiled 105 goalsfor with just seven goalsagainst.

Burnaby’s MackenzieBurns recorded four goalsand two assists for B.C. in

the tournament.B.C.’s midget gold

medal proved a warmupfor a five-gameseries withOntario that willbe played in con-junction with theupcoming MintoCup in Langley,

beginning Aug. 17.“It gives us a lot of time

to work as a team,” saidB.C. midget runner TavinGrant, who lost the pee-wee title to Ontario and a6-4 heartbreaker as a ban-tam.

“It’s just so much of a

rivalry for our age group.I just love it.”

The B.C. peewee team,including Kai George ofNew West and Burnaby’sThomas Vela, was beaten8-2 by Ontario in the final.

B.C. got by Alberta 5-2to make it into the gold-medal game. Vela had abig game in B.C.’s open-ing 18-1 win over NovaScotia, scoring two goalsand adding two assists.

George had two goalsand two assists in B.C. winsover Nova Scotia, NewBrunswick, Saskatchewanand Alberta.

Tom Berridgesports editor


At the nats: B.C. bantam boys’ lacrosse team, in blue, lost a tight 5-4 final to Ontario in the gold-medal gameat the national championships on Saturday.

Lakers need to find mojo in semifinal seriesThe Burnaby Lakers have gone

off the boil.The Western Lacrosse

Association league runner-uptrails the best-of-seven semifinalplayoff series 2-1 following a 9-6loss to the Maple Ridge Burrardsat the Bill Copeland Sports Centreon Monday.

The Lakers fell behind early,giving up two unassisted goalson breakaways and just neverlooked right for the remainderof the game, despite a couple ofmomentary runs.

Trailing 6-3 late in the mid-dle period, Burnaby mustered a

mini-comeback sparked by CaseyJackson’s second goal of the gameon the power play at the midwaymark of the period.

Dane Stevens added his sec-ond on a spin to the net in trafficand Shaun Dhaliwal then tied thescore 6-6 with a sure finish at thetop of the crease.

“We stayed to the outsidetoday and we have to get ourjam back,” said the active right-hander. “It’s a thing with ourteam, but (Maple Ridge) is play-ing some good ball right now.”

The Burrards answeredDhaliwal’s game-tying goal sec-onds later with Mike Mallory’seventual game-winning tally,before closing out the game with

a 2-0 third period.Maple Ridge used its superior

size to good advantage, particu-larly at the defensive end, whileemploying an aggressiveforecheck that constantlykept Laker ballhandlerson their heels.

Dhaliwal insisted thattheir opponents’ size wasnot an issue, but clear-ly Burnaby was not altogethercomfortable handling the ball inMonday’s loss.

Tyler Richards was back inthe nets for Burnaby and made31 stops in the loss. FrankieScigliano made 32 saves in theBurrards’ cage.

In Game 2, Burnaby’s vaunt-

ed power play was stymied byMaple Ridge.

The senior A Lakers scored onjust two of 13 power-play oppor-

tunities in a dismal 11-4loss in the best-of-sevenplayoff series against theBurrards in Maple Ridgeon Saturday.

Burnaby tied the game3-3 on a goal by Stevens

early in the second half, but littlewent right after that.

The Burrards responded witheight goals, including five in themiddle frame, to even the seriesat one game apiece.

Dan Lewis took the loss inthe Burnaby goal, stopping just21 of 32 shots on goal. Scigliano

stopped 27 of 31 Laker shots.Riley Loewen of Burnaby was

the game’s second star, scoringtwo times in a five-point night.Jarret Davis garnered sevenpoints for the winners, includinga pair of Maple Ridge markers.Stevens led the Lakers with threepoints.

The game was marred by pen-alties with more than 275 minutesdoled out to both teams, includ-ing a total of 12 fighting majors inthe third period.

Game 4 was played in MapleRidge on Tuesday (after NOWdeadlines).

Game 5 is back at the Copelandcentre on Thursday. Game time is7:45 p.m.

Tom Berridgesports editor

B.C. girls won two ofthree national lacrossechampionship titles inWhitby, Ont.

The provincial bantamand midget girls both cameaway champions over hostOntario, while the juniorgirls earned a bronze medalat the Ontario LacrosseFestival at Iroquois Parklast week.

The midget girls, includ-ing tournament all-stargoalie Bianca Ballarin andNew Westminster team-mates Katie Browning,Delaney Davidson, ChloeNottingham, KeeleyO’NeillandNadineStewart,and Carlene Spagnuolo ofBurnaby, defeated Ontario6-2 in the gold-medal finalto earn B.C.’s third straightnational age-group title atthis division.

The B.C. midget teamwent unbeaten at thenationals, forging a 5-0-1record in the double round-robin, including a 2-2 drawwith Ontario on Aug. 7.

“It was really nice to see.We were trying a lot of dif-ferent things in the roundrobin,” said B.C. midgethead coach Dan Stroup.

“The team was unbe-lievable, their defence,transition and O (offence)was better than any other

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team.”Stewart topped the locals with seven

goals and nine points, while O’Neill hadfour goals and four assists in tournamentplay. Spagnuolo chipped in with six mark-ers.

The bantam girls, including New West’sHannah-Lise Bernoe, Caitlin Croxen,Graceyn Dean, Andreea Serbanescu andPriya Sidhu, had a tougher go of it, losingtheir opening game 3-1 to Alberta and oneof two earlier meetings with Ontario in thedouble preliminary rounds.

“We had heard rumours about Albertaand how good they were; they showedup,” said B.C. bantam head coach ChrisGill.

B.C. bounced back from the Aug. 6loss to Alberta, edging the hosts 3-1. ButOntario came back in the return match,eking out a 4-3 win to set the stage for awinner-take-all final game.

B.C. turned the tables on Ontario, win-ning the gold medal 4-3 in a tight cham-pionship final that went down to the finalminutes.

Behind 3-1 in the final seven minutes,Ontario capitalized on a pair of power-play goals to draw even with B.C.

Mykhaela Johnson of Ridge Meadowsscored the game-winner on a pick-and-rollto the net late in the game.

“It was pretty awesome,” said Gill. “Itwas tough for the bantams, many of themhadn’t been there before.

“It was a big thing for B.C. It was prettyspecial.”

Bernoe and Dean were the top New Westscorers with seven points, including fiveand four goals, respectively. Serbanescualso tallied four times in a six-point tour-nament contribution.

Alberta also had a strong bantam show-ing, finishing the tournament with a recordof 5-2, including a 5-4 win over Ontario inthe preliminary round, and the bronzemedal.

The junior girls team of Leah Purdeyof New West and Burnaby’s RaffaellaCaporale, Amanda Jackson, OrchidKamron, Monica Mastromonaco andAngela Preissl, won the bronze medal fol-lowing a 5-3 win over Nova Scotia. Ontariowon the gold 8-1 over Alberta.

Fourteen-year-old first-year midget cal-lup Megan Stewart of Ridge Meadows wasnamed a junior all-star, leading the teamwith seven goals and four assists.

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Can’t catch me: A Burnaby Braves baserunner beats a rundown with theKamloops infield at the B.C. 15-and-under bantam single A provincial baseballchampionships at Kensington Park last week. Campbell River defeated Abbotsford12-11 in the gold-medal final.


BURNABY NOW SPORTS BRIEFSCanada’s under-15

national girls’ soccer teamqualified for the quarter-finals at the CONCACAFchampionships in theCayman Islands.

Former Burnaby GirlsSoccer Club striker CamilaGomez Hernandez scoredtwo goals in a 6-0 win overCuba that earned a spot inthe final eight for Canada.

The Canadians, includ-ing Mountain United FCplayers Julia Grosso andEmma Regan of Burnaby,opened the inaugural tour-nament with a 5-0 win overPuerto Rico.

Canada drew 1-1 withHaiti on Monday to finishpool play on top of thegroup.

The girls will takeon Costa Rica today(Wednesday) in the quar-ter-finals.

Row to worldsThe Burnaby Lake

Rowing Club will sendtwo members to the worldrowing championships inAmsterdam, Netherlandslater this month.

Lauren Wilkinsonwas named to Canada’swomen’s eight crew,while Michael Wilkinsonwill row with Steven vanKnotsenburg in the men’sdouble sculls.

First in 25 yearsBurnaby Central

Secondary grad Amar

Dhesi won Canada’s firstjunior world wrestlingmedal since 1989, takingthe silver medal in theheavyweight division at thejunior freestyle champion-ships in Zagreb, Hungarylast week.

Dhesi three matchesbefore dropping the finalon points to defendingtwo-time champion GenoPetriashvili of Georgia.

Burnaby’s DartheCapellan lost his quarter-final match at the juniorworlds. Capellan was out-pointed 15-14 by eventualfifth-place finisher PuntsagErdenebileg of Mongolia inthe 55-kilogram division.

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Three-time champion IPS Marathon Taverna defeat-ed Pacific Coast Soccer League premier men’s seasonand playoff champion Khalsa Sporting Club 3-1 in thefinal of the J.F. Kennedy Cup soccer tournament inPortland, Oregon on Sunday.

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