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Local MLAsshut out of new cabinetFalcon-supporter Iain Black loses his spot

By Diane StrandbergTHE TRI-CITY NEWS

The Tri-Cities may have lost a provincialcabinet minister but gained a voice in dis-cussions surrounding one of its perennialhot topics: public transportation.

Iain Black, Port Moody-Westwood MLA,was dropped from his post as minister oflabour, citizens services and open govern-ment in a revamped smaller cabinet an-nounced by Premier Christy Clark aftershe was sworn in Monday.

The change means Black is no longerfront and centre in the debate over the $8 minimum wage ashis ministry had planned a public consultation on the issueand a review of B.C.s employment standards.

But his new appointment as parliamentary secretary forpublic transportation to the minister of transportation andinfrastructure will give him some insight into issues sur-rounding transit and the Evergreen Line.

Black has been an optimistic proponent of the EvergreenLine and said last year that extra stations along the Burnaby-to-Coquitlam route could be built if justified by extra density.

No plastic for taxesCoquitlam homeowners can pay their utility bills, business

licences and parking fines with credit cards but they still cantflash a Visa or MasterCard to pay for property taxes.

On Monday, Coquitlams strategic planning committee rec-ommended that credit cards be generally accepted by the cityfor smaller transactions; the change comes after an outdatedrules review by a consultant.

But big-ticket items wont be able to go on credit cards be-cause of the high merchant fees. The levy is about 2% of thetransaction value, which would translate up to $3.6 millionfor the city just to put property taxes on credit.

Its just not worth it, city manager Peter Steblin said.In addition to property taxes, payments for development

cost charges, deposits (performance and security bonds andtrust payments), land transactions and grants-in-lieu alsowont be able to go on credit cards.

City council is expected to endorse the committees recom-mendation at its meeting next Monday.

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By Todd CoyneTHE TRI-CITY NEWS

Coquitlam realtor Kevin Byrne wasknocked to the ground but thought noth-ing of it when the earth started shaking sixfloors below his room at the Star Hotel inYokohama, Japan.

He got up and turned on the TV. As theshaking continued, he updated his Facebookstatus to include mention of it.

The newscaster started talking about theearthquake and then his face went white asthe shaking intensified right in front of me.The same thing I was feeling, I was watch-ing it being reflected in the newsmans face.It was more disconcerting than anythingIve ever experienced in an earthquake. Ithought, Those guys are panicked.

Having lived in Japan for 14 years be-fore moving back there from Coquitlam inJanuary, leaving his job at Royal LePage andpulling his kids Patrick, 8, and Kaitlyn, 5,out of Glen elementary, Byrne has enduredhundreds of earthquakes, he told The Tri-City News just hours after the initial quake.s

Sometimes you wake up and the bed isshaking and pictures fall off the wall but youjust go back to sleep, he said. They donteven wake me up anymore.

But this was different. This time he fearedfor his life.

This was the big one, the one that Ithought my family was avoiding by comingback to Canada.

One day earlier, Byrne had accepted ateaching job at a school in Fukushima, anarea in the north ravaged by the quake andresulting tsunami, and since rocked by mul-tiple explosions and reports of radiation leak-age at its nuclear plant.

I got the job offer basically 24 hours beforethe earthquake and I havent got in touchwith those people since and I dont even knowif that school is there anymore, he said.

While the windows rattled and luggagecame crashing out of his closet, Byrne raninto the hallway to the emergency exit, bothhands pressed against the walls to keep him-self upright.

Making his way down the street, Byrnefound Yokohama already filled with officeworkers who had fled their jobs. The powerwas out, a broken water main was floodingthe street, there were fires, trains and traffichad stopped.

The violent shaking lasted for five minutes,by Byrnes estimate, and then, less than 10

minutes later, it started again.And that kind of uncertainty persisted for

about six hours.In that time, Byrne made his way to his

mother-in-laws home, where his wife andchildren were living.

His wife, daughter and mother-in-law wereout but he found his son Patrick in a nearbypark, cradling their Chihuahua. And whilethe power lines still swayed back and forth,already emergency response teams were atwork securing neighbourhoods and openingup nearby shelters.

If this was going on in Coquitlam, Id bereally concerned about his safety and not justfrom falling debris but from my son beinghome alone, he said. But here, you knowyour neighbours and... theres no danger ofstrangers coming along.

Byrne stressed that, in his opinion, MetroVancouver is dangerously unprepared for a

major quake, not only in its emergency pre-paredness measures but in its lack of socialcohesion required to band together and carryon after a natural disaster.

If this happened in the Lower Mainland,thered be chaos. It would be the zombie apoc-alypse. Here, everyones just trying to get backto normal; get food, water and help each otherout and get home.

By Monday, Byrne told The News rollingsblackouts and extremely limited train ser-vice were still the norm in Yokohama butpeople were already getting back to work.Meanwhile, the local television stations con-tinue to run desperate notices of missingloved ones beside assurances of others safetywhile the death toll from the March 11 earth-quake and tsunami continues to climb.

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A pro wrestling promoter for 15 years,Dave Teixeira of Port Coquitlam is usinghis Japanese wrestling connections and hishome computer to make a cottage industryof reuniting loved ones caught in the earth-quake in Japan with their friends and fami-lies in Canada and the U.S.

I just basically play operator for them,Teixeira explained Monday.

It all started when Teixeira began usingSkype, the free internet phone service, totalk to friends in Japan, then post their up-dates on his Twitter account (twitter.com/davedotca). Soon, news organizations acrossthe Lower Mainland took notice.

First, CKNW radio asked him to put themin touch with someone in Japan that theycould put on the air.

But CKNW didnt have Skype and much ofJapans phone services were down, althoughinternet access remained in most cities.

And so Teixeira devised a way to allow hisfriends in Japan to use Skype to call his homecomputer and then patch that Skype call to athird-party phone line, like the on-air phoneat CKNW. By the time Teixeira posted how-to instructions for making Skype-to-Skype-to-phone calls on his communications blog(dave.ca), he had just about every newsroomin Metro Vancouver ringing his telephone.

CBC, Vancouver Sun, Global, CFAX anda bunch of other media outlets... So I startedconnecting people for interviews with themand then regular citizens in Japan... some-how got my blog and then asked me to con-nect them with family members here.

Thats when things became emotional,Teixeira said, as he found himself in the mid-dle of three-way phone calls between peo-

ple who hadnt heard from their relatives inJapan since before the March 11 earthquakeand tsunami.

One situation was a father speaking tohis wife and a couple kids who hadnt heardfrom him for about four days, he said. Tobe honest, I tried not to listen in. I tried towalk around my house and let them endthe call naturally themselves and give themprivacy.

That family was in Calgary and Teixeirasaid he has connected loved ones in Japanwith family from as far away as Ontario,many on Vancouver Island and down intoWashington State too.

But not all of the calls have been so ur-gent.

Usually, the first two minutes of the con-versation will often be about how Skypeworks, which is kind of funny. But, certainlyjust to hear the voice and to hear that theyrefine because in an email message you stillhave that level of concern.

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LEFT: KEVIN BYRNE PHOTO; RIGHT: SHELTERBOX CANADA PHOTO

Above left, Kevin Byrne in Yokohamas Yamashita Park, where many fled to in the aftermath of theMarch 11 earthquake. Above right, devastation caused by the quake and resulting tsunami.

PoCo man acts as go-between for desperate familiesStudents here OK

School District 43 moved quickly toidentify and provide support to Japanesestudents attending high schools in thearea after the powerful quake left theAsian country devastated and manyfamilies searching for loved ones.

Patricia Gartland, director of in-struction for International Education,said none of the 20 students attendingclasses in local schools are from areasaffected by Fridays earthquake.

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This was the big one, realtor saysJAPAN EARTHQUAKE: Shaker raises concerns about B.C. residents readiness for a quake

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If this happened in the Lower Mainland, thered be chaos. It would be the zombie apocalypse. Here, everyones just trying to get back to nor-mal; get food, water and helpeach other out and get home.Kevin Byrne (above)

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On Saturday, April 16, 2011, qualified electors in Port Moody will be voting on the following question:

Are you in favour of Council adopting Bylaw 2878, a bylaw to authorize the borrowing of up to$16,000,000 toward the construction of a new Fire Hall to replace the old Fire Hall #1.

Public Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to Section 170 of the Local Government Act, the City of Port Moody will accept applications to act as scrutineers for the Bylaw Referendum to beheld on April 16, 2011.

Scrutineers for and against the question mustbe appointed if applications are received from persons who wish to volunteer for the positions. Only persons entitled to vote as electors on the question above are entitled to act as scrutineers.One scrutineer for and one scrutineer against the question will be appointed for each voting place if sufficient applications are received.

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Some of the Catsserving staff also do-nated their tips to thefundraising effort thatnight, Doncaster said.

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By Diane StrandbergTHE TRI-CITY NEWS

School District 43 will have about $5 million more to spend next year in operating grants but the cash infusion will go to full-day kindergarten, not extra programs.

The budget details came during a conference call last Friday with the Ministry of Education.

Tri-City public school enrollment is expected to increase by about 603 full-time equivalent (FTE) students in September and all but 76 will be five-year-olds who will be attend kindergarten for a full day.

SD43 secretary treasurer Rick Humphreys said the increase amounts to $44 more per student, with total per-student grants in the district averaging out to $6,764.

Its a status quo budget, Humphreys said, not-ing the announcement is important because budget talks for 2011/12 are about to start, with meetings on the topic planned weekly in April.

Board chair Melissa Hyndes said the district is in the middle of analyzing the information from the ministry.

This announcement is the go-ahead for our bud-get deliberations, Hyndes said, noting that the grant is good news.

It could be worse, said the Port Moody trustee. Were going to remain optimistic. But its a status quo budget and we have some specific decisions to be making in the next month.

The total education grant will be $240.1 million, up from $235.3 million this year.

According to the province, the grant allocations are among the highest ever and represent a $58-mil-lion increase in operating grants across the prov-ince.

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By Janis WarrenTHE TRI-CITY NEWS

A major Coquitlam developer plans to buy property from the city to assem-ble land for a residential subdivision on Burke Mountain.

Wesbild has asked to purchase a 28-square metre lot near David and Galloway avenues as part of a new 13.7-

acre subdivision in the Smiling Creek that would have 78 single-family homes. As well, the company has asked to have a road dedication cancelled for the housing project; the dedications total less than half an acre.

Under the agreement, which was ap-proved in principle by the citys land use committee on Monday, Wesbild would pay $374,300 for the lot and the road can-

cellations.The market value on Burke currently

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Police cordoned off the 100-block of Brew Street inthe densely populated Suter Brook Village Sundayafter receiving a tip from the public that the wantedman was holed up there. After confirming the manwanted by police was inside the residence, policemade contact with the man who initially denied thathe was the one they sought. After negotiations withpolice, the man admitted to being the one police wereafter and came out of the residence without incident.

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VICTORIA Fridays earthquake off Japan was a test for B.C.s tsu-nami alert system, with beaches and coastal areas briefly evacuated and on alert for several hours.

It was also the lat-est in a long series of devastating events on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

Geological evidence indicates there have been 13 great earth-quakes in the last 6,000 years. One of the biggest in world history was the Cascadia megathrust event on the B.C. coast on Jan. 26, 1700, which sent a huge tsunami with impacts that can still be seen in Japan.

Japanese records confirm oral histories of First Nations people on Vancouver Island, which describe multiple landslides, prolonged shaking so violent peo-ple couldnt stand up, and the tsunamis de-struction of the winter village of the Pachena Bay people with no sur-vivors.

More recently, there have been four earth-quakes of magnitude seven or higher in the past 130 years in south-west B.C. and north-ern Washington State, according to Natural Resources Canadas Earth Sciences Centre.

Canadas larg est earthquake since 1700 was the magnitude 8.1

event on the Queen Charlotte Fault on Aug. 22, 1949. It damaged buildings on Haida Gwaii and in Terrace, and was felt as far away as Seattle.

The boundary be-t we e n t h e Pa c i f i c and North American plates runs underwa-ter along the west coast of Haida Gwaii, and is B.C.s equivalent of the San Andreas Fault in California.

Provincial emergency officials advise B.C. residents to prepare for earthquakes and other natural disasters, with information at www.pep.bc.ca.

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This summer, BC Hydrostarts installing 1.8million smart metersto eventually upgrade everyelectricity customer in theprovince.

This is controversial for several reasons.First, Hydro is doing it now because formerpremier Gordon Campbell decreed it mustbe done by the end of 2012. Second, the smartgrid is one of several major BC Hydro proj-ects the government exempted from havingto undergo a cost-benefit review by the BCUtilities Commission.

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naturally had no comment on the politics.Smart meters are inevitable, she said, sincemechanical meters are obsolete and eventu-ally wont be made anymore.

Taylor insists the pending rate increaseswould be even higher without smart meters.BC Hydro estimates the wireless meters willnot only pay for themselves but will producea net saving of $500 million over the next 20years.

Even some BC Hydro employees were sur-prised to hear that, with current technology,the utility has no way of knowing your poweris out until you phone them. And when linecrews come out to repair a local blackout,how do they determine if the repair is com-plete? They drive up and down the road to seeif people have lights on. If you use a backupgenerator, they might miss you.

Smart meters will have last-gasp, first-breath capability, storing enough energy tosend a signal that reports the power has goneout and another when it is restored. As itstands now, a repair truck can be dispatched

to a reported power failure only to find thatthe customers main breaker has tripped.

There is another concern, which is thatthe brief signals emitted every few hours tosend readings to a central hub are somehowa health hazard.

BC Hydro has retained former Vancouvermedical health officer Dr. John Blatherwickto respond to this. He notes that smart metersignals are the equivalent of a three-minutecell phone call once per day, at a muchgreater distance.

These particular radio frequency signalsare similar to those used for digital TV. Suchsignals are also emitted by the spark plugs ofa car, by lightning strikes in fact all visiblelight and even the infrared light generatedwith your body heat.

But there are people who insist they havea greater sensitivity and there will probablybe some generalized hysteria and system-milking, as we saw with the squabble over apower line through Tsawwassen.

The NDP is nurturing this flame of discon-

tent as it campaigns against smart meters.Its popular among the young and no less anauthority than Lady Gaga is the poster girl towarn against wireless internet in schools.

NDP leadership candidate John Horgan isthe partys ranking power expert. He mainlyargues that BC Hydro doesnt need to spendall this money on smart meters right now.But he is careful not to question the tinfoilhat perspective and risk alienating the ig-norant and superstitious vote. This is a keyconstituency in parts of B.C.

Blatherwick notes that if you truly areharmed by this level of radiation, you cantlive in a major city.

Ill say. The computer producing this col-umn is on wireless, one of at least a dozensignals it can detect in my neighbourhood.

Our modern comfort is fragile, as Japanreminds us. It needs smart equipment andsmart people.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and colum-nist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com.

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Sporting chanceIts time for a little friendly competition for the lucra-tive sports tourism dollar.Athletes and their families spend big bucks on ac-commodation, food and transportation to attend tourna-ments and theres no reason Coquitlam, along the rest ofthe Tri-Cities, shouldnt grab a piece of the $2-billion pot.

Sure, this region doesnt have a facility like the im-pressive Langley Sports Centre, which is currently host-ing the BC Boys AAA Basketball Championships, orone with the cachet of the Richmond Oval, with its twoOlympic sized rinks, six hardwood sports courts, indoortrack, paddling centre and proximity to the airport andnumerous hotels.

But between them, our three cities have 10 ice rinks,curling rinks, three indoor swimming pools, dozens ofturf and grass fields, and a world-class track-and-field,soccer and field lacrosse complex. The Tri-Cities also hasa vigourous sports community, which has enabled theregion to draw numerous tournaments and special sport-ing events in recent years.

Last year, for example, the Adanacs hosted the MintoCup; in 2009 the World Police and Fire Games camehere; and in 2008, both the Canadian Junior LittleLeague championships and the ILF Under-19 WorldLacrosse Championships came to Coquitlam. In golf, theVancouver Golf Club will be hosting the LPGA in a tourstop thats expected to attract 126 million TV viewers.

The cornerstone for any marketing strategy is iden-tifying a niche and the Tri-Cities will need to identifywhat its strengths are and how to capitalize on them. Itmay not be able to compete with some of the larger, moreaggressively marketed facilities, such as the $56-millionLangley Sports Centre, built in 2009 with city, provincialand private funding, but with the recently upgradedPercy Perry Stadium as its flagship, there are many pos-sibilities.

Currently, user groups are looking for a 2016 BCSummer Games bid and this would be a terrific oppor-tunity to raise the profile of the revamped stadium andtrack, which last hosted the games in 1991.

Still, the region needs a unified marketing presenceand a cohesive strategy for working with groups and as-sociations if it wants to punch above its weight class inthe business of sports tourism.


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The Editor,Premier Christy Clarks new

list of cabinet ministers andprovincial secretaries could beinterpreted as reducing the in-fluence of the Tri-Cities in anycabinet or near cabinet delib-erations.

But instead, it might reflectthe real weakness and short-comings of the two LiberalMLAs who represent this area Iain Black and Doug Horne and what they have accom-

plished or notaccomplishedduring theirtime in office.

Obviously get-ting new bloodinto the cabinet,ensuring thather rivals forthe premiers chair were notexcluded from the inner circleand her debt to her only caucussupporter (Harry Boy) werepriorities.

But maybe thereal issue couldbe that the Tri-Cities were ex-cluded from thecabinet table forthe very validreason that nei-ther Black nor

Horne were viewed as cabinetmaterial. I wonder how bothof them feel now that they areout-ranked by Harry Bloy.Brian McCristall, Coquitlam

Whats message to MLAs?Cities must take action on smokeThe Editor,

Re. Wood smoke is on city agendas(Tri-City News, March 11).

Municipalities are to take over whereMetro left off with controlling woodsmoke. It will be up to the individualcommunities to provide clean air, freeof wood smoke, for their citizens.

Controlling this should be fairlyuncomplicated since most new homesare already equipped with gas fur-naces and gas-fuelled fireplaces, leav-ing only older dwellings with theirexisting open-hearth fireplaces to bedealt with.

Presently, the government has astove exchange program in force to re-place the few existing old stoves withhigh-efficiency models. These unitsare supposed to push 80% less toxicemissions out into the environment.

Since open-hearth fireplaces are avery uncontrolled source of pollution,they may still qualify for a $250 rebatewhen replaced with a gas-fuelled unit.

Municipalities, encouraging thesechanges, will be a better place to live.

Debating whether to burn shouldnot present a big problem. Even the

most avid burner should realize woodsmoke in the environment is causingpollution and is harmful to peopleshealth. It is known to be linked to nu-merous diseases, heart problems andcancer. Wood smoke also can harm thedeveloping lungs of young children,according to BC Lung Association.

The question now is: What safetymeasures will municipal officials pro-vide in order to keep these toxic woodsmoke emissions out of our neigh-bourhoods?Brie Oishi, Port Coquitlam

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Mar 18Get y Involved In Your Community and Volunteer on the Sustainability And Environmental Advisory CommitteeThis committee is an advisory body mandated with providing a local perspective andadvice to Council through the Engineering, Utilities and Environment StandingCommittee on sustainability and key environmental issues and trends while promoting environmental awareness within the community. Coquitlam City Council invites applications from residents with experience and/or a demonstrated interestin, and dedication to, all aspects of the environment, sustainability and thecommunity to serve on the Committee. Youth applicants are encouraged. Please download a copy of the Application Package from the Citys website, or pick up from Coquitlam City Hall, City Clerks Ofce, 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam, B.C or [email protected] for submission of applications is March 18 at 5:00 p.m.,March 18, 2011. Info: Contact Kerri Lore at [email protected] or 604-927-3016.

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Outsiders not resident geese the problem, city decides

By Janis WarrenTHE TRI-CITY NEWS

A pesky bird that has taken over a popular Coquitlam park in past summers will have to shed its feathers some-where else.

On Monday, the citys recreation committee voted to have Canada geese forcibly removed from Como Lake Park during moulting sea-son and relocated to an undisclosed provincial wildlife centre.

T h e c o m m i t t e e , however, was split on whether the city should continue to addle premature eggs found in nests in the G at e n s bu r y S t re e t park, citing the results of last years shaking program.

According to a city staff report, only two nests with 15 eggs were uncovered in 2010 and five eggs had to be re-turned to their nests be-cause they were too ripe to destroy.

The problem is that geese come from outside the area and descend on Como Lake to moult,

Mayor Richard Stewart said, noting nearly 200 birds were counted at the park last July dur-ing the eight- to 10-week flightless period when Canada geese shed their outer wing feathers to grow new ones.

T y p i c a l l y d u r -ing moulting season, Canada geese wreak havoc at parks and in ponds as they congre-gate in mass numbers.

C o u n . S e l i n a Robinson said last years addling showed little effect. The majority arent resident geese, she said of the summer popular swells. As well, addling will have no

impact this summer.Robinson supported

a successful motion by Coun. Mae Reid, who recommended the city not include addling or hazing as part of its 2011 geese management plan (hazing is the use of handheld lasers and trained dogs to scare away geese before they moult).

But Coun. Barrie Lynch argued addling is a component to con-trol the geese overpopu-lation and to preserve the overall health of the park. And he said coun-cillors that didnt want to include addling in the geese management plan

were basing their deci-sion on emotion.

Canada geese can be aggressive towards park users and their droppings can be a li-ability by creating slip-pery and unsanitary pathways, said Lori MacKay, Coquitlams parks and rec general manager. Weve had significant complaints about the droppings, she said.

Canada geese are protected under the na-tional Wildlife Act and are a burden to most North American com-munities, said Kathy Reinheimer, Coquitlams manager of parks and facilities.

Corralling and relo-cating the Como Lake Park birds are expected to cost around $2,800 annually. As well, the proposed 2011 geese management plan will include bylaw officer visits to remind park users not to feed the ani-mals, and there will be more shoreline planting to stop geese from enter-ing the water; the extra shrubs will cost $4,500 over the next three years.

City council is ex-pected to endorse the geese management pro-gram at next Mondays council [email protected]

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Geese that arrive at Como Lake park during moulting sea-son can be aggressive and their droppings could contrib-ute to a fall, so Coquitlam is looking at relocating them.

Plan to move moulting geesewww.tricitynews.comA12 Wednesday, March 16, 2011, Tri-City News

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First elected as an MLA for the Port Moody-Westwood riding in 2005 to replace Clark, Black was previously the minister of small business, technol-ogy and economic development. He will still have input in these areas through his post on the cabinet committee on jobs and economic growth, which Clark said will be a key focus of her government.

Black, who was an organizer for Liberal leader-ship contender Kevin Falcon, did not return calls before The Tri-City News press time.

Meanwhile, BC Liberal Doug Horne, MLA for Coquitlam-Burke Mountain, has been appointed to the legislative review committee, which will be chaired by Attorney General Barry Penner.

Former Tri-City MLA Harry Bloy (now in the riding of Burnaby-Lougheed), the only MLA to sup-port Clarks leadership bid, was named minister of social development.

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Photo negatives are taking uproom so they have to go

By Richard Dal MonteTHE TRI-CITY NEWS

The dress is snow white with long,flowing sleeves gathered at the wrists,and is made with chiffon, so it is light-weight in the warmth of spring. A weddingdress, it has been modified for its new pur-pose, the train excised so the girl can danceaway her prom night unfettered, a row offlowers woven into her hair.

A proud member of the PoCo High classof 81 Go, Ravens! looks at the imageand feels not what-was-I-thinking? regretabout her fashion choices or hairstyle but asatisfying warmth.

The styles have changed, says TraciAlexander, but I still remember the feelings Ihad when I picked the dress and that night.

Photographs have a way of doing that,which is why Alexander reached back 30years to buy the negatives.

Remember negatives?

SIGN OF THE TIMESThe building could pass for a house except

its not situated on a quiet residential streetbut off the end of a strip mall at one of PortCoquitlams busiest intersections. In fact,before the Safeway and Canadian Tire andgiant billboards were erected across thestreet, before the skate park started drawingcrowds of kids and long before PoCos firsthighrise began its ascension about a hundredmetres away, the home of Arthur EdwardsonPhotography used to be a Texaco station.

For 31 years, the business has occupied aspot between recreation and transportation,boxed in by Lions Park on one side, LougheedHighway on another. Tens of thousandsof drivers roll past the premises each day,most in a rush to get to work or get home.And while they may not notice the buildingor know that its bathroom still sports theoriginal gas station tile, theyve likely noticedagain and again the miniature billboardsoutside advertising Edwardsons services andsporting photos of toothy families, adorabledogs, beaming grooms and glowing brides.

A few weeks ago, a new sign went up. Nextto a photo of a cherubic infant, it reads:

Were you SHOT before 1990? Selling all oldnegatives.

The cheeky, eye-catching, all-caps SHOT,it should be noted, is rendered in an OldWest-style typeface, for the sign and thisstory are about history.

THE TRI-CITIES BEFOREArthur Edwardson had long been a

photographer before he made it his full-time business, always juggling it with jobsthat provided a regular paycheque. Backin Saskatchewan, he and his wife, Joyce,taught in one-room schoolhouses. Once theymoved to B.C. in 1957, he worked other jobs:He was an ironworker on what is now the

Ironworkers MemorialBridge, toiled at the oldFlavelle Cedar mill onPort Moodys waterfrontand eventually landed aspot at Scott Paper in NewWestminster.

He left the Scott Paperjob and turned his atten-tion to the camera forgood in the mid-1970s, bas-ing his business out of the family home onGrant Avenue in PoCo; the living room wasthe studio (until the house was raised) andthe three Edwardson boys had to clear out ofthe house when a shoot was happening.

In 1980, the Edwardsons built the currentbuilding around the old Texaco, putting indedicated studio space, a waiting room with awood-burning fireplace and a back room withwhat probably felt like plenty of storage.

Rows of handmade wooden drawers lineone wall of that space, each holding hun-dreds of envelopes filed according to Joycessystem A, B, C each of these holdingdozens or hundreds of negatives.

While they obviously pre-date digital pho-tography, they also pre-date much of whatTri-City residents think of as the Tri-Cities.There are negatives that were processed,dried, clipped and filed before even oneshopper had strolled through the doors ofCoquitlam Centre mall, negs from shootsthat pre-date development of WestwoodPlateau, Heritage Mountain and the big-boxares of the Dominion Triangle and United

Boulevard and, perhaps, the coining ofthe term big-box store.

And as thin and fragile as they are, theyretaking up room and they have to go.

SOMEBODYS HISTORYWe decided that we would clean out the

old stuff first, says Joyce Edwardson. [1990]is just an arbitrary number to help me out,give me some space. It still isnt enough.

I just cant do it, I cant throw them away,

she says. Ive spent a lot of time pacing infront of that filing cabinet trying to figure outwhat to do with them... What are you going todo with them? We didnt want to throw themaway but how do you contact people?

Thus the sign an idea of NeilEdwardson, 45, the company photographersince his father died in 2006 and the offer tosell off the oldest negs.

JENNIFER GAUTHIER/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

Neil Edwardson (above) now presides over Arthur Edwardson Photography in Port Coquitlam along withhis mother, Joyce Edwardson (above left). They are selling off old photo negatives and Traci Alexanderwas one of the first to buy, scooping up, among other things, her grad photos (top left with neg).

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The group calls itself Help RaraKick Cancers Butt, has a Facebookpage with the same name and ishosting a fundraiser Friday forRobin Poussard, a longtime PoCoresident with two children.

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The adventure of a lifetime began when Don andDana Starkell left Winnipeg in a three-seater canoe.They could not have foreseen the danger ahead. Twoyears and more than 12,000 miles later, this fatherand son had encountered wild pigs, hungry alliga-tors, piranhas, slept on beaches, in jungles and fields,and paddled nearly 20 million strokes. They hadmany hairy moments on their voyage to paddle fromWinnipeg to the mouth of the Amazon. Among theseinclude encountering pirates and being mistaken fordrug smugglers and spies. This is the story of a familyon an unforgettable journey and a really good read.

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