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A2 NewsLeader Wednesday, December 31, 2014A2 NewsLeader Wednesday, December 31, 2014
The Irish Rovers will bring their 50th year tour to New Westminster’s Massey Theatre.
Fittingly enough, the concert will be on March 13, just a few days before St. Patrick’s Day.
The Rovers, who starred in their own national television show on CBC during the 1970s and later on private broadcasters, are touring the world to celebrate their 50 years of music.
Despite their longevity and being on their final world tour, band member George Millar, one of the band’s original members with Wilcil McDowell, doesn’t plan to stop performing.
“As you get older and you’re in a different bed every night, your poor old back is screaming at you. But God, no. I’m never retiring.
After the world tour is over we’ll still be recording and performing at festivals, special events and short trips here and there. Better to leave those big tours to the younger bands,” said Miller in a press release from the band.
Miller’s brother Will was the band’s leader from 1965 to 1993 when he left. Lead singer Jimmy Ferguson died in 1997. The band was known for hit songs like The Unicorn and Wasn’t That a Party.
The Massey Theatre will also be the site of an International Guitar Night tour on Jan. 22 featuring renowned guitarists Maneli Jamal, Brian Gore, Diego Figueiredo and Andrew York.
Tickets for both concerts are available at www.masseytheatre.com.
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The Irish Rovers final world tour will stop in New Westminster at the Massey Theatre on March 13.
Irish Rovers to appear at Massey in March
NEW WESTMINSTER FIRE FIGHTERS’ CHARITABLE SOCIETY TREE CHIPPINGSaturday, January 3, 2015 and Sunday, January 4, 2015 from 10:00 am - 3:00 pmat the Canada Games Pool Parking lot, 65 E Sixth Ave
Join us for a BBQ, popcorn, face painting, music, and extinguisher demos.
Trees will be chipped and recycled. All proceeds go to the New Westminster Fire Fighters’ Charitable Society. Make a donation and support local community charities!
The New Westminster Scouts will also be holding a bottle drive. Please bring your recyclable bottles and cans to help bring adventure, outdoor experience and friendship to New West youth.
CHANGES TO SMOKING CONTROL BYLAWOn January 1, 2015, the City of New Westminster will implement changes to the Smoking Control Bylaw No. 6263 which has been amended to reduce the impact of exposure to second-hand smoke in public spaces and to make our city a healthier community.
The bylaw changes include the following restrictions:
• Smoking is prohibited within 7.5 meters of doors, windows and air intakes for public and workplace buildings;
• Smoking is prohibited on all restaurants and pub patios; and
• Smoking is prohibited within 15 meters of outdoor sports facilities, playgrounds, off -leash dog parks and picnic areas within city parks.
Building owners must take reasonable measures to post bylaw compliant signage, removing ashtrays and taking steps to ensure that smoking does not take place on their premises. ‘No Smoking’ signs must be prominently displayed so they are clearly visible. A limited quantity of printed signs and decals will be available for pick up at New Westminster City facilities including City Hall, Queensborough Community Centre, Century House, Centennial Community Centre, and the Fraser Health Public Health Unit, 218 - 610 6th Street.
Signs are also available online and can be downloaded and printed at www.newwestcity.ca/hcp.
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PUBLIC ART CALL FOR PROPOSALS - GATEWAY TO DOWNTOWNNEW WESTMINSTERThe City of New Westminster is seeking submissions from qualifi ed artists with public art experience to propose an installation on the median along Columbia Street in downtown New Westminster. The call for proposals seeks work that celebrates and acts as a visual gateway marker into downtown New Westminster.
The installation should be non-interactive and appreciated from a visual distance such as driving, transit, Skytrain and pedestrian traffi c from across the street. The call seeks work that is positive, celebrates downtown New Westminster and is refl ective of the heritage, growth and development of the City.
The successful artist or artist team will be responsible for the creation, fabrication and installation of the art and will work with the City of New Westminster’s Public Art Advisory Committee. This opportunity is funded in part by the former New Westminster Community Development Society and the City of New Westminster. The submission deadline is March 6, 2015.
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Happy HolidaysThe City of New Westminster would like to wish you a happyand safe holiday season with best wishes for the new year!
Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A3Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A3
This year the NewsLeader celebrated its 25th anniversary.
My byline has appeared under photos in this newspaper for all but two of those years.
When I came out of journalism school 30 years ago, I was determined to tell stories with a camera.
I’d gone into journalism school four years earlier because my high school teachers said I could write and working for a newspaper seemed a pretty good way to get paid regularly to write.
But during the course of my education I decided I wanted to make the camera my storytelling tool of choice.
Photographers seemed like the cool guys in the newsroom,
with their expensive cameras and lenses, the mysterious darkroom where they disappeared at the end of every shift, then reappeared hours later with stacks of fantastic images as if by magic.
Photographers can’t sit in the office and reconstruct events by making phone calls. They have to be there.
Photographers don’t get to hang out in the warmth of press boxes or work rooms. They have to be on the sidelines, lens pressed to the glass at the hockey arena, down in front at the political event.
Of course that also means photographers have to endure the rain and cold, have to jostle for space with other photographers and TV camera operators, have to
dodge careening football players.But at the end of those
sometimes harrowing days, you feel like you’ve been a part of the news; you’ve lived it in a small way, rather than just observed it. And hopefully the photos you took convey part of that experience to readers.
In the NewsLeader’s formative years, when it was called simply the News, its photos were produced out of a darkroom at our sister paper serving
Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody. That’s where the photographers for a few papers picked up their assignments at the beginning of the day and went to process film and make prints towards the end of our shift.
Needless to say traffic wasn’t as bad back then. Getting from Boundary Road to the Mary Hill Bypass wasn’t the half day-long excursion it can be now.
When the photographers from the various papers converged at the end of the day, we chewed over the events and people we covered, looked over each other’s negatives, pitched in if someone had a particularly voluminous load of film to process.
If a big event was happening, a photographer could get pulled
from their paper to pitch in, provide back up or relief.
It was a collegial, collaborative team that produced some pretty good community photojournalism and pushed each other to do even better.
Of course we had complaints. We wouldn’t be journalists if we didn’t grumble cynically about stuff.
A lot has changed since then.Digital technology has changed
the way we work and thinned the numbers who still get to do this work. It’s changed the perception of the work we do.
But one thing hasn’t changed. We still can’t take pictures from our desk, over the phone. We have to be there.
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A4 NewsLeader Wednesday, December 31, 2014A4 NewsLeader Wednesday, December 31, 2014
The chippers will be whirring at full force this weekend at the city’s annual Christmas tree recycling put on by the New Westminster Firefighters Charitable Society.
It will be held at the Canada Games Pool parking lot Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with proceeds to the society. Trees will be chipped and recycled.
A barbecue, music, extinguisher demonstrations and other fun kids activities will also be held.
The New Westminster Scouts will also hold a bottle drive to help support their friendship, adventure and outdoor experiences for youth.
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New Westminster’s Steel & Oak has been labeled as the best new craft brewery in British Columbia in the Beer ME BC’s annual craft beer survey.
More than 1,500 respondents chose Steel & Oak, opened in June, to be the best new brewery opened in the past 12 months. It beat out Vancouver’s Bomber Brewing, Dageraad from Burnaby, Yellow Dog in Port Moody and Barkerville Brewery in Quesnel.
Tie auction raises $11,000
Royal City Jewellers and Loan’s 18th annual Tie Day auction raised $11,042 for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank this year.
Food bank CEO Aart Shuurman Hess said the money means it will be able to leverage the money into $33,000 worth of groceries.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A5Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A5
Two of the biggest events in New
Westminster’s year occurred within a few weeks of
each other, and on the same block of Columbia Street.
Right: Hundreds of people turned out
at Hyack Square for the unveiling
of the Wait For Me Daddy statue commemorating
a famous news photograph from
the Second World War. The subject
of that photo, Whitey Bernard,
then a young boy reaching out to his dad as he marched off to war, was the
special guest of the event headed
by Coun. Lorrie Williams. It took a bit of hustle to get behind the statue to get his reaction
to it as he saw the final product
for the first time. Below: Everyone in
New Westminster was excited about the opening of the
new Anvil Centre on Columbia
Street. Especially these dancers as
they gathered in a hallway to
perform at the new building’s public
debut.
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A6 NewsLeader Wednesday, December 31, 2014A6 NewsLeader Wednesday, December 31, 2014
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If you had told me last January that Casey Cook would be acclaimed vice chair of the New West school board, I’d have laughed in your face.
Not that Cook, named to the job this month, isn’t knowledgeable and experienced, or deserving of the role. But his political stripe—that being not labour-endorsed—blocked him from the role in the past.
To the average New West resident, the school board of the past appeared to be mired in acrimony and incompetence.
We have a different board today. And, in large part thanks to the leadership of superintendent/CEO John Gaiptman, we have a different school district.
That’s not to say SD40 has slayed all its dragons.
Years of accumulated deficits are still being paid off. But there’s a viable, credible plan, with an entirely new staff in the finance department charged with
ensuring it unfolds to plan.And in November, there was
the glimmer of good news as the district was hiring (15 teachers, nine educational assistants) instead of laying people off.
It doesn’t make up for the 90 or so laid off over the previous two rounds, but it’s progress.
“We’re not there yet, but I believe we’re heading in the right direction,” Gaiptman said at the time.
But what about the bloody high school, you say?
Yes—this is a biggie—there’s still no replacement. For many, this is the biggest, most painful thorn, a source for some of almost maddening frustration.
And they may not even be aware of the fact that a 1993 NewsLeader article refers to a possible groundbreaking for the new school in… 1995.
(OK, let’s all take a breath...)But past is past. The good
news is, there’s a timeline—agreed to by the province—for project approval.
There’s also the beginnings of a track record of success in school construction, with the opening of Qayqayt elementary in September, and the new Fraser River middle school under construction and slated to open this September.
There were glitches at Qayqayt, of course, with what appeared to be some poor coordination with the city about traffic management and safe pick-up/drop-off routines.
Yet since he was hired in February, Gaiptman has been quietly making repairs to SD40, and giving good information to the school trustees so they can
make wise decisions.And the trustees, who have
always been skilled, community-minded folks, are looking more professional by the day.
Scrapping political lines of division, putting a labour and non-labour trustee together in the key posts on the board, is a sign of a maturing board and a new atmosphere of professionalism.
My greatest hope is that this doesn’t just lead to stable, competent management of the big issues, like balancing budgets and building schools.
Ideally, it also results in better opportunities and support for students and teachers, and greater excellence in New Westminster’s school system.
Gaiptman came to New West to be a “fixer” of sorts. He’s not here for the long haul.
Let’s hope he stays long enough to ensure the foundations are solid, and the district so successful that top talent will clamour to carry on his work.
The year SD40 turned a corner
Justin Trudeau has come up with a campaign idea that may help him seal the deal with enough voters to win power in next October’s federal election.
He has taken direct aim at the prime minister’s secrecy, the muzzling of cabinet ministers, MPs and bureaucrats and what he calls “message control.”
Many people who otherwise have few issues with the Conservative government are not happy with the manufactured flow of information. Other than government ads which feature “the Harper government,” actual information from MPs and civil servants is often sparse.
While some MPs like Langley’s Mark Warawa are quite open and accessible with citizens and local media, many more are not.
Many cabinet ministers rarely hold press conferences. Harper himself is almost permanently unavailable to the media. He makes a few appearances, such as a recent year-end interview on CBC, but he never answers questions in an impromptu fashion.
When he appeared at a fundraiser in Langley in the summer, he did not say one word to any media person, national, regional or local. Supporters who wished to talk to him had to stand in a lengthy lineup.
Prime ministers don’t have to be your friends. But they do have to be accountable, and that includes saying something that isn’t scripted, at least once in a while.
Like Bard the bowman in The Hobbit, Trudeau has taken aim at this weak spot in the dragon’s scales, and it may score enough votes for him to at least win a minority government.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A7Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A7
B icycle Bill was a local legend in New Westminster for nearly
half a century. He was peculiar, eccentric, and a one-of–a-kind loner. But although people saw him collecting pop bottles from Columbia Street litter bins almost every day beginning in the 1930s, few knew his real name, or ever spoke with him.
He was nicknamed Bicycle Bill because he was never seen without the bicycle with only one pedal he used to transport the pop bottles he sold for two cents each on Front Street. He never sat on the bike, but pushed it, and had removed the one pedal so he could walk alongside the bike without getting his legs tangled. The remaining pedal allowed him to use the bike as a kind of scooter if he wished.
Some claimed Bill lived in a shack in Surrey under the Pattullo Bridge. Others said he lived in a cave or a tent somewhere in the Surrey bush lands. But wherever he lived, he walked his bicycle across the bridge to New Westminster early each morning for years, carrying his bag lunch, usually a tin of sardines, a container of milk and a banana.
Former Deputy Police Chief Rod Keary used to tell a story about his encounter with Bill and the one-pedal bike.
“We got a hot a tip that someone was planning to waylay Bill and steal the money
belt he was supposed to carry under his coat. We drove over the bridge to warn him and saw him approaching with his bicycle. I got out of the car and walked toward him, signaling him to stop. But he took off, riding his bicycle like a scooter. I chased him for about two blocks before I caught up with him.”
According to reports, Bill rarely spoke, and, on one occasion declined to speak to a newspaper reporter who stopped him in the street and asked him to agree to an interview. According to his step-niece, he stopped talking to his relatives and rejected all overtures from them beginning sometime in the 1940s.
When Bill died in 1973, a Columbia Street business owner came forward to tell Bill’s story. According to the man, a former co-worker, Bill’s real name was Eric Neumeier, and he had been born in Germany. The man said Bill was a skilled watchmaker who once worked at Philip Spurgeon’s Jewelry Shop on Columbia Street, and that he became upset and angry when watches became more and more made by machine rather than
by hand.In addition, the man said,
Bill believed Adolf Hitler was doing a commendable job of rebuilding Germany following the ravages of the First World War, and he became bitter when the Allies went to war against his homeland.
During his last few years, Bill lived reclusively at the rundown Alpine Apartments in New Westminster. He left behind several battered, stained and padlocked suitcases containing various items he had salvaged from Columbia Street litter bins over the years, and a set of delicate watchmaker’s tools, treasured remnants from earlier and better times.
When Bicycle Bill died at St. Mary’s Hospital in November 1973, his remains were unclaimed. He was cremated at the city’s expense, followed by a short funeral service at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church. The service was attended by a handful of women and six pallbearers were supplied by the church.
“He seems to have had more friends in death than when he was alive,” one woman commented after the service. “ I didn’t know him but from what I have read about him he seems to have been a lonely man.”
Don Benson is a local historian and a City of New Westminster
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Don Benson
Bicycle Bill was a local legend in New West
COMMENTThis fractured cityRe: LOOKING BACK/LOOKING AHEAD: Reviving the waterfront
As the article above clearly describes there is development inequity in New Westminster. Most development has historically happened and continues to happen on the mainland side of New Westminster. At the close of 2014, Queensborough still has no sidewalks or a viable pedestrian connection to the mainland. The Quayside-Queensborough pedestrian bridge is a “hope,” although funding was allocated from the casino deal—which happens to be in Queensborough itself.
New Westminster is a fractured city and will remain so until the Queensborough pedestrian bridge is completed. The new mayor and his team should not continue looking at Queensbough from the same perspective as past mayors—top down—as an afterthought, a “nice to have.”
Rather, they should look at it as an important part of the city, in serious need of investment and a pedestrian connection to the city.
Just compare any area of Uptown, the waterfront, etc., and you will see where the city’s funding goes.
Alejandro Alcantaranewwestnewsleader.com
TOO MANY TROUBLED PEOPLERe: Police seek machete-wielding attacker
We need to stop attracting troubled people into our city with these halfway houses and treatment centres or soon we’ll become as dangerous as Surrey. I haven’t lived in New West long but was instrumental in the capture of a vandal who likes to smash windows of local businesses. He lived at the Lookout project on Carnarvon. The best way for our community to be safe is to report suspicious activity immediately to police.
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A12 NewsLeader Wednesday, December 31, 2014 Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A13
LOOKING BACK ON A YEAR OF SUCCESS _____________________________Many businesses are reviewing 2014 operations. Did we reach
our goals and complete the tasks that we set out to do? How have we changed as an organization? What can we do better next year?
At the Chamber of Commerce we ask the same questions.
There’s something quite powerful about seeing your whole year laid out month by month in a spreadsheet.
Weekly membership communications, the Doing Business in New Westminster magazine, elevated networking events, awards ceremonies and gala dinners. In addition we spent time participating in dialogues with key stakeholders to further business interest in the region. Meetings with TransLink, MMBC, Port Metro, and the Whitecaps to name a few. We were also engaged in dialogue about truck route changes, the
Fraser River, dredging, short sea shipping and land use. We provided a forum for a local mayoral all candidates meeting and encouraged New West to consider the business interest during the election. We reviewed policy at both the provincial and Federal level through the BC Chamber and Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
This past year has set the direction and created a � rm foundation for the years to come. As we begin to make our plans for next year, we encourage you to think of the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce as you’re making yours. We are a valuable place to meet people, make business connections, learn about local business issues and advocate for New Westminster as a strong place to do business.
We wish you a prosperous 2015!
NEW WESTMINSTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND SURREY BOARD OF TRADE CALL FOR SUSPENSION/REDUCTION OF TOLLS DURING PATTULLO BRIDGE MAINTENANCE WORK IN 2015 _____________________The New Westminster Chamber of Commerce and the Surrey
Board of Trade are calling on the provincial government to suspend or reduce tolls on the Port Mann Bridge during Pattullo Bridge safety and maintenance work in 2015.
“Even though we are in the middle of a Transit Referendum process, the Pattullo Bridge must still be maintained for the next ten years. Even if the Transit Referendum is successful, the Pattullo Bridge still needs ongoing maintenance. It is a major economic corridor connecting Surrey and New Westminster,” said Cori Lynn Germiquet, CEO, New Westminster Chamber of Commerce.
“With the Pattullo Bridge maintenance work, traf� c will need to be diverted at times. We know that the priority for the Province of BC is to ensure ef� cient and effective movement of goods and people. A short-term suspension or reduction in tolls
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Both business organizations, mandated to attract and support business in their cities, have been in communication with TransLink. Other minor work has been done on the Pattullo Bridge in recent years where traf� c management options, alternative routes, transit alternatives were considered. The work that is upcoming in 2015 will help to reduce the cost to business, as this major economic corridor is maintained. TransLink is proceeding with plans for structural seismic upgrades and deck rehabilitation. These works are necessary even if funding for a new Pattullo Bridge is secured in 2015. They are essential to ensuring the safety of drivers and marine traf� c that travels below the bridge.
Invest New West
BUSINESS IN NEW WEST ____________________
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YOUR NEW WESTMINSTER CHAMBER: 2014 __________By all accounts 2014 was a phenomenal year.
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2014 YEAR IN REVIEW SNAPSHOTEVENTS:• Annual General Meeting• Cocktails, Cookies and Connections• Springtime Sizzle• DOing Business on the Green Golf Tournament• Shred-a-Thon• Rolling into Summer • Wrap n Bash• 2014 Economic Forum• Platinum Awards• Royal City Builders Awards• Civic Mayoral Forum• Fraser River Economic Forum• Keys to Success • Christmas at Cartwright’s• Connecting Employers to New Canadians• BC Chamber Executives Conference
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A12 NewsLeader Wednesday, December 31, 2014 Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A13
LOOKING BACK ON A YEAR OF SUCCESS _____________________________Many businesses are reviewing 2014 operations. Did we reach
our goals and complete the tasks that we set out to do? How have we changed as an organization? What can we do better next year?
At the Chamber of Commerce we ask the same questions.
There’s something quite powerful about seeing your whole year laid out month by month in a spreadsheet.
Weekly membership communications, the Doing Business in New Westminster magazine, elevated networking events, awards ceremonies and gala dinners. In addition we spent time participating in dialogues with key stakeholders to further business interest in the region. Meetings with TransLink, MMBC, Port Metro, and the Whitecaps to name a few. We were also engaged in dialogue about truck route changes, the
Fraser River, dredging, short sea shipping and land use. We provided a forum for a local mayoral all candidates meeting and encouraged New West to consider the business interest during the election. We reviewed policy at both the provincial and Federal level through the BC Chamber and Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
This past year has set the direction and created a � rm foundation for the years to come. As we begin to make our plans for next year, we encourage you to think of the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce as you’re making yours. We are a valuable place to meet people, make business connections, learn about local business issues and advocate for New Westminster as a strong place to do business.
We wish you a prosperous 2015!
NEW WESTMINSTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND SURREY BOARD OF TRADE CALL FOR SUSPENSION/REDUCTION OF TOLLS DURING PATTULLO BRIDGE MAINTENANCE WORK IN 2015 _____________________The New Westminster Chamber of Commerce and the Surrey
Board of Trade are calling on the provincial government to suspend or reduce tolls on the Port Mann Bridge during Pattullo Bridge safety and maintenance work in 2015.
“Even though we are in the middle of a Transit Referendum process, the Pattullo Bridge must still be maintained for the next ten years. Even if the Transit Referendum is successful, the Pattullo Bridge still needs ongoing maintenance. It is a major economic corridor connecting Surrey and New Westminster,” said Cori Lynn Germiquet, CEO, New Westminster Chamber of Commerce.
“With the Pattullo Bridge maintenance work, traf� c will need to be diverted at times. We know that the priority for the Province of BC is to ensure ef� cient and effective movement of goods and people. A short-term suspension or reduction in tolls
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Invest New West
BUSINESS IN NEW WEST ____________________
For more information on the NEW WESTMINSTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE please visit WWW.NEWWESTCHAMBER.COM
Provided by CHRISTINE CONWAY, CHAIR, NEW WESTMINSTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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THE BC CHAMBER EXECUTIVES GALA BROUGHT GREAT MINDS, FOOD AND ENTERTAINMENT TOGETHER
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TODD TALBOT FROM LOVE IT OR LIST IT VANCOUVER AT THE BUILDERS AWARDS
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COMPETITION WAS FIERCE AT THE DOING BUSINESS ON THE GREEN
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Our offi ce in West Vancouver has amalgamatedwith our new location in Capilano Mall
next to Walmart, the Liquor Store and Kins Market.
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• HOME • CONDO • TENANTS • BUSINESS • MARRIAGE
LICENCE
Stephen GrafStephen Graf & Company Solicitor & Notary PublicPhone: 604-314-5700 Email: [email protected]
604 Columbia Street, Suite 480 New Westminster, BC V3M 1A5
Protecting your legalinterests is our
BUSINESS.
Proud member of theNew Westminster Chamber
of Commerce since 1958.
PLATINUM AWARDS BANQUET
THE BC CHAMBER EXECUTIVES GALA BROUGHT GREAT MINDS,
PRIZES ARE DRAWN AT THE
COMPETITION WAS FIERCE AT THE
MAYOR WRIGHT AT
THE BC CHAMBER EXECUTIVES GALA BROUGHT GREAT MINDS,
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!
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Limited Space Call 604-553-1176
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YOUR NEW WESTMINSTER CHAMBER: 2014 __________By all accounts 2014 was a phenomenal year.
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2014 YEAR IN REVIEW SNAPSHOTEVENTS:• Annual General Meeting• Cocktails, Cookies and Connections• Springtime Sizzle• DOing Business on the Green Golf Tournament• Shred-a-Thon• Rolling into Summer • Wrap n Bash• 2014 Economic Forum• Platinum Awards• Royal City Builders Awards• Civic Mayoral Forum• Fraser River Economic Forum• Keys to Success • Christmas at Cartwright’s• Connecting Employers to New Canadians• BC Chamber Executives Conference
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A10 NewsLeader Wednesday, December 31, 2014A10 NewsLeader Wednesday, December 31, 2014
RIGHT: It’s always challenging to go to a mundane assignment like
a construction update and look for a unique angle or perspective that
will produce an unusual photo. That’s what happened when I was sent to get a shot of the
new pedestrian overpass to Pier Park in New Westminster. BELOW
LEFT: It’s the first day of school at the new Qayqayt elementary
school but there’s still last minute construction work going on, so
the challenge was to capture those two disparate elements in one frame. BELOW RIGHT: There
was no shortage of ice bucket challenge photo ops in the fall, when the fundraising effort for
research into ALS became an Internet sensation. This one, by
people affiliated with Honour House, was notable for the lengths the New West Fire
Department went to make it happen. And that I went to, to
stay out of the splash zone.
RIGHT: Business portraits are always
a challenge as the subjects are
sometimes reluctant to play along with a fun or creative
idea. A couple of no-nonsense realtors are
looking to sell the gatehouse of one of the province’s most
notorious prisons, so why not go low and
make them look like they could have been
gruff guards back in the day.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A11Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A11
TOP: Whenever a new building goes up, I always look for its photographic possibilities. When I first stepped into the new Anvil Centre I was a little underwhelmed by its visual opportunity. It’s a handsome structure, no doubt. It took me a few passes through the lobby and up and down the stairs, as well as a fortuitous ray of sunshine to see how expansive windows make for interesting plays of light inside. Then I just had to wait for someone to look up. BOTTOM: As the number of veterans attending Remembrance Day ceremonies dwindles, I find myself increasingly looking for moments that involve young people learning the lessons of the past.
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A12 NewsLeader Wednesday, December 31, 2014A12 NewsLeader Wednesday, December 31, 2014
RIGHT: We get a lot of overcast
days on the Lower Mainland, so
pops of colour like these paper
lanterns are always an allure
to a photographer looking for a
feature photo.BELOW: There
are still days in this job that send you home walking
on air because you had the
privilege to be part of something
very cool. Like spending a
morning with the Stanley Cup as Bill
Ranford toured it around his
New Westminster haunts. And
for a few brief moments I even
found myself all alone with
the magnificent trophy.
LEFT: At a crazy popular event like New Westminster’s Columbia StrEAT Food Truck Festival, it can be challenging to find a quiet, clean shot. So you often have to look beyond the crowds.ABOVE: Three guys fulfilling their ambition to brew craft beer. Of course, they toast their success with their distinctive growler jugs.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A13Wednesday, December 31, 2014 NewsLeader A13
Clockwise from top left: Like most of us, when it’s cold, I want to be warm. And on a cold spring day, there’s few
places warmer than the city greenhouses in Queen’s Park, especially as work begins on preparing the colourful flower
baskets that hang from poles around New West; Our preview story for the Heritage Home tour is an annual highlight
for me. I try to capture the story of our featured home by concentrating on details as well as giving readers a chance
to meet the owners. Sometimes I’m able to accomplish both in one frame; When I walked into Susan Greig’s new 100
Braid St. art studios and gallery, I was immediately struck by the wonderful light and unique decor that was constructed
of old door and window frames. So that’s what I used to compose this portrait; May Day in New West is bedlam.
So many kids dancing around so many maypoles. So many proud parents trying to capture those moments on their cell phones and digital cameras. The only way to make sense of
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