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It’s that time of year again, and we allknow what that means: the Christmaslight extravaganza is once again upon us.We know you’re on the hunt for the most

outstanding displays in Burnaby, so it’sbecome something of a tradition for us tomake it easier on you by presenting a list ofthe top must-see houses in Burnaby this holi-day season.

Now, who doesn’t love a nice light fixtureon the roofs of our houses or displays in thefront of our lawns, but there are those whogo above and beyond to impress passersby.There are also some who take it to the nextlevel not only to wow the community, but tohelp by raising money with their eye-catch-ing displays.

Here’s our list of this year’s best andbrightest light displays in Burnaby:! 5951 Baffin Pl.: The Sherwood house isall done up again this year with a smalltribute to the Grinch and his little dog Max.The lights twinkle from every corner of thehouse and bring a new definition to the word“cheer.”! 4990 Belleville Ave.: With the help oftheir candy canes in all different sizes, hugesnowmen and twinkling snowflakes, theDube family is collecting for Variety – TheChildren’s Charity.! 6908 Bryant Ct.: This year the Khan fam-ily decided to raise money for the KidneyFoundation of Canada. You’ll find frostylights with a fountain where thereindeer graze, and Santa and hishelpers politely ask for your dona-tion.! 7720 Burgess St.: Reindeer,reindeer everywhere. As you walkalong the sidewalk, you’ll find twopastures of your favourite holiday animalfrolicking on the lawn of the Halliday home.! 8222 Burnlake Dr.: This family is collect-ing for the B.C. Children’s Hospital. TheDuPlessis family has outdone themselves thisyear. With beautiful new improvements totheir already huge festive display, the housefeatures snowmen galore and a magical largeChristmas tree for everyone to enjoy. Enterthe special viewing area and take photos withfriends and family.! 4466 Frances St.: This display is uniquelymade up of 95 per cent salvaged PVC pipe.The Tallaricos hope you enjoy their pretty

multi-coloured arches lit up to wish you aMerry Christmas.! 6728 Grant Pl.: Once again, the Jacobonifamily is lighting up the corner of Sperling

Avenue and Grant Place. The displayfeatures animated Christmas char-acters from Sesame Street and StarWars as well as our favourite charac-ters like Charlie Brown, Mickey andRudolph. You’ll have to come andsee for yourself who else they have

hanging around. All collections are going tothe Alzheimer’s Society of B.C.! 950 Kensington Ave.: Burnaby’s bestChristmas lights are up again, and it’s allthanks to Bortolo Rinaldo. Rinaldo has raisedover $110,000 with his Christmas display,and you’ll find out why from about a mileaway. This is the one house all holiday fanat-

ics should know about. Its giant lit-up trees,stars, sleighs and thousands of dazzlinglights make this house the one to see everyChristmas. All proceeds go to the MichaelCuccione Foundation for cancer research.! 1225 Sperling Ave.: Beautiful blues andgreens outline the Milano family’s house.This is a new brilliant display of lights tocheck out this Christmas holiday, for sure.! 545 Sunset Ave. (Coquitlam): Just on theCoquitlam side of the border with Burnaby,you’ll find the home of Darren Penningtonall lit up for the holidays. His house has twoeight-foot trees, which dance to music, andthere are 2,000 lights on the roof and a candystick fence. Visiting hours are 5 to 10:30 p.m.

For a complete photo gallery and interactivemap with all of the displays, go to our site at www.burnabynow.com and click on the Community tab.

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Charity drive: The DuPlessis family, at 8222 Burnlake Dr., is collecting donations for theB.C. Children’s Hospital.

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He’s staying put. Aftermonths of mulling over ashot at the provincial NDPleadership race, Burnaby-New Westminster MP PeterJulian has decided to stickto his post in Ottawa.

Julian made theannouncement Thursday,at a press conference heldin his Burnaby constitu-ency office.

“There are many tal-ented potential leaders inour party, and I particu-larly hope to see many ofthe talented women in ourmovement step forward torun for leadership in thenew year,” Julian said ina written statement. “But Iwon’t be among them.”

Julian outlined theissues he reviewed whileconsidering whether to runprovincially – includingB.C.’s high rates of childpoverty, homelessness anddebt – but he decided tostay at his federal post.

“Members of our federalcaucus have been particu-larly convincing in tellingme that my current workas national caucus chair isimportant to achieving ahistoric victory for workingfamilies in Ottawa in 2015with a potential new NDPgovernment,” he said.

In September, B.C.NDP leader Adrian Dixannounced he was step-ping down and that theparty would hold a leader-ship race to replace him.

The NDP leadershiprace will likely happen infall of 2014, but no dateor location has been con-firmed yet.

Meanwhile, Burnaby-Douglas MP KennedyStewart is still consideringrunning for the B.C. NDPleadership. He has a teamto help him plan, and theymeet regularly.

“We’re meeting twiceweekly and seriously con-sidering this bid, but Iwon’t be making my deci-sion till January,” he said.“This is the biggest politi-cal decision I’ll make in mylife, but I’m taking the timeto do it right.”

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As the year draws to aclose, it’s time to takestock of things I’ve put

in this column for the last 52weeks. Things like predictionsand forecasts – you know, activ-ities that can make me look likea genius or an utter fool!

It can be challenging to go outon a limb fairly regularly in sucha public way, and open myselfto humiliation and contempt,or deep-seated admiration (this,trust me, rarely occurs). But itmakes my email more interest-ing.

In any event, let’s look backat some of my track record:

Wrong: the NDP would winthe spring provincial election.Might as well get this majorgaffe out of the way right at thestart. Like pretty well everyother columnist, reporter, punditetc. (with the notable excep-tion of fellow North Shore Newscolumnist Trevor Lautens) Ipredicted an NDP cakewalk tovictory.

I should have stuck to myoriginal take on the electionresult, made shortly after bothparties’ leadership contests. At

a business conference, I held upa newspaper photo of a beam-ing Christy Clark and one of anuncomfortable looking AdrianDix, and boldly predicted thesmiling, confident Clark wouldwipe the floor with Dix. Thenthose darn polls started toappear…

! Right: The Green Partywould elect an MLA duringthe election. Well, at least I gotsomething right about that con-test. Andrew Weaver won, as Iexpected, in Oak Bay-GordonHead. Driving around that rid-ing a week before election dayI noted how I had never seenmore campaign signs for a singlecandidate on peoples’ lawns.Boulevards are public spaces,but private lawns? Those areearned, dedicated votes.

! Wrong: The so-called“ethnic memo” scandal wouldhurt the B.C. Liberals in the elec-tion. The scheme that saw taxdollars mixed up with doingblatant partisan work for theB.C. Liberal party mattered not awhit with voters. That suggestsvoters may hold the cynical viewthat all political parties are guiltyof such things and end up notgiving any party an advantageon the issue (this may mean theSenate expense scandal seeming-ly dogging the Harper govern-ment may not be a major factorthat determines the outcome ofthe next federal election).

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Unconditional love is the best Christmas giftCommunity news is full of Good

Samaritan tales, especially during theholidays, but once in a while, we comeacross someone who really stands out.

Take Evelyn Florendo, for example.The Vancouver senior, widow anddevout Catholic marked amajor milestone this month:three decades of organiz-ing Christmas dinner for theteens in Burnaby’s youthprison.

Can you imagine?For 30 years, she’s gathered dona-

tions and corralled volunteers to puton a dinner with some of the mosttroubled teens in our province. Theevening includes entertainment andgift bags for the kids, but what reallystands out about Evelyn is the love she

gives.As the teens file out of the

prison’s gymnasium afterdinner, she makes a pointof hugging every last one of

them and says, “I love you.” The kids,who sometimes look a bit quizzical atfirst, always break out in a smile, and

some say, “I love you, too.”Evelyn started the dinners 30 years

ago after reading about incarceratedyouth who were slashing themselvesand committing suicide.

At the first dinner ever, there was a12-year-old boy waiting patiently onthe sidelines till Evelyn finished pass-ing out gifts.

He then approached her to say thatwas the first time in his life that hehad ever received a Christmas present.He was so happy, he thanked her andgave her a hug.

Some of you readers may be think-ing: “These are not innocent youth.They are criminals and shouldn’t becoddled.”

But these kids are young and still inthose formative years where their livescould take any number of directions.And when someone like Evelyn comesalong with no judgments and uncondi-tional love, that can only help set thepath a little straighter.

This Christmas, don’t be stingy withlove, dear readers, it’s the best gift youcan give.

Keith Baldrey’slook back at 2013

Put tree bylaw to a vote in 2014Dear Editor:

I think city council should postpone the contro-versial changes to Burnaby’s tree bylaw until theNovember 2014 civic election when these changes canbe included on the ballot for approval .This wouldgive the almost 32,000 Burnaby residential propertyowners a chance to give their opinion on the subject.

The city-conducted survey which resulted in only158 responses cannot in all honesty be taken seriouslyas a majority backing for this infringement of prop-erty rights.

If city council really wants to be fair and believes indemocracy, then they should postpone implementa-tion of the changes until the results of the 2014 ballot

are known.Wayne Lutz, via email

When can we enhance the CPP?Dear Editor:

Earlier this week the Harper government nixed theidea of enhancing the Canada Pension Plan, a movethat a majority of provincial governments regard ascrucial to future retirees. Predictably, B.C. FinanceMinister Mike de Jong lined up with the feds and par-roted MP Jim Flaherty’s mantra about the economybeing too “fragile” to accommodate the change.

So, if that’s true, the plan must be to identify thenon-fragile economic conditions that would allow

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enhancement to proceed, right? Wrong.Apparently the matter of identifying futureeconomic triggers that would allow animproved Canada Pension Plan has also beennixed by the federal government. In de Jong’swords “the subject is closed.”

The fact of the matter is that employersin Canada don’t want to contribute moreto the Canada Pension Plan, not even thevery modest amount phased in over sev-eral years supported by several provinces.

And, of course, financial institutions wouldrather have our retirement savings in RRSPsand pension funds so they can collect thoseoutrageous administrative fees they charge.

Should we be surprised that the federalConservatives opted to allow corporate inter-ests trump public interests? Should we beshocked that once again the B.C. Liberalshave failed to speak up in support of thepeople of this province? No, of course not.It’s happened before. It will happen again.

That’s the thing about Grinches.Their behaviour is predictable.

Bill Brassington, Burnaby

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Pensions problem for feds

In any event, the B.C.Liberals ended up doingmuch better than the NDPwhen it came to winningsupport of the ethnic com-munity vote in the elec-tion.

! Right: B.C. Hydrorates would increase sig-nificantly. Anyone withbasic knowledge of theenergy issue could see theinevitability of this. Butwith an election hoveringover the politicians for alengthy time, none of them(from either major party)wanted to admit that oreven talk about such athing. But the day of reck-oning has come, and ratesare indeed going up.

! Wrong: It was goingto be impossible for theprovincial governmentto balance its budget, astabled back in February.I may be a tad premature

here, as the final numberswon’t be known for a fewmonths yet. But it appearsthat halfway through theyear, Finance MinisterMike de Jong may indeedbalance the books, albeiton the proverbial razor’sedge. He’s been able tohold the line on spending,and there may enough ofa built-in cushion (calledthe “forecast allowance”)to offset any significantdecline in revenue.

! Right: The smart-meter protest was a lotof noise about nothing. Itturns out that 99 per centof B.C. Hydro custom-ers have taken the smartmeters, while the rest– a mixture, it seems, ofthe tinfoil-hat crowd andchem-trail chasers – haveopted to pay more than$400 to keep the old ana-log meters. Bill VanderZalm is one of their cham-

pions, but he failed to findanywhere near the successhe had fighting the HST.

And now a new year isabout to begin and moreissues will emerge thatI’ll try to navigate, likelywith mixed success. Forexample, what will be theresult of the TransLinkreferendum? Who willwin the NDP leadershiprace (assuming someoneactually runs for the job)?Will Premier Christy Clarkmake any mistakes thatseriously erode her popu-larity?

As always, it will be abusy year in B.C. politics.And I look forward try-ing to read the tea leaves,hopefully with much suc-cess. At least there is noprovincial election on thehorizon!

Keith Baldrey is chiefpolitical reporter for GlobalB.C.


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A proposed B.C. liquorstore could be headedto Kensington SquareShopping Centre, takingcouncil another step clos-er to having one in everyBurnaby community.

The B.C. LiquorDistribution Branch hasapplied for a rezoningapplication to allow fora 4,600-square-foot storewhere one used to sit from1974 to 2006.

According to a staff

report, a service gapwas identified in NorthBurnaby when the liquorstore closed in 2006.

“In order to address thisgap, the framework rec-ommends reestablishmentof a neighbourhood scale(liquor distribution branch)outlet at Kensington Squareas an interim step to a larg-er Signature … liquor storeonce surrounding popula-tion densities increase,”said Lou Pelletier, directorof planning and building,in his report to council.

At the last meeting,

councillors Nick Volkowand Colleen Jordanexpressed their concernsabout a provincial liquorstore opening up shop, asliquor policy changes arelooming.

Jordan asked staff tocontact the liquor branch tostay abreast on the liquorreview the province is cur-rently undergoing.

On Dec. 17, PremierChristy Clark announcedthe province’s liquor poli-cy review will be publiclyreleased in February 2014,which will have about 70

recommendations.Jordan said she didn’t

want to see the rezoningapplication move forwardand then be revoked ifunforeseen liquor lawchanges come around.

Volkow noted that he

was not in favour of liquorbeing made available insidegrocery stores, which couldbe one of the recommenda-tions made by the review.

Mayor Derek Corrigansaid he’s been “pleased”with the progress of liquor

store openings coincidingwith Burnaby’s vision, suchas the recent opening of oneat Market Crossing, and theproposed store at the SOLOdistrict development acrossfrom Brentwood mall.

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A local husband and wife have beenaccused of embezzling about $360,000from a real estate company in NorthVancouver.

In November 2009, the North VancouverRCMP economic crime unit launched aninvestigation after it was contacted bythe owners of the North Shore company,Unique Real Estate Accommodations.

The real estate firm discovered thathundreds of thousands of dollars hadgone missing by the previous financialcontroller who was employed by the com-

pany from May 2007 to November 2009.“Throughout the lengthy investigation,

several search warrants and productionorders were executed in order to lay crimi-nal charges,” said Cpl. Richard De Jong.

On Dec. 17, Arthur Wong, 50, andhis wife Jessie Wong, 44, who was alsoemployed as an accounting assistant dur-ing the same period, were arrested with-out incident in Burnaby, according to amedia release.

Both were released from custody afterproviding $50,000 bail. The file is stillbeing investigated by the North VancouverRCMP unit.

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According to the 2011 nationalcensus, the population of visibleminorities reached 59 per cent of thetotal population, with 53 per cent ofthe total population reporting theirmother tongue as neither English norFrench.

Burnaby’s community policingcommittee met with foreign languagemedia last week in the hopes of forg-ing a connection with the large popu-lation of new Canadians.

“The committee is trying to dis-seminate initiatives to keep peoplesafe,” said Diane Gillis, chair of thepolicing committee’s communica-

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ImperialNeighbourhoodAssociation,told attending media she was con-cerned new Canadians weren’t aswell informed about crime preven-tion and safety practices as thoseborn in Canada.

“The committee is struggling toget information out to the immigrantcommunity,” she told reporters fromMing Pao News, Korean News andWorld Journal at the Nov. 28 meeting.

Gillis added she’d like to seemore safety and crime preventiontips included in the foreign languagenewspapers – but crime preventionisn’t news, countered reporters.

City Coun. Pietro Calendino andBurnaby RCMP Staff Sgt. Maj. JohnBuis agreed with reporters.

The real concern should be findingan effective way to get the safety andcrime prevention information to new

Canadians, Buis said.“It’s about determining what’s

meaningful to these communities,”he added. “We need to understandour clients better.”

This means understanding what’simportant to the immigrant commu-nity and what information wouldserve them best, Buis said.

Gillis stressed the committeeshould be building trust between newCanadians and the police so they canfeel safe in their new community.

The committee publishes a quar-terly crime prevention column inBurnaby’s municipal newsletter,InfoBurnaby.

The columns include safety tips,emergency phone numbers and howto report a crime.

For the most recent InfoBurnabynewsletter, visit www.tinyurl.com/InfoBurnaby.

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Committee at work: From left, back row, Staff Sgt. Maj. John Buis, Burnaby RCMP; Chris Hildred, southwestcommunity policing office, citizen representative; and Brian Pound, citizen representative. From left, front row,Margaret Manifold, social planner; Joan Selby, senior social planner; Diane Gillis, citizen representative; andCoun. Pietro Calendino, chair of the community policing committee.

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The project will be onMcKay Avenue, frontingMaywood Park.

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It all began because Grayson Smithhad written a story for his niece andwanted to turn it into a gift.Now he has his own independent

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With more time to devote to her art,she decided to put her mind to trying tomake a go of illustration work – and thechance to illustrate a children’s book wasone she leapt at.

“I’ve always loved kids’ books,” shesays, noting she’s inspired by the work ofsuch illustrators as Richard Scarry. “I wasalways drawn to that way of conveyingsomething in a picture.”

While she originally viewed the bookas a chance to beef up her own illustra-tion portfolio, it quickly became a projectclose to her own heart.

“I’m really excited to share it witheverybody,” she says.

Smith notes that the bulk of the labourwas in fact Kyle’s. He wrote the storyhimself in a day, he says, and though theediting process was meticulous, it was

nothing compared to the hours that Kylespent on the drawings.

“There’s a lot of hours in there,” Kylesays, noting she spent many early morn-ings and long nights on the project, occa-sionally dragging herself away from thedesk to go for a run. “It was kind of likeeat, sleep, draw, run, eat, sleepdraw.”

While researching how bestto publish the book, Smith dis-covered that most traditionalpublishing houses don’t acceptsubmissions from author-illus-trator partnerships – they tend tochoose an illustrator for a story.

He also looked into self-publishing but decided the bestroute was to in fact set up hisown publishing company.

He admits it hasn’t been aneasy process.

“It’s a really steep learning curve, butfor the most part everything is sortingitself out,” he says.

He’s marketing his book and thecompany mainly through social media,including some partnerships with parent-ing blogs.

He’s also struck up a partnership withthe B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation –his company will give $3 from every booksold to the foundation, and in return the

foundation will help to market the book.For his printing, Smith has partnered

with Burnaby’s Hemlock Printers – acompany he was attracted to because ofits reputation for sustainable, environ-mentally friendly practices.

Looking to the future, PeppermintToast Publishing will provide ahome base for other would-beauthors and illustrators who’dlike to have their own children’swork published.

“I think there’s a lot of peopleout there who have an idea fora children’s book,” Smith says.“Almost everyone has kids intheir lives they would love tohave a unique gift for.”

He’s not sure what to expect,but he says social media isalready providing its reach. Justthe other morning he sent off a

book to West Liberty, Ohio, and he has noidea how that person found him.

He’s looking forward to seeing whatlies ahead for Peppermint Toast.

“I don’t think it’ll necessarily becomeScholastic overnight, but it’s interestinghow far-reaching it can be,” he says.

Check out www.pepperminttoast.comfor more details or to purchase a copy ofthe book.

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For the kids:Grayson Smith

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New indie publishingcompany works withHemlock Printers on firstchildren’s picture book

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Four local dancers stoodon the podium for Canadaat the recent InternationalDance Organization worldchampionships in Poland.

The dancers fromBurnaby’s Douglas BalletAcademywere inMikolajki,Poland from Dec. 7 to 15competing in the champi-onships in ballet, jazz andmodern dance.

Caroline Kiddie andJenny Lian were compet-ing with the Canadianjunior team, while MorganBringeland-Powell andEmily Wismer were withthe adult team.

Caroline and Jenny werepart of Canada’s gold-medal finishes in juniorsmall group ballet andjunior large group ballet.They also helped the teamto a fourth-place finish inthe junior large jazz andsixth-place finish in thejunior large modern.

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Emily also ranked seventhin the world in adult solofemale ballet.

The Team Canada bal-let groups were choreo-graphed by Josh Beamish,and the jazz and moderngroups by Danielle Gardnerof So You Think You CanDance fame.

The world champion-ships brought dancers from24 countries together tocompete. Canada emergedon top, with the nation-al director, Bonnie Dyer,taking home a trophy forTeam Canada’s top stand-ing for the second year ina row.

Medal winners: Morgan Bringeland-Powell, Jenny Lian, Emily Wismer and Caroline Kiddie representedCanada at the International Dance Organization world championships.

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“On July 10 we left, we went to get marriedin Las Vegas Nevada, and we went there and afew days later, right before the wedding one ofour family members got very, very ill and theysaid we had to come home to say our goodbyes,

so we left right away,” she said. “We left withintentions of getting married and unfortunatelyour dreams and wishes that were all plannedand paid for didn’t end up going through.”

The couple wasn’t able to recoup any ofthe costs, so they decided to approach a localcasino and see if they could have a simple wed-ding there instead.

“Jim and I always wanted a Las Vegas wed-ding and we had to come home from Vegas,so we thought the next best thing is the GrandVilla Casino,” Callaghan said.

But, as casinos are not known for their sub-tlety, Callaghan’s plan for a simple replacementwedding turned into a Vegas-style extrava-ganza once Grand Villa decided to help. Bridal march: Bride Danielle Callaghan comes down the escalator to her

wedding at the Grand Villa Casino.

Jason Lang/burnaby now

Vegas dream weddingtakes place in Burnaby

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And so, a year after getting engaged atthe Treasure Island Hotel and Casino inLas Vegas, Callaghan and Mellish wereable to have their dream wedding … allwithout leaving home. The couple tied theknot Dec. 7, after a week or so of planningby the casino.

“Grand Villa is paying for everything.It’s a blessing from God,” Callaghan said.“Jim and I are getting married on Dec. 7,

and seven is our lucky number here at theGrand Villa.”

Kathryn Rehm stepped in as market-ing manager of Grand Villa at the end ofNovember, and the wedding was her firstassignment, she said.

“I heard about this wonderful girl get-ting married, and so I just wanted to makeit work for her, so we set aside two roomsfor her at the Delta,” she said. “We orderedup an Elvis because she almost cries whenshe talks about Elvis marrying her andit’s adorable. And we thought showgirlswould be fun to bring that Vegas vibe.And then we’re getting some pink flowersbecause pink’s her favourite colour, so it’s

actually me being a wedding planner rightnow, which is really fun.”

Elvis hosted the wedding and sere-naded casino guests afterward, accordingto Rehm, and the couple had dinner atPersonas Café.

Rehm is getting married this summer,she said.

“I’m actually getting married in June,so I have some experience planning,” shesaid, adding she thinks this is the firstwedding the casino has held.

Though it required a lot of planningin a short amount of time, Rehm said itseemed like perfect timing, during theseason of giving.

“We thought why not give back tosomeone who couldn’t get a weddingdone in Vegas due to unforeseen circum-stances, so we wanted to help out, justa good deed,” she said. “It’s the holidayseason and we thought, why not makesomeone else happy?”

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Happy couple: Above, Danielle and Jim Melish sign wedding papers at the GrandVilla Casino as the showgirls look on. At right, Elvis walks Danielle to the altar.

Wedding: ‘It’s a blessing from God’continued from page 13

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Southwest B.C. has aperfect climate for growingholly. This easy-temperedtree likes any averagesoil that isn’t swampy. Italso handles sun or shadethough produces more ber-ries in sun. Berries comefrom female trees. Themales are pollinators only.

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The link between hollyand the winter solsticedates back to first to paganEurope, then Roman times,when holly was believed toprotect houses from light-ning and evil spirits. Later,the Christians saw the redberries as drops of bloodand the evergreen leaves aseternal life.

But holly berries aren’talways red. An occasionaltree has yellow berries:sometimes rich golden,other times almost white.Among the bright-berriedChristmas type holliesthere are two main kinds:the English holly (Ilex aqui-folium) and the Americanholly (Ilex opaca).

There are about 400holly species. One some-times seen here is theWinterberry (Ilex verticil-lata). The female is thicklycovered with tiny brilliantred berries in winter.

Many hollies are veryuseful trees. The wake-you-up herb tea Yerba Mate ismade from a Paraguayanholly, while a NorthAmerican holly (Ilex vomi-toria) has been used as apurgative.

Berries aren’t all hollieshave to offer. There aregorgeous variegated hollymales such as Silver Queenand Golden Queen.Yes,these are males. There’salso another called GoldenKing. This is a female.

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Canada’s goalie: Kimberly Newell of Burnaby led Canada to the gold medal at the under-18 women’s worldhockey championships with an overtime win over the United States in Finland to start 2013 off right.

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Burnaby’s KimberlyNewell gave Canada some-thing to cheer about in thenew year, backstopping theunder-18 women’s nationalhockey team to a worldtitle in January.

Newell, a freshman goal-ie at Princeton University,was named Canada’s play-er of the game, stopping39 of 40 shots, including20 in the opening period,to pace Canada to a 2-1overtime victory over theUnited States at the 2013International Ice HockeyFederation world cham-pionships in Heinola,Finland.

The win gave Canadaits third u-18 women’stitle and second in a row,tying it with the UnitedStates for most wins sincethe competition began in2008. Canada also claimeda world title in 2010.

Newell was named thegoalie for the all-world tour-nament team by the media.She also led all goalkeeperswith a 96.00 save percent-

age, while allowing justthree goals, including twoon power plays, in threestarts for the Canadians.

Newell made 72 savesand gave up just one reg-ular-strength goal in thecompetition, while postingher first international shut-out in a 4-0 victory overFinland in a preliminarypool matchup on Dec. 30.

In the final, a huge first-period stand by Newellgave Canada the opportu-nity it needed to find itsskates after a slow start.

Outshot 20-1 in the open-ing period, Newell allowedthe only goal by the U.S.,but made what sportcast-ers described as a “fantas-tic paddle save” to denythe Americans a secondcounter on what appearedto be a sure goal midwaythrough the period.

“It’s all about prepara-tion,” said the 17-year-oldNewell.

“I felt like I really pre-pared well for this gameand despite the number ofshots, we were able to pushback and get stronger laterin the game.”

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Goalie a topstory in 2013

Burnaby athletes excel on ice to start the year off rightJanuary:

Northwest Giants won a sec-ond AAA midget hockey title atthe 35th annual Mac’s Cup tour-nament in Calgary following a3-2 double-overtime win over theCarolina Junior Hurricanes.

STM football players DanteVigini, Nico Repole and ElliottNelson helped Team B.C. to a38-18 win over the United Statesat the International Bowl at theAlamodome in San Antonio,Texas.

SFU lose to Division III ArizonaState in the first Great NorthwestHockey Showcase.

Sea Cadet Louisa Tsangbecame the first cadet to scorea perfect round at Olympic Parkat the Pacific region LowerMainland Zone 4 biathlon cham-pionships in Whistler.

Burnaby novice ice dancersDanielle Wu and Spencer Sooled a podium sweep for theB.C. Centre of Excellence at the

Canadian figure skating champi-onships.

Zhao Kai Pang of Burnabyand Madeline Edwards won thejunior ice dance gold medal at theCanadian figure skating cham-pionships. Nicole Orford andThomas Williams earneda bronze in the seniordance.

Tyler Morleyof Burnaby wasnamed the CentralCollegiate HockeyA s s o c i a t i o n ’ srookie of the weekfollowing a three-point weekend withthe University ofAlaska Anchorage.

Simon Fraser University wonthe Women’s Collegiate WrestlingAssociation title for the first time,winning all six of its gold-medalbouts in Bristol, Tennessee.

February:Bob Johnston was replaced by

Rory McDade as the head coachof the WLA Burnaby Lakers.

The Burnaby Lakers selectedRobert Church with the fourthoverall pick at the WesternLacrosse Association juniordraft.

St. Thomas MoreCollegiate won

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Burnabygym-nast Briannah

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Burnaby Minor BaseballAssociation was named the asso-ciation of the year by B.C. MinorBaseball.

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MariyaChekanovychsharedinfive of SFU women’s seven PacificCollegiate Swimming Conferencechampionship titles, including anew conference record in the 100-yard breaststroke.

Helen Crofts helped SFU winthree of four track titles at theGreat Northwest conferenceindoor championships, includ-ing a second straight 800-metrewomen’s title.

SFU women’s basketball coachBruce Langford won his 300thcareer game as head coach of theClan.

Burnaby defeated Richmondto win the B.C. Tier II under-14youth field lacrosse champion-ships.

Amar Dhesi became the firstB.C. wrestler to earn a full ath-letic scholarship to a NCAADivision I program. He won hisfifth medal and fourth consecu-

tive gold medal at the high schoolprovincials.

March:The Burnaby South Rebels

earned their first entry into theB.C. AAA girls’ high schoolbasketball championships since1964, where they finished in 13thplace.

Burnaby South and BurnabyMountain both qualified for theB.C. AAA boys’ high school bas-ketball championships. South lost68-58 to Kitsilano in the champi-onship final.

Grandview Steelers NickHermary was named the PacificJunior Hockey League rookie ofthe year.

SFU senior Nayo Raincock-Ekunwe was named the GreatNorthwest conference femalebasketball player of the year.

Burnaby South upset Pitt

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Burnaby NOW’s athlete of the half decadeBurnaby’s RuiLin

Huang was the undoubt-ed queen of the court atthe Canadian Colleges’Athletic Association bad-minton championships.

The fifth-year DouglasCollege accounting studentwon an unprecedentedfifth consecutive women’ssingles title – the first-everfive-time women’s cham-pion since the CCAA begankeeping records in 1982.

At her final nationalcollegiate champion-ship, Huang swept herentire competition, includ-ing a 21-12, 21-13 victoryover Vancouver IslandUniversity wild cardopponent Melissa Liew inthe gold-medal final.

Huang, who has wonfive straight PacWest prov-incial titles, has a careercollege record of 207 winsand just one defeat in ateam match.

That one loss came inher third year in Canada

to a Chinese player fromEdmonton in three games.She reversed that loss instraight sets in the individ-ual singles final.

“It was my first year forregular classes (after twoyears of English languagetraining). All my attentionwas on school, and whenI was at the tournament,I was still doing my mar-keting homework,” Huangsaid.

Huang is a four-timeCCAA female badmintonplayer of the year and wasnamed the national asso-ciation’s female athlete ofthe year across all sports in2012. She is also a five-timePacWest player of the year.

When the 18-year-oldHuang first came to Canadain 2008 to attend Douglas,she defeated five-timeCanadian women’s nation-al champion Anna Rice instraight sets at a nationalranking event prior to theOlympic Games.

She also won the U.S.Open women’s singles titlein 2009.

Tom Berridgesports editor

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The best: Burnaby’s RuiLin Huang won five consecutive nationalwomen’s badminton singles titles in her college career.

Top teams toXmas tourney

Five of the top AAA bantam hock-ey teams in their regions will headlineBurnaby Minor’s 51st annual BantamChristmas Tournament this year.

Tier 1 leader Seafair and five-time tour-nament champion Burnaby Winter Clubmake up a strong one-two punch from thePacific Coast association.

Cowichan Valley, the top team fromthe Vancouver Island, will join state pow-erhouses Alaska Junior Aces, ArizonaBobcats and the San Diego Gulls as pos-sible contenders at the popular post-Christmas tourney.

This year’s tournament will adopt a12-team format, beginning with divisionalmatchups running all day Friday, Dec. 27and Saturday, Dec. 28 at Burnaby Lakeand Bill Copeland arenas. Admission isfree.

The crossover pool games and elimina-tion round matchups begin Sunday, Dec.29.

The quarter-finals will start Monday,Dec. 30, with semifinals following in theevening.

Medal games will take place onTuesday, beginning with the bronze-medal final at 9 a.m. The championshipfinal is scheduled for noon.

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March: Hoop madness resulted in program-first for STM junior girls’ teamMeadows 40-38 to win itsfirst-ever B.C. high schooljunior boys’ basketball

title.

STM’s junior varsitygirls’ basketball team

scored a program-firstsecond-place finish at theB.C. high school champion-ships.

The Burnaby KarateAcademy won seven goldmedals at the Canadianchampionships.

Kamila Wojciechowskiwas named an honourablemention at the B.C. AAhigh school girls’ basket-

ball championships, whereSt. Thomas More placed11th.


Continued in Friday’s NOW


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