John Collison Memorial Award for Investigative Journalism B.C. Views Fantasies won’t keep ferries afloat. p6 MR council looks at new dog bylaw. p16 WHAT’S NEXT page CUMMINS IN THE page SO YOU WANT TO page AT RETIREMENT? 17 POLITICAL SPOTLIGHT 6 START A BUSINESS? 10 Arts&life Broken Narrative at art gallery. p23 WEDNESDAY THE NEWS APRIL 11 2012 www.mapleridgenews.com Wednesday, October 17, 2012 · Serving Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows · est. 1978 · 604-467-1122 · 50¢ www.burnabynewsleader.com Colleen Flanagan/THE NEWS A Coast Guard dive team returns a body There could be a few to the dock at Grant Narrows park. tears when the gym See video @mapleridgenews.com. at St. Thomas More is demolished soon. See Page A4 Man dies in Pitt Lake Schools plane crash Another saved by boater, to get taken to hospital by Phil Melnychuk staff reporter carbon A 71-year-old flying instruc- tor from Surrey is dead, while his 55-year-old passenger was treated in hospital following a float plane crash cash Colleen Flanagan/THE NEWS on Pitt Lake, Monday. Young people light candles in memory of Amanda Todd during a gathering at Memorial Peace Park on Monday. See video of the vigil @mapleridgenews.com. Police said the two were in a Pacific Rim Aviation Academy Cessna 172 float plane from Pitt Meadows Re- Mario Bartel gional Airport. NewsLeader The plane flipped over on the lake at about 4:30 p.m. during stormy conditions. “They were carrying out touch- Burnaby School Rest in peace, Amanda and-go landings for training. During Board chair Larry the sixth touch-and-go the aircraft Students mourn loss of In the centre of the covered stage ground. so hard to fit in, and sometimes it tipped over,” said Bill Yearwood, with Hayes has been lay a bouquet of flowers, surround- Jessica backfires like it did with me and it the Transportation Safety Board. teenage girl at vigil ed by glowing candles: a makeshift Standish, who did with her.” “The student was able to get out, appointed by the memorial for Todd, the teenage graduated The bullying was so bad, Standish but tragically the instructor was not.” by Robert Mangelsdorf girl from Maple Ridge who took from West- says she would make up excuses to Yearwood said when a plane over BC School Trustees staff reporter her own life last week after being view second- not go to school, and spend lunch turns in water it can be challenging tormented by bullies. ary in 2008, hours eating alone. even for an uninjured person to get Association to help She would have turned 16 next says she too “It was a hard time for me,” she out. Many people have died in such ith a grey sky overhead, month. was bullied says softly. instances, he added. the Ministry of and a cold rain beating Many who came to pay their re- throughout Steve Forbes, who works for “It is a risk when an aircraft upsets down upon their backs, spects never knew Todd, but they high school. Westridge Security and looks after and submerges. Education allocate Wmore than 80 local high school knew how she felt. Dozens of young “I didn’t Amanda Todd Memorial Peace Park, was one of “The student made an attempt to students huddled around the edge girls, dressed in pink, held hands, know her, but the few adults at the vigil who was help the instructor, but the aircraft money from its new of the rotunda in Memorial Peace hugging and leaning on each other I went through what she did grow- not wielding a television camera or was filling up with water fast. He was Park Monday afternoon to remem- for support, eyes cast downwards ing up, so that could have been me, a microphone. unable to help him.” Energy Ef¿ cient ber Amanda Todd. at the bouquet of flowers on the I guess,” she says. “Girls just try See Amanda, p5 See Plane, p12 Capital Account to energy ef¿ cient Index projects by school ONE PERCENT Opinion 6 REALTY Letters 7 Looking Back 17 districts across the John Master David Presidents Club Medallion Club Arts&life 23 2011 2011 NATHAN ISHERWOOD STEVE D’SOUZA province. 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Planned oil surge highlights tanker risks Previously those ND Robert Mangelsdorf and Monisha Martins funds had been Kinder Morgan Canada is Safety precautions The ship is one of 32 tankers that Some would continue to À ow to deposited into the A sensitive and touching account of the tragedy expected to soon announce don’t sway opponents last year loaded crude from Burnaby’s re¿ neries in Burnaby and Washington Paci¿ c Carbon Trust 2 that it will seek to twin its Westridge terminal, the end of an State. But export oil bound for tankers is and then distributed to Jeff Nagel but one that also shone a light on the underbelly Trans Mountain Pipeline [email protected] 1,100-kilometre pipeline that runs from projected to soar from a current 80,000 third parties such as between northern Alberta northern Alberta southwest across B.C. to barrels per day to 450,000 if the project Encana Corporation and Burnaby. The twinning The Everest Spirit, an oil tanker the the Paci¿ c. proceeds. to help reduce its of the online world and the bullies who lurk there. would mean a huge increase length of two and a half football ¿ elds, But Kinder Morgan, which owns the The number of tankers ¿ lling up in carbon emissions. in the amount of crude that nudges slowly under the Trans Mountain pipeline, Burnaby could hit 288 in 2016, four Environment transits the pipeline, and in Second Narrows Bridge. has big plans to turn the times more than the record 69 crude Minister Terry Lake the number of oil tankers In its bowels is enough current trickle of oil through tankers in 2010. announced the change passing through local crude oil to ¿ ll more than 30 Vancouver’s harbour into a That prospect has alarmed to the program last waters each year. This is the Olympic swimming pools, water gusher. environmentalists who worry the risk of week. The new capital ¿ rst of a three-part Black loading it down so that it It is expected to formally a catastrophic spill is increasing and say account will make Press series looking at the sits 13 metres deep in the begin the process this spring Metro Vancouverites never signed on to $5 million available logistics, risks, and politics water, close to the carefully to twin the pipeline and become Alberta’s oil port. to school districts involved. prescribed maximum safe draft for the increase its current 300,000-barrel-per- for energy ef¿ cient narrow, shallow channel. day capacity to as much as 700,000. Please see ALL LOCAL TANKERS, A3 projects that will lower their carbon emissions. 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Among that the territory would act by other things, it wanted building he public can’t handle the truth striking yet another committee to inspectors to be certified oil-burner Twhen it comes to unsafe oil examine the issue. mechanics. furnaces, as far as some territorial The working group is expected Currently none are, whether officials are concerned. to develop recommendations by they work for the City of White- That’s according to a ream of the summer “so that we can have horse or the territory’s building Burnaby NewsLeader documents obtained by the Yukon a made-in-Yukon solution that safety branch. Yet they’re expected News through an access-to-infor- works not only in downtown to ensure furnace contractors are mation request. Whitehorse, but also in commu- doing their job properly. In the spring of 2010, Rod nities such as Old Crow, Mayo, Officials worried that hiring cer- ST Jeff Nagel and Team Corea, of NRC Resources, issued Carmacks and Watson Lake,” Kent tified oil mechanics as inspectors the last of several damning reports told the legislature. would cost too much, according on the state of the territory’s oil The government has made to a memo issued by Kozmen and furnaces. some efforts over the past few years Boyd in June 2009. Fair, balanced and thorough. Comprehensive reporting and a must-read for anyone He also prepared a video pre- to improve furnace safety. Corea The plan would have also 1 sentation, in which he offered a trained building inspectors, so they required hiring more staff, as it warning that’s haunting, given the had a better understanding of the involved the territory taking over subsequent deaths of five Porter building code.