Metro Vancouver - January 7, 2017

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Vancouver community centres
open as emergency warming
difficulties and frustrations | shelters have seen up to 200
this unusual winter weather | visits on one night, and many
has caused Vancouver resi- | shelters across the Metro Van-
dents. It’s been challenging | couver region are full as the

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residents’ Metro was told noone would | "What we do and what we've
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centrate on getting the work | said Sean Spear, associate dir-
done. Communications staff | ector of RainCity Housing. The
did send Metro a follow-up | organization operates two of
email saying that most of the | the temporary shelters that
higher-elevation side streets | have opened across the region
have been salted and sanded, | during the winter months.
and so far work has been done | RainCity's shelters have been
to 83 per cent of schools and | full ever since opening in late
hospitals identified as having | November and early December.
poor access “We have couching areas
More snow is expected to | and we have extra mats so we
fall starting Jan. 6. The city | will go over capacity and work
‘will continue to deliver a salt | with people. There's not a door
and sand mixture to several | slammed in their face.”
fire halls across the city, free | _ While 209 people visited
of charge to residents, since | Britannia Community Centre
many stores have run out of | on Jan. 3, only 19 people ac-
salt entirely. tually slept there. Ten people
Jonathan Gormick, public | slept at Creekside Community
information officer with Van- | Centre and two people stayed
estrians crossing at the road couver Fire and Rescue, said it | overnight at Sunset. Numbers
where it meets Dunbar.” ae ‘was a tamer scene today than | for Jan. 3 were not available for
‘lid in snow tires a quar- Baad a yesterday, when fire crews had | West End Community Centre,
ter (of the) block to 23rd Ave. People fill up buckets of free salt outside Fire Hall No. 14 on Venables Street in East to manage large and at times | but 28 people visited and 13,
going north on Skeena Street Vancouver on Thursday. senurex aauraenvroRMetno unruly crowds, But people con- | slept over on Jan. 2. A total of

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The city says it's “made
progress” with tackling slip-
ery streets — but many resi-
dents say they're still sliding
‘on roads packed so thickly
with ice they can be skated on.

“Sent this yesterday but
don't see it's in progress,”
wrote one user of the city's
\VanConnect app, which allows
residents to send in requests
for service. “West of 24th Ave.
going up the road is an ice
sheet. Caused accidents with
cars and potentially on ped-

‘while travelling at 10-15 km an tinue to scramble forabucket- | 1,800 people have visited the

hou.” wrote another resident. 7 ting down a mixture of sand ful ofsalt, and fire hall phone | warming shelters since they
‘Another complained of a Roads need sanding, but we and salt on priority side streets lines are ringing off the hook. | opened in mid-December.

spot on East 7th Ave.: “There know it won't happen. to maintain access to more They're working on ways to | Numbers have been rising

is ice on the sidewalk. | am - es than 100 hospitals, schools better inform the public as | steadily throughout the week
on crutches and can’t reach resigned resident, via the VanConnect app _Snd'community centres, and towhen salt will be Gelivered. | according to data provided by
the SkyTrain because of this.” that work is now about 80 per Gormick suggested that this | the City of Vancouver. Visits
“Roads need sanding,” wrote the city's general manager of projects, would start to tackle cent complete,” said Mayor time, residents might want to | are counted as people walk
one resigned resident, “but we engineering, said city work- the treacherous side streets. Gregor Robertson in a press think about clearing the snow | through the door, which means
know it won't happen.” ers, including 150 staff re- ver the last two days, release on Jan. 5 right away — before it turns | they could be counted twice in
OnJan. 3, Jerry Dobrovolny, deployed from construction we've made progress with put- He added: “I understand the to solid ice. OMe caSeS. JEN ST. DENIS/METRO

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to be safe, has been deemed thick enough. Our photographer Jennifer Gauthier
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After studying languages for
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the Middle East, it wasn't
until she exchanged language
skills with a Turkish-speak
er in Montreal 10 years ago
that Mary Leighton discovered
she'd been missing something.

“I realized it was the first
time | felt | was actually
using another language to
communicate and find mean-
ing.” the Vancouver resident
told Metro in an interview. “It
‘was a really profound meth-
odology for both improving
language and having social
benefits of developing trust,
getting over fear and hav-
ing fun.”

Earlier this year, the
31-year-old language edu-

classroom and workbook, ton said, she plans to shrink
land instead gets small groups especially in this critical time " events in the world that class sizes to cap them at
around a common table and when there’s so much fear Getting people face to face and week. then students break ten students because the
parine their knowledge and at Honthtag and st noubobis letting them build trust has been ie pares and sped fSlatposiietaildine ae
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she explained. “For me and In the process. however, guage skills and are able to. Leighton said, starts with Attheend, theyreturntothe “Getting people face to
the participants, it's much friendships have flourished communicate effectively in a check-in about how par- group and share what they face and leiting them build
more about community and and, of course, participants daily life. ticipants are doing, and learned that week. trust has been so profound,”
restitching social fabric — have ramped up their lan- Each two-hour session, discussion of any major ‘The first 2-week cohort —_ she said

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and experiencing it himself,

“Every day I'm moving for-
ward, and every day I'm learn-
In the past several months, ing more, because I love to
Cedar George-Parker has been learn,” George Parker said ina
arising young voice in the _ recent interview with Metro.
fight against Kinder Morgan. “I'm going to keep saying

‘In late November, days be no to Kinder Morgan.”
fore the pipeline expansion _George-Parker. whose fath-
‘was approved by Canada, he er is from TsleiWaututh Na-
stood with his grandmother tion and whose mother is
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Hall to speak to several thou- ington, recently moved back
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for George-Parker. He was
ona lunch break at his high
school near Tulalip when his
life was turned around by a
deadly shooting.

‘A freshman student brought
‘a gun to Marysville Pilchuck
High School and killed four
students, then himself.

The incident began a cycle
of destruction for others at
the school, and triggered
more deaths from either sui-
cide or drugs and alcohol.

“After that, | really just
couldn't (cope), so T guess I
just started drinking a lot,”
reflected George Parker.

“There were a lot of people
dying, and | just didn't really
know how to handle it.”

It was at his cousin's fu-
neral that he realized he had
to make a change, or else he
would be next.

“I called my dad and said,
‘Look, I'm going to end up
in jail, killing somebody or
dying,” he said.

“I decided to change my
life.”

In the summer of 2015,
his father Rueben George, a
prominent anti-pipeline activ-
ist from Tslei- Waututh, took
him to the tarsands in Alberta,

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No matter how
badit got, Inever
lost hope.
Cedar George-Parker

“(When I was there) I talked
toa lady, I heard her story,
and she told me about how
devastating the oil has been to
her and her family,” George-
Parker said. "Seeing some-
one’s tears like that really
got to me.”

Since then, George-Parker
has taken numerous trips
worldwide where he's learn-
ed from others and spoken
out himself.

Before Kinder Morgan escal-
ated, he was in New Zealand
on a cultural exchange, and
joined Standing Rock land
defenders in North Dakota.
He's also spoken at the United
Nations.

Now, he plans to keep fight-
ing for change — something
he now knows is always pos-
sible,

“No matter how bad it got
1 never lost hope.” he said.
“This is going to sound cheesy,
L always said it in my mind
(when things were bad). But
no matter how dark the night
gets, the sun will always rise.”