Wally’s Burgers is open for business at Westminster Pier Park.
The city has signed a lease with Wally’s Burgers Inc. to operate the concession building and adjacent patio area in Westminster Pier Park from June to Mid-October, with up to four seasonal renewal terms. Wally’s Burgers has been serving burgers in the Lower Mainland for more than 50 years, with River Market being one of its current locations.
Along with burgers, the Westminster Pier Park location is serving hot dogs, ice cream with made-on-site waffle cones, milkshakes, slushies and other variety of snack items.
Until, June 30 the concession will be open from 3 to 7 p.m. on weekdays and from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on weekends from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. From July 1 to Sept. 1, it will be open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. All openings are weather dependent.
Book honoured
The B.C. Genealogical Society has awarded Evelyn Benson for her book about New Westminster.
The society awarded Benson’s book, A Century in a Small Town – One Family’s Stories its annual Family History Book award for 2013.
“I’m thrilled with the first place award and proud to say book sales are brisk (approaching 500) locally at Black Bond and Renaissance Books,” she said in an email to The Record. “Mine is the first book about New Westminster to receive this honour. Second place book was about the Cariboo and third place was set in the Kootenays.”
Christmas in July
If you’re one of those folks who’s always on the lookout of Christmas décor, St. Barnabas Thrift Store is the place to be this month.
Roxee Forrest, associate warden at St. Barnabas Church, said the thrift store is celebrating Christmas in July by selling some of its stock of holiday items. These include holiday housewares, Christmas trees, ornaments, and indoor and outdoor lights.
The Christmas in July sale takes place from July 3 to 31 during the thrift store’s regular hours, Thursday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Physician honoured
Douglas College has awarded its highest distinction to a researcher and pioneer in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, recently received an honorary fellowship from Douglas College.
“I am very thankful and honoured to receive this special distinction from Douglas College,” he said in a press release. “This fellowship is a testament to the work my colleagues and I have carried out over the last three decades to stop HIV and AIDS.
In addition to being director of the centre for excellence, Montaner is a professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia and has held the St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation/University of British Columbia Endowed chair in AIDS research since 1996.
An advocate for improving the efficacy and accessibility of HIV treatment and care, his innovative research in the mid-1990s led to the development of highly active antiretroviral therapy, a triple-drug therapy that lowers HIV levels in the bloodstream and improves the immune system. For the past decade, his work has focused on the development and implementation of an approach known as “
treatment as prevention, which calls for early engagement of HIV-positive individuals into treatment to reduce the virus to undetectable levels in the body, making it very difficult to transmit and improving health outcomes drastically.
“We are proud to recognize Dr. Montaner with our institution's highest distinction, honorary fellowship. As an internationally recognized leader in the fight against HIV and AIDS, his research and advocacy have changed and saved countless lives,” said Douglas College President Scott McAlpine. “He is a remarkable inspiration to not only our college community but also to an entire generation of people.”
