The city of Coquitlam is expanding the Crunch Trail to the south, as well as providing more additional solutions for outdoor recreation center’s for residents, in order to explore more options.

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Here is city park planning and design manager Andre Isakov, as he goes into explaining what the benefits of this particular project will bring to the city of Coquitlam.

Andre explains the benefits:

“On the route we are going to be looking at offering new supporting trail amenities such as additional parking lots, access routes, and as well as washrooms, and other amenities like that as well, to make the experience, you know the user experience more comfortable as well.”

Andre the goes into more details, as to why there doing this:

Andre explains why:

“Well for us, the crunch trail is a really important community amenity, we have really seen the community embrace the Crunch trail, and it’s use over the last ten years, but more specifically this year, we have really seen a more higher volume of users.”

Now, the city of Coquitlam is looking to get this project started by the end of next spring of 2021, and they are looking to have completed successfully as well.

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The City of Burnaby is going to continue to support local businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic by extending the Active Sidewalks, Open Businesses program to October 31, 2021.

This means, to help businesses out as much as possible who have been affected by Covid-19.

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Project manager, Fernando Imola provides us with some of the benefits for this project.

Fernando Imola explains the benefits:

“well sidewalks are an important part of the transportation network, providing critical services for vulnerable road users, including wheelchair users, family with strollers, and seniors as well. Sidewalks also support a healthy community and contribute to reduce of green house gas emissions.”

There is always a challenge when it comes to city projects like these though.

Fernando Imola explains the challenges:

“The challenges are, that a lot of residents of Burnaby don’t see that, they have the front part on their property, that they use, and they just don’t feel the need for a sidewalk in the front of there houses, so we have to sell the ideas to the residents.”

Although, there are some facing challenges with this project, the City of Burnaby is still looking to make it the most successful as possible as well too.

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Taso Gavriel, is a land real estate agent that talks about the challenges of real estate during these tough times with COVID-19, as well as the reality that he is now facing too.

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Taso explains some of the challenges he is facing during this new reality:

“COVID-19 is a very sensitive issue, with many people, not only the people that you work for,  but also the people that you need to meet, and discuss the acquisitions you must do in order to see a road through, or a pipeline. What I’m finding, is that you’re constantly dealing with a standard of safety which is, ensuring that you got social distance.”

However, there is an upside to this story.

Taso explains some of the benefits:

“One thing that I have really noticed, and this is something that I wasn’t aware of is the need for human touch. I notice that a lot of people, even though they know that COVID-19 is an issue, and they do the best they can to keep the social distancing.”

Taso also did say that that as long as he continues to keep himself and everyone else safe, then everyone will be happy.

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An F45 gym in Port Moody talks about the way of how they are keeping people safe during COVID-19 times. They have found out some benefits recently on doing this.

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Leanne Evans on some of the benefits:

“One benefit that came out of COVID-19 is that we probably always should have been cleaning our gym equipment more better, and it’s just better sanitation practices, and it’s also good to stop spreading other types of viruses too, so it’s good to go about that.”

Although, there are always challenges that come about this as well too.

Leanne Evans on some of the challenges:

“The challenges are keeping the social distancing, and smaller class sizes, we can’t use the water fountain, or our showers which is an inconvenience for the members, and coaching while wearing a mask is difficult.”

Even though there are some challenges, Leanne Evans and the rest of F45 still believes that they can still fight, and win over this virus, in order to protect the F45 business.

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The Shadbolt Center of performing arts are switching over to performances online and there teaming up with a special online video service to do it. The streaming service platform is called Cellar stream and the service will run all the way through the fall.

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The Shadbolt artistic director Cory Philley has more information about the benefits on this:

“We are able to get artist back to work, and we are able to get our technicians, and staff back to work as well, because a lot of the spring staff was laid off for about 4-5 months.”

Although, there has been some challenges in doing this, and Cory Philley made this crystal clear as well:

“I mean, I know for everyone they are going through this, if they have a facility, or if they are a presenter like I’am is that you can only have so many people in the audience, and here at the Shadbolt, we run programs, and different things.”

Even though there are still some challenges, Cory still believes that they will get through them, and still provide a great experience for everyone.

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