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▲ Helping girls find their inner strength 12
Wednesday December 30 2015
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Clockwise from above: Karmvir Kaur Purewal practises gatka ahead of Vaisakhi celebrations; before he was prime minister, Justin Trudeau speaks to the Surrey Board of Trade; Lauren Phillips performs at the Surrey Festival of Dance; Kirsten Anonby holds her daughter Joy Elizabeth Anonby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Surrey Memorial Hospital; former Surrey mayor Dianne Watts awaits federal election results that would see her elected as a Tory MP. FILE PHOTOS
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JANUARY
• Completion delays and hold-back of payments to builders cause a huge pile of liens against the new city hall in City Centre. Th e 180,000-sq.-ft. building was due to be complete by September 2013, but ran late fi ve months.
• Al Cleaver, former fi re chief of Sur-rey who championed preserving the city’s history and heritage, dies at the age of 88. Cleaver retired as fi re chief in 1986 after serving 28 years.
FEBRUARY
• Surrey graduate Anthony Hope is named a Loran Scholar, landing him a university scholarship worth up to $100,000.
• Boxer Eric Basran is awarded the silver medal at the Canadian Youth Boxing Championships held in Quebec City.
• Second World War veterans Gerry Gaudet and John Th ompson are given the Legion of Honour award at the Royal Canadian Legion’s Whalley branch from the Consul General of France as part of the 70th anniversary of D-Day celebrations.
• Ian Jarvis is ousted as CEO of TransLink in an attempt to shore up public confi dence heading into the transit tax referendum. But Jarvis is kept on as an advisor at the same pay. Mayors also recruit Jim Pattison to act as a watchdog on tax funds.
• Surrey spends between $200,000 and $300,000 on the “yes” campaign promoting a 0.5-per-cent hike in taxes to pay for improved transit in the region. Th e proposal goes down to defeat in July.
MARCH
• Th e province announces Surrey Provincial Court will undergo a $24.3-million expansion that will in-clude three additional courtrooms and two more hearing rooms. Construc-tion is expected to start early next year and be completeD sometime in 2017.
• One fi nal donation ends a $350,000 campaign to buy a key tool for sur-geons who treat breast cancer patients. Th e Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre places an order for the SPY imaging system, which provides instant images of breast tissue during reconstructive surgery.
• Th e Fleetwood Park Dragons win their fi rst provincial title during their sixth try, with Jordan Taylor coaching. Th e team qualifi ed for fi ve provincial championship tournaments in its fi rst 20 years, but fi nally takes home the prize in 2015.
• Surrey native Andrew Hammond puts his name into the National Hock-ey League record book, as the Ottawa Senators’ netminder ties an NHL record in a 2-1 overtime win over the
Carolina Hurricanes, allowing two or fewer goals in his fi rst 12 career starts. Hammond ties a record held by Frank (Mr. Zero) Brimsek of the Boston Bruins, who set the standard in the 1938-1939 season.
APRIL
• Surrey School District stops off ering adult education courses to graduated adults after the provincial government cuts funding to such programs.
• Surrey’s Sarbjit Bains pleads guilty to killing three people in 2013 – Delta’s Amritpal Saran and New Westminster women Karen Nabors and Jill Lyons. He receives an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 18 years.
• Th e falling Canadian dollar prompts fewer B.C. residents to cross-border shop in the Washington State. Th e trend is good news for B.C. businesses, especially tourism operators. By the end of the year the loonie falls below 72 cents.
• 22-year-old Arun Bains, the nephew of Surrey-Newton MLA Harry Bains, is shot and killed in Surrey.
• Surrey takes down “No TransLink Tax” signs, causing outrage from those opposing the tax. Bylaw offi cers confi rm about 20 signs had been taken down, with Surrey’s mayor saying they were in direct contravention of Surrey bylaws.
• Surrey’s park bylaw is taken to court. Christopher Lewis says he has been warned and fi ned for walking in Surrey parks at night. He sues the city over the bylaw, which he maintains violates his rights.
• On the heels of a spate of shoot-ings in six weeks, 700 people pack the gymnasium of Tamanawis Secondary School to attend a forum on crime. Surrey’s top cop tells the crowd they should be concerned, but not fearful.
• Due to budgetary constraints, the Cloverdale Business Improvement Association announces it will nix two signature community events for the year: Th e Cloverdale Blueberry Festival and the annual Halloween costume parade. Th e Halloween event ends up going ahead in October.
MAY
Yosef Jomo Gopaul is sentenced to 10 years prison for the deadly attack of Surrey mom Julie Paskall, who died after Gopaul hit her in the head with a rock during a botched purse snatching in December 2013. He also receives another two years for the violent robbery of another woman two weeks before Paskall’s attack.
• Russell Atma Bidesi is convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of Kacey Rogers in 2012. He has yet to be sentenced.
2015: The year that was▼ THE LEADER LOOKS BACK AT SOMEOF THE STORIES THAT MADE HEADLINES
Clockwise from top: Sandra Hemelspeck is greeted by a cloud of coloured powder during the Colour Me Rad 5K run at Holland Park in May; country singer Shania Twain visits Hjorth Road Elementary to launch a new school program in June; hundreds of thousands pack the streets of Surrey for the annual Vaisakhi parade; a man is killed after a Jeep slams into a bus shelter at Fraser Highway and 156 Street in October; SPCA Animal Protection Officer Leanne Thomson stands with a malnourished horse named Lacey – one of 57 animals seized from a rural property on the Surrey-Langley border in September. FILE PHOTOS
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• Cloverdale concrete contractor David Jorge wins MasterChef Can-ada and the $100,000 prize.
• Hot dog in car calls spike in Surrey. City offi cials believe the public is acting quickly and sensitively after the so-called Brookswood Six tragedy where six dogs died in a sweltering truck in 2014.
• Violent crime soars in Surrey during the fi rst quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2014. Violent crime rises by 40 per cent during the fi rst three months of 2015 compared to the fi rst quarter the year before.
• Michael Wilson is named the City of Sur-rey’s Citizen of the Year for 2015. Wilson is best known as the brainchild behind the Phoenix So-ciety Drug and Alcohol Recovery and Education Centre.
• Khalsa School stu-dents Mehar Kaur Saho-ta and Prabhleen Kaur Sandhu win 28th-annual Spelling Bee of Canada
competition in Toronto. Sahota’s winning word was “calmative.”
JUNE
• Surrey couple John Nuttall and Amanda Korody are found guilty of planning a Canada Day 2013 bombing at the B.C. legislature in Victoria. Th e conviction is not entered, however, as defence lawyers argue the pair were entrapped by the RCMP.
• Th rough a program called Tomatosphere, students at Khalsa School grow tomato plants from seeds that have been exposed to space-like conditions, to investigate the eff ects of space on the growth of food that could be used to support long term space travel.
• Protests over rising real estate prices reach a crescendo and Van-couver’s mayor urges the province to help by increasing the transfer tax when high-end homes are sold. By fall B.C.’s fi nance minster confi rms that’s under serious consideration.
• Medical marijuana patients win a Supreme Court ruling giving them the right to use cannabis in cookies and other products.
• Th ree local athletes hear their names called at the National Hockey League Entry Draft in Sunrise, Florida. Parker Wotherspoon of the Tri-City Americans is se-lected by the New York Islanders, while Devante Stephens of the Kelowna Rockets is claimed by the Buff alo Sabres. Also picked is Matt Bradley, claimed by the Montreal Canadiens. Bradley was a member of the Medi-cine Hat Tigers.
• Country superstar Shania Twain visits Hjorth Road Elementary School to open Western Canada’s fi rst Shania Kids Can program to help less-fortunate inner-city kids.
• A City of Surrey order for 100 new police offi cers quickly becomes a political football in Ottawa. Th e minister responsible says there are 20 new Mounties on the ground in Surrey, however a Leader inves-tigation indicates there are no new offi cers. As of December, there are 75 new offi cers in place, according to Surrey RCMP Chief Supt. Bill Fordy.
JULY
• Cloverdale father Col-in Hill, 42, is shot dead during a home invasion where he was trying to protect his family. Khou-ri Lamar Green is later charged with second-de-gree murder but has yet to stand trial.
• Just eight weeks pri-or to the next PACWEST (Pacifi c Western Athletic Conference) season, student athletes at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) are stunned to learn it could be their last. Coaches and athletes in the KPU Eagles Athletic Depart-ment receive an email which announces “im-portant changes in the direction for KPU’s varsi-ty athletics program.” Minutes later, a notice on the KPU Athletics website details the changes, which mean “winding down varsity athletics’ activities” and withdrawing from PACWEST over the next year.
• Charges against Delta Police Const. Jordan MacWilliams, who shot a man during an armed stand-off outside a New Westminster casino in 2012, are dropped.
• Retired Surrey fi re-fi ghter Bill McNamara, 74, returns home from the World Police and Fire Games with eight more medals, bringing his career total to 51 and giving him an induction into the fi rst-ever games Hall of Fame.
• A fan’s facebook campaign goes viral for Surrey’s Percy Hayes, the “real” Santa Claus. Victoria’s Shawn Slavin discovers the former Guildford Town Centre Sanata lives in a retirement home and
is celebrating his 84th birthday.
• Th e TransLink plebiscite on an extra 0.5-per-cent sales tax in Metro Vancouver to fund transit expansion is defeated. Th e 62-per-cent rejection leaves area mayors and the provincial government at a continued impasse on how to build projects like Surrey light rail.
• Metro Vancouver bans all lawn sprinkling for the fi rst time in a decade as the drinking water supply declines amid severe drought conditions. It follows a winter of record low snow packs and mount-ing concern for fi sh.
AUGUST
A 70-year-old South Surrey woman is sexual-ly assaulted in her home during an attack police call “repulsive.” Weeks later, Langley’s Stephen Th omas Morse is arrest-ed and charged.
• Th e SPCA seizes 57 animals from a rural property in South Cloverdale, all suff ering from various stages of neglect and malnutri-tion.
• Horse and cattle ranchers stock up on hay as a protracted drought and wild fi res continue to cause both supply shortages and increased prices. Many farms are waiting for rains in hopes it will bring them another crop.
• Delta Alliance for Wellness and Network-ing Society celebrates its 25th anniversary. Th e centre provides services to adults with mental illnesses.
SEPTEMBER
• Surrey Coun. Tom Gill pitches a plan to build a truck parking facility in an environ-mentally sensitive area near 16 Avenue and 192 Street. Th e public expresses outrage at the notion trucks could be spilling oils and deter-gents into the fi sh-rich Little Campbell River nearby.
• SFU, which has a campus in Surrey, celebrates 50 years of higher education. Surrey composer Brett Janzen helps pen anniversary song.
• A new French Immer-sion program slated to start at Surrey’s Cougar Creek Elementary is can-celled before it begins due to low enrolment, despite the fact there are wait lists for the language program in the Surrey School District.
• Vancouver Canuck players Henrik and Daniel Sedin launch Clubhouse 36 in Surrey, a program that provides inner-city students with after-school and holiday activities they might not normally be able to access.
• Surrey native Chris-tian Covington, a former defensive lineman with the Rice Owls of the Na-tional Collegiate Athletic Association, cracks the roster of an National Football League (NFL) team and is on the fi eld for the Houston Texans when they host the Kan-sas City Chiefs in the fi rst game of the 2015 season. Covington was selected by the Texans in the sixth round of the NFL Draft in May.
• Iron Soldier Capt. Trevor Greene takes steps using a custom-ized exoskeleton at SFU Surrey, showing the scientifi c breakthrough built in collaboration between SFU and Inno-vation Boulevard.
• Royal Westminster Regiment reservist Ta-jinder Aujla stands as a ceremonial guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, becoming the fi rst baptized Sikh to do so.
OCTOBER
• Surrey’s Queen Elizabeth Secondary celebrates its 75th anni-versary, inviting former and current students and staff to celebrate the 1940s-era school.
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• Surrey’s Evan Archibald dies when a car smashes into a bus shelter at 156 Street and Fraser Highway.
• Justin Trudeau’s Liberals win the federal election and capture fi ve out of six Surrey/Delta seats. Th e mandate means the new govern-ment has major prom-ises to keep, including marijuana legalization, electoral reform and a big push to quickly bring in Syrian refugees.
• TransLink fi nally launches its long-de-layed Compass card payment system and begins closing fare gates. Part of the shift in strat-egy includes a switch to one-zone payment on all bus routes.
• Surrey artist Don Li-Leger’s Encyclopedia House art installation in Th e Grove in Newton opens. Th e doorway to the one-room struc-ture was created out of discarded encyclopedias and other texts.
• Surrey selects its fi rst Poet Laureate. Renée Sa-rojini Saklikar, author of a book on Air India, will host writing consulta-tions at local libraries.
NOVEMBER
• Surinderpal Singh Hehar is killed and another man is injured in a shooting outside his home near 152 Street and 66 Avenue. Hehar, a popular member of the Surrey Field Hockey Club, is remembered by many who knew him.
• Fortis BC propos-es an LNG plant on Tsawwassen First Nation land and the chief agrees to take it to a vote, which results in rejection in December.
• New Syrian refugees begin to arrive in B.C.
amid a huge outpouring of generosity in B.C. communities as local residents prepare to help the newcomers set-tle in. About 400 Syrian refugees are expected in B.C. in December, fol-lowed by another 1,500 in the fi rst few months of 2016.
DECEMBER
• Metro Vancouver shelves its plan to build a new garbage inciner-ator due to declining garbage volumes. More garbage could go to the Delta landfi ll once Metro stops using Cache
Creek in 2016. Inciner-ation opponents in the Fraser Valley declare victory.
• Additional details about the Massey Bridge are announced. Th e span to replace the Massey Tunnel will be 10 lanes wide, will cost $3.5 billion and will be funded by tolls for 35-60 years. Th e prov-ince aims for a 2017 construction start and completion by 2022.
• Sophon Sek pleads guilty to break-and-en-ter and is sentenced to a year jail in connection to the 2007 Surrey Six murders. Th e court hears he led the killers to the apartment door where six men were executed. A manslaugh-ter charge is stayed. Sek is already in jail after pleading guilty to a raft of unrelated gun and drug off ences in October.
• Gloria Zerbinos is sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for at least 12 years for the 2012 stabbing death of her mother, Pangiota “Yota” Zerbinos. Gloria is also charged in the murder of another inmate in 2013, while she was in prison awaiting trial for her mom’s death.
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The death of former B.C. premier Bill Bennett on Dec. 4 prompted the tradi-tional round of polite tributes.
He was the man from Kelowna who remade Vancouver; SkyTrain, BC Place stadium and Expo ’86 put the city on the world map. He won three majority governments before handing over a smoothly running Social Credit Party to Bill Vander Zalm.
Outside B.C., obituaries defined Ben-nett as the “architect of financial restraint in the province.” But when Bennett unleashed his “restraint program” on the B.C. government in 1983, it was often presented as a right-wing coup on a socialist utopia.
I was in journalism school when unions organized a general strike to bring the re-cently re-elected government to its knees. The Vancouver Province was a screeching banshee of the big-labour left.
“Socred hit men swoop on rights
workers,” its front page declared after 400 layoff notices were issued to provincial staff.
A bit of background: The B.C. econo-my was in the grip of an international recession, hitting resource industries and government revenues hard.
Bennett had ousted the Dave Barrett NDP government in 1975, but the legacy lived on. During its three-year reign, for example, education spending increased 13 per cent in the first year and 23 per cent in each of the next two.
Restraint legislation reasserted govern-ment’s authority to control the size and wages of provincial staff, reinstated the province’s ability to pay, eliminated vari-ous boards, and increased the Provincial Sales Tax to seven per cent.
Another Bill Bennett legacy was dismantling the monopoly chokehold of international unions on public heavy construction.
Growing up in northeastern B.C., I had seen the impressive pay for jobs on highway construction – about twice what I earned labouring for a non-union contractor.
Friends discovered the inside track to securing jobs on a provincially funded highway project. After joining the union, they could visit a business agent and hand over $500. Within days, the lucky winner would be “name requested” to join the crew, vaulting over those who thought paying dues and working up the seniority list would be enough.
This struggle over public construction continues today, with BC Hydro’s decision to make the Site C dam an open shop. The main contract was awarded to a consortium working with the Christian Labour Association of Canada, an alter-native union known by more colourful
names among old-line building trades.After graduating from journalism
school, I landed my first full-time job as a reporter for the Kelowna Capital News, shortly before Bennett announced his retirement from the premier’s office to finish his term as a backbench MLA.
Bennett and I would sometimes arrive for work together, parking our rusty 1976 Chevrolets on Bernard Avenue, where he kept an office above the family furniture store.
I found out later that Bennett’s modest old sedan was the government-issue car he had used during his entire 10 years as premier. The party bought it for him as a humourous retirement gift and he continued to drive it.
No frills. That was Bill Bennett.Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and colum-
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The provincial government should get its ducks in a row. That means it needs to have a clear and fair tolling policy in place before opening yet another toll bridge between the South Fraser region and the rest of Metro Vancouver.
The announcement that a new 10-lane bridge will replace the Massey Tunnel, and that it will be tolled, is another reminder of how hypocritical and dis-criminatory the government’s current tolling policy is. Work on the new bridge will begin in 2017 and it is expected to open by 2022.
Currently, there are just two tolled bridges in B.C. One is the new Port Mann, built and op-erated by the province through the Transportation Investment Corporation (TReO). The other is the Golden Ears, built and operated by TransLink. Both link Surrey, Langley, Delta and other south-of-the Fraser cities with those to the north.
It is important to look at toll-ing in its complete context. Prior to the opening of the Golden Ears Bridge in 2009, the only toll highway in B.C. since the early 1960s had been the Coquihalla Highway. It was tolled when it opened in 1986 because its construction timetable was advanced to have it ready for Expo ’86.
It remained a toll highway
for more than 20 years, with then-premier Gordon Campbell arbitrarily and surprisingly an-nouncing the tolls were ending at the September 2008 Union of B.C. Municipalities conven-tion. A total of $845 million was collected over 22 years – just $3 million short of the construction cost of the highway and the con-necting link to the Okanagan.
The Golden Ears was planned as a toll bridge because it was the only way TransLink could afford to build it. It replaced the aging and slow ferry system which was completely inadequate for the volumes of traffic travelling be-tween Maple Ridge and Langley.
The new Port Mann Bridge, on the other hand, replaced one of the most important and congested river crossings in B.C. It carries the Trans-Cana-da Highway, which is partially funded by the federal govern-ment. It is tolled to reduce the province’s costs. Yet other new provincial highways and bridges, notably the Pitt River Bridge and the Sea-to-Sky Highway, are free to use.
The province’s tolling policy since the new Port Mann and freeway improvements were announced by Campbell in 2006 says there has to be a free alter-native. Theoretically, that is the Pattullo Bridge, but in fact that
aging structure cannot handle any more traffic. The South Fraser Perimeter Road is an option to bypass the Port Mann, but one of the major effects has been to put even more traffic on the Alex Fraser and Massey crossings.
If the new Deas Island crossing is also tolled, the pressure on the Alex Fraser will be enormous. It is already badly congested virtually every weekday morning and evening. There are long line-ups to get onto it, whether off Highway 17, Nordel Way or 72 Avenue on the south, or the East-West Connector and Queensborough Bridge on the north.
Transportation Minister Todd Stone recently said he is willing to examine the toll-ing policy and road pricing if TransLink decides to replace the Pattullo Bridge. A new crossing there would also be a toll structure.
Residents who live south of the Fraser River deserve far more from provincial and regional officials than luke-warm promises. There must be a regional tolling and road pricing policy in place before the Massey Bridge opens.
Frank Bucholtz writes weekly for The Leader.
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Beware of politicians off ering $3.5-billion gifts, as they maybe mere White Elephants, haunting the taxpayer for generations to come.
If one thinks that the B.C. Liberals’ new $3.5-billion Massey Bridge, replacing the per-fectly good George Massey Tunnel, will improve traffi c congestion, one had better take off their rose-coloured glasses because, despite the hype and hoopla, all the $3.5-billion bridge will do is move congestion about three kilometres north to about Steveston Highway.
Why?Th e answer is simple math. Th e Arthur Laing,
Oak, Knight and Queensborough bridges are at or near capacity throughout the day and the new traffi c brought by the bridge will just sit idling on
Highway 99 as the larger amount of cars using the new bridge will have nowhere to go and will crawl through Richmond unless another bridge is built to Burnaby/Vancouver.
Th ose glad-handing this project have seemed to have slept through their math classes.
As planning for this bridge is not part of a re-gional transportation plan, then we must accept that regional transportation and transit planning has all but come to an end in the South Fraser region.
Th e real reason for this bridge is again, simple math. Fraser Surrey Docks wants to bring in massive tankers and colliers to load liquefi ed natural gas, dirty bitumen oil from Alberta and even dirtier Montana coal, and these massive new ships have a much deeper draft than existing ships plying the Fraser River. So deep are these ships’ drafts that the Fraser must be dredged to a depth below the existing George Massey Tunnel.
Th e premier’s $3.5-billion vanity project is in
reality a massive $3.5-billion subsidy to Fraser Surrey Docks and maybe they should pay for the bridge.
Like the capacity-constipated Canada Line, which is the only heavy-rail metro in the world built as a light metro having less capacity than a streetcar, this new bridge may prove to be a White Elephant for future generations, needing billions of dollars more for future improvements.
Th e new Fraser River bridge is pure “B.C. blacktop” politics, which will provide pricey photo-ops at election times, for it will not bring much-hoped-for improvements to our regional transportation system.
Footnote: A tolled Fraser River bridge will be the death-knell of the Tsawwassen Mills mega mall, as very few people will pay a toll to shop in Tsawwassen.
D. M. JohnstonDelta
To the citizens of Surrey, As the year draws to a close, I would like
to thank you for your continued trust and support. I would also like to share some of the work the Surrey RCMP has done to improve public safety in your neighbour-hoods this year.
Our priorities of public safety, commu-nity engagement and mobilization, and organizational development have driven our work throughout the year, resulting in a number of successes and new initiatives.
With respect to public safety, our homi-cide rate has decreased by 47 per cent, our fatal collisions are down 23 per cent, and our property crime rate has decreased by 10 per cent.
Unfortunately, the city was plagued with a number of shootings related to the drug trade this year, driving our violent crime rate. Our investigative teams, supported by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU-BC), have made significant headway in disrupting this drug activity and the related violence by making almost 800 arrests and detentions, resulting in 290 charges. I can assure you that this con-tinues to be our detachment’s top priority.
Some of our initiatives to pro-active-ly improve public safety have included a successful joint operation with Metro Vancouver Transit Police to improve safety in the Surrey Central transit corridor, and the support of more participants in the Wrap program, a partnership with the Surrey School District which helps to keep at-risk youth out of the gang and criminal lifestyle.
We have also made efforts to reach out to our diverse community in Surrey
through our participation in cultural events such as the Pulling Together Canoe Journey and Vaisakhi, and meetings with various community groups. To assist those who are new to Canada and Surrey, we created a “Newcomer’s Guide to Policing” that is now available in print and on our
website (http://surrey.rcmp-grc.gc.ca). A significant accomplishment for us this
year was the launch of the Surrey Mobili-zation and Resiliency Table, or “SMART.” With the help of our 10 partners, SMART is intended to address social issues before they become police problems. This model,
often called a “Hub,” has been established in other parts of Canada, but SMART is the first of its kind in B.C. I am very proud that Surrey detachment has played a key role in bringing this type of risk-driven interven-tion model to Surrey.
This year, we have continued to increase our efforts in community engagement and mobilization and you have responded. More than 100 new Block Watches were created, 900 residents attended our 15 Neighbourhood Safety presentations, and 52 youth and adults participated in our Citizen and Youth Police Academies.
As our city continues to grow, a signif-icant focus for us this year has been on increasing our establishment of police offi-cers. Since the official approval of 100 new police officers in May, 75 of those positions have been filled. In addition, 31 municipal employees were added to support our op-eration. The growth of our detachment has allowed us to enhance our service delivery, particularly with respect to our uniformed first responders in general duty and youth policing.
While enforcement is a key part of polic-ing, public safety does not improve simply by making arrests. I would like to thank every citizen and business owner in Surrey who has taken the time over the past year to call us to report a crime or suspicious event, talk to us in person, join a Block Watch group, or attend one of our crime prevention events.
The community plays an important role in all aspects of policing – from observing and reporting, to engaging with us, to protecting yourself, your home and your business.
Thank you for being involved and for caring about the safety and well-being of our police officers and this great city. I wish you and your families a safe and happy holiday season.
Chief Superintendent Bill FordyOfficer in Charge, Surrey RCMP
Surrey: Thank you for being involved
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A Surrey woman who stabbed her mother to death three years ago will have to wait at least 12 years before applying for parole.
Gloria Zerbinos, 31, was found guilty of second-degree murder in September in the stabbing death of her mom, Pangiota “Yota” Zerbinos.
Th ough the conviction carries an automatic life sentence, pa-role ineligibility can range from 10 to 25 years.
On Monday (Dec. 21) in B.C. Supreme Court in New West-minster, a judge set ineligibility at 12 years for Gloria, minus the three years she has spent in pre-trial custody. During a sentencing hearing earlier this month, Crown had recom-mended 13 years, while defence suggested 10-12 years.
It was revealed during the
trial that Yota was dropping off clean laundry to her daughter’s basement suite on Nov. 8, 2012 when she was killed.
Th e mother was 43 when her then-28-year-old daughter stabbed her at least two dozen times.
Yota was discovered later that evening, a knife still protruding from her chest, her body draped in a blanket.
Th e court heard that after the incident, Gloria dropped off her toddler son at Yota’s mother’s home nearby, but said nothing about the stabbing. Gloria was arrested two days later at a
Vancouver strip club. While no motive was
established, lawyers agreed she suffers from a psychotic disorder and abuses drugs and alcohol.
Th e Crown also said Gloria has displayed delusional and volatile behaviour in jail.
In fact, she is facing a mur-der charge in connection with the death of a fellow inmate in November 2013, and has another assault charge from June prior, also while in prison. A preliminary inquiry for the murder charge is scheduled for February.
▶ GLORIA ZERBINOS MURDERED HER MOTHER IN 2012 AND IS ALSO CHARGED WITH KILLING AN INMATE IN 2013
Mom’s killer sentencedGloria Zerbinos (right) stabbed her mom Yota Zerbinos (left) to death in 2012. She was convicted of second-degree murder and received a life-sentence with no chance of parole for 12 years.LEADER FILE
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Years ago, people tossed packaging, wrappers, newly-devised disposable ‘stuff ’ on sidewalks as they walked along, and out their car-windows as they drove along. Th is behaviour hardly merited consideration of the resulting unsightliness, uncleanliness, and potential danger when the weather or other natural forces, in turn, tossed it back onto windshields or under tires. Much of the material “back in the day” was organic and ultimately decomposed.
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Indeed we have gone the next step: litter
must be sorted and disposed of accordingly. Such a successful behavioural shift has been seen in other ‘cultural shift’ eff orts: anti-smoking, and anti-drinking and driving eff orts, for example.
Road and highway ‘litter’—‘debris’ is the better term—is now often the result of insecure racked loads on cars and vans, and in the backs of light ‘pick-up’ trucks. Sometimes more substantial in size and mass, debris on the road can cause havoc, especially on highways where higher speed limits translate into higher forces at play when solid objects collide. Th e tendency may be to swerve to avoid risking loss of control.
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Surrey’s Bradley Michael Muscat has been sentenced to a total of eight years jail for a pair of attacks that included a violent sexual assault of a woman in the Victoria suburb of Langford in 2014.
Crown prosecutor Ruth Picha said Muscat, 21, who was arrested in Surrey in October of 2014 and had pleaded guilty to two counts involving aggravated assault, could spend more than six more years behind bars.
“Th is is a signifi cant sentence for someone who has no prior criminal history,” Picha said after last week’s sentencing. “However, I was asking for 10 years, (but) the judge took everything into consideration and gave a very learned ruling.”
Previous admissions of facts stated
that Muscat held a sharp object to the neck of a woman who was walk-ing home in the early hours of June 26, 2014. After a struggle, he forced her onto the Galloping Goose Trail, raped her and stole her phone.
Included in the ruling on that aggravated sexual assault was the aggravated assault of a sex-trade worker in Surrey in August of 2014. Th e admission of facts said he hit the woman in the head, stabbed her in the side and back and stole more than $500 cash.
Th e sex worker eventually stabbed Muscat with a knife pulled from her bra. He was arrested after going to hospital for treatment, having matched a description given to police by the sex worker.
He was then considered a suspect in the Langford attack. Offi cers trav-elled to Surrey, where they matched DNA from an empty beer can he had discarded to evidence taken from the Langford victim.
He still had her cellphone in his bathrobe when police arrested him.
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It may have been a rainy Tues-day afternoon on Dec. 15, but the weather wasn’t dampening the spirits of members of Frank Hurt Secondary’s Global Issues Club (GIC) as they discussed how their campaigns have cre-ated awareness in their school community.
“We’re just a group of kids that want to make a diff erence locally and globally,” said GIC member Tara Trang.
So far this year, the GIC has initiated a number of cam-paigns, from a memorial for the 14 women murdered in the 1989 École Polytechnique attack, to a Red Dress display that highlights murdered and missing indigenous women, to raising funds for Syrian refu-gees and the Surrey Food Bank.
Th e club has been a pillar of the Frank Hurt school commu-nity for more than 10 years and is currently co-run by teachers
Melanie Scheuer and Rox-anne Pope, who have recently expanded the scope of the club to bring awareness to various issues.
“We work very closely with Free the Children, as well as NightShift (Street Ministries), the Surrey Food Bank, Im-migration Services Society of B.C. (ISS), the Red Cross, and QMuni-ty,” said Scheuer.
She added that GIC students have begun a Pride Week event in association with the school’s Gay-Straight Alli-ance club, and are currently working on ways to bring awareness to mental health issues.
According to members of the GIC, the most successful campaign to date this school year has been to raise funds for Syrian refugees through a vari-ety of bake sales. Th e club raised $1,000 and has given $500 each to the Red Cross and ISS.
“Everyone was so excited to help, and we’re still really involved because we’re getting some [refugees] coming to our school,” said GIC member Anisha Karan. “And kids have signed up to help them get ac-
customed to Frank Hurt life.”Many of the students attri-
bute the success of the GIC to the enthusiasm and knowledge Scheuer and Pope impart on them.
“Ms. Pope and Ms. Scheuer make sure that we’re spearhead-ing all the campaigns,” said GIC member Asha Khondoker. “Th ey
motivate us to do it, and then we see how we’re actively making a change.”
Fellow GIC mem-ber Aide Idemudia agreed.
“Ms. Scheuer and Ms Pope are so en-thusiastic about it,” said Idemudia, “Th ey
just draw everyone in.”While Scheuer and Pope
appreciate the accolades from their students, they know that without the teens’ involvement and ideas, the GIC would not have the same reach it does now.
“It’s student led, with us as mentors,” said Pope.
Th e GIC has already begun planning for a blanket and clothing campaign that runs in January. For more information about what the GIC is up to, follow them on twitter @FHGlo-balIssues
▶ GLOBAL ISSUES CLUB RUNS CAMPAIGNS TO CREATE AWARENESS AND ADVOCACY IN THEIR SCHOOL COMMUNITY
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EVAN SEAL
Building confi dence, living a balanced life-style and appreciating yourself and others around you is the mes-
sage one young Surrey woman is hoping to spread throughout schools in the Lower Mainland.
While she was in high school, Taylor Hui
noticed the negativity that surrounded her and others, including girls treating class-mates with disrespect and trying to put each other down to make
themselves feel better. So three years ago,
while in Grade 11 at Fraser Heights Secondary School, Hui founded BeaYOUtiful, a not-for-profi t pro-
gram for elementary school-aged girls which aims to teach them about themselves and how to set personal goals and take charge of their own lives.
Hui, now 20 and an international relations and business student at SFU, developed the six-week curriculum to help girls open up about their problems while at the same time challenge them to fi nd solutions.
Having seen friends deal with eating disor-ders, low self-esteem and even being bullied herself, Hui noticed a gap in the system.
“I found these types of programs were not available to help girls overcome these issues early on in life,” she said. “I know a lot of these problems start in elementary school, so if you can target them at a young age you can really make a diff er-ence.”
Th rough various con-ferences she attended or during her own speaking engagements, Hui was able to partner with young student mentors who help facilitate the classes at various schools. Th e mentors range in age from 16-21 and are of-ten university students studying social sciences who are able to connect with the girls on the same level.
After they have com-pleted a background check, the mentors then take part in a two-day mentorship training program designed by Hui to help them understand the course outline and expectations.
Th e BeaYOUtiful program runs once a week has participants work through diff er-ent modules, either setting personal goals using dream boards, or talking about personal challenges and how to overcome them.
One class includes a pampering night where
▶ AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM BEAYOUTIFUL TEACHES SELF-CONFIDENCE
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▶ “I know a lot of these problems start in elementary school, so if you can target them at a young age you can really make a difference.”TAYLOR HUI
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the girls learn to be comfortable in their own skin and recognize their inner beauty.
“We even brought in an artist to show the girls diff erent ways art can be used to reduce stress using drawing and even singing,” said Hui.
If mentors feel the situation warrants it, they can get school ad-ministration involved and even enlist the help of a community counsellor if the issues
that come up are more than they can handle.
For Cindrich Elemen-tary Grade 7 student Shingar Garcha, the program has helped her and her classmates better understand each other.
“I used to get into fi ghts in school, so when I fi rst showed up, I thought, ‘oh wow, this is going to be awk-ward,’” she said “But we started to share things about each other and I found we actually had things in common and we’ve become good friends.”
Shingar now feels she has more confi dence and understands how to deal with stressful situations and help people.
For Simran Sand-hu, BeaYOUtiful has taught her to believe in herself and learn that she is not alone.
“I was often unmoti-vated, but now when things get tough I know to take a deep breath and think about how lucky I am.”
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BeaYOUtiful founder Taylor Hui (second from left) discusses one of the dream boards made by participants Diya Sandhu (left), Simran Sandhu and Shingar Garcha. EVAN SEAL
▶ PROGRAM HELPS CLASSMATES BETTER UNDERSTAND EACH OTHERfrom page 12
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A parent support group for gifted/talent-ed youngsters meets each Th ursday at 6:30 p.m. in Room 206 at the Cloverdale Rec-reation Centre, 6188 176 St.
Th e group provides an opportunity for par-ents of gifted children to learn more about giftedness, discuss challenges and share strategies for support-ing gifted children.
Gifted children an be rapid and curious learners, but may be bored, disruptive or underachieve, and their educational develop-ment may be uneven.
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Last summer, there were 26 black bear cubs in the Fraser Valley area who had lost their mothers and were starving; some were even eating plastic bags and metal cans.
One by one they were taken to the Critter Care Wildlife Society, an animal rehabilitation centre in Langley.
On Dec. 11, the adult students from Delta Community College (DCC) gave these bears a Christmas present. A month prior, while in English class, a group of students saw a newspaper article about the bears.
Th e students were saddened to learn that four bears died within the fi rst 24 hours of being rescued and the rest were on the brink of starvation. Touched by the story, they decided to help the bears by collecting food for them.
“First, we contacted Critter Care to get information about the food the bears needed. Th en we organized a do-nation activity to collect apples, pears, carrots, caulifl ower, and broccoli for the starving bears,” said Sumera Saeed, a student at DCC. “Many students and teachers responded with passion and compassion.”
Th e students packed the boxes of fruit and vegetables into a car and delivered them to Critter Care Wildlife So-ciety. Th e number of bears in care had risen to 32 by this point. All of the bears have names – the smallest bear is called Tiny Tim.
“As we are reading A Christmas Carol in class, we now know what this bear’s name means,” said student Yiqing Mao.
Th e bears are now doing really well. In the spring, the plan is to relocate them back to their habitats.
“We really hope these bears will grow healthy and strong and will be able to live happy lives,” said student Guanqun Ding. “For all of us, it was an amazing experience. We feel great because our food collection and volunteer work have made a small impact on the animals’ lives.”
Th e results have just been released and the amateur radio operators of Surrey have scored fi rst place in Can-ada for the annual North American Field Day emergency communications competition.
Despite the Internet, cellphones, email and modern communica-tions, every year whole regions fi nd themselves in the dark. Tornadoes, earthquakes, fi res, storms, landslides, ice and even the occasional cutting of cables leave people without the means to communicate.
Th e one consistent service that has never failed has been amateur radio. Th ese federally licensed radio oper-ators, often called “hams,” provide
back-up communications for every-thing from community events to local emergency operations centres, and to the International Space Station.
Th is past June, Surrey “hams” joined with thousands of other amateur radio operators in a 24-hour exercise of their emergency communi-cations capabilities.
Th e amateur radio operators assembled an emergency radio station at the former Grandview Elemen-tary School grounds at 176 Street and 20 Avenue. Over the 24-hour period
they made more than 800 contacts throughout North America and be-yond, operating using only fi ve watts of power.
Surrey Fire Service Deputy Fire Chief Dan Barnscher, who coordi-nates emergency response for the City of Surrey, says “amateur radio plays an integral part in emergency communications during any major event for the city.”
To learn more about amateur radio in Surrey, visit ve7sar.net
Th e Surrey Ama-teur Radio Club will be off ering classes in April to obtain a radio licence. For more infor-mation, email [email protected]
All 19 secondary schools in the Surrey School District are receiving the latest in welding protection with new helmets donated by the Canadian Welding Association Founda-tion (CWA Foundation).
Th e space-age looking hel-mets are auto-darkening and feature a phoenix theme.
Five helmets are going to each secondary school’s weld-ing program. With a value of about $160 each, the total donation amounts to $15,000.
Th e CWA Foundation promotes welding industry safety and education in Canada.
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Students loaded for bears
From left: Delta Community College students Yiqing Mao, Yao Hui Huang, Guanqun (James) Ding and Diogene Niyomugabo. DELTA SCHOOL DISTRICT
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▶ DODGING THE HOLIDAYSThe Surrey Dodgeball League collected $8,357 for the Surrey Christmas Bureau at their second-annual Christmas Charity Dodgeball Tournament at William of Orange Christian School in Cloverdale earlier this month. All participants had to wear holiday themed ‘uniforms’ ranging from Santa hats, ugly sweaters and holiday socks. SUBMITTED
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Th is year, staff from George Mackie Library, Ladner Pi-oneer Library and Tsawwassen Library gathered together for their annual combined Christmas dinner and Auction for a Cause.
Everyone was asked to bring a hand-made item to be auctioned off to fellow co-workers. Items ranged from a live wreath, jams, apple pies, poppycock, scarves, jewelry and a quilt to a lamp made from discarded CDs.
Gillian McLeod, Manager of Delta Libraries, played auctioneer, with librarians Jill Klaponski and Curtis Acton acting as back-ups.
After an evening of laughter and competitive bidding, $1,600 was raised.
All proceeds were donated to Deltassist Family and Community Services.
Th is was the fourth annual Auction for a Cause.
From left: Gillian McLeod, manager of Delta Libraries, Slinder Balaggan, executive director for Deltassist, Brooke Reid, George Mackie Library page, Colleen Collins, finance manager for Deltassist and Frances Thomson, community librarian at the George Mackie Library. SUBMITTED
Join Abbotsford artist Tracie Stewart at the next Thursday Artist Talk on Jan. 7 from 7:30-9 p.m. at the Surrey Arts Centre. She will share her perspective on how much science infl uences us and where “magic” comes from. Above is her work, titled ‘The Boy Dares Dream of Tomorrow.’ Admission is free. For more information, call 604-501-5566 or email [email protected]
White Rock’s Polar Bear Swim 2016 takes place Jan. 1 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 14970 Marine Dr. The swim begins at 12 noon. Music, coffee, hot chocolate, hot dogs and more. Participants are encouraged to dress in costume.
Delta’s 36th-annual Polar Bear Swim takes place Jan. 1 at 1 p.m. at Centen-nial Beach, Boundary Bay Park. Access is through Tsawwassen, east on 12 Avenue from 56 Street. Registration, entertainment and children’s activities begin at noon.
Surrey Arts Centre presents the new season of the Classical Coffee Concerts series. For the next concert on Jan. 14, pianist Sarah Hagen is joined by violinist Francois Houle. Refreshments begin at 9:30 a.m., and the con-cert is at 10:30 a.m. in the Studio Theatre. Tickets are from $21 at the box offi ce (13750 88 Ave.), by phone at 604-501-5566 or at https://tickets.surrey.ca
The Surrey Fire Fight-ers’ Charitable Society will hold its annual Tree Chip on Jan. 2 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Newton Athletic Park, 7395 128 St.
Christmas tree chip-ping and bottle drive in support of the Surrey United Soccer Association
will take place Jan. 2 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Cloverdale Athletic Park, 6410 168 St.
The Knights of Co-lumbus are holding a Christmas tree chipping and bottle drive on Jan. 2, 3, 9 and 10 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Parish, 16079 88 Ave. The fundraising is for local charities.
The Adams Road PAC Tree Chipping and Bottle Drive takes place Jan. 2 from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Adams Road Ele-mentary, 18228 68 Ave. Money raised will help build a new playground. Special appearances by Cloverdale Rodeo mascots and Langley Rivermen hockey players. For more information, email [email protected]
Emmanuel Covenant Church (17029 16 Ave.) is holding a Christmas tree chipping and bottle drive on Jan. 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Dry Grad Commit-tee of Fraser Heights Secondary School is holding a tree chipping and bottle drive fund-raising event on Jan. 3 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the parking lot of
the school, located at 16060 108 Ave. Also, for a minimum $20 donation, a represen-tative from the school will come to your house (Fraser Heights area only) and pick up your tree. Emai l f raserheightsdrygrad2016@gmail .com i f you wish to have your tree picked up, or drop off your tree at the park-ing lot , by donat ion.
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▶ SKATING IN A WINTER WONDERLANDThe Cloverdale Arena (6090 176 St.) has been transformed into the Winter Ice Palace for the 18th year. Families – including those seen here on Dec. 19 – can skate there daily until Jan. 3. Admission is $4.50. Skate rentals are $3.25 and helmets are $1.75. Hours vary. For the full schedule, visit http://bit.ly/1Yb1UhY BOAZ JOSEPH
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16 The Surrey-Nor th Delta Leader Wednesday December 30 2015 16 The Surrey-Nor th Delta Leader Wednesday December 30 2015
RICK KUPCHUK
Th e fi rst half of the 72-game regular season began well and ended well for the Vancouver Giants.
Th e fi rst three weeks of the regular season
saw the Giants get off to a 4-3-2 (win-loss-over-time loss) start to the season, earning points at a rate which would ensure the Western Hockey League team would qualify for the playoff s.
Th e three weeks just prior to the holiday break were even better, as they went 7-3-1.
It was a disastrous
seven-week stretch from mid-October to late November, which saw the team go 1-13-2 that has put the Giants in the hole they will need to climb out of over the fi nal half of the season.
Vancouver is 12-19-5 after 36 games, the halfway point of the regular season. Th ey are last in Western Con-ference standings, but
need to overtake just two rivals in order to climb into the top eight and participate in the playoff s. And if they can maintain their level of play over the fi rst three weeks of December, they should be able to reach the postseason.
A much-improved de-fensive record is behind much of their success over the past 11 games. After giving up an aver-age of 4.08 goals against per game in the fi rst 25 games of the season,
they have lowered that fi gure to 2.28 over the next 11.
Goaltender Ryan Kubic is one of the rea-sons why. Th e 17-year-old appeared in just 10 of Vancouver’s fi rst 25 games of the season, losing all eight decisions (0-7-1).
In the past 11 games, he’s started all 11, going 7-2-1. His goals against average has dropped from 2.28 over the fi rst two months of the season to 1.85 during
the recent streak. A save percentage of .878 has improved consider-ably, as Kubic posted a .937 mark, with three shutouts, over the most recent three weeks.
Matt Barberis has been contributing off en-sively all season, but his defensive numbers have improved considerably in the past month. Th e White Rock native is quietly putting together a solid rookie season, leading all Giants defencemen in scoring
with fi ve goals and 13 assists. But while he was a minus-13 through the fi rst 25 games of the season, he’s been a plus-4 in the past 11.
Veteran Chase Lang, 19, and rookie Tyler Benson have stepped up their off ensive produc-tion during the recent run. Lang, who had three goals in 14 games with the Giants follow-ing his trade to Vancou-ver from Calgary in late October, has eight in his past 11.
Benson, a 17-year-old projected to be a poten-tial fi rst round pick in next sumer’s National Hockey League Entry Draft, has four goals and 12 assists in the recent run, after totalling just nine appoints in the previous 15 games.
Th e Giants will likely need to play .500 hockey over the fi nal half of the season to reach the playoff s. If they play up to the standard set in December, they will achieve that goal.
BLUE LINES: Th e Giants will have nine prospects playing in the Mac’s Midget AAA Tournament in Calgary this week. Th e tour-nament, which began Saturday (Dec. 26) and runs through to Friday (Jan. 1).
Th ree prospects are with the Yorkton Maul-ers. Th ey include de-fenceman Kaleb Bulych, a 2015 second round draft pick, and forwards Kaeden Taphorn (2015 third round selection) and Tristyn DeRoose.
Goaltender David Tendeck, selected in the sixth round of the 2014 draft, will be playing with the Vancouver Giants of the BC Hockey Major Midget League. Other Giants prospects currently on teams from the B.C. league playing in Calgary are forwards Haydn Delorme (2015 ninth round pick), forward Haydn Delorme of the Vancouver Chiefs and James Malm (2014 second round pick) of the Valley West Hawks.
Jordan Biro was picked up as an affi liate player by the Sherwood Park Kings of the Alber-ta Midget AAA Hockey League. Th e forward was listed by the Giants this past summer.
Alex Kannok-Keipert, a defenceman, will play for the Regina Pat Cana-dians. He was a fourth round pick in 2014.
Defenceman Austin King-Cunningham, listed this past fall, will play for the Moose Jaw Generals.
▶ TEAM POSTS WINNING RECORD IN DECEMBER
Giants still aiming for a WHL playoff berth
Vancouver Giants goaltender Ryan Kubic makes a save against the Victoria Royals in a recent WHL game in Victoria. Kubic started all 11 games in a recent 7-3-1 run by the Giants. VICTORIA ROYALS PHOTO
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BERKENBOS, Cheryl November 1, 1961 - December 15, 2015
It is with great sorrow we announce the sudden passing of Cheryl Berkenbos at the age of 54.
She will be forever missed by her family and friends and always remembered for her kind spirit and her love of animals.
A service will be held on December 29th at 2:00 at Valley View Memorial in Surrey.
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Notice is hereby given that the
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under Part 3.1 of the CFA and will
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disposal by the Director of Civil
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is filed with the Director within the
time period set out in this notice.
A notice of dispute may be filed by
a person who claims to have an
interest in all or part of the subject
property. The notice of dispute
must be filed within 60 days of the
date upon which this notice is first
published.
You may obtain the form of a notice
of dispute, which must meet the
requirements of Section 14.07
of the CFA, from the Director’s
website, accessible online at www.
pssg.gov.bc.ca/civilforfeiture. The
notice must be in writing, signed
in the presence of a lawyer or
notary public, and mailed to the
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Coupon valid January 2 to 7, 2016 at Cloverdale location: 17745 64th Ave, Surrey
Present this coupon with your More Rewards card to the cashier at time of purchase. Coupon cannot be combined with any other Overwaitea Food Group coupon offer on this product or redeemed for cash. No substitutions. REWARDS
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