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Banner day: Earl Marriott Secondary has its first-ever football championship, after the Mariners’ senior squad scored in the final minute of the title game to claim victory. i see page 29
Conditional sentence with curfew imposed on Jason Robinson for 2007 offence in White Rock
No jail time for years-old sex assault Tracy Holmes
months abiding by a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. “Sexual assaults are serious charges,� Justice Robert Crawford said Friday in B.C. Supreme Court, after recounting details of the incident and examples of sentencing in other sex-assault cases. Robinson, 35, pleaded guilty last June to committing the assault.
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A White Rock man charged six years ago in connection with an August 2007 sexual assault will not spend any time in jail for the offence. Instead, Jason Andrew Robinson will serve a conditional sentence of two years less a day, including 12
In sentencing submissions on Sept. 3 and Nov. 17, the court heard that it occurred at around 3 a.m., about four hours after the intoxicated victim had gone to bed. The then-25-year-old woke to find her clothing had been removed and Robinson standing over her naked, “about to have sexual intercourse with her.�
When she yelled at Robinson to leave, he did, the court heard. Crawford said that while the victim reported feeling like she had had sex, there was no physical evidence to support the assertion. He noted that sentencing for past cases describe sex assaults on those unable to defend themselves as attacks on the “most vulnerable.�
“The factors on one side are the taking advantage of a lady who is intoxicated‌ the other side is the position (that) he stopped,â€? Crawford said. Robinson’s sentence includes 20 years on the sex-offender registry. A second sexual assault charge, in connection with an incident on Aug. 3, 2007, was stayed.
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Crews use a gantry crane to replace the Little Campbell River trestle bridge Thursday. The work took place as members of the Semiahmoo First Nation watched from across the river.
Semiahmoo First Nation record process, following concerns with damage mitigation
Trestle replacement went as designed: BNSF Tracy Holmes
wrapped just after 3 p.m. The first trains tested the new, 80-foot steel span at about 11 p.m., with operations back on track shortly after. BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas said Monday that trains will operate at a reduced speed until the welding of track joints is completed later this week. “Once the welds are complete‌ we’ll pick the speed up to normal,â€?
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Crews began work early Thursday to replace the Little Campbell River trestle bridge in South Surrey. The work got underway at 6 a.m. – under the watchful eye of Semiahmoo First Nation members, who viewed the proceedings from opposite the mouth of the river. The bulk of the $2-million job
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he told Peace Arch News. The rail bridge – which sits on Semiahmoo First Nation land – has long been a subject of concern, due to its age and deteriorating condition. It has been earmarked for replacement since 2011. BNSF structures manager Alan Bloomquist said the railway has been inspecting the aging span every 30 days, ever since Transport
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Canada examined the 79-tonne structure more than a year ago and “didn’t like what they saw.� While some repairs were made along the way – including replacement of timber shims with steel and replacement of braces and some bearings – it was deemed safe for train traffic every time, he said. Earlier last week, Semiahmoo councillor Joanne Charles told
PAN the band had concerns, and was consulting with Aboriginal Affairs; as well, that she was left in the dark about any plans for mitigation in the event of a mishap. “What if it’s so old it crumbles when they try to lift it?� she said. Melonas said Thursday that “the entire plan was designed to respect� the band’s property. i see page 10
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Peace Arch News honoured by Local Media Association
International award The Peace Arch News has been named one of the best newspapers in North America by the U.S.-based Local Media Association. Last week, PAN placed second in its class in the Local Media Association’s annual Newspaper of the Year contest. Among non-daily papers with a circulation of 37,500 or more, PAN was second
only to the Newmarket Era, in Newmarket, Ont. Of the Peace Arch News, judges said, “content is excellent – great mix of local and national news.” The paper was also lauded for its “eye catching layout on (the) front page” and for its advertisements, which judges said “are colourful and logically placed.” PAN was one of a handful
of Black Press newspapers honoured. The Chilliwack Progress finished first in its circulation class (22,50137,500), and the Abbotsford News finished third in the same category. Two Washington-based Black Press papers – the Everett Daily Herald and the Bainbridge Island Review – also top-three honours in their respective divisions.
Surrey officers struck, shots fired Shots were fired Friday afternoon in a police incident in which two Surrey RCMP officers were taken to hospital after being rammed by a stolen truck. At about 12:30 p.m. – in the parking lot of the Cedar
Tree Village apartment complex on Hall Road near King George Boulevard and 72 Avenue – plainclothes officers were attempting to arrest a driver and two occupants. The officers’ injuries were
not believed to be lifethreatening. One suspect was taken to hospital. Two men and one woman were taken into custody. Officers fired shots during the incident but no one was struck.
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Penny Deming says mutual-fund penalty was result of ‘a business mistake’
‘Rogue broker’ fined, banned from practise Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
A former White Rock businesswoman who admitted to misconduct in connection with two “off-book” sales of shares in her company has been fined $20,000 and banned from securities-related business for 4½ years. According to a decision announced last month by the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada, the sanctions on Penny Deming will enhance investor protection and strengthen public confidence in the industry. “The respondent exposed two investors to actual risks of loss… Further, the funds went to the respondent personally, and to a company she controlled,” the decision states. Deming, however, said the issue boils down
to “a business mistake.” working as a mutual-fund advisor for World“I think the whole thing has been blown out source Financial Management Inc. of proportion,” she told Peace Arch News last The shares – worth a total $100,000 and week from Mexico. “MFDA was clear that which the disciplinary panel heard were not there’s no fraud, no misrepresentations. approved by WFM for sale – were sold to “They got me on a technicality.” women identified as A.W. and The MFDA regulates the opera- ❝They got me on M.M. tions, standards of practice and a technicality.❞ The three-member panel also business conduct of Canadian heard that Deming “did not intenPenny Deming mutual-fund dealers. tionally contravene the rules of Disciplinary proceedings against MFDA.” Deming, 51, were announced last December. However, “… we have no doubt that she was In an agreed statement of facts, Deming aware of the regulatory and dealer imposed admitted to engaging in securities-related obligations regarding off-book business,” the business contrary to association rules and decision states. standard of conduct by selling shares in her The document notes Deming co-operated company, SHE Financial Group Ltd., while with the investigation, with the exception of
providing financial records for SHE. And while the panel heard that Deming agreed with the penalty, she told PAN she wouldn’t pay even if she could, and that she agreed to it for health reasons. Deming also said that WFM knew about the two investors, and that her downfall was not being able to find anything in writing to prove it. At the June hearing, panel chair Stephen Gill described Deming as “a rogue broker.” Marcie Munro, who told PAN she is victim M.M., said she is grateful to the MFDA for ensuring that Deming’s culpability is in the public domain. “Word of mouth will get around,” she said, adding efforts to recover the funds continue.
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Woman killed A woman is dead and her husband is in police custody in an apparent domestic homicide in east Newton over the weekend. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) was called after a woman was found unresponsive in a home in the 6900block of 152 Street on Sunday, Nov. 23. The victim, identified by IHIT as 64-year-old Jaswant Pandher, was found at about 1 p.m. IHIT spokesperson, Staff Sgt. Jennifer Pound, announced Monday afternoon that Harbans Pandher has been charged with seconddegree murder. Neighbours told CBC News the home was occupied by a large extended family. – Kevin Diakiw
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Elves were out in full force Saturday evening for the City of Surrey’s kick-off to the Christmas season. Thousands of people turned out for the annual Tree Lighting Festival, which was held at Surrey City Hall and Central City Mall, and included photos with Santa, live entertainers, ferris-wheel rides and the lighting of the city’s Christmas tree.
MP Hiebert rejects ‘anti-union’ characterization of disclosure bill
Round 2 predicted to be no smoother for C-377 Alex Browne Staff Reporter
MP Russ Hiebert’s controversial private members’ bill is still embroiled in controversy in its return engagement before Canadian senators. Senate Liberal leader James Cowan signalled earlier this month that the legislation, Bill C-377 – an amendment to the Income Tax Act requiring labour unions to disclose detailed financial information – is in for just as bumpy a ride as it received last year. Contacted last week, Hiebert (South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale) noted the supportive statements of the bill’s sponsor, Conservative Senator Bob Runciman – on its reintroduction on Sept. 27– and said he is “pleased the Senate is considering the version that was passed by the House of Commons,” and that he hopes senators will give it “a more positive reception” this time around. In a scathing summary on second reading of the bill on Nov. 4, Cowan noted the bill – heavily amended by the senate in June 2013 – is back at the chamber only because Prime Minister Stephen Harper prorogued (suspended) Parliament in the fall of 2013, effectively nullifying senators’ earlier changes.
“All these months later, we find ourselves The legislation was mine and mine alone.” back at square one – the parliamentary equivCowan also charged in his speech that alent of (the movie) Groundhog Day,” Cowan the only real difference about the return of said. “While Bill Murray’s character…was C-377 to the Senate is that Sen. Hugh Segal forced to relive the same day until he had – who led Conservative senators’ resistance changed for the better, we’re being forced to last year – has since retired, and he cited redo our consideration of the bill in recent comments by Segal that it is the hope that we will agree to change “badly-drafted legislation, flawed, for the worse.” unconstitutional and technically Calling it an “anti-union bill,” incompetent….” Cowan suggested several times its Hiebert dismissed the comments. true author is Merit Canada, an “These are all phrases people use organization that represents ‘openwhen they can’t specify complaints shop’ construction associations. But about a bill they don’t like,” he said. Hiebert maintains he is the sole “They throw whatever nasty comauthor and rejects Cowan’s “antiments they can at it – but when you MP Russ Hiebert look at the substance (of it), it’s nothunion” characterization of it. “It’s nothing of the sort,” the MP ing of the sort.” told PAN. “It’s a bill for public disclosure and Cowan called for the Senate’s earlier transparency (of union finances).” amendments to be reinstated and the bill be Hiebert noted a most recent survey indi- returned to Parliament quickly. cates 84 per cent favour publishing such “The many Canadians who took time to information, while critics claim the practice present their views to our committee, whose will undermine the competitiveness of busi- voices were reflected in our committee’s nesses dealing with unions and compromise observations... deserve to have their contrithe privacy of those receiving union benefits. butions considered by the other place.” Cowan attacked Hiebert’s argument that Asked if Merit Canada played a role in drafting the legislation, Hiebert answered “no… the fundamental premise behind the bill
is that the public provides substantial tax exemptions to unions, therefore the public should know how the benefit is being used. In his speech, Cowan said the bill is “… is designed to bury labour unions in so much paperwork that they will not be able to represent their workers as fully and capably as they do now.” He said many conclude that unions are being singled out by the legislation as a result of less-than-enthusiastic reaction to federal handling of labour relations. But Hiebert said the bill is not intended to “bury” unions, and that Cowan says unions already provide the information to their members – “he can’t have it both ways.” Hiebert noted labour organizations said “exactly the same thing” when the U.S. was in the process of adopting similar legislation. Cowan said constitutional experts predict the bill will be open to court challenge as a federal intrusion into provincial negotiations. Arguing that C-377 is “a solution seeking a problem,” he noted five provinces have told the Senate the law is unconstitutional. “The provinces have spoken,” he said. “The problem is that this federal government does not like what the provinces have said.”
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the three incumbent SFE trustees, Terry Allen, Laurie Larsen and With members of one coalition Shawn Wilson, were all – Surrey First Educare-elected. Also successtion (SFE) – now occuful were SFE candidates pying six of seven SurGary Tymoschuk, Garry rey Board of Education Thind and Bob Holmes. spots, there’s been conSix trustees are elected cerns floated that balby Surrey voters, while ance may be lacking at White Rock elects the the board table. seventh. McNally was But the lone indepenacclaimed in White Rock. dent, Trustee Laurae McNally said like the McNally, doesn’t envi- Laurae McNally previous board, she trustee sion it being an issue. believes new members She’s been in similar will park their politics position several times during her at the door and make decisions lengthy tenure on the board since based on what’s best for Surrey first elected in 1980. kids. “I’m a survivor,” she laughed. “The board has worked really In the Nov. 15 civic election, well for the last six or seven years, Black Press
and I expect it will continue to.” The biggest surprise for the newcomers, she said, will be how much work is involved in being a school trustee. “They’ll be amazed how long the job actually takes if you do it properly,” she said, noting it’s much more than simply attending two board meetings a month. Independent trustee Charlene Dobie was the only incumbent to lose her seat Nov. 15, but said that while she didn’t get reelected, she was pleased that as a Delta education assistant, she’d still be involved with students and staff. The other two seats were vacated by Pam Glass and Reni Masi, who both retired this year.
Cloverdale Chamber postpones vote Jennifer Lang Black Press
Members of the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce will not be voting today (Tuesday) on whether to join forces with the Vancouver Board of Trade. The Cloverdale Chamber board has decided to suspend Vancouver Board of Trade talks until further notice. That means the information sessions that were scheduled last
week were scrapped, but today’s annual general meeting and board election will go ahead as planned. “There will be a new, re-elected team in there. We don’t want to make a big decision prior to the AGM,” Brock Lazaruk, interim president of the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce, said. The Cloverdale Chamber announced in August that the board had voted in favour of formally engaging the Vancouver
Board of Trade to reach agreement on uniting the two organizations. Board president Brian Young – who stepped aside to take a run at Surrey city council – said the chamber was eager to increase member benefits and its ability to advocate on behalf of Cloverdale business interests. Members were told there would be a vote Nov. 25 – after the municipal election – but learned that the vote has been called off.
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s there a place for acts of conscience in our society? Protesters on Burnaby Mountain have proven they feel strongly enough about stopping a proposed Kinder Morgan oil pipeline that they are willing to be arrested. No doubt there are many who will dismiss their protests as foolish and misguided. Others will not envy the hassles that inevitably attend being arrested and charged. But there are those, too, who will view their actions as heroic and principled, and will privately wish that they had the courage to take a stand against something they feel, on a very deep and fundamental level, is wrong. To those arrested, it is all the price of making a statement. It is not a price they wish to pay. It is one, they say, they feel compelled to endure. Their actions force us to assess where we stand on the issue – or indeed any issue that disturbs us. They pose questions that are not easy to answer, that call for considerable soul-searching. How many of us would be willing to put our comfort and name on the line, to back our word – easily given – with unequivocal action? And what would be the tipping point that would compel each of us to similar protest? Although Kinder Morgan president Ian Anderson says the company wants to respect the “right of peaceful protest,” the fact is that our society gives scant respect to protest, peaceful or not. Many of us leap to label protesters ‘wing-nuts’ and bandy the term ‘professional protester’ as though the existence of such a thing would nullify all right to protest. Dissent is not popular in our society. The conventional wisdom is that governments always have good and just reasons to act as they do, that lies are never told to voters and that business interests always act for the good of humanity. Anyone who believes otherwise is swiftly dismissed as a ‘conspiracy theorist.’ Yet we have discovered time and time again that governments can be wrong, and that conspiracies – sometimes on a grand scale – do exist. If the past 100 years of world history has taught us nothing else, it has taught us that. Protests may be discomfiting. Protests may be foolish. There may be better ways to argue the rights and wrongs without chaining ourselves to railings and trees. But without the right to dissent, without the right to protest, we have no business pretending we live in a democracy.
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cent to create a “level playing field” with hen the B.C. government announced its latest changes to private stores. liquor distribution, the reaction That wholesale price difference is the was not what I expected. main reason private stores have generally Private store representatives higher retail prices. And the complained bitterly that the majority of the province’s Tom Fletcher government is allowing further revenue of nearly $1 billion a expansion of fridges and “cold year comes from this monopoly rooms” in selected government wholesale business, where the liquor stores, and longer hidden tax is coyly termed a operating hours that include “mark-up.” more Sunday openings. Those When the new, simplified hours, along with non-union system comes in next spring, staff, are the private stores’ big a bottle of hard liquor will advantages as things stand in have a “mark-up” of 124 per B.C.’s hybrid liquor-retailing cent. That’s right, LDB more system. than doubles the price with its The B.C. Government wholesale liquor tax. And if Employees’ Union didn’t seem it’s premium booze, anything at all perturbed that state-run valued at more than $21 a litre stores’ key advantage was also going to will get an extra luxury tax on top of that. Coolers and ciders will see a 73 per cent be gone effective April 1. That would be mark-up. Wines are taxed at 89 per cent, preferential wholesale pricing, in which with extra luxury tax on premium wines. the government’s monopoly wholesaler Beer gets a per-litre tax with ascending sells to them at cost and to private stores rates for small, medium and large at higher rates. breweries. Then of course there is federal How much higher? Liquor Distribution and provincial sales tax applied to all of Branch officials were carefully vague on it. Cheers! that, and it varies depending on which of Premier Christy Clark acknowledged the 22 wholesale categories you look at. that the first guiding principle of this They released a graph that suggests the overhaul is to keep that government average wholesale cost to government revenue coming. stores might be going up 10 to 15 per
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The new BCGEU president, Stephanie Smith, doesn’t sound like your bullhorntoting socialist of yore. She insists she’s gung-ho to compete head to head with those private interlopers and get back some lost market share, particularly on the high-volume cold- beer sales. The union has another ace in the hole. Its current contract stipulates that LDB can’t close stores. In some small towns there are government stores that lose money, particularly since they’ve had more private competition. But at least for the duration of this BCGEU contract, the government retail arm will continue to operate in some places as a perverse social program, subsidizing retail clerk jobs that pay nearly twice what private retail pays. And let’s face it, running a till at a liquor store is not rocket surgery. Private and government store staff have to take the same training, and liquor inspector sting operations have increased vigilance on ID checks in all stores. With higher wholesale prices applied to government stores, this kind of artificial support will cost more. The only way LDB could maintain it without subsidizing it from the wholesale windfall would be to raise retail prices. The LDB says this new simplified system is “not intended to impact consumer pricing.” Note the careful choice of words. Oh, one last thing. There is another new tax in the works. It will be applied to higher-alcohol beverages, in an effort to reduce adverse health effects. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.
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Editor: There has been much talk about euthanasia, or ending the life of terminally ill patients prematurely. In the last days, with my mother, I was astounded at how little we knew about the end-of-life experience. We discovered that mom had stage 4 lung cancer, after a persistent cough continued for days. We spent five months going for chemo, and life looked bright again. However, by the sixth month, her cancer, suddenly, accelerated rapidly. She went to the hospital and then to Laurel Place Hospice for her last days, which were very difficult for her. My mother and I found solace through prayers. Also, I wrapped a rosary around her arm, and played the Christian radio station, which helped to soothe her. Finally, she took her last breath, a quiet sigh, and passed away. While sharing this experience with some friends, they asked me what alternative do we have, if the pain and suffering is so difficult. I sat in silence for a moment, and quietly said, “When I am dying, I hope my children will sit, quietly, by my bed and just be there. I hope they will know, that I am still their mom, and not the body they are looking at.” I feel so blessed to have a faith, which soothed our souls in mom’s last days. I am also thankful for the kindness of the nurses and doctors in Peace Arch Hospital, the Fraser Health home nurses, Surrey Memorial cancer clinic, Surrey Memorial palliative unit, Laurel Place Hospice and the care workers from White Rock Harmony Health Care. Amazing group of people! Joyce Sadlowski, Surrey
Editor: Re: Little to distinguish candidate, Nov. 18 letters. Diane Salter’s letter in the PAN was right on. I scoured the papers for weeks trying to find out what qualifications the candidates had. Ended up throwing darts to select the candidates I voted for – well not quite, but it wasn’t that far off. Even now, after the election, I would like to know what qualifications these elected candidates have. Paul Lambert, Surrey Q Re: Baldwin voted back in, Nov. 18. Our community has recently endured an election in which some politics directed at both mayoralty and councillors alike were at best described as questionable. A famous quote of Michael Bassey Johnson is worth a thought: “Good leaders come together to solve problems in order to make a peaceful coexistence, but just a single soul can become the leathery meat in the soup.” What I speak of is the direct quote of Mayor Wayne Baldwin, with his rather pompous quote: “Quite frankly, I think the people made the right choice.” While such a thought would be only fair for Baldwin to think, it is
Editor: Re: Never forget, Nov. 11 editorial. It is a myth that D-Day, the 1944 invasion of France, was the turning point of the war in Europe. Historian Omer Bartov argues the German Army’s back was broken in Russia long before 1944. Right up to 1945, 60 per cent of German soldiers were fighting in the east. As well, Robert Citino, in Death of the Wehrmacht, states that 1942 was “the year the German Army died and took German dreams of conquest along with it” – defeats at Stalingrad and North Africa. Uppermost in the minds of strategists in Washington and London was not just the defeat of Germany, but the imperative of not allowing the Red Army the chance to reach the English Channel. Indeed, when congratulated on the Russian conquest of Berlin, Stalin laconically replied, “Alexander, I got to Paris.” This is not to diminish the sacrifice and achievements of those who liberated western Europe; my grandfather was among the Canadian soldiers warmly greeted by the Dutch, who had starved under Nazi rule. But let’s recognize the fact the U.S.S.R. fought the vast bulk of the German Army for many years, at a cost of 27 million dead, or one in seven of its citizens. Bob Burgel, Surrey
not the well-thought-out or spoken words of a true community leader. Being humble and gracious are not bad qualities of a ranking civic leader. Ron Eves, White Rock
Beautiful B.C. must do more Editor: I am from Alberta, and for years I have heard about Beautiful British Columbia and how its residents care for the environment and maintain its beauty. I moved from Calgary to South Surrey in June of this year. I take my dog for daily walks in the area and I am appalled by the litter I see throughout my entire walk. There are coffee cups, beverage cans and bottles, fast-food containers and dog feces littered all over the place. However, the issue that gets me most upset is the dog feces that is bagged and then thrown into the bushes, onto the boulevards and even into private yards. Could somebody please explain to me why a dog owner would go to the trouble of putting the feces in a bag and then discarding it? While not everybody in Calgary picks up after their dogs, I believe that Calgarians are much better stewards of their environment than those in South Surrey. Maria Walsh, Surrey
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Honour past businesses, too Editor: Re: Local businesses celebrated, Nov. 11. I read the article and was not only stunned and hurt but insulted that the Hilltop Salon of Beauty, which was the longest-standing salon in White Rock, was not a part of the City of White Rock celebration. In 1961, Pat Nicholson opened the salon. It was right next door to the Bank of BC, now HSBC. And the address was 1483 Johnston Rd. This was and is very much a part of White Rock history and needs to be mentioned. It unfortunately was abruptly shut down and forced into bankruptcy, thanks to an accountant’s error in 1990. So, I felt compelled to clear up this matter for the people and my family. Staff, who were a part of this family-owned-and-operated salon, were great and the memories will stay forever. Patti Finnson, White Rock
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An open letter to the City of Surrey. Last spring, city bylaw officers seized $200 worth of advertising signs we had placed on city property. The signs were promoting an art show by a local nonprofit organization. I was told by the bylaw department that the law applied equally to everyone, though I mentioned countless numbers of other signs which remained on city property. I was told that the metal “H” type of stakes we had used were an issue because of a pending lawsuit against the city.
Since that time, I have seen the same type of signs and stakes used by the city itself to promote events in the city. The first two were events at the South Surrey Recreation & Arts Centre. The latest was the “Voting Place” signs the city used last week to indicate polling stations for the election. And, of course, there has been a proliferation of the same type of signs erected by candidates for office. How many of these signs were seized by city bylaw officers? Where is the justice? Sandra Wagstaff, Surrey
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ANALYSIS Financial gridlock and provincial meddling have kept TransLink in first gear
Referendum is a challenge like no other Jeff Nagel
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remier Christy Clark’s promise of a regional transportation referendum hit Metro Vancouver like a drone strike – quiet, unexpected and devastating – in the middle of the 2013 provincial election. Municipal politicians exploded, blasting the premier for creating a new roadblock to the transit expansion they see as critical. But now there’s no getting out of the promise that any new tax to improve transit be approved by voters, even though defeat could block TransLink’s plans for years. Metro Vancouver will find out next year if Clark’s campaign vow was brilliant populist politics but reckless public policy, as many observers fear.
Mayors’ plan After the BC Liberals’ reelection last year, Metro cities were given a tight deadline in the spring of 2014 to craft their vision of what the region needs and how to pay for it. Mayors came back with their $7.5-billion plan, which includes light-rail lines in Surrey, a Broadway subway line, a dozen new express bus B-Lines, a 25 per cent overall bus service lift and more SeaBuses. But Transportation Minister Todd Stone refused to share the existing provincial carbon tax and warned the plan may spend too much, too fast for the tastes of the province, and possibly Ottawa, both of which are to contribute large chunks. Mayors have pressed the minister ever since for an answer on what other new funding source might fly a new regional carbon tax, a vehicle levy or a regional sales tax. A deal and a referendum win could finally
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Off track from start It seems as if mayors have always battled the province over how to pay for transit. For nearly all of its 15-year history, TransLink struggled to find extra money to build new transit lines and boost service. The transportation authority was formed in 1999 to empower local politicians to File photo raise taxes and be account- The Canada Line SkyTrain project was rejected twice in 2004 by the TransLink board able for those decisions, before Victoria pushed to build it. replacing the unelected BC Transit board within Metro. als promised in 2000 to kill it notably the Canada Line in which cities and the province A $75 vehicle levy approved and the governing New Dem- 2010 – and bus service did agreed to raise three times, by the province was to be ocrats reneged and refused to expand but nothing hap- from 10 to 17 cents a litre. charged annually to put the order ICBC to collect the levy pened fast enough to deliver new agency on sustainable in 2001, just before the Liber- a real transit alternative for Projects pushed footing. But that plan quickly als swept to power. drivers. went off the rails. Ever since, TransLink has Without the levy, other All the while, mayors comMotorists fought the “car been in a financial hole. charges climbed: fares, prop- plained the province pushed tax,” the opposition BC LiberNew projects were built – erty taxes and the gas tax, its own priorities ahead of
▶ Online extra: Check out Jeff Nagel’s interactive timeline that accompanies this story at www. peacearchnews.com the region’s — construction of the Canada Line ahead of the Evergreen Line to dovetail with the 2010 Olympics; requiring SkyTrain technology instead of cheaper light rail for both projects; and mandating the costly fare gates/Compass card project. That discord peaked in the near-rejection of the Canada Line in 2004 by the mayors and councillors, who then served on the TransLink board – it took three votes and provincial arm-twisting before the project was approved. Then-transportation mini see page 9
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Is a property-tax boost inevitable? i from page 8 ister Kevin Falcon branded the board of local politicians dysfunctional and in 2007 swept them aside and installed an appointed professional board. The mayors’ council was created but relegated to approving or rejecting tax hikes pitched by the appointed board. In the years that followed, the mayors dug in their heels and, for the most part resisted raising taxes unless they got sustainable funding for TransLink and regained greater control over its priorities. In September 2010, it seemed a breakthrough was at hand. Then-premier Gordon Campbell signed a memorandum of understanding with the mayors committing the province to negotiate new revenue sources for TransLink, possibly even road pricing. Six weeks later, however, Campbell, damaged from the HST battle, announced he would resign. Enter Premier Christy Clark.
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Referendums a ‘cop out’ Two former BC Liberal decisions that should be made transportation ministers and defended.” – Kevin Falcon and Blair Falcon said his main concern Lekstrom – expressed with the referendum reservations about is that it has delayed the premier’s transit needed transit referendum directive expansion, and brings this month in separate the “very real risk” of interviews with Black defeat. Press. Time is “very Falcon said he tight” for a coherent has come to regard referendum that can referendums as be well-explained to generally misguided, voters, he said. The Kevin Falcon in light of the damage mail-in vote is expected they’ve done blocking to run from March to public spending in May. jurisdictions such as Lekstrom also argued California. politicians are elected Nor had he ever to make decisions thought of putting and be judged on the TransLink taxes to a eventual results. referendum when he “I’m not a huge was in charge. supporter of governing “Never, ever had Blair Lekstrom by referendum,” I considered that,” Lekstrom said. Falcon said. “I always “If you’re going to ask considered referendums a bit people if they want to pay more of a cop-out for politicians. It in taxes, I could give you the allows us to avoid making hard answer right now.”
The next TransLink crisis was whether the Evergreen Line would actually be built and finally give Tri-City residents the rapid transit they had been promised for more than two decades. TransLink needed $40 million a year it didn’t Transit advocates denounced have to cover its share of the costs. the referendum immediately. Under pressure, the mayors In the midst of the campaign, voted in 2011 to approve the third even then Transportation Minisbump in the gas tax to ensure the ter Mary Polak said she was conline proceeded and trusted the cerned about that and suggested province would deliver a new rev- the referendum not be about enue stream worth $30 whether new taxes would million a year for prombe imposed, but which ised bus improvements. ones they will be. But no new source Clark threw her under was forthcoming. Clark the bus the next day, instead piled onto public insisting voters will be anger over fare evasion able to reject all new taxes and executive bonuses – period – not be forced and ordered a provincial to pick their poison. audit of TransLink to find Christy Clark internal savings. Whose tax is it? premier TransLink managThe government’s real ers carved savings out of the system, axed vice-presi- agenda, many mayors suspect, is dents, “optimized” bus routes and to box them into what would be the unpopular move of raising shelved expansion plans. Stop-and-start talks with the property taxes instead of a vehicle province over new revenue levy or extra sales tax, which are sources resumed, with the mayors more likely to bring voters’ wrath once again suggesting a vehicle on the province. The province says property taxes levy as their top choice. Then came the drone strike – still have room to rise rise because Clark’s 2013 election campaign Metro Vancouver residents were promise that any new funding absolved of paying hospital taxes that are charged in every other source has to pass a referendum.
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Celebrate a Life offers people an opportunity to stop and remember a loved one who has died, while also region. Those taxes were removed in Metro to make room for higher helping raise awareness of the programs and transit taxes when TransLink was services Hospice their Surrey community. the Whiteoffers RockinSouth Hospice offers created. (TransLink property in their community. From December 1 to 23, White Rock South Surrey taxes, about $250 per average From December to 23, Hospice Volunteers Hospice Society 1Volunteers host Society a Celebrate a Life home, are lower than Okanagan host aatCelebrate a Life Tree atCentre. Semiahmoo Shopping Tree Semiahmoo Shopping Visitors are residents pay for hospitals and Centre.to Visitors are invited to write theironloved invited write their loved one’s name a paper BC Transit, but the overall conone’s and name on ait paper hang ittheir on the tribution to TransLink from most dove hang on thedove Tree and to honour car-driving Metro households is Tree to honour memory. With a donation of $20 memory. With atheir donation of $20 or more they will hundreds of dollars a year higher or more they as willa also receive a keepsake also receive keepsake to as take home, a to take because of the gas tax.) home, a beautiful dove, hand by painted beautiful wooden wooden dove, hand painted The province also argues cities by local artists. Each dove is as unique local artists. Each dove is as unique as as thethe let municipal wages and spendmemory of their loved one. ing rise too fast and should have been in better position to finance Opening Ceremony Grand Opening Ceremony TransLink had they been more Sponsored By December1 @ 10am Sunday, Saturday, December 6 @ 1pm disciplined. Mayors counter property taxes Sponsored By Welcoming Sponsored remarks By Sponsored By will go up, but they refuse to volSponsored by former Surrey By untarily approve more, arguing Sponsored By homeowners are maxed out. Mayor, Dianne Watts Metro residents will know soon if the two sides can even agree on a Sponsored By proposal to put to voters. If the referendum is defeated or if no agreement is reached to hold Victory Memorial Park one, the mayors will be back to Funeral Centre 604-536-6522 their same old choice: raise property taxes or let transit service stagnate in the face of continued growth.
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The annual Christmas on the Peninsula kicks off Nov. 29 at various locations in White Rock and South Surrey. The annual event features carollers, treats, crafts, games and more.
Annual event kicks off Nov. 29 at various locations
Holiday fun to take over the Peninsula Alex Browne Staff Reporter
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s the spirit of Christmas alive and well in White Rock and South Surrey? The Christmas on the Peninsula Society aims to prove it positively with its sixth day-long familyfriendly festival of community events ushering in the season on Nov. 29 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m. throughout uptown White Rock, and 5-6 p.m. at St John’s Presbyterian Church. According to Joy Zhang, director of promotions, events, volunteers and friends for the group, it’s the launch of almost a full month of celebratory activities at local churches and businesses, bringing together community groups, friends in faith and local merchants to give Peninsula residents and visitors the opportunity to “experience the holiday season in the traditional manner of European villages.” “People would walk about town, meet their neighbours, decorate their houses and stores, view Christmas displays in shop windows, create holiday arts and crafts , buy gifts and goodies, sing along with carolers, listen to live music and Christmas stories, munch on special treats,
join Christmas parades and light the Christmas tree in village centres,” Zhang said. “This is the type of atmosphere the society tries to recapture.” And most of those bases are covered by more than 80 businesses, churches and groups involved in this year’s launch – as usual with a focal point at White Rock Community Centre and the Miramar Plaza at 15154 Russell Ave. Among activities at the centre will be a Christmas market featuring talented local artisans and tasty goodies; a craft fair, including many ‘create-your-own’ hands-on projects; live performances on several entertainment stages, traditional treats at the concession, roasted chestnuts, hot apple cider, hamburgers and hotdogs; a Christmas kids zone, offering stories and music; a mini-Christmas Parade, telling the story of Christmas, holly by donation hosted by various community VIPs and the Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony with White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin, featuring a live band and a candlelight singalong. Other popular Christmas on the Peninsula activities will be back –
including roving carolers in Victorian costumes at Miramar Village Plaza, Five Corners and uptown White Rock; Breakfast in Bethlehem at First United Church; story readings by this reporter at Laura’s Coffee Corner (1-3 p.m.); cookie decorating at Clancy’s Tea House; Peace Arch Hospital Auxiliary’s Christmas sale at the Elks’ Hall; a display of Nativity scenes at the Living Room Thrift Store; Christmas music at Small Ritual Coffee House, a White Rock Players Club open house at Coast Capital Playhouse; mini-gingerbread house decorating at White Rock Community Church and a screening of Charlie Brown’s Christmas at Fellowship Baptist Church. New this year are a tree with Christmas wishes from around the world at World Serve Thrift Store; Victorian-style dance lessons at Arthur Murray Dance Studio;’ exploring Christmas holiday surprises at White Rock Travel Services and passport stamping at White Rock Community Centre for a chance to win prizes offered by local businesses. For more details of the event program, visit www. christmasonthepeninsula.com
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each dove with subtle rays of colour,” hospice associate director Paddy As the holiday season Godbehere says in the approaches, the White release. Rock South “Once the Surrey glitter dries, Hospice is ribbons are preparing added.” the small The paper doves symbolizing editorial@peacearchnews.com campaign begins lost loved Dec. 1. For more ones for their journey information, visit www. as part of the annual whiterockhospice.org Celebrate-A-Life campaign. The white doves – Open house also known as sacred Dozens of residents doves – are often made their way to used to symbolize the White Rock Elks’ peace, according to a George Street location news release from the Nov. 8 for the longhospice. Those who standing organization’s have lost loved ones are open house. invited by the hospice The open house to write their name on a dove, which will then be – which aimed to placed on the Celebrate- share the many accomplishments and A-Life Dove Tree in projects the Elks do Semiahmoo Shopping with the community Centre. – also featured “Our paper doves’ demonstrations by journey begins when multiple sheets of doves groups that utilize the Elks’ space, including roll off the press. The doves are then removed karate and line dancing. Eight door prizes from the sheets in were awarded and preparation for the appetizers donated by next step, decorating
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Youth Collective The White Rock Youth Collective is one of 120 semi-finalists in
the Aviva Community Fund Competition. The achievement brings the group of youth one step closer to being awarded $100,000 to start up a safe and sober space in White Rock for teens. The next step for the group is to continue
garnering votes for their project from Dec. 1-10. “We will need to be really committed and consistent with our voting in the semifinals because we will be up against people who had three to five times the votes we
did,” said Alexandra Neighbourhood House youth and family worker Jesse Kergan in a release. “But we know we can do it.” In the meantime, the youth collective will host a film screening Nov. 27 at 7 p.m. at the White Rock
Community Centre, 15154 Russell Ave. The film screening will include the latest short film created by the group, as well as a question-and-answer period. For more information, call 604-538-5060 ext. 25 24 Ave.
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store benefit Haitians Staff Reporter still reeling from the Two White Rock chaos four years ago. entrepreneurs “I feel so have been incredibly recognized for blessed and their efforts humbled to and strides in have been the business nominated,” community Mawhinney by the Small told Peace Arch Business BC News last week. Awards. “I already feel Project like I’ve won Alex Dobbie Aftershock the hugest Thrift Store grand prize just owner Laura knowing that Mawhinney my community and White believes in me Rock this much. Skimboarding “The people of founder Alex Haiti’s lives are Dobbie have being forever both been changed, and it’s nominated just so great to Laura Mawhinney for the be able to watch province-wide it all turn from a competition. dream to a reality.” Mawhinney, who first The award nomination started her charitable comes on the heels White Rock thrift of discovering that shop in 2010 after Mawhinney’s charity visiting earthquakehad won its second ravaged Haiti during a Lush Cosmetics Charity humanitarian mission, Pot grant – $8,000. is nominated for Best Proceeds from the Community Impact. Project Aftershock Funds from her lotion, created by Lush, Marine Drive thrift benefit the growing
organization. Dobbie, 19, has been nominated in the Best Emerging Entrepreneur category for his skimboarding business, which he created last February after difficulty landing a summer job. The Western University student received a call this month letting him know he had been nominated and the message spread through social media, with Dobbie even passing on tips for budding entrepreneurs to the Huffington Post. “It’s really great to have all this support, it makes me want to keep going,” he said, noting he is planning to expand. “Next summer, I’ve partnered with a friend, and we are going to manufacture boards to sell, and run more camps.” His business’s seemingly overnight success is still a shock to the Southridge School alumnus, who initially expected three to four students to sign up for classes.
“The fact that (all the classes) except one sold out, and I got such an awesome response from the kids… I never expected it,” he said. The teenage entrepreneur – who has until Nov. 30, along with Mawhinney, to garner online votes to secure a win – said that just the nomination is an honour. “It would be amazing to win the whole thing, but I’m kind of striving for the top five or top 10 area. It’s great to be a part of the Small Business BC awards along with all the other great businesses,” he said. “It’s just been such a learning experience as a young student still in school.” To vote for a nominee, visit www.sbbcawards.ca The top five will face a panel of judges to pitch why they should be named the best in B.C. Winners will receive $1,500, a one-year all-access pass to Small Business BC education and resources
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Hope for Osteoarthritis: Cold Laser Therapy Cold Laser Therapy (often also called Low Intensity Laser Therapy or Low Level Laser Therapy) is an innovative treatment for osteoarthritis and several other – often painful – conditions. Laser light transfers energy to interior cells • Stimulates natural healing • Restores normal cellular structure and function • Prevents future injury What you will experience: • Pain goes away • Reduced inflammation/swelling • Restored mobility Why Cold Laser? • Healing, not just masking of pain • Safe, drug free & no side effects • Avoid or delay the need for surgery • Accelerate and strengthen the body’s natural healing mechanisms The Concept Behind Cold Laser Therapy The healing power of light The concept of Cold Laser Therapy is actually quite simple. As humans, light plays a very important role in our existence. Similar to how plant cells require light for photosynthesis, our cells need light to power many of the normal processes that keep us healthy and happy. As long as we are exposed to enough regular sunlight, our skin absorbs the light we need and our cells can use it for many of their normal functions. If our cells are working normally, then our bodies are able to withstand different stresses from day to day activities and heal various ailments. Light therapy is not a new concept. It has been and continues to be used by doctors to treat a wide variety of conditions. For example, light has shown to be effective for treating many skin conditions including psoriasis and acne, depression and even tuberculosis before there were medications. Most people who suffer from arthritis can attest to the fact that their pain usually reduces or even completely subsides during the summer months or on a vacation to a sunny destination. Vitamin D, critical for keeping our bones healthy and strong, is created in our bodies by a process that requires sunlight. In places where there isn’t much sunlight available year round, people are usually encouraged to take vitamin D supple…allows our ments during the darker months to help support their bones and prevent against cartilage, bones and bone-softening conditions such as rickets (in children) or osteoporosis. When we experience pain or inflammation from a problem or injury in an area of surrounding inflamed our body, the normal cellular processes slow down and our body has trouble heal- tissues to be exposed to ing as a result. Blood flow to these areas also gets interrupted, which restricts the the healthy light that ability of important nutrients to be delivered to the cells that need to heal. The science otherwise cannot Scientific research conducted over the last few decades has shown that human cells reach these areas heal better and faster when the right wavelengths of light energy get delivered to them. Cold Laser Therapy is a breakthrough solution for osteoarthritis pain because it shines a concentrated amount of most helpful wavelengths of light vital for healing (in the red and infrared parts of the spectrum) directly on affected areas. This allows the cartilage, bones and surrounding inflamed tissues to be exposed to the healthy light that otherwise would not reach these areas. By delivering just the helpful parts of the light spectrum, the overall laser light power can be kept at very low and therefore very safe levels, which will not burn or otherwise harm the skin or any other tissues. How Does Cold Laser Therapy Work? Cold Laser Therapy delivers light based energy to cells, helping to accelerate the body’s natural healing process at the cellular level. It targets injured cells, resulting in elimination and prevention of pain, reduction of inflammation and swelling, and improved range of motion. SKIN (Epidermis) Laser therapy does not just mask the pain, it actively stimulates healing to SKIN (Dermis) Red Array resolve musculoskeletal conditions for the long term. FAT The Bioflex Cold Laser Therapy system is a three step process, each using a Infrared Array different wavelength of light which has been found to optimally stimulate your body’s cells. The first step uses a red light pad at 660 nm, which gets MUSCLE absorbed by the cells of the skin and underlying superficial layers of musInfrared cle. The second step uses an infrared light pad at 830 nm, reaching deeper Laser into the muscle layers, as well as the tendons and ligaments. The third step includes an infrared laser wand at 840 nm that is placed specifically BONE on the affected areas by a trained laser therapist. This light is very concentrated and targets the deepest affected structures, stimulating healing inside affected joints and even bone.
Ms. M. suffered from ever more debilitating levels of pain in both of her knees for a long time, caused by the increasingly common condition of osteoarthritis. She was having great difficulty walking for longer periods of time or going up and down stairs. Sleeping through the night had become a problem, because the pain would wake her. Even simple movements like getting up after having been seated for a while (watching television or having dinner) had become extremely painful. It came to be normal for her to rely on painkillers to help her function on a day to day basis. Over the years, she had undertaken numerous therapies and treatments to stem the tide of ever increasing pain without much success. Even full knee replacement surgery on her left knee only helped to a degree, leaving her with discomfort in the replaced knee even well after the expected post surgical healing time. When Ms. M. first visited us at Solaj Wellness Centre, she enquired about Cold Laser Therapy and was wondering if the treatments might help in reducing the pain in her right knee, and maybe even prevent the need for knee replacement surgery in the future. After finding out some more details about Cold Laser Therapy, she decided that it was well worth her time and money to give this treatment a try. In her thinking, the upside of avoiding much more invasive and therefore risky surgery was significant and as she had found out on her other knee, replacement surgery wasn’t a guaranteed full success either. After the first four treatment sessions, Ms. M. was experiencing significantly less discomfort in her knee and she could finally sleep throughout the night without being woken up by pain. And after just two weeks of treatment sessions, she stopped taking pain medication altogether. Having had to take painkillers on a daily basis for years and putting up with their unpleasant side effects, being able to discontinue her daily painkiller regimen was another true milestone moment for her. As she continued her treatments, Ms. M.’s knee continued to show meaningful improvement. Now she was able to take longer walks with her husband along the beach. And she even started to ride the recumbent bike to help regain the strength in her knee. After 15 treatments over an 8 week period, Ms. M. was able to stop her treatments. She had virtually no knee pain, had continued to stay off pain medication and was able to become more active than she had been in years. When Ms. M. came back to Solaj two months after her last treatment for a check-up and “refresher” treatment (commonly suggested for those with significant arthritis), she continued to have no pain in her knee and she has been able to keep up with her new, increased level of physical activity. A little while later, we received this email from Ms. M: l tremely painfu M: of years with ex r Email from Ms. be t m en nu em a r ac te pl nt af ete knee re very desponde and one compl not e d ur di ed at “I had become oc th pr ic ee l arthritic kn One arthroscop tremely painfu edication in arthritic knees. al with one ex de cription pain m to es d pr ue in on t nt en nd pe later I co de d g and remaine require replacin level. ss Centre on a very basic n tio nc the Solaj Wellne fu order to r submitted by it would pe at pa l th ca as lo w r le ou article in from the artic ok to I t ything in an po Then I read an try n mai I was willing to r Therapy. The in medication. pa r about Cold Lase fo ed ne e alleviate th relieve pain and consultation. e that goal. ev hi ac ht ss Centre for a ig ne ell W that m j la erapy So e of th give the laser th elanie Rapoport I was going to ks of n ee tio w es I met with Dr. M o qu tw no ly n there was ly. After on te sio ia us ed sc m still di r im as t ou w r e en Afte treatm ough ther Mel began my medication alth by in ed pa ib y cr es an t a try and Dr. pr ou as function with of treatment d se ul ur co ly co I al y t m rm en d m no ue treat I contin to function rt in the knee. in free and able pa ely et pl some discomfo m co ht weeks was der to function. Dr. Mel and at eig pendent on medication in or utilize Cold de er ng lo in to definitely and am no ffering with pa su is at th ne end anyo I would recomm inly worked for me.” rta ce It y. ap er Laser Th
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Activity assistance devices The realities of getting older often mean the body slows down, and activities may not be as easy as they used to be. Many active seniors are not ready to live sedentary lives, nor should they be forced to do so. Plenty of products exist that can make life easier and more comfortable for older adults. Television amplifying headphones are one product that can be a great fit for
seniors, particularly those having difficulty hearing their televisions. The headphones amplify the sound of the programming without disturbing others in the room, and many such headphones even allow users to mute their televisions. This feature is perfect for someone who likes to watch TV while a spouse is sleeping or reading in the same room. Other devices for seniors include magnifying products or bookholders. In addition, gel seat cushions can take pressure off of the spine in the car or at home.
Food Food is always a handy gift because it doesn’t take up much room and can be enjoyed at a recipient’s leisure. Perhaps there is something the senior in your life used to enjoy as a child but now finds hard to come by. A search of the Internet may uncover that special treat. You may be able to ship a specialty soft drink
or favourite cookie that is not available in a nearby store. Otherwise, ask a store manager if a particular item in the store that’s not in stock can be a special order.
Photos What grandparent does not enjoy looking at his or her family members? Computer-savvy men and women can use photo software to design personalized photo books, calendars, mugs, and other photo-related gifts. Just about anything can be emblazoned with a photo, including tote bags and pillows.
Time Seniors who truly do not want or need anything will likely jump at the opportunity to spend time with loved ones. Treat them to a meal out or simply spend a few hours chatting at his or her home. Sometimes the company of a new face and good conversation is the ideal gift.
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Q North Bluff at Q Concert of White Rock Elks, classical music 1469 George St., Dec. 7 at First Nov. 26, 4-6 p.m. United Church, Info: 604-538-4106. datebook@peacearchnews.com 15385 Semiahmoo Q Pride of Erin Ave., 3-4:20 p.m. at White Rock All ages. Cost: Elks, 1469 George St., Dec. 3, $20 adults, $15 for seniors and 2-4 p.m. Info: 604-538-4106 or adults. www.whiterockelks.ca Q Sounds of the Season Dec. Q Christmas Crafts at the White Rock Library, 15342 Buena Vista Ave., 3:30-4:30 p.m. Dec. 10. Free. Info: 604-541-2204.
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Monday Q White Rock History Club meets Nov. 24, 7 p.m. at the meeting room at White Rock Library. David Cotton to speak
on the legacy of Rome.
Q Narcotics Anonymous Fridays at 7 p.m. at Avalon Women’s Centre, 1548 Johnston Rd., rear entrance, press #101. Info: 604-542-7772. Q The Canadian Trigeminal Neuralgia Association meets monthly in Whit Rock. Next meeting is Nov. 29. Info: Charlee, 604-538-4453. Q Mixed Singles over Sixty –
Ongoing Q Support group for any family member wanting support around someone struggling with mental health issues. The group meets at the Russell pavilion at Peace Arch Hospital, 6:15-7:30 p.m. on the first and third Thursday of the month.
an active group offering many activities. For more information, contact Colin, 604-5387799 or Pat, 604-531-3065. Q Evening Edition Toastmasters meet Wednesdays, 7:30-9 p.m. at Earl Marriott Secondary, 1575116 Ave., in room 205. For more information visit www.eveningeditiontoastmasters.com
Thursday Q Seniors Coffee & Connect on Nov. 27, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with lunch included. Cost: $10. Register: 604-541-8653. Q Art Opening: The Elements Jan. 8, 7 p.m. at White Rock Community Centre. All ages. Free. Info: 604-542-7580.
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Saturday Q Christmas on the Peninsula Nov. 29, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at White Rock Community Centre, 15154 Russell Ave. Info: www.christmasonthepeninsula.com Q Tech Buddies launch Nov. 29 at 10:30 a.m. to teach seniors how to navigate technology at White Rock Library. Info: Q Christmas Sale organized by the Aquarius Group Nov. 29 at White Rock Elks, 1469 George St., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Info: PAHospitalauxiliary@gmail. com Q White Rock Community Orchestra at White Rock Elks, 1469 George St., Dec. 6, 2 p.m. Cost: $10 or $5 (children ages six to 12). Info: 604-538-4106. Q Christmas Bake Sale Dec. 6. 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, 2350 148 St. All ages. Q Christmas Bazaar & Tea Dec. 6, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 15115 Roper Ave. All ages. Lunch: $8 for adults or $5 for kids. Info: holytrinitywhiterock@shaw.ca
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Christmas Craft Fair – White Rock Museum & Archive – Daily 10:30-4:30pm Pantomime “Babes in the Wood�– Wed thru Sat – White Rock Players Club Matinees at 2:30pm Sat & Sun – Dec 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 26 (Fri) and 27 Christmas Movie Night – Free popcorn – Life Church Christmas Baking & Goodies Sale - Mount Olive Lutheran Church Songs of the Season Christmas Sing-along with the Hazeltones. – Sunnyside United Church Dessert buffet – tickets at the door: Adults – $15, Children - $5 Turkey Dinner – Salvation Army Church – Advance tickets sales $6.00 – no tickets at the door Children’s Christmas Musical & Drama, “We Three Spies� – Peace Portal Alliance Church Children’s Christmas Musical and Drama – Angel Alert – White Rock Baptist Church Kids Craft Morning – St. Mark’s Anglican Church Children’s Christmas Musical and Drama – Angel Alert – White Rock Baptist Church Children’s Pageant – St Mark’s Anglican Church Sunday School Christmas Pageant – Mount Olive Lutheran Church Stella Maris Choir Christmas Concert – Good Shepherd Catholic Church
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ARTHUR MURRAY DANCE STUDIO 15151 RUSSELL ST. 604-542-1900 CLANCY’S TEA HOUSE #6 - 15223 PACIFIC AVENUE 604-541-9010 CHURCH ON OXFORD HILL 1519 OXFORD STREET 604-541-1413 COAST CAPITAL PLAYHOUSE 1532 JOHNSTON ROAD 604-536-7535 ELKS HALL 1469 GEORGE ST. 604-538-4016 FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH 15138 PROSPECT AVENUE 604-541-1618 FIRST UNITED CHURCH 15385 SEMIAHMOO AVENUE 604-531-4850 GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC CHURCH 2250 150 STREET 604-531-5739
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Winter St
White Rock Community Centre Christmas Market 13
1. Elks Hall 2. First United Church 3. World Serve Thrift Store 4. The Living Room Thrift Store 5. White Rock Travel 6. Fellowship Baptist Church 7. Small Ritual Coffee House 8. White Rock Community Church 9. Clancy's Tea Cozy 10. Coast Capital Playhouse 11. Arthur Murray Dance Studio 12. Laura's Coffee Corner
16th Ave
Foster St
Peace Arch Auxilary Society Christmas Sale @ Elks Hall 1 “Breakfast in Bethlehem� @ First United Church (Nativity Play, Petting Farm, (Children's Craft) 2 “WorldServe Ministries Christmas Tree� @ WorldServe Thrift Store 3 “A Collection of Nativity Scenes�@ The Living Room Store 4 "Explore Christmas Holiday Surprises" - talk @ White Rock Travel services 5 “Charlie Brown’s Christmas� - film @ Fellowship Baptist Church 6 Live Christmas Music @ Small Ritual Coffee House 7 “Mini-Gingerbread House Decorating� @ WR Community Church 8 Carolers on Johnston Road and Miramar Village Plaza The Royale Pacifica shutte bus running every half hour to /from 5 Corners Cookie Decorations @ Clancy’s Tea Cosy 9 "Open House" @ Coast Capital Playhouse by WR Players' Club (Tours, Tea and Snacks) 10 “The Grinch That Stole Christmas�- film @ Fellowship Baptist Church 6 Victorian Dance Lesson @ Arthur Murray Dance Studio 11 Singers at Coast Capital Playhouse 10 "Storytelling with Alex Browne" @ Laura's Coffee Corner 12 Victorian Dance Lesson @ Arthur Murray Dance Studio 11 “Charlie Brown’s Christmas� - film @ Fellowship Baptist Church 6 Victorian Dance Lesson @ Arthur Murray Dance Studio 11
Martin St
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Christmas Craft Fair – White Rock Museum & Archive – Daily 10:30-4:30pm Pantomime “Babes in the Wood�– Wed thru Sat – White Rock Players Club Matinees at 2:30pm Sat & Sun – Dec 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 26 (Fri) and 27 Christmas Movie Night – Free popcorn – Life Church Christmas Baking & Goodies Sale - Mount Olive Lutheran Church Songs of the Season Christmas Sing-along with the Hazeltones. – Sunnyside United Church Dessert buffet – tickets at the door: Adults – $15, Children - $5 Turkey Dinner – Salvation Army Church – Advance tickets sales $6.00 – no tickets at the door Children’s Christmas Musical & Drama, “We Three Spies� – Peace Portal Alliance Church Children’s Christmas Musical and Drama – Angel Alert – White Rock Baptist Church Kids Craft Morning – St. Mark’s Anglican Church Children’s Christmas Musical and Drama – Angel Alert – White Rock Baptist Church Children’s Pageant – St Mark’s Anglican Church Sunday School Christmas Pageant – Mount Olive Lutheran Church Stella Maris Choir Christmas Concert – Good Shepherd Catholic Church
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Christmas Entertainment @ Main Stage, WR Community Centre Spinning Demonstration in the lobby @ WR Community Centre Christmas Market and Concession @ WR Community Centre Indoor Craft Activities @ WR Community Centre “Christmas 4 Kids� @ the Studio (Drop off or parents welcome to stay) “Christmas 4 Kids� @ the Studio (Drop off or parents welcome to stay) Activities On / Off Miramar Village Plaza 14 11 am - 5 pm Elks Club’s Concession Truck Outside WR Community Centre 11 am - 4 pm VIP Holly-by-Donation Event Outside WR Community Centre 12 pm - 4 pm Activities @ Miramar Village Plaza Outside WR Community Centre (Carolers, crafts, roasted chestnuts & hot apple cider, bunny & Donkey petting, snow sculpture, candle making & more 4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Christmas Parade 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Regent Christian Academy Brass Quintet 4:30 pm - 4:50 pm Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony @ Miramar Village Plaza (with Mayor Wayne Baldwin and Stella Maris Concert Choir) 4:50 pm - 5:10 pm Regent Christian Academy Brass Quintet 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm Carols by Candlelight Sing-Along @ St. John’s Presbyterian Church 15 (with White Rock Children’s Choir)
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Winter St
White Rock Community Centre Christmas Market 13
1. Elks Hall 2. First United Church 3. World Serve Thrift Store 4. The Living Room Thrift Store 5. White Rock Travel 6. Fellowship Baptist Church 7. Small Ritual Coffee House 8. White Rock Community Church 9. Clancy's Tea Cozy 10. Coast Capital Playhouse 11. Arthur Murray Dance Studio 12. Laura's Coffee Corner
16th Ave
Foster St
Peace Arch Auxilary Society Christmas Sale @ Elks Hall 1 “Breakfast in Bethlehem� @ First United Church (Nativity Play, Petting Farm, (Children's Craft) 2 “WorldServe Ministries Christmas Tree� @ WorldServe Thrift Store 3 “A Collection of Nativity Scenes�@ The Living Room Store 4 "Explore Christmas Holiday Surprises" - talk @ White Rock Travel services 5 “Charlie Brown’s Christmas� - film @ Fellowship Baptist Church 6 Live Christmas Music @ Small Ritual Coffee House 7 “Mini-Gingerbread House Decorating� @ WR Community Church 8 Carolers on Johnston Road and Miramar Village Plaza The Royale Pacifica shutte bus running every half hour to /from 5 Corners Cookie Decorations @ Clancy’s Tea Cosy 9 "Open House" @ Coast Capital Playhouse by WR Players' Club (Tours, Tea and Snacks) 10 “The Grinch That Stole Christmas�- film @ Fellowship Baptist Church 6 Victorian Dance Lesson @ Arthur Murray Dance Studio 11 Singers at Coast Capital Playhouse 10 "Storytelling with Alex Browne" @ Laura's Coffee Corner 12 Victorian Dance Lesson @ Arthur Murray Dance Studio 11 “Charlie Brown’s Christmas� - film @ Fellowship Baptist Church 6 Victorian Dance Lesson @ Arthur Murray Dance Studio 11
Martin St
8:30 am - 3 pm 9 am - 11 pm 10 am - 4 pm 10 am - 4 pm 11 am & 12 pm 12 pm - 12:30pm 12 pm - 3 pm 12pm - 3 pm 12 pm - 4 pm 12 pm - 4 pm 12 pm - 4pm 12 pm - 4 pm 12:45 pm - 1:15 pm 1 pm - 1:30 pm 1 pm - 3 pm 1 pm - 3 pm 2 pm - 2:30pm 2 pm - 2:30pm 3 pm - 3:30pm
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CHRISTMAS EVENTS CALENDAR CONTINUED Dec 14 to 24 - 6 to 9pm Dec 14 - 7:00pm
Dec 21 - 10:30am Dec 21 - 2:00pm Dec 24 - 1:30pm Dec 24 - 3, 5, 7 & 11pm Dec 24 - 3:30pm & 5pm Dec 24 - 4:00pm Dec 24 - 4:00pm Dec 24 - 4:00 & 6:30pm Dec 24 - 4:00 & 7:00pm
Journey of Christmas - Guided Outdoor Display - St. Mark’s Anglican Church Christmas Concert, “The Story of Stories” - Carolyn Arends and the Peace Portal Choir - Tickets $10 at the office or the door - Peace Portal Alliance Church Free Christmas Sunday Breakfast - Life Church Calm Christmas Service - Sunnyside United Church Christmas Eve Service - Saint George the Martyr Parish - at Hilltop Gospel Chapel Christmas Eve Candlelight Service - Peace Portal Alliance Church Christmas Eve Services - White Rock Community Church Christmas Eve Mass - Star of the Sea Church Christmas Eve Mass - Holy Cross Church Christmas Eve Mass - Good Shepherd Church Joint Traditional Christmas Eve Services with St John’s Presbyterian Church, White Rock Lutheran and Glorious Chinese Christian Churches - at St. John’s Presbyterian Church
Dec 24 - 4:00 & 7:00pm
Christmas Eve Candlelight Services - Mount Olive Lutheran Church Christmas Eve Services - First United Church Candlelight Service - The Salvation Army Church Family Christmas Service - Sunnyside United Church Christmas Eve Service - White Rock Baptist Church Christmas Eve Candlelight Service - The Church on Oxford Hill Quiet Communion Service- Sunnyside United Church Stella Maria Christmas Choir Concert /Carol Sing - Good Shepherd Catholic Church Midnight Mass - Good Shepherd Catholic Church Christmas Day Mass - Holy Cross Catholic Church Christmas Day Mass - Good Shepherd Catholic Church Christmas Day Service - St Mark’s Anglican Church Christmas Day Mass - Star of the Sea Catholic Church Christmas Day Service - Mount Olive Lutheran Church
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Santa Claus, The Panto
Vaughan have been singing holiday music together for almost a decade. Their evergrowing repertoire includes classic carols, holiday favorites, carols from around the world, and even some original songs. On the heels of their third sold-out concert at Blue Frog, The Timewalkers (lead singer/ songwriters Ron Irving, Michael Vincent, Eli Bryan Nelson and Luke Isaac) have added a 9 p.m. show to their Dec. 12 date at the venue (the 7 p.m. show is already sold out). Local fans can expect Christmas classics, intriguing originals and of course, hits from the 60’s & 70’s – featuring great musicianship and more than a few laughs. Local favourites The Mud Bay Blues Band presents A Muddy Christmas Bash (Dec. 13 (doors at 7 p.m.) Besides some ‘Mudified’ Christmas favorites, the band will also offer cuts from its upcoming album, Colebrook Road, at the primarily standing room and dancing event with high-top tables (limited seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis). And coming up on Dec. 14 (doors 6 p.m.) will be Guitarras Navidenas, the launch of the new Christmas album by award winning Nuevo Flamenco guitarist Doug Towle and his band De La Terra, celebrating the music of the season Latin style. For more, visit www.bluefrogstudios.ca
The Christmas panto season starts Nov. 26 with Fraser Valley Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s world premiere of Santa Claus: The Panto. Directed by Dann Wilhelm and scripted by Adrian Duncan, Jeff Christensen, Hannah Christensen and Mike Balser, it’s the never-before-seen tale of a slimmeddown, trendy 2014 Santa Claus (Luke George Branson), his dissatisfied Mrs. (panto dame Croy Jenkins) and elves Bobo (Clive Ramroop), Christopher (Breanna Branson) and Christabel (Samantha Andrews). The good guys must contend with crafty coal salesman Carbone Bootmarke (Chris Hall) intent on turning nice kids naughty, and his sidekick Teazel the Weasel (Jen Tiles, of White Rock panto fame in yet another animal characterization). It’s produced by co-author Balser and Lyn Verra-Lay, with choreography by Carol Seitz and Elizabeth Lay and musical direction by Timothy Tucker. The show runs until Dec. 7 at Surrey Arts Centre Theatre, with performances Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. For tickets, call 604-501-5566.
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John Lee Sanders Tickets are selling fast for the fourth annual John Lee Sanders Gospel and Blues Christmas Concert presented by Peninsula Productions, Nov. 30 at 7 pm. at First United Church,15385 Semiahmoo Ave. World renowned keyboardist John Lee Sanders and his band will be joined by Cajun jazz fiddler/multi-instrumentalist Gary Comeau and back-up vocalists Dawn Pemberton and Stephanie Pedraza. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door, ticket information at www. peninsulaproductions.org
Carol sing-a-long Popular community group The Hazeltones will welcome the Christmas season with their own unique musical touch with Songs of the Season, a carol singalong and dessert buffet, Saturday, Dec. 6 at 2 p.m. at Sunnyside United Church, 15639 24 Ave. Tickets for the event are $15 for adults and $5 for children, and proceeds from ticket sales support Surrey Outreach Programs. To reserve tickets, call Pat at 604-531-6558 or Sheena at 604-535-6564.
Christmas at the Coast The Coast Capital Playhouse will swing to the sounds of big band jazz Dec. 8 and 9 (doors 7:30 p.m. each night) as the Semiahmoo Music Society presents Christmas at the Coast. Billed as “White Rock’s premier Christmas event” it will bring together vocalist Phil Vanderveen and the 18-piece Vancouver
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Members of the 80-voice Vancouver Bach Choir, now in it’s 84th year, will bring a sing-a-long Handel’s Messiah to White Rock Baptist Church, 1657 140 St., on Dec. 13.
Groove Orchestra and Semiahmoo Secondary’s senior jazz bands in an evening of Buble and Connick-style crooner swing, plus upbeat versions of some Christmas classics. Proceeds benefit the Semiahmoo Secondry music program. Tickets are available online from www. musicfromthecoast.com or from the Coast Capital Playhouse box office, 1532 Johnston Rd. (604-536-7535, 1-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday).
serious singers, shower singers or even those who have never experienced the joy of singing with a choir. “I can’t think of anything more Christmassy than singing along to the Hallelujah Chorus of Handel’s Messiah,” said Peninsula Productions artistic director Wendy Bollard. “This is an event not to be missed.” Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door, ticket information at www. peninsulaproductions.org
Singalong Messiah
Blue Frog
Peninsula Productions is hoping to start a new holiday tradition in White Rock and South Surrey – a singalong to Handel’s Messiah with the eighty member Vancouver Bach Choir. The debut event takes place Saturday, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. at White Rock Baptist Church, 1657 140th St. Featuring four soloists – Melanie Krueger, Barbara Towell, Martin Sadd and Willy Miles Grenzberg – accompanied by organist Ellen Ay Laung, the beloved masterpiece will be under the direction of the Bach Choir’s seasoned conductor, Leslie Dala. All who wish to raise their voices in the Christmas spirit are welcome – whether
Intimate White Rock live venue Blue Frog Studios has a wide range of Christmas season shows approaching. Christmas-flavoured show featuring twotime Juno Award winner, Alfie Zappacosta (Dec. 5, 6, doors at 7 p.m.) who will be performing all his hits, as well as a selection of his Christmas favorites.This show will feature keyboard prodigy Andrew Glover, session drummer Phil Robertson, and bass whiz Kerry Galloway. We Three Queens (Dec. 7, doors 7 p.m.) is comprised of three of Canada’s finest jazz vocalists. Well-known as solo performing and recording artists, Vancouver’s Jennifer Scott, Karin Plato and Kate Hammett-
A seasonal favourite is back by popular demand, as the Semiahmoo Strings youth orchestra, directed by Carla Birston, once again performs Howard Blake’s score for the animated classic, The Snowman, while the film is being projected on the big screen, Sunday, Dec.14, 2 p.m. at the Wheelhouse Theatre (Earl Marriott Secondary School, 15751 16th Ave.). Other highlights of the concert include Tchaikovsky’s inspired Portraits of The Seasons, and Grieg’s Prelude to the Holberg Suite. For tickets ($16, $9 for seniors and students) call 604-538-1460. Tickets are also available at Tapestry Music.
Traditional jazz The sounds of Dixieland and retro jazz continue through the winter as White Rock Traditional Jazz Society regular sessions continue from 2 to 5 p.m. most Sundays (except Grey Cup Sunday Nov. 30) at the Royal Canadian Legion Crescent Branch 240 (2643 128 St.). Admission is $10. Next up (Dec. 7) is drummer Scott Robertson’s Swing Patrol, followed by WRTJS’ Christmas Party with the Crescent City Shakers (Dec. 14 – tickets $20 including food and prizes); ‘Jazz at the Start’ Faculty Jazz Band (WRTJS Youth Jazz Camp, Dec. 21); WRTJS house band Red Beans and Rice (Dec. 28) and the Arnt Arntzen Jazz Six (Jan. 4). Red Beans & Rice can also be caught at Porter’s Bistro, 21611 48 Ave., in Langley’s historic Murrayville, most Friday nights from 7 p.m. (call ahead to confirm and for reservations at 604-530-5297).
December 3rd - 27th 2014 For tickets 604-536-7535 www.whiterockplayers.ca Coast Capital Playhouse 1532 Johnston Rd., White Rock
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lifestyles
Time running out to buy tickets for choristers T his is the last week to purchase at http://webreg.whiterockcity.ca tickets for two very popular Copies can be picked up at all White Rock Christmas events. recreation centres as well as the White Rock The Kent Street Choristers’ A library. Sylvia Yee Child is Born! Sing Alleliua! concert At 8:30 a.m. today (Tuesday) you held Dec. 5 at the First United can register for all your favourite Church is sure to put you into the courses at White Rock Leisure Christmas spirit. Services. The Kent Street Centre’s very own If you know your client number Mistletoe Dinner on Dec. 4 from and pin, you can register online at noon to 3 p.m. promises a delicious your convenience. meal and a visit from a certain jolly You can also call 604-541-2199 fellow. or come down to the White Rock There are a limited number of Community Centre, Centennial tickets left, so be sure to get yours Park Leisure Centre or Kent Street soon. Activity Centre to register. Call 604-541-2231 for more Be sure to purchase or renew your information. Leisure Services membership to Q The White Rock Winter received reduced fees on programs Recreation Guide is available to view online and advanced registration all year.
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Q Tired of receiving a box of chocolates or slippers for Christmas? Why not ask your family for the gift of health this holiday season? White Rock Leisure Services sells gift certificates in any denomination which can be applied to day trips, fitness classes, health and wellness workshops, computer or art classes and memberships; the possibilities are endless! If you are wondering what to get your family and friends, this is a perfect gift to give. Come down to any of our White Rock Leisure Services offices to purchase one or call 604-541-2199 for more information. Q From Alzheimer’s to Parkinson’s disease, there are many different degrees of memory loss. Learn ways to keep your brain sharp and
get information about the medications and treatments currently used for Alzheimer’s disease. The dementia workshop will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 2 at the Centre for Active Living, 10-11 a.m. This workshop is free for members and only $5 for non-members. Please preregister at 604-541-2199. Q Kent Street Activity Centre is now accepting donations for the local food bank. Most needed items are baby food, canned fish, canned vegetables, whole-grain pastas, brown rice, canned fruit and fruit juices and peanut butter. Drop by today with your non-perishable food items and enjoy the gift of giving. The Kent Street Activity Centre, located at 1475 Kent St., is open to people 55 years of age or better. For info, call 604-541-2231.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE NO. 724
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NOTICE OF TEMPORARY USE PERMIT At the Monday, December 1, 2014, Public Hearing meeting, commencing at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 13450 – 104 Avenue, staff is recommending that Council support the
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21. East by south 22. Rainbow effect (abbr.) 25. Long time 26. Treaty of Rome CLUES DOWN creation 1. Settle in tents 27. Deliberates 2. Tuberous 28. Payment (abbr.) Mexican flowers 29. Merry temperament 3. Bullets that leave a trail 30. Affirmative 4. Language of Andora 31. Public presentation 5. Distinctive badge 32. Stirs up sediment 6. Issued each day 33. One in bondage 7. __ 500, car race 34. Family Upupidae bird 9. Special event venue 35. Made barking sounds 10. A Chinese Moslem 36. 1994 US wiretapping law 12. Relating to atomic #8 39. A companion 14. Signing (archaic) 15. Military mailbox 17. Patti Hearst’s captors 40. Morning moisture 20. Kvetched 46. US bridge engineer James 47. Showed the way
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Additional information may be obtained from the Planning & Development Department at (604) 591-4441. Copies of the supporting staff reports, the Temporary Use Permit and any other relevant background documentation are available on the City of Surrey website at www.surrey.ca or may be inspected at City Hall during business hours commencing Tuesday, November 4, 2014 until Monday, December 1, 2014.
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A pair of Earl Marriott Mariner defenders make a tackle during Friday’s win. Right, head coach Michael Mackay-Dunn celebrates with his players. The Tier 2 championship was the first ever football title in the 10-year history of the program.
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or the first time in school history, Earl Marriott Secondary will have a football championship banner hanging in the gym. On Friday night in Burnaby, the Mariners’ senior team staged a dramatic comeback in the rain and the wind to steal a victory from the Eric Hamber Griffins, winning the AA Tier 2 championship game 7-6. “I’m excited, but exhausted,” said EMS
coach Michael Mackay-Dunn, who has been at the head of the football program since its inception in 2004. “It was just an incredible game. I’ve been around this sport for awhile now, and this ranks right up there as one of the best games I’ve ever been a part of.” The game was a turnover-filled, defensive struggle for both sides, with the Griffins – who started the drive deep in EMS territory – scoring on their first possession, but failing to convert the extra point.
The score remained 6-0 through the rest of the first half and into the second, with each team threatening to score at various points, but never actually punching the ball across the goal line. Mackay-Dunn credited his defence – the linebackers and defensive ends, especially – for its ability to stall Eric Hamber’s offence by creating turnovers. “Blocked punts, interceptions, fumbles… we had seven (turnovers), at least. I can’t i see page 32
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Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18329
Application: 7914-0178-00
Application: 7912-0208-00
Location: 7053 – 144A Street, 14433 and 14455 – 70A Avenue
Location: 2904 – 160 Street and 2954 – 161A Street
Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is seeking to rezone the hatched site
Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is seeking to rezone the hatched site from One-Acre Residential and Comprehensive Development to Single Family Residential (9), Single Family Residential (12) and Single Family Residential in order to subdivide into 32 single family lots.
from One-Acre Residential and Single Family Residential (9) Coach House to Single Family Residential (9) Coach House, Single Family Residential (10) and Semi-Detached Residential in order to subdivide into 3 single family small lots and 4 semi-detached single family lots.
DEVELOPMENT LOCATION MAP BYLAW NO. 18329
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Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18338 Application: 7911-0313-00 Location: 8120, 8128, 8138, 8140, 8148, 8158 and 8166 – 128 Street, 12877, 12885 and 12899 – 80 Avenue Purpose of Bylaw and Permits: The applicant is seeking to rezone the property within its current Commercial Development designation to allow a wider range of commercial uses, eliminate restrictions on retail floor area, and update the signage and landscaping requirements to comply with the design guidelines of the Central Newton Cultural Commercial District. In addition, a development variance permit is being sought to reduce the minimum parking requirements from 1,674 spaces to 1,077 spaces.
Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18330 Application: 7914-0096-00 Location: 13924 – 24 Avenue Purpose of Bylaw and Permit: The applicant is seeking to rezone the hatched property from One-Acre Residential to Half-Acre Residential in order to subdivide into 2 single family suburban lots. In addition, a development variance permit is being sought to reduce the rear yard setback on proposed lot 1 in order to retain the existing dwelling.
DEVELOPMENT LOCATION MAP BYLAW NO. 18330
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MORE INFO Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18331 Application: 7914-0281-00 Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18327 Application: 7914-0050-00 Location: 13047 – 24 Avenue Purpose of Bylaw and Permit: The applicant is seeking to rezone the hatched property from One-Acre Residential to Child Care in order to permit a child care centre for a maximum of 25 children.
Location: 15333 – 16 Avenue (15321 – 16 Avenue) Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is seeking to amend Comprehensive Development Bylaw No. 16410 in order to permit a care facility and eating establishment within a mixed-use commercial and residential senior’s facility.
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– off the stick of Kurt Gosselin – and then Garrett Halls made it 2-1 for the visitors less than two minutes later. Despite the shots-on-goal being nearly equal in the busy second period – 20 for Alberni Valley, 17 for Surrey – the Bulldogs controlled the game on the scoreboard, scoring three unanswered goals to stretch the lead to four. In the third, Scott Clark made it 6-1, with Surrey not returning fire until the final two minutes, when Cole Plotnikoff scored on the power play with 1:45 left in the game.
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The Surrey Eagles’ slide continued on the weekend, as the beleaguered BC Hockey League squad lost two more games, stretching its losing streak to a dozen. On Friday, Surrey travelled east to the Langley Events Centre to battle the rival Rivermen, but despite getting off to a good start – Chase McMurphy opened the scoring with a power-play goal midway through the first period – the Peninsula crew lost 5-2. A day later, back on home ice, Surrey lost 6-2 to the visiting Alberni Valley Bulldogs. “It’s not getting any easier, that’s for sure,” said Eagles head coach Blaine Neufeld. “We’re close (to breaking the losing streak), we really are. But when we do one or two things right, we forget about the rest.” Surrey – which entered the season with a commitment to playing younger, mostly local players – has won just three of 23 contests this season, and sits last in the BCHL’s Mainland Division with just nine points. By contrast, the Chilliwack Chiefs lead the division with 15 wins and 31 points. Against Langley Friday, McMurphy’s opening marker was matched eight minutes later by Langley’s Jacob Kearley, and in the second period, the Rivermen jumped out to a 3-1 lead when Dante Hahn scored a power-play goal, and Justin Szeto extended the lead seven minutes later. Eagles’ rookie John Wesley – who also assisted on McMurphy’s tally – scored in the period’s final minute to make it 3-2, but the team couldn’t carry the momentum
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Chase McMurphy was traded to Calgary. over into the third. In the final frame, Szeto and Marcus Vela scored for the home side. Rookie netminder Daniel Davidson – still the de facto No. 1 goalie until Christian Short returns from injury – stopped 22 of 27 shots on net. Davidson got the night off Saturday, as the Eagles’ turned goaltending duties over to junior ‘B’ call-up Tyler Read, a 20-yearold White Rock native. Read was peppered with shots in his Eagle debut, stopping 41 of 47 pucks directed his way. As was the case Friday, the Eagles leapt out to an early lead, this time at the 1:44 mark, when Ben Vickich notched a powerplay goal. The Bulldogs responded at the end of the period, with a power-play goal of their own
In an attempt to shake things up, and help the blue-line corps, the Eagles acquired a pair of 19-year-old defencemen, Owen Johnson and Jordan Wiest, from the Calgary Canucks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League. The price, however, was steep – Eagles’ captain Chase McMurphy, a Calgary native, is headed the other way. “It’s a significant piece we’re giving up, obviously,” Neufeld said. “It’s a tough decision, but one we felt we had to make. “We needed to stabilize the back end, and now felt like the right time to make the move. Maybe it gives us a little jolt.” Though he’ll now head home for his final year of junior hockey, McMurphy – who is bound for the NCAA next season – was still upset to leave Surrey, Neufeld said. “He was a little emotional, because he took a lot of pride in trying to turn this thing around,” the coach said.
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Surrey Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 18335
Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18334
Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18336
Application: 7914-0119-00
Application: 7913-0290-00
Location: 15877 – 16 Avenue
Location: 14129 and 14191 – 34 Avenue
Purpose of Bylaws and Permits: The applicant is seeking to redesignate
Purpose of Bylaws and Permit: The applicant is seeking to remove the
the property from Urban to Multiple Residential and rezone from Single Family Residential and Multiple Residential 30 in order to construct an 11 unit townhouse development. In addition, a development variance permit is being sought in order to reduce the front, side yard and rear setbacks in order to accommodate a road dedication along 16 Avenue to achieve a more functional site plan.
hatched site from the Semiahmoo “Suburban Exemption Areas” map and rezone the site from One-Acre Residential and Half-Acre Residential Gross Density in order to subdivide into 5 single family residential lots and 2.4 hectares of parkland dedication, containing the site of the former Elgin landfill. In addition, a development variance permit is being sought to reduce the minimum lot width on Lot 3 from 30 metres (100 ft.) to 22.2 metres (73 ft.).
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Wave third overall The White Rock Wave masters swim club competed at a UBC meet earlier this month, placing third in total team points, despite having just 10 competitors at the event. Alana Slater led the way with four gold medals – in the 50- and 100-m freestyle, and the 50- and 100-m butterfly; Andy Ji won three silvers, in the 50-m breaststroke and two individual medley distances; Natalie Bayley picked up two first-place finishes in the breaststroke and two secondplace finishes in backstroke. Also finding the podium was Michel Collins, who won two gold and two
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Ridley scores winning TD i from page 29 out raising the stress level of the coach. The team’s long-snapper for extra even remember exactly how many we points and field goals, Jaden Sanderhad,” the coach said. The defence’s best work came late in son, had not played in weeks due to the fourth quarter, with the Griffins injury, but Mackay-Dunn told him up six points and threatening to add to dress for the game anyway, in case they needed him. more. The game-winning extra point was Three times in the final five minthe only play Sanderson utes, EMS defenders created turnovers – the most crucial ❝Our defence, played the entire game. “I don’t know why I told coming when the Griffins they just fumbled the ball on the Mari- throttled them.❞ him to dress for the game, to be honest, but I look ners’ one-yard line. Michael pretty smart now I guess,” “Our defence, they just throttled them,” said Mackay- Mackay-Dunn laughed Mackay-Dunn. head coach Mackay-Dunn was quick Dunn. to rattle off a laundry list After stopping the Griffins numerous times, the Mariners finally of names when trying to identify got on the board with 50 seconds players who were key to the victory remaining when quarterback Chris Friday – Ridley, Nash Kinna, Nathan Ridley, on a quarterback scramble, Brown, Sanderson, as well as corrolled to the right before reversing nerback Daniel Demron and Austin Golphetto, the latter two finishing the field and diving into the end zone. “He dove into the end zone almost game despite suffering serious elbow backwards. It was an incredible play – injuries. “We were just so resilient. The boys only a real athlete can make a play like never quit,” Mackay-Dunn said. that,” Mackay-Dunn said. “If the game had ended 6-0, we still Anvir Grewal kicked the extra point to give the Mariners the victory – but would’ve been extremely proud of even that conversion didn’t come with- how they played.”
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QUIRK, David (Dave) George We are sad to announce the sudden passing of David (Dave) George Quirk on November 14, 2014. Dave is predeceased by his daughter, Trisha, and his parents, William and Isabel. Dave was born November 29, 1947 and spent his childhood in Burnaby before eventually settling in White Rock. A proud ironworker, Dave was actively involved in many service organizations including the Elks, Royal Canadian Legion and was a Life Member of the Eagles. Dave will be sadly missed and forever in the hearts of son Kerry and grandson Riley; granddaughter Alicia (Trisha’s daughter); sister Betty-Lou; and girlfriend, Marlet, as well as many longtime friends. A Celebration of Dave’s life will be held November 30, 2014, 2:00pm at the Royal Canadian Legion 2290 152nd Street, Surrey. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the RCL Branch 008 Poppy Fund.
STEPHENSON, Gerald (Jerry) August 15, 1925 November 12, 2014 The family are sad to announce the passing of Jerry Stephenson on November 12, 2014. He leaves behind his lifelong partner and soul mate, Effie; together 68 years. Also daughters Susan and Jane (Drew); grandchildren Kate and Ryan; and great-grandchildren Cameren and Lauren. Jerry was born in Duncan, BC and brought up and educated there and in North Battleford, SK. He served in the Canadian Navy during World War II. Following this he had a long career in the Pharmaceutical industry, first as a Sales Representative, then a Clinical Associate, followed by Regional Manager for Western Canada. He was much loved and will be missed.
WHEN I AM GONE When I am gone beyond this world of turmoil and strife, I hope there will be a part of me remaining in your life. I hope you will remember me for what I tried to do, For the love within my heart, that all belongs to you. For every song we ever sang and every joy we shared, And for the tears we might have known but luckily were spared. I hope you will forget the words I did not mean to say, And that I ever made you sad or kept the sun away. In brief, I hope your only thoughts will be ones that bless, Your loving heart with memories
of golden happiness. No service by request.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Mary Charlotte Thompson. Maysie was born in Leven, Fife, Scotland July 7, 1919. She was predeceased by her husband Ken, grandson Ryan, sister Helen and brother Jimmy. She is survived by her sons: John (Karen), Bill “Bee” (Jo-Ann) and grandsons Cary and Jason. She had a long career working with disabled children at Woodlands School. She had a great talent for creating beautiful pieces of needle work. She leaves behind many beautiful keepsakes. The family would like to give a special thank you to the dedicated nurses at Peace Arch Hospital. They gave Mary kind and loving care. No service at Mary’s request. Donations can be made to Peace Arch Hospital.
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WALLER, Jean Mary April 15, 1924 November 15, 2014
Stephen, her sister Helen, many nieces and nephews, five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Thank you to Dr. Bryan
Prentice, care-aide Darlene, and to her many friends. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Good Shepherd Church, 2250 - 150 Street, Surrey, on Friday, November 28th, 2014, at 11:00 am. Interment to follow at Gardens of Gethsemani, 15800 - 32 Avenue, Surrey. In lieu of flowers, donations gratefully acknowledged to either Covenant House or the Union Gospel Mission. Condolences for the family may be left online at www.kearneyfs.com Columbia-Bowell Chapel 604-521-4881
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Call 604-536-0379
Southside-Bright & Sunny Top Floor, Hardwood flrs, Balcony. $795/incl heat/hwater
White Rock, 1brm + den, New Ocean View Condo in beautiful Saltaire at Thrift and Johnston, 3rd floor with balcony, includes: secured u/g parking & storage, w/i closet, soaker tub, h/w, gas, w/d & d/w. N/S, N/P. References are required. $1450/month. Avail. Dec 1st. call: 604.866.4358, or email:sonya282@hotmail.com
S. SURREY WAREHOUSE; approx 1000 sq.ft., 16’ roll up door, gated, suitable for storage, $700/mo, avail immed. 604-835-6000
SHEPHERD/LAB/Retriever X puppies, vet checked first shot, $350. (604)794-5953 Chwk
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APPLIANCES Peace Arch Appliance Service to fridges, stoves, washers, dryers & dishwashers. Reasonable. Also Appliance Removal Call Mark (604)536-9092
HOMES FOR RENT
CRESCENT BEACH. 2 min walk to ocean. 2 Bdrms, 2 baths, 5 appls, large deck & yard. N/S, small pet ok. Separate cottage/studio. $1950/mo. Email: bandjam@telus.net
RON Morin
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TOWNHOUSES
CHARMING 1900 sq.ft. 2 level townhouse in coveted Englesea Place. 2 bed. 3 bath. Nr Semiahmoo Mall. Asking $565,900. Phone 604-536-6105
S. Surrey 3 Bdrm rancher, like new, 2 bths, 2 car grge, 5 new appl. N/S, N/P. $2000. Jan 1. 604-418-9920 S.SURREY Grandview Corners. 5 bdrm 2 level house, 9 yrs/old. S/S appl’s, fenced b/yard. Avail Dec 1st. $2300/mo. 604-880-3099
RENTALS 706
APARTMENT/CONDO ACTIVE SENIOR
CALL ROGER 604-
1 & 2 Bedrooms Well maintained Concrete High Rise in White Rock close to shopping.
968-0367
Swimming Pool & All Amenities.
HOME IMPROVEMENTS
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White Rock 3 bdrm rancher, 1150sf 5appls. New floor & paint. NS/NP. $1600+util 604-787-7355
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OFFICE/RETAIL
1.800.910.6402
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CARS - DOMESTIC
Rosemary Centre 3388 Rosemary Hts Cres. Surrey, ground floor office/retail unit 526 sq ft.; 2nd floor office spaces from 220 sq ft. to 859 sq ft. in quiet Rosemary area.
Call 536-5639 to view & for rates
Call 604-536-8428
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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE
.Hugh & McKinnon Rentals 604-541-5244.
100% SMOKE FREE BLDG NO PETS ~ ADULT ORIENTED
MALTESE PUPS, 2F & 1M, ready Dec 8th. Dewormed, vet checked & shots. $525. Call: (604)882-3753
RELIABLE, SERVICE 7 days a week
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604-538-5085
WHITE ROCK Bright 1 Bdrm $820 heat & water incl, 4x8 storage, prkg, Dec 1. Bright ocean view Bachelor $720 heat & water incl. Adult bldg. N/S, N/P. Call (604)360-1403
CHAMPIONSHIP AKITA PUPS with papers. $1,800. Call 604-751-0191
778-855-5361
(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls Cloverdale Premium quality paint. NO PAYMENT until Job is completed. Ask us about our Laminate Flooring & Maid Services.
MOBILE HOME 20 & King George on self owned lot, 55+ park. Totally remodeled as new, 2 bdrms + den, 2 full baths, 2 car prkg, $105/mo maint. $295,000. (604)809-5974
CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866
RENE’S SPRAY & BRUSH PAINTING
PAINT SPECIAL
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Call: 604-760-7882
1 BDRM SUITE
~We accept Visa & Mastercard~
Running this ad for 10yrs
HOMES FOR RENT
1 BDRM - $895/MO. IN WELL MAINTAINED NEWLY UPDATED BUILDING. Heat, hot water and secured u/g parking stalls included. No pets, No smoking.
White Rock ~ 1243 Best St
✭ 604-312-7674 ✭
Licensed - Bonded - Fully Equip. Residential Commercial, 1-3 Men BIG OR SMALL MOVES Start $45/hr ~ All size trucks Free estimate/Senior Discount www.miraclemoving.ca
HOUSES FOR SALE
Birch Bay view home. 3 BR, 2 BA. Bright & sunny, updated & move in ready. Large deck to enjoy view. $129,850 www.JonRockwood.com Muljat Group 360-815-5079
RENOS & REPAIRS Excellent price on Hot Water Tanks Furnace, Boilers, Plumbing Jobs & Drain Cleaning
MIRACLE MOVING
604.339.1989 Lower Mainland 604.996.8128 Fraser Valley
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MISC. WANTED
REAL ESTATE
AFFORDABLE MOVING
LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE
APARTMENT/CONDO
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CRESTWOOD MANOR
FIREARMS. All types wanted, estates, collections, single items, military. We handle all paperwork and transportation. Licensed Dealer. 1.866.960.0045. www.dollars4guns.com.
www.BBmoving.ca
$45/Hr
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JUNK REMOVAL By RECYCLE-IT! 604.587.5865 www.recycleitcanada.ca
604-536-6620
From 1, 3, 5, 7 & 10 Ton Trucks Licensed ~ Reliable ~ 1 to 3 Men Free Estimate/Senior Discount Residential~Commercial~Pianos
RENTALS
MISC. FOR SALE
STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% OFF! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca.
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OAK & GLASS DISPLAY Cabinet, 46Wx14Dx72.5H, mirrored back, 4 glass shelves & 2 pot lights, $500. Call: 604-542-1916
Call Al 604-970-7083
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EXTENDABLE dining table (seats up to 10) 6 high back chairs. Ikea Bjursta/Henriksdal, brwn/blck. Includes 12 removable chair covers 6 linen, 6 red. W 37 3/8” L 69” $600 obo. White Rock 778-292-1148
NORTHSTARS PAINTING www.northstars-painting.com Master Painters at Students Rates. We will BEAT any Qualified Quotes. 778.245.9069
FULL RENO’S, NEW KITCHEN & BATHS, QUICK HANDYMAN FIX-UP
MERCHANDISE FOR SALE
2010 HYUNDAI ELANTRA Bal of factory warr. 112K, auto, $8000 firm. Call 604-542-0624
748 SHARED ACCOMMODATION OCEAN PARK furn bdrms $460 Incl ldry wifi prkg. Mature N/S. Avail now. 604-535-5953
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2011 Buick Regal, mint condition. black on black, auto, sound system, a/c, full pkg, no GPS, $1600 chrome mags, Michelin tires, 22,000K. 5year warr. $17,500obo 604-535-0411, 778-866-2274
SUITES, LOWER
OCEAN PARK. A stroll to Crescent beach beautiful & quiet area, very bright 2 bdrm garden level 1000sf sep ent, yard, priv patio f/p w/d, d/washer, clse to transit & schl. N/S only. N/P. Avail now. $975/mo + 40% utils. Refs req’d. 604-542-1904
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WINTERIZE YOUR RV NOW - $70:
South Newton, 1 bdrm, 1 bath, includes heat, hydro, cable and wifi, N/P, smokers ok, $550/month, no lease required, available now. call: 778.878.0619 S. SURREY. Comfortable 1-bdrm fully furn. garden ste. Priv. entry, fully stock, 5-appls + laundry avail. Has extra rm for guests if req’d. 3pce bath is very sm. but functional. Sat/utils/Wifi incl. N/p. 5 min. walk to all amens. $950. 604-818-5121
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RECREATIONAL/SALE
Call Greg - (604)992-3496 or email: gkservice@icloud.com
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SCRAP CAR REMOVAL
AAA SCRAP CAR REMOVAL Minimum $150 cash for full size vehicles, any cond. 604-518-3673 The Scrapper
SUITES, UPPER
CRESCENT BEACH Fully furnished 3 bdrm upper suite with deck & f/p. Avail now. 2 Parking spots. $1800/mo incl utils. 604-535-2229
OCEAN PARK. Stroll to Crescent Beach, great location, charming 3 bdrm home tucked in quiet Crescent Heights. Updated 1300 sq.ft. home with hardwood floors, modern kitchen & decor, W/D, D/W, wood burning f/p, 2 decks, yard, garden & garage. Near schools & transit. N/P please. N/S only. Recent ref’s req’d, $1700/mo. Avail immediately. Please call 604-542-1904. S. SURREY. Large 3-bdrm upper, 1.5 bath, 5-appls, f/p, deck, on landscaped acre (no work involved), views of garden, covered prkg. N/p, n/s. In for Christmas $1700 incl. utils. (604)535-2044
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SCRAP CAR Removal TOP CA$H PAID on the spot. Local Business. www.a1casper.com 604-378-2029
#1 FREE SCRAP VEHICLE REMOVAL ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT $$$ PAID FOR SOME 604.683.2200
847 SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES
UTILITIES INCLUDED. NS/NP
Call 604-538-5337 WHITE ROCK area: Spac 1 bdrm & den suite. Walk to malls, bus, rest; large patio. In-ste lndry. $1250/mo incl gas. N/P, N/S. 604-531-9457.
“White Rock & South Surrey’s Leading Renovator since 1989”
Designing and renovating new kitchens, bathrooms, basements, house make-overs and additions since 1989
Call for FREE in-home consultation In-house design team and cabinet shop
www.mpbconstruction.com b Showroom: Unit 62 - 15515 24th Ave. (at King George Blvd.) Tel: 604-538-9622
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Home Improvements & Renovations • Bathrooms • Home Energy Upgrades • Kitchens • Handyman Services • Doors & Windows •All Outside Repairs • Additions Serving White Rock • Decks/Patios/Solariums & Surrey • Siding, Soffit, Fascia & Gutterrs 604.542.2236 • Design/Decorating Services
2008 SUV Ford Taurus X Ltd, AWD, all options. 125K. Black. $8000/firm Call 604-538-4883
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