Peace Arch News, September 02, 2015

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Helping the heartbreak: A grieving Surrey mother is honouring her stillborn daughter’s memory by raising money to ease the painful loss for other families. i see page 11

Mayor maintains White Rock faces lawsuit if it doesn’t heed plan for more residents by 2041

No legal mandate to add 7,000: Metro Melissa Smalley Staff Reporter

Wayne Baldwin mayor

Growth targets that would see White Rock’s population increase by 7,000 over the next 25 years are not legally binding, a planner with Metro Vancouver has confirmed.

The projections, laid out in the Regional Growth Strategy (RGS) and adopted by White Rock in March 2011, are “to assist long-range planning and are guidelines only,” senior regional

planner Terry Hoff told Peace Arch News Monday.

“It’s not that municipalities are mandated to have that population,” Hoff said. “It’s just a way to give a sense of what we should start thinking about in the future in terms of the number of people, the dwelling units and the jobs that would be reasonable to expect.”

White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin, in a public letter to PAN last week, said the city is “required by provincial law”

to follow the RGS and “take its share of the forecast growth within the region.”

When questioned Tuesday about whether the RGS was legally binding, Baldwin stood firm in his assertion.

“In terms of land use, it is binding,” Baldwin said, pointing to a B.C. Supreme Court case last year in which Metro Vancouver challenged the Township of Langley’s authority over development planning.

However, court records indicate that,

in that case, the presiding judge sided with Langley, stating that Metro “does not have superiority over land-use management within the boundaries of a municipality.” An appeal of the decision by Metro was later rejected.

However, Baldwin noted that regardless of the outcome, the municipality still had to go to court.

“The region is prepared to uphold the terms of the agreement on the RGS and i see page 4

Thousands powerless

After the storm Melissa Smalley & Tracy Holmes Staff Reporters

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Windstorm damage on the Peninsula includes a tree down in a South Surrey townhouse complex (top); lines still down Tuesday in the 15300-block of 28 Avenue (left); and a light standard across White Rock’s Marine Drive.

Thousands of Peninsula residents spent the weekend without power after a freak windstorm wreaked havoc on the Lower Mainland Saturday.

According to BC Hydro – which asked for patience in the wake of “one of the biggest single-day storm events we have ever experienced” – nearly half a million customers were affected, with thousands of customers around Metro Vancouver still in the dark as of Peace Arch News press time Tuesday morning.

While many in South Surrey had their power back by noon Sunday, others were not so fortunate – with some describing their neighbourhoods as seemingly “forgotten” by BC Hydro, as power lines remained strewn across some roads nearly 72 hours after the storm hit.

“There’s nothing happening (in) our area. We actually haven’t seen a single BC Hydro truck,” Sheila Keating, a 19-year resident of the Elgin area, told PAN Monday morning. i see page 4

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‘Encyclopedia House’ commentary requires engineered drawings, civic inspections

Surrey arts project gets mired in red tape Alex Browne Arts Reporter

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Don and Cora Li-Leger.

South Surrey artists Don and Cora Li-Leger may have just been declared Surrey Civic Treasures for their meaningful contributions to the art scene, but their latest art installation project is getting tied up in the city’s red tape.

For over a month, Don Li-Leger, who dreamed up the concept, has been collecting old encyclopedia sets – and other bound books of no commercial value – for what he is calling ‘Encyclopedia House’.

His plan is to use the heavy books – “really they’re just like bricks,” he says – to build a modest, but imaginatively crafted, eight-by-12-foot temporary structure.

He intended to have the art piece built in time to be part of the New-

ton Pop Up Art Walk, including the opening of the Z-inc collective art show Window Dressing – Cabinets of Curiosity on Sept. 12.

Rather than be a practical shelter, he said, the piece is intended to comment on issues of housing and homelessness and the irony of useless blocks of ‘knowledge’ – and provoke dialogue on society’s pressing need to meet genuine needs by recycling unused and discarded materials.

But Li-Leger said city staff seem to be missing the point of the installation, for which there is not yet a sanctioned location. At press time Tuesday, he was scheduled to meet with city staff to discuss a number of issues before the piece can be approved.

“They want to see engineered drawings and they want to know about

building inspections and fire inspections,” he said. “They say I must dot all the ‘i’s and cross all the ‘t’s.”

Li-Leger said while he might be able to provide a rough drawing of his idea, creating an engineered drawing would run counter to the improvisational spontaneity he is aiming at.

“It’s not going to be weather-proof; we’re not putting a washroom in,” he said. “It’s just about getting the dialogue happening.

“This is really a riff on the ‘zeroyen house’ that a Japanese architect created for homeless people – and we have a homeless problem. At the same time, we have all these books of knowledge that are completely outmoded – people don’t want to buy them or sell them and they’ll charge you for recycling them.”

“So many people are excited about this project,” said Cora Li-Leger, noting that it coincides with current Sources Community Resource Centre homelessness awareness initiatives including the Coldest Night of the Year Walk and Homelessness Partnering Strategy.

“I think my real problem is that I called it Encyclopedia House,” said Don Li-Leger, noting that his desire to locate the piece in Newton’s ‘Grove’ area – a frequent scene of artistic interventions organized with the Friends of the Grove group – has also meant greater scrutiny.

Until he finds out about the fate of the project, Don Li-Leger is still seeking donations of books which can be dropped off at the blue box behind Rotary Field House in South Surrey.

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Offender out early Gary McKenna Black Press

Antonio Eduardo Daponte, a Surrey man who sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl in Coquitlam in 2009, will be granted statutory release this month with numerous conditions.

The 49-year-old was given a 10-year sentence in early 2012, but – after two-for-one time is factored in from time he spent in custody before his case went to trial – he is expected to be released after five years and seven months.

During his 2011 trial, Crown lawyers said Daponte broke into the victim’s bedroom and threatened to gouge her eyes out if she did not co-operate. The attack continued until she was able to scream and fight back.

Daponte was out on bail at the time of the attack and, according to a Parole Board of Canada report, he has a lengthy criminal history dating back to 1988. The document also stated he has had substance-abuse issues and has committed crimes to support himself.

The 2009 attack put the community on edge as the Coquitlam RCMP didn’t know whether the attack was random. But after Daponte’s arrest, it was determined the suspect was known to the victim’s family.

After he is released, he will be prohibited from consuming drugs and alcohol, ordered to avoid certain people and to remain employed or actively looking for work. He is also not allowed near the victim or the victim’s family, or any children under the age of 16. He will also be subject to a curfew.

“The risk factors identified as contributing to your criminal behaviour include substance abuse, personal emotional orientation and attitude,” said the parole board decision. “In 2013, you completed sex offender programming to address your risk factors. Your risk for future sexual reoffending has been assessed as moderate.”

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Anita Tibbe, with her German shepherd Cohen, wants the BC SPCA to revoke a ‘notice of distress’ she was issued last month.

‘Notice of distress’ intended to educate, animal-protection officer says

Dog owner wants record wiped clean Melissa Smalley Staff Reporter

A South Surrey woman is at odds with the BC SPCA over a notice she was issued last month alleging that her dog was in distress.

Anita Tibbe said she was at home with her ninemonth-old daughter and some family members Aug. 5, when she was visited by two BC SPCA officers, who told her they had received a complaint that her dog, Cohen, was in distress.

Cohen – a 5½-year-old German shepherd – spends most of his time in the family’s fenced backyard, Tibbe said, where he has two beds under the covered porch, plenty of lawn and a covered stairwell leading to the basement.

Tibbe claims the officers wrote her a formal ‘notice of distress,’ indicating that he did not have adequate shelter from adverse weather, and would need to have an insulated dog house built within two weeks, or she would risk losing him and facing charges.

“To be told that we are not providing adequate shelter is over-the-top,” Tibbe said, noting that she is a lifelong dog owner who always considers dogs “a member of our family.”

Tibbe immediately emailed the BC SPCA’s senior animal-protection officer to dispute the

claim that Cohen had been left in distress.

“I take great offence that my name is attached After some back and forth via email – includ- to a notice of distress,” she said. “None of it was ing photos of their backyard showing where true, and it shouldn’t have been written at all.”

Cohen’s beds are – and a phone call, Tibbe said Tibbe said she suspects it was a neighbour the officer agreed that Cohen wasn’t in distress, who made the complaint to the BC SPCA, that the weather wasn’t adverse on the day the noting that several other dog owners in her officers visited her home and that the notice neighbourhood have had unexpected visits shouldn’t have been written. from officers in recent months, ❝You can’t start When asked to comment, senior and said that is all the more reason paper trails on animal-protection officer Eileen why she wants the notice removed Drever told Peace Arch News that people for doing from her record. she couldn’t discuss the particular “If these people are out to get nothing.❞ case because of privacy concerns. me, now there’s a paper trail on Anita Tibbe Speaking in general terms, Drever me, and it can start to look really said that such notices are issued to bad even though it’s not true,” she pet owners as a means of “trying to educate said. “You can’t start paper trails on people for people,” and that they remain on file as a mat- doing nothing.” ter of record for the BC SPCA. According to Tibbe, Drever told her she was “If we issue a notice to somebody, we do not satisfied with Cohen’s conditions in their yard revoke it,” Drever said. “It’s on our record.” and on their deck, as long as his owners bring Drever said that in a “worst-case scenario,” him inside during inclement weather, and saw legal action – such as a warrant for seizure of no need for them to build him a dog house. an animal or charges – could be taken.

Tibbe was told she would receive a followup While Tibbe was relieved that officials agreed phone call from one of the visiting officers, but Cohen was not in distress, she is upset that the more than two weeks after her last corresponBC SPCA won’t completely revoke the notice dence with the BC SPCA, she hasn’t received a she was issued. call or a visit.

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Baldwin lashes out at councillor i from page 1 land use,” Baldwin said. “I’m not particularly interested in going to court with the region over a couple thousand people.”

Coun. Helen Fathers, who wrote a letter to PAN disputing Baldwin’s claim that the city is legally required to adhere to the RGS (see page 7), said Monday she remembers the council of the day discussing the implications of signing on to the agreement.

“I distinctly remember it coming forward and there was much conversation about the document and what it meant and the implications,” Fathers said. “Clearly it was communicated that the numbers are guidelines only.”

However, Baldwin questioned Fathers’ comment, pointing out she voted in favour of approving growth projections.

“It seems more than a little strange, inconsistent and quite

opportunistic politically to oppose it now that there is some ‘heat’ in the community over growth,” Baldwin wrote in an email to PAN Monday evening.

“You may wish to ponder that.”

Coun. Lynne Sinclair, who was also on council at the time the RGS was adopted, told PAN she is “not the right person to answer” whether it was legally binding, but that the targets should be taken into consideration when making planning decisions.

“We’ve signed onto the agreement in the same sense and spirit that we intend to put in place decisions that reflect the document that we signed,” Sinclair said. “That doesn’t mean every development that comes forward is going to be approved.”

When the RGS came before council in 2011, a report presented by then-director of planning and operations referred to

concerns that the city might not achieve the population and housing targets laid out in the RGS. “Metro Vancouver’s response to those concerns was that the projections were ‘guidelines only and not binding’,” the report states.

According to Hoff – who lives in the White Rock/South Surrey community and was at the 2011 council meeting at which the RGS was adopted – one of the more “rigid” targets set by Metro Vancouver is the concentration of growth in the town centres.

“We have set regional targets saying that we’d like to get 40 per cent of our housing developments in our urban centres,” he said, noting “it makes sense” for both cities to accommodate growth in the town-centre area.

“What’s important is that growth is coming, and White Rock/South Surrey is a very attractive area,” he said.

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While Keating’s power was restored around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, she remained frustrated both by the delay and by the lack of reliable information regarding when power would return.

She noted her husband has sleep apnea – a medical condition that is regulated by machine overnight – and they would have made other arrangements had they realized how long the power would be out.

According to BC Hydro spokesperson Simi Heer, priority goes to safety calls where potentially live wires are down across roads and near homes, as well as restoring circuits to critical services like hospitals and pumping stations.

Then, it shifts to where crews can get the “biggest bang for our buck” – quickly restoring service to 5,000 homes on one circuit as opposed to 50 on another.

Heer apologized for the “unacceptable” failure of the utility’s website for much of the weekend, which prevented customers from accessing details of outages and estimates for power restoration.

She noted the last storm of this magnitude was in 2006. This one was unique because so many customers were affected in one day.

South Surrey’s Jennifer Shackleford was also frustrated by BC Hydro’s apparent lack of attention.

“We feel we’re on their pay-nomind list,” Shackleford said, adding she was still awaiting word Monday afternoon on when it would be safe for her family to venture into their yard – let alone when power would be restored.

Half of the old-growth maple tree in front of their home on 20 Avenue, near 168 Street, sheared off the trunk and hit power lines around noon on Saturday.

The impact pulled wiring from the house and “pulled out the Hydro box,” she said, and Hydro representatives told her husband, David, that some of the broken wires in the yard were likely still live shortly after the collapse.

“We were told we shouldn’t go into the yard, but they haven’t

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Ashton Parwana tries to help. come out to ‘caution tape’ off the area. Right now, we feel it’s still too dangerous to let the dogs out.

We’re hoping it will get rectified quickly, or we’ll be looking into what our rights are, as tenants.

“We feel like we’ve been left in the dark – literally.”

Ashton Parwana, a homeowner in the 2200-block of 154 Street, expressed a similar sentiment Monday, as he waited for crews to deal with a power line that continued to span his road 48 hours after large branches brought it down. He was busy moving his neighbours’ garbage bins out of the danger zone, so that those crews could effect pickup.

“It’s a mess,” Parwana said, noting the issue for his block could have been avoided.

Duane Cole, who lives north of Sunnyside Park, told PAN Monday afternoon that the blocks surrounding his home had electricity, but he had yet to see Hydro crews working to restore power to his home.

“They seem to have forgotten parts of South Surrey,” he said.

“You can’t get any information online – that’s probably the most frustrating.”

Cole’s parents, who are visiting from Mississippi, arrived Saturday afternoon to discover the storm’s damage. Having survived Hurricane Katrina, the Coles were reminded of the devastation they experienced on the Gulf Coast 10 years ago to the day.

“There’s no way you can describe it unless you’ve been down there,” Sandra Cole recalled. “We were pretty fortunate – just our roof was caved in.”

After being evacuated, then

living without power and water for three weeks, this weekend’s storm served as a reminder to be thankful for what they have.

“It’s a little bit of an inconvenience, but you have to look at the big picture,” Sandra said. “It could be a lot worse.”

Tuesday morning, BC Hydro was reporting that fewer than 10,000 customers remained without power, and “crews are working around the clock to repair damage caused by the storm.”

The storm saw winds of up to 90 km/h deliver powerful gusts that sent trees down across roadways and power lines, onto homes and vehicles, and scattered branches and debris everywhere.

After a woman in her 40s suffered life-threatening injuries when was struck by a falling tree around 12:30 p.m. Saturday in North Surrey, Surrey RCMP urged residents to stay home and “only travel if necessary.”

Pedestrians on White Rock’s Marine Drive were lucky to avoid injury when a street light toppled in the 14800-block of the waterfront thoroughfare, prompting one resident to question the condition of remaining posts.

Deputy fire Chief Ed Wolfe said the seaside city actually “fared fairly well” compared to others.

While firefighters were busier than usual – responding to 22 incidents compared to the typical day’s five – and additional crew members were called in to help, there were no storm-related injuries reported. Crews responded to “several” reports of people trapped in elevators, Wolfe said.

Wolfe said the biggest issue he was alerted to in White Rock was a power pole across Victoria Avenue. He noted it was discovered by firefighters en route to another call, and resulted in the street’s closure in both directions.

“That’s the kind of day it was,” he said. “There was so many things going on.”

Officials in some communities were predicting the cleanup could take weeks.

– with files from Alex Browne & Jeff Nagel

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n the wake of the severe windstorm that hit the Lower Mainland last weekend – and the subsequent power failures that left thousands of BC Hydro customers without electricity as of Tuesday morning – one has to wonder what an honest-to-goodness crisis in this region would look like.

Although one can’t minimize the damage the violent gusts wreaked on trees and adjacent powerlines, this was not, after all, a tornado, an earthquake or a tsunami.

It’s sobering that it only takes a strong wind to show us how thin the veneer of civilization is for a society so reliant on electrical devices.

The laugh was on us – and it wasn’t simply a matter of being without lights.

Many realized quickly that all their lines of communication – not to mention information and diversion – were instantly severed or subject to very finite limits. Computers were down, bigscreen TVs were out. Even such rechargeables as cellphones, iPods, iPads and laptops were quickly running out of juice – sending people running for places to plug in.

Traffic signals were out, increasing the dangers of travel for those seeking electrical relief. Garage doors would not open and people were stranded outside of apartment buildings that could not be accessed other than by a key-pad. Refrigerator and freezers-full of food were spoiling within hours after the power went off, and the appeal of using the family barbecue as the only cooking option quickly paled. Restaurants, if they were fortunate enough to have power, enjoyed an unexpected business bonanza as people spent out for meals and lingered in coffee shops.

All these are First World problems, indeed – and would be laughable, if they didn’t point out just how vulnerable, ill-prepared we are for any deviation from our comfortable norms, let alone the kinds of tragic devastation that we have seen visited on other parts of the world.

When the comforts of our technology-addicted society are denied us, we need to use it as an opportunity to test our self-reliance. We would be foolish if we didn’t let this latest incident serve as a lesson to renew our emergency supplies, and make sure we are equipped with survival basics.

We should all be equipped with adequate amounts of non-perishable food, water, cooking and boiling facilities, first-aid kits and lighting and communication devices capable of working off-grid, to enable us and our families to survive a protracted period – a week, at least – without being a drain on the help of outside agencies.

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Clover Point, where daily Alaska crude nergy and Mines Minister Bill tankers sail past, many on their way to Bennett spent much of last week vast refinery complexes just out of sight in Alaska, trying to assure local at Anacortes and Cherry Point fishermen and environmentalists in Washington. A good portion that B.C.’s mine approval process Tom Fletcher of B.C.’s gasoline comes from is “basically the same” as Alaska’s. there.

Bennett visited an abandoned Without a drunk-captain mine in northwest B.C. that incident since 1989, these continues to leak acid and metal tankers load up at the terminus pollution into the Taku River, of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline vowing to supervise cleanup by System. Let’s take a closer look. a new operator. He noted that For 47 years, the pipeline has one of B.C.’s proposed new mines includes a 23-km pipe system pumped huge volumes of oil to move ore out of the shared across Alaska from the charming watershed for processing. northern outpost of Deadhorse This is typical of the discourse to Valdez in the south, just east between B.C. and our American of Anchorage where cruise ships cousins. Only our industry is dock. questioned.

In his new book, Rust: The Longest War, Meanwhile in Colorado, the latest mine science writer Jonathan Waldman calls spill disaster was blamed on a mistake it “the biggest, baddest oil pipeline in the by the U.S. Environmental Protection world.”

Agency. And in Alaska, as in the rest of “From Prudhoe Bay to Prince William the U.S., new metal mines such as the Sound, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System giant Pebble project depend on the same stretches 800 miles, which leaves engineer engineering and testing as ours.

Bhaskar Neogi accountable for one of Here in Victoria, the Fantasy Island the heaviest metal things in the Western dialogue about oil continued, with Green Hemisphere, through which the vast Party leader Elizabeth May calling a majority of Alaska’s economy flows,” news conference to announce she is Waldman writes. “Daily, the four-foot (brace yourself) opposed to pipelines and steel tube spits out $50 million of oil.” tankers on the B.C. coast. She stood at It was once the largest private

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And this isn’t low-fat, shade-grown oil for Seattle fuel-sippers. It struggles to flow, with a black asphalt bottom and thick wax that has to be scraped out of the pipeline by the ton with giant “pigs” that clean and monitor walls for corrosion.

The five Prudhoe Bay oilfields have been declining in production for 20 years, to the point where the Trans-Alaska pipeline now carries about a quarter of its design capacity.

It’s expected to run out around 2040, but for now Valdez still loads more than a tanker a day.

Waldman writes that when North America’s largest oilfield was discovered in 1968, companies first considered extending the Alaska Railroad up to Deadhorse. But they would have needed 63 trains a day of 100 cars each. Trucks, cargo planes and even nuclear-powered submarines running under the Arctic ice were briefly considered.

Since we had a bit of hand-wringing last week about a small earthquake near Fort Nelson that may or may not have been triggered by hydraulic fracturing, it’s worth noting that Trans-Alaska oil also causes noticeable tremors as it rushes down the Chugach Mountains to a sudden stop at Valdez. But those are American earthquakes, so no story there.

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Editor: Re: Legally obligated to grow, Aug. 28 letters.

According to White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin, the city is legally obligated to grow, as our share of the projected growth in the Lower Mainland, by 7,000 new residents over the next 25 years.

That might not sound like much.

But with its current population of 19,399, that means a growth of 36 per cent. White Rock is very limited in size – about 5.1 square kilometers.

The mayor indicates this means about 4,000 new dwelling units.

In other words, we would need about 30 additional highrise towers like the 134-unit, 15-storey one proposed for North Bluff Road and Nichol Road. Or, if we use the twin towers of 21 and 24 storeys proposed for the former Epcor water utility site, we would need 66 such towers to create the additional dwelling units to meet our legal obligation.

Another development proposal in the same area (Thrift and Oxford) is for a 12-storey, 17-unit tower.

Using this model we would need 235 additional towers to create the legally required dwelling units.

There are a few more examples you can find on the city website

by Googling ‘Active Development Applications White Rock’.

Depending on the number of storeys and the size of each unit, we will need to approve between 30 and 235 additional highrise towers to meet our legal requirement to absorb 7,000 new residents by 2041.

Where do you want these towers?

In the mayor’s inaugural speech last December, he stated: “White Rock’s growth is very small and manageable – about 120 to 150 people or threequarters per cent per year – and we want to keep it that way.”

That equates to 3,000 to 3,750 additional residents of White Rock over the next 25 years. Only 15 to 117 highrises. But that’s only half of the number we need to meet our ‘legal obligation’. So when do the other 4,000 residents arrive, and where will we put their highrises?

Roger Elmes, White Rock Q In Friday’s PAN, Mayor Wayne Baldwin stated White Rock is legally obligated to grow because the city has signed on to Metro Vancouver’s Regional Growth Strategy (RGS).

If the RGS must be so rigidly adhered to, why then is White Rock’s Official Community Plan (OCP) – also a legal document – so flagrantly violated time after time?

They are not mutually exclusive.

In fact, I direct the mayor to Division 1, Part 849(2) of the RGS, which states: “…to the extent that a regional growth strategy deals with these matters, it should work towards but not be limited to the following: (a) avoiding urban sprawl and ensuring that development takes place where adequate facilities exist or can be provided in a timely, economic and efficient manner.”

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Mayor Wayne Baldwin – shown at last year’s state-of-the-city address – says White Rock must, by law, plan to grow.

Cressey’s Vidal Street development falls outside that definition, as does Texor’s planned incursion at Nichol and North Bluff.

Stop making excuses and start listening to residents – no more highrises outside the downtown core, as stated in the OCP. Anthony Manning, White Rock Q Is this the way our mayor is to communicate with the citizens, through a letter to the editor of the PAN on the subject of the OCP? I feel this is an insult to the intelligence of the good people of White Rock, who have endured what boils down to bullying practices of the coalition through constant and unwavering amendment changes of the OCP to satisfy the needs of developers’ profit margins.

The letter seems to me to be a veiled threat to the citizens to put up and shut up with the idea that concrete brutalism is here to stay.

Baldwin mentions Metro Vancouver’s Regional Growth Strategy but fails to mention the fact that most of the large developers flouting their megalithic ideology have contributed handsomely to his and the coalition’s campaign funds.

I feel our small sleepy hamlet by the sea is falling prey to a style of concrete brutalism which will destroy the lifestyle enjoyed by all residents of White Rock.

Fiona MacDermid, White Rock Q I call BS on Mayor Wayne Baldwin.

I attended the Imagine White Rock Vision Fair on May 24 where input from citizens was received regarding what they would like to see in the next Official Community Plan.

Every municipality is required to have one, but, as we are constantly told by those at city hall, it’s not law, it’s just a ‘guideline’. Now, our mayor is telling us that our city is required by law to take on 7,000 more people.

I challenge him to back up his statement and tell us which law.

I posed this question to a planner with the city. He pointed me to the Local Government Act, as well as to Metro Vancouver’s Regional Growth Strategy. The Local Government Act states: “A board may adopt a regional growth strategy for the purpose of guiding decisions on growth, change and development....”

How do ‘guidelines’ translate into

White Rock being legally required to take in 7,000 more people?

As for the Regional Growth Strategy, once again, the numbers are noted to be ‘guidelines’ only.

So, let’s say we don’t meet these ‘guidelines’. What’s the punishment?

Turns out, the courts have decided.

In Metro Vancouver vs. Langley, it was determined the RGS contains “guidelines expressing policy”, not enforceable laws; to quote a friend, “the RGS is as binding as bran buds.”

Mr. Mayor, do your homework!

And listen to the 83 per cent of White Rock citizens who oppose changing the OCP to allow for these highrises you are forcing down our throats in support of a bogus ‘law’.

Erika Johanson, White Rock Q Regarding the letter from Mayor Wayne Baldwin, I can only say that no matter how many times the mayor repeats this, it is false.

The majority of citizens have made it clear they do not wish to be overrun by more density. It is the mayor’s job, as their employee, to ensure those wishes prevail.

C. Fast, White Rock Q I was one of the many White Rock citizens who fought long and hard years ago when council first tried to change our OCP to allow developers to build their towers.

And although we won the fight, we did not win the war, because the Bosa towers were still built with the consensus that more towers would be in the town centre.

Now, once again, this issue has reared its ugly head as council seems hellbent on trying to change our OCP. So my question now to council is, why are you trying to build outside the town centre? Are you purposely trying to change the face of White Rock forever?

The location of the towers slated to be built are also totally out of character for the neighbourhoods, especially on Oxford and Thrift.

What are you people thinking? The lovely Royce, which complements the neighbourhood was just completed there. The buyers bought into the Royce knowing our OCP, and now they may be susceptible to months of noise and construction if the towers are built? I would be furious if I was a new owner.

The Royce has approximately

189 units, so I think it more than contributes to our share of the Regional Growth Strategy, which Baldwin indicates we are now obligated to do. It has also shown us it is possible to incorporate growth without the constant need for towers to invade our neighbourhoods.

As a citizen, I am totally appalled they would even consider changing our OCP for a few money-hungry developers. We do not want to live in a concrete jungle and be under the constant scrutiny of construction.

Cheryl Berti, White Rock Q In response to several comments made by our Machiavellian leadership in White Rock, we are not legally bound to increase density.

That is a totally misleading statement and has no basis in fact.

There is no law that forces any municipality to increase density or build highrises in their city. This is complete and utter fabrication.

It’s just plain nonsense. This is the typical misleading statement put out by our inglorious leadership.

The OCP is another matter, and instead of honouring, respecting and following the OCP they have consistently trounced, degraded and disregarded the OCP with the instrument of CD spot zoning, which is as Machiavellian as it gets.

Garry Wolgemuth, White Rock Q As members of council, we are advised by the city lawyer to only write to the letters-to-the-editor page under extreme circumstances or to correct information.

The Regional Growth Strategy clearly states: “The projections are to assist in long range planning and are guidelines only.”

There are no measures nor policing techniques to enforce compliance with a document that is meant as a tool to help Metro Vancouver member municipalities plan cities. It should be used as intended to help support housing polices, transportation issues and environmental concerns.

As with all bylaws and policies, they are up for interpretation. Mayor Wayne Baldwin’s interpretation, in my opinion, supports his penchant for densification of our city and his inability to listen to our residents who are clearly saying “No No. No!” Coun. Helen Fathers, White Rock

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billion this year, up 64 per cent since 2008.

The Insurance Corp. of B.C. Higher legal and medical costs, is warning motorists they’ll more represented claims and soon pay more for basic auto more complex, catastrophic insurance. claims leading to bigger Because of a rate-smoothing settlements are among the policy introduced by the factors blamed for the jump. province in 2013, this year’s rate Injury claims are up 10 per hike must be between 3.7 and cent from a year ago even 6.7 per cent – within 1.5 per though the number of crashes cent of last year’s 5.2 per is unchanged. ICBC cent increase on basic says more fraud is one rates. potential explanation, ICBC president and as well as more minor CEO Mark Blucher said soft-tissue injury the initial calculations claims. suggest the maximum If regulators approve 6.7 per cent basic rate the request, this will hike is required, but be the fourth straight pledged to work with the year of basic insurance government to find ways premium increases Todd Stone to reduce that number following hikes of 11.2 transportation

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ICBC has simultaneously He said ICBC is grappling reduced its optional insurance with “an unexpected and rapid rates – on which it competes escalation in the number of against private insurers – in five injury claims being reported to of the last seven years. us in recent months.”

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Transportation Minister Todd Stone said even the maximum 6.7 per cent this year is too much.

“We believe that’s not acceptable and the rate can and should be lower than that,” he said Monday.

Stone appointed ferries commissioner and former deputy minister Gord Macatee to help ICBC pare the hike.

Asked if the province might reduce the annual $160-million dividend it extracts from ICBC each year, Stone said those transfers are from ICBC’s excess capital on its optional insurance business and don’t affect basic rates. He acknowledged an optional rate cut would help ease the pain for the majority of motorists who buy their optional coverage from ICBC, but made no commitment to enable that.

The Bank of Canada’s recent interest rate cut has significantly reduced the projected returns of ICBC’s investment portfolio, Stone added.

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Bump in fines expected Tom Fletcher Black Press

VICTORIA – The B.C. legislature is being recalled Sept. 28 for a fall session that will likely deal with increasing penalties for distracted driving and careless smoking.

The B.C. government has signalled its intention to increase penalties in both areas. Justice Minister Suzanne Anton announced preliminary results of public consultation on distracted -driving penalties at the end of June, with 90 per cent of respondents calling for stiffer penalties for using smartphones while driving.

Anton said the current $167

ticket for distracted drivers is not sufficient for repeat offenders, who could have their vehicles impounded. Saskatchewan has introduced a one-week seizure of the vehicle for drivers who get two distracted driving tickets less than a year apart.

After dry conditions sparked an early start to the B.C. forest fire season, Forests Minister Steve Thomson announced a review of penalties for violating campfire bans and tossing lit cigarettes. Thomson appointed Prince George-Mackenzie MLA Mike Morris, a former RCMP superintendent, to lead a similar review of those penalties.

Morris said he was considering

the vehicle impoundment option for careless tossing of cigarette butts, and prohibiting people from camping in provincial parks if they violate campfire restrictions.

Fire bans allow use of camp stoves or barbecues with briquets for cooking, but conservation officers continue to find people lighting wood fires that give off sparks and can spread in dry conditions.

The fall session will complete an unusually busy year for the B.C. legislature, which was recalled in July to authorize a project development agreement for the Pacific Northwest LNG gas export project proposed for Prince Rupert.

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Low enrolment for French Immersion After years of lobbying for better access to a French Immersion (FI) program at Cougar Creek Elementary, only 12 families have signed up for the 2014-15 school year.

In June, the Surrey School District greenlighted FI at the 12236 70A Avenue school after a huge outcry for more spaces. Wait lists, parents said, were too long.

If successful, a program at Cougar Creek will be the seventh at 101 elementary schools in Surrey offering FI. Now, the district said the program is at risk of closing even before it starts due to lack of parents registering.

From late spring to mid-August this year, the parents of every one of the 229 families on the French Immersion program wait list were personally contacted and offered a seat at Cougar Creek, the district said last week.

“The most frequent reason given by parents

who were on the wait list and chose not to take one of the seats is because they didn’t want to drive,” district spokesman Doug Strachan said Thursday.

He noted that driving is the nature of any choice program, as they are regional in scope.

The district is not considering a required threshold needed to keep the program, but it certainly would like to fill at least one kindergarten class of 22 students.

The situation will be reassessed as the school year begins.

A decision to continue or cancel the Cougar Creek French Immersion program will be made before opening day on Sept.

8, depending on registrations received.

Any parents wishing to have their kindergarten-age child register for French Immersion at Cougar Creek Elementary is urged to call 604595-6032 as soon as possible.

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Alison Murray looks at photos of her daughter, Stella, who was stillborn. Murray wants to bring a CuddleCot (below) – which helps preserve a stillborn’s appearance – to Peace Arch Hospital, to give other grieving parents more time with their newborn.

Grieving mother hopes to give other parents more time with their stillborn child

Breaking the silence for precious time Melissa Smalley

What happened next was a chain of events Murray can only t’s such a confusing feeling, describe as her worst nightmare. to be a mother and to not “The nurse couldn’t find a have a child.” heartbeat, so they got the doctor Alison Murray flips through the in,” Murray recalled. “He never pages of a photo album, filled with actually said that she was gone, images of an angelic, round-faced just that we would need the ultranewborn, sharing her emotional sound tech to come in… story with Peace Arch News read“I don’t know how long it was ers in order to make a positive until the ultrasound tech got there, impact for future mothers in her it felt like hours. He did the ultracommunity. sound and said there’s no heartNext to the album is beat. Your baby’s dead.” a brand-new knitted ❝I don’t get to plan Murray’s labour was blanket, a plush pink birthday parties for induced and the hospiand blue teddy bear my daughter, so this tal sent her home with and a purple box filled is something that I instructions to return with precious keepthe next morning. can do for her.❞ sakes.

Unknowingly, the Murray turns the hospital’s orders caused page to a picture of her cradling her even more heartache, as her her newborn daughter, Stella. Her bedroom was full of baby furniface in the photograph is riddled ture and clothes that she knew with grief; tears – not of joy, but of would not be used. When she heartbreak – streaming down her returned to the hospital the next cheeks. morning to discover her labour Though the news of Murray’s had not progressed, she begged pregnancy in 2012 came as a them not to send her back home. surprise to the then-24-year-old, Stella Charlotte was born the folStella quickly became “so loved lowing afternoon. and so wanted” for the young “Surprisingly, it was an amazing mother-to-be and her mother, experience,” Murray, now 27, said.

Sandra, who live together in a “I don’t know how to describe it, Panorama Ridge townhouse. but it was something that I could “We planned our whole lives do for her.” around her.”

After she was born, Murray was When Murray was 38 weeks able to spend several hours with along, she noticed she hadn’t felt Stella, time that she describes as her baby move for a while. After a “the most treasured 24 hours of few days and some encouragement my life.” from her mother, she went to Peace She had professional photos Arch Hospital for a checkup. taken with her baby – courtesy

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of an organization of volunteer photographers called Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep – and had imprints of Stella’s tiny hands and feet taken.

The volunteers worked compassionately and quickly, as precious time altered Stella’s appearance.

“It was not how you want to see your baby,” Murray said.

Struggling to come to terms with what had happened, Murray said she was “very lost for a long time afterwards.”

It was only recently that Murray learned of a piece of equipment, called a CuddleCot, that could have helped. Manufactured in the U.K., a CuddleCot keeps a stillborn baby cool, allowing the family the time they need to spend with their child, without having to see the baby’s appearance change.

Murray is aware of only a handful in Canada. Determined to

raise the $3,500 to purchase one for Peace Arch Hospital, she plans to hold an arts fundraiser next month and has launched a webpage to collect donations.

The Art Wars event, set for Oct. 10 at 100 Braid Street Studios in New Westminster, will feature several artists – including Murray, a student at the Art Institute of Vancouver – painting on-site in a competition. Attendees will vote on which finished pieces are their favourite, and the artwork will be auctioned off a the end of the evening.

She hopes to recruit a few more volunteers for the event.

In addition to raising funds for a CuddleCot for Peace Arch Hospital – Murray noted she’d ultimately like to see one in every Lower Mainland hospital – she wants to raise awareness about still births, both at the health-

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care level and among the general population.

Though she said the nurses and doctors who treated her at Peace Arch Hospital were amazing, she feels there are some procedural improvements that could be made.

“I just don’t feel like hospitals are prepared for this kind of thing,” she said.

“You’re still on a maternity ward, you can hear all the other babies crying.”

She also hopes that sharing her heartbreak might help to make the subject less uncomfortable for others.

Pointing to a tattoo of her daughter’s name imprinted on her chest, she said that when people ask who Stella is, they often change the subject after hearing her response.

“You have to grieve quietly and by yourself, because it upsets people to talk about it,” she said. “It’s a lonely road.”

Though Murray said nothing will fill the hole in her heart left by her daughter, raising money and awareness to help others struggling with the loss of a baby has helped her to heal.

“I don’t get to plan birthday parties for my daughter, so this is something that I can do for her,” she said. “It’s really all I have left to do.”

To contribute to Murray’s fundraising campaign, visit gofundme. com/cuddlecotforPAH To find out more about the Art Wars event, email ali_murray@ icloud.com

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Street Activity Centre, Call 604-541-2231 for White Rock CommuDianne Sawicki more information. nity Centre, Centennial Q During September Park Leisure Centre and and October, celebrate the Centre for Active the third annual Fall Living.

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Visit any centre and With more than 40 pick up a copy of the different arts and culFall Recreation Guide, tural events, there is or view it online at something for everyone www.whiterockcity.ca/ – art shows, concerts, register theatre and more.

Q Many of the Kent An event listing can be Street Activity Groups found in the fall Recrewill be returning from ation Guide or online at the summer break next www.whiterockcity.ca week, including Bingo.

Q If you find the dinner hour a Join this fun group for a social hard time to be at home alone, afternoon every Tuesday from the Tasty Connections program 1-3 p.m. Come early to pick is for you. your lucky cards for small cash In the company of others, preprizes and jackpot games. pare and cook a meal, enjoy the Be sure to have your 2015 recmeal together and make enough reation and culture membership, to take home each week. or purchase one for only $18 for Starts Tuesday, Oct. 1, 4:30 the remainder of the year. to 6:30 p.m. at the Kent Street Call 604-541-2231 for more Activity Centre. information.

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Call 604-541-2199 to register for this free workshop, co-sponsored with White Rock Community Policing and the RCMP. Q Planning a trip abroad and need to brush up or learn Spanish? Register now for a beginner Spanish class, starting Thursday, Sept. 17, 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the Kent Street Centre.

Continue to practise the language in the Spanish conversation group that meets every Thursday, 10-11 a.m., in the Kent Street library.

Membership is required. Call 604-541-2231.

Q The Kent Street dance committee welcomes you back from the summer break tonight (Wednesday) for some social dancing to live music.

Singles and couples aged 50-plus are welcome. Doors open at 7 p.m., with dancing from 7:30-10:30. Refreshments served midway. Cost is $6 for members; $7 for non-members.

This week’s band is G7.

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The Burns Bog Conservation Society is set to host The Stepping into Nature Festival, aimed at helping students learn and connect with nature.

The event – set for 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Oct. 1, 2, 8 and 9 – will see more than 400 local Grade 6 and 7 students will take part in a full day of handson activities at the Delta Nature Reserve (10388 Nordel Court), which is on the edge of Burns Bog. The event is hosted by a number of local environmental organizations – including Cougar Creek Streamkeepers, Earthwise, Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society, Urban Safari and Critter Care Wildlife Society – and aims to encourage good environmental stewardship among young students.

For more information, email education@ burnsbog.org

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Sense of community among many benefits of membership

Reflections of a Rotarian I

’ve been reflecting on my need to panic. membership in Rotary as Many members came over to my anniversary date comes me, welcomed me and started around for another year. chatting, and I felt at home in What an interesting a this vibrant group. Many have rewarding experience I have had become close friends. for the last 13 years since joining Over the years, I have become the Semiahmoo Rotary involved in most Club. aspects of the club, Valerie Giles At the time, I realized but found my niche that my two children with the chairing of were now adults, not the annual Wine and needing my daily Dine, registration hands-on in their lives. for our Charity Golf Both my parents and my Tournament and husband’s parents were becoming the director being cared for and my of public relations, a time had been freed up position I have held for somewhat. several years.

Although, I was still I also found myself working and operating becoming a real my home-based graphic member of our local design business, I was community through looking for something meeting so many other meaningful in my life. residents who are involved An acquaintance suggested in various aspects in making that I visit her club for a this community a vibrant and Thursday morning breakfast welcoming place to live. meeting.

The energies and That was the beginning of commitments of so many, something wonderful for me.

Rotarians and non-Rotarians When I arrived she was late. alike, is truly remarkable.

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businesses are giving back to this Peninsula where they operate.

They are amazing.

For the last several years, I have, with the help of all five clubs, written this monthly Rotary Roundup column for the Peace Arch News.

It is time for new blood and a new viewpoint.

I am passing this responsibility to another member of our club, Brenda Gibson. She is excited to bring her points of view to these articles, and keep you, the public, abreast of what Rotary is doing both locally and around the world.

I know you will enjoy the column under her direction, and I welcome her and thank her for undertaking this responsibility.

I’m sure my club will have other projects for me to become involved with.

Thanks for reading.

If you are interested in Rotary, visit a club. You will be amazed at who you will meet.

Valerie Giles writes monthly on behalf of the Semiahmoo Peninsula’s five Rotary Clubs – valeriegiles@shaw.ca

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Uli’s owners Tyson and Carlie Blume recently commissioned a new mural to replace the popular waterfront restaurant’s pirate-themed vista, created some two decades ago by artist Elizabeth Hollick.

The new mural, by Vancouverbased graffiti artist ‘Craver,’ on the side of the restaurant, presents a coastal landscape of rugged old-growth trees.

The couple’s three-year-old daughter, Mischa, helped the artist with finishing touches on his work last week.

“Tyson chose to change the mural as a sort of ode to his love of the West Coast,” Carlie told the Peace Arch News.

“It’s a nod to his upbringing in Campbell River, where he often foraged for Chantrell mushrooms and fiddleheads.”

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A White Rock restaurateur is being remembered as a “gentleman among gentlemen.”

Geoff Laithwaite, chef and partner at Geoff ’s on the Corner, died Aug. 23.

An open house to celebrate Laithwaite’s life was held Friday at the 1-15223 Pacific Ave. establishment.

A second gathering at Laithwaite’s childhood home in Campbell River was held Sunday.

Geoff Laithwaite “We look forward to seeing Geoff ’s community together, and having the opportunity to toast the man we can easily say we all loved to the moon and back,” a message on the restaurant’s website states.

Geoff ’s on the Corner – described as a gourmet bistro and wine bar – opened in White Rock’s Five Corners district in 2014, in the same location of Share Small Plate & Wine Bar, where Laithwaite had been chef and partner “for years.”

Laithwaite’s culinary

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Vancouver artist ‘Craver’ and Mischa Blume, 3, take a break from painting a new mural on Uli’s on White Rock’s waterfront. background includes time of Swarovski crystals, outdoor preparing dishes for such spaces that incorporate water celebrities as Oprah Winfrey, and fire elements, and a four-car Quincy Jones, Paul Anka garage. and the Gretzky family, as A South Surrey home included in the tour was built near chef on Dennis Washington’s Kwomais Point, and features private yacht from 2005-2007. floor-to-ceiling glass, Washington is owner a retracting wall of of the Seaspan doors, post-and-beam Marine Corporation ceilings and sturdy, and the Washington hand-built furniture.

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Tickets for the Facebook tributes to Laithwaite editorial@peacearchnews.com tour are US$30 (in advance; describe him as a $40 on the day). well-loved man who For more information, visit led a “bold and wonderful life.” modernhometours.com

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A tour aimed at giving people a chance to explore examples of modern architecture in their own city is coming to the Semiahmoo Peninsula next month.

For the first time, the selfguided Vancouver Modern Home Tour – part of Western Living Magazine’s Design Week – will include a White Rock component.

Organizers say the doors of three White Rock homes will be among those open to ticketholders from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sept. 20.

They include work by KBC Developments, Iredale Architecture, Treeline Construction Ltd and Surfside Construction.

One is described as having features integrated “that capture the fluid motion of a wave.” Just 22 feet wide, the 4,300-squarefoot ‘Wave House’ also has a floating walnut staircase, accents

Skill-share fair People with an interesting, useful or practical skill are being sought to host workshops at the 2015 Surrey Skill Share Fair.

Set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 3, the fair is described as “a place to share the things you’re interested in and passionate about with others.”

Those working on an project that they think others might like to know about are also encouraged to submit a workshop proposal, online at www.skill-share.ca or by email to info@skill-share.ca The event, to be held at the Surrey Nature Centre (14225 Green Timbers Way), is free to attend. It is supported through the Oak Avenue Hub’s Neighbourhood Small Grant Program and in partnership with the Village Surrey Transition Initiative and the Surrey Nature Centre.

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It may have been 20 years ago today (when) Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play, but it was 50 years ago when the Beatles performed live before a deafening crowd of pubescent fans at New York’s Shea Stadium in 1965.

The four lads from Liverpool had been touring for three years as Beatlemania raged on across the world. This concert broke records for attendance.

There were 55,000 adoring fans on that hot summer night.

April Lewis The summer concert lasted 30 minutes and the playlist consisted of 12 songs, including Can’t Buy Me Love.

I’ll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright…

Cos I don’t care too much for money, and money can’t buy me love…

Simple and to the point. However, the four lads could have been reciting the phone book and no one would have noticed.

The fans, mostly female, screamed, cried and fainted. Nobody could hear the music let alone John, Paul, George and Ringo who were unable to hear a note they were singing. The fans were awash in a hormonal, hysterical frenzy, oblivious to the fact that history was being made.

I remember when the Beatles were booked to perform at Empire Stadium in Vancouver. I didn’t go, partly because I didn’t have the money to buy a ticket, but mostly I knew from a pragmatic point of view, my youthful exuberance notwithstanding, that their performance would be drowned out by the mindless rowdy and raucous crowd.

I was right. It barely lasted 10 minutes.

Such a pity, as Lennon and McCartney penned some of the greatest love songs in music history.

Watching the concert last month on YouTube to commemorate this iconic performance, I realize how much music concerts have changed. And so have the lyrics. And the fans.

Fast forward to today, when the British singer/ songwriter Ed Sheeran played London’s Wembley stadium this month to a crowd of more than 200,000 fans. There were three performances over three days.

Ed Sheeran, with his mop of unkempt red hair and casual attire looks like a cross between Prince Harry and Kurt Cobain.

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When he sings Thinking Out Loud, he has his audience in his intimate embrace despite the massive size of the venue.

When your legs don’t work like they used to before And I can’t sweep you off of your feet Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks…

A scruffy, unpretentious, young man of 24 with just a guitar and thousands of devoted listeners in the palm of his hand. They mouth the words of all of his songs and listen intently with joy and emotion. Couples gaze lovingly into each other’s eyes, convinced Sheeran is singing directly to them.

Love is in the air. There is no inane screaming or ear-piercing shrieking.

Fans are there to listen to this talented musician and to crawl into the depths of his quirky and poetic lyrics. They are delighted to be a part of the experience as they fill the arena with a blanket of cellphone lights which illuminates their silent devotion to this talented lad.

Take me into your loving arms Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars Place your head on my beating heart I’m thinking out loud Maybe we found love right where we are.

I am thinking out loud that the Beatles would have envied Ed Sheeran.

Maybe he is John Lennon reincarnated.

Time will tell.

April Lewis is the local communications director for CARP, a national group committed to a ‘New Vision of Aging for Canada.’ She writes monthly.

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Q White Rock Zombie Walk Sept. 5, 1:30 p.m.

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Davy the Punk

feature as part of the festival and White Rock Library’s ongoing Master Artists in the Library proDoes Canadian history have to gram, Sept. 11 and 12, 11 a.m. to 4 be dry, indigestible and unrelievp.m., showcasing a work-in-progedly respectable? ress inspired by the mythological Not according to Bob Bossin. goddess Medusa.

The author’s lively, humourous, Throughout September, galone-man musical play, Davy The lery owner Mary Mikelson will Punk will come to Ocean Park host a display of Outside The Box Community Hall (1577 128 St.) founder Pauline Dutkowski’s Sunday, Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m. as a fibre art and the fibre-related work fundraiser for Alex Browne of another great local “outside the Communities box” thinker – Elizabeth Careand Coal’s fight to end coal train foot – at the Mind and Matter Gallery (13743 16 Ave.) traffic through White Rock Community Centre White Rock and (15154 Russell Ave.) will feature South Surrey. a show of Ballard’s photography, A spell-bindas well as Kali Bags creations – ing entertainer including up-cycled art bags and and story-teller other wearables – designed by (and founder Siemens, which utilize vintage and of legendary re-purposed fabrics and decoraCanadian folk tions in one-of-a-kind pieces. group StringThe community is also invited band), Bossin to participate ‘hands on’ in the has drawn the Interknots II Fibre Installation, material for the show and its Sept. 18, 1:30-3:30 p.m. at Bryant companion book from his father Park (beside the Community Cen(the Davy of the title) and his fastre), by bringing colourful scarves, cinating adventures in Toronto’s gambling underworld of the 1930s knitting or crocheting of flowers and insects to decorate trees in the and 1940s.

Bossin grew up knowing his dad park.

Displays will be ongoing at the only as a conservative man who library by the Piece Arch Quilters booked acts into Ontario nightand the Tuesday Tapestry Group, clubs. while the Peace Arch It was only after his dad Weavers and Spinners died in 1963, when Bossin Guild will offer demonwas 17 years old, that strations Saturday, Sept. he began to discover the 19 (11 a.m. - 3 p.m.) and truth of ‘Davy The Punk’, Monday Sept. 28, (11 a.m. respected statesman of a to 3 p.m.). thriving illicit milieu.

Also at the library Fibre Salty, ribald, down-toGone Wild, Sept. 22, earth and sprinkled with 3:30-4 p.m., is a children’s anecdotes of a Damon workshop (pre-registraRunyon-esque set of Bob Bossin tion required) in which characters and their close author youngsters will create brushes with the police animals from recycled – many of whom were materials, while on Sept. 25 ‘on the take,’ and the office of the Attorney General of Ontario – the members of the Needlenuts will demonstrate their techniques for songs and tales are an authentic applique quilting. slice of Canadiana spiced by the For more information visit outknowledge that while some of it sidetheboxwhiterock.webs.com is the stuff of legend, most of it is absolutely true.

For tickets ($25) and further Bollard/Heins information, email davythepunk@ Take a tuneful, interpretive shaw.ca or visit www.davythevocalist with a natural swing and a punk.com man with an internationally-noted flair for piano boogie and you Outside The Box have the makings of another winning show.

White Rock’s Outside The Box Well-known Semiahmoo PenFestival, a month-long, genreinsula jazz singer and womanchallenging celebration of art in of-the-theatre Wendy Bollard fibre returns to the city for a fifth (Peninsula Productions artistic year, running through Sept. 30. director) is heading to England As in previous years, White to study theatre in a prestigious Rock Library is a key location for master’s directing program at the displays and ongoing programs.

University of Essex.

Launch ceremonies have been But before she leaves, there’s rescheduled to Sept. 12, 2:30 p.m. at the library – following the wind time for another gig with one of her favourite musicians – boogie storm that forced closure of venjazz piano master Dominik Heins ues last weekend.

– and his gifted sidemen Sam They will feature an introducSchoichet (bass) and Alex Klastion by festival coordinator Alicia sen (drums), Sept. 11 at 8 p.m. at Ballard, noted locally and interBlue Frog Studios (1328 Johnston nationally as a painter and multiRd.) media artist, and an appearance Heins, a product of the lively

by Kali Bags and Accoutrements Hamburg boogie-woogie scene partners Katherine Siemens and Stephanie Lafreniere, also known with an international reputation for his piano and singing chops, as tribal fusion dancers The has joined forces with Bollard – Fusionistas. known for her warm vocal tone Ballard will also have her own

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Susan Falk’s latest show includes drawings and paintings inspired by kimonos she saw during her recent trip to Kyoto, Japan.

and expressive phrasing – numerous times over the past few years, including the 2013 Dapper Dominik Show at Blue Frog.

It’s an evening that will feature a blend of boogie, jazz, bossa nova, and ballads – with even a little country thrown in.

For tickets visit www.bluefrogstudios.ca or call 604-542-3055.

Susan Falk Langley-based artist Susan Falk, well-known from shows on the Semiahmoo Peninsula, is bringing art from her most recent exhibit in Japan to the Turnbull Gallery (South Surrey Recreation and Arts Centre, 14601 20 Ave.).

The show RED – Circle of Life, a unique celebration of B.C.’s wildlife focusing on the symbiotic relationship of bears and sockeye salmon, will be at the gallery Sept. 8 to Oct. 7, with an opening reception Sept. 11, from 7 to 9 p.m., presented by Semiahmoo Arts, the Community Arts Council of White Rock and District.

The exhibit has just returned from the art forum at the Jarfo Museum in Kyoto, and, typically, the ever-active and inventive Falk is also including works inspired by her recent Japanese experience.

Expressionist oil paintings and

drawings include Falk’s trademark colouristic touch, inspired by the modern day kimonos she saw women wearing there – as she describes them, “like wisps in the Kyoto wind, walking through my studio.”

The main show features the uniquely Canadian life-size bears and salmon on large canvases with which she wowed audiences in Japan – her vivid meditation, based on source materials collected on the Adams River, on the mysterious life-cycle of the sockeye, from the rivers of B.C. to ocean life and the ultimate return to the rivers to spawn, where they also provide a pre-hibernation feast for the grizzly population.

Jazz Band Ball The party’s on for lovers of traditional jazz of the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s.

The 2015 Jazz Band Ball – hosted by the White Rock Traditional Jazz Society at the Pacific Inn and Resort Centre Sept. 26-27 – will feature a fine sampling of traditional jazz players from the Northwest, as far south as Seattle, and as far east as New York.

Among them are multi-instrumentalist Simon Stribling’s New Orleans Ale Stars who, in addition

to appearing through the two-day festival, will host the 7:30 p.m.

Friday night kick-off party for the event ($10 at the door).

WRTJS house band Red Beans and Rice (featuring Rice Honeywell Sr. on cornet) is part of the lineup, of course, which also including fellow locals The Square Pegs – including Peg Thomson (piano) and Dave Ayton (vibraphone).

Noted Vancouver-raised reedman Evan Arntzen, currently working in New York, will be flying in to play with and his own group, The Brothers Arntzen, bringing along vocalist Tamar Korn, who is developing an international reputation for reinterpreting jazz standards.

Three other notable U.S. musicians, Ray Skjelbred, Clint Baker and Jeff Hamilton will sit in with Stribling during the course of the weekend. Seattle pianist Skjelbred, who will also front his own Yeti Chasers Jazz Band, revisits the ‘stride’ style of the 1930s, while Californians Baker (a multiinstrumentalist) and Hamilton (drums) will appear as members of The Grand Dominion Jazz Band, one of the most popular acts on the classic jazz festival circuit.

Also featured in the festival is Seattle’s popular Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, while a new generation of traditional jazz players will be represented by youth group the Curbside Jazz Band, from Chilliwack.

Both venues at the Pacific Inn have dance floors and a combination of theatre and cabaret-style seating, and music will be continuous, with bands changing every hour. Beverages and food are available on site and parking is free.

A two-day badge to the event is $70. One-day badges (Saturday $40, Sunday $30) will also be offered, if seating is still available.

For tickets or more information visit www.whiterocktradjazz.com or call 604-560-9215 or 604-5318857.

White Rock Trad Jazz There will be no jazz at the Royal Canadian Legion Crescent Branch 240 (2643 128 St.) until Sunday, Oct. 4.

That’s when White Rock Traditional Jazz Society’s regular 2 to 5 p.m. sessions of live Dixieland will resume (19 and up, $10 admission for WRTJS and legion members, $12 for everybody else).

Fans of Red Beans & Rice – led by trumpeter and vocalist Rice Honeywell Sr. – can still catch its 7 p.m. Friday performances (all ages) at Porter’s Bistro, 21611 48 Ave., in Langley’s historic Murrayville, in (for reservations, call 604-530-5297).

Swing dance classes Retro Swing Kid & Company are hosting fall swing dance classes at varius locations.

For details, email retroswingkid@gmail.com call 604-536-0195 or visit www.jumpjointswing.com

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Local governments to discuss fires at convention

Forests on agenda Tom Fletcher Black Press

As mayors and councillors from across the province prepare to gather in Vancouver for their annual September convention and meetings with the B.C. cabinet, the state of B.C. forests and the threat of fires is top of mind.

A resolution up for debate from Premier Christy Clark’s constituency of West Kelowna calls on the province to take the lead on forest fuel management, directly funding and managing it for private as well as public land.

It notes that despite high costs and widespread damage from the 2014 forest fire season, the province’s Strategic Wildfire Prevention Initiative excluded operational activities and was restricted to financing community protection plans.

The program spent $62 million between 2004 and 2014 to assist local governments reduce interface fire risk.

Applications for fuel projects were halted last year when the budget was spent, and this past May the forests ministry put another $5 million in, for projects on municipal or provincial

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The province maintains that fuel projects on private land are best left to local governments to coordinate with their public land programs.

In the wake of beetle losses and reduced timber harvest limits, Williams Lake, Quesnel, 100 Mile House and Wells are calling for the province to improve certainty on the working forest land base. Their resolution calls for the province to “deliver the full allowable cut allowed under the BC Timber Sales program� and “complete a science-based inventory of available timber supply.�

Forests Minister Steve Thomson said in an interview the province’s $80 million increase in inventory funding over 10 years has been focused on areas hardest hit by pine beetle infestation. “I’m confident that we have significantly improved information that is going into the timber supply reviews and timber supply analysis,� he said.

Hundreds of mayors, councillors and regional district directors will converge on downtown Vancouver for the UBCM convention Sept. 21-25.

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Team BC tops medal count at Western Canada Summer Games

Local athletes strike gold at games Rick Kupchuk Black Press

Athletes from this area excelled at the Western Canada Summer Games, which ended last week in Wood Buffalo, Alta.

In total, 43 athletes from Surrey, three from White Rock and another five from North Delta participated in the Games, which ran from Aug. 7-16.

Team BC topped the medal standing with 280 medals, 134 of them gold. Of the 266 gold medals awarded, slightly more than half were won by athletes from B.C. Numerous local athletes, most in the 16-19 age bracket, found themselves on the podium and contributing the Team BC’s medal count. They included: • Treyson Cerrato, 14, of South Surrey was a member of the male gymnastics team which won the overall gold medal.

• Team BC won the gold medal in male baseball, defeating Saskatchewan 7-3 in the gold medal game. Members of the team included 15-year-olds Trent King, Ethan Gray and Damiano Palmegiani, and 16-year-olds Dawson Gray and Justin Olic, all from Surrey.

• Janna Wong and James Ho of Surrey and Qingzi Ouyang of Delta all won gold in team badminton. Team BC placed second among the seven teams in the round robin, losing only to Alberta by a 7-2 score. BC reversed the result in the goldmedal match, winning 6-2.

• Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary student Hannah Lee, 15, easily won the gold medal in the female golf individual competition.

Lee was five strokes better than Tiffany Kong, also from B.C. Lee, Long and Alisha Lau combined to win the team gold medal for B.C. Local players were prominent on the Team BC squad that won the gold medal in female soccer.

Team BC won all three games in the tournament, finishing atop their group in the round robin with a 15-0 win over the Northwest Territory and a 4-0 victory over Saskatchewan. Team BC topped Manitoba 3-1 in the gold-medal match. Local players included Priya Gillan, 15, and Jessica Williams, 16, of White Rock, Danielle Steer, 16, of South Surrey, Brittany Costa, 16, of North Delta and Harneet Dadrao, 16, of Surrey.

• Team BC defeated Alberta 11-0 in the gold medal game of the female softball tournament. They were 8-1 in the triple round robin, losing only to Manitoba by a 7-5 score. Team members included 16-year-olds Maria Palegiani, Katie Humhej and Shaelyn Ogilvie of Surrey, Michaela Moore of Cloverdale, and Emily Manhao, 17, of Surrey.

• Two Delta swimmers were among the medalists in para sport

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Clockwise from top: Darby Dunn of South Surrey returns the ball during a beach volleyball match in Wood Buffalo, Alta.; Rebecca Garner of Surrey reaches for the ball during indoor volleyball competition; Surrey’s Emily Manhao connects with the ball during a softball game for Team BC. swimming. Aimee Brennan won a gold medal in the female 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly and 200m individual medley races.

Brennan, 14, also won silver medals in the 100m freestyle, 100m back stroke and 100m breast stroke events.

In the para sport male category, Aidan McDonough won bronze medals in the 100m freestyle, 100m back stroke, 100m butterfly and 200m individual medley.

• Track and field produced several medals for local athletes.

Brent Reston of North Delta won a gold medal in the male javelin, his throw of 59.78m more

than three metres further than his nearest rival.

Valda Kabia of Ocean Athletics won silver medals in both the 100m and 200m female sprints.

Her time of 12.21 seconds in the 100m bettered her personal best of 12.36.

Chelsea Ribeiro of Surrey also won silver, placing second in the female 200m steeplechase.

Michael Milic of North Delta won three medals in the triathlon.

He was the runner-up in the male individual race, winning a silver medal. He won gold medals in the team male and team mix relays.

• Team BC fell 1-0 to Alberta

in the gold-medal match of male soccer. Four Surrey athletes were on the team, including Daniel Lee, 15, and 16-year-olds Nicholas Fussell, Charandeep Rangi, and Jorawa Saran.

• Darby Dunn, 17, of Surrey and Kelowna’s Quinci Birker won gold in female beach volleyball by sweeping Alberta 21-12, 21-15 in the final.

The Dunn-Birker connection was also good for a medal in the male tournament. Devon Dunn teamed up with Liam Birker to win a silver medal in male beach volleyball.

The two 20-year-olds lost to a duo from Calgary in the gold medal

game scores of 21-13, 21-19.

• Five locals helped Team BC to gold in female indoor volleyball.

Cara Keturakis, Rebecca Garner, Gabrielle Attieh and Kiera Van Ryk of Surrey and Tamara Clarke of North Delta were on the provincial team which swept Alberta in the gold-medal match by scores of 25-22, 25-19 and 25-17.

Team BC settled for the silver medal in the male tournament, falling 25-20, 25-23, 27-25 to Alberta in the final. Local members of the team included Tyson Smith of White Rock, and Perry Ni, Braden Jones, Eric Lee and Jordan Deshane of Surrey.

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Peninsula swimmers took part in the B.C. 55+ Senior Games this weekend, held in North Vancouver at Harry Jerome Pool.

Six members of the White Rock Wave swim team competed for the Fraser Valley region, taking home plenty of hardware from the five-day event, which wrapped up Saturday.

Nastaran HassaniZadeh, competing in the 55-59-year-old womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s division, won gold in the 400-m Contributed photo freestyle and silver in The Surrey Eagles took to the ice for training camp last week. the 50-m backstroke, Spencer Unger takes a shot on goaltender Justin Laforest 50-m fly, 100-m during exhibition game play at South Surrey Arena. backstroke and 200-m individual medley. backstroke and silver in Rebels goalie Ryder Colman, Yuvraj Narula, In the 60-64 menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the 25-m free style.

Bremner was named Riley Larose, Nathaniel division, Ted Willmer Rounding out the a tournament all-star Mahon, Luke Siemens, won silver in the 25, tournament winners and the Most Valuable Brandon Chiasson and 50 and 100-m breast was Tony Pease, in the Player, while Keenan James Tang. stroke, and 75-79-yearMartin won a Fair Play Twelve teams bronze in old division, Award. participated in the the 25, 200 who won After placing third annual 11-year-old and 400-m gold in the in the regular season select tournament that freestyle, 50, 100 and against other Lower ran July 17-26. while team 200-m free Mainland teams with sports@peacearchnews.com made Greg style, and a 12-4-2 record, the Selects soccer Young won silver in Rebels defeated New gold in the 25, 50 and The Delta Coastal the 100-m individual Westminster 9-5, 100-m freestyle, the Selects upset the topmedley, 400 and 800-m Kelowna 6-5 and 50-m backstroke and ranked Port Coquitlam free style.

Victoria 3-1 to finish the 100-m individual Castillians 1-0 in the atop their group after medley, and silver in final to win the girls round robin play.

They Perfect at the 800-m freestyle. under-14 provincial then topped Peninsula Gladys Willmer, provincials soccer championship 8-1 in a semifinal swimming in the July 9-11 at South contest.

The Surrey Rebels 65-69-year-old Surrey Athletic Park. were a perfect fivecategory, won gold in â&#x20AC;&#x153;We took on some Whalley wins the 100-m breaststroke, for-five in Kelowna, tough competition winning the Bantam silver in the 25-m A pair of home runs this past weekend, A2 championship at breast stroke and lifted Whalley to a 4-2 but the girls rose to the provincial lacrosse 400-m freestyle win over White Rock in the occasion and were championships July and bronze in the the championship game successful in taking top 15-19 in Kelowna.

25-metre fly and 50-m of the Drew Henderson honours,â&#x20AC;? said head The group of 13-14 breaststroke.

Baseball Tournament at coach Gord McGahey. year-olds won all five Alida Brichon, Whalley Ball Park.

The Selects lost 3-1 games at the eight-team competing in the Haiden Letzing hit to the Castillians in 70-74-year-old division, tournament, capping a three-run home run the first game of the the weekend with a 7-5 won gold in the 25, and Eathen Hein added four-team round robin victory over Victoria in 50 and 100-m breast a solo homer to account tournament, but went stroke and 25 and 50-m the championship game. for the Whalley scoring. on to defeat the Upper Noah Moczo was the Island Riptide 3-2 and starting pitcher for the the Kamloops Blaze winners, allowing two 4-0 to place second runs in three innings and qualify for the pitched. championship game.

Other members of The Selects had the winning team from finished second in Whalley were Daniel league play to the Lafleur, Mason Chien, Castillians with a 14-4-4 Emmanuel Birch, Ryan (won-lost-tied) record.

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KEYE, Sylvia Elsie Sylvie passed away peacefully in the morning hours of August 20, 2015. She is survived by her 5 children and many relatives and friends.

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DOLAN, Dean James Nov. 3, 1955 - Aug. 26, 2015 It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our father, brother and friend. Dean, age 59, passed away quietly in his sleep on August 26, 2015 at his home in Semiahmoo First Nation.

He is predeceased by his parents; James and Doris Dolan (Penuudaas) and his two sisters; Daphne Chappell and Deidre Dolan.

Dean is survived by his two daughters; Jennifer Dolan and Chalise McCallum (Rodney); his grandson Kenai Jaques; his brothers, Darren and Dale Dolan, and loving confidant and best friends, Rosemary and Karen.

Numerous cousins, nieces and nephews both within Canada and the United States will miss Dean’s warmth and wonderful sense of humor.

Services at Peace Arch Provincial Park Hall: Prayers: 7pm, Thurs., Sept 3rd Service: 10am, Fri., Sept 4th Burial at the Semiahmoo First Nations Cemetery Please note: The Hall is located in the Park behind the Duty Free Outlet.

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BARKER, JOYCE Eileen Aug 18, 1931 - Aug 11, 2015 Joy passed away peacefully in her sleep after a long battle with age related illnesses.

Predeceased by her husband Bud. They celebrated 61 years of marriage. Survived by her daughters Shari (Syd), Kimberley (Patrick). Three grandchildren Jeff, Sean, Erin. One great grandchild Brody. Sisters in-law Pat & Joyce, brothers-in law Frank & John & numerous nieces & nephews.

Bud and Joy moved from Manitoba to St. Albert, Alberta where they resided until 1984, then moved to White Rock, BC which became their home for over 31 years. Many happy times were spent with family and friends!

Joy did modeling for Eaton`s Winnipeg, also accounting manager in St. Albert. Involved in community work & volunteered her time helping others.

A love for music, many different gendres. A good time was had by all at Mom & Dads! Joy loved curling, bowing and many a fun card games.

Loved RVing.

Mom loved to host get togethers with close friends. Joy had a flair for decorating. All eyes were on Joy when she entered a room, she had a style all her own!

Joy will now be with Bud, her one true love and sadly missed by all who knew and loved her.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to the caring staff at Ocean View Seniors Village, White Rock. also to Julie & Christina at Shoppers Health for looking after our Mom. Private family service to be held. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the SPCA of your choice.

DOWLING, Isabelle McIvor (Peat) The Family of Isabelle McIvor (Peat) Dowling are sad to announce the passing of “Izzy” after a short battle with cancer.

We lost an amazing Mom, Wife and Friend on Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at West Parry Sound Health Centre in her 87th year with her daughter Judy and son-in-law Gary Aylwin by her side.

Predeceased by her two son’s William (Billy) and Robert Turgeon and loving husband Lawrence Dowling. Sisters Joan Aylwin and Betty Patterson. Isabella will be dearly missed by her daughter Judy (Gary) Aylwin, step-children Brian (Christine) Dowling, Gail (Glenn) Morley, Andrew (Annie) Dowling, Sandra Dowling and Paul (Lynn) Dowling all of British Columbia. Sisters Margaret (Bruce) Dickinson, Oshawa, Joyce Martin, Barrie and brother Donald Peat, Markham. Plus her best friend Wilhelmina Billy (Ray) Yusczyk, Florida.

She had a special relationship with Sandra (Doug) Boon who was also always there to help if needed. She leaves behind many other family members and friends. Cremation has taken place with further arrangements being entrusted to Thompson Funeral Home in Aurora. A Memorial Service will be held in White Rock, B.C. at a later date at which time Isabella will be reunited with Larry. If desired, memorial donations to West Parry Sound Health Unit, Palliative Care Unit or to any SPCA or Animal Rescue would be sincerely appreciated by the family.

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Miss You Mom, In Loving Memory, Eileen Margaret Munn December 4, 1922July 30, 2015 Eileen passed away peacefully, on July 30, 2015 at Peace Arch Hospital. Eileen was born in Birtle MB. She is survived by son Lyle Munn and daughters Bonnie (Lanny) Smith, Wanda Shaw, Brenda (Glennis) Knight, Evelyn Munn and son-in-law Ray Prystupa.

11 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren. Brother Oliver (Margaret) Wood. Eileen was predeceased by her husband Edward M. Munn, Daughter Caroll Prystupa and son in law Andy Shaw. Eileen was a loving wife, mother, foster mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend to many.

She was an amazing woman who enjoyed many hobbies, sewing, knitting, crocheting and painting. She created over 100 afghans and baby blankets for every newborn in her circle of family and friends. In spite of her many medical challenges she never considered herself different from anyone else-never complained.

For many years in Manitoba, Eileen was a 4-H leader and a seamstress. In the last few years Eileen was very active as the chairperson for the Surrey/White Rock Macular Degeneration Group. She was a kind and loving woman who will be missed dearly by many.

Donations in Eileen’s name can be made to Peace Arch Hospital, 15521 Russell Ave, White Rock, BC. V4B 2R4.

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Live In optional and not a condition of employment. Please contact : Sin Lai -janesmlai@hotmail.com 604 916 8216 IN-HOME Caregiver Needed in White Rock - Elderly Lady. 2 years Contract, HS 2 years experience, $10.33/hour/40 hours, BC Medical & CPP. English, Cantonese & Mandarin a must. Required Chinese cooking, personal care etc. Live in optional and not a condition of employment. Please contact : Sin Lai - janesmlai@hotmail.com 604-916-8216

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

EDUCATION

Dog Friendly. Trimming / Pruning SAME DAY ESTIMATE

Call Kris 604-617-5561

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247 COURIER/DELIVERY SRVS ERRANDS R US can help minimize daily stress. I can assist and accompany getting to any appointments, do grocery - pharmacy shopping, take care of dog walking, drycleaning, petsitting, house checking. Options are unlimited.

Call or email for a free consultation.

35 years management experience, as well as 2 year geriatric exp. errandsRus15@gmail.com or Sherrie at 604-837-0743. .Jim’s Mowing. 310-JIMS (5467).

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NOW HIRING! Delivery Drivers

HELP WANTED

Papers are delivered right to your door. No need to insert flyers either! Deliver 2x a week, after school, Wednesdays and Fridays. Call the Circulation Department at 604 542-7434

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NO CARS, SUVS, MINI-VANS OR PICKUP TRUCKS. • Tuesday Evenings & Thursday Evenings • Pick up newspapers from our warehouse • Deliver newspapers to our carriers’ homes in Langley City, Walnut Grove and Aldergrove

Call 604.514.6770 circulation@langleytimes.com

DEAD LEVEL CONSTRUCTION LTD. Complete Drywall Work. Bob 604-830-1322 www.deadlevel.ca BBB Accredited Member

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HOTEL, RESTAURANT, FOOD SERVICES

BC’s largest High School Cafeteria Company

with over 60 locations now interviewing for

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If you would enjoy summers, Christmas & spring break off email: jobs@canuelcaterers.ca or fax: 604-503-0951

Tree Pruning, Topping & Removal Hedge Trimming ~ Disposal

Full Landscape & Maintenance Services Insured ~ WCB Over 25 yrs Exp.

*Free Estimate *Seniors Discount

Call 778-245-5006

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VOLUNTEERS

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VOLUNTEERS

APPLIANCE REPAIRS Peace Arch Appliance Service to fridges, stoves, washers, dryers & dishwashers.

Reasonable.

Also Appliance Removal Call Mark (604)536-9092

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CLEANING SERVICES

WINDOWS NEED CLEANING? Call Joe for a free estimate (604) 530-9647 This AD Appears in the First Wednesday of Each Month Efficient, Reliable, Friendly, Bonded Excellent References with 20 yrs of experience. Call Ivet: 778-235-4070

HOTEL, RESTAURANT, FOOD SERVICES

ELECT SERVICES

.Need Cash, Own Vehicle? Borrow up to $25,000. SnapCarCash. 604-777-5046

DETAILED EUROPEAN CLEANING.

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DRYWALL

PSB DRYWALL LTD.★ All Boarding, Taping, Framing & Texture. Insured work. Dump Removal Service. 604-762-4657 / 778-240-4657

KIDS NEEDED FOR CARRIER ROUTES

Optical Dispensing is a high-growth industry with good pay and job security. Or, even start your own business!!

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HELP WANTED

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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Sunday, October 18, 2015 6:30 am - 12:00 noon Volunteer support is required for a variety of roles October 17 - 18 including race and fairground set-up, route marshals and event tear-down.

Visit pahfoundation.ca/runwalk to learn more and complete a volunteer application or call 604.535.4520

Let’s meet at the beach and walk or run for your ER!

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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES 287

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES 320

MOVING & STORAGE

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES 338

PETS

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477

A Cut Above Yard Maintenance

PETS

ITALIAN MASTIFF (Cane Corso)

SPECIALIZING IN: Lawn cutting, Pruning, Weeding, Cleanups.

Your one stop yard maintenance company.

Commercial & Residential Local & Long Distance Moves * Licensed * Insured * Bonded All Truck Sizes & Trailers Amazing Rates! FREE Estimates.

778-928-5995

White Rock Owned & Operated Since 1992

RENTALS 706

ACTIVE SENIOR 1 & 2 Bedrooms avail

1 Purebred blue male.

1st shots, tails / d c removed.

ULTIMATE FAMILY GUARDIAN Pet homes. $1000. 604-308-5665

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Quality workmanship since 1968 Commercial - Residential

*Seniors Disc. *Insured *28 yrs.

Jay 604-897-8524 C & C GARDENERS Tree & Shrub Pruning, Lawn Maint., Clean-up.

25 Yrs Experience. 604-530-2232

FOR A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN Garden Design & Installation â&#x20AC;˘ Fall Clean-Up â&#x20AC;˘ Maintenance

353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

www.paintspecial.com

PAINT SPECIAL 3 rooms for $299 2 coats any colour

DEAD LEVEL CONSTRUCTION LTD. Complete Home Renovations WE DO IT ALL! www.deadlevel.ca Call Bob at 604-830-1322 BBB Accredited Member

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Yorkshire Terriers, P/B, not reg., dewormed, 1st shots, vet certificate. $800 & up. (604)846-7139

RUBBISH REMOVAL

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE 506

Kitchens, baths, basements, painting, mouldings, Drywall, roofing, power washing, countertop specialists.

Small or large Jobs. Free Est.

283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS GUTTER & ROOF Cleaning/Power Washing since 1982. WCB/Liability insurance. Simon, 604-230-0627

Peace Arch Appliance Service to fridges, stoves, washers, dryers & dishwashers.

Reasonable.

Also Appliance Removal Call Mark (604)536-9092

Call Jackie 604-780-1588, 778-898-2582

GUTTER CLEANING Call Ian 604-724-6373

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HANDYPERSONS

WHITE ROCK HANDYMAN Repair - Renovate - Organize Build - Design - Electric

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HOME REPAIRS Brads Junk Removal.com. Same Day Service. Affordable Rates! 604.220.JUNK (5865)

A1 BATH RENOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S. Bsmt suites, drywall, patios, plumbing, siding, fencing, roofing, landscaping, etc.

Joe 604-961-9937.

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Small or Large JOBS MaZebah 778-788-7390

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Call Robert 778-227-7779

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HAIR STYLISTS

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White Rock. Garage Sale: Sat, Aug 29th, 9:00am-1:00pm. 1464 Maple St. Books, toys, household items, etc.

Vincent 543-7776 Residential/Commercial Interior/Exterior

or 604-542-4331 JUNK REMOVAL By RECYCLE-IT! 604.587.5865 www.recycleitcanada.ca

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Residential Commercial, 1-3 Men BIG OR SMALL MOVES Start $45/hr ~ All size trucks Free estimate/Senior Discount www.miraclemoving.ca

Abian Rubbish Removal

636

(604)897-3423

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SUNDECKS

. Aluminum patio cover, sunroom, railing and vinyl. 604-521-2688 .Aluminum patio cover, sunroom, railing and vinyl. 604-521-2688 www.PatioCoverVancouver.com

Call Kumar at 604-580-8080 kumar@kumarmortgages.com

639 REAL ESTATE SERVICES

PETS 477 Designing and renovating new kitchens, bathrooms, basements, house make-overs and additions

Call for FREE in-home consultation In-house design team and cabinet shop Showroom: Unit 62 - 15515 24th Ave. (at King George Blvd.) Tel: 604-538-9622

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329 PAINTING & DECORATING

ALSO TOOLS FOR SALE. 778-772-5289 / 604-538-0849

MORTGAGES

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DEAD LEVEL CONSTRUCTION LTD. Deck Construction.

Vinyl decking - 10 yr warranty. Call BOB 604-830-1322 www.deadlevel.ca BBB Accredited Member.

HAIR STYLISTS

350 Motor. Air Conditioning.

All decked out for plumbing with all materials. $12,500.

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2000 Chevy Express Cargo Van - 2500 Series

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JUNK / RUBBISH REMOVAL Almost for free! (778)997-5757

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RENOS & REPAIRS Excellent price on Hot Water Tanks Furnace, Boilers, Plumbing Jobs & Drain Cleaning

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GARAGE SALES

GARAGE and Craft Sale Aug 5 1364 162A St (off 14th) 9-3 Lots of books and odds and ends plus crafts

Associated Painters Inc.

www.assocatedpainters.ca

SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

DOWNSIZING GARAGE SALE Sat Sept 5th from 9am - 1pm. 13808 19A Ave, Surrey.

.Russells Rubbish Removal 604-787-7355 White Rock / South Surrey

B & B MOBILE SERVICES

www.BBmoving.ca

2013 Honda Civic, 4 dr sedan, 5 spd. Base model. 50,000 kms.

White. $8500 Firm.

604-329-6225, 604-341-7955

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MOVING & STORAGE

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HOMES FOR RENT

The Scrapper

Member of Better Business Bureau

604-536-6620 www.aboveallcontracting.ca

736

INFINITI G35, coupe, 2004, grey, moonroof, one owner from new.

149,800K. $ 5,900.. Great mechanics ,well maintained, Rear panel needs minor ding and scratch fixing Contact Mike 604 928 2488

~ PRO PAINTERS ~ INTERIOR / EXTERIOR Quality Work, Free Estimates .AllPro Landscaping 604-319-6815

185K. 3.5L. $2800.

Call 604-992-0199 (S.Surrey)

CRESCENT BEACH 12237 Agar St 10 min walk to ocean. Fully furnished. Newly renovated home.

3bdrm, 2-1/2 baths., beaut. landscaped. Avail Sept 1st - May 31st.

NS/NP. $2200/mo. 604-306-0341.

Interior / Exterior Stucco, Siding, Trim, Doors, Fences, Pressure Washing, Concrete Sealing. rene.s@telus.net

NORTH STARS PAINTING www.northstars-painting.com AMAZING WORK, AMAZING VALUE! 778.245.9069

30 YEARS EXP. Seniors Disc.

Maint, install, repair. Taps & toilets, sm electrical. Stan (604)440-1777

2000 Nissan Maxima

WHITE ROCK. Lrg 1 bdrm ste adult bldg, 1 prkg, near shops. Incl heat & hotwtr. NP/NS Call 604-596-9977

Painting, Painting Painting

AT YOUR SERVICE. Carpentry, Concrete, Painting, Rubbish Removal. Call Dave (604)999-5056

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS

.Hayden Painting 778-229-0236 Family Owned & Operated Ryan 778.229.0236

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WHITE ROCK, Haighton Manor, 2 bdrm with balcony, heat/h/w, quiet bldg, ctrl loc, ns/np, 604-531-6714 haightonmanor@terracrestpm.com

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SNOWBIRDS! Reliable tenant seeks peaceful, quiet studio suite.

A++ references 360-510-6827 email: Suite15@outlook.com WANTED TO RENT prefer in White Rock / Ocean Park area - Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m out of town alot - I need a small suite or bedroom to rent when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in town.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need cooking facilities.

Call Ozzi at 604-536-0727.

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HW Renovations

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SAME DAY SERVICE AVAILABLE

1455 Fir St WHITE ROCK 1 Bdrm units avail now Heat & hot wtr incl.

Swimming pool & rec room On site mgr

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(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls Cloverdale Premium quality paint.

NO PAYMENT until Job is completed. Ask us about our Laminate Flooring.

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Call 604-536-8499

D Conversion from Cedar to Asphalt, Shingles, Fiberglass D Lifetime Material Warranty.

D WCB, BBB, Liability Ins. D Also Power Washing Free Estimates. Call Gary 604-599-5611 or Email:

778-322-2378 Lower Mainland 604-996-8128 Fraser Valley Running this ad for 10yrs

Emersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Contracting 604-312-9209, 604-535-0566

White Rock 1 bdrm Suites - from $790 in beautiful White Rock, Live-In Manager, Hot Water & u/g

BEST BUSY BOYS ROOFING LTD.

A-1 Painting Company - Interior / Exterior 20 years exp. Summer Special 10% off (604)723-8434

KITCHENS - BATHRMS CROWN MOULDING SUITES, DECKS, REPAIRS - BUILDING MAINT. REFS. WORK GUARANTEED

Avail. Oct 1. DELUXE 1 bdrm suite, 1 Level home.

15 mins walk to White Rock beach. Bright, modern, quiet & clean. W/D. N/P, N/S. Half acre. Suit Single Prof. $875/m inc utils. 604-541-1313

Skyline Apts

ITALIAN MASTIFFS. Unregistered 4 M, 3 F. Ready Sept 15. Tails, dewormed shots $1200. 604-338-7587

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Peninsula Village, 154/22. 3 Bdrm, 3 Bath house. Avail now. Quiet area. $2300/mo. (604)785-5982

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Peninsula Village, 154/22. 1 Bdrm, quiet area, clean, N/S, N/P. Avail now. $900 incl utils. (604)785-5982

Well maintained Concrete High Rise in White Rock close to shopping.

*Grass Cutting *Hedge Trimming *Yard Clean *Pruning *Pressure Wash

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1 bedrm 1.5 bath exclusive (55 +yrs) condo 830+ft2, v clean, dwasher, w/d, in-floor heating, deck, exercise rm, park setting, secure parking, 5 minutes to Mall, nonsmoker, no pets, $1200/ mo., require year lease... 604-318-4673

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RENTALS

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MAPLE RIDGE: small 3 bdrm house, pets welcome. $1300/mo.

Avail Oct 1. 1-(250)379-2123 S.SURREY 24th/156th. 3 Bedroom rancher with famrm, livrm, 2 new full baths, new paint & floors. N/S. N/P. Avail Sept 15th. $2200/mo.

Call 604-541-6172, 778-840-1199.

S.SURREY. 5 bdrm + 3 full bath 2300sq ft detached home with 2.5 levels on 1.21 acres for rent. Inc. fridge, stove, dishwasher, w/d, and all window coverings. Partly fenced yard with carport. $2700/mth, utilities extra. 2334 170th St, Avail Sept. 15. Viewings by apt only. 604205-7020.

CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866

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