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Campaign winding down Page 3 • Scheer visits Tsawwassen Page 4 • Environment in spotlight Page 5 Act of intolerance Page 6 • No-show at meeting Page 6 • Chamber hosts forum Page 7 Sit-down with candidates Pages 11 to 17 • Q&A on local issues Page 18

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MY LOCAL PLATFORM: I have been listening to the voices of Deltans. That is why I am proud to be releasing my own local platform of issues I will champion for Deltans in Parliament. Here are my commitments: 1. Work with the city to add much needed HOUSING OPTIONS for families, seniors, young people and especially our vulnerable populations.

2. Take bold action to PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT in Delta, including: • Restoring local ecosystems and natural habitats, in particular, the Fraser River Estuary; • Transitioning open-net pen salmon farming to inland closed-containment systems; • Banning single-use plastics and protecting 25% of our oceans, freshwater, and land by 2025.

3. Ensure adequate funding for the RCMP Organized Crime Branch and the Canada Border Services Agency, to support the Delta Police in their work to COMBAT CRIMINAL ACTIVITY at the Port and at the new casino.

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4. Increase access to FAMILY DOCTORS, implement national UNIVERSAL PHARMACARE, and improve access to HOME CARE. 5. Commit that federal funding will be availaable to support INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS in our community like: the George Massey Tunnel Replacem ment Project; the new track and field facility at North Delta Secondary School; the raising of our dikes; and new aand expanded public transit.

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The national unemployment rate fell yet again to 5.5%, the lowest in over 40 years, adding a stronger-than--expected 53,700 net jobs, while wages for permanent employees rose 4.3% - Statistics Canada, Sept. 2019 year-over-year.

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Accorrding to data gathered by 24 Canadian academics, the Liberal Government has delivered on 92% of their election promises made in the last election.

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he Conservatives’ plan to balance the budget relies on delaying billions of Th do ollars worth of federal infrastructure spending. What will this mean for the George Massey Tunnel Replacement?

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It’s been a heated federal election campaign on the national level but the gloves, for the most part, have stayed on in Delta.

This year’s race has seven candidates vying for the seat held by Liberal Carla Qualtrough, a key member of Justin Trudeau’s cabinet who beat Conservative incumbent Kerry-Lynne Findlay by a wide margin in 2015.

The Liberal incumbent this time around faces six challengers: Conservative Tanya Corbet, New Democrat Randy Anderson-Fennell, Green candidate Craig DeCraene, the People’s Party of Canada’s Angelina Ireland as well as independents Amarit Bains and Tony Bennett.

The campaign really kicked off more than a year ago when Trudeau paid a visit to an East Delta farm to announce Qualtrough would once again run in Delta, while slamming the Conservatives in front of a large, enthusiastic audience, many jostling to get a selfie with the Liberal leader.

It wasn’t until this spring that the

Conservatives announced Corbet, a member of the Tsawwassen First Nation, had been acclaimed as their candidate. Ireland had applied for the Conservative nomination but left in frustration to join the new People’s Party led by ex-Conservative Maxime Bernier.

Seeing it as a battleground riding, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer paid a visit to Tsawwassen Springs this summer to show his support for Corbet while talking about his vision for the country. Last week he returned, announcing details of his platform at Centennial Beach with Corbet and other B.C. Conservative candidates behind him.

He also took the opportunity to slam Trudeau as he has done repeatedly throughout the campaign.

“Four years ago, Justin Trudeau came to office on a promise of sunny ways and positive politics. He spoke of his hopeful vision of the future, but it didn’t take long for his professed optimism to give way to outright cynicism and his commitment to unity to dissolve into divisiveness,” Scheer said during his speech on the beach in

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Although a provincial jurisdiction, a replacement for the George Massey Tunnel has become an issue during the federal campaign.

Boundary Bay. In response, Qualtrough countered, “I would be embarrassed if the leader of my party came into my community and announced $53 billion of cuts to the infrastructure and services that Canadians rely on. It puts into question everything the local Conservative candidate has promised, including federal funds for the (George) Massey Tunnel replacement project.”

Trudeau made a campaign stop last month in North Delta to talk about his climate action platform, which includes incentives for homeowners to retrofit their homes.

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“We made the decision in 2015 that the federal government needed to be a partner investing in priorities for communities right across the country,” said Trudeau. “We also made a determination that Ottawa wasn’t the best positioned to determine what exactly the communities’ needs were.

We have been there with billions of dollars on the table to work in partnership with provinces and municipalities on their priorities… We will respect the province and the municipalities in their decisions, but the money is there.”

Qualtrough, who’s been publicly endorsed by former Delta South MLA

Vicki Huntington, has also been vocal about the need to replace the tunnel, saying it’s time the provincial government made up its mind on a crossing option.

The tunnel was also a big campaign issue for the Conservatives with Scheer promising to make it an infrastructure priority, and Corbet promising a summit of stakeholders within her first 100 days in office.

“The traffic bottleneck on Highway 99 is a daily frustration for commuters in our community and impedes one of the most significant trade corridors in Western Canada,” Corbet said.

“Despite the hard fought efforts of mayors, councillors, MLAs and chiefs, there remains no cohesive plan to replace the George Massey Tunnel.

The Trudeau Liberals have done nothing to merge these efforts or provide leadership to address the traffic conditions.”

While Trudeau was busy campaigning in Ontario last week, his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, paid a visit to Ladner Village to speak to a couple dozen volunteers at Qualtrough’s 48th Avenue campaign office before visiting with merchants in the village.

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Scheer in town to unveil party platform Conservative leader pays a visit to Centennial Beach with the national media in tow SANDOR GYARMATI

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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer chose the scenic backdrop of Centennial Beach to unveil his party’s platform last Friday.

Following a media briefing at Tsawwassen Springs by party officials, who explained the costing of the Conservative platform, regional and national media gathered in Boundary Bay on an ideal early fall day.

Enthusiastic party insiders were on hand as well a contingent of B.C. Conservative candidates, including Delta’s Tanya Corbet.

Organizers made sure no one was in the shot as the Conservative leader made a perfectly orchestrated entrance, walking down the boardwalk with his wife Jill and kids, holding her hand and letting the children run off to the playground.

Looking relaxed and confident, Scheer then

went to a podium on the sand to talk about his plan, while also slamming Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau repeatedly.

Scheer talked about his party’s plan to put more money in people’s pockets, offering examples of how Canadian families will get ahead under a Conservative government, including, according to Scheer, an average retired couple in Tsawwassen saving $2,580 a year.

Scheer described the Conservative platform as having real, concrete measures, and said the federal budget would be balanced within five years.

With the gloves long off in the campaign, Scheer used the beach setting and the eyes of the national media to take swings at Trudeau.

“Four years ago, Justin Trudeau came to office on a promise of sunny ways and positive politics. He spoke of his hopeful vision of the future, but it didn’t take long for his professed optimism to give way to

outright cynicism and his commitment to unity to dissolve into divisiveness,” he said.

“The last four years have clearly demonstrated that Justin Trudeau is not as advertised. He said he would be accountable and ethical. Instead, he has used the power of his office to reward his supporters and punish his critics.”

The Liberals were quick to claim Scheer released the costing of his platform on the Friday of the Thanksgiving weekend to bury $53 billion in cuts.

It was Scheer’s second visit to Tsawwassen this year, having attended a rally this summer at Tsawwassen Springs.

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Environmental issues, both national and local, were the focus of a federal election forum for Delta candidates at KinVillage last Thursday evening.

Organized by several Delta residents, including the Delta Naturalists, the Tsawwassen debate was part of the “100 Debates on the Environment Project” by national environmental group GreenPac, which had over 100 debates focused on the environment throughout the country.

Liberal incumbent Carla Qualtrough, New Democrat Randy Anderson-Fennell, Green Craig DeCraene and the People’s Party of Canada’s Angelina Ireland participated, answering a series of questions that were given to them in advance, although candidates did get to answer some questions from the audience afterward.

The organizers also allowed independent candidate Tony Bennett to stand at the podium after the first four were finished to explain his position on the issues.

Not in attendance was Conservative candidate Tanya Corbet, a fact Qualtrough made sure to point out as “telling” during opening remarks.

It was also noted Corbet didn’t submit responses to the questions.

Also not in attendance was independent candidate Amarit Bains.

The first set of questions pertained to national

issues, including parties’ positions to meet international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

DeCraene read his party platform includes phasing out fossil fuels and oil subsidies.

Saying there was no climate emergency as it relates to human-caused global warming, Ireland explained there are other environmental emergencies that need to be addressed.

“The hyper-focus on carbon dioxide is detrimental to the overall conservation movement. It doesn’t focus on real drivers of climate change like land use or over development on urban areas, and it doesn’t focus on things like clean water. The price on carbon dioxide and the carbon tax accomplishes nothing,” she said.

Qualtrough talked about her government’s climate change platform which includes banning singleuse plastics to conserving water and land to protecting species at risk.

“This is more than just a simple series of actions.

This is a fundamental change in how we do things and what we do, and it requires a culture shift in our country, so we have to take care of our people and bring them with us,” said Qualtrough.

Anderson-Fennell also went over his party’s platform which includes a “bold” $15-billion plan that includes, among other things, an ambitious retrofit program to major investments in low carbon transportation infrastruc-

ture and help installing more electric vehicle charging systems.

The first question posed on local issues asked what plans candidates have for raising the dikes in Delta.

DeCraene said a special task force is needed that has experts and all levels of government dealing as well as establishing a climate change adaption fund for areas hardest hit.

Saying it will take about $2 billion for a complete dike upgrade throughout Delta, Ireland noted the city has a plan but federal and provincial funding is important.

Qualtrough said the federal government should be a significant funding partner, while AndersonFennell said Delta could count on his government to invest in public infrastructure.

Asked about their position on the proposed Wespac LNG facility on the Fraser River, Qualtrough noted gaps in environmental regulations need to be filled, and she would advocate for more rigorous environmental assessments that include cumulative assessments, while the others expressed outright opposition to the application.

Regarding the proposed Terminal 2 at Roberts Bank, Qualtrough said she’s still not convinced of the business case and whether the environmental impacts can be mitigated, while the others expressed opposition to that project, with Ireland also opposing a fourth berth proposed for Deltaport.

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Federal Election

People’s Party sign vandalized with swastika

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It’s a disgusting act of intolerance and hate.

Federal election candidate Angelina Ireland had that to say after discovering that someone decided to put a miniature Nazi flag with a swastika over one of her People’s Party of Canada election signs in Tsawwassen last week.

The vandalism occurred on a sign erected

on 56th Street at 28th Avenue.

Ireland described it as “an act of hatred and intolerance in our community, an assault upon democracy.”

She said she reported the incident to police and wants whoever committed the act prosecuted.

“This is a disgusting act of cowardice. Those who would disparage and attempt to humiliate a person instead of

debate ideas,” she told the Optimist.

Ireland described her party during recent allcandidates forums as an historic movement, taking in people from all political stripes frustrated with the current political system and its parties.

Led by MP Maxime Bernier, who left the Conservatives, the rightof-centre party has candidates running in every riding.

Corbet no-show at election forum on environment Conservative had commitments Qualtrough said she doesn’t understand how someone can put their Her absence is part of name forward to represent a disturbing trend by the a community when they Conservative Party. are not willing to answer That’s what Liberal questions, noting the incumbent Carla debate on the environQualtrough had to say ment raised a number of about Conservative rival important local issues.

Tanya Corbet not attendIreland, who had ing last Thursday’s allapplied for the Delta candidates debate on Conservative nominaenvironmental issues. tion before joining the The federal People’s Party election forum of Canada, said at KinVillage in it appears to be Tsawwassen, arrogance by the which had an Conservatives. audience of “Not only roughly 160, was did (Andrew) organized by Scheer’s entoulocal residents rage from Ottawa and members hand pick Corbet Tanya Corbet of the Delta pushing no fewer Naturalists. It was part of than five people out of the “100 Debates on the the nomination race here Environment Project” by in Delta so they could national environmental acclaim her, dump a great group GreenPac. deal of money into the Organizers had no com- campaign bank account ment when asked about for office, advertising, Corbet not taking part, but signs, campaign materidid note the invitation was als, etc., now they think first sent to her July 6 and they don’t have to work the local questions were for our vote? One must sent to all candidates Sept. ask themselves who the 24. Corbet didn’t submit Conservatives will be written responses to the working for,” said Ireland. questions.

DeCraene said When asked by the it’s unfortunate the Optimist why she didn’t Conservatives skipped the attend, Corbet issued Delta debate as well as a the following statement: national one on the envi“I have talked about the ronment that would have Conservative plan for the been televised. environment at all-candi“It was too bad that the dates meetings and with Conservative Party candithousands of people on date Tanya Corbet wasn’t their doorsteps throughout able to attend all the meetthe campaign. Banning the ings. I think it’s important dumping of raw sewage for all the candidates to into our waterways, the attend these meetings, it green home renovation tax gives the citizens a chance credit, investing in green to hear from all parties on technology instead of issues facing Delta,” he taxes, and taking the fight said. against climate change Anderson-Fennell said global are all elements of he had no comment. our plan. Unfortunately, Corbet also did not campaign commitattend an all-candidates ments restricted me from meeting hosted by attending the meeting at the Delta Residents KinVillage.”

Association and Council of Qualtrough, who pointCanadians late last month ed out Corbet’s absence in North Delta. at the event, later said, The 2015 election saw “Whatever Ms. Corbet’s Conservative incumbent reason for not attending Kerry-Lynne Findlay not last week’s debate on the take part in a debate on environment, her absence environmental issues at is part of a disturbing the Ladner Community trend we are seeing from Centre. Findlay was seen the Conservative Party as next door having tea at the it relates to the environMcKee Seniors’ Recreation ment.”

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Genesis jammed to listen to candidates Wide range of topics explored as Delta Chamber of Commerce hosts forum in Ladner SANDOR GYARMATI

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It was a full house at Ladner’s Genesis Theatre last Wednesday evening for the Delta Chamber of Commerce’s second allcandidates forum of the federal election campaign.

All seven candidates were on hand to answer a variety of questions over the two-hour meeting, from what would they do to lower the tax burden on Canadian households to their plans to upgrade Delta’s dikes and protect farmland.

The first question asked what they’d do about money laundering and improving transparency when it comes to real estate.

Green candidate Craig DeCraene responded that more resources were needed for the RCMP to deal with the issue, while the Conservatives’ Tanya Corbet said her government would launch an inquiry into money laundering in the real estate

sector which she said is inflating the price of homes.

New Democrat Randy Anderson Fennell said his government would invest $20 million for a new RCMP anti-money laundering unit.

“This unit will be tasked with investigating and seizing the proceeds of real estate money laundering and those funds will be funneled back into affordable housing. We also support a national inquiry into money laundering and creating a national registry listing the names of those who use shell companies to hide their investments in real estate,” he explained.

Noting the previous Conservative government gutted the RCMP’s organized crime unit, Liberal incumbent Carla Qualtrough said the government needs to work collaboratively in assessing and blocking organized crime’s dealings with real estate.

Asked what they would

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Almost every seat was taken at last week’s all-candidates meeting at Genesis Theatre in Ladner.

do to combat climate change both locally and nationally, independent Amarit Bains said he supports the Conservative plan for green energy tax credits as well as the Green platform. He said research and investments are needed to shift to other fuel types.

Saying climate change

has always been occurring, People’s Party candidate Angelina Ireland said collaboration with other levels of government and experts is key, adding the problems won’t be solved by big government and taxes but through technology and innovation.

Independent Tony Bennett talked about the

three R’s as well as the need for hydroelectric dams and other infrastructure which will also create jobs.

The George Massey Tunnel replacement came up yet again with the candidates asked how they’d support it.

Saying $80 million has been wasted on the envi-

ronmental assessments, Bains noted any new funding must include rapid transit, while Ireland, saying it’s within provincial jurisdiction, complained federal leaders are “pulling a stunt” by trying to make it an election issue.

Qualtrough countered the crossing is a major commuter and trade corridor and what’s not needed is another meeting or restart but “to build the darn thing.” Noting funding will be available, she said it’s now time the B.C. government figures out an option.

DeCraene said as long as there’s a SkyTrain extension or light rapid transit “it sounds good to me.” Corbet said what’s been missing is leadership on the issue and that Andrew Scheer has promised to make it a critical infrastructure project.

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Murphy’s Law

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he “D” words don’t seem to be as dirty these days.

I attended the allcandidates forum hosted by the Delta Chamber of Commerce last week at Genesis Theatre in Ladner and during the course of the two-hour meeting, I can only recall one question that touched on the subject of debt and deficits. I suppose there are only so many ways you can ask a candidate when their party is going to balance the budget, but it appears the country’s finances have taken a backseat in this campaign as the leading contenders have been falling over themselves in an effort to out-promise one another.

Voters are being offered everything from tax breaks and credits to increased government services, including universal pharmacare. Heck, the smiling guy in the canoe even pledged to give us cash to take the kids camping. I suspect this is taking place because voters are more concerned with what our elected leaders can do for them than what all these pledges will mean for the bottom line.

Our national debt ballooned in the 1980s and ’90s, actually declined in the 2000s and has been on an upward trajectory for the past decade. Today’s debt is significantly smaller as a percentage of our GDP than it was three decades ago, so that’s a good thing, but at somewhere north of $700 billion, the amount it costs to service the debt is roughly the same as what Ottawa collects in GST. In other words, it’s not insignificant, and will continue to grow as the debt mounts, devouring even more money that would otherwise be earmarked for government services.

Promises to balance the budget range from two years (People’s Party) to five years (Conservatives) to sometime in the future (Liberals and NDP), but it’s quite likely that any date is inconsequential as voters appear far more concerned with what they’ll be getting than what they’re leaving behind.

I can only assume that deficit budgets have been so commonplace over the years that we’ve become immune to them and their ramifications to the point they’ve fallen off the radar for the average voter. That’s a shame because it’s not a difficult concept to grasp: The more we borrow to pay for today’s services, the bigger bill we’ll leave for future generations.

Don’t sit idly by while others determine our political fate

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have often said that the Canadian political system is unlike any system in the world; it operates minimally sufficiently that no one* really complains and it is just boring enough that no one* really pays attention (*those brave few who do have my eternal respect).

This has allowed the hidden agendas of the political elite, lobbyists, unions and the civil service to dictate policy and discourse.

We are slowly waking up to that fact and, as Canadians prepare to vote next Monday, that bitter realization chills the political arena.

Today, leaders’ and candidates’ debates are characterized by one-upmanship, sound bites and arguments as to why their party is the lesser of six evils. These are as brass fittings on the Titanic in comparison to the problems facing the generations that come after us. With so many attempts to buy our vote with our own money from all sides, what is most noticeably lacking is a conversation about the responsibility that rests upon each and every human being. It is a responsibility to turn inwards and reflect upon what we can do as individuals to leave a more loving world than we found.

In this context, our duty becomes clear.

Citizens: vote.

Community Comment NICHOLAS WONG

Do not let our descendants say that we sat idly by as their future was destroyed by bad fiscal and environmental policy. Do not let our legacy be determined by our silence. May it be written in history that we wrestled with our demons and did the best we could, that at least we showed up for the fight.

The current state of politics across the world seems hell bent on a downward spiral towards the lowest, basest instincts of our nature. It is so easy to turn away from the entire ordeal in disgust, never looking back at the electoral dumpster fire still burning behind us. This only allows the conflagration to grow.

When I was young, I had the opportunity to meet Elie Wiesel,

a Nobel laureate and Jewish survivor of both Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He lost his father, mother and sister to the Holocaust. His eyes were sad, but he carried with him an immense love for all mankind that sticks with me to this day. In the face of such evil, he said, “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”

So please, do your civic duty and vote. Hold your nose while you do it if you have to. If you have to vote Liberal to make sure that the Conservatives don’t muzzle scientists again or People’s Party of Canada because you don’t like big government, refugees or the climate, do what you have to, but go out and let your voice be heard.

And as always my friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

Community advocate Nicholas Wong ran as an independent candidate in Delta South in the 2017 provincial election. He finished second with more than 6,400 votes. He can be reached at mrnicholaswong@gmail.com.

October 17, 2019 The Delta Optimist A9

Letters

Environment stands above all

Editor: Although there are a number of issues in this coming election, the state of the environment stands out. We must remember that as the environment deteriorates, so does the quality of life on this planet.

The environment includes a multiplicity of issues: climate change, the extinction of great numbers of species, the quality of the soil left on this planet for agriculture, water quality and availability, the proliferation of chemicals in our environment, the vast amount of plastic in the ocean and on land, and the list goes on.

The increased number of forest fires, violent storms, and flooding all add up to ever more tragedies.

This coming election is important as we, the electorate, have a chance

Candidate’s no-show insulting

Editor: Last week, a couple of my friends and I went to the all-candidates debate on the environment in Tsawwassen. We were really interested to hear what the candidates had to say about climate change.

This is the first election that I am old enough to vote, and this is a big deal for young people.

We were really disappointed to see that one of the candidates, Conservative Tanya Corbet, didn’t even bother to show up. I see in social media that her party doesn’t have much of a plan to fight climate change, but it’s kind of insulting that she didn’t even come to listen to us or try and answer our questions.

Zaynab Zein to weigh in on the changes and to choose a party which can play its part now and in the few coming years that we have left to make a difference.

Please consider which candidates show up for and participate in allcandidates meetings and what their responses to environmental questions are. And pay attention

to the platforms of the national parties.

Do you want to vote for candidates who do not participate in these important events? Do you want to vote for parties which have no clear plans for attacking the big questions of the day? And, as the environment deteriorates, so does the economy.

Anita den Dikken

Can’t believe what you hear on the trail

Editor: How can you possibly vote Liberal considering they are led by a leader who is a serial promise breaker? How can you believe anything he says on the campaign trail?

He’s a fake feminist because if he was at true

feminist, Jody WilsonRaybould and Jane Philpott would still be part of his cabinet.

He claims to be saving the Earth from disaster but if your grandchild owes the Liberal government more than he/she can earn in a lifetime, how will

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Conservative cuts could include tunnel

Editor: A couple of weeks ago, Tanya Corbet, our Conservative candidate, promised to restart the whole discussion around the George Massey Tunnel replacement, yet once again. The provincial government already did this two years ago. Look where

that got us. We’re driving by piles of sand on the side of the highway and then coming to a familiar full stop at the tunnel.

Now this week, I get a postcard from Corbet and the Conservatives saying they will fund the tunnel replacement. Ironically, this happened the same

day that Andrew Scheer announced, right here in Delta, that he is going to cut billions of infrastructure funding. Last time I looked, this crossing is considered infrastructure.

Don’t hold your breath for a bridge or tunnel under the Conservatives.

J. Cormier

Charging stations begin to level playing field

Editor: Re: Taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize those who buy electric vehicles, letter to the editor, Oct. 3 Subsidies are payments by governments for the public good, and are so entrenched in society that many people don’t realize what subsidies we all use daily.

Existing subsidies for vehicles include: paved roads instead of dirt, signage, traffic enforcement instead of chaos.

Subsidies for the oil and gas industries are ubiquitous at the provincial and federal level: for example, $4.5 billion for the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Canada subsidizes the oil and gas industries the most (per GDP) of the G7 countries.

As for taxes paid at the pump, they are not “user fees.” A Wikipedia search shows the federal tax portion (about nine per cent) goes directly to general revenues, not specifically

to transit or roads. And the Canadian Taxpayers Association states that provincial governments are not legally bound to spend taxes collected at the pump on any specific program.

I believe it is time subsidies at all government levels are spread more fairly, and stop being weighted toward the internal combustion vehicle. Delta EV charging stations are a small step to this goal.

Robert Miller

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They were compassionate, professional and supportive. I’m a retired nurse and they were all great.

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Editor: Re: Macey’s departure concerns member of hospice society, letter to the editor, Oct. 3 I am a long-time patient-facing volunteer at the Delta Hospice, a retired company CEO and a former member of the Delta Hospice Society’s board of directors. My wife spent the last 10 days of her life as a patient at the Irene Thomas Hospice some years ago. It was that sad but very positive experience that inspired me to become involved at Hospice.

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with letter writer Gilly Heaps’ observations about Nancy Macey’s decades of hard work and dedication to bringing the Delta Hospice Society and its facilities and services to fruition. It is truly a gem in our community fulfilling multiple needs.

Hardly a shift working at the hospice goes by without a family member expressing to me their admiration and gratitude for the wonderful place it is for them and their loved one to spend his or her final days.

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Editor: Plans by the City of Delta towards the charging of electric vehicles is a good thing that, properly spaced, serve to help those who forget the letter “E” on the fuel gauge doesn’t mean “Enough” fuel left to get home.

To have “free” charging spots, at this juncture, is only to encourage EV adoption (soon to become metered and patrolled).

Public charging stations

are not camping spots.

They are put there to allow motorists to get to where they’re going, and cleanly. With almost all electric vehicle drivers in our area able to charge their cars at home, public charging stations are seen as being for emergency fueling only (or are a perk for business customers’ use).

This is to say we generally just take-whatwe-need-and-move on.

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gency fueling at public stations is expected (and welcomed) by myself as, even if I am charged 45 cents per kwh of energy (about seven cents a kilometre), that’s still just half what it cost when I had my 2003 gasoline-driven car (at 14 cents per kilometre).

Charging an electric car at home (overnight) means the cost of driving is between 1.5 and two cents per kilometre.

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Federal Election

Costs are piling up for Canadians NDP candidate Randy Anderson-Fennell says people are paying too much for too many things

The Optimist sat down with the candidates running in Delta in the federal election and posed a series of questions to each of them. Their responses are being run verbatim.

Randy AndersonFennell is the NDP candidate for Delta in this year’s federal election. A nineyear Delta resident who works as an electrician for the Surrey School District, Anderson-Fennell ran for the Delta school board in last year’s municipal election on a platform of diversity and inclusion.

He has served for several years as an executive officer with his union, CUPE Local 728.

Q. Is it fair to say that whether it’s been a Liberal or a Conservative government, you don’t believe they’ve had the best interests of working Canadians in mind?

A. We’ve seen that with the Conservatives and the last time we saw big promises by the Liberals and now there’s disappointment four years later when these things haven’t been brought in. The climate issue, for example, has not been addressed and we have a government that instead is buying a pipeline. We’re giving, over and over, subsidies for the rich and powerful, and corporations are getting loans that are being written off, and meanwhile everyone scrambles to try to pay their cell phone bills.

This is something they could have done in their four years. In our platform we came out to say we will put a cap on cell phones, we know how expensive it is. I’m an electrician and I need my cell phone for safety reasons. You know this is an easy way to put money back in people’s pockets, but the Liberals haven’t done it. They promised many things four years ago and they’re still promising many things, but are they going to deliver? We say we will deliver on these things and we know these are priorities. Out door knocking we hear things like car insurance being too high, it’s always something. People are paying too much for so many things and they just don’t get a break.

Pharmacare is something

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Randy Anderson-Fennell says an NDP government would make life more affordable for Canadians by implementing a national pharmacare program and reducing cell phone bills, among other initiatives.

Canadians are forced to pay. Has Ottawa allowed big telecom to gouge Canadian consumers?

that could have been brought in. I can never understand how someone with Type 1 diabetes has to pay more money out of their pockets and being set back financially when, really, a program across the country would put money back in people’s pockets. It should be part of Medicare. We have a plan for dental care and for people making below $70,000 this is a really important issue.

A. We’re the only country that I know of that hasn’t put caps on cell phone bills. We have the ability to do this through the CRTC. We hear about unlimited cell phone plans. Well, they’re not unlimited. The minute you hit your data number they slow down everything so you can’t even load anything. We need real unlimited plans. There’s a way to cap this. They did this down in the (United) States. We know the Liberals and Conservatives have always been very friendly with the big and the powerful and telecom companies aren’t the small guys.

Q. One of the NDP’s major planks is to include prescription drug coverage in our universal health care system. That’s a major ticket item, one the NDP says it will invest $10 billion in annually.

Where does that money come from?

A. On pharmacare, both the provinces and federal government already pay for some prescriptions.

Pooling the purchasing power of the entire country will cost our system less. And we will raise revenues through a new, fair and progressive taxation sources, such as rolling back the Conservatives’ corporate income tax cuts by three per cent points to 2010 levels. And we will

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A nine-year resident of Delta, Randy AndersonFennell is an electrician with the Surrey School District. ask the richest multi-millionaires to pay a bit more with a new one per cent wealth tax on wealth over $20 million.

Also, take measures to close tax loopholes that include eliminating bearer shares, compelling companies to prove the

economic reason for their offshore transactions and improving transparency on taxes paid by large corporations.

Q. The NDP has made an issue during the campaign of the high cell phone and internet bills

Q. The NDP hasn’t historically done well in these parts. How do you overcome the inclination of voters to support centre and right parties and get them to give the NDP a chance?

A. It really comes down to knocking on a lot of doors and talking with people and sharing what our message is

and hearing what their concerns are. I’ve been out door knocking and our message, I can tell you, resonates with voters. Unfortunately, it hasn’t historically given us the numbers that we want, so far. Our platform are things that will make life more affordable and things that will put more money back in the pockets of people and we will look after their interests with things like pharmacare, things like climate crisis, these are what people are concerned about. It’s really my job to get out there and let them know that we know these are the issues, we know that we need to address these problems and we have a great platform and we want them to hear it. It’s the part of making the connection on voting day… this is a working class town and we are a working class party.

One of the biggest hurdles, and we hear this over and over again, is that people are being told this is a Conservative riding.

Q. NDP platform says immigration policies and levels should be set in order to meet Canada’s labour needs. Does that mean a greater number of immigrants than what previous governments have allowed?

A. Immigration definitely makes our country stronger and brings in new talent and energy from around the world. We want to make sure we’re able to listen to the provinces and hear what their needs are and be able to help them fill the gaps in employment. I’ve always felt this way and we’ve always known that we’ve had a lot of workers that have come here and we’ve always felt that if someone comes here to work, there should be a path for them.

We need to figure out ways to protect newcomers by making sure there’s no unscrupulous immigration going on with some of these consultants. We’ve seen that over the years in British Columbia. If we bring people like caregivers into Canada, we need to make sure they are treated with respect and dignity. We need to recognize this is a way people will come to Canada and we need them.

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Federal Election

‘We can’t afford another four years’ Conservative candidate Tanya Corbet says Canadians’ quality of life at risk in this election

positive Conservative vision for Canada that will create a more affordable life for us here in Delta through lower taxes and restoring a transparent, fiscally responsible and ethical government back in Ottawa. I would be very, very honoured to have the support for our team that would put Canada back on track on Oct. 21.

The Optimist sat down with the candidates running in Delta in the federal election and posed a series of questions to each of them. Their responses are being run verbatim.

Tanya Corbet was acclaimed as the Conservative candidate for Delta in the upcoming federal election. Corbet is a former council member of the Tsawwassen First Nation government who didn’t seek re-election this year. Her community involvement includes sitting on the Reach Child Youth Development Society and Delta Hospital and Community Health Foundation boards as well as on the B.C. Treaty Commission. She’s hoping to win back the long-held riding for the Conservatives after the Liberals took it by a wide margin in 2015.

Q. You’ve suggested the process to replace the George Massey Tunnel has broken down and, if elected, you would hold a summit within 100 days to get it back on track.

The provincial government is moving forward, albeit slowly, with its plans so how is the process broken?

A. When a project like the tunnel, it definitely does impact us. Not just commuters but it impacts our national economy because we are on a trade corridor. That’s why do believe it’s an initiative that needs to have federal leadership. So, I’m very pleased that Andrew Sheer has committed to make this a priority project under critical infrastructure funding and it would be funded by a Conservative-led government that will bring in that federal leadership to make sure we can get this project delivered on an urgent basis. We can’t afford being stuck years and years not having this project finished.

Q. First Nations members haven’t necessarily gravitated towards the Conservatives in large numbers, so what made you want to run for the party?

A. The same reasons I ran for council are the

Q. During the allcandidates meetings you spoke of your lifelong ties in Delta. Do you think this gives you a unique perspective of the community and its challenges, and what are those challenges?

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Tanya Corbet says a Conservative government would take a leadership role and make replacing the aging George Massey Tunnel a priority. same reasons why I’m running in this election here. I believe that the best way for families to get ahead is through a strong economy that benefits everyone. I do believe that we can’t afford another four years under this government and I do believe that our quality of life is at risk. This is home. It always has been and it always will be. We need to ensure that we have strong leadership advocating for Delta’s needs in Ottawa.

Q. This area had voted for the right-of-centre candidate for more than four decades prior to the last federal election.

Why do you think they didn’t in 2015 and what will make them do so this time?

A. My team and I have been working very hard in this campaign. We’ve knocked on thousands of doors and talked with many, many people, and it’s a message we’ve been hearing that people are frustrated. They are frustrated with the cost of living being out of reach, with deficits and spending in government that’s not abiding by the rules of the law. People are wanting to see some change, so that’s

announced in our campaign. So I’m really excited to be able to bring these forward.

Q. There are some voters who have concerns about where the Conservatives under Andrew Scheer stand on issues like abortion and gay marriage. Do they have a right to be concerned some of those rights could be reversed?

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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has made two visits to Delta, including last week to unveil his party’s platform. what we’re hearing on their doorsteps today.

Q. The Conservatives tell us they have a plan to help us get ahead by leaving more money in our pockets with tax relief and credits but is that going to come at the expense of reduced government services or running a deficit?

A. Provincial transfers will be maintained under a Conservative government, so core community services will be maintained that we enjoy. We will look at reducing wasteful spending. There’s a

number of measures we can look at including corporate welfare and money that’s sitting in the Asian infrastructure bank. These savings will be redirected towards our communities, helping with the affordability question here that we are facing by helping small businesses, by reducing red tape, introducing a universal tax cut and reintroducing children’s fitness tax credit and intruding a green home renovation tax credit, and by implementing a national strategy on autism. These are just some of the exciting initiatives that have been

A. A Conservative government will not reopen debate on these social issues and I will always stand up for fundamental rights for every Canadian.

Q. There are many differences between the platforms of the Conservatives and the Liberals, but where do you see the greatest separation? What makes a Conservative a Conservative?

A. I do believe we are at a crossroads in our country and this is an important election. We can look at the record of the Liberals that has higher taxes, that has higher deficits, not showing ethical behaviour in government.

On the other hand, I’m really excited about the

A. Being from Delta, I know the challenges we face. Take the traffic bottleneck at the Massey Tunnel for instance. My husband drives through the tunnel for work and we wait in traffic to take our kids to sports and medical appointments north of the Fraser. Like so many other families, I know the stress that it adds to everyday life, and I know that this problem needs to be addressed in an urgent manner. That’s why I have secured the support of Andrew Scheer to fund and prioritize a replacement for the tunnel. I serve on the Delta Hospital and Community Health Foundation board of directors. Again, I see the challenges we have in our health care system.

Despite Liberal rhetoric, Conservatives have guaranteed record levels of transfers to provinces for health care. Further, we will invest $1.5 billion into MRI and CT scan equipment, so residents can count on shorter wait times for critical medical appointments. Having worked in the construction industry and served as an elected official for the BC Treaty Commission and Tsawwassen First Nation council, I know what it takes to bring people together to get projects completed, protect the environment and grow an economy. I’ve seen firsthand in our community that when small businesses thrive, communities thrive. I am committed to providing strong, local representation in Ottawa that will put the needs of Delta first.

October 17, 2019 The Delta Optimist A13

Federal Election

Current path simply isn’t working

Green candidate Craig DeCraene says you need a healthy environment for a healthy economy The Optimist sat down with the candidates running in Delta in the federal election and posed a series of questions to each of them. Their responses are being run verbatim.

about greening the economy, they often look to the energy sector, but the economy can go green in variety of ways, can’t it?

A. It can. With the Liberals, they are getting rid of single-use plastics, but you need to do more than just banning plastics.

You don’t have the throw away stuff like you do now.

The best way is to make things that you can recycle. I hate to see things like foam products and then when you are done with them, they end up in the landfill. I’d like to see more recycling programs in our cities. Municipalities really only have programs in place for residential.

I would like to see more recycling programs for commercial and industrial as well. Businesses need to do more too. It’s generally up to them. Less stuff would go into the landfill if we had better recycling programs for all.

Craig DeCraene is the Green Party candidate for Delta in this year’s federal election. A team leader/ auto glass installer who runs the day-to-day operations at a Broco Glass location in Surrey, DeCraene has lived in North Delta for almost four years. He ran for a seat on Delta council in last fall’s civic election, which paved the way for him to throw his hat into the federal ring.

Q. So often people say they want a different kind of government but then they vote for the same old parties. How do the Greens convince voters there is another way?

A. From what I have been reading, with the Greens, there is not a lot of lobby attention. We are a grassroots party. There are not whipped votes with the Green Party. Other parties, they have to vote a certain way or you get penalized for it, whereas with the Green Party you are open to vote for whatever your constituents want, within reason of course. I know Elizabeth May is in a little bit of hot water with that, but that resonates a lot with me.

You can speak for yourself and for the constituents that you represent. My values more align with the Green Party, rather than the NDP, Liberals, the People’s Party or the Conservatives. I like the Green Party because I like their ideas. They have a lot of environmental things which is really good because without a healthy environment you can’t have a healthy economy. It all goes hand-in-hand, but I also like the fact that they want to have pharmacare for all, and other things in their platform really appeal to me.

Q. Most people acknowledge that we’re facing a global climate crisis, but we’re assuming you don’t think current and past federal governments have done enough to address the issue. What would the Greens like to

PHOTO BY JIM KINNEAR

Green candidate Craig DeCraene not only embraces his party’s platform but he likes the fact it allows elected members to vote freely.

see done?

A. By not expanding the Trans Mountain Pipeline you don’t have more greenhouse gasses coming from the production of bitumen coming from Alberta going into a pipe and into offshore markets. We would rather keep it all internal. You wouldn’t import oil from Saudi Arabia, you would keep it all in Canada, use it all so you would have less greenhouse gas emissions.

We can’t keep on the same path that we are going because it is not working, you have to change. With the climate action plan that we have… it is the best plan that any political party has come up with in a very long time.

Q. When the Greens say they want to modernize Canada’s social safety net by creating a guaranteed livable income, what does that look like? And can we afford it?

A. The Parliamentary Budget Officer previously costed a similar program at $76 billion a year, but that number doesn’t include the savings that it

costs, which are very high for the current programs, but because this would go to everyone and then just get taxed back based on income, the administration costs would be much lower. Then there’s the fact that we would be trying to develop it and fund it in cooperation with the provinces.

Then there’s the savings with regard to poverty related health care costs.

There are quite a few studies on how much poverty costs Canada in health care, policing, shelters, criminal justice, etc. etc. available PHOTO BY SANDOR GYARMATI as evidence. I believe the cost An auto glass supervisor in Surrey, Craig DeCraene moved in Toronto alone from Vancouver to North Delta almost four years ago. was $4.4 billion, nationwide I’ve would bring from rolling billion a year that curseen estimates between up other programs at both rently goes to support $28 (billion) and $83 bilthe federal and provincial low-income Canadians, lion. levels. so that brings it down to $43.1 billion. Then there’s At the federal levels it Q. When people talk would replace the $32.9 savings on administrative

Q. The Greens are proponents of what they call smart infrastructure that’s designed for people, not cars. What types of transportation investments would be wise for our region?

A. I would like to see more light transit. You have the SkyTrain that runs from Surrey to downtown, Coquitlam to downtown and Richmond to downtown, but other than that every other suburb just gets cars. There is the bus system, but if you are like me and you want to take the bus from North Delta to downtown Vancouver it can be 45 minutes or even longer.

I’ve been asked questions about the George Massey Tunnel replacement, which is generally a municipal and provincial issue, but at the federal level, the Green Party is against any new highways, or bridges or tunnels, but they are not against replacement of existing, but we would like to incorporate light transit. So why not have light rail running down the (Highway) 99 from Richmond or even connecting it with West Coast Express type-style where the tracks are already there. Start it in White Rock and snake it through Surrey and Delta all the way to Vancouver.

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Federal Election

Party vows to do things differently

People’s Party candidate Angelina Ireland says upstart coalition is concerned about Canada The Optimist sat down with the candidates running in Delta in the federal election and posed a series of questions to each of them. Their responses are being run verbatim.

Angelina Ireland is the People’s Party of Canada candidate in Delta. Ireland holds a master of arts degree in political science from Carleton University and has been an accountant for the past 20 years.

For 15 years she has been an entrepreneur providing client accounting services to small businesses.

Q. Your party, which is contesting its first election, was founded by former Conservatives, including Conservative leadership runner up Maxime Bernier, so what separates the two parties?

A. What we’re doing is historic. What we are, really, is a coalition of ex-members from the Conservatives, the Liberals, the NDP who are standing as candidates.

We also have quite a large contingent of people who haven’t voted for 20 years because they are, quite frankly, disappointed with the politicians and they dislike politicians. They don’t see us as an ordinary political party because we vow to do things differently. It’s about people who are concerned about Canada and were concerned about Canadian sovereignty and Canadian policy. For example, our issue against globalism cuts across all party lines and that unites us as a party.

Q. The People’s Party says it would lower the number of immigrants Canada accepts every year, cutting that figure in half or more, often at the expense of family reunification. Is that policy at odds with Canada’s diverse culture and welcoming nature?

A. What we need to talk about, first of all, is that to say we are an antiimmigration party is incorrect. We know the value of immigration and it’s very important to this country. What we’re saying is that we need to focus and make sure that we get skilled immigrants to

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Angelina Ireland says the platform of the People’s Party of Canada, which includes a flat tax and puts an emphasis on skilled immigrants, is far from extreme. come to Canada because we need workers. We have an aging workforce, so we need to have people to come to work shoulder-toshoulder with us and we need them to pay taxes, which is important. We’re looking at the figures and, currently, it’s 26 per cent coming here as “skilled” and what we’re saying is we want to increase that to more like 80 per cent skilled workers. The business community would benefit because they’re always saying to us they need more workers.

Currently, we have about 350,000 immigration people coming to Canada (annually). Now do you have a family doctor?

Because a lot of people in this country don’t. We have a housing crisis in this country. So what is the benefit of bringing in so many people to Canada when we don’t even have housing for them and can’t figure that out?

We need to talk about the reality of our situation.

Do you want to create a humanitarian crisis in this country? When we accept people to come here, we have to make sure they have the necessities of life. This is a fairly small country because we all live on the 49th parallel,

one, we are Canadians first. We believe that unity is our strength and that we come together like a team. Everybody comes from a different place, expect those who are First Nations who were here before us. In order for us to be successful, we feel we’ve got to stand as being Canadian. We feel that’s the best avenue forward to addressing the issues that we face in this country like the housing crisis and the economy, anything.

We stand together as Canadians when we face them.

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Angelina Ireland has been providing accounting services to small businesses for the past 15 years. so we have to make sure we can supply their basic human needs. Down the line, two or three years from now, we will be faced with a situation we don’t want. These are the types of questions we need to answer before we bring in as many people as possible.

Q. The People’s Party is concerned that too many new Canadians haven’t integrated into society,

but rather have maintained the values and cultures they left behind.

Does a functioning society require that all its members subscribe to a certain set of values?

A. Our perspective on this is that we want people who come to Canada to be Canadians. That’s important and regardless of your race or your religion or your sexual orientation or sexual identity, number

Q. Governments around the world have declared we’re in a climate change crisis, yet the People’s Party feels those claims are alarmist.

Is it irresponsible for our federal government not to take action to address the issue?

A. I want to make sure that my position is clear.

I don’t want to be called a denier because that’s completely unfair. I have said that, yes, the climate is changing, there’s no debate about that, but the climate has always changed. The climate will continue to change and the earth has been around

for four billion years and in that time there has been climate change so dramatic that, for example, Canada used to be covered in ice. The Sahara Desert used to be a rainforest but that has changed.

We do not deny that climate is changing. What we’re saying is that for the government to make people pay carbon tax is not addressing the issue.

We don’t believe that carbon is a pollutant, it’s a building block of life. We don’t want to be alarmist with people and we don’t want our children to be so frightened that they only think they have a few years to live. We believe that because the climate does change, there’s certain things we can do to mitigate the damage and that’s where we want to put our money. We don’t want to have the government scare us to death and tax us to death and make us give all our power away.

What we need are contingency funds to specifically deal with the mitigation of what’s happened… we also believe the debate is around whether humans cause climate change. We say that humans cause a very small percentage.

Q. Some find the views of the People’s Party as extreme, akin to Donald Trump’s America.

Canadians have long had different sensibilities than our southern neighbours so do you think they’ll be receptive to your party’s policies?

A. What I’m asking is for the people to look beyond our opponents who just want to keep our policies from them. A flat tax, is that extreme? We don’t believe in corporate welfare, is that extreme? We spend $29 billion in corporate welfare while our seniors and veterans are not being given enough to buy food. We want to defend freedom of speech and feel our fundamental freedoms of speech and parental rights, and the freedom of the press, are being eroded. I ask you, is that extreme? We need to sell our oil to the world market. We have ethical oil here. That doesn’t seem to be extreme to me. We want to address equalization payments across the provinces. Is that extreme?

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Federal Election

Liberals moving country forward Incumbent Carla Qualtrough says she’s very proud of her government’s accomplishments

The Optimist sat down with the candidates running in Delta in the federal election and posed a series of questions to each of them. Their responses are being run verbatim.

Liberal incumbent Carla Qualtrough has been Delta’s MP for the past four years after winning the seat by a wide margin in 2015. She’s been a member of the federal cabinet, most recently serving as minister of public services and procurement and accessibility.

Prior to entering politics, the mother of four was a human rights lawyer and Paralympic swimmer.

Q. Four years ago you were a relative unknown, but now you’re the incumbent, the one all the other candidates are looking to knock off.

How has that changed your approach this time around?

A. I am very comfortable being held to account for the things I have done as the member of Parliament. I’m very comfortable having people hold me accountable for the decisions we’ve made, the actions we have taken and quite frankly the things we haven’t done, or the things we said we would do and we didn’t.

I’m very proud of our record, both as a government and I’m very proud of our record locally here.

My constituency team has done an excellent job of serving Deltans. I think I have a reputation as a hard-working, thoughtful and fair-minded champion for this community and I have worked very hard to raise the profile of Delta in Ottawa and make sure Delta has the opportunities it deserves.

Q. Much of the Liberals’ success in the 2015 election could be attributed to Trudeaumania, but four years later some of the bloom has come off that rose. How would you characterize the prime minister’s performance?

A. I have and can assure all Deltans that I have complete trust and confidence in the leadership of Justin Trudeau. In 2015 he put together a leadership team that I was lucky

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Saying the country’s economy is firing on all cylinders, Liberal incumbent Carla Qualtrough maintains that you can’t cut your way to prosperity. enough to be a part of and have been part of for the last four years. I think that the 35 of us as a team have governed with thoughtfulness and with fairness. We have made decisions on behalf of the country that have moved the country forward and put it back on track. I can assure everyone that we did that as a team. We all have very strong opinions and we don’t always agree, but I think it is a testament to the prime minister’s confidence and his leadership style that he put together a team that will hash things out at what effectively is the board of directors table for our country.

Q. The Liberals have pushed the message that the economy is in good shape and that unemployment is at record lows, but the Trudeau government ran four straight deficit budgets that added more than $70 billion to Canada’s debt. Is that approach sustainable?

A. We believe that the most sustainable approach to balanced budgets is through economic growth.

We came into government in 2015 after the Harper government had I think six deficit budgets and had, in my opinion, artificially balanced the budget

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Carla Qualtrough was a human rights lawyer before entering politics. going into an election. The economy was stagnant — it was flat and we needed to do something to get our country back on track. We have record unemployment levels. Consumer confidence is up, wages are up. Our economy is firing on all cylinders. We think that cutting services and programs, austerity measures, are not the way to a sustainable series of balanced budgets. We have a plan that is going to get us there, but not at the expense of not delivering for Canadians. To say that you are going to cut your way to prosperity is antithetical in my opinion.

Q. When you talk to voters, what are they telling you still needs to be done? What issues are top of mind and how would a Liberal government address them?

A. We have done a lot over the past four years, but there is certainly more to be done. When I’m at the doors, when people are coming to talk to me, they are talking about the environment and climate change, affordability, in particular housing affordability, especially here in Delta, they are talking about pharmacare and

other issues that impact seniors. What I tell them is we absolutely understand that these are issues that need to be continuously addressed by any government. We’ve set the foundation I’d say on all those fronts. As a Liberal government we have made the highest investment in the environment and climate change than any government in the history of the country. We have the first-ever national housing strategy, we are working towards national pharmacare. These things are all in motion and the choice for Canadians, for Deltans, is whether we are going to keep moving towards these things or if we are going to turn them off.

Q. How do you respond to concerns that the Liberals aren’t seriously addressing a climate crisis, including the decision to buy a pipeline?

A. I think it is undeniable that strong and bold action on climate change is needed at this time. I think that Delta, in some very real ways, is at the epicentre of the narrative of the supposed tension between the economy and the environment.

We believe, and I believe, that these two things can absolutely be addressed simultaneously. We’ve

proven that we can have a prosperous and successful economic growth at the same time as really digging in and investing in climate change. We know that we need to transition to a clean, green economy and we are committed to that transition. It’s going to take longer than some people want because we have to bring everybody along with us. We are committed to reducing single-use plastics, we are phasing out coal, we are ending fossil fuel subsidies — we are putting a price on pollution around the country where some provinces don’t have. In the meantime though, we have to make sure we have the economic strength and power to do all this. TMX solves a really big problem we have in this country in terms of diversifying our markets and relying on the U.S. to sell our oil at much reduced costs. Right now, as long as we are pulling oil out of the ground, the safest way to get that oil to market is through pipelines. Every dollar made on the TMX will be reinvested in climate action.

Q. There are many differences between the platforms of the Liberals and the Conservatives, but where do you see the greatest separation?

What makes a Liberal a Liberal?

A. I think the biggest difference between Conservatives and Liberals in this election is reflected in the choice we are putting in front of Canadians.

We as Liberals are asking Canadians to choose to continue building upon the progress we’ve made, to continue moving forward towards a clean environment, towards economic prosperity, to keep investing in people, communities and infrastructure, to include everyone. The Conservatives are not asking Canadians to move forward… they’re moving backwards. Their policies do not reflect priorities that will include everyone. They do not stand up for the equality rights of everyone. They want to focus on tax cuts for the wealthiest and cutting services for the rest of people and that concerns me. You can’t cut your way to prosperity.

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Federal Election

Many issues not being addressed: Bains

Without obligation to toe party line, independent candidate says he could truly represent Delta SANDOR GYARMATI

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It felt like the right time.

That’s what independent candidate Amarit Bains says about his decision to put his name on the ballot in Delta for the upcoming federal election.

Born and raised in North Delta, Bains said there are a plethora of issues, both locally and nationally, that are of concern to residents but aren’t being really addressed by the main parties, which is a good opportunity for an independent who has no obligation to toe any party lines to represent the community.

A lawyer, Bains noted he’s always had an interest and involvement in politics, starting from a young age and throughout his school years.

“In terms of getting involved in this election, I just didn’t see how any of the parties really appealed to me and a lot of Canadians. A lot of people

are dissatisfied with everything that’s happening in politics. I wanted to be that alternative that people could reach out to and someone who will actually listen to their needs in Delta. I just want to be Delta’s voice in Ottawa,” he said.

Bains said Delta has a high proportion of seniors and an aging population, and what he’s heard over and over is that government pensions aren’t enough to sustain seniors.

People are forced to burn through their savings and have to do without in many cases, he said.

“There needs to be more help for seniors. The thing with the CPP is that it’s not stable. A lot of the investments the federal government has made is in fossil fuels, so, sure, we can increase the CPP but now it’s just an empty election promise because you have to ask if the CPP is even strong enough, especially as the baby boomers age.

“We need to see that addressed,” he said.

Another issue that needs addressing is a national pharmacare program, Bains said, noting Canada is the only country that offers universal health care without pharamcare.

“The Liberals and NDP both said they’d support that, but it sounds like a lot of election promises.

We need to make life more affordable for the middle class and another key issue that got me to run was that the Liberals previously said they’d help the middle class, then they took away small business tax credits. Now you can only have one person claim the credit. This affects small businesses and middle class families primarily,” explained Bains.

As far as the challenge for anyone running as an independent in a federal election, Bains said, “I knew it was going to be an uphill battle but I’ve seen more Greens start to win

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Amarit Bains says he decided to run in this election because none of the parties really appealled to him.

and Jody Wilson-Raybould is also an independent, and a lot of people are dis-

satisfied, so I felt this is the best time to run. People really want another voice,

and it’s easier to interact with people in this day and age.”

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Federal Election

Bennett offers solution to housing crisis

Independent candidate’s platform focuses on self-sustaining national strategy for home ownership SANDOR GYARMATI

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Independent candidate Tony Bennett believes there’s a simple solution to the housing crisis, if only the federal government is willing to think a little outside the box.

During the federal election campaign in Delta, Bennett has championed what he calls the CHAPS program (Canada’s Housing Affordability Planned Strategy), which he maintains is a self-sustaining national strategy for home ownership.

It involves government creating land banks that would allow people from all demographics to join and pay off their houses, not the land.

“CHAPS is just another way to tie your shoes when it comes to mortgages, land valuation and, more importantly, providing shelter options for our friends, neighbours, children and grandchildren in Delta and Canada at large.

CHAPS is the next evolu-

tion of the CMHC and all the good work they have done to date. Similar to my environment strategy, CHAPS generates more money than it costs,” his website explains.

A national strategy to integrate existing affordable housing initiatives into one common program with current funding levels would address generational poverty as well as reestablish the financial security of young adults and families with home ownership, he said.

A longtime Delta resident who works in construction management, Bennett told the Optimist he entered the race because CHAPS needs federal attention, adding versions of the program are already in place in nations around the world.

“I think one of the problems in society, really, is the consumerism and the waste. The environment, employment, housing, all these things just seem to come together in this CHAPS philosophy. I think

a lot of people would like to contribute to help the nation and we have a major crisis you can see in the housing, but also all kinds of things that have gone sideways,” he explained.

As far as other issues that have people talking, Bennett noted among them is the Liberal government’s open door policy on refugees that he contends is seeing criminals flood into the country.

“Now people aren’t getting vetted. The good people aren’t getting in and, again, housing is out of control with criminals parking their money in our housing stock. Vancouver had 3,800 vacant homes last year and Delta had at least 100, that’s roughly 16,000 fewer beds for people to sleep in. All these things tie together,” he said.

Noting the justice system can’t even afford to prosecute the criminals that are caught, Bennett suggested the private legal system should provide

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Independent candidate Tony Bennett has devised CHAPS (Canada’s Housing Affordability Planned Strategy) to allow more people to become home owners.

that service in exchange for being able to write off a portion of their fees.

As far as other issues facing the country, Bennett said he’s willing

to work with anybody who has good ideas, regardless of their affiliations.

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Federal Election

Q&A with Delta’s candidates

The Optimist asked the candidates a series of six questions on federal issues that have local connections.

Responses to the first three were published last week.

1. Despite a large-scale dredging effort earlier this decade, the secondary channels of the Fraser River are beginning to experience significant sediment accumulation. Delta has repeatedly asked the federal government for dedicated annual funding for dredging so local channels remain navigable. Should Ottawa provide that funding?

2. With a casino scheduled to open in Delta late next year, there are concerns over potential negative impacts, including money laundering. A report on money laundering in B.C. casinos maintained the disbanding of specialized RCMP units played a significant role in the crisis. What needs to be done on a federal level to address the issue?

3. The City of Delta has gone on record demanding that policing issues are addressed before any port expansion takes place at Roberts Bank. Since the Ports Canada Police was disbanded more than two decades ago, one councillor has suggested that policing Canada’s largest port has fallen through the cracks. What needs to be done?

Randy Anderson-Fennell NDP

1. I live in a floating home in Ladner, and have personally witnessed the devastation, anxiety and economic damage caused by a lack of dredging of the Fraser River’s secondary channels. My home has hit the river bottom many times. The bottom line — pardon the pun — is these channels are part of our public infrastructure. And rightly, the city has been lobbying for consistent federal funding to assist with dredging for a decade. The NDP would prioritize and invest in public infrastructure, and I would be an insistent voice in Ottawa pushing for sustainable funding.

2. An NDP government would invest $20 million into a new RCMP anti-money laundering unit. This unit would be tasked with investigating and seizing the proceeds of real estate money laundering, and those funds would be funneled back into affordable housing. We would also support a national inquiry into money laundering, and create a national registry listing the names of those who use shell companies to hide their investments in real estate.

3. Canada is far from immune to organized crime, and our ports are vulnerable to it. An NDP government will work with the provinces, territories and Indigenous governments to support innovative models of community policing. Too many lives have been lost in Canadian cities to rising gun crime. We will work to keep assault weapons and illegal handguns off our streets and to tackle gun smuggling and organized crime, including at the ports.

1. The last batch of funding to flow from a federal agency for local dredging was under the previous Conservative government. I commit to advocate for stable, predictable funding from agencies that have responsibility, including the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority.

2. An Andrew Scheer-led Conservative government will launch a broad public inquiry into the full scope of money laundering in Canada, that will cost $20 million over two years, that will produce actionable recommendations for legislative and regulatory changes.

3. The safety of our community is a top priority for me. Conservatives have a plan for a safer Canada that includes more support for police agencies. We would create a CBSA firearms smuggling taskforce and implement a police infrastructure grant program. We will crack down on gang activity with stiffer penalties for gang members and invest in programs for youth at-risk.

1. Port authority, since 2007, has given million of dollars to help with dredging secondary channels. But only dredges main channel, so it believes the government could fund some of the dredging needed to navigate the secondary channels.

2. We plan to launch a federal public inquiry into what the RCMP and other federal agencies knew about money laundering in B.C. casinos and why they did not expose the growing corruption.

3. Canada Border Services Agency needs to receive more funding so it can do more random searches. Three per cent isn’t nearly enough. Also better vetting of employees to make sure people linked to criminal activity don’t get hired at ports.

1. In a word, yes. The issue of funding sediment removal for secondary channels of the Fraser River affects a number of municipalities and is of major concern because dredging in recent years has not been maintained resulting in huge sediment accumulation which significantly increases the potential for a major flood to overtop the dikes or dike failure. This potential natural disaster would affect many communities along the river. I would help facilitate a long-term, sustainable and environmentally responsible dredging effort with contributions that include a federal source.

2. The question of gambling is a social and political issue leaving many avenues for and against. Personally, I was never in favour of the casino project for Delta. The question of money laundering is part provincial and part federal jurisdiction. The legislative framework for criminal activity is the role of the federal government. My position around all criminal activities is the higher the penalties, the better.

The RCMP should have an investigative role and specialized units should be trained and deployed.

3. In our rapidly ever-growing global trade and transport, the security at the Deltaport is of real concern. I would take a leading role to support an integrated approach that includes Ports Canada, Customs & Immigration, RCMP and CSIS — in conjunction with local and provincial resources, Delta police task forces, Ministry of Trade and Commerce, Ministry of Addictions and Mental Health and the longshoreman’s union to develop a “what are the issues” and “what are the solutions” and “who has what roles” so that a clear and workable strategy could be developed and instituted.

1. Sediment accumulation in the secondary channels in and around Delta impacts transportation, commercial fishing, water lease holders, flood mitigation efforts and upstream fish processors. The economic impact of not having reliable, regular secondary channel maintenance is significant. The federal government has a role to play, and I have been working with the province, the port and the Ladner Sediment Group. An important piece of the puzzle is the reinstatement of a regional planning mechanism along the Fraser River. This issue remains a top priority for me.

2. The Conservatives disbanded the RCMP Organized Crime Unit, sending a very clear signal that this was not a priority. Our Liberal government invested $70 million over five years to rebuild this capacity, and created the Anti-Money Laundering Action, Coordination and Enforcement Team. We also created a Money Laundering Centre of Expertise to strengthen capacity at the Canada Border Services Agency and the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada. More needs to be done.

3. Border and port safety are matters of national security. To address criminal activity at our ports, we must invest in policing.

Nowhere is this more important than here in Delta. Our government invested significantly to reverse the decade of Conservative cuts to the RCMP and CBSA. This includes public safety initiatives to reduce gang violence, gun smuggling, human trafficking and drugs. For example, to enhance screening and detection, we hired 42 new CBSA employees at the Tsawwassen Container Examination Facility.

Tanya Corbet Conservative

Craig DeCraene Green

Angelina Ireland People’s Party

Carla Qualtrough Liberal

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A B.C. Supreme Court judge will hand down a sentence Nov. 1 in a highprofile South Delta mass drug overdose case.

A sentencing hearing concluded this month in New Westminster for Daniel Chesshire, who was found guilty by a jury of one count of trafficking in fentanyl in connection to an incident three years ago. He earlier pled guilty to one count of trafficking in cocaine.

The court heard previously that in the early hours of Sept. 1, 2016, within a 20-minute span, police received reports of overdoses from three separate locations in South Delta involving nine young adults. In each case, the victims reported respiratory problems, including one person in full cardiac arrest. Delta firefighters and paramedics used Narcan (Naloxone) on six of those who were suffering overdoses. All were treated in hospital and survived.

The sentencing hearing had to be extended by a day due to a number of supporters speaking on Chesshire’s behalf.

Submissions were concluded Oct. 2 with the defence seeking a suspended sentence and a two-year period of probation, while the prosecution wants three years of jail time.

During his testimony at trial, Chesshire, who admitted he started using drugs, including cocaine, recreationally while in high school, said he and his friends were concerned about obtaining “safe” drugs and thought a supplier they met at a downtown Vancouver club to be reliable.

“My friends were reluctant to do drugs, but when they did, they wanted me to call the guy I met at the club because we had used his product before and believed it was safe.”

Under cross-examination, the prosecution tried to poke holes in Chesshire’s testimony, calling into question his recollection of the evening of the overdoses and the encounters with his drug source.

The prosecution wondered why Chesshire and his friends would consider a random guy who they met once in a club as a “safe source” for drugs.

Public Hearing - September 16, 2019 Delta City Council will hold a Public Hearing, in accordance with the Local Government Act, to consider the following proposed projects and related applications: Date: Time: Place:

September 16, 2019 5:00 p.m.

Council Chamber Delta City Hall 4500 Clarence Taylor Crescent Delta, BC V4K 3E2

A Council meeting is scheduled to immediately follow this Public Hearing in the event Council wishes to give further consideration to the projects at that time.

Any persons who believe that their interest in property will be affected by the proposed projects shall be given an opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing on matters contained in the bylaws and/or proposed by the applications.

Should you have any concerns or comments you wish to communicate to Council in advance of the Public Hearing, you can write to: Mayor and Council City of Delta 4500 Clarence Taylor Crescent Delta, BC V4K 3E2 Fax: 604-946-3390 Email: mayor-council@delta.ca Correspondence addressed to Mayor and Council will form part of the public record for this Public Hearing. To be considered, correspondence must be received by the Office of the City Clerk no later than 1:00 p.m. on Monday, September 16, 2019.

Project No. 1 Amendments to Secondary Suites Program and Removal of Restrictive Covenant Requirements (P19-01D)

To amend “Delta Zoning Bylaw No. 7600, 2017” as follows: • Expand the allowable locations for brew pubs to include the Mixed Use Ladner Waterfront (MULW) and Comprehensive Development Zone No. 423-R (Southlands Village) Zones; • Restrict the manufacturing floor area (including warehousing, wholesaling and distribution) to 250 m2 for brew pubs; • Amend the definition of brew pub to include other types of alcohol.

“Delta Zoning Bylaw No. 2750, 1977” Amendment Bylaw No. 7882 By amending Comprehensive Development Zone. 423-R which is the site specific zone for Southlands Village in “Delta Zoning Bylaw No. 2750, 1977” to include the same amendments as Bylaw No. 7881.

Location:

Various Locations Throughout Delta

Staff Contact: Rachael Ward – 604.952.3153

Applicant:

City of Delta

Web Location: October 7, 2019 Regular Council Meeting Agenda Item E.04

Telephone:

604.946.3380

Proposal:

Miscellaneous amendments to the Delta Zoning Bylaw and Secondary Suites Program.

“Delta Zoning Bylaw No. 7600, 2017” Amendment Bylaw No. 7855 To amend the following “Delta Zoning Bylaw No. 7600, 2017” as follows: 1. By deleting Section 6.1.8(b) in its entirety; 2. By deleting Section 6.2.8(a) in its entirety; and 3. By deleting Section 6.2.16(b) in its entirety.

Project No. 3 Application for Rezoning (LU008900) Locations:

255 54A Street and Unaddressed Parcel PID: 010-364-421, as shown outlined in bold on MAP NO. 3

Applicant:

Dave Brar, Goldlane Homes Ltd.

Staff Contact: Rachael Ward – 604.952.3153

Telephone: 604.825.0121

Web Location: October 7, 2019 Regular Council Meeting Agenda Item E.05

Proposal:

Project No. 2 Zoning Amendments for Regulation of Brew Pubs (P19-01F)

MAP NO. 3 FILE NO. LU008900

Application for Rezoning in order to permit subdivision and development of three single detached residential lots.

Locations:

Properties in Ladner and Tsawwassen Areas, as shown outlined in bold on MAP NO. 2

Applicant:

City of Delta

Telephone:

604.946.3380

“Delta Zoning Bylaw No. 7600, 2017” Amendment Bylaw No. 7887

Proposal:

Proposal to amend the definition of brew pub to include other types of alcohol; establish a maximum floor area for the manufacturing of alcohol; and expand the permitted uses of the Mixed Use Ladner Waterfront (MULW) and Southlands Village Comprehensive Development Zone No. 423-R (Southlands Village) to include “brew pub”.

To amend “Delta Zoning Bylaw No. 7600, 2017” by rezoning the subject properties from Single Detached Residential 1 (RS1) to Single Detached Residential 6 (RS6) in order to allow a three-lot subdivision and construction of a new single detached dwelling with an in-ground basement and secondary suite on each lot.

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Police release image of person of interest in tattoo shop blaze Delta police are searching for a person of interest in relation to a fire at the Brass Eagle Tattoo Shop in Ladner Village earlier this month.

The fire, which police consider suspicious, is believed to have started at approximately 4:50 a.m. on Oct. 2 at 5052-48th Ave. Late last week police released an image taken from video recorded in the area shortly before the fire began. Police confirm the person in the image appears to be carrying a jerry can. The man appears to be wearing a bulky white parka and baseball hat.

Anyone with information regarding the possible identity of the person in the image, or anyone who has information regarding the fire and has not yet spoken to police, is asked to call 604-946-4411 or Crimestoppers at 1-800222-TIPS (8477).

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Delta police released this image of a man who was in the area shortly before a fire started at a tattoo shop in Ladner Village on Oct. 2.

the tattoo shop had to be evacuated when the fire broke out, and two police officers were briefly hospitalized with smoke inhala-

tion.

Firefighters were able to keep two neighbouring businesses — The Flower Shop in the Village and

Ladner Nails and Esthetics — mostly undamaged, although the suites above suffered extensive smoke damage.

Firefighters put out blaze at abandoned home for the second time in three days A Smile is the most ANDREW FLEMING

Contributing writer

A stretch of 8A Avenue was cordoned off with police tape last week after firefighters put out an overnight blaze at an abandoned home across the street from South Delta Secondary.

It was the second time in three days the Delta Fire Department had been summoned in the middle of the night to put out a fire at an empty residence on the normally quiet street.

“A second suspicious fire in Tsawwassen is very concerning to police,” said Delta police spokesperson Cris Leykauf.

“Delta police are actively pursuing tips and other investigative avenues, and have devoted considerable resources to this matter,” she said.

Leykauf added more

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This home and others at the corner of 8A Avenue and 53rd Street were badly damaged by a pair of suspicious fires last week. All the homes were vacant and were slated for demolition.

patrols would be added to the area.

The first fire on Oct. 7 destroyed a vacant home at 5375-8A Ave. and damaged two other unoccupied homes. A two-storey yellow house at 5361-8A Ave. that had been dam-

aged in the previous fire was gutted in the early morning blaze of Oct. 10 All of the homes were slated for demolition to make way for a townhouse development.

Leykauf said anyone in the area just before or after

12:30 a.m. on Oct. 10 who might have seen something of interest to police, or anyone with dash cam video, is asked to call 604946-4411.

Paul Sobieski, a mortgage broker who lives nearby and was playing tennis at a court located across the street last Thursday morning, said he suspects it was “probably drug dealers” who are to blame for the fire.

Grade 11 student Kaden Read-Friedmann said he frequently goes for evening walks along the street and has never noticed activity in any of the abandoned homes, adding they aren’t a place teenagers go to hang out.

“I went for a walk last night and there was nothing here around 9 or 10 o’clock,” he said. “There wasn’t any sign of anyone having a party or anything like that.“

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Survivors of the apocalypse won’t be traveling down a Delta highway.

Delta has informed the production company for a nine-hour CBS series, currently called Radio Nowhere, that the city is opposed to shutting down a busy road in order to shoot a scene.

The location department for Salvation Productions Inc. asked for the city’s blessing to close Highway 17A between Ladner Trunk Road and Deltaport Way for filming. In order to submit an application to the Ministry of Transportation, the movie production first had to get clearance from several authorities, including the City of Delta.

A letter to mayor and council notes the production started filming on Westham Island and various Delta locations, and will be filming in the city throughout the run of the show, which is to air in March 2020.

“We are super excited to bring this high profile

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Delta was asked to close Highway 17A for 24 hours.

series to Delta, a location backbone for the $4 billion a year film industry that creates over 66,000 jobs a year. Many people in our industry call Delta home, and are proud taxpayers,” the letter from the location managers states.

At Delta council last week, city manager Sean McGill said closing down the roadway for 24 hours would pose a major inconvenience and provide no benefit for the community.

Council agreed.

The production is based on Stephen King’s best seller The Stand and stars Whoppi Goldberg, Greg Kinnear, James Marsden,

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The story follows the few survivors left after a government engineered flu virus wipes out 99 per cent of the world’s population. The survivors begin having dreams of a 106-year-old woman, called Mother Abagail, calling them to Boulder, Colorado, or Dreams of Dark Man, Randall Flagg, calling them to Las Vegas.

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BDC will also make public a survey that takes a closer look at the people behind the businesses, to find out who are Canada’s entrepreneurs, what challenges they face and what specific skills have allowed them to succeed.

“Thanks to the hard work of BDC, Small Business Week has become an anticipated annual recognition of the backbone of the Canadian economy,” says Minister of Small Business and Export

The contributions and achievements of Canada’s entrepreneurs will be recognized during the 40th edition of BDC Small Business Week, which runs coast to coast from Oct. 20 to 26.

“Canada is one of the most entrepreneurial nations in the world; our history is full of great men and women who built globally competitive businesses,” says BDC president and CEO Michael Denham. “This year, we want to showcase their hard work and successes and explore the key entrepreneurial skills that have underpinned their growth.”

As part of Small Business Week, Denham and BDC chief economist

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For years now, the “Pie Ladies” of Tsawwassen United Church have got together every week in the summer to produce hundreds of pies that always sell out quickly at the annual fall fair. This year they’ve been joined by some men so obviously the name of the group has to change. One idea being thrown about is Pie Squad.

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Around Town Comedy at arts centre

The Sidekick Players Club is a week into its run of Bordertown Café at the Tsawwassen Arts Centre. Written

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by Bernice Fehr, the comedy takes place in a small border town café in rural Alberta. The production runs until Oct. 26 with shows at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday with a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, Oct. 20. Reserve tickets by calling 604-288-2415.

Monster Maze

Tsawwassen Mills is once again hosting its epic Monster Maze from Oct. 17 to 31.

Boasting 1,600 square feet of Halloween fun, the family-friendly experience will feature a pumpkin patch with proceeds going to the Delta Hospital and Community Health Foundation, an indoor maze, pop-up Halloween shop, Mr. Halloween, contests and prizes. The Monster Maze is open from noon to 7 p.m. daily.

Pumpkin Fest

Emma Lea Farms on Westham Island is hosting a Pumpkin Fest on Sunday, Oct. 20.

Set to run from noon to 4 p.m., the event will feature live music, face painting and loads more family fun. Emma Lea Farms is located at 2727 Westham Island Rd. See www.emmaleafarms.com for more details.

Art wellness

Local artist Teresa Massel is starting another session of her Art for Women’s Wellness classes. The adult women-only classes will be held at the Delta Museum Annex in Ladner on Tuesday evenings from Oct. 22 to Nov. 26 as well as on Thursday evenings at the North Delta Recreation Centre from Oct. 24 to Nov. 28.

Register through Delta Parks & Recreation at 604-952-3000.

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Vancouver’s own Jim Byrnes returns to Genesis Theatre in Ladner this Saturday for a 7:30 p.m. show.

“I’ve played there at least twice and maybe three times. It’s a great theatre, love playing there,” said Byrnes. “I really prefer a venue that size because of the intimacy, you can really relate to the audience, communicate with the folks and if everything works out right, it’s like you are sitting in a living room with your friends.”

Byrnes said he has a great band lined up for the Genesis show.

“This has been one of my tricks – hire guys who are a lot better than me — it makes me look as if I know what I’m doing,” Byrnes remarked.

For nearly 50 years, Byrnes has crooned, drawled, belted, hollered and sweet-talked more songs into a microphone than most people ever get to hear in a lifetime.

His music has won multiple awards, including three Junos, and his previous concerts at Genesis Theatre have been very popular.

As to why he keeps playing and touring, Byrnes said he just loves what he does.

Jim Byrnes plays Genesis Theatre in Ladner this Saturday night.

“It’s that feeling you get when you hit the right note, the right move, the right place and it all

becomes more of the sum of its parts,” he said. “The music is for free — what we get paid for is setting

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up, waiting around at the airport, getting hassled through security and all that stuff. The music is the

reward and that’s what is free for everybody, so that’s what motivates me to keep doing this.

“My first professional job where I had my name on the poster and stuff besides open mics was in November of 1965 opening for The Birds at St. Louis University, so that’s a long time ago and somehow or another I’ve managed to keep it fresh. A lot of that is making sure you are playing with guys who are younger than you.”

Byrnes said performing is always a lot of give and take.

“I give them [the audience] something and they give back, so that’s why I say the music is the sum of its parts,” he said.

“On a good night magic happens. Another things about playing South Delta, when I look back at all the shows years ago in Vancouver, so many people now have moved out of the city to the suburbs, like South Delta, so we get to see people we used to see all the time in the club’s downtown, so it’s great to see that.

“Hopefully we have a few new people who come out and we can get some new fans too.”

Tickets for the Ladner show can be purchased online at: http://connect37.deltasd.bc.ca or by phone at 604-940-5550.

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The show will be sure to cut like a knife.

Reckless is set to hit Ladner with all of Bryan Adams’ most famous songs in a one-nightonly concert at Genesis Theatre.

The band’s Kids Wanna Rock tour visits tomorrow at 8 p.m. with all the singalong hits made famous by the North Vancouverraised rocker and pop star — Diana, Run to You, Cuts Like a Knife, Somebody, Heaven, It’s Only Love, Back to You, Summer of 69 and many more.

The band faithfully reproduces the look, sound, energy and excitement of a real Bryan

Adams concert.

“Now we’re excited to play for our home-town crowd,” said singer/guitarist Sherman Friesen, bandleader of one of Canada’s only tributes to Adams.

The Delta-based Reckless also features guitarist Steve Crane, drummer John Stoltz and bassist Tom Zillich.

“We are planning a big rock video for our Genesis Theatre show, so bring the family and have fun,” Friesen added.

Reckless was formed earlier this year with their first show at the end of March.

“In the beginning we were a little unsure of what reaction we could get knowing how huge Bryan

Adams is and that he has been around for so many years, but there are so few tribute bands in Canada and even North America,” added Friesen. “The response has been overwhelming from concertgoers and booking agents, promoters, so it’s very gratifying to see the support and the response.”

Friesen said the band is thrilled to be coming home.

“People just love the music and love the show,” he said. “We’re happy and thrilled to be coming home and playing in front of our family and friends and the local community.”

Reckless is brought to Genesis Theatre by The Original Legends of Rock n’ Roll company.

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Reckless will play all of Bryan Adams’ hits during a concert tomorrow night at Genesis Theatre.

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Alison Acheson will launch Dance Me to the End this Saturday with a signing at Ladner’s Black Bond Books from noon to 3 p.m. A Little House in a Big Place, which she launched in June, will also be available.

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It’s a book that’s near and dear to her heart.

Author Alison Acheson will launch her 11th book locally on Saturday, Oct. 19 with a signing at Ladner’s Black Bond Books from noon to 3 p.m.

Dance Me to the End is a memoir of caregiving for her spouse Marty. At 57, Marty was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Ten months and 10 days later, he passed away.

From day one of his diagnosis, Acheson, who was married to Marty for 25 years, kept a journal to cope with the overwhelming state of mind and soul.

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and his decline. Soon her journal became a canticle of caregiving and the delicate dance between the intuitive and the pragmatic, the logical and the illogical, and the all-consuming demands of being both spouse and nurse.

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her late husband was a well-loved music instructor in South Delta.

“You go through something and you feel like you are the only one going through this, so again, I’m hoping people will get a lot out of the story.”

In June, Acheson launched her 10th book in Ladner with a signing event at Black Bond Books in Trenant Park Square.

A Little House in a Big Place began with a train ride and a question about what it means to connect with another human being even if they never learn your name or meet faceto-face. Those childhood waves to train engineers — can they change a life?

Acheson grew up in Tsawwassen and lived in Ladner for more than two dozen years. She now lives in Vancouver.

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Guild’s one-day art sale has a rather mysterious side The South Delta Artists’ Guild has a real treat for art lovers this Saturday when it sponsors a oneday sale at Gallery 1710 in Tsawwassen.

Artfully anonymous… until you buy it will see 10-by-10-inch original art pieces up for sale in the first annual fundraiser for the guild.

Besides works by talented guild members, some pieces have been donated by internationally-recognized artists. Local marine artist John Horton is one of the artists that has generously donated one of his paintings this year.

The sale offers works in pastels, watercolour, oil and acrylic mediums and within each medium a diversity in styles and subjects.

The works will be hung with the artist signature on the back so buyers will not know the artist’s name until they purchase it.

All paintings are $100 cash.

Doors open at 10 a.m. and buyers are encour-

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Kathy Forbes painted this one, but buyers at Saturday’s sale at Gallery 1710 won’t know the artist’s name until they’ve purchased the painting.

aged to come early to see the exhibition in its entirety. The sale will run until 4 p.m.

At the same time, art lovers can take in the guild’s next gallery show, Shadows and Reflections, which runs from Oct. 17 to Nov. 10.

Shadows are an impor-

tant part of a composition.

They direct the eye to the important parts of the painting and add colour from ambient and reflected light.

Adjacent to the South Delta Recreation Centre, Gallery 1710 is open Thursday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Be part of the $50 challenge and bring over $3,000,000 into the local business community this year. If half of the population of Tsawwassen over the age of 20 spent an additional $50 each month locally for the next six months we could bring backk millions into our local economy. Before you go downtown for dinner, to Richmond or the States to shop think about how you can help our local businesses continue to offer great service and products.

This small gesture can help create a more vibrant business sector in Tsawwassen.

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The flushing process may result in Delta resident’s water supply showing sediment and discoloration. If sediment or discoloration appears in your water, please run the cold-water tap (at the highest point in your premises) for approximately 20 minutes or until it clears.

Should the problem persist, please contact the Engineering Department at 604-946-3260 or submit a TalkDelta service request through our website at delta.ca/talkdelta.

Watermain Flushing Schedule: North Delta Oct 15 – Nov 1 : 72 Ave to Kittson Parkway and from 120 St to Westview Drive

Tsawwassen Oct 15 – Nov 1 : 1 Ave to 18 Ave, west of 56 St including Tsawwassen Beach

Tilbury Industrial Park Oct 15 – Dec 1 : MacDonald Road to Nordel Way

Annacis Island Oct 15 – Dec 1 : 600 Derwent Way to Cliveden Ave and Fosters Way

Agricultural Lands Nov 1 – Dec 1 : 112 St to River Road West

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Foster returns with seventh book in her Amanda series Former Tsawwassen resident and children’s author Darlene Foster will be in South Delta this weekend for a signing of her seventh book in the Amanda Travels series recently released

by Central Avenue Publishing.

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Darlene Foster traveler Amanda Ross who is in Holland to see the tulips with her best friend, Leah. They travel the canals of Amsterdam, visit Anne Frank House, check out windmills, tour a wooden shoe factory and take pictures of the amazing flowers of Keukenhof Gardens.

But things are missing in Holland — rare tulip bulbs, a gardener, a home for an abandoned puppy and Amanda’s great-uncle who didn’t return from the war. Is Amanda capable of finding these missing things without putting herself in danger?

Foster bases her novels on her own travels.

Brought up on a ranch in southern Alberta, she dreamt of travelling the world, meeting interesting people and writing stories.

It’s no surprise she’s now an award-winning author of the exciting Amanda

Travels series featuring spunky 12-year-old Amanda Ross, who loves to travel to unique places.

Readers of all ages enjoy travelling with Amanda as she encounters the unknown and unravels one mystery after another.

When not travelling herself, Foster divides her time between Canada and Spain with her husband and entertaining dog, Dot. The Amanda Travels series introduces readers to new cultures and countries by weaving mystery and adventure into the stories. They are perfect for tweens or reluctant older readers and appeal to teachers and librarians looking for new material for their classroom.

Foster will be at Albany Books in Tsawwassen on Saturday, Oct. 19 from 1 to 3 p.m. where she will be reading from and signing her books.

Gerry Parsons Project to play in Sunday @3 Concert Series The popular Sunday @3 Concert Series returns this Sunday to Ladner United Church with a performance from the Gerry Parsons Project.

The Gerry Parsons Project features Parsons on guitar and vocals, Martin Sampson on guitar and vocals, Dan Porochiwnyk on drums and vocals, Peter Broznitsky on bass, Jeff Han on piano and Ella Yu on viola and violin. Special guest Shannon Ingersoll will be featured on guitar and vocals.

The group will perform original Christian compositions mixed with some new and old favourites.

Parsons hails from Halifax, NS, trained in classical piano and selftaught on guitar, has performed with jazz, classical and sacred choirs, and musical theatre troupes in Vancouver and Edmonton, and has toured with a cappella groups to the U.S., Mexico and Japan.

The concert is set for 3 p.m.

Admission is $10 at the door.

October 17, 2019 The Delta Optimist A29

ADVICE FROM THE PROS Q: Market volatility makes me nervous. What should I do to stop worrying?

QUESTION: I am wondering what I should do to winterize my home and get ready for the colder weather?

Ans. If you are nervous about your investments, you’re not alone.

Here’s my advice:

ANSWER:

As we wake up in the mornings, we are seeing the telltale signs of frost on the ground. Winter is coming.

Filter out the media noise. Dramatic news makes good headlines, but in reality volatility is normal and healthy. Successful investing involves using the “ups” and “downs” to your advantage.

Doing some basic home maintenance at this point in time, can save you a lot of headaches and a lot of money!

• Test your heating system, so that you know it will work properly when you need it.

• Replace the filter in your furnace.

• Have a Professional Inspect your heating system for efficiency and safety • Disconnect hoses from outside faucets and turn off the water, to avoid frozen pipes • Clean gutters and downspouts and double-check them during a big downpour • Close any vents in your home that may have been opened for the warm weather.

• Buy a snow shovel and other winter supplies before the messy weather hits.

• Keep extra water and canned food in storage just in case.

Ensure your portfolio is well structured. Your financial advisor should customize an investment portfolio unique to your circumstances, carefully considering your specific needs for wealth protection, tax efficient income and comfort with risk.

Doug Smith BA I CIM® Financial Advisor

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Owning a home can be a lot of work. Doing some preventative maintenance can make that a lot more manageable. Many things you can do on your own. For other things, it is worthwhile to hire a professional.

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Q: I want my next car to be electric. What do I need to know about charging my vehicle at home?

A: To charge your electric vehicle (EV) at home you will need to plug it in. For home EV charging you have the choice of level 1 or level 2 charging speeds.

ANSWER:

Level 1: All that is required is a standard 120-volt outlet on a dedicated circuit. This is the slowest speed of charging, you can expect it to take 16 or more hours to charge your EV this way.

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Level 2: This is the most common level of charging. Most EV drivers install a level 2 charging station in their garage, but they can also be installed on the side of the house or on a pedestal.

Most EV’s will charge in 4-6 hours with a level 2 station, which is ideal for commuters To have a level 2 charging station installed you will need a licensed and insured electrical contractor. Installation costs vary depending on location of charger and your electrical service capacity, it is ideal to check these costs before purchasing your EV. With the current government rebate offered through BC Hydro you can qualify for up to $700 off the purchase and installation of an eligible EV charger.

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ANSWER: No … they are different and one can save you thousands! While the amount of the payments might be the same, a semi monthly payment frequency will be taken 2x a month (usually the 15th and the 30th) and really does not provide any interest savings to your mortgage.

A bi-weekly payment is paid every 2 weeks and in the case of a 25 year amortization paying every 2 weeks can take up to 4 years off you mortgage. Many smart home owners will match their biweekly payments with their payroll dates ensuring that the funds are there come mortgage payment time!

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We make the packs so that only 3 stamps need to be used for each letter but instead of $9.00 that the Post Office charges, our price is only $4.75. That is a $4.25 savings.

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ADVICE FROM THE PROS Q: I think I have the “flu”; my friend says I have a bad cold – what is the difference?

QUESTION:

Our mom has memory issues, and feels we are pressuring her into a facility? How feasible is it for her to stay put?

Ans. Thanks for this great question. Both are caused by viral infections

and are contagious but there are several differences between influenza and the common cold. You can make the distinction between the two based on your symptoms. Fever: rare in a cold, common in influenza; Headache: rare in a cold, intense with influenza; General aches and pains: rare in cold, common in influenza; Extreme exhaustion: never with cold, common with influenza (usually starts early); Stuffy / Runny nose / Sore Throat / Sneezing: common with a cold, rare with influenza; Cough: found in both, usually starts early with influenza. There are rarely any serious complications with a cold beyond sinus congestion, influenza infections can lead to bronchitis or pneumonia (can be fatal if very severe).

Treatment options vary between illness’; cold symptoms are usually managed with rest and over the counter products (if necessary); influenza is managed by rest, fluids, over the counter products and prescription medications such as oseltamivir (if appropriate), occasionally hospitalization is necessary. There is no prevention method for the common cold; for influenza, your best protection is the flu shot which should be available mid-late October. Come see me at the pharmacy for more prevention tips and treatment options for both diseases.

“Your personal pharmacist is with you every step of the way” is not just a slogan – it is THE reason Paul Gibbons, Pharmacist/Owner at the Medicine Shoppe in Tsawwassen, looks forward to helping you every day.

ANSWER: We suggest having your mom properly assessed. A simple test can be conducted in her family doctor’s office and they can make a referral if necessary.

Discuss your concerns gently and openly. It’s scary for her to realize her memory is not working like it once did and familiar surroundings can make the difference between thriving or surviving.

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If she is able to manage safely at home without threat, she can continue with appropriate supports in place. HoneyDo can help ease everyone’s minds with regular check-ins, errands, groceries, reminders, outings & escorted appointments. Supporting someone in all they are able to do, calms apprehensions and can prolong independence.

Be proactive if you see any changes. Be mindful of her feelings.

Check out local seniors’ programs and consider viewing a preferred seniors’ community offering a broad scope of care for future. Ask about their protocol for availability.

Having assistance and a plan helps take some of the alarm out of any changes and allows folks to have choices for their future.

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Q: I am very nervous to go to my dental appointments.

QUESTION

Is there anything I can do to make my visit more comfortable?

I have an especially hard time hearing in noisy environments such as restaurants or family dinners. Do hearing aids address this?

A:

Our dental practice offers a form of sedation that makes the dental appointment fly by without any down time. We, at our office, take pride in putting our patients first and making their dental visit as comfortable as possible.

Our staff understands that some people have had bad experiences in the past Dr. Raj Dhiman and that coming into the dental clinic can cause feelings of anxiety for some.

604-946-9588 The sedation is very simple, it is an oral medication taken an hour prior to your appointment. It is ideal for dental treatment because during the appointment our patients are able to communicate with us but do not remember most of their appointment after. All patients are monitored closely during the sedation and all precautions are followed to make this visit as comfortable as possible so you can feel confident in your appointment with us. This form of sedation can be used during any procedure, even during dental cleanings. Call our office to book a consult to discuss how we can make your dental care easy for you.

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ANSWER Yes, many do! While some very basic models are simply hearing amplfiers that will make everything louder (including all the ambient noises around you), many of the more sophisticated hearing aids available today are designed to address background noise.

Mark Nickel BC-HIP, BBA Hearing Instrument Practitioner Phone: 604-943-0033 5682 12 Avenue, Tsawwassen www.TsawwassenHearing.com

In most cases when an individual begins using hearing aids designed to address background noise, all sounds are once again heard clearly by the brain. When this happens, the brain has to retrain itself in selective listening skills. This adjustment process can take some time, so it’s important to be patient as you wait for your hearing in noisy environments to return!

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QUESTION:

Q: I have been toying with the idea of taking a

I’ve always struggled with my lower denture. They are always loose, they keep popping out causing embarrassing moments and I can barely eat with them.

cruise but I have no idea where to start.

What do you suggest?

A: Find a great travel agent, particularly one specializing in cruise vacations. Look for a reputable agency, one with a well-known name behind it, this name will come great knowledge and long-term agents who know their products and destinations. An experienced agent will most likely have been on a few cruises and will gladly share their experiences with you.

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Most successful agencies will host information sessions where a cruise-line representative comes in and speaks about their product. At Expedia CruiseShipCenters we are very fortunate to have such great support from our cruise-line partners. They are always in training mode, keeping us up to date on product knowledge and industry goings-on and always keeping those “Bucket List Destinations” top of mind. On Nov. 18th join us to learn about the pristine waters, the unique animal life and the purposely built exploration ships of the Galapagos Islands.

Along with Chad Kowalenko of Celebrity Cruise Lines let’s explore this magical part of our world.

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Background noise is present in everyone’s life. For people without a hearing loss, the brain unconsciously filters out most background noise; however, when a hearing loss is present and all sounds are reduced or inaudible, the brain essentially becomes lazy and stops properly filtering out background noise.

I don’t like using adhesives and implants are not an option for me.

Is there a way to make a lower denture tighter and stays down so that I can eat without implants, adhesives or surgery?

ANSWER:

Yes there is! And it is called SEMCD.

Hoil Kim Denturist / Dental Technician

SEMCD is an acronym for Suction Effective Mandibular Complete Denture. It basically means a lower denture with suction.

Dr. Jiro Abe of Japan has developed a technique to create a lower denture that has the suction of an upper denture without the use of implants, adhesives or surgery.

SEMCD will make the denture wearer feel more secure and confident.

It involves a new design philosophy and high definition technique of capturing a highly accurate impression of your mouth. This is a new revolution in dentures. It is the best fitting denture on the market today.

Give us a call if you are interested in finding out more about SEMCD or want to come in for a frree consultation to see if you are a candidate.

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October 17, 2019 The Delta Optimist A31

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Community Coming Events CLUBS AND GROUPS SD Newcomers welcomes

Help the University of Guelph improve hearing healthcare across Canada.

Connect Hearing and Professor Mark Fenske at the University of Guelph are seeking participants who are over 50 years of age, have never worn hearing aids and have not had a hearing test in the last 24 months, for a hearing study that investigates factors that can influence better hearing.

Study Parameters The researchers will examine listening in a range of situations, from one-on-one, to group conversations, watching TV and wider social contexts like supermarkets and other noisy environments, and how it effects connection and socialization.

Why Participate?

It is estimated that 46% of people aged 45 to 87 have some degree of hearing loss, but most do not seek a solution right away. In this study you’ll be playing an important part in determining the key factors around identifying hearing loss and what influences the decision to seek treatment.

Participants will be significantly adding to growing knowledge surrounding hearing loss.

You can register to be part of this groundbreaking new hearing study by calling 1.888.242.4892 or visiting connecthearing.ca/hearing-study *Wingfield, A., Tun, P. A.,& McCoy, S. L. (2005). HearingLoss in OlderAdulthood: WhatItIsandHowIt Interacts With CognitivePerformance. Current Directions in PsychologicalScience, 14(3), 144–148. † Study participantsmust be over 50 years of age and have never worn hearing aids. No fees and no purchase necessary. Registered under the College of Speech and Hearing Health Professionals of BC. VAC, WCB accepted. 1. Cruickshanks, K. L., Wiley, T. L., Tweed, T. S., Klein, B. E. K., Klein, R, Mares-Perlman, J. A., & Nondahl, D. M. (1998). Prevalence of Hearing Loss in Older Adults in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin: The Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study. Am. J. Epidemiol. 148 (9), 879-886. 2. National Institutes of Health. (2010).

members (new and current residents) from Ladner, Tsawwassen and Point Roberts. Their next meeting is Thursday, Oct. 17 at 7:15 p.m. at Gallery 1710 in Tsawwassen. Const. Lee Chapman from the Delta police Community Watch program will talk about their innovative philosophy to a safer community and sharing ideas how to avoid being targeted by scams.

Running on Climate is the final film in this year’s GreenFlix series. It takes you behind the scenes to see how, against all odds, a landslide Green Party victory was won right here on our doorstep. Presented by the Delta South BC Greens.

Free event but donations appreciated. Film screening followed by discussion at Ladner United Church on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m.

Watch a trailer or the entire film at www.greenflix.ca.

Delta Community Living Society is hosting a workshop for families supporting people with developmental disabilities on “RDSPs.” The workshop will run from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19. For more information, visit www.dcls.ca/ workshopscourses or email sstainton@dcls.ca.

West Coast Seeds and Bird Studies Canada invite the public to Welcoming Back the Birds: Celebrating Winter Birds in Delta on Sunday, Oct. 20 from 1 to 5 p.m. at Harris Barn in Ladner. Come and enjoy artwork, kite making, photography and talk celebrating the winter birds of Delta. Gardeners and birding enthusiasts will share tips on how to make your backyard bird friendly. OWL will be onsite with a live owl and possibly other raptors.

All ages welcome at free event.

Pumpkins for Polio, October 22, 2019 Buy your Hallowe’en pumpkin to help rid the world of the deadly disease of polio. All proceeds from pumpkin sales go directly to the global campaign led by Rotary to give oral vaccine to children. Learn more at endpolio.org

Rotary Club of Ladner Pumpkins for Polio Tuesday, October 22 10 am to 1 pm Ladner �eisure Centre, 4600 Clarence Taylor Crescent, Delta 3:30 to 5:30 pm (includes pumpkin carving contest) Delta Secondary School, 4615 51 St, Delta Rotary Club of Ladner meets Tuesdays, noon Coast Tsawwassen Inn rotaryladner.org

Thank you to

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Low Vision Support Group meets at the Ladner Pioneer Library from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on the third Monday of most months. Upcoming meeting dates: Oct. 21 (ML Burke on seniors’ issues in Delta), Nov. 18 (Tactile Creativity) and Dec. 16 (social).

A Parkinson’s support group meeting will be held at KinVillage in Tsawwassen on Monday, Oct. 21 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The group is for people living with Parkinson’s and/or the people who care for them. For more information, call Gloria at 604-948-0156.

Delta Spinners & Weavers next meeting is Monday, Oct. 21 at 1 p.m. at Kirkland

House, 4140 Arthur Dr. Bring your creative spirit to be encouraged as a beginner or reacquaint yourself with these traditions in a casual setting. Email: a2maggie@ telus.net for more information.

To salute World Polio Day, Rotary Club of Ladner is holding “Pumpkins for Polio” sales events on Tuesday, Oct. 22, with proceeds going entirely to the Rotary’s End Polio campaign: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Ladner Leisure Centre and 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Delta Secondary where there will also be a pumpkin carving contest. More at rotaryladner.org.

News & Views discussion group meets at the Tsawwassen Library on Tuesday, Oct. 22 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Discussion of current events on global, American, Canadian, British Colombian and local issues.

The Canadian Federation of University Women South Delta meets the fourth Tuesday of the month at Benediction Lutheran Church in Tsawwassen at 7:15 p.m. The next meeting is on Tuesday, Oct. 22. The meeting is open to the public. Guest speaker is Priye Iworima, the 2019-2020 winner of the CFUW Ecole Polytechnique Commerative Award.

AmbassadorsTsawwassen Mills Toastmasters will meet on Tuesday, Oct. 22 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Tsawwassen Mills Training Room (enter at Entrance 4, turn left past Old Navy, and it’s between Yogibo Bean Bags & Yogen Fruz). The meeting theme is “Speaking Blitz.” The club guarantees it will be an evening of laughter and learning. For more information contact Leah at leaharea54@ hotmail.com.

All Saints Anglican Church in Ladner hosts a free monthly community meal at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22.

Intermediate level Spanish conversation meetings take place in the Tsawwassen Library every other Tuesday at 7 p.m. The next meeting is Oct. 22. They are not classes and are not suitable for beginners. For more information call or text Aidan at 360-350-9155.

Nailed It! Fall Pumpkin Ornament Challenge! will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 22 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Tsawwassen Library. All supplies included; laughter and fun guaranteed. Registration

is required. Call or visit the library to register. Adults only.

The South Delta Caregivers’ Network offers a six-week education series and support group twice a year.

The next series starts Wednesday, Oct. 23 and runs once a week from 1 to 3 p.m. The one-time fee of $40 includes the six sessions with coffee and refreshments as well as unlimited monthly drop-in support groups. The series is held at the Centre for Supportive Care in Ladner. Call 604948-0660 to register.

Anticipating Special Occasions & Holidays While Grieving, a free presentation on navigating these events, will be held Thursday, Nov. 14 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Centre for Supportive Care in Ladner. For more information or pre-registration, call 604-948-0660 or email debra@deltahospice.org.

The Knitting Sisters meet the first and third Saturday of the month at McKee Seniors Recreation Centre in Ladner from 10 a.m. to noon.

New members welcome.

For information call Brenda at 604-868-6015 or email: brenda.ruby@icloud.com.

The Tsawwassen Order of Old Bastards (TOOBs) has been quietly helping many South Delta groups and individuals since 1984. The club’s fundraising is done through food services at community events such as the Ladner Bandfest and the Tsawwassen Sun Festival. If you are interested in joining a group of energetic volunteers or just interested getting more information about TOOBs, call Norm Sayfy at 604-551-5842.

50+/SENIORS Volunteers needed for Fridays in the KeeCafe at McKee Seniors Recreation Centre and at the front desk (computer skills required).

For further information, contact Jacqui at 604-946-1411.

Free arthritis information session presented by Debbie Cheong will be held at McKee Seniors Recreation Centre on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 10:30 a.m.

McKee Modellers Club is starting up again Oct. 22 and it’s looking for new members. Contact Stewart Goodfellow at McKee Seniors Recreation Centre for more details.

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Community 50+/SENIORS Free medical cannabis education presentation will be held at McKee Seniors Recreation Centre on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 2:30 p.m. Must be 19+ to attend.

Free chronic conditions self-management workshop presented by UVic will be held at McKee Seniors Recreation Centre on Thursdays, Oct. 24 to Nov. 28, at 9:30 a.m.

KinVillage Travel will be going to Parq Casino Vancouver on Friday, Oct. 25. Bus leaves White Spot in Tsawwassen at 9 a.m. and from McKee Seniors Recreation Centre in Ladner at 9:15 a.m., returning at approximately 3:30 p.m. Cost is $9 for members. Call 604943-0225.

Free men’s health workshop presented by Delta seniors support co-ordinator will be held at McKee Seniors Recreation Centre on Monday, Oct. 30 at 10 a.m.

Annual general meeting of members of ElderCollege Delta Society will be held at

Cedar Park Church in Ladner on Saturday, Nov. 2 at 11:30 a.m. Current members in good standing are eligible to vote. To update or obtain membership, call 604-9432062.

SPECIAL EVENTS Tsawwassen United Fall Fair is on Saturday, Oct. 19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fair will include frozen fruit pies, New to You, silent auction, crafts, plants, bottle bar game, lunch and much more.

T.A.G. Challenge (Sport Showdown) on Saturday, Oct. 19 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. is seeking teams for friendly competition at Delta Gymnastics. Team building event based on an obstacle course that offers laughs, prizes and tons of fun.

Teams of seven to 12 people, any gender, age or ability level, $195. Individuals can register for $25. Call 604943-0460 or email eschriber@deltagymnatics.com.

Family Fright Fest takes place on Tuesday, Oct. 29 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Ladner Community Centre, McKee

Seniors Recreation Centre and area. Haunted house, trick or treating, face painting, crafts, games and more.

selection of Halloween costumes and accessories. Unique costumes and décor items available.

Ladner Baptist Church is hosting its annual Harvestfest Carnival on Tuesday, Oct. 29. Early admission for kids with different abilities starting at 6 to 6:45 p.m. and general admission from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. Games to play, prizes and treats to be won.

Admission: $2. Costumes are encouraged but no scary ones please. The facility is wheelchair accessible. For more information, visit www. ladnerbaptist.ca or call 604946-0141.

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Artists of all types are welcome to sell their handmade wares at the KinVillage Christmas Market on Saturday, Nov. 16. Sixfoot tables only $35. Call 604-943-0225 or stop by the community centre (5430-10th Ave.) weekdays between 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. to reserve your spot.

FUNDRAISERS Halloween at the Cottage.

Visit the Hospice Cottage Charity Shoppe, 1521-56th St., Tsawwassen, for a spooky

The Wander Inn Cafe is open on Saturday, Oct. 19 from 7 to 10 p.m. at Lighthouse Church, 5545 Ladner Trunk Rd. Be well entertained by Vancouverbased recording artists/performers John Bowman and Ranj Singh. Both will bring an eclectic mix of genres from blues/folk to IndoCanadian folk. Suggested $7 donation covers beverages, goodies and entertainment.

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Western AAA Conference W L T Pts South Delta 4 0 0 6 New West 4 0 0 6 Van College 3 1 0 2 Mt. Doug 2 2 0 0 Notre Dame 1 3 0 2 Carson Graham 1 3 0 2 Handsworth 1 3 0 2 Belmont 0 4 0 0 Junior Varsity AAA Coastal South Delta 2 0 0 Mt. Doug 1 0 0 Belmont 1 1 0 Handsworth 2 0 2

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It was quite the September for Ladner’s Ashley Morrow who earned tournament MVP honours in helping the Midget AAA Greater Vancouver Comets win the Stoney Creek Showcase in Ontario. A week later she became the first female player from South Delta to make U18 Team B.C. in recent memory. The 17-year-old will be taking her career to the university level next season.

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Ashley Morrow left her hometown association 7 years ago to chase her dream MARK BOOTH

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Ashley Morrow wants all young girls playing minor hockey in South Delta to know that dreams do come true.

It was seven years ago when the Ladner forward played her final game for the South Delta Stars — the girls recreational program run by the South Delta Minor Hockey Association. Today, she is a member of Team B.C. headed to the upcoming U18 National Championships in Manitoba and also a top university prospect.

That status was solidified when she became the first B.C. player to earn tournament MVP honours at the prestigious 16th Annual Stoney Creek Midget AA Sabres Showcase held last month in Ontario.

“I hope it show girls in Ladner they can prove themselves too and it can work out like this,” smiled Morrow.

She could have been content staying in her hometown, playing with her friends, and trying to win Pacific Coast Amateur regular season and playoff house banners

each season. Instead, she wanted much more.

Morrow went through the Massey Tunnel and spent the next four years playing on the Richmond Ravens’ Pee Wee and Bantam rep teams. To earn her release from South Delta, she had to prove she was ready for that level by successfully earning a spot on a SDMHA boys Pee Wee rep team.

It’s a path a number of local girls have gone on before to be key contributors to the Ravens’ organization.

When she was 15, Morrow was at another cross-road. Stay with the Ravens and be part of their dominant Midget “A” team or tryout for B.C. Hockey’s Female Midget AAA League?

Not only did she choose the later she took aim at playing for the juggernaut Greater Vancouver Comets.

“I know some of the girls that played there and I had heard good things about their coach (Mark Taylor). From there I went and gave it a shot,” recalled Morrow. “I actually didn’t think I was going

to make it. I knew the competition so I actually was kind of like an underdog going into it, just knowing where those girls had come from.”

Morrow not only landed a roster spot but showed enough to be invited to the Team B.C. U18 tryouts in her 15 and 16 year-old seasons.

On her first attempt, she advanced all the way to the final cut downs — a four-day camp held at UBC. The second time she didn’t get past the week-long provincial camp held at Shawnigan Lake.

“You can’t really let it get into your head and bring you down but rather use it as motivation,” the Grade 12 South Delta Secondary student said.

It just meant working even harder for her third and final try, spending plenty of hours with local hockey instructor Shane Kuss who Morrow gives high praise for her development as a player. This time she would be one of five Comets to crack the 20-player roster.

The elation of making Team B.C. happened just days after the

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Morrow’s performance back east not only earned her an MVP award but plenty of attention from college scouts too. A whopping 14 schools reached out to her.

“There were emails, texts, phone calls to our house and to our coach and manager too,” smiled Morrow.

“I’m close to making a decision but want to tour a couple of schools first. There is one in the US and two in Canada. It’s got to be a good school academically as a girl playing hockey this is as far as it goes but I’m hoping to one day play for Canada too.”

For the second straight season she has a travel companion for her long commute to Coquitlam for Comet practices. Her younger sister Brooklyn, 15, is on the team and they were actually linemates in last week’s 10-0 romp against Vancouver Island.

The Morrows would love their final season together to end at the Esso Midget National Championships next spring.

The Comets are ranked No. 1 in the country among U17 Midget AAA and academy teams.

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Tough road to provincials for top 10 Sun Devils MARK BOOTH

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The South Delta Sun Devils could be ranked in the top 10 all season and still not go to the provincials. That’s the reality of B.C. senior girls volleyball’s group of death — better known as the South Fraser Zone.

When B.C. School Sports revamped their zones and added two to the Greater Vancouver area, the new South Fraser region was created with schools from Delta, Surrey and Richmond. For most sports it means a more favourable path to provincial qualifying compared to the former Fraser Valley route but not for girls volleyball in the largest tier.

Richmond doesn’t even have a AAAA size school but Surrey and Delta certainly do and they are filled with powerhouse teams. Last week’s provincial rankings featured five South Fraser schools.

A sixth — the Seaquam

Seahawks — began the season among the top 10.

The Seahawks are guaranteed a berth as the host team of next month’s B.C. AAAA Championships.

That leaves the current five teams in the rankings scrapping it out for the four berths available. It’s a far cry from the Fraser Valley days when as many as eight berths were up for grabs.

“We’re lucky they are going with a 20-team format and Seaquam is hosting as normally it would be three (berths),” said South Delta head coach Dan Burgess. “Even with all that there is going to be a top 10 team not going.”

The eight-team South Fraser Premier League features the six AAAA powerhouses — Lord Tweedsmuir, Earl Marriott, Semihamoo, Elgin Park, South Delta and Seaquam, along with Pacific Academy and Surrey Christian, ranked No. 1 and No. 10 respectively at the AA level.

The No. 9 Sun Devils fell to 1-2 in regular season play with a straight set loss (17-25, 24-26, 18-25) to No. 2 Tweedsmuir Tuesday night in Cloverdale. That came on the heels of a fiveset defeat to No. 7 Marriott a week earlier.

South Delta had opened its schedule with a straight set win over Seaquam and has shown well elsewhere, including a runner-up finish at the 24-team Camosun College tourney in Victoria last weekend.

“We have had a really good start and part of that was beginning the season in Las Vegas in August. We had eight kids there and two away tournaments already. I was saying to the girls they already have a very good volleyball culture going,” continued Burgess.

“At Camosun, the tournament director said it was really hard picking all-stars on our team not because we don’t have any but because all our girls play at a very high level.

It’s great but we also are hoping a couple can take it up to another notch with the support around them.

When you look at those top teams, they have one or two players that can dominate at certain times.”

Burgess, who is once against being assisted by Gatlin Saip this season, is carrying a big roster with 15 players. It’s an ideal split with six Grade 11s gaining some valuable experience at an elite level for next season.

Senior outside hitter Faith Kwiatkowski earned all-star honours at Camosun, as did Grade 11 libero Haley Reid.

The team also features: Grade 12s- Ginny Nichols, Sarah Foster, Caroline Wolsey, Monica Muszynski, Nicola Bancroft, Hillary Nelson, Sophia Buckley, Gaby Rondou and Grade 11s Logan Newis, Sophie Schuurman Hess, Amy Hendrickson, Morgan Bouchey, Kiara Sherritt.

The Sun Devils will take

on Semiahmoo on Oct. 21 (6 p.m.) at Delta Secondary

and host Pacific Academy two nights later (7:30 p.m.).

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Deltassist Family & Community Services Volunteer Drivers Deltassist is looking for volunteers to help seniors maintain their independence by driving them to and from medical appointments. This is an on-going flexible position. Must enjoy working with seniors and have a clean driver’s abstract.

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South Delta’s Morgan Bouchey in action against Lord Tweedsmuir last week in Cloverdale during South Fraser Premier League play. South Delta lost to the province’s No. 2 ranked AAAA team 3-0.

Deltassist is looking for volunteers to help with our Christmas Program to help sort donations and work at our annual Toy Depot in December 2019. Flexible dates and times starting mid November until December. Criminal Record check is required. For more information contact Colleen Danes at 604-946-9526 (until mid October) 604-594-3455 (mid October until December) or email colleend@deltaassist.com

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Goalie leaves Giants’ crowded crease for BCHL Braedy Euerby has left the Vancouver Giants’ crowded goal crease to sign with the B.C. Hockey League’s Powell River Kings.

The 17-year-old from Ladner remains property of the Western Hockey League club that selected him in the fifth round of the 2017 Bantam Draft. The Giants have two NHL prospect goaltenders in David Tendeck, 19, and Trent Miner, 18, leaving Euerby without any playing time, resulting in this move to further his development.

“For the Giants, it’s a great spot to be in because they have two drafted goalies that are unreal kids and great goalies,” said Kings Head Coach Tyler Kuntz. “It’s tough for Braedy because he’s behind those two guys, but he’s young and he’s going to come here to get some experience and play.

Euerby made his BCHL debut on Saturday night, a 6-3 loss to Cowchan Valley. He made 32 saves.

Kings overage goaltender Matteo PalerChow had to make 11-straight starts since the injury to back-up goalie Alex Rolfe.

During that time, the Kings have used five different back-up options.

“He’s (Braedy Euerby) going to add a support system for Matteo Paler-

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Ladner goaltender Braedy Euerby made his first start in the BCHL last Saturday.

Chow,” added Kuntz on his new tandem.

“They’re going to be a tandem because he (Paler-Chow) has been alone for too long. Goalies need support, so he’s going to bring that, and he’s a young hard working goalie with a lot of potential.”

Euerby said he’s excited to get started with the Kings after gaining valuable experience with the Giants.

“I’ve worked with both of them (David Tendeck & Trent Miner) for the last couple years, and I learned a lot about how they play the game, how they think and what they do before and after the game,” said Euerby on working with two NHL prospect goaltenders.

Euerby had previously played with Nic Porchetta, Nolan Krogfoss and Jacob Slipec at the Delta Hockey Academy, and said he knows most of the Kings roster.

“As soon as I stepped in the dressing room, I knew I was at home,” he smiled.

“I know half of the team just through playing against them, playing with them, or just from another academy.”

Last season, Euerby went 16-8 with a 3.12 GAA and .893 save percentage with the DHA Midget Prep Team. He made two starts for the Giants in the WHL preseason going 1-1 with a 3.50 GAA and .885 save percentage.

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Proud Paterson’s 4 touchdown night to call leads Sun Devils past Jugglers South Delta home for 40 years!

Paterson and Damon Badenhorst, on a four-yard run, to seal the victory.

“That was one strange third quarter where twice it looked like we had put the game away with interceptions,” said Moon.

“To have the first interception go from a touchdown for us to a safety for them is something I had never seen before.”

The Sun Devils also needed a big outing from McDonald who threw for 303 yards and five touchdowns. The other score was a 14-yard strike to Ethan Troniak while he also found the end zone on a 10-yard run.

The game was reminiscent to a couple of seasons ago when South Delta needed plenty of points to win games.

“We stacked the box to shut down the run and they took us deep three or four times instead,” said Moon. “It’s something we are not overly concerned about but do we need to do a better job wrapping up when it comes to tackling. That’s something we will be working on.

Bennett Stoilen led the South Delta defensive effort with 12 tackles.

The Sun Devils head to Victoria Friday to take on winless Belmont (0-4-0) before hosting Mt. Doug (2-2-0) and traveling to New West (4-0-0) to close out the regular season.

End Zone…

The Junior Varsity Sun Devils continued their unbeaten season (6-0-0) with a 49-20 win over Handsworth on Thursday at Dennison Park. They also travel to Belmont this week.

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Evan Paterson continued his assault on the school record book and the South Delta Sun Devils needed every one of his explosive plays on Friday night in Burnaby.

The standout Grade 12 receiver hauled in touchdown passes of 32, 21, 14 and 20 yards to lead the No. 2 ranked Sun Devils to a wild 48-40 win over the Notre Dame Jugglers to remain unbeaten on the season and in Western AAA Conference play (4-00). Paterson now has province-leading 12 TD catches with still three regular season games remaining. He finished the evening with 12 catches for 207 yards.

“He runs good routes and has excellent hands,” said Sun Devils head coach Ray Moon. “Once he has the ball he is a great power runner too.”

Paterson looked to have put the game out of reach with a third quarter interception that was returned 103-yards for a major. Instead, the interception was wiped out on an illegal block that resulted in a safety for the Jugglers since the infraction took place in the end zone. A potential 26-point lead was instead down to 16 and Notre Dame scored on its next possession to make it 34-26.

Another interception for a touchdown — this time by Ben McDonald — was also nullified on an illegal block. The Devils would ultimately need majors from

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Personal Real Estate Corporation McKee Seniors Centre

47th Avenue

Pioneer Library

Lawn Bowling

604.394.2018 www.deltagreen.ca info@deltagreen.ca

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

RE/MAX City Realty & RE/MAX Progroup Realty Offices are independently owned & operated.

This is currently not an offering for sale. Such an offer can only be made after filing a disclosure statement.

October 17, 2019 The Delta Optimist A41

Over A Quarter-Century Of Experience

SOLD

Take Comfort By Working Directly

$1,025,000

$898,800

TOWNHOUSE WITH MASTER ON MAIN #96 5900 FERRY RD 3 BEDS / 3 BATHS / 2,245 SQ. FT. NEW PRICE $1,025,000

CENTRAL TSAWWASSEN 3 BED RANCHER 5479 WILDWOOD CRES 3 BEDS / 2 BATHS / 1572 SQ. FT. OFFERED AT $898,800

$399,999

$1,675,000

With A Leader, A RE/MAX Titan.

RICHMOND CONDO - END UNIT! 214 8600 GENERAL CURRIE ROAD 1 BED / 1 BATH / 826 SQ. FT. NEW PRICE $399,999

SOLD $825,000 BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME HERE! 136 66A STREET - LOT ONLY 5445 SQ. FT. LOT OFFERED AT $825,000

SOLD

$1,250,000

$989,000

PERFECT FAMILY HOME IN THE VILLAGE 1073 SHAMAN CRES 5 BEDS / 4 BATHS / 3016 SQ. FT. OFFERED AT $1,250,000

CENTRALLY LOCATED 4 BED HOME 4930 WESTMINSTER AVE 4 BEDS / 3 BATHS / 2196 SQ. FT. OFFERED AT $989,000

3 BED RANCHER #11 5260 FERRY RD 3 BEDS / 2 BATHS / 1,546 SQ. FT. OFFERED AT $869,000

50 PROPERTIES SOLD THIS YEAR TO DATE!

FALL IS UPON US!

SERVING CLIENTS IN

THINKING OF

Richmond, Ladner, Tsawwassen, White Rock

LISTING

$869,000

BRAND NEW BOUNDARY BAY HOME!!!

253 66A ST 4 BEDS / 4 BATHS / 2,348 SQ. FT. NEW PRICE $1,675,000

YOUR HOME? NOW IS THE TIME!

CALL US AT (604) 946-8000 EMAIL US AT AILEEN@AILEENNOGUER.COM SEE MORE AT AILEENNOGUER.COM

SOLD

SOLD $1,260,000

$1,199,000 SPACIOUS, CENTRALLY LOCATED, FAMILY HOME 3411 ROSEMARY HEIGHTS CR. SOUTH SURREY 4 BED / 4 BATH / 3,005 SQ. FT. OFFERED AT $1,199,000

7502 SQ FT LOT IN PEBBLE HILL 5250 WALLACE AVE 6 BEDS / 4 BATHS / 3,200 SQ. FT. OFFERED AT $1,260,000

AILEEN NOGUER SOLD $1,229,999 4 BED HOME IN QUIET LOCATION 5616 GOLDENROD CR 4 BEDS / 3 BATHS / 2,777 SQ. FT. NEW PRICE $1,229,999

SOLD

REALTOR®

PERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORPORATION

CARA SCHNEIDER REALTOR®

$649,000 HERON COVE PENTHOUSE W/ 2 PARKING #205 1704 56 St 2 BEDS / 2 BATH / 1,204 SQ. FT. OFFERED AT $649,000

RE/MAX PROGROUP REALTY 5360 12TH AVENUE, DELTA, BC, V4M 2B3

A42 The Delta Optimist October 17, 2019

IN THE HEART OF TSAWWASSEN

UPdATEd WINdSOR WOOdS cONdO

RE/MAX® Progroup Realty 5360 12th Ave, Delta, BC V4M 2B3

• 759 sq ft %on$o with large bal%ony • 1 be$room, 1 bathroom • New flooring, applian%es, light fixtures, an$ fire surroun$

W G NE T I N S LI

• 730 sq ft %on$o with large bal%ony • 1 be$room, 1 bathroom • Overloo!ing pea%eful green spa%e

• Steps to shops, restaurants, an$ more

• Steps to shops an$ restaurants

302-5556 14 AVENUE, TSAWWASSEN

202-5518 14 AVENUE, TSAWWASSEN

$389,900

FAIREHARBOUR TOWNHOME

$399,900

SUNNINGdALE 2 BEdROOM

• 1080 sq ft with private patio

• 959 sq ft %on$o with bal%ony

• 2 be$rooms, 1 bathroom

• 2 be$rooms, 2 bathrooms

• Bright & fun%tional living area

• Up$ates in%l. flooring, paint, an$ applian%es

• Many up$ates throughout

• centrally lo%ate$ an$ %lose to everything 4736 48B STREET, LAdNER

$439,900

UPdATEd UNIT AT OASIS

$464,900

LAdNER VILLAGE GATE

• 1152 sq ft unit with yar$

• 917 sq ft %orner unit

• Up$ate$ !it%hen, flooring, an$ win$ows

• 2 be$rooms, 1 bathroom

• Family frien$ly %omplex

• comfortable living area with gourmet !it%hen

• close to s%hool, shops, an$ transit

• Steps to all La$ner Village has to offer

20-4949 57 STREET, LAdNER

202-4755 51 STREET, LAdNER

$499,900

kEIRA GARdENS TOWNHOUSE W G NE TIN S I L

203-4758 53 STREET, LAdNER

• 1032 sq ft, 3 level townhouse • 2 be$rooms, 2 bathrooms • Mo$ern appointments throughout • Easy wal! to s%hools, shops, an$ amenities

208-4808 LINdEN dRIVE, LAdNER

$529,900

STREET LEVEL RETAIL AT NORTHGATE

$499,900

HARBOURSIdE 3 LEVEL TOWNHOME • 1521 sq ft townhome with large patio • 4 be$rooms, 2 bathrooms • Fully finishe$ lower level for extra living spa%e • Steps to shops, The Village, an$ more

4842 TURNBUckLE WYNd, LAdNER

$549,900

BEAUTIFULLY UPdATEd TOWNHOME

• 544 sq ft groun$ level retail spa%e

• 1241 sq townhome with private yar$

• Oversize$ out$oor area for patio or VIP par!ing

• 2 be$rooms, 3 bathrooms

• Offi%e buil$ing above with spa an$ professional offi%es • Great opportunity to run business or lease out 104-1777 56 STREET, TSAWWASSEN

$598,000 #1 TEAM IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 2017*

• Up$ate$ throughout with lovely newer !it%hen • Steps to all The Village has to offer

4965 RIVER REAcH, LAdNER

$599,000

#2 RE/MAX® TEAM IN WESTERN CANADA 2017**

*Based on total REBGV sales 2017. **Based on total residential commissions in 2017 for all RE/MAX associates in Canada.

October 17, 2019 The Delta Optimist A43

UPDATED RIVER WEST 2 BDRM

BEautiFul aERiE WalK tOWnHOME W G NE TIN S LI

• 1381 sq f" "ow#home w%"h fe#ce& y'r&

• 1242 sq f" co#&o w%"h overs%ze& s!#&eck

• 3 be&rooms, 3 b'"hrooms

• 2 be&rooms, 2 b'"hroom • Be'!"%f!$$y !p&'"e& "hro!gho!"

• S"eps "o oce'#s%&e bo'r&w'$k '#& gree# sp'ces

• Q!%e" $oc'"%o# over$ook%#g co!r"y'r&

• M%#s "o shops '#& '$$ 'me#%"%es

204-4733 W RIVER ROAD, LADNER

505-4688 HaWK lanE, tSaWWaSSEn

$599,900

$599,900

SOUGHT AFTER SOUTH POINTE

LARGE FAIRWAY ESTATES 2 BEDROOM

• 900 sq f" home o# 4133 sq f" $o"

• 1424 sq f" co&#o w%"h go$f co!rse v%ew

• 2 be&rooms, 1 b'"hroom (p$!mbe& for seco#&)

• 2 be&rooms & &e#, 2 b'"hrooms • Br%gh" & sp'c%o!s, me"%c!$o!s$y m'%#"'%#e&

• l'rge SW f'c%#g y'r&, perfec" for g'r&e#ers

• W'$k "o shops, res"'!r'#"s, '#& 'me#%"%es

• Q!%e", c!$-&e-s'c $oc'"%o# w%"h fr%e#&$y #e%ghbo!rs 5359 JIBSET BAY, LADNER

a202-1258 HuntER ROad, tSaWWaSSEn

$629,900

$649,900

TSAWWASSEN SPRINGS • 1022 sq f" co#&o w%"h br%gh" So!"h expos!re

DESIRABLE EDGEWATER TOWNHOUSE W G NE TIN S LI

• 2 be&rooms, 2 b'"hrooms

• 4 be&rooms, 2 b'"hrooms

• K%#g-s%ze& m's"er w%"h e#s!%"e & w'$k %# c$ose"

• up&'"es %#c$!&e k%"che# '#& b'"hrooms

• Resor" s"y$e $%v%#g, 2 p'rk%#g sp'ces

• F'm%$y fr%e#&$y comp$ex w%"h p'rks '#& poo$

302-4977 SPRINGS BOULEVARD, TSAWWASSEN

191-3031 WilliaMS ROad

$649,900

$739,900

AFFORDABLE FAMILY HOME

HALF DUPLEX WITH IN-LAW SUITE

• 2200 sq f" home o# 5605 sq f" $o"

• 2340 sq f" home o# 5605 sq f" $o"

• 3 be&rooms, 3 b'"hrooms

• 4 be&rooms, 3 b'"hrooms

• E'sy 'ccess "o '$$ 'me#%"%es

• M%#!"es "o '$$ 'me#%"%es

• Poss%b$e f!"!re &eve$opme#"

• Poss%b%$%"y for f!"!re &eve$opme#"

5596 6 AVENUE, TSAWWASSEN

5586 6 AVENUE, TSAWWASSEN

$850,000

$850,000

IN THE HEART OF THE VILLAGE

CENTRALLY LOCATED FAMILY HOME W G NE TIN S LI

• 1726 sq f" home o# 6036 sq f" $o" • 3 be&rooms, 3 b'"hrooms

W G NE TIN S I L

• 1877 sq f" home b!%$" %# 2017 • 4 be&rooms, 4 b'"hrooms

• love$y $ow m'%#"e#'#ce y'r& w%"h po#&s

• Ope# co#cep" k%"che# '#& $%v%#g 're'

• loc'"e& c$ose "o schoo$s, shops, '#& 'me#%"%es

• S"eps "o l'&#er V%$$'ge shops '#& res"'!r'#"s

5608 48B AVENUE, LADNER

4851 ElliS lanE, ladnER

$879,900 #8 RE/MAX® TEAM IN CANADA 2017**

• 1490 sq f" "ow#ho!se w%"h $'rge, fe#ce& y'r&

$899,900

#23 RE/MAX® TEAM WORLDWIDE 2017***

*** Based on total residential and commercial commissions combined in 2017 for all RE/MAX associates worldwide (over 100,000 agents). As recognized by the RE/MAX INTERNATIONAL achievement award given to Fraser and/or Fraser and his team for 2017.

A44 The Delta Optimist October 17, 2019 RE/MAX® Progroup Realty 5360 12th Ave, Delta, BC V4M 2B3

MiD-CenTURY insPiReD HOMe

QUieT faMilY neigHBOURHOOD W G NE TIN S LI

• 2172 (q $t hom% o+ 7029 (q $t ,ot • 4 b%droom(, 3 b*throom(

W G NE TIN S LI

• f*m",y $r"%+d,y cu,-d%-(*c ,o*ct"o+

• 1688 (q $t hom% o+ 8267 (q $t ,ot • 4 b%droom(, 2 b*throom( • B%*ut"$u, po(t *+d b%*+ *rch"t%ctur%

• M"+ut%( to (choo,( *+d (hop(

• M"+ut%( to *,, ,oc*, *m%+"t"t%(

5279 Oak PlaCe, laDneR

937 gale DRiVe, Tsawwassen

$919,900

$939,900

CUl-De-saC faMilY HOMe

gOlf COURse & MOUnTain Views W G NE TIN S I L

• 1737 (q $t hom% o+ 3875 (q $t ,ot

• 1359 (q $t cor+%r u+"t &"th ,*r#% (tor*#% room

• 3 b%droom(, 3 b*throom(

• 2 b%droom( & d%+, 2 b*throom( • H"#h-%+d fi+"(h"+#( throu#hout

• Upd*t%( "+c,ud% !"tch%+ *+d +%& roo$

• B%*ut"$u, v"%&( *+d m"+( to *,, *m%+"t"%(

• su++y, m*+"cur%d y*rd &"th "+v"t"+# p*t"o

209-5011 sPRings BOUleVaRD, Tsawwassen

5393 BRiganTine ROaD, laDneR

$989,900

$959,900

UPDATED HOLLY FAMILY HOME • 1911 (q $t hom% o+ 5029 (q $t ,ot • 4 b%droom(, 3 b*throom(

BOUnDaRY BaY RanCHeR W G NE TIN S LI

• 1609 (q $t hom% o+ 6246 (q $t ,ot • 3 b%droom(, 2 b*throom(

• B%*ut"$u,,y upd*t%d throu#hout

• 2 d%t*ch%d (h%d(, o+% &"th po&%r

• Qu"%t, ,o& tr*$fic (tr%%t, o+,y (t%p( to Ho,,y e,%m%+t*ry

• O+,y 1 b,oc! $rom th% b%*ch

6161 Dawn DRiVe, laDneR

236 66a sTReeT, Tsawwassen

$999,800

BeaUTifUl PeBBle Hill faMilY HOMe

$1,048,800

RenOVaTeD wesT laDneR HOMe

• 2796 (q $t hom% o+ 7793 (q $t ,ot

• 2429 (q $t hom% o+ 7606 (q $t ,ot

• 4 b%droom(, 3 b*throom(

• 5 b%droom(, 3 b*throom(

• stu++"+# v"%&( o$ north(hor% Mt+( & Bou+d*ry B*y

• Upd*t%d !"tch%+, b*throom(, floor"+#, *+d mor%

• e+t%rt*"+%r’( dr%*m op%+ ,"v"+# *r%* & outdoor (p*c%

• wr*p *rou+d d%c! *+d (u++y, &%(t %xpo(%d b*c! y*rd

474 TRalee CResCenT, Tsawwassen

5063 59 sTReeT, laDneR

$1,098,800

LOVELY CLIFF DRIVE FAMILY HOME • 1773 (q $t hom% o+ 8482 (q $t ,ot • 4 b%droom(, 2 b*throom( • s"+#,% c*rport p,u( op%+ p*r!"+# • C,o(% to (choo,(, p*r!(, *+d mor%

$1,148,800

PRIME WATERFRONT LOCATION • 6210 (q $t th*t do%(+’t r%qu"r% * &*t%r ,%*(% • 33’ co+cr%t% doc! r%*dy $or flo*thom% or bo*t • RV p*r!"+# &"th hoo!-up( • 2 cu(tom 100 (q $t (h%d(

5153 Cliff DRiVe, Tsawwassen

$1,198,800 #1 TEAM IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 2017*

4495 W RIVER ROAD, LADNER

$1,198,800

#2 RE/MAX® TEAM IN WESTERN CANADA 2017**

*Based on total REBGV sales 2017. **Based on total residential commissions in 2017 for all RE/MAX associates in Canada.

October 17, 2019 The Delta Optimist A45

BEaUTIFUL FaMILY BEaCH HOME

ENJOY THE COUNTrY LIFE • 3980 sq ft home on ne$"ly 2 $c"es

• 2511 sq ft home on 5756 sq ft lot

• 2 be#"ooms, 3 b$th"ooms

• 4 be#"ooms, 3 b$th"ooms

• Liv$ble home but nee#s some TLC

• Extensively up#$te# th"oughout incl ne!e" "oof

• Quiet, count"y living yet only minutes to $ll $menities

• d"e$m ente"t$ine"’s b$cky$"# !ith s$lt!$te" pool

3475 41B STrEET, LadNEr

250 67 STrEET, TSawwaSSEN

$1,358,800

$1,298,000

FARM AND MOUNTAIN VIEWS

STUNNING CUSTOM HOME

• 1570 sq ft home on 9319 sq ft lot

• 2516 sq ft home on 4684 sq ft lot

• 3 be#"ooms, 1 b$th"oom

• 4 be#"ooms, 4 b$th"ooms

• E$sy $ccess to $ll $menities

• Be$utiful open g"e$t "oom #esign

• G"e$t investment fo" futu"e #evelopment

• P"iv$te b$cky$"# !ith vie!s onto the 7th g"een

553 56 STREET, TSAWWASSEN

5844 COVE REACH ROAD, LADNER

$1,399,000

$1,415,000

SPECTaCULar NEwEr HOME

STUNNING FaMILY HOME • 3982 sq ft home on 13,185 sq ft lot • 6 be#"ooms, 5 b$th"ooms

W G NE TIN S LI

• 4 be#"ooms, 4 b$th"ooms

• Open concept living !ith gou"met kitchen

• Exception$lly #esigne# $n# !ell built home

• Leg$l, self-cont$ine# 1 b#"m suite $bove g$"$ge

• Steps to schools, L$#ne" Vill$ge, $n# $menities 4499 47 STrEET, LadNEr

5009 CENTRAL AVENUE, LADNER

$1,598,800

$1,598,000

HUGE LOT IN GrEaT LOCaTION

FaNTaSTIC INVESTMENT OPPOrTUNITY

• 2466 sq ft home on 20,440 sq ft lot

• 6000 sq ft #uplex on 11,216 sq ft lot

• 2 be#"ooms, 3 b$th"ooms

• 3 be#"ooms, 2 b$th"ooms on e$ch si#e

• Potenti$lly sub-#ivi#$ble lot • w$lk to shops $n# $ll $menities

• G"e$t investment no! $n# fo" futu"e #evelopment

4959 LINDEN DRIVE, LADNER

575-577 56 STrEET, TSawwaSSEN

• Close to to!n cent"e $n# $ll $menities

$1,650,000

$1,682,800 LarGE HOLLY PrOPErTY

NEwEr CUSTOM BUILT HOME • 3500 sq ft home on 8506 sq ft lot • 5 be#"ooms, 6 b$th"ooms

W G NE TIN S I L

• 1344 sq ft home on 13,067 sq ft lot • 3 be#"ooms, 2 b$th"ooms

• Open concept !ith m$ssive gou"met kitchen

• Close to Holly Element$"y & e$sy H!y $ccess

• Close to schools $n# $ll $menities

• Possibility fo" futu"e "e-#evelopment

5415 WESTMINSTER AVENUE, LADNER

4752 60B STrEET, LadNEr

$1,698,800

#8 RE/MAX® TEAM IN CANADA 2017**

• 2854 sq ft home on 7570 co"ne" lot

$1,799,900

#23 RE/MAX® TEAM WORLDWIDE 2017***

*** Based on total residential and commercial commissions combined in 2017 for all RE/MAX associates worldwide (over 100,000 agents). As recognized by the RE/MAX INTERNATIONAL achievement award given to Fraser and/or Fraser and his team for 2017.

A46 The Delta Optimist October 17, 2019

HUGE LOT In THE vILLAGE

RE/MAX® Progroup Realty 5360 12th Ave, Delta, BC V4M 2B3

STUnnInG LUXUrY rESIDEnCE

• 2618 sq ft home o% 20,632 sq ft lot

• 3619 sq ft home o% 8413 sq ft lot

• 4 bed#ooms, 3 bath#ooms

• 4 bed#ooms, 6 bath#ooms

• Mid-ce%tu#y desig% !ith update th#oughout

• O"e# T!o Millio% Dolla#s i% upg#ades

• P#i"ate pa#k-like setti%g pe#fect fo# e%te#tai%i%g

• Ja!-d#oppi%g pool a%d ya#d that #i"als a 5-sta# #eso#t

847 PACIFIC DrIvE, TSAwwASSEn

4956 1A AvEnUE, TSAwwASSEn

$1,850,000

$1,998,800

BOUnDArY BAY CUSTOM HOME • 3281 sq ft home o% 10,891 sq ft lot • 3 bed#ooms, 4 bath#ooms

W G NE TIN S I L

• 3484 sq ft home o% 6834 sq ft lot • 4 bed#ooms, 4 bath#ooms

• Spacious, ope% co%cept li"i%g space

• High-e%d fi%ishi%gs th#oughout & ope% co%cept desig%

• Outdoo# li"i%g a#ea !ith pool, hot tub, heate#s, a%d mo#e

• Situated o% Beach G#o"e Golf Cou#se

43 67 STrEET, TSAwwASSEn

1190 JACKSON WAY, TSAWWASSEN

$2,198,800

rArELY AvAILABLE LOCATIOn

$2,298,800

BEAUTIFUL CUSTOM BUILT HOME

• 2900 sq ft home o% 2 ac#es

• 5282 sq ft home o% 14,122 sq ft lot

• 5 bed#ooms, 3 bath#ooms

• 4 bed#ooms, 5 bath#ooms

• rece%tly #e%o"ated !ith a% ope% co%cept desig%

• High e%d fi%ishi%gs th#oughout

• Cou%t#y li"i%g yet mi%s to shops a%d ame%ities 4863 36 AvEnUE, LADnEr

$2,388,800

nEw LUXUrY MODErn DrEAM HOME W G NE TIN S I L

BrAnD nEw ULTrA MODErn HOME

• 5810 sq ft home o% 12,345 sq ft lot • 5 bed#ooms, 7 bath#ooms • Ope% co%cept li"i%g a#ea !ith gou#met kitche% & !ok kitche% • U%obst#ucted Diefe%bake# Pa#k "ie!s

5393 1A AvEnUE, TSAwwASSEn

$3,588,000

23 ACrE EQUESTrIAn CEnTrE

• O"e#looki%g Beach G#o"e GC fai#!ays

1183 JACKSON WAY, TSAWWASSEN

$2,898,800

PAnOrAMIC OCEAn vIEwS • 5161 sq ft home o% massi"e 27,650 sq ft lot • ve#y li"able, a#chitectu#ally desig%ed home • Sub-di"idable i%to 2 lots o# build a d#eam Estate • 2 #oad f#o%tages (G#aham D# & E%glish Bluff rd) • Each lot a"ailable fo# $2,998,800 210 GrAHAM DrIvE, TSAwwASSEn

$5,888,000 PrIME FArMLAnD

• 23 ac#es !ith 3 li"able homes

• 135.73 ac#es of fe#tile la%d

• Adjace%t to Delta Po#t way

• P#ope#ty has 3 sepa#ate homes

• Close to %e! i%dust#ial pa#k & mall

• ra#e oppo#tu%ity to buy f#om lo%g time o!%e#s

• East access to H!y 17, 17A, 99, a%d fe##ies

2990 57B STrEET, LADnEr

$9,868,800 #1 TEAM IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 2017*

• Easy high!ay access & o%ly 30 mi%s to va%cou"e#

3820 64 STrEET, LADnEr

$11,888,000

#2 RE/MAX® TEAM IN WESTERN CANADA 2017**

*Based on total REBGV sales 2017. **Based on total residential commissions in 2017 for all RE/MAX associates in Canada.

October 17, 2019 The Delta Optimist A47 RE/MAX® Progroup Realty 5360 12th Ave, Delta, BC V4M 2B3

OUR TESTIMONIALS SPEAK THEMSELVES! IN THIS MARKET YOU NEED THEFOR MARKET LEADERS!

Amy MCFee Unlicensed Assistant

Julie Crouch REALTOR®

Rachel MacInnes REALTOR®

Garrett Chu REALTOR®

Fraser Elliott REALTOR®

Philip Seel REALTOR®

Michelle Wright REALTOR®

Bob Cooke REALTOR®

Austen Langill REALTOR®

#1 REAL ESTATE TEAM IN LADNER / TSAWWASSEN

2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,2015, 2016, 2017, 2018!

*

#1 TEAM FOR SALES IN GREATER VANCOUVER IN 2018!

*

Call Fraser and his team today for proven results, top-notch marketing, unbeatable systems and worldwide award-winning service!

• UNBEATABLE FULLCOLOUR LOCAL PRINT ADVERTISING • EXCLUSIVE LISTING MAGAZINE • VANCOUVER SUN ADVERTISING • MING PAO CHINESE NEWSPAPER

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• GOOGLE ADWORDS CAMPAIGNS DRIVING HUGE TRAFFIC TO OUR WEBSITE • MASSIVE CLIENT DATABASE AND BUYER LIST • LARGE VANCOUVERWIDE REALTOR® EMAIL DISTRIBUTION LIST

• PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIRTUAL TOUR OF YOUR PROPERTY • PROFESSIONAL STAGING ADVICE • EXPERIENCED REALTOR® AT ALL SHOWINGS

CALL FOR A FREE HOME EVALUATION RE/MAX® Progroup Realty 5360 12th Ave, Delta BC V4M 2B3 *Based on total REBGV MLS sales for 2018 all teams under 20 Agents. **For total residential and commercial commissions combined in 2017 for all RE/MAX® associates in Canada. ***For total residential and commercial commissions combined in 2017 out of over 100,000 RE/MAX® sales associates worldwide. As recognized by the RE/MAX® INTERNATIONAL achievement award to Fraser and his team for 2017.

A48 The Delta Optimist October 17, 2019

NEAR VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA BID OCTOBER 28–30

Previously Offered for $3.988M. Reserve $3M.

Previously Offered for $2.388M. Reserve $1.6M.

TWO RESERVE AUCTIONS SELLING TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. ConciergeAuctions.com | +1 646.760.7823 This property is listed for sale by Amil Shah and David Foster of 2 Percent Westview Realty (#X031159) #238 7080 River Rd, Richmond, BC, V6X 1X5; 778-371-3471. Concierge Auctions, ULC is a marketing service provider for auctions and is not a licensed Real Estate broker — 100 King Street West, Ste 5600, Toronto, ON, M5X 1C9, Canada; +1 (212) 202-2940. The services referred to herein are not available to residents of any state where prohibited by applicable state law. Concierge Auctions, LLC, its agents and affiliates, broker partners, auctioneer, and sellers do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any information and shall have no liability for errors or omissions or inaccuracies under any circumstances in this or any other property listings or advertising, promotional or publicity statements and materials. This is not meant as a solicitation for listings. Brokers are protected and encouraged to participate. Equal Housing Opportunity. See Auction Terms and Conditions for full details.

October 17, 2019 The Delta Optimist A49

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In loving memory of our beautiful Mother, who left us sixty years ago on October 19, 1959 at the age of thirty-nine.

Time passes but memories stay, There is no greater love than that of a Mothers; her heart is within us, and ours in hers.

Happy Birthday!

Our lives go on without you, but nothing is the same, We have to hide our heartache when someone speaks your name.

Sad are the hearts that loved you, silent are the tears that fall, Living our lives without you Mom, is the hardest part of all.

You did so many things for us, your heart was kind and true, And when we needed someone…. we could always count on you.

Those special years will not return, when we were all together But with love within our hearts, you will walk with us forever.

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CYRE, Victor J. March 22, 1929 − October 04, 2019

STUART, Bill 1936 - 2019 Left to celebrate Bill’s memory are his beloved wife Bette and his two loving daughters Beth (Wolfgang) and Susan (Aaron) and his grandchildren and great grandchildren, along with his beloved sister Gale (Fred), Penny, Mary (Mike), Liz (Kevin) and his brother-in-law Bill (Kathy) and all their families.

Bill taught his clan integrity, respect and the power of maintaining a positive attitude. You could always depend on his honesty and sense of fairness.

Bill enjoyed a successful life. He set his goals high and shared a fulfilling and happy life with his family and friends.

He will be forever missed, but the values he taught his family will be passed down and practiced for generations to come.

Service and Dedication will begin at 2 pm at the Coast Hotel, Tsawwassen followed by a Celebration of Life on October 20, 2019.

Vic passed away peacefully in the early morning of October 4, 2019. He was predeceased by his loving wife of 64 years, Lucia Marie Cyre. He is survived by his five children: Marilynn Janzen, Paul (Judy) Cyre, Leanne (Dennis) Ohman, Janel (Doug) Young and Angela Cyre, ten grandchildren, twelve great grandchildren and one great, great grandchild.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, November 10, 1:00 pm at Kirkland House, 4140 Arthur Drive, Ladner, BC.

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Beverley, Charles (Michelle), Dwayne (Diane), Rodney (Lisa), Keith, Joann, James (Chrystal), Chris, Katie, Denise, Anthony (Kasha), Riley, Ezra, and Emily, invite you to join them in celebrating Ed’s life at the Saviour Lutheran Church in Ladner on October 26 at 2 pm.

After 20 plus years in Logan Lake, BC, Vic and Lou retired to Kamloops, BC and then spent the last years in Tsawwassen, BC.

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ASKIN, Edgar ‘Peanuts’ March 29, 1928 - September 11, 2019

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In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to KinVillage WestCourt in memory of Victor Cyre, 4510 10th Avenue, Delta, BC V4M 3X8.

HUTCHINSON, Leah August 29, 1934 − October 12, 2019 It is with deep sorrow we announce the passing of our mother, Leah Hutchinson, age 85.

Predeceased by her father, Thomas Reginald Hutchinson, and mother, Mary Wahl. Survived by her sisters, Marion de Montigny, Alana (Peter) Wallin, and Helen (Jerry) Trainer; brother, John (Myra) Wahl; and children, Brian (Anita) Wahl, Gordon (Shauna) Wahl, Connie (Phil) Waddell, Calvin Wahl, and Tammy (Dan) Harder; as well as many nieces, nephews, grandchildren, and great− grandchildren.

We would like to express our gratitude to Delta Lodge for all of their loving care throughout the years, as well as Delta Hospice where Mom spent her last few days in peace and comfort.

Service will be held at The Trinity Lutheran Church in Delta at 1 pm on October 19th, 2019. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Delta Hospice Society.

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SWITZER, Robert Victor May 8, 1943 − October 9, 2019 Bob passed away at Irene Thomas Hospice after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Bob fought cancer with such grace and dignity and was an inspiration to many. His motto was to always be positive and smiling.

Bob worked as Deputy and Chief Building Official for the City of Richmond for 21 years. He also worked for Polygon Homes as Senior Vice President for 11 years. Bob loved fishing and camping with his friends but mostly cherished his time at Black Mountain Ranch. He will be greatly missed by Jackie, his wife of 51 years; sons, Colin (Jenn) and Matthew (Jessica); and his grandchildren, Lucas and Leona. Many thanks to Dr. Yun and the nurses at Richmond General Cancer Clinic.

No service by request. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Delta Hospice Society may be made.

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GENERAL EMPLOYMENT Wanted: (5) Farm Workers in Delta

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October 17, 2019 The Delta Optimist A53

$

100 00

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2019 CR R-V LX

BES ST-IN--CLASS COMBINED FUEL ECONOMY

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Honda Sensing™ Multi-Angle Safety Technologies Rearview Camera

Apple CarPlay™ & Android Auto™

#Limited time lease offer is from Honda Canada Finance Inc. (HCFI), on approved credit. Lease details: New 2019 CR-V LX 2WD (RW1H3KES) / Civic Sedan DX Manual (FC2E2KEX) for a 60/48-month period, for a total of 260/208 weekly payments of $77/$53, leased at 2.99%/0.99% APR. 20,000-kilometre annual allowance (12 cents/km excess charge). Total lease obligation is $20,015/$11,060.

Lease payments include freight and PDI of $1,815/$1,655 and applicable fees, but do not include lien registration fee (up to $85 in certain regions) and lien registering agent fee (up to $6), which are due at time of delivery. No down-payment required. Taxes, insurance, license, and registration fees (all of which may vary by region) are extra. β “Honda Bonus” lease or finance cash of $1,000/$500 on select in-stock 2019 CR-V/Civic models is available on lease or finance transactions from HCFI on approved credit only, deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes. Excludes Type R. Offers end October 31, 2019 and are subject to change or cancellation without notice. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer trade may be necessary. Offer available only at participating Honda dealers in BC. Offers valid on select new in-stock 2019 vehicles. While quantities last. Models may not be equipped as shown and are for illustration purposes only. †Based on vehicles available in the U.S. market. For more information, visit KBB.com. ¥“Best-in-class” claim is based on combined fuel consumption for 2019 CRV LX AWD based on 2019 Fuel Consumption Guide ratings for non-hybrid AWD compact SUVs, published by Natural Resources Canada (NRC), using Transport Canada test methods used which do not necessarily reflect real world driving, and are for comparison purposes only. Actual fuel consumption will vary from NRC estimates based on driving conditions, driving habits, cargo loads, accessories and other factors. Apple CarPlay is provided by, and a trademark of Apple Inc. Android Auto is provided by, and a trademark of Google Inc. Only compatible with certain devices and operating systems. Cellular data and/or voice charges may apply, including roaming charges and/or other amounts charged by your wireless carrier. Use of the Apple CarPlay logo means that a vehicle user interface meets Apple performance standards. Apple is not responsible for the operation of this vehicle or its compliance with safety and regulatory standards. Please note that the use of this product with iPhone, iPod, or iPad may affect wireless performance. For additional feature information, limitations and restrictions, please visit www.honda.ca/disclaimers and refer to the vehicle’s Owner’s Manual. © 2019 Honda Canada Inc. Visit Honda.ca or your Honda dealer for details.

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3 Days of Smiles Friday, October 18 – Sunday, October 20

Sterling Silver

Beef Striploin Steaks

Get

when you spend $100 or more on groceries in one transaction*

Family Size Savings $22.02/kg

On Sale

9

100

Bonus Miles

99

*Coupon valid Friday, October 18 – Sunday, October 20, 2019 at all Thrifty Foods locations in BC excluding Liquor Stores, redeemable in-store only. Receive 100 Bonus Miles when you spend $100 or more on groceries in a single transaction. AIR MILES Card must be scanned as part of the transaction. No cash value, non-extendable and non-transferable. Cannot be combined with similar Spend/Get offers. Minimum spend excludes purchases of lottery, tobacco, gift cards, prescriptions, Tim Hortons® coffee, applicable tax and/or enviro fees, deposits or charges and other goods and services as specified. This coupon must be presented at the time of qualifying purchase. Miles take up to 14 business days to appear in your account. ®™ Trademarks of AM Royalties Limited Partnership used under license by LoyaltyOne, Co. Partner and Supplier and Retailer trademarks are owned by the respective Partner, Supplier, and Retailer or authorized for their use in Canada.

PLU 95711

Per lb

You Save $6/lb

Fresh Extra Lean Ground Beef

Family Size Savings $8.80/kg

Strawberries

Grown in California 1lb/454g Pack Reg g u la r Re t a il : $5.99 Each

1

On Sale

399 Per lb

Bergen Farms

Frozzen Fruit

Grown in Qualicum or Abbotsford 1.8kg Regular Retail: $19.9 99 Each

1

You Save $2/lb

Marina Del Rey

Compliments

Raw, Peeled and Deveined 20–40 to the lb Frozen, 340g Regular Retail: $15.49 Each

Packaged in Nanaimo 700g

Wild Argentinian Shrimp

1

Cheese

Regular Retail: $12.99– $14.99 Each

1

Olympic Yogurt Krema 500g or Organic Grass Fed 325g Made in Delta (Excludes Krema Pumpkin Spice 500g) Regular Retail: $3.99–$4.9 99 Each

1 Fresh (Never Fro ozen) Alaskan Red King Crab Clu usters Cooked While Qua antities Last $45.31/lb

On Sale

Back for one week only!

Fresh, never frozen Alaskan Red King Crab offers an incomparable eating experience; indulge while you can!

Specials in effect until WED, October 23, 2019

9

99

Per 100g