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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017
Second fatal accident in Delta in ’17 IAN JACQUES
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Just over 1,500 voters submitted forms opposing Delta’s proposed name change, well short of the almost 7,000 needed to stop it.
Name change on track
Council moves forward with city designation after opposition falls well short SANDOR GYARMATI
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What’s in a name? Plenty, according to Delta council and civic officials, who are moving forward with a plan to officially change the municipality’s title from the Corporation of Delta to City of
Delta. Civic politicians decided Monday to proceed to the next step by submitting a request to the province after insufficient opposition from local voters. “Time has moved on from some of these old terms,” said Mayor Lois Jackson. The idea came about earlier
this year when a civic delegation to Rotterdam, Netherlands found having “corporation” in Delta’s official name created a mistaken assumption Delta was a private business. The same problem occurred during a visit to Ottawa, said CAO George Harvie. Updating the name would
remove that problem, increasing Delta’s identity and role as a local government, he said. The only way residents could block the change was for at least 10 per cent of eligible voters to submit an elector response form registering their opposition by the March 31 deadline. JUST: see Page 4
A series of serious accidents, including another fatality, has Delta police’s top cop urging the public to slow down. During a 24-hour period last week, three accidents on Delta roadways saw police respond to the second fatality of 2017 while six other people were sent to hospital with various injuries. “Our goal was set out to have zero fatalities, and unfortunately we have not met that goal this year with Chief Neil two fatal Dubord accidents already,” said Chief Neil Dubord. “It continues to underscore the importance of us having a good traffic safety management program here in Delta.” A 56-year-old Surrey resident was killed in a truck accident in the 8200-block of River Road just before 11 p.m. Thursday. According to police, it appears the driver of the tractor-trailer lost control and slid into a hydro pole before the truck rolled onto its roof, trapping the driver. Emergency crews attempted to remove the driver from the vehicle, but he died at the scene. The first fatality of the year was a 40-year-old man from Surrey who died in a latenight, two-vehicle collision on Deltaport Way in late March. RIVER: see Page 3
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