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When Jas Singh began growing food for the Surrey Food Bank in 2011, he produced 62,000 pounds of potatoes on three acres of land. Now in year three, God’s Little Acre farm has grown to 34 acres and is expected to yield a crop of 265,000 pounds. The bounty, which includes carrots, red potatoes, green beans, mixed squash and cucumber, will be dispersed to several Lower Mainland food banks. There’s only one problem: more hands are needed to pick the vegetables before they spoil. “We don’t want to waste all of that crop,” Singh said. Already, 2,000 heads of cauliflower, 1,000 heads of broccoli and 1,000 heads of lettuce have gone bad. With a farm this size, Singh said there’s a lot of preharvest work and a massive amount of weeding to do. Current volunteers are busy with the farm’s upkeep, and more are needed for the food that’s ready to pick. Singh is putting out a call to the public

Jas Singh at God’s Little Acre farm, at 16582 40th Ave. in Surrey. (Photo: AMY REID) with the hope that people will help pick the produce, so it can make it onto food bank shelves. “There’s 15,000 pounds of squash ready, 10 people here for an hour could knock that off,” he said. He is hoping for 100 volunteers every Saturday and said volunteers will receive free produce as thanks. For the past two years, Singh has funded the project by trucking on the weekends and in the winter. This year, he hasn’t done that and has instead put all of his time into God’s Little Acre – all he has to his name is an old pickup truck. He began farm preparation in February and for the last two months he’s been at

God’s Little Acre seven days a week, literally from sun up to sun down. To make the project self-sustainable, and to hopefully pay himself a minimal salary, Singh has grown four acres of pickling cucumbers that he is selling. He urges the public to support God’s Little Acre by purchasing cucumbers. “Everyone who comes to buy cucumbers I consider an absolute hero. Everybody loves this project, but it’s very hard. I won’t give up, but it’s hard – we need some help in here.” He’s charging $28 for 20 pounds of cucumbers – and he’ll even throw in a bag of free carrots. “Without the public’s help to buy the farm’s no-pesticide-herbicide dill cukes,

the farm will fail,” Singh said. “That’s what’s going to keep us alive.” This year, the project survived because of various donors, but Singh knows it can’t continue to survive on that alone. Singh said he can’t – and won’t – give up. “People said in year one, ‘Jas, you won’t make it to year two.’ Now we’re in year three and look what we’ve grown. Either you go big or you go home.” What keeps him going? Knowing that he’s helping put fresh, locally grown produce on the kitchen tables of those in need, he said. “I love what I’m doing here. It’s so rewarding.” Singh’s dream for next year would be to get his hands on a seeder. Right now seeding is done entirely by hand. He said the 265,000 pounds of vegetables the farm is expected to yield this year could be half a million pounds with the same number of man-hours if they had a seeder. In addition to this year’s food bank bounty, Singh has also grown 60,000 pounds of pumpkins for two Surrey schools that they will sell to raise money for their inner city lunch programs. Also this year, Singh has started a “Kid’s Farm,” located next door to God’s Little Acre, where teens and children are encouraged to visit and learn. Volunteer days for picking produce are Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to dark, from now until Oct. 31. Special arrangements can be made for corporate groups. Cucumbers are available to pickup daily. Call in advance to order or drop by Fridays or Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 604-375-1172 to get involved, or email jassingh65@hotmail.com.

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After a few days to absorb and ponder the Spirit of the Sea Festival, director Matt Todd says the criticism of the annual White Rock event is reflective of the community’s involvement – and if people want to see change, they’d better get involved. The comments follow criticism of what some are considering to be a lacklustre festival; a festival that Todd had originally thought was wellreceived by the public. It was only when criticism began piling up that he had a change of view, and now he’d like the community to get involved to ensure the festival is up to snuff next year. One of the key criticisms of the festival was its parade, which many found to be lacking in comparison to previous years. “All of this negative commentary about the parade, the reality is that nobody stepped forward to organize the parade so what you had was a parade that organized itself,” said Todd. “We didn’t have anybody to phone around or recruit people and when nobody does something, it doesn’t get done and I think that’s what people are missing.” For Todd, he’d like the public to do something about the festival instead of sitting back and simply criticizing. “If the community wants something different, the community has to make something different for itself,” he said. “There are a lot of people very thankful, people are grateful, but the community overall needs to check in with their expectations and be a little more realistic. If you’re not willing to contribute – help make it happen – then those expectations need to be adjusted accordingly.” White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin agreed with Todd’s call for more community involvement. “I know they were working with a tremendously reduced amount of money and a diminished volunteer base, so under the circumstances they probably did the best with

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If the community wants something different, the community has to make something different for itself. what they had,” said Baldwin. “I think if people want to see the festival restored to its former glory, more people need to come forward to volunteer and there has to be more money and more sponsors. Those are the two big things.” Baldwin also noted that the city would look into what could be done to help the festival for next year, but maintained that the community needs to get involved to actuate real change. “Sometimes you have to get down to a point where people are encouraged to respond to a situation and involve themselves more,” he said.

“So you get to that point and rally and pull it back together again and maybe that’s where we’re at now.” Coun. Helen Fathers said she’s heard a lot of criticism from this year’s festival, much of which seems to be reflecting poorly on the city itself. “Everybody thinks this is an event that belongs to the city but it isn’t, and unfortunately when something like this happens, it reflects badly on the city,” she said. As such, Fathers suggested the city look into becoming an organizer of the event or that the festival team itself look into creating a paid position in order to have an organizer focusing on the event full-time. “I don’t want to see it return where people are upset with it like last year,” she said. “I think if it is going to return in its present form it would probably be better not to return, but it’s been going for so long now, almost 60 years, it would be a shame for it to go away.”

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below and broke a vertebra. Grainger said the boy was at home with his two-year-old brother and his mother, but his mom was locked out of the apartment while momentarily picking up a vacuum cleaner from a neighbour. “The door locked behind her with the children still inside,” he said. “In the short time that she was away, the five-year-old managed to get up and over the rail and fall to the ground.” Paramedics were first to arrive at the scene and the child was airlifted to B.C. Children’s Hospital from Forsyth Road

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This past weekend was make or break for Surrey’s Joey Gaffney as he competed in the Pokémon World Championships in Vancouver. With 602 competitors from all over the world competing in the card tournament, Joey definitely had his work cut out for him. Undeterred by the pressure of representing his Joey Gaffney country, the 14-yearold did his best during the event, landing a spot in the elite four as the fourth best senior division player in the world. “We’re really proud, especially since it’s his last year in seniors.” said Jonathan Gaffney, Joey’s dad at the championships Saturday. “Last year he didn’t even qualify for worlds. So this being his last year in

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s if things weren’t bad enough for the NDP these days, it looks like the B.C. Liberals are about to be handed an even bigger advantage come the next election. The province’s electoral map will soon be redrawn, and odds are the addition of new ridings will favour areas that are traditionally B.C. Liberal strongholds. The changes will mostly reflect the population shifts that have occurred since the last redistribution, which took place after the 2005 election. B.C.’s population has grown by more than a half million people since then, and most of the growth has taken place in areas such as the suburbs of Vancouver and the Okanagan. As a result, it appears several seats will be added to reflect the mushrooming population in places like Richmond, South Surrey, Langley and the Okanagan – all areas that can be considered fairly safe territory for the B.C.

Liberals. The looming changes don’t look promising for the NDP. The party is in danger of becoming marginalized because its core areas of strength are not in areas of high population growth (other than New Westminster and North Surrey). The last election results confined the NDP to the City of Vancouver, a few of its suburbs, most of Vancouver Island, the Kootenays and the coast. It’s unlikely the commission will increase the number of seats in those areas. In fact, if the Island gets another seat it will likely be in the Comox Valley region, which has been held for years by the B.C. Liberals. Of course, the boundaries commission responsible for redrawing the map may also consolidate some ridings that have far fewer people living in them and are not showing big increases in population. These are mostly located in the north and the Kootenays, and any consolidation would likely penalize the B.C. Liberals and the NDP in equal terms. The commission, of course, needs to be sensitive to the concerns of those who live in remote, rural regions

and fear their representation in the legislature could become diluted as the more populous, urban areas get more and more ridings. This has always been a concern whenever B.C.’s electoral map is altered, and it is one reason why our number of MLAs keeps increasing and not decreasing. On paper, one can make the argument the tiny Stikine riding in the north, which has just 13,000 registered voters, should be rolled into a neighbouring riding. After all, SurreyCloverdale is home to more than four times that number of voters, yet both get the same number of MLAs: one. In fact, it can be argued the two Peace River ridings could be combined (such a riding would have about 43,000 voters, roughly the same as Victoria-Beacon

Hill), or that the North Coast, Skeena and Stikine could be consolidated into a single seat (and have the same number of voters as New Westminster). But reducing the MLA representation in those regions would be met with a huge protest from the communities affected (notably Prince Rupert, Terrace, Fort St. John and Dawson Creek) and so it likely will not happen. Instead, it’s more likely we will continue to add seats into our already overcrowded legislative chamber, which has almost reached the limit in terms of how many desks can fit inside the thing. And it’s likely those additional seats will be created primarily south of the Fraser River and in the retirement communities of the Okanagan – sources of

electoral strength for the B.C. Liberals. It’s also important to note that our ethnic communities – particularly the South Asian communities – are centred in those areas of growth, particularly around the Fraser. To not add seats in those areas would unfairly dilute their political representation over time. It all adds up to be one more major headache for the NDP, a party that is at a perilous crossroads as it tries to redefine itself as something more palatable

to the voters come election time. That effort may ultimately be doomed since the population is growing in areas that have long turned their backs on the party in favour of another one. And that’s where any new MLAs will be coming from, thus making it even more difficult for the NDP to win a majority election. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC Keith.Baldrey@globalnews.ca

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Kim Ellis is a melanoma survivor who has recently experienced a new non-invasive skin cancer detection device. (Photo: KEVIN HILL) Dr. Harvey Lui is a dermatologist who works for UBC, the B.C. Cancer Agency and Vancouver General Hospital, and who studies the effects of light on the skin. “It’s very satisfying obviously that what started out as a simple research project (about 14 years ago) to try to learn

something more about the skin and light has now culminated in a technique that can actually help patients,” he said. In essence, he explained, the probe’s weak laser light bounces off the skin and the different structures within it. What the machine looks for is called a Raman signal.

“It’s intrinsically very weak, but if you can find that Raman signal, then it tells you a lot about the underlying composition of the tissue you’re probing,” said Lui. The signal is inherently so weak that before the Aura, it would take about a half hour to scan one single spot. The breakthrough represented by Aura is that it can isolate the Raman signal extremely quickly, meaning a single mole can be scanned in a second. That’s a blessing for someone like Ellis who has about a thousand moles, and often has several removed every time she has them checked. But it’s not just for people with a lot of moles, said Lui. There are a number of factors that increase the risk of skin cancer, such as having very fair skin, blond or red hair in your family, freckles and intermittent exposure to sun. “There’s no question, no matter what people like to think, that ultraviolet light is the number-one factor for people to get skin cancer,” he said. “If people didn’t bathe themselves in ultraviolet light outdoors as much we wouldn’t see skin cancer so much.” And that’s regardless of how light or dark a person’s skin colour is, he added. In time, Lui and the other creators of the Aura scan believe its use in conjunction with regular visits to a dermatologist will help to reduce the overall number of biopsies needed to detect and prevent skin cancer. Verisante Aura scans have been installed in five clinics across Canada so far, with more planned. For more information on the scan, as well as skin cancer, see www. verisante.com/aura/.

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Yvonne Good, Reta Herman and Lenora Alexander (from left to right) are members of Mixed Singles Over Sixty (MSOS), a social group based in White Rock/South Surrey. (Photo: TIFFANY KWONG) over, single and looking to socialize. In the past, people have paired up and even gotten married. “There’s been some marriages and coupling up but there’s no heavy leaning towards that. If it happens, it happens. You can’t go against nature, you can’t stop love,” said Herman. Still, like other singles’ groups, MSOS has a larger ratio of women to men – about four to one – but the group tries to balance activities so that both men and women will come out. “I think (the men are) shy,” Good joked. “There’s always a waiting list for women,” Good said. “We try to keep membership open so that there are men, we don’t want it to become a woman’s club.” “Our only criteria are the age and the category of being single,” Herman said. “We don’t ask for proof of divorce papers or anything like that. If you’re single, you’re welcome.” MSOS meets on the third Thursday of the month at Sunnyside Hall in Surrey. For more information, contact Colin Haskins at 604-538-7799 or visit seniorsoversixtyclub. weebly.com.

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Ubuntu Ogogo: “Compassionate grandmothers” group meets on the second Wednesday of the month at various locations; starting in September, meetings will be held at Bear Creek Villa, 8233 140th St., Surrey. Group works to raise funds to assist grandmothers in subSaharan Africa who are supporting their grandchildren due to AIDS/HIV pandemic there. Info: 778-565-3555, bwarren567@gmail.com. Seniors tennis club at Newton Athletic Park: Tennis for those age 55+ playing mixed doubles, on Tuesdays and Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m. (moving to 10 a.m. to noon in warmer weather). “We welcome new members who have played tennis previously (we do not teach). Come and join us. We have social

activities during the year and lots of fun.” Contact Jan, 604-502-7844, or Ruth, bugsrabbit50@hotmail.com. Mixed Singles over Sixty in White Rock/South Surrey: Social active group offering theatre, dinners out, golf, dancing, walking and much more. For more info, contact Colin at 604-538-7799. On the web: seniorsoversixtyclub.weebly.com. North Delta Lions Club seeks new members for community activities; meetings held on second and fourth Monday of month, 7 p.m. at Kennedy Seniors Recreation Centre, 11760 88th Ave., North Delta. Info: www. northdeltalions.org, 604-594-3473. Guildford Lions Club seeks new members for its work on various community projects. Club members meet on second and fourth Tuesdays of month at Boston Pizza, 15125 100th Ave., 6:30 p.m. Info: Call Gem, 604-584-4449 or 604-785-4070. Surrey Trekkers Volkssport Club offers walks mid-week and weekends for adults of all ages, for fun, fitness and friendship. Info: Call Patricia Lomax at 604-574-9625 or visit www.surreytrekkers.com. WAV (Widows at Victory): Social

events for widows to meet other widows and have a social outing. Group meets on second Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m., at Victory Memorial Park, 14831 28th Ave., Surrey. Colleen Bujak, 604-536-6522. Old-time dance events at Sunnyside Hall at 1 p.m. every Monday (from Labour Day to June), corner of 18th Ave. & 154 St., South Surrey. All seniors welcome. Info: 604- 538-5657 or 604-575-8236. South Surrey Soul Sisters, a Gogo group under auspices of Stephen Lewis Foundation holds monthly meetings. All are welcome (you do not need to be a grandmother). Contact Thelma Newbury, 604-5414688, thelmanewbury@shaw.ca. Oneness Gogos of White Rock/ Surrey: Group meets on fourth Monday of every month, 1-3 p.m. upstairs at White Rock library, 15342 Buena Vista Ave., White Rock. Info: onenessgogos@gmail.com. Woodcarvers in Cloverdale: Club meetings held every Tuesday evening from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. (Sept. to June) at Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary, in the wood shop at the back of the school, 6151 180th St., Cloverdale. Info: 604-576-6806.

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The ‘Now’ congratulates the U11 (Mosquito Division) North Delta All-Stars baseball team for earning silver in the provincial championships (AAA). After going undefeated during their regular season, the nine- and 10 year-olds from North Delta won four out of five playoff games, advancing to the finals in Mission. On Aug. 4, the team finished off its summer season by losing a close game to a heavily-favoured team from Duncan.

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Surrey-raised player Khaira signs with NHL Oilers Surrey’s Jujhar Khaira has agreed to terms on a threeyear entry level contract with Edmonton Oilers. The Michigan Tech left winger signed the deal Wednesday, according to a report on tsn.ca. Khaira spent the 2012-13 season with Michigan Tech in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, recording 25 points and 49 penalty minutes in 37 games. Prior to college, Khaira played two seasons for the Prince George Spruce Kings in the British Columbia Hockey League. The 18-year-old winger accumulated 121 points (39G, 82A) and 90 penalty minutes in 112 career games. The Oilers selected Khaira in the third round, 63rd

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Boating safety classes at Earl Marriott school start Sept. 10 White Rock Squadron, a unit of Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons, is presenting boating safety classes commencing Sept. 10 and 11 at Earl Marriott Secondary, starting at 6:30 p.m. each night. For more information, call 604-515-5566 or 1-888CPS-Boat, and also check the group’s website, at www. whiterocksquadron.org. The organization is proud of “bringing boaters home safely for 75 years.”

White Rock All-Stars won’t be going to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. The team lost 5-1 Sunday to East Nepean Eagles, representing Ontario, in the title game of the Little League World Series of Canada. The tournament was held in Glace Bay, N.S. It was White Rock’s first and only loss of the tournament, and the result marks the end of B.C.’s string of eight straight appearances in the Little League World Series. The B.C. club had cruised into the final game on the strength of seven straight wins, including a 9-2 victory over Nepean last Sunday, which was the Ontario champions’ only loss of the tournament. But B.C. bats were silenced when it counted the most as pitcher Angus Adams delivered a masterful performance on the Nepean mound, allowing just one run on two hits while striking out nine in nearly a full six innings of work. East Nepean jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning as Ken Nguyen and Caden Griffin belted back-to-back doubles off White Rock ace Cody Sigouin. White Rock got one of those runs back in the third inning as Keith Manby snapped Adams’ no-hit bid with a single and Jared Crossley reached first on a walk. Ryan Dauphinee then cashed in B.C.’s opening – and only – run with an RBI single. Nepean got the run back in a big way in the bottom of the third when slugger Jack Walsh restored the four-run lead with a big-league solo home run. White Rock coach Jeff Crossley says the home run was a momentum killer. “It’s tough. That boy popped up (in foul territory) earlier in the at-bat and we didn’t make the play. You give a good player an extra out and they are going to take advantage of it,” said the B.C. skipper. “It definitely took some wind out of our sails.” It was a disappointing end for the White Rock boys, who had won 22 straight games before Sunday’s loss in Glace Bay. “The kids were very emotional after (the loss) as were the coaches. I told them ... we are extremely proud of them and they should be proud of themselves,” Crossley said of his postgame meeting with his players. “It just wasn’t our day.” Scott Brown, Vancouver Sun

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Shakespearean plays return to the beach Tiffany Kwong

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The stage was set Monday morning for the dress rehearsal of Munsch Ado About Nothing, one of two productions the Beach House Theatre Society is

there are any cancellations, some tickets may be available.” This is the society’s second year setting up stage at the popular Blackie Spit area of Crescent Beach. A raffle for two Air Canada tickets to anywhere in North America plus Mexico, Hawaii and the Caribbean will be drawn on closing night, costing $20 per ticket (cash only). To purchase show tickets, visit beachhousetheatre.org.

Courtney Shields (left, as Burbage) and Natasha Zacher (as Kempe) hit the stage Monday in “Munsch Ado About Nothing,” one of two shows produced by Beach House Theatre Society on a temporary stage at Crescent Beach this week. (Photo: LUIZ LOPES)

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A White Rock resident is urging anyone with concerns over BC Hydro’s smart meter program to join a class action lawsuit against the crown corporation following the province’s announcement of an opt-out program. Linda Ewart of Citizens for Safe Technology is encouraging anybody opposed to BC Hydro’s smart meter program to join the suit in a bid to pressure the energy provider to either remove the program completely, or offer no-fee optouts to customers. In July the province announced an opt-out program for the remaining Hydro customers on analog meters. However, that opt-out would come at an initial cost of $100, with a monthly reading fee tacked on after the fact. It’s a move that Ewart sees as too little too late. “They want to look like good guys, but you have to pay for it,” she said. “A lot of people can’t afford to pay for it so it’s a backwards kind of thing, you still have to do this or there will be a penalty.” Instead, Ewart wants to see BC Hydro completely rescind any fees associated with an opt-out, similar to what’s being offered elsewhere in North America, such as California. “There are other places in the country and continent that are granting opt-outs that don’t cost a fee,” she said. “There are other ways to do an opt-out but they’re not

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