Surrey Now June 25 2013

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Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts at the controls of interurban rail car BCER 1225 during an event Saturday to launch summer service between stations in Cloverdale and Sullivan. The restored, 100-year-old vehicle will do 45-minute trips on the line weekends and holidays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., from a station on 176A Street, near Highway 10, for a fee ranging from $5 (for kids) to $10 (adults). More details can be found by scanning the photo with your free Layar app or by visiting the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway website, www.fvhrs.org. (Photo courtesy RAY HUDSON)

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Smashed windows greeted worshippers at Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Mandir temple Sunday morning. (Photo: JACOB ZINN)

Temple president Parshotam Goel said he will not point fingers until the RCMP investigation provides “concrete” evidence as to who the vandals are. “Definitely it’s a hate crime,” he said. “It’s not an act of vandalism.” Vinay Sharma, the general secretary of the temple, also believes hate was the motive because nothing was stolen. “For sure it’s a hate crime,” he said. But Cpl. Bert Paquet said the Surrey RCMP is not “at this point” willing to make that leap and continues to investigate the vandalism as simply an act of mischief. see VIGIL › page 3

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Leaders of a Surrey Hindu temple vandalized Sunday in what they believe was a “hate crime” won’t let the defacement stop a candlelight vigil they’re staging tonight to mark the 28th anniversary of the Air India bombing. Sometime in the wee hours of Sunday morning two men who appear to be South Asian were caught on a surveillance camera, carrying bats. They are later seen running away, with nothing in hand. Some hours later, worshippers arriving at the Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Mandir temple, at 8321 140th St., were shocked to find the windows at the front entrance smashed and a broken bat bearing the name “Brar,” a Sikh Khanda symbol and inscription “Veradero Cuba” laying in the busted glass below.


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