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SURREY — Surrey’s Vaisakhi celebration on Saturday in Newton drew a mind-bending number of parade-goers.

“The number we’ve been tossing around is about 240,000,” said Surrey RCMP Sgt. Dale Carr. “A sea of heads. It was fantastic; a great, joyful day.”

Carr said that the Sikh temples have yet to be billed for policing and traffic control.

The final tab wasn’t known Monday morning at press time.

“I have to wait for all the overtime claims to come in,” Carr said.

Several dozen Mounties and auxiliary constables police the event, but the RCMP wouldn’t reveal the exact number. Carr said he wasn’t aware of any arrests.

On Friday night, prior to the parade, police inspected the floats to ensure none

bore controversial political images or slogans. They didn’t, Carr said, adding that none have in the past five years.

“I think the event has evolved into just a fun religious family event,” he said.

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SURREY — Since Coun. Barinder Rasode announced her departure from the Surrey First slate last week, Mayor Dianne Watts has yet to publicly respond to her charges.

Last Thursday, Rasode emailed all of Surrey council stating she would be sitting as an independent due to concerns about spending at city hall, as well the approach taken toward public safety and community consultation.

The Now has obtained a copy of the email Watts sent to Rasode and the rest of council, where she fires back at Rasode’s claims.

“First and foremost we have always encouraged open dialogue and debate in a respectful and supportive way. Secondly, at the time of Julie Paskalls (sic) death You were fully aware that there was a complete review of the RCMP deployment and resourcing underway as well as 360 review which had begun in October. That information was shared with Council by our OIC,” Watts writes, adding that Rasode went public with comments about needing 45 more officers, without talking about the review or work that was underway. see INNUENDOS › page 3

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‘Innuendo is not fact,’ Watts tells Rasode ‹ from page 1

“As Chair of the Police Committee and holder of the Public Safety Portfolio for years you never once mentioned this to the general public,” Watts wrote. “Nor did you bring any of these issues of ‘concern’ to Council or to the Police Committee over those years. Not until Julie’s death and then chose to do it through the media and still to this day you have not brought this ‘issue’ forward at a Council meeting or budget meeting or the Police Committee.”

Watts then says Rasode is “misleading the public” by making comments about the contracting out of police services, insisting Rasode knows no decision has been made and the matter will go before council.

Watts also insists in her email that all FOI requests are responded to.

“If you have any information where this has not occurred please bring it forward to our City Manager to have it addressed. Innuendo is not facts.”

Watts writes that all spending at city hall goes through the budget process, and points out that Rasode voted in favour of every budget.

She says Rasode should have brought concerns forward at a council meeting, and writes, “To suggest that proper protocol was not followed on Major projects such as City Hall is completely false. Every corporate report has gone before Council in an open meeting and voted on in that format. You voted in favour if (sic) each expenditure.”

In closing, Watts writes, “As you and your team campaign for Mayor and Council seats I just ask that you give the right information to the general public. Thank you for your contribution to Surrey First and I wish you all the very best.”

In a statement from the City of Surrey’s media desk, Watts said she is “saddened and disappointed” that

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Rasode feels unable to work in the team environment to bring issues forward to council and committees.

Watts did not respond to Rasode’s criticisms in the statement, and said she “will not engage in electioneering.”

RASODE SAYS COUNCIL HAS BECOME ‘HOSTILE’

Rasode insists she hasn’t decided if she’s running for mayor yet, and has “not at all engaged with anybody about running a slate,” adding, “I’m now speaking against the slate model because I believe it doesn’t work in Surrey.”

As well, Rasode says her comments are not an election platform, but instead have to do with the timeliness of the issues at hand.

In Rasode’s email, sent last Thursday, she claims the more questions she asks of council, the more “hostile” the relationship becomes.

She writes that she believes there is “a systematic failure of process at City Hall, and in order to adequately address this issue, I have decided to sit as an Independent on Council.”

Rasode says in the email there are three issues she finds troubling, “both personally and professionally: 1. The approach taken toward public safety and fighting crime. 2. Spending at City Hall. 3. Community consultation.”

She goes on to say that due to a series of events “it has become obvious that I am not able to offer alternative viewpoints while remaining a member

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“Following the tragic death of Julie Paskall, I spoke out about the need to fulfill the commitment in our crime reduction strategy to hire more police officers, and implement additional safety measures in Newton and around our facilities. In the weeks following, I was criticized by council both privately and publically (sic), cut off from staff resources, removed as Chair of the Police Committee, and stopped receiving Council updates from the OIC of the Surrey RCMP,” Rasode charges.

Surrey RCMP Cpl. Bert Paquet said, “City of Surrey councillors are provided with the same updates and relevant information from the Surrey RCMP. This now appears to be an election issue and as a result it would be inappropriate to comment further as the police are impartial.”

RASODE ‘ELECTIONEERING’

Speaking on behalf of Surrey First, Coun. Linda Hepner said the team is disappointed by the announcement, adding that Rasode has never raised these issues at the council table or in committee meetings.

“I think there’s a lot of electioneering in here as opposed to something that’s real,” Hepner said.

She suspects Rasode made her decision months ago and it’s just coming to light now.

“She’s a strong worker and I think we’ll continue to support her. And we wish her the very best of luck in whatever else she would like to do and we’re sorry she couldn’t do it within our environment,” Hepner said.

Rasode ran under the left-leaning Surrey Civic Coalition slate in the 2005 civic election. In the 2008 election, she joined Surrey First, and made history when she became the first South Asian woman elected to Surrey council.

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Tiffany F ‪@ynaffit79‬ Who didn't see this coming? ‪@TheNowNewspaper "‪@ BarinderRasode: I’ve decided to sit as an Independent on City Council Michael Proskow ‪@ MichaelProskow‬ ‪ amyreid87 ‪@CKNW ‪@ BarinderRasode @ Grassroots issues ignored by Mayor. Out of control development & failed public policy. ‪@globeandmail Naida @ ‪ Naidarobinson73‬ @TheNowNewspaper ‪@ MayorWatts ‪@BarinderRasode ‪@CKNW cheap shot.

Bcse she didnt follow the leader? That is NOT how it is suppose to work.

Dj Sandwiches ‪@djsandwiches‬ ‪@BarinderRasode do you have team on standby, strategizing, or organizing for next election?

Barinder Rasode @ ‪ BarinderRasode‬ Info stopped flowing to Committees, which stopped dialogue. Mayor made decisions in closed door mtgs. ‪http://bit.ly/1h7pzUN ‪#surreybc Jude Hannah @ ‪ studiojude‬ I've had a taste of Watt happens when one speaks up in ‪#SurreyBC . Here's to anyone who has the courage to tell the truth. ‪@BarinderRasode NightOwly ‪@NightOwly‬ ‪@TheNowNewspaper ‪@BarinderRasode is the ONLY one who actively connects with ‪#SurreyBC on Twitter. ‪@SurreyFirst’s last tweet? 2011

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SURREY — Former Surrey Liberal MLA Brenda Locke plans to run for a Surrey council seat in the November civic election.

She will run as an independent.

“There’s a few things I want to see happening,” she told the Now. “We’ve become very much a community of stovepipes.”

Locke said she wants to see a more cohesive vision of Surrey as a whole, rather than a handful of community hubs (Whalley, Newton, Fleetwood and Guildford...).

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“I’m still challenged to find where is Surrey in all of this. We need to reach out a little better than what we’re doing.”

She said she’s also concerned about the gentrification of Whalley, and wants to see more social issues addressed in Whalley and Newton in particular.

The Guildford resident currently serves as the executive director of the B.C. Massage Therapist Association. She said she also, if elected, would fight for more ice arenas and opportunities for Surrey youth to participate in hockey, curling and other ice sports.

Locke was Liberal MLA for Surrey-Green Timbers from 2001 to 2005. Among other duties, she served as Minister of State for Mental Health and Addiction Services.

Locke defeated NDP MLA Sue Hammell for the seat in 2001, but Hammell then returned the favour in 2005.

After that, Locke twice ran for federal office as a Liberal, in Fleetwood-Port Kells, in 2006 and 2008 but was defeated by Tory MP Nina Grewal.

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SURREY — Exercising their rights to do so, the British Columbia Teachers Federation (BCTF) has issued a 72-hour strike notice beginning with Stage One job action on Wednesday.

In an announcement last Thursday, BCTF president Jim Iker said the job action would begin April 23 with teachers limiting communication with administration, no longer supervising students at lunch and recess and coming in no more than an hour early or leaving no more than an hour after school hours.

Iker said the job action was being approached reluctantly, but the province’s refusal to budge on certain issues have led them here.

“Teachers will not agree to a 10-year term,” he said. “We’ve asked since May (2013) for the government to move away from that. We also don’t accept the stripping of our right to bargain class size and competition.”

Because the low-level job action was primarily to do with administration, Iker said classrooms would not be disrupted at

this time and parents needn’t worry. He hoped the move to job action would spur the government into taking labour talks more seriously than they have in the past year.

“Our goal remains a negotiated settlement at the table, not the escalation of our strike action,” said Iker.

Iker added that if no fruitful negotiations take place following this move, they would move up to Stage Two job action, which involves rotating strikes.

“You’d see one day a week across this province where schools will be closed,” explained Iker. “But that’s for the future depending on how bargaining is going.

We’re hopeful stage one will make a difference.”

Education minister and Surrey-Fleetwood MLA Peter Fassbender said he was disappointed by the BCTF’s decision, but not surprised.

“Over the past few weeks, it appears the BCTF has been more focused on implementing its strike plan than bargaining at the table,” said Fassbender.

“There has been virtually no movement from the BCTF on their wage and contract positions.”

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A Surrey high school teacher who murdered his wife and burned her body is on the hook for $614,300 after his in-laws successfully sued him on behalf of his 10year-old daughter.

Mukhtiar Panghali, who taught physics at Princess Margaret Secondary, was tried in New Westminster late in 2010 for seconddegree murder and interfering with a dead body, in connection with the Oct. 18, 2006, strangulation of his pregnant wife Manjit Panghali, a teacher at North Ridge Elementary.

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ith the legislature not in session this past week, Premier Christy Clark paid a visit to the political epicenter of her government. No, not her hometown of Vancouver.

But Kelowna, B.C.’s “City of Premiers.”

Her visit there was to showcase some modest government spending announcements – funding for an ice skating event, and money for flood protection – but the amount of money wasn’t the key aspect of her trip.

Instead, the Kelowna visit served as a reminder that there has been a seismic shift in the B.C. Liberal government’s outlook and how that shapes its priorities. The result of the last provincial election forced that shift, and its impact will be significant as long as the B.C. Liberals

hold power.

I’ve noted this shift before, and now we are starting to see some examples of how this is playing out, and they’re not just about where the premier chooses to travel.

The breakup of the Agriculture Land Reserve into two zones, for example, is clearly designed to favour the outlying regions of the province, far away from downtown Vancouver.

Allowing increased economic activity on land that may have been in the ALR since the days of the 1970s NDP government will no doubt be more popular than not in the Interior and the North.

The relentless focus on building a liquefied natural gas industry and potentially creating tens of thousands of jobs (almost all of them located in the North) speaks to this government looking outside of Vancouver and its suburbs and not at them.

Bill Four, which allows pipelines and transmissions lines to be built inside provincial parks (essentially, allowing a right-of-way through a park to allow economic development outside of that park) is more evidence the B.C. Liberals are less interested in courting urban voters, and more focused on winning

support in natural resourcedependent communities.

The cabinet order (subsequently rescinded last week after an outcry from First Nations) to exempt ski resorts and natural gas processing from a provincial environmental assessment review shows how far the government is willing to go to hasten development in the regions, even if it sidesteps environmental protection regulations (although the government argues its own review process is simply duplication of other, existing ones).

It’s not hard to see how and why these policies have been arrived at.

First, the B.C. government firmly believes developing the natural resource sector is the key to economic growth

for the province in the coming decades.

Second is the fact the B.C. Liberals know the key to them remaining in power is to build and retain electoral strength along the Fraser River, and through the Interior and the North.

Although the government has four seats in Vancouver, the election cost them two seats in the city. However, it increased its voter strength in the regions and picked up an additional seat from there as well.

Now, less than a quarter of the government caucus represents Vancouver and its northern and eastern suburbs. Power has shifted to the southern suburbs, and the outlying regions, and this is bound to help shape government priorities.

There is also the psychological impact of Clark being defeated in Vancouver-Point Grey. She has said on more than one occasion that losing in that riding made her realize she doesn’t have to worry about the urban green voters that dominate the coffee bars of Kitsilano and UBC. This brings me back to Kelowna, and why that city is poised for benefits less likely to flow Vancouver’s way. When she was there last week, the idea of a second bridge crossing over Okanagan Lake was part of the conversation. Long viewed as part of dreamy wish list for Okanagan residents, the project has suddenly taken on a new urgency, as Clark’s government has committed

$2 million for study and planning purposes.

It may take a decade to actually complete the bridge, but I like the odds of it being completed ahead of, say, a SkyTrain or rapid transit line down the West Broadway corridor to UBC. That SkyTrain line would travel through two ridings that gave the B.C. Liberals the boot last May. An Okanagan Lake bridge would impact three ridings that are represented by B.C. Liberal cabinet ministers and the premier herself.

Bets, anyone, on which one has a better chance of being done first?

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC. Email him at Keith.

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Thank you, Surrey, for not forgetting Bill The Editor, Re: “City plans to honour Bill Reid in a big way,” the Now, April 17.

Excellent idea to honour Bill Reid. He did so many positive things for Surrey it is nice to honour him.

The city deserves thanks for not forgetting Bill’s accomplishments and his support for Surrey and Cloverdale.

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Front page should have honoured Christ The Editor, Re: The Now’s front page, April 17.

Regarding the front page of the Now for April 17/2014. I was disappointed that the mention of Easter did not also remind us that the reason we celebrate Easter is because Christ died on the cross to forgive our sins.

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Eyesore restaurant is unwelcome addition The Editor, What were Surrey city planners smoking when they approved the recently opened My Shanti restaurant at Morgan Crossing? It has absolutely no compatibility with the rest of the area and resembles an unfinished or abandoned pre-’60s casino in the bad side of Reno Nevada.

The architect and city planners have really let the neighbourhood down allowing this eyesore to be built.

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or most, a trip to the City by the Sea would not complete without a stroll down its iconic pier. As the focal point of the seaside city’s waterfront, the wooden tourist attraction has been around longer than White Rock has officially been a municipality, and this year it celebrates its 100th anniversary.

Before the White Rock pier was constructed in the early 1900s, a few local businesses built several makeshift piers, including a 300-foot floating jetty by the White Rock Boat and Bathhouse located near the rock.

“It actually played a role in the origins of the present pier,” recalled Hugh Ellenwood, archives manager at the White Rock Museum & Archives. “A group of businessmen and realtors invited the federal Minister of Marine and Fisheries, (John Douglas) Hazen, to come to White Rock because they wanted him to see its potential as an industrial seaport.

“When he arrived, he used this little floating plank thing and he got soaked up to the waist. They invited him purposefully at a time when it would be high tide so they knew he’d have to use this inadequate pier.”

Hazen promised to secure funds to build a proper pier, and on Nov. 14, 1914, after two summers of non-stop construction, the White Rock pier was officially opened.

The local businessmen had visions of industry, intending to use the pier to facilitate shipping and carry imported goods further into the province via the railway. But locals began finding recreational uses for the pier, and the planned transportation of goods was overshadowed by swim clubs, private boats and people out for walks along the 1,616-foot wharf on the water.

Union steamship cruise vessels like Lady Alexandra and Lady Cynthia moored at the pier, allowing locals to take day excursions to Victoria and Bowen Island. Then, when the

Hugh Ellenwood, archives manager for White Rock Museum & Archives, on the pier: “It’s multigenerational. It’s a wonderful structure and it really reflects White Rock.” (Photo: JACOB ZINN) breakwater was built in 1953, smaller boats and yacht clubs began docking instead of fishing ships.

“People coming to White Rock in the early days were wealthy, had leisure time, had spare resources,” said Ellenwood. “People come here to see the beach and spend a lovely afternoon in one of the cafés.

“Probably White Rock’s first business, aside from the railway, was real estate and ice cream.”

However, White Rock’s waterfront could have looked a lot different over the last 40 years. In the mid-1970s, after six decades of wear and tear, the pier was set to be torn down as the provincial government couldn’t afford to continue repairing the aging structure.

“In 1975 or 1976, there were stories appearing in the newspapers that they were going to tear it down because it cost too much to maintain it,” said Ellenwood. “The community, mainly tourist-oriented groups and people proud of the pier, said, ‘No, we’ve got to save it.’”

Residents started a campaign with a “Save the Pier” bumper sticker, which garnered support from beachgoers far and wide. “The federal government made an offer to White Rock that the city turned down, so there was a bit of negotiation. I think because it was in such a state of disrepair that the city couldn’t afford to take it on, finally, the federal government said, ‘OK, we’ll get it to a point where it’s brand new, but then it’s yours to deal with.’”

The pier was disassembled in 1977 and promptly rebuilt entirely out of new wood, keeping the lengthy pathway as a prominent symbol of White Rock. “There’s not a scrap of wood there that’s from the original 1914 pier, but it’s still White Rock’s pier,” Ellenwood said.

Several years after its reconstruction, the pier was designated as one of the city’s three heritage sites, along with the White Rock and the archives building.

“The rock, obviously, is a symbol of the city and the area going back thousands of years, and this building represents the railway and the huge changes it brought to the area,” said Ellenwood. “The pier represents White Rock’s spirit of recreation and proximity to the ocean.”

For its lifespan to date, the pier has meant a lot of things to a lot of different people. Whether you’re young or old, angry or elated, heartbroken or in love, Ellenwood said there’s something about the pier that makes it almost therapeutic and versatile for, literally, all walks of life.

“I was a teenager in this town, and even when I was going to university and living in Vancouver, if I was going on a date with someone, I’d bring them out here to White Rock and walk on the pier,” he said.

“It’s multigenerational. It’s a wonderful structure and it really reflects White Rock. Next to the rock, it’s probably the most powerful symbol that the city has.”

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“I want to prove it’s science so government has to fund it.”

For Frost, what he’s seen in his son is compelling.

“Callum is a guinea pig,” he said. “We go based on his behaviour, and after 60 dives (in the hyperbaric chamber) he’s a different kid, totally different kid.

“His communication skills with his brother, his play, everything has really accelerated and you don’t do that in six months, not if you saw the previous four years.”

Darryll Frost, president of Central City Brewers + Distillers, is aiming to raise $400,000 to help fund a clinical trial of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for children living with autism. Frost said his son, who has been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, was helped by the expensive therapy. (Photo: SAMANTHA LEGO) The development Frost has seen in his son is the real driving factor for this year’s fundraising efforts.

“We want the world to know it exists, but bigger than that, we want government to find a way to fund it so it’s accessible to all children,” Frost said.

With the first Evening for Autism in 2013, Frost and the CCBD invited 200 people and raised $75,000 for the Canucks Autism Network (CAN) and Dr. Suzanne Lewis, who studies genetics as it relates to autism out of UBC. This year, Frost is fundraising in a variety of ways: Central City has produced 2,000 cases of their Imperial IPA for Autism. Two dollars from every bottle will go toward fundraising efforts.

As well, cash donations will be accepted at Central City’s liquor store, brewpub and restaurant.

“It’s $400,000, it’s not a walk in the park,” Frost said. “This trial will spin off many trials and in four years time, I want to be able to sit in front of a result we can share with the world, and I like that.”

Dr. Peter Ruben, the associate dean of research and graduate studies in the faculty of science at SFU, is looking at measuring the validity of HBOT therapy in a more “objective, scientifically skeptical way.”

He cautions that HBOT therapy is not proven and that the use of unlicensed or unsupervised chambers has resulted in death due to suffocation

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The study will examine both children and adults using placebos and HBOT therapy along with brain imaging to measure results.

“The bottom line is we want to see whether it’s effective,” Ruben said.

Frost stresses the need for community participation, as it is something not limited to his experiences and the work of the CCBD. “The larger part of that is that it’s not for Surrey or the Lower Mainland, B.C. or Canada. This is a world trial. It’s for all children suffering from autism,” he said.

Three hundred tickets will be sold for the black-tie event, at $100 a piece (visit centralcitybrewing.com for details).

The 19-plus event will be held in the atrium at SFU Surrey and will feature fine food canapés, appetizers and stations for beer, wine and cocktails.

There will be a silent and live auction during the event. Some of the items include a Robert Bateman original painting, Canucks jerseys and sticks, a flight voucher to anywhere in the world and a ball and helmet from Saskatchewan Roughrider Geroy Simon.

For Frost, this trial represents a “piece of the puzzle” in his son’s diagnosis. “It’s not just autism, it just happens to be our focus. I think it’ll be quite exciting to see where all of this goes, but we’ve got to make it happen,” Frost said. samanthaelego@gmail.com

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University is a place for learning and South Surrey’s Adam Svensson is at the head of his class at Florida’s Barry University.

The Earl Marriott grad has been ripping up the golf courses of the southern United States, helping the Barry Buccaneers to the number one ranking among NCAA Div. II schools.

Svensson is a big part of the Buccaneers’ success. In 10 tournaments this year, Svensson has finished in the top five nine times including a Div. II record seven wins, the most recent of which came in the Sunshine State Conference championships last week.

In his first semester at Barry last spring, Svensson established a school record as the only player to finish the season averaging under-par — 71.2 average — for the year.

He also won the Phil Mickelson award as the top freshman golfer among NCAA Div. II schools. Despite all of those positive results, Svensson never won a tournament as a freshman.

That gap in the resumé was corrected quickly in his sophomore season and the wins have been piling up ever since.

“I’m not too surprised,” Svensson said by phone from Miami. “I’ve been working really hard at a lot of different things to improve my game. I knew that if I did that, then I would start winning.

“The biggest difference between last year and this year is I’m playing smarter golf now. I’m not making as many bogeys and I’m not playing as aggressively. I guess it’s just a maturing process for me and I’m a lot more consistent.”

Smart golf in this case has less to do with book knowledge and more about working the course to his advantage. Barry golf coach Jimmy Stobs worked with Svensson to remove a lot of the risk from his game, focusing instead on taking advantage of the golf course on holes that play to the sophomore’s strengths.

With a one-stroke lead a year ago, Svensson would take risks in an attempt to push his advantage to two or three strokes.

Today, he will instead play safe and go for par, putting pressure on the golfers who are pursuing him.

“Playing smarter golf makes the game more like chess,” Svensson said. “It’s controlling where you place your ball, where your misses are and stuff like that.

Sometimes playing safe and laying up on long holes works better for me. It’s all about reducing the number of bogeys and right now, I’m number one or two in fewest bogeys. For me, that comes from being more conservative off the tee and my approaches to the green.

“I used to like to push it and take risks so it wasn’t easy to change. Once I tried it in a tournament, though, it was stress-free

Reduced risk and smarter play has helped Earl Marriott grad Adam Svensson dominate the NCAA Div. II golf season with seven wins in 10 starts. (File photo: KEVIN HILL) golf. It’s more relaxing to play that way and it isn’t stressful. I can just play without worrying about anything. Everybody is trying to birdie every hole and I’m just picking my spots where I need to birdie and find pars.”

In the first tournament Svensson tried the new approach he won the event by 11 strokes. Needless to say, he didn’t need much more convincing.

Svensson has experienced streaks of success in the past. As a Grade 10 in 2010, he went on a six-week tear where he won the B.C. junior and senior amateur titles as well as the Callaway World Juniors in San Diego.

The difference between that streak and

Svensson’s current domination on the college circuit is his consistency. In 2010, his run of tournament wins came over a six-week span. Svensson’s current run of success began six months ago and shows no signs of letting up.

“It’s hard to remember what that was like but right now, I think I’m playing better golf than I did in 2010,” he said. “The game seems easier and less stressful for me now.

Back then I got away with some bad habits here and there, but those kinds of things don’t pay off in the long run.”

With his seven tournament wins, Svensson is a near-lock to win the Jack Nicklaus award as the top player in NCAA Div. II golf. Svensson is also a strong

candidate for the Ben Hogan award as best college golfer in the NCAA regardless of division. Svensson is currently ranked first in the overall standings.

Those awards are secondary to Svensson’s goals of posting wins in his final two tournaments of the season — the super regional and the national finals — and helping Barry claim the national team title.

After that, he plans to return to Surrey for the summer with hopes of playing in the Canadian Open and the U.S. Amateur tournaments.

“I think I’m more mature now,” Svensson said. “I have more experience and I’m practicing properly, putting more time into my game. I’m having a lot of fun.”

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Heads: you get a worse recycling program.

Tails: you get to pay more for it.

The BC Government is proposing to offload the province’s world-class recycling programs, run by local municipalities, to an association led by big multi-national corporations.

The idea is that we’ll get a better, more efficient program that costs taxpayers less.

Unfortunately, what we’ll really end up with is anyone’s guess.

The association isn’t guaranteeing that we’ll get a better program, or even one as good as the current Blue Box program already in place. Since the association is led by big businesses outside of BC, many of whom are not even headquartered in Canada, one could presume that profits will come before environmental stewardship. They usually do. They also won’t guarantee that there won’t be any job cuts here in BC. And how is this supposed to make things better for BC?

Currently, BC homeowners only pay, on average, $35 a year for curbside recycling. Under the proposed regime, you’ll pay more. Every time you bring home a pizza, buy toilet paper, or pretty much anything else that comes in a package, businesses will be passing their increased costs on to you.

How much more? Well, nobody’s saying.

Here’s the only thing anyone does know: we already have a Blue Box program that works, is efficient, managed locally and puts the BC environment first. So why is the BC government flipping a coin, bringing in a questionable recycling program that some of our local elected officials are already calling a “scam?”

It’s time to contact Premier Clark and ask her.

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SURREY — Surrey’s Vaisakhi celebration on Saturday in Newton drew a mind-bending number of parade-goers.

“The number we’ve been tossing around is about 240,000,” said Surrey RCMP Sgt. Dale Carr. “A sea of heads. It was fantastic; a great, joyful day.”

Carr said that the Sikh temples have yet to be billed for policing and traffic control.

The final tab wasn’t known Monday morning at press time.

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