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Watts lauds Surrey’s ‘unstoppable force’ Surrey mayor reflects upon tenure in final State of the City address

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SURREY — Hundreds turned out to listen to Dianne Watts deliver her final State of the City address on Wednesday, as she looked back on close to a decade in the mayor’s chair.

As emcee and Global News anchor Chris Gailus put it, it was the veteran politician’s “farewell tour,” as the three-term mayor won’t be running for re-election this fall.

Looking back on her time as mayor, Watts said she has “a sense of pride and gratitude, and certainly accomplishment.”

Watts said she’s proud of the city’s achievements during her tenure, when the City of Surrey fundamentally shifted from a residential suburb to a metropolitan core, all the while dealing with 1,000 people moving into the city every month.

“It most definitely took resolve and steadfast determination,” to shift the city in a new direction, she noted. A city where 95 languages are spoken, where a third of the population is under 19 and which has the largest influx of government-assisted refugees in the province, she said.

When she came to the city, Watts said there was minimal hospital infrastructure, a lack of public transit and a split and adversarial council. But, with a smile she added, “who’s not up for a challenge?”

“We all have the power to affect change,”

she told the crowd. “I strongly believe if you don’t go after what you want, you will never have it.”

She said the city’s transformation began with a vision, and took teamwork to come to fruition.

Watts told the crowd that enacting strong public policy was key in five areas: cohesive government, a strong investment climate, an integrated social infrastructure network, quality of life and ensuring green infrastructure.

The mayor was proud to look back on social policies such as the city’s Crime Reduction Strategy, Poverty Reduction Strategy and Housing and Homelessness Master Plan.

These plans have resulted in funding for six outreach workers, the creation of 67 beds at Phoenix Treatment Facility, 36 supportive units for single moms and children at the YWCA, 52 units at the Timber Grove Mental Health Centre and 92 beds at Quibble Creek Sobering Centre.

She also mentioned Innovation Boulevard, a network of health institutions, universities and companies within one square mile in City Centre. A trade mission to Israel yielded partnerships for Innovation Boulevard, she said, and the vision for the project is to implement healthcare solutions, attract clinicians and researchers and grow companies in health care technology and

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In its first year, the health-care hub included the opening of the NeuroTech Lab at Surrey Memorial Hospital.

Watts also spoke to the city’s Crime Reduction Strategy, which she said has a strong focus on supporting at-risk children, and stopping the revolving door of the justice system. When it comes to crime, Watts showed a 10-year map of Surrey’s statistics and said, “to suggest that crime is on the rise is incorrect. Targeted enforcement is on the rise.”

Watts said there’s been a decrease in offences committed per 1,000 population from 2006 to 2013, which saw population growth of 80,000.

And the mayor praised Supt. Bill Fordy, who she said is enhancing the city’s policing model, and has found efficiencies to add 95 officers as well as 20 support staff.

Watts spoke about the Build Surrey program, noting “even in the face of criticism and adversity” the capital initiative brought $5 billion of investment to City Centre.

“We were relentless in our determination to shift the city in a new direction. We wanted to build a city where you could raise your family, improve your quality of life as well as evolve into a metropolitan core. It most definitely took resolve and steadfast determination and passion,” she

told the crowd.

The program outlines capital projects to be built over six years, including new recreation opportunities, expanded library and arts services and the creation of a thriving downtown core.

Build Surrey also includes investments of $39 million in Cloverdale, $41 million in Fleetwood, $116 million in Newton, $73 million in South Surrey and $57 million in Guildford. Completed works within the program include the new Surrey City Hall and City Centre Library.

“It’s not just about building buildings, it’s about building community,” Watts said.

The mayor’s speech didn’t conclude without talk of the desire for at-grade rail in the city, something which she would have liked to see come to the city during her tenure.

Watts pointed to various achievements in the city under her watch, including Surrey being named the best place to event in B.C. for four years in a row, 15,000 businesses opening in the city since 2005 and $11 billion in investment since 2005.

As well, Watts was proud the city has the lowest property taxes in the region, the lowest municipal taxes per capita in Metro Vancouver, as well as the lowest business taxes.

But Watts said she couldn’t have done it alone. With a team of 3,200 people, including council, staff and other bodies such as the RCMP, Watts said they created an “unstoppable force.”

As for Surrey’s next mayor, the job won’t be easy because, “Surrey isn’t easy.”

“We need a thoughtful, pragmatic, common sense approach to dealing with issues that we face. As your mayor I have been truly blessed with my team on council, my team at city hall and the residents at city hall.”

Watts remains tight-lipped about her intentions for the future, neither confirming nor denying plans to run for office in other levels of government.

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A year into tough job, Fassbender still ‘eternal optimist’ Surrey MLA still working at ‘taking the negativity’ out of BCTF relationship Kristi Alexandra

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FLEETWOOD — It’s been almost a year since Surrey-Fleetwood MLA Peter Fassbender stepped into office as Minister of Education, and coming up on that anniversary on June 10, he reflects that it hasn’t been without its growing pains.

In fact, the city has been growing at an exponential rate — so fast that it’s been dizzying for the city in terms of building schools, infrastructure and planning for the future of education. Surrey is not only the largest school district in British Columbia, but it’s also one of the few still expanding. And Fassbender is dead centre.

“What we’ve seen in Surrey is areas that have been developed, like here in Fleetwood,” Fassbender said at his Surrey office during a recent press luncheon, “you project that you’re going to have this kind of population living in those townhouses (but) when actual families move in, they may not look like what you projected … you

project a population growth and all of the sudden … projections get way out of whack.”

He noted that population projection is “an imperfect science,” consisting of guessing what types of families will occupy certain areas — and sometimes you get surprises.

For example, a high school currently being planned for the Clayton Heights area had originally been projected to accommodate 1,000 students but has since been reassessed to serve 1,500 students instead.

“It’s always a challenge to keep up with the growth. Surrey is one of the fastest growing communities in the country and we have a lot of immigration, a lot of cultural diversity,” Fassbender said. “Surrey’s challenge is size, the number of students we have in different areas, the cultural diversity in our community. We speak 151 languages and dialects in the city of Surrey.”

Fassbender said that there’s a bit of a learning curve when it comes to budgetary restrictions, adding that some people think the government “should just print more money.”

He is alluding to the B.C. Teachers’ Federation’s job action, and budgetary restrictions on building more schools to accommodate the skyrocketing numbers of students in Surrey.

“The thing I get all the time is just, ‘We just need more money,’ and it’s easy to say and it may

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be true, the challenge is, where does the money come from?” he asked. “If you want me to put more money into education, where would you like me to take it from? Transportation? Health care?”

While it may have been full of struggles, the past year hasn’t been all bad. In fact, Fassbender stresses that he’s the “eternal optimist.”

“As the minister... (I’m) really trying to take the negativity out of our relationship (with the BCTF),” he proclaimed.

“Of course we’re accused of doing the opposite but quite honestly, and I say this without any hesitation, I absolutely respect the importance of education to the future of our province, our country … I also respect the role of teachers, I respect their profession. I’m not sure that I always have the same kind of relationship with the union that represents that.”

Fassbender said that his aim is to square away whatever issues he has with the BCTF and other budgetary problems in order to “focus on learning outcomes for the students.”

On May 15, a week after speaking with the Now, Fassbender announced his ministry would be seeking a six-term agreement instead of a 10-year deal. For the BCTF’s reaction and for the latest on the teachers’ dispute, go online to thenownewspaper.com.

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City spending was down in 2013 but so was revenue Amy Reid

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SURREY — The City of Surrey came in under budget in spending in 2013, but revenues were far lower than expected.

The city budgeted to receive roughly $903 million in revenues last year, but only saw about $789 million flow in.

While the budget allowed for $610 million in spending in 2013, the city only spent $575 million.

That means the city hoped to have about $293 million in revenue left over after expenses last year, but was left with about $214 million.

A number of city departments made less money than planned.

The city budgeted to receive $135 million in developer cost charges, but only $68 million came in. That variance, according to city documents, is due to the timing of construction and related payments.

Tax revenue was expected to be in the neighbourhood of $295 million, but roughly $2 million less came in, due to lower than anticipated growth and an increase in successful assessment appeals.

Sales of goods and services were expected

to bring in $186 million, but about $180 million came in. This included secondary suite revenue, which was roughly $2 million less than anticipated.

Developer contributions were also down from the budgeted $190 million. Roughly $121 million came in.

On the other hand, investment income was up by about $1.5 million.

While transfers from other governments were expected to be about $34 million last year, the city received more than $52 million. That included capital infrastructure grants, for projects including the Roberts Bank Railway Corridor.

“Other” revenue was up, which includes permits, licensing and fines: While the budget anticipated $45 million, over $53 million came in.

When it comes to expenses, the city came in under budget on police services, spending about $115 million instead of the expected $119 million. The close to $4 million in savings was directly related to the RCMP contract as a result of the federal government reducing heath care and benefit costs for members.

Parks, recreation and culture spent roughly $67 million, bringing that

department $6 million over budget. That extra spending was due in part to a $4.3 million increase in salaries stemming from a CUPE contract settlement.

General government was budgeted to spend about $53 million, but only spent about $40 million. This category includes mayor, council, grants and initiatives; finance and technology; human resources; Surrey City Development Tom Gill Corporation; and the Build Surrey program.

Water, fire services, drainage, roads and traffic safety, planning and development and sewer also came in under budget.

Engineering was budgeted to spend just over $5 million but actually spent close to $6 million. The $571,000 variance was the result of salary costs associated with a CUPE contract settlement. Library services came in $548,000 over budget, again as a result of salary increases from a CUPE contract settlement.

Solid waste expenses were also higher than expected, at roughly $27 million, instead of the budgeted $24 million. The

nearly $3 million over-expenditure is the result of extra costs to do with the extended start-up of the new curbside collection services, additional cart purchases and the accelerated bio-fuel RFP expenditures. The 2013 financial statement also shows that in September, the city obtained an additional $67.3 million loan from the Municipal Finance Authority to finance the Grandview Heights Indoor Pool ($51.9 million) and the Fleetwood rec centre addition ($15.4 million). The interest rate has been set at 3.85 per cent for 10 years with the borrowing to be retired over a 30-year period.

Coun. Tom Gill, who is also a professional accountant, said he takes pride in the city’s financial statement.

“We’re a relatively new city, and our infrastructure is relatively young compared to older, established North American cities,” he said. “That being said, I think we’ve done a really good job of ensuring we do have ongoing reserves available for specific infrastructures.” areid@thenownewspaper.com

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Food carts will roll into Surrey this summer Pilot project includes six sites throughout city Amy Reid

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SURREY — Street food lovers may not have to make the trip all the way to Vancouver anymore, as Surrey embarks upon a food cart pilot project this summer.

Six sites are proposed, including parking lots at North Surrey rec centre, Bear Creek Park, Newton Community Centre as well as at the new Surrey City Hall plaza.

The city is also looking at allowing vendors at Newton Athletic Park and Cloverdale rec centre for special events.

While the city considered on-street food vendors in City Centre, it decided against doing so for now, due to lack of parking.

The 2014 pilot project will likely include a mixture of “rotating” and “event specific” permits for food vendors.

As for how to select merchants, the city plans to use a panel, which will look at vendors’ experience, qualifications, menu diversity, healthy options and waste

Jose Manzano owns the Guanaco food truck, which serves Salvadorian cuisine. (File photo) management plans.

While the project is a first for the city, Surrey began a “PARKit” program for 10 days in 2012 in the North Surrey rec centre parking lot. The program involves transforming asphalt parking space into places for people to hang out – and grab a bite to eat.

PARKit will be back this year, and will

grow to accommodate three vendors at the site.

Jose Manzano, owner of the Guanaco food truck, which serves up Salvadoran cuisine, participated in PARKit in 2012.

The North Surrey resident said at the time he was happy to see the city embracing food trucks.

“Vancouver is doing it. Other cities have

to keep up,” Manzano said at the time. “The program implemented in Vancouver is great.

Surrey is expanding. In a couple of years the city’s downtown will be the perfect place to bring food trucks.”

Manzano suspects it’s the experience that attracts people to eats on the street.

“It’s something different, something made right in front of your eyes. And people are able to get authentic foods,” he said. “But also, it’s the experience. People come here, talk to one another, talk to the owners, it’s that openness.”

The City of Surrey is currently in the process of developing a contract for vendors, and following the vendor application deadline of May 30, the program is set to kick off on June 16.

Meanwhile, White Rock council has approved three spots for food carts along the city’s promenade, set to begin this spring. But a decision on whether to allow larger food trucks in White Rock has yet to be made.

Food trucks are a hot trend throughout North America, popping up on the streets of many major cities, including Vancouver, which currently has over 100 approved vendors. areid@thenownewspaper.com

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NEWS Delta

Police launch own child porn probe Delta cops work with district to see if school counsellor charged in U.S. committed offences here EDITOR’S NOTE: Some details in this story are graphic and may be upsetting to some.

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DELTA — Police are looking into whether children here may have been victimized by a Delta school psychologist charged in the U.S with possessing child pornography.

In a case reported earlier this week, Point Roberts resident William Brook, who works as a psychologist for the Delta school district, was arrested and charged with possessing hundreds of images and videos of child porn, including scenes of children being sexually assaulted. He is alleged to have downloaded the material at his home.

Delta police spokesperson Sgt. Sarah Swallow said U.S. Homeland Security notified police here and the investigation

by Delta police is still in its early stage. So far, it doesn’t appear there is any indication Brook was involved in criminal conduct on Canadian soil.

Swallow said police are working with the school district to notify parents, asking them to contact police if they learn anything inappropriate may have taken place.

Although police and the school district are not revealing the schools Brook worked at, nor the ages of the children he dealt with, Swallow said the investigation must be handled carefully, so as to not place any suggestions to students that something happened when it may have not.

The Seattle P.I. reported earlier this week that acting on a tip, Homeland Security stopped Brook’s car May 7 as he attempted to cross the border into Point Roberts.

Officers seized his school district-issued laptop he had in his possession, but no illegal images were found on that computer.

According to federal charges filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, investigators in a subsequent search of his home found 334 files believed to be child pornography on his laptop, as well as a four-gigabyte thumb drive filled with additional videos.

Those images and videos allegedly

included the rape of very young children.

The charges against Brooks at this point involve possessing child porn but don’t involve luring or abusing kids.

An article in Bloomberg Businessweek last month noted that since 2002, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Virginia, which analyzes photos flagged as potentially abusive, has reviewed 105 million child sex abuse images, including 24 million last year.

An article in this month’s edition of the Times Record, online news for Fort Smith, Western Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma, reported that not only has the Internet made it easier for people to find and distribute child pornography, but the nature of images has changed in the Internet age.

“Way back, it was still images of a child lying on a blanket with their bottom exposed or (the photo was) focused on their genitals. Now there are actual videos of infants being raped and young boys being sodomized by adults. Those are so heinous and so shocking relative to what it used to be,” said Kyra Jenner, assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, quoted in the article. “They’re crime-scene photos.” sgyarmati@delta-optimist.com

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Municipality sprucing up its cemeteries DELTA — Delta is aiming to tidy up its cemeteries in North Delta and Boundary Bay in an effort to “improve desirability” and increase capacity.

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“North Delta Cemetery has capacity, but receives little use because its visual appearance is not up to the same standard of that at Boundary Bay Cemetery,” Ken Kuntz, Delta’s director of parks, recreation and culture noted in a municipal staff report.

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his past week marked the oneyear anniversary of the B.C. Liberals’ stunning re-election win, and it’s worth re-visiting some of the lessons we can take from that historic event.

1. Voter demographics are key. Election outcomes are determined by people who actually vote, not those who respond to polling firms.

According to Elections B.C. data, the voting turnout among age groups varies greatly. Those under the age of 35 have a turnout rate of slightly less than 40 per cent, while those aged 55 and older have a turnout rate of 66 per cent (and those over the age of 65 have a turnout rate of almost 75 per cent).

The implication of this is crucial for our two main political parties, and greatly explain why the B.C.

Liberals proved victorious last May 14th.

The NDP’s support is skewed by the disproportionately high support it enjoys by those under the age of 35. Simply put, many of its supporters don’t actually vote, while older, B.C. Liberal supporters do cast ballots.

And this situation is likely going to worsen for the NDP in the years ahead. Our population is getting older, not younger, and that bodes well for more conservative political parties (older people are generally more conservative than younger folks).

2. Beware of polls. A series of polls by some of Canada’s top pollsters all suggested the NDP had a big lead among voters at the beginning of the election campaign and a smaller edge near the end, but was still poised to take power.

However, the pollsters did not sufficiently take into account the fact many of its younger respondents in their on-line samples didn’t actually intend to vote, thus skewing the results of the polls.

It’s unlikely in the next election campaign that media coverage will be driven by pollsters.

The polls created a false

narrative last year (that the B.C. Liberals were tremendously unpopular and that voters wanted a change in government) that shaped all media coverage, and the media will be much warier next time around.

3. The televised leaders debate matters, and not for reasons you might think.

The debate featuring B.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark and NDP leader Adrian Dix (and other leaders) was watched by a record-high audience and most postdebate analysis suggested it was a tie or that Dix somehow enjoyed a slight edge.

In fact, later research showed Clark won the debate hands down. While it is true that Dix’s answers to questions were more detailed and specific, the average voter watching was impacted more by the two leaders’ appearance and

presence on television.

Clark came across as a positive, likeable and competent leader, while Dix looked angry, uncomfortable and shifty.

It’s a reminder that the image, more than the content, often counts for more in politics.

One need only recall the famous debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

Those listening on radio thought Nixon, the veteran, experienced vice-president who knew volumes about all topics discussed, was the winner.

But those watching on television were captivated by the handsome, younger Kennedy.

4. Election campaigns themselves also matter.

Clark ran a masterful campaign that had an easily defined message that was constantly communicated.

Always mindful to wear a hard hat at an industrial site each day, she talked about jobs and building an LNG industry that would generate tremendous amounts of money for the government.

Dix and the NDP, on the other hand, ran an unfocused, hodge-podge of a campaign that lacked a central theme. It was almost as if they were mailing it in, thinking they had victory in the bag. A top NDP strategist told me after the campaign that he went back and reviewed all the television coverage, and realized his party had been whipped by a superior campaign.

5. As U.S. political strategist James Carville once famously said: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

Forget all the other issues. When most voters (particularly older ones)

cast their ballots, they are thinking about their wallets. The B.C. Liberals and Clark talked only about the economy, both before and during the election campaign.

The NDP were all over the map, talking about child poverty, social services, even selling B.C. Place.

And then there was the famous, critical “Kinder surprise” moment when Dix announced his opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline, thus mortally wounding his party’s hopes outside the Lower Mainland.

The 2013 election was perhaps the most pivotal in B.C.’s history and one year later, it’s still worth taking a closer look at it. The lessons it offers hold the key to who wins in 2017.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC Keith.Baldrey@globalnews.ca

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SURREY — Police are investigating Surrey’s fourth homicide this year – the second in less than two days – after 39-year-old Milton ReyesMoraga was stabbed to death inside a Whalley basement suite on Wednesday night.

A 29-year-old man, who sustained minor injuries, was arrested but has since been released and no charges had been laid at press time.

Sgt. Adam MacIntosh, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said neither men have a criminal record or are known to police.

Surrey RCMP found the stabbing victim after responding to a disturbance call just before 10 p.m.

Meantime, police at press time were still hunting for Barry McQuarrie, 33, in connection with the fatal shooting of Gregory Quesnelle, 32, inside a townhouse at Rodeo Park Place in Cloverdale last Monday night.

He is considered armed and dangerous. Police ask anyone with information to call the IHIT tip line at 1-877-551-4448.

In January, the body of Tarsem Dhaliwal, 36, of Surrey was found inside a vehicle parked in the 18900block of 92nd Avenue in Port Kells, and earlier this month 83-year-old mother Anne Shouchuk was killed in Whalley by her daughter Kathleen Maximuik, 61, who then took her own life.

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‘Mr. Surrey’ honoured in Cloverdale Amy Reid

before the unveiling, and described her late husband as someone who “did what he loved, and loved what he did.”

“It is a great honour,” she said of the two legacy projects.

Reid’s longtime friend and business colleague, Sherrold Haddad, also took to the podium to say a few words.

“What a glorious day. With the sun so bright, it reminds me of Bill’s smile,” Haddad told the gathering.

Haddad described Reid as a “remarkable man,” and one of Cloverdale’s strongest supporters.

When it appeared Reid would have to take a break from the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce, Haddad said there was “no replacement for Bill Reid.”

Haddad thanked Reid’s family for allowing him to spend his time helping to build the community of Cloverdale, which Reid often and fondly referred to as “the centre of the universe.”

Reid served as a Surrey politician at a variety of levels, and though he was forced to resign from his post as Socred tourism minister in 1989 after he awarded more than $250,000 in GO B.C. lottery grants to

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CLOVERDALE — As workers were buzzing about the Cloverdale fairgrounds preparing for rodeo weekend, a longtime community supporter was being honoured just steps away.

On Thursday, the City of Surrey unveiled two commemorative initiatives to honour the late Bill Reid’s public and philanthropic service.

The Cloverdale Millennium Amphitheatre has been renamed the Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre, and 62nd Avenue from 176th Street to the Stetson Bowl will now be known as Bill Reid Way. A modest crowd of Reid’s family and friends, as well as politicians and colleagues gathered on the sunny afternoon as signs for the two honourary projects were unveiled.

Reid was 78 when he lost his battle with cancer on May 28, 2013. Reid’s community service earned him the monikers “Mr. Surrey” and “Mr. Cloverdale,” not to mention being chosen Surrey Good Citizen of the Year 2013.

Widow Marion Reid said a few words

a project run by a friend, he proved himself to be a quintessential Surrey booster in the years that followed.

He served with a plethora of Surrey organizations, including the Cloverdale Business Improvement Association, the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce, the Surrey Heritage Society, the Cloverdale Rodeo and Exhibition Association and the Fraser Valley Heritage Rail Society.

In addition to the two projects unveiled Thursday, the city will also be endorsing a community initiative to commission a public art installation by artist Paul Slipper.

The planned piece, to be located in Cloverdale along 176A Street, will be a sculpture of Reid and will augment the three existing sculptures in the area that depict a Cloverdale pioneer farmer, a rodeo cowgirl and a B.C. Electric railway conductor.

The piece is expected to cost $70,000, to be raised by the community, but the city plans to support the fundraising initiative through marketing and promotion.

It is hoped the piece will be completed in time for the annual Cloverdale Blueberry Festival this August.

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CLOVERDALE — During an event here at month’s end, people will pay $50 each to be blasted with rainbow-hued cornstarch along a five-kilometre route, winding through Cloverdale Fairgrounds and the adjacent, freshly christened Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre.

To date, more than 5,000 runners and walkers are registered for the Surrey edition of Color Me Rad, to be held here for the first time on Saturday, May 31.

It’s one of more than 100 similar events staged around the world by a Utah-based company that held its first Color Me Rad 5K in April 2012.

Competing events, including The Color Run, were also launched that same year.

The so-called “colour run” is billed as a convergence of fun and fitness.

“We’re just over two years into this, and the growth has been phenomenal,” said Gretchen Willard, Color Me Rad’s PR director, noting the 2.4 million followers on its Facebook page.

It’s a for-profit event organized by the company, with a percentage of dollars given to the charitable organization that provides volunteers to help on race day. In Surrey’s case, the designated charity is Keep A Breast Canada.

“The amount they receive depends on the size of the event and also their involvement in it,” Willard said, “but typically our charity partners receive anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000.”

Critics of “colour runs” suggest these amounts pale in comparison to the large sums of money made by event organizers at each 5K site.

Willard emphasized the “great relationships” Color Me Rad has with its charity partners.

“It’s a great way for them to be out in the community, to raise awareness of their organization and what they’re doing, and also raise funds from the race,” she said. “Our charity partners tell us that they’re appreciative to be part of a no-risk event for them, that they don’t take on liability or (financial) risk in being part of the event, so we’ve found it to be a really positive partnership.”

Colour runs are loosely based on Holi, the Hindu festival of colours.

At Color Me Rad, volunteers form colourbombing crews at five stations, each set up with an inflatable arch painted in similar colour.

“We have one station with a liquid colour, and that makes all the colour stick and be more vibrant,” Willard explained. “So by the time participants are done, they’ll be looking great.

It does wash out, but you’ll look great for your before-and-after pictures.”

The spirit of Color Me Rad events, she noted,

is about people letting loose, having fun and not taking things too seriously.

“It creates such solid memories for people, which I think is the appeal,” Willard said. “A lot of our runners, something like 50 per cent, are doing their very first 5K run at Color Me Rad, and because we’re not competitive, it’s all about the fun side – it doesn’t matter how fast or slow you are. I think that really brings people out to the event, and then when they realize they can do the distance, that they can do the 5K, they get into running and do other events, too. We’ve had a lot of people tell us that.”

For the event in Cloverdale, two of the three “wave” times are sold out, with start times of 10 a.m., 10:20 a.m. and 10:40 a.m.

“We like to go to cities where people want to experience something different and new,” Willard said. “As people, we spend time so much time going to school and work, so it’s nice to do something different on the weekend, something outside of the box like this, so that’s our goal. We want people to have fun with fitness.

“It’s safe to say this event will be back (in Surrey),” she added, “because, you know, it’s going to be a great turnout and it looks like the venue will be a good one. It’s our third time in Vancouver, so it looks like we’d want to come back to Surrey, too.” tzillich@thenownewspaper.com

SURREY — A special anniversary will be celebrated during the annual Semiahmoo Heritage Trail Walk, set for Saturday, May 31.

This marks the 140th year since the completion, in 1874, of the wagon road linking Brown’s Landing on the Fraser River to the Washington State town of Blaine, then known as Semiahmoo.

The May 31 event, part of Surrey’s multi-event Environmental Extravaganza, runs from 2 to 4 p.m., starting at the southeast corner of 148th Street and 28th Avenue.

“As people assemble,” event organizers Maggie and Keith Gilley told the Now, “an historian will give a brief history of the Trail, and then other local experts, who always make it interesting and fun, will lead groups through a nearby section of the Trail, talking about the wealth of native trees, plants and wildlife.”

On April 26, volunteers helped dig out some invasive plants and also planted native shrubs and trees during the Semiahmoo Heritage Trail Habitat Restoration, a “work party” hosted by Friends of Semiahmoo Trail. Another will be held in the fall.

“The children who get involved in these plantings take such an interest in ‘their’ trees/shrubs,” the Gilleys wrote in an email message. “On April 26, one little four-year-old girl was delighted with the tiny shovel and gloves that Surrey Parks Dept. provided for her, and she proudly told us the names she had given to all six plants that she and her mother had planted together – it’s a feel-good event, for sure.”

Surrey’s 17th annual Environmental Extravaganza runs from Earth Day to World Ocean Day – from April 19 to June 8.

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Greek Food Festival in Surrey: Annual event held from June 6 to 15 on grounds at Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, 13181 96th Ave., Surrey, featuring Greek food, music dancing, vendors and more. Free admission. Info: Visit greekorthodoxsurrey.org, call 604496-5099, email surreygreekfest@ gmail.com.

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Following the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, Crawford joined Facebook to help connect with the people she met while volunteering at the Games. The mother of two has always enjoyed volunteering.

From high school through to being a parent volunteer for her children’s many activities, she has always liked to use her spare time to support community initiatives. She also enjoys sports, so volunteering for Vancouver 2010 was a natural fit.

“I worked in event services in the athletes’ village helping the athletes get around. It was a great experience,” explained Crawford, who works as a facility-booking clerk with Delta School District.

She also met some wonderful people, and so she joined a Vancouver 2010 volunteer group on the popular social networking website. It was in this group that people were talking about volunteering for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. The Sochi organizing committee was looking for approximately 25,000 volunteers, so Crawford figured there was no harm in applying to volunteer.

“The entire application process was quite long, with lots of waiting in-between steps,” she recalled. “First I applied online and then waited for a response. Then I did a Skype interview and waited for a response. Then, finally, I received the confirmation email that I had been accepted as a volunteer. The whole process took months.”

Her acceptance offer came in August 2013, and she quickly started organizing to take a month off work to travel to Sochi.

Crawford has always loved travelling, but while her children were young this usually meant local travel throughout Canada. With her children now grown, this would be her first time travelling overseas.

“It was a bit nerve-racking trying to figure out what I needed to bring with me,” she remembered. “So I did lots of research and made sure to plan and budget accordingly.

Thankfully, accommodations and food were covered by the Olympics – this really helped make the trip possible for me.”

After months of preparation, Crawford left from the Vancouver airport on Feb. 2, 2014 and arrived in Russia two days later.

Of the approximately 25,000 volunteers for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, 1,800 were international, with about 175 of these being from Canada.

“All of the international volunteers were great – they were such quality individuals,” Crawford said. “The local security and police were also really great and really friendly to work with.”

Cheryl Crawford with a mascot during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Crawford was housed in a dormitorytype building and shared her apartment with six others; including herself, there were three Canadians, two Americans and two Russians in her apartment. Her accommodations were located about two to three hours from the Olympic site, where she was assigned to volunteer for the duration of the Games. Crawford was stationed at the Laura Cross-country Ski and Biathlon Centre, located in the mountains northeast of Sochi. She worked in customer service, directing spectator traffic and checking accreditations. During the two-and-a-half weeks of the Games, she worked all but four days.

In addition to the volunteering, Crawford was also able to attend a Cultural Olympiad traditional Russian dance performance, speed skating, pairs figure skating, curling and hockey. She also visited Canada Olympic House three times, including on the final day to watch the gold-medal hockey game and the closing ceremonies.

“Attending the pairs figure skating was really neat because the Russians won. The place just exploded and everyone was so excited,” she said.

Overall, it was an exceptional experience for Crawford because it was so different from anywhere she had ever been and the people were so nice.

“I came to Sochi with no real expectations. I said to myself, ‘I am going to live for the next month in Russia and just experience it and go with the flow and enjoy it.’” And this is exactly what she did.

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SURREY — Imagine a six-foot-three-inch, 255-pound shirtless beast of a man running at you full speed and your job is to tackle him. It sounds pretty frightening.

The shirtless man is Jessy Sahota, a 21-year-old Simon Fraser University student-athlete who is entering his sophomore season as a professional kabaddi raider with Dashmesh Kabaddi Club.

Sahota, a fourth-year criminology student, has been wrestling for the SFU Clan for a couple of years.

The heavyweight lost his full-ride scholarship after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) two seasons ago.

“I had to take a season off. I came back and I wasn’t 100 per cent, but I was still doing very well,” Sahota said.“When I went to talk to (my coach) about scholarship terms, he said he couldn’t give me a full-ride anymore and that I had to prove myself all over again.”

With a limited amount of time remaining on his eligibility to play at the collegiate level, the twotime national youth champion wrestler started to devote a lot more time to a sport he is familiar with: kabaddi (see sidebar).

He used to watch tournaments with his father, who is a big fan of kabaddi, and younger brother starting at the age of five.

“One year, I couldn’t wrestle because of something to do with registration, and my dad told me that I should try kabaddi. I was kind of hesitant to try it,” Sahota admitted.

Many kabaddi players have been known to take steroids and performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), and Sahota was worried about entering the league.

Now that he has one year under his belt, he views his competitors who use steroids and PEDs in a different light.

“They can’t speak English, they’re not educated, they have no knowledge about the substances they’re taking, but they just want to play really hard and they want to win, so they make enough money

Jessy Sahota (left), a former Kamagata Maru raider, attempts to win a point for his team against Azaad Kabaddi Club in Abbotsford last season. (Photo courtesy Jett Bassi/CTV Vancouver Island). to feed their families back home.

“Once you get to that pro or semi-pro level, there are going to be people who are willing to do anything to win,” Sahota said.

However, Sahota believes that the positives of playing kabaddi outweigh the negatives.

“I’ve been wrestling at the highest level in our community for the last five years,” he said.“The amount of recognition and financial stability I got from it is not nearly as close to what I get in kabaddi. In kabaddi you get paid more, you get recognized more and you get higher status within the community.”

Due to the success of his rookie season, Sahota was able to afford to pay a year of tuition at SFU after just two weekends of playing kabaddi.

Pola Sahota, Sahota’s brother, is turning pro this season and wants to emulate the success of his older brother. Pola is even filling the void left by his brother by playing for Jessy’s former team, Kamagata Maru Kabaddi Club.

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• Played on a circular field divided into two halves, one for each team.

• Each team has four stoppers on field in a “chain.” A team will send one raider to other team’s side of field.

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• If he makes it back, raider’s team is awarded a point.

• If stopper prevents him from making it back, stopper’s team is awarded a point.

• 40-minute games.

• Each team rotates between three or four raiders.

• Full contact. No biting, scratching, eye gauging or slapping.

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Hare considers the B.C. kabaddi league as one of the hardest for domestic players to enter because of the demand of high-level competition at tournaments.

“B.C. is one of the most competitive leagues worldwide,” Hare said.“When you have the world’s best players already coming to play, it’s kind of hard to get in to play the sport.”

Despite being so devoted to kabaddi, Sahota is still hoping to compete as a wrestler. He is preparing for the Canadian Olympic trials, which would allow him to compete at the 2016 summer games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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WHITE ROCK — After last year’s annual Spirit of the Sea Festival left a bad taste in the mouths of some members of the community, this year’s event is shaping up to be a return to days gone by.

Going back to the original moniker of the White Rock Sea Festival, this year’s celebration – set for Aug. 1 to 3 – will be the 65th iteration of the annual summer event and boasts a new society manning the helm.

That group is the White Rock Events Society, which was formed in 2013 after a handful of concerned locals saw a longstanding community event on the verge of shutting down and wanted to do something about it.

Head of that group is Michelle Pedersen, a lifelong resident of White Rock who has attended various forms of the festival over

the course of her life and felt the need to step up to ensure its survival.

“Things have been moving fast, we’ve been kind of having to pick up the pieces of something that’s kind of fallen from it’s glory and got together and created a brand new society and formed this new board,” she said.

After bringing together a new slate of society members, Pederson and her colleagues immediately set about creating a new vision for the festival, looking to some of the glory days of the 1980s and 1990s for inspiration.

Part of that vision includes bringing back floats to the event’s torch light parade and work is already underway to construct a new White Rock float.

“We’ve already got eight cities committed with big beautiful floats for the Saturday night torch light parade,” said Pedersen.

Key events such as the waiters race and sand activities will also be making a return and Pedersen said they were also working on bringing back some events from further back in the festival’s history, such as a swim race from the point to the pier, as well as bike races.

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On the entertainment front, board director at large David Braun is lending some of his expertise to help the festival really give the community something to take note of. As a professional in the special events industry who’s organized events such as Kelowna’s Keloha Festival, Braun is hoping to bring a solid entertainment lineup to this year’s festival.

“I’m a new resident to the White Rock area so I’m looking forward to being a part of the team,” he said. “So our vision is to put together a solid stage down by the White Rock and we’re working with some local providers to come up with a quality stage,

sound and setup.”

Pedersen would also like to bring back the always crowd-pleasing fireworks, but it all comes down to cost.

“We’re trying to do as much as we can, but we have to be realistic with a restricted budget,” she explained.

To that end, Pedersen and her team are in talks with a potential major sponsor. If an agreement is reached, the city has agreed to match any funds raised up to $50,000.

“The city recognized they might not have been there for the festival last year and they were the first to step up to support us and with the match grant, are giving us the opportunity to prove ourselves,” she said.

Pedersen said so far, the community support has been wonderful.

“We’re getting there, I’m beyond grateful for the amount of progress we’ve seen,” she said, adding the community has really stepped up to breathe new life into the festival. “We’re slowly earning the community’s trust…it’s something people feel passionate about, because this is their home.”

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