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Surrey’s Fusion Festival shows why it’s a winner SEE MORE PHOTOS FROM FUSION FESTIVAL WITH

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n 2013, the Surrey Fusion Festival won the International Gala Award for the best festival.

Event presenter John Donnelly knew the two-day event at Holland Park in the renewed Surrey Centre was something special.

“But in a category with 60 submissions from 30 countries where they choose a top three, we were there alongside the Democratic National Convention celebration party for Barack Obama and the opening night of the Toronto Jazz Festival,” Donnelly says.

“And we won.”

What made the event resonate so well with the judges and with the 75,000-plus who passed through this weekend is that the Surrey Fusion Festival has both a clear sense of purpose and brilliant execution.

Firstly, it is a family affair that really represents the surrounding large community.

The impressive variety of cultural groups and organizations, as well as regional businesses like the B.C. Chicken Growers and other agricultural enterprises exhibiting in the cultural pavilion, means the city in its entirety is represented.

I don’t doubt there is a good chance many attending are also pulling shifts in one of those booths where they happen to also be employed.

So it is sort of a big/little affair; a day out in the park where you can dance to upbeat MC jams at the Salvadorean booth, get your hands decorated in some truly lush mehndi and — duh — eat your freaking face off.

Seriously, the 40 different international kitchens that dished out reasonably priced and well prepared fare makes share-style

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Sip on a Colombian pineapple — literally the whole emptied out shell with the core refilled with liquefied pineapple — while savouring some Georgian salmon in walnut sauce or Ghanaian honey jerk chicken stew with jollof rice and some slow burn sauce all washed down with some chai ice cream.

Or would you prefer some Argentinian grilled meat sandwich with a kick-up of (superb) Togolese hot sauce and a Guatemalan fried crepe with cinnamon and sugar cane syrup?

Messy and, in all ways, delicious.

Basically, you need two stomachs. Or you just come two days in a row. I highly recommend sharing everything to improve the geographic scope of your culinary tour.

You could cozy down to some dirty one-man-band blues courtesy of Aussie Ash Grunwald, or maybe the hypnotically precise percussion of the Korean Traditional Arts Society Drummers.

There was even an all-day powwow stage

which is probably the best representation First Nations culture gets at any regional community festival.

All of it was well curated to give the best possible exposure to artists who mostly hail from the municipality, plus the nightly Concord World Music Stage ringers.

This year, that meant Saturday night featured the one-two-three punch of busy festival circuit groups singer-songwriter Aidan Knight, the Boom Booms and Hey Ocean!

Canadian folk/rock legend Bruce Cockburn closed out the evening.

Sunday night, people got their AfroLatin vibe on with Juno Award-winning guitarist Alpha Yaya Diallo, the dance-happy Orquesta Tropicana and flamenco-fusionist Pavlo.

This entire event happened free of charge.

No surprise that thousands of people flocked to the easy-to-access site from well beyond Surrey.

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“We had five stages and over 100 performers throughout the two days. There’s always something to see, there’s always dancing and there’s always music,” said Coun.

Mary Martin, who chairs the city’s diversity advisory committee.

She said this year’s event was phenomenal, “even with a little bit of rain.”

Martin expects the festival to continue growing in future years.

“I think we’re going to need a bigger park soon,” she mused.

Coun. Linda Hepner also expects the festival to continue to grow in future years, particularly in 2016, when the City of Surrey is playing host to the 2016 Women’s World Fastpitch Championships – an event that Mayor Dianne Watts and Coun.

Tom Gill flew to Colombia to snag.

In fact, Hepner said one of the reasons the city was the successful bidder on that event was because of Fusion Festival’s success.

She hopes to see the city tie the two events together in 2016.

“In 2016 we may have two sites,” she said, “One site, and then at least something going on around the softball site as well, that encourages people, maybe by shuttle to go up.”

Overall, Hepner is proud of how popular the Fusion Festival has become.

“It works to bring us together instead of divide us,” Hepner said.

“I’m convinced that it’s a really good community builder.”

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SURREY — “Someone once said to me, ‘You know, being in Surrey isn’t a very fashionable part of the Lower Mainland,’” Fincad CEO Bob Park said from his office in Whalley’s Central City Tower, where the financial analytics software firm has been headquartered for a decade.

“My answer to that was, ‘Given our business and the nature of our clients in New York and London and Zurich and many other places, Vancouver isn’t a particularly fashionable place for a financial technology company.’”

The suburb hasn’t quite cultivated the chic image carried by London or New York, two cities in which Fincad opened branch offices this past May in the midst of doubledigit revenue growth.

But in the last few months at least two other tech firms have been lured to Surrey, in part due to city hall’s recent development of the Innovation Boulevard tech business centre.

Park said Fincad was fortunate in that it moved to the area before it was known as Innovation Boulevard and retooled its

Fincad engineer Nik Venema uses the Surrey-based company’s enterprisevalidation and risk-analysis software.

(Photo: DOMINIC SCHAEFER) software platforms just before the 2008 financial crisis.

When it launched 24 years ago, Fincad was mainly offering desktop tools designed for financial professionals. In 2006, the company began looking to math whizzes with Wall Street experience to collaborate with software developers designing more complex enterprise-valuation and riskanalytics platforms.

“The risk-management tools and techniques that were being used before the financial crisis were not up to the task,” Park said, adding that software sales ground to a halt in the months after the meltdown.

But by the spring of 2009, the market opened up for the more complex riskanalysis software Fincad had begun developing before the crisis. Park said the company’s revenue grew by 20 per cent last year, which helped convince Fincad that it needed more worldwide offices.

If Fincad weren’t headquartered in Innovation Boulevard, the CEO said he’d be concerned about where the growing company would end up once its current space gets too tight.

“There are very limited alternatives right now,” he said, “but we see that improving quite significantly between now and 2016.”

Coast Capital Savings is set to become the anchor tenant of a nine-storey building just down the street from Fincad. A few blocks in the other direction, a 52-storey mixed-use hotel and residential complex is scheduled for completion in two years.

Coun. Bruce Hayne, chairman of the city’s investment and innovation committee, said these developments and the rapid growth of tech firms like Fincad have “an elevating effect on our business image.”

Conquer Mobile, which specializes in 3D imaging and virtual reality simulations for health-care education, is moving its

The reality is Surrey has outgrown that old reputation and is building a very strong reputation as a leader in technology. headquarters to Surrey when the lease for its Vancouver office expires within a year.

The Emergo Group, a medical device company based in Austin, Texas, had employees and contractors working at offices throughout the Lower Mainland after setting up its Canadian presence in 2010. When it came time to amalgamate operations in Surrey in March, Canadian managing director Daryl Wisdahl said he realized many potential clients were already operating out of Innovation Boulevard while most employees were already living in Surrey.

“The reality is Surrey has outgrown that old reputation and is building a very strong reputation as a leader in technology.”

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CITY CENTRE – Tineke Donovan is working the best job she’s ever had. The barista has been working at Blenz Coffee shop in Central City Shopping Centre for just under a year, but it was a difficult road to get where she is today.

Donovan suffers from anxiety and depression, and it has been a struggle for her to deal with it in the past.

“I can take (people’s) body language a whole other way and get really anxious about it. It kind of makes me flustered and I’ll just make mistake after mistake after mistake. It’s kind of embarrassing,” Donovan admitted.

But thanks to the Partners for Work Inclusion Program (PWIP), she has been able to find a job she enjoys.

PWIP is a program from the Canadian Council on Rehab and Work, which is funded by the federal government.

The program is geared towards helping people with short-term training, such as FOODSAFE, WHIMIS and forklift training.

Yenny Paez, the employment outreach specialist with PWIP, believes that they are about “bridging the gap” between the employer and the client.

“A lot of the time, the problems can be easily solved through effective communication,” Paez said. “We encourage (clients) to talk to us if they’ve had a bad day at work.”

One of the key benefits the program offers is subsidizing up to 50 per cent of the employees wages for 12 weeks.

After losing her job at a local eatery, Donovan knows that communication between employers and employees is key and is thankful to the team at PWIP for ensuring that everyone is happy with

Donovan’s employment.

“Even though I’m no longer subsidized, they still keep track and keep in contact. It’s actually a really good support system for that,” said Donovan. But the program kept in touch with her boss and told her that she had nothing to worry about.

When she lost her previous job, Donovan went to visit her mother in Squamish and said it was one of the lowest points of her life.

“I was hyperventilating. When you consider yourself such a valuable employee, then all of a sudden, they tell you goodbye.

Who will cut all the lettuce? I did that,” Donovan joked.

She was the first person Tony Lopes – the franchise owner of Blenz Coffee Central City – hired through the program, even though he was a little uncertain at first.

“She wasn’t really polished and came across a little bit on the rough side. I wasn’t sure how she would be accepted by customers,” Lopes said. “She’s quite a tall girl who can seem a little overwhelming, but she’s really soft natured, a good listener and really shy.

“I love her and I think the customers do as well. It’s kind of don’t judge a book by it’s cover type of approach,” Lopes added.

Even though she has to deal with anxiety and depression, Lopes said Donovan remains professional and doesn’t show those issues when she is helping customers.

“She’s definitely one that falls off a bicycle and wants to hop straight back on. I’ve seen it many times. Customers give her a real tough time and she kind of goes in the back, shakes her head a few times, comes out and she’s forgotten it,” said Lopes.

When she was younger, Donovan was not one to “take a handout” but now she’s more willing to accept help.

“As a teenager, I wasn’t really willing to accept help from society. I would be more willing now. I kept constantly denying it and then I was just left alone after a while,” Donovan said.

She is working 36 hours a week at Blenz.

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NEWTON – Two years ago, Dylan Vanlimbeek’s confidence and self-esteem was so low that he couldn’t look people in the eye.

Now the 21-year-old man wears the suit and tie he received from the Moores’ Canadian Suit Drive to work in the furniture department at PricePro. Vanlimbeek is originally from Toronto, but moved to Surrey so he could enter the John Volken Academy – which was formerly called Welcome Home.

The academy is a two-year program for people ages 19 to 34 who are addicted to drugs and/or alcohol.

The Torontonian is five weeks away from completing the program after turning his life around after being addicted to heroin during the final years of his teens.

“I was dropping out of school,” Vanlimbeek said. “I was always just fixed on finding the next best thing I could do, which in my mind at the time was to have fun or to not be here. I chose to do opiates, which would take me out of my environment and out of reality and not have to deal with anything. I wasn’t sure or proud of who I was as a person.”

After dropping out of high school, Vanlimbeek moved out of his parents house, but was unable to hold a job for longer than three months without getting fired or “freaking out” and quitting.

“I tried to take on two jobs to support (living on my own) while supporting a drug addiction and it didn’t work out,” said Vanlimbeek.

Realizing he could no longer lie to his family about being OK, Vanlimbeek told them about his addiction.

He has an aunt who lives in Victoria, and she showed him the John Volken Foundation website and recommended he think about enrolling in the academy.

Vanlimbeek knew it was something he had to do.

“I knew it’s what I needed to do to get out of my environment of where I was before and get as far away to what I was familiar with. It’s also the idea of starting a new life – to be somewhere different,” he said.

Gabrielle Steed, an employee of the foundation, said the first six months was extremely tough on Vanlimbeek. She said he had no confidence and was always shy and kept to himself and doubted his ability. However once he settled, Vanlimbeek started to thrive in his new environment and found himself as student council president for his graduating class. After dropping out of high school in his teens, Vanlimbeek also completed his education while in the academy.

This is the fifth year of the annual Moores’ Canadian Suit Drive, and Azeem Panjwani – the company’s regional manager for B.C. – said it is only getting bigger.

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In return for their donation, which can only be handed in for the month of July, Moores’ offers customers a coupon to receive 50 per cent off their next purchase.

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repare your eyes, ears and stomachs for a steady diet of “Yay Surrey” heading into this November’s civic election.

Because Lord knows, it’s being served.

Consider Doug McCallum, the city’s mayor from 1996 to 2005.

After his defeat to Dianne Watts, McCallum slipped out of the limelight with élan and in the months and years that followed, reporters intending to write “where is he now” stories sighed heavy blasts of frustration trying to find him for a quick chat.

Then, 14 years gone by, McCallum showed up at the new city hall in Whalley in March and now he’s running once again for mayor.

“I have a fire in my belly,” he says.

That “fire” must have conveniently flared up when he found out Watts wasn’t running.

Also consider the Surrey First slate. You know, the guys who’ve been in charge of city hall for quite some time.

Surrey First’s Twitter account featured no less than eight tweets on Nov. 19, 2011, encouraging everyone to get out and vote, and thanking supporters for their support.

But after that, crickets.

The Twitter account lay dormant until this past July 1: “Happy Canada Day to the greatest city in the greatest country!”

Nary a single tweet during non-election years but all a-flutter during.

Coincidence? You be the judge.

Surrey First also produced a tweet on July 16: “Proud to represent Surrey at the opening of the Canadian Fastpitch International,” which is – ahem – an annual event that evidently enjoys extra-special consideration during an election year.

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SkyTrain proponents have heads buried in sand The Editor, Re: “SkyTrain expansion would be cheaper, faster than LRT, says Surrey citizens’ group,” the Now online.

So Daryl Dela Cruz wants SkyTrain and he has formed a group to bang the drum for SkyTrain in Surrey.

SkyTrain is a proprietary railway and its patents are held by both Bombardier and SNC Lavalin, which after over 35 years on the market has only managed to build seven such systems world wide.

All the SkyTrains sold thus far have been in private deals, with many wheels thoroughly greased, to ensure SkyTrain’s construction. SkyTrain has never been allowed to compete against modern Light Rail Transit and for good reason – it is a dated and inferior transit system.

During the same period, more than 150 new LRT systems have been built, with scores more under construction or in the final stages of planning.

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Modern LRT is both cheaper to build and cheaper to operate than the driverless SkyTrain mini-metro and has a greater capacity as well, with the bonus of being far more versatile.

With LRT, you get a far bigger bang with your buck. The City of Ottawa, after pressure from the federal government, sent a delegation to Vancouver to investigate SkyTrain and the delegation found, what was already known, SkyTrain cost more to

build, cost more to operate and had less capacity than LRT and now building with LRT with trams supplied by Alstom.

One wonders why TransLink still plans with this obsolete mini-metro and why TransLink’s claims for LRT are opposite of what the rest of the world has found is true with SkyTrain. One wonders who is pulling TransLink’s and Cruz’s strings.

Malcolm Johnston, Delta

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ther than beautiful scenery and having the same monarch, B.C. and Australia don’t have much in common.

And they have even less in common now, because Australia has scrapped its carbon tax, which is still very much alive and kicking in this province.

The Australian carbon tax was introduced in 2010, by a Labor Party government that had just won an election after vowing not to implement such a tax.

However, while the Labor Party won the election, it did not win a majority of seats.

It needed the support of the Green Party to form government and the price for that was giving the Green Party what it wanted: a carbon tax, which Labor had been on record as opposing before the election.

Needless to say, the public was furious.

The Labor Party subsequently changed leaders and said it would repeal the carbon tax, but it was still defeated in last year’s election.

There is a striking parallel here, of course, to another tax controversy: the HST that former premier Gordon Campbell sprung on an unsuspecting public after the 2009 election campaign, during which his party had actually stated it had no designs to introduce such a tax.

Like his Australian counterparts, Campbell was driven from office by a tax revolt. Except, the critical difference here is that another big tax brought in by Campbell – the carbon tax – generated no such revolt, and instead appears to have paid off.

In fact, B.C.’s carbon tax actually hurt the party that opposed it – the NDP, which opposed the tax after it was introduced in 2008, and made its opposition to the tax a key part of its 2009 election platform, which was firmly rejected by the voters.

Campbell artfully tied this province’s

Fossil fuel use in B.C. has dropped by 16 per cent since the carbon tax came in. carbon tax to a corresponding income tax cut, and a significant rebate scheme for lowincome earners.

The result has been that any call for a repeal of the carbon tax in this province would be linked to a tax increase. That’s because the tax collects about $1.1 billion annually, which pays for almost $200 million in tax credits and rebates for low income people, plus a five per cent income tax cut ($235 million) and more than $700 million for a host of business tax cuts.

Getting rid of the tax, then, would increase everyone’s income tax bill by five per cent, hit poor people particularly hard, and hit businesses with tax hikes that would inevitably be passed onto consumers. No wonder the NDP doesn’t talk about the tax much these days.

But the carbon tax also appears to be having the desired impact on what it is supposed to do: lead to a reduction in the use of carbon.

According to Sustainable Prosperity, an Ottawa-based “green” research group, fossil fuel use in B.C. has dropped by 16 per cent since the tax came in. Meanwhile, fossil fuel use in the rest of Canada has actually gone up three per cent in that same time period.

And as for Australia, well, its status as one of the world’s worst greenhouse gas emitters per capita will continue. The country relies heavily on its vast reserves of cheap coal for its supply of electricity.

The country has also blown about a $7billion hole in government revenues over the next four years, which will undoubtedly have negative repercussions for the delivery of health care, education and social services.

I’m not sure whether the opposite experiences of B.C. and Australia when it comes to a carbon tax means people of one jurisdiction are any more or less environmentally friendly than those in the other.

But I do think there’s a lesson here about how to introduce new taxes, whether they are carbon-related or not. The lesson is this: if a government is going to create a new tax, do it just before an election campaign and not immediately after one.

The B.C. Liberals did that with a carbon tax, but failed to do so with the HST. The party was badly bruised and was forced to dump its leader, but still won another term in power. The Australian Labor party implemented the carbon tax like the B.C. Liberals handled the HST, and subsequently chewed up two of its leaders before being booted from power.

Playing games with taxes can be very dangerous for governments. B.C.’s carbon tax is an example of the right way of playing the game.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC. You can email him at Keith.Baldrey@globalnews.ca

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Out with old council and in with the new The Editor, We are going into an election in the fall. None of Surrey’s current city council should be voted in again and we don’t need the people that were in before.

We got a new city hall we did not need. There was a murder in Newton – and then they got on the bandwagon.

We have a big problem with illegal suites that means we are losing much money in taxes.

Council had lots of time to correct this. Sure, we got more promises but still nothing.

They still have time to fix their bylaw but they won’t – too much money from contractors and businesses to get these people elected.

Look at the candidates and vote new people in. It can’t get much worse.

A. Eichhorst, Surrey

Overnight parking ban is suite solution The Editor, Re: “How can Surrey quash illegal suites for good?” the Now, July 17.

If the city was to ban overnight parking on the streets, both the illegal suite and parking problems would be solved with one stroke of the pen.

It would be a much simpler matter to ticket illegally parked cars than to figure out which suites are illegal.

I have never understood why overnight parking or, for that matter, parking for more than four hours at any time is allowed.

I paid for my parking spots when I bought my house with sufficient driveway room.

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Once again, the discussion is mulled about illegal suites and the “solution.”

Unfortunately, the solution has always been present, but it would be unpopular because of the implications with voters who want to have their cake and eat it too.

If the bylaw officers and building inspectors were given the manpower and the support from city council to properly enforce the laws already on the books, many illegal suites could be made to disappear.

Until the city deems this a significant enough problem to properly empower the governing departments, illegal suites will continue to plague our neighbourhoods.

Until there is a streamlined process for reporting violators, the problem will persist. And, until the process for legally forcing negligent homeowners to remove illegal suites becomes a prudent process that does not span multiple years, the problems will persist.

With all due respect to Coun.

Barinder Rasode, the idea of lobbying anyone to provide funding for those earning additional untaxed income from their illegal suites, so they could bring them up to adequate standards, is once again forcing the responsible taxpayer to fund the law breaker.

Just as enforcement of laws on the roads and highways requires manpower (out writing the violations), the same can be said for bylaws.

Involve the taxpayer with an easy way to report the violators, and empower the men and women who go and write the violations, with your support.

Kris Sorenson, Surrey

Multiple suites are real problem in city The Editor, Re: “‘How can Surrey quash illegal suites for good?” the Now, July 17.

I fully support cracking down on illegal suites in Surrey, but just watch

the minority groups squash this as they claim it is their right to have all those people live in one home.

Being allowed to have one suite per house is not the problem – it’s when there are multiple suites that fines and mandatory removals should take place (along with unannounced re-inspections over the next year to ensure no re-offences take place).

There is no reason to have these massive single-family homes pop up everywhere in Surrey (single family homes, my butt). It is coming to the point that there is no affordable starter family homes left in Surrey (these are being bought, torn down and mega homes erected in their places).

All this means is that if you’re not a renter, don’t bother looking to buy a modest home in Surrey (or, when in Surrey, just make more illegal suites).

Make these suites legal, and then maybe the city won’t be screaming for more funding as the proper taxes will finally be collected and help pay for our schooling and city needs.

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Mirage is out, new ‘upscale’ pub is in With craft beer and longer hours, new venture in north Surrey will focus on attracting broader demographic Kristi Alexandra

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urrey’s resident party spot, Mirage Nightclub, closed its doors for good in late June after 18 years of late-night drinking, entertainment and dancing.

Since its grand closing on June 21, the lot has been a demolition site as owner and operator Wayne Ferguson wanted to repurpose the space for a more “modern, upscale pub.”

He hopes to see the venue open up in late September in the building that Mirage once occupied.

Mirage Nightclub hosted DJs and dance parties, once even having a 22year-old Lady Gaga perform in 2008 in support of her debut release, The Fame.

“We’re gutting it and completely renovating it into more of a pub-type environment. We’ll still maintain the late night hours, but we’ll be open all day for people to come and have lunch and dinner and watch sporting events and do all that sort of stuff,” said Ferguson, who ran the club with his sons.

This time around, his sons will not be involved, he told the Now. Ferguson said that restrictive work hours and poor utilization of the 10,000-square foot building is what prompted him to make the change.

Here’s what our Facebook followers were saying about our story on Mirage’s closure, making way for a new modern pub in north Surrey:

Jenni-lynn Hewitt I think we have plenty of enough pubs in Surrey. Now, we have zero nightclubs. I never have been but I know a lot of young people who find it a drag to have to go to Vancouver constantly to go to a nightclub.

Jennifer Miller Fletcher First the Wheelhouse now them, where are you suppose to go and dance?

Christine Mcnabb-Simpson the wheelhouse pub is reopening as a country bar Jennifer Miller Fletcher That's not dancing.

Then again Pancho's says that it is country as well. I don't care much about the club if a great pub has dancing. We need them to build a Casino like Cascades Casino Resort and Starlight Casino in Surrey. Newton would be great like they wanted to. It does NOT attract druggies and has class and I love going there to dance but something closer would be nice.

Dharrol Alves For the record… It will still have a good size dance floor.

I’ve wanted to do this for quite a while, to be able to put in a full kitchen and be able to open up the place seven days a week and all day long.

David Perry It will still be a nightclub at night, so you can still go have a drink and dance! With the new pub and it being open late nights still on weekends will bring in a lot of business! I'm excited for the new renovations.

Wayne Ferguson

“The main reason is that it’s a very large building and a very large property to only be operating 18 hours a week,” he said. “I’ve wanted to do this for quite a while, to be able to put in a full kitchen and be able to open up the place seven days a week and all day long.”

After gaining approval to construct a patio from the city, the new venture is full speed ahead, and Ferguson hopes the new site will attract a wider audience than it did as Mirage Nightclub.

“We’re definitely hoping to broaden our demographic a bit. We figured we can hopefully pull a demographic

Mirage Nightclub owner and operator Wayne Ferguson is repurposing the space for a more “modern, upscale pub.” The new bar is expected to open in September.

(Photo: KRISTI ALEXANDRA) between 19 and 50 rather than just the 19 to 22. That’s why on weekends we’ll be bringing in live entertainment as well as a DJ,” he said.

Ferguson also said he aims to serve craft beer and upscale pub fare when the spot re-opens.

As of yet, the prospective pub is unnamed and Ferguson wants to call on local residents to help come up with a title, saying he wants to differentiate from Mirage, as it’s known as a latenight club.

A contest for naming the new pub is in the works, he added.

“When we came up with the Mirage, we wanted something that would depict something with a certain aura of class to it but also it suited us because we were building something that basically belonged in downtown Vancouver that was built out in the valley; that was kind of like a mirage because it didn’t really belong. So the word ‘mirage’ resonated with us really well,” he said. kalexandra@thenownewspaper.com

Ronnie Haywood Stevieg Vancity I went to the last night, I've made my piece lol Caroline Drover There is no such thing as a night club anymore I've seen so many die in Surrey as well as other cities, Champagnes, The Dell, Ozone just to name a few of the old ones and then there is Boone county in New West,, Cheers in Delta and China Beach in Langley, It really is sad to see that there is no where to go dance and have a drink, Guess we can thank Video games, Pot and our tougher drinking and driving laws..... I also have agree with others on here there are more than enough Pubs and social houses in the Lower Mainland we don't need any more!

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NEW WESTMINSTER — A North Delta woman who killed her commonlaw husband by stabbing him in the chest during a domestic fight will remain on bail until she’s sentenced on Dec. 18.

Beatrice Thomas, 38, was found guilty of manslaughter on July 11, in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster.

After the verdict, Thomas ventured outside the courthouse with her family for a smoke. Asked for her reaction to the verdict, she replied, “It is what it is.”

Thomas was tried for second-degree murder in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster this past winter for stabbing 37-year-old Quannah O’Soup on July 3, 2011. Justice Trevor Armstrong presided.

The couple had rented a small half-duplex at 11540 80th Ave. in North Delta across the street from the entrance to McCloskey Elementary school and lived there with Thomas’s daughters, who were ages 10 and 15 at the time.

no reliable evidence as to how things The girls were in their bedroom and unfolded in the living room, or what didn’t witness the violence that had Thomas’s state of mind was at the time, but unfolded in the living room, shortly after concluded that Thomas, with arm raised, midnight. thrust a knife down into O’Soup’s chest Armstrong’s verdict was prefaced by a as he advanced on her from a lengthy and detailed recitation distance of about seven feet. of his reasons for decision. The Armstrong said there was no judge found the Crown hadn’t evidence that Thomas had been proved beyond a reasonable unable to leave the room, seek doubt that Thomas intended to help from her friends in the murder O’Soup. kitchen, or leave the house.

But he also decided that the “The way was clear for her to injury Thomas inflicted on retreat,” he said, adding she had O’Soup was disproportionate to “ample opportunity to remove a finding of self-defence. herself from the living room.

The court heard Thomas and Beatrice Thomas “She should have been able to O’Soup financed their crack preserve herself without killing Mr. O’Soup,” cocaine habits by shoplifting and had been Armstrong decided. engaged in a relationship power struggle.

Outside court the victim’s elder brother, A couple staying with them at the time Spencer O’Soup, said he respected the were in the kitchen when O’Soup was verdict and will now work on healing. stabbed but didn’t see it happen. O’Soup “There’s no winners and losers on both died at the scene, of a single stab wound that sides of this,” he said. punctured his lung and heart.

His brother’s death has created a Armstrong noted there was a “significant” “huge burden” on his family emotionally, amount of cocaine in his blood. He found

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Spencer O’Soup said his brother’s five children have “all been very devastated by the loss of their father” and that he is trying to help them heal.

At the outset of the trial, he told the Now he felt no ill will toward Thomas.

“I’m not here to have pitchforks and fire,” he said at the time. “For me, it’s about healing.

“I don’t feel hatred or anything like that,” he said. “I feel a lot of compassion. I feel really sorry for her.”

He said his brother and Thomas had met in Edmonton and had been together for about a year. She followed him to the Coast, he said. “She made her way here with her kids.”

“Their relationship was toxic, eh,” Spencer said. “It was desperation. The relationship was up and down.”

He said his younger brother had five children of his own in Edmonton. The eldest is 22, and the youngest are twins, age 10.

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SURREY — A former teacher at Port Kells Elementary who tipped a student out of their chair, rough housed with students and brought a knife to school has been reprimanded.

According to the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation, teacher Theo Sean Mallinson, who taught Grades 1 and 2 at

incident by the school’s principal, the commission notes that Mallinson became confrontational, speaking to her with profanity and in a disrespectful manner.

In report’s disposition, Mallinson admits that the incidents were true and resigned from his position at the end of June.

The suspension of Mallinson’s teacher’s licence will come into effect on Sept. 1.

also note Mallinson engaged in play fighting, roughhousing and wrestling with intermediate students.

Mallinson also brought a Swiss Army Knife to class and showed it a kindergarten student, demonstrating how to use the knife’s screwdriver.

After that, the student then took the knife without Mallinson’s knowledge and proceeded to cut an apple and toilet paper.

When confronted about the knife

the Surrey elementary school, has had his teaching licence suspended for three months for inappropriate behavior involving students.

In a recently-released report, the commission details the incidents that led to Mallinson’s punishment. In January of this year, Mallinson lost his temper with a student and dumped her out of her chair onto the floor.

Other instances over the past few years

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Baldev Singh Kalsi charged with murder Amy Reid and Kristi Alexandra

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SURREY — The former president of a Surrey Sikh temple has been charged with second-degree murder after his wife died in hospital.

Narinder Kaur Kalsi was taken off life support Sunday following a domestic dispute that left her in critical condition last week. She was pronounced dead Narinder Kaur just before 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

Her husband, Baldev Singh Kalsi, was originally charged with aggravated assault. That charge was later upgraded to attempted murder, and now second-degree murder.

Baldev Kalsi, 66, was the president of the Gurdwara Sahib Brookside but was removed from his position last Thursday.

The Canadian Ramgarhia Society, which operates the Gurdwara Sahib Brookside, made the decision.

The society’s board has appointed Sardul Singh Rehal as president.

“We are deeply saddened by the tragic incident that took place over the past weekend,” the society said in a release.

“The management of Gurdwara Sahib Brookside categorically condemns all kinds of violence. These are difficult moments for the society.”

Meanwhile, Kalsi did not appear in Surrey provincial court last Wednesday as

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Police say the 28-year-old woman was walking in the Mac’s parking lot at 80th Avenue and King George Boulevard at about 3:30 a.m. when a dark coloured SUV pulled up to her and she and the occupants got into an argument.

She then walked over to the Town and Country trailer park, in the 8200-block of King George.

The SUV followed her, the spat continued, and one of the SUV’s occupants shot her in the lower leg.

The SUV then took off. Police are still looking for suspects.

“The female victim was transported to hospital by ambulance and is presently being treated for her injury,” Surrey RCMP Staff Sgt. Murray Hedderson said.

“The motive for the shooting is presently unknown, but the incident does not appear to be random.”

expected, as he sustained injuries from an assault that happened while in custody at Surrey Pretrial Centre Tuesday evening.

Kalsi was taken to hospital with facial injuries. A 42-year-old inmate has been identified as a possible suspect.

Police do not believe the incident is linked to Kalsi’s involvement in the ongoing investigation. A two-day prayer was planned at the temple, beginning on July 18 at 8 a.m. and ending on July 20 at 8 a.m, for Narinder.

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163+205=368.

That stark equation scrawled in the top corner of a chalkboard means little to a casual observer, but for Surrey’s Parm Phangura, it means a lot.

The chalkboard in question is located in the garage of his Fleetwood home. Five-year-old daughter Talia has taken over the lower reaches of the board, but the rest of the surface is Daddy’s.

The Canadian national team weightlifter trains in the garage and each time he hoists another mass of iron, his eyes naturally travel to the chalkboard.

163-kilograms for the snatch.

205-kgs for the clean and jerk.

368-kgs total.

These are the goals the 34-yearold Phangura has set for himself when he competes at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, which begin this week in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Games are important to Phangura, and not just for the sport and pageantry. He knows these will be his last on such an important sporting stage and he wants to make a lasting impression. The chalk numbers are more than obtainable as they both fall within his personal best lifts and now that all the training is over, he wants go out on the best possible terms.

“I’m going to cherish everything about competing at an event as big as the Commonwealth Games,” he said. “And when my turn comes to compete, I’m going to leave everything on the platform.”

Phangura has been lifting for most of his life, but is a latecomer to international competition.

He grew up in Quesnel where he was inspired by local lifter and Canadian national team member Paramjit Gill.

“I got to know Paramjit Gill when I was in high school,” Phangura said. “We used to watch him train and we thought he was amazing. The guy had a superman physique and all of us normal kids, we all wanted to be like that.

So that’s how I got introduced to weightlifting.”

Years later, Phangura moved to the Lower Mainland where he met up with Gill again. Phangura resumed weightlifting as a hobby and after a while, he began to get good at it. He entered his first

With some support from daughter Talia, Surrey’s Parm Phangura has completed his training and is ready to compete at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo: KEVIN HILL) competition and when he was successful, that fueled him to work even harder.

Phangura qualified for the Canadian championships on his first attempt in 2001 where he finished in first place. He won again the following year and in 2004, he got a taste of international competition when he won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Championships in Malta.

“When I went to nationals for the first time and won, I thought,

‘Wow, this is easy,’” Phangura said.

“I had some success with it and I was happy with that, but I really didn’t have the guidance to see what I could do. I didn’t know what the Commonwealth Games were at that time. If I had known about it, I would have pursued the Commonwealth Games in 2006, but I really didn’t know about it.

I didn’t know about the Pan-Am Games in 2007 either. I found out about it after the fact.

“So I thought to myself, ‘Hold

on here. I’ve already done all of these championships and the top tier of lifters are all going to these games. I want to do that too.’”

At the time Phangura was a full-time student for a career in occupational health and safety and was working at a job on the side.

As much as it appealed to him, becoming a full-time athlete was not his top priority.

“I had to keep my priorities straight,” Phangura said. “I didn’t want to be a full-time athlete and

that’s why I established a career.

That’s number one for me because that’s what puts food on my table.

Weightlifting is my passion and I get satisfaction from it, but it doesn’t pay the bills.”

Phangura kept these priorities straight while pushing himself harder in the gym. He represented Canada at the Pan American Championships in 2008 and in 2010 he was thrilled to earn a spot on the Canadian team for the Commonwealth Games in India.

His first big international competition turned into a nightmare when he came down with a severe case of Delhi Belly days before he was slated to compete. The heavyweight contender lost 15 pounds in three days and while he gutted it out and competed, his results were far from his normal weight totals.

“It was still an unbelievable experience for me,” he said of the Commonwealth Games. “For those two weeks that I was there I learned so much. There’s not much I would change apart from getting sick. I met people from different countries and saw how they trained and everything like that. It was a great experience.

“I learned what I should have done and how to do things a little bit differently. I learned there and I’ll pay attention to details like that in Scotland.”

Upon returning to Canada, Phangura resumed his training.

He competed at the World Championships and the Pan American Games in 2011 and in 2012, he was back at the Pan Am championships.

Now he will be boarding another jet bound for the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he hopes to stay healthy so he can turn in more impressive results than his first Games experience in India.

“When you’re young you take everything for granted,” he said.

“Now that I’m nearing the end of my competitive career and have been around a lot longer, I cherish everything about the sport. I enjoy every training session and knowing what I’ve been through with injuries and bad competition results and good competition results, I cherish all of the memories and the experiences.

“I know the Commonwealth Games in Scotland will be my last and I’m going to enjoy every minute of it.”

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It was a weekend of spectacular swimming for 11-yearold Hailey Penner of the Delta Sungod Swim Club at the B.C. AAA Championships in Victoria July 4-6.

The event drew 700 swimmers from across the province including nine from the Sungods.

Hailey stood out from the crowd as she managed to reach the finals in all seven events she raced in and climbed the podium four times.

She captured a silver medal for both the 50-metre and 100m freestyle events and added bronze medals for the 200m and 400m free finals. She also placed fourth in both the 800m free and 200m individual medley and seventh in the 400m IM. Sungod swimmers rewrote the club record books with five club standards broken. Hailey Penner broke the 11-12 year old girls’ long course 50m free, 100m free, 200m free, 400m free. Elena Penner broke the 13-14 girls’ long course club record in the 100m butterfly.

Elena Penner, 14, qualified for her third age group national standard, while Hailey Penner qualified for her first. Swimmers require three times in order to attend Age Group Nationals in Winnipeg July 23-27th.

The Delta Sungod Swim Club will be having its 2014-15 Season Registration on September 9-10 from 5:30-7 p.m. at Sungod Recreation Centre.

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Summer’s in full swing on the waterfront and businesses are hustling to make it count.

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WHITE ROCK — Get your flip-flops and sunglasses ready because beachside businesses in White Rock are hustling, thanks to the foot traffic along Marine Drive during the summer.

With Canada Day unofficially kicking off the season, businesses are gearing up for more summer events, including the Sea Festival, the Moon Festival and the pier’s 100th birthday.

Lynne Sinclair, White Rock Business Improvement Association (BIA) president and a former White Rock city councillor, said summer is definitely tailored for beach businesses.

“Summer somewhat sells itself,” Sinclair said. “There are a lot of different events during the summer that are focused on the beach. Our challenge is always to ensure that we capitalize on those events with other businesses around the town as well,” she added.

After teaming up with the city and Tourism White Rock to keep the free, summer trolley service, the BIA and Sinclair believe that helping people get to and from the beach is vital this summer.

“We also want to advocate for increased transit and ensuring that we’ve got ways of transporting people down to the beach because of the lack of parking down there,” Sinclair said.

After being a co-owner of Moby Dick’s Seafood Restaurant for six years, James Morrison knows the summer months are vital to beachfront businesses.

“July and August are make-it-or-breakit months. It gives you an idea of how the year is going. If you have two good, strong months, then it carries you right through up to December,” Morrison said.

Ocean Promenade Hotel is just steps away from East Beach, offering amazing views.

He also said that he could potentially earn 50 per cent of his annual revenue over the season and that his staff has slowly become accustomed to dealing with the volume of customers who come to his restaurant on a nice, summer day.

“On average, we cut maybe 450 pounds (of fish) a day over July and August and we go through 700 pounds of potatoes a day,” Morrison said.

Like the rest of the businesses along Marine Drive, the Ocean Promenade Hotel is ready for the busy season.

Russell Hoffmann is in charge of sales and marketing at the hotel. He expects a great summer in White Rock.

“July and August are the highest months.

It’s when the kids are out of school is when it starts getting busy,” Hoffmann said.

Ocean Promenade is the only hotel in White Rock and Hoffmann said being steps away from East Beach makes the hotel popular to locals and celebrities.

He said that actors such as Danny DeVito, Tom Lennon, Craig Robinson and most recently, Chiwetel Ejiofor – who starred in the Academy Award’s Best Picture of 2013, 12 Years a Slave – have all stayed at the hotel.

“Location wise, being around the beach definitely makes it a popular location,” Hoffmann said.

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WHITE ROCK — An estimated $80,000 rebate for taxpayers stemming from the civic worker strike has been redirected into parks maintenance after it was decided the number was too low to be worth sending out cheques.

“The rebate would be less than $10 per taxpayer and it’s not worth mailing it out

Mayor Wayne Baldwin said given the assessment values of the city’s various property owners some would have received more and others less.

“We have in excess of about 8,000 taxpayers, and because of the variance given by assessed value, some people would be getting maybe a dollar,” he said. “So it would be silly to send out cheques when the value is worth less than the postage.”

Baldwin said it also might not have been

with a dollar a stamp and the cost of an envelope,” said Coun. Grant Meyer. “All the parks deteriorate a bit during this time of year so we thought it would be good to put it back into that.

“Luckily the strike settled relatively quickly, if it had gone longer and it was more like $50 dollars per taxpayer that would have been more worthy of sending out cheques. Of course, that all goes by the assessment amount.”

fair to some, as some made more efforts than others to deal with the labour dispute, which halted garbage pickup, recreational functions and parks and road maintenance for most of May. “It seemed to be inequitable in some degree because people had gone to quite substantial lengths to get rid of their garbage and others just held onto it until the strike was over, so that doesn’t represent a true reflection of their expenses,” said Baldwin.

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SURREY — The former president of a Surrey Sikh temple has been charged with second-degree murder after his wife died in hospital.

Narinder Kaur Kalsi was taken off life support Sunday following a domestic dispute that left her in critical condition last week. She was pronounced dead Narinder Kaur just before 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

Her husband, Baldev Singh Kalsi, was originally charged with aggravated assault. That charge was later upgraded to attempted murder, and now second-degree murder.

Baldev Kalsi, 66, was the president of the Gurdwara Sahib Brookside but was removed from his position last Thursday.

The Canadian Ramgarhia Society, which operates the Gurdwara Sahib Brookside, made the decision.

The society’s board has appointed Sardul Singh Rehal as president.

“We are deeply saddened by the tragic incident that took place over the past weekend,” the society said in a release.

“The management of Gurdwara Sahib Brookside categorically condemns all kinds of violence. These are difficult moments for the society.”

Meanwhile, Kalsi did not appear in Surrey provincial court last Wednesday as

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SURREY — A woman was shot in the leg at a trailer park in Newton early Sunday morning.

Police say the 28-year-old woman was walking in the Mac’s parking lot at 80th Avenue and King George Boulevard at about 3:30 a.m. when a dark coloured SUV pulled up to her and she and the occupants got into an argument.

She then walked over to the Town and Country trailer park, in the 8200-block of King George.

The SUV followed her, the spat continued, and one of the SUV’s occupants shot her in the lower leg.

The SUV then took off. Police are still looking for suspects.

“The female victim was transported to hospital by ambulance and is presently being treated for her injury,” Surrey RCMP Staff Sgt. Murray Hedderson said.

“The motive for the shooting is presently unknown, but the incident does not appear to be random.”

expected, as he sustained injuries from an assault that happened while in custody at Surrey Pretrial Centre Tuesday evening.

Kalsi was taken to hospital with facial injuries. A 42-year-old inmate has been identified as a possible suspect.

Police do not believe the incident is linked to Kalsi’s involvement in the ongoing investigation. A two-day prayer was planned at the temple, beginning on July 18 at 8 a.m. and ending on July 20 at 8 a.m, for Narinder.

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