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However, after short term benefits, scar tissue ends up becoming a significant long term problem, getting in the way of a full return to normal flexibility and strength after an injury (or surgery). Since it lacks flexibility, internal scar tissue even increases the likelihood of future injury.

Fortunately scar tissue cells can also make room again for healthy cells. This often occurs very slowly or hardly at all, but with a little help, our body can Internal Scar Tissue in break up and get rid of much internal scar tissue.

Skeletal Muscle Internal scar tissue prevents muscles from working properly since it • Is much less flexible • Does not contribute to muscle contraction & strength • Makes undesirable connections (adhesions) to neighbouring tissue

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If Cold Laser Therapy is started very quickly after an injury (or surgery), then cellular tissue is healing and growing much faster, and the body doesn’t even bother to create so much scar tissue. And more healthy tissue and less scar tissue in the first place also means more flexibility and strength in the injured area resulting in accelerated recovery.

However, even many years after original injury, Cold Laser Therapy boosts the healthy cell’s energy levels, so they can do their job of replacing scar tissue with healthy tissue much more effectively.

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“About 4 years ago, I tore my ACL doing a sporting event. The surgeon – while they did a very good job – the knee never fully recovered. I’ve sort of been struggling to get back to training and trying everything from physio, to exercise, to just ignoring it, to you name it. I met Dr. Mel about a year ago and she invited me to come try out Cold Laser Therapy treatments and I thought ‘Sure, why not? I’ve tried everything else, what’s one more thing that doesn’t work?’ And I was stunned because after 6 treatments, I went and did a very intense 2 day workout and I had none of the problems I’ve had for the last four years, it was incredible. So if anybody is even thinking about it, come out and give Dr. Mel a try, see what they can do at Solaj – it worked for me — after 4 years of trying!”

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Cameron is a very active and vibrant young local realtor, as well as a competitive martial artist. About 4 years ago, Cameron sustained a major injury during one of his competitions when he was kicked in the back of the knee, resulting in a complete tear of his ACL (a very important stabilizing ligament in the knee). At that time, Cameron underwent surgery to repair his torn ACL, and to his relief at the time, the surgery was Solaj i-A-Sue at o considered “a success”.

Ts n ro e Cam However, as time went on, although it had been declared “structurally normal”, Cameron found that his knee was not really returning to full pre-injury capability, which was understandably frustrating for him since he had been so used to being very active and he really didn’t want to stop competing in his chosen sport.

Even after going through a rehabilitation program, his knee remained weak, unstable and in pain under increased activity. Unfortunately, this prevented him from being able to fully return to martial arts and other physical activities.

When Cameron came to Solaj, he was understandably skeptical that anything would work for him since his knee had been like that for four years, but when being informed about the potential of Cold Laser Therapy for post-injury healing, decided that the potential upside of meaningful improvement in his condition was worth the investment of the time and money to try it. So he took the plunge and began treatments.

The Cold Laser Therapy treatments for Cameron’s condition aimed to reduce scar tissue that built up in his knee, from his ACL injury and the surgery. Aside from the visual scars left behind from the incision points of his surgery, scar tissue (which is a natural process that happens as a result of injury or stress) was also embedded in the tissues inside and around the joint, not allowing his knee to function properly, resulting in the symptoms he was experiencing.

When Cameron started Cold Laser Therapy, he began to experience improvements after just a few treatment sessions. After Cameron’s second treatment, he noticed that the incision scars felt less thick than before. After his third treatment, he decided to test his knee and go for a walk, as well as try some medium intensity martial arts activities (both of which had remained uncomfortable ever since the injury) over the upcoming weekend. He reported back to us the following week that he felt no pain and his knee felt very stable during both activities. These early results were quite encouraging. Could it be, that he finally - four years after his original injury and surgery - found a treatment to give him the lasting improvement he had been seeking?

He was looking forward to another week of Cold Laser treatments in anticipation of a more strenuous test of his knee’s improvement: A two day intense martial arts workout coming up the following weekend and he was really hoping to be able to fully participate.

And so he did, without virtually any of the symptoms he had been having for the previous four years.

He felt like his knee was gaining it’s strength back and was almost back to normal. We continued with two more treatments (for a total of eight treatment sessions), to ensure any residual scar tissue was eliminated so that his symptoms would not come back.

It has been over 6 months since Cameron’s last treatment, and he has had no issues with his knee.

Every once in a while, he still stops by our clinic to say a friendly hello and to mention that he is still continuing to train hard and compete at a high level. Go Cameron Go!

Cameron recorded a little video for our Facebook page to share his story, in which he says:

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Hillcrest in Cloverdale

‘Honestly, it’s hard to find neighbourhoods like this now’ Allison Keating and her daughters Mila, left and Liliana live in Cloverdale’s Encore at Hillcrest, which is built on the site of the old Hillcrest DriveIn theatre.

Keating says Hillcrest is ‘kind of like communal living.’ (Photo: GORD GOBLE)

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cross Fraser Highway from East Clayton, at about 188th Street, is a neighbourhood called Hillcrest.

If you recognize the name, it’s because it pays homage to the historic drive-in that operated in the area for some 50 years.

The Hillcrest Drive-In theatre was built in 1953 and the curtain fell in 2003, as land was sold and slated for townhouse development.

The owners made the move to Langley, taking Hillcrest’s screen with them and opened the Twilight Drive-In, which still operates today at 260th Street and Fraser Highway. But the drive-in’s memory lives on in the community’s name.

Allison Keating recalls living in White Rock in her youth and visiting the drive-in with friends.

“There were farmhouses and a gas station and a drive-in, but there wasn’t a heck of a lot out here. These were the boonies at the time,” Keating said. She never dreamed at the time that she’d live in the area, but for the last nine years, she and her husband have called the area home.

In the years since the theatre closed its doors, the landscape has changed dramatically, Keating said, noting there’s been a number of townhome and singlefamily developments.

She now lives in a townhouse in Hillcrest and made the move after finishing her education in Ottawa. When she decided to move back to the Lower Mainland, she initially looked at South Surrey and White Rock, seeing as her parents reside there, but found it to be too pricey.

“We realized we could get more for our money out here,” she said. “We were looking for somewhere affordable to buy our first home and that was in a family neighbourhood. Somewhere I didn’t have to drive all over the place for the kids, where we could walk to all the amenities, the schools and parks.”

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and decor at Christmas, and haunted houses around Halloween.

“Everybody goes all out,” she said. “I think because there are a lot of young families here, all that youthful energy goes into it and people are really paying attention to the traditions for the kids.”

In fact, Hillcrest is somewhat of a destination come holiday time, even attracting those from other communities.

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“Honestly, it’s hard to find neighbourhoods like this now. I feel like my kids have the same neighbourhood feel that I did as a little girl, growing up in Saanich,” she said.

“We just open up our back doors… and it’s kind of like communal living,” Keating added with a chuckle.

She also loves that she can walk to the store to grab milk in the morning, with a commercial strip just a short walk from her home.

And holidays are a big deal in Hillcrest.

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“There can be anywhere from 10 to 100 kids out here in the parking lot,” she said. “It’s not like they’re necessarily doing anything wrong – sometimes they are – but it’s really the fact that they’re out there and bored. And nothing good comes from bored teenagers.”

The mall hosts events to attract youth, such as community festivals, pumpkincarving events and recently a “dunk the police office” event.

She’s glad to hear a recreation centre is planned for the Clayton Heights area but noted “that’s a long way off still.”

“It almost seems a little late in the planning stages,” seeing as the people are already living here, she said, but added the city has been “phenomenal” in creating programming for kids and encouraging involvement.

Another city project on the books is Hazelgrove Park, located in the nearby East Clayton neighbourhood. The planned 8.6-acre park, to be located at roughly 191st Street and 72nd Avenue, will include amenities for youth such as a soccer field,

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“From my perspective, I see that businesses are doing better because of the growth,” Temple said.

As for the bad, she said a large amount of youth reside in the area, with not a whole lot to do.

“There’s lots of programs for kids who like to do activities like going into the gym and playing basketball, going to the youth centre, but there’s not a lot outside of that for most kids. I think that, as a community, is something we need to work on.”

She noted there’s a movie theatre in Langley, the Colossus, and activities in Cloverdale’s downtown area, but said bus service getting home late serves as a barrier for youth. She noted Surrey’s LRT plans could help ease some of the transit issues the area faces in terms of ease of movement.

But she’d like to see more places for teens to hang out in the immediate area.

And she said bylaws state people can’t be in the parks after dark.

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Keating noted the one drawback of the area is that it’s so densely populated.

“But that’s the way everything is going,” she added. “You see new development wherever it may be, in Delta, Vancouver… and in Surrey, it’s suburban urban – it’s a hybrid.”

Residents in the nearby East Clayton community have long since voiced their woes about density leading to parking nightmares, Keating says in Hillcrest, the situation isn’t as bad.

While she loves her townhome right now, as her children become teenagers, the family will need a larger space and she’s not sure if she will be able to find what they need in the area’s housing stock.

“That will be the issue – what type of developments are available in this area as things move on. We’re not really interested in moving into something that has three domiciles on one lot – we don’t want to be landlords,” she said, noting many lots in the broader Clayton area have suites and coach homes.

“But for our options in the Lower Mainland, I think we’re about as happy as we can get here for what we can afford.

We’re very lucky,” Keating said. “I think overwhelmingly it’s a great, safe family neighbourhood.”

While the area has seen a boom of building on the residential side, a shopping mall has also been established on the same side of Fraser Highway.

Jen Temple, manager of the Hillcrest Village Shopping Centre, said when the mall was first built about a decade ago, all the residents weren’t there yet.

On that front, there’s been an explosion of growth, she said.

“If you look at it from a community perspective, it’s growing so much. There’s been so many more people come in, which is fantastic.”

She noted that growth comes with good

basketball and ball hockey courts as well as a BMX track and a parkour court.

On the crime front, Temple said she’s glad to report that the shopping centre is doing well.

“We haven’t experienced a lot of commercial break-ins like a lot of other areas have in Surrey. We’ve had a few over the years, but they’ve been very pharmacy driven,” she said as opposed to a number of businesses targeted at one time. “And we don’t have a lot of homeless here, we don’t have those kinds of issues.”

Graffiti is something the area grapples with, but Temple said that issue has improved over the last number of years.

The shopping centre is quick to get graffiti cleaned up, and restorative justice has been utilized in some cases – where the youth responsible had to remove the graffiti.

Temple was quick to praise the local RCMP. When there’s an issue, she simply text messages Dennis Bell, a community safety officer, and he’s usually over in just minutes.

“The community safety officers have been awesome for us up here,” she said. “Just getting to know people, getting comfortable, making that connection with the RCMP has been fantastic.”

She said the district four office has helped the community resolve issues.

“So community policing, to me, is so important. I think it’s an integral part of the policing in Surrey. General duty guys are busy with every call,” she said.

“They (community safety officers) can target issues that we’re having. For example, at one point in time we had a lot of small drug dealing happening... general duty officers won’t know that person whereas a community officer who is up here all the time… They’ll see them and have that connection. They can talk to them and try to help them at a point before they get lost.

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White Rock painters group goes ‘en plein air’ Kristi Alexandra

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very Tuesday morning, a group of painters finds a new public space where they can unpack their easels, canvases, pencils and paints and make like the impressionists did: en plein air.

The group is comprised of members of the South Surrey White Rock Art Society (SSWRAS), which includes a variety of painters from career artists to weekend hobbyists.

Leading the pack is SSWRAS plein air coordinator Sheryl Walker, who organizes the summer-long weekly meet ups. “‘Plein air’ painting is not the same as studio painting,” Walker said at the Semiahmoo Fish & Game Club, one of the group’s outdoor painting sites.

“Plein air is a French expression that started from the impressionists, who started to paint outdoors to see nature as it is. The goal in plein air painting is that (you) usually paint for two, three hours… as much as you can do because the light changes and what you’re trying to do is capture the light on things; that’s what gives the form and the colour and the substance

Kate Sobol, one of the South Surrey-White Rock artists, gets set up with her canvas for a picturesque scene at the Semiahmoo Fish & Game club. (Photo: KRISTI ALEXANDRA) to every scene, so as the light changes, you’ve got to capture it really fast.”

After arriving at 9:30 a.m. at the chosen site, the painters scatter into different areas of the park to paint their nature-inspired

pieces, explained Walker.

“There’s no workshop, there’s no lessons,” she said, adding that most of the artists in the group have done art professionally in the past. “It’s strictly ‘Do your own thing.’”

All of the artists have different styles, which keeps the group unique.

“Some paint in oils and others paint watercolors, some other people just come and take photos and sketches and prepare to work at home in their studio,” said Walker, noting that the aim is not to be the best painter but to learn how to paint nature.

“Most of the time you don’t come home with painting that’s wonderful; it’s learning about nature whether consciously or subconsciously.”

The plein air painters group is made up of mostly retirees, said Walker, so the criteria for finding the perfect venue in which to paint each week are simple: walking is easy, and there’s a bathroom.

The group has enjoyed their pop-up “studio” time in places like the Glades Park and Art Knapps Plantland — and other spots where pastoral nature scenery is front and centre.

The SSWRAS plein air painters group meets every Tuesday in a new location at 9:30 a.m. For more information or to get involved, contact Sheryl Walker at Sheryljwalker@shaw.ca. kalexandra@thenownewspaper.com

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SURREY — Surrey will finally see its own Food Cart Fest this Saturday (Aug. 9) after being pushed back over a month from its expected launch date in early July.

On Thursday, an article published by the Now said the event would be taking place this past Saturday (Aug. 2), but organizers changed the date leading up to the event.

Surrey’s manager of parks, Owen Croy, said the city was not notified until July 31 that the fest would not be happening that Saturday, just two days before the expected kick-off.

Arrival Agency — the company responsible for hosting Vancouver’s popular Food Cart Fest as well as Vancouver’s annual arts and music festival Khatsalano — sent out a press release Friday (Aug. 1) saying Surrey’s Food Cart Fest will happen on Aug. 9 instead.

“After continuous construction delays with the original location, Surrey Food Cart Fest will be launching on Saturday, Aug. 9 in Holland Park,” the release stated.

The original location, the new city hall plaza, regularly hosts a farmers’ market where food trucks are often set up.

“They would normally only have three or four food trucks,” said Croy of the farmers’ market, noting that the Food Cart Fest is a different situation.

“We didn’t have an area that was sufficiently large enough to accommodate (Food Cart Fest),” he said.

“We were just trying to figure out what the best spot is to do it in,” said Daniel Fazio of Arrival Agency.

“With the Food Cart Fest, it’s not just about eating, it’s about community and it’s about coming together in a space where you can hang out and enjoy company. We really, really loved Holland Park so we kept pushing the city to do something there.”

Fazio said that the Food Cart Fest could better utilize Holland Park than Surrey’s new city hall plaza as the building is closed on Saturdays and has less foot traffic than the park. Along with street food from food trucks like Didi’s Greek, DougieDog and Vij’s Railway Express, the event will have an artisan market, DJs, kids’ activities and more.

Laurie Cavan, Surrey’s general manager of parks, recreation and culture, said the food carts did not have their permits in place for a July launch, which led to the delay.

Cavan admitted that there was no public notification of the festival’s delay, so people who may have showed up at the new city hall plaza on July 5 for the inaugural bash were met with crickets.

“It was no one’s intention to delay it,” she said. “They just needed to meet a few requirements with Fraser Health which has all been taken care of now.”

Surrey’s Food Cart Fest is set to kick off at 12 p.m. on Saturday (Aug. 9) and runs until 5 p.m. Admission to the event is free for the remainder of the summer.

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Arts in Surrey get big piece of province’s $1.9M pie arts, culture and heritage across Canada,” Glover said.

Of the 16 projects, five of them are directly related to Surrey, including a technology internship project at a publishing house and funding for two locally produced periodicals.

“The Surrey community is thriving in arts and culture,” said Glover, giving a nod to Fleetwood-Port Kells MP Nina Grewal.

Surrey also won the bid to host the Creative Cities Summit in 2016.

SURREY — The province is doling out almost $2 million to enrich arts and culture in the province.

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We can’t rely on others to protect our kids

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fter the Now broke the story about White Rock Players’ Club looking for young volunteers, despite knowing its current artistic director is a convicted sex offender, this no doubt served as a cold splash in the face for many parents.

In the pages of this newspaper, you will find many stories about wonderful people doing wonderful things. But you will also read about people in positions of trust – teachers, coaches and clergymen among them – who betray that trust by preying upon young, vulnerable people.

Ryan Mooney did just that, in 2006, when he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl while working on a high school play in another B.C. community.

In 2009, a Supreme Court judge had his name added to the sex offender registry for 20 years – until 2019. The only reason we learned about Mooney’s crime was because a Now reporter googled his name on the Internet while preparing to interview him about an upcoming play.

The theatre group did not mention it to us as it went about fishing for volunteers (see story on page A11). The situation is a wake up call to all parents whose youngsters are thinking about volunteering with local community groups.

Parents often think they can count on a nameless, faceless “they” to protect our children and warn us about potential dangers, real or perceived. We like to believe that somewhere in the organization exists a great protector of children to ensure nothing bad will happen to them. If a potential danger did exist, “they” would tell us about it, right?

In reality, it was little more than a fluke that enabled the Now to inform the public about Mooney. White Rock Player’s Club certainly didn’t, as far as we’re aware. And it was beholden upon the theatre group to do so, once it put the word out it is seeking volunteers.

It’s a sad reminder to all parents that we can’t always count on a “they” – that when it comes to our children’s safety, it’s entirely up to ourselves to do our own due diligence to ensure our children are not unknowingly exposed to a convicted sex offender.

That, sadly, is much easier said than done.

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Unwelcome densification is unacceptable SCAN PAGE WITH LAYAR TO EMAIL YOUR LETTERS The Editor, Re: “White Rock: Should It Stay or Should it Go?” the Now, July 24 How appropriate White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin spoke about development continuing unfettered in White Rock. He is the champion of the pro-developer clique on council and politicians tend to serve first contributors to their campaigns.

Without contributions received from developer interests, this career local

public service bureaucrat may not have been elected as rookie mayor in his first campaign.

But suggesting that White Rock is committed to “another 8,000 residents in the next 30 years,” Baldwin neglected to mention that White Rock’s support to this strategy, quoting city records, is “not binding” and the 8,000 number is only a projection.

Attempting to justify relentless densification in White Rock “whether we want it or not,” Baldwin alludes to a document found as Amendment 10 to the OCP. Baldwin has never been regarded an OCP advocate, preferring instead to dismiss it as mere guidelines whenever the public demands to stick with the OCP.

The OCP contains no general plan keeping future high rises north of Thrift Avenue. Nor does the OCP designate an area as the town centre in the apartment zones which is where Baldwin suggests growth best be put.

The best suggestion is for the city first to openly and transparently engage the public, heed public wishes and follow the OCP. Unwelcome, uncontrolled development and ill thought, unnecessary densification of our community is unacceptable.

The November election will be the next real opportunity for us to say what we want for White Rock.

Let’s use it well.

Dennis Lypka, White Rock

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ow many people reading this column could go 20 weeks without a pay cheque, without seriously depleting your savings account or cashing in a significant amount of RRSP funds?

I suspect not many people could, but that bleak scenario is precisely the one facing many teachers in B.C. as the summer progresses.

The teachers were last paid in midJune, or thereabouts. They may not see another pay cheque until mid-October, unless their union moves significantly off its bargaining position in contract talks.

And yes, I say “union” quite deliberately. That’s because there is no way to pressure or force the government to accede to what the B.C. Teachers Federation is demanding at the negotiating table.

This is not to say that what the BCTF is asking for is not warranted in some respects. Teachers have made a strong and compelling case, for example, that more funding is needed to address issues such as class composition.

Hiring more specialist teachers, to pick just one area, would have a huge and positive impact on many classrooms.

But for all the validity of some of the BCTF’s arguments (these don’t include the ones involving their demand for a greater benefits package) there is no reason at all to expect the provincial government to suddenly fork over almost a quarter of a billion dollars, which is what the BCTF is seeking to address class composition.

I’m not the only observer to point out that in this poker game, the government holds all the cards. Not just the best cards, but all of them.

The government’s ability to legislate an end to the dispute and to impose a new contract gives it the whip hand.

The BCTF may well challenge such a move in court, but that will take some time to play out if the union chooses to go down that route.

The BCTF may eventually also ultimately win that ongoing court case about contract language governing class size (it has won in the B.C. Supreme Court, but the government is appealing and a potential further

Naida Robinson Oh it is awful in Newton.

Leslie Peters Sick!

LJ Guthrie I have to say as well, that 80th and 120A Street I have seen a few HUGE ones when I have been walking our dog.

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The government realizes it has the BCTF just where it wants it, says columnist Keith Baldrey. For the first time ever, the union’s membership are paying a huge personal financial price for staging a strike. (Photo: MATT LAW) appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada may mean this won’t be resolved for perhaps two more years).

So unless the BCTF leadership crawls back from the edge of the cliff it has been sitting on for months now, the only question becomes one of timing. As in: when will the government impose that contract?

In past disputes, the government has moved relatively quickly to end a strike by teachers, using the legislature to do so.

Not this time.

In this poker game, the government holds all the cards.

Not just the best cards, but all of them.

The government now realizes it has the BCTF just where it wants it. For the first time ever, the union’s membership are paying a huge personal financial price for staging a strike.

And the teachers are paying that price at the worst possible time. The fact the two-month summer break has landed smack in the middle of the strike exacerbates the cash flow problems that can arise from going potentially more than four months without an income.

Government House Leader Mike de Jong is adamant he won’t call the legislature back earlier than its Oct.

6 scheduled start, just to impose a contract. His surprise announcement of a $40-per-lost-school-day-perstudent rebate for parents would seem to buttress that point.

If he sticks to his guns, the earliest date for an imposed contract to take effect would be Oct. 9 (it takes a minimum of three days to pass a bill into law). If teachers went back to work that day, presumably they wouldn’t be paid for two more weeks.

It all adds up to about 20 weeks without a teacher being paid. The unfortunate thing for teachers that it is more than likely the imposed contract will contain pretty much what’s on the table now from the government, which means teachers will have given up thousands of dollars for nothing.

I still think a negotiated deal is possible: the two sides are close on wage proposals, and if the BCTF staggered its argument for funding for class composition over several years (instead of all at once), dropped most of its benefits demands and agreed to put off any grievances until that court case is ultimately settled one way or another, a deal might be in sight.

It might not be totally fair, and it may not give the teachers and their classrooms everything they deserve.

But not many labour disputes end up giving everyone what they deserve, and in this case no one deserves to go without an income for 20 weeks.

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

Alison Knowles I live in Richmond & have found 3 dead rats within a month. Someone must be putting out rat poison & that worries me as my cat spends all day outside but something must be done.

Jamie Allport North delta is terrible too Jennifer Miller Fletcher I have not seen one rat on any of my security cameras or anywhere in my yard. I have a cat that likes to go outside for a bit and he would be bringing them home if they were around. I have a crazy neighbor who thinks he sees them living in my yard. We live right next to a park as well. We have had raccoon's and even a resident skunk but no rats.

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As a dedicated teacher, I feel devalued, disrespected

The Editor, Dear Mr. Fassbender, I am a teacher and a parent and I am appalled at your government’s handling of the negotiations with my union.

When I set out to become a teacher almost 30 years ago, I never would have thought that I would be in this position.

I feel disrespected and devalued. And I believe that you and your government do not care at all about our students.

I love my job and I love my kids. I put hours of my own time into my work. Yes, I mark their work, I prepare lessons and materials and I write report cards at home. I also read professional books (that I pay for myself), I think about ideas I want to try and I lay awake at night thinking about my kids, especially all those ones that need something extra from me. On top of that, I spend hundreds of dollars each year on books and other materials for my classroom. This

year, I am changing schools and I was planning on spending the last two weeks in August setting up my new room. I have no idea how I am going to accomplish that now.

It is bad enough that you are refusing to budge from your position (and are ignoring two court rulings), that you refuse to fund education properly, that you stole 10 per cent of my wages with your “lock-out” and that your government makes comments that school might not start until sometime in October. But now you are also offering to give parents money (saved from the education system, of course) for daycare just in case school does not start in September. And you continue to claim that you want to settle this and are bargaining in good faith? You must really think the people of B.C. are gullible.

Come Sept. 2, children need to be in school, not in daycare. Do the right thing and sit down with the BCTF and a mediator now, with a more flexible position and a real willingness to settle this dispute justly and fairly.

Ivana Smith, Surrey

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Theatre knew about director’s sex crime With full knowledge of artistic director Ryan Mooney’s 2006 assault of 15-year-old girl, White Rock Players’ Club seeks young volunteers

Socially speaking Here’s what some readers on Facebook were saying after the Now broke this story online on Thursday.

Susala Grace What is the point of a sex offender registry if people like Kate Stadel choose to unilaterally ignore it? How are unsuspecting parents and children supposed to trust community organizations if known sex offenders are hired to work with children?

Kate Stadel is violating her duties as a board member, and she is putting the theatre group at direct risk of legal action by a parent if there is even a hint of sexual impropriety by Mr. Mooney. Further, she is no friend to Mr. Mooney if she is enabling him to be around children. For his own protection Mr. Mooney should stay far, far away from that environment so that there is no possibility he can ever even be accused.

Ryan Mooney pleaded guilty in 2009 to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl when he was working on a high school play.

Despite Mooney’s past, the White Rock Players’ Club was seeking young volunteers. At the time of his trial, Mooney’s lawyer told the court that Mooney changed his career and wouldn’t be working with young people again.

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WHITE ROCK — The artistic director of a White Rock theatre group that’s currently looking for volunteers pleaded guilty in 2009 to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl when he was working on a high school play in another B.C. community in 2006.

Kate Stadel, vice president of White Rock Players’ Club, replied “I was aware of that” when asked Wednesday about Ryan Mooney’s criminal past.

“I’m not really comfortable talking about the matter,” she said.

“We were aware of it.”

Mooney’s 2006 crime came to light when a Now reporter searched the internet while preparing to interview him. He has been with the club for about a year and a half.

Earlier, Stadel had asked the reporter to mention that the club needs volunteers.

Before learning of Mooney’s past, the reporter asked Stadel if the club is looking for younger volunteers, and she replied “it would definitely be a benefit for younger people. I think if they’re interested in trying theatre, this would be a good place to start if you’re still in high school or you’re not quite sure what you’re going to do after high

school. That’s how I got roped in...”

Mooney, now 32, was 24 and working as a choreographer at a school when he sexually assaulted the girl.

He received a one-year conditional sentence, three years probation, and was ordered to provide a DNA sample and his name was added to the sex offender registry for 20 years. That was in 2009.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Arne Silverman called his crime a “breach of trust situation.” The judge imposed a publication ban on the victim’s name, her school and school district.

The court heard Mooney befriended the girl, led her into a high school room, locked the door behind him, pushed her against a wall, put his hands on her chest and asked her to perform oral sex on him. She refused his advances and left the room.

Crown prosecutor Gail Barnes noted Mooney had no previous criminal record but tended to minimize his responsibility. Barnes did not ask for a curfew because of the irregular hours of his work in theatre. She said she didn’t want to deprive him of his livelihood and Silverman agreed to have an adult supervisor present when he worked with people under 18, even if they are in the audience.

Defence lawyer Karen Mirsky told

the court at the time that Mooney changed his career and wouldn’t be working with young people again.

Both Stadel and Mooney declined to discuss with the Now on Wednesday if the White Rock Player’s Club required him to undergo a criminal records check before he joined the club.

“This happened almost eight-and-ahalf years ago,” Mooney noted. “It’s in my past.

“I think I’m very cautious myself about what happens,” he said. “By personal choice, I don’t get involved if there are persons under age.”

Stadel noted that the lawyers didn’t want to take Mooney’s theatre work away from him.

“Theatre is Ryan’s livelihood.”

The Now asked Stadel if she would want to know, if she were the parent of a teen who was thinking about volunteering at her local theatre, if a person with Mooney’s past was also working there.

“I suppose so,” she replied.

The Province newspaper reported in 2006 that Mooney originally faced one charge of sexual assault and four of sexual exploitation in relation to two alleged victims under age 18. tzytaruk@thenownewspaper.com With files from Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun, and the Province

Dave Ball How was it ignored? The courts didn't think he was a risk. He doesn't appear to be. Stop lighting your hair on fire in a classic overreraction. Way too many people like you, all interested in piling on, without adding anything to the debate. You're over the top.

Here’s what one reader said using Disqus on our website at thenownewspaper.com Replicate 3D Considering that young girls are asked to audition at theatres and are quite often very intimidated by directors and seasoned actors I would question having Mooney in a role where he has the ability to influence direction of young women. It is a mistake by the White Rock Players Club to have him employed in such a role. I live in White Rock and my daughter was recently asking me if she could take some acting lessons. Not a chance in hell am I taking her to the White Rock Players Club.

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Mayoral candidates spar over closed-door meetings Larissa Cahute

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SURREY — With the Surrey election months away, the mudslinging has already begun.

In a statement released Thursday, candidate Doug McCallum slammed his Surrey First opposition Linda Hepner and Barinder Rasode — who has yet to announce whether she is running for mayor or an independent councillor — for “hypocrisy.”

McCallum said both politicians regularly call for open meetings and transparency, but instead have “voted for closed police committee meetings for years.”

McCallum, who served as Surrey mayor from 1996 to 2005, when he was unseated by current mayor Dianne Watts, pointed to a list of more than 10 City of Surrey voting records, dating back to 2008, in which no dissenting votes were recorded against a motion to close the meetings to the public.

“Even when I was mayor I was a very strong believer that council — in all committees, including council meetings — should not have any in-camera meetings,” McCallum told Vancouver Desi. “There shouldn’t be any in-camera meetings except (when there are) personnel and legal issues.”

“But outside of that we should have open council meetings, or at least open to the public.”

Hepner fired back that those meetings were closed in line with “standard protocol (followed) in every city in this country.”

“When you’re talking about human rights issues, legal issues and particularly in the police — when you’re talking about some crime suppression plans or some confidential information that will actually put our protective services guys at risk by exposing them in a public session … it would just be, in my mind, irresponsible leadership to do anything other than (a closed meeting,)” she said.

“He knows full well that’s protocol. Those

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are legal issues, those are property issues, those are personnel issues and those are issues … (that) will put our officers at risk.”

While McCallum acknowledged that he doesn’t know why the meetings were closed, he said: “It would be surprising that every one … for the last six years had in-camera meetings (for those reasons).”

According to Rasode, the closed meetings McCallum mentioned and her stance on the need for open, public meetings and government transparency are “two separate issues.”

“When a clerk gives you an agenda that is closed, you really don’t have a choice but to go into close,” said Rasode, adding that the clerk makes the decision based on legality issues and the protection of personal information.

Hepner said McCallum’s accusations were “the height of hypocrisy and it borders on the ludicrous that he would even think that the public would not understand that.”

But McCallum insisted the public has the right “to know any information that council knows,” adding that he’s “always been an open person in the public.”

However, in 2002 — while acting as mayor — McCallum came under fire for allegedly trying to interfere with the RCMP’s release of crime information to the media when he was accused of telling off police for releasing bad news.

“I was just asking questions of the RCMP,” McCallum said of that incident. “I actually did it in public.”

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Surrey serial killer loses appeal of convictions Tom Zytaruk

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VANCOUVER — Surrey serial killer Charles Eli Kembo has lost an appeal of his four murder convictions.

A jury convicted him of four counts of first-degree murder for the killings, committed between 2002 and 2005.

Kembo killed his wife Margaret Kembo friends Ardon Samuel and Sui Yin Ma, and his stepdaughter Rita Yeung so he could profit financially from their deaths.

His lawyer argued that the trial judge erred in her instructions to the jury, but the appeal court found that not to be the case.

“I would not accede to any of the submissions of error advanced on behalf of the appellant and I would dismiss his appeals from conviction on all charges,” Justice John Hall found Thursday, with fellow Court of Appeal Justices Edward Chiasson and Kathryn Neilson agreeing.

The court heard Samuel was strangled and his genitals were mutilated, Ma was

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Transit Police spokeswoman Anne Drennan said the man, whose name has not been released, was taken into custody under the Mental Health Act for “irrational behaviour” on a Coast Mountain bus at the Surrey Central bus loop at 11:30 p.m.

Thursday.

“He was rambling incoherently and hiding under a seat in the bus,” Drennan said, adding the police officers asked him if he’d like to be taken to hospital, admitted under the MHA. “He said yes, he would. He was compliant.”

When they arrived at SMH, the man fell into medical distress.

“Despite the medical assistance, he was pronounced dead at 39 minutes after midnight,” Drennan said. “There will be an autopsy.”

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Playing ball with the boys Cloverdale Spur Hayley Grice ‘can play with the best of them’ Kyle Benning

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CLOVERDALE – Hayley Grice of the Cloverdale Spurs is a trailblazer.

The 13-year-old is the only girl participating in this years Peewee AAA B.C. Provincial Championships.

Grice – who has played ball since she was five – usually plays first or third base and occasionally pitches.

Despite being the only female on the team, she still enjoys it and has played with and against her teammates for years.

She thought about playing softball, but decided that baseball was what she wanted to pursue.

“It’s way more competitive,” said Hayley.

“I went and watched (the softball team), but it wasn’t good enough.”

Her mother, Dawn, said that the Grice family is a baseball family and Hayley was raised on the diamond, which has given her a passion for the sport. She has even played on the same team as her 14-year-old brother.

“She’s very, very competitive. She likes playing with the boys,” Dawn said.

Tim Blake, Grice’s coach, has been coaching baseball for 30 years and this is the first time he’s had a girl on one of his teams.

“She works her butt off all the time. She can play with the best of them,” Blake said.

“It’s pretty obvious because she’s out here with the top-level kids at this age group in B.C. and she can hold her own.”

Blake said that she is a strong part of his team and that won’t change.

“There’s no special treatment,” he said.

“There’s not a problem at all. She’s a hard working kid and she plays the game well.”

Blake also said that because her teammates have played with and against her in the past, there is team unity and Grice fits in without any issues.

“She just fits in seamlessly,” he added.

Dawn said the team and association has

Hayley Grice of the Peewee AAA Cloverdale Spurs swings away Friday during the first game of the 2014 Peewee AAA B.C. Provincial Championships at Cloverdale Ball Park. The Spurs lost their first two games on the tourney. (Photo: KYLE BENNING)

She works her butt off...

It’s obvious because she’s out here with the top-level kids at this age group in B.C. and she can hold her own. been supportive of her daughter playing peewee baseball.

“You don’t get too much negativity about a girl playing in a boy’s sport,” Dawn said.

Playing on a boy’s team is not the only time she’s had to prove people wrong. When

she was seven years old, doctors didn’t think Hayley would walk again.

“She had bone deterioration that we didn’t know. They misdiagnosed and though she had cerebral palsy. It was her whole spine had jumped forward so it severed some nerves. She woke up and couldn’t really walk,” Dawn said.

Hayley was placed in a body cast and wasn’t able to run or jump for a year and her mother feared the worst.

“When we were sitting there with four surgeons and they said there’s a good chance she can’t walk, it’s pretty heart wrenching,” Dawn said.

However, Hayley was determined to beat the odds and managed to leave the hospital

two weeks before doctors predicted she would.

Today, Hayley plays baseball at the highest level during the spring while playing hockey in the winter.

“The fact that she’s doing all that is kind of crazy. She’s a tough cookie,” said Dawn.

Cloverdale Minor Baseball hosted the provincial championships this past weekend at Cloverdale Ball Park, which is at 17383 61A Avenue.

As of Friday, Hayley’s team was 0-2.

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SURREY — Arjun Gill is feeling golden after standing atop the podium and seeing the Canadian flag raised at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

The 23-year-old defeated India’s Satywart Kadian 3-1 in the final of the 97 kg weight class on Wednesday (July 30).

“This means a lot. It means a lot to my family, it means a lot to me, it means a lot to Canada,” Gill said after the match.

He also mentioned that his opponent was tough and gave him no easy points.

“He moves his hands really well so it’s hard to score,” said Gill.

Gill was born in Quesnel before moving to Surrey and training with Guru Hargobind Wrestling Club.

He is also a wrestler for the SFU Clan and won the 2014 National Championship in Edmonton on June 13.

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(Photo: Twitter @CanadainIndia) As of Friday, Canada was sitting in third place in the medal count with a total of 69 behind England with 132 and Australia with 117.

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SURREY — Surrey will finally see its own Food Cart Fest this Saturday (Aug. 9) after being pushed back over a month from its expected launch date in early July.

On Thursday, an article published by the Now said the event would be taking place this past Saturday (Aug. 2), but organizers changed the date leading up to the event.

Surrey’s manager of parks, Owen Croy, said the city was not notified until July 31 that the fest would not be happening that Saturday, just two days before the expected kick-off.

Arrival Agency — the company responsible for hosting Vancouver’s popular Food Cart Fest as well as Vancouver’s annual arts and music festival Khatsalano — sent out a press release Friday (Aug. 1) saying Surrey’s Food Cart Fest will happen on Aug. 9 instead.

“After continuous construction delays with the original location, Surrey Food Cart Fest will be launching on Saturday, Aug. 9 in Holland Park,” the release stated.

The original location, the new city hall plaza, regularly hosts a farmers’ market where food trucks are often set up.

“They would normally only have three or four food trucks,” said Croy of the farmers’ market, noting that the Food Cart Fest is a different situation.

“We didn’t have an area that was sufficiently large enough to accommodate (Food Cart Fest),” he said.

“We were just trying to figure out what the best spot is to do it in,” said Daniel Fazio of Arrival Agency.

“With the Food Cart Fest, it’s not just about eating, it’s about community and it’s about coming together in a space where you can hang out and enjoy company. We really, really loved Holland Park so we kept pushing the city to do something there.”

Fazio said that the Food Cart Fest could better utilize Holland Park than Surrey’s new city hall plaza as the building is closed on Saturdays and has less foot traffic than the park. Along with street food from food trucks like Didi’s Greek, DougieDog and Vij’s Railway Express, the event will have an artisan market, DJs, kids’ activities and more.

Laurie Cavan, Surrey’s general manager of parks, recreation and culture, said the food carts did not have their permits in place for a July launch, which led to the delay.

Cavan admitted that there was no public notification of the festival’s delay, so people who may have showed up at the new city hall plaza on July 5 for the inaugural bash were met with crickets.

“It was no one’s intention to delay it,” she said. “They just needed to meet a few requirements with Fraser Health which has all been taken care of now.”

Surrey’s Food Cart Fest is set to kick off at 12 p.m. on Saturday (Aug. 9) and runs until 5 p.m. Admission to the event is free for the remainder of the summer.

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WHITE ROCK — In an effort to have the frequency of passing train whistles decreased, the City of White Rock has installed three concrete bollards at the West Beach boat launch.

The installation of the bollards came about following meetings between the city, Transport Canada and rail owners BNSF, said Coun. Grant Meyer, chair of the city’s rail safety task force. “(The bollards) were what Transport Canada wanted and that was basically to restore the nighttime whistling to the way it was,” said Meyer.

People want access to our beach and to get whistling to a reasonable level.

Since the early 1990s the train whistling between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. had always been kept at a minimum as per an agreement between the three parties. That changed in the past year following the death of jogger Anita Lewis, who was hit while jogging across the tracks on East Beach in July 2013.

Since that time, Transport Canada, the city and BNSF have been engaged in talks to best ensure public safety while at the same time, trying to keep disruptive train whistling at minimum for residents.

However, after numerous complaints from residents saying the frequent whistling has become unbearable, measures are being taken to find that balance.

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Bottrill, are part of that process.

“The city continues to respond to resident concerns around rail safety,” said Bottrill.

“Our ongoing improvements will permit us to maintain our long-standing whistle exemption during the night.”

Meyer said the bollards would also be removable and talks were ongoing about possibly having them removed during the day to allow residents to continue using the boat launch, with them being put up at night.

“That would work for the people that use the boat launch and also establish back to the old days,” he said.

“It’s what we’ve been hearing from people over the past few months. People want access to our beach and to get whistling to a reasonable level.”

As for emergency access, Meyer said police, firefighters and other response teams would likely have keys to remove the bollards for beach access, as would the city and BNSF. “So this should bring it back to one honk 20 seconds before a train gets to the beach either way and that’s it,” said Meyer.

Additionally, Meyer noted the city has been in frequent talks with Transport Canada and BNSF to find a long-term solution to the issues and is optimistic about the direction those talks are headed.

“I think we’re working towards a few more tweaks on the beach and we can hopefully get the daytime whistling back to what it was as well,” he said.

“There’s still the option of having arms come down with flashing lights and bells but we’re not crossing that road yet. This is just about making sure its safe and getting back that nighttime whistling cessation that had originally stood.” cpoon@thenownewspaper.com

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SURREY – This week, Alex Lane will be packing his life away and moving back to the U.S. after accepting a football scholarship at Hastings College in Nebraska.

The former White Rock Titan made his decision in April after turning down a chance to play for the UBC Thunderbirds and head back to the country where he was born.

Lane’s brother is currently a pre-med student at Hastings and showed football recruiters his tape.

“I just felt like Hastings would be a better fit because the U.S. takes collegiate sports kind of more seriously,” said Lane.

Training camp for the Broncos starts this week along with Lane’s introduction to Hastings, Nebraska as a university student.

He has been there once before to visit his brother and said that it is a university town.

In 2010, Lane and his father moved from Salina, Kansas to the South Surrey area after his father – White Rock blues musician Jimmy D. Lane – married a Canadian woman.

Lane prefers to play on offense and was a receiver, running back and a return man for the Titans.

John Martins, the head coach of the White Rock Titans said that Lane was a leader on and off of the field for his team.

“When you’re in a game and you gotta go to a guy, he was it. We designed our offense around him, to get him as many touches as possible,” Martins said.

Even though he’s only five feet nine inches tall, his coach believes that he has the work ethic to play for the Broncos.

“You can be an athlete and be lazy,” Martins said. “He’s not that way one bit.

He works hard every time.

“He’ll make a coach’s decision hard not to play him. When you’re looking for a

guy who’s going to give it all he’s got, he’s that guy,” said Martins.

In April, the Semiahmoo Secondary graduate received instructions from his new coach at Hastings to start an individual workout routine.

For the program, Lane has been training with CFL players like Will Loftus and Ryan Lucas at Game Ready Fitness in Cloverdale.

“He’s always working at getting better on his skills. He’ll sit and work with anybody for him to get better and help them get better,” Martins said.

“The bar is definitely raised and you get a lot of competition,” said Lane.

“They motivate you pretty well. They just try to make you better.”

But Lane’s coach knows that he brought more than skill to the team.

He was a role model for his teammates as well as the Titan’s younger teams.

“If I asked him to come and help the younger ages, he would.

“Even now, he’s out practicing with us and he’s helping our guys get ready for this year,” said Martins.

“He’s one of those kids you want to have on a team. Never mind athletic ability, but you want guys like that on the team.”

Martins said that the Broncos’ are lucky to have a playmaker like Lane and that the entire Titans organization is proud of what he has accomplished.

“If I could have a team of Alex Lanes, I don’t care how tall or short they are, we’re going to do well.

“He’s one of those guys that you will remember for more than his play,” Martins said.

In the first game of the upcoming National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) football season, the Hastings Broncos will be traveling to Salina, Kansas – Lane’s old town – to play against Kansas Wesleyan University.

Lane is expecting to have quite the homecoming for that game.

Alex Lane has accepted a scholarship to play football for the Hastings College Broncos next season. The former White Rock Titan leaves for his training camp in Nebraska this week. (Photo: Leanne Allen)

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CLOVERDALE – Hayley Grice of the Cloverdale Spurs is a trailblazer.

The 13-year-old is the only girl participating in this years Peewee AAA B.C. Provincial Championships.

Grice – who has played ball since she was five – usually plays first or third base and occasionally pitches.

Despite being the only female on the team, she still enjoys it and has played with and against her teammates for years.

She thought about playing softball, but decided that baseball was what she wanted to pursue.

“It’s way more competitive,” said Hayley.

“I went and watched (the softball team), but it wasn’t good enough.”

Her mother, Dawn, said that the Grice family is a baseball family and Hayley was raised on the diamond, which has given her a passion for the sport. She has even played on the same team as her 14-year-old brother.

“She’s very, very competitive. She likes playing with the boys,” Dawn said.

Tim Blake, Grice’s coach, has been coaching baseball for 30 years and this is the first time he’s had a girl on one of his teams.

“She works her butt off all the time. She can play with the best of them,” Blake said.

“It’s pretty obvious because she’s out here with the top-level kids at this age group in B.C. and she can hold her own.”

Blake said that she is a strong part of his team and that won’t change.

“There’s no special treatment,” he said.

“There’s not a problem at all. She’s a hard working kid and she plays the game well.”

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Hayley Grice of the Peewee AAA Cloverdale Spurs swings away Friday during the first game of the 2014 Peewee AAA B.C. Provincial Championships at Cloverdale Ball Park. The Spurs lost their first two games on the tourney. (Photo: KYLE BENNING)

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It’s obvious because she’s out here with the top-level kids at this age group in B.C. and she can hold her own. teammates have played with and against her in the past, there is team unity and Grice fits in without any issues.

“She just fits in seamlessly,” he added.

Dawn said the team and association has been supportive of her daughter playing peewee baseball.

“You don’t get too much negativity about a girl playing in a boy’s sport,” Dawn said.

Playing on a boy’s team is not the only time she’s had to prove people wrong. When she was seven years old, doctors didn’t think Hayley would walk again.

“She had bone deterioration that we didn’t know. They misdiagnosed and though she had cerebral palsy. It was her whole spine had jumped forward so it severed some nerves. She woke up and couldn’t really walk,” Dawn said.

Hayley was placed in a body cast and wasn’t able to run or jump for a year and her mother feared the worst.

“When we were sitting there with four surgeons and they said there’s a good chance she can’t walk, it’s pretty heart wrenching,” Dawn said.

However, Hayley was determined to beat the odds and managed to leave the hospital two weeks before doctors predicted she would.

Today, Hayley plays baseball at the highest level during the spring while playing hockey in the winter.

“The fact that she’s doing all that is kind of crazy. She’s a tough cookie,” said Dawn.

Cloverdale Minor Baseball hosted the provincial championships this past weekend at Cloverdale Ball Park, which is at 17383 61A Avenue.

As of Friday, Hayley’s team was 0-2.

Along with the Cloverdale Spurs, White Rock also qualified for the tournament.

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