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FRASER HEIGHTS — Bounded by Highway One to the south, 176th Avenue to the east and the Fraser River to the north, the quiet community of Fraser Heights is tucked away in the northeast section of Surrey.

“Fraser Heights is an island. It’s its own totally separate community,” said Sara Pickering, a mother of three and a realtor who’s lived in the area for 15 years.

“We have a very distinct border.”

Pickering grew up in Whalley’s Cedar Hills neighbourhood and always told her husband she wouldn’t raise her kids in Surrey.

“Then we found Fraser Heights, and it’s just different,” she said.

Pickering describes her beloved neighbourhood as a “fabulous, safe community.”

And it’s got that small-town charm, she said. “You can’t go into the Tim Hortons or Starbucks without having four or five conversations and taking half an hour.”

She expects the area is so tight-knit because of the distinct border.

“If you’re leaving your house in Newton, you could probably stop at about five Tim Hortons on your way out. But in Fraser Heights, there’s just the one.”

Pickering loves frequenting Erma Stephenson Park, located next to her house.

“In the evening I come out just to

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Realtor Sara Pickering grew up in the Cedar Hills area of Whalley and now lives in Fraser Heights. “It’s kind of like our own little secret,” she said. (Photo: GORD GOBLE) absorb the energy because there’s, like, 150 people there in this one park. There’s people walking, there’s people learning how to rollerblade, kids learning how to ride bikes, people flying kites and flying model airplanes and playing soccer, and it’s just such a wonderful environment.”

Until recent years, not a lot of people knew about the community, she noted.

“It was kind of like our own little secret.”

And it’s certainly changed dramatically over the years.

“I didn’t have any neighbours 15 year ago,” Pickering said with a chuckle. “I moved into a new house and there wasn’t a park, there wasn’t houses around us. We’re running out of land in Fraser Heights very quickly.”

She recalled a bear running through her front yard 13 years ago, adding, “You definitely wouldn’t see that now. There are

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no bushes for the bears to hide in anymore.”

The area had many acreage properties when she first arrived and a handful still remain today.

And it’s a family community, she said, almost entirely made up of single-family homes.

Pickering boasted that the area has a couple of well-attended annual events.

She said the Terry Fox run, coming up on Sept. 14 at Fraser Heights Recreation Centre, is very well supported by the community.

Another big event is a country fair, put on by a local strip mall, which happens in early June each year.

“It’s massive,” Pickering said. “It takes up like three blocks, all the parking lots are full of pony rides and rock-climbing walls and a band. Thousands of people come, from all over Surrey, I’m sure.”

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As a realtor, Pickering’s experience has been that people fall in love with the neighbourhood, and don’t often leave.

“People don’t usually move out of Fraser Heights,” she said. “I just completed a sale where somebody moved from one side of Fraser Heights to the other because they needed to be in a different hockey catchment. And I’ve lived in two houses in Fraser Heights.”

And homes that go up for sale go fast.

“The Fraser Heights real estate market is so hot right now. I’ve sold three houses since June, and they all sold within a couple of days, for almost full price. The one yesterday went for over asking.”

Pickering has noticed a lot of Chinese immigrants are attracted to the area.

“They have heard that our community is safe and we have good schools, and high grades for our education standards,” she noted. “A lot of our kids really excel.”

Fraser Heights Secondary has many a students who do well academically.

Principal Sheila Morissette noted that the University of Toronto recognizes the high school as one of the top 50 in Canada.

“It’s a very special school,” Morissette said.

“Our students are really great students who come from good families and really excel.”

Morissette is excited about a new program, the Fraser Heights Integrate Math and Science Academy, that allows students to take math and science classes at SFU as part of their curriculum.

Students can take a condensed approach to Grades 11 and 12 that will allow them to take six university classes at SFU worth 20 post-secondary credits. Morissette said as far as she can tell, the school is the only one in Western Canada to offer such a program.

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Heather Nelson, with the Fraser Heights Community Association, echoed many of Pickering’s thoughts on the community, including it being charming and safe. She estimated the community’s population is more than 25,000 now.

“We’re very low in crime rate,” Nelson noted, but added there have been problems over the years, such as grow-ops and recovery homes.

“We don’t want those here. We say ‘get out.’

Our goal is zero tolerance,” she said, stating the community works closely with police and the bylaws department to deal with problems.

She noted some refer to the area as “Mayberry.”

“And it is,” she said with a smile.

The area’s modest commercial district has a village feel, and residents want to keep it that way.

“We’re not interested in big-box stores, that type of thing,” she said. “And we’ve got Guildford mall just seven minutes across the way here. You can go down to Langley to get more of the big-box stores, just hop on

the freeway and go. And you’re close to the border, and now with the new South Fraser Perimeter Road you’re much closer to the ferries. The last time I had to do it, in a snow storm in early April, we left at 20-after eight and made it on the 9 o’clock ferry.”

Nelson said due to the lay of the land, Fraser Heights acts as an amphitheatre.

“CN Intermodal is on the stage. Then in comes South Fraser Perimeter Road, and they’re on the stage, and we’re sitting in the seats. So with all that has come extra noise, depending on where you are in the area.”

She said the community is “encircled in fumes,” seeing as it’s surrounded by trucks, trains and the Fraser River. “There’s all kinds of transportation around us.”

A big disappoint for the community, Nelson said, was that it never got a stop in 2012 for the new #555 Port Mann Express bus that runs from Langley’s Carvolth Transit Exchange to Braid Station.

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Coun. Tom Gill, who lives in Fraser Heights, is glad the stop is being built, but wishes the ministry had worked it into the original design.

“The reason why we didn’t get the stop is solely based on the premise is it wasn’t part of the design,” he noted.

“I am disappointed that this is another cost that we have to bear, given the ministry should have done a better job of addressing that at the time.”

The scope of the work includes four bus stops complete with concrete pads, shelters and electrical power for lighting. Two of the four stops will be located on 156th Street, and the other two at the lower reaches of the HOV ramps.

Bus service should commence at the stops in early September, the city says.

Nelson said a looming infrastructure project could impact the community.

In March, news broke

Sara Pickering’s children, Nisa and Drew, play at Erma Stephensen Park in Fraser Heights. (Photo: GORD GOBLE) that the proposed new Trans Mountain pipeline could rip through some residents’ backyards in Fraser Heights, as Kinder Morgan land agents assessed alternate routes for the $5.4-billion project.

Cheryl-Ann Archibard, who’s lived in Fraser Heights for 30 years, told the Vancouver Sun the proposed easement for the pipeline is 30 feet wide, which could take up half of her backyard right to the back door of her twostorey house.

Greg Toth, senior project manager for Kinder Morgan, said at the time if the pipeline

were to go through the area, a process would have to be followed, including reaching mutual agreement with the landowners, coming up with compensation and having the Natural Energy Board declare the project of national interest.

Homeowners would also have the right to object, he said, and added the last resort would be to enact a “right of entry” should a landowner obstruct the process.

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“Residents are wondering what will happen to their properties,” Nelson said of the pipeline project.

Asked if she expects Fraser Heights to change over the coming decades, Nelson didn’t anticipate a major shift. “There might be some effort to create greater density,” she mused.

“They say in Surrey, you never know what’s going to happen in the morning. You might see a change, so you have to stay alert. A house might be torn down, trees might be gone,” Nelson said.

“And we covet our trees around here because of concerns of health and noise pollution – the freeway is beside us and there’s the CN operation which is vastly changing and growing.”

Check out the ‘My Fraser Heights’ page on Facebook, which Pickering runs, for more information on happenings in the community. areid@thenownewspaper.com - With files from Vancouver Sun

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Legislation allows dirty pool to continue When Michael Sona faced a guilty verdict on Thursday in the infamous robocalls trial, the federal Conservatives were quick to deny any involvement, insisting they ran a “clean and ethical” campaign.

Then what defines a “clean” campaign might mean something different to politicians than it does to the rest of us.

Sona was a Tory staffer who was using the party’s closely guarded database of voter identification and he was convicted largely on the testimony of other Conservative campaign workers.

Despite the party washing their hands of the staffer who misled voters in the 2011 federal election, the fiasco is part of a larger trend of our elections and politicians getting noticeably dirtier.

Shortly after, when the Tories admitted to hiring a firm to call up random homes in Montreal Liberal MP Irwin Cotler’s riding to make the totally untrue suggestion the MP was about to resign, the party defended their actions as “freedom of speech” and “only spreading rumours.” Even the Conservative Speaker of the House called the campaign reprehensible.

Attack ads, campaign budgets financed by vested interests and misleading rumour campaigns are all vile, at every level of government, no matter who is perpetrating them.

And they’re driving people away from the polls.

In the last federal election, 61.1 per cent of Canadians voted, while 55.9 per cent of British Columbians cast their own ballots.

But legislation allows this dirty pool to continue. The trouble is: the job of cleaning up elections currently falls to the people who have benefited most from the status quo.

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Gov’t needs to focus on water, education

The Editor, There are always decisions to be made when spending tax dollars and I find it ironic that some projects seem to have unlimited funding while other equal, or perhaps more important, items get short changed due to “budgetary restraints.”

Take for instance the recent Mount Polley tailings pond disaster. Safeguards need to be put into place and that resolution “can’t be delayed by excuses, or budgetary concerns.” It seems the same could be said about the multibillion dollars of taxpayer money that this government has chosen to spend on projects like the Sea to Sky Highway so

that the rich in this province can access their recreational properties or on the Olympics, again a venue that only the rich could afford. Did we really need these multi-billion dollar projects?

It came down to a choice that this current Liberal government has made when spending our tax dollars.

The true irony here is that while one journalist is suggesting that we can’t put a dollar value on protection of our waters (which I would whole-heartedly agree with), yet another, on the very next page, suggests that school children could resolve the issue of the teachers’ strike given “access to the demands and proposals and the relevant budgets.”

What is a “relevant budget”? Certain things in society need to be properly funded and education happens to be one of them.

While this government has chosen to spend billions on unnecessary projects to make the wealthiest of British Columbians happy, it is time to do the right thing and fund what is necessary, like clean water and, yes, education.

There would be no dispute between our teachers and this government if they chose to spend what the rest of Canadians spend on their school children.

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Time marches on, and still no tax subsidy for PNE InTheHouse Keith Baldrey

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ne of B.C.’s grandest and most historic traditions is up and running again, but it’s not entirely clear how long it can keep going.

I’m talking about the Pacific National Exhibition, a 17-day whirlwind of entertainment that combines midway rides, livestock exhibitions, concerts, exhibits of all shapes and sizes and way too much food.

But as time goes on, the annual fair faces mounting pressures.

It is essentially a throwback to earlier times, when it was the only big event in town.

It began as an agriculture fair, located on the distant outskirts of the young town of Vancouver (its east side location was fairly remote when it began in 1910).

Over the years, it evolved into a major entertainment destination and a significant cultural event that celebrated the idea of British Columbia itself. For years, school children in the Lower Mainland got a major

prize with their final school report card of the year: a free ticket to the PNE (this year, kids under 13 get in free).

And so, for decades, the PNE was a big deal.

Visiting the fair was a tradition for thousands of families, who would arrive early in the day and leave late at night, exhausted from seeing and trying everything, from riding the midway to watching the Demolition Derby, the Festival of Forestry, livestock shows and, of course, eating in the Food Building.

The famous Challenger Map of B.C. was located there for years, as was the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame. This is where the Boat Show, Auto Show and Home Show got their starts.

The entertainment was legendary, and huge stars appeared: Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Neil Young and, of course, The Beatles.

But, over the years, the PNE found itself looking a bit aged, a corny piece of the past that seemed overtaken by newer, faster and more varied forms of entertainment. It had become a period piece and its nostalgic charm wasn’t enough to make it the dominant event of the year anymore.

Still, the fair has survived, and this year hundreds of thousands of people will walk through its gates, a testament to its endurance

and the widespread public support for it.

However, recent years have seen the emergence of all kinds of neighbouring community-based festivals and celebrations, and they pose direct competition to the PNE. While there’s nothing wrong with community festivals, the fact that a number of them are seeded with municipal funding sets them apart from the PNE, which does not receive a subsidy from B.C. taxpayers.

And this raises the legitimate question of whether the PNE should qualify for a financial subsidy from the City of Vancouver (which is the owner of the PNE) or the B.C. government, if that’s what it takes to ensure that it survives down the road.

The PNE’s financial situation can be precarious: too much rain during the 17-day run of the fair can spell disaster, as happened several years ago.

If the PNE fair were to one day disappear, it would be a major hit to the economy of Metro Vancouver. The PNE is the largest employer of youth in all of B.C., and many young workers who work the fair make enough money in a short period to pay for a big chunk of their post-secondary education (I was once one of those kids, having worked 10 consecutive fairs some time ago).

The PNE itself estimates it contributes about $140 million to the economy every year. That includes about $25 million in taxes and $50 million in wages. As well, about 25,000 people from outside Metro Vancouver visit the fair, and stay an average of three nights in hotels and motels.

That’s a lot of economic activity, and it cannot be allowed to disappear.

To be clear, the PNE board is not asking for financial help from any level of government, at least not yet. But it’s important to note the PNE fair is the only major fair in North America that doesn’t receive a generous taxpayer-funded subsidy.

The organization reports a modest financial surplus every year, but attendance at the fair has declined three straight years (from 962,000 in 2010 to 712,000 last year).

Of course, attendance figures can be looked at in a glass half-full way: attracting more than 700,000 customers is still a sign of impressive public support.

So visit the fair. Try to win a house or a car.

Ride the roller coaster. Don’t let B.C.’s greatest annual celebration disappear any time soon.

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

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The Editor, Re: “Let’s get these guys,” the Now, Aug. 14.

Why have we let our society get to the point of having to appeal to the scumbags mothers to turn them in? Let our policemen

loose to go and get them.

Take them down with whatever force is necessary to make them understand that any crime of this nature, and worse, is unacceptable.

Then instruct the justice department to enact the

lawful punishments that will teach them a lesson.

The government must step up to close all of the loopholes and technicalities ASAP that allow these punks to run arrogantly and rampantly around. Surely we aspire for a better society for ourselves, and our kids free from crime.

But the gutless balance of us will say and do nothing about it until it affects them personally – too cowardly and politically correct.

Therefore, let us carry on with doing nothing and encouraging crime.

Ivan Scott, Surrey

BCTF ideology isn’t too harsh The Editor, Re: “BCTF deserves fine, should be disbanded”, the Now letters, Aug 14.

David Simonov is correct that someone needs to defend the public, but not in the way he has suggested.

He suggests going private.

Yes, that will help Premier Christy Clark with her anti-teacher agenda, but who really pays? The Liberal government has already spent much of our tax

dollars in court fighting the BCTF, and have lost. The first loss was the charter challenge which they are again wasting tax dollars by appealing the decision. They also were found guilty in pushing teachers to strike in an earlier decision and job action.

Since Clark was the minister of education, she has had an agenda of busting the teachers. It has nothing to do with money!

I appreciate everyone with socialistic ideology. I was born before universal healthcare, and so was my sister, who had chronic bronchitis before turning one. My parents could not follow the doctor’s suggestions of placing her in the hospital because they did not have the money.

Each doctor’s visit had to be paid for with cash, and that took food off our table.

Others with socialistic ideology have pushed for a Canada Pension Plan, everyone having access to education and improved human rights. For those thinking the BCTF’s socialistic ideology is harsh, take a look at what you and your family enjoy in this country. People in other countries are dying for it.

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SURREY — Former mayor and councillor Bob Bose isn’t planning to run for Surrey council this time around, but another member of the prominent pioneer family is jumping into the race.

Mike Bose, Bob’s nephew, told the Now he will be running as an independent in the upcoming municipal election.

“There are going to be vacancies. I have a lot of experience. Our family is the living history of Surrey, so I know where we’ve come from which should help guide us to the future. I don’t think you can lose history,” Mike said last Friday.

He noted that running for council in Surrey is “kind of a family tradition” for the Bose family.

His great-grandfather was mayor and his uncle Bob served as a Surrey alderman from 1978 to 1985, subsequently serving as Surrey’s mayor for nine years, from 1988 to 1996. After his mayoralty, Bob returned to Surrey civic politics as a councillor, from 2000 to 2011, when he was ousted after Surrey First swept all the seats.

Mike hopes to carry on the tradition in Surrey civic politics.

Former mayor Bob Bose endorses candidate Dela Cruz

Mike Bose at his farm. (File photo) For the last 14 years, Mike has run the Bose Corn Maze in Cloverdale with his wife and two sons.

“I’m a fourth-generation farmer.

I run my dad’s farm. It’s all I’ve ever done for a job,” he said, but added that for more than 25 years, he’s volunteered on a variety of city hall committees.

“I’ve spent at least 16 years on the agricultural advisory committee.

SURREY — Former mayor and councillor Bob Bose endorsed Surrey council candidate Narima Dela Cruz at a fundraiser at Olympia Pizza last Friday.

“If there was ever a time for fresh faces on Surrey city council, this has got to be it,” Bose said in a press release. “Narima is an extraordinarily qualified and gifted candidate. I

In fact, I was the creator of that committee.”

And he spent more than four years as a commissioner with the Agricultural Land Commission.

His background also includes more than 20 years as a hockey coach in Cloverdale and sitting on the board of the Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation.

Currently, he’s a director of Surrey Cares, formerly the Surrey Foundation.

When it comes to agricultural lands in Surrey, Mike says if elected, he’ll fight to protect and enhance the industry.

“The ALR (Agricultural Land Reserve) is one-third of the city. It’s some of the best agricultural land in the country. It’s underutilized, underappreciated and it has the potential to create jobs.”

Asked if his politics differ than that of his uncle Bob, he said they do – seeing as Bob is a member of the NDP party and he’s not – but added, “I think one place that we would agree very strongly is in a balanced approach to development.”

Mike hopes to bring an “independent voice” to council, which he said is needed to yield “good, honest debate on the issues,” stating he’s not a fan of slate politics. areid@thenownewspaper.com

am delighted to formally endorse her as a candidate for Surrey council.”

While Dela Cruz has never held political office, she was considered by the NDP for nomination in the Surrey-Tynehead riding in the 2013 election, but Avtar Bains was instead selected. Liberal candidate Amrik Virk won the race in the riding and was later

appointed Minister of Advanced Education.

Dela Cruz, a realtor, moved to Canada from the Philippines to Canada in 1998.

She was a recipient of the 2012 Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Award, is a founding director of the Surrey Philippine Independence Day Society.

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GLBT advocate to run as independent in Surrey SURREY — Longtime GLBT advocate Martin Rooney has decided to run as an independent councillor for a seat on Surrey council in the upcoming election.

“People are saying that they want change,” Rooney said.

In recent months, the Whalley resident lobbied the City of Surrey to fly the pride flag during Pride Week.

A city report was then prepared to see whether federal or provincial protocol could be bypassed. The review concluded the city would only continue to fly the federal, provincial and city flag.

“The flag uncovered a whole lot of what was going on at city hall and started to open my eyes about how city hall was being governed,” Rooney told the Now Thursday.

His background includes efforts to overturn a U.S. law banning those with HIV from entering the country.

He was on his way to Washington State in 2007 when he was turned back from the border for being HIV-positive.

Rooney organized rallies and an Martin Rooney online Facebook group to bring attention to the little-known discriminatory ban.

The law was lifted in 2010 following years of effort by many groups, including one started by Rooney.

He founded the Red Ribbons 4 Life initiative in 2008, a fundraising project that’s donated more than $22,000 to the Surrey HIV/AIDS Food Bank and AIDS Tijuana.

Rooney has been on the board of the International Court System (ICS) since 2010, and involved with the organization since the 80s. The ICS, a GLBT organization, involves dressing up to play court while raising money for charity.

“I believe I have enough experience by sitting on this international board, being involved with this international organization for 20 years, to be an effective independent voice on council.”

If elected, Rooney would like the city to look at what the definition of diversity is on a social level. “To be diverse, is that inclusive or exclusive? In my opinion, diversity is embracing everybody.”

Rooney isn’t the first openly gay candidate to declare candidacy the 2014 municipal election in the city.

Surrey First council candidate Vera LeFranc’s bio says she and her partner Jen have lived in Surrey since 1998.

LeFranc is with the Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society and has done other work in the non-profit sector focusing on anti-violence, employment and more.

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NEWTON — A resident in Newton’s Panorama Ridge area says big parties in the neighbourhood are driving locals crazy.

But they’re not the kind of parties you might imagine.

“There are two houses on the ridge that are used as banquet halls,” said Bob Campbell, a member of West Panorama Ridge Ratepayers Association.

“No one lives in these homes,” he added.

As far as he can tell, large homes have been purchased for the sole purpose of renting them as South Asian wedding banquet halls, parties that often run for a whole week.

“This usually includes the erection of multiple large tents, loud music, parties attended by hundreds of well-wishers, streets so clogged with cars that only a single lane can barely pass, fireworks, multiple processions of limousines and honking cars – and all of this happens for three to seven nights in a row and often until quite late at night. All in a single-family residential neighbourhood,” Campbell said.

In some cases, he said so many cars pack the neighbourhood’s streets that he doubts emergency vehicles could get through.

He said the problem began about three years ago and estimates about 10 celebrations have gone on thus far.

At one such event in May, Campbell said he approached a member of the wedding party, who indicated they were from Calgary and had rented the home for five nights for $5,000 and said the owner assured them that all the neighbours were OK with holding parties at the house.

“The individual was horrified to learn that this was all illegal and the neighbours were not OK with these parties,” Campbell said.

“It is amazing that someone can purchase a house in a single-family residential neighbourhood and then use it to operate a commercial banquet hall, a clearly commercial activity – an activity totally incompatible with a residential area – and get away with it.”

Campbell said he brought the matter to the attention of the city more than a year ago and is frustrated that the problem persists.

“Everyone indicated that they were astounded that this activity was taking

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place,” he said of a meeting with city officials.

Campbell says as far as he can tell, the city has “completely dropped the ball.”

Jas Rehal, Surrey’s bylaws manager, said the city has been aware of the issue for more than six months and that it’s a complicated matter.

The activity, if confirmed, is most certainly illegal, Rehal said.

“Businesses are not permitted to be run in residential neighbourhoods unless it’s a home-based business,” he said.

“The issue of stopping it, that’s where it gets a bit complex. If we’re trying to investigate something like this we need proof that it’s actually being rented. A lot of the time it’s very difficult to determine if there’s

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He said the city is often told the homes are being loaned to family, which is legal.

“It’s very hard to take the next step and determine that it’s not,” he said. “We have to prove it’s a business.”

The bylaws department currently has four active cases open, two of which are located in the Panorama area.

Rehal encourages residents to call bylaws (604-591-4370) to report the activity; as well he said the RCMP’s non-emergency line (604-599-0502) can be used to report nuisance activity as well.

“Calling us is important because the more calls we get, it helps,” he said.

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Monthly show brings laughs to Valley venue Kristi Alexandra

There’s a lot of people who just don’t want to cross that Port Mann but they love comedy — well, we’ll bring it to you!

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SURREY — For just a tad cheaper rent and some reasonably-priced groceries, swathes of people are living out in the suburbs to enjoy bigger yards and fewer organic grocers. Unfortunately, much of the time that also includes far fewer cultural spaces, like theatres and clubs, where one might get a little entertainment.

But Ian Imrie from Comics on the Run is hoping to change that – even if just once a month – so burb-dwellers can enjoy the culture and entertainment that their innercity neighbours do.

Comics on the Run is a monthly comedy show that picks the cream of the comic crop for a night of laughs in the Fraser Valley.

Its next venue is Surrey’s The Barrel Public House, where a Comics on the Run show will be taking place on Thursday (Aug. 21).

“It’s kind of hard for a lot of people to make it downtown so we thought we’d bring the show to everyone else, so we decided to go with Comics on the Run,” Imrie, a Vancouver-based comedian, actor and writer, told the Now. The idea was to bring in seasoned comedians for a show that would typically take place in Vancouver, instead catering to their south of the Fraser neighbours.

“There’s a lot of people who just don’t want to cross that Port Mann but they love

Ian Imrie organizes the Comics on the Run shows at The Barrel Public House in Newton. comedy — well, we’ll bring it to you!” Imrie exclaimed.

Comic heavyweights Greg Kettner and Jared Borland headline this Thursday’s event, with Imrie himself acting as host and MC. For those needing a little liquid

encouragement, the Barrel Public House serves $3 drinks from 4 to 6 p.m. before the show.

As an overall rule, Imrie says the monthly show will invite seasoned comics so that audiences really have something to laugh at.

“All of us have been in the industry for some time,” Imrie said. “We’re not bringing amateurs into the shows. It’s established comedians who have some sort of credibility so that you do have some opportunity to see some talented people come to a show.”

Eventually, Comics on the Run hopes to see its audience grow to other areas in Metro Vancouver, besides central Vancouver.

“We decided to bring it out to the greater Vancouver areas, so we’ll probably find as many pubs or public houses as possible and grow it into maybe theatre shows,” Imrie said. “(The Barrel Public House) is our home base right now but I see in the next year or so we’re going to do theatre shows and bring guys like Brent Butt or Darcy Michael.”

Comics on the Run will host a new comedy show every third Thursday of the month. Check Comicsontherun.com for updates on the latest shows.

The Barrel Public House is located at 7115 138 St., in Newton. For the Aug. 21 event, doors open at 8:30 p.m. and tickets are $10 at the door.

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SURREY — There is a hurricane of activity in Surrey’s South Westminster/ Bridgeview, and David Wesik is enjoying the sunny weather in the eye of the storm.

“It’s been a good year for us,” said Wesik, vice-president of operations and corporate development at Wesgroup Properties.

In 2003, Wesgroup purchased and remediated 84 acres of brownfield land in Bridgeview. In homage to the company’s strategic ties to the Pacific Rim, Wesgroup named it Pacific Link and began selling long-term leases to businesses in need of warehousing and office space.

Seventy of those acres now house some of the world’s biggest companies, including Frito-Lay, FedEx Freight and Texcan, one of Canada’s largest cable and wire distributors.

Located on the south shore of the Fraser River, South Westminster/Bridgeview comprises more than 1,300 acres of industrial land sandwiched between King George Boulevard and Pattullo Bridge.

In acquiring the property, with its close proximity to major rail, trucking and waterway transportation routes, Wesik predicted it would become a regional distribution logistics dream come true. His wager appears to have paid off.

“We’re down to our last 15 acres,” said Wesik, noting the company’s remaining parcels are not contiguous. “We don’t have a lot of large, assembled, ready-to-go pieces of land to accommodate more big tenants.”

The area’s growth has affected real estate values, said Wesik. “There’s been a lot of speculation in the area, which has driven land prices fairly high, almost to the point where the economic feasibility of warehouse development is difficult because of the land cost.”

Despite this, the area continues to grow.

Wesgroup recently purchased an additional 9.5 acres, six of which have already been leased by Overland West. The continuing development underscores the location’s deep logistical appeal.

FedEx chose Pacific Link in part for its proximity to Fraser Surrey Docks (FSD).

Bill Wehnert, vice-president of sales and marketing at FSD, saw it coming. “We’ve been watching that area for years now,” he said. “There’s tons of opportunity there.”

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“Fraser Surrey Docks is going to play a very critical role in regional development,” said Wehnert. “The centralized nature of this area is going to make everyone more profitable.”

Including indirect effects, FSD supports 4,000 jobs, $220 million in wages and $440 million in gross domestic product, according to the City of Surrey. Those numbers convinced city planners years ago that the area was rich ground for industrial investment.

In 2009, Surrey labeled South Westminster/Bridgeview an economic investment zone and set out to draw businesses to the area with threeyear property tax waivers, deferred development cost charges and reduced building permit fees. It seems to have worked.

“Those industrial lands have been able to bring in some high-profile, goodquality, well-paying jobs into Surrey,” said Anita Huberman, CEO of Surrey Board of Trade. “It is a key economic zone.”

“The city is very keen to have businesses move into that area,” she said. “So whether it’s development costs or specific land restoration requirements, the city is willing to work with businesses.”

Those industrial lands have been able to bring in some high-profile, good-quality, well-paying jobs into Surrey. It is a key economic zone.… The city is very keen to have businesses move into that area.

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Long-table ‘friendraiser’ aims to get community talking Kristi Alexandra

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CITY CENTRE — The Downtown Surrey BIA has cooked up another idea, this time involving some actual food.

Bonnie Burnside, who manages the business improvement association, took note of how restaurants that host large parties at a long table happened to encourage conversation among diners.

The Sept. 9 event is an idea she snagged from Calgary BIA in which the city gathered together 240 people for a long-table fundraiser for flood-relief efforts.

In this case, Burnside says the event will act as a “friendraiser” – where attendees can purchase tickets, get to know those dining around them and create discussion about what’s going on in the community.

Unlike the Calgary BIA’s event, organizers in Surrey won’t be making the affair a fundraiser.

“We don’t want this to just be for the same people who would go to the mayor’s gala,” Burnside said.

“We want this to be open and inviting to everybody.

So, the people that are working in the area; the people that are learning in the area; the people that live in the area. We want it to be more of an opportunity for the community to get to know each other rather than raise funds for one specific organization.”

The event organizing team, which includes BIA special events assistant Tracey Gravel and SFU interns Janalaine Tsui and Alexis Tyller, is aiming to keep the event inclusive by having affordable ticket prices. For just $35 a seat, participants at the Long Long Table will get a five-course meal, some entertainment and, hopefully, some engaging conversation.

“Because Surrey is such a multicultural community, what we decided to do is have a more international kind of menu,” Burnside said.

The menu will consist of an Italian tomato gazpacho, Indian vegetarian samosas and pakora with mango chutney, Greek salad, maple soy salmon with wild rice and bok choy, topping it all off with blueberry shortcake

with fresh whipped cream.

Entertainment for the night will be two musicians: a Latin jazz guitarist and a sitarist with an Indian violin.

“People can get together, get to know their neighbours and learn about different things that are going on in the community,”

Burnside said. “If it’s successful, maybe next year it might be a completely different look and feel in what’s going on.”

Surrey BIA’s Long Long Table will take place at the new City Hall Plaza on Sept.

9. Tickets to the event at $35 and can be purchased online at Surreyllt.eventbrite.ca.

Tracey Gravel, Bonnie Burnside, Alexis Tyller and Janalaine Tsui (from left) are organizing the Sept. 9 dining event.

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Two Delta men charged in child-luring investigation DELTA — Two 24-year-old men who were charged in an investigation of childluring have been released from custody after being arrested on Wednesday, Aug. 13.

John Wells of Delta was arrested and charged with five counts of luring a child and one count of invitation to sexual touching.

Kelly Pearson of Delta was arrested and charged on the same date, with three counts of invitation to sexual touching, one count of sexual interference and one count of possession of child pornography.

The conditions of the males’ release included no contact with their victims, no contact with anyone under 16 years of age or under and no accessing the Internet.

Some of Wells’ and Pearson’s victims have been identified by investigators, but police believe there may be more victims and witnesses who have not yet come forward.

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The offences may have occurred over the Internet and at a paintball field where the two regularly played in a paintball league.

Surrey RCMP is asking anyone with more information to contact the Special Victims Unit at 604-599-0502 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS if you wish to remain anonymous. Please reference file number 2014-101966 when contacting police.

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fracture that required surgery. Police say the same suspects also attempted to assault a Secret Resto Lounge employee but the employee was able to avoid being attacked.

“Indications are that the victim might have been trying to break up a fight, which attracted the attention of the suspects who assaulted him,” said Surrey RCMP Cpl. Bert Paquet in a release. “Although this investigation has progressed significantly since the attack, our investigators are looking for additional information that will assist them in bringing this matter to court.”

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Indications are that the victim might have been trying to break up a fight, which attracted the attention of the suspects who assaulted him. Although this investigation has progressed significantly since the attack, our investigators are looking for additional information that will assist them in bringing this matter to court.

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NEWTON — Thirty-eight years ago, Balbir Dhesi opened Khalsa Wrestling Club, the first Indo-Canadian wrestling club in Surrey.

Today, he celebrates his son winning a silver medal at the junior world championships.

Amarveer (Amar) Dhesi is the first Canadian in 25 years to stand on the podium at the FILA Junior World Wrestling Championship.

Dhesi, who is entering his sophomore season wrestling with the Oregon State University Beavers, won three straight matches before losing to the defending champion, Geno Petriashvili of Georgia, in the final.

The Georgian beat Dhesi 10-0 in the freestyle heavyweight (120 kg) final, which was held in Zagreb, Croatia from Aug. 5 to Aug. 10.

This was Dhesi’s first international tournament and he said that it was a good experience.

“I’m happy with second place,” said the silver-medalist.“The next step is next year, I’m going there to win. I’m going to win gold for Canada in the worlds.

“I was confident with myself. I’m a confident guy. I know in wrestling you need to be confident, but not over-confident. I felt I was prepared. The whole year prepared me for this. I’ve been working for this goal since I was a kid,” he added.

The junior Canadian national champion started off the tournament sweeping Korea’s Kim Seongsu 10-0 in the round of 16.

Dhesi followed that match with a 12-3 win against Turkey’s Yusuf Emre Dede in the quarter-final.

In the semifinal, Dhesi went up against a familiar face in the University of Michigan’s Adam Coon. Dhesi beat him when he was in high school, and beat the American 7-6 to qualify for the final.

In the final, Petriashvili managed to hold Dhesi scoreless to maintain an untarnished record by not conceding a single point throughout the championships.

Amar Dhesi won a silver medal for Canada at the FILA junior freestyle world championships this month in Croatia and, in June, a gold at the Junior Pan-American Championships. He started wrestling out of Newton Recreation Centre, where his father founded Khalsa Wrestling Club in 1976. (Photo: KYLE BENNING)

I’m the third generation of wrestling.… I’m going to keep it going for sure.

Dhesi credits his father – who held a national championship in India – for starting his wrestling training at a young age.

“He works with me 24-seven,” Dhesi said.

“At home, we’ll be sitting and I won’t get five minutes alone. He’ll start showing me moves or talking about wrestling. He’s been on me my whole life. It paid off.”

Carrying on the wrestling club his father started is something both he and his brother, Parm, want to do, Dhesi said.

“I’m the third generation of wrestling. My dad wrestled, my grandpa wrestled. I’m going to keep it going for sure,” he said.

Dhesi graduated from Burnaby Central Secondary, and is on a full-ride scholarship at OSU. He finished his rookie NCAA season with a 27-10 record, a silver medal at the PAC12 championships and a 2-2 record at the national championships.

He also won the gold medal at the Junior

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