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An annual event in White Rock had the costumed undead roaming Marine Drive on a spectacular Sunday afternoon, catching some people by surprise.

Photographer Gord Goble was there to capture the action for a photo gallery on page 4 and also online at Thenownewspaper.com.

White Rock resident Dean Donnelly (left) and son Ethan, wearing stilts and in full makeup, confront a couple driving a convertible during the fourth annual White Rock Zombie Walk on Sunday afternoon (Sept. 7). Photo: GORD GOBLE

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Public school strike

Post-secondary careers in limbo Christopher Poon

Now staff Twitter @questionchris

SURREY — With week two of the teachers’ dispute underway and students still out of classrooms, parents and students are growing increasingly frustrated with what it means not only for their current situations, but for their futures.

With no negotiations currently planned between the government and teachers, there’s no telling how much longer the dispute will drag on for.

For Semiahmoo Secondary student and track star Chelsea Ribeiro, that’s not acceptable.

Worried about how the delayed school year will affect her post-secondary athletic opportunities, Ribeiro is pleading to both sides to find an end to the dispute, as it could permanently damage the futures of senior high school students like herself.

In a letter to the Now, the 17-year-old wrote of her concerns of missing out on the recruiting process from universities across North America. Having already competed in countless competitions both in Canada and abroad, Ribeiro says her opportunities for much sought-after U.S. scholarships are very real. However, due to the American National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules, recruits are not allowed to tour prospective campuses until their senior high school year has begun.

With the signing period for U.S. colleges and universities being Nov. 11 to 19, Ribeiro’s time to tour any campuses there is quickly running out.

“Athletics is everything to me and without it, I can’t imagine the person I’d be today,” she said. “All I ask for is the BC Teachers’ strike to be resolved so that I may continue to pursue my dreams. This strike is hurting kids’ futures…all we ask for is the ability to learn and play sports so that we can pursue our life goals and dreams.”

Elsewhere in Surrey, mothers Jennifer Clark and Sharon Ferguson are simply fedup with the state of the dispute. Both with

Government rejects binding arbitration Tracy Sherlock

Vancouver Sun Twitter @tracysherlock

Chelsea Ribeiro, pictured here in 2013 with fellow athlete Jake Hanna, says the strike in B.C.’s public schools threatens her post-secondary career. (File photo: LUIZ LOPES) young children missing out on elementary school, the mothers held an impromptu classroom session outside of MLA Stephanie Cadieux’s office last Thursday to show their dissatisfaction with the current situation.

“We’ve had three months and it concerns me that some of this negotiation stuff didn’t happen through the essential three months that they did have,” said Clark. “I think it’s completely embarrassing that we are faced with this at this particular time. Our kids are pawns in this whole situation.”

“They can’t keep using the kids as leverage.

They have to stop using our future as leverage. If these kids don’t get educated, what’s going to happen is that it’s just going to continue.”

“We feel like we’re being just ignored. It’s like two parents going through a divorce and we’re stuck in the middle.”

And for Surrey parent Meera Gill, whose son’s high school graduation was affected by the strike this past June, she said the current state of the situation isn’t setting a good example for children.

Gill helped organize a rally for frustrated parents that took place last Wednesday and again on Sunday. The rallies have been attended by parents of students from elementary and secondary schools united in their frustration with both sides’ inability to come to a resolution.

“We simply want the schools to be open, we sat for this many months hoping they would figure it out, optimistic that these educated, well-trained people would do their jobs,” said Gill of the BCTF and government.

Unfortunately, with the second week of no school now underway, Gill is wondering who’s supposed to be advocating on behalf of the half-million children still without school.

“Who’s going to put a dollar value on kids being outside of the classroom? Who’s defending the rights of children in Canada to be educated?” she wondered. “Ten, 20 years down the road these are the people who will be voting and you’re not teaching them any valuable life lessons here. Kids will remember this for the rest of their lives.”

- with file from Kyle Benning

VICTORIA — The government has rejected the BC Teachers’ Federation’s call for binding arbitration.

The BCTF asked the government to agree to binding arbitration in the dispute that has delayed the start of the school year and caused students to miss 18 days of school, so far.

The BC Public School Employers’ Association’s chief negotiator Peter Cameron said Saturday that he had met with mediator Vince Ready, who continues to monitor the situation, and BCTF president Jim Iker to discuss the proposal.

“After the dust settled and I had a serious look, it became very clear that this wasn’t a serious proposal,” Cameron said.

In a letter to Education Minister Peter Fassbender, Cameron outlined several reasons for rejecting the call for binding arbitration. They include the requirement to drop the employers’ proposal on class size and class composition (E80), the fact that preparation time is not considered by the union to be part of wages and benefits, a Public Sector Employers’ Council policy prohibiting BCPSEA from giving a third party the authority to bind employers to a settlement that could be outside the PSEC wage and benefit mandate, and that Iker “made it clear that he wasn’t interested in the consideration of any fiscal parameters.”

Iker said in response that the offer to enter arbitration or mediation would remain open. He said the only precondition is that proposal E80, which he called the government’s attempt to undo their court losses, be dropped.

“It is a fair, workable and pragmatic plan to end the strike, open schools, and get children back into classrooms,” Iker said.

No further talks are scheduled.

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ENGAGE Photo gallery

Zombies walk in White Rock

Scenes from White Rock’s Marine Drive Sunday afternoon (Sept. 7) during the fourth-annual White Rock Zombie Walk.

A similar event was held in Vancouver the previous day. (Photos: GORD GOBLE)

WHITE ROCK — The walking dead descended on Marine Drive Sunday (Sept. 7) during the fourth-annual White Rock Zombie Walk, a loosely organized event that’s almost as much fun for unsuspecting spectators as participants.

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ENGAGE White Rock

Diwali festival in the works Kristi Alexandra

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WHITE ROCK — You’ve seen the White Rock pier lit up with hundreds of lanterns for the annual Moon Festival, but in all the years that people south of the Fraser have celebrated the Diwali festival of lights, White Rock has never seen it.

That’s what Moti Bali, a longtime White Rock resident and community activist, is aiming to change as he and an organizing committee bring Diwali to White Rock’s waterfront on Saturday, Oct. 18.

“This is the first time ever that this function is being held in White Rock,” he said of bringing the traditional Hindu festival to the city, which has been celebrated for years in neighbouring Surrey.

“I do a lot of community work in White Rock and I saw last year the Moon Festival being held. I said,‘Why can’t we have that for the other cultures on the waterfront?’”

Along with his committee members Aditya Mohan, director of leisure services Eric Stepurah, Vivek Vasistha, Simi Visishta, South Surrey-White Rock MLA Gordon Hogg, Tejaswita Mohan, MP Judy Higginbotham,

artist Toshi Varma and Rama Bali, Bali wants to bring the festival mainly to the waterfront at White Rock near the Museum & Archives.

The now-retired resident, who’s served as chairperson for B.C.’s Communities in Bloom, is also looking to get parking along White Rock’s East Beach sponsored so that participants won’t have to pay, as well as a free shuttle to operate between East Beach near the Washington Avenue Grill to the festivities.

These activities are yet to be established, as the committee will be meeting at a later date.

The event will take place just before the civic election, providing a good forum for dignitaries and important political players to show up, Bali noted.

“The main aim is to get all the cultures together and to celebrate this festive occasion,” he said.“There will be cultural activities, food vendors, something for the children, for the old, for every person of caste, creed and colour.”

In Surrey, the 11th annual Diwali festival will run from Oct. 17 to 27. The Diwali opening party kicks off at Surrey’s Crown Palace Banquet Hall on Friday (Oct. 17), and the main event will be “Diwali Downtown” taking place on Oct. 18 with more than 3,500 people expected to attend.

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Photo exhibit at funeral home marks World Suicide Prevention Day Sept. 10 Image from Man-Up Against Suicide art exhibit, to be shown at Valley View Funeral Home in Surrey on Wednesday, Sept. 10.

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SURREY — An art exhibit of photographs from men who have experienced suicidal thoughts will be featured at a local funeral home.

The single-day event, on Wednesday, Sept. 10 at Valley View Funeral Home in Surrey, will mark World Suicide Prevention Day. The exhibit, called ManUp Against Suicide, also

showcases photos from people who have lost a male peer, friend of family member to suicide.

A panel discussion on the subject of suicide is also planned, starting at 7 p.m. at the funeral home, 14660 72nd Ave., Surrey.

Participants will include one of the exhibited artists and Jackie Yurick of the Fraser Health Crisis Line.

The event organizer is Marlyn Ferguson, who works at Valley View as a grief-support person and

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She viewed Man-Up Against Suicide when it was shown last spring at Foster Eastman Gallery in Vancouver.

“It’s all very moving, the images in the exhibit, and it’s so important to raise that awareness,” Ferguson told the Now. “You know, the timing is right, too, with the death of Robin Williams in the media. And suicide is on the increase, especially with men between age 18 and 25. The number of suicide deaths in that age group is really high.”

The exhibit is an initiative of Movember Canada, UBC professor John Oliffe and the Men’s Depression & Suicide Network.

According to a press statement, the exhibited pieces “reach out in a range of ways, some dark and despairing, some hopeful of a brighter future, some messaging those at risk. The collection of photographs and narratives challenge the stigma of men’s mental illness, highlight the tragedy of men’s silence and isolation and hold up the

important connections and relationships that provide alternatives to taking one’s life.”

Close to 500 people die by suicide in B.C. each year, according to the Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of BC (also known as Crisis Centre, online at CrisisCentre.bc.ca).

The organization operates a 24-hour crisis line at 1-800SUICIDE (784-2433).

“We hope that with increased awareness and better capacity in the community to identify and help prevent suicide, we will see a significant decrease in the number of suicides each year in British Columbia,” stated Kyle Tiney, Crisis Centre’s director of development and communications.

In addition to the event in Surrey, other events marking World Suicide Prevention Day on Sept. 10 include BC Place being lit in yellow for two hours that evening, from 9 to 11 p.m. Also, the Crisis Centre will host a free suicideTalk Awareness Session (Suicidetalk. eventbrite.com), and a 30-minute webinar will be staged at Reasontolive. ca/30minutestosavealife.

Two or three times a year, Valley View hosts support groups for people who have lost someone to suicide. For details, visit Valleyviewsurrey.ca/ AfterCare.

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With the topic of health on everyone’s minds, lots of places nowadays claim to support eating local. Bellingham, however, is making a statement by declaring all of September Eat Local Month.

Entering its fourth year, it’s a “fun way to highlight what we’re doing year-round. It’s harvest season, so there’s so much food production going on,” says Sara Southerland, food and farming program manager at Sustainable Connections. Her organization is a non-profit network connecting businesses, restaurants and farms to support sustainable economic development.

“There are 19 participating restaurants that, during Eat Local Month throughout September, will be offering menu items featuring 50 per cent or more locally sourced ingredients,” she says.

“Also, there are grocery stores and farmers markets participating as well. We have these passports for the month where people can get stamps by going to events, like the (Whatcom County) Farm Tour on the 13th, or eating local dishes at the restaurants or shopping at the grocery store.”

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People can then turn in their completed passports to redeem for different prize packages. Southerland says the farm tour is usually the most popular attraction of the month, a free, self-guided tour with 12 stops throughout the region that include wineries and markets.

Coinciding with Eat Local Month are another couple of food and drink events happening in September. Immediately following the tour is the ninth annual Bite of Bellingham on the 14th, at the Depot Market Square.

Presented by the Downtown Bellingham Partnership, patrons can sample small servings of international cuisine costing between $1 and $3 from

And, the third installment of Bellingham Beer Week takes place from September 12 to 21. Believe it or not, there are now five craft beer breweries within close proximity of each other — Chuckanut, Boundary Bay, Kulshan, Aslan and Wander — all of which will be hosting events like tastings, brewer’s nights and brewer’s tours all that week.

“The response (to Eat Local Month festivities) has been really great. Businesses are really loving it, and people are loving coming down,” she says.

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Put students before ideology If this dispute between B.C.’s public teachers and the provincial government can be likened to a poker game, the government revealed an important tell on Saturday when government negotiators rejected the BCTF’s call for binding arbitration.

While we don’t for a minute believe the teachers’ argument with the government is more about students than their own personal pay cheques, their union’s move to call for binding arbitration in itself revealed some willingness to compromise.

The government, on the other hand, sees no sign of optimism to enter into an arbitration process because the teachers are still refusing to bend on their wage and benefits demands. But is this good reason to reject the concept of binding arbitration outright, as at least one potential tool to help end this nonsense?

Heaven only knows what kind of remaining school year B.C.’s children will face if this labour dispute carries on for many more weeks. Once it’s resolved, they will undoubtedly be laden with ridiculous loads of homework. They’ll also have to deal with an inordinately steep learning curve to meet compressed curriculum requirements, not to mention whatever residual grumpy political baggage that’s left over in the wake of this dispute.

The longer this dispute drags on, the worse it will be for the kids. The government’s rejection of binding arbitration, as at least an option to get them back into class, suggests the government is more driven by ideology than the practical necessity to get students back into school.

It’s no secret this Liberal government is no fan of unions. However, it is tasked with providing education for our kids, and the need to fulfill this responsibility should supersede any union-breaking dreams the government might harbour.

To put ideology before children’s needs is simply bad governance.

When Premier Christy Clark was chosen to lead the BC Liberals, she promised that, “More than anything, our government will be tuned into families as never before,” and said, “My top priority will be to put families first.”

Does it serve families well to prolong this dispute?

We think not. And to reject binding arbitration outright suggests a level of stubbornness which we doubt would be embraced in an election year.

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Parents are left to pick a side, remain silent The Editor, Let me declare my bias from the start: I am a parent of school-aged children, I am a supporter of teachers, not particularly their union, I support balanced budgets that respect our pocketbooks and I strongly believe in a vibrant, effective public education system that is available to every child, irrespective of their socio-economic status. Education unlocks doors that would otherwise remain closed.

All that said, I do not think either side has many answers to offer right now, and I am very tired of the rhetoric and speaking points.

Yet, even more concerning and angering to me is this: We as parents have no standing or formal voice within

We, as parents, have no standing or formal voice within this process. We cannot meaningfully influence change and have no mechanism available to us to directly affect policy or decision. this process. We cannot meaningfully influence change and have no mechanism available to us to directly affect policy or decision.

It is implied, I would say patronizingly, that they (either the government or BCTF) know best.

Parents are left to pick a side or remain silent if we cannot fully support either group. There is no place for discussion.

Are we not all in this together? It is we, the parents, who represent our

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children, the half million students in this province – not the BCTF and not the government.

Without a fuller and broader consideration on how to address some of the complex economic, structural and systemic issues facing schools – debated and negotiated equally by the three major stakeholders in this dispute – no amount of negotiation, money or good faith will reach a settlement.

Kim Savage, Surrey

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DEBATE Letters

B.C. politics

MLA recall campaigns don’t work InTheHouse Keith Baldrey

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here’s no doubt that emotions are running high in the teachers’ contract dispute, so it is perhaps not surprising that all kinds of people are trying to whip up enthusiasm getting recall campaigns organized against B.C. Liberal MLAs. All I can say is, good luck with that.

Since the recall legislation came into effect in the 1990s, there have been 24 applications for a recall campaign filed with Elections B.C.; only a handful got off the ground, and all failed miserably (one was withdrawn after the MLA in question quit).

The bar for recalling an MLA is rightly set very high. For a recall petition to succeed and force a by-election, 40 per cent of the registered voters in the riding in question must sign the petition within 60 days.

In a number of B.C.’s ridings, the number of signatures required actually exceeds the number of people who actually voted, in total, in the last provincial election.

On social media (Twitter and Facebook), many teachers are excitedly talking about launching a recall campaign against Education Minister Peter Fassbender in his riding of Surrey-Fleetwood.

For such a campaign to succeed, 14,226 people in his riding must sign a petition within two months. To put that in perspective, slightly less than Peter Fassbender 18,000 people in total even voted in Surrey-Fleetwood in the last election (including 8,200 for Fassbender).

This means that about 80 per cent of those who voted last time would have to sign the petition, or that thousands of people who didn’t vote before would have to be convinced to participate in an electoral process that they refused to partake in previously.

There is little evidence – yet – that the general public is as up in arms over the dispute as the teachers understandably are. There are no doubt a lot of angry and frustrated parents out there, but only about half of those who live in Fassbender’s riding likely even have children in the school system, so why should they be expected to sign a petition booting him from office en masse?

Others have suggested a recall campaign against Premier Christy Clark herself in her riding of WestsideKelowna. There, more than 18,000 people would have to sign a recall petition for it to go forward, which means almost every single person who voted in her by-election victory would have to sign it.

And I can’t see many of her near-12,000 supporters (those who voted for her last time) siding with the BC Teachers Federation over having a premier as their MLA. All this talk of recall campaigns suggests, again, that many BCTF members communicate in an echo chamber, where the only thing they hear is each other. The average person wants schools to be open, but doesn’t necessarily support the BCTF on everything.

As I suggested in last week’s column, the public is likely of the “a pox on both your houses” view when it comes to the teachers dispute, which doesn’t translate into booting MLAs from office because the teachers’ union is furious.

In the end, a recall campaign arising from that dispute has about as much a chance of succeeding as does one of BCTF president Jim Iker’s suggestions: raising taxes to pay for a new teachers contract. In other words, no chance.

PROJECTS IN SURREY, LANGLEY STAND BETTER CHANCE THAN BROADWAY SUBWAY

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has made the proposed $1.9 billion Broadway subway line the centerpiece of his re-election campaign, but I fail to see how he can realistically expect the province to fund it anytime soon.

As I’ve noted before, that line would run right through two provincial ridings (Vancouver-Fairview and VancouverPoint Grey) that gave the boot to the BC Liberals in the last provincial election. As a result, the chances of a BC Liberal government pushing that particular transportation project anywhere near the top of its infrastructure priorities list is rather remote.

The political centre, as long as the BC Liberals are in power, has shifted out of Vancouver. As a result, transportation projects in places such as Surrey and Langley and the Fraser Valley stand a far better chance of receiving significant provincial government funding than anything in Vancouver.

The Broadway line would also need the financial support of the federal government, but the line runs through the Liberal-held seat of Vancouver Quadra. So unless federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau wins the next election, don’t expect much coming from Ottawa.

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

What is your definition of ‘realistic,’ Mr. Fassbender?

The Editor, Re: “Peter Fassbender addresses Surrey constituents over teacher dispute,” The Now online.

In his interview with the Now on Wednesday, Education Minister Peter Fassbender demonstrated a disconnection from reality so large, one wonders if he thinks he can reshape it with his words.

Mr. Fassbender claims to act “on behalf of every... taxpayer in this province.” I am one of those taxpayers, and I am running for Surrey school board in large part to oppose the actions of this government and all its education ministers, including Mr. Fassbender.

In addition, had Mr. Fassbender actually taken a look at the rally outside his office, he would have seen many more taxpayers lined up two and three deep along the street voicing the same opposition, as he would if he looked to things like polling numbers rather than the Liberals’ wealthy and corporate backers for an impression of public opinion.

Mr. Fassbender further stated that the BCTF executive did not tell its members what his proposal was, as though had they known they would not have turned out in force at his office the way they did. Given that the details were rather widely reported in the media, it appears Mr. Fassbender thinks that teachers retreat to

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To Mr. Fassbender, “realistic” apparently means that we cannot afford proper learning conditions for students or working conditions for teachers; meanwhile, we can afford billions in tax breaks for the wealthy and large corporations, billions for the Olympics, millions for convention centres and BC Place and, of course gigantic raises for the Premier’s staff. “Realistic” also apparently means spending more millions appealing court orders telling this government that upholding human rights is more than just “realistic,” it’s the law, rather than just ending this charade and providing the necessary funding so we can move forward.

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It is important to correct the misinformation contained in the letter from Port Metro Vancouver’s Peter Xotta.

It seems that Mr. Xotta wants us to believe that one additional train per day is somehow considerably less than 640 trains annually. It seems to me that he has either a poor understanding of mathematics and train operations, or is deliberately trying to deceive the public.

Either way, it indicates that no confidence can be placed on any statements made by Port Metro Vancouver.

Last time I looked, there were 365 days in a year, and one coal shipment actually involves two train movements – one fully loaded going to the port and one returning empty from the port. So, even his using his own admission of one coal train per day, that actually results in

730 additional train movements annually.

Equally disingenuous is Peter Xotta’s assertion that “coal has been safely shipped through the port for decades.” He seems to have conveniently forgotten that a derailment took place in January this very year, in Burnaby on the way to Neptune Bulk Terminals in North Vancouver. Seven cars of a 152-car coal train fell off the tracks, spilling coal into a creek feeding a nearby lake. Another attempt to mislead the public, it seems.

Keith G. Knightson, White Rock

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DELTA — Lois Jackson will seek re-election as Delta’s mayor in the November civic election.

“There are still a lot of things I would like to complete,” Jackson told the Now. She has been Delta’s mayor since November 1999, well outserving her Surrey counterparts Dianne Watts, Doug McCallum and Bob Bose, who each served nine-year terms as mayors in the neighbouring city.

The veteran incumbent mayor announced her decision Monday afternoon at Delta’s municipal hall.

Jackson said she wants to see the Massey tunnel replacement project completed and an “amicable conclusion” brought to the debate over tolling bridges in the Lower Mainland.

“Transportation I think is one of the biggest problems we’ve got,” she said.

“I’d also like to leave the municipality debt-free.

We’re almost there. We are almost debt-free.”

Jackson told the Now she’d like to see created a Scott Road streetscape “better than what we have today.

“I think we do have to get together with Surrey.”

She originally hails from Sudbury, Ontario, and moved to Delta in 1969. In 1973 she became the municipality’s first female alderman.

Serving in her 16th year as mayor, Jackson said she wants “one more term, and that’ll be it.”

Exploring “better ways” to manage secondary suites in North Delta is also on her agenda, if reelected. “We have to make sure we’re on the right road,” she said, concerning the housing stock. “I think we have to be a little more selective.

“These cul-de-sacs are very tight for parking as it is.”

She also weighed in on Port Metro Vancouver’s recent controversial approval of a $15 million coal transfer operation at Fraser Surrey Docks that will see an increase in train trips annually through White Rock, Surrey and Delta.

The approval has been slammed as “ridiculous fiasco” from one Now letter writer who noted that Oregon recently denied a similar project proposed for the Columbia River.

Christine Sorensen, vice-president of the BC

Delta Mayor Lois Jackson poses for a photo with Spanish visitors Maria, Julie and Sara, along with an unidentified Canadian girl, at the Luminary Festival Saturday evening (Sept. 6) at Sunstone Park in North Delta. To see more photos of the event, visit Thenownewspaper.com. (Photo: GORD GOBLE) Nurses’ Union expressed concern about the “alarming public health risks associated with coal dust.

“The significant risks associated with the transportation of raw resources through densely populated regions are well-documented,” Sorenson noted.“BCNU believes the health and well-being of thousands of citizens who are directly or indirectly impacted have not been fully considered in this decision.”

While White Rock council opposed the project outright, Surrey and Delta councils withheld their support pending a third-party health impact assessment. According to Peter Xotta, vicepresident of operations and planning for Port Metro Vancouver, “Port Metro Vancouver found no evidence of negative human health impacts of the project beyond acceptable minimums.”

While Surrey and White Rock politicians have expressed disappointment with Port Metro’s approval of the controversial coal project, Jackson

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seemed acquiescent, noting that Port Metro has its mandate from the federal government and the decision was not in her power to control. Coal, she added, is “quite inert” compared to other commodities being transported by rail. “I can’t say this is a terrible bad thing.”

Jackson said Delta’s government isn’t sitting on its hands, though. She said it’s setting up coal dust testing stations along the stretch of Burlington Northern-Sante Fe rail that passes through Delta, and the air will be monitored 24-7.

“We’re actually doing the science,” she said.“We’re doing our own. We’re monitoring it very closely.”

Jackson said specimens will be sent to a lab, to assess air quality. “If we find a major problem then we can take it to the government,” she said. “We can’t simply go on emotion.”

Moreover, she said the results will be made public. “We want to bring that scientific information to the general public,” Jackson said. tzytaruk@thenownewspaper.com

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Police received 911 calls from the area of 134th Street and 90th Avenue at about 8:30 p.m. reporting shots fired and vehicles zooming away. Shortly after that, the victim arrived at hospital with an injury that wasn’t considered to be life threatening.

“Additional police officers attended to the hospital and spoke to the victim, who was not totally cooperative with police,” Staff Sgt. Murray Hedderson said. “The scene of the shooting was located, and physical evidence was recovered. The surrounding area was canvassed for witnesses.

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Fourth mayoral hopeful in Surrey Amy Reid

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SURREY — And then there were four.

Another mayoral candidate has thrown his hat in the ring in Surrey, in what is sure to be the most exciting mayoral race the city has seen in the last decade.

John Edwards, who’s lived in Surrey since 1994, is past president of the Rotary Club of Surrey, through which he’s worked with organizations such as the Surrey Food Bank and Atira Women’s Resource Society.

He sees a need for a broader representation of political thinking on council and says he will “position Surrey as a progressive city with an international outlook.”

“As a former immigrant to the country, I think there are some perspectives that need to be discussed in the interest of everyone in Surrey. I think that’s one of the angles I’d like to bring to the table,” Edwards told the Now. The Barbados native was trained as a registered nurse and psychiatric nurse in England, and currently has a license in psychiatric nursing in B.C. Edwards has lengthy experience in the medical and pharmaceutical field, including international business development and

government relations.

And this isn’t his first foray into politics, though it is in Surrey. In the 1980s he contested a nomination for what was then the Mission-Port Moody riding. He lost to Gerry St. Germain, who was elected an MP, and Edwards turned around to work on his campaign.

One of Edwards’ big focuses is building a convention centre in Surrey, noting all of the country’s big John Edwards cities have such an attraction. He’d like to see one commissioned within four years.

If elected, Edwards says he would also push hard for local job creation, work to attract head offices in the city, engage youth, promote tourism to keep residents from crossing the border to shop, and fight for more sustainable transportation options.

Edwards joins Surrey First Coun. Linda Hepner, former mayor Doug McCallum and Vikram Bajwa in the fight for the city’s top spot. Coun. Barinder Rasode is expected to seek the job as well. areid@thenownewspaper.com

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INFORM Crime

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SURREY — If you’re gonna print off some counterfeit cash, maybe a busy bus loop isn’t the best place to do it.

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“Upon arrival, officers saw the suspect standing over a printer plugged into an external electrical outlet,” Transit Police spokeswoman Anne Drennan said.

Drennan said there was a bag beside the man’s feet, and sticking out of the bag was an eight-inch-by-11-inch sheet of paper with bogus $20 bills printed on it.

She said police searched the bag and

found more than $1,000 in counterfeit bills as well as knives.

Drennan noted that Doyle had been released from custody on the week prior on condition he not possess knives or counterfeiting gear.

Doyle is charged with one count of possessing counterfeit money, one count of making it and one count of possessing instruments to make bogus cash.

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SURREY — As salmon return to their spawning grounds in B.C., Surrey’s Salmon Habitat Restoration Program (SHaRP) is reminding the public to be careful of what they put down the drain.

“Whatever goes into a storm drain is going to go into a stream or a watercourse so we just need to be careful what we put down there,” said Chelsea Nerpio, SHaRP coordinator.

In its current campaign, SHaRP is targeting landscaping materials like concrete and asphalt as well as the proper disposal of waste water from pools and hot tubs.

Nerpio said that with the latest rainfall, salmon will begin swimming into Surrey’s 1,400 kilometres of watercourses anytime now, making attention to water quality even more important.

“Usually they start coming up when the rain starts falling and I’m thinking by the end of September we are going to see Salmon within Surrey streams,” she said.

Surrey’s waterways are spawning and rearing grounds for five species of salmon and trout. According to the city’s website, more than 900 Chum salmon have been counted in Bear Creek in one season.

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down storm drains can contribute to raising the acidity level of the water.

Nerpio said that because salmon can only survive at a narrow pH range, any changes can have a huge impact.

“It can affect their entire system ... adding that into the water really affects their system and oxygen levels and their ability to spawn and swim upstream,” she said.

SHaRP will be working with local landscaping, pool and hot tub businesses to ensure that any products and chemicals do not contaminate streams and rivers.

While the current public-awareness campaign targets specific materials other products like paint, pesticides/herbicides and soap used to wash cars can also impact fish.

“The best management practice for washing your car is to do it at a gas station where they actually have a catch basin that restricts the soap from going into the storm drain system. Or if they wash their car on their lawn it will allow the grass to pick up the soap before going into the storm drain,” Nerpio said.

SHaRP is looking to the public for help in identifying contaminants and bad disposal practices. Nerpio is encouraging anyone who sees products being disposed of in an unsafe manner, or signs of contaminants in or around streams, to contact the city’s 24-hour Service Request Hotline at 604-591-4152.

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The GVOHA has been around for about 38 years and held more than 500 games last season for players older than 50 years old.

Many of the players will be representing the districts they live in at the B.C. Seniors Games this week in Langley.

When the league started nearly four decades ago, the “old-timers” were any players older than 35.

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Ralph Haugland, 76, is the divisional co-ordinator of the O-75 league and joined the association when he was 45 years old. It was his idea to continuously add divisions as he grew older.

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Bob Montgomery (left), president of Greater Vancouver Old-timer’s Hockey Association, shares a laugh with goaltender Issy Steen in a dressing room at Planet Ice in North Delta. (Photo: KYLE BENNING) there on purpose, but we still use our body,” he said.

“We don’t want to hurt you.”

Haugland, who used to play junior A hockey in Vancouver, says that there is a new team every year.

“Hockey is a hell of a game in that it’s not just a physical wash, it’s a mental wash. You can’t worry about what happened at work or at home. You have to worry about putting the puck in the net,” Haugland said.

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Another mayoral candidate has thrown his hat in the ring in Surrey, in what is sure to be the most exciting mayoral race the city has seen in the last decade.

John Edwards, who’s lived in Surrey since 1994, is past president of the Rotary Club of Surrey, through which he’s worked with organizations such as the Surrey Food Bank and Atira Women’s Resource Society.

He sees a need for a broader representation of political thinking on council and says he would “position Surrey as a progressive city with an international outlook.”

“As a former immigrant to the country, I think there are some perspectives that need to be discussed in the interest of everyone in Surrey. I think that’s one of the angles I’d like to bring to the table,” Edwards told the Now. The Barbados native was trained as a registered nurse and psychiatric nurse in England, and currently has a license in psychiatric nursing in B.C. Edwards has lengthy experience in the medical and pharmaceutical field, including international business development and

government relations.

And this isn’t his first foray into politics, though it is in Surrey. In the 1980s he contested a nomination for what was then the Mission-Port Moody riding. He lost to Gerry St. Germain, who was elected an MP, and Edwards turned around to work on his campaign.

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Edwards joins Surrey First Coun. Linda Hepner, former mayor Doug McCallum and Vikram Bajwa in the fight for the city’s top spot. Coun. Barinder Rasode is expected to seek the job as well. areid@thenownewspaper.com

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Brooke Colby has announced his intent to run for mayor against incumbent Wayne Baldwin.

Picking up where his late father, Larry Colby, a former alderman and executive director of South Surrey & White Rock Chamber of Commerce, left off, Brooke said he decided he’d run for mayor eight years ago when his father passed away.

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“I know that you do have to have some high density but I just think it’s starting to look like Hong Kong uptown,” he said, adding that the city wasn’t built to handle those kinds of developments.

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Woods said she was taking the summer to decide and after much deliberation, decided to first try for councillor. “I just kind of gave it some thought and figured I’ve been away for a few years, so I thought it would be better for me to move forward as a member of council first and after that, see what the future holds,” she said.

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The gentrification of this area has been ongoing for years, but only lately has the Lower Mainland started to take real notice of the demographic change. Previously made up of mostly underdeveloped lots of agricultural land, South Surrey has now become one of the hottest places for real estate development in the province.

As Surrey transforms into a major metropolitan hub, it is cultivating its own upper-crust milieu. Matt Morrow, a real

estate agent with Re/Max who lives in Ocean Park, said South Surrey is undergoing a swift metamorphosis.

“Detached prices are rising due to low interest rates and a lack of supply,” Morrow said. “You’re getting a lot of the older view homes being knocked down and newer homes are being built. And we’re starting to see that a lot. If you drive down any of the streets on the slope, houses are coming down and being rebuilt.”

Median prices for detached homes in South Surrey/White Rock jumped 11 per cent to $860,000 and townhomes jumped 13.6 per cent to $465,000 between June 2013 and June 2014, according to the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB). But sales are where the numbers are climbing the most. The number of detached home sales in South Surrey/White Rock rose 32 per cent and townhouse sales jumped 121.9 per cent since June of last year. This is due largely to townhome developments throughout Morgan Heights and South Surrey that were completed this year and in 2013.

Property values for detached homes jumped double digits since June 2013 in areas such as Grandview/Morgan Crossing (8.7 per cent), Hazelmere (12.2 per cent)

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“It’s just indicative of what’s going on in the valley in general,” he said. “If you build it, people will come, and definitely it’s a desirable area. You’re close to the border and the ocean, an easy drive to the airport.

And it’s got a really diverse mix of housing options.”

Morrow pointed to Morgan Crossing, just east of Highway 99 and north of 24th Avenue, which typifies the gentrification process going on. Commercial development has brought large chain stores like WalMart and Home Depot and even some high-end

boutiques to the area.

“You’ve now got all levels of shopping within the peninsula so there’s really no need to go anywhere unless you want to hit a major mall. So the need to leave is gone, or going quickly.”

However there’s one aspect of South Surrey that is failing to keep pace with the rapid growth – transportation. Werger said South Surrey is almost growing too fast for its own good.

“You need the (population) numbers for public transportation,” he added. “That’s the biggest thing. If you talk to TransLink, it’s kind of like a chicken-and-egg thing. You’d love to have it right away, but you need the numbers to support the cost of it because it’s so costly.”

Either way, Werger said when he’s driving his car through South Surrey, whether in bumper-to-bumper rush-hour traffic or not, one thing’s for certain.

“What I’m surprised with is just how rapid the growth seems to be. Even as a working realtor, just driving around – which I’m doing all the time – you drive into a neighbourhood down there and go, ‘Holy geez, when did that happen? That wasn’t there last year.’”

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Plea: keep streams clean for spawning salmon Matt Law

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SURREY — As salmon return to their spawning grounds in B.C., Surrey’s Salmon Habitat Restoration Program (SHaRP) is reminding the public to be careful of what they put down the drain.

“Whatever goes into a storm drain is going to go into a stream or a watercourse so we just need to be careful what we put down there,” said Chelsea Nerpio, SHaRP co-ordinator.

In its current campaign, SHaRP is targeting landscaping materials like concrete and asphalt as well as the proper disposal of waste water from pools and hot tubs.

Nerpio said that with the latest rainfall, salmon will begin swimming into Surrey’s 1,400 kilometres of watercourses anytime now, making attention to water quality even more important.

“Usually they start coming up when the rain starts falling and I’m thinking by the end of September

J.P. Hervieux of Surrey’s Natural Areas Partnership aids in the Salmon Habitat Restoration Program’s project last month at Queen Mary Park.

(File photo: KYLE BENNING) we are going to see Salmon within Surrey streams,” she said.

Surrey’s waterways are spawning and rearing grounds for five species of salmon and trout. According to the city’s website, more than 900 Chum salmon have been counted in Bear Creek in one season.

Concrete and chemicals that are flushed down storm drains can contribute to raising the acidity level of the water. Nerpio said that because salmon can only survive at a narrow pH range, any changes can have a huge impact.

“It can affect their entire system

... adding that into the water really affects their system and oxygen levels and their ability to spawn and swim upstream,” she said.

SHaRP will be working with local landscaping, pool and hot tub businesses to ensure that any products and chemicals do not contaminate streams and rivers.

While the current publicawareness campaign targets specific materials other products like paint, pesticides/herbicides and soap used to wash cars can also impact fish.

“The best management practice for washing your car is to do it at a gas station where they actually have a catch basin that restricts the soap from going into the storm drain system. Or if they wash their car on their lawn it will allow the grass to pick up the soap before going into the storm drain,” Nerpio said.

Nerpio is encouraging anyone who sees products being disposed of in an unsafe manner, or signs of contaminants in or around streams, to contact the city’s 24-hour Service Request Hotline at 604-591-4152.

White Rock bus frequency drops WHITE ROCK — Service frequency for the C51 bus service has dropped from every half hour to every hour, as per service changes introduced by TransLink at the beginning of September.

According to TransLink, the White Rock Centre/ Ocean Park schedule change “has been adjusted to better reflect customer demand during non-peak periods.” Service will now be every 60 minutes between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. weekdays.

For the C52 Seaside/ White Rock Centre and C53 Cranley/White Rock Centre buses, service will also from run every 60 minutes from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and again from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. respectively. For full schedule changes, go to Translink.ca.

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