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‘Leave a few trees, why don’t ya?’ group disturbed – but not surprised – as report shows loss of tree canopy, mostly in South Surrey Amy Reid
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hile South Surrey has traditionally been known for its lush green and tall timbers, it has experienced much change over the past decade. That development has, unsurprisingly, resulted in trees falling to the chainsaw. a new city report reveals Surrey has seen more than a five per cent drop in its tree canopy over the past 12 years, nearly half of which came from South Surrey. That loss was the impetus behind the creation of the newly formed grandview Heights Stewardship association (gHSa). “Tree canopy loss is a big concern that we have in South Surrey especially because this is an area in transition,” said gHSa chair Victoria blinkhorn, who has called grandview home for 18 years. The organization formed because many residents are concerned about tree preservation and infill development, she added. blinkhorn said when areas in grandview are developed, it’s not uncommon to see just a handful of trees saved out of hundreds. Her motivation to get involved was first sparked in 2004. That was when the grandview general Land Use Plan was being developed and there were concerns about tree loss along 164th avenue. “one side of that has now become morgan Heights and there’s been substantial tree loss there and there’s a new infill development that’s going to be taking 28 out of 214 trees down.” blinkhorn said grandview Heights looks enviously at subdivisions like ocean Park.
Clearcuts like this one at 164th Street and 25A Avenue are the impetus behind the creation of the newly formed Grandview stewardship association. (Photo: Submitted)
Our ultimate goal is to have a neighbourhood where community voices are heard in the build-out process. “I look around and see beautiful trees that have been retained on small lots. It’s all about density and of course services are necessary… but leave a few trees, why don’t ya?” With the goal of engaging and informing residents, gHSa has created a comprehensive website and is keeping an eye on upcoming projects. With the city’s 100-metre notification radius for new development, blinkhorn said it’s easy to live down the street from a potential development and not know anything about it. “Small changes affect a lot of people.” blinkhorn said the group may, on occasion, seem critical of city policies but said its goal is to know the rules, to get the city to follow them and to share information
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with residents. While the area is made up of a wide variety of demographics and housing – from large acreages to dense townhouse developments – blinkhorn said she hopes the community can come together to work toward a common goal: Creating a sustainable, livable, walkable, enjoyable neighbourhood. “and most definitely, tree canopy is a big part of that,” she said. “I think our ultimate goal is to have a neighbourhood where community voices are heard in the build-out process, where nCPs are respected. It doesn’t matter if you live in a tent or a condo or a mansion. Your home is your home and you care what’s going on around it.”
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for the first time in its history, Surrey has received a comprehensive report on its tree canopy, the analysis excluding only the agricultural Land reserve. first revealed at an environmental sustainability advisory committee last Wednesday, the report showed the city’s tree
canopy was 33 per cent in 2001, 30 per cent in 2009, and by 2013 had dropped to 27.7 per cent. forty three per cent of that loss was in South Surrey, 20 per cent in guildford, with the remainder distributed amongst other neighbourhoods. In 2009, single-family lots in South Surrey had an average tree canopy of 47.8 per cent. new developments are now averaging 7.7 per cent. from 2001 to 2013, the City of Surrey issued tree-cutting permits for 102,347, and 124,403 were replaced. Without changes in Surrey’s current practices, the report expects the city’s tree canopy to drop to somewhere between 21 to 27 per cent in 50 years. So, how does the city plan to continue to see population growth, and reverse the tree loss trend at the same time? environmental committee chair Coun. bruce Hayne said the city has a few strategies in the works. first, the city plans to encourage urban infill, as opposed to greenfill development, which is essentially building on undeveloped land, Hayne said. The city also has plans to steer dense projects to town centres, Hayne added. “So if we look at City Centre for instance, there are literally thousands of homes built in City Centre in the coming years in the form of high rises. They are going to have a very minimal impact on our tree canopy and yet it’s going to allow us to add thousands of residents,” he said. “We have to look at smart developments in our town centres, along our transportation corridors, and try and take the pressure off some of those other lands.” Hayne said the city’s recently adopted biodiversity Conservation Strategy would also come into play. “That is a target to preserve 10,000 acres in the city in total in perpetuity in its absolute natural state,” he said. see TREE REPORT › page 4
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Hayne added that the “stick trees” being planted to replace mature trees coming down through development may not add to the tree canopy right now, but will down the road. “Those stick trees become beautiful big oaks lining residential boulevards over time. So that will naturally increase the tree canopy as well… looking out 30, 40 years from now.” Hayne said the city has a “pretty ambitious” goal of reaching a 40 per cent tree canopy by 2058, but is optimistic it can be achieved. “I know there are some communities and some folks that see development and see trees coming down and feel that, ‘Wow, we’re losing trees here, there and everywhere.’ And in some of those new developments we are. And in some places we’re increasing our tree canopy,” Hayne said. “We have to also keep in mind that just because there’s a corner lot that has a whole bunch of trees on it doesn’t mean it’s a public asset. That corner lot has been owned by somebody for many years and they’re waiting until the time is right for them to do something with that land. So we have to realize that, we have to respect that and we have to then guide our development strategies in a way that’s going to preserve as much forested land as we can.” At Wednesday’s committee meeting, Hayne said there was much discussion about the report. “We talked about putting trees into our 2015 work plan because we want to look further at it. We want to look at some of the issues surrounding the tree preservation bylaws and the tree replacement bylaws and things like that to make sure that we’re doing it in a balanced way.” Once the committee looks at the issues, it will forward its recommendations to council. Vice-chair of the committee, Bob Campbell, believes the city’s target of 2058 is too far off. “I’m going to be dead by then,” he said, adding he’d like to see a shorter-term target.
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Campbell called the report disturbing. “It’s obviously going in the wrong direction.” Campbell has proposed changes to Surrey’s tree policies in the past. He says the city’s “cut twice, build once” policy is levelling forests. In a letter to the editor earlier this year he wrote, “Surrey allows developers to ‘guess’ at where the eventual lot purchased will build their houses, put their driveways, etc., and then to clear the property to match these guesses. When lots are sold, the buyers often decide to place their houses and driveways in different locations.” He wrote the city would argue it places a restrictive covenant on any trees standing after the first cut, but said, “The reality is that the city will not enforce these covenants and usually allows the eventual lot purchaser to cut additional trees.” He said he’d like to see a “tree-friendly” approach, where the city could work with developers to only allow trees to be removed for basic servicing. Blinkhorn also weighed in on the tree canopy report. “The accelerated canopy depletion is not surprising,” she said. “Is the city’s treeplanting program a suitable substitute for old growth forest canopy which is being rapidly depleted through development? “The 40 per cent canopy target for 2058 is positive and ambitious. Only the promised tree bylaw-strengthening and compliance by education of the development industry will make this target possible,” she stated. Visit Grandviewstewardship.org.
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WHaLLeY — Keys: Housing and Health Solution Society has merged with Lookout emergency aid Society in an effort to make larger social impacts together. “The biggest win that our organization sees in the future for Surrey is that Lookout, as an organization, spanning from the north Shore all the way to Surrey now, can really leverage local housing investment from senior levels of government,” said Shayne Williams, former Keys director, who now serves as executive director of Lookout. “The volume of connections is massive. It’s like going from the aaa team to the big leagues.” While Lookout Society is largely Vancouver-based, its Surrey facilities will operate as a satellite. It’s hoped the merger will encourage community-driven and made-in-Surrey programs guided by Lookout’s vision. “The Lookout Society has a history of working with communities and arriving at solutions tailor-made for each city,” Williams noted. Lookout has been around for 43 years and operates close to 300 shelter beds through facilities in north Vancouver, Vancouver, burnaby and new Westminster. The group also operates transitional and affordable housing, with a total of 1,050 beds. “If you include the outreach programs and the drop-in… we’re probably seeing roughly 2,000 people a day just at Lookout.” Williams said Keys has faced some criticism over the years, largely because the organization is trying to help hundreds of people with limited resources. “If you look at the visible homeless in Surrey north, which has a long history, it goes back to the ’50s and ’60s, long before the Keys organization, but now that Keys is the only government-funded organization working with these folks, there’s been a lot of community judgment on the types of services. So from that, it’s harmed the
reputation of the organization somewhat and affected its ability to advocate to senior levels of government.” Keys has been around for 20 years and employs roughly 90 people. It runs the front room drop-in centre and the barrier-free, 40-bed gateway shelter and other programs including abstinence-based, health and HIV programs. The current buildings were constructed in the mid-’70s, and Williams said the organization – and the people it serves – struggle with the poor insulation and ventilation. “neither building is purpose-built, so there’s a lot of talk about the new shelter coming up,” Williams said, referring to the city working to find a location for a new purpose-built operation. “one of the challenges is these old retrofitted buildings just aren’t made to serve the people that are accessing it. The whole of the Keys organization, we had 17 units of housing, that’s it for the 350 people we saw every day. Literally no transitional housing to get people off the streets.” and while Keys will be adopting Lookout’s name, Keys will live on. “That’s going to continue as a foundation – a money arm for the Lookout organization,” Williams explained. “all the programming will be operated by Lookout. That’s to harmonize the service provision across the region.” megan baillie, director of operations for Keys, said she’s excited to be joining the Lookout society. “Lookout is the gold standard for shelter operations in the Lower mainland while Keys is Coa (Council on accreditation) accredited and has had some of the best housing successes in the province. both organizations have a long history of successfully serving vulnerable client populations through low-barrier services. bringing the organizations together will provide an even greater continuum of services for clients within the Lower mainland,” baillie said. areid@thenownewspaper.com
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Did our photo go too far? our powerful – some say too graphic – front page photo has sparked a huge discussion online. a few readers were offended but most applauded the photo, saying its impact might even save lives.
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When we called photojournalist Kevin Hill on Tuesday morning to assign him a photo to accompany our powerful and emotionally charged two-page report on drinking and driving, we knew two things. first, it had to be worthy of the front page. Second, it had to carry impact. after brainstorming for a few minutes, we came up with two options: a photo of an officer conducting a breathalyzer test and the photo you see at the top of this page. for us, the choice was simple. good journalism – and this includes photojournalism – must sometimes hit people in the gut to be effective. our intent was not to shock or to offend. rather, our intent in using this photo was to help prevent the scene it portrayed from playing out in our communities. Perhaps you will think of this photo the next time you are tempted to get behind the wheel after drinking. Perhaps your child will think of this photo several years from now when they are about to get into a friend’s car after a house party. Perhaps all the discussion our photo has sparked will bring more awareness and will help keep our families safer while driving in our city’s streets. If that’s the case, we have done our job. The now
I am very disgusted in the photo you have used in Thursday’s the Now. What on earth were you thinking and who thought this was a good idea? How do you think my four-year-old daughter reacted to this photo when she picked up the newspaper for me today? How do you explain to a four-year-old what this photo is about or why it is on the front of a newspaper? one can only assume the editor, beau Simpson, had the opportunity to see this disgusting photo chosen for the front of the paper and thought it was a good idea.
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Greg Tomyk, Surrey How very disturbing it was to see the extremely graphic picture on the front cover of the Now. I was disgusted. While I completely agree that drinking and driving is an extremely serious issue, does a graphic picture such as this need to be displayed on the front page where there is no choice but to see it? my young daughter does not need to see graphic image such as this on our coffee table and I am sure many other parents of young children would agree. Robin St. Andrews, Surrey
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Child care costs more elsewhere The Editor, re: “Child care too costly for Surrey families,” the Now letters, nov. 25. Jinny Sims, mP newtonnorth Delta, was way off base suggesting that Surrey families are paying the most for child care in the province. families in trendy areas like Kitsalano and West Vancouver pay far more than residents of Surrey, at least $300 more per child. my wife is an early childhood educator. She has 20 years in the business, the past 15 running her own small multi-aged facility (Kids Kove) in Surrey. She was a teacher in Peru and clients pay about $40 a day, which, in many cases, works out to less than $5 an hour. You would pay your babysitter (who took a twohour course) more than this, yet people complain about the cost. for $40 a day, my wife has to not only care for the child but also create programs, shop for toys and books, fill out government subsidy forms and other paperwork to run her business, deal with the parents and their different schedules, take courses to stay current, study and renew her first aid every few years, look for new clients, make policies and procedures, newsletters, supervise her assistant, and much more behind the scenes work. Why should the federal government subsidize child care and give it to people for $15 a day? Sims talks about the jobs that would be created. If that were to happen, they would be low-paying jobs for the working poor – no unions, no benefits. They are at the bottom of the barrel with restaurant and low-end customer service jobs. This would be oK if you are in college or university but not much good for looking after a family. Bruce Loeppky, Surrey
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Lost in all the oil rhetoric is realism InTheHouse Keith Baldrey
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espite the promises you hear chanted on burnaby mountain, there is no way the oil industry will be out of our lives in our lifetime. oil is everywhere. It affects everything. The clothes you wear, the computer you use, the television you watch, the food you eat – all are touched by oil at some point, either at the creation stage or on their journey to the consumer. a recent book by journalist rose george, entitled 90 Per Cent of Everything, documents that almost everything you use in life has travelled to your destination by container ships, fueled by diesel oil. She spent a year on those ships, noting that pretty well everything we buy, we ship. The little-noticed world of shipping, and the irreplaceable role it plays in the world, is just one example of how deeply oil has seeped into our daily lives. Preventing a pipeline, as those on burnaby mountain are hoping to do, may sound noble but it will have absolutely no impact on the
oil industry. It is too massive, too deeply entrenched in our society for the halting of a pipeline’s construction in a tiny corner of the world to constitute more than a tiny blip in the overall scheme of things. The protest against the Kinder morgan pipeline has been compared to the Clayoquot Sound “war of the woods” protest in the 1990s. The two are decidedly different. The forestry protest was about ending clear-cutting logging of old growth timber, a practice very few people had any personal experience with. but the pipeline protest is about oil, which touches everyone, every single day. While it was easy to target the forest industry back then, it is more than a bit disingenuous for environmentalists to demonize the oil industry – including that which operates in the alberta tar sands – while they, like everyone else, uses so much of that industry’s product. There is a refusal by many of those on burnaby mountain to acknowledge this unavoidable fact, and to pretend that there is no inconsistency in advocating for eliminating or weakening an industry while at the same time relying on that same industry for their livelihood. of course, some do acknowledge
this inconsistency and say just because they drive a car, that doesn’t mean they can’t work towards curbing carbon emissions. fair enough, but lost in the chanting and rhetoric that flows from the Kinder morgan protesters (or enbridge protesters) is any notion of realism. Instead, they project a romantic vision that is simply unattainable. oil is here to stay, until there is no more of it left. another example of the quiet little “inconsistency” that exists for so many of those who condemn the oil industry, especially the alberta oil sands, is the pension fund they pay into. The b.C. public sector pension fund is administered by the b.C. Investment management Corporation, which has more than $100 billion in investments that fund the pensions for more than 500,000 people – teachers, professors, mLas, municipal workers etc. Public sector unions such as CUPe and the b.C. Teachers federation have been at the forefront when it comes to attacking the oil sands industry. Yet their members stand to financially benefit from that very industry, because of the inescapable role oil plays in pretty well everything,
including their pensions. The bCImC’s investment holdings include $603 million invested in Suncor, one of the largest oil sands companies. another $409 million is with enbridge, while $372 million is with Canadian natural resources and $284 million is parked with exxon mobil. all told, the bCImC has almost $3.6 billion invested in the oil sands alone (including, ironically, a small stake in Kinder morgan). Plus another half billion dollars in companies associated with pipelines. Plus hundreds of millions of dollars in alberta real estate – including a property in fort mcmurray, which is ground Zero for the tar sands – and the alberta government itself, all of which benefit hugely from that province’s oil sands development. Want to fight climate change? Drive less, fly less and buy less. but don’t for a moment think that shutting down a pipeline is going to have any impact whatsoever, other than easing some guilty consciences of people who will continue to use the oil industry just as much as they did before the protests on burnaby mountain. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.
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From firefighter to city councillor Incoming councillor Mike Starchuk has plans to tackle tough issues Amy Reid
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here aren’t many people who have been in every recovery home in Surrey, but Mike Starchuk says he’s one of them. The incoming councillor, one of three new Surrey First members elected to council on Nov. 15, says dealing with the “unethical” operations in the city is top of mind for him. And he’s got a few ideas. “I’d like to see a program, a process come to fruition, where we only have licensed by the city and registered by the province recovery homes. They serve a purpose,” he noted. The 32-year firefighter has served on the frontlines, worked as an inspector and most recently spent a year-and-a-half as the city’s Chief Fire Prevention Officer. From that experience, he said he’s seen the stark difference between recovery homes that help those in need, and those that are taking advantage of people and causing havoc on neighbourhoods. He mentions one by name – Revolution Recovery – that he says is positively contributing to its neighbourhood. “Their claim to fame is when it snows, they shovel the five houses on either side of their house, and nine out of 10 driveways on either side of the street,” he said. “They say, ‘We know we’re a drain on the community. We don’t want them having to come home from work and shovel their driveways.’ They don’t love them for that, but they tolerate them for that.” Starchuk estimated 35 per cent of the
city’s recovery homes are “good ones.” The other 65 per cent are essentially flop houses, he said. “They call themselves recovery homes so they can go to the court system so they can say, ‘I’ll take that person.’ Then, they continue to use freely amongst the other people who live there, continue to do their crimes out of that place, but it’s under the guise of a recovery home that’s not regulated.” As well, many of the homes he calls “whack-a-moles,” that relocate when they come under greater scrutiny. “They move down the street a block, we go back, and they’re not there anymore.” He said the current system isn’t working, and he hopes to make a difference once he hits his council chair. “I’m hoping when I get there, I can motivate staff, bylaws and the ministry,” he said. “Once the city comes up with a license – whether it’s a $25 or $10 license – it gives us more authority to knock on that door from a fire department point of view,” he noted. “We can become the eyes of the public. We can become the eyes for those people that aren’t being treated right.” Starchuk also wants to work with the courts. “If you remember the Bollywood Hotel in Newton, well we worked against the owner to finally have it demolished. After it was gone from the face of the earth for about six months, a guy stood up in front of the courts and said he had a recovery home at the Bollywood Motel. So judges don’t know who they’re releasing people to. “That’s somebody that wants a cheque and almost all of those times, they’ll be forced into petty crimes, women will be pushed into prostitution, guys will be back selling drugs on the street. And the guy running it collects welfare and gets that cheque.”
Mike Starchuk is one of Surrey’s new city councillors. (Photo: ADRIAN MACNAIR) He plans to get Surrey’s fire chief, bylaws manager and the Ministry of Health in the same room to come up with a plan. “These are things we can do to remove petty crime, without ever touching one single RCMP officer,” he noted. But Starchuk assured he’s not a one-trick pony. He hopes to work on other issues, including multiple and illegal suites. “I saw those first hand,” he noted. “These are scary fire traps. I personally believe we have a solution.” The idea revolves around checking up with renters, giving them time to move out on their own, then shutting the suite down once that individual or family has moved onto legal housing. He said the issue is tricky, as the city doesn’t want to remove affordable housing options, but can’t overlook the safety concerns. Switching gears completely, Starchuk says he’s passionate about growing the city’s outdoor and indoor sporting facility stock. “I like the way (Coun.) Tom (Gill) is talking about capital projects. Like the movie the Field of Dreams, like they say, ‘If you build it, they will come,’ Surrey can start having world-class types of tournaments,” he said. Starchuk noted that much progress has already been made on that front. As a baseball tournament director in
the late ’90s, when his children Ryan and Shannon took part in the sport, he said it was up to parents to ensure the venues were up to snuff. “We literally brought in paint, we brought in our own lawnmowers to make the parks look the way they did so when people came we didn’t look like the sticks.” Playing baseball at Tamanawis Park back then, Starchuk said parents had to call opposing teams to tell them they needed to bring lawn chairs. “And there were no bathrooms,” he said with a chuckle. “Today, it’s phenomenal.” Starchuk said he’d like to see something more done with Bear Creek Park. “I think it can go up a notch and I don’t know why it hasn’t. There hasn’t been much of a change to that park for 20 years…. That football field in the middle is the same I played on when I was 15 years old. It’s exactly the same. The stands are no bigger now than when I was a kid.” Issues aside, Starchuk said he’s excited to get to work. Along the campaign trail, he said he felt like a rookie. “Now, I feel like a kindergartener or Grade 1 student waiting for new books and pencils and scissors and rulers. I’m waiting to get into my desk and start learning new things.”
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SURREY — Surrey-based novelist Gina McMurchy-Barber says she’s most drawn to writing about young girls who have a streak of tomboy in them. That would be consistent with her heroine, Peggy Henderson, the 12year-old archaeology buff in her latest Crescent Beach-based novel, Bone Deep. The book is the third in the “bone series,” a set of juvenile and youngadult novels – also known as YA – about a girl with a penchant for adventure, which was released on Nov. 15 across Canada. It hits bookshelves in the U.S. on Dec. 9. “I’m drawn to girls that are strong like that and I encourage that in the girls that I teach,” McMurchy-Barber said in an interview at the Guildford Library. The writer, who began her career as a journalist for the Peace Arch News and later became a reporter at the Surrey Leader, is a teacher for a private Montessori school in Coquitlam. She also holds a degree in archaeology. “Peggy’s character is an amalgamation of a number of girls that I knew, and a bit of myself in there, too. I think it’s important that women are strong and courageous,” the author said. The idea for the initial book in the series, called Reading the Bones, came from her background in archaeology
and was a teaching device when instructing her students to “excavate” some artifacts. “I had been given free reign to be as creative as I wanted so I started to teach history and I wrote the kids stories and I was teaching them about archaeology,” she told the Now, explaining that Montessori employs a “great story” method to get kids excited for learning. “I wrote Reading the Bones that summer as my ‘great story’ as an introduction to archaeology. That little short story became the basis of my first novel, and that novel has become very successful.”
I think what I like about children’s books, or YA books, is that they’re hopeful. I’m just that kind of person. The novel, released in 2009, was short-listed for the Silver Birch Award and received a commendation for Best Books for Kids & Teens. For her novels, McMurchy-Barber was the recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History. “I think what I like about children’s books or YA books is that they’re hopeful. I’m just that kind of person,” she said of her foray into fiction writing. “I’m not pessimistic, I don’t have that type of outlook in life that there’s no hope. So in most kids books, there’s always this hope of a better future
or things will be OK whereas adult fiction, it often leaves you very empty.” Bone Deep will definitely leave readers with the former, as heroine Peggy is determined to join an expedition of a 200-year-old shipwreck and convinces the adults in her life to let her take scuba diving lessons. She’s known to dig around the Crescent Beach area uncovering bones, and the book makes witty commentary between the 12-year-old protagonist and an uptight great aunt who’d rather have a niece with clean hands. This kind of gumption is what McMurchy-Barber means when she says she likes to write about “girls who get their hands dirty.” “It’s not so much writing about me,” the author digresses, “but the way she talks, she is a bit of a smart alec. It is a bit of me in there. But I also have looked at young girls that I have taught and I tend to be drawn to the spunky, tomboyish girls who are independent and strong.” McMurchy-Barber recently earned a spot in the Authors Among Us series, in which she’ll be speaking at the Guildford Library next Wednesday (Dec. 3) at 7 p.m. The event, free and open to the public, is for those interested in writing and publishing books. Reading the Bones also earned a spot among books on the Reading Challenge Link list — a challenge for kids who love books to compete in a ‘reach for the top’ contest — for 2014/2015. McMurchy-Barber will be speaking at schools and libraries throughout the Fraser Valley over January and February.
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CLOVERDALE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT AREA (BIA) TAKE NOTICE THAT: The Council of the City of Surrey proposes to renew for a further five-year period, a Business Improvement Area (BIA) for the Cloverdale area. The purpose of the BIA is to promote, stimulate and improve the economic viability of the area. The BIA is to be funded by a local service tax levy on Commercial and Industrial properties prescribed as Class 5 (Light Industry) or Class 6 (Business or other). The estimated total cost of the work is $900,000 over the following five years: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. The property owners will pay 100% of the cost. The estimated levy of $0.63 per $1,000 of assessed value, will be included on your 2015 tax statement and must be paid in full by the tax due date. FURTHER, TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to Section 213 of the Community Charter, S.B.C. 2003, c.26, as amended, the BIA may proceed unless Council receives sufficient petition against the service within 30 days after the second date of this publication in the Surrey Now newspaper. A sufficient petition must: 1. be signed by the owners of at least 50% of the parcels that would be subject to the local service tax, and 2. the persons signing must be the owners of parcels that in total represent at least 50% of the assessed value of land and improvements that would be subject to the local service tax. Persons desiring to petition against the undertaking of the renewal of the Cloverdale Business Improvement Area must do so by submitting their petition, in writing, within 30 days of the second date of publication of the “Notice of Intention” in the Surrey Now newspaper dated December 2 and December 4, 2014. The final date for the acceptance of petitions will be Monday, January 12, 2015 at 4:30 pm. If you wish to petition against the renewal of the Cloverdale Business Improvement Area, the petition can be obtained from the Office of the City Clerk, Surrey City Hall, 13450 104 Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3T 1V8, telephone (604) 5914132, fax (604) 591-8731, or email: clerks@surrey.ca. Jane Sullivan CITY CLERK
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Two men stabbed outside strip club Christopher Poon
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WHALLEY — Police were called to a Whalley strip club Sunday night after two men were stabbed. According to the Surrey RCMP, officers received a call just before midnight Sunday notifying that two men had been stabbed outside of the Shakerz Show Lounge off of Whalley Boulevard and 104th Avenue. The victims, a 44-year-old Chilliwack man and a 35-year-old Langley man were taken to hospital. The 44-year-old had multiple stab wounds to his side and back
while the Langley man was stabbed once. Both men were listed in stable condition. Surrey RCMP Cpl. Bert Paquet said both men are known to police and that investigators were receiving “limited cooperation” from both the victims and witnesses. “We believe the incident occurred just outside of the establishment near the entrance and we are still investigating,” said Paquet, adding a black SUV was possibly used by the suspects to leave the area. Police are asking anyone with information to contact the Surrey RCMP.
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Let’s talk. You’ve probably seen us on the news recently regarding Burnaby Mountain and our Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project.
SOME FACTS
I think it would be good for us to talk.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline has been operating between Edmonton, AB and Burnaby, BC
We’ve talked a lot with communities about their concerns and in Burnaby the feedback was to look into routing the pipeline through Burnaby Mountain, rather than through their streets and neighbourhood.
since 1953. In April 2012, we proposed to expand the
Our work on the mountain over the past few weeks has been a part of that feasibility study. Though we estimate it will cost Kinder Morgan $40 million more than the original route through residential streets, we want to acknowledge the best interests of the residents of Burnaby.
pipeline by building a second pipeline alongside the original. Our goal for the entire route has been to build adjacent to the existing pipeline within our existing right-of-way. However, sometimes there are good
We are drilling two 6-inch diameter test holes to investigate the possibility of routing the pipeline through Burnaby Mountain. We are being respectful of the environment, and when we are done, we will leave the mountain as healthy as we found it.
reasons to look at other options, such as safety concerns, residential or industrial development that has expanded since the original pipeline was built, or environmental considerations.
Unfortunately, demonstrators chose to block our crews from doing their work and, in order to maintain the safety of our employees, contractors and the public, we were forced to pursue legal action to secure our worksite. Freedom of speech is fundamental to our way of life. Equally so is the Canadian right to go to work and conduct business safely. We have always believed these two principles can coexist if we all communicate.
We’ve been engaging with Aboriginal groups, Landowners, communities and stakeholders since April 2012. We’ve reached agreements with 18 Aboriginal groups, to date. The current work on Burnaby Mountain is to study the proposed route through Burnaby Mountain. Our application is before the National Energy
We believe we have been good neighbours for over sixty years in local communities, including the City of Burnaby, and it is very important for us to continue open relationships.
Board, an independent federal agency, to determine if the project should be approved to proceed in Canada’s best interest. Ultimately, the federal government will make the final decision.
We have conducted many workshops and open houses, met with thousands of people and continue to respond to questions daily. The feedback we have received to date has made our project better and has resulted in important changes to our route.
The National Energy Board has a recognized process to voice concerns, ask questions and introduce evidence for consideration.
Trans Mountain made a commitment to everyone who participated in our consultation that we would listen closely and do our best to respond to concerns.
Over 1,600 people in BC and Alberta have registered to participate. If approved to proceed, construction of the
Our work on Burnaby Mountain is part of keeping that commitment.
expansion would begin in mid-2016 and would be in operation by late 2018.
On behalf of all the people who work on the pipeline and project, I truly hope we can keep talking throughout the process. Your input is important to us. We’ll be providing more opportunities for dialogue including our upcoming telephone town hall on December 3rd. Go to TransMountain.com to sign up. We welcome the opportunity to talk.
Many other project details and information about upcoming opportunities for dialogue can be found on our website www.TransMountain.com
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DELTA — Residents of Delta will have a chance to sign condolences and honour legendary hockey player, coach and GM Pat Quinn. A community tribute has been set up by the Corporation of Delta in the form of memorial boards at recreation facilities. Mayor Lois Jackson took a moment at Delta council’s weekly meeting on Nov. 24 to recognize Quinn, the former Vancouver Canucks bench boss who passed away on Nov. 23 at 71 after a lengthy illness. “Hockey has lost a great man. Known as ‘The Big Irishman,’ Pat was one of hockey’s most respected players and coaches. As a part-owner of the Vancouver Giants, Pat was very involved in the development of hockey in our community and beyond,” said Jackson. “Pat’s support towards our local fundraisers and initiatives, including Delta’s anti-bullying campaign, was steadfast. And, of course, looking beyond our
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METRO VANCOUVER — Fraser Health could face $2.5 million in fines over a backlog of surgical wait times in hospitals across the province, with Surrey Memorial topping that list. According to documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), Fraser Health had 649 cases in which the wait time for surgery had exceeded one year. And as of Oct. 9, Surrey Memorial made up 226 of those cases, well above the second most wait times of 143 at Burnaby General. In a Nov. 4 memo to surgeons across the Fraser Health region, Fraser Health’s medical director of surgery Dr. Peter Blair notes the Ministry of Health has a funding structure known as Pay for Performance which penalizes hospitals for surgical bookings that remain on a wait list for more than 52 weeks. Although Blair wrote Fraser Health has shown improvement in lowering the number of patients on the collective wait list beyond 52 weeks in the past year – 4.5 per cent from 10 per cent – the backlog needs to be cleared out. “There still remains a volume of
province could withhold after Dec. 31, patients whose bookings are causing 2014 for keeping patients waiting. penalty,” he said. “It is imperative According to those documents, for the interest of all, including our Surrey Memorial had 3,415 surgeries patients, that we use every available strategy to avoid penalties.” booked that are below 26 weeks in wait Blair added that the time, 1,044 that are between regional department heads 26 and 52 weeks, and 226 of the surgical divisions that exceed 52 weeks, within Fraser Health will creating a potential funding now review bookings that shortfall of $781,200. exceed 40 weeks and be Fraser Health has based returned to surgeon offices on the financial estimates on for reassessment. the assumption of a cost of But the CTF has accused $1,400 per case. the health authority of The same document using the reassessment indicates that between the Jordan Bateman to “get around the fine” period of Sept. 12 to Oct. 9 regardless of the medical need. the hospital performed 635 surgeries “It’s bad enough these people are from a previous wait list where being forced to wait a year for surgery, patients were below 26 weeks, 190 but now Fraser Health wants to play surgeries between 26 and 52 weeks, games with their wait times,” said CTF and 34 surgeries for patients who had B.C. director Jordan Bateman in a waited more than 52 weeks. release. “Dragging these people around A press release issued by the regional and around the system as a loophole to health authority on Thursday said the avoid financial discipline is ludicrous. Canadian Taxpayers Federation was There is no medical need for these spreading “misinformation” and said reassessment visits.” the priority of the surgical program is Bateman said while the CTF timely access to treatment for patients. applauds the province for trying to get “The reassessment allows the waitlists reduced through penalties, surgeon to confirm the patients’ he urges the government to also look health status, their availability, and to alternative surgical market delivery requirement and if they still want their options to further reduce wait times. surgery,” stated the release. The Fraser Health letter included a Fraser Health also stressed the new spreadsheet showing the breakdown process does not impact patient wait of surgeries in each hospital in the time on the list or reset the clock. region and the theoretical amount the amacnair@thenownewspaper.com
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LANGLEY — After finishing second to Kelowna Secondary in their pool, the Earl Marriott boys’ volleyball team defeated the Owls in the provincial final in four sets (2523, 20-25, 25-16, 26-24) on Saturday (Nov. 29) at Langley Events Centre. Entering the B.C. High School Boys’ Triple A Volleyball Provincial Championships, Kelowna was ranked as the province’s top team, despite the Mariners serving as defending and Fraser Valley champions. Bob Smith and Richard Thain, the coaches of the Earl Marriott team, were extremely proud of the poise the boys showed after a nervous start to the tournament. “I think the boys were putting a lot of pressure on themselves to get back to the final,” Smith said. “Once they realized they were there, they didn’t have anything to prove.” Thain added: “A different group stepped up to the plate this year. We’re hoping that the kids who are in Grade 11 this year can step up and do the same thing next year.” Despite a tough start to the season, Smith said the team finished the season strong, adding two more banners to the school’s collection. “November is just our month. We find a way to peak at the right time and figure things out,” he said. Team captain Justin Faester was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, while Eric Lee received first-team all-star recognition. Faester tallied 15 kills and six digs, serving two aces in the final against Kelowna, while Lee tallied five kills and three blocks. Both coaches added that Kelowna was a class act following the Mariners win, noting they entered the tournament as the team to beat. “They threw everything they could at us. They changed their lineup. They did a lot
Earl Marriott Secondary’s boys volleyball team celebrates after winning match point against Kelowna in the provincial final Saturday (Nov. 29) at Langley Events Centre. The Mariners repeat as champions. (Photo: KYLE BENNING)
November is just our month. We find a way to peak at the right time and figure things out. of good things, but ultimately, our boys just played loose and were really able to perform when it counted,” said Smith. Fraser Heights finished the tournament in fifth place. The Firehawks lost in the quarter-finals to Mt. Boucherie 3-1 (25-19, 25-23, 21-25, 25-16), but rebounded with
wins over Delta and G.P. Vanier. “When they look back at the experience, knowing they played well, played hard, it will be important,” Fraser Heights head coach James Ahn said in a release. “And you never want to end the season on a loss. This was a character win more than anything else.” Johnston Heights, Fraser Heights’ neighbour and one of the surprises of the tournament, finished in 10th. Despite finishing at the bottom of their pool, the Eagles beat Dover Bay, Mt. Baker and Van Tech in the knockout/seeding round.
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North Delta’s Seaquam finished the tournament in 15th place. In the quad A girls’ tournament, Earl Marriott, Lord Tweedsmuir and Elgin Park lost in the quarter-finals – the Mariners to Fraser Valley champions Riverside, the Panthers to bronze-medalists Kelowna and the Orcas to eventual champions Argyle. Earl Marriott finished the tournament in fifth place, with Cara Keturakis receiving first team all-star honours. Elgin Park beat Lord Tweedsmuir in the seventh-place match, and North Surrey finished the tournament in 14th place. kyle.benning@gmail.com
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VanCoUVer — north Surrey Secondary’s nathan Tadesse wasn’t on the junior national cross-country team’s radar when he finished in 82nd place at last year’s national championship. on Saturday (nov. 29), the boys’ high school provincial champion ran the eight-kilometre run in 26 minutes and 48 seconds to finish fourth at the national championships, which took place at Jericho beach in Vancouver. Scott Svelander, Tadesse’s coach, said he wasn’t planning on entering the north Surrey Spartan in the junior (under-20) race until they started noticing improvements in his finishing times.
“It’s pretty hard for high school guys to take on those first- and second-year university guys because they’re racing eight (kilometres) already. This is only the second time (Tadesse has) ever raced eight,” said Svelander. The top six finishers automatically qualified for the national team and will compete in the Pan am championships in Colombia and world championships in China, which take place in early 2015. This will be the first time Tadesse will represent Canada. Two weeks ago, the grade 12 student signed with the Washington State Cougars to run cross-country and track with the nCaa Div. 1 university in September. “even though last year was pretty tough, I still had a pretty good picture of what I was going to do,” said Tadesse.“my plan was to go to the States for running.” Purchase Your 2015 Season Tickets between December 1 and December 12 and you will be entered
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He will be joined by nathan Wadhwani, his training partner and last season’s provincial cross-country, 1,500and 3,000-metre track champion. Tadesse, who received a full-ride scholarship, said he Nathan Tadesse wasn’t really feeling nervous about the race because he went in with nothing to lose. “I (didn’t) have too many expectations. I (wasn’t) really nervous,” he said. The Pullman-bound runner said he’s excited to enter the next level of competition at the international and collegiate levels. “It’s going to be a pretty big jump,” said Tadesse.“I’m looking forward to it.”
It’s going to be a pretty big jump. I’m looking forward to it. Svelander said the last five months has been exponential for Tadesse, noting he is the school’s first provincial champion in 33 years and is probably the best high school runner he has coached. The coach said he saw drastic improvements to Tadesse’s times after they realized he was running with low-iron levels. “The whole season has been like that. I don’t really know how good he’s going to get because … every race he’s just been better,” Svelander said.“He just stepped it up a level.” kyle.benning@gmail.com
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