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hey say strange things happen out in the country. Crazed moonshiners. Bizarre rituals. Crop circles. Livestock cloning experiments gone hideously wrong. The Dukes of Hazzard. It is in the country – Surrey’s version of it anyway, up yonder near Highway 1 – where you’ll find the home of Jack Lee. Lee’s spread is like any other in the neighbourhood. Rural, lots of naturallytreed land, a solid house with a wraparound porch. It’s a vision of old school normalcy. Surely there’s nothing unusual going on in these here parts, right? Right? Wrong. Listen and you will hear it. Quiet at first, it will gather steam like a runaway chainsaw. It’s curiously out of place and at first a bit frightening. Yet, like Poltergeist’s closet light, it’s also beautiful and somehow comforting. Suddenly it dawns on you. As weird as it seems out here in Green Acres, this is most definitely the sound of...bagpipes. Not any old bagpipes either, but pitchperfect, magically manipulated bagpipes. Indeed, if Eddie Van Halen were a piper, that might be him you see standing in the backyard of the house with the wraparound porch. But it isn’t. It’s Jack Lee. Welcome to the unique world of a man widely considered to be one of the very best pipers in the world. Born 56 years ago in Manitoba and raised from the age of two in B.C., Lee is a proud Canuck and a lover of the off-thebeaten-path lifestyle he’s always known. His carpentry skills played a big role in the home he shares with his wife and family. But deep inside burns a fire that catapulted him onto the world stage more than 30 years ago and keeps him there today. “It (piping) has been in the family since I was a kid,” he says, freely admitting that it’s crazily unusual for a young boy two generations removed from Scotland to become so entrenched in such a Scotcentric tradition. Lee credits his great grandfather for bringing piping across the sea when he immigrated so many years ago, and his grandmother for keeping the faith even though she grew up in an era when it “wasn’t cool” for a woman to be a piper. “I took an immediate love for the bagpipes when I was young, and I always wanted to be a piper. Probably what’s kept

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SOUTH SURREY — If you wanted the experience of skating outside under an azure sky, you had a limited window of opportunity on one Surrey farm last week. A recent cold snap in the Lower Mainland froze over many of the flooded fields in the Fraser Valley, and one farmer decided to take advantage by opening up skating to the public. Jas Singh of God’s Little Acre Farm allowed people to come last year during a five-day cold snap which saw up to 3,500 skaters, but until recently the weather had been too warm. “This year was literally impossible,” he said as he hauled chairs to the edge of the pond. “I mean, two days ago it was a duck pond here, there was a thousand ducks in that pond. But what happened was we got that one day cold snap where it froze everything. And now with then minor cold going into minus three or four it’ll hold it there.” Since opening again to the public word has travelled fast. There’s been

Noah Jimeno laces up his skates at God’s Little Acre Farm in South Surrey on Wednesday. (Photo: ADRIAN MACNAIR) between 600 and 700 people visit the farm in two days alone. “I might be 49 years old but I’m a kid so I just like watching the kids out there skating and watching the parents interact with them. And it’s a great way to bring the kids to the farm and to expose them to farming so that’s what we’re doing here.” Singh had hot chocolate for sale

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here will be much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth but the decision to go ahead with the Site C hydroelectric dam project is the right one. As Now columnist Keith Baldrey points out in today’s issue (see page 7), you’re going to be hearing a lot about Site C in 2015. In a perfect world, the idea of flooding more than 5,000 acres of arable land to generate electricity would be incomprehensible. Many would suggest that any environmental assessors who could have given their stamp of approval to such a project should be made to work in a windowless office in a block of concrete for the rest of their lives. The provincial leaders who followed the environmental approvals by giving the project the go-ahead will certainly pay a political price from some quarters. We empathize with the First Nations who will see sacred lands drowned beneath cubic miles of water… if their court challenges are unsuccessful, and that certainly remains to be seen. Likewise, farmers who will see their livelihood shift as their farms – currently significant agricultural attributes in a province which is comprised of only four per cent arable land – are flooded and rendered useless. Going ahead with Site C is not a great decision. But it is the best decision, not just from the viewpoint of the obvious economic benefits, but whether we wish to admit it or not, from an environmental position – which is surely what the assessors and politicians had in mind. We live in a society that gobbles energy, and unless we decide to reduce our consumption, our environmentally sound options are limited. Wind, wave, and sunlight, despite great recent advances, remain too expensive. Too many people are too afraid of nuclear power. We’re not convinced LNG is more than a pipe dream. And coal and oil are too dirty and too dangerous. Hydroelectricity isn’t perfect, but it’s relatively clean and valuable. And it’s the best we have. Glacier Media

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Council deaf and blind to regular citizens The Editor, We are a small townhouse strata in Surrey that is being steamrolled by our Surrey First city council. There is a proposed new development bordering two sides of our complex. We have sent letters, emails and made phone calls from the strata executive and several individual homeowners over the past six months asking for a meeting. What response have we received from anyone from Surrey First? Nothing. Complete silence. I attended a council meeting in December when the issue was being dealt with. The council chambers have not been designed to be inviting and friendly. They do, however remind one of a Queen and her court sitting on high

over their subjects. It is from here that Surrey First can bestow on their developer benefactors all that they seek over any objections of regular citizens. The developer requests to: ❚ Confiscate our only road so the developer doesn’t have to build one. ❚ Change zoning. ❚ Reduce set backs. ❚ Increase density. ❚ Cut 75 per cent of the trees that separate our properties. ❚ Allow developer signage on our property. What’s the point of having building standards if city council is going to give the developer exemptions for whatever they seek? Now that’s open transparency for you – as long as you are a developer and not merely a taxpayer.

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Surrey First is probably too busy with its grandiose plans for hiking taxes and implementing levies for them to want to talk to us regular people. Who knew extra police and a fancy city hall cost money? It appears that hiking taxes and levies over the last nine years is too slow for Mayor Hepner and her court so we need to increase spending 20 per cent plus in 2015 to catch up to the other overspending municipalities. Perhaps someone from Surrey First could let us little people know the cost of gaining an audience with the Queen and her Court. I suspect she would prefer we just shut up and keep paying for their grandiose vision.

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DEBATE B.C. politics

These stories will take over in 2015 InTheHouse Keith Baldrey

f you’re like me, you are probably tired of reading or watching all those lists of the Top 10 news stories from the past year. Yes, yes, I know: the teachers’ labour dispute was a big story but do we need to be told that again and again? Instead of looking back, let’s look forward and try to figure out which stories we’re all going to be talking about so much in the coming year. There will be unpredictable events, of course, that will garner a lot of headline coverage: major crimes, political controversies, spectacular accidents, cute animals that go missing (really) and the like. But some big events in the political arena are predictable and are sitting right there on the horizon, just waiting to take over the water cooler conversation. I can think of several separate, distinct events or issues that will get a lot of news coverage in the coming year and all of which have a direct impact on the lives of most British Columbians. Get ready to read and hear a lot about these in 2015:

THE TRANSIT PLEBISCITE

By the time you get your mail-in plebiscite ballot, you won’t be able to look at so much as a transit bus without thinking about expensive transportation projects and how they should be paid for. That’s because you are about to be inundated with all kinds of information (from stories in newspapers, radio and television, to pamphlets and advertising) expressing support for both sides of the plebiscite question.

actually vote than those of his chief opponents.

Those advocating the “yes” answer to whether the sales tax should be boosted a half point will be just as aggressive – and loud, and non-stop – as those pushing the “no” response to the proposed tax hike. You won’t be able to turn on a television newscast, radio or open a newspaper without running smack into people like Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore (an ardent “yes” advocate) and Jordan Bateman of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, making their pitches, over and over again.

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PIPELINE PROTESTS

You didn’t seriously think these were over because the one on Burnaby Mountain ended? Come on, we’re just getting started here folks. A great divide is beginning to take hold in this country and it’s going to play out in B.C. like nowhere else in the country. That divide is over energy policies, as a vocal minority wants to end all oil shipments from Alberta’s vast oil sands project.

The federal vote may not be until the fall but the campaign is now starting in earnest. The Conservatives have begun running new ads featuring Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and will continue to run ads that attack and mock federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau (and the federal government will continue to air ads praising its economic policies, with taxpayers footing the bill for them for much of the year). All parties are well into their riding nomination processes and candidates should start filling those positions in increasingly large numbers in the weeks ahead. The three main party leaders will step up their travel schedules – look for all three to make more and more swings through B.C., which has six extra seats up for grabs this time around – as their pace will become frenetic. The latest polls suggest Harper and the Conservatives are hanging onto their base, while the Liberals have made an impressive recovery with the voters, and the NDP has slipped back into its traditional territory of the distant third place. But polls can be wrong, of course (hello the 2013 B.C. provincial election). Still, don’t count Harper out: his base, being older, is more likely to

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Children and parents (or aunts, uncles, grandparents) do yoga together. Yoga poses, breathing exercises, relaxation and games. A great way for families to be active together. 4 Sessions $30.75 per person 4387934 F Jan 23 6:30pm-7:30pm Cloverdale Recreation Centre

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SURREY — Surrey’s New Year’s baby made his debut to the world just an hour and a half into 2015. The boy, who was born at 1:27 a.m. on Thursday morning, was born to Jaswal and Jaspal Minhas at Surrey Memorial Hospital. That came after the first New Year’s baby in the province was born to Darlene Henley at White Rock’s Peace Arch Hospital five seconds after midnight. On Monday, Jaswal said the couple had not yet named the baby and when the Now came to visit the family at the hospital, she was running on just one hour of sleep. “I was just at SMH for a blood test. I had a little protein running in my blood and

so I was just here for monitoring him,” the mother said, although she knew she was due to give birth on Jan. 1. “They decided that even if they induced me for labour it might take a little while,” she told the Now, revealing that she had a caesarian. “It’s true that I didn’t know it was going to happen, but when the doctor was here and was giving me a check up in the morning, he jokingly just said ‘Oh you might be the first one to have a New Year’s baby.’ When he came and did the surgery I said, ‘You weren’t joking, you planned that!’” The boy is now a brother to the Minhas’ daughter, Sehja, who is five-years-old. “She (Sehja) came yesterday afternoon, she was so excited. She was already

obsessed about him; not letting him touch, even when the nurse came to give him a bath, she was kind of scared that she might hurt him, (asking) ‘Why is she giving him a bath with cold water? Why is she giving a bath with the hot water?’” Dad Jaspal said it was comical that their daughter was so excited, too. “She was really happy, she wanted to hold him, she then came and sat on the chair and she wanted to hold him on her lap,” he said. The couple said they did not know they would be having a boy, and as of yet, are not planning for a third child. “That’s our little story, and actually it was quite funny for us,” Jaswal said with a laugh. kalexandra@thenownewspaper.com

SURREY — A stolen truck rammed into three police cruisers over the weekend, severely damaging two of them and leaving one unable to drive. Police were first called about a suspicious vehicle, which was in fact stolen, in the 8600-block of 141st Street around 11 a.m. Sunday. The occupants were apparently breaking into parked vehicles. Around 11:30 a.m. police spotted the white 2001 Dodge pickup in the 8200-block of King George Boulevard and saw two people inside. The driver apparently noticed police and tried to drive away, striking three police cruisers in a trailer park. The driver, a 23-year-old Surrey man, was arrested and police are recommending charges. The passenger ran off and police are looking for him. Police found stolen goods in the vehicle and are hoping victims of the theft will come forward to claim their items. Surrey RCMP ask anyone who witnessed either incident, or had their vehicle broken into Sunday morning, to call 604-599-0502. Amy Reid

Driver in hospital after car crashes into tree SURREY — The driver of a vehicle that lost control and smashed into a tree in South Surrey Sunday was airlifted to hospital in serious condition. Around 10:45 a.m. police got word of an accident involving a grey Toyota Yaris that had been travelling on 8th Avenue near 192nd Street before it crashed. The driver, in his 20s, was trapped in the vehicle. Surrey Fire Department and B.C. Ambulance attended the scene to free him. On Monday morning, police said the man was in critical condition. Police suspect speed and weather conditions were factors in the crash. Anyone who witnessed the collision or saw the vehicle driving on 8th Avenue before the crash is asked to call Surrey RCMP at 604-599-0502.

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CLAYTON HEIGHTS — Surrey Mounties hope the threat of fines will chase off a man named Jason who has been bothering Clayton residents by knocking on doors at all hours and “making excuses” that are intended to separate the residents from their money.

“We have a zero-tolerance approach on him,” Cpl. Bert Paquet said. “We are aware of this individual and he is aware of us. “He makes up stories we don’t believe are true to get money. Apparently it’s happening all times of the day and night. “We want him to stop for sure.” Paquet said police are not releasing the man’s last name because “he hasn’t been charged with any criminal offence.”

He said Jason was fined $115 under the Safe Street Act on Dec. 29. The fine came after police received yet another complaint shortly after giving him a lengthy talking-to just the day before. “The talk didn’t work but apparently the fine did,” Paquet said. “We advised him any time we get a report of him displaying the same kind of behaviour he will be charged.”

Paquet said it’s not known if he has a Surrey address. His intrusions, he said, seem to be limited to the Clayton area. If he comes knocking, Paquet advises, “just don’t answer, don’t engage with him and call the police if he approaches you. “Tell him through the door you’ve contacted police. He knows we’re keeping our eye on him.” tzytaruk@thenownewspaper.com

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Mayor Linda Hepner at the new Surrey City Hall. (Photo: ARLEN REDEKOP, PNG) problem with recovery and halfway houses, noting 114 have been shut down in 2014 alone. “The problem with that is when they shut them down in one place they spring up somewhere else, so it’s a continuum of trying to know where they are,” she said, adding 24 are currently before the courts. The mayor said in the new year, council will look into what measures local government can take to assess which recovery homes are doing a good job and which are in need of being shut down. “Because some of the unlicensed ones that are run by the theology groups, they actually are doing a good job.” Following up on a campaign promise, Hepner touched on the need to provide more services and programs in the city for mental health and addictions, noting a significant portion of time is taken up by police officers dealing with people who have mental health issues. “We saw recent evidence of that with the Transit Police shooting,” she said, referring to the shooting death of a man at a Surrey Safeway. Hepner said she can be a strong advocate for more mental health programs and funding but ultimately it will require financial assistance from higher levels of government. “Whatever we can do at the local level I’m prepared to look at but we do need a significant partner at the provincial level.”

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Former Surrey resident Jake Alleyne (left) and Liam Harrap endure a blizzard in Monarch Pass, Colorado. Photo courtesy Alleyne and Harrap. exact point they had left. When the pair left Jasper, it was still snowing. Liam’s 42-kilogram pack and Jake’s 48-kg pack were laden with ski equipment and snowshoes. After skiing the Great Divide Traverse – an adventure in its own right – they cast aside their skis, donned their walking shoes and slowed things down considerably. They hiked through a brief spring and a long summer. By late October they reached their halfway point and in November they scaled Colorado’s Mount Elbert – the highest point in their journey – after 201 days. During their trip they climbed 100 mountains, some of which required ropes and crampons, said Harrap. Fall and winter brought with them days of hiking through snow. By those late months, most of the other hikers had gone. In the 2,000 kilometres from Montana into Colorado, they didn’t see another person along the trail.

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