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appearance during the event. “It comes off and on while I’m – I wouldn’t say harassing the participants but while I’m interacting with the participants,” he says while pretending to make a threatening gesture. Dressing up can be half the fun. Baillie said one year Shayne Williams, then of South Fraser Community Services, perfectly matched the appearance of one of the Hanson brothers from the 1977 cult film Slapshot. So, what do you need to attend the event? Not much, says Baillie. If you don’t have a hockey stick there’s sure to be one lying around somewhere. All you have to do is buy a Raising The Roof toque for $10 (socks are also available) and be willing to accept that Baillie can and will “interact” with your game in ways that may seem unsportsmanlike. But that’s part of the reason people come out. “I think it’s really refreshing for people to have some fun,” says Baillie. “Homelessness is an incredibly serious issue and I’ve done a lot of charity stuff and sometimes it can really start to be depressing. So every now and then you need to have some fun.” To get in on the action you can contact the Supreme Commander at baillie161@ shaw.ca or 604 762-6061.

SURREY — The City of Surrey has been named one of the top seven Intelligent Communities of 2015 by New York-based think tank Intelligent Community Forum. Out of more than 300 nominations, Surrey is the only Canadian city in the top seven list and is now in the running for the Intelligent Community of the Year award, to be announced June 11. This is the first time Surrey has made the list. In addition to Surrey are three communities from the U.S. (Arlington County, Columbus and Mitchell), one from Australia (Ipswich), one from Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) and one from Taiwan (New Taipei City). In a release, ICF says Surrey is “a city in transition from a suburban past in the shadow of Vancouver to a sustainable urban future. To gain greater control over its destiny, Surrey has developed a diversification strategy calling for deepening the partnership between its institutions of higher learning and local business.” Specifically mentioned was Innovation Boulevard, a high-tech health sector occupying one square mile of Surrey’s City Centre between SFU and Surrey Memorial Hospital. The city hopes to foster a network of health institutions and community of talented academics, clinicians and researchers here. The city credits the award to its approach in the Smart Surrey Strategy, which includes Innovation Boulevard, as well as many other initiatives such as an organic waste biofuel processing facility in the works, a district energy system, a traffic management system, an extensive open data catalogue and more. Citywide Wi-Fi is in the works, which will be offered free at more than 40 locations throughout the city. Earlier this month, Surrey received the Canadian Award for Financial reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada for the 17th year in a row.

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Retired firefighter Tim Baillie says he’s expecting at least 14 teams to take part in this year’s Toque Tuesday shinny hockey game at city hall aimed at raising money for Surrey’s homeless. This year, Toque Tuesday is Feb. 3. (Photo: ADRIAN MACNAIR)

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lutching an old wooden Peter Stastny hockey stick, Tim Baillie peers out from beneath a grey toque, unsure whether the question was a joke. Then he breaks into laughter. “Street hockey,” says the self-proclaimed Hockey Day Supreme Commander. “No more complicated than that.” In a nutshell, that’s what the fourth annual Toque Tuesday in Surrey is all about, as on Feb. 3 more than a dozen teams will come down to city hall and play Canada’s favourite childhood game. But as in previous years, there’s also a good excuse to stickhandle your way out of work and come downtown to play a little hockey. “It’s about having fun with a very serious subject,” explains Baillie, a retired firefighter and president of the Surrey Food Bank. The money raised from the event will go toward helping the homeless in Surrey, with proceeds from each Raising the Roof toque going to Lookout Emergency Aid

Society (formerly KEYS), Surrey Urban Mission and Pacific Community Resources Society. Baillie says it was his work as a firefighter that first gave him a “different view” of poverty. He says it’s often firefighters who get to see inside the private lives of people that reveal serious issues hidden away from the public eye. “You might look at a house and it might look like all’s well. You go inside and there’s no furniture, there’s hardly any food in the fridge.” Those experiences propelled Baillie to become involved in charity work and help change the poverty he was seeing on a daily basis. When he first heard about Toque Tuesday four years ago, he wanted to find a way to participate in a fun way. “We’re in Canada and Canadians play hockey. So it just started over at Chuck Bailey (recreation centre) as a bunch of shinny.” The event was almost an immediate success. Hockey enthusiasts, homeless outreach workers and politicians alike turn out to play 20 minute games of four on four, refereed by “Supreme Commander” Baillie who wears a large military-style overcoat his son purchased for him in Russia. The jacket will no doubt make an early

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Teacher raises cash to help fight Surrey stereotype Online campaign started as reaction to ‘Only in Surrey’ Facebook page Adrian MacNair

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SURREY — When Surrey teacher Natalie Walsh found out about the now-infamous “Only in Surrey” Facebook page, she was saddened to see people laughing at photos of the homeless. “When I saw the page, I knew and I felt what they were doing wasn’t right,” said Walsh, adding the people being photographed would have no knowledge they were being laughed at on social media. But while she thought the webpage was wrong, it got her thinking about what would be the right thing to do. The idea launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise $22,000 in the hopes Walsh can hand out gift certificates to the homeless and needy in Surrey’s poorest neighbourhoods. “Those people who are collecting bottles or prostituting are only doing it to pay the bills,

Natalie Walsh, a Langley resident who teaches in Surrey, has launched an online campaign to raise money to help people in Surrey’s poorest neighbourhoods. (Photo: GORD GOBLE) to buy groceries. So I thought maybe give them a gift card so they can buy groceries.” Walsh moved to the Lower Mainland eight years ago so she says she didn’t know Surrey had a reputation for being the butt of jokes.

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“I didn’t grow up hearing about ‘Surrey girls’ or Surrey this and that, and to me all the cities and suburbs are all the same. They’re just places full of people. The people are all the same to me and there’s homeless people

in all the cities in the Lower Mainland. And there’s drug use and prostitution, it’s everywhere.” If she can reach her goal of $22,000 by March 16, Walsh will buy 880 gift certificates worth $25 each. Regardless of whether she reaches her goal, she intends on handing out as many certificates as the money will buy. Depending on the response, she plans to either hand them out personally or enlist the help of outreach agencies already working with the homeless. To date, Walsh has collected just over $2,100 from 50 funders online. Walsh says she thinks she can reach her goal since she noted the Only in Surrey Facebook page has more than 11,000 “likes.” “I can only imagine that if there are that many people who support something so insensitive and hurtful, there must be twice as many who will support something kind and giving.” Included with the gift certificates will be a note asking recipients to use the gift if they have a use for it, or to pass it on to someone else more deserving, says Walsh. To donate to the campaign, visit Indiegogo. com/projects/for-the-people-of-surrey. amacnair@thenownewspaper.com

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Fashion student scores big honour Inspired by 1920s fashion, Ashley Morin selected for national competition Kristi Alexandra

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SURREY — When Ashley Morin’s piano teacher took her to the opera as a child, she didn’t know it would be the foundation of her love affair with fashion design. “I realized that I kind of fell in love with costumes and that theatrical part of fashion,” said the now 21-year-old Surreyite, of going to the opera. Morin, now a fashion design student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, will be on her way east come March as one of 25 fashion students across the country picked to compete in the Telio National Design Competition held in Montreal. Her design, inspired by the 1920s, fits in with this year’s Telio theme, Lux(e). “It’s just one garment,” Morin, who is in the third-year of her program, said. Again, she was motivated by drama to create the piece.

Surrey’s Ashley Morin is one of 25 fashion students across the country picked to compete in the Telio National Design Competition held in Montreal. “I was really inspired by Downton Abbey… I was watching it one day and I thought, I always wanted to make 1920s modern.

“In the ’20s, women had these beautiful dresses that were customized with the beadwork and the handwork and that’s something that we really have lost today, with mass manufacturing and Forever 21 and this fast fashion, where we treat it like it’s disposable. I wanted to bring back that one-of-a-kind, almost heirloom pieces.” It’s hard to argue that period pieces aren’t Morin’s strong point, as she’s volunteered doing alterations with the Vancouver Opera and on a locally-filmed indie flick, Eadweard. “It was a period film. I believe it was set in the 1800s, so the costumes were beautiful,” Morin told the Now. “I just helped out with minor alterations and a little bit of pattern drafting.” With all her volunteer work and dedication to design, it’s no wonder she was picked to compete in Telio, and the young fashionista couldn’t be more thrilled. “It has been absolutely incredible,” Morin said of being asked to compete. “It opens so many doors in the field you didn’t even know existed.” The Telio National Design Competition takes place from March 16 to 18 this year. kalexandra@thenownewspaper.com

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Delta farm creates scholarships for KPU DELTA — A Delta farm is offering students at Kwantlen Polytechnic University even more reason to pursue their green thumbs. Windset Farms has announced it will be offering one $2,000 and two $1,000 awards annually to students of KPU’s horticulture and business programs. “We believe students enrolled in Kwantlen’s programs can help us define the horticultural reality our children will inherit,” said John Newell. Newell said while the typical image of farming may be that of tractors and cows, the industry has become a complicated operation driven by technology. He said he hopes the scholarships will encourage youth to pursue careers in the field and stay up to date with the methods. “In today’s information- and technology-based economy, postsecondary education not only benefits students but also our industry and society as a whole,” said Newell. “There are always new ways of growing produce and new technologies to manage farms better. By supporting these students, we hope they can help us achieve higher goals.”

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When it comes to pipelines, ‘trust us’ doesn’t cut it

he National Energy Board has ruled the B.C. government and public do not have the right to see Kinder Morgan’s emergency response plans, citing “personal, commercial and security reasons.” As a make-good, the energy giant apparently offered to turn over its plans in full to the government, but not the public at large. The premier took to the airwaves on Tuesday to say that simply wasn’t good enough, and rightly so. While the government is elected to represent us and the bureaucracy is hired to serve us, the public at large has a stake in the outcome of this process and, accordingly, the right to know and scrutinize all aspects of it. “Trust us” doesn’t cut it for the communities, environmental groups, First Nations and first responders along the pipeline’s path and it doesn’t cut it for us. Christy Clark has made a big deal of her “five conditions” for approval of any pipelines in B.C., two of which were “world-leading” oil spill response, prevention and recovery systems for both B.C.’s coastline and land-based spills. In 2013, a federal panel concluded Canada was not prepared to handle a major tanker spill in Southern B.C. Pipeline advocates will tell you they are safer than ever yet spills continue to happen and clean-ups can be botched. If Kinder Morgan’s pipeline — or any other pipeline for that matter — is to go ahead, we’d rather that be decided after a full public vetting of the worst-case scenarios. That sure beats finding out after the fact the plans weren’t up to snuff. Better to ask permission than beg forgiveness. Glacier Media

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Emergency should be better staffed The Editor, Re: “‘Unprecedented congestion,” the Now, Jan. 20. Around 5 a.m. on the morning of Jan. 11, I was taken to Surrey Memorial Hospital by ambulance. I could not have asked for a quicker response to my 911 call, or for better care from paramedics. However, once I arrived at the hospital, and they determined my ECG was OK, I was put in a hospital-type wheelchair and taken to the regular emergency ward, where I sat for six hours before seeing a doctor. I overheard some people say they had been sitting in emergency for seven and eight hours. At one point, I overheard a nurse telling someone that things should now start moving faster, as they now had two doctors. Was there only one doctor

working in emergency that night up until that time? Every time I pick up a newspaper, I read about how SMH is experiencing the highest volumes ever of patients in emergency and all types of infection outbreaks are blamed. While I can understand patient numbers being higher now while we are in the cold/flu season, is this not taken into account when they are staffing the emergency department? Just for the record, I had a perforated appendix in December 2013, and that time I sat in emergency for six-and-ahalf hours before seeing a doctor and being admitted for further tests and surgery. Was there also an infection outbreak then?

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The Editor, I am a rational thinker and I am voting “yes” to the referendum on transit infrastructure funding. It’s irrational to throw the baby out with the bathwater. TransLink can be reformed but without a “yes” vote on transit funding, our transportation woes will only increase. Our economy needs it, our commuters need it and our citizens need a reliable and efficient transit system. Vote “yes” for the future and not “no,” due to TransLink’s past sins. Now that would be irrational.

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Four keys to a ‘Yes’ side victory InTheHouse Keith Baldrey

he general consensus seems to be that the “Yes” side in the upcoming transit plebiscite is the one fighting from behind, and has the much bigger proverbial boulder to push up the hill in this debate. The “No” side, led by Jordan Bateman of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, has pretty much had the floor to itself since the Christmas break. He’s been all over the media, blasting TransLink for all kinds of reasons and sowing the seeds of mistrust and suspicion with prospective plebiscite voters. But the “Yes” side can, miracle of miracles, pull off an upset victory if it can accomplish a number of tasks. It will be difficult, but it can be done. So, free of charge, I offer some advice on how to get the job done:

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However, if people start hearing more and more about rapid transit lines in Surrey, more buses and a new Pattullo Bridge, that may get their aggravated minds (which come from being stuck in traffic) off of thinking of ways to punish TransLink and back onto how best to get out of their daily traffic nightmare.

support at monthly meetings. A key player here may not be organized labour so much as the environmental movement, which backs the “Yes” side. I suspect environmentalists will find it much easier to motivate their organizations’ members than organized labour has in past votes.

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One of Bateman’s strengths is that he is good at obtaining media coverage. But over the course of the next few months, he may well turn into a liability for the “No” side because folks may simply become tired of seeing and hearing from him – and only him, on the “No” side – incessantly. But the “Yes” side has a bunch of mayors who just won re-election, which presumably means they are held in good regard by the people they are now going back to for support in another vote. So, why not rotate folks like Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner, Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore and a few others when it comes to shaping the public face of the “Yes” side?

PUSH PAST THE LEADERS AND GET TO THE MASSES

The plebiscite ballots will start being mailed out in mid-March, and the ballots can be mailed back to Elections BC as late as May 29. That’s a generous 10-week period, which kind of turns things into a 10-week long Election Day, as each side tries to GOTV (Get Out The Vote) every day during that period. To get that vote out, presumably the “Yes” coalition will be able to tap into its member organizations for volunteers to help to participate in mail-out, phone banks and the like (again, I presume Elections BC will allow this, although you never know). I’m not sure the “No” Side, which seems to consist of the one-man band Bateman, can compete when it comes to that kind of organization. However, Bateman may end up not even needing much organization. There is still a feeling of “I-pay-too-much” already out there, and perhaps no amount of planning and reasoned arguments will overcome that. We’ll know in June, when the results are revealed. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C. Keith.Baldrey@globalnews.ca

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Transit vote proves leadership unable to make decisions The Editor, Re: “Not all can afford to vote ‘yes’ to tax,” the Now editorial, Jan. 20. I will be voting “no” on the Metro Vancouver Congestion Improvement Tax referendum and encourage everyone to take the same position. It is not because it is an unworthy cause. It is certainly worthy. Yet, so are many other causes. Education, health care, policing, homelessness, poverty, child abuse and aging infrastructure all come quickly to mind. Is the concept of specific taxes for specific causes the direction we are going? Will the popularity or visibility of a cause determine its success? Will the general revenue fund be available for whimsy once the funding pressures are provided by specific tax measures? We elect leaders with the expectation that they will lead. They are to carefully consider the issues, make the difficult decisions and stand by the reasoning behind those decisions. They hire competent professionals to advise them on the issues. At least that is the way I thought the system was supposed to work. I oppose this referendum based on the abdication of leadership and the direction of creating specific taxes for specific purposes. Allan Alton, Surrey SEE MORE LETTERS ONLINE AT THENOWNEWSPAPER.COM

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won’t be back at the trough next year? Here in Surrey we face a possible property tax increase of 10 per cent at the same time as this supposed referendum will ask us to approve even higher taxes by way of a PST hike. I also note that if the schedule is correct, we will again be screwed by Vancouver who will have its subway built well before any LRT is seen in this city. I know how I and many other people will vote.

The Editor, Re: “Not all can afford to vote ‘yes’ to tax,” the Now, Jan. 20. I am a rational thinker and I am voting “yes” to the referendum on transit infrastructure funding. It’s irrational to throw the baby out with the bath water. Vote “yes” for the future and not “no” due to TransLink’s past sins – that would be irrational.

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Suspect in fatal shooting faces judge nine years later ‘Now’ story made crime relevant again and ‘helped people remember,’ police say

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urrey’s Halane family received another knock at their door, late Friday night. The last time police came calling, in 2006, it was to tell them their beloved Mahdi, 18, had just been shot in a drive-by shooting in Whalley. Nine years later, Sgt. Mike Hall was again at their door, this time bearing news that an arrest had been made. “I don’t think it’s fully sunk in yet,” Juweria Halane, Mahdi’s sister, told the Now on Monday. “It would have been better if Mahdi were here to hear this.” Fushpinder Singh Brar, 30, from Surrey is charged with manslaughter in the Oct. 14, 2006 shooting. Brar was arrested in Vancouver on Friday. Insp. Manny Mann, of Surrey RCMP’s Major Crime Section, said it was “a direct result of investigators following up on leads and new information received, and we hope it will bring some closure to the family.” The Halane family was preparing to head over to Surrey provincial court Monday morning, after the Now’s press time, for Brar’s first court appearance. Juweria said she was “very nervous” about seeing the suspect for the first time as her family had never heard of him until now. She’s still in shock, she said, at how her brother’s paralysis and ultimately his death stemmed from something so “stupid, idiotic.” Her brother was a tall, athletic young man who loved basketball. Filled with life, he was a practical joker who easily made friends. “He was just like a typical brother who annoyed you when things went wrong and kind of was there to support you when you needed him too,” Juweria told the Now this past December, when the newspaper published an in-depth report on Mahdi’s case entitled, “A Surrey family’s dream destroyed.” Sgt. Hall, in charge of Surrey RCMP’s Unsolved Homicides Unit, said Monday the Now’s story proved “very valuable to the investigation.” “What it did was it made it (the crime) relevant again. It helped people remember.” Hall has been on the case since the night of the shooting and said police believe

Mahdi Halane was filled with life before being shot in the neck in 2006 as an “innocent victim” of a drive-by shooting.

‘Between death and life for six years’ UNSOLVED MURDER: Trivial spitting in 2006 triggered shooting that destroyed Somalian family’s dreams of peaceful, prosperous future in Surrey

STORY BY TOM ZYTARUK

’m looking at a broken man. Osman Halane stands in his doorway, barefoot, dressed in a black suit jacket and pants. He’s just returned home from work, rain is battering at his walls and it’s black outside. He looks at his wife and daughters, treads across his carpet and sinks into a chair beside me. I’ve sat in many living rooms over the years, scribbling notes while the bereaved bare their unhealing wounds to me, a stranger. Osman’s pain is formidable. Meeting his bloodshot eyes, I’m trying not to tear up myself. “I’m very sorry that tonight you will never sleep too,” he says, clasping his hands. “It’s a nightmare, to be honest.” We’re talking about his son, Mahdi. First, some background. With their homeland embroiled in civil war, Osman, wife Safia and family emigrated from Somalia in 1997. He was a referee for the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and some colleagues here in Canada were kind enough to sponsor them. The Halane’s chose Canada for its relative peace and settled in Surrey, hoping for a prosperous future for their five children. Fast forward to 2006. Their son Mahdi, by now 18, was a tall, athletic young man who

loved basketball. Filled with life, he was a practical joker who easily made friends. “He was just like a typical brother who annoyed you when things went wrong and kind of was there to support you when you needed him too,” his sister Juweria recalled. After Mahdi’s graduation from Whalley’s Queen Elizabeth secondary school in June 2006, he worked at a call centre at the bottom of Peterson Hill and had planned to make some cash to attend college. Later that summer, his dad sent him to Europe for a graduation gift, and he toured England and Denmark for the next couple of months before returning to Surrey. With autumn came Ramadan and on Oct. 13th Safia wanted Mahdi to dine at home, but he had already made plans to celebrate a pal’s birthday at Boston Pizza. A friend picked him up in his car and off they went. After the clock struck midnight, Mahdi called home to say he’d be another hour and his friend would drop him off. Roughly four hours later, a Mountie was at the Halane’s door to tell them there had been a shooting and they needed to go to Royal Columbian Hospital. “We didn’t know what to expect,” Juweria recalled. “We didn’t know whether he was dead, alive, what was going to happen.” At RCH they were led to a room where a doctor came to tell them Mahdi had been shot, was in a coma and might die.

“My dad collapsed in the room. He just couldn’t fathom the idea that his son, who was just walking hours ago, is now in a coma, paralyzed, and possibly might not make it.” “It was shock,” Osman explained. “When they told us, like four o’clock in the morning, something like that. We took our car and we went to the hospital, I fell down. I collapsed. “From there, we suffered like you can’t imagine. Six years, the young boy, he doesn’t move, and he’s moving from the neck only. Six years. You can feel how hard, the life he passed. He was in between death and life for six years. Still, he’s our son; we have hope he becomes, at least he’s moving his hand or his leg or some of his body,” he says, rubbing his hands. “But unfortunately, it doesn’t happen the way that we want it to. For these six years, we were out of control. For the first year, I stopped the work that I was doing. I was six months in a hospital.” The rest of Mahdi’s life, and that of his family, was marked by soul-crushing suffering and frustration. “I think he was an innocent victim,” Surrey RCMP Sgt. Mike Hall said of Mahdi. “He wasn’t involved in anything criminal.” Hall is in charge of Surrey RCMP’s Unsolved Homicides Unit and has been investigating this case since the night Mahdi was shot. “Through the years I have spent

time with both Mahdi and his family and have seen the impact that this senseless shooting has had on all of them,” Hall said. “The persons responsible for the shooting likely have no idea the destructive effect their actions have had. Crimes like this, where innocent young people with their entire lives in front of them are subjected to unprovoked acts of deadly violence, are a priority for the police. Given the tragic circumstances of this particular case, the resolve of the police will not waiver until the persons responsible for this cowardly act are brought to justice.” In truth, to describe the crime as “stupid” would be an insult to stupidity itself. The events that led to Mahdi’s shooting took place in the wee hours of Oct. 14th, 2006 at and near the Chevron gas station at 96th Avenue and 128th Street in Cedar Hills. At 12:55 a.m. three of his buddies, all of them black, were waiting in line to buy something at the gas station’s after-hours window when a blue Chrysler 300 pulled up. An East Indian man got out of the car, and joined the queue. He spat at the ground, and some of his gob hit the pants of one of Mahdi’s buddies. Hall doesn’t believe it was deliberate. Words were exchanged. The East Indian man called one of Mahdi’s buddies a “nigger” and Mahdi’s buddy punched the spitter, thinking it inevitable that fists would fly anyway. “It spiraled downward from there.”

The ‘Now’ published a two-page, in-depth report on the 2006 shooting that led to Mahdi Halane’s death in 2012. On Friday, Fushpinder Singh Brar, 30, was arrested and has been charged with manslaughter. Police say the story was ‘very valuable to the investigation.’ Mahdi was an innocent victim. They also believe there are other people who were either involved in the shooting or who have “very important” information about it, who have yet to speak with police. Hall can be reached at 604-599-7634. Mahdi’s mom Safia and dad Osman brought their five children to Canada in 1997, from war-torn Somalia, hoping for a prosperous future for them here. The Queen Elizabeth Secondary grad was out celebrating a friend’s birthday when they came across another group of friends who’d been in a fight at the Chevron gas station at 96th Avenue and 128th Street in Cedar Hills. Police say the fight started after a man from another group spat and some of his

spit hit the pant leg of one of Halane’s friends. Halane was down the street, in a different car, and had nothing to do with the gas station incident. He apparently looked up from his front passenger seat, as bullets flew from a passing car, and was hit in the neck, severing his spinal cord and rendering him quadriplegic until he died of kidney failure on March 25, 2012, at the age of 24. Osman Halane said his son hovered “between death and life for six years.” “For six years he was paralyzed, and he died,” Osman told the Now in December, contemplating the horror of his son’s fate. “A lot of disaster we passed, and nightmare.” tzytaruk@thenownewspaper.com

SURREY — A 17-year-old boy drove himself to the hospital after being shot multiple times on Sunday night. Police heard reports that shots had been fired in the 13000-block of 73rd Avenue around 10:15 p.m. There, RCMP located some bullet casings from the incident, and at 10:30 p.m. heard that a shooting victim had driven himself to Surrey Memorial Hospital. The mini-van that the victim drove, with shattered windows from flying bullets, was later towed from SMH to the RCMP station. The boy, now in serious but stable condition, was taken from SMH to Royal Columbian Hospital. Police say they believe the shooting was targeted.

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Man stabbed outside Cloverdale grocery store SURREY — A man was stabbed at a Save-On Foods in Cloverdale on Friday evening. Around 7 p.m., RCMP heard that someone had been stabbed at the grocery store at 18710 Fraser Highway. Police say two suspects approached the victim in the parking lot asking for directions and then attacked the victim with a knife. The suspects drove away in an SUV. The man was taken to hospital to be treated for his injuries, and suffered lacerations to the head. Police say the victim, who is known to police, was not co-operating, and the incident was probably drug-related.

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Mounties march in Surrey for slain Alberta officer SURREY — A memorial march in honour of slain Alberta Const. David Wynn was set for Monday at RCMP E Division Headquarters in Surrey. The march was scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. after the St. Albert Regimental Funeral. Wynn, 42, died in hospital earlier this month after he and auxiliary Cons. Derek Bond were shot in a casino in Alberta while on duty. The suspect, Shawn Rehn, was found dead. Wynn is survived by his wife Shelly and their three sons. The Now

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Everybody OK after crash involving cop car SURREY — A Delta Police car collided with a vehicle in Surrey, with a pregnant woman and a toddler inside, on Friday. The cruiser was responding to an assault in the area when the officer T-boned a Toyota Corolla at the intersection of Scott Road and 80th Avenue at 3:45 p.m.

The driver of the Corolla was turning left as the cruiser came through the intersection without its flashing lights or sirens on. The woman and the toddler were taken to Surrey Memorial Hospital and were released a couple hours later. There were no injuries to the officer. Kristi Alexandra

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Two suspected pipe bombs found in two days Amy Reid

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SOUTH SURREY — Police were called about two suspected pipe bombs in South Surrey last week, first to a rural property and then to a gas station. On Tuesday (Jan. 20), a group of workers demolishing a building on a rural property in the 18300-block of 24th Avenue found

something suspicious in a shed. Police say it appeared to have been there for some time. The Explosive Demolition Unit was called in and confirmed the device was a pipe bomb. Using a remote, they detonated the bomb on the property. Police say because it was a rural property, no one was evacuated. Then, on Wednesday night, a suspected pipe bomb was found at a Petro-Canada gas station at 2692 152nd St.

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Police seek witness to crash that left man in critical condition NEWTON — Police are hoping to find a specific witness who may have information regarding a December crash that left a man in critical condition. Shortly after 8 p.m. on Dec. 6 police responded to an accident near 134th Street and 66A Avenue. Police were told a Ford Edge travelling southbound on 134th Street sideswiped a northbound Ford pickup truck. It’s believed the Ford Edge then went off the road to the right, smashing into a tree. The 40-year-old driver of the Ford Edge was badly injured and remains in critical but stable condition. The driver and passenger in the pickup were not injured. Surrey’s Criminal

Collision Team continues to investigate the incident and hopes to locate a potential witness who was driving behind the Ford Edge before the crash. Police believe this witness, a male, was the first to arrive at the scene after the collision and may have spoken with the driver of the pickup. The witness was possibly driving a light-coloured sedan, according to video surveillance police have obtained. Anyone with information, including the witness himself, is asked to call the Surrey RCMP’s Criminal Collision Investigation Team (CCIT) at 604-599-0502 quoting file number 2014176731. Amy Reid

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Shortly before 8 p.m., staff called police saying there was a suspicious item beside the service station. Police suspected it, too, was a pipe bomb. The gas station and surrounding area was evacuated and a portion of King George Boulevard was shut down for about an hour. “It was a metal pipe with noticeable wires sticking out of it,” said Cpl. Bert Paquet. The Explosive Demolition Unit was called in and, using a robot, confirmed it was not a

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Union shows support for terminated colleague while urging ‘yes’ vote Adrian MacNair

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CLOVERDALE — HandyDART union members rallied in the rain on Thursday to show their support for a member whom they claim was wrongfully fired. Bob Chitrenky, president of Local 1724 the amalgamated transit union, said the group was wearing pink anti-bullying Tshirts because dispatcher Kathy Dietrich from the union’s executive board was fired for standing up to workplace harassment. The alleged incident happened two weeks before Christmas after complaining to management about a bullying incident. Chitrenky said the employer, MV Transportation, a U.S. company based in Dallas, cares more about profits than about the people it employs and serves. Union members also rallied to urge people in Metro Vancouver to vote “yes” in the upcoming transit plebiscite, which would increase payments to the service for disabled riders. The union also wants HandyDART brought into TransLink so that the money isn’t going toward a for-profit American contractor, which currently has a $39million arrangement with TransLink. “Where’s that money going? It’s not being re-spent here,” Chitrenky said. Beth McKellar, co-ordinator of the HandyDART Riders Alliance, said something needs to be done to make

HandyDART union members wear pink shirts Thursday in Cloverdale to show support for a colleague whom they claim was wrongfully fired. (Photo: ADRIAN MACNAIR) TransLink accountable for “every penny it spends” and to ensure it goes to the appropriate places. She said the money doesn’t always have to go to the “sexy” projects like the Evergreen Line. “Because we’re not getting any younger, the population is aging and it’s baby boomers like myself that – OK we still got it together but we don’t move as well,” she said, adding HandyDART riders desperately depend on the service to maintain their independence and dignity. Gary Brown, who makes use of a wheelchair, came from Burnaby to show his support for Dietrich and the HandyDART employees. He noted the service has slowly deteriorated since he began using it in 2010 with an increasing number of rides being

denied. Users of the service often have to book a ride seven days in advance and aren’t guaranteed their trip will be approved. “Even with calling seven days in advance they try and put you on a wait list sometimes and you know they should be able to schedule that far,” he said. According to the Riders’ Alliance, freedom of information requests show people with disabilities and seniors were denied HandyDART service over 42,000 times in 2013, an eight-fold increase over four years. There were 5,075 HandyDART denials in 2009 and 42,418 in 2013. Transit referendum ballots will be mailed out to registered voters in Metro Vancouver starting March 16 and must be returned by May 29. amacnair@thenownewspaper.com

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CITY CENTRE — Forty companies from across Metro Vancouver will come together at the new city hall for a one-day competition to earn the title of Greater Vancouver’s Clean Technology Champion. Dubbed the Clean Technology Expo & Championship, the pitch-based competition is set for Jan. 28. It will be judged by 12 prominent local and international clean technology investors and buyers, with the winner receiving $10,000 from Vancity Credit Union. The winner will also go home with a trophy worthy of the clean tech award itself. The prize, a 34-inch oak and stainless steel tower trophy, is sourced locally and designed to be entirely biodegradable and recyclable. A team of students and faculty from Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s (KPU) product design program has been drawing up the trophy since midNovember, and putting in extra hours to present the award. Stephen De Gouveia, a second-year KPU student and Cloverdale resident who worked on the project, said the trophy is built to last 10 years. “After those 10 years, we don’t know, but we made it so that if they wanted to recycle it, no materials are attached to each other so if you wanted to recycle it, you could take each material separately and get recycled cleanly,” he explained. More than 500 people are expected to take part in the expo, set to run Jan. 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at city hall, located at 13450 104th Ave.

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Surrey player finds equal time for books, pucks The following story was written by Bob Hall, community liaison for Selkirk College, in Nelson CASTLEGAR — Selkirk Saints defenceman Stefan Gonzales celebrated his greatest hockey triumph last March when he helped his team to its second straight British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) title at the Castlegar Recreation Complex. The bumps and bruises from the seasonending highlight moment were well earned, but the opponents Gonzales faced on the ice were nothing compared to the battles he faced in the classroom after returning to school after a four-year absence. “I barely survived the first semester,” recalled Gonzales. “I never really had great study habits in high school; I got good grades by just showing up to class. I was lucky in that sense, but it didn’t really prepare me for the amount of work I would have to do coming back to school.” Gonzales played junior hockey for four seasons before arriving at Selkirk College for the start of the 2013-2014 school term. Forgoing any college courses after high school to concentrate on hockey, and two months into his first semester at Selkirk, Gonzales had failed a midterm and was struggling in the role of student athlete. “After four years of just playing hockey and hanging out with your buddies watching Netflix and playing video games, there wasn’t a lot of studying going on then,” he says. “Coming back, it was a steep learning curve for the first couple of months. It was much harder than I anticipated.” Gonzales grew up in Surrey and found a passion for hockey at an early age. When he was 12, the prestigious North Shore Winter Club recruited him to play at its North Vancouver facility. In pee wee and bantam hockey, he was teammates with the likes of NHL’s Evander Kane (Winnipeg Jets), Stefan Elliott (Colorado Avalanche) and Martin Jones (Los Angeles Kings).

Selkirk College Saints defenceman Stefan Gonzales, who grew up in Surrey, came to the West Kootenay region to continue on with his hockey career. (Photo courtesy Selkirk College) By age 17, Gonzales was a highly touted prospect and went to play in Tier II Junior with the British Columbia Hockey League’s Burnaby Express. “I wanted an NCAA scholarship and that was my main focus,” Gonzales said. “I was drafted into the Western Hockey League (WHL), but my goal was to combine education and school, so I took that pathway.” Gonzales played three full seasons in the BCHL with Burnaby, Quesnel, Chilliwack and Victoria. The success Gonzales experienced with the North Shore Winter Club in minor hockey was not mirrored during those seasons where he played on teams that struggled to get wins. In his final season of junior, he was traded to a team in Ontario; when Gonzales decided he didn’t want to make the trip across the country, he opted to play Junior B with Aldergrove Kodiaks. It was a difficult choice

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NORTH DELTA — In January, when most young athletes are in the middle of hockey, soccer or basketball season, North Delta Baseball Association is giving its players a chance to start the season early. The association has rented the gym at Sands Secondary for winter clinics for all youth players from blastball (ages five and under) to midget (18 and under). Tim Fehr, director of coaching for NDBA, said the training sessions, which began in the middle of January, are about giving the players a leg up before they try out for a team. “They’ve all been playing soccer and hockey all winter. Spring is coming and we start to do our evaluations and tryouts in late February and March,” Fehr said. Other local baseball associations are hosting similar pre-season clinics. “It gives the kids an opportunity to come out, get some swings in, take some ground balls, start throwing so when we do the evaluations and the tryouts, they’re not fresh out of winter,” said Fehr, a former Pacific International League player and coach. In North Delta, the 21 spots available for the

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Carter Spencer winds up to bat a wiffleball during a hitting session Friday (Jan. 23) at North Delta Baseball Association’s winter clinic at Sands Secondary. (Photo: KYLE BENNING) combined peewee and bantam session were filled very quickly, he noted. “This is a pretty regular thing for North Delta,” Fehr said. “This year was really good. We sold out really early. “We’re going to do pitching, we’re going to do hitting and we’ll do some fielding drills. We’ve brought out coaches from the association,” he added. With practices limited to a gym or other indoor facilities, Fehr said he caters the drills to the amount of given space. “One of the things I’ve talked to the instructors about … is that we will be limited to what we can do,” said Fehr. “We’ve designed the drills and our expectations around what we can do inside.”

Rather than doing “live hitting,” he has the players hitting in front of a screen so they can work on their technique and batting stance. With the association’s numbers cut in half to approximately 450 kids, league managers have to do different things like the winter clinics to attract and retain kids, Fehr said. “One of our philosophies on retaining them is to give them good skill development to show the value to the parents,” he explained. “When they sign their kid up for North Delta, they’re going to get good coaching, the kid is going to get a good experience, he’s going to enjoy himself and he’s going to get something out of it.” kyle.benning@gmail.com

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Keys to ‘Yes’ victory InTheHouse Keith Baldrey

TURN THE CHANNEL

As in, stop talking about TransLink (arguably the most unpopular organization in B.C.) and start hammering home talk about specific transit improvements. Bateman’s modus operandi has been to mention TransLink – and all its miscues, woeful tales of waste, bloated executive salaries, SkyTrain breakdowns etc. – in pretty well every one of his public utterances. Bateman is trying, understandably, to make the plebiscite a vote on TransLink’s performance. It’s nothing of the sort , of course, but I don’t blame Bateman for pushing that argument. After all, TransLink is the weakest link in the “Yes” side’s chain, so why not try to exploit that? However, if people start hearing more and more about rapid transit lines in Surrey, more buses and a new Pattullo Bridge, that may get their aggravated minds (which come from being stuck in traffic) off of thinking of ways to punish TransLink and back onto how best to get out of their daily traffic nightmare.

ROTATE YOUR SPOKESPEOPLE

A reader is asking whether a 30 per cent increase in population in Surrey over the next 10 years should override things like farms and trees. (File photo)

So, why not rotate folks like Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner, Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore and a few others when it comes to shaping the public face of the “Yes” side?

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In other words, simply getting the support of the heads of the 70-plus organizations that make up the “Yes” side coalition is not enough. Getting the support of the members of those organizations is much more a key to any success. This is the classic problem perennially faced by the NDP during elections. Organized labour strongly endorses the NDP, and then watches as members of their own unions vote for another party. For the “Yes” side to win, it needs those organizations to deliver the votes of their members – not just passing motions of support at monthly meetings. A key player here may not be organized labour so much as the environmental movement, which backs the “Yes” side. I suspect environmentalists will find it much easier to motivate their organizations’ members than organized labour has in past votes.

TIME AND ORGANIZATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE ON YOUR SIDE

The plebiscite ballots will start being mailed out in mid-March, and the ballots can be mailed back to Elections BC as late as May 29. That’s a generous 10-week period, which kind of turns things into a 10-week long Election Day, as each side tries to GOTV (Get Out The Vote) every day during that period. To get that vote out, presumably the “Yes” coalition will be able to tap into its member organizations for volunteers to help to participate in mail-out, phone banks and the like (again, I presume Elections BC will allow this, although you never know). I’m not sure the “No” Side, which seems to consist of the one-man band Bateman, can compete when it comes to that kind of organization. However, Bateman may end up not even needing much organization. There is still a feeling of “I-pay-toomuch” already out there, and perhaps no amount of planning and reasoned arguments will overcome that. We’ll know in June, when the results are revealed. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C. Keith.Baldrey@globalnews.ca

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Surrey’s conservation policy not worth paper it’s written on The Editor, Re: “Hydro project reaches milestone, but farmer says it’s a ‘nightmare,’” Now, Jan. 20. I read with interest Adrian MacNair’s article concerning the BC Hydro substation development in Fleetwood. I appreciate that it is important to be ahead of the game when it comes to providing power for the future and it is difficult to take on a project of this size without upsetting locals. There is, however, a wider issue. Should a 30 per cent increase in population in Surrey over the next 10 years override just about everything else? In a headlong rush to fill the Lower Mainland with people, are other factors being ignored? A neighbour told me that he had a 10hour wait in an emergency room recently and we all notice that traffic is increasingly difficult in urban and city areas during rush hour. The point is, that while Surrey administrators build an empire off of the back of development, other things suffer. Infrastructure does not keep pace and the quality of life of every resident is steadily reduced. The loss of natural environment in our area is of particular concern. I am not much interested in self-publicity, but felt it necessary to start a blog about the plight of our local eagles nest. Enormous pressure has been put upon Surrey Lake Park next to the Hydro development, and I thought that this should not pass without comment. Recently, your paper reported that Surrey has lost 20 per cent of its tree canopy over the last 10 years. The ease with which agricultural land is rezoned for development is extraordinary and the carting away of valuable top soil, with the return of a poorer quality replacement after the build is completed, is depressing. The Lower Mainland is an essential agricultural zone and if in future food is in short supply and cannot easily be imported, it seems unwise to be adding to the problem by increasing population and building over fertile farmland. Above all else, there is a pretence that Surrey has some far-reaching overall conservation policy and maybe it does on

paper, but in reality it appears to be nonexistent. The number of plants and animals and their diversity is a measure of any conservation policy and there can be no question that wildlife in the Surrey area is in steep decline. When a developing country behaves in this way we show concern – so, why is it acceptable in the Lower Mainland, which is part of a country renowned and highly regarded elsewhere for its natural beauty? Stephen Bolwell, Surrey

Transit vote proves leaders incompetent The Editor, Re: “Not all can afford to vote ‘yes’ to tax,” the Now editorial, Jan. 20. I will be voting “no” on the Metro Vancouver Congestion Improvement Tax referendum and encourage everyone to take the same position. It is not because it is an unworthy cause. It is certainly worthy. Yet, so are many other causes. Education, health care, policing, homelessness, poverty, child abuse and aging infrastructure all come quickly to mind. Is the concept of specific taxes for specific causes the direction we are going? Will the popularity or visibility of a cause determine its success? Will the general revenue fund be available for whimsy once the funding pressures are provided by specific tax measures? We elect leaders with the expectation that they will lead. They are to carefully consider the issues, make the difficult decisions and stand by the reasoning behind those decisions. They hire competent professionals to advise them on the issues. At least that is the way I thought the system was supposed to work. I oppose this referendum based on the abdication of leadership and the direction of creating specific taxes for specific purposes. Allan Alton, Surrey

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SOUTH SURREY — A Burnaby man has been fined $25,000 for trying to bring nearly 13 tonnes of unreported cheese across the South Surrey border. Manuel De Oliveira, owner of Beira Mar Importers Company Ltd., pled guilty in December to evading duty payments and importing dairy products without declaring them to border officials. According to court documents, De Oliveira imported 737 shipments of goods into Canada between Jan. 1, 2005 and Jan. 16, 2010. Of those shipments, each contained between 917 and 4,300 kilograms of cheese. The total amount imported but not reported is 12,899 kilograms, with an estimated value of $132,539.90 in U.S. currency. Two of those shipments were intercepted at Pacific Highway Crossing in Surrey. Both were reported as containing only grapes or grape juice, but the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) found cheese in those shipments. There was a monetary penalty levied against De Oliveira’s company, Beira Mar, and in 2008 he was assessed a $7,625 fine, equivalent to 20 percent of the value not declared. Cheese may be imported to Canada, but it is subject to a quota system administered by an arm of the Department of Foreign Affairs under the Canada Agricultural

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