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‘We believe they’re our children forever’ SOS Children’s Village fosters better life for youth by continuing support past their 19th birthday Adrian MacNair

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ou’ve probably heard the oftrepeated African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” but for a Surrey charity it’s literally a core value in caring for foster children. SOS Children’s Village operates five houses in a Surrey neighbourhood that offers foster children a chance to feel part of a real family, explains the charity’s executive director Douglas Dunn. “The dynamic is such that we grow together, we work together, we love together and when the kids turn 19, that’s just another birthday,” says Dunn. “That’s not a separation.” It’s a bold philosophical difference of opinion from the Ministry of Children and Family Development, which relinquishes care and control of foster kids when they come of age. The result is often “horrendous” according to Dunn. Most young adults in B.C. who are 19 years of age and leaving foster care will, within six months, find themselves on social assistance or in jail. Their chances of being involved in the criminal justice system within two years of their eighteenth birthday are 46 per cent. And while the provincial graduation rate for high school is roughly 78 per cent, just one in five foster kids will receive a diploma. The consequences are sadly predictable. Dunn says that based on statistics collected by the United Way homeless count last year, two thirds of visible homeless people identified as having been through foster care at some point in their lives. “The work is hard,” concedes Dunn. “There’s failures and there’s successes.”

Douglas Dunn, executive director of the SOS Children’s Village in Surrey, in front of the organization’s five foster homes where they will soon build basement suites for youth in transition to adulthood. (Photo: ADRIAN MACNAIR) To tackle the problem, SOS Children’s Village is building basement suites in their five foster homes to accommodate youth in transition to adulthood. Foster kids aged 16 to 24 can learn to live with some semblance of independence in the suites, while continuing to receive the support of the village, explains Dunn. “The difference between us and the ministry is we believe they’re our children forever,” he says, adding the village offers a place for youth to return if they’re having trouble making it on their own. Many parents are experiencing the “rebounding” effect of youth who find it hard to leave the nest on their first try, and Dunn says foster children are no different. Adjusting to independence can be very challenging for many foster children, particularly given their backgrounds. All of the children currently cared for in Surrey’s village were either born with fetal alcohol syndrome or had drug-addicted parents. Surrey’s first participant in the transition to adulthood program was a boy who, between the ages of 12 and 19, had moved

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SOS village at 19 returned pregnant with a boyfriend and nowhere to live. While the baby was removed from the couple by the Ministry of Children and Family Development, the baby was placed with a foster mother in the village. “We call her our first grandchild because that individual was with us, she will always be an SOS child. She’s going through some challenges now but we’re bound and determined to help her through that. And we’re helping her child to make sure that her child doesn’t grow up and go through the same experiences.” Dunn says the critical part of preventing that cycle is to give foster kids a safe place to live, with a group of siblings to play with, a village to look after the children and – most importantly – the caregiver or foster mom. “A mom is the heart of a home who creates that sense of belonging, who creates the love that brings and keeps a family together and helps heal trauma and issues children have suffered,” says Dunn. When SOS village was first proposed in the neighbourhood 10 years ago, Dunn says there were some “challenges” convincing residents of the need. “To be really blunt, some people accused us of creating a foster ghetto. The exact opposite is the case.” Dunn says the village has created a tighter knit neighbourhood when people look out for one another and come together for community barbecues and birthday parties. SOS village has enough land to build five more houses and Dunn says the charity is exploring options to lease or rent homes in the area to expand the village. The City of Surrey recently removed a restricted covenant on the title that had prevented a secondary suite on their current houses in order to start construction on the youth in transition basement suites, expected to be completed by May. Dunn says the suites will help make an immediate change in Surrey’s youth homelessness issue. For more information visit Sosbc.org.

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SURREY — More than 200 kids and adults put on a happy face to attend Newton’s first annual Groundhog Day celebration, despite the rain in the Grove, on Sunday afternoon (Feb. 1). While Groundhog Day celebrations are typically held on Feb. 2, the Newton Business Improvement Association held its event on Sunday, Feb. 1, which marks a first for the new organization.

The event, which kicked off at noon, included free hot chocolate, cupcakes, kids activities, entertainment by local singersongwriter Neil Harnett, storytelling and a visit from Lou Jack the groundhog, who poked his head out at 1 p.m. and did not see his shadow, indicating that an early spring is on the way. Ending the activities at the Grove at 2 p.m., some attendees headed to Newton’s Hollywood 3 Cinemas to catch a free screening of the 1993 flick Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray.

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Newton BIA executive director Philip Aguirre with Lou Jack, a pretend groundhog, during a special Groundhog Day event at The Grove on Sunday, Feb. 1. (Photo: GORD GOBLE)

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NEWTON — Gord Sauck has some additional company at the Innovative Audio store he operates. The shop, located in a corner of a business park on 78th Avenue, is home to shelves upon shelves of vintage and used audio gear – the kind loved and collected by true audiophiles, most of whom are of a certain vintage themselves. Since July, Sauck and wife Susan have leased a corner of their 5,000-square-foot store to fellow North Delta resident Howard Tsumura, as space for the 4,000 used vinyl LPs in the bins at Howard’s Record Room. Tsumura’s name may be familiar to sports fans who follow his coverage of high school and university teams in The Province newspaper. The award-winning beat reporter was a longtime customer at Innovative Audio before he got into the business of selling records there, in his hours away from his work for the newspaper. “I always loved collecting records,” Tsumura said. “I was the guy who was always

cruising the aisles at A&B Sound, looking for deals.” Vinyl records sold at the store are first cleaned with a $4,000 Audio Desk system Tsumura bought as an investment. “The people we get in the store,” Tsumura noted, “are the true cross-section – young families, lots of old farts like me, but also kids with their moms, learning to play guitar and, while saying no to the latest Taylor Swift, buying The Song Remains the Same.”

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urrey’s latest crime statistics released Friday, comparing 2014 to 2013, do not tell a cheerful story. But it is of some comfort that some of the increases in crimes recorded in these latest statistics can be attributed to more Surrey residents picking up the phone, or texting the RCMP, when they see something suspicious going on. According to the stats (see story on page 14), violent crime went up by seven per cent in 2014 compared to 2013, property crimes increased by 22 per cent and the number of criminal code offences recorded in Surrey grew by 20 per cent. On the bright side, there were fewer homicides in Surrey last year, at 17, compared to 2013’s recordbreaking 25. The previous record was 21, in 2005. The latest Surrey RCMP statistics to be released reveal that in 2014 there were 10,085 criminal code offences recorded in the city, compared to 8,161 in 2013. In response to this increase, police say they’ve increased their “mobilization efforts” through campaigns such as “Observe it, Report It,” which asks residents to let police know what they’re seeing on their streets and in their neighbourhoods. It is good news that last year more than 90 new Block Watch groups were formed in Surrey and that the Surrey RCMP continues to try to further engage the community it serves with the 2015 launch of the Neighbourhood Safety Campaign – with tailor-made crime prevention presentations dispensing advice in Sullivan, Clayton, Morgan Crossing, Whalley and Fleetwood – and the Citizen Police Academy program. Surrey RCMP’s Chief Supt. Bill Fordy says that “with extra policing resources coming soon, dedicated partners, and a passionate community supporting us, I am confident that, together, we can make Surrey the best possible place to live.” We can only hope. The Now

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People who bash Surrey – get a life The Editor, Surrey has social problems and challenges like any growing metropolis. It has been the butt of jokes for decades. Time for that to change! Surrey is soon to be the largest city in B.C. and one of the best places in Canada to invest. It is interesting that people tarnish all of Surrey due to some of the social problems found largely in Whalley and perhaps Newton. People do not tarnish all of Vancouver due to some of the social problems found in the Downtown Eastside. There is no comparison between what is happening in Whalley and what is happening in the Downtown Eastside and yet this societal discrimination exists against the people of Surrey by uninformed locals. As far as I am concerned, clean

up your own house and your own city before bashing others. Have we forgotten that the Downtown Eastside is home to the poorest postal code in the entire country, despite being located next to some of the richest? Some of the comments about Surrey in the news media and social media border on “geographic hate speech.” There is even an official Facebook page designed to do nothing but make fun of and bash Surrey and the people of Surrey. This crosses a line because the people of an entire city are impacted unfairly. Many people in Surrey are hardworking families and just trying to get by. The last thing these families and their children need is your social stigma thrown at them. If Surrey was so bad, there would not

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be over 1,000 new residents moving to Surrey every month and Surrey would not be one of the fastest growing and developing cities in the country. Just walk around the new Surrey City Centre and you will feel the pulse of an exuberant city in transition. With that being said, why do Surrey bashers even exist? Do they feel more important and superior when they put down the people of an entire city? Whatever the reason, I feel Surrey bashers risk having their negative thoughts, feelings and behaviors towards Surrey adversely impact their life energy, vibe and karma. Have you ever met a basher of any type that you liked? The only people they impress are themselves.

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recent dust-up on social media between an NDP MLA and B.C.’s lone Green Party MLA provides a few more clues about the apparent shifting political landscape in this province. NDP MLA Doug Routley, who routinely attacks Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver on Twitter and Facebook, let slip, via Twitter, his plan to use one of his campaign volunteers to mount a smear campaign against Weaver through that same social media tool. He was caught, the NDP was embarrassed and everyone moved on. But the fact the NDP thinks that Weaver is such a threat to them that he deserves special treatment with a de facto black ops campaign is telling. It says the party is worried about the threat of a party that seems to be growing – albeit in pockets of the province, and not everywhere – in force, not shrinking. But lost in all this is the fact the BC Liberals should also be concerned about the potential rise of a third, viable party in this province. One of the great games political observers of all stripes is to solve this mystery: where do Green voters come from? Which parties do voters abandon the most as they travel over to the Green Party? I looked at the results of the last two provincial elections, to examine any shifts in voting patterns that occurred when the Green vote in a particular riding significantly increased or decreased from on election to the next. I was surprised to learn that the absence of a Green Party candidate in eight ridings in 2013 (where the party had fielded one in 2009) actually saw the BC Liberals’ vote actually increase. Those one-time Green voters had apparently switched to the BC Liberals – not the NDP – when voting for a Green Party candidate wasn’t an option. Take the ridings of Kamloops-North Thompson and Kamloops-South Thompson as examples. The Green Party candidates picked up almost 3,000 votes between them in 2009, but the party didn’t field a candidate in either riding in 2013. What happened? Support for the BC Liberals subsequently increased almost by 4,800 votes in 2013, while support for the NDP jumped by less than 1,000 votes, which suggests those ex-Green voters were

considerably more comfortable entering the BC Liberal tent than the NDP one. The same scenario unfolded in several Okanagan ridings, as well as in two Surrey ridings. All but one of them could be considered B.C. Liberal strongholds. But it was the opposite case in a bunch of other ridings, where the rise in Green voters did seem to hurt the NDP more than the BC Liberals. Most of these were on Vancouver Island. It was particularly noticeable in a riding like Esquimalt-Royal Roads, where NDP MLA Maurine Kauragianis saw her vote slip by more than 500 votes, while the Greens increased their portion by more than 1,300. Strangely enough, in the two neighbouring Victoria ridings, a slight surge in the Green vote meant the BC Liberals lost support, not the NDP. What do all these seemingly conflicting scenarios tell us? First of all, it’s hard to pigeonhole the Green voter. There’s obviously more at play here than the conventional wisdom that they are all mostly disaffected NDP voters. I suspect that a significant number of Green voters are not particularly left-wing. Instead, they may be small business owners, entrepreneurs, younger people who have a strong “green” streak to their outlook on life, and those who reject established political parties and institutions like unions. The next opportunity to examine the impact of the emerging Green vote is in the upcoming federal election in October. Again, the key is not to look at their vote from a national perspective, or even a provincial one. Rather, the party seems to be establishing small pockets of support in various places, which could have a big impact on a handful of ridings. Take the federal riding of Victoria as an example: the Greens came very close to winning a byelection there a couple of years back, and the city recently elected a mayor with strong Green credentials. The party is running Jo-Anne Roberts, a well known former local radio host against the NDP’s incumbent MP, Murray Rankin. The two of them know each other, so I don’t expect a Twitter fight to erupt between them. Nevertheless, the NDP will be looking nervously over its shoulder there. The political landscape may indeed be shifting, in some places at least. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC. Keith.Baldrey@globalnews.ca

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Status quo at emergency is no longer good enough The Editor, Re: “Emergency should be better staffed,” the Now letters, Jan. 27. I was dismayed to learn that Arlene Carey had to wait six hours before seeing a doctor, even though she was taken to Surrey Memorial Hospital by ambulance at 5 a.m. on Jan. 11. But I was not surprised at all as a resident of Surrey who has taken my fouryear-old to the hospital many times in the past month. I have not been to any other hospital since I immigrated to Surrey about five years ago and cannot comment on whether other public hospitals are performing better. But I must say that it seems the management of Surrey Memorial Hospital has been doing a very poor job of utilizing resources even though Surrey residents thought the services would be better once the multi-million expansion at Surrey Memorial Hospital was completed. I only go to the hospital at night, after all the clinics are already closed. I could not recall a single time when I saw more than one doctor working in the emergency. I noticed there were always many nurses and other support staff; can’t they see how to look for inefficiencies and bottlenecks? As a production manager myself, I have always been an advocate at my work on how to increase efficiency by finding continuous improvement. However, whenever I go to the hospital, I always remind myself just to be patient like others and not to overexpect so that I won’t get extra stress from seeing their inefficiencies when I am already stressed out being at the emergency. I understand there are a shortage of physicians in Canada but still there is no excuse for poor-staffing at emergency. The top management should consider training and utilizing more physician assistants and nurse practitioners to take over some of physicians’ tasks if the government is not willing to provide many opportunities for more foreign doctors to be trained and licensed here. Status quo is not good enough. Tony A., Surrey

Cover story portrayed sad truth of addiction The Editor, Re: “From straight A’s to accused of stabbing her mom 24 times,” the Now, Jan 29. I very much enjoyed Tom Zytaruk’s excellent cover story. It was frightening and shocking and sadly true of the horror of drug addiction in not just Surrey, but the entire Lower Mainland and, indeed, the entire province. Trevor Forsyth’s pithy comment that “there’s stuff out there that can really change you and you can’t come back from” rings eerily true in so many cases and with so many families. Until the government and police agencies begin to see the cost in dollars and lives and desist with the platitudes so prevalent in liberal ideology that only goes to support the huge poverty industry in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and Surrey’s Whalley district (with or without the development of the new city hall). I left the Surrey Central area some eight years ago and each time I return to the area, it only becomes more depressing and ugly and uninspiring. Time to rev up the bulldozers and start with a scorched earth policy. Larry Bennett, Burnaby

Vote ‘yes’ to say ‘no’ to gridlock on streets The Editor, I am voting “yes” to say “no” to gridlock. A 0.5 per cent on my purchases is more than offset by reducing all the delays stuck in traffic. As they say, “Time is money.” I’d rather not spend my time (money) in traffic whether it is in my car or on an inadequate transit vehicle or going over a decrepit bridge. This new initiative may not be perfect but it is better than the alternative of doing nothing. Phil Watson, White Rock

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ast Saturday at about 3 o’clock in the morning, the last newspaper was due to leave the press at Kennedy Heights printing plant, ending decades of production for Vancouver’s largest dailies. As the towering presses come to a final halt and silence descends on the plant, 220 highly specialized employees will be forced to look for a new career. Pacific Newspaper Group (PNG), which owns the Vancouver Sun and Province newspapers, announced in September 2013 it will outsource print production to Transcontinental Printing on Annacis Island in Delta. Peter McQuaid, who worked as a pressman from 1983 until he left to join Unifor in 2005, started at Kennedy Heights 18 years ago with 350 other employees. “For the first year, it was a bit of a struggle,” recalls McQuaid. “It was a new plant, there was some long days when we moved into that plant trying to get production going.” Kennedy Heights was a marriage of sorts for the production for the Sun and Province, which until that year had been operating out of plants on Granville Street in Vancouver and a site behind the Costco on King George Highway in Surrey, respectively. The Surrey “Flexo” plant, named after the flexography printing technology, is where many of the current employees moved from when it closed down. Conrad Fischer, a pressman for 28 years, began his apprenticeship at the Granville plant in August 1986, before moving to Flexo. “I remember going in on a Saturday, apprentices would start an hour early so we’d be there at 6 o’clock in the morning cleaning all the presses, greasing everything, getting all the buckets ready for solvent, spotting all the plates,” says Fischer. In those early years at Kennedy Heights the printing was around the clock and there was plenty of overtime available. The jobs were rock solid, too. Every four years the plant would take on 11 apprentices based on attrition rates, and those who did leave usually went into retirement. “I remember the older guys saying to me, stick with this job, do well, and you’ve got got a job for life. A job for life.” It’s no exaggeration. The median age of employees at the plant is in the mid-fifties. Bill Morgan, vice-president of manufacturing, started as production

manager when the plant opened. He says he’s seen fourth generation pressmen come through Kennedy Heights, some whose grandfathers worked on the Province’s presses in 1914. “Over the years there’s been probably a couple of thousand pressmen and mailers that have gone through Pacific Newspaper Group,” recalls Morgan. “So it’s a long line of trades that have come through the doors over the years.” Construction of the 220-square-foot Kennedy Heights plant on 5.5 hectares at 12091 88th Ave. nearly didn’t happen, according to Morgan. The original idea was to add on to the Flexo plant and shut down the Granville site, but the quality of the print reproduction for the flexographic technology couldn’t be recycled because they were using water-based ink. At the time it opened in July 1997, the plant was the most technologically advanced printing press in the world. The four presses were designed and installed to produce double-wide, double-round broadsheets in extremely large volumes. Morgan says the plant has produced a world record-setting 160-page newspaper in one pass off the press on many occasions. “That’s like cutting a chunk of wood,” he says, laughing. Over the course of 18 years, the presses have gone through 600,000 tones of newsprint, 750,000 rolls of newsprint – each roll is 13 kilometres in length – five million kilograms of black ink, three million kilograms of colour ink and hundreds of thousands of press plates. And despite the fact the plant is running with much of its original hardware and the same software, they have never missed a production run for any reason. “Who’s running a Windows 3.1 anymore? That’s kind of the comparison,” explains Morgan.

Over the years, the plant has delayed production based on breaking news but Morgan recalls one time he got a chance to say the “famous words.” The plant had been open for about a year when editorial called production to tell them Princess Diana had perished in a car accident. The presses were just starting up when Morgan got the call to stop the line. “I went out there and went, ‘stop the presses!’” he says with a chuckle. At the time, circulation for the Vancouver Sun was 300,000. Today, they print just 90,000 copies. The decline in circulation has resulted in a reciprocal decline in advertising, which means editorial content is shrinking. Each year, fewer readers are buying a physical copy of a newspaper and more are tuning in online to get their news. “It’s not just the Internet. People’s reading habits have changed. People who didn’t grow up with newspapers, young

It doesn’t seem real until the last few days or weeks or moments, right? people aren’t taking to newspapers like my generation.” Although employees learned 15 months ago that PNG would be closing the plant Fischer says many workers haven’t faced the reality their jobs are coming to an end. “It doesn’t seem real until the last few days or weeks or moments, right?” The Langley resident is now faced with a challenging task of finding a new career. He says some of the younger guys have a chance to get into a new trade, while some of the older guys can go into retirement.

SEE MORE PHOTOS AT THENOWNEWSPAPER.COM “But for the people kind of in my age – I’m going to be 53 this year – it’s kind of an awkward time because it’s really hard at 53 starting at the bottom and looking at different trades,” says Fischer. McQuaid says the union put on a job fair to try and explore options for the employees but it can be tough to change after a lifetime in one career. One employee has been a pressman for 45 years. It’s the only life he’s ever known but there just aren’t any jobs left in print production. “In the mailroom I think the junior guy in that department did 24 years service with the company,” says McQuaid. Fischer worked with the union and PNG to settle on a severance package for the remaining employees, estimated to be about $17.5 million. It’s rumoured to be the same amount PNG recently sold the building for. The print assets will also be sold off in the coming months. There were suggestions the National Post could have been printed at Kennedy Heights to keep the plant open, but Fischer says there didn’t seem to be much interest from the owners in saving jobs. “They’re really looking at digital and they’re looking at people like myself as a legacy cost, as they call it. We’re a liability, not an asset.” Morgan, who will also be out of a job when the plant closes, looks back on Kennedy Heights with a mixture of pride and sorrow. “I’ve been in this trade personally for 35 years. It’s a sad day. There’s nothing to cheer about on Friday (Jan. 30),” he said, before thinking and then answering slowly, “Time does move on, and it’s unfortunate, but we live in a different age.”

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NEW WESTMINSTER — The aunt of a Surrey woman on trial for allegedly murdering her own mother said she saw dried blood on the ear, shoe and shirt of the accused’s baby son the same night the victim’s body was found. Gloria Zerbinos, 30, is being tried for second-degree murder in the Nov. 8, 2012 death of her 43-year-old mother Panagiota “Yota” Zerbinos, whose body was found lying on the living room floor of Gloria’s basement suite in Fleetwood with a kitchen knife stuck in her chest. The trial is being heard in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster, with Justice Fritz Verhoeven presiding. The judge has heard that the victim was stabbed 24 times and had been afraid to be alone with her daughter in the months leading up to her death.

Cheryl Peters was the victim’s sisterin-law. The court has heard that on the afternoon before Yota’s body was found, the accused had brought her 18-month old son and her pet Chihuahua to her grandmother’s home a short walk away from her own basement suite, and left them there. Peters, 35, said that after Yota’s body had been in the early evening, she went to the home of Gloria’s grandmother where she found Gloria’s baby boy in his stroller, “happy” but tired, with one shoe on. She said she took the boy back to her home, along with his diaper bag, stroller, shoes and bottle. Later that night, Peters said, her mother called her to say the media was reporting that Yota’s body had been covered with a blanket. Suspecting the baby might have been at the crime scene, she decided to check his clothes. “I checked his clothes and found blood on his shirt,” she testified. At this time, the boy was in his pajamas in another room, playing with Peters’ own children. She and her husband Rodney, the brother of Yota’s husband Trevor, put the clothing in a bag and took it back to the crime scene,

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roughly 15 minutes away, where they gave it to a police officer. Upon returning home, Peters told the court, “I checked his other things.” She said she then found dried blood on the toe of his shoe and “he had blood on his ear.” She said two police officers came by, put on gloves and swabbed the baby’s earlobe while he slept. They took the specimen, shoes, diaper bag and stroller with them. Asked to describe Yota’s character, Peters told the court she was “sweet” and “nurturing.” Peters said the last time she saw Yota was on Nov. 6, 2012, at Guildford shopping mall where Yota worked. “She was good, she was happy. She was

just starting work.” Peters said the last time she’d seen Gloria was Thanksgiving, 2012. “She was fine. I hadn’t seen her in a while,” she said. She said Gloria was on Yota and Trevors’s front lawn, getting her son ready. “They were walking to church.” Some of Peters’ testimony during the judge-only trial was held in a voir-dire hearing, or a trial within a trial. Verhoeven will have to decide what weight he’ll give the voir dire portion of her evidence when he considers his verdict. The court had already heard testimony that Gloria had assaulted her mother on more than one occasion before the homicide. Asked to describe the relationship between the mother and daughter, Peters said “the earlier years were good, fine, normal” but later there was “a little more tension. Things were kept private.” The trial continues.

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SURREY — Violent crime in Surrey increased by seven per cent in 2014 compared to 2013 while property crimes rose by 22 per cent and the number of criminal code offences, all told, grew by 20 per cent. There were fewer homicides in Surrey last year, at 17, compared to 2013’s record-breaking 25. The previous record was 21, in 2005. The latest Surrey RCMP statistics to be released reveal that in 2014 there were 10,085 criminal code offences recorded in the city, compared to 8,161 in 2013. Surrey RCMP Cpl. Bert Paquet said some of the increase in reported crime can be attributed to the Surrey RCMP’s Observe and Report campaign which encourages residents to contact police when they see something suspicious happening.

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attempted murders recorded in 2014 rose to 10 from three in 2013, fraud saw a spike to 2,786 cases from 1,768, and recorded prostitution-related crimes decreased to 67 from 118. As for the 22 per cent increase in property crime – break-ins, thefts, shoplifting and such – Paquet noted it’s been on the rise across the Lower Mainland, with Surrey’s increase “largely being driven by motor vehicle crimes.” Insp. Peter Jadis, in charge of the Integrated Municipal Provincial Auto Crime Team (IMPACT) said there has been a “notable increase in theft from auto and theft of auto across the Lower Mainland and even the province. “We are working with police agencies across the regional, including Surrey, to tackle this spike and focus on the most prolific offenders,” Jadis said. tzytaruk@thenownewspaper.com

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SURREY — The man accused of killing Julie Paskall will stand trial in Supreme Court. Yosef Gopaul faces charges of second-degree murder in the case and was ordered to stand trial following a two-day preliminary hearing at Surrey Provincial Court last week. Evidence was considered during the hearing on Tuesday and Wednesday, but is subject to a publication ban. Paskall, 53, was attacked outside Newton Arena on Dec. 29, 2013 when she was picking up her son from a hockey game. Police suspected robbery was motive for the attack. She died two days later in hospital.

Gopaul was arrested in May, 2014. He came to Surrey from Ontario eight weeks prior to the attack. A man by the same name was considered a high risk to re-offend after an Ontario conviction for attacking a woman on New Year’s Day 2010. Standing outside the Surrey courtroom Tuesday, Paskall’s husband Al said he feels responsible for his slain wife’s death. “I still blame myself,” he said. “I wasn’t there when I should’ve been.” Gopaul is due back in court on March 12 in New Westminster. Amy Reid

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SURREY — With only a week remaining in league play and the school semester, high school basketball players and coaches are gearing up for the postseason. According to The Province’s Big 10 Rankings, Holy Cross Crusaders (5-0) are one of the Quad-A teams to beat in the Fraser Valley. Assistant coach Anthony Pezzente said the team’s difficult schedule helped them become stronger as the season went on. “I definitely think playing (Sir Winston) Churchill and (Vancouver) College has helped us a lot more,” Pezzente said. “When you get used to playing tough teams, it doesn’t really phase you anymore when you have to play against guys like that.” The coach also mentioned how deep the Crusaders are, noting nine or 10 players on his roster could be starters on other teams. This is even more impressive when you factor Taylor Browne, one of the team’s strongest players, who has been out of action with a sprained ankle. However, Pezzente expects Browne to be back to normal when the playoffs begin for the Crusaders. The Crusaders have performed very well in the league, scoring an average of 93 points per game while allowing just 54.4 per game.

THE PROVINCE’S BIG 10 RANKINGS (QUAD-A): 1. Vancouver College Fighting Irish 2. Heritage Woods Kodiaks, Terry Fox Ravens (tie) 4. Oak Bay Bays 5. Burnaby South Rebels and Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs (tie) 7. Yale Lions 8. Mt. Boucherie Bears 9. Kelowna Owls 10. Walnut Grove Gators Honourable mention: Holy Cross Crusaders, Kitsilano Blue Demons, St. Georges Saints, Pitt Meadows Marauders, Tamanawis Wildcats.

Holy Cross Crusaders are among Honourable Mentions in The Province’s weekly Big 10 Rankings for Quad A boys basketball in the province. (File photo: GORD GOBLE) North Surrey (5-1) is sitting just behind Holy Cross in the Fraser Valley Central division in second place. The Spartans lost to the Crusaders 84-60 last week, losing ground on their rivals. Murray McDonald, North Surrey’s head coach, said his team has to take one more step up in order to be able to match up against Holy Cross. “It’s getting them to focus on their own execution and realizing no matter who we play, whether you think they’ve got lots of skill or not a lot of skill, they all want to

beat us,” the coach said. Tamanawis Wildcats (50) are tied for the lead with Delta Secondary in the Fraser Valley South division, after a commanding 80-28 home victory over Earl Marriott on Wednesday. Wildcats co-coach Doug McKenzie agreed with the Holy Cross coach that playing in tournaments against tougher opponents has made his squad stronger. “You go to tournaments and you want to play tough competition. That’s the most important thing,”

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DELTA — What began as an idea to keep everyone close to home to celebrate Hockey Day in Canada has grown into an event that will give national exposure to South Delta Minor Hockey. The association will be the official west coast location for Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada on Saturday, Feb. 14 with the Ladner Leisure Cente being home to a live remote national broadcast. The Corporation of Delta and Rogers have teamed up with the SDMHA for what promises to be the biggest single-day event in the history of minor hockey in South Delta. Several North Delta-based teams will also be part of the action that day. “Like many cities in Canada, Delta is a proud hockey town featuring teams and enthusiasts of all ages,” said Mayor Louis Jackson. “We are so pleased to host Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada in our community, and are thrilled to provide such

an amazing event and unique opportunity for our local hockey players and fans.” The day will kick off with a free pancake breakfast, live music and the grand reopening of the newly renovated LCC. The South Delta Recreational Centre and Tilbury Arena will also host games and on-ice activities. Every game will have “a big league” feel to it with live national anthems and rink announcers. North Delta Minor Hockey Association will be providing competition for the rep teams, as well as some additional recreational-level games. Produced by Rogers, the Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada all-day broadcast on CBC will include live celebrations from Delta, featuring Sportsnet Central host James Cybulski. Fans will have the chance to meet and get their picture taken with Vancouver Canucks alumni, Kirk McLean. The event will also celebrate athletes who grew up playing sports in South Delta and went on to great careers in and out of sport.

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WHITE ROCK — Think about the town of Nelson and what comes to mind? Skiing? Mountains? Beer? Skiing on the mountains then drinking beer? The 1986 Steve Martin flick Roxanne? Well, sure. But how about a new White Rock landmark? The southeast B.C. town is home to noted sculptor Denis Kleine, who dabbles in abstract materials such as snow and ice. Indeed, he recently spent time in Kuwait, working with several dozen other artists to produce one of the largest exhibitions of sand sculptures on the planet. Yet when it comes time for more permanent mediums, Kleine goes all old-school with… bronze. And that brings us to White Rock. In early 2014, says Claire Halpern, the city’s cultural development manager, a public art task force was formed. The goal: Commission a sculpture for the waterfront, on the plaza near the museum, that celebrated White Rock’s history with the rail system. It would be “interactive,” and it would involve a figure and a public bench. The call, given a budget of $80,000, went out to a variety of respected B.C.-based sculptors, and soon enough the responses were received. One of those responses came from Kleine, who veered from the typical suggestion by proposing the figure stand beside, rather than sit upon, the

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bench. “I’d just seen a lot of sculptures sitting on benches and I thought I’d do something different. Plus, it wouldn’t take up a seat on the bench.” The White Rock folk loved the idea, and Kleine snapped into action. Today, “The Passenger” – a bronze depiction of a nattily attired middle-aged man, suitcase at his side, clearly waiting for a train – leans stoically against a bench directly in front of White Rock Museum & Archives. It is, inarguably, stunning. How “The Passenger” got there was a journey in itself. For starters, Kleine, who plies his trade in a studio on the shore of Kootenay Lake, needed a human prototype. He began, as all good sculptors do, in the produce department of the local Safeway. “It’s a small town,” laughed Kleine. “I’d seen this guy many a time over the years. He had a handsome face and he looked the part. He thought about it a bit and said, ‘Yeah.’” And the process began. A process that, for the sculptee at least, involved a whole bunch of patience – patience and stillness. “We started by taking a lot of measurements and photos. Then he would come in every now and then to pose. Sometimes he would stand, and he’d sit in a chair when we got to work on the head.” Fortunately, Kleine’s model had actually been a model earlier in life, so doing the living mannequin thing wasn’t a big issue. Bronze statues, however, are. For the making of “The Passenger,” Kleine’s first step – and

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Artist Denis Kleine sits on the bench next to “The Passenger,” the bronze sculpture he created for the promenade in White Rock. The official unveiling was on Jan. 24. (Photo: GORD GOBLE) it was a big one – was to create the full-blown image in clay. Most everything that appears today in the finished product standing outside the museum came about in the early clay stage. But that was only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Next, a latex rubber compound was “painted” onto the clay image. A harder plaster layer was then applied atop the rubber. With the figure’s rubber/ plaster “shell” in place, Kleine painstakingly separated said shell from its clay interior and disposed of the clay. The major body

parts were then disconnected, wax poured into all of them, and the result was sent to the Pyramid Bronze Works foundry in Kelowna. There, among other things, the forms were placed in a kiln to melt away the wax, the empty cavities were filled with bronze and, finally, all the sections were welded together. It’s called the “lost wax” method and, in this case, it took nearly a half year and the dedication of a team of assistants – including right-hand man Daniel Kloc and wardrobe person Teyana Neufeld

– to see it through to fruition. “It took on a life of its own,” Kleine said. “It flowed easily. There were no struggles.” Indeed, “The Passenger” was so agreeable that it earned a human nickname: “Tim.” There was, however, one final wrinkle. Kleine wanted the palm of the left hand to rest upon the back of the bench, but he knew it’d be a challenge. “Being a taller guy (“Tim” is six feet even and 400 pounds), he’d either have to lean forward awkwardly or I’d have to make his arm too long.” Moreover, bronze tends to shrink – about four per cent – when it begins to cool. Add it all up and it’s the fingers of “Tim’s” hand, rather than his palm, that make the connection with the bench. Did that matter to those in attendance at the official unveiling of “The Passenger” on Jan. 24? Of course not. They were too busy ogling, sitting beside and getting photos taken with White Rock’s latest and most dapper waterfront attraction. It’s a scene sure to be duplicated relentlessly in the months and years ahead. As for Kleine, he’s soon headed back to Israel, where he’s in the midst of fashioning a dramatic “larger than lifesize” sculpture of a peace sign formed, in part, by a man and a woman. The last time he was there, he was close enough to the Israel-West Bank barrier that he could “hear the bombs going off.” Check out Peacesymbolproject.moonfruit. com for more information on this most worthy project.

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