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SURREY ACID ATTACK HAUNTS VICTIM, FRUSTRATES POLICE
A Newton business owner is haunted by the memory of a vicious acid attack. Tammy Sinclair and her husband Gordon own Sinclair’s Motorsports. In September, a man posing as a customer chucked a glass jar filled with muriatic, or hydrochloric acid, at Tammy’s face as she was standing out in front of the shop. She suffered scarring on her neck, and blistered gums and tongue. No arrests have been made.
Readers sure loved this feature on the Surrey man who starred in the well-known Bad Santa flick as a child. Brett Kelly’s claim to fame is his role in the 2003 antiChristmas comedy, starring Billy Bob Thornton as a hard-drinking, foul-mouthed mall Santa named Willie, with Tony Cox as his elfish dwarf sidekick named Marcus. Though this piece was published in 2013, it was the third most read story on our site this year.
Our most-viewed story online was a heartwrenching one – teens Chantal MacLean and Cody Kehler were killed in a crash.
This year saw the rebirth of the Mirage, which was renovated and reopened as the Taphouse by owner Wayne Ferguson.
MIRAGE CLOSURE MAKES WAY FOR NEW PUB VENTURE
He hasn’t been seen since. Three days later, the Chilliwack RCMP called the Rattus to report they’d found their car – a silver Hyundai Stellar - burnt, in the Vedder Canal, not far from No. 3 Road. It had been driven off the dike. Balraj’s jacket, undershirt, grey sweatshirt and jeans were found rolled up on the Stellar’s front passenger floor. His shirt was partly burned and there was a spot of blood on the right collarbone area of his sweatshirt. A DNA test confirmed the blood to be his. A $20 bill had been tucked into his clothes. “We’re open to any and all possible theories,” said Cpl. Mike Hall, in charge of the detachment’s Unsolved Homicides Unit. “We’ll treat this investigation as a missing persons investigation where foul play is suspected. Obviously, we have not found Mr. Rattu’s body so, does the possibility exist that he’s left and is still alive somewhere? That is a possibility. There’s no evidence to support that at this time.” Balraj’s family needs answers. “It’s hard for me to go through this life,” his dad Gurmukh Rattu said.
Surrey’s little club oasis in Guildford, the Mirage, shut down after 18 years in business this summer. The popular club’s closure elicited lots of attention from party-going Surreyites, who were eager to see the venue reopened as the Taphouse, marketed as an upscale pub with live music, by owner Wayne Ferguson.
LETTER: BCTF DESERVES HUGE FINE, SHOULD BE DISBANDED
A letter sent in by reader David Simonov was fifth on the most-read list this year. In it, he argued the BCTF engaged in destructive activity, and “blackmailed the rest of British Columbians into paying even more for public education, which is very expensive as it is.” He called for BCTF to receive a heavy fine for “abuse of power and spreading corrupting socialist ideology and immediate disbanding of the union and privatization of government schools across B.C.”
FOR ALMOST TWO DECADES, SURREY DAD LOOKS FOR HIS SON
The case of Balraj Singh Rattu, 19, is one of the older mysteries that Surrey RCMP has on the books. On the day he disappeared, Balraj had asked his dad if he could take his car to go see some friends. That was on Nov. 6, 1995, six weeks before his 20th birthday.
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In September, during the teachers’ strike, Keith Baldrey argued that whatever the outcome of the messy fight, it’s likely the provincial education system won’t see significant improvement in the near future. He wrote both the government and the BC Teachers’ Federation are to blame, having been locked in war for more than a decade. “Even a negotiated contract will not end the acrimony and bitterness that characterizes their relationship,” he stated, later adding, “It is not about the kids and never has been. It is about control.”
SIMPSON: A DAY AT RODEO SHOWS PARENTS NEED TO STEP IT UP
The Now received a lot of feedback following editor Beau Simpson’s opinion piece on his experience at the Cloverdale Rodeo this year, where he saw kids stumbling around blind drunk and acting inappropriately. “If a day at the rodeo is any indication, we seriously need to step up our game as parents,” Simpson wrote. “Our community is depending on it.” Although a few people associated with the rodeo thought his column unfairly cast the event in a negative light, readers flooded the Now with letters to the editor agreeing with Simpson’s take on the experience at the Fair.
FUNERAL PLANNED FOR POPULAR SOUTH SURREY REALTOR, COACH
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urrey’s got talent. At least that seemed the message this year as Surreyites swept Vancouver-based music competitions. First, it was local singer Alyssa Gutierrez who snagged first place in this summer’s PNE Star Showdown in August. The singer beat out nine other competitors in the contest, winning herself $5,000. The best part? The 16-year-old chanteuse sent a big chunk of the money to the Philippines where she has family. The Holy Cross Regional Secondary student performed a cover of Alicia Keys’“If I Ain’t Got You” when she placed first on Aug. 17, but the teen was still shocked she came out on top. Gutierrez later starred in an original musical called Right Here, Write Now, which raised relief funds for people in the Philippines. The show was held at Surrey’s Bell
Performing Arts Centre on Nov. 29. It was an even bigger sweep for Surrey-based sextet, Good for Grapes, who won the Peak Performance Project this year. The year-long initiative culminated at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom, and the indie-folk outfit earned themselves $102,700 to put towards their music career. “We know better than anyone, because we did it last year, it’s not a popularity contest at all. It’s about who can dig into their career the most,” frontman Daniel McBurnie told the Now before the band’s big win. “We know that money gets drained. You can throw money at anything and ‘x’ amount of dollars, especially for something like recording, gets drained,” he said. “That’s what we’re planning to do… we’ll make it work and we’re going to record a new record with it.”
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or cinemas still playing 35mm prints south of the Fraser, 2014 was a year of change. Residents of Cloverdale said goodbye to the iconic Clova this year as the 67-year-old theatre closed its curtains after Crossridge Church, which bought the building in March of this year, took over operations of the venue. According to Craig Burghardt, who ran the Clova Cinema for 18 years, Crossridge didn’t have the cinema in its plans. The theatre’s final day was Aug. 3. A hefty investment to upgrade the cinema’s projectors to digital was an issue to keep the theatre in business, as well as dwindling sales. At the same time, South Surrey’s Rialto Twin cinemas quietly closed in April citing the high cost of upgrading to digital.
Theatre owner Rahim Manji, who runs the Hollywood 3 Cinemas in Newton, bought the Rialto and reopened it on Oct. 31, screening Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar on 35mm before converting to digital after Nov. 24. Manji also took over South Surrey’s Caprice and now oversees all three independent theatres in Surrey. The independent theatre mogul said he didn’t want to see the theatre stamped out by development, nor have citizens go elsewhere for entertainment. “We tried to take that leap of faith. I’m just really tired of seeing a lot of our independents shut down and become built into condos and things like that,” Manji told the Now back in November. He also said that he hoped the purchase would stimulate the local economy.
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Friends of the Grove energize forested space after tragedy
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hile the new Surrey City Hall officially opened in 2013, the grand opening was held in April. The building has since received both praise and criticism – and legal battles have ensued with contractors who worked on the project. In early 2014, Bosa Construction Inc. (BCI) sued the project’s general contractor PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc. and Surrey, alleging that PCL caused delays and increased costs on the project because of design changes and other issues. PCL countersued BCI, alleging that BCI failed to complete structural work in time, which delayed the whole project and forced PCL to pay other subcontractors overtime and additional costs. More recently, Ron Fettback of Western Pacific Enterprises filed a notice of claim in B.C. Supreme Court against the City of Surrey, also naming PCL. He says because Surrey changed design plans, the amount of work his company performed tripled. Fettback also says his company did what he sees as wasteful preparation work on the
behind-schedule city hall to enable Mayor Dianne Watts’ charity gala to take place there in October 2013. WPE invoices suggest work for the gala cost about $90,000, including almost $30,000 in overtime and double-overtime costs which “would not have been performed at all if there was no mayor’s gala.” Surrey’s development manager Aubrey Kelly said the city is committed to paying what it is contractually obligated to do, adding he doesn’t believe the bill for the mayor’s gala could be as high as $90,000. While city officials say the new city hall comes with a price tag of $97 million, mortgages to finance the project – a 180,000-square food building complete with black marble, extravagant tiling and soaring glasswork – means the eventual bill could rise to $145 million. The city insists the project is on budget, without financing considered. Surrey spokesman Oliver Lum says the city plans to repay the loan in 10 years, making the final cost $128 million.
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he year of 2014 was marked with a plethora of terrible events, including the rise of ISIL in Syria, the spread of the Ebola virus, and another young black man shot by a white police officer that sparked riots in America. But while there’s every reason to expect that 2015 will have an equal or greater share of horrendous news to bear, I’m going to play the angel’s advocate on this one and offer a somewhat rosier view of predictions. Without further ado: ❚ Taliban supreme commander Mullah Omar becomes the 2.3 billionth viewer of the video Gangnam Style on YouTube. He enjoys the video so much that he declares an end to hostilities with the west and devotes
himself to a fanatical amount of time mastering Pop Psy’s moves. ❚ Global warming mysteriously and unexpectedly stops of its own accord, confounding and astounding scientists the world over. Smug conservative talk show hosts point out that they knew it all along, and call for an immediate return to H2 Hummer production. ❚ In a surprising turn of events that completely upends Leonard Cohen’s 1988 dissertation on poverty and wealth, the gap between the richest and the poorest shrinks considerably. Economists declare it to be a disaster for business. ❚ Canadians elect Liberal leader Justin Trudeau to the office of prime minister, who upon winning the election declares live on CBC that, “there’s more to leadership than just being really, really, really ridiculously good looking.” ❚ The overpaid, underworked executives at BC Ferries, coming to the realization that their service is a monopoly and doesn’t
require expensive advertisements at Rogers Arena, continues to run the public company into the ground. Sorry, not even I can be optimistic about this train wreck. ❚ Voters approve a referendum allowing a 0.5 per cent sales tax increase to go toward transit improvements in Metro Vancouver. But in a sudden and completely unexpected turn of events, Bill Vander Zalm emerges from the wilds to once again decry the tax as being “regressive” and onerous on working families. After a Herculean campaign of misinformation, a second referendum passes repealing the tax. ❚ Canadians once again marvel at the changing of the seasons and, despite there being fixed dates, will endlessly debate whether one has begun or ended. ❚ The Vancouver Canucks meet the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Stanley Cup Finals. With one or both teams certain to choke in epic, historic fashion, league commissioner Gary Bettman declares the results invalid and hands the Cup to
Anaheim anyway. ❚ George RR Martin announces he will have to delay the expected release of his sixth book in the series A Song of Ice and Fire because he’s killed off every main character and needs to invent some more. Fans groan. Meanwhile, Peter Jackson announces a new quadrilogy is being made out of JRR Tolkien’s Silmarillion works. Fans groan. ❚ Just when you thought crime in Surrey couldn’t possibly get any worse, Nickelback makes a surprise appearance at the Bell Performing Arts Centre. ❚ And finally, Mayor Linda Hepner makes good on her most cherished of campaign promises. Although it’s $200 million over budget and located at an extremely inconvenient spot, Surrey gets its first ferris wheel. Reporter goes for a ride, falsely declares he can see his house from up there. Adrian MacNair is a reporter and photographer with the Now. He can be reached at amacnair@thenownewspaper.com
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seat. I also had that Escort when I met my wife-to-be. It carried our twin babies home from the hospital when they were born. Gee, I loved that little car. Then, one day, it began pushing white smoke and Aircare, like the Grim Reaper, consigned my faithful pal to the scrap yard. I yet wonder what became of it. Was it turned into shopping carts? Paper clips? I like to think it was melted down into a wrecking ball that will hopefully soon be used to smite down, with a righteous vengeance, those now-redundant Aircare centres that so unfairly picked on the poor. Aircare was also unfair in other regards, picking on tiny little beater Escorts and such when heavy duty trucks were left free to
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Still kissing after 70 years of marriage, we told you Roy and Violet Kozinski’s love story in May. The Fleetwood couple credits humour and patience – and lots of it – with helping them make it through seven decades as a married couple. (Photo: KEVIN HILL)
The inspiring people of 2014 This past year, the ‘Now’ changed our format to showcase more stories of amazing people in our community. Here are just a few favourites from the past 12 months. Joan Ross, Julie Paskall’s sister-in-law, came to the Now in the weeks that followed the hockey mom’s horrific death and wanted to spread a message: “Take your power back.” In the Now’s office, she shared her courageous message, fighting back tears. She wanted the tragedy to be a catalyst for positive change – change she hoped would come from the community. While she was glad to see the public demanding change, she didn’t want to see people pointing fingers. “Stop blaming, stop pointing for someone else to make this a better world – to make this a better place, to make my community safer. Turn that finger on yourself and ask how you can make it safer.” (Photo: KEVIN HILL)
In July, the Now’s Michael Booth wrote an inspiring two-page report on Surrey’s skateboard Mountie, RCMP Const. Troy Derrick, who connects with youth through the one thing that unites us all: community. “Skateboarding opens the door for me to connect with kids,” Derrick told us this summer. “When they see me skateboarding it humanizes the position.” (Photo: KEVIN HILL)
Sybil Rowe inspired readers with her valiant efforts to save trees in Surrey’s Grandview Heights neighbourhood as it develops. In January, she hit the streets and knocked on doors and collected some 730 signatures and presented the petition to the city, calling for a dedicated park and for heritage designation for majestic evergreens. While Rowe has won the fight for the park, she has yet to hear about the trees. “All I can say is I couldn’t have tried harder,” she said. (Photo: KEVIN HILL)
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he residents of Surrey could be forgiven for being confused in August when Metro Vancouver’s port authority decided to approve one of the most unpopular developments in the city’s history. Port Metro Vancouver gave the green light to Fraser Surrey Docks to build a $15-million coal transfer facility that will eventually see four million metric tonnes of thermal coal travel through the city annually. The project includes an increase of 640 train trips through White Rock, Surrey and Delta in the first year alone, doubling when the port reaches full capacity. The approval of the project stunned many people, particularly given the stiff opposition from the public and health experts. According to Port Metro Vancouver’s own public consultation results, only six out of more than 3,000 comments expressed favour for the proposal. Meanwhile, Surrey and Delta refused to support the project until a third-party health-impact assessment and public hearings could be conducted. White Rock
Surrey Six murder convictions ‘first step towards getting justice’
fter seven long years, some justice arrived in 2014 for the families of six men who were shot dead in gang violence inside a penthouse suite on the 15th floor of Whalley’s Balmoral Tower. Christopher Mohan, 22, and Abbotsford gasfitter Ed Shellenberg, 55, were innocent victims who accidentally stumbled upon a drug hit in progress on Oct. 19, 2007. Edward Sousakhone Narong, 22, Ryan Bartolomeo, 19, and brothers Michael Justin Lal, 26, and Corey Jason Michael Lal, 21, were also slain. The victims’ families got a taste of justice in October when Justice Catherine Wedge convicted Red Scorpions gangsters Matthew Johnston and Cody Haevischer of six counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder. They were sentenced in December to mandatory life sentences, without eligibility to apply for parole until 25 years have been served in prison. With seven years now gone, Eileen Mohan, grieving mother of Christopher
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Mohan, still has other trials to attend. She told the Now recently that she’s steeling herself for two more criminal trials related to Christopher’s death: Jamie Bacon’s on May 4 next year and then Sophon Sek’s, which she expects to take place in 2016. “It was the first step towards getting justice for Christopher,” she said of this year’s trials. “There’s two more steps. We have a trial coming in May, and right after that trial it would be Sophon Sek’s trial.” She also has a civil suit on the go, related to Christopher’s murder. Filed on the second anniversary of his death, it targets the killers, defendants, the estate of Cory Lal, the condominium strata council, owners of the apartment were the murders happened and the property management company. “My dream is to get Christopher all settled down, get myself all civilly all cleared out,” she told the Now. “There are a lot of people who run. I am not a runner. I have never been a runner. My son was a very, very loyal person, and this is loyalty back to Christopher.”
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t was an epic battle to replace outgoing mayor Dianne Watts in November’s civic election. Barinder Rasode, councillor at the time, split from Surrey First in April, citing hostility from her teammates as her reason for doing so. After much speculation in the media, she announced she would be seeking the mayor’s chair. Meanwhile, former mayor Doug McCallum came out of the woodwork to fight to regain his spot at the top. Then-councillor Linda Hepner, who received Watts’ endorsement as her replacement, rounded out the “big three” contenders for the job. Hepner described the election race as “engaged,” with more community interest than the previous two, but added, “this one has been more destructive than I have seen in the past.” Crime and public safety, above all, dominated the race. All three contenders came out with crime platforms,and took jabs at one another over their public safety records. At the end of it all, the torch was passed from Watts to Hepner, who won with 50,782 votes, roughly half of the total tally. The first-time mayoral candidate earned close to double the number of votes of her nearest rival, McCallum. But Hepner
Linda Hepner and her Surrey First team swept the November election. didn’t win on her own – her full Surrey First team was also victorious. New councillors were Dave Woods, Vera LeFranc and Mike Starchuk. This was the second election in a row that saw Surrey First take every seat on council. Hepner promises to continue Watts’ legacy, have operational light rail in Surrey by 2018 and asked for 100 new police officers, which she promised on the campaign. Some have taken issue with planned tax hikes for 2015, which were revealed in mid-December and weren’t mentioned during the election. Surrey tax bills are set to rise by $162 in 2015 as Surrey grapples with how to pay for the new officers. Notably, the city is planning to introduce a $100 cultural and recreational parcel tax to pay for capital projects on the books in order to free up money for the new cops.
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Teachers hit the picket line in Surrey during a long and nasty fight between the BCTF and the B.C. government. Teachers and students were back to school on Sept. 23.
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he British Columbia Teachers’ Federation and the provincial government were at an ultimate stand-off this year, with 41,000 teachers striking from mid-June to three weeks into the start of the 2014/2015 school year. With the BCTF not taking an original proposal to raise teachers’ pay by 7.5 per cent over 10 years at the beginning of the strike, B.C.’s Minister of Education Peter Fassbender responded by reducing his second proposal to just seven per cent. The action kicked off the longest and nastiest fight between the BCTF and the government in history, with several back-and-forth measures, including a temporary lock-out and several “markins.” Some parents enrolled their children in private or independent schools, while enrollment for online courses spiked and the Surrey Board of Trade offered free classes for Surrey students. The BCTF, Fassbender and B.C. Premier Christy Clark made headline news during
the strike, each calling for the other to agree to terms. While the provincial government reportedly saved $80 million per week that the BCTF was on strike, it paid out $141 million in childcare subsidy cheques to parents of children under 13 after the strike came to an end. The B.C. government also paid $105 million to the BCTF as a result of negotiations stemming from the strike and court action. “I think, for some members, they lost a lot of money in the strike so they would have liked to see more come back,” Jennifer Wadge, president of the Surrey Teachers’ Association, told the Now after news broke that the teachers were receiving their onetime payouts. “But it was a very difficult bargain, I think there is a feeling of ‘at least we got something.’” Teachers and students were back to school on Monday, Sept. 23 after agreeing to a six-year contract including a 7.25-percent wage increase.
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an there be any doubt that public safety was Surrey’s dominant issue in 2014? The civic election in November was hard-fought over policing levels and all-candidates’ debates were often dominated by who had – or didn’t have – the best plan to tackle street crime in this city. Earlier in the year, a survey of Surrey residents had more than 50 per cent of respondents identifying crime as their city’s number-one issue. Campaign platforms were drafted in response to residents’ fears for their safety, following some high-profile murders committed in preceding months. Mercifully, Surrey did not break its 2013 all-time record of 25 homicides. In 2014, at least at this time of writing, there were 17 homicides. While police and politicians often say most homicides are the result of “targeted” gang violence not typically involving regular law-abiding citizens, this reassurance, if you could call it that, was sorely put to the test in 2014. Surrey residents were horrified by the Dec. 29, 2013 murder of hockey mom Julie Paskall outside the Newton Arena. Paskall, 53, was waiting for her teenaged son to finish his hockey game when she was attacked. She died in hospital two days later, on New Year’s Eve. Her alleged killer is due back in court in January. Candlelight vigils were held, as well
A roadside memorial honours Surrey teenager Serena Vermeersch, who was murdered in September during an election campaign focused on crime. as public forums, and Newton found itself in the media spotlight. Then in September, with electioneering already well underway, Surrey teenager Serena Vermeersch was murdered allegedly by a high-risk sex offender who had been released into the community. Unlike most years, 2014 was marred by an unusual number of homicides involving children. Vermeersch was 17 years old, as was Jaylen Sandhu, who was stabbed multiple times in Fleetwood on Dec.
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ABOVE: On June 10, it was a sea of Red Serge as some 600 police officers and their public safety partners gathered at BC RCMP Headquarters at Green Timbers in Surrey for a service to remember three Mounties slain in New Brunswick. RIGHT: A brave swimmer gets one last jump in as the sun sets on a warm September evening at Crescent Beach. (Photos: KEVIN HILL) FAR LEFT: Hundreds of people honoured the memory of murder victim Julie Paskall during a a candlelight vigil at Holland Park in January. LEFT: In May, more than 5,000 people put on their sneakers for Color Me Rad, a five-kilometre run/walk held in Surrey for the first time. (Photos: GORD GOBLE)
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Events guide coNcertS New years eve Dance Party with Powder Blues Band: White Rock Blues Society hosts event Wednesday, Dec. 31 at Pacific Inn Resort. Tickets are $80 via Tickets. surrey.ca. “American rock legends: the music of Bob Seger and John fogerty”: Showcase performance by Dan Hare and his March Hare band,
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Bluefrogstudios.ca, 604-542-3055.
cluBS/live muSic the taphouse Guildford: Live music three nights a week at upscale bar, 15330 102A Ave., Surrey. 604583-8828, The Taphouse.ca. Dec. 31: Groove n Tonic Band. Dublin crossing: Live music six nights a week at 18789 Fraser Hwy., Surrey. 604-575-5470, Dublincrossing.com. Sawbucks Pub: Live music on select weekend nights, 1626 152nd St., South Surrey. “Almost Famous
Karaoke” Thursdays, Trivia Night Tuesdays. 604-536-6420.
PolAr BeAr SwimS Polar Bear Swim in white rock: At White Rock pier, local Rotary clubs and others are planning the 45th annual Polar Bear Swim, which starts at noon on Thursday, Jan. 1. Participants are encouraged to preregister at Tourismwhiterock.com. Polar Bare Plunge: In South Surrey, two local naturist/nudist groups (Skinnydipper Recreation Club and Surreys United Naturists, or SUN) will
co-host the ninth annual Polar Bare Plunge on what they call “Nude Year’s Day,” Thursday, Jan. 1 at Crescent Rock Beach, starting at 1 p.m. Delta’s 35th annual Polar Bear Swim begins at Boundary Bay Regional Park in Tsawwassen. Festivities begin at 11:45 a.m., swim at 1 p.m. sharp. Prizes. Registration at Delta.ca. Donations of nonperishable food items to the local food bank are appreciated.
holiDAy eveNtS winter ice Palace: Skating sessions at Cloverdale Arena to Jan. 4. Arena transformed into a winter wonderland, complete with an old-fashioned pond. Admission (2+ years): $4.25, skate rentals $3, helmet rentals $1.50. For times, call 604-502-6410 or search for “Winter Ice Palace” at Surrey.ca.
theAtre/StAGe “the odd couple”: Arts Club Theatre Company brings Neil Simon’s comedy of mismatched roomies to Surrey Arts Centre’s main stage from Jan. 14 to 24, at Bear Creek Park. Tickets and show info: 604-501-5566, Tickets.surrey.ca. “mike the knight in the Great Scavenger hunt”: Koba Entertainment brings theatrical production, based on CG-animated TV series, to Surrey’s Bell Performing Arts Centre on Saturday, Feb. 14. The show will take “audiences on an interactive and eye-opening adventure for the whole family complete with an enchanting world of medieval castles, plucky trolls and flying dragons.” Tickets and info: 1-855-985-5000, MikeTheKnightOnTour.com.
tree chiPPiNG christmas tree chipping & Bottle Drive on Sunday, Jan. 4, 1 to 4 p.m., at Emmanuel Covenant Church, 17029 16th Ave., Surrey. Info: Emmanuelcovenant.ca. enver creek Secondary Dry Grad 2015 fundraiser (Christmas tree chipping by donation, clothing drive and bottle drive), Saturday, Jan. 3 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at school,14505 84 Ave., Surrey. tree chipping hosted by rotary club of Surrey Guildford on Jan. 3 and Jan. 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily at North Surrey Secondary School, 15945 96th Ave., Surrey. “We will also be accepting small electronic devices for recycling. All by donation. Info: Rotarysurrey.ca, 778-808-5232. knights of columbus’ annual christmas tree chipping (by donation) on Jan. 3 (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and Jan. 4 (noon to 4 p.m.) at St. Matthew’s Parish parking lot, 16079 88th Ave., Surrey. “Fundraising with proceeds to local charities.” Info: Call Doug Thomas, 604-218-2722.
SPortS free basketball camps: Fraser Valley Basketball Association (FVBA), “a federal non-profit community organization committed to the enjoyment and development
of basketball among children,” will host free basketball camps in the month of January (Jan. 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, 24-25). “We believe that every child deserves to play.” For more info, call 778-833-3822 or visit Basketballfv.com. Delta triathlon: Registration for the 16th annual event begins Jan. 5 at 6 a.m.; race day is on Saturday, April 5. Visit Eventsonline.ca for race registration and Delta.ca/triathlon for more information, including volunteer opportunities.
SAleS/crAftS charity fundraiser at Star of the Sea centre, white rock: More than 90 vendor tables with crafts, antiques collectables, memorabilia, retro, art, household items and more. Vendors from all over the Lower Mainland. Held every first Saturday of the month. 50/50 draw, door prizes, free parking, rain or shine. Hot dogs only $2. Next market is Jan. 3 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Info: Call Brian Hoven, 604-536-1947.
voluNteeriNG learning Disabilities Association fraser South: “Become a volunteer tutor and help a child struggling with reading or math in a program sponsored by the Learning Disabilities Association Fraser South. Extensive training provided.” Attend an information session Jan. 5 or 6 in Surrey and Jan. 7 in Langley. Pre-register at 604591-5156. More info at Ldafs.org.
liBrAry eveNtS tracing your family history: “Discover your past, discover yourself!” Surrey Libraries’ Cloverdale Library (5642 176A St.) has one of the largest, Canadian family history collections in the country, and our extensive resources, programs and expertise can help you on this path. Winter workshops include “An Introduction to Family History,” 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 5. Free. Start writing your family history: A Beginners’ workshop (five lessons) on Saturdays from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 7, Jan. 31, Feb. 14, Feb. 28 and March 14. Fee is $100 for the series. “This series of five three-hour classes, developed by writer and researcher Brenda Smith, addresses each beginning family history researcher’s need for guidance in embarking on a very personal journey.” Register at 604598-7327 or email familyhistory@ surrey.ca.
viSuAl Art Surrey Photography club presents member showcase exhibit from Dec. 31 to Jan. 27 at Firehall Centre for the Arts, 11489 84th Ave., North Delta. Artist meetgreet event Saturday, Jan. 3 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (light refreshments served). Semiahmoo Arts presents the “2014 members exhibition,” to Jan. 5 at The Turnbull Gallery at South Surrey Recreation & Arts Centre. Info: Semiahmooarts.com.
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The arts
Resolve to get involved, see something, text less ArtsScene Melanie Minty Columnist
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t is traditional to finish off the year with either a list of resolutions for the new year and/or remember great things from the past year. I am going to disappoint you. Sort of. Sure, I make lists. But these lists are for me. You have to make your own lists. As for reviewing the year past, I can only say there were some very great moments that I will treasure. Again, you will have to find your own moments to treasure. Get involved. Do something. Take note of all the opportunities waiting for your participation. Social media makes it easy for us to share practically every moment. This new millennium gives us communication capabilities that are both magical and irritating. We are learning new social mores (I hope) on how to use all this technology and still be civilized. Not necessarily to tweet, text or ’Tube everything. Sometimes the best discoveries are the ones you find for
yourself, maybe by reading about it in print, like this traditional information distributor: a newspaper. Anyone following this column for any length of time will know that I love live theatre. It is an event we share with a large group in a comfortable environment. Who has not yet attended a performing arts performance at Surrey Arts Centre? Seriously? That many of you? If you have on your New Year’s Resolution list to remedy this oversight, here is a show for you.… Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple comes to Surrey Arts Centre’s mainstage theatre from Jan. 14 to 24. This Arts Club On Tour production is the classic comedy of mismatched roommates. The Odd Couple was also a hit television series and is still almost as popular today as it was when the play premiered on Broadway in 1965. I guess you could ask the question if Neil Simon’s writing is still relevant in the high-tech modern world. Find out for yourself. Meet Felix Ungar (played by Robert Moloney), the neurotic, neat-freak news writer. Meet Oscar Madison (Mike Wasko), the slovenly sportswriter. When life changes bring them together as roommates, will these two friends learn to meet in the middle? Or
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Andrew McNee (left) and Robert Moloney in the Arts Club’s production of The Odd Couple. For show tour dates at Surrey Arts Centre in January, call 604-501-5566 or visit Tickets.surrey.ca. will their irreconcilable differences split them apart? The Odd Couple, the play that earned Simon his first Tony Award, is one of his funniest and most affecting works – or so it is written in the media. Director John Murphy says, “this is ultimately a comedy about friendship… and a 1960s period piece – think Mad Men, but really, really funny.” Book your tickets now by calling 604-5015566 or visiting Tickets.surrey.ca. Oh, I just remembered a “resolution” that
I made last year at this time, and that was to include more about visual art. Not an expert here, but Wendy Mould is someone who has made a huge impact in our community as a visual artist. Her Art by Wendy studio/gallery, located at 9349 152A St. in North Surrey, offers original art, private drawing lessons, prints and cards and even commissions for portraits, including pets. Wendy loves blogging and you will have no trouble finding more information just by searching “Art by Wendy.” Look for Wendy Mould workshops coming up in the new year; the marketing-focused “Let’s Get Your Art Out There!” session will, yes, help you get your art out there, and maybe get sold. It’s on Sunday, Feb. 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and costs only $65. Register via email to wendy@ artbywendy. Just never know what lies ahead for you in the new year. Your “moments to treasure” are waiting for your call. Happy New Year.
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t was an epic battle to replace outgoing mayor Dianne Watts in November’s civic election. Barinder Rasode, councillor at the time, split from Surrey First in April, citing hostility from her teammates as her reason for doing so. After much speculation in the media, she announced she would be seeking the mayor’s chair. Meanwhile, former mayor Doug McCallum came out of the woodwork to fight to regain his spot at the top. Thencouncillor Linda Hepner, who received Watts’ endorsement as her replacement, rounded out the “big three” contenders for the job. Hepner described the election race as “engaged,” with more community interest than the previous two, but added, “this one has been more destructive than I have seen in the past.” Crime and public safety, above all, dominated the race. All three contenders came out with crime platforms, and took jabs at one another over their public safety records. At the end of it all, the torch was passed from Watts to Hepner, who won with 50,782 votes, roughly half of the total tally. The first-time mayoral candidate earned close to double the number of votes of her nearest rival, McCallum. But Hepner didn’t win on her own – her full Surrey First team was also victorious. New councillors were Dave Woods, Vera LeFranc and Mike Starchuk. This was the second election in a row that saw the Surrey First slate take every seat on council. Going forward, Hepner promises to continue Watts’ legacy, have operational light rail in Surrey by 2018 and asked
Surrey’s new mayor Linda Hepner talks to media after being sworn in at city hall in early December. Hepner and her Surrey First team swept the November election. for 100 new police officers, which she promised along the campaign trail. Some have taken issue with planned tax hikes for 2015, which were revealed in midDecember and weren’t mentioned during the election. Surrey tax bills are set to rise by $162 in 2015 as Surrey grapples with how to pay for the new officers. Notably, the city is planning to introduce a $100 cultural and recreational parcel tax to pay for capital projects on the books in order to free up money for the new cops.
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Teachers hit the picket line in Surrey during a long and nasty fight between the BCTF and the B.C. government. Teachers and students were back to school on Sept. 23. the strike, each calling for the other to agree to terms. While the provincial government reportedly saved $80 million per week that the BCTF was on strike, it paid out $141 million in childcare subsidy cheques to parents of children under 13 after the strike came to an end. The B.C. government also paid $105 million to the BCTF as a result of negotiations stemming from the strike and court action. “I think, for some members, they lost a lot of money in the strike so they would have liked to see more come back,” Jennifer Wadge, president of the Surrey Teachers’ Association, told the Now after news broke that the teachers were receiving their onetime payouts. “But it was a very difficult bargain, I think there is a feeling of ‘at least we got something.’” Teachers and students were back to school on Monday, Sept. 23 after agreeing to a sixyear contract including a 7.25-per-cent wage increase.
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