1922-2012 Delta Optimist’s 90thAnniversary
Double murder shocks Tsaw. A grisly double murder in Tsawwassen and an effort to turn Burns Bog into the next Pacific National Exhibition were among the big stories of the 1990s. A 1992 murder trial saw teenagers Derik Lord, David Muir and Darren Huenemann all convicted in the slayings of Huenemann’s mother and grandmother in an inheritance plot. Only Muir has since been released. In 1999, two years after the Burns Bog Conservation Society presented a 25,000-name petition to the B.C. government to preserve the bog, a proposal was
pitched to build a giant how the negative pubentertainment centre lic reaction killed the that would have includproposal. ed a new home for the A few years later the PNE. four levels of governThat ment proposal — federal, came Optimist through provincial, from Delthe years regional ta Fraser and muProperties nicipal Partnership, a partner— purchased the bog to ship between Western ensure its preservation. Delta Lands and CalAnother big story durgary investor Byron ing the decade was Seaman. Then premier George Hodgins, presiGlen Clark said the dent of what was then province was involved known as Century by providing a $25-milHoldings, threatening lion loan as part of an to sue Delta council for effort to save 1,200 $500 million, alleging hectares of the bog as it conspired to stop him parkland. from developing his The Optimist reported controversial 758-acre
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Southlands property. Other headlines in the 1990s included the opening of the Deltaport container terminal at Roberts Bank, the municipality securing the Boundary Bay Airport from the federal government and Delta striking a deal with the City of Vancouver regarding the Vancouver Landfill in East Ladner. The deal involved stacking garbage higher in exchange for an unused portion of the landfill, adjacent to Burns Bog, being preserved. That pristine parcel would later be added to the bog’s nature conservancy.
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