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Suspect in bus attacks named Surrey man, 19, charged with stabbing, strangling incidents in Aldergrove and Surrey MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
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STOP THE BULLYING: Members of the Power to Stay Away club (PSA) have organized Pink Week at Walnut Grove Secondary School to raise awareness about bullying in schools. Tomorrow (Wednesday) they will participate in the national day for anti-bullying by selling pink shirts to students at the school. Top row, left to right: Grace Kim (Grade 8), Cassidy Verhulst (Grade 9), Alexis Gordon (Grade 12), Cari Andrews (Grade 12); middle row, left to right: Dareum Park (Grade 8), Brittany Tam (Grade 9), Aidan Paradis (Grade 9); bottom row, left to right: Tianna Gill (Grade 12), Laura Ko (Grade 8).
LTA not optimistic on talks Meetings, rallies set in show of solidarity MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
Teachers at Brookswood Secondary wore black and teachers from schools around Langley were expected to demonstrate outside the Steelworkers union hall on Monday evening after a general meeting of Langley Teachers Association, said president Gail Chaddock-Costello.
The union meeting for teachers began at 4 p.m. Monday. Teachers will vote this week on escalating their job action, in response to the government’s plan to impose a contract settlement. A full strike is possible, even though teachers are forbidden by provincial law from walking off the job. A big rally was also planned at the Cloverdale Agriplex Monday, with B.C. Teachers Federation president Susan Lambert the keynote speaker. Surrey is the largest B.C. school district and has the most members of any BCTF local. A contingent of Langley teachers was going to the rally to show solidarity.
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“Teachers’ morale is good. Nobody wants to get to the point where we walk out. “Teachers want to teach and be in the classroom,” said Chaddock-Costello. “But we have been told that the government is willing to go to mediation on everything that doesn’t have monetary value. . . It doesn’t look good.” Teachers are asking for a 15 per cent increase over three years. On Monday, teachers arrived at school just before school started, and left school as soon as classes were finished, in order to attend the meetings. Each school also hosted a union meeting at lunch time.
The 19-year-old Surrey man charged in connection with the choking of a bus driver and stabbing of a bus passenger in Aldergrove has been held in jail. Steven Fayant is charged with aggravated assault for the stabbing of a 41-yearold Langley man, who was getting off the bus near Aldergrove Centre Mall on Tuesday, Feb. 21. Fayant is also charged with assault in connection with strangling a Surrey bus driver on Feb. 18. The suspect, who is known to police, made his Cpl. Holly first court appearance in Marks Surrey Provincial Court on Friday, where a judge remanded him in custody. He makes another appearance on Tuesday (today). Langley RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Holly Marks said that Fayant was arrested shortly after midnight last Thursday at his Surrey home. He did not resist arrest. Police from Langley, Surrey and the Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team took part in the apprehension. The arrest was made possible after a Langley Mountie recognized the man from surveillance footage provided by TransLink. Court documents show that Fayant was charged with being in possession of break-in tools on July 28, 2011, and charged three days later for a break in. On Sept. 25, 2011, he was charged with assault.
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