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Tuesday June 5, 2012 Serving Surrey and North Delta www.surreyleader.com
Japreet Lehal wins $48,000 in scholarships and Governor General’s medal
On track for gold Ben Ingvaldsen of Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary competes in the hammer throw competition at the B.C. High School Track and Field Championships in Burnaby on Saturday. Ingvaldsen fouled out of the hammer throw event, but won a gold medal in the shot put and added a fourth place finish in the discus.
Surrey student sweeps up awards by Kevin Diakiw IT’S BEEN a good year for Japreet Lehal. The 18-year-old first-year Simon Fraser University student has won $48,000 in scholarships based on academic performance while attending Princess Margaret Secondary School. Last week he was also given the Governor General’s Academic Medal for his scholastic achievements, and was named one of the Surrey Board Trade’s Top Japreet Lehal of 25 under 25. Lehal has been a community keener from a young age, when he embarked on volunteering. With a passion for music, he taught himself to play the dholak, an Indian instrument, and started singing Punjabi songs with his father.
“I do relax and I sit down, and that’s when I get ideas to do different things.”
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U.S. shopping losses feared Merchants want federal reforms to fight flow of cash over the border by Jeff Nagel B.C. RETAILERS are bracing for the loss of even more business to cross-
border shopping, even though more generous duty-free allowances that started June 1 apply only to overnight stays. The duty-free limit for visits to the U.S. longer than 24 hours rose from $50 to $200 on Friday. Stays 48 hours or longer will qualify for $800 in duty-free purchases, up from $400 previously for visits up to a week. Day trippers or those just nipping across the border for gas and groceries won’t notice a difference, ShelfSpace executive director Mark Startup said.
“If you’re going to go down for 25 minutes and spend $80 to fill up your car with bread, milk and cheese, the duty-free allowance change will have no impact on that behaviour,” he said. Nor, he suggested, is it likely many will stay overnight to save an extra $150 in duty. “Where we might see some increases are from the bigger 48-hour exemption,” Startup said. “Some of our members have expressed concern over that.” Bank of Montreal economist Douglas Porter warned in a report issued last month the drain of Canadian shoppers heading south is weighing heavily on retail sales here.
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