Tuesday Tuesd February 21, 2012 (Vol.. 37 No. 15)
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Leading by example: A group of Lower Mainland mayors – including Surrey’s Dianne Watts – will be front and centre next month after volunteering to participate in the Healthy Community Challenge, which aims to promote fitness throughout the province. see page 11
No physical injury but concern for trauma
Bus passenger chokes driver attacker using a dog but were unsuccessful. A Coast Mountain bus driver is Video surveillance was in use unhurt after a passenger in New- on the bus and the recording has ton tried to choke him Saturday been retrieved and will be used morning. by Mounties in their investigation. The assault happened at King About 10 other people were on George Boulevard near 76 Avenue the bus. on the southbound RCMP spokes❝As a driver who has 321 bus from Surman Drew Granger rey Central station been assaulted three said the assailant is to White Rock. described as a white The driver had times, I can tell you the male age 18-20, big thing that keeps asked the passenger, five-foot-10, with who boarded and was playing on your mind is short, dark hair. He standing too close to ‘Is this guy going to get was wearing a black the windshield, to jacket over a hoodie back on my bus again?’❞ and blue jeans. move back. Gavin Davies, viceDavies said Gavin Davies president of local 111 Canadian Auto Workers union although there was of the Canadian Auto no physical injury Workers union, said the young man to the driver, such assaults inflict complied without objection but at a ongoing mental trauma. later stop grabbed the driver “with “As a driver who has been both hands around the throat and assaulted three times, I can tell you started choking him.” the big thing that keeps playing The driver was in shock and didn’t on your mind is ‘Is this guy going fight back, but his assailant sud- to get back on my bus again?’” he denly let go and bolted off the bus. said. Surrey RCMP tried to find the see page 4 Jeff Nagel Black Press
Fatal-crash review calls for reinforcement
Railings ‘not to blame’ Dan Ferguson Staff Reporter
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White Rock Christian Academy Warriors point guard Tyus Allen is sandwiched between a pair of Tamanawis Wildcat defenders during WRCA’s 60-58 win Friday night in the final game of the Fraser Valley Southwest tournament. For more, see page 31.
Nearly a year after a car plunged through a railing of the Serpentine River bridge in South Surrey – submerging the driver for 90 minutes – a report on the fatal crash has been released. At a Monday briefing, Ministry of Transportation bridge and traffic engineers said an examination of the section of guard rail that failed to prevent the driver from crashing into the Serpentine River on Feb. 28, 2011 showed there was no structural problem with the bridge. Regardless, the 1961-era bridge will be beefed up with more con-
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crete guard rails in place of the cast aluminum railings originally installed. The report only deals with the structural integrity of the bridge, however it refers to the police inves see page 4
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