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Bound for Baltimore: Melissa Seselja had some fun on the beach ch promoting Job’s Daughters, but the South h Surrey woman isn’t just playing around when it comes to vying for the organization’ ion’s international title, after being named Miss iss BC. see page 11
Fifth electoral district planned for Surrey voters
Federal South Surrey riding faces split Jeff Nagel Black Press
Surrey will get a fifth MP and a new riding come the next federal election, as part of a complex redrawing of electoral district boundaries. The biggest change is the proposed creation of a new Langley-Cloverdale riding that splits
Cloverdale and Clayton off from the existing South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale, leaving a South Surrey-White Rock riding in the south. The new riding also takes in much of the current Fleetwood-Port Kells riding. The other three Surrey ridings would be renamed North Surrey-Guildford, Surrey Centre and West Surrey-Whalley, taking the
place of Surrey North, Newton-North Delta and Fleetwood-Port Kells. The changes are proposed by the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission, which suggests adding six electoral districts in B.C. Canada’s electoral districts are reviewed every 10 years by independent commissions in each province to account for shifts and
growth in the population and other factors. A public hearing in Surrey on the local boundary changes is set for the Sheraton Guildford hotel in Surrey on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. Anyone wishing to make a presentation must register by Aug. 30. For more information, see www.federalredistribution.ca
Border guard conspires
20 years sought for coke scheme Dan Ferguson Staff Reporter
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Winding down
Tera Blanco of the California Worth Firecrackers throws a pitch against the Ashburn Shooting Stars during Sunday’s Futures Gold championship game at the Canadian Open Fastpitch International Championship at Softball City. The Firecrackers won the game 9-0. The Open wrapped up Monday night with the Women’s International final between the USA and Japan. See page 33.
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Baljinder Kandola and Shminder Johal should get 20 years for smuggling an “enormous” amount of cocaine through the Pacific Highway border crossing, a B.C. Supreme Court judge heard Monday. Kandola, a Cloverdale resident who worked as a border guard, and Johal, a Richmond resident who claimed to operate a car-parts importing business, were motivated by “profit and greed,” Crown prosecutor James Torrance said. “This case is about the corruption of a CBSA (Canada Border Services Agency) officer and the importation of an enormous amount of cocaine,” Torrance said. Kandola and Johal were found guilty June 29 on multiple drugand bribery-related charges stemming from their arrest in 2007. During their sentencing hearing in New Westminster Monday, Torrance told Justice Selwyn Romilly that while the two men have no previous criminal records, the nature of their “planned and deliberate” conspiracy demands a lengthy prison term. see page 4
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