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Thursday November 22, 2012
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Tears for fallen RCMP officer
Thousands attend service for Surrey constable killed in crash Black Press THOUSANDS OF RCMP officers and police from other forces as far away as
Australia marched in the rain Tuesday to honour fallen Surrey RCMP Const. Adrian Oliver. The 28-year-old Oliver received a full regimental funeral at the Langley Events Centre, a memorial second only in significance to a state funeral. When the marchers arrived at the centre, eight officers removed their regulation Stetsons and carried his casket on their shoulders into the arena with slow, careful steps. Also in attendance were customs officers and border guards, sheriffs, municipal police officers, firefighters, paramedics, coast guard members, fisheries officers, and numerous provincial, federal and international dignitaries. Oliver, a three-year member of the Surrey Bob Paulson detachment, died when his police cruiser collided with a semi-trailer truck at 64 Avenue and 148 Street in the early morning hours of Nov. 13. Const. Ben Oliver, Adrian’s twin brother and a fellow RCMP officer, spoke at the service. “I have lost my best friend in the entire world,” he told the audience in the 5,500-seat arena.
“He was unselfish to his friends, his family, and to the citizens he served.”
EVAN SEAL / THE LEADER
RCMP Const. Ben Oliver wipes away as tear as his stepfather, RCMP Chief Supt. Joe Oliver, looks on prior to the Langley funeral service for Surrey RCMP Const. Adrian Oliver, who died last week.
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No stops in Surrey for Port Mann express bus Plan change ‘an act of fraud,’ transit advocate charges
by Jeff Nagel USERS OF the new Highway 1 express bus service over the Port Mann Bridge won’t be able to board or exit in Surrey as had previously been promised. The express buses start to roll on Dec. 1 when the bridge officially opens and the announcement for the
new #555 route was made by Transportation Minister Mary Polak amid fanfare last Friday in Langley. But transit advocates in Surrey are angry their promised stop near the new dedicated bus/HOV ramps at 156 Street has been quietly dropped from the plan.
See INFRASTRUCTURE / Page 8
EVAN SEAL / THE LEADER
Transit advocate Daryl Dela Cruz says Surrey has been betrayed by a decision not to send express buses from Langley down the new 156 Street HOV ramps to pick up passengers in Guildford.
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