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Surrey passes legislation to help combat smoking
Hospital smokers hit with new buttout bylaw by Kevin Diakiw
Extravagant dance
street looking for bottles, looking for money to buy a few things she needed or wanted.” On Sunday, Dec. 2, Ken Smith, a man who accesses services in the area, discovered Shore in an empty lot in Whalley – barely conscious, partially clothed, and weakly calling for help.
THE CLOUDS of smoke outside Surrey’s hospitals may soon clear, as the city passed a bylaw Monday prohibiting puffing on the property of such facilities. Smoking outside the city’s health care facilities has been a growing and controversial problem. South Surrey’s David Thiele sounded the alarm last October that smoking at the B.C. Cancer Agency’s Fraser Valley Centre in North Surrey was turning the entranceway into a smoke pit. Several people at the time, including hospital staff, were smoking outside the building, which is part of Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH) property. Under both provincial and municipal Coun. Mary laws, smokers must Martin be 7.5 metres from any door, vent or window. But under the rules of the Fraser Health Authority, smoking is not allowed anywhere on hospital property.
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Chloe Choroszewski, 15, was among dozens of performers who took to the stage in Panorama School of Dance’s Dance Extravaganza ‘13 at the Surrey Arts Centre on Feb. 17. BOAZ JOSEPH / THE LEADER
Brutally beaten woman dies Critically injured victim was dumped in Whalley in December
by Kevin Diakiw MORE THAN two months after she was
savagely beaten and left for dead at the end of Whalley’s notorious strip on 135A Street, Janice Shore has died. The 34-year-old diminutive woman had been homeless, but fought hard to get by. She panhandled near the Whalley Safeway,
and managed to scrape together enough money to help her brother, who was also homeless. “She struggled in poverty,” said Jonquil Hallgate, executive director of Surrey Urban Mission Society (SUMS). “(She) didn’t have a lot of personal resources or connections to people in the community. She spent a lot of time on the
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