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Bus cuts go too far ❙ P4

SD37 school bus changes concern mother

FRIDAY ∙ MAY 3 ∙ 2013

Tax breaks to build ❙ P5

Delta floats incentives for waterfront developers

Face to Face ❙ P7

TFN chief Bryce Williams looks to the future

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Home stretch for MLA contenders The opening game of the Vancouver Canucks’ Stanley Cup playoff run didn’t keep more than 200 people from turning out to the final all-candidates debate for Delta South Wednesday evening at the Delta Town and Country Inn. ❙ See story, P.3

Roadwork chafes Ladner businesses Business owners in downtown Ladner say roadwork and water main construction in the village is keeping customers away, and the Corporation of Delta isn’t doing a good enough job of keeping them in the loop.

But while the road work might be painful in the short term, long term it will benefit businesses in Ladner Village, according to the municipality. ❙ See story, P.3

Islanders open season with wins The Delta Islanders’ Junior A and Intermediate A box lacrosse teams opened the regular season in style last weekend, posting a pair of decisive wins over the Burnaby Lakers. The Junior A Islanders impressed fans at their home opener Saturday night at the Ladner Arena as they made short work of the visiting Lakers to beat them 15-4, while the Intermediate A Islanders won 21-12 on Friday. ❙ See story, P.25

❙ A flight into the past

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Friday, May 3, 2013 South Delta Leader

Keep Our Voice in Victoria!

“The theory is MPs and MLAs are elected to represent their riding. In reality, they stray from the party caucus or cabinet line at their peril.”

Vancouver Sun, April 24

"I think Vicki Huntington has to be considered the favourite to win as an Independent in Delta South."

Keith Baldrey, March 1

Party staff write party platforms. First-time candidates see the platform they’ve committed to when we do—after the election campaign is already underway. It’s how the system works.

Unfortunately, BC’s backbench MLAs still have no independent voice when they arrive in Victoria. Under intense pressure from their leader and party whip, backbenchers are expected to stick to the script at all times. And unlike elsewhere in Canada, BC’s MLAs cannot even nd meaningful work in committees. By speaking out in any way, a backbench MLA can expect more than an earful: threats of revoked privileges, delayed advancement, replacement in the next election—and even immediate expulsion from caucus.

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Vicki joined another Independent MLA for a week-long investigation of natural gas fracking in BC’s Peace Region, including meeting with the Farmer’s Advocate Office. Vicki rst called for an independent review of the cumulative impacts of the industry on the environment and society. Then, ghting for BC entrepreneurs in the Alberta-dominated industry, Vicki was the only one to speak in the legislature on our government’s inaction on Alberta’s punitive “residency requirements” exacted on BC businesses involved in both provinces. A testament to Vicki’s effective work is found in the platform of both major parties - the NDP has promised to review fracking, and the Liberals have promised to nally resolve Albertan trade violations that have had a wide-ranging impact on our economic well-being.

To secure a $10-million funding commitment to dredge Ladner’s waterways, Vicki worked tirelessly supporting the Ladner Sediment Group and all levels of government. She helped bring all sides together and organized a tour of Ladner Harbour with Ministry of Transportation officials. Vicki attended over 14 sediment group meetings, questioned the transportation minister about dredging in the legislature on four occasions and she co-presented to the budget committee. And for her consistent, cooperative efforts, she was congratulated in an endorsement from the former Minister of Transportation, Blair Lekstrom.

With a strong research team, Vicki independently uncovered plans to use federal ALR immunity to exclude 558 acres of prime ALR land, in addition to the 512 acres taken from the ALR in the TFN Final Agreement. The $98-million in speculative land options was front page news around the province, and Vicki continued to work in the Legislature, calling on Government to stand up to the Port and the industrial consortium seeking to steamroll our communities. She drew a line in the sand, calling for rm limits on port growth and an end to expansion on prime farmland and migratory bird habitat.

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Ladner construction chafes business owners Customers put off by lack of parking and traffic ❙ Robert Mangelsdorf editor

Road and Arthur Drive will add dedicated left turn lanes in all four directions, with unimpeded dedicated thoroughfare lanes, as well as dedicated right turns lanes.

The road widening will create crosswalks and islands for improved pedestrian and vehicle safety, including more room for turning buses.

Pedestrian-activated flashing beacons will be installed at the main intersection, including in-ground flashers at crossings on Elliott Street, 51st Street, and Ladner Trunk Road, similar to what already exists on Arthur Drive by the Delta Community Music School.

Steven Lan, the director of engineering for the Corporation of Delta, said while the road work might be painful in the short term, long term it will benefit businesses in Ladner Village.

“We’re improving traffic movement and making it more appealing to pedestrians,” he said. “That will bring in more customers to the area.”

Lan said the municipality has consulted with business owners throughout the construction process to keep them informed about what is going on.

“We’ve been working with the [Ladner Business Association], delivering notices to businesses, publicizing in local paper,” he said.

“If anyone has an issue, they can come to us.

Our staff are out there on a daily basis, meeting with business owners.”

After consulting with businesses last year, Delta pushed the construction schedule back so it wouldn’t interfere with the holiday shopping season.

The road work is expected to be completed by late July.

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Business owners in downtown Ladner say roadwork and water main construction in the village is keeping customers away, and the Corporation of Delta isn’t doing a good enough job of keeping them in the loop.

Stan Hardcastle is the owner of the H&R Block franchise on 48th Avenue, and he says business is down due to the lack of parking.

“This is supposed to be our busiest time of year, but there’s no parking in front or nearby because of the construction,” he said. “It’s tax season, we can’t say come back next month.”

He said his business was told last Friday that the water in the office would be cut off on Monday. In other instances, he said he had no warning about crews working in front of his office.

“The work has to be done, I understand that, but we didn’t know they were going to tear up [our street] until they showed up that morning,” said Hardcastle. “Things could have gone smoother with better communication.”

Jana Walker, owner of Blue Door Interiors at the intersection, calls her business “ground zero.”

“This is when I should be making my most money and I’m making my least,” she told construction managers who visited her on Wednesday to discuss access issues and liability concerns of her many fragile inventory.

When construction started outside her shop of one-of-a-kind eclectic antique and vintage

❙ Jana Walker, proprietor of Blue Door Interiors, says her business is at the “ground zero” of intersection upgrades in Ladner. Adrian MacNair photo

furnishings her business was only six months old. Walker is concerned it won’t last another six months.

Aside from the shattering noise, the reverberations of machines working on pavement can be felt inside.

“It’s just like an earthquake and you can see things rattling,” she said, pointing to a concrete scoring machine just metres away from her window which bears an ironic sign reading,

“keep calm and carry on—sale.”

Walker has been assured no jackhammering will be done, but it’s cold comfort. Some days she has had to run around holding objects to keep them from falling down. The tremors has even caused a crack in her roof, she claims.

Her biggest concern isn’t just about access for her customers but the perception there isn’t any.

The ongoing construction at Ladner Trunk

Candidates wrap up debates as election looms ❙ Adrian MacNair reporter adrian@southdeltaleader.com

The Vancouver Canucks’ opening game of the Stanley Cup playoffs didn’t keep more than 200 people from turning out to the final all-candidates debate for Delta South Wednesday evening at the Delta Town and Country Inn. Each candidate struggled with just a one minute response allowance to answer the rapid fire questions that covered a wide range of topics from port expansion, protection of farmland, small business, education, the George Massey Tunnel, and others.

BC Liberal candidate Bruce McDonald maintained his neutrality on a proposed Terminal Two expansion for Deltaport, pending

an environmental assessment.

Independent candidate Vicki Huntington reiterated her opposition, adding container traffic should be expanded in Prince Rupert instead.

“I think that anyone with common sense knows what the construction of Terminal Two would be,” said Huntington, referring to the pollution, impact to wildlife, and loss of farmland.

BC NDP candidate Nic Slater used the opportunity to say an NDP government would bring in a more rigorous environmental assessment that would apply not only to Terminal Two, but to the Massey Tunnel Replacement Project as well.

Slater attacked Huntington several times over her status as an independent, drawing sober looks when he stated, “losers don’t legislate.”

“All the independents in the world can agree with us but none of them can enact legislation,” he said, adding the NDP have been unable to stop the Liberals during the past dozen years in opposition.

Slater and McDonald also sparred briefly, when the NDP candidate accused him of propping up a government of which he keeps pointing out flaws. But McDonald said he wouldn’t be running for office if he thought the government was perfect. “I believe that some things need to be fixed a little bit.”

On helping small businesses, McDonald said it’s unfortunate the province went back

to the PST and that small business taxes have to come down.

Huntington said she was sorry to see the small business tax wasn’t reduced to zero per cent in the last budget.

But Slater said the Liberals already promised to reduce small business taxes in the previous election.

“While they didn’t keep this promise, they did bring in the HST,” he said to great applause.

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Hearing disabled student left stranded by bus cuts ❙ Adrian MacNair reporter adrian@southdeltaleader.com

When Boundary Bay mom Jeannie Stewart thinks about next September, her worries extend beyond the typical academic hopes and dreams for her son.

After all, Connor is a Grade 8 honour roll student at South Delta Secondary and she has every confidence in his demonstrable scholastic abilities.

No, this mother is concerned about her son being struck and seriously hurt by a car as he rides his bicycle along the quiet and narrow Boundary Bay Road. She’s concerned because Connor is deaf.

“I just get really scared when he’s on the road period, because he just doesn’t hear cars,” says Stewart.

Connor has a cochlear implant that allows him to go to a mainstream high school and be a typical kid, boarding a school bus each morning and evening.

But like hundreds of students in the Delta School District, Connor will have to find his own way to school next September following cuts to bus service by the board of education.

In approving the budget last Tuesday (April 23), trustees blamed the

province for slashing their transportation budget by $728,000, forcing them to make cuts worth $380,000 in each of the next two years.

Only students with special needs will continue to be bused to school, while all walk-limit and safety bus routes will be eliminated come September.

Currently, the district provides busing to approximately 400 students. Of these students, 60 per cent live outside of district walk limits, including areas such as rural East Delta and Westham Island. The remaining 40 per cent are special needs students.

In responding to questions from parents last Tuesday, the school district posted a list of responses on its website.

It states that transportation funding has been frozen since 2002 despite rising gas prices and inflation.

Over the years the district was able to reduce costs by finding efficiencies, but has since reached a point where it reached “maximized efficiencies.”

Stewart isn’t buying the excuses.

“I think some of that is not wanting to cut the staffing and the teachers’ unions and [education assistant] unions,” she says, adding she doesn’t blame the ministry of education.

She blames the school district for choosing to put kids at risk.

And Stewart says she’s not just talking about the safety risks of students walking to school along poorly lit roads without sidewalks.

“There’s going to be kids that aren’t going to go to school,” she says.

But the Delta School District says it isn’t responsible for getting those kids to school.

“Providing safe and supportive learning environments is certainly our top priority at the Delta School District,” states the district’s website. “We are dedicated to ensuring our schools and school grounds are safe. Our responsibility for the safety of our students does not extend beyond our school grounds or school hours.”

Stewart says that leaves her with just two options: Letting Connor find his own way to school or driving him there. She says there just isn’t a public transportation option for the time Connor needs to get to school.

And while trustees have blamed the province for cuts to the transportation budget, Stewart says ultimately it wasn’t a cut to education.

“This isn’t a cut for schools, it’s a cut for parents.”

❙ Boundary Bay mom Jeannie Stewart is concerned for the safety of her deaf son Connor, after the Delta school district cut bus service. Adrian MacNair photo

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When: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 from 10 am – 3 pm Where: Engineering Operations Works Yard parking lot 5404 64th Street, Delta BC The following products will be accepted: • Liquids, solids and aerosols • Domestic pesticides • Maximum container size: 10 Litres • Must be labeled with a poison symbol AND a “Pest Control Product” registration number (e.g. PCP Reg. #2464) For more information visit www.delta.ca

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Ladner elementary school turns 75 Although much has changed since 1938, the community spirit remains strong ❙ Adrian MacNair reporter adrian@southdeltaleader.com

When Ladner Elementary opened in 1939 it was with just six grades in six classrooms.

The tiny village of Ladner was then composed of farmers and fishermen, and for many children it was the only formal education they’d receive before going on to work with their parents.

Ladner Elementary opened under the leadership of the former principal of Delta Central School, George Campbell, who continued in that role until his retirement in 1955.

Matt Rogers, a local historian, was a student there from 1943 to 1946 and remembers Campbell being “pretty strict.”

“We had one staircase where we had to walk on one side of it heading to the second floor and he’d stand at the top watching,” says Rogers. “He’d look out the window of his little office all the time to make sure all the boys were playing in their own field and not playing with those high school kids.”

He’d also make sure the boys weren’t playing with the girls, as the genders were segregated then. The present day art room used to be the girls’ lunchroom and the locker room beside

❙ Ladner Elementary students Darren, Sara, Tyler, Amanda, and Cole hold up boats they created to commemorate the school’s 75th anniversary. Adrian MacNair photo

it was the girls’ playroom.

Back then the boys were lucky if they had a ball or a bat to play with during recess so they had to be creative with their games.

“There was one game the boys used to play a lot. We called it boneyard. It was a bone and the object of the game was to get it to the other end of the field, come hell or high

water,” remembers Rogers, laughing.

They’d play that game until Campbell would yell out the window for them to stop.

Wartime affected Ladner Elementary, which ran a coal furnace during the war to comply with restrictions on oil fuel. When the war ended in 1945, the school absorbed students from three other elementary schools that

closed on Westham Island, Canoe Pass, and Sunbury.

In 1962 the present-day school was constructed for $267,000. Today, there are 19 classrooms with 420 students that attend, some from all over Ladner for the French Immersion program.

“I like the community feeling,” says principal Jaye Sawatsky. “And it’s not just in our school.

Families all seem to know each other really well and they are long-time families.”

As part of commemorating the 75th anniversary of the school, students have been preparing murals and building artwork in the school. One project involves grade one children making boats cut out from plywood which will be displayed near the community garden that was transplanted from Kirkland House when the Harris Barn was moved.

“We’re really proud of [the garden] because now we’re bringing the community into our school,” says Sawatsky.

One class is putting together a time capsule that will include some pictures and items representing the school in 2013. It will be buried in one of the courtyards in the hopes that in 25 years when the school celebrates their 100th, they can dig it up and have some fun with it.

The school will officially celebrate 75 years on Friday, May 10, from 5-8 p.m. during its annual carnival. There will be a ceremony, cake, and special events and displays.

Ladner’s Mike Owen named to Fraser River Hall of Fame ❙ Adrian MacNair reporter adrian@southdeltaleader.com

When Mike Owen moved to sleepy little Ladner in 1974 he quickly made waves in the community with his business ventures along the Fraser River.

He got the attention and ire of then-councillor Rick Green when he filled a barge contract that sent 15,000 trucks down River Road.

Even with a fraction of the population of today’s Ladner, residents were just as resistant to the region’s rapid growth. But Owen saw opportunity.

“All of a sudden I thought, hey, it makes economic sense now to have a bigger gravel operation here because of the tunnel, or because of the building in Tsawwassen,” he said, looking back at nearly 40 years of life in Ladner.

Owen, now 66, was recently announced as the 2013 inductee into the Fraser River Hall of Fame by the Fraser River Discovery Centre Society.

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was created to recognize and honour an individual or organization that has made significant and noteworthy contributions to the health and sustainability of the Fraser River, its culture, people, industry and environment.

“I was quite surprised when they called me,” said Owen, adding he was honoured to share a space in the hall with past inductees like Errol Wintemute (1999) from Delta Cedar Products who donated lumber to build the Boys and Girls Club on Arthur Drive.

Owen has given back to community throughout his years on the Fraser, proud of his work on projects such as the Ladner Millennium Trail, the Riverside Area Plan, and the Ernest Bexley scholarship, created while he was president of the Ladner Business Association. Owen said he’s also pleased to see a plan to dredge Ladner Harbour achieved through “a good collaborative approach” between the residents and businesses of Ladner, the Corporation of Delta, Richmond, the province, and the federal government.

Ever a vocal advocate on issues affecting resi-

dents and businesses along the Fraser River, the “They really worked with users and individuals founding member of the Floating Home Associ- along the Fraser River.” ation of B.C. bent the ear of local politicians to A former chair of the Delta Chamber of Comget dredging recognized. merce, Owen said nobody in the ‘50s “I’ve never been shy about saying could have predicted the economic the Port was wrong, or the municipalgrowth and geographic importance ity was wrong, or I’m wrong,” he said, that Delta would one day pose for laughing. trade. He remembers as a child the Owen said the federal government novelty of getting Japanese orangshould put money back into regulares at Christmas and pictures in the ly dredging sediment from the Fraser newspaper of deep sea vessels being River for the same reason it funds iceloaded. breakers on the St-Lawrence River.

“In my father’s day it was Hamil“Sediment is B.C.’s ice. We’re dealing ton and Toronto and Montreal were with 30 million cubic metres of natuthe dynamos of the industrial plants Mike Owen rally occurring sediment.” and exports through the St-Lawrence Most recently, Owen led the backlash seaway,” he said. “They’re minuscule in against Port Metro Vancouver for raising the tonnages and cost compared to what British Corates on water lots for float homes around Lad- lumbia is doing because of Asia.” ner Reach. Owen says prior to amalgamation in Looking ahead, Owen said Delta will be under 2008, the Fraser Port Authority had a better rap- constant pressure from surrounding municipalport with the community and used an advisory ities that have developed on a larger and more committee to work with local issues. ambitious scale.

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❙ Delta council is hoping to speed up private sector investment in the Ladner Harbour waterfront with a tax freeze and a reduction in development fees. Robert Mangelsdorf photo

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Council sweetens deal to revitalize Ladner waterfront Economic incentives include tax freezes and reduction of costs and charges ❙ Adrian MacNair reporter adrian@southdeltaleader.com

Council gave first, second, and third readings to a bylaw that aims to encourage accelerated private sector investment in Ladner’s waterfront area.

Eligible projects—defined as a mixed use or commercial building with a construction value of $5 million or more—could qualify for a municipal property tax freeze for three years, a reduction of development cost charges (DCCs) between 50 and 70 per cent, and the waiving of building application and permit fees.

Other eligible projects would include historical buildings being preserved or refurbished, and the conversion of a purely commercial building to one that is mixed use.

Those projects meeting the definition of “low environmental impact” would also qualify for reduced DCCs. Council would still have to approve these incentives on a case by case basis.

Council also gave first and second readings to an amendment to the Official Community Plan (OCP) that would clarify the vision for the waterfront and guide new development in the area.

Perhaps most controversial among the changes are proposed building heights to 2.5 stories along the waterfront from the current height of two stories, and up to four stories in height on the south side of Chisholm Street from the current two.

Coun. Jeannie Kanakos said that a public information session held in early March clearly demonstrated public opposition to increased building heights on the waterfront.

But staff said they have consulted with the Advisory Design Panel, the Community Planning Advisory Committee, and the

Heritage Advisory Commission and will not recommend changes to the building heights prior to a public hearing.

Coun. Scott Hamilton said he’s heard comparisons made between Ladner’s waterfront plan and La Conner, Wash., which features two-storey buildings on their waterfront. But Hamilton said La Conner was built a long time ago and “times have changed.”

“I’ve heard it again and again from the development community, that they’re not going to give serious consideration to any development on the waterfront on that side of Chisholm Street… unless it’s going to be economically feasible for them to do that.”

The OCP change will also implement policies that focus on sustainable design, pedestrian waterfront access, the expression of Ladner’s cultural character, among others.

The bylaw will now be scheduled for an upcoming public hearing.

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Saturday, May 4th, 2013 Boundary Bay Park On Saturday, May 4th, 2013, Delta Division of Family Practice is participating in a BC Medical Association Initiative “Walk with your Doc”. This Walk is held annually to celebrate the World Health Organization’s Move for Health Day. Join your doctor for a short, fun, community walk around Boundary Bay Regional Park.

For over 30 years KinVillage, a non-profit society located in the heart of Tsawwassen, has provided Delta’s older adults with a wide range of health, housing, and recreational programs.

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❙ Face to Face Robert Mangelsdorf Editor

New chief looks to future Bryce Williams wants to inspire Tsawwassen youth

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ast September, Tsawwassen First Nation chief Bryce Williams stunned many by upsetting longtime chief Kim Baird with his election victory.

But in the months that followed, his future as head of the community was cast in doubt, after relatives of Baird successfully appealed the results and forced the election to be re-run in April.

So, after beating Baird for a second time last month, Williams says he is looking forward to getting on with the business of being chief, and working toward a better future for his community.

“It’s relieving more than anything,” says Williams, who hopes to revive and renew the Tsawwassen culture as chief, and encourage more involvement from young people.

“It’s an honour to be elected.”

At just 23 years old, sees his own youth as an asset.

“I’m able to learn and adapt to my surroundings and connect with the youth,” Williams says.

Like many First Nations communities, TFN is young: 55 per cent of the 448 members are under the age of 25.

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❙ Having been elected twice in the past eight months, Tsawwassen First Nation chief Bryce Williams says he is looking to the future for his community.

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dence to succeed, he believes.

“I’d like to see them more active within the culture, learning to carve, weave cedar, learning the songs and dance,” says Williams, adding that he would like to see TFN build a new cultural centre that could serve as the heart of the village.

“Engaging the youth helps their self esteem and lifts their pride.”

Williams has experienced this firsthand, after moving north to Masset to live with his grandmother and study carving under renowned Haida carver Christian White after graduating from Delta Secondary School in 2007.

It was there on Haida Gwaii that Williams decided he wanted to get involved in TFN politics.

“I’ve always been interested in my nation, and I thought I would be a good voice for my people,” Williams says.

In 2009, he entered the race to sit on TFN’s council. Williams ended up being elected to the executive council as one of the four councillors with the most votes., and moved back to TFN shortly thereafter.

He says he decided to run against Baird in 2012 because he felt youth didn’t have a voice and TFN members had yet to see the benefits of the 2007 treaty.

When speaking to fellow community members, many told him the same thing.

“They thought it was healthy [to have]

a change,” he says. “They respected my vision and goals and agree with what I want to bring to the table.”

Williams praised Baird’s hard work during her 14 years as Tsawwassen chief, which saw the TFN sign their historic treaty with the provincial government giving them title over their own lands.

“I want to continue on with that vision and work with the people,” he says.

That means continuing with the planned development of TFN lands, with commercial and residential development eyed for north of Highway 17A and an industrial park planned adjacent to Deltaport Way. Those opportunities will help provide social programs for the Tsawwassen community, says Williams.

TFN provides health services, housing, youth programs, early childhood education, and income assistance to its members, roles normally taken on by provincial and municipal governments.

Williams says sewerage issues won’t hold back the planned development of TFN lands, and should a solution not be found through Metro Vancouver, he says the community is looking into the possibility of building their own sewage treatment facility.

“We’re trying to find a solution, but it won’t slow us down,” he says. “We’re focused on the future.”

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❙ Uncommon Sense

The future of B.C. is in our hands W

ith less than one month to go to the provincial election, all the players of the drama are in place.

Some – like the BC Conservatives – have been rehearsing their lines loudly and longly. Others – like the Green Party and even the NDP – are just starting to make their presence felt on the stage.

And then there are the BC Liberals, who seem to have been in a situation of almost permanent campaigning since Gordon Campbell stepped down as leader some two and a half years ago.

What is now needed to complete the show is the presence – and the voice – of the people.

And what we should remember at this point – all smoke and mirrors, scriptwriters and noisy claques to one side – is that this is far more than theatre.

We, the electorate, are not simply an audience. We are employers, and the politicians – no matter their party affiliations or ideological alignment – are the applicants hopeful of being hired as our representatives.

Their pay will come out of our pockets, and their decisions will have a very real impact on the course of our lives for the next four years.

Like any employer, we have the right to ask questions of potential employees, and make note of straightforward answers, as well as evasions and attempts to obscure the truth. And, as with any employment decision, a number of factors must be weighed.

Does the candidate seem experienced enough for the job? Do his or her goals seem realistic enough?

Has the candidate demonstrated capability or incompetence during past terms of employment? Has this person proven trustworthy?

Can we afford to hire an individual on the basis of who that person knows, or what views he or she espouses around the water cooler, or should we choose our employees more on the basis of how he or she has performed in the past?

Our participation in the election, particularly when ballots are cast, is vital to the process. This is more than a matter of the usual lecture about civic responsibility, low voter turnout and the importance of stepping up and being counted.

As employers, if we feel our previous hires have not been equal to the job, we must – if only out of self-interest – choose replacements that seem best to suit our needs.

But if, by the same token, we feel our wishes and aspirations have been properly represented over the past four years, we must, in all fairness, give a vote of confidence to our current employees.

The choice is ours.

-Black Press

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his is going to sound like something from grandpa Simpson, but back in my day we didn’t ride school buses.

I remember walking to school by myself from the time I was about seven, sometimes braving proverbial snowstorms, uphill, in the winter darkness.

I know, times were different back then. We didn’t have the same paranoia about child abduction and “special needs” students was a label that hadn’t yet been invented.

School buses were for truly rural students and the suburb I grew up in was paved over in the years Toronto spread across the farmland of southern Ontario like an out-of-control weed. We had sidewalks and crossing guards and dozens of other children from the same subdivision to walk to school with.

But Delta has a unique geography quite unlike the concrete sprawl of Brampton in the 1980s, and actually is quite unlike the sprawl of most Lower Mainland communities.

Westham Island is as rural as when it was first settled

by Europeans and it’s no short ride on a tractor to get to Ladner’s schools.

Boundary Bay’s Centennial Beach community is isolated with one narrow road running out, and is far from ideal for children either walking or riding their

bikes to South Delta Secondary.

There are vast distances between many of the residential communities in South Delta and the schools where children go to learn each day. They rely on bus service because there aren’t reasonable alternatives.

There isn’t the infrastructure in place, and without a bus it’s going to be mom or dad taking them in the car.

With a land area of 183 square kilometres, Delta is B.C.’s seventh largest municipality. But because more than half of that area is located in the Agricultural Land Reserve or Burns Bog its population density is just 550 people per square kilometre, or 26th in density.

If you were to remove North Delta’s 51,600 people, that number would surely fall a level similar to Northern B.C. or the Interior.

When the province made sweeping cuts to bus funding it couldn’t possibly have taken into account the geographical anomaly that is Delta, with three distinct and disparate communities, and large distances between each.

It would be like handing Burnaby school bus funding and then telling them to handle Port Moody and Coquitlam’s needs, too.

A more logical formula needs to be applied based on the geographic needs of each community. And though we’re 20 kilometres from Vancouver, our needs couldn’t possibly be more different.

❙ adrian@southdeltaleader.com

Letters to the editor BC Liberals attempting to rewrite history Re: MLA Huntington misrepresenting her role, Letters, April 26.

Vicki Huntington publicly predicted last November that people would try to write her out of the story on the funding for dredging Ladner Harbour.

If nothing else, David G. Fredricksen and the Bruce McDonald campaign have proven her right.

Vicki has always said that many groups played a role in securing funding, including the Corporation of Delta, M.P. Kerry-Lynne D. Findlay, the Ladner Sediment Group and the provincial government.

But the fact is that Huntington has also been involved from the beginning.

In April 2010 she met with the Deputy Minister of Transportation to arrange a meeting between the Ladner Sediment Group and the ministry and impress upon the Province its obligations around dredging.

In May 2011, she organized a tour of Ladner Harbour with Ladner Sediment Group members and Transportation Ministry officials so they

could see the effects of sedimentation firsthand.

Between 2009 and 2012 she attended at least 14 Ladner Sediment Group meetings, questioned the Transportation Minister about dredging in the Legislature four different times, and co-presented to the budget committee.

Even Blair Lekstrom, the former Minister of Transportation, said “I am happy that our government was able to put forward $3 million towards this [dredging] project and I want to congratulate Vicki for her hard work and cooperative approach on this file.”

Next time the BC Liberals attempt to rewrite history, they should first ensure that Vicki Huntington’s efforts are not so thoroughly documented.

Shawn Courtney Vicki Huntington Re-election Team Delta

Teachers are an investment in our future Re: We can’t afford to pay teachers more, Uncommon Sense, April 19.

As a K-12 international education consultant who has worked in more than 40 countries, it is very clear that

all are focusing on ensuring their future prosperity by developing worldclass, publicly-funded, education systems.

I do, however, respect the fact that currently we are in a period of declining financial resources, but I also note that there is, everywhere, an imperative to improve student achievement.

Countries that are excelling, value their teachers, hold them to high expectations and reward them well. If we wish to maintain our place globally, we must always attract the best people to the teaching profession to ensure the future success of our children.

Education is the foundation of all other occupations, the surest route to prosperity and the best way to preserve the democracy that we have all built.

Our future depends upon the quality of the education we provide in our schools today. Whatever coin we use, quality can rarely be bought cheaply.

None of the high performing countries that I have visited has compromised their reward systems for their teachers.

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I was shocked to hear our Premier openly admit during [Monday night’s] televised debate that she ran a red light on a dare from her son.

This was especially upsetting as on this same weekend five members of one family were killed by a driver who ‘allegedly’ ran a red light in Surrey. Can we trust Premier Clark to drive our economy? And then we have Mr. Dix who some time ago was fined for fare evasion on our transit system and yet he is promoting better transit as part of his platform.

Whom do we trust?

This is a tough question facing voters right now. Thank goodness residents of South Delta have the option of voting for an independent-one who has proven herself over the last four years. Perhaps if several independents plus some Green and/ or Conservative candidates are elected, along with a minority government, British

A vote for Huntington is a vote for Dix I hate to say it, but in this election, a ballot marked for Vicki, is a vote for Adrian, and we have already experienced the economic hardships he and his mentor Glen Clark bring for B.C. Don’t let it happen again.

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DP leader Adrian Dix has finally rolled out his “fully costed” election platform.

Major policy announcements had been released previously, but there was plenty more spending added to the total.

The NDP’s health care plan is surprisingly modest – more money for home support, residential senior care, mental health and addiction services and a rural acute care initiative totaling $159 million over three years. As health critic Mike Farnworth points out, the residential care increase will allow seniors two baths a week instead of one. Full marks to the NDP for this part of the platform.

Increases to Community Living B.C., children and families programs and aboriginal friendship centres are also commendable.

Other NDP proposals don’t inspire as much confidence. Raise welfare rates $20 a month and index them to inflation. Index the minimum wage to inflation too, at a time when inflation can only rise.

Set up a new child bonus program to send $70 per month for each child with family income under $25,000. Lesser payments would go to families with income up to $66,000.

This ’70s-style family allowance scheme is based on a “child poverty” claim that misrepresents federal statistics of relative income distribution. The program is optimistically budgeted at $210 million a year. Dix insists it isn’t a “big new social program,”

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which makes me wonder what would qualify.

It would be partly funded by cancelling a B.C. Liberal plan to establish education savings accounts for kids born after 2006.

Out with self-reliance, in with the nanny state.

Another $100 million is added to hire more teachers, to address the teachers’ union’s often-repeated but false claim of “a decade of cuts” in education.

Another $100 million goes to student grants, much of it further subsidizing the oversupply of English, education, sociology, women’s studies, journalism and other university grads who eventually discover there is little demand for their degrees.

As with welfare, increasing support for bad choices can only yield more bad choices.

On a related note, the NDP will revive a ministry of women’s equality, “to promote social and economic equality to all government programs....”

As with female candidate quotas, the NDP keeps the flame of ’70s socialist feminism alive. The party totals up its new program spending to $988 million over three years. That’s exactly the amount Dix estimates will be raised by tax hikes on corporate income, bank capital, personal income over $150,000, carbon tax on oil

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and gas drilling, and cancelling the B.C. Liberals’ RESP and child tax credit plans.

As for deficits, the NDP claims that the B.C. Liberal budget hides a deficit of $800 million this year and similar deficits in the next two years. The B.C. Liberals point to an impressive string of “net zero” wage settlements with public sector unions, the core of their spending control record. Would the NDP continue to hold the line on public service wages, as the B.C. Liberals have done?

Dix’s NDP caucus and staff is stocked with former government union officials. Party president Moe Sihota is essentially a direct employee of the same unions. The B.C. Federation of Labour has shaped the NDP’s Labour Code changes, which we won’t see until after the May 14 vote.

And how much money does the “fully costed” NDP plan set aside to pay wage increases for its government union brothers and sisters? Zero.

Since this is the party that appears to be cruising to victory in the May 14 election, I’ll look at what’s not in their platform and other issues next week.

• Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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❙ Trevor Skillen (above), chair of the Delta Heritage Airpark, checks his map before taking off in his 1942 Boeing Stearman biplane. An Aeronca Champion (top right) sits in the hangar at the Delta Heritage Airpark, as does a Champion Citabria (bottom right). Rob Newell photo

A flight into the past For close to 50 years, the Delta Heritage Airpark has been bringing aviation back to its roots Robert Mangelsdorf

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t’s an overcast day over Boundary Bay, but for Trevor Skillen, any day without rain is good for flying.

His World War 2-era Boeing Stearman biplane has an open canopy, exposing him to the elements.

“You’re going so fast the windshield blows it right over top of you,” he says. “The real problem with the rain is the visibility.”

That won’t be a problem on this day. Mount Baker looms in the distance as Skillen pilots his bright yellow warbird over the Semiahmoo Peninsula.

Flying a few hundred feet above White Rock Beach, he pitches the

plane suddenly upwards before curling off and hurtling back towards the ground.

“A wingover,” he says, his voice crackling over the radio headset.

He points the plane skywards again, and then, like roller coaster reaching its apex, the plane evens out momentarily before plummeting towards the ocean below.

Skillen pulls back on the stick once more, and the plane climbs and climbs, until finally it can climb no more, and once again submits to gravity and returns to earth.

This time, however, the plane is upside down.

“An inside loop,” he says.

Below the residents of White Rock no doubt watch puzzled, as the 70-year-old biplane barnstorms above the beach on this Friday afternoon.

Having thoroughly impressed the onlookers below, he points the nose for home, and touches down softly on the manicured grass strip at the Delta Heritage Air Park.

Skillen hops out, a grin stretching from ear-to-ear.

“There’s no way to describe that feeling,” he says, beaming.

Skillen isn’t your typical recreational pilot. But then, the Delta

Heritage Air Park isn’t your typical airport.

For more than 50 years, it has been home to some of the most impressive vintage aircraft in the Lower Mainland.

“We’re a well-kept secret out here,” he says. The idyllic grass strip is just five miles east of Boundary Bay Airport, but it might as well be in the middle of nowhere.

“There’s nothing like this in any major city in Canada,” says Skillen, who is also the chair of the Delta Heritage Airpark Operating Committee (DAPCOM).

The air strip is uncontrolled, and is

actually part of the Metro Vancouver Regional Parks system. The slow pace suits Skillen just fine.

“You can come and go as you please,” he says. “You don’t have to talk to the tower, you don’t have to ask permission.”

The airpark is a living aviation museum, home to dozens of classic aircraft.

There is a Cold War-era Chinese trainer, Harvard trainers, a Pitts Special biplane, a handful of the legendary Piper Cub bush planes, Aeronca Champions, as well as the usual assortment of Cessnas, Cherokees, and Beechcrafts.

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PRESENTED BY ❙ Trevor Skillen fires up the engine on his Boeing Stearman (on left). The coffee shop and hangars of the Delta Heritage Airpark (on right). Rob Newell photos

In the golden age of aviation, all you needed was a grass strip to get off the ground, and the pilots here still like to keep things just that simple. Some choose to fly without GPS, instead relying on maps sewn into the inside of their jackets to chart their course.

“You don’t even need a radio to fly out of here,” says Skillen.

Many of the hangars are converted old barns. While they’ve been renovated on the inside, Skillen says the airpark wants to keep them looking as old and rustic as possible, like patina on vintage furniture.

But the airpark isn’t a playground for the wealthy - far from it.

The airpark’s low user fees have attracted aviation enthusiasts of all tax brackets, many of whom have built or restored their own aircraft.

It’s just $35 per month to park a plane on Delta Heritage Air Park’s grass apron, and little more than $200 to rent a hangar.

“Less than what a parking spot would cost you downtown,” says Raymond Colley, the air park’s former chair. “Ideally, we want to run it like a public golf course, and be accessible to everyone.”

And just as every golf course has its clubhouse, the Delta Heritage Air Park has its coffee shop as its social hub.

The walls of the shop are festooned with maps, yellowed photos of airplanes, and all manner of aviation memorabilia. Here the pilots can help themselves to hot coffee behind the counter, provided they drop some change into the cup. There’s always great conversation to be had, and the pilots love to talk shop.

“Everyone here is here because

they’re passionate about flying,” says Colley. “It’s not like other airports, where people are there to work. Everyone here is so enthusiastic.”

Colley has been flying nearly his entire life, and spent much of his career captaining 747-400s across to Hong Kong and back for Cathay Pacific. After retiring close to 10 years ago, he rediscovered the joys of light aircraft, and fell in love with flying all over again.

“It’s one extreme to the other,” he says of his airliner days. “Here, you’re a leaf in the air, compared to a Mack truck.”

Flying at Delta Heritage Airpark is back-to-basics, he says. And that’s what’s so appealing about it to many pilots.

“This is grassroots flying,” says Colley. “This is how it all started.”

The land the airpark occupies at the end of 104th Street was once a farm owned by Darmel Embree, who fell in love with flying later in life after taking flight with a friend.

Embree carved a grass landing strip out of his field and in 1960, began renting out tie-downs to other pilots. Due to overwhelming demand, he decided to build hangars a few years later.

“This was all before Boundary Bay Airport was reopened [in 1983], so there was nowhere to really fly in and out of Delta at the time,” says Skillen.

In 1995 the airpark was bought by the Greater Vancouver Regional District and is now part of the Boundary Bay Regional Park. The airpark has only one staff member, a janitor/custodian/groundskeeper, whose major responsibility is to cut the grass of the 800-metre runway

and adjacent apron.

“Day to day it doesn’t cost taxpayers anything,” says Metro Vancouver parks manager Mitch Sokalski.

Once a month, the airpark holds a pancake breakfast at the coffee shop that’s open to the public. But the public is invited to use the facilities any time, and many cyclists and hikers using the Boundary Bay dike trail often pop in for a quick visit.

“It’s a great place to come and visit, even if you’re not a pilot,” says Sokalski.

Not surprisingly, the airpark is frequent stop for aviation buffs, and it’s hard not catch their infectious enthusiasm for flying.

Skillen caught the flying bug as a child growing up in Quebec, listening to his father’s tales of being an airman in the Second World War. “You hear the stories around the dinner table, and it becomes a part of you,” he says.

Success in the software industry has allowed him to pursue his aviation hobby. In addition to his Stearman, he has a de Havilland Beaver, and is looking to acquire a Second World War-era North American Aviation Harvard.

But Skillen says he sees himself as a custodian of history, as opposed to a just an airplane owner.

“We get to take care of them for a while, and then we pass them on,” he says. “These planes were around before I was born, and hopefully they’ll be around long after I’m gone.”

So too is it his hope for the Delta Heritage Airpark.

“You would never be able to create something like this today,” he says.

“It’s totally unique. That’s why it’s important we preserve it.”

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More tapas… more shared plates… more gluten free

Book today for “Mother’s Day Buffet Brunch” 11 – 3 pm or à la carte dinner 4:30 – 9 pm

Open Tuesday Saturday 11 am – 10 pm

Sunday & Monday 11 am – 9 pm

PATIOS ARE OPEN! Riverhouse Marina Restaurant & Pub

Reservations recommended | Walk-ins welcome | 5825 60th Avenue, Delta

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Heavy metal thunder Vintage motorcycles invade Tsawwassen for 28th annual show and shine ❙ Clockwise from top left: Dennis Wardman of Vancouver shows off his 1940 640 Indian Scout at the Classic and Vintage Swap Meet and Show and Shine at the South Delta Recreation Centre in Tsawwassen on Sunday, April 28; Niels Svanholm of Burnaby stands behind his 1938 Nimbus Denmare; Hundreds of motorcycle enthusiasts gathered under the sun at the South Delta Recreation Centre on Sunday; A 1951 Harley-Davidson glistens in the sunshine; Close-up of a custom-painted gas tank.

Jim Kinnear photos

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Close to 2,500 people descended on the South Delta Recreation Centre last Sunday for the 28th annual Classic and Vintage Motorcycle Swap Meet and Show and Shine.

The event is the biggest of its kind in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Filling three halls of European, American and Japanese vintage motorcycle parts, the annual Classic and Vintage Swap Meet and Show ‘n Shine has become a calendar fix-

ture for motorcycle enthusiasts from all over North America and beyond.

“It’s a great event for the local community,” said organizer Todd Copan. “It brings people to the neighbourhood, the hotels and the restaurants.

“We’re happy for the sunshine and the support of the people of Tsawwassen.”

The show featured hundreds of vintage-plate mototrcycles on display, some dating back as early as 1913.

This year’s winner of the prestigious Best American Motorcycle Award, went to a local enthusiast, Larry Boden of Tsawwassen.

The featured classic motorcycle this year was a 1962 Harley-Davidson Servi-Car. Originally sold to the San Francisco Police Department, this Ser-

vi-Car was used by the Shriners in Las Vegas after its police days were over, and is now owned by Bob James of the Sunshine Coast.

Produced between 1932 and 1973, these three-wheelers were originally designed for use as commercial vehicles, but were also used in a variety of different ways, including and most commonly as a “meter maid” bike.

These 750cc machines were a favourite of delivery companies and car dealers, who used them to pick up and deliver cars for service at dealerships. Most Servi-Cars acted as traveling billboards, sporting special fender skirts that Harley-Davidson sold for the model.

The bike and its concept proved to be so popular that Harley-Davidson re-released the Trike in 2009.

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South Delta Leader Friday, May 3, 2013

❙ Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day Brunch

This is what Cameron and Andrew love to do with their mom. What do you love to do?

Buffet Brunch Carved Baron of Beef and Assorted Hot Entrées Omelette & Waffle Bar Eggs Benedict, Bacon, Ham, Hashbrowns Deluxe Salad Bar with Fresh Seafood Assorted Cold Cuts and Cheeses.

Huge selection of Desserts, Pastries and Fresh Fruit Coffee, Tea and Juice included.

Andrew, age 6

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Adults $29.95 Children 4-12 $15.95 Children 3 & under no charge

Tell us in 50 words or less what activity you love to do with your Mom.The top five will be published in the May 10th edition.

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Sunday, May 12th 10am –2pm

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FREE MOTHER’S DAY TEA & BIRD TALK N’ WALK   

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 Check out interactive nature displays by the Delta Naturalists’ Society, Metro Vancouver    Regional Parks, & Bird Studies Canada and participate in a registered nature walk, followed     by  tea & cookies with a drop-in visual presentation by local naturalist Anne Murray. 

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Burns Bog water table stable: report ❙ Staff writer newsroom@southdeltaleader.com

Delta’s engineering department has determined the hydrology of Burns Bog is in relatively stable condition according to an update provided to council Monday.

Monitoring of water levels, water chemistry, and vegetation data collected by Sarah Howie, urban environmental designer for Delta, provided that assessment.

Howie said the bog’s water table has increased locally near the ditch blockages installed by the municipality.

The Corporation’s engineering staff created 10 new dams in 2012 to prevent drainage of the bog, amounting to 190 over the past eight years since the municipality entered into a conservation covenant with Metro Vancouver ( formerly the Greater Vancouver Regional District) in 2004.

“I can say for certain in the areas around our ditch blockages the water

has come up and we are seeing regeneration of the sphagnum peat mosses,” said Howie.

Water flow monitoring is the priority for 2013 to ensure the bog’s hydrology remains stable.

Delta is partnering with the province’s Gateway Program, responsible for construction of the adjacent South Fraser Perimeter Road, to create a northern boundary drainage management plan.

A consultant’s report from 2012 recommended the installation of adjustable weirs in the east-west ditch, which will be constructed this summer.

Delta recently entered into a new 25-year joint operating agreement for the bog with Metro Vancouver, which includes the addition of the Delta Nature Reserve into the ecological conservancy.

For more information, including new photos and videos, and visit burnsbog.ca.

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❙ Local Flavour

❙ Wes Levesque, chef and owner of Urban Village Catering, has battled digestion problems by switching to a more natural dairy-free and gluten-free diet. Here he serves up a delicious chocolate mousse that incorporates a healthy dessert that satisfies any sweet tooth.

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A guilt-free goodie

Enjoy a chocolate mousse without the waistband worry

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s a chef, Wes Levesque gets asked this question all the time: what’s your favourite dish? The answer he gives is never the same.

“Maybe it’s a cop out, I don’t know, but I like to say my last dish,” says the young owner of Urban Village Catering. “I don’t like to repeat myself in the kitchen, I like to keep it fresh.”

Levesque sold his former eatery, the Hilltop Café on English Bluff Road, to get into the catering business and take over operations of KinVillage Café at Tsawwassen’s KinVillage Community Centre.

Featured in last year’s South Delta Leader edition of the top 30 people under 30, Levesque’s catering company is a year and half old and still growing at a rapid pace. But getting bigger won’t change his health-oriented principles. Levesque says he’s seen some catering companies grow too large and then make the switch to factory produced food.

That’s when the quality nosedives and the taste grows bland and common.

“I want my food to always be homemade,” he says.

That’s why Levesque sources most of his food from a dozen or so local companies. He is a strong believer that to make the best food you need two guiding principles: local and organic.

“That’s one of the pushes we’ve made lately, to source locally,” he says. “And if we can’t get it local, at least get it organic.”

Levesque says more young people are discovering that organic food not only tastes better, it is better for you.

“My generation is making a huge push and it’s a push in a positive direction.”

Buying local is about more than supporting farms in your community. Levesque says the further a fruit or vegetable has to travel the more nutrients are lost.

That’s why you usually won’t find exotic fruits in Levesque’s dishes. Sometimes that means working with ingenuity. Lacking a mint leaf for the garnish in this week’s Local Flavour, a spring of lemon leaf will do in a pinch.

Levesque’s “guilt-free” chocolate mousse is dairy-free, gluten-free, and easily made sugar-free, too. A former student of nutrition in college, he talked to nutritionists who told him avoiding dairy and gluten is easier on the digestive system.

As someone who has suffered from digestion problems in the past, Levesque says making the dietary switch has greatly improved his health.

Dodging refined sugars is another good idea. Levesque prefers naturally occurring sugars, such as maple syrup or honey, which can be bought locally on Westham Island.

Other ingredients in the mousse, like organic coconut milk, dark chocolate, fresh berries, and crushed almonds, are all healthy but delicious.

Levesque says many chefs get into the food industry because they enjoy seeing people happy and healthy. It’s no different with him.

“I’m trying to make a positive impact in my community and this is the best way I can do it,” he says.

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“It seems like every couple of weeks or month we’ve got an interesting story to tell and this was one way for us to tell it,” he said.

The report includes stories of officers tracking members of the Dhak/Duhre crime group who make up one side of the ongoing bloody gang conflict in B.C. And it also releases intriguing findings on who is most likely to end up a victim of the gang violence that occasionally erupts in B.C. CFSEU researchers found the vast majority of gang-related murder victims over a four-year period had previous drug charges or convictions, and often violent criminal pasts.

Most were gang members, not just associates or minor players in the drug trade, and a few were girlfriends or an innocent victim, like a man who was shot in Burnaby after picking up a Bacon brother vehicle to install a car stereo in it.

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The report details how police try to keep gangsters out of bars and restaurants to keep them from recruiting new blood, as well as to prevent gang violence.

This month the CFSEU said it will publicly identify suspected gangsters where possible as a new tactic to make it more difficult for organized crime to operate.

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Regional directors increasingly question Metro’s role at some parks, saying it makes little sense for regional district and municipal parks crews to work in close proximity.

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ferent land agencies monitoring the same trail within 300 metres,” North Vancouver District Mayor Richard Walton said at an April 18 Metro committee.

Also to be probed is why Metro still runs regional parks like Sumas Mountain and Matsqui Trail in the Abbotsford area, even though that city is in the separate

Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD).

“They’re grown up now, they’re a big city,” Delta Mayor Lois Jackson said of Abbotsford. “I wonder if the same reasoning applies now.”

Metro needs to either find more revenue or cut costs to free up millions of dollars it estimates are needed to upgrade aging facilities and infrastruc-

ture at existing parks, as well as bankroll an ambitious program of acquiring more parkland.

Regional planners want to add 5,500 hectares of land to the park system at an estimated cost of $1.1 billion over 30 years.

The review will examine the parks function’s relevance and look at potential different operating models. Parks

deemed regionally or ecologically significant are unlikely to be offloaded.

Metro has more than 14,500 hectares of parkland in 22 regional parks, including Boundary Bay and Deas Island here in South Delta, as well as five greenways, two ecological conservancy areas and four regional reserves.

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The Delta Islanders’ Junior A and Intermediate A box lacrosse teams opened the regular season in style last weekend, posting a pair of decisive wins over the Burnaby Lakers.

The Junior A Islanders impressed fans at their home opener Saturday night at the Ladner Arena as they made short work of the visiting Lakers to beat them 15-4. Delta opened up a six goal lead in the first period thanks to goals from Brandon Moroz, Cody Nass, Mike Henry, Eli McLaugh-

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Nass came alive in the second period, scoring a natural hat trick in a span of seven minutes.

Goals by McLaughlin and Henry helped give the Islanders an 11-3 lead going into the final frame. Nass had one last goal in him in the third, to finish the night with five. Moroz had his second of the night, while Rile McLeod and intermediate call-up Evan Messanger also had goals in the third period.

“It was an entertaining game and our offence was really clicking,” said general manager Jamie Scott.

The U16 girls’ Tsawwassen Tornadoes won the Coastal Classic Cup on April 21, winning 3-1 in a shootout over the Burnaby Red Rockets. Goals were scored by Jill Calvert, Kylie Holiday and Vanessa Pearson. Chanel Orlitzky was in goal for the Tornadoes and was awarded MVP for the winning team.

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Scott has high hopes for his young junior team, which includes just three draft-eligible players.

In net, intermediate call-up Matt Keith allowed just four goals on 27 shots, playing in his second game in as many days.

On Friday, Keith backstopped the Islanders’ Intermediate A squad to a 21-12 win over the Lakers at home, allowing just four goals in two periods of play.

“He had a great weekend,” said Scott. “He played two games back-to-back and only let in eight goals.”

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clinic Friday night as Messanger and John Phillips moved the ball down the floor at will. The pair combined for more than 170 points last season, and Scott expects the two to again lead the Islanders scoring.

“I think we’ll see more higher scoring games this year around the league,” said Scott. “There’s a lot more offensive talent out there right now than defensive talent.”

The Junior A Islanders head to Nanaimo to take on the Timbermen this Saturday, while the Intermediate A team is in New Westminster to take on the Salmonbellies tonight (Friday, May 3).

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Having your say with the People’s Choice For the first time this year, the Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association included a People’s Choice category in their Ovation Awards.

“GVHBA launched the People’s Choice Award as a fun and interactive way to raise awareness for the Ovation Awards,” says Wendy McNeil, vicepresident of marketing and education for the GVHBA. “More than 3,200 people voted ... I was thrilled with the response as it is the first year for this category, but I know we’ll have even more people voting next year.”

Readers were asked to vote for their favourite new or renovated project.

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The Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association has honoured the best of the best in the Metro Vancouver residential construction industry at the Ovation Awards, handed out on April 20 in Vancouver. Now in their fourth year, the awards recognize builders, renovators and designers for their achievements.

This year, the GVHBA added a new category to the awards: the People’s Choice Grand Ovation Award. Its first winner was Best Builders’ Sentinel House, located in West Vancouver.

Best Builders also won awards for Best Addition/Conversion Renovation, Best Custom Home: $500,000 to $999,999 and Best New Kitchen: Under $100,000.

Portrait Homes was the proud recipient of awards for Best Single Family Detached Home: Less than 2,000 square feet, Best Single Family Detached Home: 2,000 to 2,999 square feet, Best Marketing Innovation for Hampstead and the Grand Ovation Award for Single-Family Builder of the Year.

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This is such a proud moment for us as our goal and greatest reward is to always give our customers the best possible homebuying experience,” says Portrait principal Robert Grimm.

“Without the dedication and commitment of our team, and trade partners, this honour would not be possible,” says Portrait principal Harry Grimm. “We accept this on behalf of them and would sincerely like to thank them for their continued passion and customer-driven focus.”

The other Grand Ovation Awards winners were Intermind Design for RenoMark Renovator of the Year – Small Volume, My House Design/ Build Team for RenoMark Renovator of the Year – Large Volume, Tavan Developments for Custom Builder of

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The My House Design/Build Team also won awards for Best Kitchen Renovation: $100,000 and Over, Best Renovated Room and Best Renovation $500,000 to $799,999.

Tavan Developments also picked up the award for Best Custom Home: $1 million to $2 million, while Falcon Homes took home awards for Best Custom Home: Over $2 million, Best New Kitchen: $100,000 and Over, Best Special Feature: New or Renovated and Best Interior Design Custom Residence: New or Renovated.

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Live with over 60 shops, services, dining, amenities, & entertainment options at your doorstep! Your last opportunity to own in the coveted Morgan Crossing Village, take advantage of special spring pricing on remaining suites. Hurry, a handful of homes remain.

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MAIN

888 SF. / 2 BED

$286,900

$269,900*

$17,000

FOCUS

922 SF. / 2 BED

$281,900

$269,900*

$12,000

FOCUS

947 SF. / 2 BED

$419,900

$311,900*

$108,000

FOCUS

972 SF. / 2 BED

$309,900

$294,900*

$15,000

POINT

977 SF. / 2 BED

$311,900

$295,900*

$16,000

POINT

986 SF. / 2 BED

$309,900

$295,900*

$14,000

MAIN

1008 SF. / 2 BED

$329,900

$299,900*

$30,000

MORGAN CROSSING IS MOVE-IN-READY VISIT THE REAL ESTATE PRESENTATION CENTRE

Open Daily (except Fridays) noon - 5pm. 103-15775 Croydon Dr., South Surrey. Located next to Thrifty Foods.

DISCOVER VILLAGE LIFE AT MORGAN CROSSING ...

Fantastic restaurants & bistros at your doorstep!

Indulge at Sammy J’s, Famoso Pizzeria, and a new restaurant concept by Vikram Vij, My Shanti, - all coming soon!

Leave your car behind to shop at Winners, London Drugs, fashion outlets & boutiques.

Enjoy local events like car shows and movie nights that happen along bustling Main St. Staying healthy made easy with Thrifty Foods and Steve Nash Sports Club located just steps away.

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Saturday, May 4

• Delta Division of Family Practice is participating in the B.C. Medical Association Initiative, Walk with your Doc. This Walk is held annually to celebrate the World Health Organization’s Move for Health Day. Join your doctor for a short, fun, community walk around Boundary Bay Regional Park. Meet at Centennial Beach Café at 9:45 a.m. For more info, visit walkwithyourdoc.ca • Gwen’s Growing and Giving plant sale will raise funds for the Orphaned Wildlife Society (OWL), plus a bursary for a high school students pursuing agricultural, horticultural or environmental services. The 18th annual plant sale goes from 9 a.m. to 12: 30 p.m. at 5016 58A St., Ladner. Call Judy Matilda at 604946-2069 for info.

• The Laviolette-Johnson family is hosting a fundraiser dance and draw for kidney donor Carroll Meilleur. Visit www.facebook.com/ AreYouAnO for details, or email areyouano@ gmail.com for tickets. Donations for Meilleur can be made online at www.indiegogo.com/ projects/a-tale-of-two-kidneys or at any VanCity to trust account No. 432377-19.

• Shred-a-Thon: A Friends’ Fundraising Event takes place at the Tsawwassen Library from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Spring cleaning includes getting rid of unwanted paperwork. Dispose of it the right way! Shredding sensitive documents is a recommended way to reduce your risk of becoming an identity theft victim. The Delta Friends of the Library is sponsoring a fundraiser that offers Fraser Valley Regional Library customers and community members an opportunity to directly support their Delta libraries by bringing their confidential documents and tax papers for secure destruction. Shredding will occur outside the Tsawwassen Library entrance and is by donation.

• The Delta Concert Band performs at the McKee Seniors Recreation Centre Pioneer Hall from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Admission to the concert is by donation at the door. McKee Seniors Recreation Centre is located at 5155 47th Ave., Ladner. Call 604-946-1411 for more info.

• Are you a train and tram enthusiast? Drop in anytime between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the

Ladner Pioneer Library to experience model railroading. Delta Model Railway Club will be on hand to show some of their fantastic operating model railroads and talk about their hobby. There will be two trains running at any one time with a mixture of both freight and passenger trains.

Wednesday, May 8

• Come in to Ladner and Tsawwassen McDonald’s restaurants on Wednesday, May 8, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and purchase a coffee, Happy Meal or Big Mac and $1 will go to local children’s charity Reach Child and Youth Development Society. There will be lots of fun things like face painting, balloon animals, music and entertainment.

Email joniw@reachdevelopment.org for more information.

• Join the Delta Chamber of Commerce’s business women’s networking group. This month’s focus is: What’s Your Challenge - Use the power of community to address your business issues. Augustine House, 3820 Arthur Drive. For more information, email jane@ deltachamber.com or call 604-946-4232.

• Therapeutic Touch Network holds its monthly meeting at the Natural Comfort Wellness Centre, Tsawwassen. For more Information, call Selena at 604-952-4175, or Frances at 604-948-1652. www.bctherapeutictouch.com

Friday, May 10

• A Little Bit of Everything, featuring the Delta Community Choir, Tapestry and special musical guests at 7 p.m. The concert will take place at Cedar Park Church at 5300 44th Avenue, Ladner. Tickets are $15 for Adults, $10 for Seniors and Students and free for Children under 12.

Saturday, May 11

• A Little Bit of Everything, featuring the Delta Community Choir, Tapestry and special musical guests at 3 p.m. The concert will take place at Cedar Park Church at 5300 44th Avenue, Ladner. Tickets are $15 for Adults, $10 for Seniors and Students and free for Children under 12.

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AUTO FINANCING

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STEEL BUILDING - BLOWOUT CLEARANCE SALE! 20X22 $4,188. 25X26 $4,799. 30X34 $6,860. 32X44 $8,795. 40X50 $12,760. 47X74 $17,888. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca

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PRECISION 1 Plumbing & Heating.

Lic. & Ins. h/w tanks, service, renos, drain cleaning. Rick 604-809-6822

604-537-4140

• Hot water tanks • Furnaces • Broilers • Plugged Drains 778-862-0560

CRESCENT Plumbing & Heating Licensed Residential 24hr. Service

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• Estate Services • Electronics • Appliances • Old Furniture • Construction • Yard Waste • Concrete • Drywall • Junk • Rubbish • Mattresses • More

604.587.5865

CARPETS AND BLINDS • Custom Blind Sales • Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning • Blind Cleaning & Repair WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED

604.948.5450 ` www.hangandshine.ca

Dangerous Tree Removal ¡ Stump Grinding ¡ Crane Work and Logging ¡ Hedge Trimming ¡ Tree Pruning RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL ¡ LOCALLY OWNED FREE ESTIMATES WCB ¡ INSURED

Mercury Tree Service, Ltd.

P/B blues. Ready to go. 1st shots & tails/dew claws done.

ULTIMATE FAMILY GUARDIAN $1000 604-308-5665 MULTI-POO Miniature, brown 4-5lb Hypo aller, non-shed, family raised, vet cert $1250. 604-341-1445.

NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604856-3647 or www.856-dogs.com

POWER WASHING

778.297.7302

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BOATS

ALUMINUM BOAT WANTED, 10’, 12’ or 14’, with or without motor or trailer, will pay cash, 604-319-5720

HOMES WANTED

WE BUY HOUSES! Older House • Damaged House Moving • Estate Sale • Just Want Out • Behind on Payments Quick Cash! • Flexible Terms!

CALL US FIRST! 604-626-9647

OKANAGAN PRIME LAKEVIEW LOTS From $140,000. No time limit to build. Near by lake access. ALSO: 1 spectacular 3 acre parcel at $390,000 owner wants to retire and will carry financing. 1-250-558-7888 www.orlandoprojects.com

Pomeranian pups. Ready/Vet chkd.

M&F. 778-838-2700, 604-504-1559. www.pomeraniansbyparis.com PURE MASTIFF X AFRICAN BORBAL puppies, have first shots, $400 each. Call (604)869-5502 SHELTIES: 6/mo male, 4/yr male, 3/yr fem, 2/yr fem. Sable,ready now Shots / dewormed. 604-826-6311.

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

639 REAL ESTATE SERVICES • DIFFICULTY SELLING ? • DifďŹ culty Making Payments?

No Equity? Expired Listing? Penalty?

We Take Over Payments! No Fees! www.GVCPS.ca / 604-786-4663

696 533

FERTILIZERS

WEED FREE Mushroom Manure 13 yards - $160 or Well Rotted 10 yards - $180. 604-856-8877

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GARAGE SALES

OTHER AREAS

Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore.

Waterfront Lots for Sale Excellent Climate Near the Atlantic Ocean.

Three Bedroom House for Sale or Rent www.sawmilllanding.com. waterfront@bellaliant.net 1-902-522-2343 1-902-328-4338.

RENTALS

Richmond

MOM’S UNITE (Kids Stuff) SWAP MEET

Contact: Jim Cory 778.668.5519

X COMMERCIAL X RESIDENTIAL X PARKADES X GRAFFITI REMOVAL X GUM REMOVAL X 200Âş HOT WATER X FULLY INSURED X WorkSafe BC

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Auto Financing 1.800.910.6402

Quality service in South Delta since 1997

TREE SERVICE

MARINE FOR SALE (Court Ordered) Small retail building. $389,000.

4868 Delta St, Ladner Info: Don O’Brien 604-714-4789 Macdonald Commercial RES Ltd.

JUNK REMOVAL

www.recycleitcanada.ca

612 BUSINESSES FOR SALE

ITALIAN MASTIFF (Cane Corso)

RECYCLE-IT!

Recycled Earth Friendly HOT TUBS ARE NO PROBLEM!

2 hr. Service www.a1casper.com (604)209-2026

GERMAN SHEPHERD Pups & young adults. Quality German & Czech bloodlines. 604-856-8161.

RUBBISH REMOVAL

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Sunday, May 5, 10am-1pm Free Admission - Over 75 Tables Southarm Community Centre 8880 Williams Road Ph: 604-718-8060

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MISC. FOR SALE

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?

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APARTMENT/CONDO

SURREY

Regency Park Gardens Large 1 & 2 bedroom units Rent from $725.00/mo.

Phone: 604-581-8332 & 604-585-0063

DreamTeam Auto Financing â&#x20AC;&#x153;0â&#x20AC;? Down, Bankruptcy OK Cash Back ! 15 min Approvals

1-800-961-7022

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TENDERS

Land Parcel Sale By Tender SW 17-28-29W1 RM of Shell River, MB. 80 acres. Hay/Pasture/Bush For Farm/Recreation/Acreage.

Highest or any Tender not necessarily accepted. Closes 05/17/2013 204937-7054 (Roy).

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Friday, May 3, 2013 South Delta Leader

The South Delta Leader’s annual

Best of 2013

It’s that time again to tell us what you like most about specific aspects of South Delta in the Leader’s annual Best Of South Delta edition. Check out the categories below and submit your vote on-line.

Vote online at southdeltaleader.com

ARTS AND CULTURE

STYLE

Best local artist

Best place to find vintage clothing

Best place to watch live music

Best place to accessorize your wardrobe

Best place to offer arts and crafts

Best men’s fashions

Best band

Best women’s fashions

BUSINESS

LOCAL PEOPLE

Best green business

Best community leader

Best local family business

Best local entrepreneur

Best unique business

Best activist

Best local business event

Best photographer

Best new business

Best volunteer

Best customer service

Best local celebrity you’d take to lunchUT BOUT

Best financial institute

Best local politician

FOOD AND DRINK

OUT & ABOUT

Best place to find B.C. wines

Best playground

Best coffee house

Best place to walk your dog

Best family restaurant

Best park

Best place for lunch

Best place to read a book

Best outdoor patio

Best historic site

Best place for a pint

Best place for a wedding ceremony

Best place to take a date for dinner

Best place to spot wildlife

Best take out meal

Best place for a kid’s birthday party & FITNESS

Best place to find seafood

Best place to go jogging

Best local grower

Best place to bike ride

Best burger

HEALTH & FITNESS

Best pizza

Best place to get your stretch on

Best place to find organic food

Best provider of natural foods and vitamins

HOME & GARDEN

Best fitness facility

Best hardware supplier

Best place to buy fitness wear

Best home furnishings

SPORTS & RECREATION

Best local designer

Best sports team

Best contractor

Best sports coach

ESTHETICS & BEAUTY

Best local sports event

Best place for a mani / pedi

Best place to hit one off the teeIRED

Best place for a new hairdo Best place for a facial

Fill in a minimum of 10 answers.

Vote by submitting this entry form at the Leader office or enter online by going to southdeltaleader.com and clicking on the contests tab, or visit the South Delta Leader’s facebook page.

Deadline to cast your vote is June 15.

VOTE ON-LINE TODAY! 7 - 1363 56th Street Tsawwassen 604.948.3640