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MK Delta Lands riles up residents A proposed subdivision on the border of Burns Bog generated heated reaction from the public at Delta council Monday night, despite the fact it has yet to be approved by Metro Vancouver. A new application submitted April 13 by MK Delta Lands for 1,000 dwelling units and 40,000 square metres of commercial space is on 36 hectares (89 acres) of land located at the corner of Highway 91 and 72nd Avenue. Council voted to send the application to Metro Vancouver to consider a land use amendment under the Regional Growth Strategy, but not without fierce opposition from Coun. Jeannie Kanakos. ❙ See story, P.3

Transplant offers new lease on life Ladner resident Gord Johnson is excited about the prospect of a normal life after receiving a kidney this month, donated by a stranger he met via Facebook. ❙ See story, P.3

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Transplant offers new lease on life Ladner resident excited about the prospect of a normal life

❙ (From left) Michelle Laviolette’s husband Gord Johnson was the recipient of a kidney donated by Carol Meilleur, whom the couple met through Facebook. Adrian MacNair photo

❙ Adrian MacNair reporter adrian@southdeltaleader.com

The number 13 is often considered an unlucky number, but for at least one family it’s nothing of the kind. “It was the 13th of May that we had the surgery, and it was 13 months from the time that I started testing to when the surgery was done. And it’s 2013. So, for us, 13 is a very lucky number,” said kidney donor Carol Meilleur, whose gift saved the life of Ladner resident Gord Johnson. Meilleur, from Cloverdale, didn’t even know Johnson until she came across a Facebook campaign called “Are you an O?”, referring to the blood type needed to donate a kidney. The campaign was created by Johnson’s wife, Michelle Laviolette, in March 2012 after growing frustration over the difficulty of finding a donor. Johnson’s kidney failure began in October 2007, when streptococcus bacteria from his hockey gloves got into his bloodstream through a cut on his wrist. After six years of poor health, Johnson is facing a new life that he compares to being let out of prison.

“You feel more in control of your body, your brain, everything is improved,” he said, adding he was recently able to enjoy his first glass of wine in six years. Laviolette said it’s a relief to be able to take the dialysis machine and medical equipment out of her house. “It’s absolutely incredible and, you know what, he looks so much different,” she said. “He looks so healthy now.” Meilleur said she was prepared for the idea of surgery because she’d undergone a cesarean section during the delivery of her child, but she’d never gone under general anesthetic before. “That made me very nauseous and

sick,” she said, but added that soon wore off. Now she’s taking it easy, just like Johnson. “Recovering from surgery feels a bit like you got into a street brawl and lost,” said Johnson, laughing. “You feel achey all over. But as that wears off it’s a huge change.” Johnson goes to the Vancouver General Hospital transplant clinic twice a week to get the new kidney checked regularly and all tests have so far showed things are functioning normally. Eventually, he will get to the point where he only has to visit B.C. Transplant once every three months, but for now it’s important to

take every precaution. “It’s quite amazing how our bodies work and how my kidney started working right away for Gord,” said Meilleur. For now, Johnson is taking anti-rejection medication so the kidney will be accepted by the body as a healthy and functioning organ. Johnson said the whole experience is sometimes too surreal to believe when he thinks back to his darkest hours. “You don’t think a person like Carol is going to come along in the way that she did,” he said. “It’s just completely everything, you feel like you’ve got your life back.” Johnson said being on dialysis felt like being on a clock with time running out. But thanks to Meilleur, that feeling is gone. “It’s just a really great feeling that we live in a community who will, when you don’t really think you have any support, there’s a lot of it out there and it really showed up when we asked for it. It was amazing.” Laviolette said her husband is looking to get back in shape playing his favourite sport, which was the one that made him sick in the first place. “He’ll be on the ice in September, there’s no doubt about it,” said Laviolette, laughing heartily. “He’s really looking forward to it.”

Teetering totem to go to TFN ❙ Adrian MacNair adrian@southdeltaleader.com

MK Delta Lands proposal riles up residents

Ladner’s iconic totem pole will soon be taken down and “retired” on lands owned by Tsawwassen First Nation, following Monday’s council meeting. The 10-metre totem pole, which was carved and donated to Delta in 1932 by Chief Wilkes James of the Snuneymuxw First Nation in Nanaimo, had deteriorated significantly over the years and was in danger of falling over, according to a consultant’s report. James reportedly carved the piece in the Coast Salish tradition and as a memento of his wife’s Tsawwassen roots. It depicts five figures that represent the journey of Tsaatsen, Tsawwassen’s first settler, as he travelled from Mount Cheam. Although the Tsawwassen do not traditionally carve totem poles, chief Bryce Williams is a Haida Gwaii trained carver, and has expressed interest in replacing the piece within the local tradition. The grandson of Wilkes James is also a carver and is on staff at TFN. Coun. Bruce McDonald said the replacement carving should be placed in front of Delta municipal hall, since the totem pole was originally gifted to the municipality. Removal and transport of the pole will cost about $5,000 and the parks and recreation department will work with TFN on doing so in a respectful and safe manner to ensure it comes to minimal harm during the process. An earlier report stated that the cost to replace the current pole with a replica would be $2,000 a linear foot, or $70,000.

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A proposed subdivision on the border of Burns Bog generated heated reaction from the public at Delta council Monday night, despite the fact it has yet to be approved by Metro Vancouver. A new application submitted April 13 by MK Delta Lands for 1,000 dwelling units and 40,000 square metres of commercial space is on 36 hectares (89 acres) of land located at the corner of Highway 91 and 72nd Avenue. Council voted to send the application to Metro Vancouver to consider a land use amendment under the Regional Growth Strategy, but not without fierce opposition from Coun. Jeannie Kanakos. “Right now I only have about 11 letters of support for this project in the form that it’s in and many, many more signatures and people in the room who are

❙ Artist rendition of the proposed MK Delta Lands development next to Highway 91. Contributed photo concerned about this project,” she said to deafening applause. Kanakos thanked MK Delta Lands for its public consultation and environmental studies but said the new application

includes an outlet mall that was never brought forward to the community for consultation. “I think it’s complicated and I think Delta should have its house in order prior to asking anything of Metro Vancouver,” she said. Mayor Lois Jackson took exception to the comment, saying Kanakos is “confused.” “As you should be aware, the Metro board looks at the overall land use,” she said, adding council can look at transportation and other development issues only after Metro approves the application. “The proponent came forward and changed the application based on what they were hearing,” said Jackson, before being cut off by loud boos and jeers from the audience. Jackson said the proponent has the right under Canadian, provincial, and

municipal law to come forward with an application for a piece of land it owns and council is charged with the task of looking at the application. “This was not for us to say what we wanted,” she said. “This is an application, this is not an approval.” Coun. Robert Campbell said it makes sense to send the application to Metro Vancouver first to find out whether it will can proceed. “This is really just saying let’s not waste everybody’s time and money going through a first and second readings and public hearing on the rezoning bylaws without knowing what that means,” he said. Coun. Bruce McDonald said the public needs to understand there is an esteemed scientific panel for Burns Bog guiding the decisions of council, as well as a bog hydrology expert on staff. ❙ Continued on P.4

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Hearing impaired student fights ‘segregation’ Student offered a place on school bus after calling Human Rights Tribunal ❙ Adrian MacNair reporter adrian@southdeltaleader.com

Did the Delta School District offer a hearing impaired student a spot on its bus service after hearing he might go to the BC Human Rights Tribunal? His mother says the timing is certainly suspect. Jeannie Stewart said her 13-yearold son Connor—who uses a cochlear implant to hear—didn’t qualify for special needs bus service to South Delta Secondary School following cuts by the board of education to the transportation budget. But after going before the school board last Tuesday and discussing the possibility of going to the BC Human Rights Tribunal, a space was quickly coughed up. Stewart received a phone call from the school district the next morning offering Connor bus service. But that wasn’t what he wanted in the first place.

“So, now Connor’s mad at me. He said, ‘mom I’m not taking special needs bus to school,’” she said, adding he told her it feels like segregation. The school district is currently grappling with a $3.46 million budget deficit compounded by the province’s change to the funding formula for bus service in 2012, which reduced Delta’s amount by 47 per cent. The school district has responded by cutting $380,000 from the transportation budget in each of the next two years, including walk-limit and safety bus routes. But Stewart doesn’t blame the province for the shortfall. “[School District No. 37] gets enough money, they just need to spend it wisely,” she said. Connor called the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to ask whether a 13-year-old would be able to make a claim, and according to his mother they said it would be accepted. When Stewart approached the school board with the information it wasn’t meant to provide preferential treatment for her son. She was part of a delegation of Bound-

ary Bay parents proposing a user fee bus service. Instead, she said her son was the only student offered a place on a special needs bus, and he’s not happy about it. “He goes, ‘I don’t mind riding the bus if I have to with other special needs kids, but it sure does single me out as being different,’” she said. Connor wants the bus to pick up as many other Boundary Bay children as it is able until the bus is full. The family hasn’t decided whether to pursue the human rights complaint but say the school district’s bus service has now become a segregation issue. Deneka Michaud, a spokesperson for the school district, said she couldn’t discuss specifics with regards to any particular child for privacy reasons. “However, students with special needs who meet the criteria for busing are eligible to apply for busing,” she said in an email. “The special programs department makes the decisions about which students will receive transportation, and these decisions are made on a case-by-case basis.”

Final election vote count underway ❙ Tom Fletcher reporter newsroom@southdeltaleader.com

Elections B.C. officials started counting 180,000 absentee ballots Monday, an unusually high number that could be enough to change the result of some closer contests from the May 14 provincial vote. Final results will be known by Wednesday. A recount is also underway in the closest of the 85 constituency elections, Saanich North and the Islands. The NDP’s Gary Holman led after initial counting with 9,676

votes, 50 more than B.C. Liberal candidate Stephen Roberts. Adam Olsen of the B.C. Green Party was a close third with 9,294 votes. Another closely watched constituency is Coquitlam-Maillardville, where B.C. Liberal Steve Kim led with 9,044 in preliminary results. The NDP’s Selena Robertson was 105 votes behind after early results in the final count, which includes absentee ballots. Premier Christy Clark has indicated she will wait until the final count is complete before deciding where to seek a seat in a by-elec-

tion. The NDP’s David Eby finished 785 votes ahead of Clark in election-night returns for Vancouver-Point Grey, a result unlikely to be overturned by the addition of late ballots to the total. Elections BC officials say the 180,000 absentee ballots doubles the number received in 2009. The final count include votes cast by people outside their home constituencies. It also incorporates mail-in votes and special polling places set up at hospitals, isolated communities and logging or fishing camps.

Corp. of Delta not running rampant over bog: Coun. McDonald ❙ From P.3

“So we don’t move blind,” he said. “The suggestion we want to run rampant over the bog and damage it is just not [true].” MK Delta Lands intends to develop on 55 per cent of the 36-hectare plot, saving the rest for green space and conservation. It will also donate 78 hectares of land west of Highway 91 to Delta so that it can be absorbed into the contiguous Burns Bog Conservation Area. Delta tried to purchase the subject property from MK Delta Lands in 2004 when the Burns Bog Conservation Agreement

was first signed between four levels of government. The land in question is currently zoned I3 Extraction Industrial, and has historically been used for peat extraction operations. A legal opinion provided to Delta indicated the municipality would have little recourse to prohibit the owner from using for the land for its permitted use should the application be denied. Because the current zoning doesn’t take into account the environmentally sensitive nature of the property, the application includes an amendment to the Official

Community Plan, which necessitates involvement by the regional government. Burns Bog consists of 2,428 hectares of protected wetlands, most of which lies in a contiguous region between North and South Delta. Lands adjacent to the subject property are protected within the conservation area, including the recently added Delta Nature Reserve to the north of 72nd Avenue. A local Delta environmental group, The Burns Bog Conservation Society, has submitted a 4,677 name petition against the proposal.

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New coal terminal to get full hearing at Metro board Mayor Jackson says she is close to supporting the project ❙ Jeff Nagel reporter news@southdeltaleader.com

It may be the closest anyone gets to a full public hearing on a controversial proposal to build a new coal export terminal in Surrey. Metro Vancouver’s board voted Friday to throw open its June 14 meeting to delegations on the topic and officials from Port Metro Vancouver and Fraser Surrey Docks will be there to answer questions. Critics of the plan to increase coal shipments by rail and then barge have zeroed in on the failure of the port – the final deciding body – to adequately consider opposition, which includes those who want U.S. coal to stay in the ground and not add to climate-warming emissions as well as neighbourhood opponents who either fear escaping coal dust or don’t want more trains rolling by. “I think it’s ironic it’s come down to regional government being the one who’s trying to organize public hearings around this issue when the port authority is the public agency with the power to make the decisions,” said Kevin Washbrook of Voters Taking Action on Climate Change. He said the port is abdicating its regulatory role by not organizing hearings itself, adding it should still do so. Port Metro Vancouver has so far let Fraser Surrey Docks – the proponent – lead open houses into the proposal, which would export an additional four million tonnes of coal per year. It’s far from a massive jump in the region’s existing or approved coal handling capacity – an increase of less than 10 per cent. But opponents like Washbrook say it amounts to a new terminal that once open could expand further. They want B.C. to forge a common front with coal activists in the U.S., who have so far blocked new

❙ Coal has for decades arrived by rail at Deltaport, where it’s loaded onto waiting ships. A proposed new coal terminal at Fraser Surrey Docks would not have open coal piles. Coal would be loaded from rail cars into barges inside an enclosed building. File photo coal export terminals in Washington and Oregon. Metro’s environment committee has already debated the issue and its resolution to oppose increased coal shipments – deferred on Friday – would be voted on by the full board after the delegations are heard. “It will look and feel like a public hearing,” said Metro board chair Greg Moore, who expects a long list of speakers on June 14. Anyone wanting to speak must make a request 48 hours in advance. Although some civic

leaders are making their opinions known, cities and even the regional district have no jurisdiction over the terminal, apart from an air emissions permit Metro would be expected to issue. Surrey council is split between councillors who oppose the new terminal and those who either back it or see it as an unproductive debate given the city’s lack of power. “For me, if two states in the U.S.A. have said ‘No’ I don’t understand why B.C. would be contemplating it,” Surrey Coun. Barinder Rasode said,

while Coun. Judy Villeneuve said she’s “100 per cent against it.” Coun. Linda Hepner said she found the case for the new terminal persuasive but also noted residents in Crescent Beach have legitimate concerns about more trains blocking their access. White Rock Coun. Larry Robinson said he wants to first see an expected opinion from the Fraser Health Authority’s chief medical officer. Delta Mayor Lois Jackson said she’s close to supporting the project,

adding she has far fewer concerns than she did initially. “This is nothing new,” she said, noting Deltaport has hosted a coal export terminal for decades. Jackson does think incoming coal trains should be sprayed down again with dust suppressants just before they enter B.C. And she is also seeking better data on the air emissions from the region’s existing coal export operations ahead of a board vote. Metro Vancouver officials confirmed their mobile air quality testing unit could be used to compare emissions from passing coal trains to ambient conditions, but gave no indication as to whether such testing will actually be ordered. New Westminster politicians fear coal dust could blow across the Fraser River to their city from the new Surrey terminal, even though the coal is to be loaded from rail cars into barges within an enclosed building, unlike the open air handling of coal at Deltaport. They’re also concerned dust may fly off the open barges that will carry the coal to Texada Island.

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❙ Tsawwassen Springs director of golf Chris Hood has worked at some of the most prestigious golf courses in B.C. He says Tsawwassen Springs deserves to be the Best of South Delta because of its gorgeous setting, versatile layout, and top-notch grounds. Robert Mangelsdorf photo

Tsawwassen Springs golf director Chris Hood eyes future

aving grown up in Montreal and Winnipeg, year-round golfing was totally foreign to Tsawwassen Springs Golf PGA pro Chris Hood. That all changed when he moved to B.C. at the age of 20. “It was around Christmas time, and the courses were all open, there was no snow,” he says. “I couldn’t believe it.” Today, Hood is the general manager and director of golf at Tsawwassen Springs Golf Course after a 20year career as a golf pro. Hood got his start at the Marine Drive Golf Club, where he became a Canadian Professional Golf Association-certified golf pro. Hood has served as past president of the PGA of B.C. and worked at some of the most prestigious golf courses in the province, including Nicklaus North in Whistler, Swan-E-Set in Pitt Meadows, and Furry Creek in Howe Sound. Not surprisingly, he’s a scratch golfer as well. Hood says the opportunity to come to Tsawwassen Springs and

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oversee its development from an aging executive course to a worldclass golf destination was a chance of a lifetime. “To come in on the ground floor like this, it’s like hitting a home run,” says Hood. The current par-70 course bears little resemblance to the par62 course it replaced, other than its distinctive cottonwood trees. The new public course sits on more than a foot of sand and has nine miles of drainage pipes to ensure the fairways stay dry and playable even in the middle of winter. “They built it right,” he says. “They didn’t cut any corners.” The length of the course has been stretched out to more than 5,500 yards, and feature four tee boxes to accommodate golfers of all levels. While the Tsawwassen Springs’ pro shop and canteen is currently housed in a temporary building in the parking lot, its new home is sure to impress. Scheduled for completion by the summer of 2014, the Tsawwassen

Springs clubhouse will feature a mixed grill and lounge, a banquet hall for up to 500 people, a fully-stocked golf and pro shop, a golf academy, as well as spa and fitness facilities. The course’s driving range will soon be equipped with a roof to accommodate year-round all-weather use. The development will be home to more than 1,000 residential units, from condos to detached homes, by the time construction is finished around 2017. “This isn’t just a golf course we’re building, it’s an entire community,” says Hood. With the South Delta Leader’s Best of South Delta contest in full swing, Hood says Tsawwassen Springs deserves to be named the top local golf course. “The course is flat and playable, and will challenge golfers of all levels,” he says. “There’s a great mix of holes…so you’ll hit every club in your bag.” • For more information, visit http://golf.tsawwassensprings.ca

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❙ VIEWPOINT Enviros unwilling to compromise

onday’s Delta Council meeting in North Delta once again devolved into a circus sideshow of screaming and shouting as the local anti-development movement was out in force to oppose MK Delta Lands’ revised proposal for their property along Highway 91. If you came hoping for a reasoned, respectful discussion, you came to the wrong place. Environmentalists and NIMBYs alike booed and jeered councillors for sending MK Delta Lands’ application to Metro Vancouver, which is standard procedure for all municipalities to do in such cases, and in no way constitutes an approval of the project by the Corporation of Delta in any way, shape or form. But to the rabid rabble, howling in protest, it was an outrage of the greatest magnitude. This sort of overblown enviro-obstructionism is counter-productive, as it serves only to paint the environmental movement and their very valid concerns with the loony-green brush. As a society, our priorities need to change, and environmental concerns do need to be near the top of that list. At the same time, development is inevitable. Populations grow. And that population needs somewhere to live, to work, to shop, and to receive services. So new development needs to take into account environmental concerns, and not just pay them lip service. Compromise is needed to achieve that balance. The new MK Delta Lands proposal does an excellent job of striking that balance. The development calls for 1,000 residential units and 40,000 square-metres of commercial space on just 20 hectares of land, creating a mid-density community that uses a relatively small land base. Thanks to that density, 16.2 hectares of land will be set aside for green space and conservation. Additionally, MK Delta Lands will donate another 78 hectares of land on the west side of Highway 91 to become part of the Burns Bog Conservation Area. So out of nearly 115 hectares of land owned by MK Delta Lands, barely 17 per cent will see residential and commercial construction. That’s sounds like a pretty good compromise, and the environmentalists should take it, especially when one considers the alternative. The land is currently zoned for industrial-scale peat mining. If MK Delta Lands is unable to develop the land, they will be left with few options to recoup their investment other than to use the land for what it is currently zoned for. And if they choose to turn their property into an industrial peat mining operation, there’s nothing anyone would be able to do to stop them. If the environmental movement continues to behave so obstinately, they won’t be taken seriously, they will have zero voice, and we will all be the worse off for it. -South Delta Leader

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How many more deaths before we get serious about cycling infrastructure?

he grisly aftermath of a bicycle accident on the Stanley Park causeway last week has left cyclists and drivers alike horrified by the thought. On Saturday evening a female cyclist made contact with a pedestrian on the shared sidewalk, causing her to fall in front of a bus. She was killed instantly. According to ICBC statistics, fatalities are relatively rare, with a five-year average of nine deaths each year across the province. But accidents tell a different story. Of the 1,400 annual accidents involving bicycles in B.C., 960 take place in the busy Lower Mainland. And because a bicycle is usually no match for a car, when an accident does take place many of those injuries can be fairly serious. It’s poor timing that this horrific accident happened on the eve of Bike to Work Week (May 27 to June 2), a non-profit society urging more people

to get out of their cars and onto two wheels. But accidents like this won’t help them achieve that. Not when infrastructure isn’t in place to protect cyclists from serious injuries, or even death. Sometimes an accident is just that: an unpreventable incident of misfortunate circumstances. This fatality was not that. Ironically, Vancouver’s current council has been one of the most vocal proponents of expanding bike lanes to protect cyclists downtown and on the Burrard Bridge. That didn’t prevent Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs, a vocal bicycle advocate, from being in a serious accident himself in March, 2010. Meggs was riding on Angus Drive in Vancouver, a designated bicycle route, at West 51st Avenue when he was struck by a car and knocked unconscious. At the time of the incident, fellow councillor Suzanne Anton said cyclist

safety amounts to something of a paradox, where drivers will become more aware of cyclists if there are more cyclists, but there won’t be more cyclists until there is better protection for riders. I have been in two serious accidents myself, which diminished my enthusiasm for two-wheeled transport. The first was eight years ago in Toronto when I was struck by a Honda Civic and the driver jumped out and demanded I give him $1,000 for the damage to his front end. The second time I was powering down a hill in Vancouver with right-of-way, when a car blew a stop sign and sent me flying. My shoulder has never felt 100 per cent since. Cycling advocates are putting the cart before the horse. We don’t have the infrastructure in place for commuter cycling in Lower Mainland communities. How many more deaths will it take before we do?

Letters to the editor Police not worth the price We received our property tax bill last week and note that Mayor Jackson commends her council for raising taxes only 1.9 per cent this year. This led me to wonder where our money goes, exactly. I reviewed the Corp. of Delta 2013 financial plan and see that the Delta Police department gets $33.9 million this year. I further note that the budget for policing in 2010 was $29,454,500. This means that Chief Cessford’s budget has increased $4,445,500 over three years for a total of 15.1 per cent, or about five per cent per year. Delta has not experienced a significant increase in population during this period and the crime rate is actually falling, so why do we need more cops? Would not this $4.4 million be better spent on schools and hospitals? Jerry Cutler Tsawwassen

Don’t sell off public lands It was encouraging and heart-warming to see over 100 passionate people attend the public hearing about the Ladner Waterfront revitalization proposal on May 28. About 90 per cent of those attending were in opposition to any plans to raise building heights above three storeys along the southside of Chisholm Street. We trust that Council

will seriously consider the wishes of the majority when making their final decision to do what’s best to retain and protect the heritage future and character of our special village. We also request that Council reverse its decision to sell the Seven Seas property and adjacent Delta-owned sites on Chisholm Street. Public loss of this property will mean loss of public access and control of this valuable waterfront location. The success of the Harris Barn and Kirkland House clearly demonstrates what can happen when politicians, Delta staff and hundreds of community volunteers work together for heritage and community protection. Let’s keep this momentum going! Bev Yaworski and D. Reynolds Delta

Give Steve the heave Stephen Harper had a chance to be a leader, ethically accountable, humble and contrite by accepting responsibility for the Reform Party-led Conservative Senate Scandal, even to put it behind him. “He blew it,” is the conclusion observers of Canadian politics are reaching, including the National Post’s John Ivison. Harper blew it. Instead of accepting responsibility, Stephen Harper tells us “Canadians want the Senate to change.” But what is needed isn’t “Senate Reform.”

Ethical conduct in appointment, yes. Patronage and partisanship, no. Divisive provincial senate elections, absolutely not. But that is what Stephen Harper wants and where he wants to deflect the Harper Conservative Senate Scandal. Harper is using the scandal of his making and that of his party to push the Reform Party - his old party - divisive agenda on the Senate, to rewrite 1867 as 1776. What we see in Harper’s failure of leadership today is Harper’s choice to deny responsibility for his appointments to the Senate and choice of Chief of Staff, to deflect responsibility onto the Senate itself and onto individuals - who he says should be held accountable and away from himself and his party. Harper is saying such individuals should leave his party and caucus. Instead of accepting responsibility for his ethical and leadership failures, Stephen Harper chooses to exploit the moment to advance the divisive “new Conservative” Reform Party agenda and policy directions . Harper needs to be held accountable and to pay the political price which ranks with his conduct in the 2008 prorogation crisis he originated in calling for his resignation and a new ministry formed. Whatever you wish to call the Reform “Conservative” Party, it is time to give Steve the heave. Brian Marlatt White Rock

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yes 96% no 4% Letters to the editor We’d be lost without the Senate Many are the voices of what to do with Canada’s final resting place for politically deserving friends-of-the-government. Upon “sober second thought,” let’s leave wellenough alone. After all, where would we be without being able to bestow partisan consolation prizes upon one’s own failed election candidates by appointing them to Canada’s graveyard of government patronage. Pity the U.S. Senate where you actually have to win an election to get in, when in Canada all you have to do is lose one. And here is a “sobering” afterthought: The United States with a population of 313,914,000 (2012) has 100 elected senators. Canada with a population of only 34,483,000 (2011) has 105 appointed senators. Makes one wonder. Edward Bopp Tsawwassen

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BCTF digs in for endless war

ike those Japanese soldiers who didn’t hear about the end of World War II, the militant fringe that controls the B.C. Teachers’ Federation is digging in for endless battle against the B.C. government. Their nemesis, Premier Christy Clark, reiterated last week that seeking a 10year agreement with the BCTF is a top priority when the legislature is recalled this summer. The current one-year truce ends June 30. The BCTF grudgingly agreed to that extension last year, then ran TV ads calling for an NDP government that promised concessions and union bosses on both sides of the negotiating table. “You know, I may be a lame duck,” outgoing BCTF president Susan Lambert crowed to cheering classroom-warfare radicals at the union’s convention in March, “but I think Christy’s goose is cooked.” We’ll never know how much this sort of gloating contributed to the epic collapse of the NDP, champion of public sector union members whose pay and benefits make them the new upper class. But I can tell you the prospects for sparing children from this ideological warfare are not good. Last week the B.C. Court of Appeal handed down an ivory-tower decision that upheld the “right” of teachers to bring their union demands into the classroom in the form of posters, buttons and black armbands that to some self-absorbed teachers symbolize the “death” of education. During the election campaign, The Globe and Mail carried a story on one of those mock elections held in schools around the province. An elementary-level student was quoted as saying she voted against the B.C. Liberals because Clark “caused a teachers’ strike.” If this kid was talking about the most recent strike, I wonder where she got that idea. In a negotiating performance that was appalling even by BCTF standards, Lambert and her team conducted months of disruptive work-to-rule action

before they could even articulate a wage and benefit demand. When they finally did, it was outrageously out of touch with reality. An indication of how the union’s ruling class wants to conduct itself in the classroom can be found in the latest issue of the BCTF newsletter to its members. Joanna Larson, president of the Prince Rupert union local, contributes an article headlined: “What kind of citizen do we hope to graduate from our K-12 public schools?” Larson first quotes the education ministry’s current goals. They include preparing citizens who are “creative, flexible, self-motivated, and who have a positive self-image.” Another goal is citizens who are “skilled and who can contribute to society generally, including the world of work.” Larson then mocks these goals, as follows: “Essentially, the Ministry of Education has a vision of citizens who will maintain the status quo, not rock the boat, and participate on a superficial level in aspects of political and societal change. It doesn’t challenge individuals to take direct action against exploitation, marginalization and violence.” In case you missed the political message, Larson later asserts: “The educated citizens we graduate from our schools cannot just be content to wear a pink shirt once a year…. Educated, engaged citizens must be willing to take direct action to change and shape our society for the better.” What is this ghastly “status quo” that must be challenged by “direct action”? In these campus-radical screeds, the final answer is generally the same: capitalism. This call to arms is a blend of the NDP election platform and a rant from the Occupy Vancouver squat of a couple of years ago. It’s no wonder we hear of students making BCTF picket signs in art class. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

The buzz about bees in large numbers in North American colonies in 2005/06 a lot of red flags were raised. Almond farmers in California need 1.4 million hives to pollinate their crops. If there are not enough bees, crops will not thrive (almonds contribute $14 to $15 billion to agriculture). The growth of neonicotinoids such as clothianidin and imidacloprid (widely used pesticides) has tracked the rising number of bee deaths since 2005. Indications of the persistence of these pesticides are seen in irrigation channels and soils. Recent studies by the European Food Safety Authority indicate that neonicotinoids pose an unacceptably high risk to bees (BBC News, April 2013). We do not know if and when the use of these products will stop. After all Bayer Crop Science—a leading UK provider of crop protection solutions--has much to

lose if bans are imposed. How did society manage without the use of such powerful chemicals? In The Incomparable Honey Bee, Dr. Reese Halter writes in detail about the value of honey for health and also reminds us when purchasing honey, to buy local. Chinese honey, according to Halter, has been banned in the U.S. because it is contaminated with antibiotics and lead. I recommend that folks purchase Westham Island Apiary honey, available at Boundary Bay Earthwise Farm, and that they also grow bee friendly plants, also available for purchase at Earthwise. Go Green Delta Book and Film group has invited Westham Island beekeepers to our June meeting, to which all are welcome. Please become ‘bee aware’. Read what the buzz is about. As you learn, take action.

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Friday, Friday, May May 31, 31, 2013 2013 South South Delta Delta Leader Leader ❙ Far left: South Delta Secondary grads Russell Bunker (left), Kelsey Racich (grad council co-president) and Evan Grannary will be celebrating their Dry Grad party on June 28, before heading into adulthood. Left: Delta Secondary grad council vice-president Ellery Uppal (back row), council president Katie Smillie, and council secretary Antony Tsui, have worked hard all year to organize graduation festivities for 290 students finishing Grade 12 this year. But it’s their parents who organize Dry Grad, which falls on June 14 this year. Adrian MacNair photos

Keeping dry during grad Students in South Delta celebrate safely ❙ Adrian MacNair reporter adrian@southdeltaleader.com

In a few short weeks, the graduating class of South Delta students will celebrate the completion of a long journey through school. It’s an exciting time for many grads who are about to embark on a new life in adulthood and take on the world. But before they do, there’s one last high school party, and parents want to ensure their children celebrate it in safety. “They couple that excitement with drinking, and when you put in driving the next thing you know you have a tragedy,” says Bob Rorison, president of the Vancouver chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Most high schools organize a Dry Grad at the end of the year which, as the name implies, offers students a chance to celebrate without alcohol and its potentially dire consequences. But Rorison says most parties will have some form of illicit drugs or alcohol. And because most of these parties happen late at night, imbibing either of these can be tempting. According to statistics provided

by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 16 to 25-year-olds account for the highest number of impaired drivers in crashes (33 per cent), while almost half of all crashes (46 per cent) take place between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. Rorison says that often the message gets muddled because the students will go to the Dry Grad, and then go drinking and partying afterward. Other times there will be a “Damp Grad” where some light drinking happens. “All it takes is some keys to go out and in their excitement they’re roaring down a back country road and they’re in a crash and someone dies,” he says. South Delta Secondary is holding its Dry Grad on June 28 at the South Delta Recreation Centre starting at 11:30 p.m. Grade 12 parents spent all year organizing the entertainment, food, registration, and donations, while the Dry Grad night is run by the Grade 11 parents. It’s a big party with prizes throughout the night, a casino provided by Rotary, and the grand prize is a new car. “Originally, when it happened all those years ago—this is hearsay of course—there was some pretty rowdy partying after the banquet when the kids were getting back in Tsaw-

wassen and some accidents from what I understand,” says Sara Blackwell, a parent and Dry Grad co-chair. That was about 15 years ago, when parents decided to start organizing a safer party. It’s become a tradition since then and one that every student looks forward to as they go through high school. “There’s always a couple who like to push the boundaries a little bit,” says Blackwell. “And you have to be honest a little bit. Will this one night make a difference? No, they could very well party every night until this night.” But like all things in parenting, it’s about doing the best you can, she adds. “It’s a great way to keep us safe while we’re having fun together,” says Kelsey Racich, grad council co-president. “It’s really fun for everyone, students and teachers and parents.” South Delta Secondary has always been different from its cousin in Ladner, in that it’s always the last hurrah before high school is finished for good. But Delta Secondary’s Dry Grad is June 14 this year, and in years previous has even been in May. Which is an even better reason for students not to go too crazy that night: they have exams the next week. “We’ve learned throughout the years it’s a safe, supervised place to go after our grad,” says Katie Smillie,

president of the grad council which Tsui says grads are more focused oversees the 290 students that will on the fun activities of the day more finish high school this year. than the partying later on. Things “Most people want to party but like the red carpet event which takes they want to have real fun,” says place at 4 p.m., when the town of Antony Tsui, grad council secretary. Ladner turns out to watch the Grade “They don’t want to get 12s walk into their school, too intoxicated and not the girls in beautiful gowns enjoy their celebration of and the boys in black tuxtheir last year.” edos. “They want to remem“It’s a local send off for ber the night,” chimes in the Grade 12s,” says Ellery Smillie. Uppal, vice-president of Students and parents the grad council. sign waivers acknowledgIt’s really nice to see the ing the expectations of community come out to their behaviour, says Preet support them after going Bains, a parent and Dry Preet Bains through the entire school Grad fundraising chair. system in Ladner, adds Any students suspected of Bains. being under the influence will have Rorison says it takes a strong mestheir parents called and will only be sage from parents to remind kids released under their supervision. of the consequences of drinking on “There’s good examples from past grad night. years,” says Bains. “It’s a tradition in “We need to make them think extra our community here. Everybody is hard and we need to make those kids, well aware of expectations.” or those people that tend to want to Bains is a teacher at L.A. Matheson go the extra mile and go out partying Secondary in Surrey and says the afterwards, we need to make them B.C. Automobile Association sends totally aware.” out videos to some high schools Owning up to the admission that throughout the year with graphic there will be some drinking and rentcontent depicting the horrendous re- ing a limousine or a party bus is more sults of drinking and driving. responsible than pretending it simply “They are quite powerful videos,” isn’t going to happen, warns Rorison. she says. ❙ adrian@southdeltaleader.com

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❙ Photo of the Month: Vancouver Skyline by Mackenzie Connors

What inspired the photographer? For this photo my inspiration came from a friend producing long exposure photographs. I shot this photo from the Cambie Street bridge and thought with the combination of street lights, water taxis and Science World, it encapsulated Vancouver’s nightlife on the water. What makes this photo special? This image was awarded first place in the Youth Monochrome category of the 2013 Delta Photo Inspirations. How was it done? I use a Sony A57 camera with a Minolta 60mm lens. ISO 100, f 11, 30 seconds. Interested in photography? The Delta Photo Club meets 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays (September - May) at the KinVillage Recreation Centre in Tsawwassen. www.deltaphotoclub.com

Best and brightest honoured by Rotary ❙ Robert Mangelsdorf editor editor@southdeltaleader.com

The Rotary Clubs of Tsawwassen, Ladner, and North Delta recognized Delta’s best and brightest young people earlier this month at the Rotary Youth Awards Delta. In all 28 Delta youth, aged 10 to 18, were recognized for their exceptional compassion, inner strength and international and community service. In the category of Compassion and Empathy, eight young people were recognized for having demonstrated a wide range of caring acts towards others in our community, going out of their way to make the world around them a better place by showing respect, thoughtfulness and compassion. South Delta Secondary School senior Rachel Barnston won in recognition of her work running several school fundraisers in honour of her aunt who was diagnosed with breast cancer and giving back to the community as a volunteer. Jarvis Elementary Grade 7 students Altaf Mohal, Corey Bullock and Eric Whitehouse won for their efforts to combat bullying in the school. Rachel Hislop Hook of Delta Secondary School won for her volunteer work and fundraising efforts. Molly Millward of Port Guichon

Elementary spearheaded a pajama drive for underprivileged kids in the community that needed PJs for Christmas. Sidney Peake was recognized for her volunteer work as a youth leader at South Delta Baptist Church. In the Inner Strength category, Delta secondary students ML Schneider and Ruby Baird picked up awards, as did SDSS senior Spencer Hula, and Ladner Boys and Girls Club member Raven Malli. The Helping Hands award honoured young people who volunteered their time and efforts to help better their community and those less fortunate than themselves. Winning this award were Delta Secondary students Arjun Bains and Brendan Barth; South Delta Secondary student Rachel Garrett; Burnsview Secondary student Logan Hope; Ladner elementary Grade 7 student Hannah De La Cruz; Jarvis Elementary students Melody Unger, Lily Tewolde, Ashley Purwal and Arshil Khalil; and Hayden Dance and Brian Larson of the Delta Minor Lacrosse Association. In the Global category, North Delta Secondary student Anne T. George, Delta Secondary students Sorana and Oraya Srimokia, and Delta Secondary student and Delta Minor Lacrosse Association member Tessa Vincent were recognized

for their international aid efforts. The Delta Youth Awards Committee also selected George as the recipient of the Service Above Self Award, for her volunteer work both locally and internationally. “Through her involvement in Global Unity Club as well as her activities outside the school, Anne exemplifies global citizenship,” said presenter Leslie Abramson of the Tsawwassen Rotary Club. “By reaching out to others she provides both the means and the voice to improve their situation and honour their memory. Anne knows the meaning of service above self and is tireless in her efforts to make the world a better place.” In addition to her work in global areas, Anne is a member of the student council and a volunteer peer tutor. She is also a talented musician and a member of the North Delta Air Cadet Squadron where she is both a glider pilot and a cadet instructor. With over 500 service hours she has volunteered in a variety of worthy causes and bugles for events such as Remembrance Day ceremonies in North Delta and Ladner, D-Day, Veterans Day and World War 2 memorial parades. Seaquam Secondary student Gurtej Cheema was awarded the Alumni Award of Distinction. • To see video of the award gala, visit http://bit.ly/19nsMzd

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❙ Ladner resident Carey Muir has been volunteering to feed Vancouver’s most needy since 1997. In 2010 he began his own charity, Fresh Wave Ministries. Adrian MacNair photo.

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hen people think about poverty and homelessness in Vancouver it’s often the Downtown Eastside that comes to mind. But Ladner’s Carey Muir, founder and director of Fresh Wave Ministries in Ladner, says there is a large population in the Vancouver’s west end that needs awareness and help as well. Muir began volunteering in 1997 with Lifeline Outreach Society to feed Vancouver’s west end homeless by providing them with soup and sandwiches. But when the charity pulled operations out of Vancouver in 2007, he knew he had to do something. “It left a hole in the downtown west end,” he said, adding that today his charity serves 200 people in that area. Each Monday evening without fail, he and 60 volunteers from churches in Ladner, Richmond, Burnaby, and Maple Ridge, gather together to feed the homeless.

They make a big pot of soup for 100 people with fresh vegetables and meat, which costs roughly $60 for the ingredients. “That’s a really good deal for 100 people,” says Muir. “They love our soup and they keep coming back.” Then they make peanut butter and jam sandwiches with donated bread from Richlea Bakery in Ladner, brew coffee, and pickup leftover bread and confections from Cobs Bread in Ladner. From there, they travel to Peace Mennonite Church in Richmond where a dozen volunteers gather to prepare for the mission to the streets and the people who depend on their visits. “We call them our family because over the years that’s what they’ve become to us,” says Muir, who has known he was meant for this life since he was a teenager. Muir went on a mission to India when he was 22 and then to Guyana when he was 30. It was on the second trip that he says he heard God calling him for his purpose. The difference they make for the poor is sig-

nificant, he said. There are many people come from the “war zone” of the Downtown Eastside to escape a life of drugs and crime. Muir can refer addicts to the Salvation Army for recovery and job training. He has seen success stories of people escaping the streets and getting into housing. But it’s not just the homeless who are helped. “[There are] single moms just trying to make ends meet and they find a lot of month at the end of the pay cheque,” he said. Muir has a dream to open a coffee house in Ladner so the homeless in Delta can come and relax with entertainment, coffee, and dessert. Anybody interested in volunteering can reach Carey at 778-686-9995. Cheques can be made out to Fresh Wave Ministries and are tax deductible as a registered charity.

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GVHBA invites public to Parade of Renovated Homes

Imagining the renovation possiblities The Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association invites you to tour 11 professionally renovated homes in the Lower Mainland on June 9 on their annual Parade of Renovated Homes. Between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., visitors will be able to look around the homes and talk with the renovators. “Professional RenoMark renovators, ... will be on-site to offer expert advice and discuss their craftsmanship,” says GVHBA CEO Bob de Wit. “Project values range widely, offering homeowners an abundance of ideas they can incorporate into their own renovations.” Admission is by passport and will

cost $10 per person. Children 17 and under are free. You can purchase your passport at any home on the tour. Visit www.gvhba.org for a full list of participating homes. Because the homes are private residences, the tour is only open during the event date and times. “FortisBC is extremely excited to again be the presenting sponsor of this popular consumer event,” says FortisBC regional energy solutions manager Dan Noel. “We look forward to combining the strengths of GVHBA and FortisBC to help the renovation industry in Metro Vancouver achieve innovative and successful results when it comes to their projects and energy requirements.”

Appia to release second phase soon

SOLO District rising above the rest with Altus By Kerry Vital

Exciting things are happening at Appia Developments’ SOLO District with their upcoming release of the second residential phase and ongoing construction of the first phase. Stratus, the first tower, will rise 45 storeys and will be available for buyers to move into in 2015. Meanwhile, Altus will begin sales in the near future. “Altus will be the tallest building in Burnaby,” says Lisa Murrell, sales and marketing manager for Appia. “The views are amazing.” Altus will be the equivalent of 55 storeys tall, with office space on the first 14 floors. Thus, the first residential floor will be 200 feet up, offering stunning views from every condominium home.

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There’s everything you could possibly need here,” says Lisa Murrell, sales and marketing manager for Appia Developments. “The views start from the bottom (residential) floor,” Murrell says. “There will also be a quiet barbecue area and rooftop garden on that floor.” At the very top of the building, you’ll find a huge amenity space that Appia is calling Club 55 with a barbecue area, full kitchen, media area and pool and ping-pong tables and generous outdoor deck space all for residents of Altus. The office tower will include a gym that residents have access to as well, and a multi-sport court on the third floor. SOLO District, which stands for South of Lougheed, will eventually be comprised of four stunning residential towers (Cirrus and Aerius are the two others and will be released at a future date) and when complete, will house over 1,400 homes. It will also hold office space, commercial opportunities and plenty of green space. Among the tenants will be Burnaby’s first Whole Foods, right next door to Stratus. “There are several other exciting anchor tenants to be announced,” says Murrell. “This is a very, very cool community.” That’s no exaggeration. SOLO is steps away from Brentwood Town Centre, the Brentwood SkyTrain

station, restaurants, schools and leisure activities, so it’s perfectly situated. “There’s everything you could possibly need here,” Murrell says. “Walkability was key.” Stratus began sales last year, and Appia has since consulted with buyers and locals to find out what drew them to the master-planned community. “It’s been really well-received by the community,” Murrell says. “We’re learning what people want.” The homes themselves are spacious and open, ranging from approximately 539 up to about 1,700 square feet. Something that sets Altus apart are the choices it offers for three-bedroom units, which is something buyers have been asking for and Appia is happy to be able to provide in this new phase of SOLO District. Among the features you’ll find in your new home are imported Italian Armony Cucine cabinetry in the kitchen and bathrooms, engineered wood flooring in the living areas and polished quartz countertops. All of the homes at SOLO will be heated and cooled via geothermal heat exchange, which uses stored energy from the earth and is incredibly efficient. FortisBC notes that buyers will see great cost savings compared to conventional buildings, and less maintenance will be required. For more information, visit www. solodistrict.com or call 604-298-8800.

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Appia Developments will soon release its second phase of homes at SOLO, called Altus. It will be the tallest building in Burnaby, top, and will offer amazing views over the Lower Mainland, a fantastic location and a huge amenities space called Club 55, above, with a barbecue area, full kitchen and generous outdoor deck space.

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More than 400 rowers hit the waters of Deas Slough last weekend for the running of the 24th annual Delta Deas Scholastic Regatta. The event, hosted by the Delta Deas Rowing Club, featured school-aged athletes from across the province, with 19 rowing clubs and school teams represented. The host club put a number of rowers on the podium, finishing third overall in the Massey Cup and

Delta Police Athletic Association Trophy standings. The Victoria City Rowing Club took home the Massey Cup for most overall points with 45. In second place, Victoria’s Gorge Rowing Club had 20 points, just edging out Delta Deas in third with 19. The Burnaby Lake Rowing Club got to hoist the Delta Police Athletic Association Trophy, which honours the most efficient teams in the competition. Salt Spring Island placed second, while Delta Deas was third. • To learn more about the Delta Deas Rowing Club, visit www.deltadeas.com

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Win a Man Cave Makeover

Win $500 for Dad’s favourite stores for everything he’ll need to deck out his man-cave in style. Enter once a day at Customer Service with a same-day receipt from any Lansdowne Centre retailer, between June 1st and June 14th. Full details at Customer Service. Lansdowne Centre: unique stores, great people.

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Driving his dream ❙ P4

Birds in paradise ❙ P5

North Delta man restores 1956 Merc pickup

Province wants your input on Massey fix

Officer honoured ❙ P6

Delta constable helps seniors fend off scams Delta has launched Facebook, Twitter & YouTube

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❙ CONNECTING THE NORTH WITH THE SOUTH CorpofDelta_2x2_DL1223.indd

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Heart & Hustle this Saturday

❙ Police join forces to fight gangs

Delta Police are teaming up with agencies across the province to tackle organized crime as part of the B.C. Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit. See B3

DeltaPrepared

The public is invited to have some fun and help support the Delta Hospital as the Delta Hospital Foundation launches its inaugural Hustle & Heart Block Party and Walkathon on Saturday, June 1. The festivities take place in the main parking lot of the Delta Hospital from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The block party features live entertainment, rides, games, food, and refreshments. The Corporation of Delta will block off Clarence Taylor Way between Clarence Taylor Crescent and Mountain View Boulevard for the event. The event is free and all activities will be free or by donation. Delta Hospital Foundation executive director Veronica Carroll says the event meant to welcome the entire community in the spirit of health, and the grassroots movement that helped shape Delta Hospital by creating this annual event. “This event is a way for us at the Foundation and hospital and welcome our neighbours, friends, and the community into our extended family,” she said. “It will be a wonderful day for families, children, and everyone involved to have fun and celebrate the amazing work being done on behalf of our health. It is going to be a fantastic day and one that is fitting for our entire community.” Registration for the walkathon begins at 10 a.m., and the walk begins at 11 a.m. The walkathon is free to enter and every participant who raises $20 in pledges will receive a t-shirt and goody bag. Participants will also have the chance to win prizes. Delta Hospital Foundation Chair of the Board Keith McGee’s law practice, Jarvis McGee Rice, is presenting the event and will match funds raised on the day of the event and all walkathon participant pledges dollar for dollar, up to $25,000. This matching pledge program automatically doubles everyone’s fundraising efforts that will greatly benefit the hospital. To learn more about the Hustle & Heart Block Party and Walkathon, visit www.deltahospital.com, or call 604-940-9695.

For more information visit: facilities.deltasd.bc.ca/deltaprepared

The Delta School District’s main priority is to provide supportive learning environments that are safe for our students and staff. Ensuring safety includes being fully prepared for natural disasters and other emergency situations. To this end, we have a thorough Emergency Response Plan in place.

Being prepared is the greatest asset a school has in facilitating the survival and well-being of students and staff, and DeltaPrepared is the Delta School District strategy to ensuring our readiness.

In addition to fire and earthquake drills practiced regularly at schools, our comprehensive emergency plan prepares for the safety of students and staff not only during an emergency, but also following one. Each school has emergency supplies securely stored on site to keep our students and staff safe following an emergency, until a full evacuation can be carried out. Our parent community helps support us with this preparation, as do local police, fire and government — Thank you!

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Mayor’s Garden Contest For Kids Kids! Don’t forget to grow your flower or vegetable garden to have a chance to win some great prizes! Entries are accepted between August 1 and September 9, but the best gardens need an early start. Find out more, including how to enter and what you can win at delta.ca

North Delta Family Day Bring the whole family to the North Delta Community Park on June 23 for a fun-filled day of activities. See the parade at 11:00 am and come to the festival from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm for games, children’s rides, a stage show, a BBQ, and much more!

Delta Community Animal Shelter Grand Opening The Grand Opening celebration for the new Delta Community Animal Shelter at 7505 Hopcott Road is on Saturday June 15 from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm. Admission is free and there will be fun for the whole family. The formal ceremony begins at 11:45.

Seniors Week Seniors! June in Delta has something for you too! Get ready for a fun-filled week from June 3 to June 9 when Delta will be offering extra activities just for you in celebration of Seniors Week. Visit delta.ca or call your local seniors recreation centre for more details.

Lawn Sprinkling Regulations Don’t forget that lawn sprinkling regulations are in effect from June 1 to September 30.Visit delta.ca to find out when you are allowed to water your lawn.

Visit delta.ca/events for more information on these and other events

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Delta Police team up to put gangs in their crosshairs ❙ Staff writer Delta Leader

It’s Saturday night on Granville Street, in the heart of Vancouver’s entertainment district, and six members of the Uniform Gang Enforcement team wind their way through the crowds of people lined up to enter the bars and clubs. The gang enforcement teams, in their distinctive dark uniforms, are the high-profile public face of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia (CFSEU-BC)— the province’s anti-gang police unit. As an integrated unit on tonight’s team, there are officers from Delta, Vancouver and the RCMP. A white Jeep Grand Cherokee catches the eye of constables Vicken Movsessian and Eric Davis. They check the licence plate and confirm the registered owner is a known Dhak associate. The Dhak/Duhre crime group is one-half of a recent gang conflict that has increased the rate of gang violence in the province and seen B.C.-bred gangsters fleeing to other parts of the country to avoid being murdered. Officers pull over the gang associate’s vehicle and make the approach. He tells the officers he is on his way to a casino, information he readily offers to explain why he has a few thousand dollars in his pocket. He’s cooperative and even polite. Eventually he’s sent on his way. The uniform gang enforcement team had its genesis in 2007 to counteract a growing number of violent gang incidents throughout the Lower Mainland. Bullets were flying, public safety was at risk and something had to be done. The events were so brazen that they caught the attention of the national media. Formerly called the Violence Suppression Team (VST) and initially based out of the Vancouver

Police Department, the integrated patrol-based model quickly became a success. Since the nature of organized crime in B.C. has changed in the past 30 years, police tactics have changed as well. In 1980, law enforcement listed just a handful of gangs and organized crime groups operating in British Columbia. Today, it is estimated that 188 criminal groups exist in a province where the gang and organized crime landscape is enterprise-driven. Gangs are no longer based on ethnicity. Due to sustained law enforcement efforts, they are reluctant to identify themselves. Even outlaw motorcycle gangs like the Hells Angels are reluctant to wear their “colours” regularly. Since the integrated patrol-based model was implemented, the rate of violent incidents in public places has dropped. Bars and restaurants got onboard and it’s been a key component of the guns and gangs strategy ever since. From a peak of 36 gang-related homicides in B.C. in 2009, the number fell to 18 in 2012. While the gang-murder rate and ensuing violence is down since 2009, some of these murders have taken place in high-density areas, which puts the health and safety of citizens at risk. However, it should be noted that many of these murders—78 per cent—did take place close to the victims’ homes or vehicles. On average, CFSEU-BC’s uniformed officers will check about 4,000 people in a year. About 12 per cent of those checks will result in the removal of individuals from a premise at the request of a property owner or for some other Criminal Code offence. Of all the people checked in a year, 6.4 per cent will result in an arrest. In addition to regular patrols around Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, the gang enforcement team will travel to communities around British

behind the scenes Editorial Robert Mangelsdorf South Delta Leader, Editor 604-948-3640 ext. 122 editor@southdeltaleader.com Paula Carlson Surrey North Delta Leader,Editor 604-575-5337 pcarlson@surreyleader.com Adrian MacNair South Delta Leader, Reporter 604-948-3640 ext. 126 reporter@southdeltaleader.com Publishers Chrissie Bowker South Delta Leader 604 948-3640 ext. 123 publisher@southdeltaleader.com

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Three-tier approach The uniform team model takes a three-tiered approach to the reduction of gang violence in public places. • Prevention. Gang members and their associates go out to the bars and restaurants to recruit people. • Intervention. Officers are intervening before gang violence has a chance to happen • Suppression. Officers are present if people breach the law.

Columbia to assist municipal departments and detachments with their gang suppression efforts. They also share intelligence with police agencies across B.C. Here in Delta, there are four officers attached to the CFSEU-BC. While there is little gang activity locally, Delta Police spokesperson Const. Ciaran Feenan says there have been known organized crime associates who have called Delta home in the past. “We work closely with [CFSEU], and a number of agencies to monitor what’s going on,” he said. “But we don’t have the kind of issues other [municipalities] have.” Feenan said one of the most important things police can do fight gangs and organized crime is grassroots prevention. In addition to their school liaison program, Delta Police recently launched its Youth Officer Team, which aims to engage young people outside of school. “It starts with the kids,” said Feenan. “We try to do a lot of the prevention work at a younger level, so they don’t end up involved in that lifestyle. It’s about educating them, making them aware about the danger of that life.” • For more on the CFSEU, check out their website at cfseu.bc.ca.

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❙ Mark Johnston has spent the past 16 years restoring his dream truck: A 1956 Mercury pickup. Adrian MacNair photo

Driving his dream North Delta man spends 16 years rebuilding classic 1956 pickup truck ❙ Adrian MacNair

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When Mark Johnston was a nine-year-old boy he saw a turquoise and white 1955 Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria two-door sedan drive by and fell madly in love with it. The owner of the car was living in his garage at the time while working on his car and renovating his house. The house never seemed to make much progress, but the car’s engine purred like a cat. “My mother used to say if he wasn’t working on the car so much he’d be done his house by now,” says Johnston, now 65 and living in North Delta. Johnston is currently working on the car of his dreams under a tarpaulin in his front yard. It looks like a work in progress that could take a long while, but Johnston isn’t in a hurry. After all, he spent 16 years working on the last one. His bright red 1956 Mercury pickup won first place for his category in the 2012 Wellbrook Winery Classic Car and Motorcycle Show. Johnston picked up the Mercury in 1993 in White Rock for $2,500, and paid a little extra for the brand new wheels. “It was a young guy and he needed some money,” recalls Johnston. “It needed quite a lot of work on it.” That’s an understatement. The pickup was basically rusted solid. “It was brown,” he admits, laughing. At first he didn’t know where to start. But Johnston said with any project you start at the beginning and work on one thing at a time until it’s all done. “These old trucks are like a jig-

saw puzzle,” he says. “Every time you think you’ve got a piece you find out you’re missing one.” Johnston was working as a recreation planner for BC Hydro when he bought the pickup so he could only work on the car evenings and weekends. But when he retired in 2003 he began to devote more time and energy. Although he isn’t a mechanic by trade, Johnston grew up on a farm in Kelowna where he learned to fix old cars. “Usually they were cars I’d have to have done the next day, so this truck was a little more relaxing. I didn’t have to hurry to finish it.” Piece by piece, over days, weekends, and years, Johnston repaired or replaced virtually everything on the pickup all by himself. He even built the bumpers himself using stainless steel he cut and molded. He only got a bit of welding done by his brother, who owns a machine shop in Langley. When it came time to paint the car, Johnston wasn’t sure what colour to use. He’d never painted

before in his life. “I was going to paint it midnight blue and then when I woke up one morning I said, no, red,” he says. The finished product is a 351 cu. inch engine—used in early ‘70s Mustangs and Cougars—with a five-speed transmission, eight-cylinders, and 300 horses. So, what does Johnston’s family think about his peculiar hobby? “They don’t say a lot about it, but I think they’re proud of it,” says Johnston. It seems to run in the family anyway. His wife’s brothers, who live in Ladner, have two restored antique vehicles. And when he drives around he can always count on getting approving looks from passersby and the odd thumbs up. Johnston can’t guess how much the pickup is worth. He’s saved every receipt he’s ever spent on it but has never added it all up. But he has no intention of parting with his childhood treasures. “I’ll never sell,” he says with a smile.

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❙ Birds in paradise There’s never been a shortage of targets for birdwatchers in Delta. Warmer weather makes it easy to head out and to spot bald eagles around the landfill, the great blue heron rookery near the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal (don’t get too close, please) or the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary on Westham Island. Just make sure you head out before the heat because birds lose their feathers – and their colour – when they molt during the summer. Left: A wood duck at Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary. Top middle: A great blue heron makes its way back home with building material for its nest at a rookery near the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal. The rookery has hundreds of birds overlooking the shoreline, just south of Highway 17. Bottom middle: Swallows perched on a tree branch. Right: Ducks fly over the bird sanctuary on Westham Island. Boaz Joseph photos

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For fraudsters and scam artists, seniors often make the perfect target. Many seniors are retired and sitting on a nice nest egg - the result of a lifetime of hard work and planning. And for the older generation, a person’s word was their bond, making them more liable to trust a stranger. Thankfully, Delta Police Const. Steve Wilson is working with local seniors to help them protect themselves from such predators. Wilson was awarded the Simon Fraser Gerontology 2013 Elder Abuse Awareness to Action Award on Monday, May 27, at Simon Fraser Universi-

ty, as part of the annual John K. Friesen Gerontology Conference. Wilson, a member of Delta Police’s Economic and Technical Crimes Division, was nominated for the award by the Delta Seniors’ Planning Team for his work presenting education workshops for Delta seniors on a variety of topics to help protect themselves from financial loss due fraud. “Through his work, [Wilson] comes into contact with many Delta seniors who have been victimized through one of the many frauds and scam schemes that exist in our community and on the Internet,” said Kay Dennison, co-coordinator for the Delta Seniors Planning Team. “Wilson provides information on the seriousness of victimization of older

adults and uses great understanding of the embarrassment, sense of loss and anger that seniors often feel on realizing that they have been defrauded.” She added that Wilson’s approach helps seniors and their family members to know that if they were to experience a similar situation that they are not alone there is help available. In nominating him for this award, the Delta Seniors’ Planning Team noted that he stayed long after the workshops ended and met with seniors and their family members, even offering to check up on suspect individuals or businesses personally. “This proactive approach gives a certain level of comfort to our community’s seniors and their families,” said Dennison. • For more in formation on scams and fraud schemes targeting local seniors, visit deltapolice.ca/community/fraud.php

Chief’s contract extended The Delta Police Board announced last week that it will be extending the contract of Delta Police Chief Jim Cessford indefinitely. The police board completed a review of Cessford’s performance, and was “very pleased with his excellent work and accomplishments,” according to a statement released May 15. “The commitment to public safety by the chief and by staff and volunteers of the Delta Police Department makes the board extremely proud,” said Delta mayor and police board chair Lois Jackson. Cessford has agreed to continue on as chief for a minimum of four years, and to assist with succession planning process. A succession plan will be presented to the police board in early 2014. Cessford has served as Delta’s police chief since 1995, and spent 27 years with the Edmonton Police Service prior to that.

The event was inspired by the courage and determination demonstrated by fellow students, Megan McNeil and Tessa Beauchamp and most recently Camille Gregory who all showed a tremendous will to survive in times of adversity. Megan McNeil, an alumni from Seaquam, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 16 and succumbed to cancer in January 2011 at the age of 20 after battling the disease three times. Tessa Beauchamp from Holy Cross High School passed away in January

2012 from cancer at the age of 18. Camille Gregory, an alumni from Seaquam Secondary most recently passed away in September just after receiving her Bachelor of Science from UBC. While this event is honouring these three students, the event is an opportunity for everyone to walk/run for those they love who are struggling with cancer or who have passed away due to cancer. Hawkathon: A Walk to Remember will be taking place on Sunday, June 9, 2013 from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Sea-

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