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❙ CONNECTING THE NORTH WITH THE SOUTH
Jog for the bog ❙ Staff reporter Delta Leader
❙ The comeback kid
Muskaan Grewal has spent more time in hospitals than she has in school. But despite the many surgeries to fix her heart defect, she can still bring a smile to those around her. See B4
The annual Jog for the Bog takes place this Sunday, July 28, celebrating International Bog Day. This year’s event features a five-km walk or 10-km run through the Delta Nature Reserve Park, next to the Burns Bog Conservation Area. The event is organized by the Burns Bog Conservation Society, a non-profit society that promotes ecological conservation of Burns Bog and other peatlands. Burns Bog is the largest raised peat bog in western North America and functions as “the Lungs of the Lower Mainland.” It is also a vital stopover for migratory birds, with more than 100 species having been spotted there. At 3,000 hectares, it is the largest undeveloped urban wilderness in North America, and is home to rare and endangered species like the southern red-backed vole, and the greater sandhill crane. Proceeds from Jog for the Bog and International Bog Day will help to maintain the boardwalk through the Delta Nature Reserve and fund the Society’s educational programs. Each year, more than 50,000 people visit the Delta Nature Reserve. The Burns Bog Conservation Society also takes over 2,500 students, ranging from kindergarten to university on educational tours of Burns Bog. To help celebrate International Bog Day, which recognizes of bogs the world over, there will be free entertainment at the event, including live music, a variety of performances, interactive exhibits, displays and vendors. Registration on event day opens at 8 a.m., with a warm-up at 8:45 a.m. The run starts at 9 a.m., with a pancake breakfast following for runners. Event parking at 10388 Nordel Court. Register online www.burnsbog.org/jog
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Delta Community Update JULY 2013 Update Delta Community JULY 2013 Tsawwassen Sun Festival Join us during BC Day long weekend August 3rd to 5th at Winskill Tsawwassen Festival Park and South DeltaSun Recreation Centre for three days of fun-filled events and activities! All weekend long enjoy a rdball tournament and Join us during BC Day long weekend August 3 to 5th at Winskill great food while Sunday offers a skateboard completion, antique Park and South Delta Recreation Centre for three days of fun-filled fair, and fireworks. Keep some energy for Monday, which features a events and activities! All weekend long enjoy a ball tournament and pancake breakfast, parade, international market, children’s zoo, a great food while Sunday offers a skateboard completion, antique bike show, and much more! fair, and fireworks. Keep some energy for Monday, which features a pancake breakfast, parade, international market, children’s zoo, a bike show, and much more!
Three Events in North Delta’s Social Heart
North Delta is the place to be on August 10th – three great events will have you entertained all day!
Three Events in North Delta’s Social Heart
• The day kicks off with the second annual North Delta Show North&Delta toDelta be onRecreation August 10thCentre – three– great events will have you entertained all day! Shine isatthe theplace North registration and a pancake breakfast from 8:00 to 10:00; Show & Shine • The day kicks off with the second annual North Delta Show with a live DJ and barbecue from 10:00 to 4:00. & Shine at the North Delta Recreation Centre – registration • Head to the North from Delta8:00 Community for& Shine and a over pancake breakfast to 10:00;Park Show children’s at 6:00 and a free family concert at 7:00 with a liveactivities DJ and barbecue from 10:00 to 4:00. featuring The Karmichaels! • Head over to the North Delta Community Park for • Stick around in the park forand theafree children’s activities at 6:00 freefamily familyoutdoor concert movie at 7:00 beginning at 8:30. featuring The Karmichaels! • Stick around in the park for the free family outdoor movie beginning at 8:30.
Delta Community Animal Expo On August 11th enjoy the 5th annual Delta Community Animal Expo Delta Community Animal Expo at Memorial Park in Ladner. The Expo runs from 10:00 to 4:00 and features lots ofthgreat exhibits and activities for our furry friends! On August 11 enjoy the 5th annual Delta Community Animal Expo at Memorial Park in Ladner. The Expo runs from 10:00 to 4:00 and features lots of great exhibits and activities for our furry friends!
Visit delta.ca/events for more information on these and other events. Visit delta.ca/events for more information on these and other events.
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❙ Anne Janzen runs the first-ever Firehall Farmers’ Market at the Firehall Centre for the Arts. Markets take place every second week until mid-September. Boaz Joseph photo
Market feeds the soul ❙ Boaz Joseph
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After living in Los Angles for 12 years, Anne Janzen wanted to continue a Sunday morning ritual once she returned home to the Lower Mainland. The Vancouver native and current Surrey resident fell in love with the California organic farmers’ market culture while working as a chef, caterer and event planner. She loved the taste of organic produce, talking to farmers, olive oil, fresh oven-baked bread, and the communal Sunday dinners
that resulted – even though she was away from her family at the time. Back in the Lower Mainland, she wanted more. “What I wanted was somewhere to shop and get to know the neighbours,” she says. Not just a place to buy food, but to browse, enjoy the smells of fresh-made fare, and mingle – and to really get a feel of what the farmers thought about what they were selling. She searched for a location in the area for months, and one day in February, Janzen drove by an old red building on 84 Avenue in
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North Delta. She had a “wow” moment. The Firehall Centre for the Arts had character, space for vendors, and parking at the North Delta Recreation Centre. All that was left to do was use her limitless energy throughout the spring to get things rolling. On June 30, the Firehall Farmers’ Market opened up for the first time, and runs every second Sunday until Sept. 15. By the second Sunday, the market was bustling, with lots of foot traffic and more than 20 vendors and artisans. ❙ Continued on P.7
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Six-year-old Muskaan Grewal has walked a tightrope between life and death ❙ Adrian MacNair
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When six-year-old Muskaan Grewal received her Delta Rotary Youth “Golden Heart” Award, she was so excited she began screaming and jumping around the house. That might sound typical for most little girls, but Muskaan isn’t most little girls. The award was in recognition of the inner strength she showed while enduring countless surgeries and medical procedures. Born with a heart defect in her left ventricle, Muskaan has walked a narrow tightrope between life and death since the day she was born. As a result, she’s spent more time in a hospital than she has in school. “She’s truly a miraculous child,” says Ragini Kapil, the principal of Jarvis Elementary in North Delta who nominated Muskaan for the award.
Muskaan’s condition has been plagued her since birth, but when she turned four, she asked her parents if she could go to school with all the other kids. Kapil says the school knew it was getting a student with significant health issues and were prepared to meet the challenge. What they were unprepared for, however, was the little girl’s way of making everybody she meets smile. “In comes this little angel and in a very strange quirk of fate, her name Muskaan means a smile [in Punjabi],” says Kapil. Unfortunately, Muskaan was so weak when she came to school that she had to have an adult with her at all times and wasn’t allowed to play. For a bright-eyed and cheerful little girl it was difficult to bear.
One day she couldn’t restrain herself. She put one foot on the playground and prepared to take a step up. She collapsed, unconscious. As it turned out, Muskaan’s ventricle wasn’t able to pump enough blood to her heart to maintain even modest exertions. It seemed as though she’d never be able to play like other children. By December 2011, Muskaan had to be hospitalized. At first she could lay in bed and watch videos on her iPad and Kapil would visit and the two would talk and laugh. But before long she had to be placed on a feeding tube because she was too weak even to eat. Over the course of the next six months she was put on a waiting list for a heart transplant at BC Children’s Hospital. But doctors feared she wasn’t strong enough to survive the surgery even if a heart did become available.
That summer her heart stopped and her father performed cardio pulmonary resuscitation to revive her. The decision was made to fly her to Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton in the hope for a transplant. By October of last year, Muskaan’s health continued to deteriorate to the point where doctors suggested an experimental surgery that had never been performed on a child. The procedure involved the installment of an adult-sized Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) to mechanically pump blood to the heart. Muskaan’s parents decided it was the only way to give her a quality of life. During surgery, Muskaan’s heart stopped. Surgeons continued to manually pump blood to the heart using CPR until the device was successfully installed.
❙ Above: Six-year-old Muskaan Grewal of North Delta wears the back pack that holds her adultsized venticular assist device, which keep blood pumping through her heart. At right: An X-ray of Muskaan’s chest shows the mechanical pump attached to her heart. Photos from Facebook
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The South Delta Artists’ Guild has added a new colour to its palette for the Guild’s 2013 “Oil and Water” competition. In a first-ever collaboration with the Federation of Canadian Artists, the Guild has attracted a record-breaking number of entries from 133 artists on the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. “Oil and Water” was the brain-child of artist and former Guild president Faith Love-Robertson, who founded the juried art show in 2004. The annual competition, open to
any visual artist, has consistently presented outstanding art for public viewing and purchase, since every painting hung must be for sale. This year marks the 10th edition of the annual competition, and like its predecessors, will be shown by the South Delta Artists Guild in the Tsawwassen Longhouse Gallery of the Kiwanis Longhouse, which has been the home of the Guild since 1999. The exhibition and sale of art will run through to Saturday, Aug. 24. The Tsawwassen Longhouse Gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a late opening Thursdays to 8 p.m.
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she was trying to walk again, dragging her left leg behind her. “She’s never sad, she never cries,” he says. “She wants to walk and run again.” After her stroke the family flew back to Edmonton and await a heart donor. On July 16 at 10 p.m. the family learned a heart had become available and 16 hours later Muskaan went under the knife for the transplant procedure. Before she went under general anesthetic she was laughing and joking and singing with the surgeon, says Harman. “It’s like she knew she was going to come back again,” he says. After 10 hours of surgery, doctors declared the transplant successful. Muskaan had a new heart. It’s a little big for her tiny body, but she’ll grow into it. Kapil says it’s not just the story of Muskaan that’s amazing, but her irrepressible optimism. “It’s the courage of her and her whole family to keep going and keep that attitude of looking forward and not giving up.” Harman says his daughter will be able to return to Delta in two weeks and begin her new life as normal sixyear-old girl. “We always look at our daughter and her smile and we totally forget about everything, including the pain.”
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Thanks to the pump, Muskaan’s strength grew and soon she was riding her tricycle around the hospital and visiting other patients. One woman whom Muskaan enjoyed visiting became so weak that she couldn’t speak anymore. Muskaan told her not to worry, “I’ll talk and you smile.” When Muskaan returned to Jarvis Elementary, she was able to play with the other children on the playground for the first time. “The biggest problem we had was keeping her down, because we’re used to being so careful with her, and now she’s running everywhere and skipping,” says Kapil. Muskaan’s mother Sukhdeep was used to being her 24-hour nurse, and would even go to school with her. Kapil says she remembers one day Muskaan was in her office and she turned to Sukhdeep and said, “it’s OK, mom, you can go, I’m fine here.” Although her health was substantially better than before the operation, Muskaan continued to battle infections and other health issues. In June she suffered a stroke while in BC Children’s Hospital, affecting the left side of her body. Muskaan’s father Harman says he’s amazed at Muskaan’s boundless optimism. Even two days after her stroke
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Ladner Elementary garden blooms with new life ❙ Adrian MacNair
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When the Corporation of Delta announced it was saving the Harris Barn from demolition and moving it to Kirkland House on Arthur Drive in Ladner it was devastating news to local gardeners. That’s because the new barn would require the addition of four parking spots on the property and the only place to put them was where a community garden was planted. Worse still, the garden was part of a Ladner Elementary School program that had been ongoing for over two decades. “We were really upset because we weren’t really told it was coming,” recalls Donna Boydston, a former Grade one teacher at the school for 17 years. It was she who began the whole process 22 years ago with gardener Jan Storer, whose child was in Boydston’s class. She had been talking about giving her pupils the experience of planting vegetables and harvesting them to help them better understand food production. Storer offered up her garden for the experiment, and
for the many years that followed children from Ladner Elementary took class trips to plant and harvest carrots, zucchinis, and other vegetables. Boydston says the experience was especially rewarding for children who were not “academically oriented” but more the “hands on” types. She says there are still former students who are now adults who come up and thank her for the trips to the garden. “They’ll say, ‘Hey, Mrs. B., remember when we did this?” The program was funded in part by the Ladner Elementary parent advisory committee, which contributed $100 each year. But the work of community volunteers made a big difference, too. About eight years ago, however, Storer determined her garden was too shady for harvesting the sort of variety of vegetables they’d like and the search for a new home took place. Word of mouth spread and soon the volunteers of the Kirkland House offered to host their garden. “That was a whole new ballgame at Kirkland House and the garden just thrived there,” says Storer, adding the
❙ Ladner Elementary gardeners Jan Storer (left) and Donna Boydston. Adrian MacNair photo
program became even more popular at that time. Boydston retired from teaching the following year and Grade one teacher Kathy Van Allen took over and continued to champion the program at Ladner Elementary. “I feel very grateful to the Kirkland volunteers for giving us a chance to develop the garden,” says Storer. “It was an important part of
our journey.” Although the garden flourished at Kirkland House the news it would have to be removed to make way for parking spaces was a dark cloud on the horizon. It was Ladner Elementary vice principal Jim Hope, who had come to last year’s harvest and been greatly impressed, who represented the silver lining. He proposed the garden be
moved to school grounds. The garden received a $300 cash injection from Vancity in Tsawwassen, and a further $2,000 from the Toyota Evergreen Foundation. Delta Secondary woodworking students created the enclosures for their fruit and vegetable beds. Volunteers built the tool shed and splendid archway. A ribbon-cutting ceremo-
ny on June 14 celebrated the official opening of a garden 22 years in the making. The moment was nostalgic for Boydston, who has seen this process come full circle. She says the garden is a popular spot for children to come and sit during recess or lunch. So popular, in fact, that more benches will need to be built. There are now 10 teachers in the school who have involved their classes in the garden. Storer says things have worked out wonderfully in hindsight. “It really excites the kids,” she says. “They love touching dirt and plants and worms.” And the eating of the vegetables after the harvest is such a crucial part of it, she adds. The kids will cut up the vegetables and make soup. Today the garden blooms forth in colourful glory, with a variety of flowers that are bee-friendly to encourage pollination. There’s even a local apiarist who wants to make a mason bee “condo” on top of the tool shed. It’s just another way the garden continues to grow. “We didn’t know what we were getting into 22 years ago,” says Storer, laughing.
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A Seaquam student Trevor Basran recently placed second in Canada in the national Begbie Canadian History Contest. More than 1,300 students from across Canada took part in the Canadian history exam. Basran received a score of 97 per cent, and was one of six students to win the $1,000 prize. The contest was founded in 1993 when a group of active and retired B.C. social studies teachers worked together to produce
the first Begbie Canadian History Contest. The idea for a contest grew out of their desire to raise the profile of social studies and Canadian history in secondary schools. The contest was designed to allow senior level students to use their knowledge of Canadian history and critical thinking skills and was offered in both English and French to encourage Francophone and French Immersion students to participate. Contest questions are based on major events in Canadian history from 1850 to the pres-
ent. The emphasis is on critical thinking skills using primary sources such as political cartoons, paintings, posters, graphs, maps, statistics, songs, speeches, diaries, letters, newspaper articles and memoirs. The contest is two hours in length and is normally written in the candidate’s school under the supervision of a classroom teacher. All entrants received a certificate of participation, and the top entrant in each school who achieves a score of 80 per cent or more receives a Begbie Contest medallion.
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Janzen can hardly contain her excitement about the feel of the place. “It feeds my soul.” She’s done her best to bring in only farmers who are passionate about their organic products, and has taken tours of the farms to make sure things would fit the nature of the market. There are no wholesalers. “If you’re selling it, you’re the one growing it,” she declares, adding she’s taken lessons to heart from the Surrey Urban Farmers’ Market, which she headed last year. (That market runs each Wednesday from June 12 to Oct. 9 from 1-6 p.m. at the North Surrey Recreation Centre). “I can honestly stand behind everything that’s sold at the (Delta) market, and that feels good.” • The next Firehall Farmers’ Market events take place on Aug. 4 and 18, and Sept. 1 and 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Firehall Centre for the Arts, 11489 84 Ave. For more information, call 778-688-3663, email farmfreshevents@gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/FirehallFarmersMarket
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