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Bridge to replace Massey Tunnel A new bridge will replace the aging George Massey Tunnel but the provincial government isn’t yet saying if the span will be tolled. Premier Christy Clark promised construction will begin in 2017 in her speech last Friday at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention.

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Receiver Jack McDonald proved to be a jack of all trades Saturday as he registered a rare football hat trick in the South Delta Sun Devils 42-12 win over the Frank Hurt Hornets to open the Southern AA Conference season on Saturday. McDonald caught a touchdown, rushed for a touchdown, and even threw for a touchdown.

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The move is expected to change the staffing down to 13 public health nurses from the current 19, resulting in six layoffs of part-time public health nurses, while one full-time nurse will be hired. The layoffs were confirmed by Debra McPherson, president of the B.C. Nurses’ Union.

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High above the Bollywood Banquet Hall at 8166 128 St. in Surrey, childhood cancer survivor Simran Sarai helped Delta Police Const. Ken Usipiuk kick off the annual Cops for Cancer Tour De Valley fundraising campaign on Friday.

Each fall, more than 100 law enforcement and emergency services personnel from across B.C. commit hundreds of hours of their own time to cycle thousands of kilometers across the province. Schools, organizations, businesses and individuals in more than 60 B.C. communities show their support by organizing fundraising events and activities and pledging to raise thousands of dollars.

Simran was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia when she was six years old. Now 13, she has been five years free of the disease and spent Friday afternoon helping Usipiuk raise awareness for this year’s Cops for Cancer campaign.

Usipiuk spent the weekend camped out 15 metres above the mall on a scissor lift to draw attention to the upcoming fundraising cycling tour.

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New bridge to replace aging tunnel No word yet on tolls or scope of new megaproject ❙ Jeff Nagel reporter newsroom@southdeltaleader.com

A new bridge will replace the aging George Massey Tunnel but the provincial government isn’t yet saying if the span will be tolled.

Premier Christy Clark promised construction will begin in 2017 in her speech last Friday at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention.

Clark said it’s too early to say how improved transit along Highway 99 might fit into the project or whether tolls will be required to pay for it.

If the new bridge is tolled it would join the new Port Mann, the Golden Ears, and possibly the Pattullo – where tolls are also an option to pay for replacement – as Metro Vancouver bridges that motorists must pay to cross.

Mayor Lois Jackson called it one of the biggest announcements Delta has seen in many years.

“I was expecting something because last year [Clark] promised to give us the bridge. She said, ‘Lois, you’re going to get your bridge.’”

Jackson said the decision to go with a bridge was based on public consultation and online feedback, making it as close to a democratic choice as possible.

❙ (Left to right) Premier Christy Clark takes questions from reporters Friday in front of a rendering of the future bridge to replace the Massey Tunnel; An Ministry of Transportation illustration of the proposed bridge crossing the Fraser River along the existing Highway 99 route via Deas Island. Jeff Nagel photo “Sure, the decision has to be based on engineering and cost and all these other things but as a starter it appears that the majority of people want a bridge.”

Jackson won’t be sad to see the tunnel disappear, pointing to the age and the difficult access for first responders during traffic accidents.

Clark confirmed the province is following the advice of the public provided in consultations that a new bridge is best, rather than another tunnel.

The province is also rejecting one controversial alignment that would have crossed the river further upstream and was strongly opposed over con-

cern it would intensify pressure to develop farmland in east Richmond.

“People said the tunnel must be replaced and it must be replaced on the same route,” Clark told UBCM, adding the project will relieve congestion on what is now “the worst bottleneck in the Lower Mainland.”

A newly released report on public feedback found “medium” support for building a new bridge and also keeping the old tunnel. But decommissioning the 55-year-old tunnel also offers the major advantage of allowing larger ships to sail up the Fraser River, opening up expanded port use of sites in

North Delta and Surrey.

Asked if Port Metro Vancouver should contribute to the cost, Clark called that “a good idea.”

The new Port Mann Bridge itself cost $830 million, not counting about $2 billion more to expanding the highway and interchanges.

It’s not yet clear if the province intends similar upgrades along Highway 99 or how many lanes are planned for the new bridge.

But a video released by the transportation ministry depicts a large 10-lane bridge with special HOV and truck lanes.

Not everyone is sold on the

idea, however. Some transit advocates have previously said they fear the new bridge will come at the cost of more transit and SFU City Program director Gordon Price predicted Friday it will add more pressure to develop farmland.

Douglas Massey, the son of former Delta MLA George Massey for whom the tunnel is named, believes the removal of the tunnel will damage to the Fraser River estuary as a result of increased shipping traffic.

“With this potential to ship an array of good at larger volumes up and down the Fraser River, such as coal and oil, irreparable damage will ensue to the wetland’s ecosystem and

salmon fishing migration,” he said.

Massey says he plans to start a petition to keep the tunnel operating.

Engineering and technical work is underway to develop a project scope and business case for the new bridge and associated Highway 99 corridor upgrades, to be made public next spring.

Meanwhile, the transportation ministry plans to immediately lengthen the Steveston off-ramp at the north end of the tunnel to improve safety and ease traffic congestion there. The province says the tunnel has about 10 years of useful life left.

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The provincial point man in charge of replacing the Massey Tunnel with a new bridge is rejecting criticism that the megaproject will merely shift the Highway 99 traffic jam north to the Oak Street and Knight Street bridges.

Geoff Freer, executive director of the Gateway Program, said traffic data gathered so far shows most of the northbound tunnel traffic doesn’t enter Vancouver – 60 per cent of motorists using it go between Richmond, Surrey, Delta, the U.S. border or the BC Ferries terminal in Tsawwassen.

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In the past, he said, replacement of the tunnel with a higher capacity crossing was ruled out on the basis it would just move the bottleneck.

But traffic patterns have changed greatly, Freer said in an interview following the premier’s Sept. 22 announcement of the new bridge.

“I was surprised,” he said of

the findings, but added it reflects strong economic growth in the three cities.

Another key change is the Canada Line, which opened in 2010 and now draws many Vancouver-bound commuters through the tube to Bridgeport Station in Richmond who previously drove over the Oak Street Bridge.

Freer said TransLink counts show 50 per cent of all people travelling through the tunnel in the morning rush hour do so aboard buses.

That reflects the ability of buses to speed past congested rush hour traffic using bus-only lanes and queue jumpers – which he said are working well.

Even the day-long average

mode share of trips taken by transit through the tunnel is strong at 26 per cent, he said.

Adding to the numbers are BC Ferries passengers who increasingly walk on and ride a bus from Tsawwassen.

The project would also be designed for future rapid transit, although there’s no timeline or plan for adding it.

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Nurse lay-offs loom as Fraser Health amalgamates public health units Fraser Health says move will create efficiencies ❙ Adrian MacNair reporter adrian@southdeltaleader.com

Fraser Health is set to move all staff from the South Delta Public Health Unit into North Delta, according to an amalgamation draft document obtained by the South Delta Leader.

The move is expected to change the staffing down to 13 public health nurses from the current 19, resulting in six layoffs of part-time public health nurses, while one full-time nurse will be hired.

The layoffs were confirmed by Debra McPherson, president of the B.C. Nurses’ Union, who said the move by Fraser Health comes as people in the region are being warned about a measles outbreak and on the heels of cutbacks to evening mental health services.

“The job of the public health nurse is all about creating healthy communities and preventing diseases which could result in the long term reduction of health care costs,” she said. “Seems odd that a

government dedicated to cutting costs and producing healthy communities would take this kind of approach.”

Fraser Health spokesperson Nafisa Abdulla, who confirmed the decision via email on Monday, said the change will result in an increased number of full-time staff, and a reduction in the number of part-time and casual staff.

Abdulla would not, however, confirm exact numbers, nor specify if any administration jobs would be affected by the change.

“The new staffing model, which is still being finalized, will allow staff to travel to the South Delta Public Health Unit to provide services to clients,” said Abdulla. “Our intent is for there to be little to no impact for clients as they can continue to access services through the South Delta Public Health Unit.”

Those services include standard Public Health Unit operations such as immunization clinics and breastfeeding support.

“While we recognize that this change may pose a challenge for some clients, it will enhance our ability to meet the demand for services across the community,” she said.

❙ Fraser Health is converting its public health unit in Ladner into a satellite office, resulting in some patients having to travel for services to the North Delta public health unit at the corner of 112th Avenue and 84th Street, shown here.

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The change follows a recent review of public health nurse staffing levels at the North and South Delta Public Health Units, leading to a Fraser Health decision to amalgamate these two offices into one by the end of 2013.

The North Delta site will become the main site, while South Delta

will operate as a “satellite site.”

According to the draft amalgamation document, all remaining Public Health Nursing staff will be assigned to North Delta beginning Jan. 2, 2014.

Fraser Health operates 18 Public Health Units across the Lower Mainland, providing services and

programs related to chronic and infectious diseases, smoking cessation, and public health education.

They also offer nursing services which include screening, assessment, counselling, referral, follow-up and health promotion.

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The number of children enrolled in the Delta School District fell again this September, with 185 fewer bodies from the previous year. The biggest losses came in secondary schools, with 221 fewer students across all of Delta. About half of that number was lost in North Delta’s high schools.

Elementary schools, however, saw modest increases of 36 children across the entire district, almost all of them in Ladner. Deputy Supterintendent Garnet Ayres identified that as a positive sign for enrollment trends down the road. What is growing, however, is the number of international students in Delta’s schools. There are 462 international students–415 of them in secondary schools–across the district, representing three per cent of the 15,621 total. Deirdre Annette, director of international programs for the district, told the school board Tuesday evening that the program has exceeded its budget by $1.7 million, with record revenues and enrollment numbers.

There were 173 international students in summer school across the district in 2013, representing $138,400 in revenue, and an increase of nearly half from the previous year. That represents a 246 per cent jump from 2011, and more than ten-fold the number from 2010.

Annette attributed the increase to active recruitment in existing partner countries as well as forays into new markets like Turkey, Vietnam, Thailand, Ukraine, and Poland. She said a group of 15 stu-

❙ The Delta School District’s enrollment for 2013/14 has dropped by 185 students, with the biggest losses at secondary schools. File photo dents from Myanmar is expected to come to Delta in 2014.

The district is working on signing an agreement with Chile and Brazil to bring 100 children here on government scholarship programs for low-income families.

“We’ve been ironing out the kinks over the years of troubles we’ve had in the past,” said Annette, adding students who aren’t the right fit for the program are sent home and reimbursed.

That has left positive word-ofmouth for both the international program and home stay parents, who have helped the district by accepting students into their homes.

However, Trustee Simon Truelove expressed concern about working with governments that have had human rights problems in the past, such as Myanmar.

“I’m starting to get a touch of anxiety because it’s expanding to parts of the world I wasn’t expecting,” he said.

But Annette said it could be helpful to expose children from countries like Myanmar to the positives of Canadian society and democracy, perhaps influencing the next generation.

“Those would be the power brokers and what if they didn’t come here and they just stayed in their world?”

China represents the largest market of students arriving in Delta, and Annette suggested she may cap numbers from that country in order to maintain a diversity in the program. She said she’s not concerned about limiting the number of international students in Delta just yet, pointing out that other school districts have a far higher ratio of international students.

Roughly 800 international students come through the Delta School District each year, representing a revenue of stream of $4.7 million last year.

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Ladner business owners annoyed by filming Some say compensation isn’t worth the disruption to the village ❙ Adrian MacNair reporter adrian@southdeltaleader.com

Ladner has become a popular film location for movie crews this summer, but some local businesses are fed up with the hassle.

Local lawyer Murray Lott held a one-man protest last Wednesday when he wrapped his Delta Street office with a highly visible banner that included the words “Ladner, B.C.” and Canadian flags.

The banner was aimed to disrupt film crews shooting an A&E TV drama series called Bates Motel, mainly because he feels they were causing a disturbance to his business without compensating him.

Lott said his clients tend to be seniors seeking help and refuge and they shouldn’t have to be turned away just because the cameras are rolling.

“They have to run a gauntlet of police and beefy security guards and scruffy film crews,” he said.

Clients who are in distress are seeking a tranquil place to confide their problems and it doesn’t help that they can hear gunfire outside from the movie set, said Lott. His staff have also reported problems of getting in and out of the office on errands, often being told to wait so they don’t walk into the shot.

“Beautiful downtown Ladner gets used for a lot of movie shoots and I don’t think it’s used very re-

❙ Ladner lawyer Murray Lott displayed his displeasure with the constant disruption caused by film crews in Ladner Village last week. Submitted photo

spectfully and I don’t think that the benefits are worth the cost, frankly,” he said.

Although some businesses directly involved in the filming are compensated, not all are receiving money. Lott said the solution might be some form of group compensation or community amenity contribution.

Carol Miles, president of South Delta Heels, said although her business isn’t on Delta Street her customers are still affected by the filming.

“What I don’t like is that by the time they come and tell you that there’s going to be a movie made the deal’s already done,” she said.

“All the permits and licenses are paid, the paperwork has been done, and even if I wanted to say them, you know, go pound sand, I can’t.”

Miles said whenever a customer can’t get into her store it hurts her bottom line and the movie crews create traffic and parking problems.

“City hall doesn’t care because

they’ve already got their money,” she said.

Miles said that although the production company will accept compensation claims from businesses, it’s a lot of paperwork and has to be submitted by a chartered accountant.

The Ladner Business Association is supposed to liaise with the Corporation of Delta for upcoming location shots in order to give businesses advance notice, but Miles said that hasn’t happened.

“You know where the filming is

going to be so you should know certain businesses who really will take a hit, and don’t discount them just because they’re around the corner,” she said. “Because they take a hit, too. We bleed.”

Miles said the four-day shooting of Nickelodeon’s Jinxed in June was so bad that she considered sending her employees home and closing up shop.

Arvind Sharma of the Corporation’s engineering department handles film applications and said he hasn’t received any complaints from business owners. But he said he will work with the LBA on addressing any concerns that haven’t been brought to his attention.

He said one accountant called him last week to say she had a truck arriving to shred documents and it would conflict with filming.

So he worked with the film’s location manager to make sure crews did not block the truck.

Sharma said he requires the location manager to speak to businesses that will be in the area of the shooting, but it’s up to the film company to decide which businesses should be offered compensated if they are directly impacted.

Part of the reason some business owners are upset may be the frequency of disruption this summer.

Sharma said that although Ladner has received three film applications recently, it’s more common to go nine months between shooting.

“It’s one of those things that you can never judge or plan for,” he said.

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Grand chief criticizes Delta over First Nations issues Delta, TFN downplay native leader’s comments ❙ Adrian MacNair reporter adrian@southdeltaleader.com

Delta Mayor Lois Jackson says she was upset to hear an indigenous leader criticize Delta at a Union of B.C. Municipalities workshop last Monday (Sept. 16).

According to Jackson, Grand Chief Edward John from the

Tl’azt’en Nation in Northern B.C. was speaking about the need for municipalities to help neighbouring First Nations achieve autonomy and self-sufficiency. He reportedly told delegates that some municipalities are denying services that would help some First Nations achieve that.

Jackson heard John’s comments and thought he might be hinting at Delta’s current situation with Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN) and their ongoing sewer needs.

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“Any governmental body that puts something in for five years and thinks they’re going to remove it after five years is sheer folly,” she said.

Jackson said that TFN chief Bryce Williams approached her afterward and apologized for the remarks.

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“It was really upsetting for me to have this chief sitting up on stage as a member of the presentation party make a statement… that Delta was not cooperative and we’re not helping,” said Jackson.

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“I was livid because we have been working on this file for four or five years and in the short run we have provided water and many other services for the Tsawwassen,” said Jackson. “However, when it came down to putting their plan together for their future development there was absolutely no way that we had any capacity whatsoever to accommodate that.”

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New MK Delta plan calls for scaled down retail space Development adjacent to Burns Bog will increase overall number of residential units

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A new proposal for the 36-hectare development at Highway 91 and 72nd Avenue in North Delta will reduce the commercial component of the project by a third, while increasing the overall number of residential units.

“We heard concerns that the proposed retail development was too large,” said Joanne Barnett, president of MK Delta Lands Group, during a delegation to Delta council on Monday. “We’ve responded and we’ve revised our plans.”

The newest plan will offer 1,100 residential units in the form of 650 four-storey apartments and 450 three-storey townhouses, taking up 39 per cent of the development footprint. That’s up from the May 27, 2013 plan for 993 units of housing.

But the commercial component will now offer 130,000 square feet of commercial space (12,000 square metres) on the north side of the development, reduced from the previous 431,000 square feet (40,000 square metres), and a previously planned outlet mall has been scrapped altogether.

The commercial space will take up 12 per cent of the footprint, leaving just under half of the remaining 36 hectares for open and green spaces and roads.

Barnett said the removal of the outlet mall allowed them to avoid invasive pilings that would have penetrated the peat layer below the soil. This also significantly reduces the expected traffic flow, which was also a concern of residents.

MK Delta Lands will still be spending $10 million towards the $30 million highway improvement project at 72nd and 64th Avenues, which includes a roundabout at the latter intersection.

The plan for 78 hectares of land west of Highway 91 remains unchanged, and would be absorbed into the contiguous

❙ MK Delta Lands president Joanne Barnett stands on the site of the proposed 1,100-unit residential and commercial development at the corner of 72nd Avenue and Highway 91.

Burns Bog Conservation Area.

Barnett said environmental plans and all other information related to the plan will soon be posted on the Corporation of Delta website so that residents may see responsible community planning.

“The proposed development will be a leading example of sustainable technology in North Delta,” she said.

The previous application passed first and second reading before going to Metro Vancouver’s board on July 26 to determine whether a regional government public hearing should precede the municipal one.

Municipally, the land is currently zoned I3 Extraction Industrial, and has historically been used for peat extraction operations. But because the application sought to amend the Official Community Plan to allow a mixed-use community, amendments to the Metro Vancouver Regional Growth Strategy are required in order to change the land use designation from its current Conservation and Recreation to General Urban.

The land would also be included within

the Urban Containment Boundary, which it currently is not. Metro’s current designation is reserved for lands intended to “protect significant ecological assets.”

Some environmental groups, such as the Burns Bog Conservation Society, argue that the land is part of the mineral-rich transition zone of the bog, and should not be disturbed.

Mayor Lois Jackson said Monday she wanted to emphasize to the public that the municipality went to Metro Vancouver before holding a public hearing in order to determine the proper process.

Revised bylaws will now come back for first and second reading, and a public hearing set for early 2014.

MK Delta Lands will have an information centre open to the public, located at 120th Street and 64th Avenue. It will be opening Oct. 1, and will remain open until Feb. 28, 2014.

Meanwhile, three public information sessions will be held in a drop-in format at the Sungod Recreation Centre (7815 112th St) on Sept. 26, Oct. 3, and Oct. 10, between 4-8:30 p.m.

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“The grand chief is a very respected leader and I think he’s probably reflecting some general frustration,” said TFN’s acting chief administrative officer Tom McCarthy, who was not present at the workshop. “TFN and Delta are absolutely committed to working together as neighbours and as partners.”

McCarthy said that TFN and Delta don’t agree on every issue but that it’s normal for bordering municipalities to work through and resolve problems.

“We’ve got pipes running across our boundaries, we’ve got drainage, we’ve got

major highways, we’ve got roads,” he said.

“You can’t do that if you don’t have a level of cooperation.”

Delta has nine servicing agreements with TFN, including water, fire, police, animal control, parks, and drainage.

TFN has had its own sewer plant since 1996 which services the tiny community of fewer than 350 people. Only one portion of TFN lands has been connected to the Delta sewer system since the 1980’s—the 92-lot Stahaken subdivision. But it wasn’t until about two years ago that TFN began trying to negotiate in earnest to connect

with Delta’s sewer system.

Last October, TFN offered to purchase Delta’s force main for $3 million and transfer ownership to Metro Vancouver. That request was turned down. Delta built and owns the 26 kilometre sewer force main running from North Delta’s Annacis Island at an estimated cost of more than $20 million and a replacement cost of $46 million.

The municipality told Metro Vancouver in April that it needs to work out a solution with TFN that doesn’t involve that sewer line.

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Robert Mangelsdorf Editor

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At ElderCollege Delta, it’s never too late to learn Retired educator Paulette Tattersall hopes to improve the lives of seniors, by helping them grow

P

aulette Tattersall has devoted much of her life to the public education system and inspiring others to learn. As a school teacher and administrator in the Delta School District for more than 30 years, she has seen first hand how people can enrich their lives through a love of learning.

But it’s not just the young who can benefit from education opportunities.

Since retiring, Tattersall has volunteered her time as chair of ElderCollege Delta. The local volunteer-run non-profit education provider offers fun and stimulating learning experiences for people 50 years of age and older.

While education is often thought of as a pursuit for the young, Tattersall notes there are a wide array of benefits for seniors who continue to learn and grow.

In addition to improving their quality of life and providing a social opportunity, learning new skills late in life can have a profoundly positive effect on one’s health and mental well-being.

“People who actively use more than one language in their daily lives have a much later onset of Alzheimer’s disease,” says Tattersall, providing an example.

Classes are offered spring and fall in a variety of subjects, including second language studies and technology. ElderCollege Delta

operates under the umbrella of the KinVillage in Tsawwassen, but also offers programming at Cedar Park Church and Augustine House in Ladner. The organization is entirely volunteer-run, with many retired and semi-retired school teachers and college professors donating their time and expertise to lead classes.

“We’re very much a grass roots organization,” says Tattersall. “We have a wonderful group of volunteers who make this all possible.”

Every year, 250 South Deltan take courses through ElderCollege Delta, along with another 400 casual members who take part in drop-in activities and provide support.

This year marks the organization’s 10th anniversary.

“The success we’ve had [over the past decade] is based on the core group of about 40 people who regularly give their time and expertise to make this happen,” says Tattersall.

The courses offered by ElderCollege Delta are comparable to those offered by the continuing education departments of Kwantlen Polytechnic University and School District No. 37. However, the cost is much cheaper, with membership just $10 per year, and a class session $10 to attend. For those that can’t pay, a bursary program is available to cover fees.

“Compared to continuing education it’s much cheaper and more accessible,” says Tattersall.

She added ElderCollege Delta would love to

❙ Paulette Tattersall is chair of ElderCollege Delta. Robert Mangelsdorf photo

be affiliated with a formal institution of higher learning, however, there is concern that would increase costs to seniors.

“It’s important for us to be as accessible as possible,” says Tattersall. “The important thing is that you’re never too old to learn, and it’s never too late to grow.”

ElderCollege Delta is holding an anniversary

celebration on Oct. 5 at KinVillage Community Centre. Anyone affiliated with ElderCollege Delta is invited to attend, but should call 604943-0262 to RSVP. • To learn more about ElderCollege and the courses they offer, visit http://kinsmen.vcn.bc. ca/elder_college or call 604-943-0262.

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Friday, September September 27, 27, 2013 2013 South South Delta Delta Leader Leader Friday,

❙ VIEWPOINT ❙ Editorial

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ith MK Delta Lands’ recent proposal to develop 36 hectares east of Highway 99, the decades-long fight to protect the Burns Bog in its entirety may finally reach its conclusion, and this should be cause for celebration.

Part of the development proposal includes handing over another 78 hectares of bog land to the west of Highway 99 to be absorbed into the contiguous Burns Bog Conservation Area, bringing the grand total of protected lands to more than 2,200 hectares.

This parcel, currently zoned for industrial-scale peat extraction, is the critical last piece in the Burns Bog puzzle.

The 2,250-hectare bog property was originally bought from the provincial government in 1978 by a group of investors led by the McLaughlin family, who also purchased Grouse Mountain at the time.

The MK Group held a minority stake in the deal, and in 2004, became the principal and controlling investor. It was then, after decades of controversy about the future of the bog, that the MK Group sold off more than 2,000 hectares of its land for a price tag of $73 million to various levels of government so that it could be used to create the Burns Bog Conservancy Area.

Not long after the initial deal was struck, the Corporation of Delta expressed concerns about the lack of connecting greenspace on what is now the Delta-South Surrey Greenway. So the MK Group agreed to reopen the deal and sell off additional lands, leaving itself close to 115 hectares of land along Highway 91 with which to develop.

Their development plan calls for 1,100 residential units in the form of 650 four-storey apartments and 450 three-storey townhouses, as well as 12,000 sq. metres of commercial space. The proposal will also see $30 million in Highway 91 upgrades, benefiting the hundreds of thousands of commuters who use the route every day.

The property is currently zoned for industrial uses, but the thankfully MK Delta Lands’ proposal will have far less environmental impact.

Under the current development proposal, only 36 hectares will actually be built on, and of that, about half will remain undeveloped.

So from the 2,250 hectares of its original holdings, MK Delta Lands will be only be building on about 18 hectares – little more than half of one percent.

If that isn’t compromise, what is?

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Toll the roads, not just bridges T

he announcement of the replacement of the Massey Tunnel should have been met with joyful jubilation and the clinking of glass. If and when the explosives are rigged to take that thing down I want to be there personally to witness its sudden demise.

Every second I have wasted idling in my car waiting to queue to get to the other side will be remembered in a rush of gleeful revenge.

But while it should have been happiness and hearty handshakes, instead we heard the familiar whines of the cynical Lower Mainland commuter.

Oh, it’ll just be another toll bridge, they said. Just another money grab from the government. I’ll have to take the Alex Fraser bridge now.

Yeah. So what?

I’m not sure why Canadians are so tollaverse here when it’s perfectly normal in the United States to have a pay-peruse system for road infrastructure. After all, why the heck should somebody living and taking transit in downtown New York City pay the same amount of money as the guy driving the I-95 from Jersey?

More importantly, why are only bridges tolled in the Lower Mainland? Isn’t it about time we implemented a pay-peruse highway system here, particularly to alleviate the paralyzing gridlock caused by drivers living too far from where they work?

There are South Surrey residents working in Vancouver who cross Delta daily, using the Alex Fraser and Massey Tunnel, as well as the Knight Street or Oak Street bridges, and they pay no extra cost for their travel. But if a Ladner resident needs to go from one side of

the river to the other–about 200 metres–God help him or her if it’s after four o’clock.

A toll highway with transponders would accurately measure zones, marking where a driver gets on and when he gets off. That way, the farmer who drives from Ladner to Richmond doesn’t get the same bill as the Yaletown office worker who drives from his Cloverdale ranch.

And doesn’t it make more sense that way? I mean, TransLink has zones so that the farther you travel, or the more use you get from the system, the more you pay.

Why wouldn’t roads get the same treatment? The people who are putting the most mileage on the roads, the ones causing the most traffic, the cars creating the most wear and tear each day should foot the lion’s share of the bill.

❙ adrian@southdeltaleader.com

Letters to the editor BC Hydro deadline not lawful Pot smokers butt out In the second week of September, B.C. Hydro sent a very heavy-handed message to British Columbians about compliance with their “Meter Choices Program.”

It needs to be clarified in a timely way that the deadline given in that letter for a response is not appropriate or lawful.

To respond to that letter would be a serious mistake, as the information in it was unauthorized by the B.C. Utilities Commission, whose approval is necessary for any fees, let alone extortionary ones, to be set in motion.

Regardless of whether or not they have a smart meter or an “old” analog meter, this message is not sitting well with British Columbians, and many are trying to find out how to join the class action underway against B.C. Hydro.

Since the details of the class action are as yet a mystery to the majority of British Columbians, due to a lack of specifics in the media regarding the process, I am including a link to more information about how to participate in the class action as follows, www.citizensforsafetechnology.org.

Linda Ewart White Rock Citizens for Safe Technology

We moved to Ladner because we liked the “small town” feel, family-oriented neighborhoods and close proximity to Vancouver.

Overall, we are very happy with our decision to move here and start raising our family here. One disappointment, however, has been the proliferation of the stench of marijuana wafting through our neighborhood on a fairly regular basis.

Although I believe that people have a right to do whatever they please in their own home, the fact that I, along with my family, are forced to smell and endure this stench is not at all acceptable. I have chosen to live my life drug-free and would like to try to raise my son to also make the right choices and stay away from drugs.

This is all the more challenging when nearby neighbors are letting their illicit smoke waft throughout the neighborhood. There are dozens of young children in our family oriented neighborhood and it is very disappointing to me that they are being exposed to marijuana smoke while playing in their own backyards or walking along their streets.

Mark Kluge Delta

Look before you bark

Police of Tsawwassen, please let me tell you that as a dog owner I am just as tired as you are of seeing or stepping in dog waste left behind by the irresponsible dog owners in our town.

What I am more tired of though, are the rude and self righteous people who accuse me ( four times in six months) unjustly of not picking up after my dog.

The “Poop Police” need to learn that female dogs always squat and that urine is difficult to pick up.

They also need to wear glasses to make sure they are seeing things correctly especially if they are yelling at me from fifty yards away. The biodegradable bags hanging from my hands are not just a fashion statement. If you would take the time to learn some manners and talk to me instead of yelling, you would also learn that for the last 11 years that I have been a citizen of Tsawwassen, I have been a very responsible dog owner, to the extent that I have on occasion picked up waste that was not my dog’s.

Despite the irresponsible dog owners around that give us a bad name there are many responsible people like myself.

Please be kind and look before you bark!

L. Desrochers Delta

To the self appointed Canine Poop

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Jean Wightman Columnist

❙ Go Green

‘Pollution-spewing garbageburning monster’ not welcome

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hould an incinerator be built in our area? Would it really be as bad as the above description, taken from a quotation by environmentalist Ben West on July 29, 2011? Two years ago I might have been unsure.

Now, however, upon learning that some fly ash (of the 20,000 tonnes collected yearly in Burnaby’s incinerator stack) and some bottom ash (what’s left after burning and usually buried at Delta’s landfill) have been found to contain unacceptable levels of cadmium, a known carcinogen, any doubts I once had are gone.

As the search for a proponent to build another incinerator (estimated cost $750 million) at a location yet to be determined is underway I cannot help but say, “Not in my backyard please”.

We’ve all had ingrained in us the three R’s of recycling. Why then does the average garbage bag contain 50 per cent recyclable material (batteries, lighting products, plastics, paper and cell phones, etc)? Rechargeable batteries (which contain cadmium), ordinary batteries and cell phones (less than five kg in weight) should be taken to one of six spots in Tsaw-

wassen for disposal under the product stewardship program Call2Recycle. Products collected locally are sent to sorting facilities across the country where they are stripped of metals and where new batteries or stainless steel products are made and phones are often refurbished. An updated Light Recycle program accepts halogen, incandescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs and many fixtures. With depots close to homes everywhere, there is no excuse for placing any toxic product (especially mercury containing CFL bulbs) at curbside where they will be sent away for burial or burning.

Readers are urged to explore Metro Vancouver’s Recycling Hotline, on which everything one needs to know about what, how and where to recycle is displayed. By May 2014 a new program will be instituted as part of B.C.’s recycling regulations (cost of $110 million). With little effort, all of us can develop new habits of recycling much more and of reducing waste, and especially by refusing to purchase single use “throw away’ items. After all, where is away? Do we want it to be a “pollution-spewing garbage burning monster”?

Jean Wightman is a long time Tsawwassen resident, an avid reader and environmental advocate.

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Southlands Market Square At the heart of Southlands is the Market Square, a neighbourhood gathering place for all. This public place is where the Community Farm will connect with residents and local farmers will be able to sell their harvest.

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Will Southland’s Controversy ever end?

Just cast one’s mind back 10 months to December 2012 when our Delta Council revealed mass public opposition to the Southland’s proposal: 77 per cent opposed, less than 20 per cent in favor. Now our council in their wisdom have passed first and second reading to this proposal and it goes to public hearing later next month.

What has changed as far as I can see? Nothing!

Century Group has promoted the Southlands development on two important concepts.

1. 80 per cent of the land being generously donated to the municipality for agriculture, and; 2. Homes for first-time buyers with young families to increase our school enrolment.

As I see it the amount of land that might be used for agriculture is closer to 68 per cent as some it seems is deemed environmentally sensitive and forest.

Much has been said about Southlands being developed so that residents could have a cycling paths to the beach and around Boundary Bay. South Delta is not overly bike-friendly and would not suddenly become ‘biking heaven’ should this development be allowed to proceed. I know, having cycled long distances in India, Spain and here where I use my bike to shop, and commute.

Ninety-nine per cent of South Delta’s adults do not use their bikes for all daily activities whether these be shopping or commuting to work. Rather, for most, cycling is a fine-weather recreational activity. Development of Southlands will not lead to many giving up their cars in favor of bikes.

The Ipsos Reid Survey which sampled 300 residents between May 16 and June 9 this year clearly showed that Traffic, Growth and Development in that order where the most serious concerns for Delta.

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Why in heavens sake are we trying to make things worse knowing the community’s pulse?

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Rodney Asher Delta

Southlands time has come My family and I participated in the Southlands Bike-In on Sept. 8. This event was well-attended by hundreds of smiling bikers, who rode from the Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall arriving at the old Gunn House to be met by even more people; approximately 400 to 500 who had been invited to a day of music, food, art, hay rides and games for the family.

The event had an overwhelming spirit of excitement and community support for the Southlands development. This project has been on the minds of Delta citizens for 30 years now. The proposal being put forward now is very different from the one put forward in previous years.

On the hay ride through the property one comes to realize the size and beauty of this part of Tsawwassen and is reassured that a large portion, 425 acres, will be given to Delta and remain the same.

Furthermore, a $9 million agricultural fund being paid by Century Group will improve the lands to be farmed with over one hundred acres in conservation lands. The housing portion of the project and the Market Square is a small area of the total property.

This has been, and is, a contentious issue, but I believe it is time we accept Century Group’s proposal and utilize the remaining lands to create what will be and example to other communities. It is time.

Dennis Walsh Delta

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❙ Photo of the month: Water Lilies

by Rhoda Brooks What inspired the photographer? This image was taken on a trip to Cambodia in 2012. The lilies are in the moat at Angkor Wat which makes it a special memory. I also love the strength of the colors and clean structure of the lilies, which simultaneously complement the stillness of the water and delicate feel to the scene.

What makes this photo special? This image won third place in the Nature Category at the 2013 Delta Photo Inspirations Competition.

How was it done? Taken with an Olympus E-3 DSLR camera and a 12-60mm 2.8 Lens, at 400 ISO, F 5.0 and 1/200 of a second.

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❙ Right: An air cadet salutes during the parade to commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the Battle of Britain at Boundary Bay Airport on Sunday (Jim Kinnear photo).

Bottom right: Brendan Calnan (left) and Steve Scott are volunteers from the Tsawwassen Community Policing Station recording speeds on 16th Avenue in Beach Grove. They will submit their findings to the Delta Police and ICBC and send warning letters to those exceeding the speed limit of 30 km/h. Calnan said that if drivers consistently exceed that limit then the Delta Police will post an officer to hand out tickets (Adrian MacNair photo).

Bottom left: Marilyn Jones cuts the ribbon at the official opening of the newly renovated Delta Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Shop on Saturday (Jim Kinnear photo).

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❙ Datebook Friday, Sept. 27 • McKee Seniors Recreation Centre hosts its annual Fall Lunch at 12:30 p.m. Fashion Show by Delta Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Shoppe. Lunch includes baked ham, scalloped potatoes, veggies, and refreshments.

Members $7; guests $8. 5155 47th Ave., Ladner. Call 604-9661411 for more information.

• Tsawwassen Rotary hosts its second annual Oktoberfest at South Delta Secondary. The event is expected to be bigger and better this year with 700 tickets up for grabs. There will be three authentic German beers available from Hacker-Pschorr, Radeberger, and Bitburger. For [web-extra more information, visit www. deltaoktoberfest.com www.southdeltaleader.com

Thursday, Oct. 3 • Delta Welcoming Communities [web-extra Final Art Exhibition reception www.southdeltaleader.com takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Tsawwassen Library, 1321A 56th St. For more information about the[more-online program call 604-5943455 ext 128. www.southdeltaleader.com • The Delta Hospice Society is hosting a Cottage Recruitment Tea from 2 to 3 p.m. and welcomes anyone interested in finding out video-online] more about volunteer roles at the Hospicewww.southdeltaleader.com Cottage Charity Shoppe.

Volunteering is a great way to meet new people, learn new things and make a difference in the community. The Cottage Tea Open House will take place at the Centre for Supportive Care in Ladner at 4631 Clarence Taylor Crescent.

• DYSL WearHouse store is having a fun fashion show and Halloween costume event at 6:30 p.m. 1308 56th St., free admission.

Ongoing • ElderCollege Delta announces its fall program for October, November and December. Courses offered this term include: bridge, crafts, computers and iPad, digital photography, health and wellness, history, lifestyle topics, mah-jong, literature, opera, Spanish, sudoku and kakura, and travel, as well as field trips and seminars. Space still available.

For further information or to register contact 604-943-0262 or eldercollegedelta@kinvillage. org. ElderCollege is open to all 50 years and over.

• Are you gay, bisexual or just not sure? Hominum Fraser Valley is an informal discussion and support group to help gay, bisexual and questioning men with the challenges of being married, separated or single. The group meets on the last Friday of every month. For information and meeting location, call Art 604462-9813 or Don 604-329-9760.

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Delta libraries: All things to all people Local libraries look to the future as they celebrate historic milestones ❙ Robert Mangelsdorf editor editor@southdeltaleader.com

A library is a special place, so viding universal access to knowlmuch more than a musty room edge and allowing those of any filled with books, as a brief glance class to better themselves. around the Ladner Pioneer Li“There is not such a cradle of brary on any given weekday after- democracy upon the earth as the noon surely proves.

Free Public Library, this republic On this particular day, students of letters, where neither rank, ofare filing in, mufice, nor wealth sical instruments the The history of Delta’s receives in hand, and set slightest conpublic libraries about preparing sideration,” he is for a live musical quoted as saying.

• The first lending library in Delta was operated out of performance.

He meant it.

Fawcett’s Drug Store in Ladner An elderly womDuring his lifearound 1895, and cost five cents an admires the time, he donated to borrow a book. colourful artwork the equivalent • In 1930, the Fraser Valley hanging from the of $1.7 billion Book Van project was started with walls, donated by dollars to build a grant from Andrew Carnegie a local painter. more than 2,800 and visited rural residents from A group of stulibraries in the Hope to Ladner. dents sit at the English-speaking • Delta joined the Fraser Valley computer terworld.

Union Library District in 1948, which changed its name to the minals working This year marks Fraser Valley Regional Library on their homea historic milesystem three years later. work, alongside stone for each of • The original Ladner Pioneer a young man Delta’s libraries: Library was opened in 1963, working on his Ladner Pioneer and renovated in 1977. Thanks resumé.

Library is celeto a generous donation from A young mothbrating 50 years the Adlington family, the library er reads to her at its current lowas renovated again in 1998, infant son from a cation; it is the doubling in size. storybook.

40th anniversary • The original George Mackie Library was opened in North A man in 30s of the founding Delta in 1972. As the community peruses the day’s of the Tsawwasrapidly grew around it, the library paper, across the sen Library; and expanded in 1975, and in 1983, table from a man George Mackie the much larger current library in his 70s doing Library in North was opened. the same.

Delta celebrates • The Tsawwassen Public And, of course, 30 years in its Library’s first home was what there are dozens current facility. is now the South Delta Artists of Deltans, young For library Guild’s Longhouse Gallery. The and old, heads manager Gillian building’s form was originally intended to honour the buried deep in McLeod, these Tsawwassen First Nation, and their books, fully milestones proopened in 1973. By the midimmersed in the vide an opportu1980s, the library had outgrown stories they are nity to not only its first home and moved to its delving into. look back at what current location at Tsawwassen For some, lipublic libraries Town Centre Mall in 1986, which braries provide a have contributed was triple the size. In 2008, the free source of ento this communilibrary was extensively renovated. tertainment and ty over the years, Source: FVRL education. but also to look For the great forward and ex19th Century Scottish-American plore the possibilities of what the industrialist Andrew Carnegie, li- library of tomorrow will provide. braries were great equalizers, pro“Libraries are changing,” she

❙ Above: High School student Arden Salayanan stops at the Ladner Pioneer Library to study with friends - on a Friday afternoon (Rob Newell photo).

Left: Library technician Joanne Pierre leads Storytime at Tsawwassen Library, which involves singing, reading and hand puppets.

says. “Because people are changing. Their needs are changing.”

In the past, those needs might have been simple: A public space with free access to book-lending.

While the niche of the library has always been literacy in all its forms, McLeod says it’s those forms that are changing.

“It’s reading and writing, but

it’s also learning to fill out forms, learning to create a resumé or do your taxes,” she says.

As a public space, McLeod sees today’s libraries as all things to all people.

“You have your home and your work, but the library is that third space where the community can gather,” she says. “It is a place to

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Celebration of Library Anniversaries

Congratulations to Delta’s libraries as we celebrate the 30th, 40th, and 50th anniversaries of the George Mackie, Tsawwassen, and Ladner Pioneer Libraries!

Best wishes for continued success connecting people to the world of information and ideas.

❙ Senior patron Jimmy Gray browes the books at Ladner Pioneer Library. Rob Newell photo

For some, the library is their first stop upon mov- places to gather and socialize. ing to the community, and a means to connect to “It would be a pretty lonely place,” she says. the many social programs offered locally. For othWhile the Tsawwassen Library is often a bustling ers, the library is just a safe place hive of activity, there’s an entireto spend the day. ly new breed of library user that Delta library “That’s very important to us,” never set foot in the building. says McLeod. “We want to be a In addition to printed books, anniversary events safe, barrier-free space for our Delta libraries now offer electron• Delta Reads! A communityresidents.” ic-books available online for use wide book club event for Libraries can also provide pubon eBook readers and mobile dechildren, teens, and adults. lic space for those without space vices, as well as audiobooks and • Library passport of their own. As our population “Play Away” devices, which pro• Teen book trailer contest becomes increasingly urbanized, vide a single audiobook pre-load• Children’s bookmark contest • Delta library history storyboards McLeod believes there will be a ed onto an easy-to-use digital • Delta Reads! graffiti wall greater need for public spaces player.

• 3-D printing like libraries, not only as hubs of “E-book borrowing is becom• digital demos education, but as social and ecoing very popular,” says Cockcroft.

• Altered book art workshop nomic centres as well.

“But I think a lot people still don’t • Teen pizza and games “People don’t have workshops in realize that you can get e-books • Community story-telling the basement like they used to,” for your Kindle from the library.”

McLeod says. “A library could be While technology is changing For more information, visit that space.” how people access library serwww.fvrl.bc.ca/locations/delta_ McLeod sees libraries expandvices, what won’t change is the anniversary.php ing to become “incubators” for library’s role as a public resource small businesses, where people that benefits everyone. can telecommute or use library “Our residents’ tax dollars support resources to get their Internet-based business off this, so we support them,” says McLeod. “Whatever the ground. is needed we look to provide.”

Jeannie Cockcroft is the community librarian at The end result is an investment in an educated, the Tsawwassen Library and says that while more stable society, she says. than 20,000 people come through the library’s “That benefits all of us.” doors every month.

• Delta libraries are celebrating all month long “There’s a real diverse community that relies on with special programs and events, culminating us,” says Cockcroft. “Whether it’s seniors or stu- with an anniversary party on Saturday, Oct. 26, dents, this library is well-loved.” from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at all Delta libraries. For more Without public libraries, Cockcroft says, commu- information, visit www.fvrl.bc.ca/locations/delta_ nities have fewer forums to share ideas, and fewer anniversary.php

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Szendrei killer’s fate in judge’s hands ❙ Kevin Diakiw reporter newsroom@southdeltaleader.com

The fate of the boy who killed North Delta teen Laura Szendrei three years ago is now in the hands of Justice Robin Baird.

With the sentencing hearing adjourned last week, it is now up to Baird to decide whether Szendrei’s killer will be sentenced as a youth or as an adult.

The boy who took her life three years ago stood before the girl’s family in court last Wednesday and apologized.

“I can only imagine the endless pain, suffering and agony the Szendreis feel every single day, and it’s all my fault,” he told the courtroom.

“Their pain and sadness must be unbearable. There’s no way to justify what I did. I’ve caused so much agony, I only wished I had sought out help earlier, by talking with my parents to help seek out a psychologist or psychiatrist, so that perhaps I could have prevented taking Laura’s life.”

He said he doesn’t expect the Szendrei family to ever forgive him for what he did.

“There’s nothing I can do or say to lighten the pain of the Szendrei family – I’m not going to ask for forgiveness, because I truly don’t deserve it.

“I wish I could rewind time and take back that day.”

The killer’s father wept earlier as

he addressed the court during the final days of the killer’s sentencing hearing this week.

“How could my little boy have done this?” the father said, overcome with emotion as he spoke on a video monitor from another location.

“What could make him strike out at anyone, especially when it leads to a parent’s worst nightmare?”

The man’s son was 17 in 2010 when he killed 15-year-old Laura Szendrei in George Mackie Park in North Delta.

On Wednesday, the court also heard statements from the killer’s brother, sister and mother as they appeared via teleconference in Surrey Provincial Court. The accused teen wept as he listened to his family speak.

Earlier in the day, Crown Counsel Wendy Stephen called experts from the provincial and federal prison systems to bolster her argument that the now 20-year-old should be sentenced as an adult. He was just weeks shy of his 18th birthday when he killed Szendrei. If he was 18, he would have been tried as an adult.

He was arrested in February, 2011 and initially charged with first-degree murder. He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of second-degree murder last October.

An adult sentence for second-degree murder is life imprisonment, whereas a youth sentence carries a maximum of seven years, three of

❙ Laura Szendrei was killed three years ago on Sept. 25, 2010. File photo

which are served in the community.

It was on Sept. 25, 2010 that the young man awoke at 9 a.m. with an urge to have sex, Stephen said during the beginning of the sentencing hearing in July.

The court heard the killer did some work with his dad and decided he was going to act on his urge.

He packed a pipe and zap straps and headed to Mackie Park in North Delta, where he saw Szendrei, who he didn’t know.

Upon seeing her, he tried to loop a

zap strap around her neck, with the goal of rendering her unconscious so he could have sex with her.

She saw him and started to run, and that’s when he struck her with a pipe three times. She died in hospital later that evening.

The court heard it was the killer’s fourth sex-motivated attack in six months. The three others took place near Burns Bog. In the first, he grabbed a woman’s buttocks, in the second he pulled down the pants of a runner, and

in the third, he hit a woman in the head with a stick.

Those details came out in a socalled “Mr. Big” police investigation.

In the Mr. Big scheme, the killer – a video game aficionado – was promised a big screen TV as part of a video game challenge and a lucrative career in the video game industry.

On Wednesday, Fraser Valley Correctional Centre’s Deputy Warden Harry Draaisma said it’s quite possible the accused would need a secure setting to serve his sentence.

“Inmates are very well-versed in government websites,” Draaisma told the court. “They will know in short order what an inmate is in there for.”

Sexual offenders are often victims of violence in prison and have to be protected.

Defence psychologist Robert Ley said the killer is a typical child from a normal home, whose major failing is an inability to interact with women his age.

“Central to his belief is about the benefit of a sexual attack on a woman,” Ley said, adding it is an “irrational belief, but he held it strongly.”

Doctors testifying throughout July said the young man expressed remorse over the death of Szendrei.

“I wonder every day how I could do this to someone and their family,” the accused is quoted as saying. “I have destroyed my own family.”

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Don’t cut BC Ferries service when the province is on the verge of reaping a huge windfall from natural gas in the coming years.

ThatPRESS was the plea from BLACK one Union of B.C. Mu4 5/16 X 12 INCHES nicipalities delegate who sought to link the two issues at a forum on the economy Wednesday.

“Coastal communities can’t afford to wait for that revenue to start coming in,” said Evan Putterill, Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District director for Haida Gwaii and chair of the North and Central Coast Ferry Advisory Committee.

The Sandspit resident said ferry-dependent towns have been badly damaged by two decades of rapidly rising fares and further cuts to service now being eyed will make their plight worse.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone agreed fares can’t go higher.

“We can debate whether we’re at the tipping point or nearing the tipping point or past the tipping point, but fares are at the point where they’re not affordable any more,” he said.

But he warned “service optimization” cuts are coming and will be unveiled in the coming months.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong noted new ferries cost hundreds of millions of dollars and asked delegates to indicate by show of hands if government should buy from overseas builders when they’re the low bidder or if local shipyards should win no matter the cost. The room was split.

The ferry question came after de Jong described liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a “generational opportunity” for B.C. that’s estimated to eventually generate government income of $10 billion a year.

Asked if LNG is being oversold, he said the skeptics are wrong.

“People still say ‘It’s mythical, it’s not happening, it’s not real.’ LNG is real and will result in significant additional revenues.”

He said it promises a renaissance for northern B.C., reversing a decades-long trend of depopulation.

Other cabinet ministers at the forum cautioned the gas boom means growing pains for com-

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hen Halina Kwiatkowska moved to Canada from Poland many years ago she immediately gained weight and felt tired and lethargic. She realized it was due to her change in diet from natural foods to processed ones.

She had always lived with healthy foods in Poland, learning from her grandmother to use natural ingredients in food and use herbs as medicine. It didn’t take long for her to return to her roots.

“I don’t really have any other way of living,” says the owner of Ladner’s health food store, Parsley, Sage & Thyme. “This is it for me.”

Her customers to come to her not just for healthy foods but for “super foods,” those products that are exponentially better for you than anything else.

Halina says they’re called super foods because they are rich in nutrients and uncontaminated by human civilization. Many have been harvested in regions of the world that are either uninhabitated or far away from people.

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❙ Ladner health food store owner Halina Kwiatkowska swears by Kefir milk, which is a commonly popular drink in the Caucaus region of the Black and Caspian Seas. She says the milk is 10 times more beneficial than drinking milk or yogurt. Adrian MacNair photo

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Kefir milk can be added to that list.

Originally thought to have been discovered in Turkey by shepherds who accidentally allowed kefir grains to ferment their milk inside their leather bags, it was the Russians who discovered their health benefits and promoted its use.

There are more probiotics in kefir milk than any other health drink, including milk and yogurt. That’s because kefir has between 10 and 50 strains of beneficial bacteria.

The bacteria live in the digestive tract helping to break down, pre-digest, and assimilate nutrients into the body in the same way as naturally occuring bacteria.

“I grew up drinking kefir, in Poland you buy it in the grocery store,” says Halina.

Anything that is pre-made is likely to have preservatives.

Those people who are sensitive to foods or have allergies can eliminate the potential for contamination by buying raw ingredients, she says.

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Premier critical of new recycling agency â?™ Jeff Nagel REPORTER newsroom@southdeltaleader.com

Premier Christy Clark is criticizing the rollout of a new recycling agency that has caused alarm among municipalities and businesses across the province.

Multi Material BC is slated to take charge of blue box pick-up next May when it becomes responsible for collecting and recycling all packaging and printed paper – at the provincial government’s direction. “I recognize this wasn’t done well,� Clark said of the planned producer-pay system. “It’s been far too bumpy a ride. There is a lot more work to be done.�

The premier spoke to reporters last Friday, a day after local politicians at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention passed a resolution demanding more time to negotiate acceptable contracts with MMBC to avert higher costs and the potential erosion of existing recycling services. Clark agreed more time and flexibility is needed “so that local communities have a little bit of leverage in trying to put together the best deal that works for them.�

She said MMBC, a stewardship group formed of retailers and other packaging producers, must ensure its board includes British Columbians, not just industry representatives in Toronto.

Mike Klassen, B.C. director of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, urged the premier to go further and “push the reset button� on the entire stewardship program for packaging and printed paper in light of widespread concern. “Not only is it local government and public sector unions not Clark happy with it, small business has very, very big concerns,� he said.

Any business that puts packaging or printed paper in the hands of B.C. residents and ultimately the waste stream must register with MMBC as stewards.

Some small businesses were unaware of the program until they were warned by MMBC they could face fines of up to $200,000 if they fail to register.

Small businesses are worried about unknown costs and the onerous workload they may face under MMBC’s model, Klassen said. “Imagine what it would be like for a small restaurant with their

name on the pizza box – they have to track all the weight and the amount of paper that they distribute with those pizzas they deliver and remit fees on a regular basis.�

Small businesses have been asked to sign contracts without knowing what the final fee schedule will be, he added. “No small business in their right mind would sign that contract,�

Klassen said. “This is the biggest issue we’ve seen come in from calls from our members in several years.�

MMBC has said it will take more time to determine the costs of the program and how to apportion then – and it will exempt businesses with revenues of less than $750,000 – but many businesses fear the request that they trust the new agency amounts to signing a blank cheque.

Klassen said part of the problem is that MMBC’s board consists of big business representatives who aren’t taking smaller firms’ needs into account.

He said it amounts to a Toronto-based “monopoly� and the province should pause implementation while it figures out how to ensure other stakeholders are better represented.

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• Delta Police received a report of an unknown male entering the front parking lot of a business on the 7300-block of Wilson Avenue on Sept. 21 around 4:30 p.m. and stealing scrap metals and other pipe fittings. Suspect was driving a mid 90’s single cab Ford F150.

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• On Sept. 18, two dirt bikes were stolen sometime overnight from a shed at a residence on the 5000-block of 96th Street. Thieves cut the locks off the shed as well as the lock on a storage trailer. Nothing was stolen from the trailer, but all locks were missing.

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• A resident on the 4900-block of 59A Street called 911 to report a break and enter in progress on Sept. 13 after hearing loud banging coming from inside her basement. The resident saw two unknown males fleeing the home. Delta Police’s K9 unit was called in, but lost track of the suspects. It appears entry was gained through an open window on the ground level. Resident advised the window was open to air out the downstairs suite. The suspects are described as two nonwhite males, one heavy set wearing a bright blue hoodie, white sweat pants and blue gloves, while the other has a slim build and was wearing a black hoodie and grey sweat pants.

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Receiver Jack McDonald proved to be a jack of all trades Saturday as he registered a rare football hat trick in the South Delta Sun Devils 42-12 win over the Frank Hurt Hornets to open the Southern AA Conference season on Saturday.

McDonald caught a touchdown, rushed for a touchdown, and even threw for a touchdown.

“That doesn’t happen too often,” said head coach Ray Moon of the feat.

The varsity Sun Devils football team had little difficulty with the visiting Hornets, opening up a 14-0 lead at the half before putting in the second string late in the game with the score 30-0.

The Sun Devils have dominated their conference in recent years, with their last loss in league play coming close to three years ago, according to Moon.

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“As a Grade 10 last year, Lucas was working with [quarterback Kyle Menzies], learning the proper technique… and the playbook,” said Moon. “He didn’t get a lot of playing time, but he got a lot of valuable experience.”

Running back Will Kraynyk led the Sun Devils ground attack with seven carries for 72 yards.

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Michael Olson-Eyre had two goals and an assist to lead the Junior B Delta Ice Hawks to a decisive 5-1 victory over their crosstown rivals, the North Delta Devils, Tuesday night

❙ Mitch Dino of the South Delta Sun Devils plunges for a first down during Saturday’s 42-12 win over Frank Hurt Secondary School.

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time Tuesday night as they stormed to a 3-0 lead in the first period. The teams traded goals in the second period before Ice Hawk Evan Diamantpoulos scored a power play goal in the third to put the game out of reach for the Devils.

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Stewart is an arts major in his final year of eligibility with the UBC Thunderbirds.

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Brenda passed away peacefully at Delta on September 22, 2013, following complications from cancer and pneumonia.

She was the beloved wife of David for 45 years, loving mother of Linda and Stephen, and grandmother of Isaac, Samantha and Kieran Ginter.

Brenda was born in Calgary in 1942, grew up in Clarkson (now Mississauga) and graduated from McGill University in Montreal. She lived for years in Niagara Falls before moving to Tsawwassen in 1983.

Brenda always had an active interest in community affairs and politics, including working to found a woman’s shelter in Niagara and to address environmental issues in Delta, BC. She was noted for her love of people and conversation and had a wide range of interests including art, cards, music and casinos. Friends will miss her outgoing personality and ability to connect with others.

Those that have known Brenda have benefited from her insight, humor and willingness to help others.

The family would like to thank the staff of the BC Cancer Agency, Delta Hospital and the Irene Thomas Hospice for their caring attention during her illness. In lieu of flowers the family would ask you to consider a donation to the BC Cancer Foundation. On-line condolences may be placed at www. deltafuneral.ca

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JOURNEYMAN MACHINIST WANTED ACR Group located in south Richmond seeks a F/T worker to perform machining on rubber, urethane and some metal. Candidates should have exp. in operating various lathes and be able to read various measuring devises.

Candidates with a fourth class boiler ticket will be considered first. A forklift ticket or experience driving a forklift is also preferred.

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We also have a Company Paid RRSP Plan. You must be willing to join the union ( CEP).

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Movie mayhem ❙ A5

Ladner businesses upset with film disruptions

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URING CONTEST! O L O C L O O H C S BACK TO

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Friday ∙ SEPTEMBEr 27 ∙ 2013

Bridge to replace Massey Tunnel A new bridge will replace the aging George Massey Tunnel but the provincial government isn’t yet saying if the span will be tolled. Premier Christy Clark promised construction will begin in 2017 in her speech last Friday at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention.

Clark said it’s too early to say how improved transit along Highway 99 might fit into the project or whether tolls will be required to pay for it. ❙ See story, a3

Nurse lay-offs loom as FHA makes cuts

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Prices effective: September 25th to 29th, 2013 *While Quantities Last

SWEET CELEBRATION GRAPES ARE AVAILABLE! LOCAL SUPER SWEET CARROTS, LOCAL GOLD BEETS, LOCAL GARLIC & MORE LOCAL PRODUCE NOW AVAILABLE! Sweet & Crunchy

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Natural Thompson Grapes

$1.69/lb California Grown

Fresh & Nutritious

Large Cauliflower

2/$3.00 California Grown

Sweet & Juicy

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$1.69/lb

49¢/lb

2/$4.00

Organic White Peaches

Ecuador Grown

Campari Tomatoes Local Hot House Grown

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Washington Grown

Bananas

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Inside

Family eyes UK Trial ❙ B3

DSS teacher’s son diagnosed with rare disease

Mackie turns 30 ❙ B4

North Delta library celebrates milestone

OCTOBER ∙ 2013

SDSS wins opener

Firefighter sets record ❙ B5 But new mark doesn’t last long at nationals

❙ CONNECTING THE NORTH WITH THE SOUTH

Cops for Cancer teams ready to ride ❙ Evan Seal

Receiver Jack McDonald proved to be a jack of all trades Saturday as he registered a rare football hat trick in the South Delta Sun Devils 42-12 win over the Frank Hurt Hornets to open the Southern AA Conference season on Saturday. McDonald caught a touchdown, rushed for a touchdown, and even threw for a touchdown.

REPORTER

Surrey North Delta Leader

- Boaz Joseph

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Fraser Health is set to move all staff from the South Delta Public Health Unit into North Delta, according to an amalgamation draft document obtained by the South Delta Leader.

The move is expected to change the staffing down to 13 public health nurses from the current 19, resulting in six layoffs of part-time public health nurses, while one full-time nurse will be hired. The layoffs were confirmed by Debra McPherson, president of the B.C. Nurses’ Union.

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Development to be less commercial, more residential

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Colour this sheet, complete the form and return to any Kin’s location by Oct. 6, 2013 for a chance to win passes to Go Bananas & a lunch bag filled with goodies from Kin’s!

MK Delta reboots plan ❙ A6

❙ North Delta artists join forces First-ever Studio Stomp hopes to attract art lovers to local scene. See B6

High above the Bollywood Banquet Hall at 8166 128 St. in Surrey, childhood cancer survivor Simran Sarai helped Delta Police Const. Ken Usipiuk kick off the annual Cops for Cancer Tour De Valley fundraising campaign on Friday.

Each fall, more than 100 law enforcement and emergency services personnel from across B.C. commit hundreds of hours of their own time to cycle thousands of kilometers across the province. Schools, organizations, businesses and individuals in more than 60 B.C. communities show their support by organizing fundraising events and activities and pledging to raise thousands of dollars.

Simran was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia when she was six years old. Now 13, she has been five years free of the disease and spent Friday afternoon helping Usipiuk raise awareness for this year’s Cops for Cancer campaign.

Usipiuk spent the weekend camped out 15 metres above the mall on a scissor lift to draw attention to the upcoming fundraising cycling tour.

Surrey and Delta riders take part in the Cops for Cancer Tour de Valley, which sees them cycle 900 kilometers over nine days from Tsawwassen to Boston Bar. Over the years, Tour de Valley has raised more than $4 million. This year’s ride gets under way Sept. 26 and goes until Oct. 4.

Cops for Cancer aims to show families who have a child with cancer that they do not have to face their journey alone. ❙ Continued on B4

180 Days of Learning!

❙ See story, a27

Want to know what’s happening in schools in Delta? Hear it directly from those involved!

Every school day a story will be posted on 180daysoflearning.com from a teacher, student, principal, support staff or parent exemplifying the innovative teaching and learning happening right here in the Delta School District!

You can also connect with us:

❙ All things to all people

See this week’s specials on back page!

KIN’S

FARM MARKET

Local libraries look to the future as they celebrate historic milestones. See a12

Trenant Park Square Ladner Trunk Rd. & 52A St. Beside London Drugs Delta 604.940.0733

Open 9 am to 8 pm everyday!

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17-1835 56th St. Tsawwassen (Behind McDonalds)

Family eyes UK Trial ❙ B3

DSS teacher’s son diagnosed with rare disease

Mackie turns 30 ❙ B4

North Delta library celebrates milestone

OCTOBER ∙ 2013

Firefighter sets record ❙ B5 But new mark doesn’t last long at nationals

❙ CONNECTING THE NORTH WITH THE SOUTH

Cops for Cancer teams ready to ride ❙ Evan Seal

REPORTER

- Boaz Joseph

Surrey North Delta Leader

❙ North Delta artists join forces First-ever Studio Stomp hopes to attract art lovers to local scene. See B6

High above the Bollywood Banquet Hall at 8166 128 St. in Surrey, childhood cancer survivor Simran Sarai helped Delta Police Const. Ken Usipiuk kick off the annual Cops for Cancer Tour De Valley fundraising campaign on Friday.

Each fall, more than 100 law enforcement and emergency services personnel from across B.C. commit hundreds of hours of their own time to cycle thousands of kilometers across the province. Schools, organizations, businesses and individuals in more than 60 B.C. communities show their support by organizing fundraising events and activities and pledging to raise thousands of dollars.

Simran was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia when she was six years old. Now 13, she has been five years free of the disease and spent Friday afternoon helping Usipiuk raise awareness for this year’s Cops for Cancer campaign.

Usipiuk spent the weekend camped out 15 metres above the mall on a scissor lift to draw attention to the upcoming fundraising cycling tour.

Surrey and Delta riders take part in the Cops for Cancer Tour de Valley, which sees them cycle 900 kilometers over nine days from Tsawwassen to Boston Bar. Over the years, Tour de Valley has raised more than $4 million. This year’s ride gets under way Sept. 26 and goes until Oct. 4.

Cops for Cancer aims to show families who have a child with cancer that they do not have to face their journey alone.

180 Days of Learning!

Want to know what’s happening in schools in Delta? Hear it directly from those involved!

Every school day a story will be posted on 180daysoflearning.com from a teacher, student, principal, support staff or parent exemplifying the innovative teaching and learning happening right here in the Delta School District!

You can also connect with us:

❙ Continued on B4

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Delta Community Update Delta Community Update SEPTEMBER 2013 SEPTEMBER 2013 My Health My Community My Health My Community Complete the My Health My Community survey and help to develop strategies that promote heath and wellness in your community!

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For more information about this initiative to access the survey, visit www.myhealthmycommunity.org For more information about this initiative and to access the survey, visit www.myhealthmycommunity.org Children’s Swap Meet Children’s SwapCentre Meet North Delta Recreation is the place to be on October 19 if you’re looking for baby books, accessories, and clothes.

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Halloween Events

Halloween Events It’s time to get spooky!

Halloween events abound throughout Delta, providing thrills and chills for the young and old alike: It’s time to get spooky! Halloween events abound throughout Delta, providing • Family Fright Fest – October 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm at McKee thrills and chills for the young and old24, alike: Heritage House and surrounding area in Ladner • Family Fright Fest – October 24, 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm at McKee • Halloween Skate & surrounding Costume Parties Heritage House and area in Ladner o Sungod (October LadnerParties Leisure Centre (October 26), and • Halloween Skate & 24), Costume South Delta Recreation Centre (October 30) o Sungod (October 24), Ladner Leisure Centre (October 26), and • Halloween Swims SouthSpooktacular Delta Recreation Centre (October 30) o Sungod (October 26), Ladner Leisure Centre (October 25, 26), Winskill (October 26) • Halloween Spooktacular Swims o for Sungod (October 26), Centre (October 25, 26), Winskill (October 26) Visit delta.ca full details on all of Ladner Delta’s Leisure Halloween events.

Halloween & Healthy Visit delta.cathe forFun full details on all Way! of Delta’s Halloween events. all Delta recreation centres will be selling books of 10 child drop-in admission coupons Starting October Halloween the1stFun & Healthy Way! for $10. Coupons are redeemable November 1st to December 1st – perfect for dropping in trick-or-treat st Starting October 1 all Delta recreation centres will be selling books of 10 child drop-in admission coupons bags! for $10. Coupons are redeemable November 1st to December 1st – perfect for dropping in trick-or-treat bags!

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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❙ Pam Mann is hoping to support an experimental UK trial that offers hope of treating her son Eshaan’s alkapotunuria, or ‘black bone disease.’ Evan Seal photo

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South Delta Leader

A Delta Secondary School teacher is breaking her silence on an “ultra rare” genetic disease that her son has in the hopes of raising money for an experimental trial in the United Kingdom.

Pam Mann says her son Eshaan, who turned seven years old on Sept. 24, was born with alkapotonuria (AKU), an incurable disease so rare that only one in 250,000 people are born with it. AKU is more commonly known as ‘black bone disease’ because often people with AKU don’t know they have it until a surgeon cuts them open and finds out their bones are black.

Eshaan is the only known patient in the province with AKU and the only one B.C. Children’s Hospital has ever seen.

“A lot of people at school are asking me, why didn’t you tell us, why didn’t you say anything,” says Mann, who lives in Surrey.

“But we didn’t want anybody’s pity. We didn’t want anybody feeling sorry for us and there’s nothing anybody could do.”

When Eshaan was born his mother noticed his urine had a red appearance.

Although normal for many infants, Eshaan’s discoloration persisted.

“We became quite alarmed,” says Mann. “We talked to three pediatricians and they all said he’s developing fine, we’ve done the tests, there’s no blood in the urine so it’s something you’re eating.

They just kind of dismissed it.”

But Mann found that when she washed her son’s cloth diapers the urine wouldn’t wash out completely, leaving a black mark behind permanently. So they took the diapers in for a chemical analysis.

Six months later the biochemical diseases lab at B.C. Children’s Hospital confirmed Eshaan has two recessive genes from both parents responsible for AKU. Eshaan is missing an enzyme that should be breaking down the homogentisic acid that is being deposited into his joints, heart, and internal organs. Over time the acid will eat up his cartilage leaving him in a wheelchair by the age of 20, and he will also develop heart disease and other serious health complications.

Mann says Eshaan is still an outwardly normal child who isn’t yet aware of his condition.

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George Mackie Library turns 30

❙ George Mackie Library in North Delta is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month. Rob Mangelsdorf

At the heart of North Delta lies the George Mackie Library, which has served as a hub for the community for 30 years.

North Delta Library was opened in 1972, due to the efforts of George Thomas Mackie, who campaigned for funding as well as organizing volunteers to contribute some of the actual construction labour. The 3,500 sq. foot space was much too small, but in 1983, an 11,400 sq. foot space was opened nearby.

At that time, the name was changed from the North Delta Library to the George Mackie Library in honor of his dedication to the project.

The library is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month with a host of events and programs, including an anniversary party from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26.

For more information, visit www.fvrl.bc.ca

Cops for Cancer enters 15th year ❙ From B1

❙ Delta Police Const. Dave Olgilvy (left to right), Mandeep Nagra (Fraserview Meats), Delta Police Const. Ken Usipiuk and Amarjit Dadwar (A-1 Sports) spent the weekend on a platform about 50 feet above a Newton shopping centre to raise money and awareness of a cancer campaign. Boaz Joseph

The first Cops for Cancer fundraiser program started in 1994 when an Edmonton police officer with a shaved head posed for a photo with a young cancer patient.

The officer wanted to support the boy, who was being ridiculed at school because of his hair loss.

Other officers joined and Cops for Cancer was launched.

Cops for Cancer cycle tours have been running for more than 15 years since the inaugural one on Vancouver Island in 1998.

Today, four tours that cover the province have raised more than $27 million to fund pediatric cancer programs and research.

For more information about Cops for Cancer and how you can support the cause, visit www.copsforcancerbc.ca

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Delta firefighter sets shortlived world record ❙ Adrian MacNair

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World number-one ranked firefighter combat challenge competitor Jamie McGarva broke his own world record at the national championships in Edmonton, only to see it broken again by his rival.

On opening day of the challenge Delta firefighter and Team Westshore member McGarva ran a 1:12:8 on the course, breaking his record by just over one second. But perennial rival Graham Mackenzie of Kamloops ran a 1:12:53 later that day, pushing McGarva from the top spot he has held since setting the world record last August.

Delta’s Team Westshore finished third overall in Edmonton which saw 30 teams and 250 individuals compete from across Canada from Sept. 4-8.

Westshore member Ryan Rickards, who finished 28th overall, said the story for this year’s nationals was mistakes. He missed the target twice when trying to knock it over with the hose and even McGarva had a hammer penalty of two seconds.

“Our team usually doesn’t make mistakes,” said Rickards. “We are usually very clean on the course and penalty free. But on final day it was raining and the course was slippery.”

But Rickards said there was good news, with teammates Reid Taylor and Rob Lemon finishing with personal bests of 10th and 26th overall, respectively. Mark Millward finished in second place in the over 45 age group.

The team will now set their eyes on the World Championships in Las Vegas from Oct. 23-28, which will feature 80 teams from eight different countries. In order to win they’ll have to get past three-time defending world champions Kamloops.

“We just need to run our races and be mistake free,” said Rickards.

“When everyone is running at this level it all comes down to mistakes.”

Family raising funds to take part in trial ❙ From B3

Despite going to B.C. Children’s Hospital for frequent checkups, Mann hasn’t told him the real reason.

“All I could tell my son was you’re my little super hero and they want to check you out because they want to see why you’re so great,” she says. “But any time he has any issues, like his knees hurt or something happens, we automatically assume it’s that.”

Although AKU is incurable there are some treatments to slow the symptoms, including a protein restricted diet to keep the acid from being created by the body.

Mann recently came across an experimental clinical trial in the United Kingdom which has showed successful results during testing on mice. The experimental drug caused the mice to stop making the homogentisic acid. Although her son is too young for the trial because testing is still required for dosage and side effects, Mann

is helping to raise money for the research.

“This is our only hope because nobody’s going to listen to 17 of us here in Canada,” says Mann.

Although the clinical trial in the UK seems like a long shot, Mann says it’s better than six years ago when they had no hope. The goal now is to help raise $98,000 for the trial, which is currently sitting at $37,600 on the crowdsourcing indiegogo.com website. She has also received donations from her own students and coworkers.

“The generosity of this school, I’ve never seen such goodwill and such kindness,” she said, adding one class raised $100 in three days just collecting change in jars.

To help Mann reach her fundraising goal visit indiegogo.com and search for “Cure Black Bone Disease.” Alternately, the Delta Ice Hawks have donated 700 tickets for their Oct. 8 home game. Tickets are $3 through dhuff@ deltasd.bc.ca or call the school at 604-946-4194.

For sponsorship opportunities & tickets call Chrissie Bowker, publisher@southdeltaleader.com 604 948 3640

You are invited to a Night in Paris celebrating Hats Off to Excellence Awards Gala Join us us for for aa fabulous fabulous evening evening on on November November 15 15 as as we we Join celebrate excellence in our community.

Event will be held celebrate excellence in our community. Some of Delta’s at the Delta Town & Country Inn from 6-10 pm outstanding local business leaders will be recognized.

Register now for Early Bird Pricing for a chance to win a limo ride to and from the Gala for up to 4 people! $130 EARLY BIRD thRough octoBER 4 $145 per person as of October 5

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North Delta Art tour hopes to draw people in ❙ Boaz Joseph

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North Delta artists are joining forces to make it easier for art lovers to see their work.

It's called Studio Stomp: North Delta Art Tour.

The Oct. 5 and 6 event will showcase the work of 25 art-

ists at eight studios and galleries throughout the community.

One of the stops along the tour will be Lyon's Pride Studio and Gallery, the home of Marilyn Lyon, who runs has a custom framing business and represents other artists in her first-floor gallery.

Lyon's framing got so busy

several years ago that she quit her full-time job, hoping it might also give her time to paint.

It didn't, quite.

"The framing has really become all-consuming in may ways, so I live vicariously though a lot of these artists," she says. "Every time they bring (the studio) a new piece, I get excited. It's amazing how many talented people there are out there and nobody sees their work."

Lyon, who runs annual garden art parties at her place, says the idea for the tour was brought up at a local artists' meeting.

"I approached Watershed (Artworks) and said we've got to do this as a group.

There are so many great artists in Delta."

She explains that in general, art galleries are scarce, making it difficult for artists to display their work.

"Taking it to the streets is the next best thing. This is the sort of thing that can really draw people in."

Organizer Dave Stevens, a retired teacher and artist, says the project is a cooperative effort and represents a wide range of North Delta artists.

It won't be just painters,

❙ Works by North Delta artist will be on display during the first annual Studio Stomp on Oct. 5 and 6. Above is a work by featured artist Dave Stevens and at left is a painting by Gary Fox.

but will include woodworkers, jewelers, fabric artists, potters and other artisans.

"They're all in a different place, trying to make it work."

Although the majority of the tour's stops will be private homes, Watershed Art-

works and the North Delta Potters Guild, which share the artSpace building, will be a central hub of the event.

At most of the studios, there will be hands-on demonstrations by artists, and visitors who make every stop will have brochures

stamped, making them eligible for prizes.

Five per cent of sales during the Studio Stomp will go the Delta Hospital Foundation.

For details about locations and the artists involved, visit http://deltastudiostomp. com

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· If you have young children, use the stove’s back burners whenever possible.

Keep children and pets at least three away from the stove.

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Seaquam grad lands DRTA scholarship

❙ Delta’s Scott Marshall, Morag Van Tol and Johnny Van Tol (from left to right) took part in the annual Bicycle Trek for Life and Breath earlier this month, raising $9,000 betwen them. Contributed photo

❙ Staff writer Delta Leader

If you ever need a jolt of reality about the cost of education today, all you have to do is talk to a recent high school graduate. Thankfully, for North Delta’s Amanbir Atwal, the path to higher education is a little more affordable thanks to a $1,000 scholarship from the Delta Retired Teachers Association.

Atwal graduated from Seaquam Secondary in June, and the International Baccalaureate Science top scholar is pursuing a medical degree from UBC. According to a recent study by the Bank of Montreal, B.C. students graduate with the highest debt in Canada. Since 2001 tuition fees have more than doubled across the province and the B.C. student grants program has been eliminated. Loans become essential and students face the highest interest rates of any province.

Atwal was thrilled to receive the scholarship, which she says will help make her career aspirations a reality.

“It is only with the generosity of benevolent individuals that I will be able to pursue my dreams in hopes of attaining a position with Doctors Without Borders some day,” she says.

Amanbir leaves a legacy of causes that she encouraged fellow students to address. For two weeks each year under her leadership her soccer team canvassed to send aid for the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, Oxfam Nicaraguan Wom-

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❙ Seaquam grad Amanbir Atwal. Contributed en in 2012, and the West African Famine in 2013.

The Delta Retired Teachers Association scholarship of $1000 is offered to a graduating Grade 12 student from any secondary school in Delta. The student must be pursuing some form of post-secondary education, either at university or trade school training. Students can visit the career advisor at their school for further details. ❙ editor@southdeltaleader.com

Delta’s Scott Marshall, along with Morag and Johnny Van Tol, joined 300 other cycling enthusiasts and event volunteers for the B.C. Lung Association’s 29th Bicycle Trek for Life and Breath on Sept. 7 and 8.

‘Trek’ is a two-day, 200-km cycling fundraiser in support of vital lung health research, programs and clean air initiatives.

It was Marshall’s seventh year at Trek, while Johnny has ridden 19 times and his wife Morag has participated for five.

The three raised a combined total of more than $9,000 to support the B.C. Lung Association.

The event itself raised more than $200,000 thanks to donations from friends, family and coworkers. This total builds upon the $5.8 million previously raised by ‘Trekkers’ during the event’s 29-year lifespan.

“The event has a real family feel with less fanfare than other, bigger commercial fundraisers but with a lot of heart and soul,”

says B.C. Lung Association event organizer Kate Jarvis. “It’s a grassroots affair that has grown over time – and there is a true sense of community amongst participants, many of whom meet here once a year and share in the spirit of giving back.”

The mission of the B.C. Lung Association is to prevent lung disease and promote lung health. Founded in 1904 to fight tuberculosis, the Lung Association today fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, pulmonary fibrosis and environmental health. A non-profit, non-governmental organization, the B.C. Lung Association is dedicated to improving lung health and promoting clean air initiatives across the province.

For more information, call the B.C. Lung Association toll free at 1-800-665-5864 or email trek@bc.lung.ca.

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Delta Hospital Auxiliary Making a difference in the early detection of breast cancer If breast cancer is found and treated early, the opportunity for a successful outcome is greater. Taking an active role in your personal breast-screening program is important.

Did You Know: > In 2012, the Delta Hospital Auxiliary donated $700,000 to purchase the present digital mammography equipment. > The new state-of-the-art digital equipment improves visualization of the breast tissue, especially in younger women. > 4000 mammograms have been done at Delta Hospital in the past year > Breast cancer affects men as well. In 2013, it is estimated that 200 Canadian men will be diagnosed with breast cancer (up from 55 in 2012).

ANDREAS HOCHSTRASSER, Site Coordinator Delta Hospital Medical Imaging Department and SUE ATHWAL X-Ray technologist

Early detect ion is our best d efense again st breast canc er.

“Thanks to the generous support of the Delta Hospital Auxiliary our Medical Imaging department has a state of the art digital mammography unit. This top notch piece of equipment aids the medical imaging team in the early detection of early breast cancer. Digital technology not only allows for improved visibility of the entire breast but also provides superior image quality which has been shown to facilitate the early detection of breast cancer particularly in younger women.”

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Two local business men are assisting in the care and comfort of breast cancer patients. Gordon Gledstone, of Tsawwassen Upholstery, and Arne Kaufman, of International Textiles Ltd, both donate fabric that is used to make comfort pillows. These pillows are hand sewn by the Delta Hospital Auxiliary Volunteers and aid in patient relief after surgery. Thank you for your support!

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