Langley Times, November 19, 2013

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TUESDAY November 19, 2013 • www.langleytimes.com NEWS Murder Suspect in Court

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Guilty verdict in 16 Avenue fatal crash TR A CY HOL ME S B lack Pre s s

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Glen Edward Theriault was found guilty on Friday, Nov. 15 of dangerous driving causing death in connection with this Jan. 18, 2011 head-on collision that killed South Surrey resident Jim Neiss. Neiss was an employee of the Langley School District.

When dump truck driver Glen Edward Theriault crossed a double-yellow line on 16 Avenue in South Langley nearly three years ago — ultimately killing a South Surrey man in a head-on collision — it was a “conscious, deliberate, risky decision,” a Surrey Provincial Court judge said Friday. “No reasonable person would even consider driving in the manner the accused did in this case,” Judge Paul Dohm said prior to finding Theriault guilty of dangerous driving causing death in connection with the Jan. 18, 2011 crash that killed 59-year-old Jim Neiss. “The accused deliberately drove dangerously. The only way the accused could not have seen (headlights of an oncoming vehicle) is if he didn’t look at all.”

JIM NEISS Theriault, 65, has been on trial since mid-July. Friday’s verdict was delivered on the 10th day of the proceedings, and brought Neiss’s family and co-workers some consolation. “I feel relief and vindicated,” Brenda Michie, Neiss’s widow, told Black Press outside court. “The judge did an excellent, thorough job. Continued Page 4

Alternate oil pipline route considered BUILDER SAYS IT IS ‘ACTIVELY’ PURSUING A DIFFERENT PATH THROUGH LANGLEY DA N F ERG U SO N Tim e s Re po r t e r

The people planning to build a second oil pipeline through Langley Township are looking at a different route that would avoid digging up the flood plain near the Salmon River.

In response to a Times query, Trans Mountain spokesperson Lizette Parsons Bell said the company is considering an alternate path, one that came up during meetings with property owners along the proposed route in Langley. “From those discussions, we have re-

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ceived good input about an alternative that may better meet our routing objectives,” Parsons Bell said in a written statement emailed to The Times. “We are currently pursuing this actively.” That option could be the Redwoods Golf

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Course, according to Byron Smith, who is one of the property owners who met with the land agent for the pipeline company. “That would be my suspicion,” Smith told The Times.

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