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Surrey staff ‘dropped the ball’ on rail presentation: Hepner
forum – which included presentations By Alex Browne The timing of a rail-safety public forum from Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts and that advanced the idea of relocating the White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin – for which he said he agreed to main BNSF route off the waact as master of ceremonies terfront in favour of a system “at short notice.” of pedestrian trails – and sugHepner said the idea of a gested four possible inland re“Utopia” without tracks on alignments – could have been the waterfront has come up better, according to Surrey many times since she was Coun. Linda Hepner. first elected in to Surrey Hepner, who chairs the council in 1985. city’s agricultural and food “If we advanced in any security committee, said last way the relocation of the week that any relocation of tracks, it would require a the route could have signifiwilling partner in the BNSF cant implications for Surrey’s and a funding source,” she agricultural land – and that said, noting discussion is Coun. Linda Hepner farmers would need to be part premature without these “esof the discussion. sential elements.” Hepner said while her committee subMoreover, she noted, the issue is a nasequently received the presentation from staff – included in the most recent com- tional one – not just a concern in Surrey mittee minutes approved by council Dec. and White Rock. “I sit as a member of the Federation of 16 – it “would have been nicer to have the Canadian Municipalities, which has had presentation before the fact.” Coun. Tom Gill, chair of the city’s a national rail safety committee since the transportation and infrastructure com- Lac Mégantic disaster,” she said. “The question arises that, if we’re gomittee, said he felt city staff had “dropped ing to move our rails, who else in this nathe ball” in not presenting the ideas to See RAIL / Page 5 his committee before the Nov. 26 public
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Clayton Heights Secondary’s Yasmin Zekaria looks set to tuck into a perfect sundae. She was among the hordes of students who helped make a 100-foot-long banana split disappear last Thursday. For more on the event, turn to page 6.
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