South Delta Leader, December 27, 2013

Friday, December 27, 2013

SFPR opens to traffic ❙ P.3 B.C.’s newest highway welcomes drivers

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Tax bill stays low ❙ P.4

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Muni making small increase to taxes

FRIDAY ∙ DECEMBER 27 ∙ 2013 ❙ southdeltaleader.com

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Pot post-mortem

Although the Sensible BC campaign to decriminalize marijuana in the province has gone up in smoke, a local organizer says it was a learning experience.

Ralph Howey, who headed up the Delta South challenge to collect the signatures of 10 per cent of registered voters in the riding over a 90-day period, says he wasn’t aggressive enough in his strategy. ❙ See story, P.3

A sporting glance

TOP 5 Stories of 2013

5 TOP 5 Photos of 2013 TOP Newsmakers TOP 5 TOP 5 of 2013 Community News Picks of Sports stories 2013 of 2013

One of the top sports stories of 2013 was the selection of Tsawwassen’s own Tristan Jarry in the June 30 NHL Entry Draft. Jarry went 44th overall to the Pittsburgh Penguins and recently signed a three-year deal with the hockey club.

To find out all top five sports stories of 2013, flip to the sports section. ❙ See story, P.13

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❙ SFPR officially opens

Delta North MLA Scott Hamilton joins Delta Richmond East MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay, for the inaugural trip down the fully completed South Fraser Perimeter Road on Saturday. The 40-km, $1.26 billion highway connects Tsawwassen, Ladner, Tilbury, North Delta, and Surrey.

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Pot campaign organizer fights against marijuana stereotypes ❙ Adrian MacNair

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Although the Sensible BC campaign to decriminalize marijuana in the province has gone up in smoke, a local organizer says it was a learning experience.

Ralph Howey, who headed up the Delta South challenge to collect the signatures of 10 per cent of registered voters in the riding over a 90-day period, says he wasn’t aggressive enough in his strategy.

Although he and other volunteers collected signatures for the campaign outside of the South Delta Recreation Centre in Tsawwassen during the Southlands public hearings, they were barred from many properties owned by Century Group.

“I made the mistake of asking for permission instead of forgiveness,” said Howey with a smile.

“The support was there but we fell down in the canvassing, both not being out there to sign and not having permanent sign up locations,” he said.

The Sensible BC campaign managed to sign up 210,000 people across the

❙ Sensible BC Delta South campaigner Ralph Howey wants to change the public’s perception of marijuana smokers. Adrian MacNair photo province, succeeding in surpassing the 10 per cent threshold in 20 ridings. Delta South, however, was one of 23 ridings which managed just over five per cent.

The campaign would have needed an

estimated 400,000 signatures to have a shot at forcing the issue to a ballot referendum on decriminalization, similar to the one that was achieved by the Fight HST campaign in reinstating the provincial sales tax.

Howey said another difficulty they faced was finding volunteers and the unreliability of free labour.

“They all fell off because of health issues or parents or what have you,” he said.

Howey, who smokes marijuana for pleasure, said many people are fighting against the negative stereotypes that have been built up around the psychoactive drug and those who smoke it.

Howey said one fellow canvasser was furious at media reports portraying Sensible BC supporters as shifty people with unkempt beards smoking stubby marijuana joints.

“Meanwhile, they show people drinking alcohol in crystal glasses and fancy clothes,” he said.

Now that the campaign is over, organizers like Howey are looking to use the learning experience to make another attempt at decriminalization in the future.

High court strikes down prostitution laws ❙ Jeff Nagel

A Supreme Court of Canada ruling to strike down Canada’s prostitution laws is being hailed in B.C. as an irrevocable step toward protecting sex trade workers from violent predators.

The unanimous 9-0 ruling gives the federal government one year to craft new legislation or else the industry will legally be able to communicate openly, operate brothels and profit from prostitution.

“This is a total victory,” Pivot Legal Society staff lawyer Kat Kinch said after the ruling was announced Friday. “Sex trade workers’ lives can’t be sacrificed at the cost of regulating prostitution.”

Kinch predicts it will enable a range of practical safety measures for sex workers, including better screening of customers, spotting by friends, hiring of security guards, and the use of apartments or hotel rooms.

She said the ruling makes it clear Ottawa must put safety first in considering any further legislation, adding sex workers should be at the forefront of those discussions.

The court referred to the murders by Port Coquitlam serial killer Robert Pickton in striking down the law as a violation of the constitutional right to life, liberty and security of the person.

“Parliament has the power to regulate against nuisances, but not at the cost of the health, safety and lives of prostitutes,” the judgment said.

“A law that prevents street prostitutes from resorting to a safe haven… while a suspected serial killer prowls the streets, is a law that has lost sight of its purpose,” it said. “If screening could have prevented one woman from jumping into Robert Pickton’s car, the severity of the harmful effects [of the law] is established.”

SFU criminology professor John Lowman said the Harper government has a range of choices if it opts for new legislation.

He said the U.S. approach of criminalizing both the purchase and sale of sex hasn’t worked well, although there are variations south of the border.

“You could have legalization of prostitution as you have it in Nevada, which is the state acting as a pimp, controlling and regulating prostitution and using criminal law to keep it off the street,” he added.

The owner of Nevada’s BunnyRanch brothel has already said he aims to expand into Canada if allowed.

Lowman said he thinks federal Conservatives are more likely to gravitate toward the so-called Nordic model used in Sweden that makes it legal to sell sex but not to buy it, while criminalizing any third party that profits.

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Delta to keep taxes and utility rates low for 2014

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Property taxes and utility rates will see modest increases in 2014, but will remain among the lowest in the Lower Mainland, according to a pair of financial reports produced for Delta Council.

Property taxes will increase 1.9 per cent, which other than West Vancouver’s zero per cent increase, is tied with Vancouver for the lowest rate in Metro Vancouver. Other jurisdictions are much higher, such as Richmond which will see a 2.96 per cent increase, and Pitt Meadows with a 3.33 per cent increase.

Based on an average 2013 assessed value of $567,000 for a single

family home in Delta, that represents a property tax increase of $70, explained finance director Karl Preuss.

The cost breakdown of the tax increase amounts to a 0.7 per cent increase to maintain general municipal services, an equal amount for road infrastructure improvements, and 0.5 per cent to fund the 2014 Delta Police staffing plan.

“What we’re trying to embark upon is getting a bead set for our road improvement program, our utility rates, we’re adding additional infrastructure improvements, and I think the biggest one is for police services,” said Preuss.

The 2014 operating plan provides for contractual increases which include operat-

ing costs at the new Delta Community Animal Shelter, North Delta senior bus program which launched in April, and the addition of five full-time positions at community policing stations in Ladner and North Delta.

The new positions will require three police officers to fill the role of youth officer, mental health constable, and a patrol constable. Two civilians will head up the task of domestic violence caseworker and exhibits storekeeper.

As for infrastructure, the 2014 capital plan aims to build a roundabout at 112th Street and 80th Avenue in North Delta, Arthur Drive enhancements in Ladner, and Boundary Bay Airport improvements.

The total increase from both plans amounts to $2.2 million, putting Delta’s annual budget at $274.5 million.

Utility rates will increase by $30 to $960 in 2014, the bulk of that going toward regional costs, while Delta’s share is going up $12.

Water rates for homes will increase by $13 to $491 annually, while sewers will increase $15 to 297. Garbage and recycling are relatively unchanged with a twoonie representing the sole increase to solid waste disposal.

Just like property taxes, Delta has a relatively low utility fee structure compared with other jurisdictions in Metro Vancouver, coming in $30 lower than Port Moody, $288 lower than

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The agricultural water metre low rate for the first 8,000 cubic metres per quarter is $0.72 per cubic metre, with a minimum charge of $25 per quarter. Preuss said 97 per cent of farmers stay below the commercial water rate.

The 5.3 per cent increase to sewer rates provides for regional costs and to cover inflationary and contract increases for sewer operations and capital works.

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A joint effort by Fraser Health, Vancouver Coastal Health, and the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s eHealth Strategy Office hopes to put its finger on the pulse of the public’s understanding of healthy life choices with a new web-based health and wellness survey. Health and well-being are closely linked to what we eat, where we live, and what we do, says surveyor Beatriz Hernandez, who helped develop My Health My Community. The survey is aimed at helping the public understand exactly how these factors impact one another.

“People take the My Health My Community Survey for many reasons, but they all focus on building a healthier future,” she said.

Over the past few weeks, Hernandez has been across the Fraser Region, from Delta to Chilliwack, helping people complete the survey, and has been amazed at the positive response.

“Many older people say that they are doing the survey so that their children and grandchildren can have a healthier future,” says Hernandez.

Fraser Health medical officer Dr. Michelle Murti, said the survey is valuable because it will enable local health authorities to share the most up-to-date community health and lifestyle information with

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❙ Face to Face

❙ Randy Elvis Friskie and his daughter Cassandra perform at the Genesis Theatre on Jan. 3. Contributed

Music a family affair F “World’s Best Elvis” comes to Genesis Theatre, Jan. 3

or Randy Friskie, music was a way of life growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The musician known as “The World’s Best Elvis Tribute Act” owes his musical roots to his father, who played 14 instruments and was a country rock staple in Southern Ontario.

“I spent most of my time in our music room,” says Friskie of his formative years. There he learned to sing, play drums and guitar alongside his father and his musician friends.

Friskie was barely five years old when he first witnessed the phenomena known as Elvis Presley, starring in the movie Love me Tender.

“I was devastated when he died at the end of the movie,” says Friskie.

“So my mom showed me all of his other movies, so that I knew he was okay.”

That began a lifelong obsession and appreciation for the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

“He was just so cool,” says Friskie of his earliest impressions of Elvis.

“And the way he carried himself was

as cool as his music.”

Friskie spent his teenage years as a “long-haired hippie punk,” playing with his own band and backing up his father’s band on drums.

“I’d jam out to Led Zeppelin with the guys… but Elvis was my first love,” he says.

Friskie soon put together a tribute act, and after years of playing across Western Canada, he got his big break at Expo 86 as part of the Elvis, Elvis, Elvis show. After two weeks of shows playing at the World’s Fair, organizers asked him to put together a solo Elvis act of his own.

Friskie was originally booked for another two-week slot, but the response to the show was so great, festival organizers extended the engagement, for seven weeks in all.

“Some nights there were 25,000 people there,” he says.

Friskie decided to make the Lower Mainland his new home, and the increased exposure led to steady work in Las Vegas and Reno, and a role in the 1989 movie It’s Only Make Believe, where he played - you guessed it - and Elvis impersonator.

However, Friskie is quick to point out that he is a tribute act, and not an impersonator.

“There’s only one Elvis, and he

lived to entertain,” says Friskie.

“And that’s all I’ve ever tried to do.

Entertain the audience, and share his music.”

Much like Friskie inherited his love of music from his father, so too has Friskie’s daughter Cassandra inherited a love of music from him.

Father and daughter Friskie will both be appearing at the Genesis Theatre on Jan. 3 as part of Randy Elvis Friskie and his Las Vegas Show Band’s That’s The Way It Is Tour.

“She steals the show,” says Friskie. “She does everyone in this show.

Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Cher, Liza Minnelli, Reba McEntire, Shania Twain, Taylor Swift, LeAnn Rimes, and even Marilyn Monroe.”

Cassandra got her start on stage close to 15 years ago at age nine, when she performed Patsy Cline numbers with Friskie’s band at the PNE. “She blew everyone away,” says the proud father. “I have goosebumps just thinking about it.”

• Randy Elvis Friskie and his Las Vegas Show Band’s That’s The Way It Is Tour come to Ladner’s Genesis Theatre on Friday, Jan. 3. For tickets, visit ontourtickets.com, or call 1-855-411-7500.

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❙ Editorial

Pithy predictions for 2014

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he South Delta Leader’s clairvoyant correspondents consulted their crystal ball to present the public a peck of pithy prognostications and predictions for the coming year.

• All levels of government will work together to push through the controversial Enbridge pipeline through the northern B.C. wilderness, with premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford ceremoniously sending off the first bitumen-laden supertanker from the port of Kitimat, marking a bright economic future for the province. However, 15 minutes out of port, the tanker will strike the rocks in the narrow fjord, spilling millions of litres of black sludge into the ocean, destroying the local environment, fisheries, and economy. Thousands of people will be hired to help clean up the spill, which the province will spin as part of its “B.C.-First Economic Action Strategy Plan.” Most of the jobs will go to temporary Chinese labourers, however, after B.C. residents were deemed to be unqualified at picking up sludge with a shovel. Which is ridiculous, when one considers the amount of shoveling the average B.C. voter has to do any time a politician opens their mouth.

• The federal and provincial governments will reduce income tax to record lows, allowing Canadians to keep more of their hard-earned money. It’s a good thing too, as Canadians will need it to pay for the exorbitantly high cost of private health insurance premiums, private schools, and private universities.

• Anti-coal protesters, like those who stormed Port Metro Vancouver’s offices in December, will take their opposition to the proposed Fraser Surrey Docks coal terminal up a notch with demonstrations of increasing violence, resulting in a symbolic mass self-immolation, using organic compost-derived carbon neutral lighter fluid. With opposition to the project effectively snuffed out, the new coal terminal will move forward, full steam ahead.

• A construction worker working on the Marina Garden Estates project will accidentally cut his index finger on an X-Acto knife, leaving a trail of blood behind him as he runs to the first aid truck for a band aid, thus proving true the predictions of one resident who famously declared the project’s approval would result in “blood in the streets.”

• Canada Post will recover from its financial difficulties and resume door-to-door delivery service once CEO Deepak Chopra and the federal government decide to stop actively destroying it piece by piece.

• A 40-car pileup will shut down the South Fraser Perimeter Road for days after an American tourist slams on their brakes in the middle of the highway, having never seen a bald eagle before.

- Happy new year from all the staff at the South Delta Leader.

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❙ Go Green

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The dirty dozen lurking in the produce aisle

ow many readers are aware of a list aptly named, “The Dirty Dozen?”

I had not until I discovered the Environmental Working Group’s website which claims that the following twelve fruits and vegetables are the most pesticide-laden ones: Apples, celery, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, grapes, hot peppers, nectarines, peaches, potatoes, spinach, strawberries, and sweet bell peppers.

Since publication of “The Dirty Dozen,” the EWG has added two more: leafy greens (specifically kale/collards) and summer squash.

On testing zucchini and yellow crookneck squash, some were found to contain residues of organochlorine, while some of the greens were contaminated with organophosphates.

These two pesticides were phased out of agriculture some years ago but still remain in the fields. Imagine that!

According to an American scientist, Dr. Alex Lu, infants and young children are the most vulnerable to pesticide residues. Parents are encouraged to purchase the so called ‘dirty’ items with an organic label.

For more enlightenment and a list of ‘clean’ fruits and vegetables (of which there are many) please visit the EWG website.

Michael Pollan, well-known author and environmentalist, famously wrote, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

Fortunately, in Delta and elsewhere in the Lower Mainland, we can access a variety of locally grown food. Awareness of climate change and peak oil, both of which threaten agriculture, has led to a large localization of food movement with burgeoning farmers’ markets and small farms opening their doors to customers.

It became evident during the Southlands debate that people on both the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ side were

passionate about preservation of land for growing food, with how one gets there being the divisive issue.

I am thankful that we can enjoy food grown a few steps from our back door, without pesticides.

Yes, the preparation, watering and weeding take time, but the work is soul satisfying.

Especially delicious are our organic raspberries in early summer and apples in the fall, the latter often being turned into sauce, or a crumble.

Although it is December now, I have recently harvested some greens and carrots (still growing under plastic for frost protection) for dinner.

Found a few slugs, by the way— they like organic veggies too!

Here’s to healthy eating in 2014!

• Jean Wightman is a longtime South Delta resident and local environmentalist.

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Port needs to be held accountable

In light of the refusal by Port Metro Vancouver’s to carry out a full “Independent Comprehensive Environmental and Health Impact Assessment” that would investigate the potential effects of all current and future port expansion in the city and surrounding cities and municipalities, and given they do not think it is necessary, nor can they be ordered to do so by our elected representatives in Ottawa or Victoria, we need to ask these questions; What purpose do we elect our Mem-

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bers of Parliament in Ottawa and our Members of the Legislative Assembly in Victoria if they cannot protect our health, our environment and our natural resources?

Instead, our MPs in Ottawa have delegated our health, our environment and natural resources to port authorities like Port Metro Vancouver, who’s sole purpose is to promote the success of ports for the purpose of contributing to the competitiveness, growth and prosperity of the Canadian economy.

A port authority elected from industry involved in port business, not answerable to elected government representation.

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The federal government has also made the federal departments of environment and fisheries subservient to Port Metro Vancouver, as they too must abide by the same policies of Port Metro Vancouver.

One has to ask who are we to be governed by, an nonelected-body of self interest representatives, or the by the Representative we elected at the polls to protect our interests and values?

As our elected representatives in Ottawa established these policies, they can also reverse them and return democracy to Canada and it’s people.

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ne of Canada’s great entrepreneurial success stories in recent years is WestJet, the Calgary-based airline that is expanding across the country and taking on European routes.

Clive Beddoe, the founding CEO of Westjet, was famous for helping the cabin crew tidy up the plane before getting off a flight. And the company is also known for its profit-sharing program, with all employees referred to as “owners” who have a stake in the success of the operation.

I thought of this management approach when news emerged that the B.C. government was offering public service unions a new kind of contract, with a five-year term and wage increases tied to improved economic growth.

The surprising thing is that unions are accepting the idea, even though provincial growth must exceed the government’s independent economic forecast council projections before it can take effect in a given year.

The generally non-militant Health Sciences Association was the first to recommend acceptance of a five-year agreement with only 5.5 per cent raises guaranteed.

Then they were joined by negotiators for 51,000 health and social services employees, represented by the B.C. Government Employees’ Union and other unions that have long been adversaries of the B.C. Liberal Party.

John Fryer, negotiator for the BCGEU going back to the epic battles with Social Credit governments and now a professor at University of Victoria, wasn’t impressed when he heard the news.

“These deals reflect what happens when public sector unions back the losing party in a provincial election,” he said. “Union bargaining power takes a trip down the pooper.”

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haps today’s union leadership is beginning to accept that its wage, benefit and pension arrangements look pretty good compared to the harsh reality of private businesses competing in a global economy.

I asked Premier Christy Clark if this new approach is inspired by private-sector profit sharing. She agreed that is the model.

“I think that’s a great principle for all of us to work from,” Clark said. “Until now, the growth of public sector wages has been completely insulated from changes in the private sector.

And this is the first time we’ve ever been able to successfully link those two things. At this point it’s still a small increment wage growth, but it’s a big change, and I hope we can continue to build on it.”

From an employee perspective, it is indeed modest. If real gross domestic product increases one per cent beyond the independent forecast used in the provincial budget, employees get an additional half of one per cent raise for that year.

Contrast this labour relations development with what’s happening on the federal scene. A classic confrontation is brewing between the Harper government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada.

A key dispute is over sick days, which the government estimates are averaging 18 a year. PSAC currently has 15 “bankable” sick days a year, which the union president refers to as a “negotiated right.”

It takes me back to my first union job, where I was warned never to take just one sick day.

We negotiated for two at a time, so always take two, the union rep told me. Implicit in this is the mindset that employees should give as little and take as much as possible.

Looking through my files each December for the B.C. story of the year, I consider what is likely to matter five or 10 years from now.

This partnership approach to building the provincial economy is my pick for 2013.

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❙ This past year saw the completion of the South Fraser Perimeter Road (above, Adrian MacNair photo), the announcement of a bridge to replace the George Massey Tunnel (top middle, Jeff Nagel photo), the re-election of independent Delta South MLA Vicki Huntington (far right, Adrian MacNair photo), and the 125th anniversary of the Delta Police Department (bottom, Jennifer Gauthier photo).

Top 5 news stories from 2013

This past year was one of great change for South Delta, all of which was chronicled in the pages of the South Delta Leader ❙ Robert Mangelsdorf

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New links

Delta has long been isolated by geography, cut off from the rest of Metro Vancouver by the Fraser River. In 2013, that changed, with transportation projects connecting Delta to the rest of the region like never before.

The announcement by Premier Christy Clark in September that the provincial government intends to replace the aging George Massey Tunnel with a new bridge along Highway 99 came as welcome news for the many South Deltans who commute across the Fraser River every day.

According to Clark, the cost for the bridge would likely be in the $1 billion-range, similar to the Port Mann Bridge. She promised construction on the new span would begin by no later than 2017, but wouldn’t say whether tolls will be required to pay for it.

After close to four years of construction, the long-awaited opening of the 40-km, $1.26 billion South Fraser Perimeter Road in South Delta took place in December.

The new highway will connect the

Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal and the Roberts Bank superport with Highway 1, providing a direct link through Ladner, Tilbury, North Delta, and Surrey.

Delta grows

This past year saw a number of residential developments move forward, each with the potential to change the community around them.

In November, Delta Council voted 6-1 in favour of approving the controversial Southlands development in Tsawwassen, after more than 40 years of failed attempts to develop the 217-hectare parcel.

The proposed development, which still needs approval from Metro Vancouver, will see 950 residential units built on the property, with close to 80 per cent of the property to be upgraded for agricultural use and handed over to the Corporation of Delta.

In July, the Marina Garden Estates development was approved by Delta Council on third reading in a narrow 4-2 vote.

The development along the Ladner waterfront calls for 674 residential units, as well as a waterfront park and public space.

In October, MK Delta Lands revised their development proposal for a 36-hectare site adjacent to the Burns Bog Conservancy Area.

The new plan scrapped a proposed 40,000-square-metre outlet mall, and includes 1,100 residential units in the form of 650 four-storey apartments and 450 three-storey townhouses, as well as 12,000 square metres of commercial space. The neighbourhood plan calls for a walkable town centre, with community space and parks making up close to half of the property.

The proposal will also see $12 million in Highway 91 upgrades, as well as an additional 78 hectares of land added to the conservancy area.

The revised MK Delta Lands proposal is set to go to public hearing in early 2014.

Public protest

With change comes protest to that change, and in 2013, South Deltans made their voices heard. In Tsawwassen, concerned residents there spoke up about the controversial Southlands develop-

ment, as well as the proposal to install a 50,000-watt, 150-foot tall five-tower AM radio array just over the border in Point Roberts.

The proposed Fraser Surrey Docks coal terminal generated fierce public opposition from residents upset with prospect of more coal train rumbling through Delta.

In September, protesters blocked Port Metro Vancouver construction crews tasked with removing creosote-covered driftwood logs from the Boundary Bay salt marsh in a largely symbolic protest against Port Metro Vancouver’s proposed Terminal 2 expansion.

Election time

Two Delta politicians fought and succeeded in retaining their office this past year.

In May Delta South MLA Vicki Huntington became the first independent provincial politician in history to win re-election. Huntington soundly defeated challengers Bruce McDonald of the BC Liberals and Nic Slater of the BC NDP.

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What mattered most to South Delta in 2013?

The South Delta Leader had many top news stories to chose from over the past year, but we decided to ask five prominent members of the community what was most important to them. ❙ Adrian MacNair

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Laura Dixon, Delta school board chair

For Delta school board chair Laura Dixon the big story was the provincial Liberals winning a fourth straight majority government in may and everyone involved in education took notice. New Minister of Education Peter Laura Dixon Fassbender was given a directive from Premier Christie Clark to achieve a 10 year contract with teachers in order to try to achieve labour peace and redesign the role of school board trustees through the British Columbia School Trustees Association.

Bargaining at the provincial level with teachers is ongoing and in Delta our support staff have ratified their latest collective agreement at the local table,” said Dixon, adding these two provincial projects closely parallel work already underway at the Delta School District.

She said in 2013 the district implemented a formal teacher mentorship program for new teachers and are reviewing assessment practices as they relate to student achievement, which fit well with the ministry’s proposed curriculum changes.

Other initiatives include the areas of aboriginal studies, technology innovation, career training, academics, arts, and athletics.

“We are well on our path to achieving our Vision of being a leading District of innovative teaching and learner success,” said Dixon.

Leslie Abramson, Tsawwassen Rotary

To realize why Leslie Abramson picked the Delta Hospital’s announcement of a new medical imaging wing and lab departments, you have to know a bit about her medical history.

“It makes our hospital look bad, but it is not,” she said.”It Leslie Abramson

❙ From A8

Huntington held 48.03 per cent of the popular vote, with 10,619 in her favour. McDonald had 8,114 votes (36.7 per cent), while Slater had 3,375 (15.27 per cent).

Tsawwassen First Nation Chief Bryce Williams was re-elected after the result of the Sept. 2012 election were thrown out. Chief Williams won by a 106-86 margin in the rematch over former chief Kim Baird, who served as head of Tsawwassen First Nation for 14 years.

Milestones passed

A number local organiza-

just does not have the equipment that we need.”

Abramson was being treated by the Rapid Access Clinic at Delta Hospital for a leg problem that had been hampering her for three months.

As it turned out she had snapped her Achilles Tendon but the hospital didn’t have the diagnostic tools to identify the problem quickly.

“If Delta Hospital had had the equipment required to diagnose this problem it would have been a lot faster and accurate,” said Abramson.

“So, that is why I think that announcement was important, so no one else has to go through what I went through.”

Abramson said she loves “Our Little Hospital” and looks forward to the addition of new services for the citizens of Delta.

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Orville Nickel, Delta Chamber of Commerce

For business-minded chamber of commerce chair Orville Nickel, picking one top news story is difficult. He points to the acceptance of the Southlands development by Delta Council that will inject economic value to community as one Orville Nickel good news story.

The development of new housing for South Delta will add jobs, inject new money into the economy, increase the tax base for local government and provide people with a quality place to live,” he said.

The small businesses in South Delta will benefit both during the construction phase of 20 years, as well as afterward when those living in the new housing will shop locally and add to the economic health of local businesses.

Nickel also pointed to the Fraser Surrey Docks coal export expansion as a good jobs creator and helpful to the economy of Delta, Surrey, and B.C. But his top story pick is Fortis BC’s $400 million expansion of their liquefied natural gas operations on Tilbury Island.

“That is an industry investment that will provide many benefits to Delta over time,” said Nickel. “B.C. natural gas and its LNG derivative is ultimately important to Delta in terms of moving forward in time as natural gas is the clean fuel now and even more for the future.”

tions, groups, and institutions passed significant milestones this past year. Most notable, the Delta Police Department celebrated 125 years of serving and protecting Deltans, while the Delta Fire Department marked its 50th anniversary.

South Delta’s two public high schools both celebrated birthdays, with Delta Secondary School marking a full century of educating Ladner’s teens, while Tsawwassen’s South Delta Secondary School turned 40 years old.

Each of Delta’s pubic libraries also had anniversaries in 2013. The Ladner Pioneer

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A number of community organizations had birthdays of their own in 2013. The Delta Hospital Foundation marked 25 years of working to improve the standard of care at the Delta Hospital, while the Burns Bog Conservation Society also celebrated its 25th anniversary, marking a quarter century of work to protect the ecologically-sensitive Burns Bog.

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❙ Top 5 photos of 2013

Clockwise from top right: • Jack McDonald of the South Delta Sun Devils scores a touchdown against the visiting Kelowna Owls in September. Robert Mangelsdorf photo • Corporation of Delta Chief Operating Officer George Harvie competes in the Delta Triathlon in April. Jim Kinnear photo • Liam Patrick Murray, 7, pays his respects during the Remembrance Day ceremony in Ladner. Jim Kinnear photo • Billie, the daughter of Billie’s Barbershop owner Adina Shore, stands in front of the family business in Ladner Village in July. Adrian MacNair photo • Delta Police Const. Jason Martens with his dog PSD Tyson Von Grunheide in April. Rob Newell photo

John Savage, East Ladner farmer and former agriculture minister ❙ From A9

John Savage

Not all the top stories make the newspapers. For the local farmers the biggest news is the weather and how that affects crops.

For fourth generation East Delta farmer John Savage, the crop quality this year was “very good.”

“Some exceeded the average by up to 20 per cent or more,” he said. “On others, prices dropped considerably, such as blueberries.”

The weather created some

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problems for farming, particularly with a very wet September that washed out several hundred hectares of grains and potatoes.

“Thankfully, October was a month with no rain, so most of the crops were harvested,” he said.

Savage said the Corporation of Delta deserves thanks from farmers for working with the province to improve drainage in Delta after the announcement in 2005 that the South Fraser Perimeter Road would be built. He said the investment of millions of dollars toward improving water flow capacity and drainage improvements have helped farmers considerably.

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Sylvia Bishop, councillor

Delta

For Coun. Sylvia Bishop, who ran in North Delta for the NDP in the 2014 May election, the surprising re-election of the BC Liberals earns top marks.

“While everyone expected a close race I don’t think anyone predicted the outcome, given the unpopularity of BC Liberal policies, so many of their MLAs choosing not to run again,” said Bishop.

She said Premier Clark struggled to keep her caucus united in the face of public scandals like the ethnic outreach scheme. The story broke in

March that Liberal party officials and government staff planned to collaborate to use public money to drum up votes for the party in ethnic communities.

Despite these woes and polling that had the NDP riding a huge margin headed into the election, the BC Liberals prevailed with voters.

“Of the many lessons learned, there are two that stand out for me: take nothing for granted and those who show up to vote, decide the outcome,” said Bishop. “Happy New Year to you and your families!”

Sylvia Bishop

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Top 5 newsmakers of 2013

There were many people who made the news in 2013, but the South Delta Leader have recognized five individuals whom we believe were the “newsmakers” of the year.

• In February, Delta Police Chief Const. Jim Cessford boldly rejected calls to join a regional policing model following recommendations made by Wally Oppal at the Missing Women Inquiry.

Cessford said Delta’s model of policing where “no call is too small” is the one that works best for its residents and that it assisted in catching the killer of Laura Szendrei. The longest serving chief of any police force in Canada, he also celebrated the department’s 125th anniversary earlier this year.

• Eliza Olson of the Burns Bog Conservation Society may not have grabbed headlines herself this year, but the conservationist was instrumental in raising the opposition to developments which she fears will threaten the largest raised peat bog on the west coast of the Americas.

By sounding the alarm on a proposed mixed residential development by MK Delta Lands in North Delta, Olson has managed

to force the company to go back to the drawing board numerous times in order to convince the public of the merits of the plan.

She was also instrumental in bringing attention the Fraser Surrey Docks coal trains, which proposes transporting four million metric tonnes of coal through North Delta each year. Her continued efforts to bring awareness to this sensitive ecosystem earned her a Hats Off to Excellence tourism award nomination from the Delta Chamber of Commerce.

• In April, Chief Bryce Williams was elected in a do-over from the September 2012 results that were invalidated by a judicial council last December.

Not only did the 23-year-old improve his margin of victory this time around, he put to bed any doubt that his original win over long-serving Chief Kim Baird was any fluke. In early October, Williams announced the Treaty First Nation would be building its own sanitary sewer treatment plant, ending years of speculation as to how they would provide the infrastructure for their ambitious development plans in the region.

• On Nov. 8, Century Group’s

president Sean Hodgins managed to do what no other person before him was able: get the contentious Southlands property past third reading in municipal council. Not only was the developer’s revised plan to donate 80 per cent of the land to the municipality attractive enough to win a 6-1 vote from the council members, it ended a 42-year history of failed applications beginning with the original property owners in 1971. Although the battle is far from being won–the issue must now go before Metro Vancouver for an amendment to the Regional Growth Strategy–it was a key hurdle in the development process.

• Independent MLA Vicki Huntington was re-elected as an independent MLA for Delta South on May 14, becoming the first politician in B.C. history to win a seat twice without belonging to a political party. The politician continued to use her lone voice in the Victoria legislature to introduce legislation pushing for electoral reform even after fellow independent MLAs John van Dongen and Bob Simpson failed to be re-elected. In July, Huntington re-introduced legislation to move fixed election dates to the ball so as to prevent the budget process from being unduly influenced by the election cycle.

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• The premier vows a referendum will take place on any new funding sources for TransLink. It was an election promise of the BC Liberals but by year end there’s no indication what the question will be.

Mayors want approval to levy a vehicle levy, a regional sales tax, or, eventually, regional road pricing.

They fear a referendum defeat would be a major setback for the region.

• Companies wanting to build a new garbage incinerator for Metro Vancouver unveil four proposed sites.

Two would barge waste to Duke Point near Nanaimo or across Howe Sound to aboriginal land at Port Mellon. The other two sites are in south Vancouver and at Delta’s Lehigh Cement plant, which would burn processed garbage instead of coal.

• TransLink delays the rollout of its new $194-million Compass card payment system.

New faregates were to block SkyTrain fare evaders by this fall, but that’s pushed back to late 2014, with most users to be offered the cards next summer.

• Metro Vancouver votes to oppose a coal export terminal that would bring coal via train through White Rock and South Surrey and send it by barge down the Fraser River.

Several cities, including Surrey, oppose the project or express concern. Port Metro Vancouver orders an environmental assessment, which medical health officers reject as inadequate. A final decision by the port is expected soon.

• Metro Vancouver’s board rejects a proposal to bring back stock car racing at the

old Langley Speedway in Campbell Valley Regional Park. Park advocates and equestrians were strongly opposed.

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• Premier Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals are re-elected with a 49-seat majority government in the May provincial election, despite polls that for months gave the NDP a sizable lead. The NDP take 34 seats, while Independent Vicki Huntington is re-elected in Delta South and Andrew Weaver becomes B.C.’s first elected Green MLA. • Marijuana petitioners with Sensible BC fall short of the number of signatures needed to potentially force a referendum on pot decriminalization.

Organizers vow to try again and seek new ways to convince government to enact pot reforms.

• The province launches reviews of highway speed limits and also liquor policy, promising to explore ways to allow grocery stores to sell beer and wine. More public concern is voiced about potential changes to the Agricultural Land Reserve through the government’s core review.

• The B.C. government orders a fiveyear freeze on further increases to the province’s carbon tax.

Later in the year, the government announces BC Hydro rates will climb 28 per cent over five years. Significant cuts to BC Ferries service are also planned.

• The province relents and allows an opt-out for smart meter resisters – they can keep their analog meters but only if they pay a monthly meter-reading surcharge.

Opponents aim to fight on with a class-action lawsuit.

Top 5 in Canada

• Toronto mayor Rob Ford becomes the subject of international ridicule after admitting to crack cocaine use. Video of the heavily intoxicated mayor that shows him making violent threats goes viral. A string of lies, false accusations, and bizarre behaviour continue to hound the first-term mayor of Canada’s largest city.

• Ottawa is consumed by a Senate scandal over the claiming of improper expenses that triggers resignations in the Prime Minister’s office, accusations of a cover-up and a continuing RCMP investigation. The Senate votes to suspend the three senators in question – Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau.

• Calgary was on the receiving end of all manner of extreme weather this year.

In late June, heavy rains caused the worst flooding in Cow Town’s history, killing four people and displacing more than 100,000. Damage form the flood is estimated at $1.7 billion. In all, 32 municipal governments declared a state of emergency in southern Alberta as a result of the flooding.

Winter brought no respite for Calgarians, who were buffeted by a blizzard in early December, closing highways and cancelling flights.

• New federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau sparks debate with a call to legalize marijuana and his admission of past pot use – the last time being three years ago as MP. Tories highlight Trudeau’s admission in response to questions on the crack-smoking antics of Toronto mayor Rob Ford. By December, polls put the Liberals as much as 10 points

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• The federal government makes overtures to build support for new oil pipelines through B.C. to Asian markets.

Premier Christy Clark insists B.C. will hold fast to its five conditions. But industry optimism grows that more oil could yet flow west after Clark promises Alberta premier Alison Redford that B.C. won’t seek to benefit from Alberta’s royalites.

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Tristan Jarry drafted by Penguins

This past year has been a pivotal one in 18-year-old Tristan Jarry’s budding hockey career. The Tsawwassen goaltender registered an 18-7 record in 27 games with the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League in 2012/13, posting league-high totals with a 1.61 goalsagainst average and a .936 save percentage. His six shutouts were tied for second-most in the WHL. Jarry turned heads at the CHL Top Prospects game where he was named Team Cherry’s Player of the Game after stopping all 16 shots he faced.

The Pittsburgh Penguins took notice and made Jarry their top draft pick at the 2013 NHL draft in June, selecting him in the second round, 44th overall, after the club traded up to acquire him. Earlier this month, the Penguins signed Jarry to a three-year entry level contract.

Vancouver Giants turnaround

The 2012/13 season was one the

Ladner-based Western Hockey League franchise would just as soon forget, as they went 21-49-2, their worst performance since their inaugural season. However, an added year of experience for the young team and some key additions saw the Giants rebound in the 2013/14 season. At the end of the calendar year, the Giants are third in the B.C. division, playing well above .500 and with a firm grip on a playoff berth.

South Delta Rams win two B.C. titles

The South Delta Rams junior bantam football team took home two provincial titles in 2013, winning the B.C. flag football title in May, before trouncing the Abbotsford Falcons 47-8 to win the B.C. community football championship. Michael Calvert was named the team’s top offensive player, with Ryan Jensen and Eduardo Gonzalez picking up the top defence and special team player awards, respectively.

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Billy Matwichyna won the True Grit award.

Sun Devils win second straight volleyball title

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Namara, Megan McNamara, and captain Christine Howlett were each named first team all-stars, with Nicole McNamara picking up the tournament MVP honour. Cassidy Pearson was also named to the tournament’s second all-star team.

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Coverall of BC 604.434.7744 info@coverallbc.com www.coverallbc.com

PLUMBING

PRECISION 1 Plumbing & Heating.

Lic. & Ins. h/w tanks, service, renos, drain cleaning. Rick 604-809-6822 BRO MARV PLUMBING 24/7 Plumbing, heating, plugged drains BBB. (604)582-1598, bromarv.com LOCAL PLUMBER $45 Service Call Plumbing, Heating, Plugged Drains.

Mustang Plumbing 778-714-2441 10% OFF if you Mention this AD! *Plumbing *Heating *Reno’s *More Lic.gas !tter. Aman: 778-895-2005 CRESCENT Plumbing & Heating Licensed Residential 24hr. Service

• Hot water tanks • Furnaces • Broilers • Plugged Drains 778-862-0560

353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

320

MOVING & STORAGE

1PRO MOVING & SHIPPING. Across the street - across the world Real Professionals, Reas. Rates.

Best in every way! 604-721-4555.

477

PETS

CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866

DISCONNECTED PHONE? National Teleconnect Home Phone Service. No One Refused! Low Monthly Rate! Calling Features and Unlimited Long Distance Available.

Call National Teleconnect Today!

1-866-443-4408. www.nationalteleconnect.com.

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SALES

156

SALES

Advertising Sales Representative By joining the number one community newspaper serving Surrey/North Delta, you can realize your full potential while contributing to one of the fastest growing communities in Canada. The team environment at The Leader will inspire you to the highest level of customer partnership and reward your motivated approach to excellence.

The ideal candidate will have experience, be a strong communicator, well organized, self motivated and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment. A car and a valid driver’s license is required.

The Leader is part of Black Press, Canada’s largest private independent newspaper company with more than 100 community, daily and urban newspapers in B.C., Alberta, Washington State, Ohio and Hawaii.

Send your resume with cover letter by January 10th, 2014.

Jim Mihaly publisher@surreyleader.com The Surrey Leader #200-5450 152nd Street, Surrey, BC V3S 5J9

FINANCIAL SERVICES

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

MISC. FOR SALE

HOMES WANTED

WE BUY HOUSES! Older House • Damaged House Moving • Estate Sale • Just Want Out • Behind on Payments Quick Cash! • Flexible Terms!

CALL US FIRST! 604-657-9422

The Surrey Leader has an opening for an experienced Advertising Sales Representative.

EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION 108 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

PETS

329 PAINTING & DECORATING

Precision 1 Plumbing & Heating Licensed ~ Insured.

Hot water tanks, service, renos.

Contact Rick 604-809-6822

OIL & GAS INDUSTRY GUARANTEED Job Placement

MISC. FOR SALE

NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604856-3647 or www.856-dogs.com

560

HELP WANTED

GENERAL LABOURERS

560

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?

JUNK REMOVAL By RECYCLE-IT! 604.587.5865

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Advertisers are reminded that Provincial legislation forbids the publication of any advertisement which discriminates against any person because of race, religion, sex, color, nationality, ancestry or place of origin, or age, unless the condition is justified by a bona fide requirement for the work involved.

bcclassified.com

PETS

CATS OF ALL DESCRIPTION in need of caring homes! All cats are spayed, neutered, vaccinated and dewormed. Visit us at fraservalleyhumanesociety.com or call 1 (604)820-2977

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

TRAIN TO BE AN Apartment/Condominium Manager ONLINE! Graduates get access to all jobs posted with us. 33 years of success!

Government certi!ed. www.RMTI.ca or 1-800-665-8339, 604-681-5456.

DISCRIMINATORY LEGISLATION

Advertise across the Lower Mainland in the 18 best-read community newspapers and 1 daily.

ONTHE WEB:

RUBBISH REMOVAL

477

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

627

Van Kam’s group of companies req. Highway linehaul owner operators based in our Surrey terminal for runs throughout BC and Alberta. Applicants must have winter and mountain driving experience/training.

AGREEMENT

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356

PETS

HIGHWAY OWNER OPERATORS $3500 SIGNING BONUS

MARINE .......................................903-920

Copyright and/or properties subsist in all advertisements and in all other material appearing in this edition of bcclassified.com. Permission to reproduce wholly or in part and in any form whatsoever, particularly by a photographic or offset process in a publication must be obtained in writing from the publisher. Any unauthorized reproduction will be subject to recourse by law.

GL ROOFING. Cedar/Asphalt, Flat roofs, WCB Clean Gutters - $80.

604-240-5362. info@glroo!ng.ca

604-537-4140

REAL ESTATE ...............................603-696

bcclassified.com cannot be responsible for errors after the first day of publication of any advertisement. Notice of errors on the first day should immediately be called to the attention of the Classified Department to be corrected for the following edition.

353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE...........503-587

It is agreed by any Display or Classified Advertiser requesting space that the liability of the paper in the event of failure to publish an advertisement shall be limited to the amount paid by the advertiser for that portion of the advertising space occupied by the incorrect item only, and that there shall be no liability in any event beyond the amount paid for such advertisement. The publisher shall not be liable for slight changes for typographical errors that do not lessen the value of an advertisement.

MOVING & STORAGE

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

10% DISCOUNT. MG Roo!ng & Siding. CA. Re-roo!ng, New Roof Gutters.

604-812-9721

www.blackpress.ca

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SCAN WITH LAYAR TO SAVE ON YOUR EVERYDAY PURCHASES

REAL ESTATE 639 REAL ESTATE SERVICES • DIFFICULTY SELLING? •

Dif!culty Making Payments?

No Equity? Penalty? Expired Listing?

We Buy Homes! No Fees! No Risk! www.GVCPS.ca / 604-786-4663

RENTALS 706

APARTMENT/CONDO

SURREY

Regency Park Gardens Large 1 & 2 bedroom units Rent from $725.00/mo.

Phone: 604-581-8332 & 604-585-0063

RENTALS 736

HOMES FOR RENT

SOUTH SURREY Short Term or Long term

Sold Your House?

Downsizing?

Renovating?

Just bring Your Clothes.

Fully Furnished & Equipped Like New Townhouse. Only 3 years old. Immaculate Deluxe, 2 bdrm. + Rec. Room/Of"ce + 2 Full Bath T/House. Flr. to ceiling storage + storage rm. in garage.

6 s/s appli. d/w, w/d, Garburator.

Crown Mouldings, 9ft. ceilings, H/W laminate !ooring and slate tile. Gas F/P & Alarm. 1 car garage parking. Covered patio lower & outdoor patio upper.

Amenities room incls. full gym, outdoor hot tub & pool. Walk to Morgan Heights shopping.

NO Smoking inside & NO Pets! $2350/month. Available March 1.

TRANSPORTATION 810

AUTO FINANCING

TRANSPORTATION 821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS 2007 MERCEDES. A luxury car like no other. This fully loaded Mercedes S550 4-Matic S class.

Premium and comfort package includes - navigation, voice command, heated and cooled seats, power rear shades and blinds, premium sound system, panoramic roofs both front and rear.

Absolutely has it all. Very clean inside and out. No accidents.

150,000 km.

Asking $29,500 OBO. Contact me via email for further information at:

jsarowa@shaw.ca or 604-897-1546

827

VEHICLES WANTED

845

SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

604.488.9161

736

HOMES FOR RENT

750

SUITES, LOWER

LADNER elementary area - Basement suite for rent - 2 bedroom & newly renovated, NS & No pets. $1500/m - Ph 604-369-3143

TRANSPORTATION

DELTA SCRAP VEHICLE REMOVAL

Minimum $200 for Complete full-size Vehicles

Serving the Delta Area since 1986 604-649-1627 or 604-946-0943 #1 FREE SCRAP VEHICLE REMOVAL ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT $$$ PAID FOR SOME 604.683.2200

845

SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

AAA SCRAP CAR REMOVAL Minimum $150 cash for full size vehicles, any cond. 604-518-3673 The Scrapper

In the Matter of Part 3.1 (Administrative Forfeiture) of the Civil Forfeiture Act [SBC 2005, C. 29] the CFA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT: On July 28, 2011, at the 13600 block of 100th Avenue, Surrey, B.C., Peace Officer(s) of the CFSEU seized, at the time indicated, the subject property, described as: $10,780 CAD, on or about 22:30 Hours.

The subject property was seized because there was evidence that the subject property had been obtained by the commission of an offence (or offences) under section 354(1) (Possession of property obtained by crime) of the Criminal Code of Canada.

Notice is hereby given that the subject property, CFO file Number: 2013-1866, is subject to forfeiture under Part 3.1 of the CFA and will be forfeited to the Government for disposal by the Director of Civil Forfeiture unless a notice of dispute is filed with the Director within the

time period set out in this notice.

A notice of dispute may be filed by a person who claims to have an interest in all or part of the subject property. The notice of dispute must be filed within 60 days of the date upon which this notice is first published.

You may obtain the form of a notice of dispute, which must meet the requirements of Section 14.07 of the CFA, from the Director’s website, accessible online at www. pssg.gov.bc.ca/civilforfeiture. The notice must be in writing, signed in the presence of a lawyer or notary public, and mailed to the Civil Forfeiture Office, PO Box 9234 Station Provincial Government, Victoria, B.C. V8W 9J1.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! from our family to yours

New York Steak & Lobster

16 8

98 1 lb

A tender, juicy 7-8oz Free Range Striploin Steak and a succulent 3-4oz Canadian Atlantic Lobster Tail.

Case 799 Alaskan Lot 8 9 Crab Legs Sale! 169 5 lbs

11

98

COMBO SPECIAL

11 lbs

Large 6-9 Size Bairdi Snow Crab.

Rib Eye Steaks

BC FRESH Russet Potatoes

Fresh Cut

Beef Tenderloin Steaks

The ultimate in great flavour & tenderness!

8-9 oz.

Delta grown.

5 lb bag

Plain or bacon wrapped.

5

18

98 mMoeultt-hint-eynoduer-r

98 each

n Filet Migno

8 Frenched ribs per rack.

Plain or Greek Style.

14-16 oz each.

Frozen.

2

5 peeled prawns per skewer, in our lemon & garlic marinade.

2 348 for

98

each

Fondue Meats Diced & ready!

100 g

Saltspring Island Mussels

Canadian Maritime

Lobster Tails

Easy cooking instructions provided. 3-4 oz.

98 2 7 6 8 12

Boneless Chicken Breast

98

Pork Tenderloin

98 lb

lb

Beef Striploin Steak

lb

Prices in effect Dec. 27 – 31, 2013 y

*

Dec. 31: 9am-5:30pm

1202A - 56th Street, Delta

7 #1

Tsawwassen Shopping Centre Tim Hortons

12 Ave

56 St

Hw

for

98

Ph: 604-943-7374 Open 7 days 8am -8pm

bag

Prawn Skewers

Large 8/12 size.

Raw, previously frozen.

98

1

Tiger

Jumbo Tiger Prawns

Rack of Lamb

13

lb

98

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www.meridianfarmmarket.ca

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Fresh, local.

Easy cooking instructions.

1.5 lb bag

8

98

* Jan. 1: Closed

each

from the farm to our stores... from our family to yours

BC FRESH Gala Apples Okanagan grown.

98

¢ lb

Mini Mandarin Oranges.

1.5 lb box

1

98 box

Red Leaf or Green Leaf Lettuce

California grown.

98

¢

ea.