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Heritage home to be rebuilt Real estate developer fined $100,00O over George E. Lawrence house By Jennifer Lang by the Mann Group, who were planning to relocate it to another part of the property for One of Surrey’s oldest homes has fallen use as an amenity building, and completely prey to the bulldozer, despite efforts by the restore the home, which was on the city’s City of Surrey and the developer to preserve the Clayton heritage building for a new chap- heritage register. However, engineers hired by the developer ter of Surrey history. wouldn’t sign off on moving the building, Crews moved in to raze the declared unsafe by WorkSafe B.C. 1908 George E. Lawrence house The city subsequently agreed near the northeast corner of 184 to allow the developer to demolStreet and Fraser Highway. ish the home and build an exact The one-and-a-half-storey replica, using as many original house was one of the few remainmaterials as possible. ing examples of a typical farm“For a few years, we were of the house built in Surrey during the opinion that it could be moved,” pre-World War I era. Don Luymes, Surrey’s manager It originally belonged to a of community planning, said last city councillor who served in week, explaining a structural con1905 and 1906, and was part of sultant had previously said the a property that is being turned building could be safely moved, into a 71-townhome development but a more recent assessment by a called Mackenzie Estates. The scene last week. company hired by the developer Alternately derided as a nedetermined the 116-year-old glected eyesore and championed wood structure would not survive the move. as a heritage treasure, it had been vacant But because there has been a loss of herifor as long as a decade; arsonists had struck tage value, the developer has also had to pay a twice, and the home had been fenced in to “fairly substantial” fine of $100,000. thwart vandals and squatters. “A replica house is nice, but it’s not the real It was protected by a Heritage Revitalizathing, ” Luymes said. tion Agreement with the City of Surrey He agreed the prospect of moving the setting it aside for preservation as a condition See ASBESTOS / Page 7 of the townhome development being built
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Bronze, and a bonus
Cloverdale’s Tyler Tardi, right, grins as a B.C. Winter Games official gives his teammate Nicholas Umbach a bronze medal Sunday. The team won curling bronze for the Fraser Valley zone, and Tardi, 15, was named this year’s recipient of the William Bennett athletic award. See page 3.
MP Hiebert won’t seek re-election in 2015
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By Jennifer Lang There was a shakeup for federal Conservatives last week when Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale MP Russ Hiebert announced he won’t be running for a fifth term in Parliament. Hiebert issued a statement Feb. 20 saying he intends to renew his license to practice law, serve in some corporate directorships and pursue opportunities in the private sector, after serving out the current term. “It has never been my ambition to be a career pol-
itician,” he said. “While I am proud of the difference I have been able to make in Ottawa, both as an MP and as part of the Conservative government, it will soon be time for my family and me to move on to new challenges.” A backbencher who has served on a number of committees, Hiebert is known as the MP behind Bill C-377 – the union disclosure bill – a private members’ bill still under consideration by the Senate. Hiebert, 45, was first elected in 2004, and won reelection in 2006, 2008, and 2011, when he fought
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