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At least one Surrey councillor is mulling a mayoral run by Kevin Diakiw AT LEAST ONE Surrey councillor is gauging what
support she has in a potential run for the mayor’s chair should it become vacant, The Leader has learned. Coun. Linda Hepner has been making the rounds asking community members if she could have their support in a mayoral run in this November’s civic election. The request is contingent on Mayor Dianne Watts not running again. Other councillors are also considering the possibility should the seat become vacant. Watts has said previously she would not serve more than three terms as mayor, and in fact proposed imposing term limits of nine years. This is her third term (ninth year) as mayor. When asked by The Leader Tuesday if she would be running for mayor this year, Watts said she’s focusing on the present. “At this point in time, I’m concentrating on being mayor of the city. Period,” Watts said. Hepner met with former Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal and Surrey businessman Satnam Johal last week to discuss her prospects in a run for mayor.
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City aims to pull slot machines from Newton by Kevin Diakiw SURREY IS moving to pull the plugs
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Surrey is working to have slot machines removed from this bingo hall.
on Newton slot machines, because the company running them has not met a deadline for construction. Mayor Dianne Watts told her colleagues at council on Monday the city will call the BC Lottery Corporation
and request they remove the 150 one-armed bandits from the Newton Square Country Bingo Hall at 7093 King George Blvd. The mayor said Gateway Casinos and Entertainment has missed a deadline under its Project Development Agreement (PDA), and therefore is in breach of its conditions to
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have slots at the bingo hall. The PDA states that “Gateway will obtain a building permit by May 1, 2013 and thereafter proceed with construction in a timely manner through to completion of a redevelopment of the existing Newton Bingo Hall site,” according to an October, See GATEWAY / Page 3
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