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A street performer makes balloon animals for a crowd of children near the farm museum in Fort Langley on Canada Day. For more photos from Langley’s July 1 celebrations, see page 9.
Langley killer looking for love DAVEY BUTORAC’S DATING PROFILE POSTED ON SAME PRISON MATCHMAKING SITE AS INFAMOUS MURDERER, LUKA MAGNOTTA MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
Convicted murderer Davey Butorac is looking for love. The 36-year-old Aldergrove man, who was convicted in the murder of Langley City prostitute Sheryl Korrall, and is facing trials in the killings of two other women, has posted his profile on the dating website
“Canadian Inmates Connect.” Butorac’s profile indicates that he has been convicted of second degree murder and that his expected release date is undetermined. It does not specify that he was convicted of killing a woman. Butorac is set to go to trial, charged with second degree
murder in the deaths of Aldergrove mother, Margaret Redford, and Abbotsford prostitute, Gwendolyn Lawton. Butorac was originally found guilty of second-degree murder for killing Lawton, 46, and Korroll, 50, but appealed and won new trials for both. In April, he was found guilty again by a jury of his peers for
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killing Korroll. He will be sentenced in September. He was scheduled to be back in court in connection to the other two women’s deaths, on July 2 to fix a date for trial. His dating profile reads that he likes music, drawing, talking on the phone and lifting weights.
Metro Vancouver voters have resoundingly defeated a proposal to add a 0.5 per cent sales tax in the region to fund transit and transportation expansion. The proposed Metro Vancouver Congestion Improvement Tax that would have funded $7.5 billion in upgrades over 10 years was rejected with 61.7 per cent of voters saying No and 38.3 per cent saying Yes. The defeat leaves the region without an estimated $250 million in new revenue the tax would have brought to expand transit. Surrey and Vancouver are expected to try to cobble together their own plan B strategies to built light rail in Surrey and a SkyTrain extension west along Broadway. But the region will be without the funding required for a broad 25 per cent expansion of bus service, including many more frequent express bus routes that had been in the mayors’ plan, nor will it have money for increased SkyTrain, HandyDart, night bus or SeaBus service that was to have swiftly kicked in after a Yes vote. Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner had warned that light rail would cost local residents more if the sales tax was defeated. Nor is it clear if light rail in Surrey — assuming it can be built with hefty senior government contributions — will be as viable and efficient in covering its operating costs if it is not accompanied by much-bolstered connecting bus routes to bring riders. “It sets up a really nasty situation where some people are getting improved rapid transit service in some areas but other people’s transit service is being cut back,” said Eric Doherty, a HandyDart advocate.
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