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▶ HUNDREDS TURN OUT TO REMEMBER SURREY ‘HERO’ COLIN HILL
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FINES START TO FLOW FOR ILLEGAL WATERING KEVIN DIAKIW
Surrey has been flooded with calls of complaint about people violating watering restrictions. On Monday (July 20), Metro Vancouver moved to Stage 3 water use restrictions, prohibiting all home water sprinkling. The sprinkling ban also covers commercial lawns and all parks, cemeteries and boulevards. Surrey’s manager of bylaw enforcement, Jas Rehal, said officers have issued 900 warnings since June 1 – more than 17 per day. During that time, the City of Surrey handed out four fines of
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▶ “To put himself in harm’s way... for him, it was instinct.”
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‘EVEN IN DEATH, HE HAS TAUGHT ME ABOUT LIFE’ Colin Hill will be remembered as a hero – someone of strong character who always put his family and friends first, and who paid the ultimate price for doing just that. The popular real-estate agent was killed July 12 during an attempted break-in at his Cloverdale home, when he was shot while confronting an intruder. Hill’s wife, Becky Zhou, has said the fatal wound occurred when her husband led the would-be robber outside to give his family time to hide, and those who spoke at his funeral Wednesday at Victory Memorial Funeral Centre say that was just the kind of man he was. “He would drop everything for his kids,” Barb Hiebert said of her cousin. “To put himself in harm’s way… for him, it was instinct. “He left our world protecting his own family.” Longtime friends remembered Hill, 42, as “like a brother.” He was also extremely competitive, a “tremendously gifted athlete and
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Family and friends of Colin Hill assist his grief-stricken wife Becky Zhou (in glasses) following a public funeral service held Wednesday. Hill was shot and killed when he confronted a man trying to break into his Cloverdale home on July 12. EVAN SEAL a true leader.” “Even in death he has taught me about life,” Chris Robinson told a standing-room-only crowd in South Surrey. “His final lesson is to show the people you love that you would do anything for them. And that’s exactly what he did.” Hill led a “much too short, very fulfilling life,” said Robinson,
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who knew Hill for 33 years; for the past nine, they lived across the street from each other. Police have said that Hill’s death was not related to the spate of shootings that have occurred in Surrey since early March, which have been linked to a drug-turf war. The man charged in connection with his death, 22-year-old Khouri Lamar Green,
is due back in court on Sept. 14. Outside the funeral home Wednesday afternoon, Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner – who was invited by Hill’s family and who arrived with Surrey RCMP Chief Supt. Bill Fordy – described Hill’s death as “a real tragedy” that points to a need to “take a look at continued on page 4
Surrey has handed out 900 warnings since June to residents violating water use restrictions.
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