Cloverdale Reporter, March 23, 2016

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A shooting a week Gunfire on Sunday raises violence tally for 2016

Team voluntourism Along with taking in the usual tourist sights, rugby teams clean planes With memories of seeing the Pacific ocean for the first time, and trips to Granville Island, the Capilano Suspension Bridge and Stanley Park, it’s an exchange trip to Canada’s west coast one girls’ rugby team from Ontario won’t soon forget. But it’s a sure bet St. Joseph’s team from Cornwall didn’t expect their Cloverdale counterparts – Lord Tweedsmuir’s girls’ rugby team – to take them to the Canadian Museum of Flight at Langley Airport for their last day in B.C. They spent the day cleaning military jets and helicopters as part of a volunteer project for the exchange teams. It was an action-packed five-night trip (May 2-6) that started with a 12-hour flight delay, meaning the girls from Ontario played their first games of the season with just three hours of sleep. Throughout the visit to the West Coast, the girls bonded and made amazing memories, according to Montana Matthews, a member of the Lord Tweedsmuir rugby team. Both teams are excited for the Ontario portion of the exchange in May. The exchange was made possible through the YMCA. – Cloverdale Reporter

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A rugby team exchange between St. Joseph’s of Cornwall, Ontario, and Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary took time out of a busy schedule for a community service project: scrubbing down a few military planes and helicopters at the Canadian Museum of Flight at the Langley Airport.

By Kevin Diakiw almost every week. Surrey RCMP Cpl. Scotty Shots rang out again this week, the Schumann was unable to confirm 11th confirmed shooting in a city the number of shootings, but said recoiling from the gun violence this any shooting is a concern to police. year. The public need not be concerned On Sunday, March 20, at 6:50 a.m., about their own safety, he said, but Surrey RCMP responded to a call of shots fired in the 11000-block of 132 noted it pays to be vigilant. “In my experience, people who are Street. On arrival, police found shell not involved in a life of crime, are casings at the scene, and evidence not likely going to become victims of showed bullets fired into a home. crime,” Schumann said. “That said, No one was hurt, and Mounties when you have criminals who are say the occupants of the home are violent and seem to have no regard known to police. for anyone’s safety, the It comes two days after public should be cona shooting in Newton at cerned.” 144 Street and 92 Avenue. Surrey is now He said police are Shell casings were also outpacing a year of using all resources availfound at that scene and able to put an end to the police were alerted that a violence in 2015, shootings. man had arrived at Surrey “People should know when the city Memorial Hospital with a we’re working around gunshot wound. was rocked by 47 the clock to solve The victim is a 23-yearthese types of crimes,” shootings. old from Surrey who is Schumann said. known to police. Police analysts are Police say that investiworking to determine gation is in the early stagwhether there is another outbreak of es, but they believe it was a targeted violence similar to last year. shooting. So far, police have made no Investigators are still trying to connection between the shootings determine whether the shooting is this year and those that happened in related to previous incidents of gun 2015. violence in the Newton area. “Not to say that the connections Sunday’s incident is the 11th aren’t there,” Schumann said. “But we shooting this year – or almost one a haven’t seen any yet.” week as of March 20. Anyone with further informaThe number may be more if a tion about the March 18 incident homicide in Newton is determined is asked to contact Surrey RCMP to be related to a shooting. at 604-599-0502 or, if they wish to Surrey is now outpacing a year of violence in 2015, when there were 47 remain anonymous, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS or submit a tip at shootings in the embattled Newton solvecrime.ca and Whalley area as two rival drug – Black Press gangs initiated a turf war. That amounted to a shooting


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