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Players moved on to college, professional careers
Continued from A29 Peter Wishloff backstopped to the team It was in Alberta where the Eagles to victory, earning player-of-the-game experienced what Bishai, now a midget honours for the effort. According to a AAA coach in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta, Peace Arch News story from May 13, called “a big wake-up call for us.” 1998, Ficenec went into the dressing The Eagles lost each of the first two room after the win and tore a large games of the best-of-seven series, which “Unfinished Business” poster down off under the rules of the day, meant the the wall, and in an expletive-sprinkled two teams would head back to South tirade, said he “was sick of this (poster).” Surrey for four straight. And while the “We were on a mission… we were on B.C. champs were shell-shocked, the a mission all year long,” he told PAN at Saints were heading south with plenty the time. of confidence – perhaps too much, as Speaking with PAN last week, Wilson Annable recalled. – who now works in youth After Game 2, Annable hockey in Seattle – heaped said the team saw a handful credit upon both Holick and of celebratory Saints players Short for molding them into a – in various states of undress – championship team. wandering the arena carrying “We all bought in to their brooms, signifying that they system… and Shorty was a damn expected to sweep the series in fine coach. He wasn’t a big Xs four straight games. and Os guy, but he’s a guy you “I remember (Eagles always wanted in your corner.” Cliff Annable defenceman) Jake Ficenec saying Looking back, the individual former owner ‘They’ll pay the price for that,’” talent that was assembled that Annable recalled this week. year was undeniable – as eviHe referred to that moment as the denced by the long careers many had key moment for the team, which to that after graduating junior. Bishai, for expoint had not faced much adversity in ample, moved on to play four years at the post-season. Western Michigan University, followed As Ficenec predicted, the Saints did by more than a decade of pro hockey in indeed pay the price, as the Eagles rolled the American Hockey League, ECHL, to four consecutive wins at home to Europe and, in 2003/04, the NHL, clinch a spot in the Royal Bank Cup when he earned a 14 game call-up from national tournament. the Edmonton Oilers. From there, the Eagles – whose mantra Others had equally impressive careers all season long was “unfinished business” – Ficenec played three seasons in the – cruised undefeated all the way to the AHL himself, before embarking on a final against Weyburn, where goaltender 14-year career in Europe that ended
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The Eagles celebrate their championship win.
in 2015 and included, after obtaining dual-citizenship, a spot on Germany’s Olympic team that played in Vancouver in 2010; Vandermeer played pro, as did Herbert, Schneekloth and a host of others. Schneekloth has since got into coaching, and is currently the head coach of the ECHL’s Colorado Eagles. The team’s enforcer, Jeff Nabseth, sadly passed away in 1999 after being hit by a vehicle while cycling on Vancouver Island. Annable, who has no shortage of stories about any of his former players, called ‘Nabber’ one of the toughest people he ever met – on or off the ice. Wilson, meanwhile, went on to play four years of NCAA Div. 3 hockey at University of Wisconsin-Superior. He credits his playing career – and in many ways, the life he’s made since – to the success of that 1998 team. “I went from a seldom-used player who only played 40 games a year and (they) gave me an opportunity to play…
and I got an opportunity to further my education, I got a small role in the movie, Miracle – it really changed my entire life,” he explained. “It’s the same for the other guys – the skill that they had brought them to those places, but I really believe a lot of it had to do with that team and what we accomplished.” Holick, too, parlayed that national title run into a long, successful coaching career that’s taken him everywhere from Prince George to Italy. He has now moved back to South Surrey and is involved with the Yale Hockey Academy. He called Annable “one of the best people I’ve ever worked for.” Annable, too, has nothing but good memories of his former coach. In particular, two conversations stick out. The first came over coffee in Blaine, Wash. shortly after Lanz had announced he was leaving for the WHL. Annable had been inundated with job applications, he explained, but when Holick asked who was going to coach the team, his reply was quick. “You are.” “I took a little bit of ribbing for that… a lot of people said, ‘Mark Holick? What does he know about hockey?” Annable recalled, adding that Holick had been working as a car salesman while also serving as an assistant coach under Lanz. “Then there we are a year later, on Mother’s Day, after winning 4-1, and we’re shaking hands with the team from Weyburn and I said to Mark, ‘I guess we showed them, didn’t we?’”
These applications are at the Public Hearing stage, which is a critical time for public input.
MEETING DATE
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MAY 28 2018 MEETINGS AT CITY HALL 13450 - 104 AVENUE, SURREY, BC
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Please see surrey.ca for Public Hearing items located north of No. 10 Highway (56 Avenue). Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 19590 Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 19591 Application: 7916-0376-00 Location: 16737 and 16759 - 15 Avenue and 16692, 16712, 16736, 16766 and 16790 - 16 Avenue Purpose of Bylaws and Development Variance Permit: The applicant is seeking to redesignate the site shown in grey on the location map from Suburban to Urban and rezone a portion of the site from One‑Acre Residential to Semi‑Detached Residential, Single Family Residential (13) and Single Family Residential (10). The applicant is proposing to subdivide the site into 20 semi‑detached residential lots, 38 single family small lots (8 RF‑13 and 30 RF‑10), 1 remnant lot, 1 park lot and open space that will be conveyed to the City. The remnant lot is proposed to be rezoned to Half‑Acre Residential as part of Development Application No. 7917‑0353‑00 and will retain the existing house. In addition, a development variance permit is being sought to reduce the lot depth for proposed Lots 21 to 26 from 30 metres (98 ft.) to 29 metres (95 ft.) in order to facilitate a 15 metre wide Green Infrastructure Network Corridor/Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) buffer along 168 Street.
Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 19594 Application: 7916-0005-00
Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 19593 Application: 7916-0228-00
Location: 3624 - 156 Street Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is seeking to rezone the site shown in grey on the location map from Half‑Acre Residential to Quarter Acre Residential. This application originally included an amendment to the Official Community Plan (OCP) from Suburban to Urban and subdivision into 3 lots. It was referred back to staff at the February 6, 2017 Regular Council Public Hearing meeting based on concerns raised during the Public Hearing.
Location: 17018, 17032 and 17048 - 32 Avenue Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is seeking to rezone the site shown in grey on the location map from One‑Acre Residential to Quarter Acre Residential. The applicant is proposing to subdivide the site into 25 suburban single family lots with open space and park area to be conveyed to the City.
The applicant has revised the proposal to comply with the Official Community Plan (OCP) and is now proposing to subdivide the property into 2 single family residential lots with a portion of proposed Lot 2 to remain undeveloped until future consolidation with the adjacent property at 3640 – 156 Street.