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Petition to the court from Lady Alexandra highrise proponents asks for a number of bylaws to be quashed
Developer takes City of White Rock to court Aaron Hinks Staff reporter
originally planned 12 storeys, and also modify allowable density. Supporting the down-zoning were Mayor Darryl Walker and Couns. Scott Kristjanson, Christopher Trevelyan, Erika Johnson and David Chesney. Voting against the amendment were Couns. Helen Fathers and Anthony Manning. The mixed-use luxury residential and retail
building planned for the current site of Leela Thai Restaurant and other businesses was approved for a development permit at a height of 12 storeys, but the project did not receive a building permit for 12 storeys, which allowed council’s re-examination of the project. The petition to the court seeks, among other items, a declaration that G.S.R. Capital Group Continued on A4
The group responsible for the proposed Lady Alexandra development is taking the City of White Rock to court over tower height bylaws. The petition to the court, which was filed April 10 by Calgary-based firm G.S.R. Capital Group Inc., names the City of White Rock and city bylaw manager James Nyhus as re-
spondents. The petition relates to a decision White Rock council made at a special meeting in March to approve contentious OCP and zoning amendments for 1310 Johnston Rd., the site of the proposed Lady Alexandra building. Council voted 5-2 to approve bylaw 2290, which resulted in down-zoning of 1310 Johnston Rd. to a height of six storeys from the
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Second person charged in death of Surrey teen Aaron Hinks Staff reporter
A second person has been charged in connection with the death of Bhavkiran Dhesi. Last week, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team held a press conference and announced that Harjot Singh Deo, 21, has been charged with second-degree murder in 19-yearold Dhesi’s death. According to the court registry, Manjit Kaur Deo, who is about 54 years old, has been charged with “accessory after the fact to murder” in relation to the same case. The Intigrated Homicide Investigation Team held a press conference Tuesday morning after Peace Arch News press deadline. “We’re not finished yet,” Supt. Donna Richardson said at last week’s press conference. “We believe that we still have individuals in the community that have very intimate knowledge of what happened in this instance, of what happened to Bhavkiran. We’re looking for other individuals to come forward if they have that knowledge.” Dhesi was last seen leaving the family home, with the family car, at 9 p.m. on Aug. 1, 2017. Her body was found in a torched SUV at 12:20 a.m. Aug. 2, in the 18700-block of 24 Avenue
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Education minister announces $6M for completion of land for new school in Sunnyside neighbourhood
Construction begins on new high school Tracy Holmes Staff reporter
After years of anticipation, construction began on South Surrey’s newest high school Friday (May 17). With an excavator working in the distance, representatives from the province, school district and City of Surrey gathered at the site – in the 16900-block of 26 Avenue – to officially break ground on Grandview Heights Secondary. Board of Education trustee Laurae McNally told Peace Arch News it was an occasion she’s waited eight years for. “Finally,” she said, prior to a news conference, holding her pink hard hat in hand. The occasion was also a symbolic groundbreaking for a new 605-seat elementary school in the Douglas neighbourhood – budgeted for up to $33.1 million – in the 17200-block of 2 Avenue. As well, Minister of Education Rob Fleming announced funding – $6 million in all, including $3.6 million from the province and $2.4 million from the school district – to “complete the assembly of the site needed to build a much-needed elementary school in the Sunnyside neighbourhood.” “This is exciting news for families,” Fleming told attendees.
The 630-seat Sunnyside-area school is slated for property at the corner of 20 Avenue and 165A Street. Surrey School District officials announced May 15 that construction contracts had been awarded for the high school and the elementary school. Fleming on Friday confirmed Port Moodybased Yellowridge Construction Ltd. will be building the secondary school, while Clark Builders won the elementary school contract. The 1,500-seat secondary school is anticipated to open in September 2021 – a year later than initially hoped. Fleming said the province had to add $32.6 million to the budget “to ensure it could go ahead and benefit students as fast as possible.” Last October, school district officials confirmed the project had been delayed as a result of “changing market conditions” that meant it could no longer be built within its $60.6 million budget. Surrey School District spokesman Doug Strachan told PAN that actual construction costs will be around $68 million, with the balance of funds to cover costs of necessary infrastructure such as sewer and roads. In addition to Fleming, Board of Education chair Laurie Larsen and acting Mayor Laurie Guerra spoke at Friday’s event.
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Minister of Education Rob Fleming joined Surrey School District officials to break ground on the new Grandview Heights Secondary Friday afternoon.
Councillor calls for more hard data on the impact of trial free parking on Marine Drive businesses
Free winter parking, higher summer rates eyed Alex Browne Staff reporter
Parking on the White Rock waterfront could be free on weekdays during the winter season, if new rates being considered by council are implemented. But no-charge winter parking would come at the price of a higher hourly rate during thwe summer in ‘high-demand zones’ closer to businesses and Memorial Park. In a bylaw amendment, which was given three readings at council’s May 13 regular meeting but is – as yet – not adopted, parking from November through February would be free Monday to Friday, and cost $2 per hour on Saturday and Sunday. For the ‘shoulder season’ months of March and October, on-street and waterfront-lot parking would be $2 per hour, seven days a week. The contemplated rates would also apply to the Montecito parkade and the newly-opened West Beach parkade. Under the same bylaw – drafted following recommendations of the city’s Parking Task Force – parking would rise to $4 per hour in the high-demand zones (all lots east of Oxford Street to the Hump, including the parkades) between April and September. During those months, the parking rate for a ‘value-priced zone’ (lots
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Parking on the White Rock waterfront could be free on weekdays during the winter, but that lost revenue would be made up with higher rates in the summer, if council implements recommendations from the city’s Parking Task Force. west of Oxford) would be set at $3.50 per hour. Also under consideration is a daily rate for the Montecito and West Beach parkades of $15, from April through September. As proposed in the bylaw, the daily rate for the parkades would fall to $7.50 during the shoulder season months of March and October, and the same price on weekends during winter months (with weekdays free). There would also be a maximum four-hour stay in the high-demand zone, with the exception of the parkades. The bylaw is scheduled for final reading and adoption at council’s
next regular meeting, on May 27. At last week’s meeting, Coun. Christopher Trevelyan, who chaired the Parking Task Force committee, noted that, while one argument is that the city should optimize parking revenue during the summer to pay for free winter parking, “as a council, we may want to consider carefully when these rate changes happen.” And he acknowledged that no one knows, at this point, how the public will respond to parking offered at the new West Beach parkade. In supporting the suggested changes to parking rates, Mayor Darryl Walker suggested that pay parking on the waterfront must still be con-
sidered “a pilot project,” subject to al evidence” information offered further adjustment as more infor- by the BIA – via Trevelyan – that mation is gathered during the year. seven retail, restaurant and service The sole vote against the amend- businesses on West Beach and two ed bylaw came from Coun. David on East Beach had reported their Chesney, who said he wanted to see revenue numbers were up between hard data on the effects of this year’s 20 and 26 per cent during February trial of free parking on the water- and March, adding that he needed to front during February and March see the report as originally requested. before voting on further pay-parking Although Trevelyan noted busichanges. nesses were sensitive about “We have a giant new divulging their numbers, equation in pay parking Chesney countered that he on the waterfront, called would have no problem with the parkade, (and) no idea figures submitted anonywhat the revenue is going to mously. “We don’t have to see the be generated off that, and you’re trying to make decibusiness name. I would like sions on the future without to see the books, February that,” he said. “I can’t even and March, year to year,” he find a word to describe it David Chesney said. “Let’s find out if this councillor without being disrespect(suspension of) pay parking ful… really does increase revenue “We, as elected officials, have a duty to our businesses.” Trevelyan promised to provide the to the citizens of White Rock for factbased (decisions),” he said later. information to Chesney before the In a motion made by Chesney, and final vote is called. Financial services director Sandra passed on Feb. 25, council had asked staff and the White Rock BIA to pro- Kurylo estimated the loss of revenue vide a facts-and-figures overview on to the city due to free parking during Marine Drive businesses’ take during February and March at $182,000. But she also told council it is diffithe free parking period. As recalled by Chesney, it was to cult to predict how potential parking have been based on a sample of two revenues for the rest of 2019 will offbusinesses on West Beach and two set free parking and ongoing operation costs, due to changes in rates on East Beach. Chesney described as “anecdot- and parking supply.
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Continued from A1 is entitled to proceed with a 12-storey development at 1310 Johnston Rd.; that an order be made to the city to quash a number of Official Community Plan and zoning bylaws, including bylaw 2289, which serves as a guideline for building heights on the 1300-block of Johnston Road; and the city pay costs to the developer. G.S.R. suggests that city councillors adopted Bylaw 2290 “to thwart GSR’s approved development. This is evidenced by comments made by council members during the various council meetings and the staff reports.” The petition also claims that the city “breached the rules of procedural fairness” at a public hearing, which was originally set for Feb. 20 of this year but was rescheduled that day to instead take place March 11. “GSR specifically requested that the date of the public hearing be changed because key members of its team were not available on the new (March 11) date. “The city refused to change the date of the public hearing even though Bylaw 2290 targeted GSR’s Property,” the document states.
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Calgary’s G.S.R. Capital Group, proponents of the Lady Alexandra project, is taking the City of White Rock to court over tower height bylaws. The petition says that two days after the council was inaugurated on Nov. 5, a special meeting was called by Mayor Darryl Walker “to review the status of major development projects.” The petition states the special meeting dealt specifically with G.S.R.’s property, however, the city did not notify G.S.R. of the special meeting “even though GSR and City staff had been communicating about the Project the week before the meeting, including on November 6th, and notwithstanding that the purpose of the resolutions was to prevent
GSR from proceeding with its approved development. “The right to notice should have been extant even if GSR would not have an opportunity to be heard at the special meeting. At the very least, GSR and the public generally had a right to be provided with a fair, open and transparent process,” the petition states. The City of White Rock has not yet responded to the petition, however, the city told Peace Arch News on May 16 that they intend to do so. None of the allegations put forth by G.S.R. have been tested in court.
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Joint Surrey/Vancouver bid, proposing driverless shuttles as part of transit network, finished in top five of national contest
Shuttle project loses Smart Cities Challenge Tom Zillich Black Press Media
A joint Surrey/Vancouver bid to create Canada’s first two “collision free multi-modal corridors” using automated shuttles has failed in its bid to win the nation’s Smart Cities Challenge. The competition winners were announced May 14 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, with a project in Montreal named winner of the top prize. The Surrey/Vancouver proposal had hoped to share $50 million to create its project. The proposed networks in Surrey and Vancouver were to be located near SkyTrain stations, essentially expanding the driverless transit network in the region. The announcement was livestreamed on Infrastructure Canada’s YouTube channel. Four Canadian communities won prizes to cap Canada’s first-ever Smart Cities Challenge, a two-year competition designed to encourage communities across the country “to harness the potential of technology and data to improve the lives of Canadians.” The cash prizes – one worth $5 million, two of $10 million each and one of $50 million – are to be used by the winners to turn their visions
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A joint bid between the cities of Surrey and Vancouver to create a pair of collision-free corridors using automated shuttles failed to win over the judges in the national Smart Cities Challenge as a proposal from Montreal took the top spot. into reality. For the top prize, the Surrey/Vancouver proposal was among five of 16 shortlisted to receive Infrastructure Canada funding. There were 199 applicants from across the country, and
of 16 submissions, the Surrey/Vancouver bid made the top five along with projects in Edmonton, Quebec City, Waterloo and Montreal. In Surrey and Vancouver, the projects would incorporate “Intelligent
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he subject of waterfront parking is one that successive White Rock councils have struggled with for years. There is no easy answer to setting rates and limits on parking along the Marine Drive strip – particularly as shortage of supply and the very existence of pay parking have frequently been blamed for any and all business hardships. The current council, hewing to the wellintentioned efforts of a parking task force chaired by Coun. Christopher Trevelyan, is contemplating more free parking during weekdays in winter months following on the heels of this year’s decision to try a blanket free-parking policy in February and March. Yet, as Coun. David Chesney has suggested, there is no empirical evidence that free parking is the solution to business ills on the waterfront. But the problem this year is even more convoluted. Marine Drive was only just emerging from a business-inhibiting construction period for the delayed Memorial Park upgrade when the catastrophic Dec. 20 storm extensively damaged the pier, one of the city’s bona fide tourist draws. Will that have an impact on summer visits, or will it be offset by events such as Canada Day By The Bay, Sea Festival and the TD Concerts For The Pier series? At the same time, the completion of the new West Beach parkade has added 180 new parking spaces to the equation. But, as Trevelyan freely admitted at last week’s council meeting, no one really knows how popular it will prove with summer visitors. When originally proposed and approved during the last administration, the parkade was considered for providing a cheaper parking alternative than the waterfront lots. The current parking task force has taken a different philosophical approach, including it in the “high demand” area where a premium rate would apply. What is the correct approach? The answer is that no one really knows, and a clear picture of what the market will bear will only be available once the market has borne it this year. Until then, it’s a matter of guesswork, in which theoretical justification could be made for just about any figure pulled out of the air.
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Developments’ proposal to build a urrey council’s approval of pump station and detention pond, and infrastructure projects in the subdivide land at 92 Avenue and 172 Tynehead area shows the folly of Street to allow the work to proceed. opening up development in many areas Surrey first proposed urbanizing the simultaneously. area in 2003, and a general The Anniedale-Tynehead Frank Bucholtz land-use plan was approved by Neighbourhood Concept Plan council in 2005, near the end was approved seven years ago, of Mayor Doug McCallum’s proposing future urbanization first stint in office. Since that of an area of almost 1,000 time, the NCP was developed. acres, stretching from 168 Street Meanwhile, rampant growth in almost to 192 Street, south of other areas of Surrey such as 96 Avenue and as far south in Grandview, Rosemary Heights, some places as 88 Avenue. It is Sullivan, East Clayton and proposed as the future home for other infill development has about 20,000 people. put incredible stress on city Since that time, nothing has infrastructure. happened. Urban services are There are not enough schools, not in place, and many other health facilities are over-utilized, areas of Surrey are under rapid many residents cannot get a family development. physician, roads are more congested, The larger parcels of land in the transit has only been expanded area have been sold and resold by incrementally, there is no additional speculators. Those who have lived there rapid transit and social services are for years have dealt with deteriorating stretched to the limit. Not enough police neighbourhoods, much higher property officers have been hired, serious crime taxes and regular visits from realtors, gets more challenging each year and who see little other than dollar signs. opioid use has grown dramatically. Council approved Beech Westgard
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Meanwhile, the cost of housing has also jumped dramatically. Many people cannot afford even the most basic home, and rents have risen steadily. The land uses proposed for AnniedaleTynehead do not address this pricing problem. Significant areas are being proposed for detached homes, which less than 10 per cent of the working population can afford. Some multifamily housing is proposed, but there is almost no transit in the area now. How a younger family will be able to afford a townhouse, two vehicles and child care isn’t addressed. There is nothing wrong with infrastructure projects to support future development going ahead. However, the NCP needs a serious update. Environmental protection must be looked at more carefully, and land uses which will actually provide housing for people who need it must be given higher priority. Eight of the nine Surrey council members need to recall the “smart growth” principles they campaigned on and promised to abide by in the last election. Opening up another area for development when infrastructure lags so far behind can hardly be considered “smart growth.” Frank Bucholtz writes Wednesdays for Peace Arch News, as well as at frankbucholtz.blogspot.ca Peace Arch News is a member of the National Newsmedia Council, which is an independent organization established to deal with acceptable journalistic practices and ethical behaviour. If you have concerns about editorial content, please contact: brenda. anderson@peacearchnews.com or 604-5427402. If you are not satisfied with the response and wish to file a formal complaint, visit the website at mediacouncil.ca or call toll-free 1-844-877-1163 for additional information.
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Cost of climate change high Editor: Climate change isn’t some distant risk to our grandchildren. It’s been affecting us since pine beetles destroyed a forest the size of Sweden, costing $43 billion in lost lumber, $10.2 billion in lost stumpage fees, 27,000 direct jobs, and hundreds of millions for B.C.’s Pine Beetle Action Plan. The cause is climate change, driven by an increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion, leading to milder winters and hotter, drier summers. Climate change has increased the frequency and severity of B.C.’s wildfires. In 2018 wildfires burned 1.2 million hectares, cost $568 million in fire suppression, and displaced 65,000 people. Climate change doesn’t just favour forest diseases, insects, and wildfires; it has other costs, such as melting glaciers and warming fishbearing waters. These expenses are the taxes we’re already paying in B.C. for the carbon we’ve dumped into the atmosphere. We need climate action now to cut the cost of climate change. Robert Macrae, Environmental Technology Instructor, Castlegar
intoxicated. Women weighing between 140 to 240 pounds are impaired after two drinks. BC Ferries says that everyone who buys the alcohol drinks will be limited to two drinks only. How is this going to be monitored? An example is a husband and wife both buy their food and pay for two drinks each. The wife might not feel up to finishing her drinks, so her husband finishes the drinks instead. The husband has now consumed four drinks, and when the ferry docks, will be driving off the ferry after consuming four drinks. Also, we all know that people that take medications also take occasional alcohol drinks. Medication and alcohol do not cooperate with each other.
Everyone reacts differently to alcohol consumption. If ferry drivers meet a road block in their travels, are they going to lie to the police officer when asked have you had anything to drink? A Canada-wide law now in effect allows the police officers to obtain a breathalyzer test from drivers at anytime they wish. Joe Sawchuk, Duncan
Play safe this summer Editor: Accidents can happen in a split second. As the weather warms up and kids spend more time outside, I encourage parents, teachers and community group leaders to help
pass on the War Amps PLAYSAFE message. I grew up in the War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) program and have met kids who have lost limbs in accidents. As a leg amputee, I also know what it is like to live without a limb. Members of CHAMP are warning kids to spot the danger before they play in a new video, PLAYSAFE: Don’t Let It Happen to You. They share their stories about how they lost their limbs in accidents and stress the importance of staying away from “mean machines” like lawn mowers, boats, cars and farm equipment. Please take some time to view or download the video free-of-charge online at waramps.ca/playsafe Jennah Stavroff, War Amps BC
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Booze, ferries a bad mix Editor: The proposal to sell alcoholic beverages with your buffet meals is outrageous for an one hour and 35-minute ferry ride. ICBC and BC Ferries are both taxpayer-owned Crown corporations. ICBC spends mega dollars in CounterAttack driving programs and BC Ferries is promoting the opposite in more alcohol sales. A person’s blood alcohol level is the result of a complex interaction of weight, gender, alcohol consumed and time. Stats taken from the National Highway Traffic System Administration shows a 100-pound man is impaired after one drink. After two drinks a 100 pound man is legally intoxicated. Men weighing between 120 and 200 pounds are impaired after two drinks. Women, weighing between 100 and 120 pounds are impaired after one drink. After two drinks, they are legally
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Plastic waste is clearly visible as it floats on the surface of the ocean, but beneath the surface, divers report immense tangled messes of discarded plastic– evidence of human beings’ short-sightedness, writes Frank Sterle Jr.
Weaving a tangled, plastic mess Editor: I doubt that notably less plastic waste will occur even a decade from now, particularly when – regardless of ocean divers’ reports of the immense tangled messes – so much of it is not immediately observable. Out of sight, out of mind. It doesn’t surprise me, as general human mentality allows us to throw non-biodegradable garbage down a dark chute like we’re safely dispensing it into a blackhole singularity. And then there’s the astonishing short-sighted selfishness. I observed this last year when a local TV news reporter randomly asked a young Vancouver man what he thought of government restrictions on disposable plastic straws.
“It’s like we’re living in a nanny state, always telling me what I can’t do,” he retorted. I wondered whether he’d be the same sort of individual who’d likely have a sufficiently grand sense of entitlement to permit himself to dump a whole box of unused straws into the Strait of Georgia, just to stick it to the authorities who’d dare tell him that enough is enough with our massive dumps of plastics into our oceans. This way, he would figuratively be giving the middle finger to any new government rules. No wonder so much plastic waste eventually finds its way into our life-filled oceans, where there are few, if any, caring souls to see it. Frank Sterle Jr., White Rock
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charging 15 cents per paper ime for an update bag. The fact that paper-bag on my most popular column of 2018, based production is much more greenhouse gas-intensive on letters and social-media responses. No, it wasn’t about than plastic is overlooked. My prediction that these this or that economy-shaking bans would weaken existing move by our co-premiers, plastic-recycling programs John Horgan and Andrew was closer to the Weaver. Tom Fletcher mark. Here in It was about Victoria, a popular plastic bags. commercial My prediction collection service early last year was for soft and foam that Victoria city plastic has just been council’s bold move cancelled, because to ban point-of-sale the price paid no plastic bags from longer covers the retail outlets would cost. spread like wildfire The key reason across B.C. Pointless is that China has virtue-signalling stopped accepting on behalf of “the shipments of these planet” is to today’s commodities. Shipping politicians what birthday containers filled with plastic cake is to a toddler, as we will see in the federal election debris are piling up around North America, which can campaign that is already no longer offload its First upon us. World consumer problems The plastic-bag ban to Asia. is catching on with You may have heard that municipalities, but more the Philippines recently slowly than expected. threatened war against Some may have heeded my Canada over a bunch of argument that prohibiting point-of-sale bags still leaves shipping containers full of recyclables that were us with all the other soft plastic packaging that pours contaminated with used adult diapers, among other out from grocery and other fragrant delights. No word on retail stores, containing the greenhouse-gas emissions everything from frozen peas all of this shipping produces. to deck screws. According to multiple Councils are embracing Canadian news reports the Victoria model, where a in recent weeks, Chinese minimum price is imposed importers were employing for paper bags instead of their famous cheap labour to the dreaded plastic. Retail pick through the recyclables businesses, burdened with high property taxes, love the for valuable items, and government-imposed revenue burning the rest. “It was a charade,” a senior stream that comes from
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executive of Edmontonbased waste hauler GFL Environmental Services told The Globe and Mail. This ‘ship it to Asia’ dodge is one way to explain the conclusions of a German study on plastic contamination in oceans. It found that 90 per cent of it comes from 10 rivers in Asia and Africa, with the Yangtze in China being by far the worst. The rest, and most damaging, is mainly lost or abandoned commercial fishing gear. Then there was the Danish study that showed a cotton grocery bag has to be used more than 7,000 times to make it more environmentally sound than a plastic bag used once for groceries, once to line a wastebasket and then incinerated. B.C. recycling programs are also cracking down on glass and other marginal commodities. One of the most efficient things to recycle is newsprint, and the B.C. government managed to make a mess of that by forcing newsprint producers into a broader system so they can subsidize uneconomic materials. The best solution to all of this is a functional waste system with recycling, and public education about cleaning and sorting materials. Don’t hold your breath. Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press Media.
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Clockwise from top left; the Cloverdale bed races, a tradition since 1977, sees teams of people push someone down 176 A Street in a bed; Chase Brooks in the saddle bronc event at the Cloverdale Stampede Rodeo; a dog comes to the rescue during an intermission performance.
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little rain couldn’t dampen the spirits – or the scores – of the contestants in the Cloverdale Rodeo final Monday afternoon (May 20). Bareback bronc rider Caleb Bennett earned the highest score of the day with a 93.5-point ride on Sundance Kid, sending him home with $20,000 and a tie for the top bareback ride the Cloverdale Rodeo area has ever seen. This was Bennett’s third time winning the top prize at the Cloverdale Rodeo for bareback riding. For bull rider Sage Kimzey, it was not only his first time getting the $45,000 prize, but also his first time at the invitational rodeo. Apparently, according to a text received up in the announcer’s booth from Kimzey’s girlfriend, his cat had been watching his ride via the livestream. Most bull riders weren’t as lucky as Kimzey, with half being bucked off before the eightsecond mark. Although Parker McCowan stayed on for the full eight seconds, and had
Mitch Pollock, with a 91-point ride, and barrel racer Shelby Spielman, who beat former champion Callahan Crossley by two one-hundredths of a second with a 15.901-second ride. In total, the champions split $330,000 in prize money as well as the chance to return to the Cloverdale Rodeo next year.
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1. Caleb Bennett, Tremonton, Utah – 93.5 2. Jake Vold, Ponoka, Alta. - 91 3. Pascal Isabelle, Okotoks, Alta. – 88 4. Orin Larsen, Gering, N.E. – 87.5 4. Tanner Aus, Granite Falls, Minn. – 87.5 4. Spur Lacasse, Calgary, Alta. – 87.5 4. Jacob Stemo, Bashaw, Alta. – 87.5
a 87-point ride, the Texas rider nearly ended his rodeo day by being tagged by Kessler’s Pink Panther; one of the bull fighters stepped in front and was flipped in the air by the bull instead. The other prize winners for the afternoon 1. Shelby Spielman, Del Hart, Texas – 15.901 included return saddle bronc champion
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2. Callahan Crossley, Hermiston, Ore. – 15.935 3. Jackie Ganter, Abelene, Texas – 16.160 4. Mariah Mannering, Quesnel, B.C. – 16.171 5. Jennifer Barrett, Buhl, Idaho – 16.264 6. Nikki Hansen, Dickinson, N.D. – 16.714
Bull Riding 1. Sage Kimzey, Strong City, Utah – 90 2. Clayton Sellers, Fruitland, Fla. – 89.5 3. Parker McCowan, Montgomery, Texas – 87 4. Garrett Smith, Rexburg, Idaho - 86
Saddle Bronc Riding 1. Mitch Pollock,Winnemucca, Nev. – 91 2. Chase Brooks, Deer Lodge, Mont. – 90 3. Rusty Wright, Milford, Utah – 89 3. Layton Green, Meeting Creek, Alta. – 89 4. Zeke Thurston, Big Valley, Alta. – 87.5 5. Dustin Flundra, Pincher Creek, Alta. – 86 – Grace Kennedy
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Work continues on the Semiahmoo Shopping Centre expansion project. Plans for the space formerly occupied by a Zellers store include the addition of a Winners, as well as a gym called Crunch Fitness and a daycare centre called Rothewood.
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“Surrey Zoning Bylaw, 1993, No. 12000, Amendment Bylaw, 2019, No. 19838” Application: 7918-0139-00 Location: 19235, 19259 and 19291 – 34A Avenue; 19238 and 19290 – 36 Avenue Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is seeking to rezone a portion of the site shown in grey on the location map from Business Park 2 Zone to Business Park 1 Zone. The applicant is proposing to consolidate 5 lots into 4 lots and develop 2 warehouse and office buildings on the northeast portion of the site. This will be Phase 1 of an eventual 4 phase development.
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Coast Realty has confirmed a number of businesses that are to be included in the Semiahmoo Shopping Centre expansion. First Capital Realty senior vice-president of development Jodi Shpigel told Peace Arch News May 15 that the confirmed businesses include Winners, a gym called Crunch Fitness and a daycare called Rothewood. Shpigel said First Capital is still in the process of formalizing additional businesses that are to take space in the former Zellers, which is attached
to Semiahmoo Shopping Centre. The building has been vacant since 2014. In 2012, the Semiahmoo Zellers was one of the shopping centre’s anchor stores, and one of just 64 Zellers, out of 243 nationwide, not sold to U.S.based retailer Target. At that time, parent-company HBC told PAN that the location would either be shut down or re-branded under a different name. Target Canada ultimately filed for bankruptcy in January 2015. Then, after announcing in early 2013 that Semiahmoo Zellers would close that March, HBC reversed course and announced the store would remain
open as a liquidator for Hudson’s Bay and Home Outfitters. However, the store was closed in March after a mattress display caught fire in an incident Surrey Fire Service initially deemed suspicious, but later said was “not deliberate.” It reopened in June of that year, as one of only three stores to bear the Zellers logo, but closed the following year. “We’re very excited that we’ve been able to find such high-quality tenants for that end of the shopping centre. We believe they will re-anchor what was formally the Zellers,” Shpigel told PAN.
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PAH, Sources on lookout for drivers Aaron Hinks Staff reporter
Sources Community Resources Society and the Peace Arch Hospital have put out a call for volunteers to help isolated seniors get home after a stay at the hospital. According to a news release issued Thursday, the Hospital to Home program, operated out of the hospital for the past three years, re-
quires volunteers to transport seniors and isolated community members home after they are discharged from PAH. Volunteers may also be requested to drive the patient to additional locations, including the Sources White Rock/South Surrey Food Bank, Red Cross equipment loan or the pharmacy. Once the patient arrives at their home, the Seniors Come
Share Society will provide followup phone calls to offer additional support, the release notes. “This is an opportunity for volunteers to close that gap in providing holistic health care in ensuring seniors return home safely and have access to supports needed to live independently. We need our community’s help to keep the program operating continuously and to keep
our community connected,” Sources volunteer manager Carrie Belanger said in the release. Volunteers of the Hospital to Home program work in pairs and no medical training is needed. Volunteers with or without vehicles are encouraged to apply. To inquire about volunteering, contact Belanger at 604-542-4357.
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Recovering from incidents that can impact mobility and range of motion takes time, but physical therapy can help the body acclimate to regular activity once more. Physical therapy also can help healthy people as well. Injuries have the potential to sideline people for weeks, months or permanently. Injury to the body can occur when participating in organized sports, fitness regimens or even after being in an accident. Recovering from incidents that can impact mobility and range of motion takes time, but physical therapy can help the body acclimate to regular activity once more. Physical therapy also can help healthy people as well. Those who have suffered a sprain or a broken bone or even spent a duration of time immobile in the hospital due to an illness are often prescribed physical therapy as part of their follow-up treatment. Physical therapy programs try to progressively increase strength, improve mobility and help the body return to a state where it can function as best as possible. In many cases, a person can regain his or her original capabilities. A physical therapist is a trained and licensed medical professional who has the experience to diagnose physical abnormalities, restore physical function and mobility, maintain that function, and promote proper form for future activity. Physical therapy sessions can take place in hospitals, rehabilitation centres, fitness settings, private practices, and much more. Not only can physical therapists react to and treat an injury, but they can also teach exercises, stretches and techniques to help prevent problems in the first place. Experts indicate that physical therapy extends beyond disabled or injured people. Physical therapists can educate a person on weaknesses in the body and can guide correction on poor body mechanics that cause pain. This way a person can make changes to prevent future pain and injury. Rather than being reactionary, healthy individuals can take a proactive approach to avoiding pain and injury. When one opts for physical therapy, he or she may: · undergo a physical exam and evaluation of pain, movement, flexibility, and performance · receive a clinical diagnosis and plan of care
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Limited space is available. • The Kent Street auditorium is open Wednesday evenings from 7-10 p.m. for all those 50+ who enjoy social dancing to live music. On stage this week is Greg Hampson. Purchase tickets at the door for only $6 members/$8 non-members. Refreshments served midway. The Kent Street Activity Centre, located at 1475 Kent St., is open to persons 55 years of age or better. New members are welcome. For more information on activities, programs and volunteer opportunities call the Centre at 604-5412231.
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Desiree Dawson White Rock and South Surrey fans of 2016 CBC Searchlight winner and Earl Marriott grad Desiree Dawson – who still retains strong ties to the Semiahmoo Peninsula – will welcome the opportunity to hear her perform live Saturday, May 25, from 7 p.m. at the Kingfisher Farm Market barn concert at 512 172 St. Well-known for her soulful folk sound, Dawson is equally adept at captivating audiences with her own ukulele accompaniment, a full band or an electronic dance track. Since winning the Searchlight contest, Dawson released a debut album, Wild Heart, to popular acclaim – three singles, the title track, Where Do We Go and Hide, all spent time in the CBC top-20 chart, and the latter made it to number 31 of the CBC’s top 100 songs of 2017. A 2018 single, Just Fine, also spent a good deal of time climbing the CBC top-20 chart and was also featured as one of the CBC’s top 100 songs of the year. Dawson, who has appeared at the CBC Music Festival in Toronto, and toured the U.S. and Germany, still makes regular appearances in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, including the Surrey Fusion Fest. She has also been invited to perform at this year’s Vancouver Folk Festival in July. Tickets to the barn concert ($22) are available from kingfishermarket.com
South Surrey White Rock Art Society show and sale, takes place June 1 and 2 at the Turnbull Gallery (at South Surrey Recreation and Arts Centre). The 10 participating artists are inspired by a range of visual esthetics – from animals and wildflowers to natural stone jewelry and the human form. Among work on display will be paintings by poet/artist Veronica Newell, including a dynamic depiction of a crow; African flowers by Caroline Baasch; and symbolic paintings in various media by Dianne Cuzner. Also featured will be whimsical paintings by children’s book illustrator Sandy Gagnon; romantic figurative studies by Norm Carriere, and jewelry by June Bloye, inspired by the culture of Arizona and the turquoise/ malachite conglomerate stone of the region. Artists will be present throughout the show. Open hours will be 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. The centre is located at 14601 20 Ave.
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Audience-pleasing orchestral highlights on the program will include 19th century compositions by the family of waltz king Johan Strauss, Alex Browne as well as Offenbach’s immortal Can Can The White Rock theme (Galop Infernal) Community Orchestra, originally featured in his under the direction of operetta Orpheus in the maestra Paula DeWit, Underworld. will present its spring Equally accessible concert Sunday, May 26, orchestral pieces from 7 p.m. at Mount Olive more recent years will Lutheran Church, 2350 include lively Western148 St. style themes from Aaron Highlighted in the Copland’s ballet Rodeo, ambitious program will and the stirring Olympic be 11 auditioned children Fanfare and Theme from and adult guest pianists, 1984. chosen through the orchestra’s Tickets ($20, $5 for children under Piano Extravaganza competition. 12) are available online from wrco.ca Performing – with orchestral accompaniment specially arranged by DeWit – will be Athena Halili, Sumi Guan, Tony Zong Yue Li, Alicia There’s always something Wang, Julianne Xu, Elijah Ron hopping at White Rock’s Mangoyob Santos, Angelina Blue Frog Studios, the city’s Hung, Rafael Brisebois, Levi unmatched intimate venue for Guan, Karmyn Anderson and up-close concerts by national and Bobbi-Dee Schultz. international touring acts, as well
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White Rock and South Surrey-raised singer and composer Desiree Dawson – winner of the 2016 CBC Searchlight contest – will make a welcome return to the Semiahmoo Peninsula for a barn concert May 25 at the Kingfisher Farm Market, 512 172 St.
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Traditional jazz White Rock Traditional Jazz Society’s regular series of 2-5 p.m. Sunday dances to live New Orleans and Chicago jazz and small-band swing continues for another two weekends at Crescent Legion Branch’s Club 240. This Sunday (May 26), it’s popular bassist and vocalist Jen Hodge with her All Stars, followed on June 2 by the WRTJS end-ofseason party with Gerry Green’s
Crescent Jazzers. The venue is at 2643 128 St.; admission is $10; $12 (nonmembers) and $6 (students with ID).
Cloverdale Concerts Latest venture for Penmar Community Arts Society organizers David Geertz and Dione Costanzo is the Cloverdale Concerts series at Shannon Hall. Opener is a roots-and-blues barbecue kickoff bash Saturday, June 1, headlined by the Steve Kozak Band, with guest artists Paul Pigat, Jerry Cook and The Modelos (doors at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m.). The event will feature a cash bar and beef or veggie burgers with two sides for $10. Venue is at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds (6050 176 St.) Tickets ($25) are available at showpass.com
Art society show For The Love of Colour, latest
Artists Linda Pearce and Jack Turpin present Eccentric Narratives, the second part of the two-show Seriously Quirky series, which continues until May 29 at the Landmark POP-Uptown Gallery at 15140 North Bluff Rd. Pearces’s acrylic-on-canvas works – in which doll imagery is used to explore and comment on magical and mythological themes – will be juxtaposed with Turpin’s coloured ink-on-paper renderings of imaginary landscapes, and papier-maché models of fanciful houses, seemingly built of flotsam and jetsam.
Open-mics The burgeoning Semiahmoo Peninsula scene for open-mics and coffee houses continues to grow. A live open-mic for musicians, hosted by well-known local musician Dennis Peterson, is a regular Saturday night feature, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Pelican Rouge Coffee Shop, 15142 North Bluff Rd. Sign up is at 5:30 p.m. A music-oriented open-mic is held most Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. at Three Dogs Brewing (1515 Johnston Rd.), and while it’s not an open-mic, per se, students of NUVO Music School are regularly featured in Saturday afternoon performances at Everbean Cafe (106-15331 16 Ave.)
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…on the Semiahmoo Peninsula
Years after arriving in Surrey as a refugee, Ali Zohar is preparing for NCAA
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li Zohar has had about a month to let it all sink in – that he’ll be off to a place called Highland Heights, Ky., to play soccer this fall. The Surrey resident recently earned a fullride scholarship to play with the University of Northern Kentucky’s men’s team, which won the NCAA Division II national championship a decade ago and is now looking to Zohar to strengthen its midfield. “It was an exciting moment for me,” Zohar, 18, said of the scholarship, which was announced in mid-April. “I’ll go there in the summer, in July, for training. I already went for a visit there, so I saw the campus. It’s really nice.” Zohar’s path to university sports began in Bangladesh, a country he and his family fled to come to Canada as refugees in 2009. He began playing soccer a couple years later, at Adam Day age 10, after watching his coach older brothers play the game in the South Asian country. “I went to a lot of their games,” Zohar recalled. “I already had a passion for soccer growing up, and in Canada I got a chance to play. “I loved playing it right away.” He started with the BC Tigers and Central City Breakers soccer organizations, then moved on to South Surrey-based Coastal FC and Surrey United premier-league squads before joining the Whitecaps FC preresidency program in September of 2014. That same year, as a 14-year-old, Zohar made his debut with the Canadian youth program. A bio posted to whitecapsfc.com says Zohar is a fan of Spanish juggernaut Real Madrid. “One day, the midfielder hopes to play at Real Madrid’s home stadium, Santiago Bernabeu,” the bio reads. “As far as his career goes, Zohar hopes to be able to play at the professional level. Outside of soccer, one of Zohar’s favourite pastimes is playing street hockey.” At Hjorth Road Park this spring, Zohar is helping coach younger players with Guildford Athletic Club, where his former
Surrey’s Ali Zohar in the soccer locker room at the University of Northern Kentucky, after the midfielder earned a scholarship to play there this coming fall. aggressive, a leader by example.” Whitecaps U17-team coach, Adam Day, is Zohar recalls arriving in Canada with his now technical director. parents and three brothers. Another brother “He has a lot of leadership qualities, and and a sister arrived later. that’s why I got him coaching ❝It was eye-opening “I moved houses a lot since the younger kids here (at we moved to Canada – like Guildford), because he’s a coming to Canada, five times, but always in perfect role model,” Day said so different, such a Surrey,” Zohar explained. of Zohar. different culture.❞ “It was eye-opening coming “Ali’s got a different Ali Zohar to Canada, so different, such a background, obviously, with scholarship winner different culture.” his refugee status, and he came Zohar credits coach Jack here with the most humblest and modest of upbringings, and he’s had to Reddy, now with the women’s team at the University of Lethbridge, for teaching him work hard to get where he is. “everything about the game.… He took me “He’s a competitor, very driven and
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MITCHELL, Peggy Cordelia Peggy Cordelia Mitchell was gathered into the arms of the Lord this day, May 9, 2019. Peggy had an indomitable spirit, fighting to the end to retain her independence, despite painful mobility challenges and failing health as she aged. Predeceased by her husband Alexander (Sandy) Mitchell, her oldest son Peter in his childhood and her youngest son Stephen at age 23. She married Sandy in England during WW2 and immigrated to Canada at the war’s end, accompanying him through his extensive career in the Army (RCR) which took them to many postings across Canada and back to Europe before his final posting in Vancouver. Peggy was a talented seamstress, sewing exquisite ball gowns for formal Mess dinners and later provided beautiful clothes for Christy during her teenage years. In the late 1980’s Peggy moved to Ocean Park near White Rock. When she moved to Berwick in Comox at age 95, she found it very difficult to leave “her little house� that she loved for over 25 years. She spent her last few months at Eagle Park in Qualicum Beach. The family gives warm thanks to all the staff who helped her in both residences and also many thanks to Dr. Dustin Falk, who looked after her with great attention and kindness while she was in his care. Peggy was an excellent cook who welcomed many of her children’s friends for Sunday dinners well into their adult years. She courageously went to work at age 50, in order to gain some financial independence and to provide extras for her children. At age 97, Peggy outlived her sisters Hilda & Katherine and most of her friends. She was widowed before age 60 yet undertook this life challenge with positive action. She learned how to play Bridge & Mahjong so she would gain new friends and she learned how to swim, simply because she had, “never learned properly!� She also traveled extensively; yet her favourite trip was always back to Brighton, England, where she was born and raised. She is survived by her loving daughter Christine (Roger) her beloved granddaughters Elysia (Elliott) and Lauren and her treasured great-granddaughter EllaRaye. When we celebrated Peggy’s 97th birthday last July, she said, “This is lovely, but I don’t want to see 98.� She said that it was time to go to ‘the great Martini Bar in the sky.’ We hope that the bartender will make it for her just the way she likes it, with a lemon wedge and 2 ice cubes.
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Multi Media Marketing Consultant The Surrey Now-Leader has an exciting opportunity for a Community Multi Media Sales & Marketing Consultant who will be focused on digital and print sales. The successful candidate will be comfortable with both digital and print media and will be responsible for selling all platforms of our Digital Solutions, and print campaigns and special sections within our paper. This individual will be a relationship builder and will have experience dealing with people, as they will be reaching out and finding local marketing solutions for business owners for both our digital and print platforms. The Surrey Now-Leader is an award winning community news organization that offers a tremendous place to work and grow your career. Compensation: - Salary plus commissions and benefits, including car and cell allowance. Qualifications: - Strong Communication and people skills. - Ability to thrive in a fast paced team environment. - Basic knowledge of Word and Excel. - Organized and deadline driven. - Advertising, marketing, retail sales or service experience would be an asset. - Willingness to learn, take direction and build your business. - Goal oriented and able to work independently. The Surrey Now-Leader is part of Black Press, Canada’s largest private independent print and digital community media company with more than 170 media properties in BC, Alberta, Washington, Ohio, California, and Hawaii. Please send your resume with cover letter by Friday, May 31st, 2019 to: Dal.Hothi@surreynowleader.com Surrey Now-Leader #102-5460 152nd Street Surrey, BC V3S 5J9
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OCEAN level, 2 NS/NP. incl. Nr Avl now.
PARK 2 bdrm grnd baths & 2 prkg. $1550 util/lndry transit & schools. 604-928-3479
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The Scrapper
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• Autos • Trucks • Equipment Removal FREE TOWING 7 days/wk. We pay Up To $500 CA$H Rick Goodchild 604.551.9022
Legal Legal Notices Notice To Creditors And Others Notice is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of Irene Mary Critchley, deceased, who died on October 27, 2018 are hereby required to send them duly verified to the undersigned care of Devinder K. Sidhu, Barrister & Solicitor, at 1518 George Street, White Rock, BC, V4B 4A5 before the November 19, 2019, after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims that have been received. JOAN AMBER GODDYN (Executor)
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MEN WHO CARE MOVERS. 2 & 3 Man Crews, 47 years combined experience. Local & long distance. Reasonable rates. 604-809-2444. menwhocaremovers@gmail.com
.Above All Contracting 604-970-7083
Bach Building 604-209-4964
Expert Lawn Management. Certified Horticulturist (BCIT). 30 Yars Exp. Lawn Cutting. Hedge Trimming. Power Raking. Topsoil & Bark Mulch. Call or Text Mike 604-671-3312 www.expertlawnmanagement.com
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.TW Renovation, 25 Yrs Exp, Kitch & Bath Reno Specialist & more! Srs Disc. Free Est. Refs Avail. W.Rock, S.Sry. (604)779-1695, (778)636-1533
TOTAL RENOVATIONS Repair, Replace, Remodel... Quality Done Right the 1st Time Dan 778-837-0771 WCB • Licensed • Insured
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SUNCREST RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
Independent Living, Complex Care and Respite Services Please contact Mardie for more information:
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.Bowen Aluminum Mfg Ltd. Aluminum patio covers, railings, sunrooms, windows. Vinyl decking. 20 Yrs ex. Warranty. 601-821-8088, www.bcpatio.com
.HAFSA PAINTING CO. Int/Ext Repaint Specialist. 3 rms - $599, (paint incl) 18 yrs exp. Senior disc avail. Free Est. 7 days a week. Sunny, 778-893-1786
. Aluminum & Glass Patio Covers, Sunrooms & Railings, 604-521-2688, www.PatioCoverVancouver.com .Aluminum patio cover, sunroom, railing and vinyl. 604-521-2688 www.PatioCoverVancouver.com
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PRODUCE
MEAT Organic Large Cauliflower Imported from USA
BC Grown Organic Heirloom Tomatoes from Origin Organics in Delta 8.77kg
4.98
value pack, raised without antibiotics
BC Fresh Duck
8.80kg
2/2.50
assorted varieties 480ml +deposit +eco fee
Coconut Bliss Frozen Dessert Bars assorted varieties 3 & 4 pack
3/9.99
22.02kg
9.99lb
Boylan Craft Sodas
Fentimans Craft Soda
assorted varieties +deposit +eco fee
assorted varieties
Dairyland Organic Milk assorted varieties 2L
4.79
+deposit +eco fee
2/4.00 275ml 6.99 4 Pack 4.49 750ml
assorted sizes
Olympic Krema and Organic Yogurt assorted varieties
BAKERY
Armstrong Cheese
Choices’ Own Sourdough Bread Levain Style
assorted varieties 600g
sliced and unsliced 530g
4.99 Gabriella’s Kitchen Frozen Gluten-Free Vegetable Lasagna and Butternut Squash Ravioli 300g
4.49 South of France Soaps Bars or Liquids assorted varieties
select varieties select sizes reg price 7.99-55.99
236ml or 170g
6.49
% off
Renew Life Vitamins and Supplements
Natural Factors Vegan and Whey Proteins
assorted varieties assorted sizes reg price 16.49-72.99
assorted varieties
% off
4.49 to 5.99
8 pack
WELLNESS Divine Essence Organic Essential Oils and Body Care Products
assorted varieties
4.99
4.99
% 30 off WELLNESS
1.99 368g Flaxseeds 2.99 453g Flaxseed Meal
946ml
assorted varieties
500g
assorted varieties 240-496g reg price 4.29-7.29
Choices’ Own Fajitas, Quesadillas and Burritos
Bob’s Red Mill Flaxseed and Flaxseed Meal
Little Northern Bakehouse Classic Loaves
assorted varieties
La Tortilla Wraps and Tortilla Chips
1.5L +deposit +eco fee
Dream Dairy Alternative Beverages
2/5.00 Riviera Coconut Milk Yogurt
Happy Planet Organic Lemonade
3.99
5.49
2/4.00 355ml 7.49 4 Pack
While quantities last. Not all items available at all stores. We reserve the right to correct printing errors.Product may not appear exactly as depicted.
value pack
3.99lb
DELI
GT’s Organic Raw Kombucha
25
100% Grass Fed New York Steaks Aged 21+ Days from Australia
raised without antibiotics
GROCERY
20
19.99lb
8.99lb
BC Grown Bunch Spinach
2.98lb
44.07kg
19.82kg
3.98lb
Red Seedless Grapes Imported from Chile 6.57kg
Halibut Steaks
BC Extra Lean Ground Beef
1kg
39.99
9.99 San-J Sauces
assorted varieties 296ml reg price 4.99-8.99
% 30off
4.99
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