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RCMP’s pride flag-raising turns nasty Tom Zytaruk tom.zytaruk@surreynowleader.com

It might not have lived up to its “huge public protest” billing, but the chaos outside the entrance of the Surrey RCMP detachment building leading up to the force flying the rainbow pride flag on Monday morning featured dueling placards, stern cops and verbal abuse aplenty.

THE OLD FLAMINGO GOES OUT WITH BANG Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum operates an excavator for a ‘ceremonial hit’ as hundreds were treated to a pyrotechnics show during Saturday’s demolition event party for the former Flamingo Hotel in Whalley. The building is being demolished so the site can be redeveloped into multiple residential towers.

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There were about 30 protesters on either side, and 20 Mounties doing crowd control.

An organization vehemently opposed to SOGI 123 in public schools arrived with signs in hand after warning the Surrey RCMP on Friday that it will face a “huge public protest” if it flies a “political” LGBTQ+ rainbow pride flag at its Newton detachment building on Monday morning, which it did.

both sides shouted out about their respective rights while trying to silence the others. It was shrill.

Kari Simpson, director of CulThose in support of the flag raising tureGuard, sent a letter to RCMP also came, with their signs in hand, Commissioner Brenda Lucki, Deputy Commissioner Jennifer Straresulting in shouting matches, chan and Assistant Commissioner name-calling, sloganeering and a Dwayne McDonald, officer in hearty rendition of O Canada. charge of the Surrey RCMP, urgWhistles were blown, attempts ing “immediate reconsideration” of to speak were met, literally, with the planned flag-hoisting. “blah, blah, blah,” and people on

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“The pride flag represents a sex activist political movement that is hostile to free speech, to parental rights, and to freedom of assembly,” Simpson wrote to the RCMP brass, “and is currently targeting children with an extremist transgender and sexual orientation agenda through the public education system.”

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INSIDE OPINION: City survey on policing transition included many questions but we say one simple question would have done the trick.

Page 10 CITY COUNCIL: What do councillors think of mayor Doug McCallum’s idea to build a canal in Surrey?

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MUSIC: Canadian rocker Bif Naked talks to the ‘Now-Leader’ about another big show for her fans in Surrey.

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A toast to 25 years Cloverdale Toastmasters Club celebrates a quarter century this month

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Transit police are looking for a man who allegedly exposed himself to a woman while on the SkyTrain, after the woman noticed the man “looming uncomfortably close to her” around 10 a.m. on April 29, police said Monday.

Following reports of shots fired in Cloverdale on Monday, at a residence in the 19400-block of 71A Avenue at about 9:10 a.m., Surrey RCMP Cpl. El Sturko said that although the investigation is ongoing, early indications suggest that the sounds in question were generated by fireworks, not gunfire.

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elebrations call for a toast, and this Cloverdale club’s 25th anniversary is sure to have an exemplary one.

Since 1994, the Cloverdale Toastmasters have been meeting once a week to help one another develop speaking and leadership skills. On June 19, they celebrate their 25th year. There are 16,600 Toastmaster clubs in 143 countries across the world, but the Cloverdale group is unique for two reasons, according to founding member Gordon Monro.

Firstly, the club has achieved rare recognition within the current goals program, consistently rising to the 10 challenges set out by the international club leaders every year. “We are one of only 40 clubs in the world that have completed all 10 goals consecutively for the last 15 years,” said Monro.

In fact, in the 20 years since the goals program started, they completed all the goals every year but one, when they scored a 9 out of 10.

The international recognition, and proven success of the club, supports its members. “We have this culture that says we’re a successful club, we can help you,” said Monro.

Though the club has achieved a serious status amongst others, its members work to keep things light — another aspect that makes them unique.

“We decided a number of years ago that we wanted to make our club open, inviting, friendly, relaxed, and, above all, fun to be a member of and to be a participant in,” said Monro.

“We have a lot of laughter in the group.

We continue that because most of us are parents and we realized that children learn best when they’re having fun. And so why shouldn’t adults?” he said.

When someone comes to the club for the first time, the reaction is often one of surprise, he said. The fun, welcoming atmosphere isn’t one that is expected.

Newcomers are “blown away” by the speakers, and they think “maybe someday I could be like that,” said Monro. “And if they vocalize that, we would say, ‘This room is half full of people who thought like you. Maybe even full.’”

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The Cloverdale Toastmasters pose for a photo in their usual meeting place at Clayton Heights Secondary. or two. Gordon and his wife Loralee are both founding members of the Cloverdale Toastmasters club, and have each served in every executive role (more than once, in some cases) in the years since. But when it was first starting, they weren’t so sure about joining the club.

One of their friends, Colleen Tackaberry, wished to become a distinguished Toastmaster, and to do that she was tasked with starting a new club.

“Loralee and I said, ‘Well, we don’t have any problem getting up and speaking,’” Monro remembered. “And she said, ‘Well, you could learn a lot. We all have.’

“And that has been the truth,” he said.

They began to sign up members in October 1993 and by May 1994 they had the 20 committed members needed to officially start the club.

“Of those original 20 [members], Loralee and I are the only ones who are left,” said Monro.

Often, he said, “people come to Toastmasters to overcome something, to achieve a goal.”

Some join temporarily to get tips for wedding speeches, and some need to be coached through a job interview. Some join to reach a certain level of proficiency, and once they reach it they begin to dedicate their time to new goals.

Toastmasters supports lifelong skill development, but the club also helps those who have specific goals in mind. New members, and new goals, are always welcome.

The Cloverdale club has kept its core principles — of being friendly, welcoming and

educational — over the past 25 years, but there have certainly been changes.

This year, for instance, the Toastmasters educational system will move to an online resource. The new “Pathways” framework will be the first major overhaul since the goal system was created in 1999.

But other things have changed too, said Monro. The biggest shift is the aroundthe-clock pressure members feel from their careers, he said.

“People in a lot of positions have to be at the beck and call of their business.”

It’s not unusual for a member to receive a phone call as they are walking into a Toastmasters meeting that pulls them away from the club for the evening. Between that and the increasing demand for overtime work, Monro said that a meeting agenda will often need to be changed at the last minute to make up for absent members.

“It’s a new challenge for us,” he said. “But that’s a fact of life.”

Of course, problem solving is part of what Toastmasters is all about. “It’s part of the leadership challenge,” Monro explained, “to fill in those roles, [and] find people to step up.”

If someone’s curious about the club, they are welcome to come check it out, said Monro.

The Cloverdale Toastmasters Club meets every Wednesday at Clayton Heights Secondary, from 7:15 to 9:15 p.m.

During the summer months, they find other locations within the Cloverdale area.

Meeting locations and other information is available through their website, cloverdale. toastmastersclubs.org.

Admission to this year’s Boundary Bay Airshow, set for Saturday, July 20, will be free, as always, but due to the limited amount of parking at the airport, the City of Delta and Alpha Aviation are selling on-site parking passes for $10, online eventbrite.ca.

In Nanaimo, RCMP say all nine tents set out for a year-end camping trip for graduating Departure Bay Eco-School students were discovered stolen less than 24 hours before the planned excursion, but the theft didn’t stop the Grade 7 trip from taking place.

Victoria-area resident Lynn Phillips was hospitalized in California after she was hit with a vehicle twice, on Thursday, June 13, and a GoFundMe page explained how it happened: “Lynn, a vibrant, lovely, generous and kind soul was recently struck and run over not only once by a car driven by a stranger but then, in the panic that ensued, backed up over a second time.”

The misadventure of a five-pound Yorkshire terrier named Poppie caused four days of worry for her family and volunteer rescue crews after the little dog swam to an isolated island near Victoria.

Rosemarie and Mark Surakka, the mother and step-father of Mission murder victim Lisa Dudley, finally got their daughter’s personal belongings back from the RCMP Friday, when they exited an Abbotsford courthouse with some of her things. compiled by Now-Leader staff

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The 15th and final fundraiser of its kind saw close to 150 brave cyclists pedal from Kelowna to Delta in a single day, during an annual event designed to reflect a typically hard day in the life of a cancer patient in treatment.

Starting at around 3 a.m. in the Okanagan city, the cyclists rolled southwest over the next 20-something hours – a gruelling experience for all involved, through whatever weather Mother Nature throws their way.

It was cold on the Coquihalla Highway at times, and some headwinds slowed the cyclists on their way to the Lower Mainland.

At around midnight, the finish line was at Cap’s South Shore Cycle, on Scott Road near 80th Avenue.

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A small army of volunteers, including cyclists and support crew, has raised more than $8 million since it all began as a much smaller fundraiser in the mid-2000s.

On Monday morning (June 24), the event’s donation website showed a total of $1,062,387 raised during the 2019 ride.

For event founders Kerry and Vicki Kunzli, who live in North Delta, and other volunteers who plan the annual event, the time has come to close this chapter of their lives.

“The logistical challenges of doing the ride are getting fragile, with all of it,” Kerry Kunzli said before Saturday’s final ride.

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The initiative will live on as a “fundraising bike club,” Kerry noted.

“Many riders still want to be part of this,” he said.

“We’ll still do banquets and pole sits, raffles and fundraisers, whether we ride from Kelowna or around the block. It’s a long ride, and a lot of people still want to ride with the club. It’ll be a community club – a fundraising club with a cycling problem,” he added with a laugh.

Kerry said “it’s been quite a ride,” in more ways than one.

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events, parades, festivals and other commemorative activities being held to mark the occasion,” he Simpson claims raising this flag runs contrary to the RCMP’s Code said. “We are aware of a group’s intent to protest the Surrey RCof Conduct prescribing that its MP’s pride event in Monday and members act with “impartiality.” respect their right to a lawful dem“The RCMP has a duty to reocratic protest.” main neutral,” Simpson wrote in The flag will fly for one week. her letter. “If the event proceeds, I Meantime, the City of Surrey will organize a protest,” she wrote rejected a request from Martin to the police. “I will also publish information concerning one of the Rooney, president of the Surrey Pride Society, to fly the pride flag invited groups that will not bode at city hall to commemorate the well for the RCMP.” 50th anniversary of the decriminalSergeant Chad Greig, of the ization of homosexuality in CanSurrey RCMP, said that “as Canada. “If you are willing and able ada’s national police service, it is important that the RCMP lead by to participate, your organization will receive a $750 honorarium,” example in promoting diversity he wrote. “This can be used to and inclusion. The pride flag represents equality and inclusion and purchase a flag (if necessary) or to cover costs of the ceremony/gathdisplaying of the flag is a reflection, acknowledgment and support ering and whatever else you might decide to do with it.” for a community within a larger Surrey’s General Manager Laurie community.”

Cavan responded, in a letter, that Greig said that during June the based on the city’s “current flag RCMP “celebrates pride Month policy and practice,” it “will not and shows support for LGBTQ+ participate in this opportunity as rights, culture and communities. described in your correspondence.

“All RCMP employees are enWe look forward to working with couraged to participate in local

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Definitely not seeing eye-to-eye: Supporters and opponents of the Surrey RCMP’s raising of the pride rainbow flag above its main entrance Monday. you on the various pride initiatives that we have held in the past and have planned for 2019.”

Mayor Doug McCallum was expected to proclaim June 24 to July 1 “LGBTQ+ Pride Week” at Monday night’s city council meeting.

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“The RCMP, and particularly the Surrey RCMP, are supportive of an inclusive and diverse population and it’s important for us to embrace all cultures in our community,” he said. “There’s been a lot of people who have attended – people that support the pride flag and those that are opposed to it. I think that’s important in a democratic society,” he told the Now-Leader.

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Annual party at Science World helps fund Surrey student field trips there from research that found school field trips to the facility are valuable for students, but transportation costs are sometimes Surrey preteen Ali Naqib was prohibitive. so excited about his field trip to Bus travel can account for TELUS World of Science, he more than half of a field trip’s vlogged about it on a Youtube total cost, Henderson said. account otherwise dedicated to “It’s one thing for parent drivhis travels, some pranks and socers to take students on a field cer games. trip, but we know that a bus The tech-savvy Grade 6-er, a trip can be part of the whole student at W.E. Kinvig Elemenfield-trip experience as well,” she tary in Newton, has twice joined noted. classmates at the ball-shaped “We know that Surrey school Vancouver landmark, widely district has a huge number of known as Science World. schools, and the distance to His most recent time there, Science World is relatively far,” last fall, the best part for Ali was Henderson added. “Every year learning to use a thermal camera Grade 6 student Ali Naqib in a video posted to Youtube about his class field trip to we bring in more students from that showed all the hot and cold Science World last November.

Surrey than any other district.” points of the human body.

For the next school year, burprogram is raised through Scistudents from 27 Surrey-area “We learned about how the body works,” raved Ali, 11. “We schools to benefit from the pro- ence World’s largest fundraising sary applications are welcomed starting in August, she said. event, Science of Cocktails, an went with our whole class, about gram, launched in 2017.

“Questions are filled out annual party that has collected Since then, more than 18,000 20 kids, and a couple other to help determine if a school close to $946,000 over the past school classes too. I’d love to go students in this region have qualifies, and the district has four years. visited Science World as part back, definitely.”

The event in 2020 is set for the also given us a list of the most An 11-minute video he posted of its Class Field Trip Bursary under-served schools,” Hendernight of Thursday, Feb. 6, with in November shows him and his initiative. son said of the program, which Jonathan Moore, Ali’s teacher tickets (priced at $125, or $225 classmates roaming around Scigrants admission and bus transat W.E. Kinvig, said the program for VIP) available starting this ence World, and ends with Ali’s has greatly benefited the school. fall. The soirée features an open portation. thoughts about the adventure This year Science World is bar with more than 25 stations “For a lot of students, they while on the bus trip back home. “serving unique cocktails crafted celebrating its 30th anniversary just couldn’t get down there As part of a bursary program

by Vancouver’s best bartenders,” with a “30 Years of Wonder” otherwise, so it’s a special trip,” launched by operators of SciMoore said. “The program helps as well as “access to a variety of campaign, online at 30yearsofence World, more students at special cocktail science activities, wonder.com. “under-served” schools in Surrey so much, it’s fantastic, wonderThe attraction on False Creek hands-on demos and Science ful. It’s super helpful to get us and other areas of Metro Vanhas welcomed more than 18 out there, to get grants to be able World programming.” couver are now able to visit the million visitors since it opened Kate Henderson, manager of to get there. Kids are so excited facility on class field trips. to go to a place like that. It’s just school engagement with Science in 1989, three years following its This year, to offset the typiWorld, said the fundraising event use as Expo Centre during the a very positive experience.” cal trip cost of around $1,000, Expo 86 fair. and bursary program resulted Most of the money for the Ali was among close to 2,000 Tom Zillich tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com

Long-serving Surrey high school teacher given the Loran award In a first for the Surrey School District, a teacher has received the Loran Teachers Building Leaders award.

Johnston Heights Secondary teacher, Harriet Tuey, was nominated for the award by former student Anthony Hope, according to the district.

Tuey is among the longest-serving employees, starting with Surrey Schools more than 50 years ago as a P.E. teacher.

She now works as a career facilitator and leadership teacher.

“In actuality, I fell into becoming a teacher and it was the best thing that ever happened to me,” said Tuey, who never planned to become an educator. “The most important thing was being able to make a difference in the children and students that I came into contact with.”

Each year, according to the Loran Scholars Foundation, former Loran Scholars can nominate a former teacher for the award. As of December 2018, 58 Loran Scholars have recognized 74 teach-

award. He credited her ers across Canada. mentorship and “many Tuey, who received the award on June 14, was one pearls of wisdom” for his continued sucof 30 teachers cess. across the coun“She believed try to receive it. in me, even in The district said moments when I the award was doubted myself. the first time a Ms. Tuey taught Surrey teacher me and many was honoured. of my former Hope, who friends and classbecame a Loran mates… how to Scholar in 2015, Harriet Tuey lead and serve made the trip to with integrity,” Johnston Heights said Hope. “What sets her from Ottawa, where he apart is her steadfast denow lives and works, to termination to see her stupresent Tuey with the

dents grow into responsible, civic-minded members of their community. She did this through leading by example.”

Despite her years working at the district, Tuey said she has no plans to retire.

“I really, really, truly love every one of you – even though sometimes I do have to scold you and even though sometimes I am maybe a little bit demanding.

“But I want you to be the very best you can be.”

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Whalley

Flamingo starts to fall with first hit by mayor Landmark hotel building to make way for housing for 4,000 people

Readers react /surreynowleader Gordon Gunderson Kool place to have lots of fun in the 70s.

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The Flamingo Hotel went out with a literal bang.

Hundreds of people lined up Saturday for a “demolition event party” before the site of the former hotel is redeveloped into multiple residential towers.

With a “ceremonial hit” of the excavator with the help of Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum, the crowd was treated to a pyrotechnics show.

“As we look to the future, Whalley is changing. We’re going to keep the historic nature of it, but we are changing in Whalley and we’ve changed over the years,” said McCallum.

Local politicians and business people shared memories of the historic area and former hotel – some even admitted to having a beer or two at the bar – but they also looked to the future of the site.

Surrey-Newton MLA Harry Bains said he had “mixed feelings” about the hotel’s demolition, which will continue this week.

“You are losing your history but at the same time, this is going to be transformed into a beautiful downtown,” he said.

For Charan Sethi, it’s a dream finally coming true.

“I bought the Flamingo site 13 years ago,” said land developer Sethi of Tien Sher, which will be redeveloping the site.

“It was always a vision one day to revitalize the community. I still have a drawing in my office, which myself and architects sat down and we doodled or he doodled and I told him what I need. That drawing is actually coming to reality now.”

Following Saturday’s event, Sethi told the Now-Leader it

Stefan Kolesar I never had a great time there, but I made some memories with good people. Here’s to the end of an era.

Phillip Warner Went out with a bang – ahaahaaa very fitting.

ABOVE: With Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum at the controls, an excavator digs into Surrey’s Flamingo Hotel during a special event Saturday.

LEFT: An old postcard shows the hotel in better days.

ABOVE PHOTO: LAUREN COLLINS; FILE PHOTO AT LEFT

few hours after she’d left the ley Boulevard east to King lounge. Four years earlier, George Boulevard.

Vancouver drug dealer Roy On Feb. 11, city council Eldon Alle, 29, was found in gave the project fourth and a Whalley ditch with a bullet final reading. in his head and a yellow rope Besides the hotel, the proptied around his neck. Police erty has a strip mall containfound his jeep parked at the ing the Triple XXX video hotel. store. Behind it is a Sethi’s connection July 1955 as a motor hotel fenced-in yard where SEE VIDEO ONLINE AT with the neighbourwith 20 rooms, cost $275,000 the RCMP park SURREYNOWLEADER.COM to build, and featured a drive- hood began in 2005 their vehicles, across has been emotional getting to through leading to ample from the District when he bought a parking out back. this point.

1 police station at large parcel of land Sethi said the entire Flamin- east of the hotel on “The whole thing has been the south corner of very exciting; very, very excit- go Block project destined to 107A. the other side of Out back, there’s Whalley Boulevard, ing to get that much emotion replace the building will one the former Pancho where his Quattro built into one place,” he said. day include homes for more and Lefty’s bar, an and Balance conthan 4,000 people.

“The reality is, I’m a very Charan Sethi unkempt lot and a “That’s like a mini city of emotional person… so when dominium develsea of pavement. my own. Sorry, Mr. Mayor,” the other people were doing opments are today.

The two-storey property he joked to the crowd. the speeches, it really made Driving in from Richmond Over the years, the hotel, my heart putter a little bit and to visit his daughter in Fraser evolved over the years to feature the Byrd strip club pub and Tropic Lounge colsay, ‘We’re doing something Heights, he spotted a “for and live music, ending with a right.’” sale” sign, bought the land lected their ghosts.

“Last Stand” concert there in The hotel, with its loud, the Flamingo sat on, and a In 1985 the Byrd gained February. pink “Live Nude Girls” sign, international notoriety after dream was born.

In March, a final sale was was once home to one of the staging a dwarf-tossing conOver the next decade or held to unload chandeliers, Lower Mainland’s last stripso, Sethi aims to build three test. residential towers along with cocktail tables, chairs, pool taIt was also the last place at per bars.

The Byrd pub, with its stage least two people were seen be- some smaller buildings and bles, lights and other contents and brass poles, was set up in fore they were murdered. The some inviting park space on of the hotel and its licensed the 1970s but the hotel itself bars, by donation to Flaminbody of Norma Jane Cowley, 4.3 acres.

The land runs north from had a much more wholesome 31, was found on the front go Square Arts Society.

107A Avenue to the hotel’s beginning 60 years ago. lawn of a home on 108th – Files by Tom Zytaruk north side, and from WhalThe Flamingo opened in Avenue on April 12, 1997, a and Tom Zillich

Array Security Systems Ltd. Great memories here. Our surveillance security cameras caught so many crimes in this area is uncountable.

Used to be a hangout for baby boomers and generation Xs. Bob Paulson We had a blast at that place - RIP, thanks for everything and everyone life long friendships…

Again, thank you.

Beppie Klassen Ooooooo if those walls could talk.

Joshua Shea Bye bye Dirty bird.

Gladice Hagen Silvius I have so many great memories at the Flamingo.

Julie Charbonneau Good riddance!

Andrijana Cipin The end of a era.

Misty Mischek That place should have been taken long ago lol.

Cheryl Egelstad O’Day Thanks for the Good times and Good memories.

Karen Bleakley I’ll bet the health of Surrey will improve.

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Our view

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s this “overwhelming citizen support” for a new Surrey police department, or is our mayor an inveterate optimist?

You be the judge.

At the very least, we think something has been lost in translation.

A City of Surrey press release has Doug McCallum stating that after five weeks’ worth of 23 “public engagement” events in the city’s six town centres, and the receipt of 11,103 survey responses, the results of the Citizen Consultation Survey “speak volumes about the overwhelming support the citizens of Surrey have for the creation of a Surrey Police Department.”

But do they?

This bold assertion is based on the answers to agree-or-disagree

statements such as the following: z It’s time that Surrey had a police department that is locally led – 93 per cent strongly agree/agree; z I want police officers to build their career in Surrey so they know the community well – 98 per cent strongly agree/agree; z I believe our police department should prioritize its efforts based on what is important to Surrey citizens – 98 per cent strongly agree/agree.

Well, of course they do.

The mayor’s conclusion in response to these results indicates more-so a leap of faith than it does an adherence to deductive logic. Do these results necessarily translate to support for a citymade police force?

No, they do not.

Here are a few more examples:

z I want a police department that works proactively to solve crimes – 99 per cent strongly agree/agree; z Being able to respond quickly to emerging issues (e.g., opioid crisis, crime trends) is important for our police service – 100 per cent strongly agree/agree; z Our police department should focus more on violent crime than on property crime – 95 per cent strongly agree/agree.

The question that should have been asked on this survey is this: Should the City create its own police department or continue with the RCMP? (Strongly agree/ agree/strongly disagree/disagree).

The response to that question would be bankable. The response to these questions is not.

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Guest column

Looks like TransLink aims to ‘short-circuit’ our plan for rail service Guest column Rick Green

The South Fraser Community Rail Group has attempted to present a comprehensive plan to TransLink that would reactivate the Interurban corridor with stateof-the-art, hydrogen-powered passenger rail service between Scott Road SkyTrain Station and the City of Chilliwack.

This is a fiscally and environmentally sound inter-regional service for 1.2 million residents who live south of the Fraser River, for one-tenth the cost of SkyTrain.

To date, we have submitted four detailed letters to all members of the TransLink Council, board and CEO and held a pair of two-hour meetings with planning staff, providing detailed presentations of our proposal.

From the beginning, our ‘ask’ was and is very non-threatening.

We want an opportunity to present our complex presentation to the Mayors Council and the board, and to participate through a half-dozen public engagement meetings between Surrey and Chilliwack. Their response? You can have a five-minute delegation.

Of note, UBC professor Patrick Condon will be presenting a five-minute delegation at the June 27 meeting. TransLink staff have rigidly denied us a half-hour pre-

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sentation opportunity.

Shortly after our campaign started, TransLink initiated open houses and market research, suggesting approval has been given to the Fraser Highway SkyTrain project, which had yet to be voted on or approved.

As for survey results, they held one-sided open houses with only one option to consider, conducted in-house online surveys with only one option offered, conducted telephone market research with only one option offered and only one question asked. Add all of this up and you get a one-sided result.

Seeing that TransLink was ignoring our request to hold public-engagement meetings between Surrey and Chilliwack, we scheduled our own – three of them, and all

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self-funded, by the way.

On the eve of our first meeting, TransLink staff issued a release of an internal Interurban Report stating a wide array of reasons why they have turned down the Interurban in the past.

Our opinion, and we have proof to support our position, is these reasons are all false and quote old, flawed and discredited reports with flawed assumptions, flawed conclusions and complete misrepresentations of the facts. We have provided them with a complete critique of their statements. It is available on-line at southfrasercommunityrail.ca. We are fully transparent.

Given TransLink’s response, one can only assume they are trying to use their corporate strength

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to attack and intimidate us, and short-circuit our initiative, one that has broad-based support across both regions.

If TransLink staff are so sure of their facts, why are they afraid of having the members of the TransLink Mayor’s Council hear our story and the laying out of the facts? They would have every opportunity to publicly dispute them and we will have our opportunity to prove TransLink totally wrong.

Our campaign is for an interregional transportation solution that is fiscally and environmentally responsible to the whole region.

We are not going away.

Rick Green is a representative of the South Fraser Community Rail Group and a former Langley mayor.

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City council

McCallum’s canal pitch took Surrey councillors by surprise Tom Zytaruk tom.zytaruk@surreynowleader.com

Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum’s idea to build a “wandering canal” in the city holds no water with some council members who say the concept was not discussed with them prior to the mayor floating the idea at a Downtown Business Improvement Association meeting in Whalley last week.

“A canal is not something we have ever discussed in council,” Councillor Brenda Locke said.

“It is not something I would support and I don’t know where these empty roads are that we’re going to be running a canal through. There are way more important issues in Surrey to be worrying about than a canal.”

Councillor Linda Annis called it “a little bit shocking, to say the least, particularly when the mayor is saying that there are unused roads in Surrey.

“I know certainly when I travel to work each day I’m not seeing roads that aren’t filled with traffic so I’m not sure what he’s talking about with that, and I guess I’m also a bit concerned that he would even be contemplating spending money on something like that when we need to be building better roads, more roads and you know, improving our infrastructure and building rec centres, things like that.”

McCallum has not returned requests for comment. This is not the first time he has pondered the creation of a water feature in Surrey. The 10-acre, man-made Surrey Lake at 7453 152nd St., for example, was opened in 2002 when he was mayor and he presided over the ribbon-cutting.

The park has become a popular place for enjoying a walk.

Dug out of a floodplain, Surrey Lake draws off flood waters from Bear Creek during storms.

All told, 17,000 dump trucks of soil and what-not were removed to create its basin.

Asked if the canal idea is for utility, recreation, transportation or simply aesthetics, Surrey Councillor Steven Pettigrew replied, “I have no idea.

“The first I heard about it was on the news. I wasn’t aware of it.

He said he’d been working with staff to find a road and staff knew nothing about it, so I have no idea what he’s thinking.

“The mayor has not seen fit to inform council of this decision or pretty much any of his decisions,” Pettigrew said. “He directs staff as he determines, and I have no information about that at all. This is how business is done at the city – he’ll just do whatever he wants. Staff follows his instructions.”

Pettigrew said he doesn’t know enough about McCallum’s canal pitch to know where it’s going or what’s planned.

need to be better allocated to fix these type of things rather than looking at whether we can put a canal through the city.”

Asked about the canal, Councillor Jack Hundial laughed, and then he laughed some more.

“What can we say about it? It was news to me that this would even be considered, first of all,” he said.

“If that’s a serious proposal he should bring it out to the public, the rationale as to why Surrey now requires a canal.”

“There isn’t that bilateral communication going on,” he said of FILE PHOTO council.

Councillor Laurie Guerra said Mayor Doug McCallum floated the idea McCallum mentioned the canal of building a “wandering canal” in in response to a question the Surrey at a recent meeting.

BIA moderator had for panelists “I know as much as you know, on what kind of innovations they had in mind for Surrey. let’s put it that way,” he told the “I just found out about it at the Now-Leader. “A question to ask is, is this the best way to use our same time everybody else did,” resources? Every time we assign she said. “He probably could staff a task, they can only do so have said, if he wasn’t already doing it, I’d love to see the Skymany tasks, and there’s certain Train go in to Langley, he could tasks that should be receiving have done a lot of things like priorities right now. Every time we assign other tasks, these other that, that have already been addressed by the mayor and I think tasks get bumped down. So is this the best use of our resources he said just what he thought. I never heard of it before. I think right now? I don’t think so. it’s got its merit – the city staff “I think we have other issues will have to look into it and see in our city that need to be addressed,” Pettigrew said. “We’ve if it’s feasible or even possible.”

Councillors Mandeep Nagra, got massive housing problems, we have school crises happening, Allison Patton and Doug Elford could not be reached for comwe have environmental crises ment. happening and our resources

South Asian Mental Health Alliance receives $112K ondary on June 17.

The South Asian Mental Health Alliance (SAMHAA) will receive The provincial government has announced it is $112,900 to train 100 funding the creation of a youth ambassadors by the spring of 2021. youth ambassador proAccording to a release, gram in an effort to empower South Asian youth the training will be ofand tackle the stigma sur- fered throughout the rounding mental health in Lower Mainland and includes the mental health that community.

The government made first-aid certification course, developed by the the announcement at Surrey’s Tamanawis Sec- Mental Health CommisAmy Reid amy.reid@surreynowleader.com

sion of Canada.

The first batch of 25 youth were set to begin training this week.

“For far too long, many South Asian people with mental health and addiction challenges have felt isolated and suffered in silence because of a lack of culture- and language-specific supports,” said Judy Darcy, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions,

in a release. “This exciting program will empower young people to become mental health advocates, and they, in turn, can help more people to open up and find the supports they need to begin a pathway to healing and hope.”

South Asian communities are one of the largest ethno-cultural groups in the province and tend to access mental health and

substance use services less often than the general population, a release from the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions notes.

SAMHAA is “tackling this disparity by working with local non-profit societies, faith communities and service providers to raise awareness, build capacity and reduce stigma around mental health,” the release notes.

Crime

Two more arrests in connection with murder of Surrey teen Bhavkiran Dhesi 2017.

Two additional Lee said police are men have been arstill urging people to rested and charged come forward. in connection to the “We know that murder of Bhavkiran there are still people Dhesi, as well as out there with imHarjot Singh Deo is portant information,” now facing a second he said in a release charge, says the InSaturday (June 22). tegrated Homicide Three other people Investigation Team have already been (IHIT).

Gurvinder Deo, 25 charged in connecand Talwinder Khun tion with the August 2017 death Khun, of teenager 22, IHIT Dhesi. said, were Along charged by with Harjot the B.C. Deo, his Prosecution mother Service for Manjit “accessory Kaur Deo after the fact and his to murder, older sister and indeBhavkiran Dhesi Inderdeep cently interKaur Deo fere with or have all been charged offer an indignity to human remains.” The and have each aptwo men were arrest- peared in court.

Inderdeep Kaur ed Friday afternoon, Deo is charged with IHIT said. ‘accessory after the IHIT Corporal fact to murder.’

David Lee said Manjit Deo, 53, is Gurvinder Deo is the charged with “accesbrother of Harjot Deo, the first accused sory after the fact to murder.” in Dhesi’s murder, She was granted and Talwinder Khun bail June 14.

Khun is “extended Justice Heather family,” but Lee couldn’t specify how MacNaughton made Khun is related to the the ruling regarding Manjit Kaur Deo, Deo family. during proceedings at Police said investiB.C. Supreme Court gators also gathered in New Westminster. evidence which reMacNaughton sulted in an additionimposed a $500,000 al charge of “indesurety, and ordered cently interfere with conditions including or offer an indignity that Deo, 53, have no to human remains” contact with Dhesi’s against 21-year-old parents and sister, Harjot Singh Deo. as well as no contact He already faces a charge of second-de- with her son, Harjot Singh Deo, or daughgree murder. ter, Inderdeep Kaur Dhesi’s body was Deo. found in a torched - Lauren Collins SUV in the 18700with files from Tracy block of 24 Avenue Holmes at 12:20 a.m. Aug. 2,

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City hopes Surrey’s new energy centre will be ‘a window’ into sustainability building and possibly get a sense of what’s going on.

Despite the design When designing the allowing people “a winWest Village Energy dow” into the facility, Centre and Park, there Mayor Doug McCallum was an intent to make sure the inner workings said there’s still a lot of the centre were visible going on with the centre that people can’t see. to the community as a “As we can see all way to promote awareness of energy consump- around us… the ever-changing landscape tion and sustainability. of City Centre is hard to So says Jason Owen, the city’s district energy miss with new highrises springing up all over the manager and acting manager of sustainabil- area,” said Mayor Doug McCallum. “What is not ity. so noticeable is what’s The city officially happening out of sight. opened the centre and I’m referring to what’s park, located at 13231 Central Ave., on Thurs- happening beneath our feet and what you see in day (June 20).

The “state-of-the-art” the building behind us.”

West Village Energy facility, said a news reCentre is the city’s first lease from the city, will permanent district enerbe “an integral part in gy centre, and through improving energy effia closed-loop network ciency, reducing greenof underground heating house gas emissions pipes, “it distributes heat (GHG) and providing more competitive energy and hot water to connected buildings in City pricing for Surrey resiCentre.” dents and businesses in The same water, acCity Centre.” cording to the release, City-owned Surrey is “re-circulated back to City Energy provides the energy centre where heat to multiple buildings via hot water pipes the process of re-heating and re-circulating begins that are buried underagain.” ground.

District energy sysWest Village Energy tems are used by some Centre is located in the large cities, hospitals city’s newest park and and university campuses has windows to allow to reduce energy costs, people to see into the Lauren Collins lauren.collins@surreynowleader.com

improve reliability and have better control over the type of fuel used.

The facility uses high-efficiency natural gas boilers partially fuelled by renewable natural gas produced from organic waste at the Surrey Biofuel Facility.

Owen said more than 55 per cent of com-

munity-wide energy consumption is concentrated in the buildings sector, and accounts for about 35 per cent of Surrey’s total GHG emissions.

“Recognizing the impact of these numbers, and understanding the city’s vision for a complete, compact and con-

district energy centre.

Owen said the city first started putting in temporary energy centres housed in shipping containers — one is next to the King George SkyTrain station.

“Over time, we’ll continue to expand the underground distribution piping network and add more energy centres, powered by an expanded range of low-carbon renewable energy sources,” he said.

Built under city hall and civic plaza, Owen said, was Surrey’s first low-carbon energy ABOVE: Politicans help to cut source, which “uses the ribbon for the official Earth’s heat as a source opening of the West Village by tapping into an unEnergy Centre and Park on derground geoexhange Thursday (June 20). field.”

LEFT: Inside the facility, at “Today, the system 13231 Central Ave., just west provides heat to the of Surrey City Hall. district energy network PHOTOS: LAUREN COLLINS when its full capacity is not needed to service SEE MORE PHOTOS AT city hall.”

SURREYNOWLEADER.COM Owen said Surrey City Energy has a 30-year build-out plan to exnected downtown core, we knew that the trans- pand the district energy network throughout formation of our city City Centre. centre presented one of “It’s planned to be one the greatest opportunities for carbon reduction of the largest systems in Canada, connecting that we had, as well as an opportunity to affect over 18 million square feet of development by real change in district 2035 – that’s tens of energy,” Owen said. thousands of houseHowever, West Vilholds.” lage isn’t the city’s first

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Surrey looks to tweak its social policy committee The City of Surrey is looking to tweak its Social Policy Advisory Committee, in an effort to make it more inclusive.

In a report to council Monday, past Now-Leader deadline, city staff recommend changing the name of the committee to the Social Equity and Diversity Committee (SEDC).

Further amendments are suggested, including changes to membership.

Staff recommend adding volunteers that represent additional groups and other agencies.

Councillor Brenda Locke, who chairs the committee, said its role is “really to talk about equity for all citizens so that Surrey is an equitable and safe place for all citizens, as well as people of diverse backgrounds, so that was the reason for the change. Because the committee doesn’t actually create policy – we make recommendations to council, but council is the one that actually makes the policy. It seemed like equity was more our role.”

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Surrey RCMP has identified 18 cases since April as part of a joint initiative to deal with “distressed” properties in the city. The idea is to improve public safety and social concerns in Surrey’s neighbourhoods.

Since then, Sergeant Chad Greig said, authorities have “worked closely” with the owners to educate them on their responsibilities and reduce calls for service.

The Surrey RCMP’s community response unit and criminal analysis section has been working with the Surrey bylaws community enforcement team, Surrey

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issues head-on and for the betterment of the wider community at large,” she said.

Greig said a Property Owner/Problem Eviction Process package provides “pertinent information” to help owners “better underFILE PHOTO stand their roles, rights and A “distressed” home in Cloverdale. obligations.

“This empowers property fire department’s community owners to take greater ownproperty safety team, and ership and effectively manthe B.C. bailiff services to age their properties before this end. they become a community, “Working with our munic- policing or bylaw problem,” ipal and provincial partners he said. “This package also to address distressed propserves as a baseline notierties in our community fication for uncooperative is an ongoing process that property owners which will requires constant attention enable expedited bylaw and collaboration amongst enforcement and financial all parties involved,” said In- sanctions in order to more spector Wendy Mehat, com- effectively mitigate the negmunity support and safety ative impacts of problem officer for the Surrey RCMP. properties on our commu“Together, we can address nity.” Call 604-599-0502 to these public safety and social report suspicious activity.

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proposed branding for the proposed Surrey Police Department.”

McCallum told the The Now-Leader has Now-Leader the city has a learned the City of Surrey spent $15,851.64 on a Surrey budget that goes “towards the transition,” and the cost Police Department vehiof the temporary decals is cle prototype, showcased part of the budget. He added outside Mayor Doug Mcthat it was “a pretty reasonCallum’s State of the City able amount.”

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However, lone Surrey First The cost for the “temporary Councillor Linda Annis decals” are broken down as said spending “that kind of follows: $5,775 for graphic design services; $4,700.64 for money as a marketing tool is, in my opinion, is not good production and application use of taxpayers money.” of decals, and $5,376 for a Annis said there was also a three-month lease.

According to city staff, the separate cost for other marketing materials. “I think it’s vehicle “has not been fitted far too soon to be producing out as a police vehicle” but marketing materials like instead “had temporary that,” she said. “The report decals applied to be used has not yet been approved during the City’s consultafrom Victoria. It’s not a done tion events to gather feedback from the public on the deal. We shouldn’t be invest-

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The City of Surrey’s proposed transition plan to convert from RCMP states the force would “go live” on April 1, 2021 and its operating costs will be $192.5 million that year. That’s a 10.9 per cent increase from the $173.6 million the city projects the RCMP would cost that year. There are also an estimated $39.2 million in start-up costs. Today, Surrey RCMP has 843 members.

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Coach of kids found guilty of voyeurism The RCMP acting on a search warrant on his home seized electronic devices that contained thousands of photographs of A children’s hockey and baseball coach has been found guilty young boys. The judge noted none of the photos were porof two counts of voyeurism for photographing young boys in nographic. Of the images, the dressing rooms in sports facilities Crown relied on 38 photos of in Surrey and Coquitlam. two young boys in dressing Justice Heather MacNaughrooms.

The counts of voyeurism state ton convicted Randy William that in June 2013 and August Downes in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster on June 14. 2015 Downes “did unlawfully observe or record children under There is a publication ban on the age of 16 where the children information that could identify were in a place in which they the complainants and certain could reasonably have been exwitnesses.

“Children’s athletic coaches are pected to be nude.” in a position of trust with respect MacNaughton said one of to the children they coach,” the the two boys was 13 when he judge noted. “Parents entrust played hockey on a team Downes their children to coaches, adults coached and the other was 12 in authority, to enhance their and played hockey and baseball sporting skills. They are ention teams Downes coached.

“Generally, the photos are tled to expect that coaches will of the boys in dressing rooms, respect the boundaries that are changing into or out of their inherent in those relationships.”

Downes also ran a photography hockey gear or wearing baseball gear,” MacNaughton observed. business out of his home, called In many of the photos, she said, Action Sports Photography.

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the boys are “in the midst” of changing their shirts or pants.

“The boys are not naked and their genitals are not exposed in any of the photographs.”

The court heard from two Canada border guards who inspected Downes’ electronic devices on March 21, 2016 when he was returning to Canada from a trip to Washington State, among other witnesses. Downes himself did not testify.

MacNaughton noted in her reasons for judgment that one of the boys played on a hockey team called The Venom and the other played baseball for the Coquitlam Reds and hockey for the BC Selects. The photos were taken at the Surrey Sports and Leisure Complex, the South Surrey Arena and Planet Ice in Coquitlam.

Both boys, now adults, testified they were not aware that the photos had been taken and consequently did not consent to them.

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Derek Doucette, who coached baseball with Downes and is also a hockey coach, testified he was 80 per cent certain that by at least 2015 there was a league rule in place during regular hockey season prohibiting cellphones in dressing rooms.

Its purpose, MacNaughton noted, “was to prevent pictures being taken of children in dressing rooms.”

The judge remarked that photographs “pose a greater threat to privacy and sexual integrity than mere observation” as they “create a permanent visual recording which can be saved, studied at will, further enhanced or cropped with editing software, and shared with others.”

“In many of the photographs,” she noted, “Mr. Downes focused on the boys’ underpants and their bare torsos,” and they were not accidentally taken.

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The officer chased after the driver, Surrey RCMP said, but the passenger of the suspect vehicle was able to get into the police vehicle and drive away, “crashing through a secure gate before departing the area.”

Surrey RCMP said it has found and recovered the police vehicle, which was abandoned in the 9800-block of Whalley Boulevard.

One person “believed to be involved” in the incident was arrested “a short distance from the scene” and is being held in custody on an outstanding arrest warrant, police said.

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‘Triumphantly,’ Bif Naked set for return on Canada Day, 10 years after a bad day here The Toronto-resident rocker recalls 2009 gig that followed chemo treatment for cancer Tom Zillich tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com

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hen Bif Naked hits Surrey’s Canada Day stage on Monday, July 1, it’ll be exactly a decade since her last concert in the city, at the very same venue.

In the summer of 2009, her performance at Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre was not a very pleasant experience for the longtime rocker, because she was recovering from breast-cancer treatment that hit hard.

“I still had my chemo haircut and catheter tubing in my neck,” Naked recalled in a phone interview with the Now-Leader.

“I remember every moment of that last show, and I was choking on stage and every time I jumped, my jugular vein would constrict because I had so many problems with the surgical port and all this other stuff that goes on behind the scenes with your breast-cancer treatment,” Naked continued.

She just couldn’t perform the same that day, she said.

“I was completely self-conscious and I was embarrassed about my hair, and it was just so many things, it was crazy.”

Also that day, some women Naked had met in her hospital chemo-treatment program came to the show, making it a hugely emotional one for her.

“They were in their pink boas, and even some of the members of our Run for the Cure (team) came,” Naked recalled. “Even talking about it makes me totally verklempt because that type of sorority never gets old.

Those of us who do survive, literally, because we know girls who didn’t, will always walk with this survivor’s guilt. It’s just very moving and emotional, and I’m going to try hard to be a big girl at this show.

“And now, being able to go

Events guide BARS Donegal’s Irish House: Live music Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 12054 96th Ave., Surrey. Info: 604584-2112, donegals.pub/ band-calendar.

Dublin Crossing: Live music and more at Irishthemed bar, 18789 Fraser Hwy. 604-575-5470, Dublincrossing.com.

The Taphouse Guildford: Music/sports bar, 15330 102A Ave., Surrey, featuring DJ/dance nights (Thurs.-Sat.), live music (Sun./Tues.), karaoke (Wed.), trivia (Mon.).

Info: 604-583-8828, Thetaphouse.ca.

Elements Casino: Live music and special events at 300-seat licensed venue, 17755 60th Ave., Cloverdale. Info: Elementscasinosurrey.com.

OPEN MIC Above, Bif Naked in a recent promo photo. At left, on stage in Surrey in 2009 during the city’s Canada Day celebration. full of energy on a recent Monday afternoon.

Naked says Hogtown was the right move for her and her third husband, Steve “Snake” Allen, who plays guitar in her band and is “just a nice boy from Cranbrook.” She said Toronto has been a good jumping-off point for acoustic shows the couple has done, and continue to do, following the release of I, Bificus, Naked’s 2016 memoir.

“I wouldn’t trade my time in Vancouver for anything,” Naked insisted, “but now I’m finding that as I get older, with business ventures I’m starting, becoming a manager, another book on the back, you know, triumphantly, 10 years later, to say that I have go, a couple companies and another record, I don’t think those actually lived that long, that things could have happened many more years, I just can’t five years ago, compared to the believe it,” she continued. place I’m in now.” ”And I survived other things Writing I, Bificus was someafter that, which in my mind thing Naked says she was “realwere even worse than breast cancer. It’s nuts. After that show ly badgered into doing” by Peter Karroll, her longtime manager. my kidneys would fail, I had In the end, however, “the proheart surgery, I went through cess was kind of fun,” she said, a divorce, all these things – so and the book led to touring exmuch has happened over the periences Naked really enjoyed. past 10 years.”

“The book readings, I found, Calling from Toronto, where were more gratifying for me, the former Vancouverite now and we kind of enshrouded that lives, the Indian-born, Maniinto an acoustic show, and that’s toba-raised Naked (nee Beth been my biggest reward,” she Torbert) sounded healthy and

said. “So far we’ve done two national tours with the book, and my husband just drinks wine while I abuse him on stage while reading these stories, and I cry, then I sing and then cry some more, so that’s how that goes.

It’s been fun, just amazing.”

At Surrey’s Canada Day event, in front of thousands of flag-waving people, Naked will co-headline with the band Our Lady Peace. Her band includes Allen along with Chiko Misomali on drums, Ferdy Belland on bass guitar and Doug Fury on guitar.

She’s keen to return to the big stage once more.

“Because we are given 60 minutes for our set length, we really try to cram in every song possible, and make the set explosive,” Naked explained. “I love the big stage and the outdoor shows and we hope the weather is great.

“I know for sure we will play all the crowd favourites like ‘Spaceman’ and ‘I Love Myself Today,’ but I will definitely do a special dedication of ‘Lucky’ to commemorate my 10 years of surviving cancer and dedicate the song to our breast cancer sisters still fighting.”

“Can’t wait!”

The Grind open-mic coffee house: Event held on the last Friday of every month at Bethany-Newton United Church from 7 to 9 p.m., with music, poetry and more in a relaxed setting, with featured guests to start the evening.

At 14853 60th Ave, Surrey.

THEATRE “Ivan Coyote: Chest Air” show on Thursday, June 27 at Centre Stage at Surrey City Hall, 13450 104 Ave., 7:30 p.m. “With the nuanced and finelyhoned timing of a gifted storyteller, Ivan Coyote grapples with complex and intensely personal issues such as gender identity, family, class, social justice, and queer liberation – always with a generous heart and a quick wit.”

Audience advisory: strong language. Box office: 604501-5566, tickets.surrey.ca.

“Legally Blonde Jr.”: Advanced students at SMASH Theatre Company bring hit musical to Surrey Arts Centre’ Main Stage from June 27 to 29, 13750 88 Ave. “A fabulously fun journey of self-empowerment and

expanding horizons.” Info: tickets.surrey.ca, 604-5015566.

ATTRACTIONS Bear Creek Park Train and MiniGolf: Train rides through the forest at 13750 88th Ave. For hours and rates, call 604-501-1232 or visit bctrains.com.

FILM Movie Night featuring “The Wizard of Oz” at Historic Stewart Farm, 13723 Crescent Rd., on Friday, June 28 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. “A classic movie in a classic house! Enjoy popcorn and lemonade as you take in Frank Baum’s classic The Wizard of Oz, starring July Garland (1938). For ages 13yrs+.

Reserve your free spot at 604-592-6956 with the barcode 4640408.”

DANCE Street Dance Showcase at Surrey City Hall (13450 104 Ave) on Friday, June 28 from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Free admission. “Let’s kick off summer break with great music and fresh moves. Come check out Surrey’s first outdoor street dance competition at City Hall Plaza!” Battles, performances, prizes, food and refreshments. Food and refreshments will be provided by community partners. Must be 25 and under to enter. Confirm your attendance on our Recreation Surrey Facebook event page. Winners will get $100 plus swag. Dance Showcase and Battles begin at 3:30 p.m.

Shiamak Vancouver: “Summer Funk - The SHAADI Musical” at Surrey’s Bell Performing Arts Centre on June 29, 6 p.m., 6250 144th St. “The biggest celebration in all Indian families is a wedding, a shaadi and the perfect way to celebrate is dance! So, this year, the students from SHIAMAK Vancouver are bringing the dhamaal of Shaadi, the tadka of dance and some over-the-top storytelling.”

Tickets: 604-507-6355.

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Dream of touring about to come true for Lachance ‘Ramp for Ryan’ benefit show raised $4,500 for comedian who uses wheelchair The money will be used to buy a portable ramp Lachance For comedian Ryan needs to access cerLachance, the dream tain comedy venues of touring is about to across Canada.

Tour details are in come true. the works, and some The White Rockbased performer will of the money will be used to fix a van for now be able to do his travels. shows out of town, “Once the ramps thanks to money were paid for I was raised during a able to use the rest of “Ramp for Ryan” event May 26 at Yuk the money from the Yuk’s Comedy Club fundraiser to get my van fixed in order to in Vancouver. make sure it is safe Close to $4,500 to drive when I go was raised at the on tour,” Lachance benefit show, givwrote in a Facebook ing Lachance a gift post Thursday (June of mobility in the 20). wheelchair he uses “I just want to due to his cerebral thank everyone once palsy.

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The self-described “sit-down standup” comedian tells edgy jokes, mostly about himself.

Lachance was born in Winnipeg but soon moved with his family to Leduc, Alberta. He lived there until age 15, when the family made the trip to Surrey to live closer to his grandmother, around the time his father died.

To help him laugh a Comedian Ryan Lachance in a photo posted to his Facebook page. little in the face of grief, an uncle of his gave Lachance some highlights some local Lachance, a showagain for participatCDs and DVDs case at Vancouver ing in the fundraiser shows he’s booked featuring comedian Fringe Festival in to perform, includand donating. You Billy Connolly. He’d early September. all have given me the ing one at Elements click on one of the Since birth, Casino in Cloverdale ability to make my discs every time he on Aug. 3. Other gigs Lachance has had dreams come true! needed to cheer up. of his are at Hood29 to deal with his I love you all and quadspastic cerebral The jokes made him Comedy in VancouI can’t thank you laugh, alright, and palsy, which limits ver, an appearance enough! Be good to at BlackBerry Festi- the use of all four of also gave him inspiraeach other.” his limbs and also his tion to perform comval in Powell River For now, edy for a living. speech. and, in a first for Lachance’s website

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 drama tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover’s Corners between the years 1901 and 1913 from the viewpoint of its citizens.

The show is directed by Rebecca Walters, Peninsula’s associate artistic director.

It’s an ideal first show for the reworked Peninsula space, which lends itself to flexible and experimental productions that emphasize imaginative acting and stagecraft over traditional proscenium arch presentation.

“It starts with an empty stage,” Walters says in the press release for Our Town, “and the stage manager welcoming us and introducing us to the town. A few chairs, a couple of ladders, and eight very talented actors, each playing a number of roles, bring this story to life – it’s pretty magical.”

Cast members are Colleen Byberg, Hailey Conner, Ryan Kniel, Damion LeClair, Michelle Morris, David Underhill, Katie Voravong, and Elliot Wesley. Tickets can be purchased at brownpapertickets.com.

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HERITAGE Dominion Day event at Historic Stewart Farm, 13723 Crescent Rd., on Saturday, June 29 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free admission. “Celebrate Canada Day the old-fashioned way with heritage demonstrations, live music and performers and oldfashioned games with prizes.”

Info: 604-592-6956.

SPORTS/REC Surrey Rides skateboard event series at various parks in Surrey to Sept. 7, on select dates. “Surrey Rides is open to riders 21 years of age and under, and all skill levels are invited to come to various Youth Parks to build confidence and sharpen their skills in a safe and competitive environment.”

Info and schedule: surrey.ca/ surreyrides.

The 2019 Canada Cup International Softball Championship will showcase in Surrey some of the best female athletes from across

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Canada and the world from July 5-14. The tournament will host more than 1,000 elite athletes spanning five divisions: Women’s International, Futures Gold (U19), Futures Select (U19), Showcase Gold (16U) and Showcase Select (16U). Info: canadacup.com.

EMPLOYMENT Surrey Job Fair 2019 at Newton Arena on Saturday, June 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Job seekers will be able to explore career options with employers such as retail stores, restaurants, service providers, banks, credit unions and crown corporations; while employers will meet and recruit motivated job seekers.

Networking and building brand awareness will be additional opportunities.” Info: surreyjobfair.com, 604-7260500.

Taron Egerton plays rocker Elton John in the musical biopic “Rocketman,” now playing at Newton’s Hollywood 3 Cinema.

For show times, visit hollywood3.ca or call 604-592-4441. testing, fitness fashion show, product sampling, exercise classes, cooking demos, farm market and more. Contact: Rina Gill, rina@thehypeadagency. com, 778-688-4973.

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music festival at Surrey’s Holland Park on the weekend of July 5-6, presented by Blueprint and Live Nation Canada. Features hip-hop, R&B, rap, electronic and pop music. Tickets and lineup at fvdedinthepark.com.

Surrey Fusion Festival: Annual event features music, Surrey Pride Festival: Annual food and more at Holland Park on the weekend of community event planned on July 20-21, from 11 a.m. to Saturday, June 29 at Central 10 p.m. daily. “Presented City Shopping Centre’s plaza

by Coast Capital Savings, area, where the organization’s this favourite community 20th anniversary will be festival will keep you busy celebrated with a party from 3 throughout the weekend with to 8 p.m. Attractions to include live music, drag, lip sync, vendor live performances, cultural booths, a family zone and more. pavilions and interactive cultural activities. Don’t miss Surreypride.ca. headline performances from Surrey Canada Day event 2Baba and Sharry Mann.” Info. at Bill Reid Millennium Artist Talk and Summer surrey.ca/fusionfestival.

Opening Reception at Surrey Amphitheatre in Cloverdale Clover Valley Beer Festival: on Monday, July 1, featuring Art Gallery on Friday, June At Bill Reid Millennium headliner Our Lady Peace, Bif 28 from 6:30 to 9 p.m., at Bear Amphitheatre in Cloverdale on Naked, rides, food, Cloverdale Creek Park facility. “Celebrate Saturday, Aug. 20 from noon Rodeo zone, sensory-friendly art and artists in our four to 5 p.m., featuring live music, space and zip line and much summer shows: ARTS 2019, more. At 17728 64 Ave. from 10 40+ Breweries, 80+ brews and The Built World Around Us: A more, with partial proceeds Juried Photography Show, Cindy a.m., with fireworks finale at to Twins Cancer Fundraising.

Mochizuki: Autumn Strawberry, 10:30 p.m. For more details, go Event presented by Gibbons to surrey.ca/canadaday. and Sara Khan: Suraj Kinare.”

Whistler. Tickets from $50 to FVDED in the Park: Khalid, Exhibiting artist Cindy $80. Info, tickets: cvbf.ca, also Zedd, Tory Lanez and French Mochizuki will give an artist talk about her TechLab summer Montana will headline the fifth showpass.com/cvbf. Event at 17728 64 Ave., Surrey. edition of this large annual residency in partnership with event at Surrey City Hall Plaza on Saturday, Aug. 24 from 1 to 5 p.m., 13450 104 Ave. 102.7 THE PEAK and The Surrey Fire Fighters’ Charitable Society will host the 3rd annual Battle, “a fun charity event will offer attendees a great afternoon of craft beer tasting, delicious food sampling and 102.7 THE PEAK will be live on site.

Attendees will get the ability to vote for their favourite beers.

All net proceeds from the event will fund Athletics 4 Kids and Surrey Fire Fighters’ Charitable Society youth initiatives.”

Tickets $40-$50 at on the website eventbrite.ca.

the Nikkei Museum, at 6:30pm.

Welcoming remarks and announcement of the ARTS 2019 and Surrey Photography Club award recipients will start at 7:30pm, followed by a reception.

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FOOD/DRINKS 4 Course Stanley Park Brewing Beer or Wine Pairing Dinner at Edith + Arthur Public House in Fleetwood on July 31, 6:30 p.m.

Pairing dinner is $40, tickets at eventbrite.ca. “Our chef will present a 4 course dinner, perfectly paired with 4 Stanley Park Brewing Beers or Wines.”

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Three Oral Health Habits To Squash ASAP If not nipped in the bud, bad oral health habits can lead to increased tooth sensitivity, tooth fractures, tooth decay, the development of bad breath and even serious health problems. Here are three bad oral health habits that need to be nixed right away.

1. CONSUMING TOO MUCH SUGAR The bacteria in your mouth thrive on the sugars and starches you consume, converting them into acids that deteriorate tooth enamel, cause cavities and lead to excessive plaque buildup.

When you eat sugary snacks throughout the day, your mouth gets

overwhelmed by tooth-rotting acids.

If you’re going to snack, it’s far better to choose something healthy like nuts, hard cheeses and crunchy vegetables.

In addition, you should guard against frequently sipping on sugary beverages such as juice, sports drinks and soft drinks. Consuming these items can coat your teeth with excessive amounts of sugar. Instead, make water your go-to beverage — it’s a far more hydrating option, anyway.

2. BITING YOUR NAILS Constantly biting your nails can damage your teeth. Moreover, it exposes

your mouth to the bacteria that’s under your nails. Cutting your nails short and applying a bitter-tasting nail polish can help you curb this nervous habit.

3. CHEWING ON ICE Habitually crunching on ice cubes can cause tiny fissures to form on your tooth enamel, thereby weakening your teeth and making you more prone to tooth sensitivity and tooth decay. In some cases, chewing on ice can even lead to chipping or breaking a tooth.

Lastly, neglecting to brush and floss regularly is the ultimate bad oral health habit. To protect your teeth, be sure to brush and floss them every day.

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Surrey’s Heritage Rail to celebrate first responders on Canada Day weekend Samantha Anderson Black Press Media

appreciation to Cloverdale’s Fire Hall No. 8, which is located a mere 350 metres Surrey’s Heritage Rail will away from Cloverdale Stahost a special celebration of tion, on Saturday, June 29.

The ceremony, scheduled Surrey’s first responders on for 11 a.m., will be accompaCanada Day weekend. nied by the Surrey FirefightIt was guest experience director Stephen Plant’s idea ers Pipe & Drum Band.

First responders who idento start a new annual traditify themselves to heritage tion. rail volunteers will receive “We wanted to do something special around Canada a complimentary train ride Day weekend,” he said. “My ticket on the Saturday, and they and their family will thoughts were, we should also get a tour of the Frank salute a group of people in Horne Heritage Discovery our neighbourhood who might not be getting enough Centre.

The public is welcome attention.”

Immediately, Surrey’s first to come and watch the presentation, or to check responders came to mind.

For the inaugural celebra- out the station during the day-long celebration, which tion, the Fraser Valley Herwill feature live music and itage Railway Society will be presenting a certificate of volunteers dressed in period

costumes.

Cloverdale Station offers train rides on a fully restored interurban rail car. The 55-minute round-trip takes passengers from Cloverdale to Sullivan Station and back.

Visitors can also learn about the history of B.C.’s interurban rail in the Frank Horne Heritage Discover Centre. The museum houses rail cars undergoing restoration, as well as a self-propelled velocipede and a speeder that visitors can ride.

Cloverdale Station, located at 17630 56 Ave., opens at 9:30 a.m. and closes after the last train returns at about 4 p.m. For more information on Surrey’s Heritage Rail, visit the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society’s website at fvhrs.org.

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Over the next few months, we will continue this tradition with 150 acts of giving across our province to celebrate what makes our neighbourhoods great.

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Delta water park-goers will dance to music by Surrey DJ this summer Tom Zillich tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com

South Delta’s Big Splash water park will have an expanded entertainment lineup this summer, including sets of dance music played by Surrey-based DJ Alibaba.

Alibaba, whose real name is Al Lamons, will be at the park every Saturday afternoon from noon to 4 p.m., starting June 29 – the park’s grand-opening day for 2019.

The facility’s online entertainment calendar also features Ocean Wise AquaVan and Science World shows on alternating Wednesdays, “Throwback Thursday” afternoons with Kirby Snell Dance, a Canadian Trivia Bingo event on July 1 and select reduced-admission days for teachers, first responders, doctors, nurses and others.

Winners of a weekly Summer Swag contest will be announced every Saturday during Alibaba’s set, with free admission for two up for grabs. Other contests this summer include Big Splash Memories and a “Beavy the Beaver” annual song competition.

The seven-acre resort style park features 13 body and tube slides including the year-old Boomerango, the only slide of its kind in Western Canada.

Other Big Splash attractions include beach volleyball, basketball, ping-pong tables, Vegas-style cabanas, a sports field and grass areas for sunbathing and other activities.

In a press release, the park is billed as “the perfect summer venue for birthdays, corporate events or private parties of any size including a new

ABOVE: Poolside drinks at Big Splash water park in Tsawwassen. SUBMITTED PHOTO LEFT: DJ Alibaba (aka Al Lamons) pictured in 2015. FILE PHOTO

Buy-Out option to have the park all to yourself,” with bookings available online at bigsplashwaterpark.ca/ groups.

At the full-service cabanas, “a fully licensed bar and patio with live DJ

will make it feel like you’re at a Vegas pool party while you sip on summer chill cocktails and icy cold local draft beer,” the release promises. “Three eateries with new menus offer freshly in-house made options from handmade pizza, charbroiled burgers, specialty hot dogs, crispy calamari, and healthy salads.”

Owned and operated by Executive Hotels & Resorts since 2017, Big Splash was known as Splashdown under previous owners of the water park. The new owners renovated and rebranded the facility after more than three decades of operation at the site, 4775 Nulelum Way in Tsawwassen.

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Cloverdale women are off to Italy in July for 2019 FISU Universiade Kristen Sakaki and Elizabeth Hicks will play for Team Canada at international tournament

Samantha Anderson Black Press Media

Two Cloverdale soccer players are off to Italy in July to play for Team Canada at the 2019 FISU Universiade.

Kristen Sakaki and Elizabeth Hicks are both 20-year-old defence players with the Trinity Western University Spartans.

They grew up in Cloverdale, and continue to call the area home while they study at the Langley campus.

The two met in Grade 3, playing soccer when they were about eight years old. They played for Surrey United Soccer together, first against one another, and then on the same team.

Kristen Sakaki went on to attend Lord Tweedsmuir, and Elizabeth Hicks went to Clayton Heights — “two rival schools,” Hicks said.

Now, years later, the teammates are amping up for their Universiade tournament.

Team Canada coach Peyvand Mossavat “had their eye on a couple girls from our team,” Sakaki explained.

Mossavat watched Sakaki and Hicks play at nationals in Ottawa, and then at the Keg Cup in Victoria, where they faced off against soccer teams from UBC, UVic and the University of Alberta.

Mossavat called Hicks and Sakaki after the Keg Cup and invited them to come to Ontario for the final tryout for Team Canada, where they met 30 other women competing for spots as well.

“I was really nervous but it was a really cool experience,” said Hicks. It was “a challenge

PHOTO COURTESY OF ELIZABETH HICKS

Cloverdale soccer players Kristen Sakaki and Elizabeth Hicks are off to the 2019 FISU Universiade in Napoli, Italy, in July. for sure, [but one] that paid off.”

It won’t be the first time that soccer has taken the two to a different continent. As well as travelling across Canada with their team, playing soccer with TWU brought them to Peru last year.

“Out Trinity team, we went to South America to play the Peruvian national team and to do some humanitarian, missions work,” said Hicks. The two weeks in Lima and Cusco were “incredible,” she said, especially being able to experience “the culture, even just the different playing style of the [Peruvian] team.”

Sakaki and Hicks are excited for the next adventure, which will take them to Portugal for a one-week training camp,

and then on to Napoli for the tournament.

The university games will have 60 countries represented, and 300 Canadians will be competing in everything from soccer to archery.

Both Sakaki and Hicks are looking forward to getting to know their teammates better on the field.

“Even at the tryout we were just starting to gel a bit,” said Sakaki.

“When you play against them and you’re kind of rivals and then you play together — you joke about it,” she said. “‘Oh, you’re actually not that bad,’” said Hicks, as both laughed.

The most challenging part of the tournament will be “to mesh as a team, in such a

short amount of time,” said Sakaki.

“I mean, you get to know them at the tryout but to play together, I think that will be difficult. We’re all good players, but you have to come together as a team,” she said.

For Hicks, it’s that and more. “Everyone is on this team for a reason — they’re all very talented — so it can be a bit intimidating.”

The challenge is “ just believing in yourself and trusting yourself, and learning to play with a bunch of new girls that you’ve just met. But that’s part of the experience,” she said.

The two were scheduled to depart for Portugal last week, and continue to fundraise to cover expenses, which will cost them about $6,300 each, through GoFundMe. They haven’t reached their fundraising goals yet, but they are very thankful for the support they’ve received so far.

“It’s so nice to see the support of your family and friends,” said Sakaki.

“The amount of emails and messages I’ve gotten — it’s been pretty cool,” Hicks agreed.

The support from their TWU coach, Graham Roxburgh, and their teammates at TWU has also been phenomenal, they said.

“We wouldn’t have gotten recognized without their support,” Sakaki said.

Coach Roxburgh “advocated for us and made us the players that we are,” said Hicks.

Their teammates have “supported us too through this experience,” said Hicks, “[and] affirmed that we should be on this team. It’s cool to have them rally behind you when you’re kind of representing them as well. It’s encouraging.”

A live broadcast of the Universiade competition, to be played from July 3 to 14, can be watched on the FISU website, fisu.net/media/fisutv.

—with files from Ryan Uytdewilligen

Poker

Third career WSOP win for former pro hockey player Mueller Greg Mueller has a new World Series of Poker bracelet to add to his collection.

The White Rock-based poker player, a former pro hockey player, won his third career World Series bracelet on June 14 in Las Vegas, competing in the prestigious series’ $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. event.

The victory was the 48-year-old’s third career WSOP bracelet – but his first in 10 years. In 2009, he won a pair of bracelets in no-limit hold’em tournaments 11 days apart.

This month’s win, and the ensuring $425,000 payday, boosted Mueller’s lifetime WSOP winnings to more than $2.8 million, according to the poker series.

The H.O.R.S.E event is Greg Mueller “one of the more coveted titles on the WSOP” slate, according to organizers. It’s a mixed-game event – meaning competitors play a variety of games, including hi-lo, hold’em and seven-card stud – and the field was full of bracelet-winning players.

Mueller, who played pro hockey in Germany from 1992 to 1999, had to come from behind in order to win. At the final table, he was one of two players to reel in the chip leader, Dario Sammartino, before beating Daniel Ospina in heads-up play to take down the tournament.

Mueller said he’s been playing less poker than in previous years, which made his third-ever bracelet that much tougher to win – and sweeter to enjoy.

“I just haven’t played that many tournaments in a long time, and I had to get the bug to play again,” he said in a news release. “I was working hard in the offseason… I wanted to know if I could still play the game.

“I just felt like, ‘Do I still have it? Has the game passed me by?’ That type of thing.”

His most recent win also prompted him to reflect on his first two WSOP victories a decade ago, as well as many near-misses he’s had since – including a seventh-place finish at a WSOP event last year, two third-place finishes in 2013 and a second-place finish in 2012.

He’s competed in many other tournaments since, including many televised events.

“To win the first bracelet… obviously it was awesome, chasing the dream. I loved poker.

I loved it; I couldn’t wait to walk to the Rio (Hotel and Casino) and play another event. I just loved it,” he said.

“Being a little bit older, I don’t really love poker as much any more. It’s more of a grind and stuff for me… But winning one a long time ago, and not really caring as much, I was like, ‘You know what? I want to win one again.’”

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For more information: Clover Towing Ltd. 5340 192nd St Surrey, BC. Closing dates for bids July 3rd, 2019 Pursuant to the Warehouse Lien Act in BC - integrated recovery solutions corp. does here by give notice to the following that your vehicle will be sold for nonpayment plus fees, storage & costs accruing.

Williams, Charlene Nicole for a 2014 CHEVROLET CRUZE FOR THE AMOUNT OF $1634.00 AND A 2013 TOYOTA M A T R I X 2T1KU4EE0DC995559 sale will take place 07/10/2019 or there after. please call irsc at 604595-7376 for information

REPAIRER’S LIEN ACT Whereas, Summit Leasing Corp. & PMJ Trucking Ltd. is indebted to ATR Truck Repair Ltd. for repair’s on a 2009 Volvo, VIN: 4V4NC9TJ29N272494. There is presently an amount due and owing of $29,754.29, plus any additional costs of storage, seizure and sale. Notice is hereby given that on the 26th day of July, 2019 or thereafter, the said truck will be sold. For more information call Elite Bailiff Services Ltd. (604) 539-9900.

Warehouse Lien Act Kenneth Thompson The following will be sold to satisfy funds owing to West Canada Civil Enforcement. $1600 plus storage and all costs incurred by this action.

2014 Suzuki LS650l4 JS1NP41A7E2100795 Sale date after 09/01/2019 at West Canada Civil Enforcement www.repobc.ca 604.856.8164 www.RepoBC.ca

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