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A moment after a teenage girl dropped off flowers and a personalized note Monday afternoon, a beam of light filtered through the tree branches where Surrey’s Caleb Reimer, 16, Ronin Sharma, 16, and Parker Magnuson, 17, were killed in a car crash early Saturday morning. The loss has been felt across the City of Surrey and North American hockey community. (Photo: Aaron Hinks)

he only noises that could be heard at the base of a large evergreen tree near 164 Street and 104 Avenue Monday afternoon (Aug. 23) were passing cars and the solemn sound of a teenage girl weeping.

Two days prior, that tree was at the centre of a chaotic emergency scene with firefighters, police officers and paramedics scrambling to save the lives of three teen boys.

Caleb Reimer, 16, Ronin Sharma, 16, and Parker Magnuson, 17, were travelling on 164 Street shortly before 3 a.m.

Saturday when their vehicle veered off the road and struck the tree.

They were only a short distance from home, but they were killed instantly.

On Monday, the young, weeping girl was dropping off flowers and a personalized,

From left, Caleb Reimer, Ronin Sharma and Parker Magnuson were killed in a crash Saturday morning. hand-written note. She was adding to a makeshift memorial that has steadily grown since the day of the collision.

The girl placed her offering at the base of the tree and took a step back.

At that moment, if only for a fleeting second, the clouds parted and a beam of light filtered through the branches of the evergreen, as if it were a message from above.

“Heaven gained another angel,” read one of the dozens of notes left by the tree.

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Continued from A1 Sunday afternoon, the memorial was buzzing with news media interviewing people who dropped by to pay their respects.

The family of one of the victims arrived and before they approached the tree, a police officer swiftly asked reporters to turn their cameras away so they could pay tribute in peace.

Overcome with grief, the family huddled at the foot of the memorial, shedding painful tears. They slowly circled the evergreen, reading notes left by others.

“May you find love, support and comfort during this difficult time. You are in our thoughts and prayers,” read one of the notes, which was attached to a hockey stick.

One family member appeared to survey the ground, seemingly trying to make sense of how the crash could have happened.

That’s a question that many likely have on their mind. The answer will come from Surrey RCMP Criminal Collision Investigation Team, the Integrated Collision Analysis Reconstructive Services and forensic reports.

Once finalized, Surrey RCMP will speak to the families involved before making a public statement.

“We want to make sure that the families first and foremost have an opportunity to have that,” said Sgt. Elenore Sturko, adding that more information could be coming in the next few days.

In the meantime, Surrey residents can help cover funeral expenses for the three teens.

A GoFundMe page has raised more than $46,000 as of Tuesday morning. A representative

A quick look at some of the news in the community you might have missed. Send your news items to edit@ surreynowleader.com The BC Wildfire Service said nearly 250 forest fires were burning across the province as of Monday, down from nearly 270 a week ago.

The blazes that have scorched several parts of Western Canada have affected wildlife populations incinerating their habitat, which may take many years to recover, says Karen Hodges, a professor of conservation ecology at the University of British Columbia.

Jerseys of Caleb Reimer, Ronin Sharma and Parker Magnuson hang at the entrance to Delta Hockey Academy’s home rink, Planet Ice in North Delta, where the three Surrey-area hockey players trained in recent years. The teens died in a car crash in Fraser Heights early Saturday, Aug. 21. (Photo: Tom Zillich) from GoFundMe contacted the Now-Leader and said the organization will make sure the money is allocated appropriately.

“Please continue to pray, send condolences, and wrap your arms around the three families as they struggle to deal with a loss so great,” the GoFundMe page read.

The loss is being felt across the hockey community. The boys were all Delta Hockey Academy players who had made the leap to junior hockey.

Reimer was drafted 18th overall by the Edmonton Oil Kings in 2019. He helped the team win the 2020-21 WHL Central Division Championship.

Oil Kings general manager Kirt Hill said he will never forget how excited Reimer was to be drafted by the organization.

“We will truly miss having Caleb in our lives each and every day. He was part of our family and we will be a tremendous loss in all of our hearts,” Hill said in a statement.

Sharma was a second-year player for the Langley Rivermen. The BCHL team released a statement saying Sharma enriched the lives of those around him. “We will all miss you Ronin. May you rest in peace,” the statement said.

In the 2019-2020 season, Magnuson played 34 games with the Delta Hockey Academy Elite 15s. He registered 12 goals and 14 assists. The following season, he played five games with the academy’s U17 prep team, scoring each a goal and an assist.

Layne Magnuson, who is a relative of Parker, asked if people

could not send gifts or flowers to the family home.

“They do appreciate all of the thoughts and prayers coming in from everywhere,” Layne wrote on Facebook. “I want you all to know that they are surrounded by family who are trying to help them get through this tough time.”

Hockey players and leagues across North America have been offering condolences to the three young athletes, including the National Hockey League.

“The NHL sends its love and deepest condolences to the families of junior hockey players Caleb Reimer, Ronin Sharma and Parker Magnuson who tragically passed away in a car accident on Saturday,” the NHL tweeted.

“Rest in peace, boys.”

Ross Banner, 71 at the time of his arrest, has been found guilty of manslaughter in the case of a White Rock senior who died after being assaulted early last year.

Between 200 and 250 illegal fishing nets have been seized on the Fraser River so far this year, according to Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO).

Police are looking for a man who stole money from a nine-year-old boy as the child was walking along 216th Street in Maple Ridge on Saturday (Aug. 21).

Kelowna RCMP Const. Lacy Browning, who is at the centre of a high-profile wellness check of a UBCO student, has been charged with assault in connection to the incident on Jan. 20, 2020.

With B.C.’s court system facing a backlog of trials that won’t be caught up for years, the province is considering putting an end to juries in civil cases.

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The founder of a White Rock thrift store that opened eight years ago with the sole purpose of supporting Haiti says help is needed more than ever now, in the aftermath of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the impoverished country on Aug. 14.

Laura Mawhinney, owner of Project Aftershock, said Tuesday (Aug. 24) that the organization’s medical team in Haiti has been deployed to the one of the hardest-hit areas, and that “thousands of dollars in wound care supplies and life medicines” have been purchased.

“Everyone is working so hard together and doing a remarkable job,” Mawhinney said in an Instagram post, of the Haitian-led team of two doctors, two nurses and a medical co-ordinator who are working at a hospital near the epicentre.

“I haven’t slept in days,” Mawhinney wrote in an email to Black Press Media Tuesday, explaining 24-7 efforts to co-ordinate patient care and remain accessible to the team.

“Many hospitals are overwhelmed with patients and still many areas have not been reached. Our team plans to assess some surrounding towns and villages to see if there’s anyway we can support the victims.”

As of Sunday (Aug. 23), the death toll in Haiti had surpassed 2,200, with 344 people still missing. The quake – centred on the nation’s southwestern peninsula – also injured

more than 12,000 and destroyed nearly 53,000 homes.

It’s the latest in a series of tragedies to rock the country over the past two years.

“Within just the past several months a hurricane, heavy gang violence, the assassination of their president, a massive earthquake and tropical storm Grace,” Mawhinney writes. “I honestly don’t know how anyone could handle back-to-back tragic events such as this.”

Mawhinney’s heart for Haiti dates back to 2010, when she travelled there on the heels of that year’s earthquake to volunteer as a nurse.

She said that trip “rocked me to the core and changed the entire trajectory of my life.” It was a pull she’d never felt before – and it has anything but lessened in the years since, inspiring her Marine Drive thrift store, “dozens” of trips to Haiti, sponsorship of

a Haitian family and even two years of calling the Caribbean country home.

Normally, Mawhinney would have been en route to Haiti herself now, but explained that in recent years, the reins of the operation have been handed over to Project Aftershock’s in-country partner James Alexandre, founder of Chedesapa, an organization that was created to provide health care in Cité Soleil, a commune of extreme poverty in the Port-au-Prince area.

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“It’s been a long road of learning and growing but we feel so good about the way we

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“I will be back, but now is not the time.”

Crediting also the volunteers who help at her White Rock store, Mawhinney said it’s “truly a group effort to provide medical support for those who need it most.”

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A small group of Vancouver-based Afghan-Canadians is scrambling to help their countrymen and women after the fall of Kabul.

Shortly after U.S. forces withdrew from the country and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled, the Taliban swept into Kabul Aug. 15. Thousands of Afghans who were once promised safety by foreign governments were left stranded in the country, vulnerable and unable to escape.

Former Afghan journalist Zahra Hashemi, who left Kabul for Vancouver six years ago, immediately formed a group amongst her friends to assist both refugees and Afghans stuck in the country. She said one of her concerns is how the federal government is identifying the 20,000 refugees it promised to bring into Canada.

Women and children are at particular risk, she said, adding she has family and friends in the country.

“To be honest, they are terrified.”

To make matters worse, Hashemi said the media isn’t portraying an accurate image of what’s happening on the ground.

“They’re trying to normalize the existence of the Taliban in Afghanistan but it’s not actually like that,”

People sit in a German Bundeswehr airplane at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 17, as the federal armed forces evacuates German citizens and local Afghans who worked for Germany. (Bundeswehr via AP) a month or so but then they started to show their real faces. It’s something they have experienced and that’s why they are terrified.”

Hashemi said her small group, which was only formed on Aug. 15, is looking to expand. Many of the Afghans applying to become a refugee don’t speak English, and Hashemi said her group needs help assisting Afghans through the process.

Another focus of the group, she said, is assisting To be honest, refugees once they arrive to Canada. they are “Canada is not prepared terrified. for this many refugees because there was a decision Zahra Hashemi made very quickly by the government. We’re trying to participate in this process Speaking to photographs and do as much as we can and videos of Afghan’s clinging to American planes here because we cannot do as they left Kabul, Hashemi anything in Afghanistan.”

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“The multi-phase facility has What should Newton’s new com- the potential to provide expanded aquatic, cultural, library, and recmunity centre look like? reation opportunities,” a survey The City of Surrey wants to know, as part of an online survey intro says.

The survey, at engage.surrey.ca, that involves a draw of $100 gift cards for five lucky residents who is open until Sept. 12. More project details are posted to surrey.ca/ voice their opinion. newtoncommunitycentre.

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Construction will begin in the winter of 2022 and the facility is expected to be open by the end of 2024.

Last October, the city council unanimously authorized city staff to purchase 16 adjacent parcels of land in Newton for future parkland, road alignment and civic projects. The move involved 7.24 acres, part of which embraces

the former site of the Rona store, which closed permanently in January 2020.

On June 1 of this year, Surrey council approved a $4,357,069.60 to TKA+D Architecture + Design Inc. and MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects Ltd. for the Newton Community Centre construction project.

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The “Drop Zone” fundraising event returns to the exterior of a Surrey office tower in September.

For a third year in Surrey, the Easter Seals-hosted event challenges people to “step outside their comfort zone and rappel down the outside of an office tower, all in support of children and adults with disabilities.”

This year, brave “superheroes” will rappel down the Central City tower on Tuesday, Sept. 14, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Funds raised help send children and adults with disabilities to Easter Seals summer camps.

“I’ve personally scaled down the building and it’s quite an experience,” said Gavin Toy, president and CEO

of Prospera Credit Union, an event sponsor.

“Stepping over the edge of the building definitely raised the adrenaline, but it was absolutely worth it to support this amazing organization,” Toy added in a news release.

“We’re proud to continue to be able to support Easter Seals House and Easter Seals Camp, two essential programs supporting individuals with disabilities to live an active life, seek their potential, and contribute to their communities.”

Registration details are posted to dropzonebc.ca. Other Drop Zone fundraisers are planned for buildings in Burnaby, Vancouver and Kelowna.

In 2019, Now-Leader reporter Lauren Collins did the Surrey “Drop Zone” and wrote a column about how conquering your fear is easier when it’s

for charity.

The fundraiser is open to both individuals and organizations, “many of whom use the event to engage their employees and focus their fundraising efforts towards one worthy cause: Easter Seals,” according to a news release.

“We hold the event right downtown during the business day,” said Lisa Beck, president and CEO of Easter Seals BC/Yukon, “so companies like to make it part of an employee event, where everyone can watch and cheer each other on, whether it’s on the ground or from an office window.

“We’ve seen employees nominate a member of their leadership for a ‘Toss Your Boss’ day, and other departments band together to form a team to bring their employees together. It’s a lot of fun to see people come dressed as a superhero.”

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Doors of the company’s 39,000-square-foot Guildford Village store will open Thursday, Aug. 26, at 15615

104th Ave. Grand-opening celebrations involve 600 free items to be given away to shoppers from Aug. 26-29, including $10 Save-On-Foods gift cards, More Rewards points,

Surrey Urban Farmers Market now being held at Royal Kwantlen Park tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com

It’s a fresh start for Surrey Urban Farmers Market (SUFM) at Royal Kwantlen Park.

For the rest of summer and into October, the event will be held there every second Saturday, including Aug. 28, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

More than a dozen vendors set up in the parking near the corner of 104th Avenue and Old Yale Road.

“The park is huge,” raved Anna Hall, market manager.

“We will have all the room we need to grow at this park.”

The first SUFM market of 2021 was held at Royal Kwantlen Park on July 31 after a false start at Hawthorne Rotary Park. Due to increased congestion in the parking lot there, city hall helped market organizers find another location elsewhere in North Surrey.

“We had a late start this summer,”

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take-and-bake pizzas, flower bouquets and more, according to a news release.

The Guildford Village store will open daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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Hall explained. “And last year we were online only (due to the pandemic), so it’s a new start for us.

Next year the plan is to go every Saturday from June to October. Royal Kwantlen feels like a good spot for us, a really nice spot. Hopefully this is our final home where we can stay.”

In addition to Aug. 28, the remaining market dates this year are Sept. 11, Sept. 25 and Oct. 9.

Vendors are sought for the market, with details posted to surreymarket.org. For the general public, market updates are posted to facebook. com/surreymarket.

Elsewhere in Surrey, Clayton Community Farmer’s Market is held at Clayton Heights Secondary School Parking Lot (7003 188 St.) every other Sunday from May 2 to Oct. 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The next market date is Sept. 5. For dates and more info, visit claytonfarmersmarket.org.

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Be diligent with your vote

W

ith a federal election looming, campaign signs, advertisements, candidates speeches and other messaging are slowly becoming commonplace.

The various candidates on the ballot will each be asking for the opportunity to represent their ridings at the federal level, and the parties are presenting their visions for Canada. This is an important role. The decisions made by the federal government will affect us now and in the years to come.

Casting a vote is seldom an

easy process.

The act of voting involves leaving a mark beside the name of one candidate on a ballot, but selecting that candidate can be a challenge.

While it is possible for one candidate or one party to stand out as better than the other options, it is more likely to have to consider a series of compromises.

For example, a voter may want a specific local candidate, but not that party’s leadership.

A party’s platform may seem positive in one area but

questionable in another.

This is why the campaign period is so important.

During the coming weeks, each candidate and each party will present the reasons they deserve support.

Consider the candidates, and whether you think each would be able to work effectively in Ottawa, for the good of your riding and for the good of the country.

The present and the future direction of our country will be affected by the outcome of this election.

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Surrey ridings have pivotal role to play in federal election Frankly Speaking Frank Bucholtz

A federal election almost everyone was expecting, and almost no one wanted, is here. Once again Surrey, White Rock and Delta residents will play a pivotal role.

Prime Minister and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau called the election because he wants a majority government. While he has had an almost free reign in Ottawa since being re-elected with a minority of parliamentary seats in 2019, it isn’t enough. He covets the almost absolute power that prime ministers with a majority of seats have with Canada’s parliamentary system.

He’s taking a risk, as COVID19 is far from over and many people feel an election is a useless diversion from critical work that

the federal government should be doing. While Premier John Horgan was rewarded last October with a majority when he called a B.C. election after three years of a minority situation, Trudeau faces many more obstacles in his quest.

There are six seats in Surrey, Delta and White Rock. In 2015, when Trudeau won a majority, five of them went Liberal. The 17 B.C. seats the Liberals won that year were the most since Trudeau’s father Pierre began his 15-year reign as prime minister in 1968.

In 2019, the number of local Liberal seats went down to four, and there is no guarantee that the Liberals can hold all four this time around. The Conservatives were close in several seats, and the NDP vote total rose in 2019 after falling in 2015. In that election, two incumbent NDP MPs from Surrey were defeated.

A number of factors favour the NDP improving its vote totals this

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time around. Party leader Jagmeet Singh has become better known and appeals to many people. The strong NDP results in Surrey and North Delta in the provincial election last year could contribute to more NDP votes. And a third factor is the challenges facing the Green Party, which has been boosting its vote totals but was recently engaged in a civil war.

While the Conservatives do not have the strength they once had in Surrey and Delta, new leader Erin O’Toole has been making a concerted effort to become better known in this area, through telephone town halls and Zoom speaking engagements. The leaders of the three major parties will be in Surrey numerous times during the campaign – Trudeau has already been here to pour beer in Cloverdale.

If there are any “safe” seats in this year’s election, they are most likely Surrey-Newton and South

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Surrey-White Rock. Sukh Dhaliwal has held the Newton-area seat since 2006 with one exception – he lost to Jinny Sims of the NDP in 2011. In 2019, he won by more than 6,600 votes over NDP candidate Harjit Singh Gill.

In South Surrey-White Rock, Conservative Kerry-Lynne Findlay won the 2019 election by close to 3,000 votes, defeating Liberal incumbent Gordie Hogg. He had won a byelection in 2017, but the riding has long trended small-c conservative. The two are now engaging in their third rematch in four years.

The other three will be more competitive. Former Liberal MP John Aldag is seeking to beat Conservative Tamara Jansen in Cloverdale-Langley City again after losing his seat to her in 2019 by a bit less than 1,400 votes. Ken Hardie won Fleetwood-Port Kells in 2019 by just under 2,000 votes over Conservative Shinder Purewal, but

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this time around he is facing wellknown former BC Liberal MLA Dave Hayer as the Conservative candidate.

Surrey Centre was pretty safe for Liberal incumbent Randeep Sarai in 2019, as he was ahead of second-place finisher Sarjit Singh Saran by just over 4,000 votes. This riding often splits three ways, and this will likely happen again. Since it was initially formed as Surrey North in 1993, it has had NDP, Reform, independent, Conservative, NDP and Liberal MPs, in that order.

Liberal Carla Qualtrough won the Delta seat in 2015, held it easily in 2019 and is likely to do so again.

She won by more than 4,400 votes in 2019, after piling up a 9,000-vote margin in 2015. She is popular in the riding and, as a cabinet minister, has a higher profile.

Frank Bucholtz writes twice a month for the Now-Leader.

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DEBATE ROSES AND ROTTEN TOMATOES: Do you have someone you would like to thank? Or maybe something to get off your chest? Email your rose or rotten tomato to edit@surreynowleader.com. z Rotten tomatoes to the neighbour who doesn’t like the sound of young children playing. She turns her radio so loud in her backyard to chase away neighbours and their kids.

It was blaring for a full eight hours before police arrived. We are mere steps away from an elementary school and there is a pandemic, so stop being a bully and let the kids play. z Roses to Mayor Doug McCallum, who campaigned on bringing Surrey its own police force.

It’s not often a politician lives up to their campaign promises – Trudeau is a prime example. I couldn’t be more fed up than with the tiresome people attempting to deny the city what we undeniably

deserve for reasons impossible to understand. z Roses to condos/ townhomes that restrict barbecues and the use of candles. This may lower the cost of monthly fees.

You will be less at risk. z Roses to all the staff at

Surrey Memorial Hospital.

I broke my wrist on July 17 and had a cast put on and I had surgery on July 27. On both occasions, everyone was professional, courteous, friendly, efficient and kind. Thanks again for all you do day

after day. z Rotten tomatoes to the careless people who lit up firecrackers and fireworks in the vicinity of Queen Elizabeth Secondary school on Aug. 11, despite a province-wide fire ban and restrictions.

Letters

Referendum drive smells like astroturf The Editor, Re: “Surrey police petition won’t be going provincewide,” the Now-Leader online.

There is a term used in politics that describes campaigns that are presented as growing organically from the community but are actually driven, and funded, by more powerful interests operating behind the scenes. The term is astroturf, and it is a play on the artificial (turf) nature of such campaigns when compared with the grassroots community movements they aim to imitate.

The local campaign for a referendum on policing in Surrey is giving off a very strong scent of astroturf. And that scent trail is leading right back to the National Police Federation, the association representing RCMP members.

The NPF have previously used the website surreys-

Hose story had heart

sayonpolicing.com to oppose the new Surrey Police Service and to mobilize the public against the transition, including posting form letters for submissions to council against the transition. Now they’re trying to change the rules and get a regional, rather than provincial, referendum.

It is past time for the NPF to be transparent about its role in pushing the referendum and to show residents of Surrey, and indeed of the province, what exactly they have spent on this campaign in terms of resources and dollars.

Too much money has already been wasted on this policing fiasco. We do not need more public money to be spent on a self-serving astroturf referendum campaign by the NPF, presented as something it is not, a grassroots movement.

The Editor, Re: “Spraying children with a hose doesn’t guarantee a good time,” the Now-Leader, Aug. 19.

I just read Beau Simpson’s column outlining his efforts to endear himself to a bike-riding neighbourhood child.

Please allow me to offer my thanks. I laughed right out loud.

Anyone who has read his work will understand that he would never knowingly hurt someone, which makes the woebegone expression he must have worn even more relatable.

I wish him the best of luck in some day inducing the little fellow and his mom to resume walking down his side of the street, and I ask that he please keep writing.

Dr. Jeff Shantz, Surrey

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In-person Terry Fox Run returning to Cloverdale Malin Jordan Black Press Media

too by coming out and doing a 1, 5, or 10K circuit. Participants can run, walk, bike, wheel, and The Terry Fox Run will return push strollers. And dogs on leashes are welcome, too. to the streets of Cloverdale on She said all three courses will the third Sunday of September. be clearly marked out and ev“We’re goin’ live,” organizer eryone will start and end at the Elaine Gooliaeff told Black Cloverdale Legion.

Press Media.

“We won’t have a warm up this She said the in-person run is year. It will just be the run.” on again after being held as a Gooliaeff said last year’s virvirtual-only event last year.

“We’re back and we want to let tual run was well supported, but without the silent auction, donaeveryone know that we are not tion money dipped dramatically. just virtual.”

“The support was close, in Gooliaeff said things will mostly be back to normal for the terms of donations, but what we really missed was our silent Sept. 19 run, but COVID proauction.” tocols will be in place. She said She said the silent auction is the silent auction will return this year after a one-year hiatus, but always a big draw, adding lots of people tell her they use the aucthey’ll have less items out and tion to pick up early Christmas available to bid on so as to progifts. “The silent auction closes mote social distancing.

This year, the Terry Fox Run is at 11:30 a.m. and you have to be here to win,” she explained. encouraging participants to use Gooliaeff is hoping many can the hashtag #tryliketerry, and Gooliaeff is encouraging Clover- come down to support the run. dale residents to “#tryliketerry” But she added that if anyone

Participants in the 2019 Terry Fox Run are seen outside the Cloverdale Legion Sept.

15, 2019. This year the in-person run has returned after being held as a virtual event only in 2020. Registration will open at the Cloverdale Legion Sept. 19 at 9 a.m. with the run set to start at 10 a.m. (Photo: Malin Jordan) doesn’t feel comfortable attending in person, they can still participate virtually.

Cloverdale’s 2021 Terry Fox run opens for registration at the Legion at 9 a.m., with the run starting at 10 a.m. at 17567 57th Avenue.

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INFORM For breaking news and the latest developments on these stories, visit us online at surreynowleader.com

Pandemic

B.C. brings back indoor mask mandate Katya Slepian Black Press Media

lifted in July as B.C. entered Step 3, which occurred as cases and hospitalizations decreased and first dose vaccinations rates for British Columbians will be required to wear adults reached 70 per cent.

“This is to address those situations where a mask in all indoor public spaces once again, we are in indoor settings with people who provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said at a Tuesday (Aug. 24) press conference. may not yet have been vaccinated,” Henry Masks will be required in locations includ- said. “This temporary order will be reassessed as the B.C. vaccine card requirement is fully ing retail stores, malls, libraries, community implemented in certain social and recreationcentres, public transit, common areas of fitness centres and at bars and restaurants – un- al centre settings.”

Transmission of the virus has increased in less seated – starting Wednesday (Aug. 25). recent weeks, with more than 1,700 cases reThe mask mandate had previously been

ported over the weekend.

Henry said that the mask mandate was coming back because people are more likely to congregate in indoor spaces as the weather cools, where the virus is more easily spread.

“We said all along masks are one of the additional measures that we need in certain circumstances, particularly when we’re in places that may have poor ventilation where we’re around people whose vaccine status we don’t yet know,” she said. Henry said that the mask mandate would work to help slow transmission as the respiratory virus season begins,

but that she couldn’t say how COVID-19 cases would change over the fall.

“It’s hard to say what will happen over the fall,” she said, noting that her concern was for areas where vaccination rates remained low.

The provincial health officer said that the mask mandate was an “additional step” to keep people safe but that immunizations remained key in the fight against COVID-19.

“We know that even a 10 per cent increase per age group makes a big difference in blunting the impact of even the Delta variant that we’re seeing being transmitted right now.”

Rally for COVID-safe schools still on as masks mandated in schools Fraser Health says COVID transmission in Surrey schools was ‘limited’ Lauren Collins lauren.collins@surreynowleader.com

B.C. Premier John Horgan and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry held a news conference this week to announce a new vaccine passport program. (File photo)

Proof of vaccination required for sports, movies, restaurants Tom fletcher Black Press Media

needed to show a first dose of vaccine as of Sept. 13, with a second dose requirement as of Oct. 24.

The B.C. government is imIt will be required for entry plementing a vaccine passport program for movies, restaurants, to restaurants, including patios, ticketed sports events and other ticketed indoor sports events and concerts, casinos, night indoor group activities as it clubs and high-intensity fitness deals with the latest surge in classes. The proof of vaccinaCOVID-19 cases.

Premier John Horgan and pro- tion will also be required for vincial health officer Dr. Bonnie organized indoor events such as Henry announced the new mea- weddings, parties, conferences and workshops. The secure websures Monday, citing statistics site will require name, date of show 90 per cent of new corobirth and personal health numnavirus cases are in people who ber, and the vaccine card can be haven’t been fully vaccinated. saved to a smartphone for entry The B.C. Vaccine Card will be

to restricted venues. The passports will not be needed for grocery stores, medical services and other essential services. Henry said the B.C. Vaccine Card will not be used for going to work, and WorkSafeBC is developing methods to help employers protect their workplaces from infection transmission. Henry said the measure is temporary, and B.C. will co-ordinate with the federal government. Quebec was the first province to bring in a vaccine passport program to curb the spread of the coronavirus at indoor group events. B.C. is the second province to do so.

A planned rally in Surrey for COVID-safe schools is still on following the province announcing a mask mandate for school staff and students in Grade 4 to 12.

The Safe School Coalition is hosting the rally at Holland Park on Saturday (Aug. 28) from noon to 1:30 p.m.

The Surrey rally was planned before the provincial government announced the latest return-to-school plans.

On Tuesday (Aug. 24), Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside announced masks would be mandated for school staff and students in Grade 4 to 12.

Masks are once again “encouraged” for those in kindergarten to Grade 3.

In June, Whiteside said there wouldn’t be cohorts going into the 2021-22 school year, but they would come back later in the summer for an update on masks.

She said she recognizes “COVID is an ever-changing pandemic that will continue to challenge us this year.”

But Whiteside noted schools are “not in the same situation as last September,” since there are safe and effective vaccines. She continued to push for those eligible to get vaccinated.

“We’re confident in K-12 … that all our partners are on the same page,” Whiteside added.

Whiteside said once vaccines were eligible for teachers in Surrey, there was a “very high uptake,” adding there has also been a “really dramatic uptake”

for those aged 12 to 17.

Surrey, and its schools, were some of the hardest-hit through the second and third waves of the pandemic.

But Henry said health officials know classrooms aren’t where most transmission is happening, adding the risk of transmission is “very low” even in the “absence of vaccines.”

This comes as Fraser Health released a report Tuesday (Aug. 24) that COVID-19 transmission in Surrey schools between January and June, 2021 was “limited,” but the Surrey Teachers’ Association president Matt Westphal says “there are limitations” to the report.

The health authority examined 2,935 of 3,287 cases reported during that time period and “90 per cent of school-associated COVID-19 cases in Surrey originated in households or the community, not in schools.”

The review found that staff accounted for 11 per cent of cases and students for the remaining 89 per cent.

But Westphal said since the review doesn’t include the first four months of the school year, which saw a few schools shut down entirely, the review “may not cast an entirely accurate picture that way.”

He added that Fraser Health would only consider school-based transmission if they could exclude any possible household or community transmission, so if two students, who sit next to each other in class, but hang out outside of school caught the virus, it would count as outside of school.

Meantime, students returning to post-secondary this fall must show proof of vaccination to move into student housing and to attend sports and other group events. Masks will also be required in classes.

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Two people in custody after man shot, injured in Newton last Friday Lauren Collins lauren.collins@surreynowleader.com

Surrey RCMP is investigating a shooting in Newton Friday afternoon (Aug. 20).

At 5:41 p.m. Friday, police responded to a report of shots fired

in the 13700-block of 70 Avenue, according to a release from Staff Sgt. Andrea McKinney.

McKinney said a male was found suffering from “serious, life threatening injuries,” adding he was transported to hospital.

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The release notes officers will be canvassing the neighbourhood and speak with witnesses to obtain further information. It added that Surrey RCMP was on scene as of 8:22 p.m. Friday.

The investigation is still in its

early stages.

A Black Press Media freelancer on scene said officers could be seen removing evidence from a bus and speaking with the driver. He added that behind the nearby Newton Seniors Centre, police taped off an area and covered evidence on the

ground with a tarp and tent due to the rain.

McKinney said initial indications are that this was a targeted shooting and involves people known to each other, but added it is “not related to the ongoing Lower Mainland gang conflict.”

Crime

RCMP search for owner of seized sports cards Tom Zillich tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com

Surrey Mounties are searching for the rightful owner of baseball and hockey cards recovered during an investigation.

Photos of the cards are posted to Surrey RCMP’s website.

“On April 20, 2021, Surrey RCMP responded to a report of a suspicious

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Surrey woman pushes for more, smaller parks for dogs With higher-density neighbourhoods, Christina Sall wants the city to create more designated areas

“I’m not expecting anything big or anything substantial, just something for our community because there’s so many people in such a dense area from all the new buildings and the condos and the townhouses.”

Lauren Collins In the City of Surrey’s “2012Surrey Now-Leader staff 2021 Dog Off-Leash Strategy,” it says that 94 per cent of open house survey respondents agree more offThe dog park has become part leash areas are needed. The strategy of Christina Sall’s weekly routine adds the recommended minimum since getting Ella, a German shepsize for the off-leash areas is about herd-husky cross, a few weeks after one hectare, “though sites between moving into an apartment during 0.5 and 1 ha may be considered.” the pandemic.

The parks would also be classified But the closest off-leash dog Christina Sall and her dog, Ella, a German shepherd-husky cross. Sall is petitioning the into three types: neighbourhood to park is a 30- to 45-minute walk or City of Surrey to add more, smaller parks for dogs throughout the city as development serve the immediate area, communi10-minute drive away. continues at a steady pace. (Photo: Lauren Collins) ty to serve the town centre and des“For a lot of people, that’s quite would be accessible to the majority tination to serve the City of Surrey. far for walking distance,” said Sall, dog parks, ranging in size from Sall has created an online petiof residents within a 15-minute who said there are about 5,000 resi- 0.08 hectares to 11.7 hectares. tion, change.org/p/we-need-neighwalk or one-kilometre radius.

In Vancouver’s “People, Parks dents in her four-block radius. bourhood-dog-parks-in-surrey, in The destination parks would be So Sall, a nursing student, started and Dogs Strategy,” it includes an effort to bring awareness and more than 1.2 hectares, while the doing some research and contacted five types of off-leash dog areas: neighbourhood parks would be be- hopefully push for more, smaller destination parks and destination the city about getting a new offparks throughout the city. trails, which would be accessible to tween 0.04 and 0.4 hectares. leash dog park in her community “I expanded it to the entire City Currently, the City of Surrey has the majority of residents within a near the border of South Surrey of Surrey because of being told that 35-minute walk or a three-kilometre 15 off-leash dog parks, and three and Cloverdale. … their master plan will be coming of those have separate areas for radius; and neighbourhood parks, She pointed to the City of Vanup in the next year to change what small dogs. urban areas and dog runs, which couver, which has more than 30

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their initiative for dog parks in the City of Surrey will be.”

However, an emailed statement from the city’s manager of parks Neal Aven, said, “The city continues to implement the recommendations of our current Dog Off-Leash Strategy, including designing for small dog areas. While we do not have imminent plans to update the Dog Off-Leash Strategy, we anticipate that an update to the strategy is something that we would seek to achieve within the next few years.”

Sall said she recently stayed with a friend in Vancouver and there were a few dog parks within walking distance. She said it “made such an impact every day.”

“That’s kind of what I was hoping for Surrey because we’re moving into that area of having high-rises, we’re getting all these condos built around us and a lot of the Millenial generation or younger generation can’t afford to buy a house with a back yard for their dog to run around.

“The cost of housing is just going to go up. That doesn’t stop us from getting dogs.”

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His keen interest prompted his wife to create a little book in his name, “Oh, Baby, the Places You’ll Go!” My pregnant granddaughter and I were intrigued as well and launched our own research study. Natasha began reading the Dr. Seuss book to her five-month baby bump at least once a day, and several months later she demonstrated the results to me. Her eight-month baby bump was quiet and still as she settled into the chair. “Watch Grandma!”, she said as she began to read. After a few pages I saw movement begin; by the end of the book her belly was undulating. It seemed like my great grandson was dancing in her womb.

In Born to Read Rebecca Price-Donahue reports: Additional research suggests that third-trimester babies not only pick up on language patterns, but after birth, they can recognize words they first heard in the womb (cpl.org, 2017).

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SCHOOL IS BACK IN SESSION ON SEPTEMBER 7TH Please find important information below about the first day of school including start times and dates, if different from above. Please note there is no busing available for special education classes on opening day.

REGISTRATION FOR NEW STUDENTS: Parents can register new students online by visiting www.surreyschools.ca

Elementary Schools

Online registration (www.surreyschools.ca) for elementary schools is currently open. If you have any questions or require assistance, please call your school. Staff will be available beginning Monday, August 30th, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. School locations and phone numbers are available on our website at www.surreyschools.ca. Click “K–12 Schools” on the top menu.

Kindergarten

Grade 1 to Grade 7

All schools provide gradual entry for kindergarten students during the first two weeks of school. Kindergarten students will begin regular, full attendance on Monday, September 20, 2021.

All Grade 1–7 classes begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, September 7, 2021. Classes will be dismissed early. Please confirm starting dates and times, and dismissal times with your school or visit your school’s website for more details.

Secondary Schools

Online registration (www.surreyschools.ca) for secondary schools is currently open. If you have any questions or require assistance, please call your school. Staff will be available beginning Monday, August 23rd, between 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. School locations and phone numbers are available on our website at www.surreyschools.ca. Click “K–12 Schools” on the top menu.

Clayton Heights

Grade 8 report at 10:45 a.m. to noon.

Grade 9 report at 9 to 9:45 a.m.

Grades 10 & 11 report at 9:45 to 10:30 a.m.

Grade 12 report at 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.

École Earl Marriott

Grade 8 report to main gym at 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Grades 9–12 report to homeroom at 10 to 11 a.m.

Elgin Park

Grades 8 & 9 report at 10 a.m.

Grades 10, 11 & 12 report at noon Check website for further details

Enver Creek

Grade 8 report at 9:30 a.m.

Grades 9–12 report at 12:30 p.m. Check website and August Welcome Back newsletter for more details

Fleetwood Park Frank Hurt

Lord Tweedsmuir

Grade 8 report at 9–10:45 a.m.

Grade 9 report at 10–11:30 a.m.

Grade 10 report at 11 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

Grade 11 report at noon–1:15 p.m.

Grade 12 report at 1–2:15 p.m.

North Surrey

Grade 8 report at 10 a.m.

Grade 9 report at 11 a.m.

Grade 10 report at noon Grades 11-12 report at 12:30 p.m.

École Panorama Ridge

Grade 8 report at 8:45 a.m.

Grades 9–12 report to homeroom at 10:45 a.m.

Princess Margaret

Grade 8 report to large gym at 10:30 a.m.

Grades 9–12 report to homeroom at 11:00 a.m.

Grade 8 report at 11:45 a.m. to 1:50 p.m.

Grades 9–12 report at 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Queen Elizabeth

Grade 8 report at 10 a.m.

Grades 9–12 report to homeroom at noon

Grade 8 report to large gym at noon to 1:15 p.m.

Grades 9–12 report at 10 to 10:45 a.m.

École Salish

Grade 8 report at 9 a.m.

Grade 9 report at 10 a.m.

Grade 10 report at 11 a.m.

Grades 11–12 report at noon

Semiahmoo

Grade 8 report at 10 a.m. to noon.

Grades 9 & 10 report at 11 a.m. to noon Grade 11 report at 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

Grade 12 report at 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.

Sullivan Heights

Grade 8 report at 9:30 a.m.

Grade 9 report at 10:30 a.m.

Grade 10 report at 11:30 a.m.

Grade 11 report at 12:30 p.m.

Grade 12 report at 1:30 p.m.

Tamanawis

Grade 8 report at 10:00 a.m.

Grades 9–12 report at 12:30 p.m.

Fraser Heights

Grade 8 report at 9:30 a.m.

Grades 9–12 report at 11 a.m.

Grandview Heights

Grade 8 report at 10 to 11 a.m.

Grades 9, 10, 11 report 11:30 a.m.

Guildford Park

Grade 8 report at 9 to 11:30 a.m.

Grades 9–12 report 11:15 a.m. to noon

Johnston Heights

Grade 8 report at 11 a.m. to noon. Grades 9–10 report at 1 to 1:30 p.m. Grades 11-12 report at 2 to 2:30 p.m.

École Kwantlen Park

Grade 8 report at 10 a.m.

Grades 9–12 report at 11 a.m.

L.A. Matheson

Grade 8 report at noon Grades 9–12 report at 10 a.m.

All students report to homeroom and school photos taken same day

Note: School photos taken same day

Learning Centres

Additional Services

Adult Education

Offices are open beginning August 30. Class times and dates vary. Please visit www.surreyschools.ca or contact the Learning Centre nearest you:

English Language Learner (ELL) Welcome Centre The Surrey School District ELL Welcome Centre provides registration assistance, placement assessments, Settlement Worker in Schools (SWIS) and Multicultural Worker services for our new students who are English language learners.

Please contact the Welcome Centre at 604-543-3060.

Registration begins August 30, 2021 for classes starting in September. Visit our website at www.surreyschools.ca/ AdultEducation for more detailed course offerings, class start times and registration information.

City Central 13104–109 Avenue, 604-581-0611

North Surrey 9260–140 Street, 604-583-4040

Cloverdale #200, 5658–176 Street, 604-574-3615

South Surrey/White Rock #13, 2320 King George Blvd, 604-536-0550

Guildford #300, 10183–152A Street, 604-951-9553

Surrey Academy of Innovative Learning SAIL is a blended interdisciplinary school district program where students learn through inquiry and project-based learning using a variety of digital tools. SAIL also offers part time and full-time online learning with access to over 80 courses for Grades 8–12.

Please visit our website at: www.sailacademy.ca for more details and registration information.

Invergarry Adult Education Centre 12772–88 Avenue, 604-595-8218 Academic courses for upgrading, and high school or adult graduation, and Foundations courses for those who want to develop their English language skills.

Queen Elizabeth Adult Education Centre 9457 King George Blvd., 604-581-1413 Academic Grade 11 & 12, late afternoon and evening courses for upgrading, and high school or adult graduation.

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Newton has evolved into a delightful place to walk and visit with friends at sidewalk cafes, stroller-friendly stores, and neighbourhoods over the years, but graffiti continues to be an ongoing concern.

Graffiti is an expensive and defacing form of vandalism.

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Graffiti is used by “taggers” to establish their identity and, in some cases, to mark territory. They do not realize that their “artwork” significantly impacts their community, from business costs to aggravation when people of the community have to clean up the mess left behind. It reduces property values and promotes an undesirable image of our neighbourhood.

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Harmful and hurtful racial slurs of any kind are not part of the community we know and love to raise our families in.

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Our Goodbye Garbage contract started in June of this year, and in the last two months, they’ve removed 69 pieces of large trash off the streets of the town centre.

The City of Vancouver claims they saw an 87% increase in service calls to 311 related to graffiti events.

As a result, the City supported an Integrated Graffiti Management Program that provides strategic direction and programs to manage graffiti and graffiti removal services on City-owned property.

“Businesses and property owners are responsible for removing graffiti from their property, but we all have a collective responsibility to manage graffiti and be stewards in our neighbourhoods,” said the statement from the City.

Philip Aguirre, Executive Director of the Newton BIA, would like a similar response from the City of Surrey.

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Music

Babylung returns home to record ‘To Live and Die in Surrey’ album Surrey police department and remembered having to meet monthly with my probation officer when I was 13,” he recalled.

“Passing by there, now having travelled the world thanks to music, graduating, and working in the music industry, I knew I’d come too far to end up in that dark place again. I’m college-educated, musically gifted, alive – everything I wasn’t supposed to be. Funny innit?’”

The new album represents a leap forward for Babylung, who produced the majority of To Live And Die In Surrey and Tom Zillich played most of the instruments. tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com “I think overall this album helped me to truly find my Joash Almeda has been known sound not only as an artist and as Babylung ever since he startsongwriter but also as a produced smoking pot at a relatively er,” he said. young age.

Ultimately, To Live And Die “That’s what my friends called In Surrey is “a love letter to my me because I’d always start past, present, and future,” Babycoughing, and the name just lung posted to Facebook. stuck,” recalled the Surrey-raised “I’m so incredibly excited to musician, who is starting to share with you the stories and make a name for himself with an experiences of my adolescence,” intriguing mix of R&B, hip-hop he wrote. “Coming back to Surand even gospel.

Surrey-raised Joash Almeda makes music as Babylung. (Submitted photo) rey last where I grew up after Those sounds propel To Live three years of travel, study, and And Die In Surrey (Bayanihan writing music I realized there ronto to fully pursue his career there for the Crusaders.

Records), a new album created was so much I hadn’t faced. So in music, was selected for the “It happened during a game

by Babylung upon his pandemthis album was therapeutic for 2019 MusiCounts Scholarship when I was playing against ic-forced return to his family’s me. I wrote these songs with Chase Claypool,” he said, refer- and mentorship program, and Guildford-area home last year. later jetted to Glasgow for stud- tears but now I’m sharing it ring to the Abbotsford-raised A few years previous, he’d ies at the University of the West with nothing but joy. And now receiver now playing with the been studying and performing I’m happy to say it’s finally of Scotland.

NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers. “I music in Scotland, following When COVID-19 hit, the first yours.” remember hitting him and not some time spent in Toronto.

Over in Glasgow, Babylung notes of To Live And Die In feeling right, and then I was “I love creating stories built Surrey began to emerge, includ- discovered a thriving live-music involved in another tackle, and around my life experiences ing the title track and six others. scene, and wants to get back to growing up as a troubled youth that was it.”

The song “Betrayal” was turned performing again soon, with a Circa 2016, the brain injury and finding myself after pursuinto a video earlier this summer, Surrey-homecoming gig among ing music,” reported Babylung, prompted him to retreat from his plans. sports and begin creating music, as was “Funny Innit?” who is 22.

“It’s exciting that things are The latter song riffs on BabyA half-decade ago, the former a pursuit embraced by members coming together like this,” he lung’s juvenile delinquency.

Holy Cross High School-er was of his church-going family. said.

“I recently drove past the Babylung soon moved to Toconcussed while playing football

Joash Almeda: ‘I love creating stories built around my life experiences growing up as a troubled youth and finding myself after pursuing music’

Surrey’s FVDED music fest moves to Vancouver venues for 2021 Surrey’s popular FVDED in the Park music festival is moving out of the city — for this year only, apparently.

Launched at Holland Park in 2015, FVDED in the Park features hip-hop, R&B and electronic music, typically on the second weekend in July, with tens of thousands of ticketholders in attendance.

At three Vancouver venues in September, the 2021 lineup will feature DEADMAU5, Alison Wonderland, REZZ, Black Tiger Sex Machine and more, Live Nation Canada announced Aug. 17.

Earlier this summer, event organizers had aimed to stage the festival at Holland Park on Sept. 10-11, but those plans are now scrubbed.

“Through our ongoing consultation with the City of Surrey we are unfortunately unable to move forward with this year’s FVDED in the park at a capacity needed to execute the multi-stage event at Holland Park,” says a message posted to the festival’s website (fvdedinthepark. com).

“We will now start working on FVDED in the Park for July

2022 at Holland Park and will keep you posted as we confirm our plans.”

The website lists the festival’s 2021 venues as PNE Amphitheatre, Celebrities and Fortune Sound Club, under the banner FVDED Presents. Featured acts on Sept. 10 are DEADMAU5, Alison Wonderland, BLXST, Softest Hard, Nostalgix and So Sus, followed on Sept. 11 by REZZ, Black Tiger Sex Machine, Baauer, Trevor Daniel, Juelz b2b Tails, Eric Reprid and DJ Miko So. “FVDED in the Park ticket holders will also have an option to use your tickets to attend the PNE events, otherwise each event will be sold separately,” the event website says.

This year’s version of FVDED re-imagines the festival as “a celebration of music and culture as a number artists come together for this special series of events,” according to Alvaro Prol, co-founder of Blueprint, which organizes the event along with partner Live Nation.

“We are extremely proud of the deep connection the fans have with this festival,” Prol said in a news release.

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Surrey music, theatre groups get share of $300,000 in Metro Vancouver grants Tom Zillich tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com

Four Surrey-area arts organizations will get a slice of the $300,000 in regional culture project grants announced by Metro Vancouver on Aug. 9.

In total, 54 arts and culture organizations in the region will receive project funding through the annual grant program.

Metro Vancouver helps organizations “research and produce new cultural programs, reach new audiences and cover project staffing and administrative needs,” up to a maximum of $10,000 per project grant.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on the arts and culture sector, which prompted Metro Vancouver to use a portion of its provincial Safe Restart funding to make a one-time increase to this year’s grant fund, doubling it to $300,000,” according to a news release from Metro Vancouver.

The four Surrey-based grant recipients are Surrey City Orchestra Society (granted $5,000), Royal Academy of Bhangra Soci-

THEATRE “The Adventures of Himmat Kaur and Fateh Singh”: Self-directed activity is “a fun-filled journey through Bear Creek Park that little kids (age 5 and up) and their adults will love, to Sept. 30. Based on book that uses both Punjabi and English to delve into the world of an overimaginative child. Free.

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VISUAL ART Surrey City Orchestra is among Metro Vancouver culture grant recipients this year. (File photo) ety ($10,000), Fraser Valley Gilbert and Sullivan Society of BC, aka Fraser Valley Musical Theatre ($10,000) and Sanjh Foundation ($8,000).

The full list of recipients is posted to the website metrovancouver.org.

This year, Metro Vancouver received 106 applications from organizations seeking a total of $768,011 in funding for proposed projects.

By comparison, in 2020, 54 applicants sought $377,230 in funding and 29 organizations shared $140,000 in grants.

“We saw record-setting demand for cultural grants in 2021, both in terms of

the number of applications and how much funding was being requested,” Sav Dhaliwal, Chair of the Metro Vancouver Board of Directors, said in the news release.

“Being able to award an additional $150,000 will help promote employment within creative sectors and enhance exposure to some of the most vibrant and artistic minds in our region.”

Metro Vancouver also administers MAXguide. org, a free online service for organizations and individuals to promote their local performances, exhibitions, events, venues and groups.

The service involves a mailing list and more.

Surrey Art Gallery: Gallery at Bear Creek Park, 88th Ave./King George Blvd.

604-501-5566, Surrey. ca/artgallery. Currently showing: “ARTS 2021,” extended to Sept. 11 ; “Cindy Mochizuki: Autumn Strawberry” (to Aug. 28); “Henry Tsang: Hastings Park” (to Aug. 28).

COMMUNITY

A table-hockey game is featured in the “Trailblazing: Women in Canada Since 1867” exhibit at the Museum of Surrey, until Sept. 12. See listing under Museums.

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Virtual Surrey Industry Tour hosted by Surrey Board of Trade, Friday, Sept. 10 from 1 0 to 11:30 a.m. Virtual tour stops include Apollo Custom Manufacturing, Fraser Grain Terminal, KB Honey Family, Nana’s Kitchen & Hot Sauce, Sunrise Kitchens, Teal Jones Group, more. Info: businessinsurrey.com (free/pay what you can).

MUSEUMS use QR codes in public parks inviting participants to experience the activity at their own pace. Created by artists Alannah Clamp and Heather Prost. Info: 604-501-5566.

KIDS/YOUTH The Rainbow Girl: An interactive visual story for young children exploring colours, nature, and the art of rangoli, at Hawthorne Rotary Park (10513 - 144 St), to Sept. 11, as part of Surrey’s POP! Selfdirected Activities. Use QR codes in public parks and participants experience the activity at their own pace.

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What Did I Love: A multimedia arts initiative that collects personal stories and narratives using a conversational podcast, expressive arts therapy practices, and sculpture format, to Sept. 11 at Green Timbers Urban Forest, 14600 Block of 100 Ave. Easter Seals BC’s Surrey POP! Self-directed activities Drop Zone 2021 at Central

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Museum of Surrey: At 17710 56A Ave., Cloverdale. Info: Surrey. ca/museum, 604-5926956. Exhibits on view: “Trailblazing: Women in Canada Since 1867,” to Sept. 12; also “20 Years: Surrey’s Heritage Rail.”

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“Navigating Your Return to the PostCOVID Office” seminar hosted by Surrey Board of Trade on Sept. 14 at 9 a.m., with StartUp Surrey.

“Business coach and etiquette expert Margaret Page will guide you and your team through crucial steps of the re-onboarding process. You’ll discover how to ease anxieties and set expectations, so the re-entry into office life is as

F.U.B.A.R. Golf Classic on Sunday, Aug. 29 at Guildford Golf & Country Club, presented by Friends United Beyond All Race, Delta Orioles Social Club & Jaylen Sandhu Dreams Foundation in support of Make-A-Wish Foundation BC & Yukon. 11am CheckIn, 11am-1pm Putting Contests, 1pm Shotgun Start. Fee is $150. Info: friendsunitedbeyondallrace. com/golf-classic-2021.

PRO’S TO KNOW As restrictions lift, what should commercial landlords and property managers consider to keep people safe in the COVID-19 post-vaccination era?

• Vaccinations can’t be forced, so continue to keep up with alternative safety recommendations from provincial authorities such as WorkSafeBC and the BC Centre for Disease Control, and post signs if appropriate.

• Facilitating access and education pertaining to vaccines is acceptable.

• Any policies implemented should be enforced impartially, consistently and fairly. However, remember that accommodating human rights may require certain exceptions.

• Avoid policies that risk stigmatizing the public based on vaccination status, as this could be a violation of privacy rights.

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‘NIGHT CIRCUS’ IN PARK

PNE Fair reopens with no Coaster this year Tom Zillich tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com

The Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) opened Saturday (Aug. 21) with limited capacity and advance tickets only, and caretakers of the Vancouver fair had news about two of its most popular attractions.

The Playland Wooden Coaster will remain closed for the remainder of 2021 during “a major refurbishment project” for the popular thrill ride, built in 1958.

The upgrade should be done for the opening of the Playland season next spring, at a cost of between $500,000 to $750,000.

“Doing this larger refurbishment during a quieter COVID season, combined with wanting to make sure that the Coaster is ready for the

next 60+ years as a flagship attraction within the Playland Redevelopment Plan, makes this the right timing,” PNE management said in a news release Friday (Aug. 20).

Meantime, the famed Challenger Map is coming home to Hastings Park, with plans for its display during the 2022 PNE fair.

The Challenger Map, a topographical scale model of British Columbia made from fir plywood cut into 986,000 pieces, occupied 1,850 square metres of floor space at its original PNE home, in the BC Pavilion complex, from 1954 until 1997. It’s been mothballed at an airport hangar since then.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed with the family of the late George Challenger and his son,

are posted to the website challengermap.ca, or call 604-253-2311.

A portion of the Challenger Map will be on display at this year’s PNE Fair, from Aug. 21 to Sept. 6.

This year, for the first time, advance tickets are required for the PNE Fair and must be date-specific, via pne.ca or ticketleader. ca. Admission fees are $15 for adults, $12 for Surrey’s Josh Lalisan, left, and Emma Hader of Maple Ridge, kids/seniors, and free right, perform in the “Bones and Scully: ‘Tis Fun to be a Pirate” show on the PNE Fair’s BCAA ToonCity stage. The show runs three for those aged five and under (must reserve free times daily, free with fair admission. (Photo: Craig Hodge/PNE) tickets).

The PNE’s primary the late Robert Challeng- of the Challenger Relief form of payment is conMap Foundation and er, creators of the Chaltactless cards (debit/credson and grandson of lenger Map, which took it/gift cards), and many the family seven years to the map’s creators. “We believe the map is an in- on-site vendors will not construct.

“Our family is so excit- credible asset to the peo- accept cash.

Hours of operation ed that my grandfather’s ple of British Columbia and we’re grateful that it are from 11 a.m. to 11 Map will be returning p.m., and the PNE will will be on display once to its rightful home at be closed on Aug. 23 and again.”

Hastings Park,” stated Aug. 30.

More project details Bill Challenger, president

A stilt-walker performs at Bear Creek Park on Sunday during “Neverland Night Circus,” part of the Summer POP! series of performances outdoors in Surrey parks. The 65-minute show, staged by Vancouver’s Geekenders company, offered a fun, fantastical twist on the “Peter Pan” story. (Photo: Tom Zillich)

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Baseball

Catching up with former Whalley player making baseball history Arm surgery rehab awaits Marika Lyszczyk, the first female catcher to play NCAA men’s baseball

Adam Svensson holds his PGA Tour card after the final round of the Korn Ferry Tour’s Pinnacle Bank Championship in Nebraska. (Stan Badz/PGA photo)

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Evidence suggests there’s no stopping Marika Lyszczyk, but surgery has slowed her down a bit.

This month the former Whalley Chiefs baseball player is resting at home in Tsawwassen following rotator cuff repairs in her throwing arm.

“They thought it was my bicep that was a problem, but it was actually my rotator cuff,” Lyszczyk said with a sigh.

“Right now I’m in total immobilization, I can’t move my shoulder. It’s not very fun sleeping.”

With rehab looming, this fall the 20-year-old catcher plans a return trip to New Hampshire’s Rivier University, whose Division 3 team last year made her the first female catcher to play NCAA men’s baseball. It was historic stuff, and Lyszczyk can’t wait to play ball there again.

“I’ll rehab down there and get back into the swing of things,” she said confidently, in a phone conversation.

“I’m itching to get back, because one of the hardest things for me is to not train,” she added with a laugh.

Earlier this summer, despite lingering soreness in her arm, Lyszczyk travelled to Long Island, N.Y., to play for the Sag Harbor Whalers of the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League.

It’s the latest stop in a baseball journey that involved her playing four seasons with the Whalley Chiefs, during her high school years, as the first girl to

Former Whalley Chiefs baseball player Marika Lyszczyk in Sportsnet’s “Top Of Her Game” video, parts of which were filmed on the diamond at Whalley Athletic Park. (YouTube photo) see action in the B.C. Premier Baseball League (PBL).

“It was such an opportunity there, and such a huge foundation for moving forward in my baseball career,” Lyszczyk said of her days with the Chiefs.

“The league is great, with some really good players, and it was such a good experience for me, before going to college.”

Her time at Rivier University in 2020 lasted a brief nine or 10 weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a move back home to Delta.

A year later, a summer in the Hamptons was a thrill for Lyszczyk.

“It was great being there – it’s so beautiful, and the community is great,” she raved. “You hear about it with all the celebrities being there, and the people were so amazing. It was a great chance to go there and play with some pretty high-level guys playing D1, D2, so it definitely was a challenge for me.”

Her original summer plan was to also attend Baseball Canada’s women’s national team

I’m hopeful that I’ll come back even stronger than I was before.

Marika Lyszczyk

showcase in Quebec (along with Surrey prospects Stacy Fournier and Claire Eccles), but for Lyszczyk, arm surgery took priority.

“Last year I had some arm pain and I thought it’d go away,” she recalled. “I’ve thrown a lot in my lifetime, practising sometimes five, six days a week, and my arm has been sore, but not like that. I was hoping to take a few months off and it’d be fine, but I finally got a MRI to realize that something was wrong and that I’d need surgery.

“So I played summer ball and it was more like pain control for me, and I was proud of myself for getting through the summer.

But it did hold me back in some areas and I knew I needed to get

it fixed when I got back home.

“Generally when you go through a rehab like this,” she added, “people tend to come back stronger, and there’s lots of guys who come back from, like, Tommy John Surgery and they end up throwing two miles an hour faster, things like that. It’s pretty cool to see how rehab has changed in that way, and I’m hopeful that I’ll come back even stronger than I was before.”

She hopes the procedure will ultimately allow her to play more baseball in the future.

“I always say that I want to play baseball as long as I can, as long as the opportunities are there for me, and that’s another reason why it was so crucial that I got my arm fixed now, so hopefully I can have a longer playing career,” Lyszczyk explained.

“And once my playing days are over I hope to do on-field commentating and stay in the game afterward, because I couldn’t imagine my life without baseball.”

Adam Svensson is headed back to the PGA Tour.

The South Surrey professional golfer earned his PGA Tour card on Aug. 15, after finishing in the top-25 of the 202021 Korn Ferry Tour points standings.

Svensson, 27, finished 13th on the list, with $368,091 in winnings in 38 events. He did not make the cut at last weekend’s Pinnacle Bank Championship in Nebraska, but he was already ranked high enough to finish comfortably in the top 25.

Last May, he received a boost up the Korn Ferry rankings after a victory at the Club Car Championships in Savannah, Ga. At the time, Svensson called the win his “biggest tournament win ever.”

This will be the second swing at the PGA Tour for the Earl Marriott Secondary grad, who earned his way into the PGA for the 2019 season after a standout year in 2018 on the Web.com Tour (now renamed the Korn Ferry Tour).

After his rookie season on the PGA Tour, he lost his

playing card and returned to the Korn Ferry circuit, which is one rung below the top level.

“It’s been a lot of work to get back to the PGA Tour but I’m pretty excited to tee it up on Tour again,” Svensson said in a PGA Tour news release.

“Hopefully this time I’ll be able to keep my card and go from there. Obviously playing on the PGA Tour is a dream, it’s awesome.”

Back in May after winning the Club Car event, Svensson said he had recently recommitted himself to improving his game, noting that losing his PGA card after just one season served as something of a wake-up call.

“I made a commitment to myself about five months ago,” he said at the time.

“I was tired of playing well, not playing well, lost my PGA Tour card, and it’s because I’m not working hard enough. Now I’m fully committed and we’ll see where it takes me.

“You grow up and you realize you’ve got to do things correctly. I think the Korn Ferry Tour has done a great job of building me as a player.”

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PLAY Pickleball club to host Grip ‘N’ Rip tourney Surrey Pickleball Club will host the Grip ‘N’ Rip tournament from Sept. 3-5 at the updated and recently opened outdoor pickleball courts next to South Surrey Recreation and Arts Centre (14601 20th Ave.).

The tournament was first held in 2017 and drew a few hundred of the top pickleball players from across B.C. and the Pacific Northwest. This year, 226 competitors are signed up.

When it debuted four years ago, it was the first Surrey Pickleball Club-hosted tournament to be officially sanctioned by both the Canadian Pickleball Association and the

U.S. Association of Pickleball.

Pickleball is a racquet sport that combines elements of badminton, tennis and table tennis.

The tournament will involve young Whistler athletes Alexander Emm, 12, and Parker Thomas, 9, who will compete in both singles and doubles, taking on competitors who are three and four times their age.

The opening of the South Surrey courts was celebrated this month at a ribbon-cutting event featuring Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum and members of city council.

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Surrey-based Greyhounds Masters Track and Field Club hosted the BC Masters Track & Field Championships at Bear Creek Park over the weekend (Aug. 21-22). For athletes age 35+, the event featured hurdles, running, steeplechase, discus, triple jump, high jump and more. Above, Cloverdale’s Cindy O’Brien Hugh clears the bar during the women’s high jump competition Sunday, a day after her 63rd birthday. At left, runners hit the track.

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X FENCED RAMBLING 2621 SQFT 4 BEDROOM RANCHER – POOL –

GORGEOUS 4.87 ACRES

WORKSHOP - BARN http://www.traceybosch.com Tracey Bosch 604-539-7653

1810 250TH ST LANGLEY

ATTENTION INVESTORS DEVELOPERS – 4.3 ACRES - DEVELOPMENT CLOSE BY POTENTIAL 7,000 SQ/FT LOTS - PANORAMIC VIEW - 4 BEDRM HOME - BARN - RIDING RING

ATTENTION DEVELOPERS – APPLICATION IN FOR 99 TOWNHOUSES 4.78 ACRES – BROOKSWOOD – SIDING & BACKING ONTO PARK RARE FIND! Application is in to the ONLY $19,000,000 Township of Langley for a proposed JUST LISTED 99 unit townhouse development.

Outstanding 4.78 acre parcel with INCREDIBLE LOCATION siding and backing onto Noel Booth Park. On city water and with city sewer out front on the street. Level property with very few trees, no watercourses and no easements. Red hot neighborhood! The proposed townhouses are approximately 2300 sqft each and have a side by side double garage and large roof top patio (possible potential of $999,000 for each townhouse). Walk to all levels of schools.

Minutes to everything. DO NOT GO ON PROPERTY. Property is currently tenanted for $2300 month. Fantastic opportunity.

ATTENTION DEVELOPERS

On city water. Excellent revenue potential. 4.3 acres designated for DEVELOPERS/INVESTORS ONLY $3,098,800 7,000 - 10,000 sq/ft lots in newly adopted plan. PANORAMIC VIEWS. Equestrian lovers delight! Well kept Tracey Bosch 604-539-7653http://www.traceybosch.com 3386 200 STREET LANGLEY character home high on a knoll with large view windows and wrap around WHITE ROCK patio. Spacious open plan with vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, country ONLY $1,288,000 JUST LISTED WHITE ROCK - SPECTACULAR kitchen, large living room & family 180 DEGREE OCEAN VIEW – BROOKSWOOD rooms. Unfinished low ceiling basement 4.3 ACRES WALK TO THE BEACH & storage area with separate entry.

Sand riding ring, 1930’s era 64x54 HIP roof multipurpose barn with massive OLDER 3 BEDRM – 3 BATHRM loft, 12 horse stalls, tack room & laundry room. Beautiful fenced & cross HOME – LIVE – INVEST – BUILD fenced pasture, perimeter stream & orchard with apples & cherry trees.

YOUR DREAM HOME PANORAMIC OCEAN VIEW Fantastic find. Call now.

SOLD!

http://www.traceybosch.com Tracey Bosch 604-539-7653

DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL TO 4 X 1/4 ACRE LOTS - CITY WATER - CITY SEWER - HIGHLY SORT AFTER AREA - GREAT HOME & SHOP PROVIDES GREAT RENTAL $$

3003 208 ST LANGLEY

JUST LISTED

ONLY $3,399,000

SURREY ONLY $699,800

JUST LISTED

GREENSPACE LOCATION – WALK TO EVERYTHING

21541 44TH LANGLEY

“Our dealings with you were beyond our hopes. We were concerned about going through a realtor again after a bad experience previously...

The advice was spot on and honest… outstanding in communication... comfortable and stress free... understood our needs... had our best interest in mind. Even our Inspector said…. there are not many realtors like him. We cannot thank you enough for this experience.”

The Hodge’s

BROOKSWOOD/CEDAR RIDGE HIGHEXPOSURE 0.93 ACRE CORNER PROPERTY – CITY WATER INVESTMENT PROPERTY – DESIGNATED MULTI-FAMILY – ACROSS FROM COMMERCIAL INCREDIBLE FIND! Brookswood/Fernridge High exposure corner property. North East corner of 208 Street and 40 Avenue. Across the street from commercial. Would make more sense to have commercial with gas station and multi-family above than the multi-family designation it currently has.

Fantastic holding/Investment Property designated Rowhouse/Townhouse 14 - 22 units per acre in the OCP. City water at property line. Excellent location – minutes to everything, walk to shops, schools & transit. Invest in your future – call now.

www.traceybosch.com 14763 UPPER ROPER AVENUE WHITE ROCK

SOLD!

1668 SQFT 2 LEVEL TOWNHOUSE – 3

TRACEY BOSCH 604-539-7653www.traceybosch.com

JUST LISTED

ONLY $3,800,000

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BEDROOMS – DEN – SOUTH REAR YARD

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18 - 6950 120 STREET SURREY

INVESTOR/BUILDER ALERT – DESIGNATED TOWNHOUSES – WEST CLAYTON UPDATED 1367 SQFT RANCHER – WALK TO PROPOSED SKYTRAIN STATION FANTASTIC INVESTMENT INVESTOR ALERT ONLY $1,298,800 – BUILDER ALERT. NICE UPDATED HOME JUST LISTED - FANTASTIC INVESTMENT. Designated Townhouses (22+5 UPA Bonus) in West Clayton Plan. End of Sept or later possession possible. Some neighbouring properties already developed. Nicely updated 1367 sqft 3 bedroom 2 bathroom rancher on huge 7949 sq/ft rectangular shaped lot on a quiet street, in a excellent neighborhood & minutes walk to proposed skytrain station. Updated windows, flooring, kitchen & bathrooms. Good sized living room with picture window. Large sunny country kitchen. Master with oversized walk in closet & an ensuite. Huge south exposed and fenced rear yard with large fully covered patio. Room to park your RV! Live in as is or build your dream home. Potential for future land assembly also. Fantastic property – Great location - Minutes to everything. Call Now!

www.traceybosch.com

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18440 70TH AVE SURREY

5 ACRES - DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL IN WEST CLAYTON NCP - TWO 2.5 ACRE PARCELS CITY INDICATED SINGLE FAMILY OR POTENTIAL FOR TOWNHOUSE RM-30 MOUNTAIN VIEW – STUNNING 4630 SQ/FT 2 LEVEL PLUS A 2ND HOUSE

“I’ve worked with various Real Estate Agents on both Buying and Selling Side for over 10 years…

I’ve always been frustrated with the lack of attention and service I was getting... I decided to give Tracey Bosch an opportunity… and boy, did he ever deliver! Tracey took the time to understand my needs... marketed in a major way and ended up delivering results faster than I ever thought possible. In fact, I was able to sell my property for more money and in a time-frame that would have taken any other realtor almost double the time... all while sitting back and letting Tracey handle the details… I’ll definitely be using him for ALL of my future Real Estate Needs and I highly recommend Tracey to anyone who is looking for an outstanding experience.”

Two nice level side by side 2.5 acre Development JUST LISTED ONLY $26,472,000 parcels in West Clayton NCP for a total of 5 acres.

On city water. No creeks. On quiet street in prestigious Clayton Hills. Lots of townhouse RM30 development applications across the street & in the area. City indicated default use would be single family zoning RF-10/RF-13 (28-31 units per hector) & that townhouses could be feasible with a NCP amendment. New Regent Road Elementary school is currently under construction next door.

18945 74 Ave - High privacy hedge & gated drive to STUNNING GEORGIAN COLONIAL built by European craftsman. 40x26 heated garage w/10’ doors. 59x16 building w/workshop & 2 stall barn. RV storage 24x20 w/11’ ceiling. Tile roof, brick exterior, 2x6 walls, silent floors, hot water heat, 10’ ceilings, HRV system, gazebo & patios. GOURMET kitchen w/SUB ZERO, walk-in pantry & wok kitchen. Over garage - huge games rm plumbed for wet bar (excellent nanny suite). Master w/balcony & f/p to deluxe ensuite. 18619 74 Ave with 2 road frontage and older 3 bedrm home. Fantastic properties - great location - close to everything.

Trevor M.

http://www.traceybosch.com Tracey Bosch 604-539-7653 18619 74 AVENUE & 18645 74 AVENUE SURREY

DESIGNATED MULTI-FAMILY IN OCP

http://www.traceybosch.com Tracey Bosch 604-539-7653 CORNER OF 208 STREETAND 40AVENUE LANGLEY

Tracey Bosch

TRACEY BOSCH 604-539-7653

INCREDIBLE ULTRA PRIVATE

SOLD!

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ATTENTION DEVELOPERS

What Tracey’s Clients Have to Say We enjoyed working with Tracey throughout the process of selling our house. Tracey was obviously experienced and knowledgeable. We discussed various strategies on how our house would sell best. Tracey and his team of professionals did a marvelous job safely during Covid. They generated interest in the property the few weeks leading up to it being listed. They produced a brochure that showed our house in the best possible way and it sold in a week or so for $100,000+ over asking. Thank you for selling our house, we will recommend you to our friends.

Mike and Jo-Ann Tracey did a great job of managing multiple stakeholders and selling the property fast. Not much more you could ask for.

Scott We are so happy with our experience, having Tracey sell our home. He is very knowledgeable about the Langley area and worked hard to get us the price our home deserved! He was always available for any questions or concerns. He took care of all the details to make the whole process as stress-free as possible. He is friendly and personable, and we could tell that he really enjoys his job! We would recommend Tracey Bosch to anyone who is thinking of selling their home! Thank you to Tracey and his team!

Leanne D.

604.539.SOLD (7653)

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In Memoriam Gifts

July 15, 1951 – August 16, 2021 It is with great sadness the family of Daniel Robert Simmons announces his passing on August 16, 2021.

He is survived by his wife Wendy, his mother Kathleen, children Benjamin, Janine and grandson Lucas, his sister Beverly, brothers William and James. He also leaves behind extended family, friends, former colleagues and his neighborhood in Whalley which he’s lived in for over 43 years.

Dan was a machine programmer with TCS in Langley. Dan enjoyed walking his dog Thunder at parks and on the Dyke in Richmond.

A private family service will be held in September in Abbotsford.

Those that wish to express condolences, comment, or share a story you may do so at www.arbormemorial.ca/en/avalonsurrey Avalon Surrey 604-581-4401

Where I have gone I am not so small.

My soul is as wide as the world is tall.

Wherever you look, you will find me there In the heart of a rose, In the heart of a prayer.

To you, I’m gone, But I’m never alone I am home.

MAKE A GIFT THAT HONOURS THE MEMORY OF A LOVED ONE.

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Opportunity to earn incremental pay raises, performance pay and bonuses (not guaranteed) upon performance evaluation at the discretion of the employer. Duties include planting, harvesting, washing, grading & packing vegetables. This position requires no education, formal training or work experience. Accommodation is available if required. Interested candidates should

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By virtue of the Warehouseman’s Lien Act Whereas JOBAN GILL is indebted to Clover Towing Ltd. for storage and tow May 12, 2021 on a 2015 Chevrolet Cruze VIN# 1G1PC5SB0F7257377 there is presently an amount due and owing $3087.14 plus any additional costs of storage seizure and sale. For more information: Clover Towing Ltd. 5340 192nd St Surrey, BC. Closing dates for bids Sept 3, 2021 By virtue of the Warehouseman’s Lien Act Whereas HEIDI BARKER is indebted to Clover Towing Ltd. for storage and tow June 2, 2021 on a 2011 Land Rover LR2 VIN# SALFR2BN8BH225400 there is presently an amount due and owing $2616.02 plus any additional costs of storage seizure and sale. For more information: Clover Towing Ltd. 5340 192nd St Surrey, BC. Closing dates for bids Sept 3, 2021

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By virtue of the Warehouseman’s Lien Act Whereas JAMIE RASMUSSEN is indebted to Clover Towing Ltd. for storage and tow May 21, 2021 on a 2011 Hyundai Accent VIN# KMHCN3BC4BU192988 there is presently an amount due and owing $2824.27 plus any additional costs of storage seizure and sale. For more information: Clover Towing Ltd. 5340 192nd St Surrey, BC. Closing dates for bids Sept 3, 2021 By virtue of the Warehouseman’s Lien Act Whereas SATINDERDEEP SINGH X is indebted to Clover Towing Ltd. for storage and tow May 20, 2021 on a 2019 BMW X3 VIN# 1 5UXTR9C53KLD94076 there is presently an amount due and owing $2882.62 plus any additional costs of storage seizure and sale. For more information: Clover Towing Ltd. 5340 192nd St Surrey, BC. Closing dates for bids Sept 3, 2021

WAREHOUSEMANS LIEN PURSUANT TO THE WAREHOUSE LIEN ACT IN BC- INTEGRATED RECOVERY SOLUTIONS CORP. DOES HEREBY GIVE NOTICE TO THE FOLLOWING, THAT YOUR VEHICLE WILL BE SOLD FOR NONPAYMENT PLUS FEES, STORAGE AND COSTS ACCURING. THERESA CAIRNES FOR A 2009 KEYSTONE LARADO TRAVEL TRAILER (VIN 4YDT29129AB601115) SALE WILL TAKE PLACE ON AUG 27 2021, OR THERE AFTER. PLEASE CALL IRSC AT 604-595-7376 FOR INFORMATION

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2021 JEEP WRANGLER UNLIMITED ISLANDER 4X4

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North Surrey Auto Mall, 15377 Guildford Dr, Surrey, BC | Call: 604-581-2231 Text: 604-265-9217 | JPChrysler.com *Price including freight & PDI is applicable to a new 2021 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Islander 4x4. Documentation fee ($695), air conditioning levy ($100), environmental levies ($25), and taxes extra. †Lease example (Stock #WU1533): Limited-time 6.19% APR lease for 60 months available to qualified customers on approved credit through SCI Lease Corp. $289 bi-weekly lease payment exclude taxes. Residual value: $29,411 plus taxes. Cost of borrowing: $14,492. Due on delivery: $1,000. Lease example based on annual km limit of 18,000 km with excess km charge of $0.30/km. Some conditions may apply. Vehicle may be factory ordered via FCA Canada. Errors and omissions excepted. Offers are subject to change or cancellation without notice. Offers end August 31, 2021. Vehicle shown solely for purposes of illustration, and may not be equipped exactly as shown. Visit Jim Pattison Chrysler Jeep Dodge Surrey for complete details. Dealer #30394.

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WOLFE LANGLEY SUB RU Connor Monks

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Offers valid while supplies last. Finance and Lease offered on approved credit status – Offer acceptance conditions apply (OAC). 0.5% Finance available 36 months 2021 Subaru Ascent / Impreza/ Crosstrek /Outback. Finance example $5,000 0.5% 36 months $136.96 $38.56 cost of borrowing total paid $5,038.56 Payments based on 96 month term at 4.9% $0 down payment plus taxes/fees Offers end Aug 31, 2021 Pay off trade & lease termination negative equity to be applied to new purchase. Prices do not include taxes, license, insurance or doc fee of $395. Vehicles may not be exactly as illustrated.

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Surrey’s youth has come together to rally against gang violence.

A car rally led by Progressive Intercultural Community Services (PICS) took stakeholders and youth throughout the city as a united show of force against gang activity on Aug. 19.

Finishing up at Bear Creek Park, passersby had a chance to learn about programs designed to steer youth away from gangs.

Nav Singh, 16, said his community sees “a lot” of people turning to gang lifestyle because they are not informed about the dangers.

“Older people are trying to steer them away and they don’t emphasize, they don’t connect as much,” Singh told the Now-Leader.

“With youth coming here and showing them we also don’t support gang violence, it might de-stigmatize getting away from it.”

Kathleen Hughes, PICS event co-ordinator, said if people don’t get involved, nothing changes.

“It’s grassroots, from the bottom up.

We want something done, we want to see change.”

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Aimee Brennan supports War Amps program that helped 20-year-old discover biking and weightlifting Tom Zillich tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com

Serena Kullar, 13, with family friend Harjit Johal, whose own hair donation in 2018 inspired Serena’s decision to support Wigs for Kids BC. Serena raised more than $2,000 in support of children suffering hair loss due to cancer or other illness, and cut her long, dark locks so they can be used to make wigs for children who need them. See full story on page B2. (Contributed photo)

Surrey’s Aimee Brennan is giving back to War Amps programs that gave her confidence growing up.

Born a left-arm amputee, the lifelong Fleetwood resident is a junior counsellor with the organization, and also coaches young swimmers in Surrey.

Brennan, 20, was a competitive swimmer for nearly a decade, until an injury forced her to give up that international-level pursuit.

“It’s too bad, but my left arm is very interesting,” she explained. “My radius and my ulna don’t connect in my elbow, and so my bones Brennan are kind of free floating. I ended up injuring a nerve in my arm because of that. I’ve had chronic nerve pain, which is very, very unusual for an amputee born missing a limb. I’m just one of the lucky few,” Brennan added with a laugh.

This year, the War Amps Key Tag Service celebrates 75 years of returning lost keys to their owners, and Brennan is among those who have benefited from the program.

The organization’s Child Amputee (CHAMP) initiative provides financial assistance for artificial limbs and adaptive devices, as well as peer support.

For Brennan, special devices have allowed her to ride a bike and also weighlift.

“One of the biggest things when you’re a CHAMP is, they really push you to try new prosthetics, to do new things,” Brennan noted.

“For swimming, weightlifting is important,” she added. “So I have an attachment that I can hook onto pretty much anything.”

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Surrey teen surpasses $2K haircut-donation goal Tracy Holmes Black Press Media

It’s fair to say Serena Kullar’s 13th birthday was a cut above.

The South Surrey girl – who is about to enter Grade 8 at the new Grandview Heights Secondary – set out at the end of May to raise $2,000 in support of children suffering hair loss due to cancer or other illness, and she gave herself until her birthday, June 30, to make it happen.

That was also the date she set to get her long, dark locks cut for use in human-hair wigs that are provided to children who need them

by Wigs for Kids BC. She’d been growing her hair for two years for that purpose alone.

Following an appeal the week before her self-imposed deadline, when donations were just over the $1,500 mark, Serena not only managed to hit her target, she squeaked past it, raising a total of

$2,025.

“It was hard work, but it paid off,” she said.

A total of 34 donors pitched in, and Serena said she has thanked each of them with a personal note.

When Black Press Media first reported on Serena’s mission, the then-12-year-old said she was doing it in honour of family and friends who are going through and have had cancer.

That cause became even more dear just before her birthday when she learned that the four-year-old daughter of a family friend had been diagnosed with leukemia.

She decided to dedicate the funds raised in honour of the youngster.

As for her new style, Serena said brushing her hair is a breeze now that she has 16 inches less of it to worry about.

“It’s very light right now,” she said, noting she can take care of all of it in half the time it used to take to get the tangles out of just

one side.

Earlier this summer, stylists at JP Mode divided it into three braids, securing each end with a hair tie in preparation for the cut.

The braids were packaged and delivered to Wigs for Kids BC’s Vancouver office the same day by another family friend, Harjit Johal, whose own hair donation three years ago, in support of a friend who was going through chemotherapy, inspired Serena’s pursuit.

Serena said while she may grow and donate her hair again one day – “because it was fun” – for now, she plans to keep it short.

Her mom, Kinder, said the experience was “a good transition” to Serena’s teenage years, and, as a parent, rewarding for herself to watch unfold.

“She had a goal in mind and she worked hard and she had to do the research,” Kinder said. “I was very proud of her.”

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SFU student finds fulfillment mentoring youth with War Amps junior counsellor, to talk to the younger kids and help them as well.”

“I think the max weight it can During the pandemic, Brennan carry is 350 pounds, so I definitely has kept connected with fellow haven’t reached that, but I can lift CHAMPS in a “giant” online anything with it, and pull anything group chat. with it,” Brennan said. “For dif“We check in with each other ferent machines in the gym, I can pretty much every day, just chatattach it to those, and it allows me ting,” she explained. “One of my to work all the different muscles. friends had an issue with all the “There’s probably a technical paperwork involved in getting a name for (the attachment), but driver’s license, so I helped with with War Amps, when I talk with that, but other times we just talk other kids, I just call it my weightabout our favourite TV shows, you lifting arm.” know.”

In Surrey, Brennan coaches with When she drives, Brennan doesn’t the Sea Lions summer swim team, have an adaptive device for her left and also the Surrey Knights club, Surrey’s Aimee Brennan at a War Amps CHAMP seminar in 2006, left, and pictured today, arm. with whom she trained.

“I chose that I didn’t want to, “I love it,” she said. “I miss swim- right. (Submitted photos) because one of the rules in B.C. ming, so I figure this is one way I “I think one of the most impact- is that you have to pick – are you can use all the experience I gained look different from everyone else to going to drive with a prosthetic or be a little self-conscious,” she said. ful things for me was just seeing from all my years in swimming.” not?” she explained.

“But with the War Amps seminars that these other people felt the A Kwantlen Park Secondary “So if I picked that I wanted to same things I felt, and dealt with we have, typically in March over grad, Brennan is now studying at drive with a prosthetic, I would some of the same problems I had, SFU with an eye on a career in law. spring break, you get to meet the other CHAMPS who are your age and I can listen to them and talk to always have to be wearing my prosGrowing up, War Amps helped and some of the junior counsellors, them. That’s been very important, thetic. And I don’t wear my arm her feel confident. throughout the day, I use it only and now I get to be in that role of who are the older mentors.

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Cloverdale-area musicians release new albums Malin Jordan Black Press Media

ments, apart from drums.

“I taught myself how to produce my own songs, how to play the bass,” she said. “So you’ll Cloverdale-based singer Emma hear piano, bass guitar, and then Alves has released her second stumy own self-production on the dio album, Up Late Writing This. album.”

Alves began writing a few songs She said fans will hear her sound for the album in a small apartment in Shibuya, Tokyo during the onset transform into something differof the pandemic and finished it up ent from her first album and into something fans can expect to hear in her home studio in Cloverdale in her future works too. when she returned to Canada.

A press release notes Alves’s new Alves said creating the album was a long process and she’s excited for album as “sultry, forward, and intimate.” And it describes the sound its upcoming release. of Up Late Writing This as having “It’s my first self-produced album,” she said. “I’ve pretty much “neo-soul, contemporary R&B, and hip-hop elements.” put everything I’ve got into it.”

Alves said most of the eight Alves wrote, produced and mixed tracks on the album are similar all the tracks for it. sounding, but a couple of tracks “I’ve taken all the different do offer quite a different listening genres I’ve experimented with in experience. the past and amalgamated them The singer-songwriter likes to sit into one piece of work.”

She said everything is “her own” at a piano while writing music. She said she draws inspiration for her on the new album. songs from her own life. She added She plays most of the instru-

Cloverdale’s Emma Alves on the cover for her second studio album, “Up Late Writing This.” (Submitted photo)

Cloverdale singer Rayne is seen on the cover of her debut EP “False Love.”

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her music covers topics like toxic relationships and personal aspects of her own life.

“It’s pretty much like a diary (laughs) that I share with everyone.”

Alves hopes her songs inspire other young female artists who want to forge their own pathways

into the music world.

“This release is so special to me and it’s something I hope other female artists can envision for themselves one day,” Alves said.

“Women make up less than three per cent of music producers and I hope to contribute to an increase in that percentage by inspiring

other women in the industry.”

Up Late Writing This is available on all streaming services.

Meantime, another Cloverdale-area singer, Rayne, has released her first EP. After signing with Anthem Entertainment in 2020 to release a single, “The Low,” Rayne is now going two-feet in with her debut EP, False Love.

The Tweedsmuir Secondary grad, 19, released the six-song offering on all streaming platforms July 30.

“I’ve written it over the past little while with some really incredible songwriters, producers, and friends,” said Rayne. “I really love co-writing songs.”

Rayne added the collaborative effort is both fun and helpful.

“I tend to give up halfway through a song,” she said with a laugh. “So there’s a lot of accountability when you’re writing with other people. And I also enjoy the process.”

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Jazz drummer wins prestigious scholarship to U.S. school Oliver Fentum heading to Interlochen Arts Academy for Grade 12 Alex Browne Black Press Media

At the age of 17, award-winning jazz drummer Oliver Fentum seems to know just where he’s going.

His itinerary is definitely set for the next school year, at least – from September to May (his Grade 12 year) Fentum will be in Michigan at the Interlochen Arts Academy/ Arts Boarding School, part of the internationally-renowned Interlochen Centre for the Arts.

Not only did Oliver earn admission to the prestigious school, he also won a scholarship that will pay a significant portion of his tuition and expenses.

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Jazz drummer Oliver Fentum, formerly of Semiahmoo Secondary, will spend his Grade 12 year at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, on a scholarship. (Contributed photo) artists including trumpeter Byron Stripling, violinist Regina Carter, saxophonist Bob Mintzer and one of Fentum’s idols, drummer Peter Erskine.

For the past three years, Oliver has been in the jazz program at Semiahmoo Secondary.

Born in Ontario before moving to the West Coast with his mom, Anita Nielsen and older brother Mason in 2018, he said he was surprised when he received the news about Interlochen while on a family vacation in Kelowna. Appropriately enough, he was told by his

mom – Oliver credits her with researching scholarships and schools and encouraging him to submit applications and audition tapes.

“She’s always been there for everything I really wanted to go for – she’s always been there 110 per cent,” he said, adding that he’s always had the support of his brother, a guitar player, too.

“When he heard about Interlochen and the scholarship he said, ‘Wow – they must really want you,’” Oliver said.

“It’s really a blessing to have such support from my family,” he said, noting that they are all quite musical themselves. I know many kids aren’t so lucky.”

Probably the most excited of all, he said, is his father, rock drummer Trevor Fentum, who still lives in Toronto, where he leads his own band.

“My dad is over the moon about this – he’s so proud,” he said.

Oliver acknowledges that his first inspiration came from his father –

he was going out to his dad’s gigs at a very early age, he recalled.

“The story is when I was very young, maybe five or six years old I fell asleep behind his drum kit while he was playing,” he chuckled.

“I was so comfortable with the sound of the drums it didn’t faze me at all.”

He’s excited for the year ahead at Interlochen, he added.

“I’m hoping to learn more about my instrument – but also what it means to be musician and how to play with other people.”

As passionate as Oliver is about jazz drumming, he has another major interest that may also become a future study and career goal – architecture.

“It’s one of my biggest passions right now,” he acknowledged. “I love drawing buildings and I have several coffee-table books on modern design.

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Skateboarding, BMX event aims to honour memory of slain South Surrey teen Nick Greenizan Black Press Media

Saturday (Aug. 28) from 2 to 6:30 p.m. at the South Surrey Athletic Park’s skate park (adjacent to the A skateboarding event in honour rec centre, 14601 20 Ave.), will also raise money for a registered charof teenage murder victim Dario ity, noted Jacob Sawatzky, Bartoli is set for this president of the Semiahweekend, and organizers moo Peninsula Rotaract are promising it will be Club, which is helping or“even bigger and better” ganize the fundraising asthan the previous events. pect of the event. However, Dario Jam was first a recipient has not yet been held in 2015 – a year selected, he said. after the South Surrey Bartoli was killed Dec. teen was murdered – and 13, 2014, after an earhas been held another ly-morning altercation, in three times since. PreDario or near Bakerview Park, vious events were also left him with critical infundraisers for local juries. Bartoli was transported to non-profits, in addition to serving Peace Arch Hospital, where he as a way for participants and organizers to honour the memory of succumbed to his injuries later that morning. their friend.

No one has ever been charged in This year’s event, scheduled for

Attendees of the 2016 Dario Jam watch as a skateboarder jumps some stairs at the South Surrey skate park. This year’s event, which is held in honour of teenage murder victim Dario Bartoli, is set for Saturday (Aug. 28). (File photo) the murder.

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in 136 countries and 559 Villages, including the one in Surrey.

Locally, SOS Children’s Village BC was founded in 1986 as “a A $5,000 grant from Envision grassroots response to deficienFinancial will help SOS Children’s cies in the provincial foster care Village BC support Surrey-area system characterized by frequent youth. placement breakdowns and moves The money will benefit youth in for children and youth, and the care, or aging out of care, at the separation of siblings into different “village” in Surrey and in the greathomes,” according to a post on er community, through a series of sosbc.org. summer mental-health retreats.

“Even today, the state of foster “These youth have been under care remains a ‘North American COVID-19 restrictions for a long epidemic,’ as described by local in mental wellness needs and give 17 months, resulting in a state of former foster child Tom Watson.” precarious mental health and great youth strategies to develop skills Video posted to the organizathat will keep them healthy for need,” a news release says. tion’s YouTube channel shows the their lifetime,” Singh said.

Kistie Singh, executive director SOS Children’s Village BC is part Surrey Village and its five homes. of SOS Children’s Village BC, of SOS Children’s Villages, consid- The location is not revealed. thanks the financial cooperative “It is a Village by name but for ered the world’s largest non-govfor its “incredible support of our the foster children and parents who ernmental, non-denominational charity’s work with youth in the live here, it is simply referred to child development organization. community. as home,” a website post explains.

SOS Children’s Villages has ex“We are now at a point where we “The lush green trees almost can readily respond to the increase isted for 70 years with a presence

These youth have been under COVID-19 restrictions for a long 17 months, resulting in a state of precarious mental health and great need.

A lake visit involving youth who live at SOS Children’s Village BC. (submitted photo) exceed climbing heights for the children. Almost! Squirrels run, rabbits will hop in to say hello, and the only sound drowning out the birds are the kids … and that is most heartwarming sound of all. And then of course there’s the healthy competition on the sports court. The kids are out there at every opportunity. Even in the middle of winter they’ll be out there shooting hoops.

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