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Layne Matechuk smiles during a break from skating at Excellent Ice arena in Surrey last Thursday (Nov. 18). The former Humboldt Broncos junior hockey player, 21, is taking part in a 14-week program through Surrey Neuroplasticity Clinic to help him play recreational hockey one day. “I feel like I’m getting back to how I used to be playing hockey,” said Matechuk, who was seriously injured in the Saskatchewan team’s catastrophic bus crash in April 2018, when 10 of his teammates were killed, among others. See story on page A3. (Photo: Tom Zillich)
Surrey’s NDP MLAs are not raring to lobby the provincial government cabinet to call a regional referendum on Surrey’s policing transition. Last week, Elections BC announced that an initiative petition calling for a referendum on the issue failed. The Surrey Police Vote Citizens Initiative Campaign collected 42,942 signatures from Surrey residents who want a referendum held on the transition. That’s just 2,622 shy of the 45,564 votes Mayor Doug McCallum, champion of the controversial policing switchover, received in the 2018 civic election. But Elections BC determined it failed because under the Recall and Initiative Act a petition must gather signatures from at least 10 per cent of the registered voters in each of the province’s 87 electoral districts to succeed. Still, the petitioners hope cabinet will call a regional referendum under the B.C. Referendum Act , given the large number of signatures collected in Surrey, which
was well over the 10 per cent threshold locally. Bill Tieleman, a strategist for that petition campaign notes that the provincial government under the Referendum Act has the power through cabinet to order a referendum on Surrey policing at any point in time. “And so we will continue to push the provincial government to hold a referendum so that Surrey voters can have a democratic decision on whether they want to retain the RCMP or go to the proposed Surrey Police Service.” He said his group has made an official presentation to the government seeking a regional referendum, “which we’re not releasing publicly at this point but we will be looking forward to an official response, we don’t have that yet.” While Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum says it’s “clearly time to move on,” Coun. Brenda Locke maintains the fight is still “absolutely game on” and it’s time for Surrey’s NDP MLAs “to take heat.” Continued on A9
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Broncos player happy to skate again in Surrey with help of PoNS device been out there, and with this (program) he’s hoping to skate more and more. When he first started, he had to hang on to At a rink in Surrey, former something to skate, and he was Humboldt Broncos hockey quite discouraged at first, but player Layne Matechuk is skatevery time he got out there, he ing again, and he’s loving it. was better and better. And we’re “I feel like I’m getting back just happy to see the improveto how I used to be playing ments, and we think this PoNS hockey,” he said with a smile at device will really help, and it Excellent Ice on Thursday (Nov. appears it is.” 18). “I really like getting back Kevin admitted to “some dark on the ice.” days” for the family in recent Matechuk, 21, along with his years, and the pandemic made parents Shelley and Kevin, travthings worse. eled to Surrey from Colonsay, “The rinks and everything Sask., this month to take part closed down, and being conin the neuro-rehabilitation profined to the house, it’s been gram at Surrey Neuroplasticity tough to find things to keep Clinic. him motivated, but we just keep The physical therapy includes looking and not give up, and use of a PoNS device (Portable it’s paying off,” Kevin said. “It’s Neuromodulation Stimulator), a lot of work but we try not to which electronically buzzes the Surrey Neuroplasticity Clinic patient Layne Matechuk with a PoNS device on his look at it that way, we just want surface of the tongue, exciting tongue, at Surrey’s Excellent Ice arena on Thursday, Nov. 18. (Photo: Tom Zillich) to do the best for our son and the neural pathways to the brain. keep helping him achieve his Layne, a right-shot defencegoals.” So far, so good. doing full days of treatment man, was seriously injured in During a break from skating “His walking, his limp, it’s not for two weeks, including on-ice the catastrophic Broncos bus nearly as bad now,” Kevin said, at Excellent Ice, Layne said he’s work with Brodie Jackson and crash of April 2018, when 10 “and his drag when he’s skating enjoyed his two-plus weeks in Balraj Dhillon. Back home in players with the Saskatchewan Surrey. is not as bad now, on his right Colonsay, he’ll continue more junior team were killed, along “It’s different, a couple provwith two coaches, a statistician, treatments with virtual supervi- side. It’s little things, but big inces away from home, but I broadcaster, bus driver and ath- sion by the Surrey Neuroplasti- things. really like my trainers and I feel “His mood is in a better city Clinic team. letic therapist. like I’m really improving with “Skating isn’t part of the pro- place,” Kevin continued. “The More than three years later, this PoNS device, and I really way he walked before, it took Layne wants to play recreation- gram, but they are very good think anyone who could use it, there and are incorporating that a lot of energy to walk that al hockey again one day, and way, so now it’ll take less of his should.” the Surrey clinic is helping him to help Layne, because it’s imThe trip to Surrey has been portant to him, his goal,” Kevin energy and hopefully he won’t achieve that goal. be played out as easy. The long- “huge” for the Saskatchewannoted. “Some days we think that’s “This is a 14-week program,” term effects should be huge. It’s ians, Kevin confirmed. not ever going to be possible,” “We’re all so happy that we he added, “and we’ve been here heartwarming for him to see said Kevin Matechuk, Layne’s heard about the program, which that and realize he is getting for about two weeks. His therfather, “but then we see him better, and motivating when he is pretty new. The sky’s the apists developed a program for on the ice here and see his imlimit, you know. We’ll see where notices those differences.” provements, and yeah, he could him to take home, and he’ll be it takes us.” Layne will continue skating using the PoNS device at home, be able to do what he loves the too. After that we’ll come back back home, a few times a week. most, some day. It’s really en“It was about a year after the here for a final week, and it’ll be couraging to us that he keeps SEE VIDEO, MORE PHOTOS accident that he was first on the good to see where he’s at, from working toward his goal.” AT SURREYNOWLEADER.COM where he started to that point.” ice,” Kevin recalled, “so he’s In Surrey, Layne has been Tom Zillich tom.zillich@surreynowleader.com
A (very) quick look at some news in the community you might have missed. Send your items to edit@surreynowleader.com Last week’s flooding made it impossible for a patient desperately needing critical care to be transferred from Hope’s Fraser Canyon Hospital to Surrey Memorial, but a creative team of doctors found a way to bring the ICU to the patient. B.C. parents and guardians who have registered their child (five to 11 years old) with the Get Vaccinated progam will begin receiving invitations Monday, Nov. 29, to book appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine, the provincial government announced Tuesday (call 1-833-838-2323 with questions). Vacancies at RCMP detachments throughout the north and elsewhere could be filled by officers from Surrey as the city’s new police force begins to assume law and order duties. The BC RCMP has notified the Independent Investigations Office of British Columbia of an incident involving the Surrey RCMP and a woman who was taken to hospital in serious condition on Nov. 7, two days after being arrested on an outstanding warrant. Surrey RCMP is recommending people take extra precautions after seeing an increase in work vans being stolen, including 31 such reports in October. Surrey’s William Northcott is $500,000 richer after checking his numbers in a recent Daily Grand lottery at a Circle K store on King George Boulevard, creating a lot of excitement there. A 50-year-old cyclist was stable in hospital and awaiting surgery after she was hit by a pickup truck at about 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16 in the 9500-block of 156 Street. Work to construct a new, four-lane crossing over the Nicomekl River, along King George Boulevard, is anticipated to get underway this winter, beginning with removal of the single-lane Bailey Bridge. Compiled by Now-Leader staff
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‘Friends’ in ‘David vs. Goliath’ fight with city donated items and counting. Recently, volunteer Ram Bains, a Surrey resident who has an import business, donated 800 pairs of women’s jeans – 25 big boxes worth – which Kaps bought during an online silent auction for $1,500. Volunteers on Friday packed them into a truck destined for the MCC (Mennonite Central Committee) Thrift Shop at 10653 King George Blvd. in Surrey. “If MCC sells these brandnew jeans for $10 that’s $8,000 for at very good cause,” Kaps told the Now-Leader. Said Donna Hanson, an orFriends of Bear Creek Park prepare to pack boxes containing 800 pairs of jeans ganizer with Friends of Bear into MCC Thrift Shop van Nov. 19 as part of fundraising drive to pay for court Creek Park, “It costs money to battle with City of Surrey over expansion of 84 Avenue. (Photo: Tom Zytaruk) pursue this legal avenue and to save our beloved park from this that by dragging us to court unnecessary road. “While the city has an ununnecessarily on a number of “It cost additional funds when limited source of funds in the occasions.” the City of Surrey appealed form of taxpayers, we’ve had And so, the group is trying – and lost – a Supreme Court to fundraise every dollar we’ve judge’s stop-work order.” spent,” said Sajda, an organizer to fund its legal costs by way of door-to-door canvassing, The Safe Surrey Coalition with Friends of Bear Creek online donations, a GoFundMe majority on council decided to Park. “Our original budget campaign and a bottle drive fast-track the road project in was $50,000, but the City of Surrey has managed to balloon that has to date collected 8,222 February.
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The Friends of Bear Creek Park is characterizing its court fight against the City of Surrey over the expansion of 84 Avenue at the southern end of Bear Creek Park as a classic example of a David-versus-Goliath battle. In the Bible, the little guy wins. In an attempt to duplicate that outcome, the citizens’ group has being pursuing creative means of funding its legal bills as it tries to stop the city’s plan to join 140 Street with King George Boulevard by building a new stretch of 84 Avenue. The Force of Nature Society, and Surrey resident Sebastian Sajda and Annie Kaps filed a petition with the B.C. Supreme Court against the City of Surrey in July asking the court to declare as parkland properties impacted by the 84th Avenue project. They are still awaiting the judge’s decision.
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The Vanderpol clan with friends at the Surrey plant in 1960, after going to church. (Submitted photo, from the book “First With the Finest: Vanderpol’s, a Family Enterprise”) “I enjoyed growing up on the farm in Surrey, as I was never bored and there was always something to do,” she notes in the book. “The large orchard provided apples that we stored in the attic, and they lasted us the entire winter. We also kept a few cows and some sheep. We tried keeping pigs, but they didn’t last long as they were ornery and wouldn’t herd, and Pieter and Jack were allergic to pork. Jack and a friend each had a horse, and twice raised colts. I learned how to ride and made other horsey friends in the neighbourhood. We often went for a ride in Bear Creek Park.” Saturdays at the Surrey plant, egg-grading contests involved a “kid crew” and employees. “We were all so fast that each team could easily grade and pack 10 cases in an hour,” Ria recalls. “The weekday workers had piped-in music, but we were allowed to bring our record player, and we worked like idiots while listening to 45-rpm records of the Everly Brothers, Johnny Cash and the Kingston Trio. Those were Jack’s favourites. Pieter like classical. We had to change
the record every three minutes.” By the late 1980s, Vanderpol’s Eggs had a national presence, with its head office and egg grading done in Surrey, a processing plant in Abbotsford, another plant in St. Mary’s, Ont., and a sales office in Burlington. While Vanderpol’s Eggs ceased to be a family-owned business in 2013, the family legacy is carried on by two of Vanderpol’s sons. Phil Vanderpol is president and CEO of Vitalus Nutrition Inc., and Mike Vanderpol is president of EggSolutions Vanderpol’s. Both companies occupy the Abbotsford plant once operated by Vanderpol’s Eggs. The book can be bought there, at 3911 Mount Lehman Rd., and also online at vanderpolseggs.store. “Starting with his parents, (the book) is about the family members and long-time employees who made the company prosper,” Vanderpol said. “To understand them — their personalities, backgrounds, values, and motivation — is to understand why things happened, and why Vanderpol’s enjoyed such success.”
More Round Up Café books printed, signing Dec. 3 To meet demand, Surrey’s Flamingo Square Arts Society has printed 300 additional copies of their book, “Stories From the Round Up Café,” which chronicles the history of the landmark diner. The first run of the photo-filled book sold out within days of publishing in 2020. “It resonated with the community as a tribute to the Springenatic legacy in Whalley,” project co-ordinator Shara Nixon told
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Rows of houses now stand in Fleetwood where Vanderpol’s Eggs first became a long-running family enterprise. From the 1950s until 1992, the egg processor operated a large plant at 8592 148 St., employing dozens of local residents. Pieter Vanderpol has authored a detailed new book that tells the story of how his Dutch immigrant family built a door-to-door egg delivery service into the largest egg processor in Canada’s western provinces. The hard-cover “First with the Finest” includes several photos of the 10-acre Surrey property, which had barns, a farmhouse and lots of clucking, egg-laying chickens. The business began in fish delivery, and later got cracking with eggs in Fleetwood, writes Vanderpol, who was president of the company for decades. “Our new home was in a rural neighbourhood with unpaved roads and only one or two neighbours – not only a perfect property for expanding the business, but also ideal for a large family with lots of room for everyone and everything.” As a delivery worker, Vanderpol said he was struck by the high level of trust of Canadians. “If a customer was not home but wanted some eggs, she left a note in an egg carton on the doorstep with the cash,” he writes. “We couldn’t get over that.” One morning, an egg truck collided with a milk truck, resulting in “giant eggnog,” according to a newspaper report in 1957. Pieter’s sister Ria, who was 12 in 1959, recalls life on the family’s Fleetwood property.
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“You can stop in on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., for a coffee and a muffin and check out the exciting work they are doing there,” Nixon noted. Copies of the “Stories From the Round Up Café” ($20) are available there, 10449 King George Blvd., and also at Whalley Legion, Sprite Computers, Newton Culture Centre and the Museum of Surrey/Archives. For online orders, check facebook. com/whalleybc. “If you would like a signed copy, on Friday,
Dec. 3 there will be another ‘Stories of the Round Up Café’ event at the café,” Nixon added. “Goldie Springenatic will be there to sign books and reminisce about the glory days of the Round Up Café. Come join in the fun from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Have a cup of coffee and a piece of pie, pick up your copy of the book just in time for Christmas.” The book project involved the Flamingo Square Arts Society team of Nixon, Val Watson, Lucie Matich, Jude Campbell and Pamela DeJong.
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‘Step up the humanity,’ says SBOT CEO as people hoard gas and groceries new provincial orders in place amid concerns of gas shortages in the province. He announced that non-essential travel will be restricted on all highways impacted by Lauren Collins washouts and the public will lauren.collins@surreynowleader.com be limited to purchasing 30 litres of fuel per visit to gas The Surrey Board of Trade stations in southwest B.C., CEO says although there is a Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast. supply chain “crisis,” everyIn the hours that followed, one needs to work together some gas stations in Surrey “to make sure that we’re had lineups on the surroundhelping our neighbours.” ing streets as people rushed Following the atmospherto fill up. Some images on ic river last weekend, and social media show people record-setting rainfall and filling up multiple jerry cans. flooding, grocery store On Monday, Farnworth shelves have been emptying out throughout the province. said the province is confident there is enough gasoline in Then Friday (Nov. 19), B.C.’s Public Safety Minister B.C. for motorists needing to get around. Mike Farnworth put two
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“Trans Mountain is working around the clock on the pipeline and its ability to move product is done as quickly and as safely as A gas pump with a sign noting no fuel available is pictured at a gas station in Agassiz last week. Similar signs possible,” the minister said have been posted on pumps in Surrey and other areas. (Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward) during an emergency operations update. The pipeline and relief efforts in the Frashave to make sure that we’re years. has been closed since largeer Valley and in the Interior. “I think the mentality, as scale flooding and landslides not hoarding.” we saw during the pandemic, That included the Gurdwara She added there are some began last week. Dukh Nivaran Sahib and is when we get these anpeople who are living payFarnworth said that B.C. the Guru Nanak Food Bank nouncements from the B.C. cheque to paycheque and has been sourcing gas from government, some people go making thousands of meal other jurisdictions, including can’t afford to buy in bulk. into crisis mode and they feel packages and chartering a “If there’s nothing left for Alberta and Washington private helicopter to transthat they have to get these them, we really have to step State. port it. up the humanity in terms of equipments, these supplies Anita Huberman, CEO The Surrey Police Service, in order to be able to survive supporting each other and with the Surrey Board of in its first operational deTrade, said “it’s unfortunate do the right thing as the B.C. because they don’t know ployment, also sent 10 offiwhat tomorrow is going to government has indicated.” that some people have decers to Abbotsford to help This “hoarding mentality,” bring.” cided to take more groceries, with the flood recovery. Meantime, several Surrey she said, could be related to to take more gas. In the – With files from all of the uncertainty people businesses began collecting supply-chain line there is Katya Slepian donations for flood victims enough for all of us, we just have faced in the last two
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Homeowner riled after city’s tree smashes heritage house MOS, where the property line is, it’s theirs.” (COSMOS is the City of Surrey’s online geographic Surrey resident Debora information system, through Ferrero says the City of Surrey won’t accept respon- which residents can access sibility after a “huge” fir tree information about any propthat was on city property fell erty in the city). She said her mom won’t be and smashed her 88-yearold mom’s heritage house in tapping into her house insurance to deal with the ordeal Whalley on Nov. 15. because it will raise her The three-storey, brownpremiums. “They’re going to and-white house at 10024 raise the rates for something Whalley Blvd. is rented to the city is responsible for,” tenants, who were not injured. It took out part of the Ferrero said. “She’s very upset.” chimney, and some power “I don’t think my mom lines. “That saved it from should be responsible to be going through the house. It claiming it, I don’t think landed on top of the roof, she’s responsible to be payit’s damaged the side of ing for it.” the house, it’s damaged the Ferrero said her sister chimney.” got someone to come chop Ferrero says the tree was on the corner near the front up the tree. “It’s costing us of the property, on city land. $4,700 to remove that tree that belongs to the city, and She said the tenants were the city worker told me they standing in the living room don’t come on private propwhen the tree fell. erty. If it was fallen across “They just freaked. They thought it was going to come the road then they would through the house,” she said. have to but they don’t come Ferrero said she called the on your property, and I City of Surrey’s engineering said, ‘It’s your tree…” “I’m like, it’s your tree department, an employee and it’s not your problem? came out, had a look and I can’t cut a tree, I’m not told her the city doesn’t “touch anything” on private allowed to touch it, but your property and that she’d have tree falls on my property, now if it had been a neighto deal with the aftermath bour’s tree falling then the through her insurance carneighbour’s responsible, so rier. why isn’t the city?” “I said I don’t think so,” She said the house origFerrero told the Now-Leadinally belonged to her er. “It just blew me away grandparents, who were because all the guys in BC “pioneers.” Hydro are going, ‘Are you “That house had been kidding?’” moved from where King “So they admitted it, it’s George Highway sits, that theirs. We saw it on COSTom Zytaruk tom.zytaruk@surreynowleader.com
used to be all their land, and then all those small houses behind the street that their house sits on now used to be my grandfather’s property and then he sold the property in behind there and he put a road in so that people had access to all those small homes there,” Ferrero said. The house, she said, is “probably over 100 years old.” She said a representative from the City of Surrey’s risk-management office instructed her to fill out a claim, pay for the repairs, and then the city would have somebody investigate. “I’m like what do you need to investigate? Your tree fell on my house,” Ferrero said. “They’re just doing a big circle around it. She said to me after, ‘Well, there’s no guarantee that your claim will be accepted.’” “She said I have 80 submissions so I don’t know when I’ll get to yours.” Amber Stowe, communications and media relations lead for the City of Surrey, issued a response on behalf of the city’s engineering department. “At this time, the City is unable to comment, as the matter is under investigation,” the statement reads. “Insurance is there to deal with losses to policyholders covered under the policy. If an insurer believes another party is responsible for the loss, they will seek damages against that party on behalf of their policyholder.”
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Policing transition
‘We don’t want to interfere’ with city decision: Bains Continued from A1 “They have to know that they have a responsibility now to tell their cabinet, take heat to their cabinet, and say you have a decision to make now on behalf of the residents of Surrey,” Locke argues. “The residents of Surrey have spoken loud and clear.” And so the Now-Leader set about asking Surrey’s seven NDP MLAs where they land on that proposition. Mike Starchuk, MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale, did not personally reply but an NDP communications officer did on his behalf, saying he is “unfortunately currently unavailable.” Nor did government whip Garry Begg, MLA for Surrey-Guildford. Jagrup Brar, MLA for Surrey-Fleetwood, had this to say: “It is a city matter, the City of Surrey council made a decision, a unanimous decision at that time, to move forward for this transition and the province is just facilitating this process, so that’s where we are right now and that’s what I know. “I’m not in the cabinet.” Rachna Singh, MLA for Surrey-Green Timbers, echoed that. “Our stance has been always that this was a decision made by the City of Surrey and we have been supporting the City of Surrey with that,” she said. But she says she’ll definitely discuss the matter with Surrey’s other NDP MLAs. Singh said she thinks it’s their responsibility to bring to the public safety minister and solicitor general what they are hearing from constituents. “If this is what people are saying,” she said, she will “definitely” bring it up with the minister “that this is what we are hearing, and pass it on to him.” “Definitely this is something that is coming in my office. I will bring it over to the minister.” Jinny Sims, MLA for Surrey-Panorama, says she and the six other Surrey NDP MLAs are in a “very difficult position” because Surrey council unanimously requested that the Surrey RCMP be replaced with a city-made police force. “It is the decision of Surrey council, that’s the division of power that exists. The only role the province has is to make sure the transition is done so that public safety is not put at risk,” Sims said. “I’m very, very disturbed by this because at the time that we’ve got so much other stuff to be focused on an incredible amount of resources
Eileen Mohan, Bill Tieleman and Darlene Bennett preparing to collect signatures for a petition to have a referendum on Surrey’s policing transition. (Facebook image) are going into this. I’m not saying I agreed with the process that was used locally by the city; I understand people who say they didn’t feel consulted because that is one thing we do pride ourselves on. At the same time, we’re in a position when considerable monies have been spent by the province and the city and where do you go from here?” Sims said she’d “love” to hear the arguments for going ahead with a referendum “but not in a political sense, more in a governance sense.” “I will definitely discuss with my other NDP colleagues from Surrey because I think that once people put a request to us it behooves us to sit down and have a very serious look. At the same time, I do acknowledge they did not meet the criteria nor did they try to, that Elections BC put on them.” Sims thinks the public is more concerned about the process than anything else. “I’m not sure a referendum would undo the process,” she told the Now-Leader. “It is a very difficult situation – there isn’t a black-andwhite answer in this one, that’s why I will say I will certainly sit down with my Surrey colleagues and engage all of us in a conversation because there is a lot of information even I don’t have.” The City of Surrey, Sims noted,
is in charge of the “costing side” of the policing transition and this has “very little” to do with the provincial government. “And we can’t force them to share the costing. And so we’re caught between jurisdiction, we’re caught between a mayor and a council – the majority now, not unanimous.” Moreover, she asks rhetorically, do we have a referendum every time we don’t agree with what our government is doing? “Every decision of the council could then be open to a referendum once you start setting precedents. The best – the best – venue for people to let the council know whether they like or do not like what they have done is our electoral process, and that’s coming up fairly soon,” Sims said. Sims noted that she and her Surrey MLA colleagues have to look at the issue through the lens of governance, “and from a governance point of view, we do not have governance through referendum. Then, you don’t need to elect city council.” “On the other hand, I’m very sympathetic with the feelings of people who feel unheard, people who don’t feel consulted and people who feel they don’t have the full information about budget impacts,” she added. Surrey-Newton MLA and Minister of Labour Harry Bains, who, like Ralston, has a cabinet seat, also
pointed out that city council in its inaugural meeting in November 2018 unanimously passed a resolution to move ahead with Surrey’s own police force. “That’s when it started, I think it’s the city’s decision, they are the one who needs to deal with this. The province is only accommodating what the city had asked us and I think if a person is going back and forth, back and forth, I think it is a real risk to the health and safety of people, and the security of people,” Bains said. “This issue is moving ahead and I think as soon as we have Surrey Police officers on the street I think it’s better and just move on then, because that’s the decision the city made. It’s not the province’s decision, we’re not interfering with their decision and we’re complying.” The City of Surrey has the right to cancel its contract with the Surrey RCMP under the Police Act, Bains noted. “They asked us to accommodate the transition to a new police force, and that’s what we are doing.” Still, asked if has an appetite to take to his cabinet colleagues the concept of calling a referendum, Bains replied that nobody has approached him yet but if and when they do, his answer will remain the same. “It’s the city’s decision, we don’t
want to interfere with the city’s decision,” Bains said. “This group needs to deal with the city.” However, he added, concerns about transparency and cost related to the Surrey’s policing transition process “are all legit questions, and I think the citizens of Surrey deserve answers on those and I think they should be asking those questions of the city and the city council should be giving those answers.” Asked if he has an appetite to bring the matter to cabinet, Surrey-Whalley NDP MLA Bruce Ralston, the city’s other cabinet minister, replied that ”the short answer is no.” “I’m respectful of the views of my colleagues who of course are representatives of people in Surrey and I certainly will listen to them but at this point I am not persuaded that this is anything other than a matter for the City of Surrey,” Ralston said. “I’m not persuaded that this is a matter for a referendum. The City of Surrey is responsible for delivering the police services and the transition is well underway.” Locke’s response is that the public has spoken “very loud and very clear” on this “and if they chose to ignore that, that’s their call. “I attended a lot of those signing events and I can tell you, the public was angry,” Locke said. Originally she supported the transition, but then changed her mind and became an outspoken critic because of concerns raised about transparency and cost. “Many of them just wanted their say and if the MLAs who report to Victoria are not going to report what the residents in their community are saying, then that’s their call but I think that the public expects the Surrey MLAs to represent them, to represent that community, to Victoria,” she said. “Not to represent Victoria to the community, but to represent the wishes of the people in that community to Victoria.” “They either represent Victoria to their riding, or their riding to Victoria,” Locke said, “and they have to make that decision. For me as a resident, I would hope they’re going to be representing the citizens of Surrey to Victoria and if they can’t speak to the minister, I’m surprised by that.” Tieleman said he’s disappointed but not surprised by the MLAs comments here. “We’re asking for a democratic referendum on Surrey policing, and that is an appropriate use of the Referendum Act,” he said. “We don’t give up easily, and we’re not going to.”
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Vision Zero on the right road Well here’s some good news for a change. Surrey’s Vision Zero traffic safety initiative, which aims to achieve a state of no fatalities or serious injuries on our city’s streets, made progress during the pandemic with a 22 per cent decrease in serious collisions recorded over the past three years. This information was contained in a corporate report that came before city council on Nov. 22. Last year, the city installed 15 speed humps, 13 full traffic signals, 18 left-turn signals, 24 flashing lights at crosswalks, 23 kilometres of sidewalks and three kilometres of protected bike lanes. Moreover, police issued 2,050 distracted-driving violation tickets and 1,546 immediate roadside suspensions, and Speed Watch volunteers collectively put in more that 1,770 hours, contributing to more than 370,000 vehicle checks on Surrey’s roads.
Surrey Coun. Allison Patton noted, as the report was being considered, that she wants the city to get a strong road-safety message out to new drivers in particular, namely in Grades 9-12. “I’m not sure they always understand the power of a vehicle,” Patton remarked, not to mention “potentials for damage.” “I’m pleased we’ve already saved lives through this particular endeavour,” she added. So are we. Meantime, a study conducted by hellosafe.ca has revealed that distracted driving is the cause of 27 per cent of road fatalities in B.C., and makes up 35 per cent of this province’s traffic crashes overall. Clearly more needs to be done to curb this dangerous behavior. All the same, it is encouraging that programs like Vision Zero are successfully tackling road safety problems. – Now-Leader
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Human nature reveals itself in times of crisis MyView Brenda Anderson
From Mad Max, to The Road, to The Walking Dead, there’s been no shortage of films, books and television shows predicting just how quickly humanity would devolve into chaos and violence in the event of a disaster – whether it were to come upon us suddenly in an apocalyptic blast of radiation and light, creep up slowly with warming temperatures and the resulting violent storms or, you know, zombies. OK, that last one’s a bit of a stretch, but a virus of some description – more Contagion than World War Z, I suppose.
Since I was old enough to watch or read such bleak works of dystopian fiction without then having to sleep with all the lights on, I just assumed that whoever wrote them had taken a very dim and, more to the point, unrealistic view of humanity. To suggest that society would collapse the moment supplies ran short or communications were cut off seemed, frankly, ludicrous. While these authors’ prognostications of anarchy might be extreme, unfortunately, it appears they’re not entirely off the mark. During the past 20 months, we’ve seen random, violent attacks on Canadians of Asian descent (often elderly) who were simply doing their job or going about their day. Store and airline employees
have been punched and spat on for enforcing rules that were put in place to help keep the rest of us a little safer. And a loud minority have taken to the streets to scream about how citizens’ rights – specifically theirs – are being trampled. More recently, with the Lower Mainland and several smaller B.C. communities cut off by flood waters, the panic-buying of gas and groceries left some store shelves and fuel storage tanks temporarily empty. This was despite regular reassurances from the province – and the president of a major local grocery chain – that everything is going to get where it needs to go. There might be a little less of it, and it may take longer to get there, but that’s all the more reason to
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take only what you need at any given time. Some folks, it appears, learned nothing from the great TP crisis of 2020. It would be easy to give in to despair if this were all that was happening. Luckily, though, there are far more good people out there doing many good things. From the moment news started trickling in early last week about just how serious the situation had become, heroic relief efforts kicked into high gear. Getting people and animals out of harm’s way, wherever possible, was, of course, top priority, as well as doing everything humanly possible to keep the disaster from widening in its scope. These jobs fell largely to
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emergency services, government agencies and the military. But from the outset, neighbours stepped up to help one another. And almost immediately, we in the media were being asked by everyday British Columbians how they, too, could help. We’ve seen donated meals prepared here and airlifted into an isolated Hope; volunteer pilots have taken to the air to deliver tonnes of relief supplies; local businesses are collecting cash and non-perishable items; and animal rescue agencies are offering food and boarding for displaced pets and livestock. Stories of devastation on the scale we witnessed during last summer’s fires and again this month, all set against the backdrop of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, can
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be hard to take. We’re told British Columbians’ mental health is taking a collective beating. Why wouldn’t it be? I find it helps to stop and remind myself regularly that while, yes, there are definitely a few who are filling carts and cars, thinking only of themselves, there is a far greater number of people out there doing everything they can to help others, be they friends, neighbours or total strangers. Check out any Black Press publication this week and you’ll find accounts of their efforts. These are the stories we all like to read – the ones that help us sleep a little better at night. Brenda Anderson is editor of the Peace Arch News, a Black Press Media publication.
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Flood column beyond insensitive
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. Roses to Mayor Doug McCallum as Elections BC rejected the referendum and once again, citizens proved that they are with him, no matter what. Rotten tomatoes to the people who are disrupting the smooth running of council meetings at City Hall. Red roses to the Surrey Police Service for sending 10 officers down to Abbotsford to help people recover from the massive floods. That is amazing. Your compassion knows no bounds and is without a doubt, invaluable. It’s a shame how not everyone appreciates such dedication, hard work and kindness. Wow! Wish you were our mayor. Roses to White Rock Mayor Darryl Walker who is having an in-house public meeting, wants to see people and lose the Zoom meetings.
as to whether he or anyone else is vaxxed, I knew he was the wrong guy for me and anyone else who cares about the health of all the other people around them. How can Pettigrew – and all the others – look at COVID politically and not think of your family, friends and all the other people around? I am 77, diabetic and overweight, but I don’t want to die of COVID. Hope this loses some more votes for you, Steven. You are not the man I thought you were! Rotten tomatoes to city of Surrey councillor Pettigrew spewing untruths and fear mongering about the vaccine. I guess that means he’s not vaccinated. Guess that means you won’t be attending any more council meetings. Bye!
Red roses to City of Surrey for all the hard work clearing storm drains.
Rotten tomato to the woman constantly yelling to her son what to do in the 4-5-year-old group playing soccer. Let the coach coach. You ruined everyone’s day.
Sorry to have to send rotten tomatoes to Steven Pettigrew, who I really planned to vote for in next year’s election. But when I read he didn’t think it was anybody’s business
Roses to those who helped me find my car keys when I dropped them in the lot at Guildford mall. Several people helped look, and they were found near a car’s tire, thankfully.
The Editor, Further to messages left on your answering machine, I wish to present in print my objection to the writing of Frank Bucholtz in the Surrey Now-Leader paper of Thursday, Nov. 18. (“Surrey has a long history of flooding in its low-lying areas,” Frankly Speaking column). The article is a lengthy didactic review of the history of flooding in the City of Surrey and surrounding valley that concludes with a view that snow melt, steady rain and many feet of water in low-lying areas are facts of life if you live on the Pacific Coast. We live on a flood plain. Most of us are cognizant of this. Those living in the Interior also affected by this massive outpouring of rain, do not reside near the ocean. Bucholtz’s frank flood review and summary dismissal as “life as usual” here on the coast both ignores the most unusual rainfall phenomenon and encapsulation of events as “quite dramatic,” delivers a cold, hard slap.
Flooding near 88 Avenue and 176 Street in Surrey last week. (Photo: Lauren Collins) Whatever historic preparations in place as fortification against flood waters were no match for the excessive downpour that fell without abatement for days on end – downpour that my excellent tympanic membranes have no memory of in my 65 years of life here. Bucholtz’s astounding instruc-
tive and dismissive column is beyond insensitive, a lost opportunity to suggest we had better take seriously the atmospheric tendencies of late and that which contributes to them. I hope that is frank enough for you, Frank? Deanna Welters
Moving army base from Chilliwack a huge mistake The Editor, News reports tell me Prime Minister Trudeau has generously sent two planes with 119 soldiers from their base in Edmonton to assist in addressing the damage caused by the massive flooding we experienced just days ago – 119 soldiers when our land routes to the rest of the country have been severed. Nevertheless, I suppose we folks on the western fringe of the country should be grateful for the 119 sent to assist us, even
though the feds probably sent more troops and equipment to Toronto to clear snow a few years ago. The Lower Mainland is an earthquake zone and perhaps the region of the country in most need of a land-based military presence, something it had until 1995. In his budget that year then-finance minister Paul Martin closed the Army Engineers base in Chilliwack and transferred the personnel and their equipment to Edmonton. At that time it was
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made clear to the Chretien government that if a major earthquake hit the Lower Mainland, it could very easily destroy land routes in and out of the area, as happened with the torrential rains. As well, with an earthquake there is a real possibility that airport facilities would be unusable. With the inability of moving troops and equipment from Edmonton, it was suggested that any substantial assistance was more likely to come from the
huge, well-equipped U.S. military base, Lewis-McChord, located south of Tacoma. Moving the Army Engineers from Chilliwack to Edmonton was a huge mistake, as events ofthe past week have shown. The question is, was it a wakeup call to the feds to re-establish a landbased military presence in the Lower Mainland, or are we still too far from Ottawa to matter? John Cummins, former Reform MP, Delta-Richmond
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Council clashes with Metro Vancouver over land-use decisions McCallum said. “If they can get this through, then what Metro is going to start next is asking to get some DCCs (development cost Surrey city council is taking umbrage with Metro Vancouver, saying charges) from us in planning and it is impinging on the city’s jurisdic- some density bonusing from plantion concerning decisions over local ning, that’s their next step to get some revenue into them once they land use. get this planning context through.” “I don’t want to see other coun“Metro has really stepped over the cillors, or other mayors from other red line as far as planning is concities, telling us in Surrey how we cerned,” he said. A report must be develop our land,” Mayor Doug sent in response, he said, and counMcCallum said. Council came out in a rare united cil voted to make it so. Coun. Allison Patton said a city front Monday night as it contemplated a corporate report addressing should be able to determine how it Metro Vancouver’s Draft Regional develops its own land. “Metro plays an advisory role, not a dictatorial Growth Strategy – Metro 2050. role, not a legislative role,” she said. “It really gets upsetting because “They’re creeping into things that I the type of threats – I’ll say threats don’t want them to creep into.” – throughout this document that if “Cities that are not Surrey have we don’t agree then they won’t put no idea what it is to be Surrey,” in new sewers and waters. That’s she said. “I don’t really want to be something that I have never seen that kind of threat before,” McCal- talking to them about their land use and I don’t want them talking to me lum said. about my land use.” “It is a threat to the City of SurCoun. Laurie Guerra said she’s rey, and they shouldn’t do that,” Tom Zytaruk tom.zytaruk@surreynowleader.com
said. Speaking to Metro Vancouver’s housing projects, she added, Vancouver has 14 housing projects, Richmond has nine, and Surrey has five. “Our residents pay exactly the same taxes, so that’s a concern to me,” Locke said. “Building those resources for Surrey is important.” Coun. Doug Elford also argued McCallum Nagra that Metro is “creeping into” areas of governance it doesn’t belong. “I think people are most conbeen on the Metro Board for three cerned about their toilet flushing, years. Council and staff supported a land use change in Surrey recently, their tap running and their garbage getting picked up and to me those she said, but had to go through a are the core services,” he said. “I vote on the Metro board to get it passed. She said she was “shocked” think Metro has really started to get to see the number of hoops the city beyond their scope of responsibility out there and I’m really concerned needed to jump through “in order about them creeping into this planto get elected officials from other jurisdictions to determine our land ning process. “I just don’t like the idea of Metro use in Surrey.” trying to control our planning proCoun. Brenda Locke echoed her cess.” colleagues’ concerns. “I do think Said Coun. Mandeep Nagra, “I that scope creep with Metro Vanthink the land use is something that couver is a problem, that’s somewe need to control and we need to thing we have to be alive to,” she
make decisions on.” McCallum reiterated that when it comes to Surrey’s planning end, “there is no place for Metro to be involved. “Over the years, and each year I’ve seen, they’ve started to claw back a whole bunch of things. They’re an unelected board, they’re only appointed by the cities, they’re not elected directly. And yet they’re making huge decisions on behalf of Surrey residents. “They have crossed the line as far as what they want to say as far as controlling Surrey,” McCallum charged. “They’ve crossed the red line at this stage, as far as I’m concerned, as far as controlling cities’ land use uses. “Each year, they start to take a little bit more and I, too, get really upset when a mayor from the North Shore can tell us how to develop our land in Surrey.” Councillors Steven Pettigrew and Jack Hundial were not at Monday’s council meeting.
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$3.5M construction contract awarded in Newton Tom Zytaruk tom.zytaruk@surreynowleader.com
Surrey city council awarded a contract of more than $3.5 million Monday night to Marex Constructors Ltd. for work on the Newton Community Centre Road and utility work.
The expenditure limit has been set at $3,892,350 and the project relates to improvements and the extension of 70 Avenue from 134 Street to King George Boulevard. Scott Neuman, Surrey’s general manager of engineering, noted in a corporate report to council that the work is being done in conjunction
with the new Newton Community Centre “to improve traffic, pedestrian, and protected cycling access in and out of the facility.” The contracted work is expected to start in December and be completed by May 31, 2022 and construction will take place between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.
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Surrey city Coun. Brenda Locke is expressing considerable trepidation over sitting next to Coun. Steven Pettigrew in council chambers. During the Nov. 8 council meeting, Pettigrew refused to disclose his vaccination status against COVID-19. If he is not vaccinated, Locke said, “I don’t want to sit by him. We sit so close together.” Pettigrew could not be reached for comment. He was not at Monday night’s council meeting. “I am an arm’s length away, we sit right beside each other,” Locke said. Council members are currently separated by plexiglass but Locke notes there is a gap at the bottom through which council members can share documents with one another. “So what the heck is
Coun. Steven Pettigrew, right, sits beside fellow Coun. Brenda Locke during a recent meeting of Surrey city council. Councillors are currently separated by plexiglass but Locke notes there is a gap at the bottom through which council members can share documents with one another. (Screen shot) the point of it? And it only goes up so high.” “I like Steven, personally I have no problem with the guy but you know, I’ve got a 92-year-old mom and I’ve got a pregnant daughter and this is too much to ask of anybody to sit, and we don’t wear masks in council chambers.” During the Nov. 8 council meeting Pettigrew was the sole member to vote against requiring
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INFORM Public consultation about policing
Survey says violent crime, gangs and timely response are top priorities Tom Zytaruk tom.zytaruk@surreynowleader.com
A public consultation process undertaken by the Surrey Police Board and Surrey Police Service between June and October found that of some 1,200 Surrey residents surveyed, their three top concerns are violent crime, organized crime gangs and timely police response to urgent calls for police service. All told, of the three top priori-
ties, violent crimes rated 91 per cent, organized crime gangs 88 per cent, and timely response 86 per cent. “Surrey Police Service sincerely appreciates the input and insights offered by the citizens of Surrey during this consultation process,” Chief Const. Norm Lipinski said. “This is only the beginning – SPS is committed to regular community consultations, engagement and collaboration to help inform policing in Surrey.”
Moreover, 90 per cent of respondents indicated they want SPS officers to wear body cameras, 64 per cent said it was somewhat/very important SPS officers are representative of Surrey’s cultural makeup and 64 per cent indicated their fluency in more than one language is important. “The sample sizes used for this consultation are considered statistically accurate for Surrey’s population by the researchers involved
Surrey RCMP. The Surrey Police Board and the SPS leadership team, the press release also notes, will use results from the consultation “to inform SPS’s first strategic plan,” to be developed this fall and released in early 2022. “This input will also be used to develop a community policing service delivery model for SPS, which will be operationalized when SPS becomes the official police agency of jurisdiction for Surrey,” it states.
in this project,” SPS media liaison Ian MacDonald noted in a press release. “Input was gathered from Indigenous leaders, seniors, the differently abled, school officials, the LGBTQ2S+ community, the private sector, organizations focused on housing, mental health and addictions, newcomers, youth, and others.” The press release also states that only six per cent of respondents indicated support for keeping the
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Surrey’s economic rebound driven by health care, natural resources, public admin, tech Tom Zytaruk tom.zytaruk@surreynowleader.com
Surrey’s latest labour market report produced by the Surrey Board of Trade indicates that in October the city’s economic recovery amid the COVID-19 pandemic was driven by the health care, natural resources, public administration and tech sectors. The natural resources sector has seen a recovery of 43.1 per cent in Surrey since February 2020, gaining some 1,300 jobs while manufacturing in Surrey has increased by roughly 1,100 jobs since before the
pandemic, with an increase of 4.2 per cent. Anita Huberman, CEO of the board, said six private colleges have joined her organization in the past three weeks as a shortage of skilled labour continues in the city. “Many other goods and services sectors in Surrey remain impacted and below February 2020 employment levels,” she said. Surrey’s construction sector, on the other hand, continues to lag in its jobs recovery, the report states, with “hightouch, large-group accommodation and food services” jobs being roughly
1,400 jobs lower than pre-pandemic times and jobs related to arts and culture also remain below pre-pandemic levels. Construction-driven trades, transport and equipment operation work remains almost 10,000 jobs below February 2020, impacted by a lagging recovery of the transportation sector here. Sectors showing the greatest recovery since February 2020 in Surrey are health care and social assistance, up almost by over 5,400 jobs or 16 per cent, while public administration employment is up over 4,000 jobs or 43 per cent in Surrey.
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After more than a year of protests around the world, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Friday (Nov. 19) that he would repeal the controversial agriculture laws. But some are taking that news with a grain of salt. “Primarily, it’s a mixture of some level of relief and then some bewilderment that it’s been a year of sacrifice,” explained Moninder Singh, a spokesperson for the B.C. Gurdwaras Council. “People have left their homes, millions of people congregating at times around India’s capital, hundreds of people dying on the streets, clashes with police, the economy in the Punjab state coming to a standstill. “I think all of those things are now compounding on people, so did we actually win? What have we actually achieved? Have we just moved back to the status quo?” In the past year, there have been protests around the world, including near-daily protests along the Surrey-Delta border, at Scott Road and 72 Avenue, and car rallies throughout the Lower Mainland. Those protests stemmed from three bills that were put forward in India’s central government in September of 2020 that Singh previously told the Now-Leader would affect “small-time farmers” in India. “What it essentially does
Shoes placed on steps of Surrey Civic Plaza in March represent the number of people killed during India’s farm-law protests. (File photo: Lauren Collins) is it takes away something called the MSP, which is the minimum support price that farmers rely on. So depending on how the economy’s going… they have a minimum support price they can rely on that the government will buy their produce and their product at. Once that’s stripped away, they’re left to a free market,” explained Singh back in 2019. “In that part of the world, a free market is essentially a death sentence for most of these small-time farmers.” He added it leaves the farmers “at the power of the larger corporations” who can, with no minimum support price, “lower the prices which they buy at.” Now, Singh said the process to undo those laws could take months – if it happens at all. “Now to undo all of that, it would come back to parliament and there would be an entire process around
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Top cop: ‘Deliberate’ attempt to undermine safety Media learned it relates to the “Community Consultation Results” published by Surrey Police Service on Nov. 19. The Community Consultation project included a survey of more than 1,200 Surrey residents. According to the SPS, the survey included an Aaron Hinks “open-ended” portion, which Black Press Media some respondents used to share their opinion on the Surrey RCMP Assistant Commissioner Brian Edwards Surrey police transition. Of the people that filled out issued a statement Sunday the open-ended section, six morning saying that he will per cent indicated their supnot tolerate “deliberate” attempts made by Mayor Doug port for keeping the RCMP McCallum’s Safe Surrey Co- as the policing service for the city. alition to undermine public Shortly after SPS released safety in Surrey. the results, the Surrey Safe “Recently, several commuCoalition promoted on Twitnications have been released to the public, which I believe ter that only six per cent of residents support keeping the have been a deliberate atRCMP. tempt to undermine public “A new survey shows only safety in Surrey, by eroding public confidence in policing 6% of #SurreyBC residents at the current time,” Edwards support keeping the @Sursaid in the statement. reyRCMP & their cardboard “Whether it is releasing cutouts,” Safe Surrey Coaliinaccurate statistical data, or tion tweeted. “In spite of the mocking current public safety efforts of a bitter minority, it’s initiatives, I will not allow clear that the city’s anxious harmful rhetoric to jeoparfor a local, accountable & responsive police service. dize public safety.” “It’s time to move forward.” Edwards did not specifically Surrey Mayor Doug Mcmention which ‘communiCallum and majority of cations’ he was concerned council are members of the about, however, Black Press
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Safe Surrey Coalition. McCallum is also the chairman of the Surrey Police Board. Edwards said he has addressed his concern to McCallum and the commanding officer of the BC RCMP. “It is essential, particularly as our Province faces yet another state of emergency that we continue to maintain a stable safety environment in Surrey, and the Lower Mainland Region. As such, we will be taking our concerns to the Provincial Government,” Edwards said. “I will not tolerate efforts to undermine confidence in policing in this city and disrespect to our members while I am in charge.” Surrey RCMP Sgt. Elenore Sturko, who said Mounties were informed internally of Edwards’ concerns, noted that he also took issue with Safe Surrey Coalition apparently “mocking” in a tweet the use of cardboard cut-outs to reduce speeding. Launched in 2019, the Surrey RCMP partnered with the City of Surrey’s Vision Zero project and ICBC to reduce speeding on city roads. The program involves life-sized cut-out officers and cruisers posted at the side of roads to
providing stability and safety in Surrey.” Sunday, Black Press Media reached out to the mayor and City of Surrey to request an interview with the mayor of Surrey. The city communication’s department requested the reporter contact Safe Surrey Coalition. The Safe Surrey Coalition released a statement Sunday afternoon, noting that “hundreds of thousands of dollars” have been spent to Assistant Commissioner Brian “undermine the democratic Edwards, Surrey RCMP’s officer in mandate of the Safe Surrey charge, isn’t happy with tweets Coalition and the legitimacy by Safe Surrey Coalition over the of the Surrey Police Service.” weekend. (File photo) The release specifically mentions the National Policget motorists to slow down. ing Federation, the Keep the “The other part that (EdRCMP in Surrey group, and the Surrey Police Vote petiwards) was very upset about tion campaign. was that it mocks the initia“For this duration over tive that’s actually a Vision Zero Surrey initiative that we three years of attacks and propaganda, Surrey R.C.M.P participate in. It’s a City of Surrey initiative. He sees that Assistant Commissioner Brian Edwards has remained as very disrespectful to the members and it’s contemptu- silent,” the SSC release notes. “Surely the indignation that ous, really,” Sturko said. Edwards said his Mounties he has voiced today equally applies to these groups’ orgaand employees have his “full support…. While we continue nized efforts to destabilize & towards the policing transidemoralize our city’s incoming police force.” tion, I can assure the public, In the statement, SSC indithe Surrey RCMP will maincated that it stands behind its tain its leadership role, of
“clear and consistent” message on Twitter. “It’s time to move forward,” the release notes. SPS media liaison Ian MacDonald highlighted that in the survey, SPS did not ask respondents if they prefer SPS or rather keep the RCMP. He said the six per cent alluded to the fact that people voiced an opinion about their desire to keep the RCMP. Asked if Safe Surrey Coalition misrepresented the survey results and took it out of context, MacDonald said the coalition “selectively looked at a single piece of data.” MacDonald said it’s a “hyper politicized” environment, and “it’s not to the betterment of any police agency that’s trying to safeguard public safety.” “I think regardless of where you’re coming at this issue politically, if at the end of the day your objective is to try to tear other people down instead of build the community up, then you’re not helping,” MacDonald said. The SPS is to deploy officers to work alongside Surrey RCMP by the end of the month. Edwards noted that a formal working agreement has not yet been signed.
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Giving Tuesday is a movement to celebrate giving of all kinds. It is observed on the Tuesday after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This year, it falls on November 30th. Just as Black Friday kicks off the holiday shopping season, Giving Tuesday is the opening day of the giving season.
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It’s clear that Carson Hoy wanted to make a splash with his latest music video, which debuted at Newton’s Hollywood 3 cinema during a free-admission event held a few nights before Halloween. A Surrey-based artist, Hoy has reason to celebrate the arrival of “Night Drive,” a short film that features one of his catchy synth-pop songs. This one is about a suburban dad named Roger, who dreamed of becoming a stunt man but has fallen into a midlife crisis. One night, he goes for a drive in a Dodge Challenger with magic powers. Directed by Mark Gustov, the entertaining video mixes live-action scenes with animation. Hoy plays all instruments in a band, as the musician boyfriend of Roger’s daughter, with other characters played by Kevin Creery, Alexandra Wallis and April Hollihan. “The ideas I’m having are beyond the music and more about telling stories, visually,” reported the 25-year-old Hoy, who grew up in Cloverdale and now lives in South Surrey. “My music is more about online and videos, not performing live so much.” At home, Hoy surrounds himself with vintage synths, guitars, drums and speakers he’s acquired by rummaging through flea markets and old barn-jam spaces. Framed vinyl albums on his walls “are evidence of the progression of his music pro-
Hoy is helped with publicity by his mother, Ann Beaudet, who says “Carson has an intense drive to reach his authentic audience through any artistic means, connecting him to those who have similar experiences, but have not examined them to the extent he has.” The “Night Drive” launch in Newton also featured a mini festival of short films from director Gustov’s Creation Station Media. “There were around 80 people there, including musicians and actors, film people,” Hoy recalled. “People were pretty hyped up, buying posters and shirts.” It wasn’t the first time a local theatre was booked to showcase Hoy’s work. “When I was 12 or 13, my family rented the Clova Cinema for an event, with a family band with my brothers, but this is the first time I’d ever shown a music video in a theatre like that,” he noted. For the more recent event at Hollywood 3, Hoy also created a movie poster in tune with his Surrey-based musician Carson Hoy debuted his “Night Drive” video at Newton’s vision for the “Night Drive” Hollywood 3 cinema on Oct. 28. “My music is more about online and videos, not video and song. performing live so much,” Hoy explains. (Submitted photo: Swastik Sodankoor) If and when he gets around to doing live shows with his solo music, Hoy has plans for DJing school dances and local duction skills, doing work for video projection, “to show these artists like hip-hop legend Kool bars, including Clayton Public stories a bit more,” he said. “A House. Keith and dancehall star Gypmultimedia show is what I’m With the hip-hop duo UV tian,” a bio notes. Hoy’s musical journey started Boys, his music attracted most- designing, possibly when the album comes out.” ly teen listeners, and now the two decades ago, on drums in Right now, he’s also working Tweedsmuir Secondary grad rock/metal bands with his two on projects for film and TV. is focused on a solo career brothers, Cody and Connor. “It’s a secret right now but it’s that will soon include a debut They entered talent shows and played Surrey-area festivals and album, Enigmatic, as a pandem- for a Netflix show, music for various shows,” he hinted. events years before Hoy started ic-year project.
Bluesman Byrnes returns to Blue Frog for Kiwi broadcast as a live pay-per-view presentation. The Juno Award-winner and 2021 Maple Blues Award recipient’s smoky vocals, gutsy blues guitar and stoBlues troubadour Jim Byrnes is making a return visit to White Rock’s rytelling skills have found an appreciative audience in frequent shows Blue Frog Studios this week. at Blue Frog and also as part of the He will be playing four shows beWhite Rock Concerts at the Pier tween Wednesday, Nov. 24 and Friseries. day, Nov. 26. From his first professional concert Audience members have an option to see a show in person (masked and in 1964, the St. Louis-raised Byrnes with proof of vaccination) or online has worked with an illustrious lineup Alex Browne Black Press Media
of blues legends, including Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal and Robert Cray. The Nov. 24 show was to be recorded for later broadcast to a special audience in Auckland, New Zealand. Shows are at 7 p.m. nightly, with an extra 9:15 performance scheduled for Friday (Nov. 26). For ticket information and reservations ($65.50) visit the venue website, bluefrogstudios.ca.
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Seniors Holiday Concert at Surrey City Hall council chambers on Friday, Nov. 26, 10:30 a.m. “Tap your toes to the sounds of the Langley Ukulele Ensemble and enjoy a holiday take away lunch, following the entertainment.” Free, register online at surrey.ca or call 604-5 98-5708. “A Traditional Christmas”: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra concert 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 2 at Surrey’s Bell Performing Arts Centre, on regional tour. Host Christopher Gaze “brings the sounds and stories of Christmas to life.” Box office: 604-876-3434, vancouversymphony.ca. Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir: “Sing We Now of Christmas” concert Tuesday, Dec. 7 at Surrey Arts Centre, tickets $29. Info: 604-501-5566, tickets. surrey.ca. Coffee Concert: “Music for 17 Pedals and 287 Strings” concert Dec. 10 at Surrey Arts Centre’s Studio Theatre, 11 a.m. start with pre-show social hour. “Spend a morning listening to the melodic sounds of the harp and piano.” Presented by Surrey Civic Theatres. Info: 604-5015566, tickets.surrey.ca. Back to Live concert presented by Shan-EPunjab at Surrey’s Bell Performing Arts Centre on Dec. 19. “With our goal of preserving Punjabi culture and heritage, Shan-E-Punjab brings you a live concert featuring local talent.” Tickets/info: spacbc.com/back2live.
COMEDY Just for Laughs: Maz Jobrani: Iranian-American comedian brings his “Things Looking Bright” tour to Surrey’s Bell Performing Arts Centre (6250 144 St.) on Saturday, Jan.15 and to Vogue Theatre in Vancouver on Jan. 16. Box office: 604507-6355. Snowed In Comedy Tour: Canadian comedians
Debra DiGiovanni, Pete Zedlacher, Dan Quinn and Paul Myrehaug perform at Surrey Arts Centre’s Main Stage on Jan. 27. Tickets $45, tickets.surrey.ca.
BARS/MUSIC Donegal’s Irish House: At 12054 96th Ave., Surrey. Info: 604-584-2112, donegals.pub. White Hart Pub: Live music at 8593 132 St., Newton. 604-503-5735. Dublin Crossing: Irishthemed bar, 18789 Fraser Hwy. 604-575-5470, online at Dublincrossing.com. Mojitos: Latin music and more at The Turf Hotel, by bands and DJs, 12411 King George Blvd. Info: 778223-6936, facebook.com/ mojitosurrey. The Taphouse Guildford: Music/sports bar, 15330 102A Ave., Surrey. Info: 604 -583-8828, Thetaphouse.ca. DJ Paul the Wall (Fri./Sat.)
ATTRACTIONS Surrey Holiday Lights: MRG Group’s new “Immersive Lights & Music Experience” at Surrey Civic Plaza (city hall) from Nov. 25 to Jan. 2. “Explore the Holiday Lights Tent to visit Santa and his Elves, the Gingerbread Village, the North Pole, Holiday Market, Lights Around The World, and more.” Tickets and info: surreyholidaylights.com. Lumagica Surrey: An “outdoor/indoor global Holiday experience” features a one-kilometre light walk at Cloverdale’s Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre, from Dec. 3 to 30, daily from 4 to 10 p.m. Adult ticket is $25, or $74 for a weekend family pass for two adults and two kids. “Required” parking pass is $5. Info: lumagica.ca.
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Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir ends a two-year concert hiatus with a December tour that includes a date at Surrey Arts Centre, “for an evening of heartfelt carols, new and old, to put you in the holiday spirit.” The choir’s “Sing We Now of Christmas” show will be performed there on Tuesday, Dec. 7, starting at 7:30 p.m. The concert is close to sold out, according to a seating chart on the website tickets. surrey.ca. Tickets are $29. The tour will involve a smaller number of singers, all fully vaccinated and masked during performances. Other concerts are at New Westminster’s Massey Theatre (Dec. 5, with Winter Harp), South Delta Baptist Church (Dec. 13) and Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver (Dec. 16). A new digital concert, recorded at Shaughnessy Heights United Church, goes live Dec. 18. Details are posted to vancouverchoir.ca. Guest soloists for the performance in Surrey are Paolo Bortolussi (flute) and Taryn Plater (mezzo-soprano), who is among recipients of the choir’s 2021 student bursary. The choir is led by music director Jonathan Quick and pianist Karen Lee-Morlang. “Rehearsing together again has been a real joy,” Quick noted, “and having the singers more spread apart has result-
Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir returns to Surrey Arts Centre with its popular Christmas concert on Tuesday, Dec. 7. (Submitted photo) ed in some unexpected benefits. They are embracing their individual roles more, and they are singing really well.” In four-part harmony, Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir performances reflect “a Celtic musical heritage, evoking images of other places and other times from the solemnity of cathedrals to the camaraderie of the local pub,”
according to a bio. Elsewhere in Surrey, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s “A Traditional Christmas” will be performed Thursday, Dec. 2 at Surrey’s Bell Performing Arts Centre, starting at 7:30 p.m., as part of a multi-date regional concert series that includes a stop at New Westminster’s Massey Theatre on Dec. 4.
Surrey Santa Parade of Lights cancelled The lights from the Surrey Santa Parade will not shine again in Cloverdale this year, but a smaller event is planned for Dec. 5. Paul Orazietti, executive director for the Cloverdale BIA, said the parade has officially been cancelled. “We tried to do a smaller event, but that didn’t work out either,” he said, adding that a few different factors pushed him to cancel. “We had no choice,” he explained. “The way the rules work, you can’t host an event with over 5,000 people. That means we’d have to close the road and put up fencing all around to control the crowds. Once you do that, it becomes cost prohibitive.” Orazietti said any attempts to put on a larger-scale event creates a litany of logistical problems that are impossible to solve
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Drop-in any time during museum hours for your holiday fix and to cast your vote.” Free, all ages, at Continued from A29 17710 56A Ave., Surrey. “Tree of Giving” at Surrey Libraries: “The third annual Tree of Giving fundraiser for “Xmas of Chaos” attraction Surrey Libraries starts Nov. at Newton’s recently rebranded 22. Beautiful trees will be on Cougar Creek Garden Centre, display at each branch, and we formerly Potters, starting Dec. 3 invite you to help decorate them. and continuing on select dates. Make a $5 minimum donation Aimed at teens and adults, it’s a “twisted take on Christmas,” with in-branch and receive a special ornament that you can add to an “Escape From Incineration” our tree. All proceeds support escape room also on site. Info: cougarcreekhouseofhorrors.com. community programming.” Info: surreylibraries.ca. “North Star Experience” at Fraser Valley Heritage Guildford Town Centre mall Railway Society runs features 3D “holiday experience” “Electric Express” train and photos with a virtual Santa rides Sat. Dec. 11 and Sun. Claus, Nov. 24 to Dec. 23. TrainDec.12 (4 trips each day), from themed attraction offers rides “to the northern lights and beyond,” in Surrey Heritage Rail station in a 10-minute adventure on the mall’s Cloverdale. Info: fvhrs.org. lower level, near Centre Court. Info: guildfordtowncentre.com. Cloverdale Christmas Trees: Museum of Surrey is uniting Heart to Home Holiday Cloverdale businesses and Market: “Do your holiday organizations for some friendly shopping in person this year with competition to decorate the Surrey Art Gallery Association’s best tree,” from Nov. 27 to Dec. fun and festive 2-day market,” 19. “Trees are displayed in the Saturday, Nov. 27 (11am-5pm) large museum foyer throughout and Sunday, Nov. 28 (12-4pm). December. Festival visitors cast “SAGA Gift Shop and their Art their votes for a chance to win a Rental Program is a great source $100 Cloverdale shopping spree. of inspiration for gift giving, with
Leadership” session with members of the Surrey Leadership Youth Council (SLYC), a group of local youth passionate about helping youth speak up and having their voices heard. “Environmental Stewardship” session Thursday, Dec. 9, 7-8pm, ages 10-18. Free. Email youth@ surrey.ca for info, visit surrey.ca.
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‘Heart of the Family’ Virtual Education Session: Phoenix Society host a free event Monday, Nov. 29 “that will offer meaningful advice on how to support – but not enable - a loved one struggling with substance use.” Seminar will include an education session with registered therapeutic counsellor Debbi McKenzie, as well as one family’s journey to overcoming addiction, from 5 to 7 p.m. To register, visit surveymonkey.com/r/V_Little.
BUSINESS BC Liberal Leadership Election Candidates Business Dialogue hosted by Surrey Board of Trade, on Monday, Nov. 29 from 5:30 7:30 p.m. at Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel. Free, visit businessinsurrey.com for info.
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Award-winning glassblower Robert Gary Parkes has reopened his Surrey studio to those who want to see him work. “Christmas at The Loafing Shed” visits can be booked on weekends from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., for 30-minute viewing times starting Nov. 20, by appointment only. Groups of up to four people can watch, and a vaccine passport is not required for entry to the Port Kells-area studio, 9060 184 St. “We look forward to a personalized visit with you,” a
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more details, call 604-612-2753. Parkes has more than 30 years of experience in the glassblowing field. A Surrey Civic Treasure award winner, he creates
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Surrey Muse launches awards honouring 5 ‘miracle makers’ Celebrating 10th year, the art/lit group’s Nov. 26 gathering will be its 20th in a virtual setting welcomed in June 2022. The awards will be a special focus of the 110th Surrey Muse event, a virtual gatherThis week Surrey Muse turns 10, an anniversary cele- ing Friday, Nov. 26, starting brated with the introduction at 5:30 p.m. Details are posted on surreymuse.wordpress. of awards honouring five com, or watch on YouTube. Canadian trailblazers. “In naming these awards,” The arts society’s new art SMAS says, “we pay triband literature awards are ute to Vera Manuel, Joy named for Vera Manuel Kogawa, Susan Crean, (poetry), Joy Kogawa (fiction), Susan Crean (nonfic- Faith Nolan and Norval Morrisseau for their talents, tion), Faith Nolan (music) skills, understandings and and Norval Morrisseau struggles. (visual arts). “Each one, through their Prizes will be $1,000 each, art, has pointed to historic and the judged competition injustices and inequalities in will be open to Canadian citizens, landed immigrants, our society, and in that, they are miracle makers creating permanent residents, refart, at once, of resistance ugees and international and healing. As well, for us, students. With a $10 fee per naming Surrey Muse Awards entry, submissions will be
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“The Future is Female” art by Samya Arif was featured during the March 2021 virtual gathering of Surrey Muse, an interdisciplinary art and literature presentation group launched 10 years ago, in November 2011. (YouTube screenshot) in honour of such unique artists brings forth the diversity and scope of Canadian art and literature, giving us a wonderful opportunity to fulfill our mandate of nurturing art and literature by encouraging an inclusive,
fair and equal cultural environment.” Funding for the new awards comes from Surrey Muse featured artists and entry fees. The organization has also applied to the City of Surrey Cultural Grants
program for 2022. The interdisciplinary art and literature presentation group was founded by four artists of colour in Surrey in November 2011. The salon-style monthly gatherings expanded in 2016 with two
additional programs, Surrey Muse At Large and Surrey Muse Writers. The group was registered as Surrey Muse Arts Society (SMAS) in 2019. In “normal” times, a room at City Centre library is where Surrey Muse members meet on the fourth Friday of each month, save for December. Gone online during the pandemic, each gathering features an author, a poet and an artist/performer at varying levels of artistic development, followed by an open-mic session. English is the language of presentations, but writers/performers are welcome to read/present in other languages of their expression. Surrey Muse’s Nov. 26 event, its 20th in a virtual setting, will feature author Darcie Friesen Hossack, poet Steffi Tad-y, performer Missy D, open-mic opener Catherine Lewis, Kagan Goh, art by Adrian Arleo and host Mariam Zohra D.
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When faced with an emergency evacuation, those involved are often forced to make difficult choices – like what to take, and what to leave behind. Members of Semiahmoo Minor Hockey’s U15 A2 team were faced with just such a dilemma last week in Hope, as they frantically prepared to board helicopters that would get them home after nearly two days stranded as a result of the flooding and related highway closures. So they chose to leave behind non-essentials – clothes, toothbrushes, maybe homework they’d brought with them – in favour of only the important stuff: hockey gear. “Well, we do have a ton of games coming up,” team manager James Ceraldi said with a laugh Friday (Nov. 19), a few days after the team arrived back home. Coached by North Deltan Jim Martin, the hockey team was stuck in Hope – along with hundreds of other travellers – from Sunday (Nov. 14) until their flights home Tuesday (Nov. 16). The team was travelling from Kelowna, where they had been playing in a tournament. They had made it to the gold-medal game, losing 4-3 in a game Ceraldi described as “a heart-breaker.” And while championship games can be stressful, the on-ice action was nothing compared to what was to come. Fearing that bad weather was coming – “It was supposed to be snow, that’s what we’d heard,” Ceraldi said – families packed as quick as they could and got set to hit the road. Then, word came that the Coquihalla Highway was closed, and the connector between Kelowna and Merritt – might not be far behind. “We didn’t know at the time why the Coquihalla had closed, and then our only options were to go the Lilloet route, which is a seven-plus hour drive, or to take High-
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way 3. So we all decided to take Highway 3… and that was one of the worst drives I’ve ever experienced,” explained Ceraldi. Despite the awful conditions, Ceraldi said that every driver was likely as stressed as he was. “We’re getting out of Manning Park, heading towards Hope, and you know you just have to connect with (Highway 1), turn that corner into Chilliwack and you’re home free,” he said. “And that’s when all the messages started flying around that we were being diverted to Hope.” The convoy of vehicles met up in a parking lot, and parents tried to figure out what to do. Limited cell service – and no data – made finding out the extent of the disaster nearly impossible. “And we didn’t have Google Maps to try to find out if there was a different route home,” Ceraldi said. Eventually, however, they came up with a plan. One couple – parents of a boy on the team – work for Telus, Ceraldi explained, and they were able to gain access to a Telus building – a workstation/utility room. Though the city was without power, the building had a generator, so the team had heat, power and “really good Wi-Fi.” It was tight quarters, though, and that night everyone slept in their vehicles. “It was a hard night,”
Ceraldi said. “It was just the unknown. We wondered what was going on, how do we get organized to get out of here – is there any other route home? That kind of thing.” The following night, half the group slept in their vehicles again, while the rest managed to find accommodations once some hotels and a bedand-breakfast reopened. While in Hope, another parent, who had connections to the aviation industry, started making some calls, and by Tuesday had lined up chartered helicopters to take everyone home. Eventually, there was a break in the weather that allowed the choppers to arrive, and after “multiple trips, multiple helicopters,” everyone was home. Just before the helicopters were to arrive, one of the parents came up with a way for the teens to get their gear home with them: they’d have to wear it. With no storage space and weight limits, heavy equipment bags and suitcases couldn’t make the trip. “They were each allowed to take one stick, and they carried their skates. Everyone got dressed and was able to get on the helicopter. No hockey bags, no luggage, no extra stuff.”
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LISTINGS WANTED NOW IS THE TIME TO SELL! Inventory levels of all types of homes, condos, townhouses and acreages are at an all time low. If you would like to chat or have been thinking of selling and want TOP DOLLAR, get over 32 years of award winning experience working for you. Call Tracey 604-539-7653 tracey@traceybosch.com LANGLEY
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“Thank you to Tracey and his team. Buying and selling a home can be a handful. Tracey gave me great staging advice, listened to my listing price thoughts and his office was very efficient in working around my schedule while getting the maximum potential buyers into my home in a short amount of time. What could have been a long drawn out stressful time turned into a quick, efficient, above ask sale during our snowy winter. Thank you. Literally money in the bank!” Linda H.
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Location & luxury, this is a end unit townhome ONLY $1,338,000 JUST LISTED you won’t want to miss! Spacious open plan with main floor master bedroom with walkin closet & spa inspired ensuite. High vaulted ceilings & plenty of windows for natural light. Side by side double garage. Extra large fenced yard, plus a gas hookup for the BBQ. Custom kitchen with large breakfast bar island, gas stove & pot filler. Office/den located at the front door, tucked away from everything. STUNNING END UNIT TOWNHOME Upstairs features 2 large bedrooms, sharing a Jack & Jill bathroom. Basement features a 2nd master bedroom with walk in closet & ensuite PLUS a large rec room plumed in for a wet bar. Close to shopping, banking, restaurants, sports fields, pool & hospital. Don’t miss out – call now!
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“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
3 LEVEL - HERITAGE HOME - REBUILT IN 2001 - LOVINGLY MAINTAINED AND UPDATED - PRIVATE OASIS BACKYARD - MOUNTAIN VIEWS - WALK TO ALL AMENITIES
COMPLETELY RENOVATED
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Beautifully maintained large 3 level, 3 bed, Family Sized ONLY $979,900 3.5 bath end unit with spacious main floor, 9 ft ceilings and gas fireplace. A bright kitchen Townhouse and family room with tile flooring. Maple cabinetry, granite countertops and sit up island complete with S/S appliances and gas stove. Sliding doors off the family room to a sundeck looking out onto the park and other community amenities. Three large bedrooms up, the master boasting vaulted ceilings, a walk-in closet and full en-suite with soaker tub. A large size rec room down with full bathroom and French doors to a private covered patio. Gorgeous California shutters throughout. Side by side garage provides plenty of storage space. Bonus street parking for easy guest access. Fabulous location close to shopping and schools with quick freeway access.
“I have used Tracey 5 times and I can’t say enough great things about him and his office staff. He listens, uses the best marketing and tools and is very helpful. You get it all with him, PLUS a super great smile every time you meet.”
8-19932 70TH AVE LANGLEY
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BROOKSWOOD – GORGEOUS PRIVATE PARKLIKE 1/4 ACRE – HUGE REAR YARD BEAUTIFULLY UPDATED 2129 SQ/FT BASEMENT HOME – QUIET STREET
JUST LISTED
JUST LISTED
ONLY $1,498,800
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ONLY $1,298,800
HOME – ROOM FOR INLAWS
BASEMENT HOME – 5 BEDRMS – 3 BATHRMS
PARKLIKE 16,000 SQFT LOT
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BEAUTIFUL LEVEL PRIVATE PARKLIKE 0.92 ACR – ON CITY WATER NO CREEKS – ULTRA QUIET NO THRU ROAD – NOT IN THE ALR
20727 39THAVE LANGLEY
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3710 196A STREET LANGLEY
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“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 timeframe 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.” Trevor M.
INCREDIBLE PARKLIKE ACRE
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EXCLUSIVE FAMILY HOME - GOURMET KITCHEN - LEGAL 1 BEDROOM SUITE - NORTH SHORE MOUNTAIN VIEW - 4420 SQ FT HOME - 7976 SQ/FT CUL-DE-SAC LOT
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Tracey Has helped over 2800 families move. How can we help you? LANGLEY
SOUTH SURREY
Tracey was referred to us by friends and we would highly recommend him to any one we know looking to buy and sell a house. His experience and network helped us get showings everyday until our house sold in under 3 weeks…… We wouldn’t work with any other realtor again. The MacDonald’s PRIVATE PARKLIKE 13.3 ACRE BACK TO NATURE RETREAT HANDYMAN SPECIAL - INCREDIBLE PROPERTY TO BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME BEAUTIFUL PRIVATE PARKLIKE gently rolling ONLY $2,598,800 13.3 acre back to nature retreat with a lot PRIVATE PARKLIKE of potential. Incredible property to build your dream home or perfect for a handyman willing to do a lot of work to the existing spacious 3381 sqft rambling rancher with walk out basement. 2 attached double garages. Detached 48x24 workshop/barn with mezzanine. Zoning allows for main home with a legal suite plus a mobile FANTASTIC VALUE home, parking for 3 commercial 5600kg+ 13.3 ACRES vehicles, dog kennels/doggy daycare’s, etc.. Gorgeous property with trees & trails & a lot of junk that needs to be removed - bring your dumpsters. Fantastic location close to Campbell Valley Trail. Minutes to town & easy access to 264 Street, Hwy 1 & US border.
13.3 ACRES
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FINNING ESTATES – GORGEOUS 4.87 ACRES – RIDING RING – FENCED & X FENCED RAMBLING 2621 SQFT 4 BEDROOM RANCHER – POOL – WORKSHOP - BARN
890 256TH ST LANGLEY
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SOLD! GORGEOUS 4.87 ACRES
1810 250TH ST LANGLEY
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ATTENTION INVESTORS DEVELOPERS – 4.3 ACRES - DEVELOPMENT CLOSE BY POTENTIAL 7,000 SQ/FT LOTS - PANORAMIC VIEW - 4 BEDRM HOME - BARN - RIDING RING 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 character home high on a knoll with large view windows and wrap around patio. Spacious open plan with vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, country kitchen, large living room & family BROOKSWOOD rooms. Unfinished low ceiling basement 4.3 ACRES & storage area with separate entry. Sand riding ring, 1930’s era 64x54 HIP roof multipurpose barn with massive loft, 12 horse stalls, tack room & laundry room. Beautiful fenced & cross fenced pasture, perimeter stream & orchard with apples & cherry trees. Fantastic find. Call now. 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
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ONLY $3,399,000
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21541 44TH LANGLEY
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.
0.93 ACRE
ONLY $3,800,000
ATTENTION DEVELOPERS & INVESTORS DESIGNATED MULTI-FAMILY IN OCP
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COURT ORDERED SALE – GORGEOUS 1090 SQFT OPEN PLAN END UNIT 2 BEDRMS + DEN/3DR BEDRM – 2 BATHRMS – 2 SIDE BY SIDE PARKING SPACES ONLY $618,800 Court ordered sale. “LIFESTYLE” Urban living at JUST LISTED it’s finest with over 60 shops & restaurants at your doorstep at Morgan Crossing! Gorgeous open plan end unit with only one adjoining neighbour. 2 bedrooms plus den/3rd bedroom, 2 bathrooms, 2 side by side underground parking spaces & WALK TO EVERYTHING storage/bike locker. Bedrooms separated & with own bathroom. Quality finishing, air conditioning/heat pump & In suite laundry. Unit is wheelchair friendly. Designed to leave your car at home, save time & keep in shape in a walkable & vibrant community. Just step out your door to an amazing selection of shops, services & restaurants including Winners, Thrifty Foods, Lululemon, London Drugs, Everything Wine, Chopped Leaf, Noodle Box, White Spot, Chipotle, Pet Smart. Nice walking trails & parks, good schools & minutes to Grandview Aquatic Centre. 2 Pets no size restriction. Rentals allowed with restrictions.
COURT ORDERED SALE
http://www.traceybosch.com 316-15745 CROYDON DRIVE,SOUTH SURREY Tracey Bosch 604-539-7653
SURREY FABULOUS HOUSE SIZED KITCHEN - POWDER ROOM ON THE MAIN FLOOR - WALK TO SCHOOL, SHOPS & PARK - BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED
JUST LISTED
ONLY $699,800
SOLD!
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FABULOUS: 3 BEDROOM, 3 BATHROOM AND 3 PARKING
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INVESTOR/BUILDER ALERT – DESIGNATED TOWNHOUSES – WEST CLAYTON UPDATED 1367 SQFT RANCHER – WALK TO PROPOSED SKYTRAIN STATION
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18440 70TH AVE SURREY
RARE FIND – BACKING ONTO GREENSPACE & MILES OF NATURE TRAILS 5 BEDROOM BASEMENT HOME – EASY IN-LAW SUITE – LOADS OF PARKING RARE FIND!! Beautifully updated 1862 BACKING GREENBELT ONLY $1,439,000 sqft basement home on ultra private beautifully landscaped 7319 sq/ft lot backing & looking onto private green space with creek & miles of nature trails. Extra wide lot with 90’ frontage. Loads of PRIVATE – BACKING GREENSPACE parking & room for a large RV. 5 bedrooms, home office, 5 appliances, upright freezer & beverage cooler. Easy in-law suite. 8yr old roof, custom “Merit” kitchen, granite counters, laminate & tile floors, security system, 5 ceiling fans. Sunny south exposed yard & covered 12x10 deck overlooking your own mini golf course & play area. 15x8 wired & insulated workshop/shed with 50 amp panel, 2 other garden sheds, 12 ft gazebo, hot tub & riding mower. Close to good schools, transit & walk to Skytrain. Must see to appreciate. http://www.traceybosch.com Tracey Bosch 604-539-7653
9112 PRINCE CHARLES BLVD 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 Two nice level side by side 2.5 acre Development WEST CLAYTON 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 DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL SPLASH 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/ premium appliances, 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.
ATTENTION DEVELOPERS
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What Tracey’s Clients Have to Say Tracey and his Team helped us with the sale of our condo and purchase of our beautiful home. From the day we met Tracey we felt comfortable, confident, and happy we made the decision to ask for his help. We can’t say enough about the professionalism, personal communication, follow through and amazing job Tracey and his Team did for us. They went above and beyond to sell our home and to help us purchase our family home! Throughout our journey Tracey ensured to answer our million questions, addressed any concerns, listened to our wants/needs/family goals, and ensured our comfort/safety in selling and buying during a pandemic. With Tracey’s help we found the home we love, in the community we wanted to be in. It was important my parents were involved in the process; they were welcomed and are incredibly happy to see us in our home. We jokingly told Tracey that a requirement is to have a home we can hear the birds chirping – Our house has a tree outside our sitting area that is a resting spot for hummingbirds and other small birds. We are also on a flight path for Canadian Geese, we look forward to the morning arrivals and evening departures. We asked – Tracey delivered! Thank you, Tracey, Natalie and Team - We can’t thank you enough for your help. Susanne and Jamie Buying and selling a home is a huge undertaking and demands a lot of patience, understanding and forgiveness. Finding the right Realtor to help you through this process is key. Tracey Bosch was recommended to us by a trusted friend, and he certainly didn’t disappoint. From the very start, Tracey was able to quickly determine our needs and was able to provide such a wealth of knowledge in terms of understanding the market and what we could and would achieve. His experienced methods resulted in a quick and seamless sale. Our purchase of a new home was simply down to the work Tracey and his team did in seeking and providing all the necessary information for us to make an informed decision Would highly recommend Tracey Bosch and his team to anyone for a stress free, home buying/selling experience. Stacey & Mark W Tracey always acted very professionally and always answered our questions and made sure no details were overlooked. Our calls were always returned promptly. We appreciated his knowledge and negotiating skills. Oh, did I mention his wicked sense of humor. J and M
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO WHALLEY’S MASTER VISIONARY,
CHARAN SETHI A true self-made community leader. Congratulations on your phenomenal success with the sell-out of Flamingo. You said it could be done and you were right! The entire KEY team wishes you all the very best!
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Canada Cup vet to lead national team
Surrey Eagles forward Agbrall on NHL Central Scouting list
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When Canada’s national women’s softball team next steps onto the field at Softball City for the Canada Cup, there will be a new head coach calling the shots. But the new bench boss should be familiar to Semiahmoo Peninsula softball fans: former catcher Kaleigh Rafter. Rafter, who retired from playing after helping Canada to a bronze medal at last summer’s Tokyo Summer Olympics, was last month named head coach of the team by Softball Canada. “We are very excited to see Kaleigh take on the responsibilities of head coach of our women’s national team program,” said Softball Canada President Scott Neiles. “Her passion and commitment to the women’s
for the national team since 2007, replaces longtime head coach Mark Smith, who retired following the Olympic bronze-medal win after a dozen years at the helm of the program. “I am humbled at the trust Softball Canada has put in me… I love the sport of softball and I am committed to growing the game across all age groups in Canada,” Rafter said in a news release. The national team currently has three tournaments on its 2022 calendar, including Canada Cup, which is set for Kaleigh Rafter, shown here rounding the bases after hitting a home South Surrey from June 20-26. run at the Americas Olympic Qualifier tournament in South Surrey Softball’s next chance in 2019, has been named the new head coach of Canada’s national to be in the Olympics is women’s softball team. (The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck photo) 2028 when the Games are “We feel her experience hosted in Los Angeles. national team has been exceptional and we are very as a player and as a coach Softball and baseball were will be a tremendous asset both taken off the menu confident in the abilities for the 2024 Summer to our team going forand energy she will bring Olympics, to be held in ward.” to lead this program in a Rafter, who had played Paris. very positive direction.
A key member of the Surrey Eagles is among seven BC Hockey League players to have drawn the attention of NHL scouts this season. Last month, National Hockey League Central Scouting listed seven players, including Surrey forward Michael Abgrall, on its ‘Players to Watch’ list for the 2022 NHL Entry Draft. In addition to Abgrall, Eli Barnet (Victoria Grizzlies), Ethan Bono (Alberni Valley Bulldogs), Emanuelson Charbonneau (Alberni Valley), Ryan Hopkins (Penticton Vees), Tyson Jugnauth (West Kelowna Warriors) and Joshua Niedermayer (Pentic-
ton) were listed. All seven were deemed ‘C’ prospects by Central Scouting, which is defined as a potential fourth, fifth or sixth-round prospect. Abgrall, a fivefoot-10, 175-pound centre who turned 18 on Oct. 25, is in his second season with the Eagles; he was acquired from the Powell River Kings after the 2019-’20 season. During last spring’s ‘pod’ season, he scored eight goals and added eight assists in 18 games. As a rookie with Powell River, he scored 13 goals and added 24 assists in 57 games, and added four points in five playoff games. The BC Hockey
League has had many players drafted by NHL clubs – many in the first round. In 2016, three BCHLers were selected in the first 20 picks, with Tyson Jost (Penticton) being selected by the Colorado Avalanche 10th overall, Dante Fabbro (Penticton) going to Nashville 17th overall and Dennis Cholowski (Chilliwack) picked by the Detroit Red Wings 20th overall. Last summer, Kent Johnson was the fifth-overall selection by Columbus Blue Jackets. Playing for the University of Michigan at the time, he had played in the BCHL the year before, with Trail Smoke Eaters. Nick Greenizan
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In loving memory of St.Laurent, Robert Jr. September 12, 1970 - October 31, 2021
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INDEX IN BRIEF It is with a heavy heart and profound sadness to announce the unexpected passing of our Robert (Bob). He will be deeply missed, forever remembered and forever loved by partner Tracy, daughter Brianna, mother Linda, sister Sherri, nephew Jason, great nephew Cameron and his many relatives, friends and colleagues. Our Bob loved WKH RXWGRRUV ZLWK IDYRULWH VSRUWV EHLQJ TXDGGLQJ ͅVKLQJ FDPSLQJ walking with Brianna and Keisha, his pomeranian. He loved life and was deeply loved and respected by all.
Bless you, Bob, for all the love and happiness you spread. Always on our minds; forever in our hearts. “Just wish me to be near you And I will be there”
Jacob Hunter Wilson March 24, 1997 to November 11, 2021 Beloved son, brother, brother-in-law, stepson, step brother, grandson, cousin, nephew, and great friend. A parent never wants to have the police contact them about the death of their child. In our case, it happened twice - once three years ago when Jacob was run over by a pick-up truck, and then again on this November 12th. He miraculously survived the first one, against all odds. This time, he had no fighting chance. Jacob is survived by his mom Shirley (Wilson) Paulsen and stepdad, Larry Gilbert, his dad Paul Wilson and stepmom Jenine Dafoe, sister Maddi Wilson and her spouse Jason Starr, and grandmother, Shirley Wilson MacDougall. He has so many aunts, uncles, cousins, step nephews, and furbabies, there are far too many to mention. Jacob was predeceased by his cousin, Deanna, his Stumpy Grandma, and his Grandpa Denis. His Grandpa Ted, Uncle Gordie, and cousin Tara left this earth before he could meet them. If you never knew Jacob, you missed out. He had a way of finding his way into your heart. He was a joy and a bright light in so many lives. He made friends wherever he went, and yet he was one of the quietest people you would ever meet. He kept to himself but family, they were his people. He never missed a chance for a free meal at a family dinner. His humour was dry and sometimes inappropriate, like that of most of the family. Jacob had some very close and diverse friends, including Tiger, Eliza, Miki, and Joemer. And a support system of incredible adults like Josh, Mandy, Colleen, Mark, and Rowen. These are the ones who got him, who understood him. Jacob’s legacy will be his story that one day we will tell in all its glory. It will be gritty and painful and joyful. It will be raw. We ask that in lieu of flowers you please support a new high school financial award in Jacob’s name at the Abbotsford Community Foundation (604-8503755 or info@abbotsfordcf.org), or to BC Children’s Hospital Foundation (1833-315-2133), in his name. A Celebration of Jacob’s Life will be held privately. A link for the livestream will be available by request.
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“Welcome to the Surrey Now-Leader’s 19th Annual Community Leader Awards. It’s great to be here with you again to honour the unsung heroes of the community, so thank you for being here to help celebrate those who have done so much for others without asking for anything in return.” - Justin Trudeau See more on page B3
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The annual Community Leader Awards recognize the selfless, dedicated and courageous people who perform exceptional acts of service that make our community such a vibrant and rewarding place to live and work.
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These award winners don’t often receive recognition and don’t necessarily have a high profile in the community.
There are a large number of people in Surrey who do a great deal of important work. They strive tirelessly – through countless volunteer hours, sometimes overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles – to better the community. And they don’t ask for anything in return. You’ll find them in our schools, on sports fields, at the food bank and various local events. They are truly community leaders. Many have their own families, careers and personal commitments but still find the time to make a differ-
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ence by sharing their empathy, enthusiasm, energy and time. The Community Leader Awards were established 19 years ago to recognize the efforts essential to maintaining this vital and growing community. Each recipient’s story is inspirational, and by highlighting them, we hope others will be moved to contribute in the community and share their own skills, compassion knowledge and heart with those around them. Thanks to our sponsors, the Community Leader Awards get bigger and better every year.
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NINETEENTH ANNUAL COMMUNITY LEADER AWARDS
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ike many people who work for charities, this wasn’t the career Keir Macdonald expected to find himself in when he graduated from law school. “But reflecting back, it is easy to see how and why it happened,” says Macdonald. “I have always been incredibly driven to help those that are less fortunate or needing assistance.” As CEO, Macdonald leads Phoenix Drug & Alcohol Recovery and Education Society with a clear
passion for helping those who are marginalized. While many organizations faced struggles during the pandemic, Phoenix continued to grow under Macdonald’s leadership, with a Surrey Outreach program, an Aging Offenders program – the first of its kind in Canada – and a 10-bed stablization program for men. His work with Phoenix has given Macdonald an incredible opportunity and platform to advocate for human rights and social justice.
What keeps him going is the knowledge that the work they do at the society is making a positive impact in people’s lives. “Although the work is serious at times, we also have a lot of fun and are proud to work on innovative projects. “Where else can you go to the office and one day work on creating new housing or health programs and the next be setting up a new food truck program or community garden. I have the best job in the world.”
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Neelam Sahota An early start in volunteerism has turned into a career for Neelam Sahota. “I tended to be the extrovert in the room. I tended to be the person that would bring that voice forward. Then it just carried forward in my education. It carried forward into my career choices.” A Surrey resident for 23 years, Sahota has done government work, as well as
work in the corporate and non-profit sectors. “The latter is what really resonates for me because I just see that we’re able to really take a look at bringing in social good on a scale to a city like Surrey that is developing that has so many diverse needs.” Her day job is the CEO of DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society, where she’s been at the helm for
several years, but she’s also board chair for Surrey Libraries and co-chair of the Surrey Local Immigration Partnership. Through the pandemic, Sahota worked hard to ensure there were no layoffs, quickly realizing Surrey’s residents, including immigrants, refugees and other marginalized or underserved communities were in greater need of the society’s services.
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Jaspreet Jandu C oming out of university, Jaspreet Jandu didn’t know what he wanted to do. “I had a design degree. But I guess I realized after that I didn’t want to do design work my whole life, sitting in front of a computer, and just do that,” Jandu says. So he sought out different opportunities, such as wanting to become a police officer, and then he was told about the Surrey Crime Prevention Society.
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He started off as a volunteer with the society in 2018, and then slowly moved his way up. Through his work with the Surrey Crime Prevention Society, Jandu has worked weekly to remove graffiti from City of Surrey, BC Hydro, Telus and Shaw properties, often taking the initiative to remove anything that is derogatory or targeting a specific racial or ethnic group. He has also provided mentorship and guidance
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to youth who participate in the community cleanups. He’s part of the society’s traffic safety program, working closely with community partners such as ICBC, Surrey RCMP and the city’s Vision Zero team. While Jandu lives in Delta, he said Surrey is his home. “I know this city like the back of my hand. I absolutely love it here,” he notes. “I really enjoy giving back to the community.”
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Mike Hacquard As dealer principal of the Wolfe Auto Group, one of Mike Hacquard’s core values is giving back to the community. “I’ve always tried to respect the fact that I have a business in the community and the community invests some of their own money in my business to help me, so I always try to support the community
that I have our businesses in,” he says. To Hacquard, that means a “boots-on-the-ground” mentality when it comes to helping out, so everyone gets involved. Over the years, Hacquard and the Wolfe Auto Group have fundraised for various groups including the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
of Canada, the BC SPCA, the Surrey and Langley food banks, BC Children’s Hospital, the Northern Hope Dog Rescue and many others. During the pandemic, the group also sponsored frontline worker care packages. “We definitely go grassroots, and we try to support charitable causes within our community,” Hacquard says.
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Graydon Lawson G raydon Lawson’s travel mug company. But passion is just about as he learned more about providing value for sustainable options, he decided to just focus on people. ReduceWasteNow. Lawson is an environSince starting the comment activist who in 2018 pany, it has grown to more founded ReduceWastethan 360,000 followers on Now, a social enterprise social media and attracted that provides sustainable attention from notable solutions for people who people, including Greta are concerned for future Thunberg. ReduceWastegenerations. It offers susNow’s Instragram account tainable alternatives for gives people tips on envieveryday products. When he started Reduce- ronmental alternatives. For WasteNow, it was to build Lawson, being able to see an audience for a reusable how “passionate people are
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Clifford Hoegler Clifford Hoegler is the owner of BC Plant Health Care, an arboriculture company that delivers professional and ethical tree care throughout the Lower Mainland. His interest in the environment started at a young age, as his father was a prominent city gardener and he learned a lot from him. “This gave me the desire to
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to learn how to help the environment on an individual level” keeps him going. “There are a lot of people and pages out there that focus on the larger corporations,” he says. “That is a big factor, of course, but it kind of takes the power away from individual actions.” Lawson has worked with the United Nations world food program. The Surrey Board of Trade listed him as one of Surrey’s Top 25 Under 25.
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got into the youth section here,” he says. Mentorship was a big piece. From there, he moved to Surrey RCMP’s gang unit, which he figured would be exciting with the enforcement and going after criminal organizations. In the last four years, Sanchez has developed and delivered an anti-gang program called “Shattering the Image,” which focuses on educating students in grades 6 to 7. It aims to promote positive choices so kids don’t enter
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the world of gangs. “Again, it came back to a lot of these young men … were lacking in mentorship, whether it be an absent father or maybe there was domestic violence trauma that they experienced growing up, which kind of led them down the path of criminality.” Sanchez, who is leaving the Surrey RCMP at the end of November, is now planning to take all of the work the gang unit has accomplished here and take it to Nanaimo.
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Bob Keay Cpl. Bob Keay grew up with grandparents who believed in doing the right thing, so becoming a police officer “just felt like the right thing” for him. In his 15-year career with the RCMP, Keay has worked all of those in Surrey. For the last four years he has been a member of
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Nasir Kamrudin A s the former general manager of Surrey Honda, Nasir Kamrudin has been a staple in the community. “When you look at it, a business is only successful when a community looks after a business,” says Kamrudin. “If we’re successful as a business, we look after giving back to the community and thanking them for helping us be a good business.” Through Surrey Honda, Kamrudin was able to sup-
port community initiatives and organizations, including the fight against cancer, mental health programs, substance use programs and the Surrey Fire Fighters’ Charitable Society, specifically its car raffles during since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Those raffles, which included donated vehicles, generated more than $200,000 to support mental health initiatives that were incredibly needed as people dealt with the pandemic.
Kamrudin says all of that good work was able to happen because the community made Surrey Honda successful. “If you’re a leader, you help your people and your community.” Kamrudin, who left Surrey Honda back in June, is looking to the future to help others with coaching, mentorship and leadership. “Whatever businesses need. When this (COVID19) is over, people are going to need a lot of help.”
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Sukhmeet Singh Sachal Sukhmeet Singh Sachal likes to take in his surroundings and see what he can do to help improve the situation. One of those situations was during the pandemic, when Sachal, a medical student and public health activist, visited a gurdwara early on in the pandemic and noticed the lack of masks. When talking to elders, he
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realized many didn’t have access to masks that would work with a turban. “I wear a turban and I got a special mask made for me,” he notes. “That’s really where the whole campaign started … That lead into becoming the Sikh Health Foundation.” From there, he was able to work with the provincial and municipal governments and
received more than $200,000 in grant funding. During the vaccine rollout, Sachal pushed for vaccine clinics in places of worship and even ended up working as an immunizer at a clinic. He previously co-founded Break the Divide, a foundation that connects youth in the arctic with other youth around the world.
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into their choice of district programs, which provide students with their first year of university-level training, paid for by the district. Working at an inner-city school, many students are faced with financial and family challenges. Tessier says some kids are already working part-time jobs to support their families and are “anxious and eager” to make a difference. This year, Guildford Park has 34 students in district programs — the highest
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Jacquie King In her career, Jacquie King wears many hats within her school as a teacher leader to province-wide work and district-wide work. King, a Grade 7 teacher at Lena Shaw Elementary School, is an advocate for decolonization and indigenization in schools, and has helped teachers across Surrey grow in their under-
standing of truth and reconciliation. Her work has helped build professional development opportunities for teachers and the Surrey community that builds bridges, celebrates culture and elevates Indigenous voices of students and staff. King says she’s driven by the people she works with to continue doing the work
she does. King has always been a caregiver, and the role of teacher just made sense. “I love the people I get to work with,” she notes. “The staff that I work with, the students and their families are what keeps me coming back to this amazing place where we do amazing work.”
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Craig Tessier L ike most teachers, Craig Tessier is driven to help others. In his time as a teacher, Tessier has taught in most school departments but is currently a career development facilitator at Guildford Park Secondary School. In his role, he says what keeps him going is “knowing you’re making a difference in people’s lives.” He spends countless hours talking with students about their career goals and helping them apply and get
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number of successful applicants from all Surrey schools. As a career counsellor, he has former students calling him to keep him up to date on where they’re at in their careers and what they’ve accomplished since graduating. “As with most teachers, you don’t know the impact you make on the student until you happen to run into them years down the road,” he says. “It’s really cool to actually see.”
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Muhammad Afzal Malik Throughout the years, Muhammad Afzal Malik has spent countless hours volunteering his time to various organizations. Malik has volunteered his time with City of Surrey programs and events, the Surrey Libraries board, Semiahmoo House Society, Surrey RCMP and Kwantlen Polytechnic University as a board member. He has also been a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond
Jubilee Medal in recognition of his community services. Malik says his desire to help people comes from the teachings of his parents and being Muslim. “My religion teaches us to help sick children, needy people, and to help them in every aspect.” He adds Canada is a “wonderful society and community” and “whatever I got from this wonderful society, I should pay back.”
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munity. “I’ve been doing it my whole life. I know I’ve been doing it for at least the last 24 years in the fire department,” Murphy says. With an extensive and widespread volunteer resumé, Murphy has helped mow the lawn at his daughter’s school, run the concession at the ball field, served as an execu-
tive member with Surrey Storm softball association and supported numerous charities, including Surrey Fire Fighters’ Charitable Society. Despite his daughter going off to university, Murphy still volunteers his time with Surrey Storm. “I’m not doing it for the parents, I’m doing it for the kids.”
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Joon Sohn J oon Sohn credits his grandparents as his motive in founding Hold High the Torch, a student-led service group. Sohn, now a first-year UBC student, started volunteering as a young student, but it was in September 2018 that he decided to start Hold High the Torch at both Salish and Lord Tweedsmuir secondary schools, which honours veterans, fallen soldiers and troops that continue to serve our country. Through that initiative, and numerous activities, it’s
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meant to “build and foster that connection between veteran and youth and the broader community.” Sohn’s grandmother “grew up along the frontlines of the Korean War, where Canadian soldiers allowed her family to survive basically because they provided humanitarian aid, food, clothing and all these things.” “My grandmother, especially, she always emphasized in me and instilled in me, the importance of really appreciating why I have these freedoms that we have.”
Over time, Hold High the Torch has grown to a team of 26 members and has raised thousands through sponsorships and grant funding. Even through the pandemic, Sohn says the group made phone calls to veterans to check in with them, compiled birthday gifts and care packages. “We are here because they gave their youth and some of them their lives in the Korean War. My family has always emphasized that we have a duty to honor them in our small way — or big way.”
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Brahmroop Sandhu When it comes to volunteering, Brahmroop Sandhu says he “could either be sitting at home and doing nothing” or he could be out making a difference. It was in Grade 10 that he started to volunteer, after meeting police officers the previous year who game him some really good advice on careers and how to give
back to the community. “Once I got started, I noticed how many great people I was meeting volunteering and all the community members I was able to come across.” Sandhu has volunteered more than 2,000 hours as a team leader for the Surrey Crime Prevention Society and was previously its youngest Volunteer of the
Year recipient. Sandhu is known for stepping up and helping others who have questions about how they can make a difference in the community. Born and raised in Surrey, the 22-year-old says he wants to “work here for the rest of my life, and I want to make a difference in my community.”
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Michael Bennett G rowing up, Michael Bennett’s parents owned a taekwondo studio and he “always did a little bit of assisting or coaching in classes from a young age.” Bennett wanted to do something else for a career, so he went down the university path, but then his mom got in a car accident and they needed help at the school. “I realized as I was doing that, just how rewarding it is to be able to have that influence on somebody’s life and be
able to help them reach things that they didn’t even know was possible for them,” explains Bennett. It was a combination of two of his passions: helping people, and obviously, martial arts. Bennett is the chief instructor at Cloverdale Black Belt Academy, and in addition to teaching martial arts skills, he makes sure to teach life skills in the process. Through his teaching, Bennett can see his student who may be having a little trouble grow, and
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Manmeet Dhanoa For Manmeet Dhanoa, getting to see the kids he helps create positive lifestyles makes it all worthwhile. Dhanoa is currently a soccer coach and member of KidsPlay, an organization he’s been working with since 2013. It was in high school that Dhanoa used to hang out with peers who weren’t going down the right path. Then he met Kal Dosanjh, the co-founder of KidsPlay. “I saw him doing this amazing work with the community that just made me want to be a part of it and help this generation out.”
Now Dhanoa says “just seeing the new kids coming out to our program, just helping out new kids, it just makes me eager to keep going.” He has been working on providing online resources to the community and now it’s being turned into a podcast and a webseries. Dhanoa has inspired and motivated the younger generation through his initiatives at KidsPlay. It’s through hard work from people like Dhanoa that helps to fuel KidsPlay.
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