FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2010
BODY OF WORK
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Artist Diane Beadon sketches model Naomi West during a gathering of the Drawing on Life group Wednesday at Ocean Park community hall. Members of the art group, who have met weekly for more than 20 years, are prepar-
❚SURREY/Film production on rise
HOLLYWOOD LOVES HST: MLA CADIEUX SURREY – The HST is a hit with Tom ZILLICH American film production companies Staff Reporter shooting in Surrey and the rest of B.C., but the subject of next fall’s referendum on the Harmonized Sales Tax didn’t come up during meetings provincial officials had with major studios in Los Angeles this week. So says Surrey-Panorama MLA Stephanie Cadieux, who was in California in her role as minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development. The HST is just one reason production companies come to B.C. to film, Cadieux said Thursday during a conference call with news media. “We’ve also had high levels of (film) production before the HST, and it’s certainly a benefit to the industry, but it’s not something (the American studios) are concerned about, or raising red flags about the referendum.”
ing works for display next month at the Semiahmoo Arts gallery, at Windsor Square in South Surrey, for an exhibition called “Celebrating the Beauty and Splendor of the Human Form.” For details, visit www.semiahmooarts.com.
Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde star in the new video game-like movie ‘Tron: Legacy,’ scenes of which were filmed at a house and promenade in the Crescent Beach area. Cadieux was in L.A. to help promote B.C.’s film and TV industry, one that accounts for $1.1 billion annually in production spending and employs between 25,000 and 35,000 people. The Vancouver area is considered the third largest film and TV production centre in North America, after Los Angeles and New York. In Surrey, the new Tron: Legacy movie was filmed in Vancouver over the past two years, including a house in Crescent Beach and promenade there. Scenes for another major feature film, Rise of The Apes, due for release in 2011, were shot this year on streets of North Surrey. Surrey had a busy 2010 for film production, thanks largely to work on TV series such as Psych, Supernatural and Human Target, said Brandi Carr, of Surrey’s filming and special events department.
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❚SLAYING
Politicians team up to block killer’s parole SURREY – Melissa Jean Chatham Tom ZYTARUK was beaten so badly her body was Staff Reporter not fit for an open casket funeral. The North Delta woman’s ex-boyfriend, Kelly David McKenzie, was charged with second-degree murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter. The Surrey man pounded her to death in front of his nine-year-old son, in his Whalley home, on Sept. 21, 2008. During the sentencing hearing in December 2009, the Crown had argued for a prison term of 10 to 12 years. The judge decided on nine, which, with credit for time served, worked out to six and a half years. McKenzie, 37, is expected to apply for unescorted temporary parole in February. But he won’t get it if three local politicians at the municipal, provincial and federal levels have their way. In an unprecedented move, Delta Mayor Lois Jackson, Newton-North Delta Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal and Delta North NDP MLA Guy Gentner have joined forces to lobby the National Parole Board to not grant McKenzie parole. The three met with the victim’s mom, Maureen Chatham, earlier this month.
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