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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2011
She taught us the meaning of bravery and inspired us every day with her own will to survive. She wrote her song as a gift to anyone who needed to be picked up on a very bad day. And when you are a family fighting childhood cancer, there are a lot of very bad days.
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❚SURREY/Putrid pile of fish waste dumped in middle of posh Fraser Heights neighbourhood
HOOK, LINE AND STINKER! Ted COLLEY Staff Reporter
SURREY – The stench rising from the steaming pile of fish waste is overpowering, the olfactory equivalent of a kick to the stomach. John Mayhew is disgusted. The pile was dumped just 60 metres from his Fraser Heights home near 154th Street and 110th Avenue, once an access route to the 152nd Street on-ramp to Highway 1. Now the access is closed and the last couple of hundred metres of 110th serve as a temporary stockpile of material for the Gateway project.
JOHN MAYHEW/ “We’re lucky the wind’s blowing the other way, otherwise...”
Sometime over the weekend, the road end also served as an illegal dumpsite. The smell at Mayhew’s front door is unpleasant, but not too bad. “We’re lucky the wind’s blowing the other way, otherwise...” he explains as he puts on his shoes. “It was dumped here the night before last (Saturday night), I believe,” as he walked Monday morning to the spot where the reeking pile sat. “There are trucks in and out of here all the time. Sometimes they work at night, so people wouldn’t necessarily notice.” The fish waste was dumped right up against the concrete barrier blocking off the road. It’s a good three or four
How bad does this big pile of rotting fish waste smell? Well, when ‘Now’ photographer Ted Colley asked John Mayhew to stand near metres long, three wide and a metre-and-a-half deep. The pile is full of crab shells and sea urchin remains suspended in an amorphous matrix of rotting tissue.
Reddish-brown liquid ran from the base across the road into a ditch. Asked to stand near the pile for a photo, Mayhew groaned. “Let’s get this done before you get photos of
the pile for a photo, Mayhew groaned. “Let’s get this done before ❚PHOTO/Ted Colley you get photos of me vomitting,” he said.
me vomitting.” Mayhew thinks the mess was left by a trucking contractor intent on maximizing his profit by avoiding dump fees. “Let’s say he gets paid $3,000 to haul it away and
the dumping fee is $2,000. By doing this he puts $3,000 in his pocket, not $1,000.” The site is located on road allowance owned by the provincial highway ministry, so Mainroad
Lower Mainland Contracting, the road maintenance contractor, will carry out the clean up. Mainroad’s Al Rogers said the mess would be cleaned up Monday afternoon.