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Liberals name new candidate Lawyer, community leader to run in Surrey-Panorama

By Andrew Fleming former Surrey city councillor announced last month he would instead be running in in the A local lawyer and mother of two has been newly redrawn riding of Surrey-Cloverdale at the named as the BC Liberal Party’s candidate for premier’s request.

Surrey-Panorama in next spring’s provincial Cadieux, Surrey-Cloverdale’s current election. representative in Victoria and the minisPuneet Sandhar’s candidacy was ter of children and family development, announced on Oct. 5 at a event attended will instead run in the newly-created

by Premier Christy Clark and local B.C. riding of Surrey South. Cadieux was acLiberal MLAs Stephanie Cadieux, Peter claimed on Oct. 2, joining Surrey-FleetFassbender and Marvin Hunt. wood incumbent Fassbender and Amrik The political rookie joins a team of 52 Virk (Surrey-Guildford) as the party’s BC Liberal candidates already selected nominated candidates for Surrey. across the province, with 75 per cent Hunt won the Surrey-Panorama ridof their 2017 candidates expected to be ing with 54 per cent of votes in the 2013 nominated by the party’s convention Puneet Sandhar provincial election and received 4,358 Nov. 4-6 in Vancouver. more votes than NDP runner-up Amrik “It’s an honour to be named the Mahil. candidate for Surrey-Panorama in the upcoming Long-time Surrey-White Rock MLA Gordon provincial election,” Sandhar said. “Surrey is a Hogg ended months of speculation about his growing, vibrant city that has given so much to political future last week when he announced he me and my family. Now it’s my time to give back will not be running for a sixth term. by running to be a strong voice for our commuHogg’s decision adds another element to the nity in the legislature, where I will work tirelessly evolving political landscape in Surrey. to deliver on our priorities and needs.”

See EVOLVING / Page 3 Hunt is the riding’s current MLA but the

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B.C. home sales take a dive but prices stay flat Realtors, not homeowners, hit hardest by new tax ting prices or the equity of homeowners.

September’s benchmark price for Greater Vancouver detached houses was $1.58 million in September, unchanged from July, just prior to the 15 per cent foreign buyer tax taking effect in Metro Vancouver Aug. 1.

The detached house benchmark price remains 34 per cent higher than a year ago.

Condos at a benchmark price of $511,800 are also unchanged from July, while Greater Vancouver townhouses are

up about one per cent to $677,000.

The Greater Vancouver real estate board’s coverage area excludes Surrey, White Rock, Langley and North Delta, which are also subject to the tax but represented by the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board.

The Fraser Valley board also reported prices were little changed in September while sales were down 24 per cent yearover-year.

The benchmark price of detached houses in the FVREB area was $879,200 in Sep-

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The FVREB’s benchmark price of townhomes was $419,500 while condos were $249,800.

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The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver reported a nearly 33 per cent dive in home sales in September from a year ago.

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Fall cleanup made easy with shred event, big item pick up

By Jennifer Lang It’s great news for anyone remodeling, redecorating or just reorganizing their home this fall: The City of Surrey will pick up large items you want to throw out – you don’t have to figure out how to get them to the landfill yourself.

Waste items such as furniture, stoves, refrigerators and large appliances can be properly disposed through the program.

It’s available to all homes that receive curbside collection from the City of Surrey. They are eligible for four large item pickups throughout the course of the calendar year – or six items if you have a registered secondary suite.

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Meantime, neither of the NDP or BC Green Party candidates for Surrey-Panorama in the next election have yet been declared.

Sandhar immigrated to Canada from India in 2002 and began her career with Sanghera Sandhar Law Group in Surrey after being called to the B.C. Bar in 2006.

She holds degrees from Guru Nanak Dev University in India.

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Sandhar serves as a member of various organizations, including the Board of Legal Services Society British Columbia, Board of Variance with the City of Surrey, Advisory Board of Resource Works, and Board of Punjab Digital Library. She is also director of the South Asian Business Association of B.C and sits on the Mayor’s Business Advisory Committee for the City of Surrey.

“Puneet is a respected leader in both her career and community, devoting

Take a ride on the ghost train, and ride the tram past the graveyard next week when Surrey’s Heritage Rail hosts a Haunted Halloween.

The Ghost Train will be operating out of the Scary Scary Station in Cloverdale Oct. 22 and 23, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. both days.

It’s the second year the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society has offered the Halloween attraction out of its Cloverdale car barn.

Activities include fun, games, treats, and friendly ghost stories.

Buy your tickets at the station, located at the foot of 176A Street, below Highway 10, beside the Clydesdale Inn. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children.

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an upcoming shred-a-thon event on Saturday, Oct. 15 at Clayton Crossing Shopping Centre. It’s running from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., near Shoppers Drug Mart.

Donations of cash or non-perishable food items for donation to the Surrey Food Bank will be gratefully accepted.

The event is free, offering the public safe, on-site shredding and crime prevention information to help prevent identity theft.

Small businesses are welcome.

It’s presented by Super Save Shredding, the Surrey RCMP, City of Surrey, and the Surrey Food Bank.

Clayton Crossing Shopping Centre is located at 18677 Fraser Hwy., Surrey.

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her time and talents to making a real difference in people’s lives,” said Premier Clark.

“We have a plan to put British Columbians first that’s working – and it’s qualified candidates like Puneet who believe in this plan, and who will work hard to make sure that we can continue to look after the people we love.”

The provincial election is May 9, 2017.

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The witch, the knight and the cannibal – three creepy characters appearing at a Haunted House and Maze Oct. 29 at the Cloverdale Legion.

Horrors galore in Cloverdale They’re baaaack.

The Versatiles present a Haunted House and Amazing Maze for little spooks and adult spooks, Saturday, Oct. 29 at the Cloverdale Legion.

Admission is by $2 donation – and $2 will get you in, but how will you find your way out?

Along with the haunted house and maze, there will be games and prizes for kids, from 1 to 3 p.m.

Adult spooks are invited for dancing and prizes after 7 p.m. The Cloverdale Legion is located at 17567 57 Avenue.

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All non-profit organizations can email their special events to newsroom@cloverdalereporter.com FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL Join us for our last farmers market of the season by celebrating our fall festival. Special guests from the City and Township of Langley, and fun events, including an apple pie bake off. From noon to 6 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 12 at Kwantlen Campus Langley, 20901 Langley Bypass. All ages, free.

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NDP leader John Horgan and the Canadiemember two years ago when B.C. an Union of Public Employees dismissed the Liberal cabinet minister Peter Fassbender took on the B.C. Teachers’ study as full of holes, partly because left-leaning cities refused to supply the data. It seems Federation?

The province weathered its longest-ever some municipalities, particularly in Metro Vancouver, are not keen to have public school strike, five weeks Big Brother get involved in their of full-scale shutdown from discontract negotiations. rupted graduation to cancelled fall classes, with the B.C. govAt this year’s UBCM convenernment dividing up the salary tion in Victoria, Fassbender let it be known in his closing speech savings and sending cheques to that a review of municipal thousands of parents. compensation is underway. That The province’s most militant union was wrestled to the means not only CUPE agreeground, its strike fund exhaustments, but executive pay and even the rich arbitrated settleed, and the BCTF signed a fiveyear agreement with economic ments handed out to municipal police and firefighters. growth sharing similar to all the Tom Fletcher other provincial government I asked Fassbender about the unions. Then Premier Christy plan after his speech, and he was the smooth salesman. He emphasized, as Clark assigned Fassbender a new job: do the Finance Minister Mike de Jong did last year, same thing with municipalities. that there is no legislative hammer hidden It started last year, when a provincially commissioned study on municipal wages behind his back. At least not at the moment.

“I’ve had a number of good discussions was leaked just as mayors and councillors from around the province gathered in Whis- with mayors as I’ve traveled around the tler for the annual Union of B.C. Municipali- province who clearly recognized one of their ties convention. biggest cost drivers is compensation, and The study showed that municipal staff they are more than willing to talk about it,” Fassbender said. “It takes their provincial wage increases had been running at about twice the rate of provincial wage settlements, organization, I think ideally you have UBCM as the province came out of a recession-driv- and all of its members, and I emphasize all en wage freeze and into a period of slow of its members, willing to sit down and start economic growth. that conversation.”

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The likelihood of that appears to be somewhere between slim and none.

Just before Fassbender’s speech, local government leaders debated a resolution dealing with the province’s last effort to help them run their affairs, the Auditor General for Local Government.

The upshot of that was similar to last year: Dear Minister Fassbender, put this thing where the sun don’t shine. Several mayors and councillors suggested the UBCM should lift its ban on cooperating with the auditor, but in the end the majority sided with Invermere Mayor Gerry Taft, who pointed out the province’s new municipal auditor spends $5 million a year to find ways for communities to cut costs. The only way to get rid of it is to change the provincial government next year, Taft said.

So this will be one of the showdown issues in the next provincial election: strong fiscal discipline vs. meddling in the affairs of local governments. It will inspire CUPE and other unions as they ramp up their third-party advertising campaigns next spring.

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This man staying at Hyland House Cloverdale lost everything to gambling at casinos. He’s working part time but needs affordable housing. He’s one of Surrey’s working poor.

The resolution points out that B.C. has the worst poverty in the country, while it is the only province without a strategy.

“Many impacts of poverty are experienced at the local level, and local residents pay for poverty in increased health care costs, higher crime, higher demand for community, social and charitable services, lack of school readiness, reduced school success and lower economic productivity,” the resolution says.

Surrey planning documents state that 16 per cent of local residents are considered low income. In the Metro Vancouver region, Surrey is being hit hardest.

“Of the 20 Metro Vancouver neighbourhoods with the largest number of children and youth living in poverty, 11 of those are in Surrey,” a Surrey backgrounder says.

Surrey Coun. Bruce Hayne said it’s high

‘[B.C. has] the highest child poverty in the country. And that is a shameful record to have.’

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time the province developed a strategy on poverty.

“The costs of inaction just goes way beyond even those directly affected by the lack of adequate housing, work and so on,” Hayne said from the UBCM convention in Victoria.

“It affects the entire community.”

He said the situation on 135A Street, known as The Strip, has become problematic for everyone.

“It’s a human tragedy for the people who are there on The Strip, but

it’s also untenable for the businesses and the people who live in the surrounding community,” Hayne said.

He noted any plan the province creates has to be backed by a financial commitment to implement it.

“These plans have to be funded,” Hayne said.

“And that’s going to have to come across all levels of government.”

Local government is often the first to draw attention to the problems.

Hayne points to two city-owned lots, dedicated for homeless shelters here.

“Now we are waiting for B.C. Housing to put the spades in the ground and build it,” he said. “We’re doing our part as much as we can, for our level of government, but certainly this has got to be everybody kicking in.”

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By Kevin Diakiw When asked what he needs, his blue eyes fill with tears and his immediate attempt to answer brings only silence.

The thought of where his life has turned is too much to bear.

Brought to financial and social ruin by outof-control gambling at government casinos, James (not his real name) is now living in a shelter, trying to put the tatters of his life together.

He needs a job, and for that he needs dental work to replace the teeth that were smashed out of his mouth in a motor vehicle accident.

He also needs some sort of affordable rental housing.

Perhaps above all, he needs the self respect which much of the above will bring.

The 60-year-old sits in Hyland House Cloverdale homeless shelter and realizes he’s fortunate to have a roof over his head.

Prior to this, he’d been living in his truck for a week.

“I don’t want to live on the streets again,” he says.

He understands he’s in the autumn years of his life, but also knows as a technician, and a man still sharp of mind, he has a lot to bring the work force.

For now, he works two part-time, temporary jobs that bring him about $400 a month. He also has a $600 monthly pension.

He is one of Surrey’s working poor, in a province that has the unflattering reputation as having one of the highest poverty rates in the country.

The City of Surrey wants that changed, as did the majority of municipalities at last month’s Union of B.C. Municipalities Conference (UBCM) in Victoria.

For the second year in a row, the City of Surrey introduced a resolution at the conference call for the provincial government to create a poverty-reduction plan.

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Liberal MLA for Surrey-Panorama said he supports the creation of a poverty reduction plan as long as it doesn’t simply galvanize the status quo.

Untold dollars are being poured into the downtown eastside of Vancouver with little results.

“What’s on the ground today isn’t working from the perspective that we would like it to,” Hunt said. He welcomes a plan

that would be created by an independent “out of the box” thinkers that are “not the traditional people that are always dealing in poverty.”

He wants to see a plan that would find a way to be efficient with the resources we already have.

Unfortunately, plans simply ask that more money needs to be spent, he said.

“I’m not convinced the dollars we are spending are working as efficiently as they could,” Hunt

said. For example, he believes addictions could be better managed when abstinence has more focus, rather than simply harm reduction.

“I think the status quo has to be changed,” Hunt said.

On that much, the Hyland House Cloverdale resident agrees.

The status quo is not working.

Housing and jobs are needed.

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“I think the lower end of the market is going to feel it the most.”

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More than 65 choose assisted dying in B.C. Some Fraser Health staff refuse to assist on principle, however there are palliative care physicians providing the service

By Jeff Nagel More than 65 B.C. residents have legally ended their lives with the help of a doctor since federal assisted death legislation took effect June 17.

Fraser Health officials confirm some of those deaths have been within this region, but referred requests for detailed numbers to the B.C. Coroners Service.

“Our first request was two days after the federal legislation was put in place,” said Lisa Zetes-Zanatta, Fraser Health’s executive director for palliative care, home care and residential care.

“A number of requests have come in and some have completed the service.”

Coroner Barb McLintock said it’s too soon to provide a regional or other breakdown on B.C.’s assisted deaths, which she said stood at 66 as of Oct. 5.

The most high profile case so far made public has been that of author W.P. Kinsella, who lived in Yale and invoked Bill C-14’s assisted dying provisions Sept. 16 at Fraser Canyon Hospital.

The Catholic Church’s Vancouver Archbishop Michael Miller urged Fraser Health in an open letter not to mandate assisted dying as an option in palliative care wards, calling it a “cruel dilemma” for those vulnerable patients.

And Miller said it’s a “terrible conflict of interest” for palliative caregivers who may be compelled to offer “an economically expedient shortcut in the form of lethal injection” contrary to their ethical principles.

Zetes-Zanatta acknowledged that not all doctors or nurses are willing to partici-

pate, but said that has not been a barrier to finding sufficient volunteers.

“We’re very clear, as is the provincial and federal legislation, that conscientious objection is absolutely respected,” she said. “I would never force any of our staff into doing anything not consistent with their own moral, ethical or spiritual beliefs.”

Doctors can perform the assisted death injection independently if nursing staff who would normally assist are unwilling, she said.

Zetes-Zanatta noted the World Health Organization definition of palliative care is to protect and alleviate the suffering of patients until they reach a natural death.

“The number of palliative care physicians providing this service is less than other disciplines because it’s not aligned with their philosophy of care. That being said, there are palliative care physicians who are providing this service.”

More of the requests for assisted death come from people in the community than in hospices or palliative care settings, she added.

“We try to give the service where the patient is,” Zetes-Zanatta said. “They’re usually in intolerable suffering and so to move them is really difficult. We try to make this very much about the patient.”

Under the federal legislation, patients must be at end of life with death expected within the next six months to a year.

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Dancers to represent Canada in Germany Team Canada Dance includes dancers from Cloverdale, Surrey Several local dancers are heading to Europe for the International Dance Organization’s World Dance Championships.

This year’s Team Canada Dance team includes Surrey/Cloverdale dancers Tianna Chilibeck, Charyse Cerezo, Victoria Holman, Madison Yaremchuk, Isabella Bonato, Rylen Samson and Lillian Chen.

The girls will compete in Riesa, Germany, from Nov. 21-26.

The International Dance Organization has more than 250,000 member dancers from six continents. This exciting World Championship format is Olympic-style with only one gold, silver and bronze being presented on the podium with the World Champions’ national anthem being played as the top three medalist flags are raised.

Team Canada Dance National Director Bonnie Dyer has selected Danielle Gardner to choreograph the team.

Dyer said the Canadian team’s strength stems from the high standard of training that local studios offer, adding “It is also great to see the best of the best in Canada that come from various studios all working together as one team with one goal – and that is to represent Canada.”

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Since there is no government support for Team Canada Dance, each member must raise their own funds to attend the world championships.

Individually and in groups, the dancers have held hot dog sales, car washes, bottle drives, pub nights, sold doughnuts, Tupperware, and will be holding more events in October and November.

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By Jeff Nagel TransLink has backtracked from a plan that would have made SkyTrain riders wait considerably longer for less frequent off-peak trains to and from Surrey.

The change to SkyTrain schedules and routes that takes effect Oct. 22 was to include a 20 per cent cut in SkyTrain frequency on the new Expo branch to King George, where mid-day and evening trains would have run seven and a half minutes apart, instead of six minutes now.

But officials now say that part of the initial schedule was an oversight and it has been retooled to eliminate the extra delay after it was criticized by Surrey transit blogger Daryl Dela Cruz.

“Mr. Dela Cruz pointed that out and we looked at it from the planning perspective and said ‘No that’s not what we want to do,’” said Geoff Cross, TransLink vice-president of transportation planning and policy.

“That was not the intention. So we were able to go back and adjust.”

Trains to and from Surrey will be within a few seconds of the current frequencies, including the six minutes between trains at offpeak times, Cross said.

“It’s great news for Surrey commuters,” Dela Cruz said of the changes.

The SkyTrain reconfiguration coming this month is part of TransLink’s preparation to begin service on the Evergreen Line before Christmas.

The Millennium Line switches from a loop to an east-west only route from VCC-Clark through North Burnaby, Port Moody and Coquitlam.

While the Expo Line will split at Columbia into two branches – one to King George and the other ending at Production Way-University.

TransLink aims to add 28 new SkyTrain cars to the system if Metro Vancouver mayors approve a phase one expansion plan in November.

Cross said the expansion plan would also allow a near-immediate improvement in offpeak SkyTrain service to begin starting in January.

That would mean “much better” frequency at mid-day and evenings on the Expo Line.

“We’re actually looking at lengthening the peak period where we’re offering the highest level of service by 30 minutes in each direction.”

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increase effective economic links with the rest of Europe via an already enviable rail network.

Last month, onboard the Gottardino, the impressive first-class ‘pioneer’ train, passengers had the opportunity to experience the service between Erstfeld and Bodio, with an exclusive stop in the heart of the mountain at Sedrun.

Sedrun and Faido are the two multifunction stations within the tunnel.

The Cloverdale Disembarking from the gleaming red and white Gottardino we step into the massive tunnel. Passengers snap selfies and tunnel shots commemorating this once-in-a-lifetime experience 800 metres into the depth of an alp.

An exit tunnel off the main platform leads to a second tunnel. Here we see a film about the project history. Assorted information boards and pictures describe this Drop off / email photos historic undertaking and and profile submissions to: the visionaries included in it.

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The 28 million tonnes of rock excavated was then pulverized to be included in the 4,000,000 cubic metres of concrete (84 times that of the Empire State building) required for tunnel construction. The massive tunnel boring machine equalled four football The Cloverdale fields laid end-to-end.

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eventually arrived in the heart of the alp to find they were only 23 cms outside their calculations. A tribute to incredible technology, craftsmanship, and courage. Can you picture the triumphant moment?

Inside the tunnel temperatures can rise to 46C, something which will not impact the air-conditioned rail passengers zipping along the tunnel. They will be unaware that 125 workers laboured for over three years in three round-the-clock shifts installing the slab track, and that the entire tunnel system (including the accesses we viewed) totals 152 kms.

Financed by such things as fuel taxes and road charges on certain vehicles, loans are expected to be paid back within 10 years. This is viewed as a practical investment geared to increase tourism and facilitate business at large.

With my souvenir pioneer Gottardino passport duly stamped and my Gotthard Tunnel selfie secure I re-board the Gottardino for the final leg of my adventure through the heart of the great mountain.

Changing trains in Biasco, I head for my next destination, Lugano, for a taste of Italian influenced Switzerland.

Bear in mind that southern Switzerland borders northern Italy.

In fact, many Italians commute to Lugano to take advantage of the higher Swiss salaries, while maintaining homes in more affordable Italy.

My Swiss Pass and handy rail-bus connection whisks me from the train station to the Hotel de la Paix, a 10-minute downhill walk to Lake Lugano, a plentiful mix of shops, and access to ferries plying the lake.

I’m in the gastronomy group which involves dinner at Grotto Morchino in nearby Pazzallo. Reminiscent of a tree house, I choose a pasta from the eclectic menu accompanied by a light white Swiss wine. It’s a warm evening so we dine on the elevated verandah flanked by tree tops and

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Bookmark moments in Barcelona Sasha Riga had a rare opportunity this spring as one of a handful of soccer players invited to train at boys academy Contributed Sasha Ryga, a nineyear-old soccer player with Surrey United, has started the soccer season with an unbridled enthusiasm and fond memories after spending a few weeks in Barcelona after an invitation to train with the prestigious (FCB) Escola Barcelona in Spain.

Sasha also represented Canada with the U11 team to compete in the Football Barcelona International Youth Tournament where he got to meet Barcelona FCB team captain – Andres Iniesta.

A total of over 1,200 players from 19 countries competed in the unique tournament, an impressive multicultural event.

In the end, Sasha has returned to Cloverdale transformed with a new appreciation for different cultures and an intrinsically motivated philosophy of respect, teamwork, humility, effort and friendship in football, aka soccer.

The ‘Trident’ – the three-headed monster of Neymar, Suarez and Messi – all scored.

Sasha was one of a handful of boys selected from across Canada by FCB Escola invited to train with the Barcelona academy boys for one week.

With this honour, he got to train in Barcelona FCB (where his hero, Lionel Messi started), tour Camp Nou as well as receive two tickets to a game where he got to see the Champions League Barcelona vs Arsenal game at Camp Nou. It was the perfect game as the trident – or, as Sasha calls them, “the three-headed monster,” of Neymar, Suarez and Messi – all scored!

Sasha’s greatest thrill was to watch Neymar warm up pre-game with a spectacular juggling show and to see Messi work his magic live.

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Sasha would practice his Spanish with the locals, as each training session was in Spanish, however, the coaches did have some English, and when it looked as though Sasha was unsure of something, one of the boys would always come over to translate as best they could.

Sasha became fast friends with the Barcelona boys, and they would regularly come over to him and tussle his hair and tell him, “great job.”

He would always get a big smile from everyone when he would say, “Gracias!” It was an incredible opportunity and experience.

They gave him the number 9 to wear in their in-house tournament – the same number the legendary Johan Cruyff wore when he played for Barcelona, and who sadly passed away while Sasha was in Barcelona.

One of his biggest heroes, Eric Ho, gave Sasha a video to watch of Cruyff before leaving, and is one of Sasha’s favourite players.

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Spain planted a true love for the game of soccer

moment of the trip of which he will never forget, he experienced a camaformulated the Barca youth academy raderie that transcended cultures and languages. methodology.

The city of Barcelona is fiercely When the week of training was proud of their football team and even over, Sasha was part of the Canadihave a whole an team for the channel (BarFifth FCB Escola caTV) devoted International to FCB 24/7. A tournament. number of parHis group ents approached stage included Sasha in the games against tournament to Brazil, Japan, tell him that Costa Rica and they saw him even Spain – on BarcaTV, so against some of of course when the very boys he Sasha got back trained with and to the hotel, he played with just a was in the comfew days prior. mercial they had The Barca boys running for the exemplified the youth tournatiki-taka style ment (now on and played with Youtube under such fluency that Fifth FCB Escoit was an honour la International to play against Tournament is them.

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In the dressing Sasha has room before the A signed jersey is a lasting ‘Barca’ memory. come back game, the Barca inspired. players were all coming over to Sasha When asked what he thinks about to give him high fives, and at the end the experience, his first thoughts of the match, came over to him to are of gratitude to all of his coaches, give him the biggest of hugs. teammates and mentors throughThe coach later told Sasha’s mom that someone asked how Sasha knew out the years that have helped him develop not only into a player, but a all these guys, to which Sasha simply player with integrity and a true love stated, “they’re my friends.” for the game.

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Soccer players honoured Two local soccer players have been honoured by Canada West women’s soccer.

Surrey’s Jasmin Dhanda of the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds has been named the First Star of the Week, while Cloverdale native Rachel Hutchinson of the Trinity Western University Spartans was selected the Second Star.

Dhanda, a fourth-year forward, netted four goals in a pair of games in Prince George Sept. 23. She tallied two goals on 10 shots in a 4-1 win over the University of Northern B.C. Timberwolves.

A day later, she scored another two goals in a 3-2 loss to the Alberta Pandas in Edmonton.

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The Cloverdale Lynx wore pink socks to show support for breast cancer month at their Oct. 2 football game at Cloverdale Athletic Park against the North Surrey Hawks.

Hutchinson, a second-year forward, recorded four assists in a pair of games played on the road.

They had two helpers in a 4-0 win over the Thompson Rivers University Wolfpack Oct. 1 in Kamloops, then added two more assists in a 3-0 win over the UBC Okanagan Heat the next day in Kelowna. The Spartans are in first place in the Canada West Pacific Division with five wins and two ties in seven games.

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