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Business owners in the 1400-block of Johnston Road are angry that reconstruction of the street – long characterized by dust from excavation, ubiquitous metal fencing and one-way-only traffic – is going to drag on at least two months beyond what they were expecting.

Compounding their unhappiness with the city, they claim, is an information deficit in which they are not being adequately kept upto-date with progress on the construction, which has been impacting their businesses and their customer base negatively since the middle of March.

In one instance a business owner found out about the current delays only after reading about them in a comment on the city’s Facebook page – almost a full week after the information was originally posted.

Piya Sandhu, owner and

chief curator of The Handpicked Home (1406 Johnston Rd.), who has been one of the most vocal critics of the project, said she only saw – and took a screenshot of – the posting on Sept. 5, at which time the Facebook date stamp showed it as having been up for six days.

In response to a resident question about how long the project was going to continue, the City of White Rock had responded: “The Johnston Road project started at the end of March and will take approximately 6 to 8 months to complete. The project completion ETA is approximately October – end of November and any announcements on road openings will be shared on our social media and city website.” (The city has since posted an update to its website stating that the area is set to be reopened at the end of October).

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Policy changes could endanger streams, speakers say Tom Zytaruk

Speakers roundly slammed proposed amendments to Surrey’s streamside protection bylaws and policy at a public hearing on Monday, Sept. 9, at city hall.

The intent of the amendments, based on a corporate report, was to require all of Surrey’s watercourse setbacks to conform to provincial and federal legislation and changes to Sensitive Ecosystems Development Permit requirements aimed at streamlining development application review timelines.

A vote on third reading was deferred to Surrey’s next council meeting (on Monday, Sept.

23). Staff concluded in that report the changes proposed would “streamline the processing of applications without compromising important environmental and public interest values, consistent with federal and provincial legislation and regulations.”

A dozen speakers at the public hearing opposed the amendments, with 10 letters also expressing opposition and three voicing “concern.”

South Surrey resident Kathy Takasaki told council that “in a time of climate crisis, reducing environmental protection makes no sense. Why do we want to go backwards?”

“The more super-adjacent development, the less flow of water for salmon and all the other aquatic species,” she said. “Houses are always going to be built, but we need to protect our sensitive natural areas.”

CANOPY COVER CONCERNS Robert Winston also opposed the “loss of riparian margins” and asked council to “shoot for” a 40 per cent canopy cover.

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The Little Campbell River, seen here in a file photo when the Department of Fisheries and Oceans worked with community members to relocate thousands of stranded juvenile coho salmon, is one of the Surrey watersheds that residents voiced concerns about at the Sept. 9 council meeting.

(Jaeger Mah photo/Contributed to Black Press Media) devastation of trees and our canopy,” he said. “The canopy we have is marginal, it’s below what is recommended for sure…and the trees that we lose impact health, both psychological and physical health of citizens, and this is a permanent degradation of that mitigating factor, the trees.”

Guildford resident Alison Ivens said the corporate report contains “only an unsupported conviction” there will be no adverse effect on the environment if the proposal is made law and noted the City of Surrey’s environment and climate change committee hasn’t had an opportunity to weigh in on the corporate report.

Dave Hayer, representing 55 property owners in Bridgeview, said ditches are now being designated as streams and with the housing shortage, he said it’s time council and the provincial government “reclassify” his area “and let development happen, because it’s been neglected for over six decades.”

Bob Gardner, representing Friends of McNally Creek, argued that the proposal is a “very poor idea. It violates Surrey’s commitment to fighting climate change.

“Changing setbacks to 30 metres from the top of the bank from Class A streams, which many of the local

streams are, to zero or less possibly half-way down the ravine seriously threatens Surrey’s canopy as under the amendment, most of the trees will be likely felled by developers and that will threaten the fish,” he told council.

“I cannot see where engineers who signed this proposal have brought to mayor and council’s attention the environmental damage it will cause, which I understand is their legal obligation.

“I also see no mention of the city’s potential liabilities ensuing from this potential amendment.

“What happened to our City of Parks?”

PUBLIC CONSULTATION WANTED David Riley, president of the Little Campbell Watershed Society, said adopting the recommended policy change without public consultation “would not only be disrespectful toward the thousands of volunteers who have spent a good chunk of their life energy supporting riverine health in Surrey, it would also be disrespectful toward the Surrey decision-makers and staffers who have created a legacy by doing the very same for decades. And I include there the huge effort staff made to get us

to the policy we’re now talking about replacing.”

Deb Jack, of Surrey Environmental Partners, called the corporate report “seriously flawed.”

“There is no transparency,” she charged. “It is for the benefit of the few to the detriment of the many. There’s been no consultation beyond giving this idea to the development advisory committee, all of which are going to benefit if this happens.”

“How much will be destroyed?” Jack asked. “Surrey is going from a leadership position to mediocre if indeed they accept this.”

She echoed Riley’s comments. “Without the buffer that exists now, fish won’t thrive. It is an enormous loss projected of carbon sink. It renders years of community planning and consultation obsolete, alienating many citizen volunteers.

“It degrades, it destroys, it goes backwards.”

Annie Kapps, a North Surrey resident, has lived in this area for 80 years. “I come from a time when Bear Creek used to run up 132nd Street and we children saw salmon spawning and now that creek in so many areas is underground, where all around the world we see creeks and streams being daylighted.

“I think that this should be rejected,” she said of the proposed amendments.

Kevin Purton, of Surrey Environmental Partners, said the staff report supports “an alarming 40 per cent misappropriation of some of the most environmentally bio-diverse lands in Surrey.”

“I’m a member of the Environment and Climate Change Committee,” he added. “We haven’t been presented with this report. Our terms of reference in effect state we should be used as a sounding board Continued on A4

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City of Surrey will revisit the issue on Monday, Sept. 23 Continued from A3 for council with any environmentally pertinent being referred to the committee by council for our feedback. In fact, during the current twoyear term, I can’t recall that ever happening. We’ve had meetings cancelled and one recently due to no items on the agenda to discuss. There is a feeling our best efforts and intentions are being minimized.”

PROPOSAL ‘DEVASTATING’: FORMER MAYOR Former Surrey mayor Bob Bose, who did not speak at the public hearing, calls the proposal “devastating” in that all told there’s maybe a 1,000 acres of land that’s involved here by reducing the setbacks.

“The setbacks represent an amenity contribution to the c ity. What they’re doing is transferring a public asset – because those setbacks are a public asset – they’re transferring it, without compensation, to the private sector, to say nothing about the fact those watercourses and those setbacks may be absolutely necessary to deal with the effect of climate change, storm surges and all the rest of it,” Bose said. “If it’s 1,000 acres, it has a market value of maybe

$6 billion. Well, it’s at least $6 million an acre if you were to try to buy those lands. It’s somewhere between $2 billion and $6 billion probably, so that’s a huge loss to the city in value.”

Bose maintains “there’s not been a proper evaluation of the impact of all of this.”

Later in the meeting, when bylaws related to the proposed amendments came before council for a third and then final reading, Mayor Brenda Locke asked council to send it back to staff “to provide clarification regarding some of the information in this report.”

Coun. Linda Annis asked that it be put before the environmental and climate change committee because “there’s a lot of people on that committee that have some really sage advice about the environmental issue, so I’d love to hear more from them.”

City manager Rob Constanzo said it could “certainly” be put before the committee “but we would require direction from council to move forward accordingly.”

Locke replied her motion wasn’t intended “to do something that would trigger anything what would re-ignite a public hearing.”

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“That would be helpful as well,” he said.

“I don’t know if that would be doable,” Locke replied.

Coun. Pardeep Kooner asked if it’s possible for staff to “just respond to some of the general comments that were made instead of delaying this any further? We’ve been discussing this for over a year now.”

The matter was back up for third and final adoption, with Bose, Annis and Locke opposed.

City Clerk Jennifer Ficocelli noted that the Official Community Plan bylaw requires five members to have voted in support for it to pass, and only four did.

As Coun. Gordon Hepner had left earlier in the meeting to respond to a family emergency and Coun. Harry Bains stepped out, that vote failed, resulting in the readings being deferred to council’s next meeting set for Sept. 23.

Meantime, council had voted in March to require all watercourse setbacks to align with federal and provincial legislation.

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Residents of a home in South Surrey’s Ocean Park neighbourhood were able to get out safely after a fire started late Sunday night.

The blaze started around 10 p.m., Sept. 15, Surrey Fire Service assistant chief Mike McNamara said Monday (Sept.

16).

“We’re unsure on the cause of the fire at this point. (Firefighters) suspect it was on the ground floor,” he said, noting firefighters were able to attack the blaze from the front door.

‘The fire and smoke worked its way upstairs, but everyone got out – there were no injuries.

“One male patient was treated for some smoke inhalation…

the smoke alarms alerted them and everyone managed to get out.”

Firefighters knocked down the fire in just over a halfhour, but remained on scene until about 1 a.m., he added, to ensure any hot spots were out.

An investigator was scheduled to be on scene Monday to try to determine the cause of the fire.

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B.C. deserves better So far, it seems like B.C.’s two major party leaders have more or less the same message for voters: “Don’t vote for the other guy.”

B.C. NDP Premier David Eby and B.C. Conservative Party leader John Rustad are busy pointing fingers at each others’ parties, being sure to hammer home to voters all the reasons why the “others” are scary.

Has anyone counted how many times Rustad has used the word “radical” to describe Eby and the NDP? What about the number of times Eby has framed the election as a “stark” choice between the NDP and the far-right fringe?

Honestly, if we turned those two talking points into a drinking game and took a shot for every time we hear one or the

other, no British Columbian would be sober enough to get themselves to a polling station on Oct. 19.

The very real question now is how many British Columbians are going to bother voting at all.

The current climate of scapegoating and fearmongering could very well have a negative impact on voter turnout.

Sure, the spectre of the scary “other” may well work to get a few folks to the polls – at least the minority of diehards on either side who will be appropriately triggered by the idea that the “bad guys” might win.

The problem, however, is that the vast majority of voters probably aren’t those people.

For the British Columbians who occupy the vast central ground of the political spec-

trum – who consider themselves neither hard left nor hard right – the polarizing rhetoric may well be enough to make them throw their hands up in despair. They may choose to just tune out and stay home rather than try to wade through the wild accusations and counter-accusations that have cast a verging-on-Trumpian pall over political discourse in this province.

There are plenty of real issues that deserve real answers – overstretched hospitals, overcrowded schools, the toxic drug crisis, housing affordability, crime and safety, just to name a few.

But when the overriding message from both major party leaders seems to be that “you should vote for me because at least I’m not him” — well, the real solutions seem farther away than ever.

British Columbians deserve better.

Renee and Walter Nelson (on the right in the dark swim suits) at Crescent Beach with a group of friends in 1933.

Irene Maccaud Nelson – Renee to her friends – sold her property to the city to become the park that still bears her name. (White Rock Museum and Archives/Contributed to Peace Arch News)

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Leaders need to get serious about Surrey school crisis One critical issue for voters to consider as tunity. The very experienced trustees have the provincial election nears is education. made strong and reasonable cases for help Surrey is B.C.’s largest school disfrom the province, but the response is mostly silence. trict. Yet it continues to struggle Frank Bucholtz with many issues – lack of classThis provincial ignorance is nothing room space, inadequate funding new. Surrey students have faced a lack from the province and, most notaof classroom space since growth first bly, a strong influx of students that began in earnest in the 1940s. Each continues year after year. successive government – Coalition, The current education minister is Social Credit, NDP, Social Credit, Surrey-Green Timbers MLA RachNDP, BC Liberal and now NDP again na Singh, who is seeking re-election – has been very slow to realize the in the new riding of Surrey City depth of the problem. On dozens of occasions, the province has pleaded Centre. One would think that she poverty. would be fully aware of all these This month, several thousand new issues, given that her constituents students flocked to schools. Overall are experiencing them first-hand.

Yet she rarely addresses the unique enrolment is about 85,000. Yet the challenges found in Surrey. province has refused to fund new portable The board of education is very aware of classrooms. In a few high schools, the school the issues faced by students, teachers and day has been extended to make better use of parents, and brings them up at every oppor- the classroom space, but this only scratches

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the surface.

Just last week, trustees discovered that an 800-seat addition to Fleetwood Park Secondary won’t go to tender until 2026. This despite the architect saying it could proceed more quickly.

“It doesn’t make any sense. I don’t think it makes any sense to any of the board, to be quite honest with you. Here we are in a crisis as far as having students in classrooms and then we see that an agreed-to addition has a date that it goes to tender in 2026? This isn’t expediting anything. This is, as far as I can see, actually rolls it back,” said a frustrated trustee Terry Allen.

Trustee Laurae McNally was a relatively new trustee the last time a Surrey MLA (Bill Vander Zalm) was education minister, in 1983.

She noted that large buildings in the days of the Roman Empire, notably the famed Colosseum in Rome, were planned and built faster than some new schools in Surrey.

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Some students lost bus transportation this month because the board had to cut funds to shore up other areas of the budget. Portables are not the only item funded. Inflation, a pressing problem for everyone, is not funded.

There is no doubt that the high cost of land and limited availability of it creates some additional pressures in building new schools in Surrey. However, there are innovative ideas out there about putting some schools on several floors of larger commercial buildings located near parks and playing fields. Where is the leadership from Victoria on any of these issues?

Voters, as they consider which candidates to vote for, should give plenty of thought to the fundamental needs of students. If we as a society are truly concerned about the coming generations, adequate education facilities and funding are a must.

Frank Bucholtz writes twice a month on political issues for Black Press Media publications.

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Please drive ‘Bold decision’ was correct Policing issue isn’t over yet with care Editor, It has been three months since I was run over by a car on my daily walk in the neighbourhood. I still have many months until my recovery is complete and have been told that there will be residual chronic pain. My family has been through a roller coaster of emotions and has suffered trauma as well.

During my time at both Royal Columbian and Peace Arch hospitals, I encountered many kind and dedicated nurses, doctors and hospital staff who helped me along my road to recovery, not to mention my family, friends and neighbours to whom I am very grateful. Without these people in my life, my outcome could have been a lot different.

I would like to remind drivers that driving is a privilege, not a right.

Also remember, when you are at the wheel of a vehicle, you are driving a heavy piece of equipment that could cause major damage or death to a pedestrian. Since my encounter with that driver on that day, I have seen many cases where pedestrians were almost hit. There is no acceptable reason not to take due care when at the wheel of your car.

You may not know the lasting consequences your lack of attention or your speeding can cause another human being.

D. Bourdages, White Rock

Parking ticket was unexpected Editor, On a recent visit to White Rock to a friend on Finlay Street, seeing only residential parking spaces, I drove up to Ash Street.

I looked very closely for signage and seeing none, I parked my car.

So it was disappointing to see a ticket on my windshield. How in the world was I to know about this six-metre rule? (“No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle on the paved portion of a roadway where the pavement is six metres or less in width.”) There was no signage.

I had parked carefully over toward the grass, which appeared to be (and was, I found out) private property. I later found out I could have got a ticket for that!

I hope you will consider improving your signage soon.

Helen Gowans, Vancouver

Editor, Re: Planning of development in White Rock There is always a discontent from few residents about even the reasonable development proposal to the planning department of the City of White Rock. Same vocal residents are always writing to the editor in the Peace Arch News, and they attend public hearings to disrupt the meeting and many of them live outside the affected area.

I agree with this bold decision by the mayor and the council and a step forward to enhance the development of smaller units on the suitable lots. This will reduce the municipal approval time for building permit and construction. The planning can simplify the approval process.

There is no need for public hearing for smaller lot development. Presently the approval process is too long, and it increases the cost per unit. This may help the municipalities such as White Rock who are always short of qualified staff.

In addition, the construction industry has to adjust to high interest rates to move the economy again. We are all adjusting to the high interest rates.

The small City of White Rock has no clout with the provincial government to receive more infrastructure grants. The historical City of White Rock by the sea is a unique model, but the low tax base can only be sustained with effective planning and provincial support Nirmal S .Takhar, White Rock

Editor, The 25 July column by Frank Bucholtz on Surrey policing really nails it, but there is more than can be added to the saga.

Ivan Scott and his team fought long and hard for a referendum but were ignored in turn by Horgan (a provincial premier), Farnworth (a provincial safety minister) and Eby (a provincial party leader and would-be-yet-to-be elected provincial premier). That these NDP individuals would choose to support one person with a grudge over the notion of asking the people (voters) want they want is disgraceful.

As it stands, we have the NDP police force – a stigma that will stick for a long time to come – set to assume power in November with their inferior training and lack of experience.

In October, We the People will finally have our say and it will be interesting to see how the incoming government will deal with this NDP-created farce. It’s not over until the people say it’s over.

David Peelo, Surrey

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Editor, I was in attendance at the City of Surrey council meeting on Monday, Sept. 9, and found it very troubling.

As we saw in the last administration, our canopy and stream protection is being threatened. The city is proposing that we allow development of 40 per cent of our riparian stream and river protection margins; that is, to reduce the protective margin from 50 metres to 30 metres. This will turn our streams and rivers into drainage channels and reduce the absorption of rainwater.

Cities like Seattle, Toronto and Los Angeles are daylighting or increasing the green margins to increase absorption of this water into aquifers because they are trying to reduce flood damage and preserve aquifer water storage

while opening habitat for trees, plants, fish and other wildlife.

This ongoing greenspace loss by the City of Surrey has been a policy to favour developers’ profits while resulting in more environmental inequity. The City of Surrey is reported by Metro Vancouver to have a canopy cover of 26 per cent canopy for 2020, down from 33 per cent in 2001, a significant loss.

My observations support a significant mature tree loss since developers are not incentivized by the city to preserve trees. Consultation with the Surrey Urban Indigenous Leadership Committee is essential.

As you know, our mature trees protect us from excessive heat, mitigate water runoff, reduce pollution, provide

wildlife habitat, stabilize banks and provide positive physical and mental health benefits to humans. The other concern is that what canopy is present is distributed more heavily in higher-income neighbourhoods.

The opposite should be the case – that is, the city should provide more greenspace and canopy to lower-income areas as they have higher levels of stress.

The damage done by this reduction in stream and river protection margins will be permanent, and the climate emergency is not improving.

Don’t let the City of Surrey harm our habitat. Call or write to mayor and council – clerks@surrey.ca.

Robert Winston, Surrey

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City criticized for information lag on construction project Continued from A1 Sandhu said she immediately commented on the post: “City of White Rock this project went from having a September timeline to the huge jump of Oct – end of Nov?? When were the businesses & White Rock BIA notified of this?”

Sandhu told Peace Arch News her comment elicited a phone call, shortly afterwards, from a White Rock city staff member, who told her they “had just received notice of the delays this week and an email would go out to the businesses today.”

“However it is clear from the (Facebook) date stamp that notice was received, at the very least, on Aug. 29, the week before,” she said.

“I haven’t seen any urgency from the city on this,” she added, noting that walk-in trade is vital to the success of her business. “(Yet) this project will determine whether my business succeeds of fails in the next few months,” she said.

“It’s absolutely destroying us – you can’t budget for this, or schedule around this.

“It is enraging to business owners that it feels as though no one from city hall gives any true importance to a project that

has turned this city upside down, during one of its busiest seasons – summer – and is now going to encroach the holiday season, the only season for the retail industry to try and recoup losses from an already excruciating year,” she told PAN. Sandhu said she knows that many other business owners in the block feel as she does, although not all have been as forthcoming as she has been.

She said she has pleaded, to no avail, for compensation for businesses, tax breaks or “at the very least an elimination in fees for signage and business licences for the year.”

She is also dismayed that the White Rock BIA, which she understood was to provide a liaison role between business owners and the project, has not been kept in the loop about the current delays.

“Businesses are up in arms about it, and rightly so,” commented Coun. Ernie Klassen, himself a lower Johnston Road business owner, who voted against proceeding with the reconstruction – along with Coun.

Christopher Trevelyan and Coun. David Chesney – when the $3.06 million construction contract came before council on

Feb. 12.

The project was approved on that date, with Mayor Megan Knight, and councillors Bill Lawrence, Elaine Cheung and Michele Partridge voting in favour.

At that time, city engineering and municipal operations director Jim Gordon had recommended one lane of the street be kept open, and in response to questions from Chesney, said that business owners had expressed significant worries about the project.

Klassen had also argued for a “reprieve” for businesses on Johnston for a year or two (Phase 1 of Johnston’s redevelopment, from North Bluff to Russell, had impacted the street for most of 2018), while Trevelyan said that while infrastructure in the lower section was aging, it was not viewed by staff as a “critical” priority.

“What I’m seeing is $3 million to redevelop one half of one block,” Trevelyan said.

“Mainly buildings from the 1950s that will eventually be redeveloped…it’s not a priority for me to spend that kind of money on a sidewalk that will get ripped up again in the future.”

The project aimed to upgrade

Construction work on the Johnston Road Phase 2 infrastructure upgrade, seen here at the end of March, is dragging on longer than expected, and businesses aren’t happy. (Alex Browne/Peace Arch News files) and upsize storm and sanitary sewers as well as replace and upsize watermains, and replace sidewalks on the east side of Johnston to improve accessibility, remove tripping hazards and provide an improved northbound transit stop.

Peace Arch News reached out to the city about the current delay, and was directed to an updated posting on the city’s website, on the Johnston Road Infrastructure page.

The update – which appeared Sept. 11 – states: “Johnston Road is expected to re-open in both directions by the end of October.

“The project has encountered a number of challenges related to historic construction work that was not properly reported to the City,” the update adds.

“The accumulation of these

challenges and recent subsurface conditions have impacted the original September 2024 completion date.

The current schedule of reopening the road by the end of October is in line with original projections for a one-lane construction zone.”

The city is hosting a “coffee chat” to keep business owners informed about the project on Sept. 25, from 9 to 10 a.m., at the White Rock Community Centre.

City communications and government relations manager Robyn Barra told Peace Arch News Monday that the city has held four coffee chats on the project so far and has changed the meeting time to 9 a.m. to be more convenient for business owners.

She added that, since the project began, the city has sent 25

emails to businesses, has posted regular updates to the Johnston Road infrastructure page, 35 social media posts, and sent emails and letters to the White Rock BIA. A commissionaire, included in the contract with the construction company, has been on-site and communicates with all businesses regularly, she said.

These measures have been taken to “ensure a collaborative and effective approach to communication, playing a crucial role in shaping the city’s approach to the construction process,” she said.

In comments received late last week, Trevelyan said that while he knows staff and construction crews are trying to complete the work as fast as possible, he feels communications with businesses about these new delays could be improved.

“I also question the recent messaging that it was always an eight month-plus project when the staff report council received explicitly stated it would only be six months,” he said.

“For the sake of our local businesses, it’s imperative that parking and two-way traffic is restored before the start of the holiday shopping season.”

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A White Rock man has been charged with 64 crimes following a Surrey RCMP Property Crime Target Team investigation into residential break-ins in the Lower Mainland and B.C.’s Interior that began three months ago.

Of those, 20 charges involve failing to comply with probation and six for failing to comply with a release order.

Police started their investigation on June 6 into the theft of garage door opener that were later used to get into residences.

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‘Desperate need’: Cultural food hub struggles to stay afloat Whalley who are in need of a place they can walk in and ask for help.”

It was not easy, but eventually Ude was able to create Kingdom Acts Foundation.

He realized that while services to support people socioeconomically in the area are important, so are spaces to foster community.

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A single mother of three, a father with his teenage son, an elderly couple, a group of unhoused people and many new immigrant families gather every Wednesday and Friday outside a building in Surrey to get their groceries for the week, at no cost.

Through the front gate, on any given day, you can see groups of seniors gathered for events, children running around during the summer and other people attending their scheduled counselling sessions inside the small office building.

Seeing the lot void of all these people is hard to imagine for anyone who’s visited the site, but that may be exactly what’s on the horizon, as the group that runs the space inches towards closure.

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MEET KINGDOM ACTS FOUNDATION Kingdom Acts Foundation is a catch-all organization functioning out of the city’s Whalley neighbourhood for a large and growing BIPOC-majority community. It runs a food bank that offers household supplies and toys for children, and it also runs several programs for individuals and families, including summer camps for youth and dedicated evenings for single mothers and seniors.

“We saw a huge need that was really, really serious in Surrey. A lot of crimes, homelessness, drug addiction,” Godwin Ude, the founder of Kingdom Acts, told Black Press Media while providing a tour of the space.

Kingdom Acts has been serving Whalley and the broader community for 14 years, operating out of the same building location for almost a decade.

Its food bank originated from a desire to offer different cultural foods – something that was important to Ude after people started coming to him looking for a diverse range of food that was not readily available at other food bank locations in 2016.

With Whalley’s population being very culturally diverse, Ude said the service contin-

Pickup days at Kingdom Acts’ food bank are often busy, requiring the help of volunteers, who are also clients themselves. (Sobia Moman/Peace Arch News) ues to become more popular each week.

“We realized that families actually want the food that they grew up with, especially new immigrants with kids from Syria, from Afghanistan, from Iran and Iraq and even from African countries,” Ude explained.

“They might be suffering in silence by not talking about the desire for them to actually eat the kinds of foods that they’re used to.

“They tell us, ‘I saved $700 this month from coming here.’ For some people, this is the only grocery store they go to. We can’t turn them away because food is a fundamental right.”

The food bank opens twice a week at 9 a.m. Many begin lining up outside the fence long before that, which shows the level of “desperate need” for the people Ude services, he said, as the demand often outweighs the supply.

The demand makes the possibility of the centre closing even more disheartening in this small area in Surrey.

“We can’t shut this down.

The number of people needing food increases every week. Right now we can’t

even keep up with the demand because the people that come here are telling everyone and we don’t have a gatekeeper asking for documents or ID. We don’t do that, that’s not fair,” the founder explained.

“How can you tell someone who drove, who took the SkyTrain, who braved the weather, who lined up here for two hours — because some of them come in as early as 5 a.m. and they line up here. Some of them even come the night before.

“How can you tell them they don’t need food?”

CHANGING NEIGHBOURHOOD The threat facing Kingdom Acts is two-fold – rising rent prices and development of the neighbourhood.

It has always been a pinch for the foundation to afford rent, but with inflation, it’s only getting worse.

“We worked on this place.

It was a junk and we took care of it,” Ude stressed, looking around one of the storage rooms on the morning of a busy distribution day.

The clients – many of

whom are seniors and families with children – are lined up, perusing the selection of foods as they choose what they would like to take home.

None of them realize their weekly routine of stopping by the centre may come to an end in the near future.

Ude fears the group will be pushed out by the pattern of development that’s changing the landscape of the area.

Tenants now face the prospect of low-income housing being demolished for highrise development.

While residential and office towers abound, some feel community services haven’t been given as much emphasis.

As an example, Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre does not have a swimming pool and will not have one, site plans for the updated centre to be constructed indicate.

“If housing is not taken care of, if the community centre is not established, where can parents take their kids here?” Ude said.

Kingdom Acts has stepped in to try to fill the void with camps aimed at residents of the Whalley area – a large portion of whom are low-in-

come families that may not be able to afford the other camp services available.

THE TURNING POINT Initially, Ude was operating some services at a much smaller scale out of Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre.

It was at first a place for youth to come together for pizza every Sunday, bounce around on a trampoline and enjoy the occasional barbecue during warm weather.

Shortly after that work began in Surrey, a crisis changed everything.

A 16-year-old boy who had been in foster care told Ude that his foster dad was trafficking drugs and roped him into it early on. The teen had gone to jail and done “many things” he wasn’t proud of, he said.

“He asked for help, but I said we couldn’t help him more than we did every weekend. He needed a place to come into at any time.

“That very discussion kept me awake during the night, thinking about how many people are like him.

“Young people who are living in these streets in

None of it could have been possible without community involvement.

“We had people ready to work. That’s the thing, if you do something good, you’ll be shocked at how many people want to be a part of it. Some of these street people are skillful and they helped. We did the drywall, the painting, the carpentry and we fixed this place,” he recalled.

“Women, children, the unhoused, everybody worked.”

That same community involvement still powers Kingdom Acts, as all its volunteers are clients who stepped up to help. The handful of people who stepped up years ago created the space that now benefits thousands.

“One day, they just saw a group and started getting everyone together to line up and started handing out numbers. We never asked them to do that,” Ude said, smiling at the community that naturally formed in the small lot.

One of those volunteers is Fawzi, a father of two daughters who came to Canada as a refugee from Syria, now in Surrey struggling to provide for his family. Fawzi began using the food bank for his family four years ago and is now the No. 1 volunteer running the space on pickup days, Ude shared proudly.

“Before, it was 45 people, then after COVID, it’s more than 100. Before, it was only immigrants from Syria, Afghanistan, the Middle East, but now look, it’s everyone, even those born in Canada,” said Fawzi, who did not want his surname published.

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Continued from A11 by using the food bank and its other services.

“There’s a lot of people who benefit from it because it’s open. You can just walk in and get food,” Okonkw said.

When Ude learned from some students, namely international ones, that they were unable to access the food bank during its morning weekday times due to attending classes, the founder began allowing the students to pickup food items on Sunday mornings instead.

Lilia Roxas, a grandmother who has been using Kingdom Acts’ food bank since the beginning and began helping with food distribution four years ago, says that everyone, including herself, “goes home happy.”

“This is our community.

We do take some but we also want to give back,” Fawzi shared.

While many people come from other areas of the Lower Mainland to access the different offerings of

Kingdom Acts, the large proportion of people are local to the Whalley area. This shows how dire the need is in the area and why closing is not an option, Ude said.

“You’re talking about creating a barrier in Whalley, which is the centre of homelessness. What kind of a barrier am I going to create here?

“But we don’t know if we’ll be here next year, no one is saying ‘We’re supporting this.’”

FUNDING UNCERTAIN Some funding comes through the federal government, such as 50 per cent for the van the organization uses to drive around and pick up products. However, Ude says the funds are unreliable and change year-to-year, requiring many costs to be covered still out of pocket.

Currently, yearly expenses total to nearly $100,000 for Kingdom Acts Foundation to stay afloat. “We don’t know if we’re going to get

$10,000 or $1,000 for the next year, so that’s the state we’re in right now. We are in the state where there is no commitment from the city, no commitment from the province, no commitment from any type of funding.”

Part of the struggle, Ude said, is that Kingdom Acts is not the only food bank in Surrey, so often when he applies for funding or appeals for support, he is met with the response that government and corporation funding already goes towards a food bank.

However, many people who rely on Kingdom Acts do not visit other food banks, including many who commute to the Whalley location from different municipalities, the director shared, because of their specific cultural food needs. This is why Ude says he will not give up. With donations or new grants that may arise, he hopes the centre will stay.

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Surrey trustees take aim at Garden Mums ministry for lengthy school builds Sobia Moman

Surrey school trustees took the B.C. Ministry of Education to task over the process of building new schools at their first board meeting of the new year.

At the regular school board meeting for September on Wednesday night (Sept. 11), the agenda was slim, but a note about the addition planned and funded at Fleetwood Park Secondary got some trustees “fired up.”

The project, announced in August for an 800-student addition, is scheduled to go to tender in 2026, which trustee Terry Allen said is not early soon enough.

“I mean, there’s three months left of this year, so surely there’s got to be some set of plans – you don’t have to create some sort of cathedral sort of architecture for an extension, and yet here we go to tender, to tender in 2026 and we have barely any room in our schools for students as it sits right now,” Allen said to capital projects executive director Dave Riley.

“There’s no way that we can expedite any of that? Or is it all written in stone that Moses comes down with the tablets of stone and that’s the way it is?

“It doesn’t make any sense. I don’t think it makes any sense to any of the board, to be quite honest with you. Here we are in a crisis as far as having students in classrooms and then we see that an agreed-to addition has a date that it goes to tender in 2026? It makes no sense to me whatsoever. This isn’t expediting anything.

“This is, as far as I can see, actually rolls it back.”

Riley, in response, said that the architect for the construction project had a similar point to Allen’s and in-

At the first school board meeting back for the 2024-25 school year, trustees criticized the provincial government for the school building process. (Surrey Schools photo) sisted that step could be achieved sooner, leading the district to revise the schedule and go back to the ministry for approval.

School board chair Laurie Larsen said trustees are worried about rising costs for materials and labour if the process to build schools continues to be so lengthy.

“We went through that exact thing with Grandview Secondary, where we had it all ready to go, then by the time it was tendered, it was $10 to $20 million more that ultimately the province had to pay because of the escalation,” trustee Bob Holmes said.

A realistic timeline to build a school is four years when the actual timeline is typically five, Riley shared, to which trustee Gary Tymoschuk replied that the process is being “dragged out.”

School board members say more schools and additions are needed, and needed at a faster rate.

“The Romans planned and built the Colosseum in Rome in just under eight years.

I look at some of these secondary schools and it will be over eight years from the time we put them on the list with the government to when they open the doors,” trustee Laurae McNally said, noting Allen’s comments had

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“Modular, there’s a lot of good they do for us. They get things done quickly, they get us more seats on a quicker basis,” Holmes said.

“They’re not everything they’re said to be, they’re not going to be done as quickly as was hoped, they don’t provide all that a proper, built addition or a new school does, there’s definitely some shortfalls there and there’s not new seats

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“When a modular simply replaces a portable and we’re at a point in our budget where we can’t afford to move portables anymore, you’re not getting any new seats.

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According to the BCFSA, Ismail Jamal Jinnah committed professional misconduct and conduct unbecoming a licensee, in connection with a pair of “separate but related” transactions in June 2015 in which he “pressured and manipulated” his client to switch properties with another individual.

In a summary of the decision shared by the authority on Sept. 4, BCFSA says Jinnah “took advantage of his client, who was vulnerable because she was in a close relationship with him and trusted him.”

He also failed to disclose the nature of the representation he was providing to the client; promptly and fully disclose any conflict of interest; act in the best interest of a client and act honestly and with reasonable care and skill; and disclose all known material information to a client, the summary continues.

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client, while being in a position of trust and influence, in a manner that can only be described as predatory,” said Jonathan Vandall, vice-president of compliance and enforcement at BCFSA. “Pressuring or manipulating a client in order to sell a property or earn higher commission is conduct that falls alarmingly short of the professional standards that BCFSA expects licensees to uphold.”

According to the BCFSA decision, the misconduct occurred while Jinnah was working with RE/MAX Blueprint Realty, located at 15288 54A Ave. The complaint was received by the Real Estate Council of B.C. in September 2018.

Jinnah, the decision states, pressured a client into selling her detached home – despite her telling him she did not want to sell – and buying the purchaser’s townhome.

He also told her he’d be charging above-market commission on the sale of her home “because of the value of his work.”

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The client who was pressured testified that she is an insurance agent, and had been involved in four real-estate transactions prior to those at issue in the hearing. She purchased her detached home in 2001.

After separating from her husband in 2013, the client met Jinnah through a dating site and developed what she considered to be a boyfriend/ girlfriend relationship – including dinners, drives and walks in White Rock – that lasted until July 2018.

She testified that Jinnah started talking to her in May 2015 about selling her home; a topic that “dominated their conversations” following a camping trip.

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BC Financial Services Authority finds agent liable for misconduct Continued from A14 At one point, Jinnah was yelling at her over the phone that the buyer needed the house more than she did, she said.

Jinnah denied that he and the client were in a romantic relationship at any point between 2015 and 2018 and testified that they did not discuss the sale/purchase transactions prior to creation of the contracts of purchase and sale.

He claimed he was not involved in the client’s decision to sell – a claim BCFSA hearing officer Thelma O’Grady named among examples of “false and misleading evidence” provided by Jinnah – and agreed that he made more than $39,000 in commissions from the two sales.

O’Grady found “much” of Jinnah’s evidence “conflicting.”

“His testimony was unsupported by the documents and independent witnesses,” she concludes in the decision.

“I find that Mr. Jinnah gave false and misleading evidence throughout the investigation and at the hearing.”

The BC Financial Services Authority says a Surrey real estate agent committed professional misconduct when he manipulated a client into selling her home. (Adobe Stock photo) O’Grady found it “abundantly clear” that the relationship “should have raised a number of red flags to Mr. Jinnah as to how he approached and rendered professional services” to his client.

As well, that Jinnah “exploited (his client’s) trust” in order to earn above-market commissions.

“I find that on the balance of probabilities, BCFSA has established that Mr. Jinnah’s actions amounted to con-

duct unbecoming as alleged,” O’Grady writes. “Mr. Jinnah’s conduct was contrary to the best interests of the public, undermined public confidence in the real estate industry, and brought the real estate industry into disrepute.”

Sanctions have not yet been determined. However, Jinnah surrendered his licence to provide real estate trading services in early March 2024. The liability hearing was held over eight days in April.

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Candidate wants money back from BC United Ernie Klassen says he’s ready to help rebuild a ‘middleof-the-road’ party for B.C. Alex Browne

White Rock councillor and business owner Ernie Klassen won’t be seeking provincial office as independent candidate – but he is seeking an accounting for money he is owed by the BC United Party.

Klassen was BC United’s MLA candidate for Surrey South for a scant 20 days before leader Kevin Falcon’s bombshell announcement on Aug. 28 that he was suspending the party’s campaign in the upcoming election – and encouraging party candidates to run under the Conservative banner.

That was not a path Klassen – who is also White Rock Pride Society past president – wanted to take, he said.

“Although I had a lot of people asking me if I would run as an independent – and a few people who were prepared to help me – I didn’t feel I had enough time to pull that

Ernie Klassen, formerly the BC United candidate for Surrey South, says he won’t run as an independent after leader Kevin Falcon suspended the BCU campaign. (Contributed) together,” he said. (Brent Chapman continues as the Conservative candidate for Surrey South, contesting the riding with the NDP’s Haroon Ghaffar.)

But Klassen, who was taking a brief vacation in Mexico when Falcon made the announcement, said he and other former BC United candidates are still out-of-pocket for already-in-

curred campaign expenses, for which they were supposed to be reimbursed by the party.

“We’ve been keeping in touch with each other, and there’s a whole group of us that are still owed money,” Klassen told Peace Arch News.

“I’m asking that there be an audit so we can find out what happened to the money. Nobody seems to be

able to give us answers. The only thing we’re hearing is that it’s ‘unforeseen’ and that ‘it never happened before.’ The whole party seems to be in chaos.”

Reached by Peace Arch News, BC United deputy campaign manager Adam Wilson said Wednesday that the party is working on the issue.

“We are currently working through

all the expenses provided to us by our candidates, and working with Elections BC to understand how reporting will work, prior to providing reimbursements,” Wilson said.

The irony of his situation, Klassen acknowledges, is that he had been actively courted by BC United for a long time before he ultimately announced his candidacy in early August.

“I kept saying no, and then I finally said yes,” he noted.

An Aug. 7 media release from the party touted Klassen as a “well-respected White Rock city councillor” who brought “a wealth of experience from the public and private sectors to the team.”

Klassen said while there is still talk of running a few candidates to keep the party alive, “I don’t know who in their right mind would vote for BC United, now.”

He said, however, he remains a believer in the “BC United philosophy” – particularly in offering “a middle-of-the-road alternative” for local voters.

“I don’t believe it’s in the best interest of British Columbians to have a two-party system,” he said.

“I will help to rebuild a middle-ofthe-road party, whatever it ends up being called. That’s where my philosophy is situated in the political world.”

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Notice of Public Meeting MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024 1589 MAPLE STREET NOTICE is hereby given that the Council of the City of White Rock will hold an opportunity for public participation for a Public Meeting on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024, at 4:00 P.M. in accordance with the Local Government Act and the Planning Procedures Bylaw; and further NOTICE is hereby given that Council will consider this same application at the Regular Council Meeting scheduled for MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024, at 4:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers at the White Rock City Hall.

At the September 23, 2024 Public Meeting, all persons who deem their interest in property is affected by the proposed application shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person or by forwarding written submissions reflecting matters contained in the proposed application that is the subject of the Public Meeting. At the Public Meeting, Council will hear and receive submissions from the interested persons in regard to the application listed below: TEMPORARY USE PERMIT (TUP) 24-025 CIVIC ADDRESS: 1589 Maple Street (See Site Map) PURPOSE: The Temporary Use Permit application is for a temporary emergency daytime warming centre, a construction site office, associated off-street parking for both uses to be located at the subject site. The temporary uses are for the winter 2024/2025 period operating approximately October 2024 to March 2025. If the Temporary Use Permit is issued, this land use permit will be valid for six (6) months, unless Council directs otherwise.

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More than a dozen Surrey and White Rock women say they are out some $30,000 combined, after purchasing packages for personal-fitness training that they say have have been largely reneged on.

And the situation is sending negative ripples throughout the local fitness industry, others in the business say.

“People are coming in (to local gyms) and they’re not wanting to sign up for the (personal-training) sessions, because they’re afraid,” said Nicole Haugen, a personal trainer who said she was motivated to help those who were impacted after hearing first from a former client who’d had a bad experience with a trainer, and then from a second woman who told of having the same issues with that same trainer.

A post to the White Rock South Surrey Community Group Facebook page asking for others with similar experiences to reach out resulted in several more women – including “quite a few” seniors

– coming forward, Haugen said.

According to Haugen, the women impacted prepaid for as many as 48 personal-training sessions – at a cost of up to $3,800 – only to be left hanging when the trainer repeatedly cancelled or rescheduled the sessions, then stopped responding to calls and messages altogether.

Rukiya Yilmaz said she was given “excuse after excuse” for her cancelled sessions, noting there were 18 over the course of just 2.5 months.

Yilmaz, a Surrey resident, said she bought her first package in January.

Finding the experience initially positive, she was motivated to purchase a second, larger package. It was after that that the cancellations began, she said.

Yilmaz said while she is hopeful she’ll get her money back via the credit-card company she paid through, some of the women have obtained lawyers. There has also been a promise of a 25 per cent repayment installation by Sept.

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“Up to now the multiple promises of paying us back has not been fulfilled,” Yilmaz said.

Diane Stoney, a senior, said previous promises of refunds for her missed sessions never materialized. She described trying to deal with the matter as “overwhelming.”

It has “affected the whole personal-training and gym industry in South Surrey/ White Rock,” she added.

In a comment responding to Haugen’s Facebook post, Jason Bell of Genuine Athletics & Rehabilitation said the women’s experience is unfortunately not uncommon.

“But situations like this give our industry a bad name and make people rightfully hesitant to seek help for their health and fitness goals,” Bell continued.

He advised those looking for a personal trainer to be sure to do their research and “make sure you feel confident that you can trust them.”

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More than a dozen women in White Rock and South Surrey say they have lost more than $30,000 combined after a personal trainer failed to follow through on pre-paid packages. (Meghan Holmes/Unsplash)

White Rock, Surrey incidents ‘give our industry a bad name’: trainer Continued from A18 Another who commented emphasized the situation “is not reflective of the many dedicated and honest personal trainers in the area.”

Haugen, who has been a personal trainer for around 18 years, agreed trust is integral to the industry.

“It’s our job to build (clients) up and make them feel confidence in us. The fact

(this person) did this to these women is just so angering.”

Haugen said while some of the women have reached out to police, they’ve been told the matter is more one for the civil courts, with the exception of a few cases in which victims also reported unauthorized charges.

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The women, meanwhile, say they hope by sharing their experience, they can save others from similar loss and stress.

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A #24 2925 King George Blvd, Surrey Tammy Bailey / watercolour, mixed media Alyson Thorpe / watercolour, acrylic & abstracts B 1523 Stayte Road, White Rock Angelo Morrissey / acrylics, oils & watercolours Jess Rice / watercolour landscapes & animals C 2312-129A Street, Surrey Carla Maskall / local landscapes D 13808 19A Avenue, Surrey Caroline Baasch /acrylic, home decor & clothing Jacquie Alexander / beaded jewellery E 3139 147 Street, Surrey Cheryl Bodnar/ oil & acrylic paintings G 1632 King George Blvd., Surrey Ciel Ellis/ floral oil paintings H 14778 Gordon Avenue, White Rock Colleen Lumb / mixed media landscapes & figures I 1872 136th Street, Surrey Constance Glover / pottery and mosaics J 14336 18th Ave, Surrey David Klassen / coloured pencil drawings; oil & acrylic paintings K 1185 0xford, White Rock Jacqueline Yearsley / acrylic & ink paintings

M 12557 26 Ave, Crescent Heights Jeanette Jarville / paintings & sculpture N 966 McNally Creek Dr., White Rock Jon Lavoie /landscape & nature photos O 2744 Bayview Street, Surrey Karin Olsson /acrylic paintings P 16522 25 Avenue, Surrey Kathy Forbes /3D miniatures & paintings Monica Burrow /paintings in acrylic Q 2944 Kidd Road, Crescent Beach Lisa Samphire / works in blown glass R 15735 Broome Road, Surrey Lorraine Scott /stained & fused glass Tiffany Scott /handcrafted beaded jewelry S 1940 - 127 Street, White Rock Lucia Steeg / mixed media artwork T Unit 128, 15550 26 Avenue, Surrey No parking inside our complex, but all free parking across the street at the ball park

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A #24 2925 King George Blvd, Surrey Tammy Bailey / watercolour, mixed media Alyson Thorpe / watercolour, acrylic & abstracts B 1523 Stayte Road, White Rock Angelo Morrissey / acrylics, oils & watercolours Jess Rice / watercolour landscapes & animals C 2312-129A Street, Surrey Carla Maskall / local landscapes D 13808 19A Avenue, Surrey Caroline Baasch /acrylic, home decor & clothing Jacquie Alexander / beaded jewellery E 3139 147 Street, Surrey Cheryl Bodnar/ oil & acrylic paintings G 1632 King George Blvd., Surrey Ciel Ellis/ floral oil paintings H 14778 Gordon Avenue, White Rock Colleen Lumb / mixed media landscapes & figures I 1872 136th Street, Surrey Constance Glover / pottery and mosaics J 14336 18th Ave, Surrey David Klassen / coloured pencil drawings; oil & acrylic paintings K 1185 0xford, White Rock Jacqueline Yearsley / acrylic & ink paintings

M 12557 26 Ave, Crescent Heights Jeanette Jarville / paintings & sculpture N 966 McNally Creek Dr., White Rock Jon Lavoie /landscape & nature photos O 2744 Bayview Street, Surrey Karin Olsson /acrylic paintings P 16522 25 Avenue, Surrey Kathy Forbes /3D miniatures & paintings Monica Burrow /paintings in acrylic Q 2944 Kidd Road, Crescent Beach Lisa Samphire / works in blown glass R 15735 Broome Road, Surrey Lorraine Scott /stained & fused glass Tiffany Scott /handcrafted beaded jewelry S 1940 - 127 Street, White Rock Lucia Steeg / mixed media artwork T Unit 128, 15550 26 Avenue, Surrey No parking inside our complex, but all free parking across the street at the ball park

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More than 30 volunteers joined the Lower Mainland Green Team and City of White Rock at West Beach on Sunday (Sept. 8) to make a positive environmental impact by removing invasive plants and litter from the waterfront.

Community members removed 10 cubic metres – equivalent to the volume of 63 bathtubs – of invasive Himalayan blackberry and 15 pounds of litter from along the beach.

This included many stubborn blackberry roots and nearly 500 cigarette butts, 132 pieces of paper and cardboard, 89 food wrappers, 82 beverage containers, a pair of broken eyeglasses and more, the team noted in an email.

“Everyone’s efforts were rewarded with cold watermelon, delicious homemade cookies and products from sustainable local businesses like superfood latte blends from Blume and organic, fair-trade spices from Gathering Place Trading,” the email added.

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(Contributed to Peace Arch News) Beach dunes in partnership community with others,” said with the City of White Rock. volunteer Min Jae Benjamin.

From an ecological level, “The impact was feeling they have seen a reduction in closer to our own community the amount of invasive black- and getting closer to the people berry and an increase in bio- who are helping our own home diversity, or different types of together. It was very producplants that are growing in the tive and enjoyable! I am lookarea, which is important for ing forward to joining another creating healthy and resilient activity like today.” natural areas.

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White Rock Veterans’ Walk paces off Sept. 22 Tracy Holmes

Veterans and civilians from coast to coast will once again walk shoulder-to-shoulder to raise awareness of the challenges faced by those who’ve served Canada.

Set for Sept. 22 in White Rock, the seventh annual Canadian Walk for Veterans aims to “raise awareness of the challenges faced by those who serve our country and to express our gratitude for their service.”

White Rock is among 14 cities with walks planned. Net proceeds will benefit veterans on their recovery journey, including Team Canada participants in the 2025 Invictus Games.

The walk has strong Semiahmoo Peninsula roots; co-founded in 2018 by South Surrey residents Marc Burchell and Dr. Matthew Kane, through the White Rock/ South Surrey-based Equitas Disabled Soldiers Funding Society (equitassociety.ca).

According to a bio at canadianwalkforveterans.com, Kane joined the military at age 17, working as a mechanic in the Royal Canadian Navy before transferring to military intelligence.

Involved with various operations, his final task “was leading

an intelligence cell conducting operations against Taliban Improvised Explosive Device financiers, suppliers, and makers,” the bio details.

Kane sustained numerous injuries in the line of duty before leaving the military in 2014.

Burchell is the son of a Second World War veteran and past-president of the Equitas society, which formed in 2011 to challenge the New Veterans Charter, which replaced veterans’ lifelong pensions with lump-sum settlements. While the challenge ultimately failed, the society’s advocacy efforts continue.

The 2024 walk “marks the launch of a new era,” a news release notes, explaining that True Patriot Love Foundation – which is also funding Team Canada 2025 Invictus Games competitors – has taken on the role of national coordinator.

The foundation supports Canada’s military community “at every stage of their journey,” according to information at truepatriotlove.com “Whether they are facing health-care challenges, their families need support, or they are seeking to transition to civilian life, it’s our responsibility to

make sure their needs are met,” it continues.

White Rock’s Sept. 22 walk event is set for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Memorial Park (14970 Marine Dr.), with registration to open at 9 a.m.

Highlights planned include a BBQ by Knights of Columbus, and the music of Larrie Forbes and the Vancouver Naval Vets Band, as well as the Surrey Firefighters Pipes & Drum Band.

Those who cannot attend but

want to support the event are encouraged to register for a virtual walk and participate at their choice of time and location.

For more information, or to register, visit canadianwalkforveterans.com.

Notice of Public Meeting MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024 14591 GORDON AVENUE NOTICE is hereby given that the Council of the City of White Rock will hold an opportunity for public participation for a Public Meeting on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024, at 4:00 P.M. in accordance with the Local Government Act and the Planning Procedures Bylaw; and further NOTICE is hereby given that Council will consider this same application at the Regular Council Meeting scheduled for MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024, at 4:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers at the White Rock City Hall.

At the September 23, 2024 Public Meeting, all persons who deem their interest in property is affected by the proposed application shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person or by forwarding written submissions reflecting matters contained in the proposed application that is the subject of the Public Meeting. At the Public Meeting, Council will hear and receive submissions from the interested persons in regard to the application listed below: DEVELOPMENT VARIANCE PERMIT NO. DVP 459 (DVP 00035) CIVIC ADDRESS: 14591 Gordon Avenue (See Site Map) PURPOSE: Application to vary zoning bylaw regulations for front and side yard setbacks in order to permit the construction of balconies on an existing legal non-conforming building.

The balconies are proposed to project into the front and side yard setbacks.

White Rock’s first Walk for Veterans took place in 2018. This year’s event is set for Sept. 22. (Peace Arch News file photo) PRESENTING SPONSOR

The proposed application can be viewed online on the agenda and minutes page of the City website, www.whiterockcity.ca, under Council Agendas or in the Corporate Administration Office at the White Rock City Hall, 15322 Buena Vista Avenue, White Rock, BC, from September 10, 2024 until September 23, 2024 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Further details regarding the subject of the Public Meeting may be found online: whiterockcity.ca/agendas or contact the Planning and Development Services Department for any questions regarding this application: 604-541-2136 | planning@whiterockcity.ca VIEW THE RELATED DOCUMENTS: Online at whiterockcity.ca/agendas SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS • Email: clerksoffice@whiterockcity.ca with “DVP 459” noted in the subject line • Mail: City Hall at 15322 Buena Vista Avenue, White Rock, V4B 1Y6 All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and must be received by 12:00 p.m. (noon) on the day of the Public Meeting.

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Thankfully, the concern was determined “unfounded,” Surrey RCMP Cpl. Sarbjit Sangha confirmed.

But the kerfuffle – unfold-

ing on the tracks behind the 15700-block of Marine Drive at around 2 a.m. – was enough to get area residents out of their beds and fearing the worst.

“Something really bad has happened down by WAGS,” reads an early morning post to the White Rock South Surrey Community Group Facebook page.

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“The train has stopped and multiple cops and ambulances are around that gravel lot.”

“Someone probably got hit,” predicted a commenter.

“It happens from time to time.”

White Rock RCMP was not contacted to assist. The emergency crews, as well as a freight train, had reportedly cleared the area by around 3:30 a.m.

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“Surrey Comprehensive Development Zone 200 (CD 200), Bylaw, 2024, No. 21382” Planning Report - Application No. 7923-0363-00 Location: 3230 - 176 Street Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is requesting to rezone the site shown shaded in grey on the location map from General Agriculture Zone to Comprehensive Development Zone in order to develop a farm retail building.

“Surrey Official Community Plan Bylaw, 2013, No. 18020, Bylaw, 2024, No. 21389” “Surrey Zoning By-law, 1993, No. 12000, Amendment Bylaw, 2024, No. 21390” “Business License By-law, 1999, No. 13680, Amendment Bylaw, 2024, No. 21391” Proposed Regulatory Bylaw Amendments Related to Provincial Housing Legislation Implementation – Corporate Report R162.

Purpose of Bylaws: The proposed bylaw amendments to streamline the processing of in-stream development applications that are affected by the recent Transit Oriented Areas and Small-Scale Multi-Unit Housing zoning changes and administrative bylaw amendments.

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Local runners keep Terry Fox’s legacy alive Tricia Weel

These days, Canadian elementary students learn about Canadian icon Terry Fox – a legacy whose historical fight against cancer and Marathon of Hope triggered fundraising for cancer research across Canada and around the world – in school.

Doug Brewer, co-chair of the annual South Surrey and White Rock Terry Fox Run, remembers being in school – post-secondary at the University of British Columbia – when Terry Fox was still alive.

“I was going to UBC at the time…Terry was couple years younger. I remember shooting around a basketball with him and Rick Hansen in the UBC memorial gym back in the day when we were 20 years old,”

Brewer recalled.

Plenty of fundraisers showed up at the South Surrey Athletic Park event Sunday morning (Sept. 15), along with an estimated 3.6 million Canadians who participate in the annual effort each year in their community or school.

“He’s a true Canadian hero, and cancer is an enemy that every family fights – if you haven’t got it in your family, you’ve got a friend or some other relative or know someone (who has experienced it),” Brewer said.

“Cancer can be beaten. …We’ve made tremendous strides in the past several years, not in small part due to Terry’s fundraising efforts.”

Dotted throughout the crowd of fundraisers were par-

Bryson Stoelers, left, with Wayne Guthrie (red shirt) Kyle Bailey and Buck at the annual event. (Tricia Weel/ Peace Arch News) ticipants wearing red shirts, marking them as cancer survivors, including Wayne Guthrie.

Flanked by friends Bryson

CITY OF SURREY NOTICE OF REZONING BYLAW In accordance with Section 464 of the Local Government Act, no public hearing is permitted for applications that are consistent with the Official Community Plan and are primarily residential.

Your comments on this application must be received in writing by 12:00 noon on Council day, for Council’s consideration. There are no speaking opportunities.

Webform: surrey.ca, Email: clerks@surrey.ca, Mail: 13450 - 104 Avenue, Surrey, BC V3T 1V8 or Fax: 501-7578. City Hall is open Monday to Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm except statutory holidays.

Notice is hereby given that the proposed rezoning bylaw “Surrey Comprehensive Development Zone 243 (CD 243), Bylaw, 2024, No. 21376” will be read for the first time by the City of Surrey Council at the Council Meeting on September 23, 2024, for the purposes of potential adoption.

Planning Report - Application No. 7922-0110-00 Location: 3310 – 144 Street Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is requesting to rezone the site shown shaded in grey on the location map from Suburban Residential Zone to Comprehensive Development Zone in order to subdivide into 2 residential lots.

Notice is hereby given that the proposed rezoning bylaw “Surrey Comprehensive Development Zone 249 (CD 249), Bylaw, 2024, No. 21384” will be read for the first time by the City of Surrey Council at the Council Meeting on September 23, 2024, for the purposes of potential adoption.

Planning Report - Application No. 7921-0019-00 Location: 3394 – 168 Street Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is requesting to rezone the site shown shaded in grey from General Agriculture Zone to Comprehensive Development Zone in order to allow an additional dwelling for farm worker accommodation and a large dwelling, in accordance with the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) Non-Adhering Residential Use approval.

Notice is hereby given that the proposed rezoning bylaws “Surrey Zoning By-law, 1993, No. 12000, Amendment Bylaw, 2024, No. 21383” will be read for the first time by the City of Surrey Council at the Council Meeting on September 23, 2024, for the purposes of potential adoption.

Planning Report - Application No. 7923-0130-00 Location: 17075 - 16 Avenue Purpose of Bylaws: The applicant is requesting to rezone a portion of the subject site shown shaded in solid grey and labelled as Block A on the location map from Acreage Residential Zone to Semi Detached Residential Zone, to rezone a portion of the subject site shown hatched and labelled as Blocks B and D on the location map from Acreage Residential Zone to Small Lot Residential Zone, and to rezone a portion of the subject site shown cross-hatched and labelled as Block C on the location map from Acreage Residential Zone to Compact Residential Zone in order to subdivide 31 Urban Residential lots, 1 remnant lot and 1 park lot and to amend the road network in the Darts Hill NCP. The exact location and area definition of the lands being amended can be found in the Survey Plan contained within the bylaws.

Stoelers, Kyle Bailey and a “We have lots of reasons to very friendly, four-legged be here, and these guys are Buck, Guthrie said he and his good friends of mine who I wife have both survived cancer. convinced to come,” Guth-

rie said. “The research that is funded by things like this created the tools that gave us the early detection that saved our lives, so the more we can do this, the more people we can save.”

Brewer was impressed with the turnout and was happy to see so many children participating with their families.

“It’s a great family event all about fundraising and keeping Terry’s legacy alive in the community, and we’ve done that here for 44 years,” he noted.

To date, more than $850 million has been raised for cancer research in Terry Fox’s name, according to the foundation website.

Visit run.terryfox.ca for more information or to get involved in next year’s event.

CITY OF SURREY NOTICE OF REZONING BYLAW In accordance with Section 464 of the Local Government Act, no public hearing is permitted for applications that are consistent with the Official Community Plan and are primarily residential.

Your comments on this application must be received in writing by 12:00 noon on Council day, for Council’s consideration. There are no speaking opportunities.

Webform: surrey.ca, Email: clerks@surrey.ca, Mail: 13450 - 104 Avenue, Surrey, BC V3T 1V8 or Fax: 501-7578. City Hall is open Monday to Friday 8:30am - 4:30 pm except statutory holidays.

Council supported the rezoning application and authorized notification to the public. On July 8, 2024 Council adopted bylaw changes to meet the requirements of new provincial legislation regarding small-scale multi-unit housing. To facilitate the alignment of in-stream rezoning applications, the original bylaw was filed and a new bylaw was drafted to follow the current legislation. Renotification of the rezoning bylaw is required, outlined in Corporate Report R163.

Notice is hereby given that the proposed rezoning bylaw “Surrey Zoning By-law, 1993, No. 12000, Amendment Bylaw, 2024, No. 21362” will be read for the first time by the City of Surrey Council at the Council Meeting on September 23, 2024, for the purposes of potential adoption.

Planning Report - Application No. 7920-0162-00, 7920-0162-03 Location: 16606, 16620, 16648, 16674 – 20 Avenue; 16621, 16651, 16663 – 19 Avenue, 1949 – 167 Street Purpose of Bylaw and Development Variance Permit: The applicant is requesting to rezone a portion of the site shown hatched and labeled Block B on the location map from Acreage Residential Zone to Multiple Residential 30 Zone and rezone a portion of the site shown shaded in grey and labeled Block C from Acreage Residential Zone to Small Lot Residential Zone in order to develop 104 townhouse units and one single-detached lot. The exact location and area definition of the lands being amended can be found in the Survey Plan contained within the bylaw.

In addition, the proposal includes a Development Variance Permit to reduce the minimum lot width for a Type I Interior Lot from 12 metres to 10.5 metres for proposed Lot 3 (Block C) Notice is hereby given that the proposed rezoning bylaw “Surrey Zoning Bylaw, 1993, No. 12000, Amendment Bylaw, 2024, No. 21364” will be read for the first time by the City of Surrey Council at the Council Meeting on September 23, 2024, for the purposes of potential adoption.

Planning Report - Application No. 7921-0100-00, 7921-0100-01 Location: 16445 and 16463 - 28 Avenue Purpose of Bylaw and Development Variance Permit: The applicant is requesting to rezone the site shown shaded in grey on the location map from Acreage Residential Zone to Quarter Acre Residential Zone in order to subdivide the subject site into seven large residential lots.

In addition, the proposal includes a Development Variance Permit to reduce the minimum lot width from 24 metres to 18.8 metres for proposed Lots 4 and 5, to 19.5 metres for proposed Lot 1 and to 20.0 metres for proposed Lot 2.

Notice is hereby given that the proposed rezoning bylaw “Surrey Comprehensive Development Zone 247 (CD 247), Bylaw, 2024, No. 21370”will be read for the first time by the City of Surrey Council at the Council Meeting on September 23, 2024, for the purposes of potential adoption.

Planning Report - Application No. 7919-0272-00 Location: 3151 – 140 Street and 13952 – 32 Avenue Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is requesting to rezone the site shown shaded in grey on the location map from Acreage Residential Zone to Comprehensive Development Zone in order to subdivide into six lots.

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“While interacting with community members, we were asked to host a joint safety session with Metro Vancouver

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New hospital construction project hits one-year mark Malin Jordan

It was a year ago, on Sept. 12, 2023, when dignitaries broke ground in Cloverdale for the new Surrey hospital.

Several politicians and local leaders were on hand to turn some sod in a symbolic showing of the beginning of the project.

One year later, the grounds are a hive of activity with hundreds of workers on site and all manner of heavy machinery, from pile drivers to excavators to heavy-duty dump trucks, working the construction zone.

Provincial Health Minister Adian Dix told Black Press Media the project is moving along smoothly.

Dix said EllisDon, the company that won the contract to build the hospital, was doing an “excellent job,” saying they’ve been working on a lot of wall preparation.

“It’s on track. There is very significant construction taking place,” he said. “EllisDon is one of the best hospital construction companies in all of North America. They are on the case, and we’re really impressed by the progress made.”

Dix called the construction project “massive,” noting it will build up from the current 250-or-so workers on site to, at its height, about 1,500 workers in about 2028.

“The level and the extent of the project is extraordinary,” Dix added.

Construction is rolling at the new Cloverdale hospital site, one year after its groundbreaking. (Malin Jordan/Black Press Media) “It’s the biggest hospital project in the history of Fraser Health.”

The new hospital will have 168 beds, and there will also be a cancer centre that’ll be able to perform about 100,000 cancer treatments per year.

He said the project is the only one of its kind in B.C. at the moment, and there are 28 other major projects

going provincewide.

Dix said he was unaware if there were significant issues with the soil, as there were with the construction of the new Cloverdale Sport and Ice Complex. The arena was delayed because of challenges workers faced while trying to install the foundation piles, which have since been resolved.

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“What we are seeing is new walls to support the building construction of the hospital that are in place now that go deep into the earth,” Dix explained. “What that means is a hospital that will be safe and secure and ready for anything that might

happen in our seismic zone of B.C.” With KPU across the street, Dix noted there may be an opportunity to make the new medical centre a teaching hospital.

“Absolutely, our links with KPU are growing,” he added. “The relationship between KPU and this new hospital will be profound, as it will with the new medical school at SFU (Surrey campus), and the relationship between KPU and health care can only grow.”

Mike Starchuk, the MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale, said he was on a tour of the construction site in early September. He also said the work was going well.

He noted EllisDon is running the site seven days a week, with the expectation of long weekends.

“They are currently doing all the stuff that’s underground that nobody’s ever going to see,” said Starchuk. “The initial work has been completed, and now they’re going onto the next steps.”

The new Cloverdale hospital was originally expected to cost $1.66 billion, but that number ballooned to $2.88 billion. The completion date for the project was pushed back to 2029, from 2027, and it’s expected to open to the public in 2030. The provincial government cited inflation and delays in the companies’ abilities to get workers and materials to complete projects as factors in both.

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Newcomer Nights welcome families to Surrey schools Sobia Moman

Several nights are planned in Surrey this month and next for newcomer students and families to become embedded in the school system in Surrey and White Rock.

“The premise behind this is to involve, engage and empower newcomers,” Raj Puri, district principal of settlement

services with the Welcome Centre, said in a release. “By running these nights, we’re building the capacity within the newcomer community to engage with life in school.”

Newcomer Networking Nights will be held for six weeks, with the first held Sept.

12 at Guildford Park Secondary. The nights are a chance

for all newcomer students and their families to get together, connect and ask questions of district representatives for any concerns they might have.

To be held at multiple secondary schools in the Surrey school district in different regions, each session will be much the same so families and students can choose the one

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closest to their home to attend.

All those in attendance will get a chance to learn about the school district and the different supports and resources offered to students and families. The returning event saw 1,000 participants last year.

“One of the key things we talk about is the roles of parents and how important it is for us to involve them in their child’s education,” said Welcome Centre manager Parampal Sharma. “We know that

supporting strong and healthy growth is really a collaborative effort, and we want parents to feel that they have the information, resources and knowledge they need to make informed decisions related to their child’s education and development.”

There are five remaining sessions planned to be held on Thursday evenings at different secondary schools from 5:30 to about 8 p.m., beginning with registration, then presentations and a Q&A session to cap the

Newcomer Nights.

Next week on Sept. 19, the session will be held at Kwantlen Park Secondary, followed

by Enver Creek on Sept. 26, Princess Maragaret on Oct. 3, Fraser Heights on Oct. 10 and Grandview Heights on Oct. 17.

Any newcomer parents or guardians who have children attending early learning programs or elementary or secondary schools in the district are welcome to attend any one of the sessions.

Historical society pays homage to 1824 expedition Malin Jordan

The Surrey Historical Society will recognize the anniversary of the James McMillan Expedition of 1824 with a stage production.

The play will be performed Sept. 21 at Elgin Heritage Park during Surrey’s annual Harvest Fair.

Written by Cloverdale’s Roger Bose, the production will run about 20 minutes.

“It’s the 200th anniversary of the historic expedition,” noted Bose. “We’ll have a little presentation between 3 and 4 p.m. in the afternoon.”

The SHS will present the play in Elgin Heritage Park near the mouth of the Nicomekl River, where McMillan would have met Semiahmoo First Nations who helped them out immensely by guiding them up the river.

Bose said his cast is all amateurs, but he’s confident they’ll be ready to go by Sept. 21.

Bose will narrate the performance. Jim Foulkes will play James McMillan, the captain and leader of the expedition. Black Press Media’s own Frank Bucholtz will play the role of John Work, who recorded a daily journal of the expedition’s activities.

Rick Hugh will portray Thomas McKay, a hunter with the party. Michael Gibbs will play Francis Annance, a navigator and translator who was of both English and Abenaki heritage.

It’s nearly an all-Cloverdale cast too, save for Gibbs who resides in Newton.

“They’ve never acted before,” added Bose. “So, I’ve been having some challenges.”

He said despite the challenges, they’ll be ready to go by Sept. 21.

Bose also said there will be some laminated posters set up that tell the story of the

A view of Fort Langley, a Hudson’s Bay Company Post in British Columbia, in 1862. The Surrey Historical Society will present a play to commemorate the 1824 James McMillan Expedition that set out to search for a suitable site for a future fort, the eventual Fort Langley. (B.C. Archives) expedition.

“We’ll have a 10’ x 10’ tent with some easels and some display boards,” added Bose.

“The whole story about the McMillan Expedition will be all up there in print on big poster boards.”

He said after watching the play, people can then visit the tent area for more of an in-depth explanation of the 200-year-old journey.

THE EXPEDITION According to surreyhistory. ca, the James McMillan Expedition was a surveying trip that sought to find a suitable site for a new Hudson Bay Company fort.

In the winter of 1824, James McMillan headed up a survey party from Fort George (present-day Astoria, Oregon) on Nov. 18.

McMillan and his party of 40 travelled on Columbia boats.

When the group reached Semiahmoo Bay on Dec. 11, they had to change their plan to sail around Point Roberts and up the Fraser.

“The weather was growing cold, the wind was blowing, and ahead of them was the wide open stretch of water and

the rounding of Point Roberts.

They decided to wait for the weather to clear and camped near the present site of White Rock.”

Two days later, on Dec. 13, the expedition headed up the Nicomekl River. They had to portage over to the Salmon River before reaching the Fraser. The expedition sailed up the Fraser and went as far as Hatzic Slough before returning to Fort George.

FUTURE HISTORY Bose said he hopes the play acts as a catalyst to add material to the annals of city history. He wants to take all the materials the SHS produces for the commemoration and give it to the Surrey Archives afterwards.

“Anything that we present, we want it to go into the Surrey Archives as a record of what happened on the 200th anniversary of the expedition,” explained Bose. “So people, later, in the future, will know what we did.”

Admission to the Harvest Fair is free. Elgin Heritage Park is located at 13723 Crescent Rd. Visit surreyhistory.ca for more info.

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Also Saturday afternoon, Filipino Fest returns to Museum of Surrey and a Harvest Fair is happening at Historic Stewart Farm in South Surrey.

All of Surrey’s Culture Days activities are posted on culturedays.ca, both in-person and virtual. The events are organized

by Surrey Civic Theatres, Surrey Art Gallery, Historic Stewart Farm, Museum of Surrey, Surrey Archives and Surrey’s Special Events team.

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Veteran Canadian comic headlines South Rock festival Alex Browne

Canadian stand-up veteran Dave Nystrom believes that good comedy is about more than simply telling jokes.

And the Calgary-based Nystrom, headliner for the White Rock Roars show this Saturday (7 p.m. Oceana PARC Playhouse, 1532 Johnston Rd.) has won over audiences around the world with his relatable brand of comedy, including television specials and extensive touring in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. “I wasn’t quite sure how I would go over in the U.K.,” he admitted.

“But a friend of mine said I’d be surprised at how open audiences would be to my kind of comedy, and he was right. Provided I didn’t make regional references they wouldn’t be expected to understand, they really got my material, and I ended up being offered more work than I could take, with the bookings I already had.”

It’s likely White Rock audiences will take to the easygoing Nystrom’s work, too.

His upcoming performance, featuring host Alex Carr, Vancouver comics Chris Gaskin and Kwasi Thomas and Langley’s Jessica Pigeau and Rosie Grypma, is just part of a rich buffet of national, international and local comedy talents on offer in this weekend’s inaugural Peninsula-wide South Rock Comedy Festival (for full

details of all shows, check out the festival website at SouthRockComedyFest. com).

In a recent break from filming a lead role in the independent movie The Opener in Vancouver, Nystrom – winner of a Canadian Comedy Award and a Writers Guild of Canada Award for his contributions to CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes – told Peace Arch News that one of his greatest helpers in creating comedy is the weird stuff that happens to most of us in our journey through life.

“As a stand-up comedian, my life is very much the centre point of my inspiration. I’m married with four children, for instance, and that gives me a lot to work with,” he said. “It’s really no different from when you come home to your significant other or roommate or whatever and say ‘I’ve got to tell you this crazy thing that happened to me today.’

“The big difference is that through experience and knowing how to pick up on certain parts and exaggerate others, I can take something that was possibly not funny in the moment and craft it and shape it into a ‘bit.’”

A perfect example of a Nystrom bit inspired by real life, he said, is the material he derived from when he and his wife, Natasha and three young sons (they’ve since had another boy to the family) were driving back to Canada – after 10 years of living and working in L.A. –

and their truck broke down.

“There’s this tow truck driver shows up whose vocabulary isn’t exactly the most appropriate for young boys between three and five years old,” he said. “But it’s really about this entire day of us being stuck in the middle of Idaho.”

The film he’s shooting currently, written and directed by friend and fellow-comic Damonde Tschritter, is another rooted-in-life comedy piece.

“I laughed out loud when I read it,” Nystrom said. “I was very honoured when he asked me to be in it.

“It’s the story of a veteran comedian – who I play – and this young comedian on his first tour, who I sort of take under my wing. My character has made a lot of poor choices in his life – there’s a drinking problem, for instance. There’s a lot of real life stuff Damonde has got in there – stories I’ve either heard, or I was there when they happened.

“If somebody wanted to get a really accurate sense of what life is like on the road in Canada, this is the film to see.”

Although he lived for a long time in Vancouver, and is now happily settled in Calgary, Nystrom was born in Thunder Bay, Ont. “I was just there – I went back to visit my parents,” he said. “It’s a lovely little city although there are some issues there – there’s a lot of violence and big drinkers there – but the area is just

Calgary-based standup comic, actor and writer Dave Nystrom will be one of the headliners of this weekend’s inaugural South Rock Comedy Festival in the White Rock Roars show at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Oceana PARC Playhouse. (Contributed) gorgeous.”

Nystrom said that when he and the family moved back to Canada in 2016 there was a question of where they would live – there didn’t seem to be any way, realistically, to afford to live in Vancouver and they wanted somewhere positive to raise their sons.

“My wife is from Calgary, and it seemed like the best choice,” he said.

And it seems to have worked out that way – the boys, now 17, 14, 11 and nine, soon found friends

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and seem to have settled well into the lifestyle – as well as a burgeoning career in front of the cameras.

“They’re all acting as well – it was completely their choice. The last thing I wanted to do was push them into it – I didn’t want some ‘Daddy Dearest’ book being written about me in the future, but they’re still having a good time with it.”

But Nystrom will admit that he “dragged” Natasha into acting, too.

“It started off with me saying, ‘Can’t you come and

do this gig with me? It’d be a chance to make a few bucks,’” he recalled.

“Natasha is half-Filipina, half-Ukrainian, and nobody can ever guess what ethnicity she is. In advertising and marketing and casting these days having an indeterminate ethnic look is quite an advantage.

“I honestly think she’s doing much better in the business than I am!”

“She just booked a movie with Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen, for instance.

“She started out very ner-

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vous, and she didn’t have any training, but she’s really liking it now.”

Asked if performing is turning into the family business, Nystrom agrees.

“There’s an infestation of us,” he quipped.

But in many ways it keeps the family closer together, he acknowledges. “I don’t like to be too far away from them,” he said. “In fact, shooting in Vancouver is the longest I’ve been away from the family for a long time.”

But he says he is delighted that being on the West Coast this month has given him the opportunity to appear in the South Rock Comedy Festival.

“This is fantastic. I’m really excited to hang out with (White Rock comic and co-festival founder) Ryan Lachance, who’s a friend of mine and a really talented, fun guy, who was incidentally the first person to reach out to me about doing this.

“It’s a kick to be part of a festival that’s new to a community. Something like this raises the profile of comedy generally, and hopefully people who come out to this will discover comedians not only from elsewhere, but also in the area. In the comedy world in Canada there’s a real level of support and a genuine desire for people to do well – there’s the sense that ‘a rising tide raises everybody.’ And I’m really honoured to be right there on the ground floor.”

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Surrey Youth Orchestra seeking young musicians Tom Zillich

The Fleetwood-area high school campus of Surrey Christian School is a very musical place Saturday mornings when members of Surrey Youth Orchestra come together.

The 2024-25 season started Sept. 7 with the first rehearsals of SYO’s five groups including Prelude Strings, Intermezzo Strings, Intermediate Orchestra, Senior Orchestra and Piccolo Strings.

Andrea Lewis-Taylor, a 10th-year conductor with Surrey Youth Orchestra, follows in the footsteps of her mother Lucille Lewis, who co-founded the organization back in 1976.

“It’s funny,” Taylor said, “because sometimes there are sports tournaments or martial arts happening in the school on Saturdays, and we’ll often see people wander in the room, look around and, you know, I can see they’re thinking, ‘What is this?’

“A lot of people don’t realize this exists in Surrey.”

Lewis-Taylor conducts three groups of the youngest musicians of Surrey Youth Orchestra, which started small in the 1970s and now boasts more than 200 students under the

artistic direction of Joel Stobbe. This year, former student Will Chen joined as a third conductor of SYO. “We expanded to a fifth orchestra last year – Piccolo Strings, the youngest ones – and this fall we are transforming our Symphonic Strings into an Intermedate Symphony Orchestra, a full orchestra with winds, not just strings,” Lewis-Taylor explained.

“The growth has been impressive. When I started I had a group of 16 kids and now my three groups have a total of over 110 (students).”

There are challenges recruiting young players of certain instruments, however.

“We audition in May and August, but for the new orchestra (Intermediate) we’re still looking for brass, especially, but winds as well,” Lewis-Taylor said.

“There’s no lineup of oboe players knocking down our door,” she added with a laugh.

“With the strings, because the programs aren’t really offered in the school, you’ve got families that are seeking private lessons right from the start, whereas a lot of the brass and winds (musicians) are learning at a later time

and only in a group setting, in school.

“There’s a bit of a head-start with strings players because they tend to start earlier.”

The history, rehearsal times and fees to join Surrey Youth Orchestra are detailed on surreyyouthorchestra.com.

The 2024-25 calendar includes an open house Oct. 12 at Surrey Christian Secondary School (11 a.m., 15353 92 Ave.), followed by a Sounds of the Season concert Dec. 14 at Chandos Pattison Auditorium (Pacific Academy), in Fraser Heights.

“The timing of the open house gives us a month to work on our pieces, and then we invite people in the community to come in for a look at what all the different groups are doing,” Lewis-Taylor noted.

Her mother Lucille, now 82, still attends SYO concerts and presents a scholarship to a graduating student.

In 2016, during a 40th anniversary concert, she came out of retirement to conduct.

“Maybe we can convince her to do that again when we have our 50th anniversary in 2026, but I don’t know,” Lewis-Taylor said.

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Peninsula Productions season offers challenging but relatable fare Alex Browne

The tag-line for White Rock-based Peninsula Productions, since it was founded in 2010, has been “extraordinary performances.”

The not-for-profit company’s record for providing quality theatre has been upheld recently by such outstanding productions as this summer’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and earlier, the dramas Albertine in Five Times and Jewel and the held-over curling comedy hit Hurry Hard, directed by seasoned stage and screen actor Robert Moloney.

Now Moloney, in his new role as artistic director of Peninsula Productions, has taken a pragmatic approach to choosing a new 2024-25 season that promises to maintain, and possibly improve on, an already high standard.

His formula for the season of staged readings at the company’s intimate black-box theatre in Centennial Park (adjacent to the Peace Arch Curling Club) has been to select plays that are both challenging and relatable, he told Peace Arch News.

“These are plays that challenge us to take a look at ourselves and think about our lives,” said Moloney, who is also co-founder of the thriving White Rock Actors Studio school with his wife, actor Julie Lynn Mortensen.

“They’re plays I know that will work – I wanted to start with things

I’m confident with, either that I’ve seen or that I’ve performed in myself.”

Also providing a venue for intimate musical performances, Peninsula will be presenting the already sold-out Gossamer Glow series of concerts with post-modern classical trio Crimson Crescendo (which debuts on Sept. 29) and another sure winner – Christmas with the King (Dec. 14, 2 and 7 p.m.) featuring award-winning Elvis tribute artist Ben Klein.

The staged reading series gets off to a strong start Oct. 3 and 4, at 7 p.m., and Oct. 5 and 6, at 2 p.m., with Francois Archambault’s The Leisure Society.

It’s a a savagely satirical critique of present social norms in which protagonists Peter and Mary work long hours, investing money for a retirement they’ll likely never enjoy, and squandering the rest of their income on material things that bring them no joy.

“I did it at Ruby Slippers Theatre – it’s a brutally funny, sharp piece about modern life and how it can be unfulfilling,” said Moloney.

“It’s about how status and things and money don’t fill the spiritual hole in our lives – something that’s become all the worse with the rise of social media, where people are posting the most perfect images of their lives, but not posting when they have a cold or have had a fight

Robert Moloney Peninsula Productions artistic director with their wife.”

In November, Peninsula will present Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918).

It’s in keeping with the company’s Remembrance tradition of presenting a war-themed play, but with a difference. Unity (1918) deals with Canadian veterans returning from the First World War, but also another kind of war – the struggle against a worldwide pandemic, in this case the Spanish Flu. “It won the Governor General’s Award for drama, and I was lucky enough to be in the premiere production of that by Touchstone Theatre at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre,” Moloney said.

“It’s a very timely play, what with our recent experience with COVID-19 – and it’s beautifully written, funny, heartbreaking and touching at the same time.”

Outside Mullingar, byfamed playwright John Patrick Shanley (set for February), tells the story of the romance of Anthony and Rosemary, neighbours in rural Ireland nearing middle age.

And in Marion Bridge,

by Canadian playwright Daniel McIvor (scheduled for May), three sisters in their 30s return home to Cape Breton to be with their mother, who is nearing the end of her life.

Waiting in the wings is a show that Moloney hopes to present in the summer of 2025, the comedy Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Road,

by Keith Stevenson (arrangements are still being finalized at press time). See peninsulaproductions.org for details.

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Grandview Grizzlies take top prize in South Surrey volleyball tourney Tricia Weel

A black bear made headlines as it journeyed its way through South Surrey just a couple months ago, but Grizzlies were the newsmakers after a weekend tournament at Grandview Heights Secondary.

Grandview Heights Grizzlies, that is.

The South Surrey high school hosted a 12-team senior girls volleyball tournament – the Grizzly Growl – last Friday and Saturday (Sept. 13-14), with the Grizzlies going undefeated in pool play vs. Earl Marriott, Samuel Roberts Technical School and Gladstone while not losing a set.

Grizzlies peaked in the playoffs, with 2-0 set wins in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, Grandview Heights athletic director Sierra Rai noted in an email.

In the finals, Grandview played the top-ranked Seaquam Seahawks. After losing their first set of the tournament 25-22, the girls rallied back to win 25-22 then 15-6 in the third and final set to claim the tournament title at the Grizzly Growl tournament.

“I am incredibly happy with our play and how our team has come together to start this year. We have a lot of younger players who had a lot of success at the junior level last year, and they have looked impressive making the jump up to senior,” said Grandview Heights teacher and senior girls coach Jason Wilkinson.

“While a high level of skill is important, I believe it’s all about the character, values, and putting the team first. This is now a group of athletes that started Grandview in Grade 8 when it first opened, and they looked up to the positive culture and legacy that the original team put in place. It’s great to see how much the girls support one another and wear their school jersey with pride.”

Brookswood Bobcats placed third in the competition, with Caitlyn Bell, an outside hitter from Grandview, named player of the tournament.

“As our school has grown and started

Eagles start regular BCHL season Tricia Weel

Grandview Heights Grizzlies play against Earl Marriott Mariners during the Grizzly Growl senior girls volleyball tournament in South Surrey last Saturday, Sept. 14. (Anna Burns/Black Press Media) to establish a program, we have started to gain recognition in the school volleyball community,” Wilkinson said (Grandview Heights opened in 2021).

“My goal is for every team that plays us to know that Grandview will always push you to the limit, and that if you are going to beat us, you need to earn it.”

Other school in the tournament included Salish, Kwantlen Park, Pitt Meadiws and Clayton Heights secondaries.

The school will participate in several upcoming tournaments throughout volleyball season as the school year gets underway, including the Peace Arch News Classic, with the ultimate goal being provincial championships.

“I hope this year the girls continue to battle for one another, on and off the court. We have the skill to compete at the highest level and our goal this year and every year, is to qualify for the provincial championships and show that we belong

Surrey’s DW Poppy played against Maple Ridge’s Samuel Roberts Technical School at the tournament. (Anna Burns/Black Press Media) there,” Wilkinson said. our ultimate goal of getting to the B.C. “The first time we stepped into the Championships. Everything we do is gym to start our season, we talked about with that end goal in mind.”

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Hockey night in South Surrey returns this weekend as the British Columbia Hockey League’s Surrey Eagles face off against the Prince George Spruce Kings in their home opener Friday night (Sept.

20).

After a banner season that saw the squad win six of nine BCHL trophies as well as the coveted Fred Page Cup – the Eagles’s first cup since 2013 – and four pre-season exhibition games, the team is ready for regular season action on their Olympic-sized ice at The Nest, also known as South Surrey Arena.

Former NHL players Scott Gomez (head coach and general manager) and Mike Mottau (assistant coach) have been busy building a new-look roster and getting to know new as well as returning players to the team.

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Head of Nicomekl Regatta returns to South Surrey Tricia Weel

Ready to regatta?

Some of the best rowers in B.C. are ready, and they’ll be there when the Nicomekl Rowing Club hosts the Head of the Nicomekl Regatta on Saturday, Sept. 21 in South Surrey.

The annual ‘head race’ event, which has been hosted by the club since the early 1990s, is held at Blackie Spit Park in South Surrey’s Crescent Beach.

Two races are planned, one at 11:15 a.m. and the second, at 3 p.m., said regatta chair Helen Healy.

The first race is the Class Race, in which participants start at the Nicomekl River dam at Elgin Road and compete among others in their same classes, be it singles, doubles, quads or eights.

The second race is the Trophy Race, which features a variety of competitors with results handicapped by age, gender, and boat size, in order to determine an overall winner.

“You could have an eight-man junior crew competing against a female single sculler – for many years, it has been a female single sculler that has won the Head of the Nicomekl Trophy,” Healy noted.

The six-kilometre course is from

Surrey Eagles are ready for regular season play with a home opener vs. the Prince George Spruce Kings in South Surrey on Friday, Sept. 20. (Tav Morrison/ Contributed to Peace Arch News)

Two home games at Surrey Nest against Prince George Continued from A36 hopes pass on some of what he has learned throughout his pro-hockey career.

“There’s other parts of the game…it’s not just dump-andchase…there’s a way to get better at this,” he said.

“You’ve got to use (your head). When the puck hits your stick, your head doesn’t go down again…you’ve got to see what’s out there – and that’s going to be the fun part, teaching that kind of stuff.”

With two new giant screens installed in their home rink by the City of Surrey, Eagles owner Ron Brar – who owns the team with his brother, TJ Brar – is excited for the new season.

“You can see the fan base of the Eagles just getting bigger and bigger. The excitement – the players, they take that energy from the fans and they put that on the ice and you need that you need that support from your community and you need people to believe in you,” he said.

“I think you’re going to find that the Eagles are going to come out soaring again same as they did last year!”

Puck drops at 7 p.m. vs. Prince George on Friday, Sept. 20, and at 3 p.m. vs. Cowichan Valley Capitals on Sunday, Sept. 22, at South Surrey Arena, 2199 148 St. Visit surreyeagles.net for tickets or more information.

Healy added the course is challenging to race and is among the toughest on the local rowing circuit.

“It has lots of obstacles like sand banks, docks, boats, and the infamous railway trestle. Competitors race from a calm river to the rough waters of the bay and finish at the Crescent Beach Pier.”

Approximately 100 boats are expected to compete in the first race and 60 in the second.

Last year, the regatta had 322 athletes compete from 18 clubs.

These were primarily from the Lower Mainland, but also from Vancouver Island.

Entrants’ ages will vary from 15 years to 80 years of age, Healy said, and the boats vary from single skulls of 26 feet, to boats as long as 64 feet with eight-member crews.

Watching the race is free for spectators as Healy encouraged the community to come out and cheer on the rowers.

“Generally, the best place to watch Rowers compete at a previous Head of the is from the Blackie Spit area. You Nicomekl event in South Surrey. (Damian can see the boats come out from West/Contributed to Peace Arch News) under the trestle bridge and since the dam at Elgin Road, which is at they set off in 20-second increments, the top of the Nicomekl River, to there should be a consistent line of boats that go by.” the pier at Crescent Beach.

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Ronald John Cooper July 13, 1944 - August 29, 2024

The family is sad to announce that Ronald John Cooper passed away at the age of 80 surrounded by his family.

Ron is survived by his partner, Linda; his three children Ryan (Janel), John, and Kimberly; six grandchildren Avery, Parker June, James, Jack, and Scarlett; brother Brad (Bev); his extended family; nieces and nephews.

Ron was born in Vancouver, BC where he attended King Ed H.S. In 1975, with the help of friends and family, he turned his dream into reality and began his own business, Power-West Industries. After 40 years of running a successful business, he started the next chapter of his life which involved travelling, boating, classic cars, and spending time with family.

The family is inviting all who have known Ron to share their stories at the Celebration of Life at UBC Boathouse located at 7277 River Road, Richmond, BC on Thursday September 26, 2024, at 11:30am.

Jean Graham Sharabura 1937-2024 Peacefully on Sunday, September 1, 2024, just days before her 87th birthday. Predeceased by her beloved husband Don and sister Judy, she leaves behind her children Steve, Mike, Susan, Scott (Kim); grandchildren Kate, Eric, Dougie, Connie, and Colin; and her sister Candy.

Born in Aberdeen, Washington, Jean was the eldest of the “Graham Girls,”. After earning an early education degree from the University of Washington, she set off to California for sunshine and adventure. A chance encounter with Don on Waikiki Beach led to a whirlwind romance, and they married in 1961, kicking off a life full of excitement, love, and raising four children while traveling across North America for Don’s career.

Wherever life took them, Jean built a home and embraced the community, always seeking out the best schools and neighborhoods for her family. Retirement in White Rock, BC, brought her back to her West Coast roots and closer to her sisters, a cherished chapter in her life.

An avid traveler, Jean and Don explored over 60 countries together, with a Kenyan safari standing out as a favorite adventure. Known for her sharp wit, quiet strength, and selfless heart, Jean was a steadfast presence in the lives of her loved ones.

She will be laid to rest beside Don at Victory Memorial Park in Surrey, BC.

Remembering Beautiful are memories of a moonlit night with you, The spark of love we lit and all the world felt new.

My heart told me I’d known you, in times so long ago, Something deep inside me had set my soul aglow.

Soul-mates re-united, bound by the ties of past, Through each and every age this perfect love will last.

Brian’s family wishes to inform you that the funeral service will be held at 11:00 AM on September 29, 2024, at the Surrey Arts Centre.

The uniformed procession will commence at 10:30 AM, with guests kindly requested to be seated by 10:50 AM. The service will be followed by a reception at the same location.

Josef Kietaibl February 27, 1946 - September 2, 2024 Josef Kietaibl passed away on September 2, 2024 at Peace Arch Hospital in White Rock, BC. A man known by all for his fierce determination, deep loyalty, and awe-inspiring intelligence, he was a force like no other. Born on his grandparents’ farm in Lang, Austria, Josef came from humble beginnings. Amidst the challenges he faced, he found joy and love through friendships and family in his hometown of Gamlitz, Austria. He spoke fondly of his days as a youth leader with his church and the time

So at our journey’s end and the time has come to part,

spent with his Uncle Hansel on his farm.

An endless cord of love will link us heart to heart.

where he spent the remainder of his life.

Douglas French

At the age of 18, Josef left Austria to travel the world. He first lived in Switzerland, then travelled to Africa and Australia, and, finally Canada,

Josef’s life accomplishments are nothing short of remarkable. A tool and dye maker by trade, he built a successful business from the ground up and retired in 1999 at the age of 53. He had countless hobbies and talents and excelled at them all. He loved flying ultralight airplanes,

With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of Douglas French, Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo, just one month shy of his 101st birthday. Born 10 September 1923 in East Croydon, Surrey, England, he passed away peacefully, as he wished, in the comfort of family and friends on 7th August 2024 at his home in Ocean Park, Surrey, BC. He is survived by his wife Joy, son Richard, grandchildren Nadine, Tracy and Andrew, and great grandchildren Devon and Jillian. He was predeceased by his daughter Jill Staranowicz. Friends are welcome to attend a celebration of his life on 27 September, 1pm, at St Mark’s Anglican Church in Ocean Park.

was an exceptional painter, learned to golf and play the accordion, and

Doug was a decorated WWII veteran of the RAF, an innovative thinker and professor who pioneered the use of computers in manufacturing, a bit of a mischief-maker, a loving husband, father, and grandfather, a faithful friend, and towards the end, a bad golfer. He loved a single malt scotch, an earnest debate, and a good laugh. Most of all, he loved his wife, Joy, and their immediate and extended family in Canada, the US, and UK.

conversation, and most importantly, meet all his beloved grandchildren.

He was accepted as an RAF aircraft apprentice at just 16 years old. He excelled in the academic and technical exams, with rapid promotions in repairing instruments such as autopilots and bombsights. He was posted initially to airstrips in Durban and Karachi. By 19, Doug was responsible for RAF instrument maintenance for the whole of SE Asia and led a unit of 100 men. Notably, he flew on the planes following the repairs, a requirement the RAF considered an essential motivator for quality work by his team. His overseas service included posts in India, Egypt, and Burma, promotion to Flight Sergeant, and captain of the RAF Suez Canal Hockey Team.

Kaitlyn, Olivia, Emily, and Sophia, brother, Siegfried (Gerlinde), sister,

Doug was transferred back to England and assigned as an Instrumentation and Control instructor. He met his wife Joy on a weekend visit to his parent’s guest house, where she was vacationing with her sister. It was love at first sight. They celebrated their 76th anniversary this past June. He credited Joy with being an equal partner in life, enabling his academic and professional pursuits as well as his beautiful home and family life.

He applied the same fearless leadership, technical savvy, comradery, and work ethic to his career and further education that had distinguished him in the service. He studied nights and weekends to earn advanced degrees from the University of London and University of Aston in Birmingham. His initial engineering and design positions in airplane test equipment led to a teaching position at De Havilland Aircraft in Hatfield. He rapidly attained successive promotions as a college professor in England, pioneering analogue control of machine tools and later digital control of machine tools.

The University of Waterloo enticed Doug and Joy to relocate to Canada to build the automation discipline within the Mechanical Engineering Department, literally from the ground up. He made it a thriving success. In all, Doug wrote over 50 scientific papers and books, which he presented across the world to pioneer manufacturing modernization via the introduction of early computers.

Consultancies and visiting professorships took them to Cuba, Australia, Jamaica, and the US. Doug and Joy retired to White Rock when it was still a sleepy beach town that reminded them of England. He was a dedicated volunteer at St. Mark’s Anglican parish and enjoyed travelling the world, caring for his grandchildren, painting landscapes, and golfing with friends. He is deeply missed by all who knew him.

A Celebration of Life service and reception will be held on Friday, 27 September at 1pm at St Mark’s Anglican Church, 12953 20th Ave in Ocean Park. Friends are welcome to attend.

loved animals – who could forget his beloved goats and adoring cats.

In 2014, he suffered a brainstem stroke and wasn’t expected to survive.

Determined to live his life, he went from being in a locked in state, to being able to operate an electric wheelchair, enjoy food, have a

Josef is predeceased by his mother, Anna, and brother, Herbert. He is survived by his wife, Patricia, children, Anton (Phi Dung), Angela (David), Naomi (James), and Nathan (Jennifer), grandchildren, Diego, Cecelia, Gertraud, many nieces, nephews, cousins, and of course, the many members of his loving in-laws, the Bonshor family, where he found belonging, friendship, and unconditional love.

Deeply missed and always loved, Josef’s legacy will live on in the hearts of his family and friends.

A celebration of life will be held on Wednesday, October 2 at 1:00pm at Morgan Creek golf course, 3500 Morgan Creek Way, Surrey, BC. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully asks that donations be made to the BC Heart and Stroke Foundation.

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(Visit your local newspaper website, obituary page) Connie Shelia Phillips West August 8, 1937-September 1, 2024 Connie Shelia Phillips West (née Whittle), 87, died peacefully on September 1, 2024 with her son, Danny, by her side after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s and Leukemia.

Born on August 8, 1937 to Alfred Whittle and Sarah (Gibson) in Drumheller, Alberta. She grew up in White Rock, BC with her sister Eileen and brother Tommy.

In 1955 she became the first Miss White Rock and spent many years thereafter volunteering and mentoring young candidates. She recalled this time of her life with great fondness.

She married Fred Phillips in 1957 and together they welcomed two children, Danny and Grant.

After losing Fred to cancer, she married Carl West and they spent many years in Hawaii and Oregon.

Late in life, she found great companionship with her longtime friend, Rod Goodchild.

She was very close with her niece, Wendy, and they enjoyed taking many trips together.

Connie loved to sing and dance and was an avid crafter, often gifting crochet or knit blankets to those closest to her. She also deeply loved animals and was greatly comforted in her final years by the family golden retriever, Jimmy.

Connie is survived by her son Danny (Michelle), grandchildren Randi (Derek) and Ashley (Dusan), and great-grandchildren, Greya, Kingsley and Sasha as well as many nieces, nephews and friends.

She was preceded in death by her beloved son Grant in 2019.

No service by request but an open-house celebration of life will be held October 19th, 2024, at 2 pm at Danny and Michelle’s. Please RSVP to michelledphillips@shaw.ca.

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Patti Maureen Caplette (nee Patricia Peterson) Patti Maureen Caplette, of Crescent Beach, BC, passed away peacefully with family by her side, on September 9, 2024, at the age of 71, after being diagnosed with Liver Cancer, and having no medical treatments available to her. She lived her life to the fullest, ‘when life gives you lemon’s make lemonade’, as she lived with this cancer for the past 6 months.

Even as her body was failing, Patti continued to amaze her doctors and everyone around her with her energy, and beauty, sharing that bright smile of hers, we shall all miss so dearly.

Patti was born in the Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, on July 27, 1953, well known for being Miss Surrey in 1971. An ex-banker to avid home maker, more like a Domestic Goddess she would say, and an outstanding gardener.

People who walked by always admired her garden and home. She took pride in everything she did. You would always see her at her best, dressed in girly bright vibrant dresses and have on her most comfortable shoes ‘High Heals’. She was very creative, and especially loved celebrating and decorating the house for all occasions, holidays and every season. She had the best decorated house on the block. Patti, could walk into a room and bring so much happiness.

She will be greatly missed by, her high school sweetheart Husband (December 1967- Sept 9, 2024), Rob Caplette, her children Ashley (Kyle) Garrett (Allyson), and Courtney Patterson, her 5 grandchildren, that called her Bella, Jaidyn (20) Jackson(16) Rhylan (13) Logan(12) Austin(6). As well as other family and many friends, and countless others she touched her Life.

Her magical and meaningful life lives on with the family and in all our memories forever.

The Family would like to express our thanks to all the hard working efforts of the SFD Hall 12, BC Ambulance first responders, the extreme care given at Peace Arch Hospital that attended to her till the end, and provided emotion support to the family. To give thanks to the care received by Dr. U Lee at Surrey Memorial oncology over the last six months.

In Lieu of flowers please donate to the BC Cancer Society.

Patti blossomed in the spring and summer as she perfected her garden, and as she enjoyed the sun, beach, boats, and time on the water. A celebration of Life will be planned for early summer 2025.

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