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Big Bike raises big cash in South Surrey
Surrey
‘Key set’ of issues laid out in Surrey
Members of team Gleeks from the GAP clothing store at Morgan Crossing wave as they peddle past on the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Big Bike on Wednesday. The Big Bike is touring through Delta, South Surrey and White Rock this week as part of the annual fundraising campaign. In just two days the charity event has raised more than $45,000. (Photo: MATT LAW)
Six townhall meetings identify city’s main problems Amy Reid
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SURREY – The City of Surrey’s series of six townhall meetings came to a close Tuesday night in Fleetwood. Coun. Barinder Rasode, who led the meetings in Surrey’s communities, said they went well, but acknowledged they’ve also been tough. “Some meetings have been challenging and tough, but it’s our responsibility to listen to residents. It’s kind of like a complaints department. You have to be prepared, if you want to provide better service, to have people critique you on your service.” Rasode said there were a few main issues that she heard in every community. “Bylaw enforcement has been a big issue, the secondary suite issue has been a big one and growth. Those are the top three. I was very pleasantly surprised that while crime has come up, it hasn’t come up a lot.” Transit has come up a lot as well, Rasode said.
Delta
A legacy garden for Laura Amy Reid
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DELTA – What started as a dream to create a 10x10 garden plot in memory of slain teen Laura Szendrei evolved into what is now a 3,000-square-foot legacy garden on the grounds of Burnsview Secondary. Szendrei, a 15-year-old Burnsview Secondary student, died in hospital one day after she was beaten in daylight while walking along a path in the Mackie Park forest in September 2010. Grade 11 Burnsview student Kirsten Martin, who played soccer with Szendrei, is one of the
students who put countless hours annual Laura Szendrei 5 & 10K Walk, toward the project last summer. Run and Roll event this Sunday at She hopes the garden leaves a Burnsview. legacy for Szendrei. The idea for the garden came out “In two or three years, all the of an environmental studies class at students who were in the school when the high school last year. it happened are all going to be gone,” To finance the garden, the group Martin said.“We hope it reminds of students staged a number of people that even when you’re gone, fundraisers and collected donations you’ll always have a memory and at last year’s walk when the project Laura Szendrei people will remember you.” caught the eye of Brian White, Martin said Szendrei’s death was president of the Laura Szendrei hard on the entire student body at Burnsview. Memorial Scholarship Foundation. “She was friends with everyone. Everyone liked White later visited the garden site and decided her, it was impossible not to,” Martin said. “It was the girls desperately needed some help. On kind of amazing to see how well people coped behalf of the foundation, he donated $5,000 for with [Szendrei’s death]. And for a brief period of the garden project to pay for soil, flagstones and time it did bring people closer together.” to rent an excavator. The garden, though constructed last summer, see LAURA SZENDREI › page 4 is being unveiled to the public during the second
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