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ith cars whizzing by on a warm afternoon, Malekeh Safavi resumes her post. It’s coming up on 2 p.m. and the students at Lena Shaw Elementary will soon be making their way toward the busy intersection of 140th Street and 102nd Avenue. Kitted out in full crossing guard regalia, Malekeh stands at the intersection, sign in hand, cap pulled on tightly and ready to make sure those students make it across in one piece. Speaking with me during her shift, Malekeh says when she came to Canada from Iran 40 years ago she never pictured she’d spend her days doing this. Sure, she worked in the education system as an aid to handicapped children, but after she retired she didn’t think she’d have much interaction with children. Now, it’s what she looks forward to the most. “Anytime, snow, rain, shine, whatever,” says Malekeh, who prefers to use her first name. “I do it for enjoyment, for the children and their smiles, it gives me something to do.” The catalyst for Malekeh taking the job is a sad one: She took on the role to keep busy after her husband passed away. “With my husband gone I couldn’t sit at home alone, I had to go,” she recalls. “Then I saw an ad in the newspaper. They said if you like kids, come and do it. So I called and was happy.” That was nearly 10 years ago and in the time since, she’s become something of a constant in the community, found at the same intersection at the same time helping children week in and week out.
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(Photo: CHRISTOPHER POON) In early March, the Now published a letter to the editor about her, praising her “vivacious personality and friendly disposition.” The letter writer was bang-on, because it’s hard not to smile when in Malekeh’s presence. Her humour is apparent and demeanour radiates positivity. She tells me earlier that day she found somebody had stolen something from outside of her house, but she doesn’t seem upset. Instead, she sums up her outlook in a simple sentence. “I don’t want to upset anybody. I keep it to myself, that’s it.” As the children begin to make their way to the intersection from the nearby school, it becomes clear Malekeh has a special rapport with them. She chats with them about their school work, remembers who had certain assignments due and asks them about their after school plans. While she admits she has a tough time with names, Malekeh says she can recall all the faces of those she’s responsible for. “I remember all of them,” she says. “Some of them, they run to me and hug me. It’s what I love the most.” During our talk, one of the children, a boy no older than eight, presents Malekeh
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with a cupcake. It was his birthday and the class had celebrated with baked goods. The boy’s mother tells Malekeh he had saved one just for her. Malekeh thanks the boy and with her selflessness clearly on autopilot, immediately offers it to me. I kindly decline and ask if it’s because she doesn’t like sweets. Malekeh says she enjoys them like everyone else. A bit later in Malekeh’s shift, a young mother and her son approach the intersection. The boy looks at the crossing guard, smiles and jumps behind his mother, Elizabeth Chong. Chong explains that Malekeh and her five-year-old son play hide-and-seek every day. “He doesn’t talk much, but when he sees her he knows her and they play their game,” says Chong with a smile. In all the years she’s been on the job, Malekeh says the only thing that’s kept her away from her duty is when she had surgeries on her knees, something she hopes will allow her to keep doing this even longer. “As long as I can walk, I will do this as long as I can,” she says with her unwavering smile. “It’s the good part of life.” cpoon@thenownewspaper.com
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between his brain and his body, and he often can struggle with remembering jokes properly or getting his timing right. I would say that’s the biggest improvement I’ve seen recently, now that he’s doing a lot more shows. The more shows he does and the more regularly he does them, the sharper his brain stays and the better he performs.” Doing shows with a comedian who has cerebral palsy always leads to something interesting, Cullen recalls. “I’ve seen women come up to him immediately after a show, sit on his lap and ask him for wheelchair rides. I’ve seen him destroy hecklers.… And his joke about his friends hiring him an escort – one that I helped him write – is still one of my favourites ever. Watching the glee in his face and in the audience, as he explains the story, is phenomenal.”
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i, my name is Ryan and I have cerebral palsy. I’ll just get that out of the way. And don’t worry, I don’t know what the f*** it is either. That’s what Google is for.” The crowd at Yuk Yuk’s comedy club roars with laughter on a wet Wednesday in Vancouver. The place is packed for pro-am night, with more than a dozen people taking the stage over the course of a couple hours, and White Rock resident Ryan Lachance is closing the show with eight minutes of edgy jokes, mostly about himself. “I hope hell is wheelchair-accessible because I’m going there,” he says during his performance. “I hate stairs and escalators, all that s***,” he tells the audience at one point.“One day you’ll break your leg and you’ll be like,‘Hey, that comedian guy was right!’ But don’t clap for that, you guys are a**holes for hoping that someone breaks a leg.” Earlier in his show, Lachance gets big laughs with this bit: “One thing that pisses me off about being in a wheelchair is that when I get angry, I can never slam a door because people are always trying to help me by opening them for me. So what I do to release that anger is, I go on Youtube or Facebook and find the most adorable kitten video and dislike the s*** out of it! So if there’s 3,000 likes for a video and one dislike, that’s me when I’m angry.” Lachance’s act is filled with F-bombs and crude humour, and that’s just who he is. It’s funny stuff, in a conversational way, and he seems at ease in front of a crowd. And Lachance really should be, because he’s been performing as a comedian for more than a dozen years, sometimes as a self-described “sit-down standup” at local venues and also on tour in other parts of Canada. It’s not always easy, though. Lachance needs a couple people, at least, to help lift him and his wheelchair to the stage at Yuk Yuk’s, where he’s hoping to score a regular gig as part of a “fast track” group of performers. He also asks someone to hold his microphone while he’s telling jokes, as a way to involve another comedian in his act. Since birth, Lachance has had to deal with his quadspastic cerebral palsy, which limits the use of all four of his limbs and also his speech. He’s not always easy to understand when speaking on stage, but he’s working on
Comedian Ryan Lachance, a White Rock resident, is pushed in his wheelchair by care aide John Wilson near Yuk Yuk’s comedy club in Vancouver, where Lachance is a featured performer this coming weekend (April 10-11). (Photo: GORD GOBLE) it with breathing exercises and efforts to not rush his delivery. “I don’t do this to win approval, I do this because I love to make people laugh,” Lachance says in an interview following his latest Wednesday-nighter at Yuks. “Everybody needs something in their life to make them feel alive. Standup comedy has given me a chance to see places and work with really cool people and do something I love. People spend their whole lives wondering what they’re going to do with their life. And when I’m on stage, I know why I’m there, and that’s to take stereotypes of people with disabilities and turn them on their f***ing head, to prove I’m just like you, like everyone else. I have the same insecurities and I’m as mentally screwed up as the average joe.”
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achance was born in Winnipeg but soon moved with his family to Leduc, Alberta. He lived there until age 15, when the family made the trip to Surrey to live closer to his grandmother, around the time his father died. To help him laugh a little in the face of grief, an uncle of his gave Lachance some CDs and DVDs featuring comedian Billy Connolly. He’d click on one of the discs every time he needed to cheer up. The jokes made him laugh, alright, and also gave him inspiration to perform comedy for a living. “Growing up, I was the kid who’d get kicked out of class for making people laugh too much,” he says. The first time he told jokes in front of a crowd was a way to get a date with a girl from high school. Lachance was 19 and the girl, a friend who cut his hair and liked his sense of humour, dared him to do an amateur night at the old Yuk Yuk’s at the Plaza of Nations. The club’s stage wasn’t wheelchair-accessible, however, so they put a mic stand on the floor in front of the stage and adjusted the spotlights.
Everybody needs something in their life to make them feel alive. Standup comedy has given me a chance to see places and work with really cool people and do something I love. “I was only supposed to do four minutes but because of where I was (performing), I couldn’t see the red light that’s used to tell you that your time is up. I ended up doing 22 minutes. Nobody had the balls to do anything about it. I guess they thought it was a Make-A-Wish thing for me or something.” For the first few times on stage, mostly because Lachance wasn’t sure he’d be doing the gig long-term, he used a stage name: Sir Gimpy. Soon enough, though, he was performing under his real name at restaurants on Commercial Drive and pubs closer to the condo he owns on Winter Street, including Sawbucks and the old Slainte by the Pier, which is where Lachance met and befriended fellow White Rock-based comedian John Cullen. “I think Ryan has always been a pretty great comedian since I’ve known him, he just has the personal battles he has to fight through in order to maintain a high level of success,” says Cullen, who now lives in Vancouver. “He goes through stretches where his body isn’t strong enough to do comedy that often, but when he is out doing shows regularly and flexing his comedy muscles, I would put him up against any comedian in this city. He’s also in a constant battle on-stage
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ccording to Lachance, people either love his act or are offended by it. “Some people don’t like to hear the things I say, but screw those people,” he says. “Those people need a f***ing hug, because they’re just oversensitive or something. I love what I do, and I don’t go out there and intentionally make fun of people with disabilities, I talk about my own life, like every other comic does. I just happen to be in a wheelchair. I mean, I’ve had other people with disabilities thank me for being a voice for them. I do appreciate that, but it’s hard for me to understand because I don’t see myself as doing something good like that, I’m just being me.” Lachance gave up performing comedy for a couple years, circa 2007-08, due to bouts of depression and anxiety, but a trip to Halifax inspired his return to the stage. A friend set it all up, and organized to have Lachance do a 30-minute show at a club there, three nights in a row. This Friday and Saturday (April 10 and 11) at Yuk Yuk’s, located on Cambie Street near Vancouver City Hall, Lachance will be “middling,” along with Shane Clark, during four shows by featured comedian Sean Lecomber. It’s a big break for Lachance, who will celebrate his 36th birthday on Saturday night. As always, Lachance will write only a few jokes before his performances, and not plan for it much. It’s just how he rolls. “I’ve always wanted something in my life where I could go up there and just be in the moment,” he says. “I’m just really comfortable up there, and it gives me a boost of confidence. Standup comedy has given me confidence in everyday life, too. People ask me if that’s the real me up there on stage, if I’m the same person off the stage, and I’d say it’s about 70/30. I swear, I get angry and I’m full of tattoos, I talk about s**t that makes people uncomfortable. That’s me.”
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CLAYTON HEIGHTS — I was three minutes late and the Meat Man was worried I had forgotten about him. “Hey Beau, you’re here! Help yourself to a drink from the cooler. I’ll be right out,” said the Meat Man. He was in the kitchen washing his hands after finishing a batch of his famous spicy hamburger patties. I had only met the Meat Man a few times before but as I waited for him in his Clayton Heights shop on Thursday, it didn’t feel like I was meeting someone for an interview. Somehow, it felt like I was visiting an old friend. And that’s exactly how the Meat Man wants his customers to feel. “Since I have been open, a lot of my customers have become my friends,” he said, handing me a cup of coffee. “ They even invite us over to their house for Christmas. It’s a good feeling.” The Meat Man opened his store on 188th Street just north of Fraser Highway in 2011 and has since become somewhat of a celebrity in the community. “When people see me, they say, ‘Hey, it’s the Meat Man,’” he said. “I don’t think
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my kid. I put all my time into it. I’m here all day long and eventually as it starts growing, it’s going to start walking on its own.” And being the Meat Man isn’t easy – when he says he’s at his store all day long, he means all day long. His days start at 7:30 a.m. and end at 10:30 p.m. An early day for him – usually a Sunday – means he can leave the store at 8:30 p.m. And holidays? They’re non-existent when you’re the Meat Man – but you won’t hear
him complain. “I’d rather be at my store,” he said. “I love being at my store. I’m actually going to get a plaque for the wall that says ‘Home Sweet Home.’” And for his customers, it might not feel like home, but it sometimes feels like a party. On a recent sunny day, about 15 customers came in at once. At some businesses, this might lead to impatient and grumpy customers. Not at the Meat Man. “I introduced everyone to each other as I had my back to them cutting their steaks,” he said, with a huge grin. “They’re all talking to each other, everyone was laughing. They looked like they were at a party in here. “I called my mom and said that was the best feeling in the world.” With that, my time with the Meat Man was up. As I was walking back to the car, he opened the door and called out to me. “Beau! You forgot your samosas,” he yelled at me. I went back and got them. He had warmed them while we chatted. In the car, I took a bite. It was delicious. And vegetarian. You figure that one out. bsimpson@thenownewspaper.com
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SURREY — You’re aboard the SkyTrain and see a man fiddling with a knife. He’s not threatening anyone with it, but has it out in plain view, playing with it at his side. Naturally, the eyes of those in the vicinity gaze toward the weapon. That situation made a light bulb go off in Jeremy Pearce’s head. The SFU student wondered why police detachments have community volunteers as “eyes and ears on the streets,” but Transit Police did not. He emailed his criminology professor asking the question. That email went up the ranks to Transit Police Chief Neil Dubord and within 24 hours, Pearce heard from him directly and the two set up a coffee. “As an aspiring police officer, that was one of the best coffees I’ve ever had,” he said, laughing.
SFU student Jeremy Pearce’s idea of having volunteers serve as eyes and ears at transit hubs in Surrey became a reality with the launch of Transit Watch. (Photo: AMY REID) Pearce put together a proposal and brought it to the Transit Police Board. Last week, the idea became a reality, as Transit Police and Surrey Crime Prevention Society (SCPS) officially launched Transit Watch, a community safety project that deploys volunteers to “observe and report” at transit hubs in the City of Surrey including SkyTrain stations and the Newton
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ENGAGE LEFT: The Shady Isle Pirates, a nonprofit society based in Steveston, rolled in for the bowling fun.
Around Town
BELOW: Fraser Valley Gilbert & Sullivan Society VP Lyn Verra-Lay, left, with Chris and Cathy Thornley.
Fraser Valley Gilbert & Sullivan Society hosted a bowling event at Sandcastle Lanes to raise funds for the group’s spring show, “Pirates of Penzance,” in White Rock
ABOVE: Stage manager Scott Townsend “attacks” musical director Tim Tucker with a cannon ball. ABOVE: Actors Katherine Lozada, Ryan Elliott and James Hussen.
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RIGHT: Actor Roger Hussen won the prize for most tacky costume.
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New North GraNdview heiGhts Parks oPeN house Please join us for a public open house to discuss potential plans for new parks in South Surrey. These parks are in the North Grandview Heights neighbourhood, just north of the new Sunnyside Elementary. Staff will be on hand to provide background information and to discuss potential amenities for the parks. We hope you can come out and share your ideas with us. Place: Date: Time:
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I’m just refusing to engage in that kind of exercise. I need to shift the landscape. Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner
She’s the mayor, she should be doing something, shouldn’t she? It’s part of our job. Delta Mayor Lois Jackson
No comment on crime
Surrey mayor taking new tack when it comes to media scrutiny, saying she wants city to evolve Stories by Tom Zytaruk
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ou’re a reporter, and there’s been a shooting in Surrey. Who ya gonna call? Linda Hepner! Indeed, Surrey’s mayor has been wondering out loud these days why it is that whenever crime breaks out on her city’s streets, news reporters have her on speed dial. The Mayors of Vancouver, Burnaby and other nearby cities and municipalities do not fall under similar media scrutiny, she claims. “I don’t think it’s fair to me. “I think it’s habitual, and so it just becomes deliberate,” Hepner said of the pattern. “Every time something happens I’m called at a political level to comment. “I’m just refusing to engage in that kind of exercise,” she said. “I need to shift the landscape.”
See also OUR VIEW › page 10
So, why does Hepner, and Surrey, draw the spotlight, anyway? The obvious answer is that Surrey is the only city in Metro Vancouver to have recently experienced a dozen shootings – some of them in broad daylight, on busy streets – over the course of one month, and that Hepner is the city’s mayor. It’s really no wonder, then, that eyebrows were raised this past weekend when News1130 ran the headline “Surrey’s mayor refuses to comment following 12 shootings in one month – Referred to RCMP instead.” On Monday, Hepner set about parsing the matter. She noted Surrey has just hired 34 more Mounties and said she’s “trying to do what I think a leader needs to do – make sure the policy’s in place.” But commenting on crime? She’d rather leave that to the RCMP. “It is not that I am reluctant to speak,” she told the Now. “Some of these comments are more properly addressed to the force itself.” Hepner conceded the shootings are “creating real angst in the community” but contends it’s “a police matter.” She argues that it does not help a city’s cause for its mayor to always be led to respond to negative issues, and “continually be driven by pervasive negativity. “I really want Surrey to evolve to become as accepted
in that political community arena as these cities that surround me,” she said. “I want my city to evolve as the place safe to live and invest.” The Surrey RCMP recently paraded down King George Boulevard with lights on and sirens blaring, en route to raid a Newton trailer park for drugs. Twelve people were arrested on drug-related charges and later released. “It’ll be a couple of months before we get charge approval,” Sgt. Dale Carr noted. But in the wake of that police initiative, Hepner said, her phone was silent. For the record, the Now did contact her on this. We asked her what she has to say to people who say Newton is not getting the attention it should be getting from city hall, when it comes to fighting crime, and she replied, “You know what, they know that is not so – Newton is getting lots of attention.” Meantime, across Scott Road, North Delta was the scene of two shootings on Sunday. The first happened shortly before 6 p.m., in the 11500-block of 79th Avenue and the second shortly before 9 p.m., in the 8300-block of 110th Street. In the first case, a silver Toyota was seen leaving the scene. In the second, police says the person they believe to have been the intended victim has not lived in the area for some time. Nobody was injured in either case. Asked Monday if she received any media calls on these, Delta Mayor Lois Jackson replied, “I did have one, from CTV.” Jackson said she’s never deferred a media call to police. “I’ve never done that, we have to stand together, all of us. I like to give the people confidence,” she said. “People want to hear from the mayor. I always take all those calls. The community wants to know what’s happening; they also want to know we are determined to do whatever we can.” As for the two shootings on Sunday, Jackson asks anyone with information that could help the police in their investigation to contact them. She seemed surprised by Hepner’s response to News1130’s request. “She’s the mayor, she should be doing something, shouldn’t she?” Jackson said. “It’s part of our job.” Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan could not be reached for comment. tzytaruk@thenownewspaper.com
A brief history of mayoral action
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hen it comes to crime, the media does like to hold Surrey mayors’ feet to the fire. And more often than not, the mayors have responded to public and media pressure by striking task forces, committees and special committees in an attempt to address the problems of the day. Following a shocking series of shootings and stabbings in Surrey involving teens – several of the attacks fatal – and huge public outcry against the Young Offenders Act, Mayor Bob Bose in 1993 struck a 10-member “mayor’s advisory committee on youth violence,” led by Whalley family physician Dr. John O’Brien Bell. What resulted was a report containing 78 recommendations, among them hiring more police to serve as liaison officers in school, and providing more wholesome recreational opportunities for the city’s youth. The report cost Surrey ratepayers $26,000, with $13,000 of that in consultant’s fees. Bose’s successor, Doug McCallum, launched a campaign to crack down on drug houses in North Surrey during his watch as mayor, and in 2003 had a two-block strip of Whalley’s notorious 135A Street barricaded for several months in an attempt to curb prostitution and drug dealing there. During her time as Surrey’s mayor, Dianne Watts had street lights and surveillance cameras set up along a stretch of Surrey’s rural Colebrook Road after several homicide victims’ bodies were found there, earning the road the unfortunate moniker of “Killbrook.” Watts also launched Surrey’s Crime Reduction Strategy during her term in office. tzytaruk@thenownewspaper.com
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ot talking about a problem won’t make it go away. Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner was the subject of an unusual headline this past week concerning her refusal to comment on recent shootings and deferring that task to the RCMP. (See story on page 9.) Indeed, the mayor must be frustrated receiving calls from reporters seeking reaction to these crimes. After all, it’s not as though she is pulling the triggers. And yet, she is in a position of power and as the saying goes, the buck stops with her, as civic leader of this city. And with that power comes not only the ability to set policy in place, but also to allay residents’ fears when the opportunity presents itself. As her counterpart in Delta, Mayor Lois Jackson, rightfully notes, “People want to hear from the mayor...they also want to know we are determined to do whatever we can.” Of course there is a lot of good stuff going on in Surrey and it’s laudable that Mayor Hepner wants to champion that. She’s not alone. Take this newspaper, for instance. We love to bring you stories replete with happiness and joy. Some of our favourite stories are those that leave our readers feeling inspired and uplifted. But there’s more to the real world than that. Our job is to mirror our community, its challenges as well as its triumphs. There is bad, along with the good, and it has to be addressed. It all comes down to credibility. And so mayors, politicians of all walks, and yes, journalists as well, must address the state of the city, pimples as well as beauty spots, lest we be taken for ostriches burying our heads in the sand. We, too, love Surrey and want to see it “evolve” into a safe place to live and invest, as Mayor Hepner does. But sweeping our city’s challenges under the rug is just not the way to do it.
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Hepner lacks integrity, common sense The Editor, So how do you like our mayor Linda Hepner now? All during the election campaign, Hepner promised a property tax increase of 2.9 per cent. A couple of weeks after she was elected mayor, we find out in all, our tax increases will add up to 10 per cent, not 2.9 per cent. The mayor and council, who always vote together and act as one, are pushing LRT. Could that see the removal of two lanes of traffic on 104th Avenue and make it a one-lane road in each direction? If the city puts a traffic counter across 104th Avenue, they will quickly realize that even now it is an extremely congested road, at two lanes each way. Plus, 104th Avenue is also Surrey’s only major road that connects directly to the Trans Canada Highway and is a major feeder for the Port Mann bridge,
and Guildford Town Centre. It would be sheer stupidity to even consider turning 104th into one lane. The only logical solution is, since 104th is basically busy from King George Boulevard to 152 Street, that the transit plan must use the SkyTrain technology on this short stretch, keeping 104th at two lanes each direction. Anything else would be nonsense.
My only negative comment is that it was not on the front page. Instead, it was “hidden” on page A10. I feel this is such an important topic, and the media seem to be making light of it. This MP has been taking us for a ride with our hard-earned tax dollars. Brendan Atherton, Surrey
Derek Coughtrey, Surrey
Bright colours make MP editorial should you safer on roads have been front page The Editor, The Editor, Re: “MP Hiebert’s taste for travel won’t be missed,” the Now editorial, April 2. I was happy to see the Now take Russ Hieber to task for his travel spending.
To all the joggers, cyclists and pedestrians who dress in black (which seems to be about 90 per cent of you): If you want to be completely invisible to drivers, you should wear camouflage. Jerry Steinberg, Surrey
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Liquor laws
Easier access to alcohol isn’t our biggest priority Your letters
SoLetItBeDone Tom Zytaruk
So let it be written... We’ve got drive-by shootings happening willy-nilly in North Surrey, we’re finding pamphlets with pictures of eviscerated human fetuses in our mailboxes, and our public school teachers have become social workers. We’ve got poor access to health care, splendid access to traffic gridlock, increasingly unaffordable groceries, massively unaffordable housing, a society that’s basically lost its moral compass and, oh yeah, there’s no end in sight to us being taxed up the whazoo. Still, it is comforting to know that B.C.’s Liberal government is on the case. Cases, that is – of wine, spirits and beer. I’m humming Pat Traver’s tune, Crash and Burn. “Turn into dreams the way you feel/ You know it’s really all you need to pretend that it’s real...” Hum, hum hum. You see, nothing is more important than better access to alcohol. Especially for alcoholics. Not to mention the rest of us who are trying to forget all of the aforementioned above, including said government. So it was, of course, April Fool’s Day
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Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton, centre, drops the curtain and unveils the province’s first supermarket wine section at a Save-On-Foods in South Surrey. (Photo: SUBMITTED) when Susan Anton, B.C.’s attorney general and minister of justice, announced the “milestone event” that was allowing booze to now be sold in grocery stores. (See story on page 15.) And Surrey, of course, was the first city to enjoy this “added convenience,” as Anton put it. Not that we don’t have any social problems here. One week before her better-access-to-
booze announcement, Anton was in town announcing the expansion of Surrey’s provincial courthouse, where, according to her government’s own literature, the most family cases – read strife in the home – are opened annually, province-wide. Surely none of those cases are alcohol-related. Anyway, John Yap, parliamentary secretary for liquor policy reform, said of booze day, “Today is a great day in B.C.” You weren’t signing the Magna Carta, guys.
For the record, I am not a teetotaler. I was known to unhinge my jaw and tipple the odd vat or two of Chivas during my misspent youth. But – and I’m sure I’m not alone in wondering this – does this government really not have anything better to do? Of course it does. Anton says, triumphantly, that making booze available in grocery stores will offer shoppers “the added convenience of grabbing B.C. wine off the shelf, or taking their carts into a liquor store within a grocery store.” How’s about offering British Columbians the “added convenience” of better access to affordable housing, less crowded hospitals, and a litany of other good-government stuff too numerous to mention here? Who wouldn’t drink to that? So let it be done. Tom Zytaruk is a staff writer with the Now. He can be reached via email at tzytaruk@ thenownewspaper.com
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SkyTrain system has had 35 years to prove itself – yet it hasn’t
SkyTrain is obsolete for a reason – actually many reasons, argues one reader.
The Editor, Re: “Light rail ads destroying ‘Yes’ campaign,” the Now letters, March 24. Memo to Daryl Dela Cruz: Modern LRT made SkyTrain obsolete decades ago. Live with it. The reason? Modern LRT is cheaper to build, cheaper to operate and cheaper to maintain than SkyTrain, with the added bonus, LRT can carry more customers. The proprietary SkyTrain light metro system has had more than 35 years to prove otherwise, but it hasn’t. This explains why
only seven such systems have been built, with only three seriously used for urban transit. TransLink inflates ridership numbers by using “boarded passengers,” instead of “revenue passengers for ridership statistics to make the mini-metro look good. TransLink is atypical in how it counts “passengers” as other transit organizations use “revenue passengers” for key statistics to represent the real number of people taking transit. TransLink uses “boarded passengers” to represent the fake number of people
taking transit. TransLink uses the number of times that transit users board or alight transit and by doing so, inflates ridership numbers to make certain key statistics look good. TransLink is unique in “using boarded passengers.” The region has paid two to three times more for SkyTrain than LRT for regional transit and by doing so, has beggared itself and it’s why TransLink is in the financial predicament it finds itself today. Donald Johnston, Delta
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infrastructure will benefit Surrey residents, while being paid for by all Metro Vancouver residents. The 0.5 per cent hike in PST isn’t the perfect tax, but the exemptions on food, children’s clothing and medications makes it more reasonable to other forms of fees and hidden taxes. Furthermore, this tax is earmarked only for transit, not general government revenue. If this vote fails, Surrey residents will most likely pay much more in taxes because Mayor Linda Hepner has already stated she will deliver transit alone. Therefore, we end up paying for transit entirely on our own while the rest of the region gets off without contributing anything to our city. I’m tired of paying taxes, however I am even more tired of paying taxes to fund transit for everyone else. Surrey, take this chance to vote “Yes,” because we are finally getting our turn to vastly improve our own transportation system. Harpinder Sandhu, Surrey
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The Editor, The transit referendum for Metro Vancouver has resulted in heated debates on television, radio, social media and amongst friends, family and co-workers. Initially, I was completely against another tax because we already have an incredibly high cost of living. Families are struggling to raise their children and maintain a reasonable standard of living. Another tax is just going to make that more expensive. Add to that the concerns regarding TransLink’s undemocratic governance structure, and you have a perfect combination of reasons to vote “No.” However, as I started to delve deeper into the details regarding the plan and what Surrey residents receive in exchange, I gradually began to change my mind. For more than 20 years, Surrey has been shortchanged by paying taxes for rapid transit for neighbouring cities: Millennium Line, Canada Line, Evergreen Line. It’s finally Surrey’s turn. Under the current plan, almost half of the total transit
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calling all Surrey residents and Businesses! get involved in tidying up our community! Participating in Clean sweep Week is a great way to show pride in your City and contribute to the beautification
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of our parks, neighborhoods and streets.
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Participate during the week of April 18-25, 2015 as an individual or form a group (school, business, resident or community group) to take action. Pick a neighbourhood or park. get your community clean-up kits at any of the 6 clean sweep locations on April 18th. Kits are also available for pick-up at 9353 160th street.
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Take pride in your community by cleaning up your chosen area! be sure to review the safety tips included in your clean-up kit.
Interested in improving your neighbourhood? Why not work on a project with your friends, neighbours and family to create fun and interesting outdoor spaces in your community. You could also host a block party, street celebration or local event. Apply for the City’s Neighbourhood Enhancement Grant for financial support for your project. All Surrey residents, community groups and associations can apply.
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❚ A huge bouquet of roses to the off-duty paramedic and other Good Samaritans who stopped to help my son, who had fallen off his skateboard near 64th Avenue. It is so wonderful to know we have such amazing people in our community who are so willing to help others. Thank you so much.
Valley Women's Network - Surrey Delta Chapter Invites you to a “Taste of Greece” Business Networking Event! Enjoy a delightful Greek lunch, meet new friends. Network and Share what you are passionate about in your personal life and/or your business! Bring business cards to share. Swag Bag of gifts, goodies & discounts for first 60 attendees! Shop for chances to WIN Bonus Prizes!
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9:45 AM Doors Open ~ Registration Check-in Begins 10:00 AM to Noon ~ Visit & Shop at Vendor’s Tables 10:45 AM to 11:30 AM ~ Listen in at the Speaker’s Corner 11:30 AM to 11:45 AM ~ Get Fit Greek Style Intro to Belly Dance 12 Noon ~ Lunch begins, Brief Announcements & Networking 12:45 PM ~ Inspirational Speakers ~ Belly Dance Presentation 1:15 PM ~ Door and Vendor Draws 1:30 PM ~ Event Ends. Thank you & Enjoy Your Summer!
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❚ A red rose to Amy at the Shoppers Drug Mart at 152nd Street who explained their bonus points system to me, which includes a product code from the advertisement or something for your smart phone – which I do not own. She then credited me with the points, which took some time and which I appreciated. ❚ A bundle of roses to Laura at Starbucks inside Safeway on King George Boulevard. I don’t know if you’ll read this, sweetie, but your smile is always so bright and you’re always so kind and cheerful – even with long lineups and no one to help you. You brighten my day every time I come in. ❚ Roses to the person who wrote a Rotten Tomato about not voting “Yes” for transit. Sir, you are smart for writing it – hopefully people will heed your advice and vote “No.” ❚ Golden-coloured roses to the staff at Tahiti Tan in Cloverdale. Everyone is always smiling and friendly. Thank you! ❚ I’d like to give some roses to hockey player Andrew Hammond, the "Hamburglar" goalie who grew up in Surrey, for the way he's playing for the Ottawa Senators. What a thrill ride he's been on since getting called up by the team several weeks ago. They're now close to making the NHL playoffs. Well done, Hamburglar! ❚ Roses for my grandmother, who was always there for me. RIP, “Nana-boo.” I love you.
❚ Rotten tomatoes to the Municipality of Delta for being beyond dumb with trafficcontrol bumps on Lyon Road, east of Nicholson. The first one is at a crosswalk – after an elementary school. Because you didn’t listen to complaints from taxpayers, a 19-year-old girl came speeding sown the street in the wee hours of the morning and hit my truck head-on. My truck is written off. Thank you so, so much. ❚ Barrels of rotten tomatoes to the uncompassionate person who hit our dog with their vehicle in broad daylight on March 31 – and just left him at the side of the road. I hope karma gets you. Our sweet boy was put down last night because of the injuries you caused. We are heartbroken. But you just kept on driving. ❚ I’ll take a rotten tomato for not paying attention to our open garage door and letting Bubba, my four-year-old black lab, escape our home near Earl Marriott Secondary. Bubba ran across 16th Avenue and was hit by a bus and somehow managed to run home before we even knew he was gone. Something was up, though, because he was yelping like we never heard before. A nicely arranged box of roses to the caring young lady and her family who witnessed the accident and tracked down our house to check on Bubba and let us know what happened. Thank you so much! Also, I’d like to send my apologies to the bus driver, who must have been somewhat traumatized by the incident. Bubba appears to have no serious injuries and is expected to make a full recovery. ❚ A dozen rotten tomatoes to the annoying, ill-mannered people who think it’s OK to cough in the air when they are really sick. Do you even realize you’re risking the health of others? People like you are just selfish and don’t care about anyone but yourselves! If you’re gonna make other people sick and don’t care, stay home, for God’s sake!
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Cloverdale hit with blueberry blues BIA postpones annual Blueberry Fest and Halloween event due to ‘strategic shift’ in spending and decline in sponsors Amy Reid
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CLOVERDALE — It was a beautiful, sunny day in Cloverdale on Monday but some people had the blues after it was revealed the annual Blueberry Festival would not come to fruition this year. “We had a bit of a perfect storm occur and unfortunately we had some fallout in terms of support from sponsors,” explained Paul Orazietti, executive director of the Cloverdale BIA, which puts on the event. “So without getting into great detail or pinning blame on any one of the people who had sponsored us in the past, we basically fell quite short. Because of the financial commitment required for an event of that size… we felt we needed to postpone it.” The announcement was made at the BIA’s annual general meeting Monday, and Orazietti acknowledged there is a “huge emotional attachment” to the event in the community, which would have seen its 12th iteration in 2015. “It wasn’t necessarily a money maker for everybody but there was a lot of positive spin-offs for different businesses,” he said. “The reaction is emotional. I think part of all of this is like anything else, when you’re a family and you’re going over your bills and your budget and you have to make a shift then you have to live within your means.” According to Orazietti, the event costs roughly $50,000 to put on, almost half of which comes through sponsorship.
Surrey’s Sami Kafeety chows down during a recent Blueberry Festival, watched closely by fellow blueberry-drenched competitors. (Photo: FILE PHOTO)
How to help To get involved in saving either the Blueberry Festival or Halloween event, visit Cloverdalebia.com or call 604-576-3155. “You hate going out with cap in hand, but you do sometimes need to tell people that we want to carry on, but we need more help. We need more financial support,” he said. “We have to really build up our volunteer base and get people fundraising and try to make it self sustaining.” While the BIA is calling on the community for volunteers, sponsorship and donations, Orazietti said it would be difficult to save this year’s festival. “But putting the seed money together
for next year would be really desirable,” he added. Also postponed is the community’s annual Halloween event, which drew many children to the area.
A ‘STRATEGIC SHIFT’ IN SPENDING While sponsorship decline led to the cancellation of the two events, so did the BIA’s decision to make a “strategic shift” in the way it spends its dollars. Extra funding has been earmarked for a “gateway sign” at the corner of Highway 10 and Highway 15 – which would be the largest sign in the area – aimed at attracting more people to the businesses there. Beautification initiatives are also planned for the area, particularly along Highway 10. Orazietti said the corner sees some 75,000 vehicles pass by each day, and the BIA hopes to capitalize on that.
“There were a number of contributors and people and businesses along Highway 10 that had been putting in reasonable amounts of money and not seeing anything occur in their immediate area. So from that perspective there needed to be a balance,” he said. “The gateway sign is something we’ve talked a lot about and this is very much doing what other established communities like Fort Langley and White Rock have done. When you go to those communities you get a sense of arrival…. If you drive by and you can’t see where you are and you have all these people driving by and they don’t realize they’re going through Cloverdale, it’s a lost opportunity.” Also this year, the BIA is increasing the amount of money it allocates toward safety and security, including graffiti removal and new cameras at hot spots in the area. Also at the meeting, Orazietti said the BIA heard concerns about retail gaps in the community. “We’re trying to build more local opportunity for boutique businesses and that to come into the area,” he explained. “A lot of what we’re doing right now is trying to encourage more people come here. In doing that, money had to be allocated towards a website and expanding the information on being able to see what’s going on here, finding out what sort of space is available and things like that. So business recruitment is a big thrust…. There’s infill that can occur in several different locations.” Orazietti said one of the biggest frustrations expressed at the meeting was what will be done with the old Safeway site due to the “lack of details” about what will happen there. “It’s the densest part of the town centre and it’s the glue that ties the properties together on either side of the highway.” areid@thenownewspaper.com
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Not everyone’s toasting idea of booze in grocery stores South Surrey supermarket first in B.C. to sell wine Christopher Poon and Tom Zytaruk
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SOUTH SURREY — Ask and you shall receive. After years of criticism that B.C. was behind the times with antiquated liquor laws, wine officially became available at supermarkets for the first time on April
1. The move was but one of many made by the provincial government in a bid to “modernize” the province’s liquor policies, and a South Surrey Save-On-Foods was ground zero. Indeed, the excitement at the Southpoint Save-On was palpable as crowds gathered before a huge white curtain in the centre of the store. Behind that curtain lay the province’s first supermarket wine section. But not everyone thinks it’s such a good thing, Markita Kaulius among them. “My family and I and members of Family for Justice don’t feel that it is necessary
to have alcohol available in every grocery store,” she said. “Alcohol is already available in so many places for the public to gain access.” Kaulius formed the victims’ rights group, which lobbies government for stiffer sanctions against impaired drivers, after a drunk driver killed her 22-year-old daughter Kassandra in 2011 in Surrey. Markita Kaulius said she and her husband met Liberal MLA John Yap, parliamentary secretary for liquor policy reform, who headed up the government’s liquor policy review.
“The report said B.C.’s liquor industry is worth $2 billion, from sales, taxes and indirect revenue and it claimed 800,000 tourists make wine-related purchases in B.C.,” Kaulius noted. “‘That is more people than came to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics,’ the report said.” But, she added, it didn’t attempt to put a dollar figure on the cost to the economy of alcohol-related crime, punishment, injuries, illness and death. “It did mention 21,542 hospitalizations and 1,191 deaths due to alcohol in 2011. see BOOZE › page 18
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“We all know that these laws were put in place not for the public’s convenience but because the government can make more money on sales and the taxes,” Kaulius said. “There are already enough liquor stores available everywhere.” She says she suspects there will be more impaired driving crashes in future. “I guess it is just a matter of time,” Kaulius said. Meantime, back at Save-On-Foods, before
the proverbial floodgates were opened, those responsible for the changes shared a few thoughts. Yap said the initiative was a long time coming. “This adds to the incredible work that’s been done on the liquor policy review. It’s been great to be a part of this process and see how far we’ve come,” he said. “I toured the province listening to consumers for suggestions in modernizing liquor laws and in the end, we promised to update B.C.’s rules so that it would reflect modern day British Columbia.
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“While there’s still plenty of work underway today, this really signifies an important milestone.” Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton said the beginning of the wine sales was “a milestone” for the province and followed through on “our promise to get out of the way and let B.C. businesses do what they do best: create jobs and enhance our economy.” While the South Surrey Save-On is the first in the province to roll out wine sales, others are expected to follow in the coming months.
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Cruise-happy sisters land ‘My Fair Lady’ Surrey’s Bazso siblings bring their talents ashore for hit musical comedy
This is close to home, so now they (friends and family) don’t have to buy a whole cruise to watch us perform.
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SURREY — Siblings Suzanne and Juilia Bazso have already seen some amazing places during their song-and-dance careers, although life aboard a cruise ship isn’t always blue skies and warm sunshine, apparently. The pair, who grew up and continue to live in South Surrey, have worked as performers on several Disney cruises in recent years, with adventures in Europe, the Caribbean, Mexico and more – and rarely on the same ship at the same time. “It’s the hardest I’ve ever worked, because you’re just going, going, going, doing several shows a week – really big productions,” Juilia explained. “You’re really isolated on a ship, too, without much communication with the outside world. “But,” she quickly added, “Disney is such a great company to work for and treat you so well. I’m glad I did it, for sure.” Juilia, 21, followed in the dance footsteps of her older sister Suzanne, 25. This week, together they begin a rare run of local shows as part of the ensemble of a lavish My Fair Lady production. Growing up, the Bazso girls trained at White Rock’s Spiral Dance studio, located not far from their classrooms at Earl Marriott Secondary. “I remember auditioning for the high school musical,” Suzanne recalled with a sigh, “but I couldn’t really be in it, because of all my extracurricular activities. I was in so many competitions and at dance rehearsals, after school until nine or 10 at night, that I had no time for the school
South Surrey sisters Suzanne (left) and Juilia Bazso are part of the ensemble during the two-week run of the Royal City Music Theatre production of My Fair Lady, from April 9 to 26 at Massey Theatre in New Westminster. production. I probably got farther staying on the serious dance path than had I done the high school musicals, so it was a good thing, I guess.” At age 18, Juilia was the first of the sisters to land a role in a cruise-ship show, followed soon after by Suzanne. “That first audition, we weren’t expecting much and were told to prepare for rejection,” Suzanne said. “They called Juilia first, my little sister, and I was like, ‘What?’ She was crying about not wanting to leave home and I told her, ‘You are taking that job!’” Aboard the ships, the Bazso sisters expanded their performing chops to include some singing and acting, leading to an increased appreciation for musicals.
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With their recent Disney cruising on hold for the time being, they’ve turned their attention to the iconic musical-comedy My Fair Lady, a Royal City Music Theatre show that opens a two-week run tonight (Thursday, April 9) at Massey Theatre in New Westminster. “A big reason we auditioned for My Fair Lady is because we hadn’t done a show like this in Vancouver, and we really wanted to, together,” Suzanne said. “It was weird, too,” Juilia added with a laugh, “because even though we had these huge resumés with the Disney stuff, I really didn’t know many people in the local scene, in Vancouver, and they were like, ‘Who are you?’ I was so sure they weren’t going to hire me, no way – even though I had a fairly
good dance audition, but then there was singing, too.” In conversation, it’s evident these sisters are more supportive of one another than they are competitive. “We’re always happy for the other person if they get something, a part, but it’d be a different story had we not both gotten parts in My Fair Lady,” Suzanne said, sparking laughter from both of the Bazsos. “Yeah,” Juilia added, “that would have been a little awkward. I don’t know, I think our parents (Les and Lori) think there’s this competitive thing, so they worry about it more. Like, if there’s an audition for one of us, it’s always, ‘Did you tell your sister about it? Make sure to put in your sister’s name!’” The two say they’re thrilled to hit the stage in the Max Reimer-directed My Fair Lady, the story of Cockney girl Eliza Doolittle and her speech lessons with Dr. Henry Higgins. Show tickets range in price from $26 to $47 at Masseytheatre. com and 604-521-5050; for details, visit Royalcitymusicaltheatre.com. “I think our family and friends are pretty excited about this show,” Juilia said, “because for the longest time, they haven’t been able to see us perform in anything. You know, they’ve supported us as kids at all these fundraisers over the years – very supportive. “This is close to home,” she added with a giggle, “so now they don’t have to buy a whole cruise to watch us perform.”
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Master artists at White Rock Library WHITE ROCK — A pair of events focus on “Master Artists in the Library” in White Rock next week. Karen Kroeker is the featured guest on Wednesday, April 15 and Thursday, April 16, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. “I believe and trust in my subconscious,” says Kroeker, whose collages “hint at a story, some mystery or beauty. Photographic images are embellished with threads and bead work.” Featured on Friday, April 17 and Saturday, April 18 is Don Welsh, whose spins wool in the Coast Salish tradition. White Rock Library is located at 15342 Buena Vista Ave.
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Imagining Indigeneity,” with a talk by the artist set for 6:30 p.m. In the showcase, Foster explores the legacy of the film and photographic work of ethnographer Edward Curtis, famous for his depictions of First Nations in the early 1900s, and his influence on popular images of “Indianness” in contemporary culture. One part of the exhibit “works like a video mash-up where scenes from Curtis’s 1914 silent film ‘In the Land of the Head Hunters’ are combined with selections of recent and past Hollywood films,” gallery operators say. “The central image in the video is an animated reconstruction of the original set and characters in the Curtis film.” Meanwhile, until Aug. 22, the work of John Wynne, a Canadian sound artist currently living in London, is featured in an Open Sound installation called “Anspayaxw,” which showcases six audiovisual portraits of members of the Gitxsan community speaking one of the numerous endangered aboriginal languages in B.C. Also on Saturday (April 11), the second phase of the gallery’s “Re:Source” exhibit will be unveiled, as part of its 40th anniversary. Five local artists – Jim Adams, Polly Gibbons, Cora Li-Leger, Haruko Okano and Mandeep Wirk – are plunging into the depths of the gallery’s archives “to chart its innovative, colourful and sometimes humorous history.” Included are stories, behind-the-scenes photographs, commentaries and critiques. On April 22, a tour of “Views from the Southbank II: Moments, Reflections, Intervals” and “John Wynne: Anspayaxw” will be led by Jordan Strom, the gallery’s curator of exhibitions and collections. For details, visit Surrey. ca/arts or call 604-501-5566.
Gabor Gasztonyi’s “William Deng with children” portrait is part of the new “Views from the Southbank II” exhibit, opening Saturday, April 11 at Surrey Art Gallery.
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GST at 604-542-3055 or online at Bluefrogstudios.ca. Calm Like a Bomb: a Tribute To rage against The Machine: Live at TNT Sports Cafe, free all-ages event on Sunday, April 12 from 8 to 9:30 pm. “This is a sober event. No drugs or alcohol permitted. Inappropriate behaviour will be met with zero tolerance.” TNT Sports Cafe is located at 7999 King George Blvd., Surrey. More info: Facebook. com/calmlikeabombcouver, Twitter. com/Calmlikeabombbc. r&B allstars: Band performs two shows Friday, April 17 at Blue Frog Studios in White Rock, at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets and info: Bluefrogstudios.ca, 604 542-3055. Blues Brothers Too: Tribute band performs two shows Saturday, April 18 at Blue Frog Studios, White Rock. Shows at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets and info: Bluefrogstudios.ca, 604 542-3055. encore peninsula Concert series, in partnership with City of White Rock, presents six concerts as part of 2014-15 series at White Rock’s First United Church, 15385 Semiahmoo Ave., on Sundays (select dates only) starting at 3 p.m. Info: 604-501-5566, Tickets.Surrey.ca; tickets can also be purchased at White Rock Community Centre, Kent Street Activity Centre and Centennial Park Leisure Centre. April 26 concert: Hugues Leclere, piano, France.
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SHoWS B.C. rod and Gun Show: “Surrey’s only new & used hunting & fishing show/rod and gun swap,” April 1719 at Cloverdale Fairgrounds, Surrey, featuring new and used items, 3D archery, fast draw competition, fly trying, casting demos. Info: Bcrodandgunshow.com, vendors call 778-869-4867.
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daNCe SHoWS Surrey Festival of dance runs until April 28 at Surrey Arts Centre, with “No Borders” group competition on May 9. Festival features acroDance, Classical Ballet, Contemporary, Modern, International, Jazz, Hip Hop/Street, Tap and Stage, with public performances at Bear Creek Park venue. Info: Surreyfestival.com, 604-585-3320.
Synergy 2015 dance competition at Bell Performing Arts Centre in Surrey from April 13 to 19, at 6250 144th St., Surrey. 604-507-6355. Coastal City Ballet presents “Cinderella” at 4 p.m. Saturday, May 30 at Surrey Arts Centre, 13750 88th Ave., Surrey. World premiere of Irene Schneider production, music by Sergei Prokofiev. More info: Coastalcityballet.com, 604-501-5566.
Dasmesh Darbar, located at 12885 85th Ave., Surrey. The parade will conclude there at approx. 4 p.m., with guest speakers, food and more. More details posted on the event website: Surreyvaisakhiparade.ca.
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Roy Forbes performs Saturday in White Rock. See listing under Concerts.
“Quartet”: Ronald Harwood-written play about aging opera singers at a retirement home staged by White Rock Players’ Club, staged from April 8 to 25 at Coast Capital Playhouse, 1532 Johnston Rd., White Rock. Stars Adrian Duncan, George Stone, Alison Schamberger and Nina Shoroplova, directed by Don Braird. Tickets and info: Whiterockplayers.
ca, 604-536-7535. “Truth and reconciliation”: Surrey Little Theatre stages Etan Frankel drama about a doctor who helps the sick and the poor in a volatile Central American country, from April 16 to May 16 at Surrey Little Theatre. Tickets at brownpapertickets.com, reservations@surreylittletheatre. com, or by phone 604 576-8451. “The pirates of penzance”: Fraser Valley Gilbert & Sullivan Society stages popular musical from April 29 to May 9 at Coast Capital Playhouse, White Rock. Directed by Jacqollyne Keath. Info: 604-536-7535.
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silent auctions, entertainment by Peninsula Productions, games and much more. This year is the gala’s 20th anniversary and may also be Sources’ largest fundraiser ever, with a $100,000 target to support our homeless prevention services.” Info: SourcesBC.ca, 604-542-7593. Beach House Theatre’s second annual evening of Music concert fundraiser on Thursday, May 7 at Earl Marriott Secondary’s Wheelhouse Theatre, featuring jazz saxophonist Cory Weeds and keyboardist Doug Johnson (of Loverboy fame). Event info: Beachhousetheatre.org. “a Taste of B.C.’s Finest”: Semiahmoo House Society’s most anticipated and largest fundraiser of the year offers food and beverages, 7 p.m. Saturday, May 23, featuring more than 43 exhibitors, wine tutorial sessions, door prizes, silent auction, raffle prizes, photo booth and more. Info: Atasteofbcsfinest.ca, 604-536-1242.
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FILM eVeNTS White rock Social Justice Film Society shows documentary movies with themes of social justice at First United Church, 15385 Semiahmoo Ave., White Rock, by donation. Info: whiterocksocialjusticefilmfestival.ca. Get reel: Film series hosted by Semiahmoo Arts at White Rock Community Centre, with screenings held on select nights, 7 p.m. start. Guest speakers lead a discussion following each film. Tickets $10/11; Info: 604-536-8333, www. whiterockartscouncil.com.
VISUaL arT Vendel Festival art Show on Saturday, April 11 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Beecher Place, 12160 Beecher St., Crescent Beach, Surrey. “Original art in both pictures and
sculptures, great ocean views, music, wine tasting & chocolate pairing, and special treats from Bite Me Desserts.” Featuring artists David Boughton, Wendy Burge, Don Francis, Sussanne Hoiberg, Rachel Legare, Wendy Mould. Info: Vendelfestival.weebly.com. Crescent Beach photography Club will be holding a juried exhibition of Black and White Prints in a “Challenge Competition” on April 11 at St. Mark’s Church Hall, 12953 20th Ave., South Surrey, 7 p.m. Fourteen photography clubs from the Lower Mainland will be participating, public welcome. Admission is $5 , door prizes and refreshments. South Surrey and White rock art Society’s annual spring show, April 24-25 at South Surrey Recreation and Arts Centre, daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at 14601 20th Ave., South Surrey. Show and sale features hundreds of original artworks in a variety of media and styles. Music by students of Elgin Park Secondary. More info: Artsociety.ca. South Surrey/White rock art Society, founded in 1959, meets on second Monday of month (except July and August), 7 p.m. start, at South Surrey Recreation and Arts Centre, 14601 20th Ave., Surrey. Info: www.artsociety.ca. Watershed artworks gallery shop: Works by local artists featured at North Delta facility operated by
non-profit Watershed Artworks Society, at 11425 84th Ave. Info: 604-596-1029, Watershedartworks. ca. Featured during month of April: Marilyn Atkey’s “West Coast Scenes” – a painter’s view, in the gallery shop and in North Delta Rec Centre. Meetgreet event with artist on Saturday, April 18 from 2 to 4 p.m.
MUSeUMS Surrey Museum: “A Queen and Her Country” exhibit on view until May 16, at 17710 56A Ave., Cloverdale. Info: www.surrey.ca/heritage, 604592-6956. White rock Museum + archives: “Critical Care: A history of Hospitals in a Border Town” exhibit on view until May 31, 14970 Marine Dr. 604541-2222, whiterock.museum.bc.ca.
HerITaGe/HISTorY Historic Stewart Farm’s 13th annual “Seedy Saturday” event on Saturday, April 11 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (drop in, by donation). “The Stewart Farm’s gardeners will be opening their treasury of flower, vegetable and herb seeds saved from the Stewart Farm’s heirloom gardens,” with crafts and activities. At 13723 Crescent Road in South Surrey. For more information call 604-592-6956 or visit Surrey. ca/heritage.
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BUSINeSS Surrey Board of Trade Business Networking reception hosted by Morgan Creek Golf Course (3500 Morgan Creek Way, Surrey) on Thursday, April 9, from 6 to 8 p.m. “There will be great prizes and delicious hors d’oeuvres.” Info: Call 604-581-7130. Surrey Board of Trade luncheon event with Surrey rCMp Chief Superintendent Bill Fordy, Friday, April 24 at Eaglequest Golf Course (7778 152 St., Surrey). This event will also include a presentation by Parliamentary Secretary Darryl Plecas, on BC’s Blue Ribbon Panel Report on Crime Reduction. Tickets and more info: Businessinsurrey. com, 604-581-7130.
WaLKS/rUNS Hike 4 Hospice hosted by White rock/South Surrey Hospice Society on Sunday, May 3 from 9 a.m. to noon at Blackie Spit Park (Crescent Beach), South Surrey. Corporate sponsors sought. “100% of all funds raised stay in our community.” Call 604-531-7484 or email theresa@whiterockhospice.org.
ForUMS “Focus on Seniors” forum Saturday, April 11 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Cloverdale Recreation Centre, 6188 176th St., Surrey. “This free forum will provide valuable information about legal, safety,
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aNTIQUeS White rock Museum & archives hosts antiques road Show event May 2 at 14970 Marine Dr., White Rock. Cost: $15 for one item, $40 for three items. “Book your one-on-one session with Gale Pirie from the CBC hit series ‘Antiques Roadshow.’ Receive historical information and verbal appraisal on your attic treasures. Weapons are not permitted for appraisal. Make your appointment now as space is limited.” Info: Whiterock.museum. bc.ca, 604 541-2221.
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“rhythm and Verse with Christopher Levenson”: Poetry event Wednesday, April 15 from 1 to 3 p.m. at White Rock Library, 15342 Buena Vista Ave., White Rock. “Christopher Levenson, Governor
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BooKS/LIT “readings by the Salish Sea” literary series hosted by Semiahmoo arts: Poets Jennica Harper and Kevin Spenst blend, spice and sauté measured words into poems that sizzle and satisfy (April 16, 7:30 pm, Pelican Rouge Coffee Co. Free); Pre-registration recommended via info@semiahmooarts.com or 604-536-8333.
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Award-winning music video director eyes move into movies You weren’t originally a fan of country music, but that’s where you’ve made your mark. How did you warm up to that genre? “To be honest, I think every genre has a crap quotient and a gold quotient. My love is melody – it’s king. It’s the language every human was born knowing. I’m obviously a pop/electronic/alternative guy but I think I connect with all artists and I know what the songs need. When I think of ideas, there is an energy there that transcends all genres.”
Some questions for Stephano Barberis, an award-winning music video director and resident of Provinceton, a neighbourhood in Cloverdale. What’s on your iPod right now? “Oooh that changes so often. A mix of new and old. Mostly electronic artists, and classical. From Sia, Caribou, Photay, Monarchy, to Goldfrapp and Erasure, to Vivaldi and Handel. And Italo disco. I love discovering new music no one’s heard yet, but that’s pretty difficult with the internet.” You’re won dozens of awards for your direction of music videos since the 1990s. What’s your favourite? “When you’ve directed over 140 music videos, they all become a big blob in your head of favourite shots and challenging experiences. They’re kind of like when parents have kids – they can’t pick a favourite. All of them have been the progression of my own personal ‘film school,’ so I kind of cringe at the early ones. Actually, I cringe at every one of them about a month after making them.” How did a Greek-Canadian kid from Kitimat become such an in-demand video director?
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Stylized “selfie” of Stephano Barberis from his Facebook page. “If you tell me, we’ll both know. I think it’s about being born with a storytelling soul, a good eye and a burning love for music. I love anything dramatic and anything that draws out emotions in people. I want to get inside people and move them somehow – make them feel. I think that’s in my DNA. I love beauty, and I can see it in everything like it’s magic that we’ve all become numb to until we’re reminded of it. It also doesn’t hurt that my brain seems to be an idea factory.”
Some people might be surprised that you create electronic music, as Breathe Of My Leaves. Is that your true love? “Yes, I do truly love electronic music. I think it’s limitless. Not EDM, per se, but even folky electronic music with many melodic layers. I think melody comes across so purely with electronic sounds, and juxtaposing that with the human voice is a feeling that I can’t put into words. I’m especially a fan of vintage analogue synths. Of course, none of this detracts from the beauty of the sound of the plucking of a taut metal string, or a pure note from a piano.” What was the first concert you ever attended as a fan? “Honeymoon Suite in Kitimat at the
Tamitik Arena when I was a kid. They were fantastic. In fact, growing up, I was obsessed with a lot of Canadian bands and gave them preference (same as UK bands).” And the most recent concert? “I directed the shooting of Dallas Smith’s Tippin’ Point tour a couple months ago, so I was at a few of his shows. He’s just so good. I take it you mean while not working, though? Then it’s Erasure in Seattle, for the fifth time, I think. They’re the best pop songwriters of all time, and their shows are explosively good. The showmanship is incredible, especially when you think it’s only two guys and one is behind some synths and a computer. And two backup singers. The crowds go insane and they still sell out pretty much every show 30 years into their career.” What’s next for you? “More music videos! I’m also finally working on the beginning stages of my first movie. It oddly fell in my lap after some people in the U.S. film industry saw my new director’s reel I released last November. It’s supposed to shoot here and a few locations in Europe. I hope it continues to move forward, as it’s right up my alley.”
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inspirational work of artists and arts organizations in communities throughout the province. The provincial government is helping to ensure the event will be a great success again this year by providing funding to support BC Culture Days. British Columbia’s Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development is providing almost $90,000 this year for BC Culture Days, including $60,000 for 2015 BC Culture Days events in September and $29,000 for the BC Culture Days Ambassadors program this spring. Last year, Surrey was chosen as the kick-off site for BC Culture Days. It was a huge honour for our city – but it was not as well attended as I thought it might be. Don’t let it happen again. Culture Days are coming once again in September. Be ready.
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variety of capacities, both backstage and on it. She was last seen on stage in The Crucible with White Rock Players’ Club, and she is thrilled to be performing again, this time with New Westminster’s historic Vagabond Players Society. Bernie Legge theatre is in New Westminster’s Queen’s Park. This is another community theatre venue you should check out sometime. Good productions, affordable prices. The play also features Karen Golden, Kathleen Kelly Driscoll, Mary Adams and Chuck Buckley. Directed by Wayne Nolan, The O’Conner Girls runs from April 2 to 18. For tickets and more info, call 604-521-0412 or email reservations@ vagabondplayers.ca. Many of our community arts organizations work under volunteer power. Some revenue comes from government grants, but not much. Ticket sales account for most of the revenue for the White Rock Chamber Music program and Vagabond Players, as well as many other community arts clubs. Every year, BC Culture Days creates opportunities for British Columbians of all ages to experience and enjoy the exciting,
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John Van Gerven (right), winner of White Rock Irish Festival’s limerick contest, is presented his book prize by Robin Braidwood, a member of the festival committee.
A sweet Irish lassie came here To play on our beach and drink beer “Mayor Baldwin”, she said “I sure hurt my head When I fell from that rock near your pier.”
There once was a lass from White rock Who danced on top of the rock But St. Paddy came callin’ And down she went fallin’ That unbalanced lass from White Rock
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The contest attracted close to 70 submissions, which were judged on “wit, humour and originality, with bonus points for including White Rock and St. Patrick’s Day.”
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Mark your calendars for this family-friendly Open House. Kids’ police “briefings”, police vehicles on display, demonstrations by Air One, Police Dog Services, RCMP career info, photos with members in Red Serge and more. Visit www.surrey.rcmp.ca.
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april 11, 10am-3pm | Chuck Bailey rec Centre Join us for a free fun family day designed for parents with children up to age 6 and those who are expecting their first baby. Interactive games, arts & crafts and more. www.surrey.ca/events.
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apr 13, 6-8pm | Sunnyside elementary, 2828 159 Street Public open house to discuss potential plans for new parks in the North Grandview Heights neighbourhood. Staff will provide background information and discuss potential amenities for the parks. Please join us and share your ideas.
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For current career opportunities please visit www.surrey.ca/careers
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Help the environment at one of 6 park clean-ups taking place across Surrey, or organize your own cleanup during Clean Sweep week, April 19 – 26. Gloves, litter-pickers, bags and t-shirts provided (while supplies last). Visit www.surrey.ca/cleansweep for details.
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april 22, all day | Sheraton Guildford Surrey Learn about business strategies, clean technologies, and urban sustainability innovations that are poised to transform the world’s cities. Exciting guest speakers will share best practices based on real-world case studies. $199/person. Register by April 21 at www.evolutionofcities.com.
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april 25, 10am-6pm | City Hall plaza Celebrate Earth Day at this free festival featuring musical acts Good for Grapes, Five Alarm Funk and children’s entertainer Charlotte Diamond. Enjoy fun, interactive eco-activities suitable for the entire family. Info at www.surrey.ca/partyfortheplanet.
city nEws Mail in your ballot by May 29 All registered voters should have received their Transportation & Transit Referendum ballot from Elections BC. If your ballot did not arrive or if you are not registered yet, contact Elections BC online or at 1-800-661-8683. Whether you are a driver, transit rider, cyclist, or walker, a Yes vote in the Referendum will result in new service and improvements that will get you around our City and region easier and faster. Learn more at www.surrey.ca/VoteYes.
Tickets on Sale for Surrey International Children’s Festival Festival tickets go on sale April 14. This year’s allstar line-up of truly international performers include a thousand year-old tradition of puppetry on water found only in Vietnam. Bear Creek Park and Surrey Arts Centre, May 21-23. Festival and ticket info at www.surrey.ca/childrensfestival.
park It design Challenge Design a ‘Pop-up-Park’ in Surrey City Centre to serve as a summertime hub for pedestrians to meet, relax and enjoy two outdoor ‘dueling’ street pianos. Enter by May 1 for the chance to bring your design to life with a $15,000 construction budget. Visit www.surrey.ca/parkit.
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For this winning Dragon, it’s all in the wrist Even with a broken scaphoid, Fleetwood’s Armaan Khangura didn’t let up this past basketball season Now contributor Twitter @jacobzinn
FLEETWOOD — If there’s one person at Fleetwood Park Secondary who embodies perseverance, it’s Armaan Khangura. The 18-year-old point guard led the Fleetwood Dragons through the league playoffs undefeated, won the Fraser Valley Basketball Championships and came from behind in the finals against the top-seeded Sir Charles Tupper Tigers to win the high school AAA boys’ team’s first provincial championship last month – all with a broken bone in his wrist. Khangura, known by just about everyone as AK, broke his scaphoid, one of the carpal bones of the wrist, during preseason practice in September. Initially, doctors couldn’t tell from the X-rays if it was broken, but he was ultimately told he’d need surgery, which would force him to sit out his senior year. “My parents really didn’t want me to play,” said Khangura. “The doctors kind of scared them, saying I could lose nerves in my hand. But I couldn’t go out like that in my senior year.” “We taped him every game,” said coach Nick Day. “He played through a lot of pain this year – there were times when he’d fall on it and you could tell he was really grimacing.” A leader in the locker room, Khangura recognized that many of his teammates rely on him for guidance on the court. He toughed it out, taking the Dragons through the Fraser Valleys, where they blew through White Rock Christian, fended off Princess Margaret and Sullivan Heights, and eked a 65-64 win over Rick Hansen Secondary to reach the semifinals.
They had a comparatively low-scoring game against Brookswood Secondary, closing 49-30, before finishing February with a down-to-the-wire victory against Robert Bateman Secondary in the final, which ended 72-69. “AK hit the winning shot against Bateman with 10 seconds left,” said Day. “It was a really emotional game.” Like the previous year, the Dragons headed into the provincials highly ranked, but Day recalled their short-lived run in the 2014 competition and hoped there wouldn’t be a repeat. “Last year, we got knocked out in the first round against a good team from up north that people didn’t really know much about, and that team ended up going to the final,” he said. “I think that served as motivation for this year, having that experience and knowing how that felt to go into something and not live up to the expectations.” For Khangura, the final on March 14 held a certain level of importance unlike any he’d played before. “Before the game, all the seniors talked about it. We knew it was our last game playing together, so we just had to all leave it out there and do our parts. Everybody knew their roles on the team,” he said. Khangura’s role was to keep the fire burning in the belly of the team and erupt onto the court in the final frame. “He never quits,” said Day. “He doesn’t let the guys quit, he doesn’t let the guys drop off. “He has learned over the years how to get his teammates going and when it’s time for him to take over a little bit. He understands the game more now than I think he did two years ago.” The Dragons won the final game 73-65,
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Armaan Khangura was the second-team all-star for the provincial AAA basketball champs, Surrey’s Fleetwood Park Dragons, and his leadership skills are arguably what motivated the team to excel on the court. (Photo: GORD GOBLE) and Khangura was named second team all-star for his motivational management on and off the court. At that point, the pain in his wrist was an afterthought. “I didn’t feel it that game,” he said. “It was just unreal. The adrenaline got to me.” Not only was this the first time Fleetwood has won a B.C. boys’ provincial championship, but it’s also the first time in 34 years a Surrey public school has won the title. “It’s huge,” said Day, who’s been coaching for 20 years. “There’s lots of good basketball in Surrey and I think it was just a matter of time before somebody broke through,
but to be the team to do it and to do it in the way we did it, it was pretty neat.” “It was crazy,” added Khangura, “especially doing it for Fleetwood, knowing how many people were behind us. Not just the coaches, but the staff and everybody and all the alumni that came out - it was good that we got it done for them.” “Everybody that’s put time into the program, they get to feel part of this,” said Day. With the season wrapped up, Khangura’s next step is to get surgery. Then he’s looking at college ball, and his performance this season has generated some interest locally. “Personally, (I think) he’s definitely got the ability to play at the next level,” said Day. “There’s room for growth, but he’s a tremendous competitor and the coaches know what they’re getting. Being able to play through this injury all year just kind of shows what he’s willing to go through to win.” But, humble in victory, Khangura gave credit to not only his teammates, but to Day and coach Jordan Taylor for their hard work throughout the year. “The players all worked hard and everything, but most of the credit goes to them,” he said. “(Day) did more than any coach would have done for us. He went through endless hours of tapes, went to different games – he did the most he could, and it really paid off.”
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GUILDFORD — The pungency of chlorine was strong alongside the smell of a new building. It was the middle of the day and the excitement was palpable. The Guildford Recreation Centre’s new aquatics centre – an addition to the existing recreational building – opened on March 23 to the public. Currently standing, the Guildford Recreation Centre is now the largest in Surrey. Jeff Holland, the facility manager of the aquatics addition, says since its first week, the pool has welcomed a lot more people than what he’s used to. “In terms of the usership, it has gotten really busy,” he said. “There has been a great deal of interest within Surrey. A lot of people from around the area have wanted to check things out.” The addition includes an eight-lane
Aquasonics shine in pool The BC Aquasonics Junior B Team – which includes Surrey’s Courtney Armstrong, Jessica Friesen, Priya Lehal, Emily Yang and Delta’s Grace Macdonald and Abby Rothwell – performs its “Aliens” routine at Synchro Canada’s 2015 National Qualifier Championships in Victoria recently. The Aliens team finished 10th, while the Junior A Cannibals finished seventh. The BC Aquasonics Combo team placed 4th. All three teams head next to Toronto for the Canadian Open Synchronized Swimming Championships, April 29 to May 3. (Photo: ONSITE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY)
olympic-sized competition pool, a steam room, a dry sauna and expanded weight room and fitness room facilities. “It’s definitely going to be a full service centre for everybody,” Holland continued. “It’ll bring all ages together.” Events and bookings are already lining up within the first week, including a large swim meet in April and water polo events during the summer. Cathy James, executive director of Tourism Surrey, is excited to see more community participation with the expansion of the recreational centre. “We’re looking forward to having different groups in swimming, synchro, and water polo,” she said. The grand opening of the Guildford Aquatics centre is set for Saturday, May 30. Also in Surrey, construction of the Grandview Heights Aquatic Centre is underway. The new facility will include a 10-lane Olympic-sized pool. It is set to be finished by the fall.
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Neighbourhood Tree party Wed, april 22 5-7pm
» Maple Green park 8959 - 150 St
Wed, april 29 5-7pm
» Shannon park 7312 - 193 St
Birding Walk at redwood park Sat, april 18 9-11am
See how local birds use the arboretum, a collection of trees from around the world. This walk is great for beginner to intermediate birders. Bring your binoculars and a field guide if you have them. Rain or shine.
» redwood park 17900-20 Ave Hosted by: City of Surrey – Urban Forestry
Clean Sweep
Sat, april 18 10am-12pm
Do your part for earth Day and participate in one of the 6 park clean-ups taking place across Surrey. you can also organize your own cleanup during the week of April 18 – 25. Gloves, litter-pickers, bags and t-shirts provided (while supplies last). Visit www.surrey.ca/cleansweep for details.
» alderwood park 1761 Lilac Dr » Bear Creek park 13750-88 Ave » Crescent Beach Parking at 3136 McBride Ave » Guildford Heights park 10176-154 St » Katzie park 19373-68 Ave » Tamanawis park 12601-64 Ave Hosted by: City of Surrey – Partners in Parks
The Glades Garden open House
Sat, april 18, Sun, May 10 Mother’s Day Sat, May 23 10am-3pm
Visit this special 10-acre woodland garden that is home to many species of rare and unusual rhododendrons, azaleas and fine heritage trees. Don’t forget your camera! Sorry no pets. Very limited roadside parking; carpool if possible. Visit www.surrey.ca/ partnersinparks for more info.
» The Glades Garden park 561-172 St Hosted by: City of Surrey – Partners in Parks
earth day Nature Works party Sat, april 18 11am-2pm
Get your hands dirty removing invasive plants and litter, and planting native shrubs and trees. Bring your friends and family to learn about stewardship in our community, check out a native plant sale, enjoy a BBQ and nature activities. Pre-registration is required for groups of 5+, call 604-502-6065.
» royal Kwantlen park 12925 Old yale Rd Hosted by: City of Surrey – Urban Forestry
edible and Medicinal plant Walk Sat, april 18 3-4:30pm
Join Herbalist Lori Snyder on a walk-about to discover the “wonder of weeds.” Learn to identify what’s growing around you as well as how to incorporate wild foods and medicines into your diet and lifestyle. Dress for the weather.
» Meet at Newton rec. Centre 13730-72 Ave Hosted by: Village Surrey Transition Initiative
Bicycle Workshop
Sun, april 19 1:30-3:30pm
Spring is upon us and summer is coming up fast! Learn basic bicycle maintenance tips and tricks. This 2-hour session will cover the fundamentals of how your bike works and how you can easily have it running smoothly this summer. For adults and teens grades 10+. Demonstration only – you won’t be working on your bikes here! Pre-registration is required; please call 604-598-7366.
» Guildford Library 15105-105 Ave Hosted by: Surrey Libraries
Join us as we care for trees in our community! Bring your friends and family for tree-themed games and activities and a BBQ. Purchase a voucher for a new backyard tree, and get your hands dirty improving tree wells and planting shade trees. Pre-registration is required for groups of 5+; please call 604-502-6065.
Hosted by: City of Surrey – Urban Forestry
The Buzz about Mason Bees Wed, april 22 5-7pm
Learn about the non-aggressive mason bee in a family-friendly presentation, then go outside to release some live bees and plant some bee-friendly shrubs at the Surrey Nature Centre’s “Bee Tree.” Pre-registration is required; please call 604-502-6065.
Nicomekl enhancement Society open House and Fish release Sat, april 25 11am-2pm
Help release 20,000 Chinook salmon, take part in an educational tour, have fun with fishy activities, and enjoy refreshments (by donation). Dress for the weather – fish don’t care if it rains! » Nicomekl Fish Hatchery 5263-232 St, Langley Hosted by: Nicomekl Enhancement Society
Sneak peak at Sunnyside
Sat, april 25, Sun, May 17 2:30-4:30pm
Stroll with us through second growth forest while learning about the history and biodiversity of this park. See evidence of past logging, and current preservation efforts by community volunteers. Rain or shine; bring binoculars if you have them.
» Surrey Nature Centre 14225 Green Timbers Way Hosted by: Surrey Nature Centre
» Sunnyside acres Urban Forest Wally Ross parking lot; 24 Ave between 148 and 144 Sts Hosted by: Sunnyside Acres Heritage Society
The Secrets of Healthy Soil
poetry and Seedbombing
explore the wonders of soil from how it is made to how to improve its structure. you’ll learn what nutrients are important and how to get them from natural and inexpensive sources.
Listen to local poets and write a message to the earth on a handmade card from recycled paper and seeds at this family-friendly, community-led event. Take the “seedbomb” home to plant in your yard.
Wed, april 22 6:30-8:30pm
Sat, april 25 6:30-8:30pm
» Newton recreation Centre 13730-72 Ave Hosted by: Village Surrey Transition Initiative
» Newton recreation Centre 13730-72 Ave Hosted by: Village Surrey Transition Initiative
Uncover your Creeks – Stewardship event
Chinook Salmon release
Sat, april 25, May 30 9am-12pm
Help remove invasive plants, learn about watersheds and test water quality in the Serpentine River. We provide tools, gloves and snacks. Rain or shine. Pre-registration is required; email Sharon at sjohal@evergreen.ca.
» Tynehead park Serpentine Hollow entrance 10060 - 161 St Hosted by: Evergreen
darts Hill open House and plant Sale
Sat, april 25, May 23 10am-4pm
Wander among the flowering rhododendrons, magnolias, and perennials in this 7.5-acre garden. enjoy demonstrations, speak to Master Gardeners, shop at the plant sale, and join the tour at 11:30am.
» darts Hill Garden park 16 Ave at 170 St Hosted by: Darts Hill Garden Conservancy Trust Society
Seed Saving Basics
Sat, april 25 11am-12pm
Discover where open-pollinated heirloom seeds come from and how to pick, dry, store, and save them to plant next season. Pre-registration is required; please call 604-592-6956 and quote #4390849.
Sun, april 26 10am-3pm
Thousands of Chinook salmon will be ready for release into the Little Campbell River by the bucketful! Bring your camera to remember the event and search for that perfect picture of birds along the trails. Bring a lunch and stay for the day! » Little Campbell Hatchery at the Semiahmoo Fish & Game Club 1284-184 St Hosted by: Semiahmoo Fish & Game Club
Great Canadian Shoreline Clean-up at Blackie Spit Sun, april 26 10am-1pm
Help clean up the shoreline of this important bird habitat. Dress for the weather and don’t forget your gumboots and binoculars. Gloves, tools and refreshments are provided. Pre-registration is required; please email Sharon at mshiker4@gmail.com. » Blackie Spit park 3136 McBride Ave Hosted by: Friends of Semiahmoo Bay Society
earthFest
Sun, april 26 11am-3pm
This family-friendly nature festival includes nature walks, bird and bee box making, interpretive displays, games and prizes! you can also visit Wildlife Rescue’s hospital open house!
» Historic Stewart Farm - Stewart Hall 13723 Crescent Rd Hosted by: Historic Stewart Farm
» 5216 Glencarin dr, Burnaby. Park at the Burnaby Lake Rowing Pavilion (6871 Roberts St) and take the free shuttle to the event. Hosted by: Wildlife Rescue Association
Living Streets
earth day pilgrimage to Burns Bog
Share your opinions, concerns, and compliments regarding Surrey’s streets, pathways, parks, and public spaces. Take a walk to share and learn from one another. Pre-registration is optional; email coral@ best.bc.ca.
Join us on this cross-cultural pilgrimage in the Delta Nature Reserve. We’ll be greeted along the walk with music and guest speakers. This is the time to experience the bog as it comes back to life after winter!
Sat, april 25 11am-1pm
» Newton Library 13795-70 Ave Hosted by: Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST)
Sun, april 26 1-4pm
» delta Nature reserve Parking lot at Planet Ice, 10388 Nordel Crt, Delta Hosted by: Burns Bog Conservation Society
discovery day
Fri, May 1, Mon, May 25 10am-2pm
Sat, april 25 | 10am-7pm
Celebrate our city, the region and the planet at this unforgettable earth Day event! For information visit www.surrey.ca/partyfortheplanet.
» Surrey City Hall 13450-104 Ave Hosted by: The City of Surrey
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Meet a nature guide who will get you started with your discoveries in the forest. Create an eco-craft, explore with a scavenger hunt and learn something new with our interactive activities. Bring a picnic lunch and enjoy your self-guided experience. Drop in.
» Surrey Nature Centre 14225 Green Timbers Way Hosted by: Surrey Nature Centre
arbor day
Sat, May 2 10am-1pm
Celebrate Surrey’s 11th Annual Arbor Day at the newly renovated Newton Athletic Park! Help plant over 60 shade trees in the park, enjoy live music, activities and games, refreshments and more! All equipment provided, drop in, rain or shine.
» Newton athletic park 7395-128 St Hosted by: City of Surrey – Urban Forestry
Story Time in the park
Sat, May 2, May 30 9-10am
Pre-school-aged children can join us in the whimsical Tree House in Redwood Park for story time followed by arts and crafts. Pre-registration is required; please call 604501-5100 and quote #4407247 for May 2 and #4407248 for May 30.
» redwood park 17900-20 Ave Hosted by: City of Surrey – Partners in Parks
Surrey Seed Saving Library
Sat, May 2, June 6 10am-2pm
Sign up to be a seed library member at the Ocean Park Library. Borrow up to 6 varieties of seed from our collection and grow them at home. When your plants mature, save the seeds and return them to the library at the end of the season.
» ocean park Library 12854-17 Ave Hosted by: Surrey Seed Library
retro recyclers
Sat, May 2 11am-12pm
Learn all about recycling and conservation from past to present and even into the future! Make a heritage toy from recycled materials. Ages 6-11 years. Pre-registration is required; please call 604-592-6956 and quote #4394823.
Historic Stewart Farm - Stewart Hall 13723 Crescent Rd Hosted by: Historic Stewart Farm
Movies For Change
Sat, May 2, May 23 1-4pm
Join us for screenings of “Blue Gold: World Water Wars” (May 2), and “The end of the Line: Where have all the fish gone?” (May 23) followed by group discussions. Drop in; children under 13 must be with an adult. Call 604-592-6908 for more info.
» Semiahmoo Library Meeting room 1815-152 St Hosted by: Surrey Libraries
owl prowl
Thurs, May 7, May 21 7-8:30pm
» Surrey Nature Centre 14225 Green Timbers Way
Thu, May 14 7-8:30pm
» Historic Stewart Farm - Stewart Hall 13723 Crescent Rd
Come have a hoot! A guest from OWL Rehabilitation Society will introduce live owls and lead a guided walk into the park in search of these feathered wonders. Ages 5+ years. Pre-registration is required; please call 604-502-6065.
Hosted by: City of Surrey – Urban forestry
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Storm drain Marking Challenge Kick-off
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Make your mark on the city! Join in this free family fun to kick off Surrey’s Storm Drain Marking Challenge: mark 30 drains in 30 days. Drop in, borrow a kit, and get started. Rain or shine.
Thu, May 28 5-6:30pm
Sat, May 9 9am-1pm
» South Surrey recreation Centre 14601-20 Ave Hosted by: City of Surrey – Engineering Department
Salmon Send-off
Sat, May 9 11am-3pm
Fishy fun! Release salmon fry into the Serpentine River, tour the hatchery, take part in children’s activities and walk by the river habitat, then have lunch at the concession. » Tynehead Hatchery in Tynehead regional park entrance on 96 Ave, west of 168 St Hosted by: Metro Vancouver Regional Parks and the Serpentine Enhancement Society
Celebrate International Migratory Bird day
Sun, May 10 8am-12pm
Join us for early morning birding along the Little Campbell River Forest Trail followed by indoor refreshments and a presentation on ‘Migration and the Pacific Flyway.’ Afterwards, head to Blackie Spit Park to look for migrating shorebirds and arriving nesting birds. Rain or shine, dress for the weather and bring binoculars if you have them.
» 8 am meet at Little Campbell Hatchery 1284-184 St after 10:30am meet at Blackie Spit park 3136 McBride Ave Hosted by: Little Campbell Watershed Society and the Friends of Semiahmoo Bay Society
Mandarin Guided Nature Walk Sun, May 10 3-5pm
綠色都市森林擁有大片的再生林，高大 的黃杉 鐵杉與紅柏，開闊的草地，大 池塘的鱒魚，以及各種野鳥。自然生長 的闊葉樹林內，還有難能可貴的野百合 花。
» Green Timbers Urban Forest park 100 Ave between 144 and 148 Sts Hosted by: Green Club
Salmon Stewards painting parties Wed, May 13 4-6:30pm
» evershine park playground 12688-70 Ave
Wed, May 20 4-6:30pm
» North point park playground 16088-109 Ave
Fri, May 22 4-6:30pm
» Bolivar park playground 114 Ave at 136 St
Wed, May 27 4-6:30pm
» Fun Fun park playground 1472-128 St
Fri, May 29 4-6:30pm
» Hummingbird park playground 11083 Swan Crescent
Sun, June 7 4-6:30pm
» Cloverdale athletic park playground 6330-168 St
Join the SHaRP team for free family fun and take part in Surrey’s storm drain marking challenge. enjoy snacks and fishy activities tool! See “SHaRP events” at www.surrey.ca/sharp for more info.
Hosted by: Salmon Habitat Restoration Program (SHaRP)
Learn to Fish
Wed, May 13, May 27 6-8pm
Join us for this 2-hour session where you will learn the basics of fishing, including hands-on fishing at the lake! All equipment included. Ages 5-15, parent participation required. Pre-registration is required; please call 604-502-6065.
Native plant Garden and Shoreline Birding Walk
Thu, May 14 5-6:30pm
Sun, May 24 1-4:30pm
» Hawthorne park 10513-144 St » South Surrey athletic park 14600-20 Ave
Navigate to specific GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the hidden cache to win prizes! GPS units and instruction provided (max 2 per family). Pre-registration is required; please call 604-501-5100 and quote #4407265 for May 14 and #4407266 for May 28. Hosted by: City of Surrey – Partners in Parks
Insect-o-rama
Thu, May 14, May 28 6-7:30pm
Learn about native plants and their uses for people and wildlife. Plant a seed and pick up informational brochures. Meet your birding guide at 3pm for a walk along the shoreline and pier on the lookout for migratory birds. Dress for the weather and bring binoculars if you have them.
» White rock Native plant demonstration Garden on the west side of the White Rock Museum, 14970 Marine Dr, White Rock Hosted by: Friends of Semiahmoo Bay Society
Mandarin Guided Nature Walk
Wiggly, slippery, fuzzy or shiny - how do insects look and feel to you? Learn about the little creatures that call Green Timbers Park home and see some amazing insects up close. Take home a fun bug craft too! Rain or shine. Parent participation and preregistration is required; call 604-502-6065.
Sun, May 24 3-5pm
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» Surrey Nature Centre 14225 Green Timbers Way Hosted by: Surrey Nature Centre
Shorekeepers Training Weekend
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» Fleetwood park 15802 - 80 Ave Hosted by: Green Club
discarTed adult Craft Night: Books into Seeds Mon, May 25 6-8pm
Join us for a weekend of marine survey citizen science. Friday night class followed by Saturday and Sunday in the field. Learn practical field skills for future beach surveys. Dress for the weather and bring water and a lunch. Pre-registration is required; email Sharon at mshiker4@gmail.com or visit birdsonthebay.ca. Ages 14+ year.
» South Surrey rec. Centre 14601-20 Ave Hosted by: Friends of Semiahmoo Bay Society
Learn how to fold biodegradable seed pots out of newspaper and take home seedlings to start your summer veggie patch! Pre-registration is required; please call 604-598-7346. For ages 14+ years.
» Fleetwood Library 15996-84 Ave Hosted by: Surrey Libraries
discover owls!
Sat, May 30 10am-2pm
Sat, May 16 9-11am
Drop in to this program to learn all about owls! Meet some live birds from OWL Rehabilitation Society, and take part in activities and crafts all about these incredible birds. All ages; drop in.
» Surrey Lake park 7500-152 St - entrance must be approached heading north on 152 St. Hosted by: City of Surrey – Urban Forestry
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Nature discovery at Surrey’s International Children’s Festival
Come out and meet this beautiful urban forest and the volunteers that work to preserve it. enjoy activities for the entire family including live entertainment and naturalist-led tours through the forest.
Birding Walk at Surrey Lake park explore lake, meadow, marsh and forest in this diverse park. Bring your binoculars and a field guide if you have them. Rain or shine.
» Surrey Nature Centre 14225 Green Timbers Way Hosted by: Surrey Nature Centre
FREEEVENTS
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Mandarin Guided Nature Walk Sun, May 31 3-5pm
向陽地都市森林公園有高大的道格拉斯 冷杉，茂盛的鐵杉與紅柏，奧勒岡葡 萄、接骨木果、泡沫花，以及劍蕨。這 是許多小鳥的覓食地，偶而可見野鹿的 蹤跡。
» Sunnyside acres Urban Forest Wally Ross parking lot; 24 Ave between 144 and 148 Sts Hosted by: Green Club
World Nature Night – a part of World oceans Weekend Fri, June 5 7-9pm
Travel to faraway places with guest ornithologists and naturalists at this annual event. This year we’ll explore the southern “end of the world” Argentina, and explore the landscapes and wildlife of this extreme locale. Refreshments provided. Pre-registration is required; please email Marg at blueheron@birdsonthebay.ca.
» Kwomais pt. park – Sanford Hall 1367-128 St Hosted by: Friends of Semiahmoo Bay Society
discover Marine Creatures and eelgrass Meadows in Boundary Bay Sat, June 6 10:30am-2pm
Learn about marine creatures and the importance of eelgrass habitat on our local beaches, then take a guided walk down the 1001 Steps to the beach. Refreshments provided but please bring lunch. Wear appropriate footwear and dress for the weather. Families are welcome. Preregistration is required; email Sarah at svbrookes@gmail.com.
» Kwomais pt park – Sanford Hall 1367-128 St Hosted by: Friends of Semiahmoo Bay Society
Sat, May 30 1-4pm
Sat, May 23 10:30am-7:30pm
Art is everywhere - especially in nature. Drop by the environmental extravaganza tent to start discovering nature’s artistic side. » Bear Creek park 13750-88 Avenue Hosted By: Surrey Nature Centre and Surrey’s Natural Areas Partnership (SNAP)
» Sunnyside acres Urban Forest Wally Ross parking lot; 24 Ave between 148 and 144 Sts Hosted by: Sunnyside Acres Heritage Society, City of Surrey – Urban Forestry, & Surrey Natural Areas Partnership (SNAP)
Be a Beach Hero: a Beach exploration
Turtle Troops
Sat, May 23 10:30am-12pm
There are 100’s of turtle species found almost everywhere in the world! With crafts and games provided by the Museum team, learn how our actions affect these creatures and what we can do to protect them.
» Surrey Museum 17710-56A Ave Hosted by: Surrey Museum
Sun, May 31 10-11:30am
Join a Beach Hero to explore life on the beach, discover the creatures that call Crescent Beach home. Dress for the weather, and bring binoculars if you have them. Pre-registration is required; please email Sarah at svbrookes@gmail.com.
» Beecher place 12160 Beecher Pl, Crescent Beach Hosted by: Friends of Semiahmoo Bay Society
annual Semiahmoo Heritage Trail Walk Sat, May 23 2-4pm
enjoy some time on the Heritage Trail with expert guides who will introduce you to its long and interesting history and its wealth of native trees, shurbs, flowers, birds and other wildlife. Bring binoculars if you have them. » Se corner of 148 St & 28 ave,, across from Victory Memorial Park Hosted by: Friends of Semiahmoo Heritage Trail
» Green Timbers Urban Forest park 100 Ave between 144 and 148 Sts Hosted by: Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC
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World oceans day Sun, June 7 | 11am-3pm
Finish the environmental extravaganza with this community celebration! Discover the world’s oceans at this free, fun-filled family festival! enjoy live music, marine touch tanks, nature walks and much more!
» Blackie Spit park 3136 McBride Ave Hosted by: Friends of Semiahmoo Bay Society and the City of Surrey
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See Events Schedule for dates and details of over 70 events.
Library Events once upon an acorn: nature stories in the libraryy drop in to your neighbourhood surrey Library branch for a Fun storytime celebrating nature! storytimes enrich a child’s imagination and a build a life-long love of reading.
City Centre Library – 10350 University dr.
Fri, May 8 | 10-10:30am – 0-5 years, drop in (snack included) Sat, May 9 | 11-11:30am – all ages, drop in Fri, May 15 | 2-4pm – all ages, drop in (craft program, no story) Fri, June 5 | 3-4pm – all ages, drop in (Salmon School)
Cloverdale Library – 5642-176a St.
Fri, May 8 | 10:30-11 am – all ages, drop-in Tues, May 19 | 3:30-4:30pm – all ages, drop in (Salmon School)
Fleetwood Library – 15996-84 ave.
ocean park Library – 12854-17 ave.
Tues, May 12 | 6:30-7pm – 3-5 years, drop in (pyjamas welcome) Thurs, May 14 | 10-10:30am – all ages, drop in
Thurs, April 30 | 3:15-4:15 pm – ages 5+ (craft program, no story) Preregistration required (604-598-7340) Fri, May 8 | 10-10:30am AND 11:30am-12pm – all ages, drop in Fri, May 15 | 3:30-4:30pm – all ages, drop in (Salmon School)
Fri, May 8 | 3:30-4:30pm – all ages, drop in (Salmon School) Wed, May 13 | 3:30-4:30pm – all ages, drop in (craft included)
Guildford Library – 15105-105 ave.
Semiahmoo Library – 1815-152 St
port Kells Library – 18885-88 ave.
Mon, May 11 | 3-4pm – all ages, drop in (Salmon School) | 6:30-7pm – all ages, drop in (pyjamas welcome) Tues, May 12 | 10:30-11am – 1-2 ½ years, drop in Thurs, May 14 | 10:30-11am – all ages, drop in
Thurs, May 14 | 3:15-4:15pm – 4+ years (craft included) Preregistration required (604-592-6900) Tues, May 26 | 3:30-4:30pm – all ages, drop in (Salmon School)
Newton Library – 13795-70 ave.
Wed, April 29 | 7-7:30pm – all ages, drop in (pyjamas welcome) Fri, May 1 | 10:30-11am – all ages, drop in Thurs, May 14 | 3:30-4:30pm – all ages, drop in (Salmon School)
Thurs, April 30 | 1:30 – 2pm – all ages, drop-in Fri, May 1 | 9:30-10:30am – all ages, drop in (Salmon School)
Strawberry Hill – 7399-122 St.