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A few T-shirts, some bottles of wine and boxes of golf balls, and a joyfully hideous trophy comprising a hunk of lumber, a manual wood planer and a protective cup – presumably unused. They call it “Stanley’s Cup.” Haugland, rotator cuff injury and all, is the chairman of the six-team tournament unfolding below. Soon, dozens of weary players will arrive for post-tourney food, drinks, conversation, and awards. But not before Haugland drops the bombshell. This is the “One Last Time Spring Tournament,” the final 2014-2015 season fling for the 70-plus division of the Greater Vancouver Oldtimers Hockey Association. And as the name suggests, none of the
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Dave Zulynik, captain of the tournament-winning “green team” shows off the “Stanley’s Cup” trophy on April 9. His team is in the background. (Photo: GORD GOBLE) players is under the age of 70. A couple of them top the 80 mark. So how is it that these guys can look so darned good out there? For one thing, says Haugland, “It’s recreation, sure. But we play to win. This is far more intense than pick-up hockey.” But one glimpse of South Surrey’s Dennis Anderson, a defenceman currently on injured reserve with a separated shoulder, and you really begin to catch on. Anderson may be 72, but he looks a couple decades younger and is built like a brick house. He didn’t even begin playing ice hockey until his late 40s – a time when most have already given it up – but was a ball hockey and gym veteran long before that. These days, Anderson regularly sails off into the Fraser Valley on his road bike. Keith Scott wanders in, broken ribs and all. A resident of Ocean Park, Scott played Tier 2 Junior A in Ontario many moons ago, worked a stint in the air force, and continued to play throughout his life. He says he loves the Over-70 league because there’s no way, at the tender young age of 82, he could keep up with the wee pups in the Over-60 league.
Over there is Cam Kerr. Kerr played Junior with the Saskatoon Blades before spending four years with the Brigham Young University team. He’s since coached Midget and Junior and national U18s, and owned a hockey school on Vancouver Island. He’s now a scout for the national women’s squad. The introductions continue and it soon becomes clear that most of these dudes live and breathe the sport. Potential injury, it would seem, is something this group is quite willing to endure, though Haugland cautions that provisions are in place should more serious stuff occur. “We have an AED (Automated External Defibrillator) at each rink in the (Planet Ice) complex, at the player’s bench. And at least once a year we have a Red Cross guy come over and teach us how to use the machine. “We had to use it one time... last year during a game. It was successful.” The pub is full and boisterous now, everyone sharing stories and wings and beers. Haugland takes a quick look around. “Hockey is one fine game, isn’t it?”
❚ All of Surrey’s 99 elementary schools each received $500 in new physical education equipment, aimed at fighting child obesity and encouraging kids to be more active. ❚ Surrey’s plan to ban consumer pyrotechnics in the city sparked opposition from vendors. Said Councillor Gary Tymoschuk, “There are no positives in fireworks. We’ve got the evidence from residents complaints, the fires and the police calls.” ❚ RCMP Chief Supt. Al Macintyre signed a land agreement to bring the police force’s B.C. headquarters to a section of Crown land in Surrey’s Green Timbers park area.
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Students from the Sikh Academy showed off their chakari skills, demonstrating the South Asian form of combat training known as gatka. (Photo: JACOB ZINN) see throughout the day. The parade started at the Gurdwara Sahib Dasmesh Darbar, heading south on 128th Street, west on 82nd Avenue, south on 124th Street, east on 75th Avenue (which turns into 76nd) and north on 128th back to the temple. Mayor Linda Hepner was on hand for the celebration, as were councillors Mary Martin and Mike Starchuk. Many other local politicians turned out for the festivities, including Liberal MLAs Amrik Virk, Peter Fassbender, Marvin Hunt, Gordon Hogg and Scott Hamilton, and NDP MLAs Harry Bains, Sue Hammell and Jinny Sims, as well as NDP MP Jasbir Sandhu. Federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair and B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan also attended Surrey’s 15th annual Vaisakhi parade. Last year’s Vaisakhi parade in Surrey drew roughly 250,000 people.
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SOUTH SURREY — Raise your hand if you’ve ever wanted to pick a celebrity’s brain. Raise your hand if, given the chance, you’d blow your one question on asking them something completely banal such as, “What word would you tattoo on your forehead?” Rick Yaeger has. In fact, he’s done it several times – all from his South Surrey apartment. The one-time graphic designer has been working on a web series where he chats with celebrities on Skype and ends it all off by asking one silly question, picked at random from a deck of cards. It may seem like a complete waste, but Yaeger says that’s his show’s whole shtick. “I think that’s kind of the hook of the show,” he told the Now. “I’m like everyone else. I have no business talking to these people. I have this golden opportunity to talk to this celebrity and rather than ask him the question that’s at the back of my head, I’m just going to pull one out at random and ask them what their favourite Sesame Street character is,” he said with a laugh. The roster of celebs who have appeared
on his web show, One Question Interviews, includes Vanna White, Supernatural’s Rob Benedict and Vampire Diaries’ Paul Wesley. “Even though we all get caught up in the glitz and the glamour of it, there’s something Rick Yaeger inherently inspiring about someone who’s decided, ‘I’m not going to go to school and study what my parents wanted me to study, I’m going to try and be one of the one per cent of actors out there who’s gonna make money,’” he said. “The mindset and the work ethic and the outlook that got them to that place, that’s what I wanted to present to people, and I’m slowly getting the ability to do that.” While he doesn’t consider himself an entertainment journalist, like those hosting Entertainment Tonight, he does get to talk about what the actors and actresses are doing in their spare time. “In order for them to get something out of it, they have to be able to promote their shows. A lot of them have side projects, they do things extracurricular-ly that you would never expect them to do, and they have no
outlets to tell people about that,” he said. “The Jimmy Fallons and Kimmels don’t really want to spend time on that – you talk about your show and you leave. You get to be funny, then you get off. With me, they get to be funny, they get to talk about the show, but then they also get to talk about their Kickstarter campaign or a charity or anything else they want to talk about.” Now in its third season, One Question Interviews has become more polished, Yaeger said.
“Now, in the last season, I put on the hat to signify the beginning of the interview,” he said, referring to a cap he wears when picking from his deck of questions. “So that’s the beginning, and then my part of it is that I get to ask people one ridiculous question, we explore it, then we say ‘goodbye.’” To see some of his Yaeger’s interviews, visit Onequestioninterviews.com, his YouTube channel 1Qinterviews or follow him on Twitter.com/rickyaeger.
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What is Surrey’s tree removal process? We sat down with Surrey’s tree and landscape manager Steve Whitton to learn how it all works. Steve Whitton poses with what he says is the most amazing Japanese maple in all of Surrey – a tree saved through the Green City Fund, a developer-funded initiative. (Photo: AMY REID)
When residents want to remove trees from there property, how does that work? “We are confined by the rules and regulations of what the bylaw says we can and can’t do,” explained Whitton. Surrey’s bylaw looks at any tree with a D.B.H of 30 centimetres or more. D.B.H refers to the tree diameter measures at 4.5 feet above the ground. Things such as proximity to foundation can lead to a tree-cutting permit being issued, he added.“We don’t take this lightly. The easiest decision in the world for me to make is yes – let’s remove every tree that comes through. It’s a really easy job then, but that’s not what we do.” Can you explain the process for tree removal when there is infill or building permits are issued? “Well, generally, this is when people are taking down a little house and building a great big house. So the owner or the builder comes into city hall and applies for a building permit…. Our inspectors go out there and determine if trees can be saved, maybe the house can be moved a little bit if we did a redesign. Sometimes we mirror image them, put the driveway on the other side, to save trees. We do things like that on a regular basis.” Now let’s talk about development and subdivisions, which is where I assume totally competing views between you and the applicants come into play, correct? “Oh yes, development’s the fun
It’s a tough job because you’re dealing with the people who love trees who see us not doing enough.… Then you see the other side of it.… part… we get the arborist report, how many trees they want to remove, all that kind of stuff. And just about every case, it’s really hard to save trees. If you’ve got a multi-family site, say like a strata, if there’s underground parking it tends to take over the whole site so that means every tree goes. If you have small lot development, that means every tree goes. You have an industrial site, that means every tree goes. There’s really not much we can do about it… It takes many versions and several months and months to get this all figured out, that’s why subdivisons take forever. Multifamily and industrial is pretty cut and dry, they’re all going and there’s not much we can do about it.” Do you track the undersized trees being removed? “We can’t because they’re never surveyed. We have no idea how many
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are removed.” It sounds like your department’s job is, essentially, to focus on saving as many trees as possible. Would you say that’s accurate? “Yes, exactly. This isn’t the most popular position in the world. We get a lot of complaints about it, and so we should. Nobody likes to see 10 acres or 20 acres of forest being removed…. We’re trying to do it as responsibly as we can. We have the biodiversity strategy and the Surrey tree bylaw is the strongest. I’ve looked at all the other cities. We’re the leaders in the tree bylaw industry and it’s fully staffed. I have six arborists on staff and two clerks. We’re all qualified tree risk assessors, we go to courses, management gives us the ability to upgrade our skills on a yearly basis to make sure that we’re leading edge…. And we’re tough. We do about $100,000 a year in fines and penalty fees and things like that for those who are removing trees without permits.” You said your job is a tough one. Why is that? “It’s a tough job because you’re dealing with the people who love trees who see us not doing enough, they think we’re not saving enough trees. Then you see the other side of it, that don’t want any trees in Surrey whatsoever. We’re the Gestapo Nazis of treedom…. You can’t please both sides.” Are you all tree lovers? “We have to be. When we recruit and hire people we look for that. If they just want a job, that’s not going to work here. Someone once said I’d rather be holding the reigns to keep them back than pushing them behind. That’s where we are. It’s a youngish staff and they’re all really keen. One of our staff, we call her the tree geek because she just can’t stop learning more.”
In 2014, a total of 850 tree-cutting permits were issued in Surrey, 157 hazardous tree-cutting permit were issued and $1.13 million was collected through the Green City Fund. The total number of trees removed were 6,834 with 13,119 replacement trees required, according to the City of Surrey. Last year, the City of Surrey released a tree canopy report for the first time in its history. The report showed the city’s tree canopy was 33 per cent in 2001, 30 per cent in 2009 and by 2013 had dropped to 27.7 per cent. From 2001 to 2013, the City of Surrey issued tree-cutting permits for 102,347, and 124,403 were replaced. Without changes in Surrey’s current practices, the report predicted the city’s tree canopy to drop somewhere between 21 to 27 per cent in 50 years. To reverse the tree loss trend, the city plans to encourage urban infill and it has recently adopted the Biodiversity Conservation Strategy, which aims to preserve 10,000 acres in the city in perpetuity in its natural state. The city has a goal of reaching a 40 per cent tree canopy by 2058. Amy Reid
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ABOVE: Laurie Guerra and Cloverdale-Langley Conservative candidate Dean Drysdale. LEFT: The Canadian Military Education Centre’s Gord Wozencroft and John Parasiliti pose with a tank the centre brought along.
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here were the inquisitive stoners, the happy-golucky potheads and the young punks yelling “smoke weed everyday.” As thousands flocked to the Vancouver Art Gallery on April 20 for the 21st year, in celebration of the unofficial stoner’s holiday, it was the usual scene. Bags of blunts right out in the open, people sparking joints everywhere you look and plenty of cookies and other edibles with the green stuff baked right in. But there was a new voice at the ganja gathering this year: Three Surrey high school students weren’t there to light up. Wearing anti-pot T-shirts and sporting gas masks, twins Duncan and Connor Fesenmaier and Jordan Smith from Princess Margaret Secondary took the trek to Vancouver to protest the use of marijuana and spread their antilegalization message. As one man quite accurately dubbed them, they’re the “bud busters.” I hooked up with the guys at King George SkyTrain station. On the train ride, I asked what they thought would happen at the rally. Connor wasn’t sure. “The VPD (Vancouver Police Department) didn’t want us to go,” he said. “They said it wasn’t the smartest thing, that it could start a riot or start a problem.” As we got off the SkyTrain at Granville, the boys opened up their bag and put on their gas masks. “They’re the good ones,” said Connor. On the street, people recognized the boys from the news, where they spoke out after they say their vice-principal at Princess Margaret Secondary told them to remove the shirts while at school. Some pointed and laughed, others were more aggressive. “You have to recognize you can’t change the opinion of some people,” Connor said. “You have to let it bounce off like rubber.” The closer we get to the art gallery, the stronger the smell of pot – and the insults – becomes. “Are you ready for some abuse?” asked a cop as we were steps away from entering the event.
Marc Emery gestures during a heated debate with Surrey teen Connor Fesenmaier. (Photos: AMY REID) And they were. The boys took all kinds of nasty verbal abuse throughout the day. Many people took to toking up in front of them and blowing smoke in their faces. It didn’t seem to faze them. Polite and diplomatic all the way through, they talked to anyone who would listen. The hate is something they’ve already experienced online, both through their Facebook page Canadians Against the Legalization of Marijuana and also via email, where they were slammed with insults and even death threats. “Everyone thinks it’s all passive, free-loving hippies… but they’re angry,” said Connor.
Everyone thinks it’s all passive, free-loving hippies… but they’re angry. Pamela McColl is a director on the advisory council of Smart Approaches to Marijuana Canada, an anti-marijuana-legalization group. She said she’s proud of what the boys were doing. “We had hesitation because of safety,” she said of having the boys come out to protest 420. “But they’re young people who want
Surrey teen Connor Fesenmaier, right, gets smoke blown his way at the Vancouver Art Gallery during his 420 protest on Monday, to have a voice – and they should have a voice.” In the mid-afternoon, Connor noticed people were getting angry toward them. “The police presence definitely keeps them at bay a bit,” he said. “I do feel scared, I do feel scared in the sense of watching my back.” Connor, the unofficial spokesperson of the trio, said when he was first offered a joint, he said ‘no,’ wanting to arm himself with knowledge before trying it. After doing some research, including through the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a U.S. government research institute, he said he knew where he stood. “They had tons of research and facts and it was all done
scientifically,” he said. “It was scary.” All three boys are with SAMC, which believes legalization will usher in Canada’s new version of big tobacco, that use will increase and that public and social costs will well outweigh the tax revenues the government receives.
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Shortly before 4:20 p.m., the “Prince of Pot” himself found his way to Connor, where the two took to debating facts on marijuana as a crowd formed around them. “You’re presuming marijuana impairs people,” Marc Emery said after hearing Connor’s stance. “Getting high… is being selfaware. That’s why people get enhanced sounds of music and
enhanced sounds of nature when they’re high.” Connor argued the negatives outweigh the positives. “But how do you know?” Emery fired back. “You’re believing a government study, right? This is the same government that’s lied to us consistently about every war, about the effects of drugs, about their secrecy, about their surveillance.” Connor said many argue it’s not addictive and it’s not dangerous, adding, “you don’t need to die for something to be dangerous.” Emery said Connor sounded like a “pompous, sanctimonious teenager,” while Connor told Emery he sounded like a “selfindulged hippie.” While the parties didn’t agree on much, they shook hands before parting. Emery said he doesn’t understand the boys’ protest. “What they’re doing is laying a judgment trip on people, telling them what they’re doing with their own body is bad. I don’t know if anybody has a right to really go around doing that,” he said. “Marijuana is extremely unique in that it’s useful for dozens and dozens of applications, medical, fibre, euphoria, soaps, lotions, it’s just incredible. There’s really nothing else like it on the planet. So for them to choose marijuana to come here and protest against shows that they’re just not well informed.” Emery said he’s never seen pot protestors at the event before. “You’re allowed to not smoke pot every day of the year. There’s only one day for us and it’s this day. We’re here just to ask for the dignity of being treated like firstclass citizens and not second-class citizens. “He’s here judging us and I think he’s wrong.” Connor said he’s glad he got to debate marijuana with Emery. “I was kind of hoping I would. I think it went well, but of course he had his entourage with him.” And after all was said and done, the boys were all glad they went, with plans to return next year. “We’re definitely a strong force,” said Connor. “We know our science, we know we’re right and we just have to put that out there.”
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t’s clear with this election-year federal budget that the Conservatives know which side their bread is buttered on. Senior citizens – those who have savings, anyway – fared quite well in Tuesday’s budget, as did other people approaching their twilight years. Current rules dictate that at age 71, seniors have to start withdrawing a minimum of 7.38 per cent of the money in their RRIF and pay taxes on it. But the budget has now reduced that figure to 5.28 per cent, to “help reduce the risk of outliving one’s savings,” the government says. Also, this budget has increased the cap for contributions to one’s Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA) to $10,000 from the current $5,500. It’s wonderful news for people who have room to save money. Of those people who contribute to the maximum allowed, 70 per cent are age 55 and older. There are apparently 11 million such accounts out there. Now, consider who votes. Let’s look at the general election in 2011. Of people ages 18 to 24, only 39 per cent bothered to vote. The number goes up, though, the older we get. Of the 25 to 34 set, 45 per cent voted, and 54 per cent voted of those ages 35 to 44. Of all eligible voters in Canada who were between the ages of 45 and 54 in 2011, 65 per cent voted; 72 per cent voted of those aged 55 to 64, and 75 per cent of people aged 65 to 74 voted. Of people over 75, 60 per cent voted and the total voter turnout was 61 per cent. Similar patterns bear out in earlier general elections, always with the highest percentage of voter turnout by age group being those aged 65 to 74. Coincidence? Nina Grewal, Conservative MP for FleetwoodPort Kells, says the government is “putting more money into the pockets of residents so they can raise their families and save for retirement.” On the other hand, Jasbir Sandhu, NDP MP for Surrey North, said “this is totally a budget for the rich – if you’re rich, it’s a good budget.” Well, there’s one thing we can pretty much be certain of – come this fall, seniors will be getting out to vote and the Conservatives are hoping they’ve made some new friends. The Now
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ou could excuse Surrey residents for feeling a vivid sense of déjà vu Tuesday night. In what has sadly become an all too familiar scene in our city, hundreds of concerned residents packed the gym at Tamanawis Secondary to hear from their community leaders about Surrey’s most recent rash of violence. What they heard was nothing new. It needs to stop. We’re doing everything we can. We can do this together. We will fix this. It was only a few months ago – reeling from the death of teen Serena Vermeersch – we all huddled together inside Newton’s Senior Centre for an anti-crime discussion called Rally4Change. I stood outside because the place was so packed. “Until I hear that my and our world
view and our perception is valid and what we as a community can do about it, nothing is going to change. It’s going to continue to be our reality,” Newton community advocate Naida Robinson told the crowd. Nine months prior to that emotional rally, residents jammed into the very same hall to talk about crime in response to the murder of Surrey mom Julie Paskall. “It looks like it’s bonded us and we’re going to be moving ahead and galvanize and try and get a strong voice to council and get some changes,” Newton Community Association member Doug Elford said at the time. And on it goes. It seems in Surrey, we are bogged down in a never-ending cycle of denial, violence and talk. It goes something like this: 1. Our elected officials in Surrey refuse to acknowledge Surrey has a crime problem, arguing that our city suffers from an undeserved reputation as a crime-ridden city. Everything is grand. Nothing is wrong with Surrey. (Oh, and by the way, vote ‘Yes’ for transit.) 2. Violence happens to such a degree
that our community-boosting leaders must no longer ignore or deny it. (After 13 shootings, our mayor says it’s unfair that she’s asked about crime – after all, she’s not the sheriff, right? But after 18 shootings, the badge comes on and she’s had enough.) 3. Community rallies for change, hosting town hall meetings, hoping their voices will be heard by city leaders. 4. Repeat. Like it or not, we are living in a city where many parents refuse to let their kids out to play, lest they be struck by stray bullets. Like me, these people don’t care how hard the RCMP is working. They don’t care how disgusted or “astonished” our mayor is about the shootings. They don’t want hear empty phrases like “it needs to stop,” or “we can do this together.” The people of Surrey need their leaders to have a clear – and consistent – stance on the crime that is ripping their neighbourhoods apart at the seams. Then, and only then, can we truly “do this together.” Beau Simpson is editor of the Now.
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Hepner’s Pollyanna view is troubling Socially speaking The Editor, Re: “With Watts as ally, Hepner’s only obstacle is denial,” the Now, April 16. Linda Hepner was a poor choice for mayor but she was voted in. I see her wanting to deal with the glamour and profile parts of the position but not the detail and dirty work. She seems to have a Pollyanna view of things and I am afraid there is a lack of strong support staff willing to challenge her. It’s a real shame the entire party was voted in as there is no opposition in council to press them on things. Newton was once a safe community – but no longer. This is not due to anything its residents have done but due to a total inaction of city council to foresee and confront the problems residents have been warning them about. As for the city services like fire and police, I see these as politically connected to the current administration. Someone has to get the word out to poke and prod the administration and it would appear that will fall to media and social media. As for the mayor’s attitude? It is disconcerting. It reminds me of a realtor trying to sell a nice young couple a house but failing to tell them about a crack house next door. This mayor is afraid to address the tough issues and feels ignoring the problem will contain it. I guess she is still hoping for that ferris wheel near the Pattullo bridge. D Miller, Surrey
Hepner is clearly in over her head The Editor, I’ve had enough of this, Mayor Hepner. As your early term progresses more and more it looks like you are in over your head for this job as mayor of our city. I never thought I would say that
because I spent several hard working hours canvassing to get you elected. We need more than rhetoric. Show us some solid policy initatives and stop trying to pass the buck. Muttering the word “unbelievable,” Mayor Hepner, is just not good enough. Also, it was only a few weeks ago your council flatly turned down an appeal from a local youth group for funds to rent a club house. This facility would have been an outlet for youths in our community and would have helped to keep them on the straight and narrow. What is the plan? We need to know. Residents are not assured things are under control. Show us that something practical is being done. Orvis Noel, Surrey
Insane growth pace is the real problem The Editor, Re: “Do right thing and help end shooting spree,” the Now editorial, April 16. While the Surrey First regime ramps up into damage control mode once more, massaging the optics and refining ‘the message’, what is the reality of Surrey life, here where we live, in our neighbourhoods? It feels like a war zone like Chicago in the 1920s. And the protagonists are: the peasants (old and new residents who will pay all the outstanding costs of this mayhem for a very long time) the elected rulers (Surrey First) and the battling warlords (those among our investor-developers who don’t seem interested in building sustainable communities). Why focus on them and not the gangs actually doing the shooting? Because I believe that it is the insane pace of neighbourhood disruption that has destroyed the strong communities that produced a healthy culture for raising good kids. Surrey has used a scorched earth policy to wipe out and replace such
communities with super dense warehousing of young families without many of the factors necessary to a good neighbourhood culture. City Hall has chosen to “just build it” – and they indeed did come. But they ignored the good planning practises that insist on schools, plentiful greenspace, tree preservation, community gardens, public squares and good public transit. And last but not least, what happened to community policing? The City of Surrey says we can’t afford these things. Seems to me you can pay one way, or pay another. So who is running this show? Not the residents, that’s for sure. Without engaged citizens, both being heard, and seeing results to their efforts, democracy can’t be found – it hides in a corner ducking bullets. Alisa Wilson, Surrey
Politicians – we reap what we sow The Editor, Re: “Surrey MP Russ Hiebert’s taste for travel won’t be missed,” the Now editorial, April 2. If it is true that we get the politicians we deserve, then the reported lack of respect by this federal Conservative backbencher speaks volumes about our ability to judge who is suitable for such an important function in our society. It appears that, with the exception of our many engaged 50-somethings and stubborn elders, few adults of voting age put much importance on elections or give much effort to in-depth understanding of the issues. And that is the problem right there. Politics is not a lot of fun, compared to all the other choices and requirements on the time of busy people. But we won’t get better results until we insist on a better product and then you have to keep a sharp eye on it while in operation, in case it goes wrong. Alisa Wilson, Surrey
We asked our Facebook followers if they thought it was a good idea to have a beer garden at this year’s Surrey Night Market:
Shauna roed No and the night market sucked last year something tells me it won’t be any better this year and why add more drunks on the roads because our transit system sucks and there won’t be enough busses on the road especially in Surrey to get everyone home in a safe way Yolanda Barrios Nay please. Thelma Graham Yay – other cultures assume that people will be respectful and dignified – it’s about time we did too Ivy p. Starr Hell nope....this will cause problems, don’t care how much of a social boozer you are... booze attracts “those types of people” Sandra durnford riddell Nay sorry Valorie York No... It’ s a family event like a flea market. Don’t add booze. Surrey is having troubles ATM don’t add to the bad reputation and don’t add drunks to a great fun event. ana david emery nooo is either a family event or a drunk fest, they don’t mix Mike Virag Giddy up Christopher George Last year’s night market was TERRIBLE and we have no intention of wasting another night there Marc Schouten Have a curry cook off competition and yes obviously to the beer garden. Teresa pitcher Marshall Never went last year and certainly won’t if there is a beer garden. Jennifer Miller Fletcher Why not? Jamie paul o’Neill Yay
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SoLetItBeDone Tom Zytaruk
So let it be written... It is a small world, after all. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Surrey last week got me thinking about other famous people who have visited these parts over the years. No doubt I’ll forget to mention someone, so if that’s the case, I mean no slight. There are the famous, and then there are the internationally famous. Gotta start, of course, with the King. Elvis Presley made a brief stop at the White Rock train station in 1957, on his way to perform in Vancouver. He apparently didn’t get off the train to greet adoring fans on the platform, though (Sure, it was brief, but it still counts for a visit, right?) For the younger set, two young pop singers also visited Surrey before their celebrity status went beyond megaspectacular. In June 2000, Britney Spears was already well on her way to interstellar fame when she shot a McDonald’s commercial in Cloverdale, along with the Canadian pop group ‘N Sync. Roughly 300 local kids were hired to play “the adoring fans,” screaming at a stage at 176th Street and 64th Avenue while their heroine lip-synced her hit, “Oops...I Did it Again.” Some eight years later, on August 18, 2008, Lady Gaga, at age 22, did a Monday night gig at the Mirage nightclub in Guildford. Tickets were $25. Madonna never came here, as far as I can remember, but some impressive members of the clergy have. Not that I’d number Madonna among them. Pope Tawadros II was in Surrey last year on his first papal visit to Canada.
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He performed the liturgy at St. George Coptic Orthodox Church in Whalley and also visited St. Mary Coptic Church before attending a special luncheon at the Sheraton hotel in Guildford. The Coptic Orthodox Church is an ancient church founded on the teachings of Saint Mark, who brought Christianity to Egypt during Nero’s reign in the first century A.D. There are more than 50,000 Coptic Orthodox Christians throughout Canada, with 74 priests serving some 40 churches. It’s the largest Christian church in Egypt and the Middle East, and has roughly 16 million members worldwide. On the famous speakers circuit, Surrey’s Regional Economic Summits brought in some big-hitters from the worlds of politics and business. Former U.S. presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton spoke before a well-heeled crowd who paid $599 per person to attend the event inside the Sheraton while protestors, cheesed off that Bush was in town, laid siege to the hotel. That was in 2011. The following year British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, which embraces more than 400 companies, was a guest speaker at the Surrey summit. Mickey Rooney, Clint Eastwood, Peter Falk, Morgan Freeman and Gene Simmons are other celebrities who’ve set foot in Surrey. And then there are those “Wha?” moments, like when former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher presided over a ribbon cutting to open a local supermarket. That’s right, the Iron Lady herself. Fondly remembered in some circles as Attila the Hen. She was here, but memory fails me exactly when – it was sometime in the 1990s, I think. A Conservative’s Conservative, Thatcher ruled Britain from 1979 to 1990. In 1982, she waged war on
Britney Spears was in the ‘Now’ in 2000 after she filmed a commercial at McDonald’s in Cloverdale. (File photo) Argentina over the Falkland Islands, and won. She was also the longest serving prime minister of Britain during the past century, and the only woman to hold that office. As far as visits from famous people go, Canadian prime ministers don’t really count because they inevitably drop by whenever there’s an election campaign going on. So I guess they fall into a category of semi-familiars. But one prime ministerial visit does stick out. Jean Chrétien, in an apparent attempt to reveal to the proletariat that he really is that “little guy from Shawinigan” and not merely a privileged lawyer, rolled up in a pickup truck to the Scottsdale McDonalds in North Delta, where he dined on a cheeseburger and fries while the media, rather ridiculously, witnessed the event for posterity from what Chrétien’s handlers evidently considered to be a safe enough distance. Finally, there’s the poet Robert Service. Canada’s greatest rhymester lived in North Surrey in the late 1890s, in a barn at the corner of Smith Road and Chickadee Lane near the bottom of Scott Road hill. Today, that’s 121st Street and 101A Avenue. The “Bard of the Yukon” wrote The Shooting of Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. Local historians contemplated honouring his residency here with a plaque. Not a bad idea. ...So let it be done. Tom Zytaruk can be reached via email at tzytaruk@thenownewspaper.com
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beautiful pink blossom to our 15year-old daughter who recently used transit to get downtown with her friend. When I picked her up at the local “kiss ’n’ ride,” she got off the bus with a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a big smile on her face. I asked, “Did some Romeo give you flowers?” Her smile got even bigger as she said, “These are for you!” She then explained. “What happened was, we were on the Canada Line when this older man got on and I offered him my seat. He replied, ‘Thank you, how kind – but there is no
need as I am off at the very next stop.’ Then he added, ‘Now you make sure to go home and tell your mom what a fine job she did raising you.’” My daughter took those words to heart! She showed her gratitude in radiant colours and a beautiful smile! A red rose to the gentleman for showing his appreciation – and I know he’d be delighted to hear that her dad has played an equal role in raising this fine young lady (gentlemen recognize that in each other). Small acts of kindness have a ripple effect. I hope this inspires all young transit riders to offer your seats to those who look older or more weary than you. You will find, the more you share, the more you have. The more you give, the more you receive. So, red roses to everybody!
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❚ The world’s biggest rose to my mom Eileen, on her 83rd birthday today. Love you mom. ❚ Roses to the clean-up crews who so swiftly removed the trash left on the streets after Vaisakhi day.
❚ Heaping ignorant tomatoes to the jerks who parked their cars in front of residents’ driveways during the Vaisakhi parade. What if the residents had an emergency to attend to? Try to think of somebody else besides yourselves next time, jerks.
❚ Roses to people who are engaged in their communities and show up to forums like the one Tuesday in Surrey. We need to show our elected officials and RCMP that we are fed up with crime. Enough is enough – and it was enough long ago. Our leaders better step up because this has been going on for far too long.
❚ Tomatoes to the street crew fun sucks who leaned heavy on the horn, making people jump off the street as they drove their trucks along the curbs to re-open the streets late Saturday afternoon as the Vaisakhi party wrapped up. People are not cattle. It was like closing time at some bars: drink up, get out.
❚ Roses to the cutest little girl who scooped our ice cream and accepted our payment at Ocean Rock on Marine Drive in White Rock. I hope you get to spend all your earnings on something fun during your next trip!
❚ Rotten tomatoes to Surrey’s mayor, city council and RCMP. What on Earth have they been doing these days while our young gangsters and delinquents keep trying to murder each other, endangering our neighbourhoods?
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NEWTON — “It needs to stop.” Those words, uttered by Mayor Linda Hepner, reflected the public’s consensus at Tuesday’s community forum on crime. Hundreds packed the gym at Tamanawis Secondary to hear what the City of Surrey, school district and Surrey RCMP will be doing to address the latest rash of gunfire: 23 shootings (three in Delta) in six weeks. Most, if not all of the shootings, are believed to be related to a street-level drug turf war between two groups – one of South Asian descent, the other Somalian – though police have been careful not to call it a gang war. “I want you to have confidence that we’re on it, we get it and you can be rest assured that we’re going to do everything we can with all the resources we have available to us,” said Chief Supt. Kevin Hackett, the chief officer of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU-BC). The Q&A panel also included Surrey RCMP Chief Supt. Bill Fordy, Surrey
Schools CEO and Superintendent Dr. Jordan Tinney, and Staff Sgt. Paul Dadwal, who is team commander of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT). Concerns from residents included violence at schools, parental accountability, the social stigma around snitching and distrust of law enforcement by immigrants who have had negative experiences with corrupt police forces in their home countries. Arguably, the most noteworthy statement came from Jesse Sahota, a Tamanawis grad who went from being a juvenile delinquent to now mentoring troubled teenagers through the school district’s Safe Schools program. He referenced the photos of the shooting victims and intended victims released by the RCMP, and described how some youth misconstrued their mugshots as glorification of violence. “I was shocked when a handful of students came up to me and said, ‘Hey, you see this guy? That’s my cousin. I can call him anytime,’” he said. “That’s not why those pictures were released. We don’t want to give a sense of notoriety to these criminals.”
More online For a timeline of the shootings and an interactive map showing the locations in Surrey and Delta, visit us online at Thenownewspaper.com. One young man who attended high school with many of the victims said he wasn’t surprised to see them on the wrong side of the law. He challenged other students who know people involved in the shootings to write down the dedicated tip line and call in any information, even if they think they would be ratting out a friend. “The dial-a-dope guy that was around in my neighbourhood, they found him with
a bullet in his head and his car burned,” he said. “Don’t think of it as snitching. Think of it as saving someone’s life.” While Fordy and Hackett fielded numerous questions, Hepner remained quiet until one man criticized Surrey city council for not being more active in the community. The mayor highlighted the addition of 34 officers to the Surrey RCMP, with another 100 recently approved by Justice Minister Suzanne Anton. Hepner also noted her duties as mayor don’t leave her a lot of time to be visible in the community. Surrey councillors Tom Gill, Bruce Hayne, Vera LeFranc, Mary Martin, Mike Starchuk and Dave Woods were also in attendance, as well as B.C. NDP leader John Horgan and MLAs Sue Hammell, Marvin Hunt, Amrik Virk. Surrey-Newton NDP MLA Harry Bains, whose 22-year-old nephew, Arun Paul Singh Bains, was killed in the latest shooting, did not attend the forum. Anyone with information about the any of the shootings is asked to call the tip line at 604-915-6566 or Crime Stoppers at 1800-222-TIPS (8477).
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SURREY — A former chairwoman of Surrey’s District Parent Advisory Committee says that while people are pressuring the RCMP to stop the shootings, the school system and higher levels of government should also be held accountable. “You’re blaming the wrong people here for the crime problem,” said Patricia Enair, who served as DPAC cochairwoman several years ago. “The crime problem is
caused way before any of the shootings on the street. It’s caused in Surrey schools. It is no parental involvement in the schools. The things that go on in the schools...” Shawn Wilson, chairman of Surrey’s board of education, did not return phone calls by print deadline. There have been 23 shootings in Surrey and North Delta since the beginning of March and police say some of those are the result of a Somali gang and South Asian gang fighting over drug turf. Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner has been under considerable pressure as a result. She said police are doing all they can.
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SURREY — Vehicles whiz up and down 104th Avenue at roughly 3:30 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon. It’s not quite rush hour but the busy corridor is already packed. The City of Surrey is considering the idea of reducing the number of lanes on 104th to make way for its planned LRT system – but the thought of that is mindboggling to Guildford resident Derek Coughtrey. The 80-year-old resident has lived near 103A Avenue and 142nd Street for 34 years and says it would be “total gridlock” if 104th Avenue were to go down to one lane in either direction. Coughtrey noted the road feeds traffic to the Port Mann Bridge and leads directly to both Guildford Town Centre and the TransCanada Highway.
“If you try to squeeze all that traffic into one lane, it’s going to be an impossible situation,” he said. In Surrey’s advertisements promoting a “Yes” vote in the current transportation plebiscite, the city touts a reduction in congestion, but Coughtrey sees lane reduction on 104th as the opposite. “You’re going to reduce congestion by taking a lane off a busy road?” he asked. “I can live with it if they want to put atgrade level, as long as you leave the roads alone or widen the roads to accommodate everything.” Roughly two years ago, B-Line bus service began along 104th and Coughtrey is of the opinion that they satisfy demand. He said he’s been in touch with city staff and has emailed council about his concerns. While he’s upset at the idea of lane loss, he’s more frustrated about feeling his concerns aren’t being listened to. “No one will listen, they don’t give a damn,” he said. “Take it or leave it kind of thing. It’s that attitude… We’re supposed to have community input.” While nothing is finalized, Surrey’s rapid transit and strategic projects manager Paul Lee said it’s “not an unrealistic assertion”
Derek Coughtrey of Guildford says while he’s upset at the idea of lane loss on 104th Avenue, he’s more frustrated about feeling his concerns aren’t being heard. (Photo: AMY REID) to say 104th Avenue will see lane loss to accommodate the planned light rail system. Lee said King George Boulevard and Fraser Highway – the other two corridors LRT is planned to run along – would “definitely maintain two lanes” in either direction, with turning lanes, but the same couldn’t be said for 104th Avenue. He couldn’t promise there would be “no lane loss from end to end,” noting “parts of the roadway is too tight.” The city is in the process of finalizing
alignment plans for LRT on 104th Avenue, and costing it out. More concrete plans are expected later this year. Surrey’s proposed 27-kilometre LRT network would connect City Centre to Guildford on 104th Avenue, City Centre to Newton on King George Boulevard and City Centre to Langley on Fraser Highway. During her election campaign last year, Mayor Linda Hepner promised to have operational light rail in the city by 2018.
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“Arun Bains is known to be associated to the people connected to the street level drug trade conflict,” Sgt. Stephanie Ashton, spokeswoman for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said earlier this week. “People need to remember this is about helping that family find peace,” she added. Bains could not be reached for comment. Surrey RCMP Sgt. Dale Carr said investigators “now more than ever” need tips from those who have information about the shootings. “We need you to come forward with any little bit of information you may have before another young person in killed,” he said. “Our deep concern now is there may be a retaliation incident,” Carr added. “We are appealing to those involved in this ongoing dispute to not take any more lives and to understand that this is more than gunplay, it’s murder.” The Surrey RCMP has set up a tip line dedicated to gathering information about the shootings in Surrey and Delta over the
past six weeks. It is 604-915-6566 and will be monitored 24/7. Police are also investigating a shooting that happened at 11:15 p.m. this past Friday, near 65th Avenue and 121st Street after receiving 911 calls of multiple shots being fired and a dark sedan and newer grey import car leaving the scene. Meantime, IHIT is investigating a suspicious sudden death at a residence in the 13800-block of Hansen Road in Whalley on Saturday. “Upon arrival, officers learned a 57-yearold male had been found deceased by his roommates,” Ashton said. She said police arrested a man, interviewed him and released him without charges pending further investigation. They are now awaiting autopsy results, she said Wednesday. Police are asking anyone who heard a fight in the area, between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. on Friday, to contact IHIT. “It is our belief the victim and suspect knew each other,” Ashton said.
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Events guide CoNCerTS Steve Kozak and His West Coast allstars: Blues band featuring guitarist Kozak performs Friday, April 24 at Blue Frog Studios, White Rock, 8 p.m. Tickets and info: Bluefrogstudios.ca, 604 542-3055. “elton/Billy Live” concert, featuring the music of Elton John and Billy Joel performed by Don Wolf and Mick Dalla-Vee, two shows Saturday, April 25 at Blue Frog Studios, White Rock. Tickets and info: Bluefrogstudios.ca, 604 542-3055. “our Canada” concert featuring Vancouver orpheus Male Choir, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 25 at Northwood United Church, 8855 156th St., Surrey. Tickets range from free to $20 via 604-515-5686, info at Vancouverorpheus.org. 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. Vancouver Symphony orchestra’s Surrey Nights series: Pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane leads orchestra in “Classical Traditions: Beethoven and Haydn” concert, 8 p.m. Monday, April 27 at Bell Performing Arts Centre, Surrey. Tickets: $40, Vancouversymphony.ca, 604-876-3434. alfie Zappacosta: “An intimate evening with” Canadian singer in support of Surrey Hospice & Surrey Fire Fighters’ Charitable Society, 8 p.m. performance on Friday, May 1 at Bell Performing Arts Centre, Surrey. Tickets and info: 604-507-6355, Bellperformingartscentre.com. angel Forrest with paul deslauriers and denis Coulombe: Blues artists in concert 8 p.m. Friday, May 1 at Blue Frog Studios, White
Rock. Show co-presented with White Rock Blues Society. Tickets and info: Bluefrogstudios.ca, 604 542-3055. Jazz Vespers at Northwood United Church: Hour-long concert events on second and fourth Sundays at church, 8855 156th St., Surrey, starting at 4 p.m. Featured on April 26: Karin Plato, piano and vocals.
“High School Musical Jr.”: Classic Steps Stage Productions brings musical to Newton Cultural Centre on Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25. Admission is by donation ($15 min.), email carol@ classicsteps.com for detatils.
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delta arts Council open mic night at Firehall Centre for the Arts (11489 84th Ave., North Delta) on last Friday of each month – next on April 24. “Open Mic gives local talent the opportunity to share and showcase.” Doors open at 7 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $4/person at the door. Info: Deltaartscouncil.ca.
TaLeNT CoNTeSTS “roadhouse Live” 2015 Youth Talent Search for musicians and singers 19 years and under in White Rock/South Surrey, from April 8 to May 27 (Wednesdays, 7 p.m.) at Roadhouse Grille, 1781 King George Blvd., South Surrey. Register by contacting event host Dennis Peterson, email ed.peterson@shaw. ca or phone 604-728-9334.
SHoWS “a Man, a plan, Japan!”: Vancouver-based photographer William Jans brings multimedia travel show to Clova theatre in Surrey on Thursday, April 23 as part of regional tour. Show time 8 p.m., Tickets $20.99 online, via Wrjphoto. com/tickets, and $22.99 at the door.
FeSTIVaLS/FaIrS party for the planet: Annual festival celebrates Earth Day in Surrey with main-stage entertainment by Good For Grapes and Five Alarm Funk, plus many attractions, on Saturday, April 25 at Surrey City Hall and City Centre Library. Free admission, event runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Charlotte Diamond, North Shore Celtic Ensemble and Kiki the Eco Elf also featured, plus Raptors
CoMMUNITY Acclaimed local blues guitarist Steve Kozak brings his West Coast Allstars band to White Rock’s Blue Frog Studios on Friday, April 24. See listing under Concerts. Ridge Birds of Prey, a rock-climbing wall, farmers’ market, tree sale, eco craft station and more. Event details are posted at Surrey. ca/partyfortheplanet.
WreSTLING “rage in a Cage”: All Star Wrestling returns to the Cloverdale Fairgrounds in Alice McKay Building on Saturday April 25 with wresting event, featuring ASW Trans-Canada Title steel cage match between Grangrel and Moondog Manson, plus other matches. Tickets $ 20 front row and $15 general admission. Info: Allstarwrestlingcanada.ca or call 604-710-0872. Tickets also available in advance at The Comics Scene and Central City Comix. Meet the wrestlers after show at Rusty’s Pub.
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. Tartan pride’s Celtic Night on Saturday, April 25 from 7 to 10 p.m. at Cloverdale Catholic Parish Hall, 17475 59th Ave., Surrey. Admission $15 for adults, and $10 for children 12 and under. “A night of Celtic fun and entertainment, with team of premier highland dancers from the Joan Murray School of Dance in Cloverdale. Blackthorn and the Vancouver Police Pipe Band will be guest performers.” Info and tickets: 604-576-1619 or e-mail tpride@ shaw.ca, Tartanpride.ca. Breakout 2015: Seventh annual dance competition will be held at Chandos Pattison Theatre (10238 168th St.) in Surrey on Saturday, April 25. Tickets at door ($15 each), show starts at noon. “Large-scale dance event primarily for Surrey high school dance students,” featuring performances from
beginner to advanced Hip Hop, Jazz, Contemporary and Bhangra dancers, breakdance battle.” Info: surreysecondarydanceteachers. blogspot.ca/2014/12/breakout-2015. html.
THeaTre/STaGe “Quartet”: Ronald Harwood-written play about aging opera singers at a retirement home staged by White Rock Players’ Club, staged until April 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, 604-5367535. “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, to May 16 at Surrey Little Theatre. Tickets at brownpapertickets.com, reservations@surreylittletheatre. com, or by phone 604 576-8451.
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SeNIorS Seniors’ ballroom dancing takes place with an orchestra every Wednesday from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at Kent Street Activity Centre, 1475 Kent St., White Rock. Light refreshments served. Everyone over 50 welcome. Admission $6. April 29: Silver Stars orchestra.
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. Featured film at April 24 event: “How to start a Revolution,” about resolving conflict without violence.
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Ceilidh dance on Friday, May 1 (7:30 pm) at Elks Club, 1469 George St., White Rock, featuring musicians Lindsay Weir & Colvin Garvin from Scotland. Tickets $15, students $8, White Rock Scottish Country Dance Club, Wrscdc.org.
LIBrarY eVeNTS Family History Mystery! Event Saturday, May 2, 10:30am to 12:30pm, at Cloverdale Library. No charge, for teens and adults. “A visiting professor was using Cloverdale Library’s Genealogy resources to do some local Surrey history research. Now he has disappeared! Based on the clues he’s left behind, can you help us locate him? Individual registrants will be assigned a partner.” To register, call 604-598-7327, drop in, or email familyhistory@surrey.ca.
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he City of Surrey tips its hat to Earth Day Saturday (April 25) during its annual Party for the Planet, billed as B.C.’s largest such celebration. The free festival is expected to attract 25,000 people to Surrey City Hall and City Centre Library. After some thorough research – including a somewhat lengthy phone call and many clicks on the website, Surrey.ca/ partyfortheplanet – I’ve come up with a list of five reasons to check out the event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 13450 104th Ave., Surrey:
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A cash-and-carry tree sale has become a popular attraction at the Party. Where else can you plunk down $20 for one of 15 types of trees? Arborists will be on hand to help people pick the best ones – perhaps a Weeping Giant Sequoia or maybe a Kwanzan flowering cherry – for a particular yard, and they’ll also provide tips on how to plant and care for it. They will even help you get the tree to your car, I’m told. New for 2015 is the sale of native plants, for $1 to $3.
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a.m. with a greeting from the mainstage. After that, George will be roaming the event grounds to meet the Party peeps, stopping at noon for a book-reading session at City Centre Library and another reading at the YVR Global Stage (aka city council chambers) at 3 p.m. Also, he’ll participate in a tree-planting event at 2:30 p.m.
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get by with a little help from my friends. These are good lyrics for a song, actually, and also my personal mantra. My friends are key to keeping me informed about all the events in our community that provide copy for this long-running (but, so far, not award-winning) column. Then I can pass them along to everyone. There. Our circle of friends has expanded. We get by with a lot of help from our friends. Lyn Verra Lay has been a friend for longer than I will admit. We shared the stage as witches in a Fraser Valley Gilbert & Sullivan pantomime. She stole the show with her witches broom: a battery-powered Swiffer. Very funny. Now Lyn is ready to be on stage yet again as Ruth in the FVGSS production of The Pirates of Penzance, of which she is also assistant producer. Pirates, the fifth collaboration of Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, sees Frederic, an apprentice to the Pirate King, freed from his indentures on his 21st birthday. On his first day of freedom, he vows to rid the world of the simple band of pirates, then meets and falls in love with the beautiful Mabel. Her father is Major-General Stanley, who is forced to lie to the pirates to save his own life as well as the purity of his many daughters. The pirates soon learn of the deception and, through a simple arithmetical error, are able to recruit Frederic back to their cause. Can Frederic and Mabel’s love survive
this terrible conundrum? Will the MajorGeneral survive at all? This production of The Pirates of Penzance features Terrelle Klose as Mabel, show producer Dann Wilhelm as Frederic, Arne Larsen as The Pirate King, Jim McGroarty as Major-General Stanley, Kathleen McGroarty as Edith, James Walker as Samuel, Katherine Lozada as Kate, Brad Dewar as Sergeant and Melissa Paras as Isabel. Filling in the fun-loving chorus of pirates, policeman and daughters are Jerret Schwartz, Samantha Andrews, Clive Ramroop, Miriah Reitmeier, Ryan “Tiny” Elliott, Lionel Rust, Charles Buettner, Chantelle Anderson, Analyse Tylor, Kate Bergen and Stephen Elcheson. Pirates is directed by Jacqollyne Keath, with music direction by Tim Tucker, choreography by Carol Seitz and stage management by Scott Townsend. Catch a boatload of fun and frolic during the show’s run at the Coast Capital Playhouse from April 29 to May 9. Tickets ($20/$25) are available by calling 604-536-7385, or visit Whiterockplayers.ca. Lyn would like us to know that once again, the FVGSS family includes actual family members. Father-daughter duo Jim and Kathleen McGroarty have leads, Steve Lay (Lyn’s husband) plays bass, and Dann Wilhelm has both his dad Hennie and partner Jennifer involved in the production. And romance is definitely in the air for Pirates; the sergeant of police, Brad Dewar, and Chantelle Anderson (chorus) got engaged! In Pirates, the sergeant sings “a policeman’s lot is not a happy one.” May have to change the tune. see › page 25
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“Our cast is a wonderful amalgamation of community theatre representation,” Lyn explains. “We have members who also perform with White Rock Players, Young People’s Opera Society, Royal Canadian Theatre Company, EJS School of Fine Arts, the Chilliwack Players Guild, Classic Steps Stage Productions and FVGSS alumni and more.” Friends and family. I have more friends in the South Surrey area. Mari Anne Hussen, who has also been on stage with FVGSS productions and is an important member in my tap class, is responsible for the publicity for the St. Mark Concert Series. These concerts not only bring great music to audiences, they also raise funds for St. Mark Ministries, helping those in need. The next concert in the series features Alexander Browne and his Aristocrats on Sunday, May 3 at the parish of St. Mark Ocean Park, 12953 20th Ave., Surrey. Tickets are $15; for info, phone 604-535-8841 or click on Alexbrowne. brownpapertickets.com.
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LOCAL ARTISANS FEATURED CLOTHING & BOOKS FOR A TOONIE !! CAFE AND BAKED GOODS LIVE ENTERTAINMENT Cast members rehearse The Pirates of Penzance at Valley View Funeral Home in Surrey. (Photo: GORD GOBLE) Your ticket price includes refreshments, and you can swing to the music of the roaring ’20s and flirty ’30s, with local journalist Browne as bandleader. Another friend from my tap class is Margaret Sampson. She is also a member of West Coast Harmony Chorus, a Sweet Adelines group. A regional convention for Sweet Adelines is happening on our doorstep May 1 and 2. The event, called “Hooked on Harmony,” will attract 700 women barbershoppers from B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan. The venue is the Chandos Pattison Auditorium, 10238 168th St., Surrey. There will also be a
“mass sing” event at 12:15 p.m. in the centre court area of Guildford Town Centre mall, where a few hundred of Sweet Adelines will gather and sing. Tickets are $25 for the “Show of Champions” concert on May 2 (7:30 p.m.), and can be purchased at the door. Westcoast Harmony Chorus participated in the recent Surrey Sings event, and has received regional, national and international recognition. “This is our 50th year,” Sampson explains, “and we will be celebrating this with a show at the Bell (Performing Arts Centre) on Nov. 21.” Tell all your friends. Tap dancing optional.
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STUDENT DANCE COMPETITION: Teens from across Surrey are set to compete in Breakout 2015, a large-scale dance event primarily for Surrey high school dance students. The seventh annual event, presented by Surrey Secondary Dance Teacher’s Association, will make Chandos Pattison Auditorium (10238 168th St., Surrey) a lively place to be on Saturday, April 25. Doors are open to the public starting at 11:30 a.m.; admission is $15.“Many student groups begin preparing for this event in September and train yearlong to represent their school,” Kate Law, an organizer of Breakout, told the Now. More details are posted at Surreysecondarydanceteachers. blogspot.ca/2014/12/breakout-2015. html.
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CLOVERDALE — American band Blackjack Billy will headline a cancerbattling concert here this summer, along with Tebey, Karen Lee Batten, The Tumblin’ Dice, Dave Hartney, DJ Jaxon Hawks and others. Gone Country, the “Here for the Cure” benefit show, will return to Cloverdale’s Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre on July 25. Early-bird tickets for the event, priced at $29.99, are available until May 1, as are “team 10-pack” tickets, at $250; after that date, the perticket price jumps to $39.99. The annual event was created by twins Chris and Jamie Rucheinski as a way to honour their mother, whose life was taken by breast cancer. In recent years, the gathering has grown significantly to include some big-name performers. “Black Jack Billy will be our first American band that we’ve brought up, and these guys will surely bring a good party vibe with them,” Jamie told the Now last week. Based in Nashville, Blackjack Billy is known for its brand of “redneck rock,” and counts among its songs “The Booze Cruise,” released in the spring of 2013.
This year, the twins have changed things up on the fundraising front, to help individual families. “Basically, we give tickets to people (who) are raising money to help a family suffering from cancer, they sell those tickets, bring us back the money and we cut that family a cheque for the full amount,” Jamie told the Now in an email on April 15. “We’ve had a great response so far, with around 500 tickets being sold by individuals right now. We’ve asked them to sell tickets anywhere from $30 to $50 dollars, so there’s probably around $20,000 going back out into the community, directly helping families.” Also new this time around is a “Stinky Pinky” contest aimed at guys in the crowd. “Men hardly ever voluntarily go in for a checkup,” Jamie explained, “so if they do, and they take a (photo) with their doctor afterwards, they will receive four free tickets to (Gone Country). Early detection is more important than raising money, so if we can get a couple of people in for testing, we’re happy.” More details about Gone Country are online at Twinscancerfundraising.com and also Facebook.com/ TwinsCancerFundraising. tzillich@thenownewspaper.com
Daily lineup for Surrey’s ‘FVDED’ SURREY — The daily lineup for this summer’s FVDED in the Park was released Tuesday (April 21), and includes the addition of Excision, Borgore, Ty Dolla $ign and HUMANS to the artist lineup. The all-ages event will take place at Surrey’s Holland Park on July 3 and 4. Single-day general-admission passes will go on sale Thursday, April 23 at 11 a.m. via Fvdedinthepark.com. The artist lineup on Friday, July 3 includes deadmau5, Tyler, The Creator, Flosstradamus, Danny Brown, Chuckie, Pete Tong, Claude VonStroke, Tommy Kruise, Destructo and Haywyre. On Saturday, July 4, the lineup will be The Weeknd, Afrojack, Excision, The Chainsmokers, Borgore, Ty Dolla $ign, Vic Mensa, TOKiMONSTA, Keys N Krates, Stwo, Botnek, HUMANS, Thugli and Flipout.
Nashville-based band Blackjack Billy will headling this year’s Gone Country benefit concert, set for July 25 at Cloverdale’s Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre.
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I fired some questions at Lee Aaron, Canadian rock-music icon and South Surrey resident: Have you kept all your old “Metal Queen” costumes? “Funny you ask, because my mom recently sent me the actual outfit from the video. She was cleaning out her basement and discovered it in a box with a bunch of other archived Lee Aaron stuff. I’m hanging on to it because you never know when postapocalyptic, barbaric, warrior princess street wear will make a comeback.” What do your kids say when they see the videos you made in the 1980s? “One day my daughter came home from school and told me that a boy in her class was talking about her mom’s video with the giant robot thingy. I assumed she meant ‘Metal Queen,’ with the aluminum drum riser we had constructed that was supposed to look like this epic tarantula with laser-beam eyes. It ended up looking far more like a giant tin turtle, and it wobbled all over the place. After about two minutes of YouTube she said, ‘Is that it – is that what Jayden’s taking about, that thing?’ Apparently you just can’t compete with CGI.” Most people probably don’t know that you joined a band called Lee Aaron and then changed your name to that. Was that confusing for people? “Ha, it was confusing for me. People everywhere just started calling me Lee Aaron and the name sort of became synonymous with myself. My kids think it’s kinda weird when people call their mom ‘Lee’ – except for the time when the cool guy who works at the Guilford LEGO Store recognized me and they got free stuff.” When and why did you move to B.C. and South Surrey, in particular? “In my touring years, I always loved
the natural beauty of the West Coast and thought it would be the ultimate place to raise a family. I still think it is.” Are you still singing jazz standards, as you did in the mid-2000s? “Yes, but not exclusively. I love jazz and still get calls to perform from The Great American Songbook. It’s fun to get my Anita O’Day on once in a while.” What was it like being part of the album and book “Metal on Ice: Tales from Canada’s Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Heroes” in 2013? “It was so much fun reminiscing about that period of rock history, and the subsequent CMW concert reconnected so many of us again. Probably the best thing to come out it was the great friendship and writing partnership I forged with Sean Kelly, the book’s author. He is a fantastic guitarist and we ended up co-writing half my forthcoming rock record together, and he’s performing in my live band.” What’s on your iPod right now? “You mean smart-phone, right?
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Andy Suitela has taught boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, muay thai and jiu jitsu at his Newton gym for two decades. He has seen the popularity of different combat sports rise and fall over the years, but has kept on top of the latest fighting trends. (Photo: JACOB ZINN) Suitela trained under his dad’s watch for 22 years, entering his first tournament at five and retiring from in-ring competition at 27 – arguably before his prime, but as he put it, “Sometimes the preparation for the fight can be more brutal than the fight itself.” Around that time, Surrey had seen an influx of “McDojos,” martial arts schools that overcharge without properly teaching forms of combat. Wanting to create a legitimate club to share his knowledge, Suitela opened his own fight club in 1995. “My goal was to create a club that I didn’t train at,” he said.
“I wanted to have a ring, the proper equipment, the right coaching, and I wanted to give the instruction that I didn’t receive myself. I received good instruction from my dad and other instructors, but it came sporadically.” Suitela has seen interest in different martial arts fluctuate over the years. The rise of UFC has led to an increased interest in muay thai and jiu jitsu, but he admits it’s not for everyone. “People are jumping on the MMA bandwagon, but they don’t know sometimes who they are themselves,” he said. “Sometimes, a person comes in for jiu jitsu,
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and then they see what the boxers do and think, I might want to do that too. “There’s a martial art for everybody. Anybody can do it regardless of gender, age, physical fitness.” Suitela’s classes are filled with the usual 18-to-36 male MMA fans, but also single moms, doctors and corrections officers looking for recreation or to learn self-defence. “If you’re going to be in law enforcement, at some point, you’re going to be training handto-hand combat,” said Suitela. “Many police officers go an entire career without pulling their
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weapon, but they do get into altercations and they do have to get people down.” Likewise, Suitela offers courses for kids to learn martial arts – and he assures parents their children won’t become more violent as a result, noting he teaches respect, discipline and conflict resolution. “Diplomacy first until someone lays hands on you. You can talk your way out of just about any situation without throwing a kick or a punch.” And don’t think combat sports are only for fighting or selfdefence. Suitela said athletes from a wide range of sports – hockey, soccer, lacrosse, baseball, rugby and ringette, to name a few – use fighting as exercise to build core strength, agility and endurance in their respective fields. “In an hour, if you give 100 per cent, you’re going to burn about 600 to 900 calories,” he said. “We define and tone muscles – we make you faster and stronger.” Suitela has trained many fighters over the years, but he recognizes that, to most of the people who walk through the front door, his club isn’t just a place to learn how to throw hands. Whether training for bouts or for exercise, it’s an exciting alternative to the weightlifting and cardio routines of other gyms. “Most people come here for recreational reasons only,” he said. “They’re looking for something that is unique and different.”
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