Your Weekly Clover Valley Newspaper Y our Wee k k l l y y C C l l o o ver Valley Newspaper July 15, 2015 www.CloverdaleReporter.com Random killing ‘pointless’ loss By Jennifer Lang To anyone acquainted with Jim Mason, it might be hard to picture the long-time Cloverdale businessman kicking back in a remote log cabin, or peeling rubber at Ashcroſt Speedway in a classic hot rod (his own – a 1943 Ford). But now that he and his wife Nola have stepped aside from their family-run fur- niture store, Masons Cloverdale Home Furnishings, that’s exactly how he’ll roll. Instead of presiding over a well-ap- pointed showroom in the historic heart of Surrey, picture him puttering around a cozy workshop or tinkering dockside, ready to set off for a day of fishing. For a man who’s worked steady since the age of 16, it’s been difficult to imagine one day retiring. “I used to say I was going to retire in 10 years. And five years later, I was still saying I was going to retire in 10 years,” said Jim in a recent wide-ranging inter- view about his four decades as a furniture business entrepreneur. “I realized I needed to set a date.” at date was June 30. ere was no party. No fuss. Just a quiet handing over of the reins to his son, Derek, 35, who is buying the business. Furniture baron calls it a day By Jennifer Lang e man who was killed late Sunday eve- ning in Cloverdale was trying to prevent a break in, police said Monday, calling the tragic event a random shooting. Police say the victim, 42-year-old Colin Hill, was shot during an alteration that took place just before midnight July 12. Investigators believe the shooting was random. e men did not know each other. Police say Hill confronted a man trying to break into his home in the 16500-block of 64 Avenue. e suspect, a 22-year-old Surrey male, was arrested two hours later in an apart- ment block in Burnaby, aſter a witness reported a male brandishing a gun and attempting a break in. e suspect and ve- hicle description matched. “I am still angry at the pointless loss of life,” said Chief Superintendent Bill Fordy, Officer in Charge of the Surrey RCMP. e shooting is not believed to be related to the drug turf war that’s brought more than 30 shootings to the city since March 8. Anyone with information about Sunday night’s shooting is asked to call the Integrat- ed Homicide Investigation Team tip line at 1-877-551-4448 (IHIT). Shots land in bakery Shots were fired into the front window of COBS Bread at Clayton Crossing early Sun- day morning in an incident police are for now describing as a random act. At around 2:12 a.m. July 12, police re- sponded to a report of shots fired into the window of the bakery. No one was injured, but shell casings were found on the scene. Anyone with further information is asked to contact Surrey RCMP at 604-599- 0502 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477. String theory JENNIFER LANG PHOTO These teens were one the string ensembles that serenaded downtown Cloverdale with live classical music last week. Carlina (top left) of Surrey, Juliana of Alberta, Hanna from Germany, Leah from Ontario (bottom left) and Emily, also from Surrey, were attending a summer music camp hosted at the Canadian Reform Church. For more, turn to page 10. Jim and Nola Mason retire from the furniture business See ‘PEOPLE” / Page 3 www.cloverdaledentalclinic.com WELCOMING NEW PATIENTS 835-17685 64th Ave CLOVERDALE (located next to London Drugs) 778-571-0800 AFFORDABLE INDEPENDENT LIVING 17528 59 TH AVE SURREY | 778-373-0299 | BETHSHANGARDENS.ORG Owned by Cloverdale Seniors Citizen Housing Society RETIREMENT RESIDENCE BETHSHANGARDENS ORG RETIREMENT RESIDENCE Call today for a tour 778.373.0299 $ 2,275 standard one-bedroom per month ethshan Gardens at Be liv e life MacMILLAN MacMILLAN TUCKER TUCKER & MACKAY MACKAY Our goal is to provide you with top quality service in a comfortable, friendly environment. ICBC CLAIMS & GENERAL PRACTICE “Your Cloverdale Law Firm” LOCATED in the heart of Cloverdale 604-574-7431 www.mactuc.com 5690 - 176A Street, Surrey Surrey ◆ Richmond ◆ Victoria ◆ Edmonton mytiletown.ca 6592-176th Street, Surrey 604 ◆ 576 ◆ 3189 604-574-0161 katronisrealestate.com REAL ESTATE TEAM
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Random killing‘pointless’ loss
By Jennifer LangTo anyone acquainted with Jim Mason,
it might be hard to picture the long-time Cloverdale businessman kicking back in a remote log cabin, or peeling rubber at Ashcroft Speedway in a classic hot rod (his own – a 1943 Ford).
But now that he and his wife Nola have stepped aside from their family-run fur-niture store, Masons Cloverdale Home Furnishings, that’s exactly how he’ll roll.
Instead of presiding over a well-ap-pointed showroom in the historic heart of Surrey, picture him puttering around a cozy workshop or tinkering dockside, ready to set off for a day of fi shing.
For a man who’s worked steady since the age of 16, it’s been diffi cult to imagine one day retiring.
“I used to say I was going to retire in 10 years. And fi ve years later, I was still saying I was going to retire in 10 years,” said Jim in a recent wide-ranging inter-view about his four decades as a furniture business entrepreneur.
“I realized I needed to set a date.” Th at date was June 30. Th ere was no party. No fuss. Just a quiet handing over of the reins to his son, Derek, 35, who is buying the business.
Furniture baron calls it a day
By Jennifer LangTh e man who was killed late Sunday eve-
ning in Cloverdale was trying to prevent a break in, police said Monday, calling the tragic event a random shooting.
Police say the victim, 42-year-old Colin Hill, was shot during an alteration that took place just before midnight July 12.
Investigators believe the shooting was random. Th e men did not know each other. Police say Hill confronted a man trying to break into his home in the 16500-block of 64 Avenue.
Th e suspect, a 22-year-old Surrey male, was arrested two hours later in an apart-ment block in Burnaby, aft er a witness reported a male brandishing a gun and attempting a break in. Th e suspect and ve-hicle description matched.
“I am still angry at the pointless loss of life,” said Chief Superintendent Bill Fordy,
Offi cer in Charge of the Surrey RCMP. Th e shooting is not believed to be related to the drug turf war that’s brought more than 30 shootings to the city since March 8.
Anyone with information about Sunday night’s shooting is asked to call the Integrat-ed Homicide Investigation Team tip line at 1-877-551-4448 (IHIT).
Shots land in bakeryShots were fi red into the front window of
COBS Bread at Clayton Crossing early Sun-day morning in an incident police are for now describing as a random act.
At around 2:12 a.m. July 12, police re-sponded to a report of shots fi red into the window of the bakery. No one was injured, but shell casings were found on the scene.
Anyone with further information is asked to contact Surrey RCMP at 604-599-0502 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
String theory
JENNIFER LANG PHOTOThese teens were one the string ensembles that serenaded downtown Cloverdale with live classical music last week. Carlina (top left) of Surrey, Juliana of Alberta, Hanna from Germany, Leah from Ontario (bottom left) and Emily, also from Surrey, were attending a summer music camp hosted at the Canadian Reform Church. For more, turn to page 10.
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B.C. appetite for pot reform riding highBy Jeff NagelB.C.’s has a strong appetite for
marijuana reform with more than 70 per cent of respondents to a new poll urging either legalization or decriminalization.
Th e Insights West survey found 67 per cent said they support outright legalization, 28 per cent opposed it and fi ve per cent were undecided.
Support was slightly stronger among women, the under-35 age group and Vancouver Island resi-dents, but at least 65 per cent back legalization in every region and within each age group.
“Th ere’s a lot of support for this,” said Insights West vice-president Mario Canseco.
He said the results are a further climb from about 55 per cent support in B.C. a decade ago,
and follows legalization moves in U.S. states and a growing number of B.C. public fi gures endorsing reform over the years.
A separate question asked which pot reform option most closely fi ts their view.
Legalization was on top with 38 per cent, while 24 per cent said it should be decriminalized, 27 per cent said it should only be avail-able for medical purposes, and seven per cent want it to always be illegal.
Asked about the pros and cons of legalization, 87 per cent said taxing pot would generate useful revenues and more than three-quarters said cannabis has legiti-mate medical and health benefi ts, existing dispensaries are a safer method of access than drug deal-ers, and that legalization would let
police focus on other priorities. Sixty-seven per cent believed gang violence tied to the illegal drug trade would decline.
Presented with a list of argu-ments against legalization, the top
concern cited by 58 per cent was that it would result in more drug-impaired driving.
Relatively few (35 per cent or less) agreed with concerns ex-pressed by federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose – that legalization would increase risks of mental illness such as schizophrenia in some users and lead to greater use among children and teens.
More than two-thirds of those polled endorsed the City of Vancouver decision to regu-late existing medical marijuana dispensaries that sell pot illegally there rather than shut them down as Ambrose urged.
Canseco said the tough talk from Ambrose in recent weeks is likely aimed at buffi ng the Tories tough-on-crime reputation to hang onto Conservative votes
elsewhere in Canada leading up to this fall’s federal election.
“I don’t think she was appealing to the B.C. voters,” he said. “I think she was appealing to the hard core Conservative base in other parts of the country that don’t want to see this legalized.”
Health Canada last week an-nounced it will now let approved commercial producers of medical marijuana make and sell cannabis oil – in addition to dried bud – but not other edible products such as pot brownies and cookies.
Th at move followed a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in June that it is unconstitutional for the government to limit access to medical marijuana to just the dried form.
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FILE PHOTOSupport for marijuana reform was slightly stronger among women.
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Nola found the de-cision to retire much easier. When asked what she’ll miss about working, she laughed, admitting with a smile, “Nothing!”
Jim and Nola Mason have been fi xtures of the retail scene in Clover-dale since Jan. 15, 1992, when Masons Clover-dale Home Furnishings opened for business.
A young Jim Mason got his start in 1974, when he and his father went into the retail busi-ness in north Burnaby, opening Mason’s TV and Stereo.
Just a few years later, they bought a furniture store at 70th and Gran-ville Street in Vancou-ver’s Marpole District.
By that time, Jim and Nola had moved to Fort Langley, where they had a home and started raising a family – three boys: Jim Jr., Derek and Curtis.
Jim Mason was al-ready tiring of the lengthy commute from the Valley to Marpole in 1979 or ’80 when Fortune played a hand. Ed and Lou Hunter, the owners of Cloverdale Home Furnishings at 5767 176 Street, Surrey, were in a pinch. Th eir furniture store was de-stroyed by fi re, and a shipment of new fur-nishings in transit was on its way.
A mutual vendor told Jim Mason about the problem and he stepped up with storage space until the Cloverdale fur-niture company could rebuild.
“Th at’s when I met Ed, and we kept in contact,” says Jim. “I told him, when he’s interested in retiring, I’m interested in buying his buildings in Cloverdale.”
Th e deal wouldn’t come to fruition for another 15 years or so, but when it did, Jim knew it would be cru-cial to keep the origi-nal name as part of the new store. So he simply added his own surname, Mason’s, to the original moniker. It had been the same with Fawcett
Furnishings in Marpole, re-branded under new ownership as Fawcett Mason’s Furnishings as a gesture of goodwill to faithful customers.
Keeping the original “Cloverdale Home Fur-nishings” in the new name was critical to Mason’s plans for his move to main street in the historic Surrey dis-trict when advertising.
“People like ‘Clover-dale’,” he explains. “We very intentionally re-tained and pushed it in all of our advertising. It puts us on the map.”
Today, customers come from Vancouver, Kelowna and Vancou-ver Island.
Th ey’re drawn to the store’s reputation of good quality furniture – with a low price guar-antee – and unmatched customer service.
“We have a very high rate of repeat and refer-ral customers,” he says proudly. “People buy furniture so infrequent-ly, they oft en don’t know where to begin,” he adds. “We take a lot of time to explain because
they don’t know what to ask about furniture.”
Over the past 20 years, the business has evolved and expanded, growing to include me-dium and higher-end products, and mov-ing with the times. “As things changed, we changed,” he says. Where possible, they feature quality Cana-dian manufacturers of
home furnishings and mattresses.
Customers like that it’s a family business. “Even employees be-come part of the family,” he says.
In addition to Derek, Jim and Nola, there’s Alyson Brent and Ivan Schubert, a Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary student who works part time in the warehouse and who is the fourth brother in the Schubert family to work for Ma-son’s Cloverdale Home Furnishings.
“I like to say, ‘We are in the making-people-happy business,” he says.
Th e furniture busi-ness is all about devel-oping a relationship
with the customer.“We have to fi gure
out their needs,” he says. “Th ey know they need furniture, but oft en, it’s not defi ned. When we spend time up front, we get a happy customer. When people have a good experience, they go out of their way to tell friends and rela-tives.”
Th ere have been dif-fi cult times, and re-warding times. “I’ve passed this onto Derek: ‘It doesn’t matter how tough it gets. When you’re determined, you can get through it with a smile and your cus-tomers aren’t aware of the diffi cult circum-stances.’”
It’s only been in re-cent years Jim and Nola have been able to scale back to working just fi ve days a week, and taking long weekends and va-cations.
Canim Lake in the Cariboo-Chilcotin has been a favourite get-away.
Jim says he couldn’t picture what retirement would look like. Until, that is, they bought a waterfront cabin at the retreat.
Th at’s when he start-ed realizing that there’s more to life than just work, and began focus-ing on life beyond the furniture showroom.
He’ll remain a prop-
erty owner of several buildings downtown, including Mason’s Home Furnishings.
He also plans to re-main an active force as a director of the Clover-dale Business Improve-ment Association.
“I expected when I moved here in ‘92 in fi ve years we would see a more dramatic turn-around. We are on the cusp of blossoming as a town centre.”
From page one
We’re in the Making People Happy business: Jim Mason
JENNIFER LANG PHOTODerek Mason, left, has taken over the reins at Mason’s Cloverdale Home Furnishings. His mom Nola and dad Jim are retiring.
‘People like ‘Cloverdale.’ We very intentionally retained and pushed it in all of our advertising. It put us on the map.’- Jim Mason, Mason’s Cloverdale Home
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COUNTRY FEST 2015July 25 (10 a.m. to 10 p.m) and 26 (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) at Maple Ridge Fair Grounds, free admission. Parking $2. Ode to garlic celebration and Cat Fanciers of B.C. Show, 4-H shows, sheep shearing, sheepdogs, open poultry. Beer garden. http://www.mrpmcountryfest.com.
BARD IN THE VALLEYBard in the Valley presents Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost at Township 7 Winery July 10-12, and July 17 and 18 (tickets $20, evening performances begin at 7 p.m., with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.). The production is also being staged at Spirit Square Stage in Douglas Park in Langley City July 23-26, July 30, 31 and Aug. 1-2. Evening performances are at 7 p.m., and Sunday matinees are 2 p.m. Free. For more information, visit bardinthevalley.com.
CLOVERDALE’S MARKET DAY SIDEWALK SALESaturday, July 25. Plants, produce, music, jewelry, gifts, treats and eats and more. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., 176 Street, downtown Cloverdale. For info email [email protected].
KIDS SWAP MEET/COMMUNITY GARAGE SALEJellybean Park hosts a children’s swap meet and community garage sale Saturday, July 25 (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) at 19615 Willowbrook Dr., Langley. To reserve a table (provided free) call Robyn or Shiobhon at 604-539-9898. The Prodigy Child Society is a fund to help subsidize fees to attend Jellybean Park.
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CLOVERDALE HORSESHOE CLUBCloverdale Horseshoe Club Pitching Season is April 1 to Sept. 31 with practice nights at 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 17886 64 Ave., Cloverdale. Pitching shoes is a healthy activity for all ages. And great family fun, for more information check out our web page at www.cloverdalehorseshoeclub.com also call Jim at 604 585.6831 or Cheryl at 604.593.8193.
TOPSTOPS – Take Off Pounds Sensibly – meets at 7 p.m. every Wednesday at the Cloverdale Library, 5642, 176A Street, Surrey, in the upstairs meeting room. For more information, phone LInda at 604-462-9326.
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Human hypocrisyA few years ago I read about
an Alberta aboriginal senior citizen who had insisted upon animal-control offi cials not dis-turbing – let alone snuffi ng out – a couple of adult bears that were invading her garbage containers.
As bitterly ironic fate would have it, a few days later those bears, somehow, got into physi-cal contact with the woman and
mortally mauled her.When I read about it, I felt
naught but admiration for that woman: I believe(d) that she so much respected nature, though especially the animal life, that she in essence sacrifi ced her life for their lives and freedom.
When are we going to clearly acknowledge the great injustices being committed against wild animals (in this case stray adult bears and their cubs near Port
Hardy) by human encroach-ment via deforestation and de-velopment on the animals’ natu-ral home grounds that had been theirs many millennia before colonization?
Too many stray wild bears, and other such potentially dan-gerous animals, are being killed when they behave in a threaten-ing manner towards humans.
Th us we’re ready and will-ing to kill them when we could
make it a regulated rule to dose them with as much potent tran-quilizer as is necessary to encase and relocate them all, alive and well.
But it appears that humanity’s superior-minded nature allows our collective conscience to sim-ply shoot dead such animals for reacting in their natural, preda-tory manner.
Frank Sterle Jr.White Rock
Surrey ‘grandmom’ is grateful to fi re, ambulance and hospital staff after suffering a spill
To the editor;Yesterday I slipped while playing with my
grandson and landed on concrete pavers. Blood was everywhere and I couldn’t see the damage to my eye.
We called 911 and within fi ve minutes the fi re department was there and a few minutes later the ambulance arrived and trans-ported me to Surrey Memorial Hospital.
I was triaged within minutes and sent to Acute Care 3. A little while later a surgeon took me into a room, cleaned my eye area and informed me I needed about
eight stitches for my eye and X-rays for my knees.
I have never had a stitch in all of my 63 years and was very nervous. A nurse came
in to prep me, clean the mas-sive amounts of blood in my hair and use a special road rash scrub brush to remove the debris from my knees. All the while I am trying not to cry, she was so gentle. My eye got stitched, X-rays taken and then
my knees were bandaged up. I am absolutely amazed at all the care and
attention I received and the professionalism
of the fi refi ghters, paramedics, staff , nurses, technicians and the surgeon who gave me four needles and tried to comfort me as he was administering the freezing.
I am so glad I live in Surrey and thank you to everyone who helped along the way, espe-cially the fi re fi ghters who helped calm my 7-year-old grandson down who only could see blood everywhere and was so worried about his grandmom.
Th ank you again, Surrey!
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To the editor
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JENNIFER LANG PHOTOCanada’s Labour Minister Dr. Kellie Leitch, top left, listens to Yvonne Hogenes speaking at a round-table discussion last week in Cloverdale. Leitch, who is also Minister of Status of Women, met with local businesswomen at the joint offi ces of the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce and Cloverdale BIA. Hogenes, who owns Malary’s Fashion Network, a clothing boutique, says it can be frustrating for entrepreneurs trying to qualify for assistance in expanding their businesses. The minister touched on several federal initiatives, including a new action plan for women entrepreneurs announced in this year’s budget. Leitch said the plan provides capital for women-owned fi rms to expand, encourages greater participation of women in international trade missions, and includes a mentorship program that asks successful businesspeople to pick a woman under 35 and become her champion for a year. Leitch, who put herself through medical school by running a moving company, has become ‘very focused on women entrepreneurs’ since becoming Minister of Status of Women. ‘Fourteen to 15 per cent of small and medium-sized businesses are owned an operated by women like yourself,’ she said, adding those businesses generated over $140 billion in economic wealth in 2013 and employed 1.6 million Ca-nadians. ‘So, you punch above your weight. You donate more back into your local communities in dollars and volunteer time.’ A 10 per cent increase in women running their own businesses each year represents a $50 billion increase to the Canadian economy, she added. ‘It’s a quantum leap.’
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Leave pets at home, owners are advised
By Evan SealIt’s not cool to leave a
hot dog in your car.Th at’s the message
the City of Surrey, BC SPCA and local emer-gency personnel want to get out to the public during this extremely hot, dry summer.
Last Th ursday aft er-noon, offi cials were on hand at Guildford Town
Centre encouraging pet owners to leave their animals at home on hot summer days rather than leave them in ve-hicles while they run errands throughout the city.
Last year, the BC SPCA received more than 1,100 calls for dogs locked in hot vehicles and the numbers are
even larger this year, said Lori Chortyk, gen-eral manager of com-munity relations for the BC SPCA.
“Many well-meaning guardians leave their pets in parked vehicles while they run errands, thinking they will be safe for a short period,” she said. “Tragically, in hot weather, their pets can suff er serious heat-stroke and die in a mat-ter of minutes.”
Earlier last week, Sur-rey bylaw offi cers re-sponded to a complaint of a dog locked in a ve-hicle at 4:30 p.m.
When they arrived, they found a dog inside a car that had an inside temperature of 38 de-grees Celsius (115 de-grees Fahrenheit).
Th e owner of the dog was issued a $500 fi ne.
“Th is is a completely preventable off ense,” said Kim Marosevich, city bylaw operations manager.
“Yes, we have all these tools to remove the ani-mal, but we don’t want to be doing that in the fi rst place.”
Since dogs have no sweat glands, they cool
down by panting or by releasing heat through their paws. Oft en the air inside a vehicle and the upholstery are so hot the animals are unable to cool off and can suf-fer irreparable organ or brain damage in a mat-ter of 10 to 20 minutes.
Surrey Coun. Mary Martin was given an opportunity to sit in-side one of the vehicles parked at the mall to fully understand what dogs go through. Using a hand-held tempera-ture sensor, BC SPCA Special Constable Ei-leen Drever got a read-ing of 33 degree Celsius off the pavement and 45 degrees Celsius inside the BC SPCA vehicle.
Within fi ve minutes, Martin found the heat unbearable.
If you see a dog in distress, the RCMP does not recommend residents take the law into their own hands, as breaking a car window is a crime and they can be charged.
Instead they encour-age citizens to contact the City of Surrey or BC SPCA, or call 911.
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EVAN SEAL / BLACK PRESSRCMP Cpl. Scotty Shumann and BC SPCA animal protection offi cer Eileen Drever get a kiss from Shumann’s two dogs, Boo, an Australian shepherd, and Ryker, a border collie, during a heat safety press conference last week.
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B.C. tightens rules for care of dairy cattle
By Tom FletcherTh e B.C. government
is adopting national standards for care of dairy cattle, a measure called for by the SPCA aft er a video surfaced showing abuse of cows last year at a Chilliwack farm.
Th e National Dairy Code of Practice covers shelter, feed and water as well as veterinary care and handling practices. It prohibits electric prods, hitting, kicking and shouting when handling cattle.
Th e code also de-mands that dairy farms recognize the compan-ionship needs of cattle, and that their barns need adequate lighting and non-slip fl oors.
Eight employees of Chilliwack Cattle Sales, Canada’s largest dairy farm, were fi red last June aft er a video showed them beating cows with sticks, chains and rakes. Th e B.C. Milk Marketing Board lift ed its ban on milk purchases from the
farm aft er inspecting its operation and imposing monitoring on it.
Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick an-nounced the adoption of the code at the BC SPCA’s Education and Adoption Centre in Cloverdale July 8.
He said the specifi c standards will help in-dustry regulators and judges determine if cru-
elty to animals has been committed.
Th e SPCA recom-mended charges of wil-fully causing “unnec-essary pain, suff ering and injury to animals” against the former Chilliwack employees, but Crown prosecutors have not yet decided on whether to proceed.
Marcie Moriarty, chief prevention and
enforcement offi cer of the B.C. SPCA, praised the adoption of the new code.
“We can’t change the past but we can change the present and aff ect the future,” Moriarty said. “Hopefully we won’t ever see a repeat of what happened last year.”
Th e B.C. SPCA receives an average of 8,800 cruelty com-plaints a year. About a quarter of those involve farm animals, but most of those involve treat-ment of horses. Mo-riarty said complaints about dairy farms are rare.
Dave Eto, CEO of the B.C. Dairy Associa-tion, said he welcomes whistleblowers such as the employee who cap-tured video of the abuse in Chilliwack.
“It’s somewhat self-destructive for a farmer to want to have animal abuse, especially for dairy cows,” Eto said. “An unhappy cow does not produce milk.”
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String performers serenade Main Street
JENNIFER LANG PHOTOThree out of four members of ‘Supreme Quintet’ wait their turn to perform outside Clo-verdale Pharmasave at 5778 176A Street.
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Th e performers were participants at the ninth annual Reformed String Camp, a summer music camp for youth taking place July 6-11 at the Canadian Reformed Church.
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A lifeline of support
JENNIFER LANG PHOTORepresentatives from a range of non-profi t organi-zations and charities pose with members of the the Ladies Auxiliary to Royal Canadian Legion Branch 6 at a recent luncheon.
By Jennifer LangTo those whom they quietly assist, the members
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Th e Ladies Auxiliary has been around just as long as Royal Canadian Legion Branch 6 – 88 years. Both groups raise funds for the community, distributing thousands of dollars each year.
In the past three years, the Ladies’ Auxiliary to Branch 6 has disbursed $46,000 to community or-ganizations. (Provincially, Ladies Auxiliaries raised $2.1 million in 2014.)
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Th e donations help those organizations make a greater impact, according to representatives from the recipient groups, who used the event as an op-portunity to spread awareness of the kind of work they perform.
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It was also an opportunity for recipients to thank the Ladies’ Auxiliary for its generosity.
Zion Park Manor, a long-term care facility in Clo-verdale, currently cares for 99 seniors. Th e $1,000 donation will go along way towards setting up a pond and waterfall at the residence, according to representative Earle Hastings, speaking at the event.
Evelyn, a black lab and guide dog in training, was among the recipients on hand for the luncheon, sit-ting quietly underneath a dining table until it was time for human representatives of the B.C. Guide Dog Association to accept a donation of $1,000. Th e association has trained 109 guide dog teams and another 33 autism support teams.
Another recipient was the Semiahmoo Peninsula Marine Rescue Society, an organization with 30 waterrescue volunteers that’s active in the White Rock and Boundary Bay areas.
George Derby Centre has received a $2,000 dona-tion, along with another $5,000 from the provincial Ladies Auxiliary. Th e centre is home to 300 resi-dents, including about 200 B.C. veterans.
“We cannot be successful without our commu-nity partners,” said Ricky Swan, executive director of George Derby centre. Th e Ladies Auxiliary is the biggest.”
In all, $16,750 was donated to worthwhile causes in Surrey, along with Vancouver, Burnaby, Langley and Delta:
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ACROSS1. Bone: Prefix5. Nosy Parker10. Settles14. Made haste18. Form of "John"19. According to --20. Band21. Olympian queen22. Like a tough guy:
Hyph.24. Perfect: Hyph.26. Guarantees27. White poplar29. Hulled grain30. Mound31. Cell terminal32. Position33. Did a kitchen job36. -- -relievo37. Store for stoners:
2 wds.41. Rubber43. Swindles46. A pronoun47. Vietnamese New
Year48. Old Greek dialect50. Certain musician52. Q-U link53. Letters54. Dutch painter55. Woody stems56. Taylor or Puente58. Signal-amplifier60. Bullets61. Noteworthy
achievements62. Seed covers63. Gem64. Soursop relative65. Wheedle67. -- from the past68. Reprimands:
2 wds.71. Lower72. Hayrack73. Variety of pasta
74. Nav. device75. Butt76. Diminish in
strength78. Smithy79. School-success
meas.80. Wood sorrel81. Prude: 2 wds.83. Telephoned86. St. Valentine's Day
event89. Bolus90. Cubic meter91. Leave
unmentioned92. Plummets94. Baize-like material96. Frightens99. Fruity dessert100. Imbricate104. Hoodwinked106. Baloney!109. River in Germany110. Awaken111. Zenith's opposite112. Tea wagon113. Drinking spree114. Weeps115. Austin or Chapman116. Cal. abbr.
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16. Formerly, formerly17. Salad --20. Shake off23. Figure on a cake25. Walked on28. Increase31. Very weary: Hyph.32. Tractor trailers33. Discourage34. "Goodnight, --"35. Something
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annoyance38. Swindle39. Early stage40. "For -- sake!"42. Disconcert44. Show with pride45. Fencing movement49. Links items51. -- sec54. Took the QE255. Stuffy57. Times past59. A primordial god60. Flower part61. Truckled63. Blackboard64. Pain65. Shot in billiards66. Manila hemp
67. Dern or Lee
68. Green gem
69. Part of 5-Down
70. Hebrew letter: Var.
72. Coquette
73. Surveys
77. Cousins to canines
78. Smart-alecky
82. Body of poetry
84. Skerries
85. Draw
87. Fruity dessert
88. Bullets and bombs
92. Array
93. Midway attraction
94. -- acid
95. Any
96. Further
97. French composer
98. Speaker's stand in
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99. Bludgeon
101. Party on a beach
102. Israeli port
103. Favorites
105. Park of a kind
107. Standard
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