Your Weekly Clover Valley Newspaper Your Wee k k l l y y C C l l o o ver Valley Newspaper May 1, 2014 www.CloverdaleReporter.com 604-575-2405 Watts won’t run again By Kevin Diakiw Looking as relaxed as she has in years, Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts sat in the meditation room of her Cloverdale home and said what many pre- dicted, but none have been able to confirm until now. “I’m not running for mayor this fall,” Watts told Black Press in an interview last week, two days before making her formal announcement at the grand opening of the new city hall. Her reason for leaving is simple, she said. From the time she was elected mayor in 2005, Watts said she has made it clear she would serve no longer than three terms. She is coming to the end of that self-imposed time limit. As to where she’ll be going next, she insists she’s unsure. “I don’t know what’s around the corner,” she says. “It’s just a new chap- ter. I find that settling.” e room she sits in was once a home office where she burned the midnight oil on civic business. It’s now been stripped of the desk; the only piece of furniture remaining is a large meditation chair. Buddha Ferrari driver clocked at 100 km/h over limit By Jennifer Lang A 49-year-old Langley man told police he was just “testing” his Ferrari when it was clocked last Saturday in Surrey going more than 100 km/h over the posted limit. e man was pulled over without incident by the Fraser Valley Integrated Road Safety Unit as the vehicle was traveling south- bound on 176 Street and 32 Avenue. Officers were surprised to discover a child in the car. What’s more, the driver was aware it was the same intersection that was the scene of a horrific crash last April that claimed five members of the same family. “He remembered that crash,” said Cpl. Robert McDonald of “E” Division RCMP traffic services. e man told police he’d purchased the grey 2005 Ferrari F30 a few days earlier and was “just testing it out,” McDonald said. e driver was fined $483 – the maxi- mum penalty under the Motor Vehicle Act for excessive speed – and the vehicle was impounded for a week. e incident occurred at 6:50 p.m. April 19, nearly a year to the week aſter a Dodge Caravan ran a red light and collided with a northbound car, claiming the lives of three generations of the same family. A sixth person later died in hospital. Recently, there have been a number of incidents involving drivers in high-end cars traveling at excessive speeds, but this one seems “extreme,” McDonald said. e time of day, the speed, the fact that there was a child in the vehicle, and the location make this incident even more shocking, he said. He said the Ferrari appeared as “a blur” coming towards traffic unit members, who pulled the car over and later confirmed the Ferrari was traveling at 181 km/h in an 80 km/h zone. McDonald implored people to be more responsible on the road. “People say, ‘I’m a good driver,’” he said. “You may be able to handle your car, but think of the other drivers. What happens if the person next to you is on a cell phone and isn’t paying attention and swerves in to your lane, or goes through a red light?” At that speed, he said, “there’s absolutely no chance.” ere were no other witnesses to the inci- dent, meaning the driver will suffer no other penalty other than the fine and was able to pick up his car aſter seven days. “In this case, if we had other evidence, it could have been different,” McDonald said. See CLOSE OF A CHAPTER / Page 5 RCMP PHOTO The 2005 Ferrari F430 was impounded for a week. 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May 1, 2014 www.CloverdaleReporter.com 604-575-2405
Watts won’t run again
By Kevin DiakiwLooking as relaxed as she has in
years, Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts sat in the meditation room of her Cloverdale home and said what many pre-dicted, but none have been able to confi rm until now.
“I’m not running for mayor this fall,” Watts told Black Press in an interview last week, two days before making her formal announcement at the grand opening of the new city hall.
Her reason for leaving is simple, she said.
From the time she was elected mayor in 2005, Watts said she has
made it clear she would serve no longer than three terms.
She is coming to the end of that self-imposed time limit.
As to where she’ll be going next, she insists she’s unsure.
“I don’t know what’s around the corner,” she says. “It’s just a new chap-ter. I fi nd that settling.”
Th e room she sits in was once a home offi ce where she burned the midnight oil on civic business.
It’s now been stripped of the desk; the only piece of furniture remaining
is a large meditation chair. Buddha
Ferrari driver clocked at 100 km/h over limitBy Jennifer LangA 49-year-old Langley man told police
he was just “testing” his Ferrari when it was clocked last Saturday in Surrey going more than 100 km/h over the posted limit.
Th e man was pulled over without incident by the Fraser Valley Integrated Road Safety Unit as the vehicle was traveling south-bound on 176 Street and 32 Avenue.
Offi cers were surprised to discover a child in the car.
What’s more, the driver was aware it was the same intersection that was the scene of a horrifi c crash last April that claimed fi ve members of the same family.
“He remembered that crash,” said Cpl. Robert McDonald of “E” Division RCMP traffi c services.
Th e man told police he’d purchased the
grey 2005 Ferrari F30 a few days earlier and was “just testing it out,” McDonald said.
Th e driver was fi ned $483 – the maxi-mum penalty under the Motor Vehicle Act for excessive speed – and the vehicle was impounded for a week.
Th e incident occurred at 6:50 p.m. April 19, nearly a year to the week aft er a Dodge Caravan ran a red light and collided with a northbound car, claiming the lives of three generations of the same family. A sixth person later died in hospital.
Recently, there have been a number of incidents involving drivers in high-end cars traveling at excessive speeds, but this one seems “extreme,” McDonald said.
Th e time of day, the speed, the fact that there was a child in the vehicle, and the location make this incident even more
shocking, he said.He said the Ferrari appeared as “a blur”
coming towards traffi c unit members, who
pulled the car over and later confi rmed the Ferrari was traveling at 181 km/h in an 80 km/h zone.
McDonald implored people to be more responsible on the road.
“People say, ‘I’m a good driver,’” he said. “You may be able to handle your car, but think of the other drivers. What happens if the person next to you is on a cell phone and isn’t paying attention and swerves in to your lane, or goes through a red light?”
At that speed, he said, “there’s absolutely no chance.”
Th ere were no other witnesses to the inci-dent, meaning the driver will suff er no other penalty other than the fi ne and was able to pick up his car aft er seven days.
“In this case, if we had other evidence, it could have been diff erent,” McDonald said.
See CLOSE OF A CHAPTER / Page 5
RCMP PHOTOThe 2005 Ferrari F430 was impounded for a week.
Three-time Surrey mayor won’t say what’s next beyond travel
Dianne Watts
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Ready to wearA Sunnyside Elementary student was in her element at a recent fashion shoot
By Jennifer LangOn the catwalk last week at
River Rock Show Th eatre, the fashions of 37 emerging design-ers took the stage.
And from somewhere in the hushed audience, a young girl from Surrey was keeping her eyes peeled for the work of Kaylyn MacKenzie, who created a line of apparel designed for women who use wheelchairs.
Modeling the clothes were Surrey-Cloverdale MLA Stephanie Cadieux, Kirsten Sharp and Th eri Th orson, an ambassa-dor for the Rick Hansen Foundation – each taking a turn at Th e Show, an April 24 event consisting of three runway shows of work by graduating students from Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s fashion program.
Ayla, 9, has a rare form of muscular dystrophy, and uses a motorized wheelchair to get around.
Bright and creative, and a bit shy until she opens up, Ayla is interested in fashion, and likes to draw.
“Because she can’t do a lot of physical things, she concentrates on activities that use fi ne motor skills, such as drawing and craft s,” says her mom, Tiff any Klyn.
Klyn, an RN, is eager for her daughter to meet positive role models – especially women who are living up to their full potential. But no one could have guessed that she’d be taken under the wing of an up-and-coming fashion designer – much less hang out at a fashion shoot.
It took a serendipitous meet-ing to set the story into play.
Ayla, a Sunnyside Elemen-tary student, happened to meet Cadieux at her school’s grand opening. “I had gone up to her aft erwards and said, I’m a huge proponent of strong women and you’d be somebody I’d love to meet my daughter,” Klyn recalls. “Stephanie said, ‘I’d love to.’”
Th e cabinet minister later invited Ayla to a photo shoot at
Kwantlen’s Cloverdale campus in advance of the KPU graduate fashion show.
A week before, Ayla met with the designer at Kwantlen. She showed Ayla some of her de-signs, and before long, they were collaborating on a rough design of a new outfi t.
Th e completed ensemble,
ready for Ayla to wear at the photo shoot, looked nothing like Ayla’s regular uniform – yoga pants or leggings, a T-shirt, and “a hoodie of some kind,” says her mom, adding Cadieux arrived wearing nearly identical clothes, right down to the grey hoodie.
“When you’re sitting, you have things digging into your belly all of the time,” Klyn explains. Fabric in slacks can bunch up behind the knees. “Jeans would just be horrible to wear.”
MacKenzie, now in her fi nal year of fashion design at KPU, designs apparel for women aged 25 to 50.
Her experience working with people with disabilities made her realize there was a gap in the apparel industry.
“With so few options for cloth-
ing that is up-to-date for those with disability, I decided to make my niche market female wheel-chair users,” MacKenzie said.
“Vancouver is very accom-modating to those that live with occupational barriers in life yet the only clothing lines available to those with disability are aimed at a mature market.”
According to Cadieux, “Kaylyn really understands the unique challenges in fi nding clothes that work well and are comfortable when seated and wheeling.”
When you’re nine years old, you just want to fi t in with everyone else. Th at’s not so easy when you’re the only kid in your class who uses a wheelchair, says Ayla’s mom.
Whether it’s wearing a new jacket or joining in at the craft club, “Everything has to be adapted for her. Nothing is ok as it is.”
Ayla is “Th e girliest of girls,” but fi nding clothing that works is a never-ending challenge. Trying things on in a cramped change room is usually out of the question.
At the fashion shoot, she was surrounded by three vibrant, accomplished women, each wearing fash-ions specifi cally designed to meet their needs, not the other way around.
For once, says her mom, “She didn’t have to make do. She didn’t have to make an able-bodied person’s situation work for her.”
Th e girl was thrilled at having her hair and makeup done.
Ayla was up for a similar treat at Th e Show; MacKenzie made her a brand-new outfi t, and, even though she wasn’t model-ing, Ayla’s hair and make up got the star treatment.
It’s already clear the experi-ence has made a lasting impres-sion, says Klyn.
“Just knowing that somebody, somewhere knows how much it meant to our family, and that Stephanie reached out to us – because that’s the only reason that it happened – it’s a huge deal.”
CONTRIBUTED PHOTOSurrey-Cloverdale Stephanie Cadieux, left, joined Kirsten Sharp and Theri Thorson on the runway last week, modeling apparel designed by Kaylyn MacKenzie, a graduating fashion design student from Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTOAyla, 9, helped design the dress she’s wearing.
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Back in the day (not really all that long ago) I used to be quite the social butterfl y.
My little wings were always afl utter from one party or gather-ing to the next – time, bills and babysitters were not an issue.
However, those days are now long gone – as are many of the friendships formed during that fun and ‘carefree’ chapter of my life.
While some have stuck around, the visits and phone calls are far and few in between.
I take 100 per cent of the blame.It was around six years ago –
newly pregnant with my oldest daughter, Molly – that I traded in my delicate wings for some de-pendable stretchy pants. Sometime during this swap, I also became... dare I say it... a pretty bad friend. (Gasp).
I became notorious for break-ing plans at the last minute, ignor-ing incoming calls and zoning-out mid-conversation during a pal’s crisis.
Exhausted, bloated and highly hormonal – or irrational, as my husband would tell you (in my defense I really needed a tomato, even if the roads were blanketed in snow), I began optioning for
quiet evenings at home with a bag of chips, slippers and my trusty PVR’d recordings.
Th e idea of wearing anything other than pajamas aft er 6 p.m. and a Scrunchy – yes, I actually still own one – just seemed like way too much eff ort.
“Don’t worry, I’ll have more en-ergy and we’ll do things aft er the baby is born,” I told them all.
Boy oh boy, was I wrong.Fast-forward to half a decade
later – Molly is almost fi ve and Zoe is three and a half – my ill-fi tting wings are still collecting dust in the closet, my stretchy-pant collection has grown and I’m still bloated, hormonal and irrational at the best of times – even without a human life growing inside me.
While I used to love chatting on the phone, it’s not nearly as fun with a preschooler screaming, “Let me talk. Let me talk!” in the back-ground, or having to put someone on hold mid-sentence so you can wipe a bum or bandage a bloody knee.
For the sake of salvaging my remaining friendships and my own personal sanity, I do attempt to squeeze into those wings from time-to-time. I’m pretty lucky in
that I get to go out more than most moms thanks to this blogging gig and a very under-standing husband.
Th e diff erence is that now there’s a dark cloud that hangs over-head – a reminder of the early morning and the inevitable “I wants,” the “She hit me’s,” and the “I’m bored’s” that certainly won’t take a break just because mommy is tired or suff ering from the “wine fl u.”
I’m not saying I’ve become a hermit – actually, I’m more social than ever before. My children and I have long conversations about the meaning of life – mostly involving the characters in the fi lm Frozen – and there are plenty of play dates on our calendar.
Heck, I even still like to min-gle... well, from the comfort of my couch, behind the safety of a screen.
Coff ee dates have been replaced with Facebook chats. And Twitter has become a great place to rub el-bows and network without having to put on lipstick or pants.
I’m great at making an eff ort
online, even if it’s just a comment on a status, like or a ‘retweet.’ How-ever, I know that any digital connection runs a high risk of being dis-connected.
I’m sure I’ve been ‘un-followed,’ ‘unliked’ and forgotten in cyberspace by many fed-up friends. I don’t hold it against them.
Still, a good handful of pals stand by, accepting our brief inter-action as sporadic as it is, not tak-ing my ‘indiff erence’ personally – or so I hope.
I take comfort in knowing that the old adage of “at every age, there is a stage” isn’t just meant for kids, it’s for us parents, too.
It may not be tomorrow or even next year, but one day when I’m not cocooning on the couch, cov-ered in Spaghettios and a cuddly preschooler or two, I’ll be a good friend again. Maybe even a but-terfl y.
Until then, just know you’re in my thoughts and my news feed.– Kristyl Clark writes monthly for Black Press and founded the blogazine She’s
A Valley Mom.
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Watts: It feels like the close of a chapterFrom page one
statues line the shelves and the walls are home to Tibetan mandalas and quotes from Ein-stein and Zen Master Tich Nhat Hanh.
Watts says several po-litical opportunities lie before her, but she’s not ready to jump at any of them.
Right now, she has plans to travel with her children and scratch at least one item off her bucket list – swimming with great white sharks in the Sea of Cortez.
Watts was elected as Surrey councillor in 1996, then ousted former mayor Doug McCallum for the cen-tre chair in 2005.
In all, she’s served 18 years on Surrey council.
Asked about the high point of her term in offi ce, Watts said it would probably be the work putting together a social infrastructure in the city that didn’t exist before.
Th at includes drug
and alcohol treatment centres, mental health facilities and a child advocacy centre.
She says she, her colleagues and city staff have done a lot to bring the city forward in the last nine years.
“Th ere’s been a collective vision, an ability to move beyond petty politics, and we’ve taken the city from a residential suburb to the second metropoli-tan core in the region.”
She notes that has been done not by thinking outside the box, “we did it without a box.”
Whoever takes the mayoral position in the general civic election on Nov. 15 will still have some work to do, Watts says.
Moving into the future as one of the country’s fastest-grow-ing cities has inherent challenges, she says, not the least of which are transportation, building on the city’s infrastruc-ture and expanding on
innovation.Th e person who leads
that charge is going to need some special abilities.
“You need someone at the helm that will be a very strong leader that can bring people together.”
So who among Sur-rey First – Watt’s 2005 creation of a coalition of independents – will get the slate’s nod to move forward?
Watts said she’s stay-ing out of that decision.
Her replacement on
the slate will be chosen by all elected members of Surrey First, but Watts says she’s absent-ing herself from the vote.
As president of the slate, she says she will be at the table, and will help to get the chosen person elected.
But that will be done as a back-room sup-porter, not as part of a public campaign.
Speculation has it that Coun. Linda Hepner is getting the nod from Surrey
First, but Hepner was tight-lipped about it on Th ursday.
“I told you, you will be the fi rst to know,” Hepner said.
Coun. Barinder Rasode, who left Surrey First earlier this month, told Black Press she would run for mayor if Watts was stepping aside.
Rasode said Saturday, this day is about hon-ouring the mayor.
“Today is about recognizing Mayor Dianne Watts and all
the excellent work she’s done,” Rasode said. As to when she’ll make her plans public, she would only say “there willl come a time very soon to have that conversa-tion.”
Couns. Bruce Hayne and Tom Gill also said they would consider running for mayor if the seat is vacant.
Coun. Judy Ville-neuve said she hasn’t given it any thought.And Coun. Mary Mar-tin said that she would absolutely not consider
a mayoral run, saying she’s focusing on run-ning with Surrey First as a councillor.
As for Watts, she’s going to stay out of the sticky end of politics this fall, and focus on being mayor for the next seven months.
She has mixed emo-tions about leaving municipal government.
“It feels like the close of a chapter,” she says, “but in the same respect, I will miss it.”
– Black Press
See ROOM FOR NEW FACES / Page 6
By Kevin DiakiwNews that Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts will not be
running for civic offi ce this fall leaves several empty seats to fi ll at Surrey City Hall.
For the fi rst time in years, there will be empty seats, at least three of them.
Former Coun. Marvin Hunt stepped down from his council position this year aft er he was elected as Liberal MLA for Surrey-Panorama. His council seat is empty.
With Watts deciding not to run, one of the Sur-rey First councillors, widely believed to be Coun. Linda Hepner, will vacate their council seat for the
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Barinder Rasode, who just jumped from the Surrey First slate, will be running for mayor, leaving her council seat vacant.
So there will be three new faces on Surrey council.
Or will there?Th is city is abuzz
with rumours former Mayor Doug McCallum is planning a return to city council.
He told Black Press he wasn’t interested, but members of the community have since told this newpaper he is working for support.
With no mayoral incumbent, could he win that position? Or is he satisfi ed with a run for city councillor?
Th ere’s also a widely held belief that former Coun. Judy Higginbo-tham might return to the civic scene. She’s got
good name recognition and might do well in the polls.
Th e abiding question is, does she have an appetite for the mayor’s chair? And could she win it?
No matter how it shakes out, this is going
to be one of the most exciting elections Sur-rey has seen in decades.
Stay tuned to www.cloverdalereporter.com. We will be bringing you up to date coverage as it becomes available.
– Black Press
Voters in for one of the most exciting elections Surrey’s seen in decadesFrom page 6
Th e Cloverdale Reporter has won silver for best collaborative ad design at the annual “Ma Murray” community newspaper awards.
An ad created for a local merchant by designer Marla Poirier and advertising representative Cynthia Dunsmore placed second in the circulation 25,000 and un-der category.
Th e awards were presented April 26 by the B.C.
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nizes the best in production, publishing,reporting, editing, advertising, photogra-phy, website design and community con-tribution.
Th e same pair won bronze in the samecategory at the 2013 awards.
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Heritage railway powers up again
By Jennifer LangTh e volunteers who
operate Cloverdale’s heritage railway are get-ting ready to welcome the fi rst passengers of the season.
And if all goes according to plan, restored Interurban Car 1225 will pull out of Cloverdale Station with its fi rst paying custom-ers of the year on May 11 – Mother’s Day.
Th e electric-pow-ered heritage railway launched weekend pas-senger operations last June, making good on the dream of returning a working Interurban to the original line through Surrey.
More than 5,000 pas-sengers climbed aboard for the trip to Sullivan Station and back, and many more visitors are expected this year, according to Allen Aubert, secretary of the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society.
Th e 55-minute train ride appeals to multiple generations, from little kids taking their fi rst ride on the rails to se-niors and retirees who remember riding the Interurban as kids.
Aubert said the rep-lica 1910 passenger sta-tion, located at the foot of 176A Street south of Hwy 10, has been the
focus of intense prepa-rations this spring.
Th e grounds have been spruced up as part of a landscaping project designed by Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s horticulture depart-ment. Sponsors BC Hydro, Scotiabank Cloverdale, and Pot-ter’s Nursery have also helped out.
Th e centrepiece is a new, paved pathway connecting Cloverdale Station to the car barn. Th e path includes an optimal viewpoint that’s bound to be a hit with shutterbugs.
New this year will be a speeder ride and car barn tour for just $5. Th ere will be guided tours every hour.
Passenger service begins Sunday, May 11 and operates Saturdays and Sundays to Oct. 13.
Cloverdale Station will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets $10. No advance sales. Trains run at 10 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:45 p.m., and 3 p.m. – subject to availability of the track, which is used by the Southern Railway of B.C.
Passengers are advised to call ahead or check the society’s website before heading to Cloverdale Station; Aubert said there were
approximately a dozen delays last season.
Th e society is “work-ing furiously” to get approvals in place for a bypass track that would ensure the Interurban passenger service could operate without inter-ruption, he added.
– For more, visit www.fvhrs.org or call 604-574-9056.
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Terry Nichols, a direc-tor with the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society, poses in uni-form on the platform at Cloverdale Station in this photo taken last year. Weekend pas-senger runs are slated to begin May 11.
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OLD TIME DANCEThursday, May 1, from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at Clayton Hall, 18513 70 Avenue., 1/2 block north of Fraser Highway on 184 Street. Hosted by the Surrey Old Time Fiddlers. Admission $3. Call 604-576-1066 or 604-538-3363 for more information.
BREAKFAST WITH THE BANKA fundraiser for the Surrey Food Bank, Friday, May 2 at the Bombay Banquet Hall, 7475 135 Street, Surrey, from 7-8 a.m. sharp. Join us in seeding the future in one hour of inspiration and information about the Surrey Food Bank. Free continental breakfast. Pledge your support to people like you and I, who struggle with life’s greatest challenges. For more information or to attend, contact your table captain or Katrina Albert at 604-581-5443. Surreyfoodbank.org.
FREE GIVEAWAYClothes2U will be giving away, clothes, toys, linens, books, diapers,footwear, personal/household items FREE to those in need, male/female, babies to seniors. Sat. May 3, at Zion Lutheran Church gym, 5950 179 St., in Cloverdale. For more information, to volunteer or donate, please visit www.clothes2u.ca or call 604-857-4617.
JUNIOR ZOO KEEPING COURSEThe next session of Urban Safari/Cinemazoo’s Junior Zoo Keeping course for teens will be starting May 3. We are taking
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SPRING CONCERTThe Langley Community Chorus presents its 2014 Spring Concert, Songs from the Heart. Celebrate Mother’s Day by taking your mom to one of our two mid-afternoon concerts, featuring a selection of music mothers of all ages will enjoy. We will also salute Canada with several patriotic songs. May 3 at Willoughby Christian Reformed Church, 20525 72 Ave., Langley, 3 p.m., and May 11 at United Churches of Langley, 21562 Old Yale Road, Langley, 3 p.m. With special guest musicians Gary Mussatto (drums) and Steve Johnson (base guitar). Tickets $15 for adults, $10 students, and children 12 and under are free. Available at the door. www.langleychorus.org.
ALL I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTENPanthers Players Theatre Company presents its spring musical production May 6, 8, and 9 from 7-9 p.m. at Lord Tweedsmuir Theatre, 6151 180 Street, Surrey. Tickets $5 for adults, $3 for students.
SURREY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETINGThe Surrey Historical Society meets Saturday, May 10 at 10 a.m. in the downstairs meeting room of the Surrey Archives Building, 17671 56 Avenue in Cloverdale. After the meeting Derek Hayes will give an overview charting the development of B.C., through historical maps of Vancouver, the Lower Mainland and beyond. For more info, call 604-576-9734.
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Furry listeners help make reading fun
By Jennifer LangOn a quiet Wednesday aft ernoon in the cosy
library at East Kensington Heritage School in Sur-rey, a 210-pound English mastiff named Leroy is draped across the fl oor, snoring loudly. A boy curled up by his heft y haunch reads out loud from a storybook.
Close at hand, Leroy’s handler, B.J. Novak, off ers quiet prompts when the human reader hesitates.
Th e boy, Kaylem Mercer, is in Grade 1, and doesn’t seem to mind that his furry companion might be drift ing off . Leroy’s calm, contented bulk is reassuring.
Seconds later, Leroy shift s position and starts pawing at the book, eager for a pat or a cuddle.
Kaylem’s single-minded focus is admirable. Un-familiar words are sounded out, and the story pro-ceeds.
In spite of his bulk, Leroy is practically still a pup-py. But at just 14 months, he’s only days away from formally certifying as a registered therapy dog.
Fleetham, his handler, lives on rural acreage in
Cloverdale and has fi ve therapy dogs: there’s Chew-ie, a 9-and a-half-year-old English mastiff , Special Agent Magee, a 17-month-old bloodhound, Liam, a gangly Irish wolfh ound, and Leroy, who today is sprawled across the library fl oor like an elastic, thick-waisted pony.
He shift s position as the next child wordlessly enters the library, grabs a book, plunks down on a blanket, and starts reading.
Once a week, Fleetham brings one of her thera-py dogs to read with a handful of students at East Kensington Heritage School, a small elementary school (just 43 students) at 2795 184 Street.
Every child is diff erent, says Fleetham. Some read
JENNIFER LANG PHOTOGrade 2 student Otto Tompe reads to Leroy, one of fi ve therapy dogs handler B.j. Fleetham, centre, brings to East Kens-ington Heritage School each week to work with new readers.
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facing the dog. Others lie on the fl oor, leaning back, using the dog as a cushion.
Th e dog’s presence
seems to help the chil-dren focus.
“It helps me read without things that dis-tract me,” Grade 2 stu-dent Otto Tompe says, reaching over to pet
Leroy.“It’s fun. He’s fuzzy,”
he smiles.Otto’s mom, Shari,
is seated nearby. What does she make of this?
“Anything that keeps
him focused long enough to get through a book, that’s wonder-ful,” she said, adding Otto looks forward to his Wednesday sessions.
“It’s just being focused in a positive atmosphere where he wants to carry on,” she said. “It’s won-derful.”
According to Kinder-garten/Grade 1 teacher Angie Witzel, the chil-dren benefi t from read-ing to someone who is supportive and won’t criticize them.
“It’s that freedom to just read,” she said, add-ing it’s also a novelty, and works as a positive reward.
Reading isn’t the only reason Fleetham and her therapy dogs have been invited to the school.
“It’s also for kids
without pets, who canlearn not to be fearful of dogs,” Witzel said.
Th e one-on-one ses-sions also seem to ben-efi t a student who hasa rare genetic disor-der that makes her shyaround dogs, but also prone to verbal out-bursts.
When school’s out, Fleetham and her stableof therapy dogs gueststar at summer campsfor the BC SPCA, teach-ing children how to avoid getting bitten by dogs, among other tips.
JENNIFER LANG PHOTOGrade 1 student Kaylem Mercer reads to Leroy, a non-critical listener.
Children without pets learn not to be fearful of dogsFrom page 11
Author visitsJoin author Karen
Krossing next Th ursday morning at the Clover-dale Library as part of Children’s Book Week.
Krossing, who haswritten many books forkids and teens (Take the Stairs, Th e Yo-Yo Proph-et), will be at the library from 11:15 to 11:15 a.m. May 8.
It’s one of four stops at Surrey Libraries aspart of TD CanadianChildren’s Book Week, a celebration of children’slove of books that’s pro-moting literacy.
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Racing season ends on a highContributedDriver/trainer Jim
Marino indicated to me that his past weekend at Fraser Downs was one of the best weekends of his racing career.
On Friday night (April 25), Jim lived up to his nickname that former track announcer Rick Uppal gave him: “Th e Money Man Ma-rino.” Jim won both of the $25,000 Sire Stake Finals and one of the $75,000 fi nals. He also captured the $15,000 Open race on the card.
Th e Money Man’s horses earned over $76,000 on the night for various owners.
During the week I was quoted as say-ing that if any of the B.C. drivers fi nished in the top two of the Standardbred Canada Western Region Drivers Challenge, they would have to do it on sheer talent.
Of the four B.C. drivers (Bill Davis, John Chappell, Jim Marino and Scott Knight) I thought Davis had the best chance and Marino with the least chance.
Aft er the seventh leg of the contest, Al-berta Driver Brandon Campbell had cinched the championship with three wins, but four drivers had a chance to fi nish second going in to the ninth and fi nal leg.
Earlier in the week, aft er looking at the pro-gram, the Money Man stated Pureform Olym-
pia (12-1 morning line) had “no chance”, but I guess “sheer talent” came through and with the win, Marino edged Gerry Hudon by one point to fi nish second in the championship and earn a spot to the national championship in PEI in August.
Good luck, Jim, and Brandon Campbell, you will be great ambas-sadors for Western Canada.
Last Saturday wrapped up this part of the Fraser Downs harness race season. Th e next live race day is
Sept. 4 at 6 p.m.– Jackson Wittup is execu-
tive director of Harness Racing B.C.
‘Money Man’ Marino lives up to his nickname, off to Canadian driving nationals
Jim Marino
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