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▲ Starting next week, The Surrey-North Delta Leader will begin publishing on Wednesday and Friday. See details: 27 When he was 18 years old, John Westhaver suffered life-threatening burns to 75 per cent of his body during a high-speed car crash in 1994. On Tuesday, he spoke to students at École Gabrielle Roy about road safety. EVAN SEAL Thursday April 2 2015 Leader The KEVIN DIAKIW New police recruits have arrived in Surrey, amounting to 34 new positions as of the end of March. But it’s a game of catch-up, it turns out. The information about additional officers coming to the city was outlined this week in an RCMP newsletter that included a statement from Surrey RCMP Officer in Charge Chief Supt. Bill Fordy. The “Message from the Officer in Charge” points to Surrey council’s promise to add 100 officers to the detachment this year, bringing the total com- plement up to 803. “While we are all eager for these new resources to arrive, the process to increase staffing this significantly does take some time and and it involves the municipal, provin- cial and federal governments,” Fordy said. “However, new members continue to arrive at Surrey Detachment. As of the end of March, we will have welcomed 34 new cadets in Surrey this year.” However, The Leader has learned those 34 new cadets were owed to Surrey from last year’s policing request. The new cadets bring the Surrey RCMP detachment to 703 members, mean- ing the city still has to convince the federal government to send 100 more recruits to Surrey this year. The RCMP training depot in Regina, which provides newly minted Mounties for the entire country, has hit critical lows since 2008. Seven years ago 1,783 cadets had enrolled. That number dropped to 340 in 2013. Depot told The Lead- er last year that cadet numbers came back up to 960 in 2014, but the figure is still lower than what it was in 2008. ▶ THE CITY STILL NEEDS 100 MORE MOUNTIES TO FULFILL ITS RECRUITMENT REQUEST FOR 2015 SURREY RECEIVES 34 NEW COPS – FROM 2014 continued on page 3 COMING BACK FROM A CRASH AND BURN ▶ ICBC SPEAKER JOHN WESTHAVER SHARES DETAILS OF SURVIVING A HORRIFIC CAR ACCIDENT 21 YEARS AGO TO MOTIVATE TEENS TO STAY SAFE BEHIND THE WHEEL 2 Bill Fordy The Centre for all your Dental Needs Dental Needs DENTAL CENTRE GATEWAY GATEWAY Evening & Saturday appointments available Unit 104 13401 108 Ave, Surrey ( Gateway Skytrain Stn ) 604-930-0755 | www.surreydental.ca for special offers PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE Ge General & Cosmetic neral & Cosmetic Dentistry Dentistry New & Emergency Patients Welcome *FREE Professional Take Home Whitening Kit with complete new patient exam, cleaning & xrays. Located at SASshoesBC.ca 10340 152nd St. • 604-498-4801 New Spring Styles New Spring Styles SEE OUR AD ON PAGE 8 “Roamer” Shown in Lipstick SAS COMFORT SHOES
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▲ Starting next week, The Surrey-North Delta Leader will begin publishing on Wednesday and Friday. See details: 27
When he was 18 years old, John Westhaver suffered life-threatening burns to 75 per cent of his body during a high-speed car crash in 1994. On Tuesday, he spoke to students at École Gabrielle Roy about road safety. EVAN SEAL
Thursday April 2 2015
LeaderThe
KEVIN DIAKIW
New police recruits have arrived in Surrey, amounting to 34 new positions as of the end of March.
But it’s a game of catch-up, it turns out.
The information about additional officers coming to the city was outlined this week in an RCMP newsletter that included a statement from Surrey RCMP Officer in Charge Chief Supt. Bill Fordy.
The “Message from the Officer in Charge” points to Surrey council’s promise to add 100 officers to the detachment this year, bringing the total com-plement up to 803.
“While we are all eager for these new resources to arrive, the process to increase staffing this significantly does take some time and and it involves the municipal, provin-cial and federal governments,” Fordy said.
“However, new members
continue to arrive at Surrey Detachment. As of the end of March, we will have welcomed 34 new cadets in Surrey this year.”
However, The Leader has learned those 34 new cadets were owed to Surrey from last year’s policing request.
The new cadets bring the Surrey RCMP detachment to
703 members, mean-ing the city still has to convince the federal government to send 100 more recruits to Surrey this year.
The RCMP training depot in Regina, which provides newly minted Mounties for the entire country, has hit critical lows since 2008.
Seven years ago 1,783 cadets had enrolled. That number dropped to 340 in 2013.
Depot told The Lead-er last year that cadet numbers came back up to 960 in 2014, but the figure is still lower than what it was in 2008.
▶ THE CITY STILL NEEDS 100 MORE MOUNTIES TO FULFILL ITSRECRUITMENT REQUEST FOR 2015
SURREYRECEIVES 34 NEW COPS – FROM 2014
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LAUREN COLLINS
Twenty-one years ago, with high school graduation mere weeks away, 18-year-old John Westhaver was doing what many teens do this time of year: Looking forward to the end of the school year.
On April 29, 1994, Westhaver and three of his friends were driving down a highway in New Brunswick. Westhaver and two others had been drinking, but the friend behind the wheel had stayed sober.
Th e driver, however, was travelling 50 km/h over the speed limit and lost con-trol. Th e car hit a telephone pole and was engulfed in fl ames.
Westhaver managed to make it out of the vehicle, but the other three were not so lucky.
Westhaver was the sole survivor – but barely. He was charred black by the fi re and suff ered life-threatening burns to 75 per cent of his body.
Doctors at the hospital’s burn unit in Saint John believed he wasn’t going to make it. Th ey put him into a medically induced coma and his body shut down several times.
When the young man fi nally woke up, his family and physicians wouldn’t let him see
his face for two weeks because they wanted him to focus on healing.
Westhaver talked about his experience in front of a rapt crowd at a Surrey’s École Gabrielle Roy Tuesday as part of the launch of ICBC’s road safety speaker tour. From March to June, special guest speakers will talk to high school students throughout the region ahead of graduation season about the importance of making safe driving choices. Th e personal stories aim to have youth think twice before taking risks while in the driver’s seat.
According to ICBC and police data, on average, two youths aged 16 to 21 are killed and 1,120 are injured in crashes from April to June every year in the Lower Mainland.
On average, between 2009 and 2013, 42 per cent of young drivers in fatal crashes were speeding, 31 per cent were impaired and 25 per cent were distracted.
Westhaver has been doing presentations since 2002 and said he’s the fi rst to admit he looks diff erent.
“If you don’t notice me in a crowd, there’s something wrong,” said the 6’2” man with a laugh.
Westhaver said his burns and scars are good way to capture students’ attention.
“When they fi rst experience me, they take a look and go, ‘whoa, why does this
guy look diff erent?’ ” he said. “Th at’s great because I’m able to captivate them right away and share my story and what I’ve been through and then share ways that they can keep safe.”
He said it’s taken a long time to get to this point, but his life today “rocks.”
Grade 11 student Ashley Palencia said it’s amazing Westhaver is willing to tell his story.
“I think it impacted lots of people because we’re in the age right now where we’re about to get our (driver’s) licence,” Palencia said.
Diana Reyes, a 17-year-old student, said it’s jarring to see how a life can change so quickly.
“As young kids, we think that nothing can happen to us… You know it can happen to your family members and your friends and even your-self,” Reyes said.
Surrey RCMP Cpl. Bert Paquet said it’s important for
teens to develop safe driving habits early.“We get involved with these kind of
initiatives because we recognize the fact these are the next generations of drivers,” Paquet said.
ICBC’s road safety speaker tour will visit several more schools in Surrey and North Delta between now and June. For a sched-ule, see http://bit.ly/1ajTduM
ICBC launches road safety speaker tour; targets teens▼ JOHN WESTHAVER LOST THREE OF HIS FRIENDS AND ALMOST DIED HIMSELF IN A HIGH-SPEED CRASH IN 1994
▶ “I think it impacted lots of people because we’re in the age right now where we’re about to get our (driver’s) licence.”ASHLEY PALENCIA, 17
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The Surrey Clinic is located at Unit C2-15285 101 Ave.
It will be open Thursday, April 2, 1-7 p.m., and April 3 and 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
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SHEILA REYNOLDS
You may have already seen them around SkyTrain stations or near the Newton bus loop.
Wearing green vests and jackets with a refl ective logo reading Community Safety Volunteer, they’ve been doing things like scanning licence plates for stolen vehicles and alerting police if they see intoxicated people or drug dealers in action.
Th e mostly student crews are part of the newly established Transit Watch program, a partnership between the Metro Vancou-ver Transit Police and the Surrey Crime Prevention Society.
“We think it’s something that’s truly going to make a diff erence to Surrey,” said Anne Drennan, media spokesperson for
Metro Vancouver Transit Police.Patrols began in late January and
there are now about three dozen trained post-secondary students on the job three days per week. So far, they’ve been covering the areas around the Scott Road, Surrey Central, Gateway and King George SkyTrain stations, as well as the Newton bus loop. Th ey do not enter fare paid zones, but keep an eye out for anything dangerous or of concern.
Jeremy Pearce, a criminol-ogy student at Simon Fraser University, is the brain trust behind the concept. Having crossed paths with crime – and the resulting fear – in the past, he knew he and fellow students could play a role in improving safety near university campuses and the surrounding community.
“We can provide the extra eyes and ears of the police,” Pearce said.
Karen Reid Sidhu, executive director of Surrey Crime Prevention Society, said volunteers also do vehicle audits to see if anything has been left in cars that could entice thieves, and inform the public how they can report inci-dents. (For example, Transit Police
dispatch can be contacted by text message at 87-77-77). But while the Transit Watch patrols may witness criminal activity, they do not intervene, only “observe and report” to police.
Sidhu said the program remains in the pilot stage, but will likely expand based on need.
Quoting Sir Robert Peel, Transit Police Chief Neil Dubord said, “The public are the police and the police are the public,” and noted one of the key factors of community policing is people.
“We have people here who want to make a difference in the City of Sur-rey and have come forward to be able to do that,” he said.
▶ NEW GROUP PROVIDES EXTRA EYES AND EARS FOR POLICE
Transit Watch volunteers now on patrol in Surrey
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As to whether Surrey can get a total of 100 new offi cers this year, Surrey RCMP Sgt. Dale Carr said there’s good faith amongst the upper ranks that the personnel request will be fi lled.
Th ey all might not be dressed and ready for duty in 2015, but Carr said the full amount should be arriving early next year.
If Surrey fi lls those positions, it would repre-sent a sea change in distribution.
Figures obtained by Th e Leader show that since 2008, Surrey hasn’t received more than two per cent of the nation’s graduating recruits.
Last year, Fordy said he had been assured by those higher up that the request for 100 more Mounties can be met.
In his newsletter this week, he detailed how those new recruits will be used.
“I plan to increase our fi rst responders’ police presence (ie. general duty) and review our needs for traffi c services, the youth unit, com-munity policing and investigative services,” Fordy said.
“Th is growth will allow our police offi cers to spend more time engaged in proactive policing initiatives across the city.”
Jeremy Pearce
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TRACY HOLMES
More than 600 fire-fighters from across Canada gathered in South Surrey Monday to remember one of their brothers – a man who “cared about people, cared about his job, cared about helping people.”
“Today was a very sad day,” said Mike McNamara Monday, following the private service at Peace Portal Alliance Church for his close friend and col-league, Kevin Hegarty.
The acting captain at South Surrey’s Hall 13 died March 1 after years of helping others on the job deal with post-traumat-ic stress disorder, a condition he himself lived with.
“He turned his battle into helping others,” fire Chief Len Garis said of the 53-year-old father. “That’s the kind of guy he was.”
In Hegarty’s hon-our, Garis pledged that more would be done to continue the firefighter’s work. He was an advocate for mental health, worked with the BC Burn Fund and assisted the Surrey Fire Fighters’ Charitable Society.
“He tried to help others with what he was suffering with,” Garis said. “That be-came him and he died from that. Kevin’s leg-acy will be something that we can build together, so this does not happen again.”
McNamara said Hegarty’s death was a shock to all who knew him.
In the days prior, Hegarty was “happy and jovial,” he said.
Following the service, firefighters lined either side of the route leaving the church, saluting a final farewell to Hegarty as his casket passed.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Surrey Fire Fighters’ Charitable Society, the Canadian Mental Health Association or BC Burn Fund “in memory of Kevin He-garty” are encouraged.
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TRACY HOLMES
B.C. wines have arrived on the shelves of Save-On-Foods in South Surrey.
While reports of the new product coming to the South Point store have been circulating since last week, a Ministry of Justice spokesperson con-fi rmed a liquor licence has been issued and sales began April 1.
“As of this morning, you can buy wine there,” the individual told Black Press Wednesday, noting the store is the fi rst B.C. grocery store to be licensed for wine sales.
According to a Ministry of Justice news release issued last week, April 1 marked the fi rst day that licensed grocery stores “are allowed to sell liquor through the store-within-a-store model and wine-on-shelves model.”
An ad on workopolis.com invited applications through April 1 for the position of ‘Wine Advisor’ at the store.
“Being a part of the Save-On-Foods team, the wine advisor will work in our wine department to create an exciting legendary customer service experience with prompt service, product knowl-edge expertise, and quality local wine products,” the ad states.
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JEFF NAGEL
An acting Auditor General for Local Gov-ernment (AGLG) has been named, allowing work to continue on municipal audits that had been in progress, including probes of how Surrey and New Westminster manage policing costs.
Arn van Iersel, a former B.C. comptrol-ler general and acting auditor general, takes over for Basia Ruta, who was fired by the province last week af-ter she tried to block a review of her office’s performance.
“I am confident that this appointment will bring stability to the office and provide strong leadership during the transition period,” said Coralee Oakes, the minister responsible.
A review of the AGLG office led by
Chris Trumpy is un-derway and expected to lead to further reforms in the AGLG function.
The AGLG’s website indicates an audit of Sechelt’s capital pro-curement is next up for release in April.
Police management audits were also pre-viously announced for Merritt, Port Alberni, Victoria and Williams Lake, while several other cities or region-al districts are the subject of audits of capital procurement or value for money in operational procure-ment.
AGLG officials won’t say how advanced the Surrey policing audit is.
But Surrey city officials say there have been 20 to 25 meetings since June of 2013 between the AGLG and senior city staff, the former mayor and council-lors.
The Surrey audit was originally sched-uled for completion in
▶ SURREY POLICE COST PROBE AMONG DELAYED AUDITS
Municipal auditor replaces Basia Ruta
January of 2014, with a March 2014 publica-tion date.
City officials last met with the AGLG’s office in February
and expected to get a sense of when the au-dit would be finished at a follow up meeting that was scheduled for last Friday, but
cancelled after Ruta’s firing.
Ruta had set an ambitious target of 18 audits in the first year but became embroiled
in discord with her staff and her gov-erning audit council. The office has so far released just three reports.
The office was cre-ated by the premier to seek savings at the local government level by comparing various municipalities.
A letter to my community We Need a Do-overin the relationship between public charities and the communityPeople in our communities have demonstrated time and again they have a very generous spirit. They are more than willing to support those in need. However in recent years, the number of people supporting public charities has been declining. So what’s happening? People are looking for a more personal giving experience as well as more transparency on how their donations are being used.
According to the Fraser Institute, the number of people supporting public charities has been in decline since 2006 and less than 22% of people in our province that fi le tax returns support public charities. Reports from the BMO Philanthropy Group and Imagine Canada indicate that Canadian donors are concerned that charities will not use donations wisely and spend excessively on administration.
We need a “do-over”. Many of our public charities spend a signifi cant amount of our donations asking us for money. Glossy brochures and magazines, full page ads, radio and television promotions, bill boards, lots of staff making calls to prospective donors, we can go on and on. In my view, a charity soliciting for donations is not engaging the community.
Why does community engagement matter? I believe community engagement is all about inviting people to share their ideas, their opinions, their life experiences and professional skills. It involves accepting people based on who they are and not how much money they have or how well they’ re educated. Community engagement is an open and honest discussion between people about what serves the best interests of the community without fear of rejection or ridicule.
I believe many of our charities need to redefi ne their relationship with supporters if they are to meet the ever increasing social needs of their community. An important fi rst step should include an invitation to all volunteers and fi nancial supporters to join as voting members.
Voting membership should be available to anyone who is prepared to commit themselves to the constitution and by-laws of the charity they support. The rights of voting members should include the right to attend the charity’s Annual General Meeting, the right to participate in the board nomination process, the right to make proposals and direct questions to board members and staff at a meeting of the membership.
Voting members are more likely to become volunteers, are more likely to be generous with their donations, more likely to become vocal advocates for the work of the charity in the community. Those in the community that choose not to become members but wish to be supporters would have greater confi dence making a donation with the knowledge that charity leadership is accountable to an engaged voting membership.
We need a strong vibrant charity presence in every community. I believe people will respond to charities that adopt community engagement as a core operating principle. If charities begin by embracing the talents, the experience and passion of those that live in the community, people will not only respond with their cheque books, but more importantly with their hearts.
Sincerely,
John Blockdonor, volunteer, neighbourPresident, Donors Rights Society
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Surrey will get a ninth MLA – if the recommendations of the BC Electoral Boundaries Commission are adopted by the provincial government.
From a population per-spective, Surrey is currently under-represented, with two of the eight existing ridings having more than 25 per cent more people than the provin-cial average.
However, the work of the commission, which is trying to rectify the imbalance in population between rural and urban ridings, was done with one hand behind its back. The province ordered it not to increase the number of MLAs by more than two – to 87 – which it has done.
However, it was also or-dered not to take any seats away from three areas of the province which are consis-tently declining in their share of provincial population.
Thus the number of MLAs in the north, the Cariboo and Thompson regions, and the Columbia and Kootenay regions stays the same.
With such guidelines, the commission’s work is serious-ly flawed. The province is on the brink of entrenching that there be permanent imbal-ances in the population of ridings – as has been done on
the federal level. Thus Prince Edward Island, with 130,000 people, has four MPs and likely always will. Meanwhile, Surrey, a city of 500,000 people, has also had four MPs and will only be getting an additional representative after this October’s federal election.
The provincial redistribu-tion will see south and east Surrey get additional repre-sentation, albeit with some unusual dividing up of true population. A portion of east Cloverdale and Clayton will be rolled into the new Surrey South riding, which will in-clude all of South Surrey east of Highway 99 and north of 24 Avenue.
The Surrey-White Rock rid-ing will be shrunk to include White Rock and the most concentrated population area of South Surrey, including Ocean Park and Crescent Beach.
Surrey-Cloverdale will not include any areas south of 56 Avenue, but will go north to Highway 1 and 96 Avenue to take in Tynehead and a portion of Fleetwood.
Most of the other ridings have few changes, although
there will no longer be a Surrey-Tynehead riding. It is rearranged and becomes Surrey-Guildford. All the proposed new ridings will be between eight and 14 per cent above the provincial population average. The most populous will be Surrey-Clo-verdale, with an estimated 61,060 people.
That is more than three times as many residents as the least-populated riding, Stikine, which has an esti-mated 20,616 residents. The riding is huge, though – it takes up much of the north-west quarter of the province.
There is no doubt that it is more challenging to serve as an MLA in an area that widespread, and there is some justification to allowing smaller populations in some of the largest rural ridings.
However, the process which the province has dictated goes against the principle of representation by popu-lation. It does discriminate against areas of the province with large and growing popu-lations, such as Surrey.
Frank Bucholtz is the editor of The Langley Times. He writes weekly for The Leader.
Recently someone died in our backyard. He did not die alone; our neighbour and his two-and three-year-old grandsons, the staff and customers from both our stores and 12 to 14 RCMP, fi refi ghters and ambulance personnel were there to see him on his way.
It was on “Welfare Wednesday,” or “carnival” to many.
Th is man’s life ended surrounded by drug par-aphernalia on the cold and wet gravel, partially hidden by plywood from a recent renovation and the equipment the fi refi ghters and ambu-lance paramedics used fi ghting to bring him back to life.
Th is was not a celebration of life; there were
no smiles or laughter remembering the good times. Th ere were only the grim faces of the emergency service providers who went about their jobs dealing with their own emotions and knowing at any moment another call could dis-patch them to a similar scenario and they would once again have to step up to the challenge.
A yellow tarp was draped over the deceased and the group of men and women slowly packed up and left, leaving behind a ball cap and a shoe showing from under the tarp. Th e man had to wait again for his next “trip” in the back of the coroner’s van.
We are lucky to have these emergency re-sponse people, whose jobs must on some days
feel like they are going around in circles. Th eir job is no “carnival.”
Perhaps we should take some time to refl ect on the job that is done by emergency services fi rst responders in Surrey - the paramedics, the police and the fi refi ghters that seldom take the awards and accolades home with them, instead they take the memories like those above with them, memories that in the most part we the public never see because of those men and women who dedicate their lives to help others.
For the job you did yesterday and the job you will do today: thank you.
Pete Nichol
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JEFF NAGEL
Replacing the Pattullo Bridge is an urgent TransLink priority because the 77-year-old span could be knocked out at any time by an earthquake, river erosion or a ship collision.
Pulling it offl ine before a new bridge opens – eight years away at the earliest – would trigger traffi c chaos in the region and force toll-averse drivers to go even further out of their way if they won’t pay to cross the river.
Th e $980-million replacement of the Pattullo with a new four-lane toll bridge, expandable to six lanes, is by far the biggest road-related project in the Mayors’ Council plan.
But “no” forces say it shouldn’t be on the ballot at all – that it’s merely bait to lure drivers to vote “yes” in the referendum for an otherwise tran-sit-heavy plan.
So will a new Pattullo come even if voters defeat the proposed 0.5-per-cent sales tax increase to fund trans-portation upgrades?
TransLink offi cials said as recently as October they’d aim to rebuild the Pattul-lo Bridge even if the referendum fails.
Other observers also say that’s likely.
“Th e Pattullo bridge probably would go ahead anyway,” said Robin Lindsey, a transportation and logistics professor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business. “Th e LRT plan in Surrey is less likely, but still far from a dead prospect.”
Tolls alone would cover most of the long-term fi nancing cost of the new bridge.
But an expect-ed shortfall in toll revenue in the early years means there’s a funding gap to be plugged – $90 million over the fi rst 10 years or $130 million over 15 years – that the mayors say would be covered through the sales tax hike.
It’s unclear where that will be found if there’s a no vote.
“I’m not saying it
won’t be replaced,” Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore said. “But I’m not sure where you get that $90 million of new revenue from because the provincial govern-ment’s been very clear that any new revenue has to go through a referendum.
“Does the province or the federal government come up with that ex-tra subsidy? Potential-ly. But there is no local money to do it.”
Th e province has pledged to cost-share a third of the Pattullo construction and rapid transit projects under
the plan. Th e mayors assume that money isn’t certain even un-der a yes vote but that it will pay the bridge off faster if it does arrive.
TransLink has delayed major mainte-nance on the existing bridge as much as possible but a No vote will force that work to proceed – $200 million will be spent on band-aid repairs of a bridge that should soon be torn down. A yes result means those savings instead help fund the replacement.
While a new Pattul-lo is to be user-pay, mayors intend to have a road pricing system in place by the time it opens, so it might not be tolled in the same way as the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges, but as part of a broader system that Moore says would be more fair.
Surrey-area voters also wonder if they’ll get a $2.1-billion light rail network regardless of the referendum out-come because of Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner’s election promise to fi nd a Plan B for Light
Rail Transit (LRT), if necessary.
Residents are wrong if they think they’ll pay less by voting No, she said.
“Plan B does not come free,” Hepner said. “We will be paying for it, make no mistake, one way or another.”
Th e diff erence, Hepner said, is Surrey alone may have to pay for LRT, without the costs being spread over the rest of the region, without one-third cost-sharing from se-nior governments and without the new sales tax capturing money from tourists and visitors from outside Metro.
“It’s equitable funding from right across the region and from those who are visiting our region,” Hepner said. “A no vote means it will likely come at a very specifi c cost to Surrey alone.”
Private partners might front the project costs but the city would still have to pay them.
Hepner won’t say how money would be
raised for a light rail Plan B.
But Surrey’s new mayor and council so far haven’t hesitated to raise local taxes to keep promises – they immediately imposed a $100-a-home “recre-ation” levy so the city could hire more police offi cers.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the intention of the City Council of the City of Surrey, pursuant to Section 40 and Section 94 of the Community Charter S.B.C. 2003, c.26, to adopt “Surrey Close and Remove the Dedication of Highway of a Portion of 98B Avenue and 137 Street Bylaw, 2015, No. 18396” at the Regular Council-Public Hearing meeting on the 13th day of April, 2015.
This closure is intended to remove the dedication of 0.642 hectares of road in order to facilitate the development of an underground parking facility. In accordance with the Community Charter, approval of the disposition of the road will be considered by City Council at a later date.
Should you have any concerns or comments you wish to convey to Council, please submit them in writing, fax or email to the City Clerk, 13450 - 104 Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3T 1V8, Fax: (604) 501 7578, email: [email protected], no later than Monday, April 13, 2015 at 4:00 pm. There will also be an opportunity for persons wishing to do so, to make representations to Council at the April 13, 2015 Regular Council-Public Hearing meeting.
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JEFF NAGEL
A conservative think tank says Metro Vancou-ver’s transit expansion plan fails to consider rap-idly evolving personal transportation technolo-gies that may open up nimbler ways to get around than a rigid network of fi xed routes and stations.
Th e Fraser Institute’s Kenneth Green argues the region’s mayors underestimate the likely future infl uence of ride-matching services like Uber, car-share off erings like Car2Go and everything from private inter-city buses to potential autonomous “robocars.”
He said Uber and Lyft are prime examples of new smartphone services that link willing drivers with passengers to create “highly dynamic” net-works that can spontaneously adapt to changing demand through variable prices.
“Market signals rather than transit planners determine the number of vehicles available to transport passengers,” Green wrote in a new Fras-er Institute paper.
Neither service is yet in Metro Vancouver, but Uber has been preparing to enter the market.
He foresees much more individualized options on the road ahead.
A Lyft user could book a Camry for the regular commute and a Jaguar for the late night date, he suggested. Dynamic, personalized transport may meet many goals of transit expansion supporters, he said, but potentially with less cost and less public subsidy.
“We’re in the midst of a transportation revolu-tion, yet the Metro Vancouver transit expansion plan barely acknowledges these new dynamic services that may eventually make mass transit systems obsolete,” Green said.
He suggests fewer people in the future will own their own cars, more will use car- and ride-sharing options, and many of them may well use those op-tions in concert with the public transit system.
SFU City Program Director Gordon Price agrees on that point – people who give up their own cars because of shared car alternatives will likely also use more transit.
But Price said no one should think any new ser-vice using cars can replace the role of mass transit by buses and trains.
“Th e arithmetic simply does not work with that number of cars in that amount of road space,” Price said. “You cannot do it. Th ere are laws of physics in the way.”
It would be impossible to ever host another major stadium concert or sports event without transit to carry most participants, he said.
Green’s paper notes criticism that new elite services may skim off the affl uent, young and tech-savvy and leave transit with “a poorer, older, less diverse ridership.”
Price said that outcome would dovetail neatly with the transit privatization agenda of conserva-tives like Green.
“You take aim at the most profi table routes and then you leave the rest for an increasingly demor-alized and impoverished public transit system, which makes it so much easier to cut because it’s viewed as a social service.”
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KEVIN DIAKIW
April has started off with a bang in Surrey, as gunplay erupted from vehicles in Newton Wednesday morning.
At about 11:40 a.m., police responded to gunfi re between two cars at 128 Street and 64 Avenue.
As of 2:20 p.m., there were no reports of inju-ries from the morning violence.
Police believe the gun-fi re may have originated from a silver four-door
sedan, as it shot rounds at a black Honda sedan.
Both vehicles were heading south on 128 Street and continued on that path after the shooting.
Th ere are no available descriptions of the peo-ple in the vehicles.
Th ere were 11 shootings in Surrey last month, with many of those occurring in Newton.
Four of the incidents are related, police believe. Th e rest are believed to be targeted.
Anyone with infor-mation is encouraged to call Surrey RCMP non-emergency line at 604-599-0502 or to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).
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Th e search for a new place to put the Newton polic-ing station has failed to bear fruit.
Th e City of Surrey has searched for the last year for a new spot for the building, currently located at 7235 137 St.
Th e RCMP was looking for better visibility. Chal-lenges included fi nding a spot with the right kind of access and enough parking.
“After reviewing a number of potential location alternatives, city staff and the RCMP have been un-able, to date, to identify suitable alternative premises that meet the functionality, visibility and parking requirements,” Surrey’s General Manager of Engi-neering Fraser Smith writes in a report to council.
As such, Surrey has signed an extension at the current site, with an option to terminate the lease with 180 days notice after June 30, 2016.
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STEPH TROUGHTON
Last year, the Fra-ser Health Authority (FHA) treated approx-imately 2,000 youth showing signs of men-tal illness – a number that has more than
doubled in the past six years.
According to Jane Adams, president and CEO of Surrey Hospital and Outpatient Centre Foundation, that’s why more than $1 million in funds is needed by the health authority to establish a short-stay psychiatric unit for children aged six to 17.
To be located at Sur-rey Memorial Hospital, the 10-bed, 24-hour
Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Stabiliza-tion Unit would house youth for a period of fi ve to seven days. During that time, those young patients would be stabilized and assessed for further treatment.
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pital in Vancouver.“Th ese 10 beds will
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Abbotsford resident and mother of two Karen Copeland said she still recalls having to travel to Vancouver while her now 12-year-old son received psychiatric treatment at B.C. Children’s Hospital for his mental illness. Th e stress of commuting, additional expenses incurred, having to be away from her daughter and home, plus the reality of what her son was dealing with was sim-ply “overwhelming.”
“Anytime you can have a service like that (a Surrey youth psy-chiatric unit) locally, it is such a good thing for families,” Copeland said. “I just totally believe in having it in Surrey, in Fraser Health.”
According to the foundation, about one in seven young people in B.C. will experience a mental illness during their lifetimes, and up to 70 per cent of those mental health prob-lems begin to develop before the age of 18.
Th e approximately $9 million needed to build and operate the facility will be paid by the FHA and government fund-ing, Adams said. Th e remaining $1.25 mil-lion the foundation is raising will be used for making “the environ-ment as child-friendly and sensory-appro-priate as needed,” she added.
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BOAZ JOSEPH
It’s a make-it-or-break-it year for Run for Life.
Th e 13th-annual cancer fundraiser in North Delta might host its fi nal run on April 12 at Sungod Arena.
“If we don’t get at least 200 participants, the 13th year will un-fortunately be the last,” says organizer Shelley Donald.
Th e run (with an entry fee of $20) is a fundraiser for both the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) and the British Columbia Child-hood Cancer Parents Association (BCCCPA). Participants can choose
where their money will go.
Funds raised for CCS will be donated through the North Delta Relay for Life, which will be held on May 31 at North Delta Secondary School.
Th e event also hon-ours the late Megan McNeil of North Delta, who died of adrenal
cancer in 2011 at the age of 21.
McNeil was passion-ate about bringing awareness to the need for research of child-hood cancers (visit www.willtosurvive.ca).
Her parents also received emotional sup-port from BCCCPA.
Donald says Run for Life started out as a group of 15 organizers, and it has dwindled down to just two (not including the volun-teers on run day.)
“Cancer aff ects too many lives and I will continue this event as long as I can.”
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For more informa-tion or to help out, visit www.runforlife.ca or call Shelley Donald at 604-952-3074.
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Th e Agricultural Land
Commission (ALC) may get help from Metro Vancouver cities to fi ght illegal dumping and truck parking that degrades the region’s farmland and blocks food production.
It’s not yet clear if municipal bylaw enforcement offi cers or even a Metro-funded team might take up some of the commis-sion’s enforcement work on land in the Ag-
ricultural Land Reserve (ALR).
But Metro’s regional planning committee and the ALC agreed last Friday to pursue a formal implementation plan to prosecute farm-land violations and collaborate on other initiatives to improve farming.
“Th e ALR is here and here to stay,” ALC chair Richard Bullock told
the rare joint meeting with Metro directors. “If we’re going to keep it active and produc-tive, we’ve got to make sure agriculture is the fi rst priority and agriculture is what happens on those lands, not other things like truck parking.”
Bullock sought to rally Metro directors to the ALR preservation cause and turn the
page on the prov-ince’s controversial decision to divide the land reserve into two zones, with looser rules outside the Lower Mainland.
“We’re still standing folks, we need you to stand with us,” he said.
Roughly half of ALR land in Metro is farmed, another quar-ter isn’t farmed but could be, and the other quarter is tied up in other uses from parks and roads to industry and golf courses.
Farmland owners are paid handsomely to accept fi ll and much of the dumping is un-approved, but Bullock said the ALC alone has too few compliance and enforcement staff to stop the rampant violations.
Port Coquitlam Coun. Darrell Penner said municipal bylaw staff are too busy to take on farmland.
“We have homeless people, we’ve got some
pretty big issues that aff ect people directly,” he said, suggesting there instead be a co-ordinated bylaw team that works through Metro on ALR enforce-ment.
Langley Township Mayor Jack Froese said either scenario would amount to download-ing from the province, which he said has failed to adequately fund the ALC.
Other concerns discussed included the proliferation of organic waste composting operations that aren’t always well operated, properly zoned or approved.
“Th ese guys are crop-ping up everywhere,” Delta Coun. Ian Paton said. “Th ere are two ways to make money farming these days. One is to take illegal soil on your farm and the second is to start composting.”
ALC offi cials said it’s an open question as to whether urban organic waste composting should be done on ALR land.
On one hand, farmers could benefi t and be more viable if they can also sell the compost, nutrients or energy from organics, they said, but perhaps organics should instead be shipped elsewhere to keep local farmland free for farming.
Th e surge in organic waste fl owing onto farmland is the result of Metro’s ban on dumping food waste in the garbage and the accompanying curbside collection programs of local cities.
“Composting is won-derful,” Bullock said. “But is it meant to be done in the cheapest possible way on the biggest agricultural piece we have and then it all of a sudden morphs into some-thing way beyond what we all thought?
“Our agricultural land is not cheap in-dustrial land. But that’s what too many people in the Lower Mainland are looking at.”
Bullock noted more change is the wings on what’s allowed in the ALR.
Th e province is ex-pected to soon roll out regulations that could authorize new com-mercial or industrial uses in the ALR after conducting consulta-tions on a discussion paper last summer.
“We’re expecting more clarity.”
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In mid-March, in fact, we learned in a notice issued jointly by the US Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffi c Safety Administration (NHTSA) that they have been researching it for more than a decade. Th is notice also references a 300+ page report (‘the report’) on the readiness of V2V for application, online at Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications: Readiness of V2V Technology for Application.
Th e report begins by distinguishing between V2V communications and the current ‘vehicle-resident’ crash-avoidance technologies, like, for example, electronic stability control, and the “host of on-board sensors, cameras, and radar applications that either warn drivers of impending danger so that the driver can take corrective action or intervene on the driver’s behalf.”
Th e report describes V2V as follows: “On-board dedicated short-range radio communication devices … transmit messages about a vehicle’s speed, heading, brake status, and other information to other vehicles and receive the same information from the messages, with range and “line-of-sight” capabilities that exceed current and near-term “vehicle-resident”
systems …[by] nearly twice the range. Th is longer detection distance and ability to “see” around corners or “through” other vehicles helps V2V-equipped vehicles perceive some threats sooner … and warn their drivers accordingly.”
Based on the results of the “Connected Vehicle Safety Pilot Model Deployment” the report contains much ‘good news’. Essentially the system ‘worked’: —the devices installed in the vehicles were able to transmit and receive messages; the security management system, and the particular safety applications worked. Th e NHSTA has the regulatory authority to mandate the system.
Cost estimates based on implementation of the system by the 2020s were detailed down to the per vehicle costs for the equipment and additional fuel due to increased vehicle weight, and up to the billion dollar levels for the overall system. Likewise, the projected safety impact was signifi cant. Based on just two of the many possible safety applications—the Intersection Movement Assist and the Left Turn Assist— annual projections were for the prevention of 25,000 to 592,000 crashes, the saving of 49 to 1,083 lives, the avoidance of 11,000 to 270,000 … injuries, and the reduction of 31,000 to 728,000 property-damage-only crashes once V2V technology is incorporated throughout the entire vehicle fl eet.
Of course, the report also outlines the many hurdles to implementation, and the many “additional items [that will] need to be in place.” In covering this ‘story’, the main stream media focused in particular on the “sharing the spectrum” problem, V2V communications currently using a radio frequency band currently under consideration by the US Federal Communications Commission for usage by devices under its jurisdiction.
Th e report concludes with a call for further investigation into various aspects of V2V technology and further identifi ed research to move toward deployment. While the challenges are great and the timeline uncertain, the successful outcome of this technological development is inevitable.
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Kiran Rai, Marketing Director for Macdonald Realty Platinum Project Marketing, says the homes are perfectly priced for a fi rst time buyer looking to get into Metro Vancouver’s real estate market.
“We oft en hear about how unaff ordable homes in Metro Van-couver can be, it can be tough for fi rst time buyers to get into the market,” she says. “Th at’s exactly what makes Evolve unique to other tower homes, because Evolve off ers concrete homes for less than the price of wood frame.”
Evolve’s “micro” suites are designed for people seeking urban ease in a home off ering strategic space. Not only are smaller homes aff ordable, but they are also considered easier to manage, clean and are incredibly effi cient spaces.
“Each home has been thoughtfully designed to ensure that there is no wasted space,” says Rai. “While we’ve maximized the square footage of each plan, it’s been done in a way where homes don’t feel cramped. Th ey’re beautiful and functional spaces.”
Evolve, which is located a block from city hall, will feature a 316-square-foot studio suite for less than six fi gures.
“Th is diff erence in square footage greatly impacts the price of our homes, while also minimizing strata fees,” she says. “Evolve homes start at $93,900, meaning that with a down payment of $5000, your monthly mortgage would be less than a car loan payment; even students can stop renting and aff ord to buy their own homes.”
But Evolve isn’t just getting at-tention because of its price point. Exclusive to the Evolve Presen-tation Centre is their Th in-Air Augmented Reality technology that allows home shoppers to essentially walk around inside a virtual version of one of the suites using the free Evolve Condos 3D app on their own phone or tablet. Also, screens inside the presenta-tion centre allow potential buyers to see what a 3D version of their preferred fl oor plan looks like.
Th e 35-storey tower off ers 406 homes in a range of fl oor plans, including studios, one- and two-bedrooms, two-bedroom and dens, townhome loft s, and penthouses.
Th e homes themselves off er wood grain laminate fl ooring throughout the entry, bedrooms, and living spaces; 8.6-foot ceilings; large windows and spacious balconies to ensure more natural light.
Th e surrounding area is part of a master-planned community of West Village. Downtown Vancouver is accessible by transit at Surrey Central Skytrain Station, and over 140 stores and retailers are located at nearby Central City Shopping Mall. Th e area off ers a community plaza, city hall, library, shopping, recreational facilities and entertainment to ensure urban ease. Or grab a coff ee, walk the dog and enjoy a jog or a stroll any time of day through the many
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JEFF NAGEL
Night fi shing is being banned on the lower Fraser River and some tributaries in an attempt to stop the continued poaching of white sturgeon.
Th e recreational angling regulation change took eff ect April 1 and applies on non-tidal sections of the Fraser, Pitt and Harrison rivers.
Conservation offi cers will be out in force on the water and a ban on legal fi shing at night should make it easier to detect
poachers who typically take sturgeon after dark, Sgt. Todd Hunter said.
“Th at’s when the poaching is going on and people are taking them,” Hunter said. “So we’re going to be actively patrolling.”
Sturgeon are a catch-and-re-lease-only fi sh but a lucrative black market exists for their eggs for caviar.
Hunter doubts the night fi shing closure will be too much of an inconvenience to other an-glers, such as salmon fi shermen.
He said the regulation, which will be in eff ect for two years, is essential.
“Th is is a threatened species that has been around since the dinosaurs,” Hunter said of the river’s monstrous armoured
bottom feeders.“Th ese things are very old.
Th ey’ll get up to 100 years old or more. So they’re very import-ant to British Columbians and we’re going to do as much as we can on the enforcement side.”
White sturgeon are the largest freshwater fi sh in North Amer-ica, with the largest believed to reach sizes of more than 800 kilograms and six metres in length.
Th e biggest one caught and re-leased on record was a 3.6-me-tre, 500-kg sturgeon reeled in by English tourist Michael Snell in 2002 near Chilliwack.
Hunter urged anglers who le-gally catch and release them to do so with the utmost caution when posing with them for photos.
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Surrey Close and Remove the Dedication of Highway of a PORTION OF 0 AVENUE
BETWEEN 176A STREET AND 177A STREET AND A PORTION OF 176A STREET
BETWEEN 0 AVENUE AND 1 AVENUE, BYLAW, 2015, NO. 18421NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the intention of the City Council of the City of Surrey, pursuant to Section 40 and Section 94 of the Community Charter S.B.C. 2003, c.26, to adopt “Surrey Close and Remove the Dedication of a Highway of a portion of 0 Avenue between 176A Street and 177A Street and a portion of 176A Street between 0 Avenue and 1 Avenue, Bylaw, 2015, No. 18421”. at the Regular Council-Public Hearing meeting on the 13th day of April, 2015.
This closure is intended to remove the dedication of highway of a 0.211 ha portion of 0 Avenue and 0.358 ha of 176A Street road allowances to facilitate integration with the Pacifi c Border Crossing Customs Traffi c Offi ce. In accordance with the Community Charter, approval of the disposition of the road will be considered by City Council at a later date.
Should you have any concerns or comments you wish to convey to Council, please submit them in writing, fax or email to the City Clerk, 13450 - 104 Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3T 1V8, Fax: (604) 501 7578, email: [email protected], no later than Monday, April 13, 2015 at 4:00 pm. There will also be an opportunity for persons wishing to do so, to make representations to Council at the April 13, 2015 Regular Council-Public Hearing meeting.
Copies of the bylaw may be inspected at the City Hall and any inquiries relating to property issues should be made to the Realty Section (604-598-5700) or for inquiries relating to traffi c issues contact the Transportation Planning Section (604-591-4146), Monday through Friday (except statutory holidays) between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, commencing Thursday, March 26, 2015 up to and including April 13, 2015.
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Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18426
Application: 7914-0350-00
Location: Portion of 8343 – 168 Street
Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is seeking to rezone the hatched portion of the property from Single Family Residential to Single Family Residential (12). The applicant is proposing to subdivide the entire property into 6 single family lots (2 RF-12 lots, 4 RF lots).
DEVELOPMENT LOCATION MAP BYLAW NO. 18426
Surrey Offi cial Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 18431
Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18432
Application: 7914-0256-00
Location: 8158 King George Boulevard
Purpose of Bylaws and Permits: The applicant is seeking to redesignate the hatched property from Urban to Multiple Residential and Conservation and Recreation and rezone from One-Acre Residential to Comprehensive Development. The applicant is proposing the development of a 77 unit apartment building and 164 townhouse units. In addition, a development variance permit is being sought to reduce the number of parking stalls from 125 to 110 stalls on proposed lot 1 and from 70 to 66 stalls on proposed lot 2.
DEVELOPMENT LOCATION MAP BYLAW NO. 18431/18432
Surrey Offi cial Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 18300
Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18301
Application: 7913-0254-00
Location: Portion of 19395 – 73B Avenue
Purpose of Bylaws: The applicant is seeking to redesignate the hatched site from Suburban – Urban Reserve to Urban and rezone from One-Acre Residential to Single Family Residential (12). The applicant is proposing to subdivide into approximately 15 small single family lots.
DEVELOPMENT LOCATION MAP BYLAW NO. 18300/18301
Continued on next page
Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18428
Application: 7913-0284-00
Location: 6159 – 170 Street
Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is seeking to rezone the hatched property from Suburban Residential (By-law No. 5942) and One-Acre Residential to Single Family Residential and Single Family Residential (12). The applicant is proposing to subdivide into 17 single family lots.
DEVELOPMENT LOCATION MAP BYLAW NO. 18428
Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18427
Application: 7913-0154-00
Location: 2190 – 165 Street
Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is seeking to rezone the hatched property from One-Acre Residential to Single Family Residential (12), Single Family Residential (10), Semi-Detached Residential and Single Family Residential (9). The applicant is proposing to subdivide into 15 single family small lots and 4 semi-detached residential lots.
DEVELOPMENT LOCATION MAP BYLAW NO. 18427
Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18424
Application: 7914-0313-00
Location: 15791 – 104 Avenue
Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is seeking to rezone the hatched property from One-Acre Residential to Semi-Detached Residential. The applicant is proposing to subdivide into 2 lots accommodating 1 semi-detached dwelling on each lot.
DEVELOPMENT LOCATION MAP BYLAW NO. 18424
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NICK GREENIZAN
Two former members of the Surrey Eagles are left standing in the quest for an NCAA mens’ hockey title, now that the original fi eld of 16 has been narrowed to just four.
Th e NCAA’s (Nation-al Collegiate Athletic Association) Frozen Four hockey champi-onships begin Satur-day, April 9 in Boston, with the Providence College Friars – which counts former Surrey Eagles Brandon Tanev and Josh Monk on its roster – set to face the University of Nebras-ka-Omaha Mavericks in one semifi nal contest.
On the other side of the bracket, Boston University will square off against the Univer-sity of North Dakota.
Th e winners of each semifi nal will play for the championship April 11.
Tanev – brother of Vancouver Canucks’ defenceman Chris Tanev – played one season in South Surrey, in 2011/12, scoring 11 goals and adding 22 assists in 58 games.
He is in his third year at Providence, and has nine goals and 22 points in 37 collegiate games this season.
Monk, meanwhile, was well-travelled in
his BCHL career, play-ing 31 games in Eagles’ colours back in 2010. Th e Langley native also suited up for Salmon Arm, Cowichan and West Kelowna before moving on to Prov-idence. Known as a stay-at-home defence-man, Monk, a sopho-more, has six assists in 30 NCAA games this season.
When the NCAA
tournament began March 27, rosters of the 16 fi nalists were littered with BC Hockey League alumni – 72 in all, including a handful with Surrey ties.
Among them was former Surrey Eagles forward Brad Mc-Gowan, now a college senior at the Rochester Institute of Technolo-gy. McGowan had 46
points in 38 games this season. Also on the RIT Tigers was Delta native Brad Reid, who played for fi ve BCHL teams between 2007-2011.
Boston University has a Surrey connec-tion, as well – BU for-ward Destry Straight, a West Vancouver na-
tive, played a handful of games as a Surrey Eagles affi liate player in 2009-10 before going on to play with the rival Coquitlam Express.
Other former Sur-rey Eagles included Brayden Jaw (Har-vard); Boston Bruins’
draft pick and former Eagles captain Danton Heinen (Denver Uni-versity); Dan O’Keefe and Charles Orzetti (Yale); Devon Toews and twins Jonah and Nathan Renouf (Quin-nipiac); and Mason Blacklock (Michigan Tech).
▶ BCHL ALUMNI APPEAR IN U.S. COLLEGIATE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Former Eagles playing in NCAA tournament
Danton Heinen handles the puck while with the Surrey Eagles. Heinen is among a number of former Eagles in the NCAA tournament. FILE PHOTO
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Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18425
Application: 7914-0284-00
Location: 11339 Surrey Road
Purpose of Bylaw: The applicant is seeking to rezone the hatched property from One-Acre Residential to Single Family Residential. The applicant is proposing to subdivide into 8 single family lots.
DEVELOPMENT LOCATION MAP BYLAW NO. 18425
Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18429
Application: 7914-0300-00
Location: 16540 and 16582 Parkview Place, 16591 No. 1 Highway, Portion of Parkview Place Road Allowance
Purpose of Bylaw and Permit: The applicant is seeking to rezone the hatched site from One-Acre Residential to Single Family Residential (12). The applicant is proposing to subdivide into 16 single family lots. In addition, a development variance permit is being sought to reduce lot depth, setbacks and allow a front-loaded double garage for proposed lots 1 and 16.
DEVELOPMENT LOCATION MAP BYLAW NO. 18429
Surrey Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 18430
Application: 7914-0301-00
Location: 16609 and 16618 – 102 Avenue, 16616 Parkview Place, Portion of 102 Avenue Road Allowance
Purpose of Bylaw and Permit: The applicant is seeking to rezone the hatched site from One-Acre Residential and Single Family Residential to Single Family Residential (12). The applicant is proposing to subdivide into 7 single family lots. In addition, a development variance permit is being sought to reduce lot depth and front and rear yard setbacks for proposed lots 5, 6 and 7.
DEVELOPMENT LOCATION MAP BYLAW NO. 18430
Surrey Offi cial Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 18423
Purpose of Bylaw: This amendment will incorporate minor adjustments and policy clarifi cations required for the use of the Bylaw as described in Corporate Report 2015-R049.
The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations’ toll-free information line (1 866 917-5999) provides up-to-date information about this spring’s gypsy moth treatment program in Surrey and Delta. The phone line is staffed during business hours and provides up-to-date treatment schedules on a recorded message 24 hours per day.
The program will treat 4,567 ha in Surrey (centred on 64th Avenue and 168th Street) and 204 ha in Delta (centred over the Delta Golf Course). Low flying aircraft will begin spraying Foray 48 (Btk) from about 5 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. for at least 12 mornings between April 15 and June 30, 2015.
The first application is scheduled to begin April 15. Poor weather may delay the treatments which will be rescheduled for the next suitable morning.
More information and maps of the treatment area are at: www.gov.bc.ca/gypsymoth
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RICK KUPCHUK
John Carroll makes a living in gymnastics.
But when the competitive program director at the Surrey Gymnastics Society received a Sport BC Athlete of the Year award earlier this month in Richmond, it was a surprise to some it was in the category of Offi cial of the Year.
A Level 4 coach in the National Coaching Certifi cation Program, Carroll is also a gym-nastics judge, earning the Sport BC honour for his work at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the Pacifi c Rim Championships.
“Coaching is my full-time job, judging is my volunteer job,” explained Carroll. “It’s
the other side of the sport. You get to enjoy it from a diff erent perspective.”
Carroll received the award at the 2015 Ath-lete of the Year gala in Richmond March 13, and was selected over two other fi nalists – Howard Hum (volley-ball) and Steve Seibel (basketball).
“It was pretty exciting,” he said of the award. “I was up against some guys with a lot of experience.”
A 32-year veteran of judging, Carroll has been a FIG (Federation Internatio-nale de Gymnastique) judge since 1993 and has worked several major events, the fi rst of which was the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria. Th e 2014 Commonwealth Games
in Glasgow, Scotland was his third assign-ment to that event, having also worked the 2010 games in New Delhi, India.
He has also judged at the Elite Canada, Western Canada and national championship competitions since 1989, as well as several Canada Winter Games events. He began by judging provincial
champion-ships and BC Winter Games events.
Two years ago, he added an-other major event to his resume.
“My fi rst ever worlds was in 2013 in Bel-gium,” he said. “It was kind of exciting to be out on the fl oor, and judging the best guys in the world.”
After three decades, he still has one event
to strive for. “I have an aspiration
to do the Olympics, it’s the only one I don’t have,” he said. “Th ey’ve picked the judges for 2016, so it won’t happen then. But I’m hopeful for 2020 in Tokyo.”
SGS pair qualifies for Westerns
Carroll will be coach-ing two members of the Surrey Gymnastics Society at the Western Canadian Champi-onships in Okotoks, Alberta next month.
Treyson Cerrato and Emanuel Gutierrez Sandoval qualifi ed for the Westerns at the Twisters Gymnastics Invitational Competi-tion last weekend, an event which doubled as a Team BC trial event.
Gutierrez Sando-val, 11, earned an all around silver medal in the Elite 3 category. He placed second on the pommel horse, rings and vault, and was third on fl oor, parallel bars and high bar.
Cerrato, 13, also won a silver medal in all around competition. He won gold medals on rings, parallel bars and high bar, and was third on pommel horse and fi fth on fl oor.
Carroll was named as one of the Team BC coaches.
Th ree other SGS gymnasts fared well at the Twisters event. Brady Reeleder, 11, won the all around gold medal in the Pro-vincial 2 (10-and-un-der) category, after winning gold on vault, silver on fl oor, pom-mel horse and paral-lel bars and placing fourth on high bar.
Competing in the same category, Reggie Quintana, 10, won gold on fl oor and placed fi fth all around.
Timofey Azhogin was third on rings and vault, and fourth on fl oor and pommel horse in the Provincial 3 (under-13) group.
In girls competition, top-fi ve scores were earned by Alanna Jones, 21, in Provin-cial 5 Open (fi fth on vault), Emily Carroll, 17, in Junior Olym-pic Level 8 (fi fth on beam), Maria Bashko, 11, in Junior Olym-pic Level 7 (third on beam), and Alexa Can-non, 12, also in Junior Olympic Level 7 (fi fth on bars).
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Thursday, Apr i l 2 2015 The Surrey-Nor th Delta Leader 23 Thursday, Apr i l 2 2015 The Surrey-Nor th Delta Leader 23
RICK KUPCHUK
Seven local players are the two Pacifi c Junior Hockey League (PJHL) teams which will compete at the Cyclone Taylor Cup next weekend in Mission.
Five are with the host Mission City Outlaws, and two are on the roster of the PJHL champion North Vancouver Wolf Pack. After losing the fi rst two games of the PJHL fi nal, the Wolf Pack won four in a row against Mission City to win their fi rst-ever league championship.
Th e two teams will be joined by the Campbell River Storm of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League and the Kim-berley Dynamiters of the Kootenay Interna-tional Junior Hockey League at the Cyclone Taylor Cup tourna-ment, which will decide the BC Hockey Junior B champions.
Th e Cyclone Taylor Cup champion will ad-vance to the Keystone Cup tournament in Cold Lake, Alberta to play for the Western Canadian champion-ship.
Ram Brar, 19, of Surrey has played for both PJHL teams which have qualifi ed for the Cyclone Taylor Cup. Th e forward began the season in North Vancouver, but joined the Outlaws in mid-January and scored two goals and 13 points over the fi nal dozen games of the season.
Brar added fi ve goals and 16 points in 15 postseason games.
Four 18-year-olds from the Surrey Minor Hockey Association are on the Outlaws roster.
Forward Ryan Sharma netted fi ve goals and totaled nine points in the postsea-son, while defenceman Erick Miller suited up for nine games as a rookie on the Outlaws defense.
Forward Sammy Zeinab joined Mission City in December after starting the season
with the Port Moody Panthers, and scored two goals in 13 playoff games.
Josh Pollock, a for-
mer Valley West Hawk of the BC Hockey Major Midget League, scored seven goals in 34 regular season
games in Mission City. He played just one
▶ SURREY, NORTH DELTA PLAYERS VIE FOR JUNIOR B CHAMPIONSHIP
Cyclone Taylor Cup features local ties
Former North Delta Devil Shane Kumar will play for the North Vancouver Wolf Pack in the Cyclone Taylor Cup tournament in Mission. FILE PHOTO
continued on page 24
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P U B L I C N OT I C E
COMMUNITY CHARTER S.B.C. 2003 CHAPTER 26NOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL CITY LANDS
Pursuant to Sections 26 and 94 of the Community Charter S.B.C. 2003, Chapter 26,
as amended, the City of Surrey hereby gives notice of the intention to dispose of
the following City lands:
Legal Descriptions: PID: 029-513-952 Parcel A of Section 26 Block 5 North Range 2
West New Westminster District as shown on Plan EPP27620
Civic Address: A 375.4 m² portion of road adjacent to 10154, 10164 – 139
Street and 13904, 13916 – 102 Avenue
Property Description: The property is a portion of unconstructed road allowance.
It is designated Multiple Residential in the Offi cial
Community Plan. It is currently zoned RF (Single Family
Residential). The City is selling this 375.4 m² portion of road
for consolidation with the properties at 10154, 10164 – 139
Street and 13904, 13916 – 102 Avenue for development of a
4-storey apartment and townhouse building.
Purchasers: 0924203 B.C. Ltd.
Nature of Disposition: Fee Simple
Selling Price: Three Hundred Twenty-Three Thousand Two Hundred Eighty
Dollars. ($323,280.00)
Further information can be obtained from the City of Surrey, Realty Services
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In accordance with Section 741 of the Local Government Act, the Board of Trustees of the Logging Ditch Improvement District will be holding their 2015 Annual General Meeting to present the audited fi nancial statements for the preceding year. This meeting is open to the public and will be held:
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2015 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: 1E – Committee Room B Surrey City Hall 13450 - 104 Avenue Surrey, B.C.
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DES MAZES, Michael Anthony, CA
Nov. 7, 1948 - Mar 27, 2015
“What a beautiful difference one single life made”
On March 27, 2015 at 7:30am The Habs lost their biggest fan as Michael passed on to eter-nal life, having succumbed to ALS.Michael fought his illness with grace and humanity, courage and dignity. Our hearts are heavy with the loss of a won-derful husband and father. We pray for him and that the cure for this wretched disease will be close at hand soon.Michael was predeceased by his parents, Andy & Ruth (nee Guichon) and brother Maurice. He will be forever loved and missed by his wife of 35 years Connie and children, Erin and Jordan, of whom he was so proud - they were his every-thing.Also missing him immensely is his brother Phillip (Lynn) of Revelstoke, sister Loretta (Rene) of Winnipeg, sister An-drea of Vancouver, brothers in-law Roderick and Colin, sis-ter in-law Rhonda (Garry) of Newfoundland, along with many many relatives and dear friends.A Roman Catholic funeral ser-vice will be held Mon, April 6, 2015 at St. Bernadette Parish, 6543 - 132nd Ave, Surrey, BC at 10:30 a.m. Viewing to take place prior to the commence-ment of service.In lieu of fl owers, a donation to the ALS Society, or a charity of choice is appreciated.
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CARRIERS WANTEDROUTES AVAILABLE
SURREYDELTA
CALL 604-575-5342 TO GET YOUR ROUTE TODAY! LeaderThe
Van-Kam Freightways requires two full-time Commercial Trailer Journeyman Mechanics and a full-time Commercial Transport Journeyman Mechanic to work out of our Surrey terminal located at 10155 Grace Road. The Transport Mechanic position would work the 11:30 pm to 8:00 am shift.
Applicants should have an inspectors ticket, a minimum of 2 years of related experience, a positive attitude and able to work in a team environment. Experience in a freight fl eet environment would be preferred as this is a busy facility providing service to a large fl eet of Company Owned Trucks and Trailers.
Seize this opportunity to work for one of Western Canada’s largest regional freight carriers.
For more information, call Derek, at 604-587-9818 or 604-968-7149
Interested candidates should attach an updated resume and cover letter to:
Van-Kam is committed to Employment Equity and Environmental Responsibility.
We thank you for your interest, however only those of interest to us will be contacted.
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EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
CONSTRUCTION SITEIn your NEIGHBOURHOOD
Req: Carpenters, HelpersLabourers, CSO’s/OFA’s
TCP’s, Cleaners $11-28/hrWork Today, Daily or Weekly Pay
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EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
130 HELP WANTED
.Flagpersons & Lane Closure Techs required. Must have reliable vehicle. Must be certifi ed & experienced. Union wages & benefi ts. Fax resume 604-513-3661 email: [email protected]
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GREENHOUSE LABOURERSP (Delta) Limited Partnership operation looking for steady, hardworking, energetic individu-als that are able to do plant care, harvesting, sorting grading & packaging and general cleanup and workday preparations. The positions advertised are full time permanent positions for all sea-sons. Job Location 10250 Hornby Dr. Delta, BC V4K3N3 Wage $10.49/hr plus AD&D benefi ts. Positions available immediately. English language not required.
To apply submit resume to: [email protected] or by fax to 604-607-7656
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EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
130 HELP WANTED
LOCATION MANAGER (Surrey)
Storage for Your Life Solutions Inc. is a mid-sized self-storage operator with 4 locations in the lower mainland. Our largest loca-tion in Surrey, requires a bilingual Store Manager. This challenging position offers potential for growth & personal development with a comprehensive benefi t package. Our successful candi-date will lead the sales and operations of the location by ensuring the highest level of customer satisfaction and sales performance.
LOOKING for good, reliable, exp. Landscaper w/own transportation. Wages starting at $18/hr. Resumes required. Call Shawn from Shawn’s Lawns (604)418-6447
Mainland Aluminium Ltd. hiring Full Time / T; Business Address: 12899 76 Ave Surrey. Welder $27.00/hr. Use and operate the welding equipment to fabricate and customize aluminum prod-ucts; Operate manual or semi-automatic fl ame cutting equip-ment. Skills: Be able to lift 50 lb (labor work involved); Knowledge about Steel & Aluminum Welding and Fitting; Experience: 2-3 years in welding; Certifi cate in welding is an asset.
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132 HOME STAY FAMILIES
HOME STAY FAMILIES NEEDEDfor short term and long term stay.Email: mariastauntonhomestay
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EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION
134 HOTEL, RESTAURANT,FOOD SERVICES
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142 OFFICE SUPPORT/CLERKS
Customer ServiceRepresentative
Overland West is currently seeking a full-time, day-shift Customer Service Rep. Quick data entry skills and ability to handle a busy call center required. Will train the right candidate for this position.
RATES & AUDIT CLERKWe have an opening for a Rates & Audit Clerk in our Pricing department. This position will conduct rate audits of existing billings and prepare online and telephone rates/quotes from customers. It will also provide minor customer service overfl ow support when required. In addi-tion, this position will relieve the afternoon shift for fi ve (5) to six (6) weeks a year as well as covering any sick leave.
Related experience rating within the transportation/freight industry and an excellent command of the English language, both verbal and written, is required. Appli-cants must be self-motivated, good at problem solving, detailed oriented and profi cient in Micro-soft word and excel. Above aver-age key board skills, excellent telephone manner and a strong customer service attitude are essential. Individuals with AS400 experience will be given prefer-ence.
Interested candidates should send an updated resume and cover letter to:
SALES REPRESENTATIVESCome join our growing team. B2B outside sales in Metro Van area. Good people skills and proven sales success an asset. Must know MS Offi ce to complete & present proposals. Opportunity for advancement to Sales Manager. Full-time, Mon-Fri 9-5. Base Salary plus commissions.
Van-Kam Freightways Ltd. requires two (2) full-time Com-mercial Transport Journeyman Mechanics to work out of our Surrey Terminal located at 10155 Grace Road. One (1) position is an afternoon shift starting at 3:30PM and working until midnight and the other position (1) has an 11:30PM start working until 8:00AM.
Applicants should have an in-spectors ticket, a minimum of 2 years of related experience, a positive attitude and able to work in a team environment. Experi-ence in a freight fl eet environ-ment would be preferred as this is a busy facility providing service to a large fl eet of Company Owned Trucks and Trailers.
Seize this opportunity to work for one of Western Canada’s largest regional freight carriers.
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REAL ESTATE
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BY OWNER. Low down. Owner as-sist fi nancing. Deluxe 2 bdrm unit, 1026 sq.ft., secure bldg, insuite laundry, 96/121 St. Cedar Hill area. Call Jim 604-786-7977.
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friday
The Surrey-North Delta Leader will be changing its publication dates
starting Wednesday, April 8th. Instead of a Tuesday/Thursday paper,
readers will receive their Leader on Wednesday and Friday.
The move allows us to refl ect the changing lifestyles of our readers and
advertisers. They told us they prefer the more traditional Wednesday/Friday
publication days and we listened!
Surrey and North Delta’s best community newspaper will continue to focus on
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LeaderThe
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REAL ESTATE
625 FOR SALE BY OWNER
Creekside Villa! 45+ Aldergrove 2BR/2BA T/house, 9’ ceilings; f/p; Clean/Quiet; Pet OK ~ $299,500 604-856-2955 or 778-878-1222
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630 LOTS
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RENTALS
706 APARTMENT/CONDO
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RENTALS
706 APARTMENT/CONDO
GUILDFORD GARDENS
1 bdrm. from $7352 bdrm. from $865Heat & Hot Water Included• 24 Hour On-site Management
PETS WELCOME• Walk to Elementary School
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Call Grace To View604.319.7514 or text RENTAL to
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Cedar Lodge and Court Apts
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CLOVERDALE:
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our Elite Suites!
RENTALS
706 APARTMENT/CONDO
PARKSIDE APARTMENTS
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Heat & Hot Water Included
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Rents start at $799.
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733 MOBILE HOMES & PADS
NEWTON MOBILE HOME PARK.2 Large RV Pads available for
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RENTALS
736 HOMES FOR RENT
EXECUTIVE HOME INPRESTIGIOUS AREA
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RENTALS
736 HOMES FOR RENT
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$2050/mo. or negotiableAvailable NOW or April 15.
604.488.9161
739 MOTELS, HOTELS
LINDA VISTA Motel Luxury Rooms w/cable, a/c & kitchens. 6498 King George Hwy. Mthly, Wkly & Daily Specials. 604-591-1171. Canadian Inn 6528 K.G.Hwy. 604-594-0010
746 ROOMS FOR RENT
NEWTON ROOM FOR RENT. $425/mo. Available immediately.
SURREY 162/80 mature tenant for 2 Bdrm + den, 2 bath bsmt ste. Laundry, D/W. NS/NP. $1100 neg. Text or call Dennis 604-828-1661
SURREY Bear Creek 88/140. 2 Bdrmain fl r, spac. Nr park, bus, schl, amen. May 1. $600 + util inc. lndry.604-584-5287 /778-999-0876.
751 SUITES, UPPER
N.DELTA: 3bdrm good cond. 1.5 bths, NS/NP $1250 + sh utils. Cls to schls, shops, bus. (604)999-3493
TRANSPORTATION
818 CARS - DOMESTIC
2004 PONTIAC GRAND AM V6 4dr auto loaded aircared 145K $1900. 604-592-4422, 778-836-4422
821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS
2001 Toyota Corolla CE 4 dr sedan auto a/c 164K regularly maintained by senior. Good brakes & tires, new battery, anti-theft. Awesome gas mileage. $3750. 604-507-9945
28 The Surrey-Nor th Delta Leader Thursday, Apr i l 2 2015
NEW WESTMINSTER’S
BEST VALUEIN THE AWARD-WINNING COMMUNITY, VICTORIA HILL
• Modern interiors feature custom flat panel wood cabinetry, premium stainless steel appliances, marble countertops, undermount sinks, wide plank laminate flooring, and NuHeat electric floor heating
• Be a part of the peaceful Victoria Hill community, with over 40 acres of green space, 120 species of old-growth trees, and a direct connection to Queen’s Park
• Stunning panoramic views of the Fraser River
• Now under construction
308 1 BEDROOM + FLEX 635 sq.ft. $269,900
310 2 BEDROOM 945 sq.ft. $365,900
1209 2 BEDROOM 1,000 sq.ft. $410,900
311 2 BEDROOM + DEN 1,040 sq.ft. $428,900
TH10 3 BEDROOM 1,680 sq.ft. $659,900
PH5 2 BEDROOM + DEN 1,445 sq.ft. $781,900
215 1 BEDROOM 540 sq.ft. $259,900
325 2 BEDROOM 840 sq.ft. $368,900
209 2 BEDROOM + FLEX 985 sq.ft. $379,900
408 2 BEDROOM 900 sq.ft. $469,900
TH3 3 BEDROOM 1,250 sq.ft. $575,900
416 3 BEDROOM 1,075 sq.ft. $594,900
NOW SELLING! VISIT US TODAY.PARKSIDE PRESENTATION CENTRE NEW LOCATION TH1-271 FRANCIS WAY, NEW WESTMINSTERTHE LOOKOUT PRESENTATION CENTRE 295 FRANCIS WAY, NEW WESTMINSTER
*Prices and incentives are subject to change without notice. Developer reserves the right to make changes and modifications to materials, floorplans and specifications without prior notice. E.&.O.E.
