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Divisive hearing continuesSavage, Roddick speak against including Southlands in the ALRKRISTINE SALZMANNR E P O R T E R

T wo prominent members of South Delta's agricultural com-munity and political history

spoke against applying to have the Southlands included in the Agricul-tural Land Reserve Wednesday eve-ning (March 2).

That night was the second of a pub-lic hearing where more than 90 people have signed up so far to have their say on the controversial issue often charac-terized as divisive to the community.

In February, Delta's Chief Admin-istrative Officer George Harvie rec-ommended to Delta Council all land in Tsawwassen zoned agricultural within the Official Community Plan and within Metro Vancouver's Green Zone be put forth to the Agricultural Land Commission for ALR inclusion. That includes approximately 580 acres in south Tsawwassen known as the Southlands.

Harvie said including the Southlands in the ALR would not change its permit-ted land uses, and provide a superior level of regulatory protection and con-trol consistent with the other agricul-tural lands in Delta.

The majority of the Southlands was included in the ALR in 1973, and later removed in 1981 after the council at the time requested its exclusion and received a provincial order-in-coun-cil.

John Savage, former B.C. Minister of Agriculture and member of a longtime farming family in Delta, said he does not understand why the proposal is on the table.

His family farmed the Southlands, also known as the Spetifore Lands, for five years, growing peas and beans.

"We lost valuable pea crops and bean crops—you know why? Because the sand always got so hot it burned the stems, and they died," he said, adding the peas were hard and reject-ed by processors.

Savage, noting he spoke on behalf of himself and not the Delta Farm-ers' Institute of which he is president, added he is disturbed by the lack of respect he's witnessed in debates sur-rounding the land.

"And I'm really troubled by the attitude of some of these people who think the Hodgins family (the majority

owner of the Southlands) shouldn't make money. My God, you'd be a fool if you went into business with not having the idea of making money," he said.

Former Delta South MLA Val Rod-dick, who chaired the B.C. Agriculture Plan committee a few years ago, said returning the Southlands to the ALR would have "enormous consequenc-es" to Delta taxpayers.

She said the application would expose Deltans to financial risks, among those "compensation to the landowners and the litigation costs that will certainly go with it" and "the cost of an irrigation scheme necessary to allow Southlands to meet modern agricultural needs."

Roddick added, "My concern regard-ing the council's recent decision is it's been reached without the participa-tion of any other level of government, any of the area land owners, or in fact any of the stake holders associated with Southlands, something which is highly unusual for a request of this nature."

The prior evening, after hearing from speakers on proposed Tsawwas-sen Area Plan amendments (see story on p.6), the first handful of residents to the podium spoke in favour of includ-ing the Southlands in the ALR.

A number referred to an Ipsos Reid survey sent out to Tsawwassen resi-dents last June when 62 per cent of respondents replied they want agri-

culture to be the only permitted use of the Southlands.

Said Save the Southlands co-founder Dana Maslovat, "Inclusion in the ALR would ensure the community's wishes are met for the foreseeable future."

On Wednesday evening, Sylvia Bishop, who ran for council in the fall byelection, supported the proposed ALR inclusion application.

She said the application would go a long way to preserving Tsawwassen's semi-rural atmosphere and retaining farmland and open space, two policy statements in the current Tsawwassen Area Plan.

"This particular farmland was left fallow in the hope people would buy into the idea that it couldn't be farmed because it wasn't farmed," she said.

Others spoke of the importance of preserving Tsawwassen's natural envi-ronment.

But that evening there were more speakers at the podium sporting lime green shirts stating their opposition to the proposed ALR inclusion applica-tion than those in favour.

A number of them were concerned what the cost to taxpayers would be for proper drainage and irrigation of the land.

Tsawwassen resident Meg Neufeld said the discussion seems premature, as many people don't feel they have enough information about the land and its potential challenges to make

an informed decision.Others lauded Century Group presi-

dent Sean Hodgins' conceptual design plan for a mix of residential units, farmland and community ameni-ties on the Southlands as a forward-thinking model that should be given a chance through proper consultation.

Speaker Ian Kent said it seems to him both sides are fighting for the same thing: agriculture.

"The difference is that one side does not have a plan to actually enable farming to be done. Where are all those farmers lining up to get their chance to farm this land? Who can afford it?

"The Southlands plan does provide some innovative ideas to realistically farm the land without costing a lot of money for draining, irrigating, amend-ments, et cetera, that will be required, costs that will be borne by the owner, not Delta taxpayers."

Council also received a few hundred items of written correspondence. As of Wednesday evening, they had counted 91 in support of including the South-lands in the ALR, 23 expressing con-cern, and 242 in opposition.

The public hearing continued into Thursday evening, after the South Delta Leader's deadline.

Once the public hearing process is complete, council will decide whether to apply to have all, some or none of the Southlands included in the [email protected]

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Left: Longtime farmer John Savage spoke against the inclusion of the Southlands in the ALR Wednesday evening. Right: There was barely room to stand at the South Delta Recreation Centre Tuesday where hundreds arrived to express their opinions on whether to apply to have the Southlands included in the ALR. Green shirts represented those against the inclusion proposal. Jim Kinnear photo


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B oth past and present Delta South MLAs are hoping for big things

from B.C.'s premier-designate Christy Clark.

"I think we're really in for some interesting times," said Independent MLA Vicki Hun-tington. "I certainly wish her well. She's got a big job to do, and has to pull her caucus together. And I'm sure we will all be watching with bated breath to see how she handles some of the big problems facing B.C."

Clark was elected leader of the BC Liberal Party Saturday (Feb. 26), beating out MLAs Kevin Fal-con, George Abbott and Mike de Jong.

While in government, Clark served as Minister of Educa-tion and Children and Family and assumed the role of deputy premier.

She quit politics in 2004 to spend more time with her young son and later became an open

line radio show host with CKNW 980.

Huntington said she knows Clark to be a scrapper when it comes to politics and is inter-ested in how the new premier "will massage the democratic process and make it more com-patible with what the people want to see."

On the issue of possibly breaking away from B.C.'s fixed election dates, something Clark alluded to during the leader-ship campaign, Huntington said she'd prefer to see the next provincial vote held at the leg-islated date.

The next one is scheduled for May 14, 2013.

"I think we need to get into that habit if it's going to mean anything at all," Huntington said. "I can see where she's anxious to establish her own mandate. But personally I think the public would like spend the next couple of years seeing whether she's able to change and meet some of the public's expectations."

Val Roddick, who served as the

Liberal MLA in Delta South from 1999 to 2009 said she loves the fact B.C. has its second female premier, despite the fact she had supported Abbott's bid for leader, based mostly on his agri-cultural plan.

"More importantly, she's a young woman," Roddick said. "That's going to be important. My age group, we've sort of spent the money, but it's her (age) group that is going to have to pay for all of this. And it's super there's somebody young and family orientated who will think about those sort of things."

Roddick served in Victoria during the same time as Clark and believes she is a can-do politician who will benefit from being involved in a tight race for the Liberal leadership.

"That was really super. I liked that," Roddick said. "That means they (BC Liberal caucus) is going to have to work togeth-er, and that will be good for the province."[email protected]


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Area plan under scrutinyInput on short, long term goals

Hospital kicks off master planPHILIP RAPHAELE D I T O R

The '"little hospital that can" is planning for the future and asked for input from community stakeholders Monday.

In the first of what is scheduled to be three meetings, Fraser Health officials kicked off discussion on a master plan for Delta Hospital.

The idea is to map out the role the facility will play 10 to 20 years in the future with both short and long term goals that may include upgrades and expansion to services along with any needed relocations that best serve the community.

A master plan "provides clarity on the role of the hospital," Lynda Foley, Delta Hospital's Executive Director, told a cafeteria packed with community representatives.

Foley added Delta Hospital already has a good reputation for its surgical day care services and emergency room which record-ed in excess of 28,000 visits in 2009-2010.

While it's too early for specifics of a master plan to be laid out, some hospital staff did weigh in with sug-gestions which would better position Delta Hospital to serve the public in a community that could have a sig-nificantly larger population base.

Some staff said a new surgical unit would make a big improvement to how some emergency room patients are treated in Delta rather than transport them to another hos-pital which was described as highly inefficient.

Another said a tower for accommodating outpatient cases and equipped with leading edge equipment would help draw more skilled staff to the hospital.

Whatever changes that may come to the 22.7 acre hospital site it would likely affect the facility's parking which would have to adhere to municipal regulations.

A date for a workshop on the master plan is tentatively scheduled for March 30.

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KRISTINE SALZMANNR E P O R T E R

W hether residents feel Delta staff is recommend-

ing too much change to the Tsawwassen Area Plan (TAP) or is not going far enough, it seems few are entirely happy with the new amend-ment proposals.

Members of the public attended a hearing March 1 to give their thoughts to council on Delta Chief Ad m i n i s t ra t i v e O f f i c e r George Harvie's newest TAP amendment recommenda-tions, which were developed following tumultuous public hearings last October where outraged residents opposed proposed changes to densi-ty in neighbourhoods close to the town core.

That recommendation to permit townhouses and apartments close to the town centre came after sup-port was shown by 62 per cent of respondents to an Ipsos Reid survey sent out last June.

But after hundreds of resi-dents came out to criticize the report at the subsequent hearings, the bylaw was scrapped.

Harvie's new report to council proposes l i t t le change to the current plan, adopted in 1992, focusing on modest growth in the town centre and 56th Street

corridor.They include increasing

the height limit in the town centre from four to six sto-reys while maintaining the current 1,000 unit cap. The limit would allow for 242 more units in the area—as of 2010 the number of existing residential units was 758.

He also recommended increasing the height limit from three to four storeys along 56th Street between 14B Ave. and 16 Ave.

Delta community plan-n i n g d i re c t o r T h o m a s Leatham stressed the plan p r o t e c t s s i n g l e f a m i l y neighbourhoods, and any effort to subdivide would still need to go through the public input process.

St a f f a l s o s u g g e s t e d another review be undertak-en once the 1,000 unit cap is reached and when more is known about the impact of development on Tsawwas-sen First Nation land.

At last night's hearing, one speaker told council the plan for "no change" lacks vision, and that anticipated development by TFN is not an excuse to delay proper town planning.

Another, Tsawwassen architect Peter Dandyk, said it is "ludicrous" to limit growth in the town core to only 242 more units, adding what the plan needs is some imagination and creativity.

He called what staff has

proposed a "minor nip and tuck—and that type of plastic surgery doesn't help much if the body's dead."

Dandyk added limiting growth puts local business-es in jeopardy.

"This plan makes us spec-tators while we sit by idly and watch the redevelop-ment and our way of life derailed and unfortunately destroyed. I guarantee you that if we stay with this plan the way it currently stands in 10 years the centre of Tsawwassen and Ladner will be ghost towns," he said.

Former Delta councillor Krista Engelland said she is not in support of height limit increases in either the town centre or on 56th Street north of the town core, stressing the impor-tance of maintaining Tsaw-wassen's "safe, single family neighbourhoods."

Carol Vignale with Safe Route Tsawwassen asked council not to waste the thoughtful contributions of those who took the time to attend Tsawwassen Area Plan committee meetings during the review process, which started back in the spring of 2009, including input on how to improve the accessibility and walkability of Tsawwassen.

But amidst the mixed reactions, some conceded it was the best plan they've seen so far.

Sylvia Bishop, who ran for council in last fall's byelec-tion, said staff's report bet-ter reflects the wishes of the community than the last effort.

"It cannot be said that this (the current Tsawwassen Area Plan) policy stopped growth and development in Tsawwassen," she said, pointing to Shato Holdings' new Tsawwassen Springs development at the Tsaw-wassen Golf Course and to the construction of South-pointe Academy's new school on 56th Street.

Council must now take everyone's written corre-spondence and speakers' input into consideration.

"It appeared to me that in general most people feel that there's enough to at least move forward with," said Coun. Bruce McDon-ald, chair of the Tsawwas-sen Area Plan committee, after the hearing. "Some people would like to see much higher density in cer-tain areas, some people are not happy with some of the specifics in it, and that will be discussed and debated at council."

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PHILIP RAPHAELE D I T O R

T hey walked hand in hand down the aisle as new-

lyweds close to seven decades ago. And today, Orville and Helen Ruetz still walk side by side through the hallways of their Ladner retirement home in the same way—with hands warmly clasped together.

“It’s been love since day one,” says Orville, 98 who along with wife Helen, 86, celebrate their 68th anniversary March 6.

“Oh, he was so hand-some,” says Helen. “He still is.”

Orville smiles at the admission.

The two met by need. Or vil le was a grain farmer in the area of Gull Lake, Saskatch-ewan and he required a housekeeper to keep his home neat and tidy and him well fed.

“So, my father picked her (Helen) up and brought her out to me,” he says.

“I worked for him for about a year and that was it,” Helen says.

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In 2003, they moved to Augustine House where they live in a cozy suite today.

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“Wow, the secret,” Helen says.

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Delta Coun. Bruce McDonald is trying to drum up support for an alternate public tran-sit idea south of the Fraser.

He and Township of Langley Mayor Rick Green recently gave a presentation to Delta council on the merits of using the old BC Elec-tric interurban line as an alternative for resi-dents to the current ser-vice provided by Trans-Link, which has been criticized of late by both Surrey and Delta coun-cils as inadequate for the region.

McDonald, a mem-ber of the South Fraser Community Rail Task Force, and Green, who heads the group, argue reactivating the existing provincially-owned cor-ridor as a community passenger rail network would be an economi-cal and efficient way of transporting com-muters throughout the Fraser Valley.

Service would run from the Scott Road SkyTrain Station to Abbotsford or beyond.

McDonald said the track, which once car-ried commuters until the early 1950s, could be readied with to go from the Scott Road Station to Chilliwack for about half a billion dollars, compared to $2.5 billion to extend SkyTrain service from the current King George terminus station in Sur-rey to Langley.

The task force’s goal is to get a demonstra-

tion line up and running by 2015, comparing the idea to Bombardier’s demonstration of light rail streetcars which ran during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Van-couver. The group envi-sions electric, hybrid or fuel efficient diesel cars.

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A man sends a Twitter message in Cairo and now we’re paying around $1.26 for a litre of regular gas.

The current tumult in the Middle East, sparked by the so-called Twitter Revolution in Egypt, is prompting fear-mongering by commodities speculators and boosting the bank accounts of major oil companies.

Egypt is a middle-of-the-pack supplier of the world’s oil. Its daily production of about 680,000 barrels ranks it 29th amongst oil producers.

That’s 11 spots below Libya, but eight higher than Yemen, 25 higher than Tunisia and 44 higher than Bahrain, the other countries where citizens, emboldened by the successful occupation of Tahrir Square, have been marching against the status quo.

Combined, they produce less oil per day than Canada, which is ranked sixth at 3,289,000 barrels, and less than a third of the daily oil production of the United States.

In fact, the U.S., the world’s biggest consumer of oil, gets less than 20 per cent of its imported supply from the Middle East.

Some key delivery points have more oil than capacity to move it.

Refineries have cut back operations because of the oil glut.

But never let reality get in the way of a good old speculative panic.

Some analysts say if the current Middle East unrest continues, or spreads to more countries, the price of a barrel of oil could reach new heights, surpassing the records set three years ago, the last time we were paying this much at the pump.

That’s also the year the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, Exxon Mobil, pocketed a record profit of $45.2 billion.

Of course, this anxiety about the rising price of oil fuels fears for the rest of the economy.

As gas goes up, so goes the price of food and everything else we consume that gets to us by truck, train, plane, or is manufactured with plastic.

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Mayor and council, it is true there has been and still is illegal dumping of waste materials on agricultural land (Stop work order costly for farmer, Feb. 25, 2011 South Delta Leader) in Delta and nothing has been done despite many reports of it taking place.

T h e A g r i c u l t u r a l L a n d Commission does not have the manpower, funding or the direction to protect what lands are left in the Agricultural Land Reserve. By ignoring their responsibilities, the Provincial and Federal Governments are slowly eroding the land and the farmers ability to exist.

I grew up with Don Malenstyn's

grandparents, his father and uncle when they first moved to Delta in the late 40's. They all were very successful farmers and contributed greatly to the community.

Don Malenstyn is sincerely trying to carry on his family's tradition by trying to elevate his land so he can work his land and produce the food we all desire. He has been forced to do this because of the present elevation of his land which is zero (above sea level) and some of the lowest in the Delta, with insufficient elevation to sustain a fast enough run-off to clear the ditches and farmland.

As far back as 1967 when I was chairman of (Delta's) Dikes & Drainage it was recognized booster pumps were required in order to maintain a workable

condition for the farm properties in the area.

Contributions for these pumps would have to come from both Delta and Surrey along with the senior levels who all want to maintain the farmer and his land.

To my knowledge some 40 years later little has been done to relieve this problem, giving Mr. Malenstyn no choice but to try and elevate his land or grow rice.

Instead of punishing him, the responsible departments of government should either help him with his drainage problem or find a way to assist him in elevating his land so he can farm it without additional costs and delays.

Douglas Massey,Delta

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In all due respect, how as the elected members of Delta Council you can request the return of the Southlands to the ALR is absolutely inconceivable.

In the 1980's, the council of the day, including now Mayor Lois Jackson, unanimously recommended the removal of the Southlands from the ALR.

Among the reasons for this re c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s t h e incompatibility of industrial farming in close proximity to residential neighbourhoods.

Please tell me what part of this equation has changed?

It appears to me, you are b u c k l i n g t o t h e n e g a t i v e intimidation of a vocal minority

of Tsawwassen instead of showing the leadership you were elected to deliver.

It is disappointing to think this abdication of duty to fully review the options available to Delta has anything to do with the upcoming municipal elections this fall.

Returning the land to the ALR will allow (without any method of appeal by the municipality) all methods of farming currently listed under A1 farming regulations, including greenhouses, livestock farms (pigs, cows, chickens etc), blueberries (including noisy cannons), turf farms, and industrial farming crops requiring up to seven applications of pesticide and herbicide per year with the impact of overspray and polluted water runoff directly

affecting Boundary Bay, Beach Grove, Forest by the Bay and the Terraces.

Please try to justify why you never took the Southlands plan seriously, instead bowing to the bullying of those who hide behind saving farmland when they really are fighting any change at all.

Do you think these same people won't be beating on your doors when potential future farmers of the Southlands start constructing greenhouses?

For the sake of our community, please do not vote for the return of the Southlands to the ALR. Use the leadership role you have been given to find a better way forward for the people of Tsawwassen.

Leanne Lionello,Delta

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SEVEN DAYS> SENIORS TRAVELSouth Delta Seniors' Travel is heading to the Coquitlam Casino. When: Deadline March 4 to register for March 25 trip. Where: Tick-ets available at McKee Centre and KinVil-lage, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Members $5, non-members $6.

> WORLD DAY OF PRAYERA World Day of Prayer service will be held at Ladner United Church. When: March 4, 2 p.m. Where: 4960 48 Ave. The women of Chile invite you to reflect on the many gifts God has given us and our call to share those gifts. For more information on the service call Jane Pallan at 604-946-9842 or email [email protected].

> COLLECTIBLE SALEHospice Cottage Thrift Store is hosting a Col-lectible Sale. When: March 4, 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., and March 5, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: 1521 56 St. For more info or to make a dona-tion of an item to the sale, call 604-943-4345.

> WIRED WEDNESDAYSGet comfortable using the Internet. The Tsawwassen Library offers drop-in 60 min-ute courses on Wednesdays. When: Next class Email, March 9, 9 to 10 a.m. Where: 1321 56 St. Open to everyone, registration not required.

> DELTA LIFE SKILLS CAMPDelta Life Skills Society will again provide a six week summer camp for Delta children and youth with special needs. The society invites new and returning families to its AGM and Information Meeting. When: March 9, 6:30 p.m. Where: Sundance Inn (6574 Ladner Trunk Rd.). Contact [email protected] or call 604-418-4860.

> SPRING ART SHOWSpring is in the air and that means it's time

for the Spring Art Show. When: March 9-18. Where: McKee Seniors Recreation Centre in Ladner. Works will feature watercolour, pen and ink, oil, acrylic, oriental brush and tole painting. The free show culminates with an awards presentation March 25. For infor-mation on the art show call 604-946-1411.

> ANNUAL BOOK SALETsawwassen Library is holding its annual book sale. Choose from a vast selection of donated or discarded library books for children, teens and adults, from fiction for $2 to magazine for 10¢. Proceeds from the sales will go towards the cost of new materials and furnishings for your own Delta libraries. When: March 11, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and March 12, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: 1321A 56 St.

GROUPS & VOLUNTEERSThe Tsawwassen Badminton Club wel-comes new adult members. If you have played before, just drop in and play in this social and friendly club. Meets Fridays, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Ladner Community Centre. Contact Peter Edwards at 604-940-0844.

The Tsawwassen Early Bird Golf Club for men over 55 years has membership open-ings. Group plays at the Delta Golf Course off Hwy. 10 Mondays and Fridays between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. starting March 21 to Oct. 10. Membership is $40. For more info call Rod at 604-943-7984 or pick up a reg-istration form at the Delta Club Pro Shop.

Canada Revenue trained volunteers are available to help in tax preparation. Every Saturday in March and April except Apr. 23 at the Tsawwassen Alliance Church (4951 12 Ave.), 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call 604-943-6148 to see if you qualify.

Learn the art of public speaking and leader-ship skills with a fun, safe and supportive group for $8 per month. Join Tsawwas-sen's Ambassadors Toastmasters Club the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month at the Tsawwassen Library, 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. Visit AmbassadorsToastmasters.org.

The Delta Hospice Society invites you to join the energetic Hospice Cottage Thrift Store Team. Volunteer opportunities seven days a week. Drop by for an application or call 604-948-0660. Store is located at 1521 56 St.

The Centre for Supportive Care for people with cancer, other life-threatening or progressive ill-ness, and those who are grieving. Relaxation Group (drop-in Tuesday 10 a.m.), Bereave-ment Walking Group (drop-in Wednesday 10 a.m.), Caregivers Group and Grief Groups. Call the centre (4631 Clarence Taylor Crescent) at 604-948-0660 for more info and to register.

Clockwise from top left: ❚ The Run Inn recently hosted a fashion show to bring together Tsawwassen businesses and raise money for the Delta Hospice Society. Local shops, including The Run Inn, C'est Moi Boutique, X-treme Clothing, and (left to right) The Delta Bike Company, Lola Bleu, and Lucky Skate and Surf showcased their spring collections on the runway. Jane Ilott photos ❚ Penelope Nakatani (centre) was the winner of Tsawwassen Safeway's $10,000 Old Dutch Restaurante Dream Kitchen contest. On hand to present the cheque were Geoff Wiltshire, regional sales manager for Old Dutch Foods Ltd.and 1st assistant store manager Myra Tiongco. Jim Kinnear photo

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A name tolive up to

Power line homes trade on community's enduring appeal

W h o c a m e up with the name “Tsaw-

wassen Heights?”I want to know. Was

it a creative team at ReMax, BC Hydro or their subcontractor?

Furthermore, what kind of process did those individuals go through to decide upon a name for a neighbourhood undergoing extreme public scrutiny, thanks to being situated on the BC Hydro right-of-way with some pretty high voltage power lines run-ning overhead.

Tsawwassen Heights: sounds elegant, sounds elitist. Sounds like a place I’d aspire to live. I visualize a rocky out-crop or per-haps a terrace, with row upon row of wide, elegant bou-levards, lined with mature oaks, a subur-ban dream of a place.

Perhaps there is a view of the bay. It’s likely eagles soar past and squirrels are prolific. Neighbours have street parties, lawns and gar-dens are immaculate, and everyone is obscene-ly happy to live in Tsaw-wassen Heights.

It most certainly does not sound like a neigh-bourhood where previ-ous homeowners lost sleep over the possibil-ity of cancer-provoking radiat ion f rom the above-ground wires.

So, why have the major-ity of these homes in Tsawwassen Heights sold so readily? Who are these buyers who are obviously not near as skeptical as their predecessors?

Are they easily wooed

by the pure marketing wizardry and all the promise it holds to live in beautiful, central Tsawwassen Heights?

Apparently so. But my guess is they are not unaware of what they’re getting into.

And that’s where I come to this: where else could you turn such a potential disaster into such success?

Where else but lovely coveted Tsawwassen, could you sell property after property so quickly with nothing but reason-able prices and a well-thought-out name?

I’m thinking of using this strategy to my own

advantage. I may change my name. Like t h e B o n o s , C h e r s a n d Princes of the world, I need a pretentious one-word n a m e t h a t invites success and wealth. So here it is: Bril-liance.

I think my first novel would be a national bestseller. Oprah would have me on as a guest. My successive books would fly off the shelf. Even Bono himself would buy my books.

“Have you read the latest by Brilliance?” he’d ask The Edge. “Gotta read it, man. Powerful stuff.”

‘Tis the power of a pow-erful name. And it’s obvi-ously working for Tsaw-wassen Heights. Image is everything with real estate. And if you can’t sell the neighbourhood, you can’t sell the house.

My guess is: had the creative team opted for something like “Power Lanes,” “Current Grove” or “Ampsville,” sales

would be dismal at best. Or how about “Voltage Bluff,” “Electric Mead-ows,” “Surging Heights" . . . I could go on.

I guess that’s why I’m not in real estate. Clearly, I don’t have the marketing savvy.

Christine Thomp-son is a freelance adver-tising copywriter by trade, living in, where else? South Delta. You can reach her at [email protected]

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M ore than one year after a fire gutted a

row of apartments and businesses in Ladner Vil-lage, one family is finally getting close to re-open-ing their restaurant.

Ladner Sushi suffered major smoke and water damage in the Nov. 8, 2009 fire on 48th Ave-nue that also took out the neighbouring busi-nesses of Marco's Italian Bistro, Heritage House Interiors and the Drag-onfly Gallery. As well, it left a trio of families who lived in the units above the commercial strip without homes and most of their possessions.

No one was harmed in the fire, except for a cat that did not make it out. Heritage House and the Dragonfly Gallery have since relocated to Chish-olm Street, across from the waterfront, but Kathy (Ling) Wang and husband Danny (Guojie) Lu have experienced a sluggish journey back to serving customers once again.

The morning of the fire, the couple was asleep in their rental apartment above the restaurant when they were woken by urgent knocking at their door. Wang saw plumes of smoke and hurried to get her two children, toddler Oscar and older sister Lucia.

The family fled in their pyjamas and stayed in their car the rest of the night.

Wang says she is grateful for the support the community showed in the aftermath of the fire. The family lost all their belongings in the

blaze, but the holidays were far from somber as numerous people donated plenty of pres-ents for the children.

"We like Ladner so much, the people are so nice to us. After the fire, a lot of people helped us, they donated a lot of stuff for us. We had a wonderful Christmas in that year as we never ever had before," Wang said in an email.

Now, it's a waiting game. Wang said she's in the dark as to exactly when they will be able to re-open the doors to Ladner Sushi, but they are aiming for some-time in April.

The project manager told her they are wait-ing for approvals from the municipality before further work can move forward. More recently she said construction is just getting underway. When the Leader was last on site, drywall had been hung but the grey room with no flooring, tables or chairs bore little resemblance to the once bustling restaurant.

"We are just waiting. We didn't think it would be that long."

T h e r e s t a u r a n t ' s insurance coverage ended one year after the fire, in early Novem-ber, and since their lease agreement was signed for February they started paying rent this month.

She is glad the family was able to find a place to rent and stay in Lad-ner, but the wait has been frustrating.

"Every day I go past my restaurant—oh, it's so sad," said Wang. "Lots of my customers ask me, when are you opening? We're waiting for you."[email protected]

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Re-opening planned Former TFN Chief Rick Jacobs served two terms

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TFN elder passesPHILIP RAPHAELE D I T O R

The Tsawwassen First Nation lost one of its beloved elders last month.

A funeral service with military hon-ours was held in honour of Frederick ‘Rick’ Jacobs, 89, who passed away Feb. 17.

Jacobs, a decorated veteran dur-ing the Second World War, joined the Regina Rifles, a group known as the ‘Farmer Johns’ because the bulk of the corps was made up of farm labourers from Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It also had one of the largest comple-ments of Metis and First Nations sol-diers.

Jacobs was determined to serve during the war in part for what his

father said would earn him respect when he returned home.

“My father told me that although it was against his wishes, he wanted me to join up. He said, ‘If you don’t go overseas a lot of people back here at home will look at you differently,’” said Jacobs in an interview in the Leader from 2002 that celebrated local veterans. “My father also told me that I had to go out and see the world. Dad was like that himself. He never stayed on the reserve much of his life. He traveled all around and saw much and learned more."

Jacobs also served as TFN chief during the 1950s when the BC Ferries Tsawwassen Terminal and causeway were constructed through the band's property.

Rick Jacobs honoured with military service

Ladner Sushi owners Kathy (Ling) Wang and husband Danny (Guojie) Lu. Kristine Salzmann photo


I nternational Women's Day celebrates its 100th year on March 8, 2011.

Around the world hundreds of events will take place to celebrate the social, political and economic achievements of women.

In South Delta, The South Delta Leader and Kathie Madden Events will host the third annual Project Bloom: Women in Business event.

Since it was launched, Leader publisher Chrissie Bowker and Kathie Madden have brought together women in the commu-nity through Project Bloom to inspire each other with their sto-ries of success and passion for what they do.

"Most women choose a primary responsibility and some are able to extend themselves further by carv-ing out spheres of influence locally, nationally and incredibly at a global level," Madden says. "I look at Proj-ect Bloom as an event that instills a sense of sorority, celebration and inspiration for all the women who came before us and for those who will follow our lead."

This year's event focuses on women's strength, with dynam-ic and inspirational speakers including Surrey-Panorama MLA Stephanie Cadieux, human rights lawyer and former Paralympian Carla Qualtrough, and advocate

against impaired driving Laurel Middelaer, as well as event emcee and Global Morning News co-anchor Sophie Lui, all of whom you can read about on the follow-ing pages.

Money raised at the event will go to Middelaer's Back the Bus campaign, which is raising funds for mobile blood alcohol testing units for police.

Bowker has been excited to see Project Bloom grow and evolve.

"After the first year, we realized there was a whole lot more to dis-cover about the strong and pas-sionate women in our commu-nity and around the world," she says. "I relish the development of relationships with a diverse group of inspiring women each year and

look forward to another extraor-dinary International Women's Day at Project Bloom."

As you turn the pages you can also read about local women who make positive contributions to this community and beyond, whether it be through innovation, volunteerism or leadership.

For instance, our cover story focuses on Ladner's Donna Mor-ton, CEO and co-founder of First Power, a company that partners with remote communities to create the capacity to harness renewable and clean energy technologies.

On March 8, celebrate the achieve-ments of women past, present and future in your own way, or by joining us at Project Bloom next year (tickets for this year have sold out).

Celebrating womenProject Bloom enters third year, International Women's Day recognizes its centennial

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Donna Morton, top, has green dreams she is putting into action as CEO of First Power. Bottom right, Carol Anne Hilton is the project's manager at the Hesquiaht First Nation. Rob Newell photo

Ladner-based company has fossil fuel-free dreams

Powerful realityKRISTINE SALZMANNR E P O R T E R

Imagine living in a community where your electricity and heat is sourced 100 per cent from

renewable energy technology.That dream is slowly becom-

ing a reality for one remote vil-lage thanks to a partnership with a Ladner-based company.

Donna Morton is CEO of First Power, which aims to bring green energy technology and job cre-ation to communities.

She started the company with Joe Thwaites, who founded Taylor Munro Energy Systems, a Tilbury-based company that installed solar water heating systems. Thwaites oversees the technical and training side of First Power as Chief Technology Officer.

The company is only in its sec-ond year, but already its instigat-ing social change through its first major partnership with the Hes-quiaht First Nation, a community of about 100 members accessible by boat north of Tofino, across from Hot Springs Cove.

Many small remote Canadian communities, such as the Hes-quiaht First Nation, are off the BC Hydro grid, reliant on diesel power generation for their energy.

Diesel generators have both health and environmental impacts on these communi-ties, emitting pollutants into the atmosphere and particulates that contribute to asthma.

Then there's the bill.The Hesquiaht First Nation

spends about 25 per cent of its operating budget every year on purchasing diesel fuel and ship-ping it to the village.

The economic and environmen-tal incentives, plus the desire to align values with lifestyle, prompt-ed the village to contact First Power upon learning of its mandate.

"We had heard of the work they were doing and the philosophy behind the company of putting energy in the hands of commu-nities," says Carol Anne Hilton, a former Hesquiaht councillor and now the project manager for Hesquiaht 100% Renewable, the name of the initiative. "The ques-tion we had as a community was, how do we do it ourselves? How do we develop an energy sys-tem unique to our area and that matched with our values?"

Through this partnership, members are taking a lead role in the planning and developing its own First Nation energy author-ity, which Hilton suspects is the first of its kind in Canada.

The two parties' fossil-fuel free dreams involve developing multi-ple sources of energy through wind power, micro-hydro (a small hydro project on a creek), and a biomass generator, which would burn wood waste leftover from logging by the nearby forestry industry.

Energy use is highest in the win-ter when wind and water resourc-es will be strong, and the biomass generator will be a dependable, steady stream of energy when the other two sources are low.

The five-year project is esti-mated to cost about $5 million, with about $3 million invested in technology and $2 million in capacity building, such as train-ing, Morton says. The project is entering its second year, which involves setting up the Hesquiaht energy authority and an external advisory board of experts in fields such as financing, marketing and fundraising.

Hilton says while the initial capital costs may be significant, the new sources of energy will pay for themselves in the long run.

Power womanSo how did Donna Morton end

up the head of a renewable energy company working off the grid?

She has a long and storied background in working with non-profit organizations, envi-ronmental policy, and striving for social change.

"I have a non-profit background and First Nations economic devel-opment work. Joe has a technol-ogy background. We both have about 25 years each of trying to reinvent what business does," Morton says, who splits her time between Ladner and Victoria.

Morton is also the founder of the Victoria-based Centre for Integral Economics (CIE). The charitable organization works with businesses, other organiza-tions and communities to come up with market-based solutions to change human behavior when it comes to the environment.

"CIE, for about 10 years, was one of the leading organizations in B.C. talking about and building policy—tools related to how you align tax policy with the environment and job creation," Morton says.

Her work as executive director of CIE earned her the Burns Bog Conservation Society's Spirit of the Crane award for Environmen-tal Excellence in Business in 2003. That same year Morton was named an Ashoka Fellow, a title granted to social entrepreneurs who have innovative solutions to social issues and create real change.

It was through CIE she first worked with First Power co-founder Thwaites. The organi-zation formed a working group made up of business leaders like him to develop recommenda-tions and build support for B.C.'s carbon tax policy.

Morton criticizes the provin-cial government for implement-ing the tax she says is too low to be effective, and for not directing the revenue back into to environ-

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Flinger's "owner" told the animal con-trol offers he had found the small, grey raptor in a nest in Hope.

It was not the case. The roadside hawk (buteo magnirostris), just a little taller than a robin, is a native of Mexico, and was obviously smuggled into the prov-ince.

When the bird came to Delta's Or-phaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (OWL) after being rescued from an area hotel room, he was malnourished – not underfed, but fed the wrong stuff: rice, bread, milk and rare scraps of chicken meat.

His condition was like that of a human

child with rickets, says OWL executive director Bev Day.

Not only did Flinger not receive proper nutrients, which made his bones perma-nently weak, he couldn't recognize a mouse, his species' main prey.

It took some time to re-train him to eat things bigger than tiny morsels of food.

His name – Flinger – came quickly to OWL staff.

"It's what he does with his food," ex-plains Day. "People end up with bits of mice in their hair or clothes. He's not a very dainty eater."

Eight years after his rescue, Flinger is a permanent resident at OWL, which treats more than 200 injured birds of prey each year at its facility near the Boundary Bay Airport.

With just one full-time and three part-time staffers, OWL relies on about 30 steady volunteers to run the centre.

But more are needed, especially dur-ing weekdays, says Day.

There are lots of jobs for people over age 13, such as bird care (involving lots of mice), cage maintenance, painting, carpentry and gardening.

A bigger worry is fundraising.On March 8, the B.C. Ministry of Hous-

ing and Social Development, which over-sees gaming grants, cut funding to the non-profi t society.

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Have you ever wondered what grandma’s China set that you inherited is worth or what the story is behind the wood box you picked up at a garage sale?

In May, you'll have an opportunity to find out. The Delta Museum and Archives will be hosting its annual Antique Identification and Appraisal Clinics on May 8.

Well-known antiques appraiser Al Bowen is able to identify and date objects from any historical period and will provide a detailed history, description and verbal appraisal of your objects. After your objects have been appraised, stick around, enjoy a cup of tea and hear about other people’s treasures.

So, rustle through the basement, dust off those collectibles and bring them to the Delta Museum and Archives. There are two sessions: 10 a.m. to 12 noon or 1 to 3 p.m. with both clinics being hosted at the Museum’s Annex building (4918 Delta Street) located two blocks north of the historical museum building.

The cost is $12 per person, which includes a verbal identification and appraisal of two objects. Additional objects are $5 each to a maximum of two additional objects. Observers are welcome at $5 per person.

Space is limited, so pre-registration and payment is required. Call 604-946-9322 or stop by the muse-um to purchase your ticket.

Join the community in support of Delta Hospital May 2 at the Delta Hospital Foundation's second annual Walk for Health.

Last year more than 280 walkers took part and raised more than $64,500. This year, sponsor MK Delta Lands will match pledges dollar for dollar up to $25,000.

Participants can walk two, five, or 10 km around the hospital grounds, starting at 10 a.m. There will also be a health and wellness fair featuring booths by community businesses and hospital departments.

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Some Delta Police offi cers assigned to

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Meander along the mouth of the mighty Fraser

River while you learn about the rich history of the

river and its shorelines.The Delta Museum and Archives is once again

offering its five-hour, fully-narrated scenic cruise to

tell the river's diverse and multicultural story.

Participants are encouraged to pack a lunch, dress

for the weather, and bring a camera to capture the

scenery as you travel the waters past Ladner’s Land-

ing, Port Guichon, Canoe Pass, Westham Island,

Finn Slough and over to Steveston’s Cannery Row.

The Fraser River Delta Historical Cruises take

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Delta Hospital has a new set of mobile surgical lights

thanks to $20,000 from CHC Helicopter and its Delta-

based helicopter maintenance facility Heli-One.

The lights can be easily compacted and moved

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used in the hospital's new endoscopy unit, which

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of day surgery procedures.“This is a great addition to our operating rooms

because of the flexibility and improved productiv-

ity that is now possible,” said Teresa Cooper, Delta

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industry, Morton says she meets many female executives and CEOs who are excited that she heads up First Power.

"I think women have a sense that women lead differently," she says. "I feel like my job is not to leave who I am as a mother at home when I go to work, but to actually bring my work as a moth-er into my work—so my love of children and place and planet actually gets to come to work with me every day."

Morton has given talks on the subject of women leadership in the field of energy.

"I think there's something about the responsibility you feel for the future as a woman when you are carrying a baby inside you. Our biology connects us to every woman who ever gave birth that made it possible for us to be in the world, and to the future and future generations through that child we bring into the world. And it's a deep place of knowing."

Morton has also learned much about herself transitioning from the non-profit to for-profit sector.

"There's definitely something more cutthroat in the for-profit sector—there's an edginess that has a dark side. But there's also something freeing. I feel like my inner entrepreneur has more per-mission to take up space."

Some people might find Mor-ton's inner entrepreneur ideal-istic—even unreasonable. But being uniquely "unreasonable" is what has snagged Morton a trip to

Boulder, Colorado with a group of like-minded people out to change the way society operates.

'Unreasonable' goals?There's proof a lot of people

believe in what Morton is doing. First Power recently made the

top 25 in a contest called the Unreasonable Marketplace in which new, innovative entre-preneurs competed for a spot at the Unreasonable Institute, a six-week training and networking conference in Colorado.

First Power had to be among the first 25 companies to raise $8,000, which seems a pittance that could be achieved with one fell swoop until you learn donors could only contribute, say, $10 each in a given week.

The Unreasonable Marketplace contest wanted to see which start-up businesses could mobi-lize people who believe in their vision—First Power did just that.

At the conference, heads of the companies will meet with men-tors, people who are experienced in building socially-conscious businesses with a global impact.

"In the world of social enter-prise, it's a really good who's who," Morton says.

One business, voted by their peers, will be awarded $100,000, while everyone attending is expected to leave with valuable new relationships.

Like the conference, First Power is all about developing partner-ships.

Also involved in Hesquiaht 100% is CIE, B.C. Hydro, UBC's

ISIS research centre (The Centre for Social Innovation and Sustain-ability), Vancouver Island Univer-sity (on the training front), and a small company called Energy Alternatives, and more partner-ships are in the works.

In terms of tying in economic development, a handful of short-term (building the wind turbine and micro hydro project) and long-term (operating the biomass generator) jobs will be created. And there's plans to capitalize on the fact Hesquiaht should be the first community in Canada 100 per cent reliable on renew-able energy.

"If we build the world's green-est grid and they are located a five minute boat ride from Hot Springs Cove, which has 15,000 tourists a year . . . The tourism potential is off the chart," Morton says.

"What makes me excited is to see the capacity of the com-munity really saying, we can do this," says Hilton. "I think that's really neat to see that technology doesn't overshadow the human capacity of what's here in the vil-lage, and the value match of clean energy and the way of living on the territory."

Other First Power projects are moving forward as well, such as a solar panel art mural project with another First Nation.

Morton is enthusiastic about a future of empowered commu-nities, socially responsible eco-nomic development and clean, green energy.

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Donna Morton (back, left) at a Hesquiaht First Nation meeting as they plan for a future of renewable energy. Contributed photo

I have for many years been extremely pleased to support the business women of Delta South in their endeavours. I congratulate you all on your achievements.

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A 15-year volunteer with Ladner CoPs, Isabel Benedict says she simply enjoys helping provide a service to the community. Philip Raphael photo

Long service

T he pins fastened to Isabel Bene-dict's shirt collar tell the story.

Some of the pins, all of which bear the Delta Police Department logo, count for a year of volunteer service. Others signify five and 10 years.

Benedict's collection—she only wears a handful at a time—shows she's been a fixture at the Ladner CoPs station for 15 years.

"I have a whole bunch of them ( p i n s ) , " s a y s Be n e d i c t , 7 8 . "I couldn't put them all on. It would get a little heavy."

She starts to l a u g h g e n t l y, part of it because a l t h o u g h s h e likes watching TV crime shows,

she never wanted to become a police officer—she was an accountant with Pacific Western Airlines and later Canadian Airlines International.

And the other part is the fact she can't believe she's been offering her services as a volunteer at the Ladner CoPs (Community Police Station) location for a decade and a half.

Asked if she intended to be attached as a CoPs volunteer for so long, Bene-dict says, "No. I thought I'd do it for a little while and see how it goes. And, of course, I got more and more involved with the everyday things."

She also go to know more people and made many friends in the process.

"I just wanted to get involved with something in the community," Bene-dict says. "I had seen a write up in the paper and knew they (CoPs) had been putting together Christmas hampers. And before I started here I had come in and donated a few things."

In the CoPs office Benedict has been a mainstay, although she admits there are a few who have served longer than her.

"Basically, I've spent the majority of my time here in the office. I haven't done the Crime Watch, that's too late

at night for me," she says. "And I've done Speed Watch (traffic control) a couple of times."

Overall from her experience over the years, Benedict says the public only know a little of what the volun-teers accomplish.

"We also have bike ID, Home Watch where we keep an eye on homes that people have left while they go away on vacation, and do routine patols of the local schools and parks," she says. "We've also had seniors who have come in that have been scammed with those letters from Nigeria asking for money, and we've straightened them out."

One incident which stands out in her mind and reinforces the CoPs vol-unteers' ability to take care of matters was a case which involved a missing woman.

"A man came in and said and said he'd lost his wife," Benedict says. "Turns out his wife had Alzheimer's and he'd left her in the car with their dog and when he came back to the car she was gone."

The CoPs station volunteers imme-diately fanned out in the area armed with a description of the missing woman who was found walking down the street nearby.

"I went up to her and she said, 'He's (her husband) is going to be really mad at me.' I said, no. He's more scared than mad," Benedict says with a smile. "The constable here, he was ready to go into all out search mode and we were able to play a role in find-ing her."

After that incident the CoPs station informed the woman's husband there was a "wandering" registry he could enlist by providing information and photo of his wife.

"I have a feeling we are doing good and we are helping people," Benedict says. "And I like being here. I like being with the people."

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To Hear About Our Draft Neighbourhood Community PlanTsawwassen First Nation has developed a draft Neighbourhood Plan for the area designated in its 2008 Land Use Plan as a Residential/Commercial Enterprise Area. The purpose of this plan is to create a new neighbourhood in the designated area which:

· Respects TFN’s historical and cultural context

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The Plan will guide future development in the designated area. It will provide Tsawwassen Members the option to develop their lands and will ensure that development is compatible with the needs and desires of the overall community.

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How do you turn a setback into a move forward towards a successful business that can help others?

Ladner’s Maureen O’Sullivan-Webb knows.

In January of 2009 she and her hus-band received the news their three-year-old son had been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.

“Stunned, I began scrambling to learn as much as I could about what this meant for our family,” she says. “We were going to have to adapt to dif-ferent ways of doing things, and obtain the supplies and services required for therapy as quickly as possible.”

After months of researching and assembling a system that maximized their son’s intervention program, they realized they could also help other families make the difficult transition a little easier.

“I created a proprietary system called Therapy in a Bin— specifically

targeted to assist in the delivery of an early-intensive intervention pro-gram—and Panorama Autism Therapy Solutions, Inc. was born,” she says.

Therapy in a Bin (therapyinabin.com) provides all the supplies need-ed for a successful early intervention program in one simple, organized system.

“We’ve done all the legwork to provide the essential fundamentals for maximizing your child or client’s potential,” she says. “We also make custom visual aids and carry many other products.”

O’Sullivan also is adept in the kitch-en where she taps her Irish heritage to produce a fine soda bread.

“Being Irish-Canadian, this is one of my favorite things to bake,” she says. “It is great for breakfast with jam and also really wonderful with a pot of soup and friends.”

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TV's early riser takes on Project BloomEvent’s emcee enjoys ability to ask all kinds of questions

A familiar face to early morning TV watchers, Global BC’s Sophie Lui, is this year’s emcee for Project Bloom.

T his year’s emcee for Project Bloom has had to set her

alarm clock to ring a little bit earlier in the morn-ings.

When most of us are sound asleep in our comfy beds, Sophie Lui is getting her day started as co-host of the Global BC Morning News show which airs starting at 5:30 a.m. Monday to Friday.

The early rising has been part of her sched-ule since last September when she started the job of presenting the day’s news stories along with co-host and North Del-ta’s own Steve Darling.

But Lui has been a familiar face on the local TV news scene—in Van-couver and Vancouver Island—for many years.

Born and raised in the

Lower Mainland, Lui has been a news junkie for as long as she can remem-ber.

She attended BCIT and graduated from the Broadcast Radio pro-gram. From there, she worked at several news radio stations before turning her talents toward television news.

In 1999, she joined CHEK News in Victo-ria where she anchored and reported. In 2002, she moved to Global BC in Vancouver where she hosted Saturday and Sunday Morning and Noon News, then reported stories during the week.

Two years later, she returned to Victoria to rejoin CH News (now known as CHEK News) and hosted CH News at 5.

Lui then returned to Global BC, where she again hosted the Satur-day and Sunday Morning News before taking up

the weekday co-hosting job.

She says the favou-rite part of her job is the opportunity to learn something new every

day.Lui also loves the fact

she has an occupational excuse to call just about anybody to ask just about any question.

Global BC's Sophie Lui was recently featured on the cover of TV Week magazine. Contributed image

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Ask Angela McGregor, owner and graphic designer at Indalma Creative, what her job is. You’ll realize immediately your brand is in good hands. “I see my job as weaving the story,” says Angela. “Each piece I create for my client, tells their story bit by bit. Logo, letterhead, direct mail piece, newspaper ad or ad campaign, video, website – it’s all an extension of the brand, their vision.” Angela has created communications projects for numerous clients in the com-munity, like Delta Hospital Foundation, Lentel Construction, Better Still Day Spa and the local offices for New Balance and Pepsi. Work samples may be viewed on the new Indalma Creative website: www.indalmacreative.com. Let Angela at Indalma give your brand a positive personality that draws and retains clients.

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Family legacyMiddelaers advocate for change on behalf of late daughter

Laurel Middelaer is one of three speakers at Project Bloom, an event organized by The South Delta Leader and Kathie Madden Events in honour of International Women's Day, March 8.

I n May 2008, four-and-a-half year old Alexa Middelaer was struck and killed by an

impaired driver while feeding a favourite horse along an east Ladner road.

Her mom Laurel, the head of Southridge's Junior School in South Surrey, and dad Michael have since strived to create a leg-acy for their tenacious, vibrant daughter by advocating for change to make B.C.'s roads safer.

The Ladner family partnered with the BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation to create the Alexa Middelaer Memorial Fund, with the mandate to reduce impaired driving related injuries and deaths by 35 per cent between 2008 and 2013 through public education and advocacy.

They created Alexa's Team to recognize the work of B.C. police officers determined to reduce the number of impaired drivers on the roads. Those who forward to Crown a minimum of 10 impaired driving charges in a year are named a member of the team.

The Middelaers are currently focused on raising funds through their Back the Bus campaign to purchase mobile blood alcohol testing units, dubbed Alexa's Bus, for police forces to use in collecting evidence against

impaired drivers.The buses will be purple,

Alexa's favourite colour, and the hope is the brightly painted, highly visible vehicles will serve as a deterrent to people who might drink and drive as well as enhance officers' ability to col-lect evidence. About $1.25 mil-lion is needed to purchase five of

the mobile investigation labs.The couple has also endured a

lengthy court case.This past fal l the dr iver

involved in the accident that took Alexa's life and also serious-ly injured her aunt, Carol Berner, was convicted of impaired driv-ing causing death, dangerous driving causing death, impaired driving causing bodily harm and dangerous driving bodily harm.

In November 2010 she was sentenced to two-and-a-half-years in prison and handed a five-year driving ban.

After the sentencing, Laurel said to the media she hopes the case has made a difference in how society views drinking and driving.

"We hope that sweet child Alexa, that image . . . If there's a reason to change, Alexa is the reason to change," she said.

Berner is appealing the deci-sion.

Laurel and Michael Middelaer hold a portrait of their daughter, Alexa (also below), outside their home in Ladner two years after her death. Jennifer Gauthier file photo

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Among the many team players that Shpak and Company has, the women play an integral part in all areas of service provided to our clients. Paula looks after our bookkeeping work as well as doing prep work for year end files, information return reporting and personal income tax returns. Barb and Julie are responsible for our front desk and office administration and always look forward to seeing you. Gail, one of the partners at Shpak and Company, enjoys dealing with all aspects of the business including personal tax and accounting and tax issues for owner managed businesses. Shpak and Company offers a wide range of services including bookkeeping, corporate and personal income tax preparation and planning. We invite you to come in and meet the team.

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Louise Greene has taken great pride in creating one of the best dining destinations in Delta. River House Restaurant & Pub is celebrating 13 years in business and is considered one of the fi nest dining establishments in the area. Boasting incredible views, magnifi cent sunsets, an excellent service team and an awesome kitchen team, we are working together to

make your dining experience memorable.With more than 40 years experience in the food service industry, Louise has established a reputation of serving only the freshest food available. Each dish is individually prepared to order. Everyone is a VIP at River House where it feels like taking a mini vacation when you’re here.Louise and her team invite you to join them for a fantastic dining experience whether you choose the cozy pub, warm inviting restaurant or either of two heated patios, your taste buds will be dazzled and your expectations exceeded.Check our website for all upcoming events, weekly dinner features, on-line reservations, driving directions and more. www.riverhousegroup.com or call 604-946-7545 for reservations.

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Louise Greene has taken great pride in creating one of the best dining destinations in Delta. River House Restaurant & Pub is celebrating 14 years in business and is considered one of the finest dining establishments in the area. Boasting incredible views, magnificent sunsets, an excellent service team and an awesome kitchen team, we are working together to make your dining experience memorable.

With more than 41 years experience in the food service industry, Louise has established a reputation of serving only the freshest food available. Each dish is individually prepared to order.

Everyone is a VIP at River House where it feels like taking a mini vacation when you’re here.

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Bikram Yoga South Delta opened October 1, 2010 in sunny Tsaw-wassen. Jodi is thrilled about the growth of the studio and is excited to contribute to the evolution of yoga in the community of South Delta. Jodi was introduced to Bikram Yoga over 10 years ago and knew, after her first class, this method of yoga was what had been missing from her fitness regimen. Always very active, Bikram Yoga provided the vigorous workout that she loved while healing old sports injuries and improving her mind-body connection.Jodi continued to practice Bikram Yoga regularly while attending the Corporate Finance program at BCIT. After graduation, and a few years working in the financial sector, Jodi decided that she was ready to leave the corporate world to pursue her passion. She at-tended the intense teacher training course with Bikram Choudhury in 2005 and has been teaching all over the lower mainland for the past 5 years.“The studio is my second home. I strive to create an environment that is welcoming, conducive to personal growth and a sanctuary away from the hustle and bustle of busy daily life. My karma yoga, or life’s work, is to share this amazing yoga series with as many people in the community as I can. Bikram Yoga has never felt like a job to me; it’s an honour and a pleasure to be able to improve the quality of life for our clients.”“What motivates and inspires me are the success stories and testimonials we receive daily. In just over four months of attend-ing classes, students are experiencing less back pain, improved energy levels, increased lean muscle mass and weight loss.”

One client suffers from an over-active thyroid and was diagnosed with Graves disease six years ago. Her resting heart rate was 140 beats per minute and doctors told her she was a walking heart attack. She could not keep weight on and lost thirty pounds; she was 90 pounds at 5’9”. Doctors told her she had to drink radio-active iodine to kill her thyroid. She did that (six years ago), and now struggles to correct her metabolism/thyroid level. In January of this year, she returned to the endocrinologist and was told that her blood levels, for the first time in years, were almost normal. He asked what she had been doing differently and the only change was that she had started practicing Bikram Yoga in November 2010. She now glows with happiness and health; she has found the tool to help her beat this condition! Bikram Yoga is a sequence of 26 postures and 2 breathing ex-ercises practiced in a heated room. It is specifically designed to work the entire body, using heat to stretch deeper, prevent injury and flush unwanted toxins. This yoga series stimulates the organs, glands and nerves and systematically moves fresh oxygenated blood to 100% of the body, restoring health to all systems. Benefits of a regular practice include weight loss, improved muscle tone, stress relief, increased energy and an overall sense of physical and mental well-being. The Bikram series is suitable for all ages and levels of ability.Be prepared to sweat and have fun. We hope to see you on the mat soon! – Jodi Stokes Dickinson

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Reducing barriersTwo-time Paralympian Carla Qualtrough applies passion for sport to issues of inclusion and accessibility

Carla Qualtrough is one of three speakers at Project Bloom, an event organized by The South Delta Leader and Kathie Madden Events in hon-our of International Women's Day, March 8.

M e e t C a r l a Qualtrough, a Vancouver-

based human rights lawyer and two-time Paralympic athlete.

Qualtrough, who is visually impaired, com-peted internationally for seven years in the sport of swimming. During that time she brought home to Can-ada a bronze medal at the Paralympic Games in Seoul in 1988, and two bronze medals f r o m B a rc e l o n a i n 1992.

But her passion for sport extends beyond the pool to addressing issues of fairness and accessibility for tradi-tionally marginalized and under-represent-ed groups within the

Canadian sport sys-tem.

The Richmond resi-dent is the past presi-dent of the Canadian Paralympic Committee and serves as Director of Inclusion and Sport Tourism for 2010 Lega-cies Now, an organi-zation dedicated to strengthen sport, rec-reation, healthy liv-ing and accessibility beyond the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.

As well, she received a federal appointment to be president on the board of directors of the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada.

With a background in human rights and sports policy, Qual-trough has acted as legal counsel for both the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal and the Cana-dian Human Rights Commission, as well as Special Advisor to the Director General of Sport Canada.

As a senior policy

advisor, she managed the development of programs and policies aimed at reducing bar-riers to participation in sports, including the creation of an Aborigi-nal sport policy, a strat-egy for women and girls in sport, and a work

group for persons with disability in sport.

She has also been named five times to the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport and Physical Activity annu-al list of Most Influen-tial Women.

Carla Qualtrough. Contributed photo

Delta Cable continues to invest in its state-of-the-art network to ensure that customers have access to the very best communications and entertainment products and services.

While we’ve been upgrading our network, we have been listening to Delta residents and business owners about how you use our services and what you expect from us.

For over 10 years, Angela Nottingham has been Delta Cable’s Advertising Sales Specialist, working closely with local businesses to plan their televi-sion advertising campaigns. Angie is a long time Delta resident involved in many community initiatives –personally and professionally. Angie invites you to check out the new Ad Channel, OnTVL, on Delta Cable channel 2, offer-ing longer air times and voice over features. Email Angie at [email protected] to book your ad space.

As producer and host of the community news show Delta Magazine, Deneka Michaud is consistently out-and-about in Delta, covering local events and telling the stories of the people and places of this community. She gets to do what she loves – bring people together by emphasizing the positive stories within the community. Not a day goes by without a phone call or an email from someone in Delta asking Deneka to cover an event. Share your story idea at [email protected].

Tannis Goodfellow has lived in Delta for over 30 years and has a strong sense of community. As the Marketing Manager, she plays an instrumental role in the launch of many new and exciting services for Delta residents, such as telephone, Internet 100, more HD channels, OnDemand and many more. With over 15 years marketing experience, Tannis is passionate about cus-tomer needs and continuously seeks products that are designed to improve Delta Cable customers’ telecommunication experiences.

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Captain’s Cove Marina & Pub

With an extensive resume in Marketing, Sales and Management Grace Bukowsky joined the Marina Garden Estates team as General Manager of Operations in September 2009.

Always looking for new opportunities to drive business forward, Grace is responsible for meeting the highest quality standards of business presentation and of professional working environments. A strategic thinker, she has unparalleled team building and communication skills which in the past have demonstrated her commitment to outstanding customer service.

With a constant focus on quality and efficiency she leads the team towards new projects.

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Stephanie Cadieux is one of three speakers at Project Bloom, an event organized by The South Delta Leader and Kathie Madden Events in hon-our of International Women’s Day, March 8.

T he list of acco-lades and accom-plishments for

former South Deltan Stephanie Cadieux is as extensive as it is impres-sive.

The graduate of South Delta Secondary school, who suffered a spinal chord injury following a car accident when she was 18, has been the MLA for the provincial riding of Surrey-Pan-orama since 2009.

Currently, she serves as Minister of Commu-nity, Sport and Cultural Development.

But before her life in public office, Stepha-nie served as the Direc-tor of Marketing and Development for the BC Paraplegic Association and Manager of Acces-sibility for 2010 Lega-cies Now.

Her leadership and resourcefulness led her to be voted one of Busi-ness in Vancouver’s Top 40 Under 40 for 2007 and she was named one of B.C.’s Top 100 Influ-ential Women by the Vancouver Sun in 2010.

With a background in marketing and per-sonal finance, Cadieux has worked as a market analyst and an entre-preneur and has also long demonstrated her commitment to volun-teerism and non-profit organizations, whether in her community or beyond.

S h e h a s s e r v e d as President of the Realwheels Society; Ambassador for the Rick Hansen Man in Motion Foundation; a researcher and member of the advisory panel for the International Col-laboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), a


Surrey-Panorama MLA Stephanie Cadieux prepares to rappel down the side of a 20-storey office building in Downtown Vancouver last year during the fifth-annual Easter Seals Drop Zone, a fundraiser for B.C. children with disabilities. Boaz Joseph file photo

Surrey MLA Cadieux scales new heightsFormer SDSS grad has impressive list of achievements an and out of government

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Alviene Wilkins, owner of Cobblestone Cottage, Ladner’s kitchen store for over 20 years. Alviene ensures the store has variety and just about everything you need in the kitchen. From spatulas to cookware, Alviene makes a point to carefully stock products for all budgets. That is not all! A large selection of giftware makes Cobblestone Cottage your one stop shopping trip. The long time staff, together with her daughters, are committed to excellent customer service, always!

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Stager & Stylist Envision a new revitalized space ! • Room Makeovers

Elle can transform your home by re-using and re-arranging your existing furnishings to create a dramatic room ‘makeover’ in just one day.

• Home Staging If you are selling your home (and before your Realtor takes pictures) she will work within your budget and time frame to enhance your home’s positive features for a competitive edge.

• Colour Consultations This is a great opportunity to have a Stager & Stylist assist you in your new colour choices and create a fresh innovative look !

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HoneyDo Lifestyle AssistantInspired by her cherished Grandmother, Ladner business owner, Rhonda Doram, modeled HoneyDo Lifestyle Assistant to offer the help her own ‘Gran’ had difficulty finding. After her passing, her Gran’s memory was incorporated into the logo design and HoneyDo was born.“She is with me every step and that inspires me each day to treat each client as I would treat MY own Grandparent!”With over 20 years in the service industry and an acute understanding of even the smallest comforts, HoneyDo Lifestyle Assistant affords folks to maintain their lifestyle at home. It’s also a safe, reliable alternative for busy families trying to juggle home life and caring for their aging parents, giving back the chance to enjoy their relationships without compromise.HoneyDo Lifestyle Assistant offers what seniors seem to need more of… a helping hand, a warm smile, a sharing heart and quality time with a comfortable companion.

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Grow-ing forceWomen on the move in the Canadian business world

Women are a force to be reckoned with in the entrepreneurial world.

According statistics compiled by the Royal Bank of Canada, the seg-ment is one of the fastest growing in the Canadian economy. Between 1991 and 2001, women's self-employment expanded by 43 per cent.

There are more than 821,000 women entre-preneurs in Canada, who annually contrib-ute in excess of $18 bil-lion to Canada's econo-my. And four out of five businesses are started by women.

Other notable statis-tics include:• 47 per cent of small a n d m e d i u m - s i z e d enterprises (SME's) in Canada have at least one female owner.• Women hold majority ownership in 18 per cent of firms in Canada.• More than 2.6 million people were employed by businesses with at least one woman owner in 2001.• The average age of woman business owners is 45. Almost 80 per cent are married and over half have children.• One in 10 women in Canada is self-employed. In 2004, 29 per cent of self-employed women ran an incorporated business, while 68 per cent ran unincorporated businesses.• At least two-thirds of self-employed women start their own business-es, while one-third buy existing companies.• More than 80 per cent of Canadian SMEs owned by women are service industries, com-pared with 59 per cent owned by men.


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South Delta Physiotherapy

The health care team at South Delta Physiotherapy Clinic has been serving the community for 9 years.

We see people of all ages with all types of needs – sore necks, twisted ankles, frozen shoulders – just to name a few.

While physiotherapy is the core of our clinic, our allied health care practices, registered massage therapy, acupuncture, exercise therapy

and nutrition are very popular and effective.All of the ‘women in business’ here are doing what we love

– helping you – and we do it well!

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The Business Improvement Association of Tsawwassen(BIA)

1333 - 56th Street, Delta • [email protected] | www.shoptsawwassen.com

The Business Improvement Association of Tsawwassen represents all businesses in the commercial area of Tsawwassen all along 56th Street and 12th Avenue. The BIA’s mandate is to enhance and promote the downtown area as a place to shop, work and visit. BIA programs include the popular Tsawwassen Outdoor Movie Nights (July 23, August 6 & 20), one seasonal promotion (Great Bunny Search – April 1st - 18th) a community participation event (I got it in Tsawwassen – October 10th - 31st) and two community events (Multicultural Dance Celebration – June 5 and Courtyard Christmas – December 3). The BIA’s board of directors includes 12 dedicated board members including 8 women in diverse businesses.

The board provides direction to its Executive Director who carries out the programs. Shown in the above picture are: Shannon Taylor (Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall), Tina Thygesen (Century Group), June Rae (Hal & June’s Meats and Deli), Ana Arciniega (Executive Director), Cindy Phillip (Iris Optometrists and Opticians), Linda Mallard (Tsawwassen Wellness Centre), Ruth Scowcroft (Albany Books), Chrissie Bowker (South Delta Leader) and Kristin Bishop (Coast Tsawwassen Inn). The rest of the board includes Roland Smith (Illuminate Restorante), Bob Tate (Beach Grove Golf Club), Dave Hamilton (Delta Optimist) and Colin Gibson (Randy’s Excel Tire and Auto Service).

Ruth, AnA, LindA, ChRissie,

shAnnon, KRistin, Cindy,

tinA, And June

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Expert advice and the best service possible is the only way Barbara Mills and her staff at Tsawwassen Insurance Brokers Ltd. provide service to their many South Delta clients.As a fully accredited insurance broker, this established Tsaw-wassen resident has over 18 years experience in all lines of commercial, residential, marine, aviation, travel, medical and auto insurance. Like her father before her, Barbara’s personal and professional service is second to none.As the only full service broker in South Delta, Tsawwassen Insurance has access to every major insurance company in Canada, USA and London to insure that you get the best possible policy at the best possible price.This well established team of local professionals is open 6 days a week to ensure that you are well protected at a reasonable cost with the service level that you deserve.

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Shelly began working for Ladner Village Hardware in 2008 as a clerk, and really enjoys working in a hardware store. Since then, she has had increased responsibilities and was promoted to Manager in November 2010. Shelly enjoys all aspects of managing the store including planning of the upcoming 10th Anniversary Sale at the end of March. Working at Ladner Village Hardware has given Shelly the opportunity to learn the business side of a hardware store, knowledge of general hardware, plumbing and electrical, which helps her immensely when serving the public and helping with their home maintenance issues.

Shelly is married with three children and continues to live in Ladner and enjoys the community. Shelly’s interests outside of work are her family, kickboxing and enjoying the outdoors.

Ladner Village Hardware4821 Delta Street, Ladner604-946-4833

Fiona has lived in South Delta for over 20 years, having raised her family here.Fiona is grateful to everyone for allowing her to grow her business and build lasting relationships while doing what she loves. When asked what she enjoys the most about her job her response is “The people that I meet and then the rewarding experience of taking a project from design to fruition.”Fionas professional yet personable work ethics makes working with her team enjoyable whether you need sea-sonal garden or turf maintenance, updating your existing landscape, or creating a dream yard.We also offer stata maintenance.

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Dina Boykiw is the owner of Lola Bleu in Tsawwassen. Now in it’s 3rd year, she loves bringing fabulous fashions to the South Delta community!

Dina wants to thank her loyal customers for their continued patronage as well as her wonderful, knowledgeable staff: manager Michelle Sullivan, Courtney McEwan, Jessica Buell, and Katherine Mills.

Dina and her team focuses on offering well-priced lines from Canada, US and Europe in her store. Lola Bleu is now proud to introduce new lines at lower, more affordable prices while keeping the unique styles and trends they have become known for.

Lola Bleu

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member of the Diversity Advisory Committee for Global BC and as a men-tor with the YWCA.

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Lil McVittie’s, “The Celtic Treasure Chest” stores were started after fourteen years with a major corporation as the buyer, she felt that it was time for a change. Because of her interest in Ethnic foods and cooking she and her husband Steve decided to open a British Import retail store planning for their retirement. Her diligence, hard work and dedication to importing quality U.K. products, her service and selection of the British made imported

products that she was selling caused her Dunbar retail store to grow.

Within a few years the opportunity came to obtain a bakery, where they could make and bake British style breads and bakery products, along with a second retail store selling British products in White Rock. The two stores were demanding larger shipments of products from the U.K. and a warehouse was now required. They found one in Delta on River Road. It had a space for a retail store in the front so it became the third British Imports retail store. They are at the present time, moving their White Rock store to a new location on East Beach in White Rock. The warehouse, a wholesale company and three retail stores keeps Lil and Steve are pretty busy. It seems no matter how busy Lil is she always seems to have time for a chat with her customers about their connections to England, Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man or Wales while managing her Delta store.

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Elisabeth Wagner has been immersed in the garment industry since she was a child. Her parents operated a commercial laun-dry where she’d often help. Then, she married into the Wagner family and entered the drycleaning business. In 1990, Elisabeth earned a Masters Certificate in Dry Cleaning, the highest trade certification in Germany. In 1995, after relocating to Canada, Elisabeth purchased a Tsawwassen drycleaning business.

Wagner’s European Fabricare is built upon Elisabeth’s 35 years of drycleaning experience. Whether it’s minding the details of your order or solving your drycleaning dilemmas, Elisabeth is known for her friendly service and professional advice.

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Women now account for six out of every 10 undergrads in Canada.

According to Statistics Canada, female students continued to outnumber their male counterparts at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Women accounted for 59 per cent of all under-graduate registrations in university in 2003/04, their highest proportion ever.

They also represented 51 per cent of graduate students.

The number of female undergraduate students rose 7.5 per cent to 456,900 in 2003/04, while the number of male undergrads increased 6 per cent to 319,900.

At the doctorate level, enrolment c l imbed 9.1 per cent between 2002/03 and 2003/04, the biggest increase compared to enrolment in bachelor's and other undergraduate degree and master's programs.

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T he Delta Photo Club is turn-ing its lens on photographers throughout the region.

For the first time the club is hosting an open photo exhibition and all-day event at the end of March called Delta Photo Inspira-tions, complete with workshops, vendors and a prominent keynote speaker.

In previous years the club has held an invite-only photo com-petition, where they invited other clubs to encourage members to submit work.

This year, club president Fran-cois Cleroux said they wanted to

change the format to let anyone in Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley enter photos.

Photos will be judged in three categories: Birds in Nature, Colour and Monochrome, and the win-ners will be featured Friday, March 25 at a juried photo exhibition and free dessert reception.

The deadline for submitting pho-tos has passed, but photographers of all levels can still attend the recep-tion as well as sign up for day two.

On that day, registered partici-pants will take part in a series of workshops, visit vendors, and lis-ten to keynote speaker Wendell Phillips, an accomplished Van-couver-based photojournalist.

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Greg Schurman of Schurman Photography is one of the photographers who will be hosting a workshop, called Painted with Light, at Delta Photo Inspirations. Schurman Photography

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In 2009 he received the International Under-standing through Pho-tography Award from the Photographic Soci-ety of America for out-standing contributions to photography, lectur-ing and publications.

The event's workshop instructors include Greg Schurman on Paint-ing with Light, Graham Osborne on Nature Techniques, Aura McKay on Beyond the Dark: Cre-ative Uses for Flash, and Kathryn Langsford on Photographing Children.

Cleroux hopes the event will become an annual one.

"We're hoping to get it to be the largest event

of its kind in the Lower Mainland," he said, as well as eventually open the photo competition to all of B.C.

The Delta Photo Club is seeing growth as well. The club, established more than 40 years ago, has more than 100 mem-bers (for more about the club visit deltaphoto-club.com).

Delta Photo Inspira-tions takes place March 25 and 26 at the Tsaw-wassen Alliance Church (4951 12 Ave.). Tickets to the all-day event Saturday, including lunch, are $55, or $20 just to see the keynote speaker. Visit deltapho-toinspirations.com or email [email protected]@southdelta-leader.com

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“Hopefully, we can get the enthu-siasm to get the demonstration proj-ect going,” McDonald said. “And we’re quite convinced the demonstration line would indicate to people this is the way to go.”

But to do that they need the back-ing of the provincial government and TransLink.

TransLink spokesperson Ken Har-die would not comment as he said the transportation authority has not had discussions with the task force about its proposal.

During a recent visit to South Delta, former B.C. Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon told McDon-ald he needs to see a solid business case.

“Though it’s a beautiful tr ip through wonderful agricultural fields, it tends to avoid where a lot of the population is living,” he said. “And we do have to make sure the decisions we’re making for future transit investment are going to be

consistent with where the communi-ties are planning a lot of their popu-lation growth.”

McDonald contends the ridership is there, noting there are already 35,000 students at University of the Fraser Valley, Kwantlen and Trin-ity Western campuses who would be situated near the line.

“We just had TransLink put out a study saying there’s no demand—but there’s no service either. If there’s no service you can’t very well say we’re not using transit, because there’s no transit to use.”

He said one challenge in generating enthusiasm for the project is many people don’t know the interurban line exists.

“The biggest single thing is people don’t know about the potential for the old interurban line. And to get past some of the staid thinking, would be a nice way to put it, is to get more and more people to understand just how efficient and how economical this could be,” he [email protected]

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Medal winnersDelta athletes bring home the goods from winter gamesPHILIP RAPHAELE D I T O R

P lenty of sporting hardware was on display in the Delta Gymnastics gym in Tsawwas-

sen Tuesday afternoon (March 1).A strong contingent of Delta

athletes helped vault British Columbia into third place in the medal standings at the recently concluded Canada Winter Games in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Five came home toting silver and gold medals plus a wealth of experiences from the event.

Making a big impact at the games was the men’s ice hockey team which earned B.C. its first gold medal in the sport since the 1970s.

Deltans on the team were Macoy Erkamps, Nicholas Petan, and Tristan Jarry.

Missing out on a gold by six tenths of a point was the B.C. gymnastics team which included Ladner’s Devy Dyson and Julian Geisler.

And North Delta’s Cohen Hock-ing took top spot and gold in the individual judo competition and followed that up with a silver in the team category.

“It was a good experience going to Halifax and winning the tour-nament was just amazing,” said Petan, who is from North Delta. “Our goal was to bring home a medal and we brought home the right one.”

Petan added the B.C. team was one of the smaller ones from a physical standpoint, but that didn’t deter them from making it to the gold medal game where they beat Quebec 7-4.

“As a group, we came on strong,” he said. “It was tough, but we got through it.”

North Delta’s Jarry, who back-stopped Team B.C. in goal, said the team grew as the tournament con-tinued after losing a pair of games in the round robin portion.

Jarry also felt he grew from the experience of being at a high level event.

“You play in a lot of big games so the experience is great,” he said.

Ladner’s Erkamps said the gold was a crowning touch for the B.C.

“When we got to the finals we were pretty sure we’d bring home the gold,” he said.

Hocking said he was impressed

by the scale of the games where plenty of services were on hand for the athletes to help them be at their best. And it worked like a charm for him as he beat a com-petitor from Saskatchewan to take top spot on the podium.

The fact he had a good shot at a gold didn’t sink in until the last 30 seconds of his final bout.

“I looked at the clock and thought, man I could actually do this,” he said. “So I started defend-ing and making sure I killed the clock.”

Gymnast Dyson said the trip to Halifax was probably the best experience in sport he has had so far.

“It was phenomenal, the whole competitive atmosphere,” he said, adding it gave him some valuable experience dealing with high pressure competition.

Fellow Delta Gymnastics mem-ber Geisler said he feels now that he’s seen the competition at a national level he needs to improve his game a little bit.

His fondest memories?“Just the good people, tremen-

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Bringing home medals from the Canada Winter Games in Halifax, Nova Scotia were (back row L-R) Macoy Erkamps, Tristan Jarry, (front row L-R) Julian Geisler, Devy Dyson, Nicholas Petan and Cohen Hocking. Philip Raphael photo

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The suggested limit is derived from a set of guide-lines put out by The Cana-dian Society for Exercise Physiology, noting the det-rimental effects that seden-tary lifestyles are having on our children.

But this begs the ques-tion: if we’re to limit the amount of time our kids spend on the couch or in the computer room, what do we have to offer as an alternative?

Increasingly, the solution to this problem seems to be to try and simply get kids running. And while running is a crucial skill in terms of leading an active lifestyle, it’s important to remember that, for kids, running for it’s own sake is not much of an alternative compared to an Xbox.

But, if we make running fun, there’s a chance our kids might stick with it a bit more! Here are some sim-ple running tag games that don’t need a lot of people or set-up of any kind:

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Springing into actionPHILIP RAPHAELE D I T O R

'S pring” is sched-uled to arrive a little early this

year as the top high school gymnasts from across B.C. will be coming to Ladner to jump, roll, and show judges their strength and balance.

Delta will be host-ing the 2011 Provincial Championships March 11-13 at Delta Second-ary School—the first time the event has been held here.

Kristina Sharp, a coach at Delta Gymnastics in Tsawwassen who is help-ing organize the meet which is expected to show-case 300 young athletes, said it was simply Delta’s turn to hold the event.

“We have had a pretty big program here for the past number of years and it was our time to step up and host it,” she said, adding it will require plenty of work to stage the meet.

Whether or not that helps provide a bit of a “home floor” advantage for Delta teams is one thing, but Delta Second-ary is expected to send a strong team to contend for the overall title which it has won twice—in 2002 and 2006.

The track record for Delta teams placing sec-ond is also impressive as South Delta Secondary was a runner up in 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007,

while Delta Secondary finished second in 2008.

Teams coming to the provincials will compete in five levels of ability, with level one for inex-perienced athletes and level five meant for elite gymnasts.

Points are handed out for performances over the three days of competition

with eight for first place on down to a single point for finishing eighth.

The team compiling the most points takes home the provincial title which means teams with a larger number of ath-letes covering the most events should have a better chance of overall success, Sharp said.

With Delta expected to field a team of 15 to 20 competitors Delta should be in the mix of contending teams.

Also in the hunt should be teams from the North Shore which also have strong gymnastics pro-grams, Sharp [email protected]

Gymnasts to battle for B.C. title next month in Ladner


Kelly Landrigan, right, of the Delta Disco 1 team chases a Burnaby-New West Rink Rats opponent during a Petite (U12) division game Sunday in the PoCo-Ridge Meadows ringette jamboree at PoCo Rec Centre. Craig Hodge photo

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Delta Ice Hawks forward Jordan Beveridge (right) takes Mike Phillipson of the Grandview Steelers into the boards during PIJHL playoff action Tuesday night (March 1) at Ladner Arena. Thanks to goals by Sebastian Delmas, John Proctor, Cody Fidgett and Aaron Merrick the hometown 'Hawks skated to a 4-2 win to take the first round series 4 games to 1. Jim Kinnear photo

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With only five swimmers at the meet, Winskill made a big splash get-ting to five podium finishes and 13 top eight placements.

Leading the charge was Travis Rog-ers, 15, who took home gold medals in the 200m and 400m freestyle events. Rogers also grabbed a silver medal in the 200m backstroke, getting out touched by mere tenths of a second.

Isaiah Rusak-Gillrie, 11, lit up the lanes with six top eight finishes, including a pair of silver medals in the 400m and the 1500m freestyle events.

Swim-of-the-meet went to Rachel Yeo,12, who claimed fourth place in 200m backstroke by slashing an impressive 10 seconds off her previ-ous personal best.

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competition in her first provincial championships, Victoria Simpson, 15, still managed to score 13th place in both 100m and 200m backstroke and scratched two second off her 200m freestyle best time.

Winskil Dolphins Travis Rogers raises his hand in victory after the 200m freestyle event in Chilliwack. Contributed photo

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Marquise group is looking for a F/T Porter & P/T Heavy Duty Cleaner for Tsawwassen Quay. Porter shifts: evenings Wed – Sun. Heavy Duty Cleaner shifts: Fri. & Sat. 10:00PM – 6:30AM. Previous janitorial experience required. Heavy Duty Cleaner candidates must have fl oor polishing, waxing & auto - scrub-ber experience.

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156 SALES

OUTSIDE SALESACR Group, Western Canada’s leader in Rubber and Urethane manufacturing is looking for an outside sales professional for the BC area. The ideal candidate will be familiar with Rubber and Urethane Products for a mining, wood processing and other heavy industries. Extensive travel is required. Good computer skills are essential. Competitive compensation & benefi t package offered.

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338 PLUMBING10% OFF if you Mention this AD!

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ASAP PLUMBING & HEATING. Lo-cal cert. service plumber. H/w tanks, boilers, gas, plug drains. Fair rates. Mem.of BBB. 604-220-9228

Precision 1 Plumbing & Heating Licensed ~ Insured. No HST

Hot water tanks, service, renos. Contact Rick 604-809-6822

353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

#1 Roofi ng Company in BC

All types of Roofi ng Over 35 Years in Business “ Call Now for Free Estimate”

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#1 Royal Castle Roofi ng. New & Re-roofi ng, Best Quality Work, 12% Senior Disc. 604-725-9963

AT NORTHWEST ROOFING Re-roofi ng, Repair & New Roof

Specialists. Work Guar. BBB. WCB 10% Sen. Disc. Jag 778-892-1530

J.J. ROOFING$ BEST PRICE $

D New Roofs / Re-Roofs D Repair Specialist D Free Estimates D Ref’s ~ WCB Insured

Jas @ 604-726-6345

281 GARDENING

353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

New Canadian Roofi ng Ltd.Here to help you with all your roofi ng needs.

• WCB-Insured • Work guranteed • Repairs/Updates

Call 604-716-8528 Free estimates & competitive rate

Roofi ng Experts. 778-230-5717Repairs/Re-Roof/New Roofs. All work Gtd. Free Est. Call Frank.

356 RUBBISH REMOVAL

JUNK REMOVALEARTH FRIENDLY

RECYCLE-IT!

604.587.5865www.recycle-it-now.com

Haul Anything...But Dead Bodies!!

604.220.JUNK(5865)Serving The

Lower Mainland Since 1988

bradsjunkremoval.com

373B TILINGEXPERIENCED TILE Installer avail, all types of tiles, Bonded & Insured. www.bassetttiles.com778-231-7107

374 TREE SERVICES

Get your trees or tree removal done NOW while they’re dormant

✓ Tree & Stump Removal ✓ Certifi ed Arborists ✓ 20 yrs exp. 60’ bucket truck ✓ Crown reduction ✓ Spiral pruning ✓ Fully insured. Best Rates

604-787-5915, 604-291-7778Info: www.treeworksonline.ca

10% OFF with this AD

PETS

477 PETSAUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS (2). Neutered. Brothers. Prefer to keep together & to large property. Free to good home. Christine (604)850-1735 or [email protected] PUPS, tri colored, good looking, healthy, males $500. (604)796-3026. No Sunday callsBurmese Mtn dog pup, 10wk, male, CKC reg., p/b, exc Euro lines. $1200. (604)819-3402. No sun calls

281 GARDENING

477 PETS

BERNESE MOUNTAIN pup 7 mos old from reputable breeder, healthy family dog. Sell due to allergies. Call 1 604 750 0412. $400 Ono.

CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866

ENGLISH MASTIFF P/B PUPS Fawn & Bridle. CKC reg. Ready to go. $1800. 604-726-3934

GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS. 1 male & 2 female. $800. 1st shots & dewormed. Call 778-863-6332.

GERMAN Shepherd pups & young adults. Quality German & Czech bloodlines Reg/Guar. 604-856-8161

LAB, PUPS pure bred, no papers. Family raised, vet chk, dewormed. Ready to go $350 (604)793-3307

NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604-856-3647 or www.856-dogs.com

PUGS, fawn, 3 male, 2 females. family raised, vet chk’d, shots. $550. (604)799-1611 Agassiz

YELLOW LAB pups. 8 weeks old, ready to go. Vet checked, 1st. shots. Parents on site. $500. 604-852-6176 Abbts

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

530 FARM EQUIPMENT

WANTED: used potato/carrot washer for market garden. Smaller model. 250-395-4042

533 FERTILIZERS

WEED FREE MUSHROOM MANURE 15 yds - $115 or Well

Rotted 10 yds-$130. 604-856-8877

551 GARAGE SALES

FANTASTIC INDOOR ESTATE SALE! SAT/SUN Mar 5 & 6 from 8 a.m. 9440 214 Street Langley V1M 1T3. Furniture, Sm appl, LPs, Kitch-en & Hsehld items. Hummels & oth-er German memorabilia.

559 MEDICAL SUPPLIES

CAN’T GET UP YOUR Stairs? Acorn Stairlifts can help. Call Acorn Stairlifts now! Mention this ad and get 10% off your new Stairlift. Call 1-866-981-6591.

560 MISC. FOR SALE

100% Guaranteed Omaha Steaks - SAVE 64% on the Family Value Collection. NOW ONLY $49.99 Plus 3 FREE GIFTS & right-to-the-door delivery in a reusable cooler, ORDER Today. 1-888-702-4489 mention code 45069SVD or www.OmahaSteaks.com/family23

CAN’T Get Up Your Stairs? Acorn Stairlifts can help. Call Acorn Stair-lifts now! Mention this ad and get 10% off your new Stairlift! Call 1-866-981-5991.

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com


581 SOUND/DVD/TVA FREE TELEPHONE SERVICE - Get Your First Month Free. Bad Credit, Don’t Sweat It. No Deposits. No Credit Checks. Call Freedom Phone Lines Today Toll-Free 1-866-884-7464.

DISCONNECTED PHONE? Phone Factory Home Phone Service. No One Refused! Low Monthly Rate! Calling Features and Unlimited Long Distance Available. Call Phone Factory Today! 1-877-336-2274. www.phonefactory.ca

REAL ESTATE

603 ACREAGE

Own 20 AcresOnly $129/mo. $13,900. Near Growing El Paso, Texas (safest city in America!) Low down, no credit checks, owner fi -nancing. Free Map/Pictures. 866-254-7755 www.sunsetranches.com

612 BUSINESSES FOR SALE

Alaska Goldmine w/camp/equip-ment Known resource, large block, over 40 claims! $1.5M Firm. Seri-ous/capable only! By owner [email protected] FPS,p.o. Box 73087,Fai.AK. 99707

615 COMMERCIAL PROPERTYBUILDING SALE... “Rock Bottom Prices!” $3.49 to $11/sq.ft. Immedi-ate orders only - FREE shipping, some exclusions. Up to 90 days to pay. Deposit required. Pioneer Manufacturers since 1980. 1-800-668-5422. See current specials - www.pioneersteel.ca.

STEEL BUILDINGS PRICED TO CLEAR - Holding 2010 steel prices on many models/sizes. Ask about FREE DELIVERY! CALL FOR QUICK SALE QUOTE and FREE BROCHURE - 1-800-668-5111

627 HOMES WANTED

WE BUY HOUSESOlder Home? Damaged Home?

Need Repairs? Behind on Payments? Quick CASH!

Call Us First! 604.657.9422

OKANAGAN

KELOWNA, 2 homes, 5 acres or-chard, 5 minutes from shopping, $1,150,000. Seniors condo 1300 ft $194,900 Mel @ 250-215-5185 more www.mellemky.com

630 LOTS

ARIZONA LAND LIQUIDATION Starting $99/mo., 1 & 2 1/2-Acre ranch lots 1 hour from Tucson Int’l Airport NO CREDIT CHECK. Guar-anteed Financing, Money Back Guarantee. 1-800-631-8164 Code 4001 www.sunsiteslandrush.com


633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

WHOLESALE FACTORY DIRECT. Manufactured, Modular & Park models. Tremendous savings. Luxurious 1512 sq. ft home including delivery and installation only $ 109,950. Many other plans available. 877-976-3737 or 250-814-3788 www.hbmodular.com

636 MORTGAGES

BANK ON US! Mortgages for purchases, renos, debt con-solidation, foreclosure. Bank rates. Many alternative lending programs.Let Dave Fitzpatrick, your Mortgage Warrior, simpli-fy the process!1-888-711-8818

[email protected]

660 LANGLEY/ALDERGROVE

HOMES FOR SALE-SUPER BUYSwww.dannyevans.ca

Homelife Benchmark Realty Corp. Langley

696 OTHER AREAS

OWN 20 ACRES Only $129/mo. ..$295/down near El Paso, Texas (safest city in America!) Money Back Guarantee, No Credit Checks, Owner Financing, Free map/pic-tures 1-800-343-9444

www.20acreranches.com

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

RICHMOND

1 & 2 Bdrms Available Immediately

Located in central Richmond, close to all amenities & Kwantlen

College. Rent includes heat and hot water.Sorry no pets.

Call 604-830-4002 or604-830-8246

Visit our website:www.aptrentals.net

RICHMOND

WATERSTONEBright ★ Quiet ★ Spacious

1 & 2 Bdrm Apt Suites3 Appliances, balcony,

swimming pool,heat & hot water.Also 2 & 3 Bdrm

Townhomes6 Appliances

Close to schools &stores. N/P.

Call 604-275-4849or 604-830-8246

www.aptrentals.net

730 MISC. FOR RENT

WANT THE BEST BUSINESS ACCOMMODATION

KICK BACK & RELAX IN SOUTH SURREY - Short term accommodation. Seeking profes-sional business visitors to rent weekly throughout the year. Deluxe, fully furnished & equipped 2 bdrm. + rec. rm. + 2 bath T/House. Crown Mouldings, H/W laminate fl ooring and slate. Gas F/P, Alarm, Netfl ix, Cable & WiFi. 1 car garage parking. No - Smoking inside, covered patio & outdoor seating. Amenities rm. incls. full gym, outdoor hot tub & pool. Call for more info.

604.488.9161

736 HOMES FOR RENTCENTRAL Tsawwassen newer home 3 bdrms 2 bath walk to amens/schl garage, large yard & deck, f/p, h/wood, granite, avail now. NS/NP Incl utils $1700mo. 604-202-6400

750 SUITES, LOWERCENTRAL Tsawwassen new 2 bdrm g/l, walk to amens. Yard, f/p, own ldry, avail. March 1. Incl utils $1200 NS/NP 604-202-6400LANGLEY, 2/bdrm large bsmt suite. Private, quiet, gated farm setting. Close to town. Too many good things to list. N/S. Incl util. $980/mo. (604)230-2808

TRANSPORTATION

810 AUTO FINANCING

$0 DOWN & we make your 1st pay-ment at auto credit fast. Need a ve-hicle? Good or Bad credit call Stephanie 1-877-792-0599. www.autocreditfast.ca. DLN 30309.

Autocredit911.com Best rates, Free delivery BC/AB, cars/trucks/vans/suvs trades wel-come. Good, Bad, Ugly Credit, You’re approved!Call 1-888-635-9911 or apply online

812 AUTO SERVICESWANT A VEHICLE BUT STRESSED ABOUT YOUR CRED-IT? Last week 15 out of 17 applica-tions approved! We fund your future not your past. Any Credit. Receive a $500 Gift Card. www.coastlineau-tocredit.com or 1-888-252-8235.

818 CARS - DOMESTIC1999 BUICK REGAL G.S. S. roof, leather + heat seats, low K. V6, $4900 obo. private. 604-593-5072

818 CARS - DOMESTIC

1999 FORD CONTOUR SVT 5/spd, full load, AirCared, new tires & brakes, $4300/obo. 604-272-3846.

2004 BUICK LASABRE. Loaded, estate sale, new tires/brakes. Pri-vate, $8900 obo. 778-565-1097.

821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS

2006 HONDA CIVIC 2 door, 5 spd manual, 80K, red, $6450 fi rm. Call: 604-538-9257.

2009 TOYOTA MATRIX 4/dr auto p/w, p/l, AC, cd player, 88K, silver. $9800. Call 604-825-9477.

2011 TOYOTA Camry LE, 7000 kms. auto, factory warranty. No ac-cidents. $22,400. 778-869-3265.

827 VEHICLES WANTED

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

#1 FREE SCRAP VEHICLE REMOVAL

ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT $$$ PAID FOR SOME

604.683.2200

AAA SCRAP CAR REMOVALMinimum $150 cash for full size vehicles, any cond. 604-518-3673

DELTA SCRAP VEHICLE REMOVAL

Minimum $160 for Complete full-size VehiclesServing the Delta Area since 1986 604-649-1627 or 604-946-0943

SCRAP BATTERIES WANTED Webuy scrap batteries from cars, trucks & heavy equip. $4.00 each. Free pick-up anywhere in BC, Min. 10. Toll Free Call:1.877.334.2288

851 TRUCKS & VANS

1997 DODGE CARAVAN 7 Passenger. Great condition

$1600 obo. 604-369-4705.

2002 FORD F150 Lariat - 4x4, exc. cond. leather, new tires, local, 160K no accid., $8995obo / 778.861.8355

2002 White Dodge Durango SXT 4x4, 4.7L V8, 213,000km, 2 sets oftires, new pioneer stereo, $5,900 or O.B.O, for more info call Nick at 778.230.8320.

2005 CHEVY SILVERADO 3500, 4 dr, auto, diesel, 120 K, GM insp., $19,500 obo. Call 604-836-5931.

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