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Philip Raphael, EditorSouth Delta Leader

A steady and relatively plentiful diet of seagulls, ducks and rodents is keeping Delta’s local bald eagle population pretty well fed.

Reports in the media a few weeks ago expressed concern the collapse of the chum salmon run in the Howe Sound/Squamish River area due to a toxic spill caused by a train derailment in 2005 had left plenty of bald eagles in dire straits for food.

Sue Davies, an educator at OWL (Or-phaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre) in east Ladner said that doesn’t appear to be the case.

“The birds know where to go for food,”

Davies said, adding good numbers made for the Harrison area where this year’s sockeye salmon run left a good food sup-ply. “There were so many fi sh the eagles weren’t fi ghting each other for food.”

While only a small percentage of the bald eagle population from the Howe Sound area may have traveled as far as Delta in search of better feeding grounds, what they would have found was an as-sortment to dine on.

Davies said bald eagles here are fortu-nate to have a good population of ducks, seagulls and rodents—especially at the Vancouver Landfi ll—to eat.

“People always talk about the eagles at the landfi ll, and they are not there eating garbage. They’re there for the rats. That and the heat from the landfi ll (produced

by rotting garbage),” Davies said.Given the number of resident bald ea-

gles in Delta, that’s favourable news for the species.

Davies said that of the estimated 1,500 to 2,000 bald eagles in the Lower Main-land, just over half are located here.

Based on observations, other than the odd one or two bald eagles—mostly juve-niles—who appear on the thin side, the majority in Delta are of healthy weight for this time of the year, Davies said.editor@southdeltaleader.com

Support the training and placement of guide and autism support dogs at the B.C. Guide Dog Ser-vices' Groovin' for Guide Dogs event next month.

The 50s and 60s-themed spring dance includes music by Time Machine, as well as prizes for best costume, a pasta buffet, silent auction and more.

The Ladner-based organization breeds, raises, trains and places guide dogs with visually-impaired people as well as autism support dogs for children with autism.

Tickets for the April 16 event at KinVillage in Tsaw-wassen are $45.

Call 604-940-4504 for more information.

Delta-based Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (OWL) will be at Delta's libraries next week.

OWL will introduce children in primary grades and their parents to raptors up close during spring break.

The program takes place March 29, 10:30 a.m. at the George Mackie Library in North Delta, March 30, 10:30 a.m. at the Ladner Pioneer Library, and March 30, 1 p.m. at the Tsawwassen Library.

Delta Museum and Archives Society is seeking student sleuths over spring break.

The "detectives" are invited to help solve the lat-est "Mystery in the Museum" during this self-guided drop-in program.

The case? It's June 26, 1928 and there's been a burglary at Pansy Mae's Ranch and Boarding House in Tsawwassen. Use the evidence to determine who took the missing money and jewels.

The museum will be open March 22 to 26 and March 29 to April 2, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Cost is $5 per clue kit.

For more information, visit deltamuseum.ca.

PICTURED This eagle at the Vancouver Landfill is one of many who use the area to hunt for prey.Boaz Joseph file photo

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the South Delta leader wins two 1st place awards

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Message from Mayor Jackson and Delta Council

Spotlight: Engineering InitiativesDid you know?You can Adopt-A-Street in Delta

Show your civic pride and apply to Adopt-A-Street

in Delta. Volunteers perform litter removal four

times a year to help keep our streets clean.

Delta will place a sign that includes your name

or organization at the adopted street location.

Contact Engineering Operations at (604) 946-5334

or email adoptastreet@corp.delta.bc.ca to apply.

You can Purchase a Rainbarrel from Delta

For $70 (tax and delivery included), help conserve our

drinking water by storing rain water in a rainbarrel for

use around your yard.

Rainbarrels are great for

watering flowerbeds,

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We want to hear from youPlease forward any questions or comments to Mayor Lois E. Jackson by email at mayor@corp.delta.bc.ca, telephone (604) 946-3210 or mail to: The Corporation of Delta, 4500 Clarence Taylor Crescent, Delta, BC V4K 3E2 www.corp.delta.bc.ca

You can Purchase a Composter from Delta

For $35 (tax and delivery included), start backyard composting!

A simple, inexpensive way to reduce your

waste while also making a great fertilizer for

your garden. Turn your uncooked vegetable

and fruit scraps, coffee grounds and filters,

tea bags and extra yard trimmings into

nutrient-rich soil.

Contact Delta’s Engineering

Department at (604) 946-3260 or email

engineering@corp.delta.bc.ca to

purchase a rain barrel or composter.

Upcoming Eventswww.corp.delta.bc.ca/events

“What’s Cool to You?” Photo Contest Deadline!

April 1, 2011

As part of Delta’s 2011 Earth Week celebrations, Delta residents are

invited to participate in the 3rd annual What’s Cool to You photo

contest! Photo submissions will be on display at Municipal Hall

throughout the month of April. Visit www.corp.delta.bc.ca/earthweek

for information on how to participate. Prizes to be won!

Spring Clean-Up

• Tsawwassen > Monday, April 4, 2011

• Ladner > Tuesday, April 5, 2011

• North Delta > Wednesday, April 13, 2011

(if your collection day is Wednesday)

• North Delta > Thursday, April 14, 2011

(if your collection day is Thursday)

During Spring Clean-Up, the two can limit is waived and extra

garbage stickers aren’t required. Residents are requested NOT to

set out spring clean-up materials any sooner than the weekend prior

to their scheduled collection. New for 2011, mattresses will not

be collected.

Earth Day Open House

April 21, 2011 from 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join us at Delta Municipal Hall for an Earth Day Open House featuring

agricultural displays,

information booths from

local environmental groups

and interactive fish printing

activities. The winners of

the What’s Cool to You

photo contest will also be

announced.

Front row: Cllr. Heather King, Mayor Lois E. Jackson, Cllr. Anne Peterson Back row: Cllrs Scott Hamilton, Ian Paton, Robert Campbell and Bruce McDonald

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Krisrtine Salzmann, ReporterSouth Delta Leader

Determined athletes from a variety of sport backgrounds have come together to train in Delta.

Earlier this month, teens in the fi elds of softball, gymnas-tics, synchronized swimming, sprint distance swimming and sailing started a training pro-gram aimed at building a well-rounded foundation for those aspiring to national and inter-national podiums.

The B.C.-wide IGNITE Athlete Development Program, created by Canadian Sport Centre Pa-cifi c, trains the athletes ages 14 to 17 in gymnastics, track and fi eld, and strength and condi-tioning, three main “movement streams” identifi ed as key to long-term athletic development.

The Delta Gymnastics Society was chosen to host the gymnas-tics component for the Vancou-ver region, which includes ath-letes from areas such as Delta, Vancouver, White Rock and Richmond.

The society’s Men’s Program Coordinator Mike Hood also helped develop the gymnastics curriculum for IGNITE, which is in its pilot year and runs March through June.

“I hope it (IGNITE) can show-case to a lot of coaches, athletes, and parents that gymnastics re-ally is a foundation sport. And that by including it in the cur-riculum in combination with other sports it really does help you maximize your physical po-tential,” Hood says.

One of the skills taught, for example, is how to land safely. It’s a skill that can be applied to other sports, Hood says.

“We have someone who is in softball. I used the example, maybe she’s running for home plate and the catcher is standing there, and she gets bumped and

fl ies through the air and needs to land. Hopefully, she’ll land more safely.”

This year the program ac-cepted 10 athletes in this region, but the hope is to expand to 20 positions per region in the com-ing years and extend the length of the program to September through June.

Chad Benson, lead Strength and Conditioning coach for IG-NITE and the Vancouver region, said the program was made pos-sible thanks to legacy funding from the 2010 Olympic Games.

“We’re trying to get them (the athletes) before they are on national podiums or in the Olympics so we can give them the opportunity to become more successful at the train-to-train phase.”

He expects a high level of competition to get into the pro-gram in the years to come as they start to gather success sto-ries from their athletes.

When asked if training ath-letes from different backgrounds is a challenge, Benson said their various strengths actually pro-vide the teens the opportunity to be role models at different

points in the program. “While one may be strong in

sprinting and track-type work, another is going to be strong in fl exibility and gymnastics move-ment,” he says. “So therefore in the different environments, each athlete can excel in some level . . . Where one’s a great leader in one aspect of the program, someone else steps up and con-tributes in another level.”

Hood adds he also hopes a multi-disciplinary training pro-gram such as IGNITE will dem-onstrate how Delta Gymnastics Society’s new Sport Develop-ment Centre, nearing comple-tion in Ladner, is not just for their gymnasts.

“We really believe we’re a community-based organization, and that’s something we’ve tried to let everybody know when we built our new facility,” Hood says. “We want everyone to know we’re not a private club, an elite club. We have programs to offer the full community, and by doing something like IGNITE we bring in different groups and different sports, and we feel we’re meeting that.”reporter@southdeltaleader.com

PICTURED Recently, athletes from a variety of sports tested their abilities at the Delta Gymnastics facility in Tsawwassen during a session of the IGNITE program. Jim Kinnear photo

IGNITE program helps develop athletes from variety of sports

Cross training fi nds a home in South Delta

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behind the scenesEditorialPhilip RaphaelSouth Delta Leader, Editor604-948-3640 ext. 122 editor@southdeltaleader.com

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smoke alarm safety at home

smoke alarms are an important part of a home fire escape plan. When there is a fire, smoke spreads fast. Working smoke alarms give you early Warning so you can get outside quickly.safety tips • Install smoke alarms inside every bedroom, outside each sleeping area and on

every level of the home, including the basement.• Larger homes may need additional smoke alarms to provide enough protection.• For the best protection, interconnect all smoke alarms so when one sounds they

all sound.• An ionization smoke alarm is generally more responsive to flaming fires and a

photoelectric smoke alarm is generally more responsive to smoldering fires. For the best protection, both types of alarms or a combination alarm (photoelectric and ionization) are recommended.

• Install smoke alarms following manufacturer’s instructions high on a wall or on a ceiling.

• Replace batteries in all smoke alarms at least twice a year. If an alarm “chirps,” warning the battery is low, replace the battery right away.

• Replace all smoke alarms when they are 10 years old or sooner if they do not respond properly when tested.

• Fire warning equipment is available to awaken people who are deaf or hard of hearing. This equipment uses strobe lights and vibration equipment (pillow or bed shakers) for people who are deaf and mixed-low-frequency signals for people who are hard of hearing. Some of this equipment is activated by the sound of the smoke alarm.

factsRoughly two thirds of home fire deaths happen in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.Working smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in reported home fires in half.AND DON’T FORGET…All smoke alarms should be tested at least once a month using the test button.

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Sheila Reynolds, ReporterSurrey North Delta Leader

North Delta author Gurjinder Basran is among the fi nalists for this year’s BC Book Prizes.

The fi rst-time novelist is up for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her book Everything Was Good-Bye.

Basran, 38, has drawn partly from personal experience for her debut novel, which centres around a young Indo-Canadian woman who is struggling as she grows up, trying to fi nd a balance between her desire for independence and what is cul-turally acceptable.

Like Basran herself, Meena is raised by her widowed mother. She knows she can’t have the freedom of her peers, but isn’t necessarily prepared to submit to the life—which includes an arranged marriage—that is ex-pected of her.

“It’s a book about a woman’s desire to be free, to fi nd her voice,” says Basran, a mom-of-two who met her husband in college.

Meena, she says, is so con-cerned with pleasing everyone

else, that she doesn’t know what she wants.

“She just knows what she doesn’t want.”

Everything Was Good-Bye was a top 100 fi nisher in the 2006 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (as a manuscript) and won the 2010 Search for the Great B.C. Novel Contest.

Basran is a relative newcom-er alongside other Book Prize nominees, such as Douglas Coupland and Jack Whyte.

A total of 35 authors are shortlisted in seven catego-ries. Winners will be awarded a collective cash prize worth $14,000.

The list of nominees for 27th annual prizes was released March 10, and the winners will be announced at a gala event April 21.

To learn more about Basran and her book, visit www.gur-jinderbasran.comsreynolds@surreyleader.com

Delta author on short list for book prizeGurjinder Basran’s fi rst novel garnering attention

“The smell of chai—fennel, cloves and cinnamon—tucked me into my blanket like a seed in a cardamom pod. I steeped myself into the warmth of waking, listening to the sounds of Sunday morning. My mother was in the kitchen scrubbing the sink, her steel kara clinking against the ba-sin—keeping time with the shabad on the radio. When I was fi fteen, I’d told her I didn’t want to wear my kara anymore; I didn’t like the idea of be-ing handcuffed to God. My mother, to my surprise, hadn’t argued with me but simply said that the kara was a symbol of the restraint I would learn to show whether I wore the bangle or not.”

—excerpt, Everything Was Good-Bye

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Krisrtine Salzmann, Reporter

South Delta Leader

Are you a young person inter-ested in a career in law enforce-ment?

The Delta Police Department is once again inviting Delta stu-dents in Grades 11 and 12 to apply for its summer Student Police Academy.

Sgt. Sharlene Brooks says the annual program is designed to expose students to the realities of police work and training.

The seven-day academy in July is modeled after training received by police recruits at the Justice Institute of B.C.

That includes learning about criminal and traffi c laws, receiv-ing physical training—including taking the Police Offi cers’ Physi-cal Ability Test (POPAT)—and instruction in the use of force,

advanced driving, and fi rearms. The 20 students will also par-

ticipate in scenario-based edu-cation that will simulate actual police calls for service, Brooks said.

The hope is participants will leave the program with a sense of the commitment involved in policing as well as the satis-faction gained from dedicating themselves to public service, she added in a media release.

Last year’s class valedicto-rian, Jelisa Massoud, said the experience drove home the im-portance of teamwork in law enforcement.

“Most importantly, your team is your team—you train together, you sweat together, you suffer together and you win together,” she said at the acad-emy’s graduation ceremony. “Thank you guys for being an

awesome team and thank you so much constables for giving us an experience we will never forget.”

DPD Chief Jim Cessford said at the ceremony he was proud of the hard work the depart-ment’s offi cers put into the pro-gram as well as the effort given by each of the students, noting he looked forward to seeing some of them eventually be-come Delta Police recruits.

Application packages for the 2011 student academy are avail-able at Delta secondary schools from students’ school counsel-ors and should be submitted to the school’s liaison offi cer. Tuition is $150 and includes all materials and uniforms.

The deadline for applicants is April 12. For more information visit deltapolice.ca.reporter@southdeltaleader.com

Philip Raphael, EditorSouth Delta Leader

A ride to the hospital will mean something completely different than you might expect this spring break.

Fun times are coming to Sungod Recreation Centre over the coming holidays, and they will be carrying a message aimed squarely at North Delta Residents.

The Delta Hospital Foundation is spon-soring the Spring Fair (March 30-April 3) on the grounds of the rec-reation centre with 23 rides and midway from Langley-based West Coast Amusements in an effort to spread word in that part of Delta about the hospital and ways to help support it.

According to statistics, plenty of North Delta residents already have fi rst-hand knowledge about the services at Ladner-based Delta Hos-pital—about 15 per cent of annual visits to the ER are made by North Delt-ans. But they may not know how to help make it run with a donation to the foundation.

The Spring Fair is de-signed to help on both those counts.

“We want to extend our presence into that community and if they come out for the rides a percentage of proceeds goes towards the hos-pital foundation,” says Jackey Zellweger, events coordinator with the foundation.

The timing was ide-al for the North Delta

event since spring break was traditionally an op-portunity for West Coast Amusements to set up at BC Place Stadium, Zell-weger says. With reno-vations underway to add a new retractable roof to that building the venue was not available.

The fair is scheduled to be in operation from 1 to 10 p.m. daily and wrist bands and individ-ual rides tickets will be available on site at the Sungod Recreation Cen-tre (7815-112 St.).editor@southdeltalead-er.com

Arrested development

A fun hospital rideSpring Fair meant to increase exposure of Delta foundation

DPD’s reaches out to students keen on a job in law enforcement

PICTURED Instructors lead a class at the Delta Police Department's Student Police Academy. Contributed photo

PICTURED The bright lights of West Coast Amusements is coming to North Delta during spring break. Leader file photo

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Friends andNeighbours of

Guy Gentner, MLA(Delta North)

3 - 11161 84th Avenue, DeltaPhone: 604-597-1488Email: guy.gentner.mla@leg.bc.ca

Working withyou and our North Deltacommunity

Peter F PookInsurance Agencies

Products & ServicesPersonal Property

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NordelShoppingCentre11154 84th Ave., Delta

604.591.5395

Mon-Sat 9:30-5:30

www.pookinsurance.com

• Home Design• Insurance• Hardware• Pharmacy• Groceries

• Restaurants• Hair Salons• Esthetics• Coffee Shops

and more

ComfortsFind all the

of home right inthe neighbourhood

To advertise in this space, call

Irene Lousier604-575-5323

Colour this photo >>> for your chance to win a

free wrist band for a day of unlimited rides at:

WestCoast Amusements Spring Fair March 30 to

April 2 from 1-10pmApril 3 from 1-6pm

Deadline: March 29, 2011 by 5:00pm Ten all day ride passes will be given away!

Proceeds will be donated to the Delta Hospital Foundation. Bring a non-perishable food donation on Thursday, March 31, 2011 and receive $500 offa wristband.

604 940 9695 | www.deltahospital.com

Name: _______________________________________

Phone: ___________________________ Age:________

Download this photo and give it to your friends to colour! www.deltahospital.comScan and email to: publisher@southdeltaleader.com

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We are working hard to bring choice to the Delta community and have started construction into Ladner. Tsawwassen – we will be there next!

Shaw’s coming to Delta!Shaw’s coming to Delta!

HELLOLADNER!

Want to know when we are ready in your area?Call 604.629.4389 or

email SHAW-DELTA@SJRB.CA and leave us your name, address, phone

number and email address.

We are working hard to bring choice to the Delta community and have started construction into Ladner. Tsawwassen – we will be there next!

Shaw’s coming to Delta!Shaw’s coming to Delta!

HELLOLADNER!

Want to know when we are ready in your area?Call 604.629.4389 or

email SHAW-DELTA@SJRB.CA and leave us your name, address, phone

number and email address.

We are working hard to bring choice to the Delta community and have started construction into Ladner. Tsawwassen – we will be there next!

Shaw’s coming to Delta!Shaw’s coming to Delta!

HELLOLADNER!

Want to know when we are ready in your area?Call 604.629.4389 or

email SHAW-DELTA@SJRB.CA and leave us your name, address, phone

number and email address.

HELLODELTA!

And when we get there, we look forward to offering you Shaw Digital Television, Internet, Home Phone & Business Services.