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If you ask Erik Seiz to describe hisbeloved neighbourhood of CrescentBeach, he’ll tell you it’s a “calming slice

of the Gulf Islands, in Surrey’s backyard.”Crescent Beach is located in the

Semiahmoo Peninsula in the southwestcorner of the city, with the ocean on threesides and a bluff to the south.

Areas include lands traditionallyassociated with the beach and residentialseaside located below Crescent Heights Bluffand to the high-water mark on the shorelineof Semiahmoo, Boundary and Mud Bays.

As city planning documents put it, “thepastoral nature, the semi-rural feeling andseaside village atmosphere of CrescentBeach engraved in the community gives thearea an identifiable character.”

And that character is cherished, said Seiz,who is president of the Crescent BeachProperty Owners Association.

Made up of mostly single-family homes,and currently housing just over 1,200residents, the area has one commercialdistrict along Beecher Street, which servesas the corridor leading to the beach. The

modest district boasts high-end restaurants,cafés, ice cream shops and more.

Seiz noted the diversity in the area is“insane.”

Everything from your “total tinfoil hatcrowd” to “oil executives.”

And for the most part, everyoneintermingles and is committed to thecommunity.

“It’s a laid back, hang-ten, NormanRockwell kind of place,” he said.

While locals cherish the beach, he saidthere’s many more gems, pointing to thelesser-known-about Dunsmuir Garden.After crossing the BNSF railway tracks intothe area, there is a path to the immediateright – and that path will take you to thecommunity garden.

It’s the city’s very first community gardento be operated on city land, and is locatedwithin Blackie Spit Park. The entire Cityof Surrey park was dedicated by councilfollowing a public referendum in the late’90s.

It inherits its name from the JohnDunsmuir family, who owned the property

from 1940 to 1949. The city eventuallyobtained the land, and in 1975 residentswere given permission to use it forcommunity gardens. Nearly 40 years later,it’s still a popular spot and has an “infinitewaitlist,” Seiz said.

But that’s just one gem. The south endof Crescent Beach is the gateway to an“uncompressed, west coast trail experience”that extends to White Rock, Seiz boasted.

“The tranquil vistas along the Surrey bluffcorridor are easily just as profound as anyon the island. All of it, right next to a milliontaxpayers,” he said. “No ferry, no line up, no$100 gas bill. You can wake up in Langley,experience the best sea kayaking in B.C., andstill be home for the evening news.”

Seiz said the corridor could offer morethan just good weather and tranquil vistas,and has dreams of what that could look like.

“It could support a few thousand tieredgarden plots, in a mixed-use, public-privatebusiness model. B.C. vineyards could leasesections to create an immersive experiencefor tasting, eating and brand promotion.Some plots could have outdoor kitchens, or

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Erik Seiz says

Dunsmuir Garden

is one of Crescent

Beach’s lesser known

gems. After crossing

the BNSF railway

tracks into the area,

there is a path to

the right that will

take you to the

community garden.

It’s the city’s first

community garden

to be operated

on city land, and

is located within

Blackie Spit Park.

(Photo: GORD

GOBLE)

Crescent Beach is knownfor its waterfront, butthe area has other gems– and challenges – youmay not know about

wood-fired pizza ovens,” he said.“There could be covered pergolas, gas

heaters and snug loungers to enjoy the view.The natural amphitheatre could supportcultural event and outdoor theatre. It wouldbe a place to go.”

Seiz said with increasing trade betweenCanada and the U.S. and rising sea levels, thetrain tracks will eventually have to move.

“The only question is when,” he said,adding that it would be the perfect time to“unlock” the corridor and use it to make thearea an attraction to those across the regionand beyond.

And train traffic is an issue that frustratesmany locals.

Seiz estimates the frequency of trains hasquadrupled in the last 12 years – going fromroughly five trains a day to about 20. Couplethat with the number of times the trainshave to whistle as they drive through thebeach and the screeching of brakes as theyslow down, and it’s enough to drive anyonecrazy, he said.

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The increased train traffic “has donemore than reduce the quality of life forlocal residents,” Seiz noted. “For some, ithas made sleep impossible. It has madeselling or renting their homes impossible.What once was a charming feature of thecommunity has turned into a form oftorture.”

When asked about crime in the area, Seizsaid crime is everywhere and Crescent Beachis not immune, adding the area mostly dealswith car break-ins.

“We definitely get more rowdy people,who have often been drinking. That can bea challenge,” he said, but added that seemsto have receded in recent years, which heattributed to better policing. “While thenumber of visitors to Crescent Beach keepsclimbing, misbehavior actually seems to bedropping.”

Nela Hallwas moved to Crescent Heights– just up from the beach – three years ago.

“I wouldn’t change anything about it,”she said of the area. “I’ve lived in Europe,I’ve lived in the states, I’m in my mid-50sand I’ve found my sanctuary. I’ve found myhome. There’s nothing like it.

“I’ve travelled to exotic places and been toexotic beaches, but there’s something aboutmy little rocky Crescent Beach that pulls meback. Every day it serves me up a differentspectacle.

“Last winter I went down when it snowedheavily. It was a treacherous hike down thetrail. It was the first time in my life I sawsnow on the sand. The beach was covered

with snow and it was spectacular,” she said.Hallwas, a choreographer, says the beach

is a huge source of inspiration for her work.“I need that communion with nature

desperately. A piece I did last year was calledAria – the Italian word for air – and my timeon Crescent Beach had a lot to do with thecreation of that piece.”

And there are many artists in the area, shesaid.

“There’s a lot of studios, and writers andpainters. We all kind of quietly live here.”

Looking to the future, Hallwas hopes thearea remains as it is today.

“I don’t want it to become a bigdeveloper’s dream,” she said. “People need toknow it’s magnificent.”

And it doesn’t seem that the area is set tochange much.

Jean Lamontagne, Surrey’s manager ofplanning and development, said the city isaware residents want to retain the feel andcharacter of the neighbourhood.

“New homes that are built need to fitwithin the character of the neighbourhoodas much as possible and there is a desire tokeep the beach area as natural as possible,as is the case at the moment,” Lamontagnesaid. “For the future, one would thinkthe neighbourhood will keep its currentcharacter and built form.”

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Jason Wong, with business partnersElvin Cheung and Michael Cheng, ofonline enterprise Witty Cookie, havelaunched a unique shared office facilityin Surrey’s Innovation Boulevard, acutting-edge business hub set to forgenew ground in the areas of health careand technology.

“I was inspired by a good friend ofmine over at another co-working spacein Vancouver called the Network Hub,”Wong said of the idea to open up ashared office space east of Vancouver.

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“It’s a fast growing city and I thinkthat it does really have the potentialto be a real, true entrepreneurial hubin Metro Vancouver,” he said, notingthat it’s important to have an officeaway from home. “I’m a relatively newparent … productivity goes way downbeing at home, you know, runningover toys and talking to clients andthat really was kind of what motivatedme to get my butt in gear and get thisthing off the ground. From a selfish

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Wong is sure to add that BetaCollective is no Bentall Building-styleoffice space, outfitted with floor-to-ceiling windows with views of theocean.

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SURREY — Ever wonder if you couldbreak out of prison? Or escape from a tombin Ancient Egypt?

Lower Mainland residents have beengiven a chance to do just that through anew company, E-Exit, that offers up escapegames. Would-be escapees, two to six playersper game, have to use intellect and teamworkto solve puzzles and riddles in order toescape from a room.

The business, which opened in Richmondlast October, has received requests fromprevious customers to open their own E-Exitsites, including one in Surrey. A location atHighway 10 and 56th Avenue is planned.

Justin Tang, E-Exit creator, said thecompany’s mission is to bring virtualentertainment into the real world.

“It’s opposite of Google, let’s say. Googleis bringing every real-life thing into thevirtual world through the Internet. Whatwe do is, we bring virtual entertainment

into real life. Escape game is based oncellphone apps and computer games, andwe brought it to real life.”

Take the backstory of the Egyptian tombtheme. Users are given a backstory: Whileexploring the Great Pyramid, the groupbecomes locked in King Khufu’s tomb.

“You explore the chambers, only to findcreepy skeletons. The walls are filled withcobwebs, and lurking with scorpions andspiders,” the game’s description reads. It’sthen a 45-minute mission to break free fromthe tomb.

Tang said the idea originally came fromJapan and the trend is spreading quicklythroughout Asia.

Tang, who is from Hong Kong, said hebrought the idea to Canada and the responsehas been great so far. With one Richmondlocation open less than a year, three otherfranchise facilities are planned – a second inRichmond, one in Gastown and the one inSurrey.

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The Editor,

Re: “It’s time for us to stop being heldhostage by unions,” the Now letters, July 3.

I find the logic of Paul Bowman’s letterof equating civil servants and teachersstriking against the government as anti-democratic ludicrous.

To say, “they, in effect are, not strikingagainst the government, but against thepeople who elected the government” is justplain nonsense.

To make a point in democracy, in thelast provincial election, only 58 per centof the people bothered to vote and only 46per cent of them voted for the government.

By my math, less than 30 per cent ofthe people in B.C. voted directly for thisgovernment – hardly a strong mandatebased on popularity.

On the other hand, in the case of theteachers, 86 per cent voted to support theunion in strike action on a turnout of 81per cent – clearly a very strong mandate.You tell me who is not only respecting thedemocratic process, but exercising it fully.

Christy Clark can be blamed for startingthis mess back in 2002. As educationminister, she basically ripped up legalcontracts with the teachers, something theSupreme Court of B.C. has ruled twice asbeing unconstitutional. So what does ourdemocratically elected leader do? Ignorethese rulings.

So tell me, Mr. Bowman, whose“democracy” is working better? Civilservant unions are at a great disadvantagewhen our employer also has the power tomake laws – it actually takes the democracy

out of fair and true negotiations shouldthe government of the day not get theirway all the time. It goes along the samelines as absolute power corrupts absolutely.

As far as your suggestions go, try thisone – there should be a non-biasedgovernment agency, like Elections B.C.in being at arm’s length, that negotiatescontracts on behalf of the government.

This could eliminate the hostility andanimosity some governments have againsttheir employees and vice versa. For unions,acting collectively is the only protectionthey have against vicious employers.

But thanks for your letter, Mr. Bowman,there is nothing like good old-fashionedunion bashing to start your day off nicely.

Matt Logan, Surrey

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It’s time to talk about the birds and thebees. Unfortunately, the facts of lifearen’t all sunny these days.

Bee colonies across North America aredying off in shocking numbers.

Commercial beekeepers report onequarter to one-third of their bees dyingevery year. That’s alarming. Bees areresponsible for pollinating more than 90per cent of the world’s flowering crops.

Without bees, there is no food. Anumber of studies have recently linkedthe bee deaths to a neonicotinoid class ofinsecticides. The insecticides are widelyused on some of North America’s biggestcommercial crops, including corn, canolaand soybeans.

They are also used on many plants sold incommercial nurseries.

When bees come into contact with thepesticide through the pollen or nectar ofthe plants, they suffer damaging effects.

The chemical has also been linked todeclines in bird populations by killing offbirds’ food supplies.

The chemicals have already been bannedin Europe.

Last week, Ontario became the firstprovince to move toward greater restrictionof their use.

Environmental groups in Canadahave called on Health Canada to ban thepesticides here too. Many farmers haveopposed that.

But as one expert pointed out, if thepesticides kill all the pollinators, there won’tbe any crops left to protect.

One day, we’ll likely look back on thisclass of pesticides the same way DDT isconsidered today.

Meanwhile, the birds and the bees andthe rest of the planet deserve better.

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The looming Surrey mayoraltyrace is shaping up as a warm-up exercise for the next federal

election for a number of majorpolitical operatives in this province.

Already, a bunch of well-knownbackroom political organizers aregetting involved in the variouscamps. And they have ties to boththe federal Conservative and Liberalparties, and it appears some of themare working beside each other.

Linda Hepner, the would-besuccessor to Dianne Watts asSurrey First’s mayoral candidate,has veteran political strategistPat Kinsella in her corner, buthe’s got plenty of company.Communications pros Norm Stoweand Laura Ballance, along withveteran political organizers StuBraddock and Prem Vinning, arealso helping Hepner.

Barinder Rasode, the independentcouncillor who is expected tochallenge Hepner, has veteranfederal Liberal organizer MarkMarissen running her team. ButNDP stalwart Moe Sihota is thereas well, and ex-B.C. Liberal pollsterDmitri Pantazopoulos (one of thefew people to accurately predict thelast provincial election) is assisting,as is Kareem Allam (Kevin Falcon’sdeputy campaign manager in the lastB.C. Liberal leadership race).

I’m not sure how DougMcCallum, the former mayor tryingto get his old job back, will farein landing the same number ofexperienced hands.

I suppose one reason all thesepolitical pros are flocking to Surrey(aside from personal ties and

loyalties) is that it may be the onlyintriguing mayoralty race in all ofMetro Vancouver. In 2011, almost allincumbent mayors were re-elected,and I suspect the same thing willhappen this fall.

There seems little reason to thinkRichmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie,Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan,Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore,Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewartor Delta Mayor Lois Jackson arevulnerable to a strong challenge(unless any of them decide againstrunning again).

The wild card, of course, isVancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson,who has been making news (for allthe wrong reasons) these days. No“star” candidate has emerged to takehim on, although former VancouverSun editor Kirk Lapointe’s namehas been floated as the most likelypossibility for the ironically-namedNon-Partisan Association.

Robertson will likely not face acredible challenge from the left, asthe COPE party has been capturedby fringe elements who like to shoutslogans at each other.

But if the NPA can get its acttogether, there’s no reason to thinkthe party can’t take a run at thesitting mayor.

ABORIGINAL TITLE STORMAPPROACHES ON AUG. 4

Well, that didn’t take long.Last week, I wrote that, while the

Supreme Court of Canada decisiongranting aboriginal title didn’t meanthe sky was falling, there wouldcertainly be stormy times ahead.

And now one particular storm hasappeared on the horizon, and it looksforeboding.

The Gitxsan First Nations innorthwest B.C. has issued “eviction”notices to CN Rail, forest industriesand sports fisheries to vacate theland and cease all activities by Aug. 4,

unless they receive the consent of theband’s hereditary chiefs to be there.

The band has seized upon asection of that court decision that setsout conditions that must be met forFirst Nations to establish aboriginaltitle. One of those tests is that a bandmust prove it had “exclusive historicaloccupation” of the land in question.

“Exclusivity can be establishedby proof that others were excludedfrom the land or by proof that otherswere only allowed access to the landwith the permission of the claimantgroup,” the court wrote in thedecision.

One would think the wordingapplies to the situation that was there“historically,” or before contact withEuropean settlers who ultimatelyoccupied the land. However, theGitxsan appear to take the novelapproach that excluding people fromthe land it claims title to must takeplace right now, in order to meet oneof the tests to establish title to theland.

I don’t know where this is headed,but it seems things can get ugly– particularly if the Gitxsan tries toforcibly evict or blockade one of theparties it is trying to “exclude” fromthe land they are laying claim to.

Presumably, a court will weigh inon this matter. But this is a primeexample of a situation that can causepotential investors to pull back fromputting money into B.C.’s economy,because of the uncertainty of justhow extensive First Nations’ powersultimately are in this province.

The Gitxsan will undoubtedly notbe the last First Nations band to tryto exercise more control of the landthey are claiming title to, before thattitle is actually proven. Meanwhile,circle Aug. 4 on your calendar.

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The Editor,

Speak up for what you believe in.I’ve been dealing with issues in our neighbourhood

since 2009 but, as one little voice, no one listened to meuntil now; thank you for the strong support from ourneighborhood, and thank you, Bill Good and his CKNWradio station crew, who took the time to listen to me.

Election time is now approaching. After dealing withsome people who think they have power, I would stronglyencourage all to take a good look at the candidates whenyou take that pencil and mark your ballot.

Don’t judge by colour, gender or marital status. Isay this as I recently had a telephone interview on thecandidates for election and I was asked if I would vote fora coloured person, divorced, etc.

Wow. What has this to do with what the candidatewill do for the people? I’m retired and divorced withchildren, but I was highly respected for what I did whenI worked. These issues did not affect my job performancebut actually benefited my employer. It showed I was adedicated hard worker.

So, I suggest not to look at the cover until you haveread the book. Ask questions. Get answers, not promises.Address issues that affect all the people, not just the bigguys. Little people count, too.

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If you feel the direction and tone being setfor your city is wrong, think about four moreyears of that feeling.

Taxpayers are a strange lot. We areconstantly busy and tend not to be very high-maintenance. We pay our taxes and make ourcontribution to the betterment of the city,each in our own modest way.

It is not surprising then that so much ofwhat we take for granted is the result of ourchoices made at the ballot box.

This November marks a precipitous timefor everyone who calls Surrey home. I say thisbecause our mayor, Dianne Watts, has left thebuilding.

Mayor Watts entered onto the scene in a“thunderstorm” of controversy and it is inthat same vein she leaves office. I was a fanthen, and I am fan now, despite some marked

failings attributable to Mayor Watts.Mayor Watts invented Surrey First. This

invention marked the culmination of anidentical strategy that maintained herpredecessor Doug McCallum’s death grip onthe mayor’s chair. Using the Surrey ElectorsTeam (SET), McCallum, like Watts, ruled overeverything, and everyone.

History is a great teacher; less so is ourwillingness to learn from the mistakes of thepast.

There is, I suppose, much to criticize. Therampant growth undertaken through the“Build Surrey” initiative has placed hugepressures on the city to maintain its civility asit becomes a major hub for Lower Mainlandresidents. Still more will be said about ourexplosive growth in population and theimpact on our Canadian way of doing things.

Having the lowest tax rates in the regionhas fast become a test we will never pass,despite claims to the contrary. We carry acivic debt that, while modest when compared

to Vancouver, is aharbinger of morethings to come.

Surrey Firstinvented SurreyCity DevelopmentCorporation. Itoperates in competitionwith private industry,and is the sameindustry that First is

charged with regulating on behalf of Surreytaxpayers. They can and do spend a lot ofyour money with economical accountability.

The city changed from being “The Cityof Parks” to boldly state,“The Future LivesHere.” It is a title that holds each of us toa difficult comparison with neighbouringmunicipalities not nearly so boastful.

Our quality of life, while good, is underconstant duress in Surrey. It would be funnyif it wasn’t true how hard McCallum triedto muzzle bad news in/about Surrey, only to

find the current mayor accused of the samebehavior.

Mayor and council also brought forwarda “Sustainability Charter,” where there wasnone before. Despite being very late to thegame, it spells out the high-minded objectivesfor the natural environment, social/culturalenvironment and the economic environment.

The test remains yours to read and decide.Unlike most political associations, Surrey

First does not solicit memberships. SurreyFirst does not ask you your opinion orconduct votes of matters affecting you andyour family.

You and I cannot belong to Surrey First; infact, you and I are not allowed to know whomakes up its membership.

In the run-up to November elections,Surrey First will tell each of you who to votefor in the name of Surrey First.

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GRANDVIEW — Sybil Rowe is notslowing down in her fight to save trees inGrandview Heights.

In January, she embarked upon a missionto save some of the area’s trees, collectingsome 730 signatures.

Her petition asked for the city for twothings: to dedicate an old horse farm on168th Street as a park and for heritagedesignation for majestic evergreens thatframe either side of 168th Street, from 24thto 32nd Avenues.

After the parks, recreation and sporttourism committee has recommended thecity dedicate the park, it looks like she wonthat fight. A decision on heritage designationfor the other trees has not been made, butengineering will be commissioning a studylooking at impacts of widening the road inthe future to see if offsetting the road centreline and adjustments to the boulevard canhelp save the trees.

But Rowe is not stopping there. She isalso fighting for seven douglas firs at thetop of 164th Street on a property up forredevelopment.

Originally, the application, at 2325 164thSt., proposed to remove all of the 22 maturetrees on the site and replant 91.

Rowe recognizes these are just seven trees,but says to her they were “symbolic” in herfight for green in the neighbourhood.

“It was just a little win, but they meantthe earth to me. They were like a symbol ofeverything else that was going to come.”

But three may be on the chopping block.Rowe said she feels “betrayed” because shewas under the impression that all seven treeswere to stay based on her talks with the city– until she received a call from staff last weekalerting her some may fall.

“I see an alarming pattern here. Highdensity is going through Grandview Heights.It’s mowing down everything in sight.Everything is going to disappear.”

Rowe said she’s not against developmentbut is “deadly” against the high density shesees creeping into the area.

“The purpose of high density, initially, is toprevent urban sprawl. But what we have got,because there are people out there with a heckof a lot of money, we are having high-densitysprawl.”

She calls on the city to “stop what they’redoing” and recognize Grandview Heights isan “exquisite area that must be saved.”

Jaime Boan, Surrey’s transportationmanager, said various staff have haddiscussions with Rowe, as well as thedeveloper, to try to save the seven trees.

While Rowe was under the impression allseven were to be saved, Boan said the city’s

intent has been to save as many as possible.Four are being saved, he noted, while the

fate of the other three is still being reviewed.The city believes the developer can save

one tree by adjusting servicing. Another mayhave to go, as it looks like it is on land where abuilding is set to go. And a third may have tocome down, as it’s on a street corner and thecity believes the tree may create safety issuesby blocking drivers’ views of pedestriansusing an adjacent sidewalk.

While Rowe was worried she’d see the treesfalling last week, Boan said that wouldn’t bethe case.“We’ve instructed the developer notto be touching any of those trees until we’vefully resolved the issue.”

Regardless of the decision, Boan said

Rowe’s efforts will result in at least four of thetrees being saved.

“To me, the entire review and (Rowe)bringing it up to our attention has all beena positive because we are going to be able tosave at least four and hopefully as many as sixof them.”

Despite feeling blue that she may be losingsome of the trees she’s fighting for, shesaid there was “a little victory” July 7 whencouncil unanimously voted to send anotherGrandview area application back to staff, inlight of opposition to it.

The application is for two parcels of land:2552 and 2580 164th St. The developerwants to subdivide into seven large and 24small single-family lots. The city receivedapproximately 20 emails and letters from 11households concerned about the proposal’sdensity, impact on road infrastructure andmore.

And at a public information meeting inApril, a petition signed by 14 householdswas submitted that asked for things such as adecrease in density in order to more closelymirror nearby residential.

There are 40 protected trees on the site andthe proposal calls for the removal of 38, andto replant 45. Since the city’s ratio requires atotal of 128 trees be replaced, the 83 deficitwould mean the developer would have tocontribute $24,900 to the city’s Green CityFund.

Coun. Judy Villeneuve said there was a lotof neighbourhood opposition to the interfacewith the application.

“We’re going to try to resolve it,” she said.“People make investments and we try to befair, and we also want to make sure long-termresidents are on board.”

For Rowe, council voting to send theapplication back to staff means they arelistening.

“Well it was wonderful because somehowor another… it’s like a coin is dropping,”Rowe said Tuesday.“The overwhelmingfeeling I got last night was that they heardus, they’re getting the message: We don’t likewhat they’re doing.”

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school law class had asked the city for a set oflights at the intersection in September, shortlyafter a sedan broke a 14-year-old boy’s legwhile he was walking to school at 126th Streetand 96th Avenue. Castellanos noted thatthree other pedestrians had also been hit, nearDonegal’s Pub, while crossing 96th.

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For Canadian riders Megan Rathwell andMatteo Dal-cin, their patience and somelate-in-the-race moves paid off with trips tothe top of the podium.

“This was one of my main goals thisyear was to win this race. I don’t do a lot ofraces, I just race locally so I’m really happyto come here and win,” said Rathwell, whohails from Victoria, B.C. and rides for ATACSportswear.

As temperatures climbed to 35 degreeson course, both the men’s and women’spelotons fractured into small groups, leavinglots of room for attacks.

In the women’s 80-kilometre race,Abbotsford’s Alison Jackson, riding forGlotman Simpson Cycling, went off thefront in a solo breakaway with only a fewlaps left.

It appeared that Jackson, who won Friday’shill climb and placed third in the criterium,was poised to ride to victory. With one lapto go the group of chasing riders, whichincluded Rathwell, had closed the gap settingthe stage for a five-rider sprint to the line.

“It was really hard, we had a bit of a gapto the top three riders and with Alison(Jackson) off the front I didn’t think it wouldcome down to a sprint, I thought it wasgoing to be all spread out. I couldn’t believeit,” said Rathwell.

“I had a good position and then I wentright and came around everyone. I’m notreally a sprinter but it kind of suits me, theuphill.”

The women’s sprint came down to a photofinish with the top four riders crossing theline within four-tenths of a second of each

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Jackson finished fifth in the sprint butmaintained her points lead to finish firstoverall in the omnium.

“I might have went a little early butsometimes in bike racing you just have totake chances and see what you’re worth,” shesaid.

The men’s race was a similar story as theheat and fast pace broke the peloton up withfour riders in the lead and a pack of eightriders 53 seconds back with five laps left onthe short course.

Dal-cin, who is from Ottawa riding forSilber Pro Cycling Team, had been ridingaggressively all day, keeping the pressure onthe four-man leading group.

With two laps to go, Dal-cin’s teammateDerrick St. John bridged the gap between theleaders and the chase group giving the Silberteam the advantage.

“It was a pretty big relief … that Derrickwas coming up because we had anothercard to play and on the next lap I made amove because I figured there would be somehesitation,” said Dal-cin.

Montreal’s Pierrick Garneau, riding forQuebecor won the sprint for second place,and Garret Mclead, of Team H&R Blockfrom Wolfville, Nova Scotia, came in third.

Germany’s Florenz Knauer, of TeamHeizomat, won first overall in the omniumwith a seventh-place finish in the road race.

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Cyclists pedal as a group during the Tour de White Rock road race Sunday. (Photo: GORD GOBLE)

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“We had some issues after we remodeledthe bathrooms, but that was around threeyears ago now, so it’s been ages,” he said.“Thepoint of the camera was to determine whowould be doing the vandalizing and when ithappens.”

However, with nobody seemingly upsetby the device after all these years, Lawrencewondered why it has been highlightedrecently.

“I was actually surprised as pretty mucheverybody else was that there was a story,” hesaid.“My guess was that somebody who wasnot a regular came into the Sandpiper, sawthe camera up on the ceiling and wonderedwhat was going on with it, took offense toit and contacted the paper. It has been therefor a few years now and for a story to comeout this late after its installation was prettybewildering.”

Adding that the camera also adds a levelof security for patrons, Lawrence said thecoverage won’t be prompting them to removethe device.

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Enjoy the park while payingtribute to your loved ones.

Our Annual Dove Release Memorial

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WHITE ROCK — Twodays after residents in WhiteRock and the surroundingarea turned up in thehundreds to vent theirfrustrations about the railline, Transport Canadamade a decision to allow railoperator BNSF to decreasewhistling at night.

In a missive sent byTransport Canada inspectorDennis Maskall Wednesday,BNSF was ordered to issuerepetitive succession of hornblasts between the hours of7 a.m. to 10 p.m. However,outside of those hourstrain drivers will be ableto continue with “normalBNSF whistling protocol asper their current timetableand bulletins,” which hadpreviously been to whistle

when there was a danger onthe track.

Gus Melona of BNSF saidthe rail company wouldbe abiding by the latestorder and referred all otherquestions to TransportCanada.

Previously, train operatorswould occasionallyblow their whistles andalways when someone orsomething was obstructingthe tracks.

Coun. Grant Meyer, headof the city’s rail safety taskforce, was happy to seewhat is being interpretedas permission by TransportCanada for conductors toexercise more discretionwhen it came to nighttimewhistling.

“It’s good news and Ithink that it had to dowith the amount of peoplecalling and emailing,” hesaid.

Transport Canada allowswhistle cessation at night

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Do you have sunspots?Sunspots, or actinic keratoses,are dry, crusty skin patches.If untreated, sunspots can leadto skin cancer.

A local dermatologist isconducting a research study.There is no cost to join, andeligible participants will receiveup to $350.00.

Visit ResearchTrials.org or call604-953-1333.

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