Youth troupe brings timeless tale to life
Crusaders off to B.C. championships
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NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR SURREY MEMORIAL’S TINIEST PATIENTS
Ravinder Binning admits to 2008 fatal hit-and-run
Guilty plea in crash that killed 2 seniors by Sheila Reynolds THE DRIVER of the car that killed
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Elly Lee visits with her daughter Celine in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Surrey Memorial Hospital. Celine weighed just 1,600 grams (3.5 pounds) when she arrived early Feb. 9, but thanks to new technology on loan to the pediatric unit – a Total Parenteral Nutrition Compounder, which precisely mixes food for premature and ill babies – Celine now weighs 1,860 grams, or more than four pounds. The SMH Foundation is raising money to purchase its own TPN Compounder. See story, page 5.
Teachers plan next move by Tom Fletcher and Sheila Reynolds RESPONDING TO legislation tabled this
week, teachers across the province, including those in Surrey and Delta, are deciding whether to escalate job action and walk out of classes.
Just as the Labour Relations Board gave B.C. teachers a green light to strike for up to three days next week, Education Minister George Abbott introduced a new law Tuesday that would suspend all strike action and could impose millions of dollars in fines per day if a strike persists.
While the legislature debated the “Education Improvement Act,� teachers across the province took a strike vote Tuesday and Wednesday, with the results expected to be announced Thursday (after The Leader’s press deadline). See MEDIATION / Page 3
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her mother and father in a crash nearly four years ago pleaded guilty in court Tuesday, but Varinder Badh says Ravinder Binning’s admission comes four years too late and doesn’t erase the fact he fled the deadly scene without helping the victims. Varinder was in a car with her parents, Dilbag and Bakhshish Badh, and sister Rupi in 2008 when they were struck from behind by another vehicle on 128 Street near 85 Avenue. The family was returning home from a wedding Ravinder rehearsal. Binning Dilbag, 61, and his wife Bakhshish, 60, died at the scene and their two daughters suffered serious injuries. The occupants of the car that hit them ran away. While the crash occurred in July 2008, Binning was not arrested and charged until June 2010.
See FAMILY / Page 3
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