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Surrey records sixth murder of the year
Sound reflection The tenor, baritone and bass sections of the Chorfest choir rehearse with director Dennis Coleman Sunday morning for their afternoon performance at Chandos Pattison Auditorium. An annual event for more than 35 years, this was the first year Chorfest has been held in Surrey.
Police unsure whether Newton killing is gang related by Kevin Diakiw A MAN WAS FOUND dead of gunshot
to carve savings out of the program after an efficiency review. The result: more passengers being denied rides or offered a oneway trip only but no guarantee of a return trip. “They may be able to get a ride from Richmond to Vancouver but when they want to get back it’s very difficult,” Dyson said. “A ride one way is pretty useless if you can’t get back.” She’s heard complaints from passengers who say up to half of their trip requests are denied because the system is over-subscribed, and
wounds in the basement suite of a Newton home last week. On Thursday at about noon, police responded to a call of a body found in the lower suite of a home at 12432 70 Ave. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) took over the investigation and would not discuss numerous reports that police are looking into gang links. “We are in the very early stages of this investigation and we are working to find out what happened inside the residence,” said IHIT Cpl. Adam MacIntosh. The shooting came the day after the drive-by killing of gangster Ranjit Cheema, who had recently returned from a five-year jail sentence in California for drug smuggling. Cheema, a former Surrey resident, was a known associate of Bindy Johal, a notorious gangster who was gunned down in December 1998. Late last week, VancouverFraserview MLA Kash Heed called for posters to be placed publicly identifying people involved in gang shootings.
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HandyDart not meeting demand, say critics Trip length and number of denied requests increasing by Jeff Nagel RISING DEMAND for HandyDart rides from the elderly and disabled who can’t easily take regular buses is outstripping TransLink’s ability to deliver the custom transit service, advocates warn. “There are always more and more people needing to use the HandyDart,” said Jane Dyson, executive director of the B.C. Coalition for People with Disabilities. But service levels are frozen at about 600,000 annual service hours – likely until 2015 – and TransLink is simultaneously under pressure
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