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December 18, 2012 (Vol. 37 No. 101)
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Junior achievement: Tyler Wotherspoon won’t be home for Christmas – he’ll be in Russia instead, playing for Team Canada at the Junior Hockey Championships. › see page A17
S U R R E Y
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Stock runs low
Need not proven: staff
Food plight
Beach cameras advised against
Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
To the untrained eye, the shelves at Sources’ White Rock/South Surrey Food Bank look rather full. Canned goods are stacked rowon-row, and boxes with cereal, pastas and sundry other goods line the topmost shelves, some of them piled four and five high. But despite appearances, those who know what’s needed to meet the ever-growing need in South Surrey and White Rock say the cache is far below where it has been in previous years at this time, and not nearly enough to get them through the months ahead. “We’re worried,” said Denise Darrell, director of women, seniors and community services. “We know what we need for the next eight months, and this ain’t it.” The Sources food bank, located at 5-15515 24 Ave., distributes food to hundreds of clients every week, aiming to provide two days’ worth of sustenance to each person who needs it. One third of those clients are children aged 18 and younger; more and more are seniors. Typically, cash and food donations at this time of year are enough to keep the shelves stocked until summer – 60 per cent of what they go through in a year. › see page A4
Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
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Sources’ (from left) Denise Darrell, Chelsea Robson and Jaye Murray say cash and food donations are down.
White Rock hasn’t proven its case for surveillance cameras on the city’s waterfront. But such a system may be exactly what’s needed to curb illegal dumping at the city’s operations yard. The findings were outlined in a report to council that was to be presented Monday evening, after Peace Arch News’ deadline. “At this time, it would be difficult to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Information and Privacy Commissioner that we have exhausted conventional means of achieving law-enforcement objectives on the pier, along the promenade, and area of the railway line,” writes Dan Bottrill, the city’s chief administrative officer. “Staff has been in discussion with the RCMP to monitor law enforcement issues in this area with a view to determine whether or not circumstances are changing that would ultimately satisfy the criteria to utilize surveillance. Until…this criteria has been satisfied, it is recommended that the city not proceed.” › see page A4
Victim’s family learns of text message advising driver to run
Fatal driver found ‘drunk as a skunk,’ court told Sheila Reynolds Black Press
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Natasha Warren outside court.
Kassandra Kaulius aspired to become a teacher, was great at sports and was a “champion” thinker, speaker and listener. “She represented the best in what we’d like to see in our young people,” her aunt Sherri Todd told a full courtroom on Monday, crying as she described the horrendous impact the loss of the 22-year-old has had on her family.
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“At times, the grief feels like it’s exploding in me,” said Todd. “We will never be the same people again.” Kaulius’ family and friends were in Surrey Provincial Court for the beginning of a two-day sentencing hearing for Natasha Warren, the driver who hit and killed Kassandra on May 3, 2011. In July, Natasha Warren, 35, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death, impaired driving causing death and failure to stop at a crash.
Monday morning, victim-impact statements were also delivered by Kassandra’s boyfriend, Cody Schlamb, and his parents. (Kassandra’s mother, father, sister and brother were expected to read victim-impact statements Monday afternoon, after Peace Arch News’ press deadline.) Schlamb – in his statement read aloud by prosecutor Crichton Pike – said there will always be a cloud hanging over his family. › see page A2
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