Thursday June 14, 2012 (Vol. 37 No. 48)
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Heart of the matter: White Rock Coun. Mary-Wade Anderson derson has a new lease on life these days, thanks anks to a piece of cow in her heart and a long-awaited reunion with the children ren she gave up for adoption a half century ury ago. see page 3
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Public safety cited by Campbell: ‘Things are going on down there we’re really not aware of ’
White Rock eyes waterfront cameras Noting the protection of public safety is one of the city’s corporate priorities for 2012-’14, Campbell said he wants options explored for the installation of a system that can be used both as a deterrent and “to gather information to assist in preserving safety and possible video feed of what’s happening in that area.” Tuesday, he told Peace Arch News it’s only
Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
Surveillance cameras may soon be keeping a watch over White Rock’s pier, promenade and surrounding area. Council is expected to discuss the idea at its next meeting (June 25), following a notice of motion calling for the equipment announced Monday by Coun. Al Campbell.
a matter of time before something happens where such footage would be invaluable. “I really believe that here, our pier and promenade… a lot of things are going on down there we’re really not aware of. “(Something) will happen one day, and we’ve got to be prepared for something like that.” In addition to helping enforce the city’s
laws, such a system could be used by people simply interested in checking out what’s going on at the beach at any particular moment, he said. The City of Surrey began using closedcircuit televisions (CCTVs) in 2009, to combat auto crime in the Scott Road Skytrain parking lot. see page 4
Dorozan sentenced
8 years for ‘reckless, relentless’ break-ins Alex Browne Staff Reporter
Gord Goble photo
A beached whale brings crowds to White Rock’s East Beach Tuesday, after the emaciated mammal was found entangled in fishing gear.
Emaciated humpback takes final breath, entangled in fishing line, on White Rock beach
Crowd gathers as whale succumbs Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
Hundreds of people young and old flocked to White Rock beach Tuesday morning after a juvenile humpback whale was found beached on the waterfront’s east side. Entangled in fishing line, the scarred and chafed mammal – described by one fisheries official as the “worst body-condition animal
I’ve ever seen” – did not survive. “It had been suffering for a long time,” said Paul Cottrell, a South Surrey resident and the Pacific marine mammal co-ordinator for Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The whale – less than three years old – was alive when Mario Pavkovich and his mother first spotted it around 5 a.m., as they walked their dog near the east end of the promenade.
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From a distance, Pavkovich’s mother initially thought the black mass was a capsized sailboat, but as they got closer, it became obvious it was a whale. When Pavkovich got within 100 feet, the whale took a breath, and he noticed fishing line was wrapped from its mouth to its tail fluke. He ran back to a hotel to call for help and direct authorities to the site. see page 4
A series of thoroughly-planned home break-ins – most in South Surrey – have netted a 38-year-old Abbotsford man more than seven years in jail. Darwin Duane Dorozan was sentenced Tuesday in Surrey Provincial Court to multiple concurrent and consecutive terms totalling eight years, which was reduced by 10 Darwin Dorozan months to reflect pleaded guilty the time he has already spent behind bars. Dorozan pleaded guilty in May to 12 counts of break-and-enter in connection with incidents between April and August of 2011 and one in August of 2010, just prior to a nine-month sentence he served as the result of a 2007 robbery. Dorozan had said he committed the robberies to feed a $600-a-day heroin habit. In one incident, he bear sprayed a resident who struggled with him; in another he ransacked bedrooms see page 5
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