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Trail blazers: Friends of Semiahmoo Heritage ge Trail volunteers will mark the 140th anniversary of the South Surrey trail this Saturday with an annual walk. k. i see page 111
Suspect appears in Surrey Provincial Court
Charge laid in killing of hockey mom Sheila Reynolds Black Press
Felicity Don sketch
Yosef Jomo Gopaul
Nearly five months after Surrey hockey mom Julie Paskall was killed, police have announced an arrest and charge. Yosef Jomo Gopaul, 27, made his first court appearance in Surrey on Monday, when a charge of seconddegree murder in connection with Paskall’s death was sworn. Paskall died in December following an attack outside the Newton Arena. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team
(IHIT) announced the latest development at a news Paskall, 53, was waiting for her 14-year-old son conference Saturday afternoon in Surrey. outside the Newton Arena near 71 Avenue and 136B Gopaul, a man of small stature with close-cropped Street on Dec. 29, 2013 when she was attacked and hair, appeared in Surrey Provincial clubbed in the head with a blunt ❝Our combined Court Monday morning wearing a object. investigative efforts blue fleece zippered jacket. She died in hospital Dec. 31, leaving He appeared to be on edge, scanning (include) countless hours behind her husband, Al, teenage son the courtroom and occasionally hang- of physical surveillance.❞ and two adult daughters. ing his head. IHIT Officer in Charge Supt. Kevin According to police, Gopaul moved to the city from Hackett called the arrest a “significant milestone” in Brampton, Ont. eight weeks before Paskall’s death. the case. i see page 2 He was arrested Friday afternoon.
D-Day veteran lauded
Meyer feels pressure
France’s highest honour
Councillor ‘obligated’ to cross picket line
Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
Tracy Holmes
A South Surrey man was among six B.C. veterans bestowed with France’s highest honour, during an event last Wednesday marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. The Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur was presented to John (Jack) Phillips in Vancouver by Consul General of France JeanChristophe Fleury on behalf of the president of France. “I felt very honoured and very surprised,” Phillips said Friday of the distinction. June 6 marks 70 years since Allied troops ❝They opened landed along fire on me, so 80 kilometres I knew I was of beaches in on the airport Normandy. Phillips, 91, all right. So I remembers just dropped my he was flying two 500-pound south of bombs and got the beach out of there… ❞ head that night, as an intruder pilot with the RCAF 418 Squadron. His target: an airport at the city of Rennes.
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A White Rock councillor says he will not let a city strike stop him – again – from doing his civic duties. Grant Meyer said Monday he would cross the CUPE 402-01 picket line outside city hall to attend the evening’s council meeting – where he planned to give notice of a motion suggesting a possible rebate to residents, should the city realize savings from the job action. Meyer was the sole councillor to miss the May 12 meeting because he would not cross the picket line. He said at the time that, as a unionized BC Ferries worker, he had to respect CUPE’s picket. Monday, he told Peace Arch News he has a job to do. “I’d rather not cross picket lines, but it kind of backs me into a corner,” Meyer said, describing it as an “awkward situation.” “That’s my obligation.” City employees launched a fullscale strike on May 12. While city bylaws are being enforced, services such as garbage, green waste and recycling pickup are on hold. i see page 4
Province of B.C. photo
South Surrey veteran John (Jack) Phillips is thanked by Consul General of France Jean-Christophe Fleury. “I was doing a patrol time down there, (with) a couple of 500-pound bombs, to try and place them on the airport and hopefully put it out of commission,” he said.
“It was actually pitch dark when I was there, I actually couldn’t see the airport at all. But I made an attack as close to the airport as I could make out. “As soon as I started my attack,
they opened fire on me, so I knew I was on the airport all right. So I just dropped my two 500-pound bombs and got out of there as quickly as I could.” i see page 4
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