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Rasode makes run official City councillor joins race to become Surrey’s next mayor By Kevin Diakiw Rasode wheeled out some big guns of all political colours in makSurrounded by icons of every ing her announcement at the atrium political stripe, Coun. Barinder of Simon Fraser University. Rasode declared her intention to Three main speakers were inbecome Surrey’s mayor. troduced by MC Bob Amid splashes of Campbell, the president navy and pink, Rasode of the West Panorama portrayed herself in Ridge Ratepayers As“Surrey has big front of a crowd of sociation. more than 200 people shoes to fi ll. ” Among them were as a fierce mom ready to former Conservabring battle to the civic tive Senator Gerry St. front, (her podium said, - Gerry St. Germain who spoke in “One Tough Mother”) Germain support of Rasode in as she announced Sather bid for the mayor’s urday that she’s adding chair. her name to the list of He told the crowd people vying for the centre chair Surrey has big shoes to fill – Dianne this November. Watts was a great mayor. She is competing for the mayor’s There are three good candidates, chair against former Surrey mayor he said, but politics is about choices, Doug McCallum, Surrey First Coun. Linda Hepner and Surrey See OUR CITY / Page 2 businessman Vikram Bajwa.
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Warrant Officer Emma Lukas presents a rose – one of 95 roses given by Seaforth Highlander Army Cadets to Dorothy DeLorme on her 95th birthday last week. DeLorme is the widow of Jack DeLorme, who fought at the Second World War battle of Ortona, Italy, remembered annually by Seaforth Highlander regiments, and the 2812 Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps, which has a long-standing relationship with the DeLorme family of Surrey. Dorothy attends formal functions as a patron guest of the Corps.
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Watts to run for federal Conservatives By Kevin Diakiw In what is perhaps a surprise to no one, Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts will be running for the federal Conservatives in South Surrey. The popular three-term mayor will be running in the riding of South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale (which will be renamed South Surrey-White Rock in a redistribution before the 2015 election) for the federal Conservatives. The riding has been a right-wing stronghold since the early 1970s, with current Tory MP Russ Hiebert announcing in February he would not be running for a fifth term. Watts describes herself as a small “c” Conservative with a well-developed social conscience. She said she was not offered, nor did she ask for, a cabinet post to run
for the Conservatives. The number-one issue she sees for the riding is rail safety: slope stabilizations issues, blockages of traffic by rail and a trestle bridge in dire need of repair. “That would be the one significant issue,” Watts said, adding the City of Surrey has identified about five areas where the White Rock and South Surrey BNSF railway track could be relocated. “If I’m elected, I will certainly be working very closely with the city in terms of the work that’s been undertaken,” Watts said. Added to her list of issues is truck traffic. “We have the second-largest border crossing in the country,” Watts said. “We have almost a million trucks going back and forth across the truck crossing each and every year.”
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That has a significant impact on roads and communities, she said. The 16 Avenue off-ramp is complete, but Watts said more work needs to be done. She
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For most Cloverdale voters, the 2015 federal race in newly-redistributed South SurreyWhite Rock will be outside of their new riding of Cloverdale-Langley City. Like South Surrey and White Rock, it’s considered secure turf for the Conservatives, even though there is no incumbent seeking a return to Ottawa. Five declared Conservative candidates are vying for their party’s nomination in the newlyconstituted electoral area: Paul Brar, who’s the manager of a Newton banquet hall; former Langley City councillor Dean Drysdale; former B.C. Liberal MLA Dave Hayer; Mike Garisto, a life insurance salesman; and former Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal. The Cloverdale-Langley City Conservative Association is expected to select their candidate soon. Langley resident John Aldag, who works for Parks Canada and is a father of three, is the Liberal Party of Canada’s candidate in Cloverdale-Langley City.
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