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December 26, 2014 (Vol. 39 No. o. 103)
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Show and tell: Residents of Evergreen Baptist Campus mpus of Care – dubbed the Evergreen Players layers – shared their path to unlocking memories, mories, and creating original stories, through ugh a lively production enjoyed by family and d friends. i see page 11
Memorial service offers comfort to youth who might blame themselves for friend’s violent death
Your love never failed Dario: pastor Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
Memories of a life cut short at 15 years of age flashed across a screen at Peace Portal Alliance Church Saturday, where hundreds of people, many of them teenagers themselves, gathered to pay tribute to Dario Bartoli. As the sanctuary filled with song – including live renditions of Judy Garland’s Somewhere Over the Rainbow, The Band Perry’s If I Die Young and Eric Clapton’s Tears in Heaven – the screen filled over and over again with moments captured at birthday celebrations, Christmas and on vacation; as Bartoli practised Dario Bartoli skateboarding remembered or rode his BMX with friends, played in the pool and posed in Halloween costumes… The love- and laughter-filled images were a stark contrast to the violent manner in which Bartoli died. He succumbed in Peace Arch Hospital on Dec. 13, just hours after he was attacked in or near Bakerview Park in South Surrey. Two days later, police said early indications supported the theory that it was an “alcohol-fuelled altercation between two groups that turned tragic.” i see page 4
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Youth gather at South Surrey Skate Park Saturday night to release lanterns in a tribute to popular teen Dario Bartoli, who was killed on Dec. 13.
Citywide rules take effect after 4-3 council vote
Tree-cutting rules branch out in White Rock Sarah Massah Staff Reporter
White Rock tree-preservation proponents can breathe easier, after city leaders voted last week to approve bylaw amendments that would require all residents to apply for a permit before taking down a tree. However, not all councillors were in favour of the amendments, which put a moratorium on tree removal in the city until a 20-year
Urban Forest Management Plan for future tree removal on private and public lands receives public consultation in the new year. Coun. Megan Knight, who voted against the amendments Thursday evening at a special council meeting, said that her concerns focused on the timeline of the amendments. She noted that the turnaround was quick and that residents should have more “time and transparency” before the amendments
went through. By a 4-3 vote, council voted to amend its tree-management bylaw, 1831, to include “protected trees within the municipal boundaries of the City of White Rock” in place of “designated areas” as per a map. According to the bylaw, protected trees include those that have a trunk diameter at breast height (DBH) greater than 30 centimetres, or has a combined DBH of its three
largest trunks greater than 30 centimetres. According to Coun. Helen Fathers, prior to the amendments, neighbours could have different rules for removing trees. “You and I could live on the same street and you could live on the east side and I would live on the west side of the street, and you would have to apply for a permit and I can just do what I like,” she explained. i see page 4
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