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February 26, 2015 (Vol. 40 No. 17)
Pet project: Four-legged friends are helping ping ost students like Katie Kim boost their reading skills, during weekly Dog Tales sessions at Semiahmoo Library. i see page 11
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Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
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Janet Olson outside court Tuesday.
A former South Surrey woman who admitted to stealing dogs has been told she will receive a 90-day conditional sentence. Janet Olson, 61, learned of her impending penalty Tuesday morning in Surrey Provincial Court. While happy her punishment is to be what she considers “a fair sentence,” Olson said if she could go back in time, she wouldn’t change a thing. “Yes. These dogs were suffering,” Olson told reporters outside court. Judge Melissa Gillespie adjourned the imposition of sentencing – delaying actual sentencing until next month, after Olson is to return from a family reunion in Toronto – following submissions from Crown Michelle Wray and defence counsel Craig Sicotte last month. At that time, in an agreed statement of facts, Olson acknowledged she tried to take a dog
from a residence in Chilliwack in 2009, took a of Olson’s that police seized. The statements, dog from a home in Richmond in 2010 and was she said, make it clear Olson knew she was in the process of stealing a bulldog in Coquitlam stealing dogs, had planned each theft extenwhen she was arrested in November 2011. sively and was aware of potential consequences. In the months that followed, dozens of dogIn one entry, written after the Chilliwack theft-related charges mounted against the incident, Olson writes, “If the police caught me, retired Air Canada pilot. I was at risk of losing my organizaOlson told the court last month ❝No matter how noble tion and my job.” she believed that rather than break- the cause is, the law Other entries include details of ing the law, she was acting to enforce using fake licence plates to avoid must be obeyed.❞ existing animal-protection laws. having her vehicle linked to the While Gillespie accepted Olson Judge Melissa Gillespie crimes; carrying out the so-called was passionate, she did not accept rescues at night to further avoid her logic for justifying her crimes. detection; and parking her van so that it looked “No matter how noble the cause is, the law like she was visiting a neighbour, but was “close must be obeyed,” Gillespie said in her reasons enough to make a fast escape.” for sentence. “While Miss Olson’s actions may Olson also wrote, “’Aside from stealing other have been noble, the manner in which she car- people’s dogs, I’m a very honest and upstanding ried them out were illegal.” citizen’,” Gillespie quoted. i see page 4 Several times, Gillespie quoted from a journal
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John Bogert plays the flugelhorn with the Elgin Park Secondary Grade 11 jazz band at the 33rd-annual Envision Financial Jazz Festival at Sullivan Heights Secondary last Saturday. The three-day event involved more than 2,000 high school students from the Surrey School District and beyond. See page 21.
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Surrey council has thrown its support behind efforts to slow the speed of freight trains travelling along the Crescent Beach waterfront. Council voted unanimously Monday to endorse a motion by Coun. Judy Villeneuve and Mayor Linda Hepner calling for an extension of the restricted-speed zone that applies to the Nicomekl swing bridge. If supported by railway owner BNSF and Transport Canada, it would reduce speeds along the stretch of track that runs south from the bridge to the 24 Avenue stairs, to 10 miles per hour from 30. Villeneuve described the motion as “a great tool for people to use as we advocate for change.” “It gives us one more tool to say we’re committed as a council and a community to working on this issue,” she told Peace Arch News Wednesday. i see page 4
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