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FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2010

❚NHL FINALS

Local boys hoist the Cup Tom ZILLICH

Staff Reporter

A pair of hockey players who learned the game on local sheets of ice hoisted the Stanley Cup on Wednesday night. North Delta-raised Troy Brouwer and Surrey’s Colin Fraser are forwards on the NHL-champ Chicago Blackhawks. It’s a rare accomplishment for hockey players from the South Fraser area. Significantly, two others on the Blackhawks team – Andrew Ladd of Maple Ridge and Tsawwassen’s Brent Seabrook – also hail from the Lower Mainland, and a fifth cup winner, Duncan Keith, was raised in Penticton. For Brouwer, the Stanley Cup run happened while his dad, Don, recovered from brain surgery to relieve a blood clot. Minutes after the Blackhawks win in Philadelphia, Brouwer gave a shout-out to his ailing father. “Hey dad, I know you’re real proud of me, and I just want to say I’m real proud of you as well,” he told a CBC interviewer while standing on the ice. “Thank you for all your support, and I’m going to bring home a little silver cup that we’re going to party with this summer.” Earlier in the playoffs, Brouwer helped the Blackhawks eliminate Vancouver Canucks by scoring the opening goal during what proved to be the home team’s final game of the season. Fraser’s ice time during the playoffs was limited to three first-round games against the Nashville Predators. Vancouver-born Brouwer was drafted by the Blackhawks in the seventh round of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, after playing his minor hockey in North Delta. A framed jersey of his hangs at the Sungod rink. Fraser, meanwhile, was drafted in the third round, 69th overall, by Philadelphia Flyers, who later traded him to Chicago. Back in the mid-1990s, Surrey-born Bob Rouse, a defenseman, helped Detroit Red Wings to a pair of Stanley Cup wins. tzillich@thenownewspaper.com

Colin Fraser from Surrey may be bringing the Stanley Cup home this summer.

❚CRIME IN CLAYTON HEIGHTS

SURREY NEIGHBOURS STAND BY THEIR ‘HOOD’ Certain unease creeps into new Surrey neighbourhood after recent violence but residents – even one with a bullet hole in her home – are standing firm

Bawa Singh Hoonjan: “It’s really safe.”

Joel Brenz: Clayton Heights has “too much anonymity.”

Story TOM ZYTARUK Photos TED COLLEY

SURREY – Clayton Heights ain’t so bad. Just ask the resident whose next-door neighbour was shot when he answered a knock at his front door earlier this week. Despite a bullet having hit her house, the woman, who declined to give her name or have her photo taken, insists she feels safe. “I’m not planning on moving,” she said. “We love this neighbourhood, and that hasn’t changed.” “I’ve lived other places and things happened there as well.” The woman moved to the ever-growing Clayton area in February, from an acreage in Langley. “I’m still happy to be here,” she said, despite

Tuesday’s shooting. She declined to comment on her immediate neighbours but the neighbourhood itself, she said, “is a wonderful place.” Her neighbour was shot in the leg and stomach when he answered his door Tuesday afternoon. The shooting happened in the 19000-block of 68th Avenue. A man was seen running from the scene then getting away in a jeep, which police later located. They arrested a “person of interest,” but at press time were still looking for the shooter and no charges had yet been laid. The victim, meanwhile, remains in hospital, in serious condition. Police say this is a “targeted” shooting but at press time were unable to say if it was gang related or had anything to do with organized crime.

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