Lesley Rogers walks with her dogs Bo and Tally along a coulee ridge as sundogs hang in the sky at opposite sides of the sun Monday morning over the Scenic Drive dog run area. The weather phenomenon, known by its scientific name as parhelia, occurs when light from the sun refracts through ice crystals suspended in the sky. Herald photo by Ian Martens
SURREY, B.C. - The Olympic torch relay made its way Monday through the Vancouver-area community of Surrey, home to one of the largest Indo-Canadian populations in the country, as it enters the final days of its coast-to-coast tour of Canada.
City council is convinced it has the legal hammer to force the demolition of the Atrium Building — a perennial downtown eyesore — unless the B.C. owner decides to do something with it soon. Council members unanimously approved a resolution Monday which directs City Solicitor Doug Hudson to take the necessary steps to have the aging eyesore in the 300 block of 7 Street South demolished at the owner’s expense. Armed with that mandate, Hudson is to contact officials with the numbered company in Abbotsford, B.C. that owns the property and deliver what amounts to an ultimatum: dev
Jim Whitelaw is welcome to “talk my leg off” any time he wants. On Monday, I settled down at my desk and read a handwritten letter from the former LCI football and basketball head coach. He ran the Rams for 29 years while teaching physical education at the school
