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Ride to benefit cancer care at Delta Hospital

Ride to benefit cancer care at Delta Hospital

Tsawwassen's Bruce Fougner is going on a 13-day, 1,500-kilometre cycling trip to raise money for cancer care at Delta Hospital. Fougner, a Delta Hospital Foundation board director, will depart for Calgary next Tuesday.

Tour de Delta this weekend

More than 200 cyclists from around North America and across the globe are poised to converge on the Lower Mainland for B.C. Superweek, which begins this weekend with the Tour de Delta.

Big fight breaks out at engagement party

The purpose of the Crime Beat is to educate and inform the public about some of the property crime trends occurring in South Delta and other files of interest.

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Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday

The Optimist is taking a step back in time each week with Throwback Thursday. We’ll dig up an interesting item from the pages of the paper’s back issues and post it online. This week we go back to 1990.
Delta summer school cancelled

Delta summer school cancelled

Summer school has been cancelled, the Delta school district announced Thursday. "All academic courses that were scheduled to run this summer are cancelled," school superintendent Dianne Turner wrote in a letter posted on the district's website.
Delta residents named to Order of Canada

Delta residents named to Order of Canada

Kim Baird and Dorothy Grant were among a dozen B.C. appointments announced this week
PHOTOS: South Delta celebrates Canada Day

PHOTOS: South Delta celebrates Canada Day

South Delta was host to a plethora of Canada Day celebrations July 1. The Delta Museum and Archives hosted its annual festivities in Ladner, while the Tsawwassen Boundary Bay Lions Club marked the occasion at Diefenbaker Park in Tsawwassen.
Feds & province both have important coal role: report

Feds & province both have important coal role: report

Surrey Fraser Docks plan going through review by Port Metro Vancouver

Worker dies after apparent fall

A Vancouver man is dead after an apparent fall at a construction site in the Tilbury industrial area last week. Delta police spokesperson Sgt.