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The Year in Pictures Cloverdale’s Sandra Hemelspeck is greeted by a cloud of coloured powder at the finish line of the Color Me Rad 5K run at Holland Park in May (top left); Cloverdale’s Karen Wilkie returns to stock car racing after a 10-year pit stop; Classics on Main – featuring performers from the ninth annual Reformed String Camp for youth – bring the concert hall to the street corner in July with a series of afternoon performances; Cloverdale-Langley City candidates Rebecca Smith (NDP), John Aldag (L) and Dean Drysdale (C) answer questions from the floor at a federal all-candidates’ forum in Langley in October; Cloverdale couple and hockey fans Kevin Holbeche and Michelle Shimizu get married at centre ice with a hockey-themed wedding; getting muddy at the Rugged Maniac Obstacle race; and at right, Sadie Beukers, 4, giggles as she checks out three-year-old standardbred Buddy Weiser during Backstretch Day at Fraser Downs. See page 3 for our look at the year’s local headlines. PHOTOS BY BOAZ JOSEPH, LESLIE MCKELLAR,

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MarketPlace IGA in Cloverdale closes after 19 years as the anchor store at Clover Square Village, leaving downtown residents who don’t drive without a full-service grocery store. A replacement is in the wings but there will be a gap in service for months.

June Members of the Vancouver Lego Club use one million plastic bricks to portray 20 millennia of Fraser Val-

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July Colin Hill, a 42-year old Cloverdale father is killed by an intruder police say attempted to break into his home.

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Legion announces plans to renovate and upgrade Branch 6 after receiving word of a $152,000 federal grant through the federal Canada 150 Community Infrastructure program. Overall, the modernization project has a budget of $310,000.

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All non-profit organizations can email their special events to newsroom@cloverdalereporter.com EVENTS 18TH ANNUAL WINTER ICE PALACE The Cloverdale Arena, 6090 176 Street, will be transformed into the Winter Ice Palace again, over winter break. Come and join in the fun. This is a very popular event that the whole family can enjoy. Admission is $4:50, but skate and helmet rentals are additional. Open Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Call 604-502-6410. Running daily (hours vary) to Sunday, Jan. 3. TREE CHIP AND BOTTLE DRIVE A tree chip and bottle drive is planned at Cloverdale Athletic Park Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016 to support the Surrey United Soccer Association. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. TREE CHIPPING AND BOTTLE DRIVE The 6th annual Adams Road Elementary tree chipping and bottle drive event is Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the school, 18228 68 Ave.. Get 2016 off to a fresh start by turning that tree into mulch, by donation, and cleaning out those stinky bottles and cans. Donate and get free Langley Rivermen tickets while supplies last or BOGO brunch vouchers for Moxies Langley. We also pick up: email adamsroadpac@hotmail.com before the day to request tree or bottle pickup. Provide your name, address and two-hour window. TREE CHIPPING/BOTTLE DRIVE Cloverdale Catholic Elementary School is raising funds to update their classroom lighting and move towards more energy efficient, greener fixtures. To support the initiative, the school hosts a tree chipping and bottle drive event Saturday, Jan. 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 17511 59 Ave. Suggested donation $5/tree. SURREY FIREFIGHTERS TREE CHIP Surrey Firefighters present a tree chip Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Newton Athletic Park, 7395 128 Street. All proceeds go to the Surrey Firefighters Charitable Foundation; 100 per cent of all money is used for programs within the City of Surrey. OLD TIME DANCE Surrey Old Time Fiddlers host an Old Time Dance, Thursday, Jan. 7 at Clayton Hall, 18513 70 Ave., Surrey, 1/2 block north of Fraser Hwy on 184 St. From 7:30-10 p.m., admission $4. Call 604-576-1066 for more information. ANNOUNCEMENTS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Cloverdale Better at Home is looking for Volunteers to take senior clients out grocery shopping once or twice a month. Mileage paid. For more information, info-referral@comeshare. ca or call 604-531-9400 Ext 204. CLUBS/GROUPS FOOD PROBLEM? Is food a problem for you? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you go on eating binges? Is your weight affecting your life? Overeaters Anonymous offers help. No fees, no dues, no weigh-ins, no diets. We are a fellowship. We meet every Thursday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Cloverdale United Church basement, 17575-58A Ave., Cloverdale. Everyone welcome. TOPS TOPS – Take Off Pounds Sensibly – meets at 7 p.m. every Wednesday at the Cloverdale Library, 5642, 176A Street, Surrey, in the upstairs meeting room. For more information, phone LInda at 604-462-9326. CLOVERDALE SENIOR’S STAMP CLUB The Cloverdale Senior’s Stamp Club meets on the second and fourth Mondays of the month at 1 p.m., at the Cloverdale Recreation Centre, 6188 176 Street. Beginner and advanced collectors welcome. For more information, contact John at 604-574-3182.

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Susie Francis and The Versatiles sing in their performance of ‘A Christmas Gift: Let it Show’ on Dec. 6 at the Cloverdale Legion. The Cloverdale-based troupe of golden-aged performers was formed in 2005.

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Paying it forward and ‘No’ to LRT Cadets grateful To the editor; In this season of giving, we were the grateful benefactors of some community donations for our 2277 Seaforth Highlanders Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps Langley annual recreation of the 1943 Ortona Dinner (“Cadets Dine on Scrounged Food,” Dec. 23). Our cadets eat the same Christmas meal that Canadian soldiers ate during that Second World War battle in Italy. DeLorme Food Services Inc. donated all the roast pork, Langley A&W owner Nick Nurancy donated all the root beer (which cadets got instead of the beer that the soldiers had!), and Ryan at Save-On Walnut Grove who donated potatoes, cauliflower, and oranges. Royal Canadian Legion Cloverdale Branch 6 graciously allowed 2277 Corps to use their kitchen and the dining area for the annual Ortona Dinner. We had a great group of parents who spent all day preparing and cooking the dinner in the kitchen. It was a lot of work, but also a lot of fun to get to know each other a bit better. The officers

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donated their time to serve the cadets, just like the officers did in 1943. Our Parent Sponsoring Committee paid all this kindness forward by making arrangements with Willow Addictions to pick up all the leftovers, which they then served to those in need in Langley the next day. A big thank you to everyone! Belinda Burke Director Auxiliary

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SkyTrain is best Now that funding is in sight, the City of Surrey should focus on SkyTrain extension from King George to Langley. I simply don’t understand why the City of Surrey is insisting on LRT instead of SkyTrain extension to Langley and Newton. LRT will increase congestion on

already congested streets. SkyTrain will encourage thousands of drivers to leave their cars. That will increase fare revenue for TransLink. SkyTrain saves travel time. The value of time-savings and additional revenue is worth billions of dollars as the rapid transit systems last for a long time. Thus SkyTrain system is much cheaper than LRT. The Paris and London underground systems are about 150 years old. Even Toronto’s subway is 60 years old. By reducing the number of cars on the road, the SkyTrain will also help the environment. All other cities in Metro have SkyTrain systems. Even the Broadway-UBC link is being proposed as a SkyTrain or subway line. How bad at-grade LRT could be? Just watch the Destroyed in Seconds Houston Metro Rail video on YouTube. There were a record of 62 accidents in just one year. Building LRT on already busy 104 Avenue between Surrey Centre and Guildford Centre will just be suicidal. Kuldip Pelia Cloverdalereporter.com

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Ferry deal BC Ferries and the BC Ferry and Marine Workers’ Union have ratified a five-year agreement that provides for wage increases of 8.55 per cent by its expiry in October 2020. BC Ferries CEO Mike Corrigan described the wage and benefit provisions of the new contract as “fair and modest,” noting that the latest agree-

ment means the coastal ferry service will have gone 17 years without a labour dispute affecting its operations. The agreement, ratified by members after it was endorsed by the union executive in October, provides average pay increases of 1.71 per cent per year. There are about 3,500 union members working for BC Ferries.

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By Jennifer Lang It’s an environmentally-friendly and convenient way to start off the new year: taking your Christmas tree to get chipped, instead of consigning it to the dustbin, where it will eventually wind up in a landfill. Residents of Cloverdale have plenty of options nearby. There are a number of local tree chipping events planned after the holidays, and they’re all in support of worthwhile causes. • Adams Road Elementary hosts its sixth annual tree chipping and bottle drive Saturday, Jan. 2 (10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.) at the school, 18228 68 Avenue. It’s by donation. There will be Langley River-

Jan. 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Newton Athletic Park, 7395 128 Street. All proceeds go to the

The Surrey School District has chosen April 18 as its second extra Professional Development day to review the new B.C. curriculum. The provincial government has mandated school districts schedule two additional pro-d days into this year to familiarize school staff on the curriculum. Surrey held its first extra day on Nov. 12. Normally the district has six professional development days in the year, not eight.

by Oct. 1, a gain of less than one per cent from the same time last year. The province’s population growth rate was down to 0.8 per cent by the third quarter of 2015, Central 1 Credit Union reports in its latest B.C. Economic Briefing. Net international migration was the main reason for the slowdown, with 11,100 international arrivals during what is usually the highest period of the year for immigration gains. Within Canada, interprovincial migration climbed to nearly 5,000 in the third quarter of 2015, as people returned home to a relatively buoyant B.C. economy from provinces hit by slumping oil prices, notably Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland. While permanent international resident arrivals were slower, international tourism demand climbed to more than 400,000 people by October, due mainly to U.S. visitors taking advantage of a lower Canadian dollar.

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Surrey Firefighters Charitable Foundation; 100 per cent of all money is used for programs within the City of Surrey. • Cloverdale Catholic School is raising funds to update their classroom lighting and move towards more energy efficient, greener fixtures. To support the initiative, the school hosts a tree chipping and bottle drive event Saturday, Jan. 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 17511 59 Ave. There’s a suggested donation of $5/tree. • The Surrey Soccer Association is offering tree chipping by donation at Cloverdale Athletic Park Saturday, Jan. 2 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. They are also having a bottle drive.

works contract for the Site C dam on the Peace River, for an eight-year project expected to cost $1.75 billion and generate 8,000 person-years of employment. The contract is with Peace River Hydro Partners, made up of Petrowest Corp. of Calgary, ACCIONA Infrastructure Canada, a division of a Spanish construction firm, and Samsung C&T Canada Ltd., a division of the Korean engineering and electronics company. The contract covers construction of the earth-fill dam, two diversion tunnels and a concrete foundation for the generating station and spillways. Site preparation work is underway for the third dam on the Peace River near Fort St. John, and a work camp capable of hosting up to 1,500 workers is under construction. NDP leader John Horgan and B.C. Federation of Labour president Irene Lanzinger both denounced the lack of job guarantees for B.C. workers in the contract. BC Hydro says three quarters of the workers currently on the site are from B.C.

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Rival schools unite in a spirit of generosity By Jennifer Lang Two high schools, one long-lasting rivalry, and a local charity that needs their help. The challenge? To see which school could collect the most donations of non-perishable food items and cash for Cloverdale’s less fortunate. This year, let’s just say Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary School’s student council co-presidents are good sports (they agreed to visit the winning school and pose for photos wearing Clayton Heights Secondary School gear) and the big winner is the Cloverdale Christmas Hamper Program. Clayton Heights won this year’s challenge, raising $856 in cash and collecting 9,015 items, with Lord Tweedsmuir raising $1,900 in cash, and collecting 3,500 donations. “We’re so proud of our schools, because the students and teachers really pulled together this year, and were able to give back to Cloverdale much more than previous years,”

council member Emily Markwart. Both schools have been busy with other community-minded efforts; for example, in addition to Tweedsmuir’s food drive, the school’s Girl’s Leadership group raised 2,400 in donated items for homeless shelter care packages.

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LTS student council co-presidents wear Clayton Heights gear while posing with Clayton Heights student leaders. From left: Alan Wu, Aly Nuruddin, Claire McCallum, Emily Markwart, Hannah Hollander, and Taylor Mackie. Right, donation boxes bound for the Cloverdale Christmas Hamper program.

said Hannah Hollander, co-student council president at LTS. “It’s great to see the positive impact we can have on our local community.”

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challenge with Lord Tweedsmuir has been running for five years. “They came through this year, they really did,” added executive

Not to be outdone, in November, LTS’s Power of One leadership group for boys in grades 9-12 served at a soup kitchen in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. At Harbour Light Soup Kitchen, they served food, washed dishes, collected plates, and scraped dishes. “It was a fast-paced, hour and a half shift serving over 380 people,” said Alan Wu, student council co-president and Power of One member. “We got to see the streets of the Eastside, and talk to some of the people there,” he said. “It sure was an eye-opener and makes you look at life in a different perspective.”

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Homegrown fundraiser helps homeless teens By Jennifer Lang Cloverdale’s Kristin McMahon is only 11, but she can imagine how difficult life would be if she was a former foster child facing life as an adult. She’d been hearing about recent headlines involving youth aging out of foster care – the system considers them adults at 19, when they graduate from the child welfare system, although it’s a difficult time of transition for youth lacking stable parental and family

supports. “As we looked into this more, she said to me, ‘Imagine if I was 18 and you kicked me out? What would I do? Where would I go? How would I eat?” her mother Sonja Warwick-McMahon recalls her asking. For three years now, the McMahons have hosted an annual fundraiser open house, with Kristin choosing the charity. This year, Kristin chose Covenant House, an organization with

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an outreach program where teams visit the streets of Vancouver to make contact with homeless and street youth, offering food, clothing, counselling and service referrals. There’s also a walk-in support centre, residential crisis shelter, and a transitional supportive housing program. The organization is 95 per cent privately funded through individuals, corporations, foundations, schools and community groups. The McMahons

invited friends, 500 and 1,000 relatives, and homeless youth living neighbours to their gathon Vancouering, where ver’s streets. they shared Many of them information are runaways; with guests. there are more They also set than 10,000 up a donation runaways repage on the ported in B.C. Covenant Donations bound for each year. House website, Covenant House About 700 and collected former foster household children age items for the cause, out of the child welfare dropping off the items system annually, and an before Christmas. estimated 40 per cent Covenant House of homeless were in the says there are between foster system.

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Giants looking good at mid-season By Rick Kupchuk The first half of the 72-game regular season began well and ended well for the Vancouver Giants. The first three weeks of the regular season saw the Giants get off to a 4-3-2 (win-loss-overtime loss) start to the season, earning points at a rate which would ensure the Western Hockey League team would qualify for the playoffs. The three weeks just prior to the holiday break were even better, as they went 7-3-1. It was a disastrous seven-week stretch from mid-October to late November, which saw the team go 1-13-2, that has put the Giants in the hole they will need to climb out of over the final half of the season. Vancouver is 12-19-5 after 36 games, the halfway point of the regular season. They are last in Western Conference standings, but need to overtake just two rivals in order to climb into the top eight and participate in the playoffs. And if they can maintain their level of play over the first three weeks of December, they should be able to reach the postseason. A much-improved defensive record is behind much of their success over the past 11 games. After giving up an average of 4.08 goals against per game in the first 25 games of the season, they have lowered that figure to 2.28 over the next 11.

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Goaltender Ryan Kubic is one of the reasons why. The 17-yearold appeared in just 10 of Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first 25 games of the season, losing all eight decisions (0-7-1). In the past 11 games, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s started all 11, going 7-2-1. His goals against average has dropped from 2.28 over the first two months of the season to 1.85 during the recent streak. A save percentage of .878 has improved considerably, as Kubic posted a .937 mark, with three shutouts, over the most recent three weeks. Matt Barberis has been contributing offensively all season, but his defensive numbers have improved considerably in the past month. The White Rock native is quietly putting together a solid rookie season, leading all Giants defencemen in scoring with five goals and 13 assists. But while he was a a-13 through the first 25 games of the season,

heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a plus-4 in the past 11. Veteran Chase Lang, 19, and rookie Tyler Benson have stepped up their offensive production during the recent run. Lang, who had three goals in 14 games with the Giants following his trade to Vancouver from Calgary in late October, has eight in his past 11. Benson, a 17-yearold projected to be a potential first round pick in next sumerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Hockey League Entry Draft, has four goals and 12 assists in the recent run, after totaling just nine appoints in the previous 15 games. The Giants will likely need to play .500 hock-

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Blue Lines The Giants will have nine prospects playing in the Macâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Midget AAA Tournament in Calgary this week. The tournament, which began Saturday (Dec. 26) and runs through to Friday (Jan. 1). Three prospects are with the Yorkton Maulers. They include defenceman Kaleb Bulych, a 2015 second round draft pick, and forwards Kaeden Taphorn (2015 third round selection) and Tristyn DeRoose.

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