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SCDC: It’s complicated Plans progress slowly for Cloverdale Mall development By Jennifer Lang former dry cleaner was discovered, ushering in remediation efforts even For five years and counting, it’s as site servicing work got underway, been the number-one question leading to a sense of frustration in for residents and businesses alike: the historic town centre. what’s happening with Ongoing remediation the Cloverdale Mall site? eff orts to clean up soil About 30 people “They inherited a contamination have turned out for last week’s delayed the project, but update on Cloverdale whole bunch of SCDC officials are optiWest Village, where mistic progress is being problems. ” Surrey City Developmade and that two ment Corp. officials and - Coun. Dave phases will be completbusiness leaders struck ed within five years. Woods a conciliatory-sounding “This has been a very tone for the most part. complex site,” Coun. The dilapidated mall Dave Woods said at a was torn down in 2011 in order to Nov. 17 meeting at the Cloverdale redevelop the former City of Surrey Legion, called after last month’s property in phases as a blend of open house was sparsely attended. commercial and residential units “They inherited a whole bunch of called Cloverdale West Village. problems.” Those plans stalled when enviSee SCDC / Page 3 ronmental contamination from a
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By Jennifer Lang In acting terms, Morgan Misic is what you might call a quadruple threat. She can act, sing, dance, and she knows how to swashbuckle. So when the script calls for all those considerable stage skills plus sword fighting (not to mention a certain finesse with a sea shanty), she’s your gal. Which is why it makes perfect sense that the Cloverdale resident is currently starring in Capilano Theatre’s production of Treasure Island, a comedy running to Nov. 28 at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts at Capilano University in North Vancouver. “I’m really excited,” she told the Reporter just hours before the preview was set to take the stage. In doing so, the production
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Jenna Prem spends all proceeds of her baking campaign to buy presents for kids in hospice.
ply of customers, pumping all of the profits into Christmas gifts for kids at Canuck Place. She also uses the profits to buy restaurant and other gift cards for parents. This year, 140 trays were ordered. “I love doing my bake sale,” Jenna writes on her new website, Caring for Canuck Kids. “It has grown so much over the years, and I hope it gets bigger and bigger every year.” She once had a schoolmate who stayed at Canuck Place for end of life
Laughs, blood and parrots “It’s very comedic,” she says. “There’s lots of laughs. There’s blood spurting, parrots flying around.” Exit 22’s production is the second of two fall plays launched this fall by third year students in the acting for stage and screen program at Cap. The other was The Rocky Horror Picture Show. When they were holding auditions for Treasure Island, Misic drew on her recently-acquired sword-fighting skills – honed last year at school thanks to a class on sword-fighting. Surprisingly, for Misic the toughest part has been embodying a younger character. “I’m 19 and Jim’s probably only about 12 or 13, so it’s trying to revert back to that innocent state.” The character initially loses herself as she gets wrapped up
The movie previewed at The in the adventure and goes along Clova. These days, you can still with the pirates, only to remember who she is in the end. catch her and the rest of the family in some scenes. She caught the acting bug in Grade 5, when She and her brother were extras in Fantastic a movie set during the Four, and Case 39 with holidays was filmed in Jody Foster, before Cloverdale – Deck the Halls (2006), starring Misic re-focused on Matthew Broderick and school, only picking up acting again as a Grade Danny DeVito as rival 10 French Immersion neighbours who go to student at Panorama outrageous lengths to outdo one another in Ridge, playing Puck in On stage at CapU. A Midsummer Night’s the Christmas home Dream, and Alice in decoration department. The crew scoured the downAlice in Wonderland. Treasure Island continues town for extras, and her mom, Paige, brought the idea home to Nov. 25 to 28 at the BlueShore Misic and her brother. Financial Centre for Performing Arts at Capilano University. Before long, the whole family Showtime is 8 p.m. There’s also a was acting as extras, with the 2 p.m. matinee Sunday, Nov. 28. two siblings returning to the shoot for more scenes. visit www.capilanou.ca/blueshorefinancialcentre/15-Trea“That’s where I just fell in love sure-Island with the camera,” she says.
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care, and she’s witnessed first-hand how he and his family were helped through such a difficult time. Her baking trays have sold out for Christmas 2015 (no surprise) but she’s asking supporters to consider donating to Canuck Place. She’s set up a fundraising page, and all the money will go to the recreation program for children and families. She’s also accepting donations on behalf of Canuck Place of items like gift cards, new books, toys, games or craft supplies. Email her at nicp24@gmail.com. It warms her heart to know that people are learning about Canuck Place and what it does for children and families through her efforts in the kitchen. Last year, she helped raise $3,720, money she used to buy new toys and gifts for the children staying there, and their families. Her efforts have not gone unnoticed. She was invited to opening day at the Abbotsford Canuck Place, and attended a tree lighting event at Vancouver Canuck Place. Last month she was honoured as a Hammer’s Hero at a Canuck game, when she got to meet defenceman Dan Hamhuis. This year, she’s hoping to raise an additional $2,000 through her website, http:// caringforcanuckplacekids.weebly.com.
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By Jennifer Lang Cloverdale’s Jenna Prem and her mom Nicole have been hard at work in the kitchen, baking up hundreds of homemade holiday treats in a seventh-annual fundraiser for children at Canuck Place. Now 14, Jenna was just eight years old when she wanted a way to give back at Christmas time and started looking into different charities. Canuck Place Children’s Hospice grabbed her immediately, because of its heartrending mission: to offer a home near hospitals for sick and terminally-ill children and their families. Every holiday season, she seeks donations of baking supplies – flour, sugar, eggs – from local grocery stores so all of her profits can go directly to the kids. She and her mom bake three weeks straight. Last year, they turned out an impressive 800 tarts, 700 Nanaimo Bars, 800 shortbread cookies, and 800 marshmallow squares. The grandmas helped out, too; one was enlisted to bake 400 snowball cookies. The other (and a friend from church) helped Jenna bake a “whole lot” of tiger butter. The results required a borrowed, big deep freezer to store all the baking. She sells trays of treats to a steady sup-
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The province must be prudent and add space where it’s needed, long term
ive hundred more students will be coming to Surrey schools as an expected 1,000 or more Syrian refugees settle here within the next few months. Surrey is expected to take at least onethird of the 3,000 or so refugees expected in B.C. The new federal Liberal government is fast-tracking refugee claims to meet its campaign commitment to settle 25,000 Syrian refugees in Canada by the end of the year. News that Surrey schools will get another 500 students, in addition to the already-burgeoning population at schools in many fast-growing areas of Surrey, has caused the school district to take a close look at how it can cope with the added students. While it has many programs to help new students from other countries adjust, including its Welcome Centre, where settlement and multicultural workers help place students in the right settings, communications manager Doug Strachan said it does not have all the resources it needs to take on so many students. In particular, there will be a need for more language and assessment specialists. There may also be additional transportation costs, as schools that do have room may be some distance from where refugee families will actually be living. Numerous Surrey schools are already heavily overcrowded. In particular, elementary schools in three areas of the city have been hit hard with more students than they expected. The greatest pressure is in Clay-
ton, Morgan Creek and South Newton – all fast-growing areas with plenty of new housing. Surrey was expecting an additional 250 students in September. Instead, there were 950 at the doors of the district’s schools. Many of these were at schools that already have a significant number of portable classrooms and limited space to handle more students. Surrey is by far the largest school district in the province, with 70,000 students. There is much that is positive about the influx of new students. For one thing, it is an incredible learning opportunity for current students. This, and the ability to help people who have been suffering while forced to leave their homes, motivates school district staff. “What they’ve lived through is just incredible and you see them blossom athletically, academically, and really contribute,” Strachan said of the refugees. Surrey has had experience with refugee students before, but not on this scale. In the past – such as when refugees were fleeing Burma’s civil war about seven years ago – the district welcomed as many as 60 to 80 at one time. Premier Christy Clark has said the B.C. government will do all it can to help accommodate the Syrian refugees. Her government’s commitment to fully participate in this process is laudable. In the case of Surrey School District in particular, the provincial government can show leadership by making more funds available
to help the students settle in quickly. These funds could be used not just to hire teachers and educational staff, but also to ease overcrowding at schools that are already full to the limit. The province could also, in the medium term, take another look at the school district’s capital plan. Given that there were 700 more students than expected in September, and another 500 are coming through the refugee process, the school district needs many more classrooms. The province must be prudent and add space where it will be needed for the long term, so that there aren’t a large number of vacant classrooms in 20 years. However, the three areas experiencing the most growth right now do not have a large number of existing schools, and more space will be needed in all three areas in the long term. The school district has already received approval to build a new high school in Clayton, where the existing high school (and neighbouring Lord Tweedsmuir) are both well past their capacity. Some quick action in making more funds available to build schools and add classrooms would be a tangible way the provincial government can help refugee families, as well as other Surrey families affected by the overcrowding. – Frank Bucholtz is former editor of the Langley Times, a sister paper to the Reporter
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SCDC: ‘A deep commitment to make it right’ From page one
Remediation is expected to be complete in September 2016, and two developers are actively working with SCDC on development plans. The initial phase was to have housed a new hall for the Cloverdale Legion, along with new commercial and residential units, but that’s no longer the case. Instead, the Cloverdale Legion is staying put, and will soon undergo renovations that will bring it up-todate. Meanwhile, phase one partner Townline Homes has agreed to develop the southwest corner of the site as a four-storey, residential and commercial building that’s expected to break ground in 2016. The second developer is Mosaic, which is seriously looking to build on the section directly north of the Cloverdale Legion, a portion of the property that can’t be developed until remediation is complete. SCDC development manager Jaret Lang gave an overview of how remediation is progressing, before opening it up to questions from the floor. There were a number of questions about the remediation work. Some also wondered why benches, sidewalks and street lights have been installed, even though the construction phase is still some distance away. Lang said the city required SCDC as devel-
opers taking over the site to complete subdivision and site servicing, along with installing finishes like benches and lights in advance of development, Lang said. “So I know it seems a little bit silly right now, and the timing hasn’t worked out so that you aren’t actually looking at a nice development,” he said. The site – openly criticized as an eyesore by the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce and the Cloverdale BIA – recently had temporary fencing and graphics put up at SCDC’s cost, but the materials proved a poor match with recent autumn windstorms. “To be honest, I don’t think the BIA was thinking that was going to be the result of the fencing,” Cloverdale BIA president Rob Paterson said. “We were thinking it was going to be something a lot more permanent.” Lang promised a better solution for fencing the site is in the works, and that the property itself will be redeveloped. “There’s a deep commitment from SCDC to make this right,” he said. “We’re spending a lot of time and money trying to make this right. It doesn’t look like it, I know.” Paul Orazietti, executive director of the Cloverdale BIA, offered an apology on behalf of the community to SCDC. “I think your group has made some giant leaps forward to be involved in what’s prob-
ably one of the most complicated land deals in the history of an area that I’ve ever come across,” he said, adding, SCDC has been more open and cooperative.
“You can sense that there’s a lot of frustration because this land was originally at the centre of town and it’s taken a great amount of time,” he said.
Orazietti complimented Mosaic for demonstrating a level of cooperation and interest in meeting with the community, but said the BIA was disappointed
in Townline. “They’ve been in the process for quite some time and their dialogue with the community has been virtually non-existent,” he said. “We’re
working in a vacuum with them.” A current project timeline is at scdc.ca, along with an extensive description of the ongoing remediation efforts.
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Block Watch groups lauded Stolen vehicle used in mail theft spree found in Cloverdale, thanks to their reports A man Surrey RCMP describe as a prolific offender – and an alleged accomplice – have been arrested and charged for stealing mail across the city. Acting on a number of mail theft complaints involving a white Range Rover, the Surrey RCMP’s property crime target team began an extensive investigation. On Nov. 5, they were able to locate the unoccupied stolen vehicle in the area of 192 Street and 54 Avenue. The suspect driver was then arrested, with assistance from the Integrated Municipal Provincial Auto Crime Team, outside a residence in the 20100-block of Fraser Highway in Langley, Cpl. Scotty Schumann said in a release.
A female suspect was arrested during a search of the home, where police found bags of mail, IDs and tools that can be used to break and enter. Royce Heaton, a 32-year-old from Surrey, has been charged with breaking into a mailbox and possession of stolen property greater than $5,000. Emily Parsons, a 24-year-old Langley resident, has been charged with theft of a credit card. Block Watch groups were instrumental in reporting the suspect vehicle driving erratically in neighbourhoods, Schumann said. “This is an important arrest for the city, as the suspect is well known to po-
lice and considered a prolific offender,” he said. “It is arrests like this that continue to help drive down the property crime rate in Surrey. We are especially thankful to our Block Watch partners who serve as a second set of eyes and ears for the police.” Anyone with information is asked to contact the Surrey RCMP at 604-5990502 or Crimestoppers if they wish to remain anonymous at 1-800-222-TIPS or solvecrime.ca.
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Parade to light up main street
By Jennifer Lang The countdown to Christmas hits overdrive two weekends from now in Cloverdale. The 10th annual Surrey’s Santa Parade of Lights is set for Sunday, Dec. 6 (starting at 5 p.m.) in the historic downtown. Surrey’s largest evening Santa parade is really two parades in one. (Trust Cloverdale to take something special and make it truly spectacular.) The first part is a procession of lighted trucks and big rigs, including nine from Vancouver Island. Part two is a traditional community parade, featuring horse-drawn carriages, floats, boats, church groups, Men in Kilts, tow trucks, square dancers, choirs and sports teams, plus a number of antique vehicles, mascots and more. The parade supports two charities – the Surrey Food Bank and Surrey Christmas Bureau. Spectators are asked to bring along a donation to help these charities reach their campaign goals. People will be collecting items and cash donations all along the parade route. There’s an entertainment zone at Hawthorne Square (176 Street and 57A Ave.) and at 176A and 60 Ave. with vendors and music starting at 4 p.m. Grab a snack or warm up with a hot beverage, thanks to service clubs like the Cloverdale Lions and the Rotary Club of Cloverdale.
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Marilyn Herrmann of the Surrey Food Bank at last year’s parade.
SURREY’S SANTA PARADE OF LIGHTS WHEN: 5-6:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6 Pre-parade activities start at 4 p.m. WHERE: Downtown Cloverdale; starts at Cloverdale Fairgrounds, right on 177B St., south to 58 Ave., west to 176 St., south to Hwy 10. Please bring along a donation for the Surrey Food Bank and Surrey Christmas Bureau.
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Young athletes beaming from festively-lit floats are among the highlights of the 10th annual Surrey’s Santa Parade of Lights on Sunday, Dec. 6, a family-friendly event that offers plenty of community appeal.
thorne Square before the parade. A traditional tree-lighting ceremony is in the works as well. The parade starts at the corner of 176A Street and 60 Avenue, heading east to 177B Street, then south to 58 Avenue, and west to 176 Street, ending at Highway 10.
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dalebia.com. Note: The application deadline is Nov. 28. Call 604-5749802 or 604-576-3155 for more information.
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Shannon Buiboche and ‘Ferret Bueller,’ 5, wait for the critter’s photo with Santa to come out of the printer at Urban Safari Rescue Society on Nov. 22. Another petphotos-with-Santa fundraiser is Nov. 29.
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A panto with passion
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Deanne Ratzlaff as the Vegetable Fairy challenges caped villain Fleshcreep, played by Fraser Valley Gilbert and Sullivan Society veteran Dann Wilhelm, in rehearsal for Jack and the Beanstalk, presented Nov. 25-Dec. 6 at the Surrey Arts Centre. Audiences can cheer the hero, and boo the bad guys in this tale of magic, nasty villains, a good fairy, a horrible giant, a sweet princess, a cow and the biggest beanstalk ever. Retro pricing is in effect. See story page 15.
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his is what’s left of my first cook book. My mother has noted inside: “Ursula’s first Cook Book. Clarkson, Ontario. She was about 7, and spelt sugar ‘shooger’.” I can imagine her chuckling at my phonetic spelling. Thankfully both my spelling, and cooking, improved. Clearly the book was popular. It was first published in 1932, and republished in 1945. Since all the ingredients would have still been rationed when we left Britain, it must have been a Canadian purchase. On page 1, Rules for Little Cooks, instructs mini-chef to: Wash your hands. Put on your apron. Read your recipe carefully. Correct table setting is emphasized. The closing instruction is: “Sweep the kitchen and leave it in order.” Recipes include Fairy Gingerbread, Old King Cole Spinach, Circus Salad, and Penuche. Measurements and implements are all clearly sketched to compensate for the cook’s limited reading skills. *** Baking with children,
particularly for holidays, holidays stirs up priceless family memories. My son, Derek, and youngest daughter, Hilary, are both good main course cooks. Helene, my eldest daughter, prefers baking with an eye for decorating. Licking baking bowls, spoons, and Mixmaster beaters were talents honed early. Punching down newly risen bread dough was, I think, their favourite baking ‘job’. To this day all three insist that Christmas Wife Saver is a tradition. Although all are now in their own Alberta homes, Christmas Eve will find each of them layering
*** Another family tradition began when my youngest was about 8, and I was particularly broke. For $5 per person the Mormon Church was staging A Christmas Carol. I didn’t care how bad it was, we
Looking for the puurfect gift for the animal lover in your life? Bring your furry, scaly, feathery friends to Urban Safari Rescue Society to get professional photos taken with Santa Claus this Sunday, Nov. 29 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1395 176 St. Every pet will receive a digital copy of the best photo taken, and one 5x7 print. By donation (minimum $15 suggested). All money raised goes toward the care of more than 350 rescues and abandoned exotic animals, from spiders and turtles to iguanas, frogs, and snakes. Help make this Christmas a cozy one for all creatures, great and small. On Urban Safari’s website, there’s a wish list for its animals and educational programs. Currently topping the list are: building materials such as lumber, plywood, windows, rebar and wire mesh and concrete to create a floor for the classroom; landscaping plants; hay and straw for bedding and feed; a van in good working condition; a utility trailer; refrigerator and/or cooler in good working condition; chicken scratch; and cat litter. Urban Safari Rescue Society is located at 1395 176 Street in South Surrey. Donate online at urbansafari.ca. For information, call 604-5311100, or email info@urbansafari.com. – Cloverdale Reporter
Santa’s postal code is no joke Wish lists, pictures and drawings, funny jokes and favourite games – these are a few of the things kids write about in their letters to Santa. Every year, Jolly Old Saint Nick receives more than a million letters from children in Canada and around the world. The amazing thing is, according to Canada Post, every letter is read – and every letter Drop him a line, kids is answered. More than 6,000 Canada Post volunteers – staff and retirees – help Santa out. Letters are answered in the language the letter was written, including Braille. Address letters to: Santa Claus, North Pole, Canada, H0H 0H0. No postage required. Be sure to include your return address for his response. Canada Post advises children to pop their letters in the post before Dec. 16 to ensure a reply. – Cloverdale Reporter
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*** My three-year-old granddaughter cooks with both her parents. I wonder if she needs a cookbook and an apron...
– Ursula Maxwell-Lewis is founding editor and publisher of the Cloverdale Reporter
Winter wreath inspires cover
We’d like to acknowledge Carpe Diem Fine Florals for graciously hosting this year’s impromptu cover shoot. With no notice, Erin dropped everything in order to help us with a seasonal display for our cover photograph. – Cloverdale Reporter
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Foolproof Santa proof Creative ways to preserve Christmas magic
Art, awareness flourish among the blooms A Day at Stewart Farm, a watercolour by Audrey Bakewell
Surrey artists Audrey Bakewell and Wendy Mould team up for Paints n’ Bloom, Art Show and Sale, Dec. 4-6 (10 a.m.-4 p.m.) at GardenWorks at Mandeville, South Burnaby, in support of the Alzheimer Society of B.C. There is also a beginner watercolour class Thursday, Dec. 3 at Mandeville. Cost is $30 (supplies included). Register at 604-538-4538.
Cosy campaign Retailer Urban Barn is holding its annual Blanket the Country in Warmth Campaign. To Dec. 6, with every $5 donation, a brand-new fleece blanket will be donated to Gateway Shelter in Surrey. Last year’s campaign saw the donation of 13,000 blankets, a number the company hopes to build on this
year, through the support of its customers. Local retail locations include #950 15045 32 Avenue, South Surrey, and at Unit F2 20202 66 Avenue in Langley. Gateway Shelter is an emergency shelter that houses up to 22 men and eight women. – Cloverdale Reporter
By Shana Vanderark With Christmas just weeks away, it’s the Eve before the big day that may have many parents worried. Social media, television and older children tend to leave little encouragement that Santa Claus will come to visit the little ones on Christmas Eve. With the rush of holiday shopping, gatherings and festivities of the season, parents may need some help to remind their little ones of the magic of Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick. Traditionally, carrots are left for the reindeer, cookies for Santa and perhaps a bit of a mess near the fireplace to prove that Santa did indeed visit. However, children are getting cleverer and their methods of investigating whether Santa actually exists have become more intense. They no longer look up at the sky hoping to see a sleigh full of toys being pulled by 10 reindeer, or stay up waiting to hear the pitter-patter of boots on the roof. Apart from NORAD, the online Santa Tracker, here are a few creative ways to remind your children that Santa visited:
Santa Claus arrives at last year’s Surrey Santa Parade in Cloverdale.
• Place a used Starbucks coffee cup with “Santa” written on it near the garbage can • Spread white glitter near the gifts and say that they are melted snow from the North Pole • Take a picture of the tree, photoshop Santa arranging the gifts and tell the children you ‘caught’ him in the act • Finally, for the a bit more humor, leave an empty bottle of “diabetes” medicine with San-
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ta’s name on it that he left behind. Seeing how Santa loves his sweets, he may have used all his pills. The holiday season is a magical time of year. As soon as it comes, it leaves just as fast. For the little believers that get excited to visit Santa at the mall, let’s make them feel extra special by showing them that Santa came to visit them too. – Special to the Reporter
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is the season to venture from the orange and black of Halloween to the holiday colors of green, red and gold. The holiday season is filled with many magical and vibrant colours to celebrate the festivities. Traditionally the colours of Christmas have been green, red and gold. But why? There are many thoughts as to why these pigments are classically associated with the holiday, some of which date back to the days of Adam and Eve.
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Ancient symbolism From the jackets in Santa’s closet to the robes of the bishops, the colour red brings the bold reminder of religion during the holiday season. Red is thought to be associated to the apples in Eden and of the days of Adam and Eve. It also has links to new life, sacrificial deaths, and blood within Christianity. Additionally, red is visible on the ber-
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The many shades of purple, blue and even silver have been included in the seasonal palette to enhance the decorative effects of the traditional use of the colours gold, red and green.
ries that pop out of the holly plant and the roaring fire that keeps us warm during the cold winter days.
An elegant reminder Traditionally, gold was seen to be affiliated with the star that led the Three Wise Men. It was also associated with the warmth of fire and glow of candles. Gold is a reference of elegance and loyalty. It reminds us of family, friends and the comfort of being
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together at this time of the year. The décor of the holiday season brings the opportunity for people to be creative. The many shades of purple, blue and even silver have been included in the seasonal palette to enhance the effects. Regardless, the core colours of red, green and gold are always present to remind us that it’s the reason for reflection, tradition and remembrance.
Fresh from their award-winning appearance at the White Rock Torchlight Parade (“Best Novelty Float”), the Fraser Valley Gilbert and Sullivan Society is set for their annual Christmas pantomime – Jack and the Beanstalk. Written by John Morely, the production has a talented and creative team at the helm: producer Lyn Verra-Lay, artistic director Mike Balser, choreographer Carol Seitz, and music director Timothy Tucker. Performances are Nov. 25 to Dec. 6 at the Surrey Arts Centre. The society is once again partnering with the Surrey Christmas Bureau. Audience members are asked to bring a new, unwrapped toy for the Christmas Bureau to place under the beanstalk. Last year, FVGSS cast, crew and audience members brought enough toys to fill three, overflowing And bring an unwrapped toy for the boxes for the Surrey Christmas Bureau. campaign. In classic panto style, cheer for the good guys and boo the bad guys as we follow Jack in a tale of magic, nasty villains, a good fairy, a horrible giant, a sweet princess, a cow and the biggest beanstalk ever. The show promises musical family fun for all ages. The musical theatre company first presented Jack and the Beanstalk in the 1980s – inspiring retro pricing for their 2015 Christmas venture. This year, tickets will be priced from $10 to $20 (plus service charges).
– Presented at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 25 to 28 and Dec. 2-5, and at 3 p.m. Nov. 28-29, and Dec. 5-6. Call 604-5015566 for tickets.
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CHRISTMAS CALENDAR FAIRS, CONCERTS, SPECIAL EVENTS HOLIDAY TRAIN The Christmas Train at Bear Creek Park runs Dec. 4 to Jan. 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (that’s when the last train leaves the station). From Dec. 4 to Dec. 24, meet Santa and bring your camera! Visit with Santa, receive a candy cane, take part in children’s activities on the planform, and take a ride through the Christmas Forest. The train leaves the station at 15 minutes to the hour and 15 minutes after the hour. Tickets $8.50 plus tax for adults and children. The train is closed on Christmas Day. Located at 13750 88 Avenue. Visit bctrains. com for more information, or call 604-501-1232.
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Simplifying the Christmas season Great expectations? Here’s why I no longer dread the holidays like I used to
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t’s that time of year when some of my friends and family start stressing out about Christmas and I’m reminded of the days when I did too. It’s been quite awhile since then. Growing up my mother made a big deal out of every holiday whether it was Valentine’s Day, Saint Patrick’s Day or Thanksgiving. Christmas was by far the most important and taxing of the holidays for her and she’d start preparing well in advance. Too many presents were bought for too many people using credit cards that would take months to pay off. She was also a hostess extraordinaire offering delicious appetizers, meals and desserts within our beautifully decorated home. Providing all of that brought her some enjoyment, but her obsession with trying to achieve perfection took its toll on her energy and spirit, resulting in
her feeling anxious, then joyous, then volatile and then depressed. In later years we realized she suffered from an undiagnosed mental illness that had her wound so tight that something as random as finding a tissue in one of our “just-for-show” trash baskets could cause her to fly off the handle. Less manic but similar to my mother in some of her obsessive and people-pleasing ways, I also went overboard at Christmas for many years. My list of folks to buy for was ridiculously long and I hand made a lot of the presents myself. The pressures of shopping, crafting, mailing out cards, decorating, socializing and later having to deal with my overspending had me dreading December 25th more than looking forward to it. I actually got to the point where I wanted to stop celebrating it all together and would
have if I wasn’t married to such a Christmas fan. Since having children, my strategy has become more lax as years pass. I no longer buy gifts for all our friends and relatives – only the children we see over the holidays. I’ll also buy for an adult if they
I only bake now if my kids are into doing it. Making and decorating sugar cookies or gingerbread houses can be tons of fun. raised us or raised the people that raised us; if they’re hosting an event we’re attending; or if it’s a picking-names-out-of-a-hat scenario. Gone are the days when everyone I cared about got a present. I will revisit that practice if I
ever strike it rich. Christmas cards are a thing of the past, too. I never went as far as writing an annual letter, but I used to make cards and mail them out with pictures of my kids to a large list of people. I stopped doing that out of necessity one year when my computer crashed and I lost my whole contact list. It was such a relief not having to do it I never did it again and not one person ever complained. Not to me anyway. I’ve never been into cooking but I used to bake for the holidays until I discovered how much easier and faster it is to buy from a store. I will only bake now if my kids are into doing it as an activity together. Making and decorating sugar cookies or gingerbread houses can be tons of fun. My Christmas decor is low key as well. A tree adorned with sentimental ornaments is displayed and we put out whatever festive
knick knacks are in the big bin stored under the stairs. Since minimizing my efforts I don’t dread the holidays like I used to. It certainly helps we usually travel out of town to visit our families at their houses and don’t have to do all the hard work. Spending time with people I love is all that concerns me at Christmas now and I wish my mother was still alive so we could visit her, too. Our relationship was so toxic and abusive we hardly saw each other the last 20 years before her death in 2013. My brother and I sure miss her though, and think of her often – especially during all the holidays that she tried to make special when we were young. The love in her heart was pure and our love for her is everlasting.
– Lori Welbourne is a syndicated columnist. She can be contacted at LoriWelbourne.com
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Colin, the Widow Miller’s son, has nothing to his name but his cat, and his dreams. But there’s magic in the air, and, together with his enchanted kitty, he embarks on an amazing adventure, meeting kings, princesses and an ogre. What’s Christmas without a little panto magic? The whole family will enjoy Ellie King’s Puss In Boots, a sparkling version of the classic French fairytale, presented in true British Panto style by the Royal Canadian Theatre Company Dec. 19-27 at the Surrey Arts Centre. The show promises eye-dazzling cos-
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WinterSong, seasonal spirit It’s one of the highlights of the Christmas concert season in the Fraser Valley – the annual fall concert by Langley Community Chorus. The choir presents afternoon performances of Wintersong: a Celebration of the Season. The second of three matinees is this Saturday, Nov. 28, at United Churches of Langley (Sharon United), located 21562 Old Yale Road, Langley, followed by Sunday, Nov. 29 at St. Dunstan’s Anglican Church, 3025 64 Street in Aldergrove. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students and free for children 12 and under. Available at the door 30 minutes before the concert. All performances are at 3 p.m. Langley Community Chorus’s music di-
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rector is Anita Coomba and the accompanist is Donna Phillips. Musical selections for the 2015 Christmas concert include classic and contemporary carols. The choir’s mission is to offer an inclusive and diverse singing organization with the goal of fostering a spirit of learning, fun, friendship, community and respect for all abilities. The group strives to foster an appreciation in the community of choral music, and to develop a high standard of musical performance. The group performs at seniors residences, hospitals, schools and in the community, along with providing student bursaries. For more, visit langleychorus.org. – Cloverdale Reporter
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Help homeless pets Surrey’s City Petcare Hospital has launched a major fundraising drive to help homeless dogs and cats this Christmas, promising to spay and neuter animals from the BC SPCA for free. The service will also include a tattoo, and pain medications, along with vaccinations, flea control and a complimentary nail trim. The clinic is accepting donations of toys, food, treats and cash. A challenge has been sent out to clients to bring in a donation with their visit and receive a routine visit at no charge from Dr. Jaswinder Bassi, who is hoping to do about 30 to 50 cats and dogs this season. City Petcare Hospital is located at 120 7218 King George Blvd., Surrey.
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More than 100 youth musicians are taking part in the Surrey Symphony Society’s Sounds of the Season, presented Dec. 6 at 7 p.m., at Chandos Pattison Auditorium, 10238 168 Street. The concert features the Junior strings, intermediate orchestra and the youth orchestra. Music includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, All I want for Christmas, and the Egmont Overture. Tickets are $18 for adults, $12 for students, seniors and alumni. Reservations: gm.surreysymphony@gmail. com or at the door.
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Author shares her wilderness wisdom Dreaming of getting away from it all? She’s spent 30+ years off the grid
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aribou disappearing in the snow, 100 swans taking off from a frozen lake and the reflecting sunset over a lake mark a few of the highlights of nature from 30 years living off the grid for Chris Czajkowski. These very beautiful and moving sights are even more And the River Still Sings: intense when she’s alone. “I A Wilderness Dweller’s would think, Journey ‘I’m the only one By Chris Czajkowski seeing this, it’s Caitlin Press (2014) especially for me,’” she says, adding they’re “just magical experiences.” Her newest, and 11th, book – And the River Still Sings: A Wilderness Dweller’s Journey – is primarily a review of 30-plus years of remote wilderness living spanning her time at Lonesome Lake and Nuk Tessli in B.C.’s Chilcotin region, but the book also includes chapters on growing up in England and backpacking for a decade around the world. Czajkowski tends to get up at 4 or 5 and go to bed at 8 p.m. “When I’ve had visitors, they’re always amazed when I throw them out at 8,” she says. “So in that respect, I guess my life is a bit different.” She has a regular landline phone and satellite internet, which is the only way to have internet where she’s living now – three-anda-half hours from Williams Lake.
“I really have a hard time deciding whether it’s been one big vacation or just constant work,” she says. She didn’t take any survival skills courses but grew up in a very rural area and her parents had no money so they made everything, which she says could be kind of a survival skill. Nature in England isn’t exactly tooth and claw like over here, but as she travelled, she always enjoyed nature and just got into wilder and wilder places as she moved around, “I didn’t do a lot of completely being alone. I wasn’t alone for more than just one day, then it grew to a number of days in New Zealand, up to 10 days alone and I just kind of learned Chris Czajkowski as I went along, I did learn what a wonderful experience it was to have nobody around for several days,” she says. Being out in remote areas alone wasn’t scary either. “Not really. I have been scared. You meet a bear face to face and think ‘ohmygod what am I going to do?’ I’ve been charged by a bear but it eventually ran away, and I’ve always been frightened by the weather turned very bad and I’ve been in situations. “I’m a heck of a lot more frightened driving on the freeway,” she says.
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She does guiding for a living but not for hunting or fishing. “I’m just a tree hugger and flower sniffer and birds [watcher] and I’m interested in that side of nature pho-
tography and all that.” But life alone off the grid still can be stressful, but she won’t be moving into town, ever, she says. “There’s all kinds of stress. I have to work at not being overstressed actually. If I leave here, it’s going to be in a box. I couldn’t live in a town or city,” she says. The farthest away from a town or city she’s lived was a difficult trek getting to town in winter. “Nuk Tessli was the most difficult to get out in the winter, because it would be take me four days to snowshoe out,” she says. “Planes are not always available in winter, in summer there’s always a float plane if you really want one, if you can afford it.” For those who are interested in living away from civilization as she has, she says there’s nothing better, “[But I would] not recommend it to too many because it would get too crowded out here,” she laughs. “I’m amazed how people have written to me and said they were dithering about making a decision or not going to make a decision, not necessarily living in the wilderness, and said after reading my book, they have the courage to do that. I wasn’t looking for that. It’s very gratifying to think people get that out of my books,” she says. Chris Czajkowski’s recent book tour took her along Highway 16 in northwest B.C. In 2014, she give a book reading and slideshow at the Ocean Park Library in South Surrey.
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Want a chance to get ahead on your Christmas shopping? The Surrey Art Gallery Association’s (SAGA) annual Art & Craft Show & Sale is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 27 from 5 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 28 from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Surrey Arts Centre. Visitors are invited to browse one-ofa-kind items from the SAGA Gift Shop, both to find gifts for friends and family – and to support local artists. Items for sale include pottery, jewelry, limited edition prints, hand-blown and slumped glass, original paintings, photography, artisan soaps, turned wood, fabric art and art cards. Attendees are also invited to bring a non-perishable food item to support our local food bank. Admission is free. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
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A slam dunk The Surrey Christmas Bureau (SCB) is inviting the public to its “Jingle Hoops” event on Nov. 28 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Kwantlen Park Secondary, 10441 132 St. Jingle Hoops is an all-inclusive, all ages, fun day of basketball where anything basketball-related goes The goal of the event is to engage the community and offer a fun, community-bonding outlet where individuals can be united by their love of basketball and sport – all while supporting children and families in the community of Surrey. Many schools and recreational groups are already on board helping to get players of all ages and abilities out to this event
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Tax credit urged to spur food donations By Jeff Nagel The chair of Food Banks BC is backing a proposal to create a federal tax break that encourages businesses to donate more food to local charities. Marilyn Hermann, who is also executive director of the Surrey Food Bank Society, says there are “endless” amounts of usable food that could be retrieved from restaurants, grocers and other suppliers that now throw it out. The National Zero Waste Council proposes the federal government create a new tax credit for businesses linked to the fair market value of food they donate to charities such as food banks, shelters and soup kitchens. Hermann said while many businesses already strive to donate usable food, such an incentive could prod others to both save on taxes and help put more unused food to good use. “It’s not even waste, it’s perfectly good food,” Hermann said. “Something that may just be undersized according to a grocery chain’s
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through the issues of food safety and sanitation, I think it’s a great idea,” Tostenson said. “I don’t think business even needs a tax incentive to do it. I think they’d just do it if they can do it in a way that doesn’t create liability.” Other critics have suggested the tax break could lead to businesses dumping unusable food on food banks, and increasing their disposal costs. “There definitely are challenges to this, no question,” Hermann said. “You have to have
the capacity to handle the volumes of food that are being offered to you.” Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, who chairs Metro’s zero waste committee, said the tax credit would be worthwhile, even if it’s not a silver bullet curing food waste. “Our hope is this would lead to a far bigger uptake and get a lot of that edible food into the hands of charities that can divide it up and use it effectively.” An estimated 170,000 tonnes of edible food
– equivalent to 300 million meals – ends up in Canadian landfills every year. In monetary terms, that’s an estimated $31 to $107 billion of waste in the production, shipping and fair market value of the food. Meanwhile, Hermann and Food Banks BC are also pressing the BC Liberals to keep a promise they made in the 2013 election campaign. The party’s platform committed the provincial government to “give growers a tax
credit of 25 per cent of the wholesale value of food donated to a food bank.” Hermann said that would be a useful incentive that both helps farmers and encourages them to donate produce and fruit that could help feed the needy. Undersized apples that are good but too small for retailers are a prime example of what might be contributed in larger volumes instead of being dumped by the truckload.
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Black touts ‘safer’ oil-by-rail plan for refinery By Jeff Nagel B.C. oil refinery proponent David Black says his $22-billion proposal won’t die with the apparently thwarted Northern Gateway pipeline – he aims to bring oil sands bitumen across northern B.C. by train instead. The Victoria businessman, who is majority owner of Black Press and this newspaper, spoke Wednesday at a Rotary Club meeting in South Surrey. Black’s Kitimat Clean proposal calls for a refinery between Terrace and Kitimat that would process bitumen into gasoline, diesel and other refined fuels for Asian markets. He said the federal Liberal government’s move to formally ban crude oil tankers from B.C.’s north coast means the Northern Gateway pipeline plan is “pretty much dead” but that shouldn’t block tanker exports of refined fuel, which would be less damaging than a spill of crude or bitumen at sea. Black said his plan to
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carry oil by rail will be far safer than the crude oil trains that have been vulnerable to fiery disasters elsewhere. He said he’s in talks with CN Rail to load rail cars with undiluted bitumen, which would be much thicker – virtually solid – compared to the diluted bitumen that moves through
pipelines or the light oil that’s often carried by train. The bitumen would be heated at the beginning and end of each rail trip to make it flow for loading and unloading from tanker cars. Black argues it would be unlikely to leak or burn if a train derailed. “It’s safer and way
easier,” he said, estimating six trains a day would run every four hours. Black continues to pursue environmental approvals, and believes that with green lights from regulators and first nations, oil shippers and financiers will come on board. But his is not the only such proposal. Pacific Future Energy, led by a Mexican conglomerate, initially tried to buy Black out and has since proposed a similar refinery with the same technology. Its backers include SNC Lavalin and prominent aboriginal advisors. Pacific Future initially proposed a site in Prince Rupert but Black said that firm is trying to strike a deal with the Kitselas band for the same site Kitimat Clean had chosen. There are other potential sites with different first nations, he said, but they’re less suitable. Black also criticized the provincial government’s focus on liquefied natural gas
projects. He said his refinery would generate more permanent jobs and taxes for governments than even an optimistic number of LNG plants. “Government really dove at this,” he said, adding the province “rolled over” in guaranteeing generous tax treatment to get the industry on board, leaving little future revenue to government. Too many LNG plants are already being built in Australia and the U.S., he said, while Japan’s shift back towards nuclear power will cut demand. “I just don’t think there’s much chance,” Black said. “The LNG dream is now fading.”
Black is not concerned that low oil prices will also doom his refinery dream. He said he believes low prices as well as the U.S. rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast will make his option for reaching lucrative Pacific markets increasingly attractive to oil firms grappling with narrowing margins, particularly in Alberta’s oil sands. Black maintains a refinery can’t be built in Alberta itself because of opposition from multinational oil firms that own Texas refineries, and because the large prefabricated modules that can be assembled on the B.C. coast can’t
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Cloverdale Table Tennis medalists Dick Mak, left, Norma Andrus and Dolores Gock show off their hardware from the 2015 55+ BC Games. Andrus is a multiple medalist in the sport, and hasn’t let a broken back four years ago stop her.
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Table tennis whiz Norma Andrus scoops up more gold and silver By Jennifer Lang At 81, Norma Andrus is at the top of her game, winning gold and silver in table tennis at the recent 55+ B.C. Games in North Van. The Cloverdale resident has been a perennial multiple medalist at the games since taking up the sport 12 years ago. She plays three times a week – year round – at both the Cloverdale Rec Centre and in Langley. Andrus was one of the names of Cloverdale athletes left off our recent round-up of the 2015 games, an annual multi-sport showdown that draws competitors from across the province. Fraser Valley athletes took home 477 medals; 199 gold, 145 silver, and 133 bronze. Andrus took table tennis gold in women’s singles (80+). She also picked up two doubles medals as well, claiming gold with Sven Peterson of Langley in mixed doubles (80+) and a silver with Langley’s Patricia Toppings in women’s doubles (80+). It’s a remarkable achievement for anyone in her 80s, but even more so considering just four years ago, Andrus suffered a major setback that could have sidelined her permanently from the sport. She was playing table tennis at the Langley Seniors Centre when she collided with another player who’d run from the other end of the room, chasing a ball. “He was running fast and he slammed into me,” she recalls. “He sent me flying, and fell on top of me.” She broke a vertebrae in her back, but fortunately, wasn’t paralyzed. She has three fused discs as a result, along with four titanium rods holding her together. At the time, the doctor predicted she wouldn’t play again. “Nine months later, I went back,” she says. At first, she couldn’t even stand, much less get into a fastpaced volley at table tennis club without a walker. But gradually, she got moving, using a cane. She started playing again, steadied by the cane. Eventually, however, she was able to put it aside and play without it. Andrus, who celebrated her 81st
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Cloverdale’s Bob McQueen, Patrice Van Nieuwkerk and Larry Friesen competed in pickle ball at the recent 2015 55+ BC Games.
birthday in July, is happy to have proved the doctor wrong. “I still have pain from it,” she says, adding she still cannot walk any great distance. But she was determined to get back to table tennis, no matter what it took. “I just said, ‘I’m going to keep doing it. That’s what’s done it for sure, just going over and playing.” She plays three to four times a week, alternating between the Langley and Cloverdale clubs. The Cloverdale Table Tennis Club is a convivial group, and the members always grab a cup of coffee after the Tuesday and Friday sessions. They even go out to dinner on occasion – such as a birthday of one of the members. “It’s a really good group.” Andrus had never played table tennis before she picked it up in 2001, when she was in her late 60s and was keen to keep active. She tried exercise classes, but hated them. But when she heard about table tennis, she figured it was worth a try. It’s great exercise, she says, noting, “They rank table tennis as the second best exercise for fitness, because of the hand-eye coordination and you have to move so many muscles.” She won a bronze medal the first year she competed at the then-B.C. Seniors Games, and has picked up
medals every year since then. “The socializing is just as great as the exercise, too. That’s what makes it so great. It just gets you out of the house and gets you going, and it’s so enjoyable.”
Cloverdale athletes at the 55+ Games Local seniors had a sizable presence at the recent 2015 games in North Van, with many of the athletes wearing blue T-shirts supplied by the Cloverdale Seniors Advisory Board. The team shirts were meant to ensure the Cloverdale participants were easily recognizable, giving a “team” feel to the group, according to Patricia Wong, community services assistant at the Cloverdale Rec Centre. In table tennis, Dolores Gock and Michelle Denault won bronze in women’s doubles. Gock also won bronze in mixed doubles. Dick Mak and Tom Stevenson won silver in men’s doubles. Maureen Brisson and Ed Bregg participated, but didn’t pick up any medals this year. In Pickleball, locals Bob McQueen and Larry Friesen won bronze in men’s doubles. Eileen Dowell, Shaaron Small and Patrice Van Nieuwkerk also participated.
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